US10426043B2
A circuit board comprising a substrate and a circuit trace. The substrate includes a surface etched via ion milling over a circuit area such that the surface has an increased roughness. The circuit trace forms portions of an electronic circuit and may be created from a thin conductive film deposited on the surface within the circuit area. The circuit trace adheres more strongly to the roughened substrate surface, which prevents the circuit trace from peeling or becoming delaminated from the substrate surface.
US10426042B2
An approach for through-hole component soldering for a PCB, and a resulting PCB assembly, that eliminates protruding solder joints, is provided. The approach comprises back-drilling, from a bottom surface of a PCB, one or more through-holes, wherein each back-drilled through-hole is back-drilled to a depth partially through the PCB and at a diameter that is larger than the diameter of the through hole. Solder paste is applied to the PCB. The components are placed on the PCB, inserting each pin into a corresponding through-hole. The PCB is passed through a solder process, whereby, within each through-hole having a component pin inserted therein, the solder paste is wicked into the through-hole, and forms a solder joint with the respective pin. Each solder joint of a back-drilled through-hole is situated within the through-hole in a manner whereby the solder joint does not protrude beyond the bottom surface of the PCB.
US10426040B2
The invention relates to a method for producing a circuit board element having at least one electronic component, which component has a connection side defined by electrical contacts or a conductive layer and is connected to a temporary carrier for positioning and embedded in an insulating material; the component is attached in a specified position directly to a plastic film as a temporary carrier, whereupon a composite layer having at least a carrier and an electrical conductor, preferably also having an insulating material, is attached on the side of the component opposite the plastic film, with the carrier facing away from the component, and thereafter the plastic film is removed; then the component is embedded in insulating material. After the embedding of the component in the insulating material, an additional composite layer is preferably attached to the component and the embedding of the component on the side opposite the first composite layer.
US10426037B2
A circuitized structure with a 3-dimensional configuration. A base structure is provided that includes an insulating substrate of electrically insulating material with a flat configuration, and further includes an electric circuit including at least one layer of electrically conductive material arranged on the insulating substrate. The insulating material includes a thermosetting material being partially cured by stopping a cure thereof at a B-stage before reaching a gel point. The base structure is formed according to the 3-dimensional configuration, and the cure of the thermosetting material is completed.
US10426027B2
A ceramic multilayer substrate that includes a ceramic insulator layer, which includes a first layer, a second layer, and a third layer and in which the first layer is interposed between the second layer and the third layer, an inner pattern conductor, an outer pattern conductor, and outer electrodes. The ceramic insulator layer is interposed between the inner pattern conductor and the outer pattern conductor. The sintering shrinkage start temperatures of the second layer alone and the third layer alone in a green sheet state are higher than or equal to the sintering shrinkage stop temperature of the first layer alone in a green sheet state. The thickness of the ceramic insulator layer is 5.0 μm to 55.7 μm. The ratio of the total of the thickness of the second layer and the thickness of the third layer to the thickness of the first layer is 0.25 to 1.11.
US10426025B2
The present disclosure relates manufacturing for electronic circuit in a production installation. The teachings thereof may be embodied in a method for manufacturing an electronic circuit in a production installation comprising: detachably connecting a circuit carrier to a measuring module before performance of a process step; performing a measurement with the measuring module during the performance of the process step; and removing the measuring module from the circuit carrier after termination of the process step.
US10426022B2
A system uses one or more magnetrons to generate pulsed radio-frequency (RF) power, such as for powering an accelerating cavity. The one or more magnetrons each having a self-excitation threshold voltage and configured to operate with internal modulation using a pulsed RF input signal to produce the pulsed RF power when being powered by a direct-current power supply at a voltage level below the self-excitation threshold voltage.
US10426019B2
A lighting device that properly controls light emission, thereby making it possible to perform product protection of the lighting device from generated heat without impairing usability. The lighting device is capable of using a plurality of types of batteries attached thereto, and includes a light emission section to which electric power is supplied from the attached battery. The lighting device includes a processor that functions as a light emission control unit configured to control light emission from the light emission section, and an acquisition unit configured to acquire information on the battery, including information on a temperature of the attached battery. A parameter for use in limiting light emission from the light emission section is determined based on a result of acquisition of the information on the battery.
US10426016B2
A control module of a wall lamp is relocated from a conventional arrangement of installing the control module in a mounting bracket located behind the light body to an easy-access location integrated with the light body in the front such that a user can easily adjust at least one operating parameter to manage a lighting performance of the wall lamp. The control module may include at least a control unit and a cover. In one embodiment, the control unit is rotatable such that an operating parameter adjusting element can be rotated to an easy-access location for making an adjustment. In another embodiment, the operating parameter adjusting element is fixed at an easy access location with the cover being designed with an opening covered by an openable device. The user may rotate the openable device to uncover the operating parameter adjusting element for making an adjustment.
US10425997B2
A composite part is cured out-of-autoclave using an inductively heated, stand-alone tooling. The part in placed on a tool and is covered by a heating blanket. One side of the part is heated by inductive coil circuits in the tool, and the other side of the part is heated by inductive coil circuits in the blanket.
US10425996B1
An induction heating system includes a base having a controller and an electromagnetic radiation source in communication with the controller. The electromagnetic radiation source is configured to emit radiation. The base also includes a mounting surface configured to receive one of a plurality of interchangeable heating surfaces. The system further includes a heating surface mounted to the mounting surface of the base. The heating surface includes a ferromagnetic material that heats via induction responsive to the radiation emitted by the electromagnetic radiation source.
US10425994B2
A volume-colored monolithic glass ceramic cooking plate is provided. The plate includes a first zone in which the coloration of the glass ceramic differs from that of a second, adjacent zone, so that an absorption coefficient of the first zone is lower than the absorption coefficient of the second, adjacent zone and so that integral light transmission in the visible spectral range is greater in the first zone than the integral light transmission of the second, adjacent zone. The light scattering in the glass ceramic of the first zone differs from light scattering in the glass ceramic of the second zone by not more than 20 percentage points, preferably by not more than 5 percentage points.
US10425992B2
A connector for a fluid line having a housing that includes a connecting piece that can be connected to a tube, as well as a connection geometry that can be connected to a mating element. The housing includes an outlet opening arranged in an outlet section through which opening a heating device is guided out of the housing to the outside, wherein the heating device is guided through a plug that is arranged in the outlet opening, and the outlet section is provided with an injection molding compound covering the outlet opening. The connector is provided that a separating element arranged between the injection molding compound and the plug.
US10425987B2
A registration method, a session establishment method, a terminal, and an access and mobility management function (AMF) entity, where the method includes sending, by a terminal, a first message to the AMF entity, where the first message includes first information, first network slice selection information, and second network slice selection information, the first information includes information for requesting to establish a protocol data unit (PDU) session, the first network slice selection information is used by the AMF entity to select a first session management control function (SMF) entity, and the second network slice selection information is used by the AMF entity to select a second SMF entity; and receiving, by the terminal, a second message from the AMF entity, where the second message includes second information, and the second information includes PDU session establishment accept information.
US10425983B2
A base station in a system supporting WWAN-WLAN aggregation communication in which a radio terminal performs communication using WWAN communication and WLAN communication simultaneously. The base station includes a controller configured to acquire capability information indicating a function of the radio terminal, wherein a first function and a second function are defined. The first function splits a bearer of the radio terminal in a PDCP layer of the WWAN communication, and uses the WWAN communication and the WLAN communication for radio communication of the bearer. The second function uses only the WLAN communication for the radio communication of the bearer without splitting the bearer going through the PDCP layer. The controller is configured to acquire capability information of the second function as information different from capability information of the first function.
US10425980B2
A method of connecting to an Access Point (AP) in a portable terminal is provided. The method includes scanning at least one first AP and at least one second AP that has a different connection scheme from a connection scheme of the first AP; and checking a connection setting and connecting to any of the first and second APs based on the connection setting.
US10425979B2
According to one aspect of the invention there is provided an apparatus including at least one processor configured to detect a failure with a first cellular network base station; and establish an out of band communication channel with the first cellular network base station via a second cellular network base station being adjacent to the first cellular network base station to enable remote maintenance of the first cellular network base via the established out of band communication channel.
US10425976B2
The embodiments set forth herein disclose techniques for enabling a user device to seamlessly establish a secure, high-bandwidth wireless connection with a vehicle accessory system to enable the user device to wirelessly stream user interface (UI) information to the vehicle accessory system. To implement this technique, a lower-bandwidth wireless technology (e.g., Bluetooth) is used as an initial means for establishing a Wi-Fi pairing between the user device and the vehicle accessory system. Wi-Fi parameters associated with a Wi-Fi network provided by the vehicle accessory system can be communicated to the user device using the lower-bandwidth wireless technology. A secure Wi-Fi connection can then be established between the user device and the vehicle accessory system using the provided Wi-Fi parameters. The embodiments also disclose a technique for enabling the user device to automatically reconnect with the vehicle accessory system in a seamless manner (e.g., when returning to a vehicle).
US10425960B2
A communication apparatus for inter-vehicular communication according to the present invention includes: a network state estimating unit configured to estimate network state information indicating a current network state based on driving information and channel state information of neighboring vehicles; a network access controller configured to control whether to transmit a message based on the network state information; a transmission scheduler configured to control a transmission time point of the message based on the network state information; and a transmission buffer unit configured to delay transmission of the message according to the control of the transmission time point of the transmission scheduler.
US10425959B2
A first device senses scheduling assignment (SA) and received power of a second device, and a total received energy of each subband. The first device determines a reference value of received power of the second device and a reference value of total received energy, based on a sensing result of the second device. The first device selects a resource, based on the reference value of received power and reference value of total received energy, the first device transmits data. By adopting the method of the present disclosure, decoding performance of SA is improved, and accuracy for measuring received power of the SA is also enhanced. Subsequently, on the basis of SA and received power, performances for selecting/re-selecting channel resources are improved.
US10425947B2
A first mobile device determines a second mobile device losing connectivity to a second network or a communication link between the second mobile device and the second network degrading below a threshold value, the second mobile device assigned a role of sharing broker that brokers sharing of network resources of at least a first network among a plurality of other mobile devices via the second network, the first mobile device and the plurality of other mobile devices participating in a sharing group. Responsive to the determination, the role of sharing broker is activated on the first mobile device.
US10425944B2
WIFI management interfaces for microwave radio and reset to factory defaults are provided herein. Methods may include transmitting or receiving, on a dedicated management interface antenna of the wireless radio management signals, signals in a dedicated band for controlling operations of the wireless radio, and transmitting or receiving, on at least one additional antenna of the wireless radio management signals, signals that are not used for controlling operations of the wireless radio. The dedicated management interface antenna and the at least one additional antenna being physically separated from one another.
US10425939B2
A receiver control is configured to receive signal receive level data from a plurality of signal receivers. The receiver control determines if a signal receive level is lower than expected. In response to determining that the signal receive level is lower than expected, it is determined if an alternate signal is available via an alternate signal path. In response to determining that an alternate signal is available, an instruction is transmitted to one of the plurality of signal receivers with an indication that the alternate signal is to be received via the alternate signal path. The receiver control transmits the alternate signal via the alternate signal path to the one of the plurality of signal receivers experiencing lower than expected signal receive levels in one embodiment. The receiver can resume utilizing an original signal via an original signal path when the signal receive level of the original signal returns to expected levels.
US10425938B2
The present disclosure relates to a method and apparatus for configuring a resource for the transmission/reception of data. More particularly, the present disclosure relates to a method and apparatus for configuring an MCS and a TBS for an MTC terminal. Particularly, provided is a method and apparatus for determining a TBS by an MTC terminal. The method may include receiving scheduling information transmitted based on an MCS used for the MTC terminal and a TBS table and determining a TBS using the scheduling information provided by a base station.
US10425937B2
An embodiment of the present invention relates to a method for transmitting and receiving a signal by an inband full duplex (IBFD) base station in a wireless communication system, comprising the steps of: receiving respective uplink signals that repeat K times in K time intervals; and transmitting K-N downlink signals in K-N time intervals while the uplink signals are received in the K time intervals, wherein the N time intervals in the K time intervals are used for handling interference received by one or more terminals receiving the downlink signals from one or more terminals transmitting the uplink signals.
US10425924B2
The present invention is designed so as to carry out the listening operation that accompanies UL transmission and/or UL transmission adequately when UL transmission is controlled based on the result of listening. The present invention provides a transmission section that transmits an uplink shared channel, an uplink control channel and an uplink reference signal, and a control section that controls the transmission of the uplink shared channel, the uplink control channel and/or the uplink reference signal based on the result of listening in the uplink, and, when the uplink reference signal is configured to be transmitted in a subframe in which the uplink shared channel and/or the uplink control channel are transmitted, the control section controls the transmission of the uplink reference signal based on the result of listening that is executed before the uplink shared channel and/or the uplink control channel are transmitted.
US10425918B2
The present disclosure provides a resource allocation method, and a user equipment. The method includes: in an inactive state, triggering a buffer status report (BSR) event to send a second BSR to a base station when new service data are generated after a first BSR is sent to the base station; when detecting that a first uplink resource is available, sending the second BSR and cached first service data to the base station based using the first uplink resource; when detecting that the first uplink resource is not available, sending a scheduling request (SR) to the base station according to at least one SR resource allocated by the base station, and sending the second BSR and the first service data to the base station using the second uplink resource.
US10425916B2
Provided are a method for transmitting a vehicle-to-everything (V2X) signal performed by a user equipment (UE) having a limited transmission capability in a multi-carrier system and a UE using the method. The method includes selecting a first resource in a first carrier, if using a specific subframe in a second carrier exceeds a transmission capability of the UE considering the first resource, selecting a second resource randomly among the remaining subframes except the specific subframe in the second carrier and transmitting the V2X signal using the first resource and the second resource.
US10425896B2
A communication control method according to a first aspect is used in a base station that operates in a power saving mode. The communication control method includes steps of: setting a threshold; receiving an uplink signal transmitted from a user terminal connected to a neighboring base station; and starting a process of transitioning from the power saving mode to a normal mode, in response to that a received power of the uplink signal exceeds the threshold. In the step of setting the threshold, the base station sets the threshold on the basis of information received from the neighboring base station.
US10425894B2
A system and method include a battery removably coupleable to a medical device. The battery includes a cell for storing an electrical charge, a housing, a first contact, and a second contact that is inactive when the battery is not in proximity to the medical device. The battery includes a sensor for generating a proximity signal in response to a proximity of the medical device to the battery that is not based on an electrical connection of the medical device to the contacts. The battery includes a battery controller for receiving the proximity signal, and responsively causing the second contact to be activated. One of the medical device and the battery comprises a communication device. When the medical device is coupled to the battery and the second contact is activated, the communication device transmits an authentication signal to enable authentication.
US10425883B2
The present disclosure provides a method (400) for coordination of beacon transmissions. The method (400) comprises, at a network node of a first network: determining (S410), for each of a plurality of candidate slots, whether the candidate slot is used by any neighboring network node of a second network for beacon transmission; selecting (S420), as a beacon slot, one of the plurality of candidate slots that is determined not to be used by any neighboring network node of the second network for beacon transmission; and transmitting (S430) a beacon in the beacon slot.
US10425880B2
An on-board method for the end-to-end transparent transport of data packets is implemented by a telecommunications system comprising a first, sending station, a second, receiving station, a first, sending satellite, connected directly to the first station, and a second, receiving satellite, connected directly to the second station, the first satellite and second satellite being interconnected via a spaceborne network. The transport method comprises steps allowing an end-to-end transparent adaptive control loop for the adaptive control of the modulation and of the coding of the access links between the first station and the first satellite and between the second station and the second satellite to be implemented.
US10425869B2
Disclosed are: a communication method for incorporating an IoT technique with a 5G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate than that of a 4G system or a subsequent system; and a system therefor. The present invention can be applied to intelligent services (for example, services related to smart homes, smart buildings, smart cities, smart cars or connected cars, health care, digital education, retail business, security, safety, and the like) on the basis of a 5G communication technique and IoT-related techniques. A method for transmitting and receiving a signal by a base station in a mobile communication system comprises the steps of: receiving a handover request message including a first information related to a device-to-device (D2D) service for a handover target terminal; and allocating D2D resources to the terminal based on the handover request message.
US10425861B2
The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). A method for preventing a loss of data packets of a transmission end is provided. The method includes performing a path switching operation, receiving, from a reception end, a switching status report that includes information related to the data packets that were not received by the reception end, and retransmitting the data packets that were not received by the reception end, where the path switching operation is an operation of switching a data transmission path from a first communication system to a second communication system or from the second communication system to the first communication system, and where the first communication system is a fourth generation (4G) communication system, and the second communication system is a fifth generation (5G) communication system that uses a millimeter-wave (mm-wave) band.
US10425857B2
A user terminal according to first to third embodiments is used in a mobile communication system defined to observe a use state of an unlicensed band channel within an observation period before transmitting an uplink signal within an uplink transmission period in the channel. The user terminal includes a controller configured to perform transmission restriction to restrict transmission of the uplink signal during a last fixed section or a first fixed section of the uplink transmission period when transmitting the uplink signal within the uplink transmission period in the channel.
US10425850B2
Provided are a method and device for determining indication signalling of a pilot signal for channel measurement, and method and device for feeding back CSI. The method for determining indication signalling of pilot signal for channel measurement includes: a NodeB sends DL control signalling, which includes transmission resource configuration information of a non-periodic CSI-RS, to a terminal, wherein the transmission resource configuration information of the non-periodic CSI-RS is used for determining a location of the non-periodic CSI-RS, and the non-periodic CSI-RS is used for instructing the terminal to perform channel measurement. The non-periodic CSI-RS is determined according to the transmission resource configuration information of the non-periodic CSI-RS, and channel measurement is further performed according to the non-periodic CSI-RS, so that the problems of higher overhead and resource waste caused by periodical sending of a CSI-RS in the related art may be solved, resources are saved, and sending overhead is reduced.
US10425846B2
Embodiments of system and method configurations for device discovery and connection establishment in connection with use of device-to-device (D2D) and proximity-based services are generally described herein. In some examples, an evolved packet core (EPC) of a 3GPP Long Term Evolution or 3GPP Long Term Evolution-Advanced (LTE/LTE-A) network is arranged to assist D2D identification and discovery procedures at user equipment (UEs) connected to the LTE/LTE-A network. Various identification and discovery procedures may be implemented in connection with proximity detection and the establishment of communication times for the establishment of the D2D communication link, between the UEs. Accordingly, the EPC of the LTE/LTE-A network may assist the establishment of a device-to-device communication link between UEs on a wireless network employing a distinct wireless protocol (for example, a direct wireless network connection via a wireless local area network (WLAN) or wireless personal area network (WPAN)).
US10425844B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure include, for example, identifying a primary serving cell and a secondary serving cell, wherein the primary serving cell facilitates one of attachment, re-attachment or mobility, or any combination thereof, of a mobile device in association with coordination of a wireless service between the primary serving cell, the secondary serving cell and the mobile device. A latency value associated with a message exchange is determined between the primary and secondary serving cells via a messaging interface, and compared to latency requirements, which correspond to a group of mobile service features. A mobile service feature of the group is associated with the wireless service based on the comparison. The wireless service includes a coordinated exchange of wireless signals between the primary serving cell and the mobile device and between the secondary serving cell and the mobile device based on the mobile service feature. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10425843B2
Provided are an optimized processing method and apparatus for service migration of a terminal. According to the optimized processing method, when the terminal conducts service transmission with a network or when the terminal performs service migration between a source network element and a target network element, service performance information of the terminal is acquired. By means of the technical solution, the technical problem in the related art that the service performance or service experience, etc. of a terminal is not taken into account during service transmission between a terminal and a network or during service migration of a terminal is solved, so the service performance and service experience can be obtained when the terminal conducts service transmission or service migration, thereby providing a powerful support for optimizing the service migration or service transmission of the terminal and improving the experience of a user.
US10425839B2
Methods and devices for using an unlicensed carrier resource are provided. In a method for using an unlicensed carrier resource, an eNode B (eNB) receives indication information reported by a User Equipment (UE), where the indication information is used for indicating that a local Secondary Cell (Scell) of the UE is idle; upon a trigger of the indication information, the eNB detects whether a local Scell of the eNB is idle or not; and the eNB judges, according to a detection result, whether or not to use an unlicensed carrier resource which has been occupied by the UE.
US10425835B2
In one of the exemplary embodiments, the disclosure is directed to a post network entry connection method applicable to a user equipment. The method would include not limited to: receiving a time unit which may include a payload region and a downlink header region which may include a first BQMR for a first scan beam and a second BQMR for a second scan beam; obtaining a first reference signal from the first BQMR and a second reference signal from the second BQMR; calculating a first signal quality measurement by using the first reference signal and calculating a second signal quality measurement by using the second reference signal; selecting the first scan beam based on the first signal quality measurement being better than at least the second signal quality measurement; and transmitting the first signal quality measurement which corresponds to the first scan beam via another time unit.
US10425834B2
Techniques to support directional transmission and reception by wireless network boosters are described. In one embodiment, for example, an apparatus may comprise logic, at least a portion of which is in hardware, the logic to receive a directionally-transmitted booster reference signal, receive a system information message comprising timing offset information, and determine a time at which to send a link establishment message based on the timing offset information and a time of receipt of the directionally-transmitted booster reference signal. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US10425829B1
Dynamic sharing of pooled radio access network (RAN) resources can be divided amongst different tenant carriers according to a service level agreement and/or a host carrier policy. The carriers can share the RAN with the host carrier while utilizing their own core network and service delivery platform. The hosting carrier can utilize policies to provide guidelines on how to share among the tenant carriers. Additionally, the hosting carrier can also provide services for internet-of-things devices based on security requirements with different firewall, and/or authentication requirements.
US10425818B2
The embodiments set forth techniques for an embedded Universal Integrated Circuit Card (eUICC) to conditionally require, when performing management operations in association with electronic Subscriber Identity Modules (eSIMs), human-based authentication. The eUICC receives a request to perform a management operation in association with an eSIM. In response, the eUICC determines whether a policy being enforced by the eUICC indicates that a human-based authentication is required prior to performing the management operation. Next, the eUICC causes the mobile device to prompt a user of the mobile device to carry out the human-based authentication. The management operation is then performed or ignored in accordance with results of the human-based authentication.
US10425809B2
A communication apparatus includes a search unit that searches for another communication apparatus identified by information obtained from a captured image, a communication parameter control unit that provides another communication apparatus with a communication parameter for performing wireless communication with an access point, and a control unit that, if the information obtained from the captured image conforms to a predetermined format, performs control based on the information obtained from the captured image such that the search unit searches for another communication apparatus identified by the information and the communication parameter control unit provides another communication apparatus detected by the search with the communication parameter, and if the information obtained from the captured image does not conform to the predetermined format, perform control such that the search unit does not search for another communication apparatus and the communication parameter control unit does not provide another communication apparatus with the communication parameter.
US10425802B2
A radio terminal according to an embodiment includes a controller configured to perform inter-frequency sidelink discovery transmission of transmitting a sidelink discovery signal at a frequency different from a frequency of a serving cell. The controller is further configured to receive, from the serving cell, a message including resource allocation information and frequency information. The resource allocation information is information indicating radio resources to be used for the inter-frequency sidelink discovery transmission. The frequency information is information indicating the different frequency to which the resource allocation information is applied.
US10425796B2
A method and an apparatus for performing a Radio Access Technology (RAT) search for an emergency call in a terminal supported by a plurality of communication networks are provided. The method includes identifying at least one communication network which supports a voice telecommunication among the plurality of communication networks providing support in a communication-limited state in which the communication function of the terminal is limited, and performing the RAT search for the identified at least one communication network.
US10425794B2
A mobile device includes a Bluetooth transceiver, the Bluetooth transceiver being in an idle power state when not securely paired to a second Bluetooth transceiver of a peripheral device. The mobile device further includes an audio interface, the audio interface coupled to the Bluetooth transceiver, the audio interface configured to connect to a second audio interface of the peripheral device. The mobile device is configured to establish an out-of-band audio communication channel to the peripheral device by connecting the audio interface to the second audio interface, the mobile device configured to exchange Bluetooth authentication data with the peripheral device via the out-of-band audio communication channel in response to transitioning to an operating state, the mobile device configured to initialize the Bluetooth transceiver with the Bluetooth authentication data to establish an authenticated and cryptographically protected in-band Bluetooth communication channel allowing the mobile device to be securely paired with the peripheral device.
US10425793B2
A system is provided in which a set of modules each have a substrate on which is mounted a radio frequency (RF) transmitter and/or an RF receiver coupled to a near field communication (NFC) coupler located on the substrate. Each module has a housing that surrounds and encloses the substrate. The housing has a port region on a surface of the housing. Each module has a field confiner located between the NFC coupler and the port region on the housing configured to guide electromagnetic energy emanated from the NFC coupler through the port region to a port region of an adjacent module. The port region is offset laterally from the NFC coupler. The field confiner is skewed to provide a pathway between the NFC coupler and the port region.
US10425792B2
This disclosure provides an apparatus and method for virtual wireless devices for industrial wireless sensor networks, including but not limited to, in industrial control systems and other systems. A method includes initializing, by a physical wireless device, a plurality of virtual wireless devices executing on the physical wireless device. The method includes registering with a control network by the physical wireless device. The method includes emulating a plurality of wireless sensors, by the physical wireless device and in the control network, by using the virtual wireless devices.
US10425788B2
The present disclosure relates to a clustering approach for sensor nodes of a wireless sensor network. This clustering approach, equal distance different members, balances the power burden amongst sensor nodes by deriving an optimal number of sensor nodes at each segment of a length. To this end, the present disclosure describes a linear wireless sensor network wherein the distance between adjacent cluster heads is equal while the number of and distance between sensor nodes in each cluster is different. A power consumption model is derived to aid in the determination of the optimal number of sensor nodes within each cluster. Following evaluation of the cluster approach in comparison with previously described approaches, the present disclosure is observed to improve network longevity and reduce power consumption by deliberately increasing the density of sensor nodes nearest a base station.
US10425771B2
A cognitive security service receives, as input to a recurrent neural network, a matrix of regular locations and usage for a user at multiple times as reported by one or more mobile devices for the user via a network. The cognitive security service applies the matrix in the recurrent neural network to predict one or more next device locations for a next step in time, each of the one or more next device locations weighted with a separate probability. The cognitive security service generates, through the recurrent neural network, an alert in response to one or more selected location and selected usage weighted with the highest probability deviating from a current location of the one or more mobile devices beyond a threshold specified by the user.
US10425770B2
A request is received for a service from an application of a mobile computing device. A latitude and a longitude of a geographic location associated with the mobile computing device is determined. The geographic location is mapped to a corresponding location on an embedded map associated with the application, where the embedded map is divided into a plurality of level 1 grids. A level 1 grid is determined in which the corresponding location is located. A granularity corresponding to a geographic distance is determined. The granularity is converted into a corresponding step size on the embedded map. The level 1 grid is divided into a plurality of level 2 grids based on the corresponding step size.
US10425767B1
Determining properties associated with signal sources based on measured or observed signal values detected at devices are disclosed. Specifically, a value associated with a signal detected at a device is determined. Based on a type of the device, the determined value is transformed into a normalized value with respect to a reference value determined for a reference device. A property of the device with respect to a source of the signal is determined based at least in part on the normalized value. For example, the determined property may comprise a presence, position, location, distance, motion, rotation, etc., of the device with respect to the source of the signal.
US10425749B2
A hearing instrument comprises a microphone for reception of sound and conversion of the sound into a first audio signal, a signal processor for processing the first audio signal into a second audio signal compensating a hearing loss of a user of the hearing aid, a speaker connected to an output of the signal processor for converting the second audio signal into an output sound signal and a wireless communication unit connected to the signal processor for wireless communication interconnected with an antenna system for emission and reception of an electromagnetic field. The antenna system comprises a plurality of antenna elements and a switching device. The switching device is configured to connect a first antenna element of the plurality of antenna elements to the wireless communication unit, and at least a second antenna element of the plurality of antenna elements to a ground potential in response to switch control information.
US10425744B2
The present disclosure provides a microphone including: a substrate having an acoustic hole; a vibrating electrode disposed on the substrate; and a fixing layer disposed on the vibrating electrode, wherein a central portion of the fixing layer corresponding to the acoustic hole of the substrate is formed upwardly convex.
US10425743B2
A capacitive transducer includes a substrate having an opening in a surface thereof, a back plate facing the opening in the substrate, a vibration electrode film facing the back plate across a space, the vibration electrode film being deformable to have a deformation converted into a change in capacitance between the vibration electrode film and the back plate, the vibration electrode film having a through-hole as a pressure relief hole, and a protrusion integral with and formed from the same member as the back plate, the protrusion being placeable in the pressure relief hole before the vibration electrode film deforms. The pressure relief hole and the protrusion have a gap therebetween defining an airflow channel as a pressure relief channel. The protrusion has a through-hole extending from a distal portion of the protrusion to a portion of the back plate opposite to the protrusion.
US10425738B2
An acoustic module, such as a microphone or speaker module, includes an acoustic membrane that vibrates to produce acoustic waves and an acoustic cavity through which acoustic waves produced by the membrane travel. A liquid removal mechanism removes liquid from the acoustic cavity. Such a liquid removal mechanism may include the acoustic membrane, heating elements, hydrophobic and/or hydrophilic surfaces, and so on. In some cases, the liquid removal mechanism may remove liquid from the acoustic cavity upon connection of the acoustic module and/or an associated electronic device to an external power source.
US10425732B1
The present invention provides a sound producing device comprising: an air pulse generating element and a control unit. The air pulse generating element comprises an air chamber and an actuator. The control unit, configured to generate a driving voltage applied to the actuator of the air pulse generating element, such that the air pulse generating element generates a plurality of air pulses in response to the driving voltage. The plurality of air pulses are at a pulse rate, and the pulse rate of the plurality of air pulses is higher than a maximum audible frequency.
US10425727B2
There is provided a multi-talker acoustic network system for providing hearing assistance to a user, comprising at least two table microphone units (10, 12) for capturing audio signals from a speaker's voice, each comprising a microphone arrangement (30) having an omnidirectional characteristic, a VAD (32) for detecting voice activity of the microphone arrangement and a transmitter (36) for transmitting the captured audio signals via a wireless audio link (40), a control unit (34) for selecting one of tire table microphone units as the presently active microphone unit, wherein the control unit is configured to select, in case that at a time only for one of the table microphone units voice activity is detected, that one of the table microphone units as the presently active microphone unit, and to select, in case that at a time for more than one of the table microphone units voice activity is detected, at least for a certain time period that one of the table microphone units as the presently active microphone unit which has detected the voice activity first as the presently active microphone unit, wherein the system is configured to maintain the selection of the presently active microphone unit with a release time, and a hearing assistance device (20, 22) to be worn by the user, comprising a receiver unit (42) for receiving audio signals captured by the presently active microphone unit and an output transducer (44) for stimulation of the user's hearing according to the received audio signals, wherein the system is configured to prevent audio signals of the table microphone unit(s) not being the presently active microphone unit from being supplied to the output transducer.
US10425724B2
Disclosed herein, among other things, are systems and methods for improved circuit design for hearing assistance devices. One aspect of the present subject matter includes a hearing assistance device configured to compensate for hearing losses of a user. The hearing assistance device includes a substrate and an interposer embedded into the substrate to form a system in package module. According to various embodiments, the interposer includes one or more integrated circuits (ICs) on the interposer, the one or more ICs configured to provide electronics for the hearing assistance device.
US10425722B2
A sound system for a vehicle is provided, which includes an engine and an audio device for an internal space of a cabin, as sound sources disposed at given positions of the vehicle. The system includes an engine sound localizer configured to localize a first sound generated by the engine to cause a vehicle driver inside the cabin to hear the first sound from a first position, an audio sound localizer configured to localize a second sound generated by the audio device to cause the driver to hear the second sound from a second position, a traveling state detector configured to detect a traveling state of the vehicle, and a controller configured to cause the audio sound localizer to change, when a given traveling state is detected by the traveling state detector, the second position in a direction away from the first position.
US10425716B1
A user interface device useable with a wireless audio or audio/video device. The user interface device includes a layered configuration that includes a layer of sensors separated from an input plate by a compressible layer. Touch inputs from a user cause the input plate to be tilted or moved toward the sensors and to compress the compressible layer. The sensors are configured in an array such that variations in the tilt of the input plate and/or a distance between the input plate and the sensor is recognizable and useable to instruct operation of an associated device that is to be controlled via the touch inputs.
US10425703B2
SPF (spray polyurethane foam) insulation applied in a commercial or residential building is the only building product which is manufactured on-site and not in a controlled in-plant environment. One reason for the high cost of SPF is that application of SPF requires large investment capital equipment and a specialized crew for each job. The work is further complex because the crew of each rig manufactures and installs the plural component product with little or no technical off-site guidance or support. We worked to solve this problem by designing a remote monitoring and reporting system which sends live raw parameter data from the spray rig to a support center server. The support center processes the data and provides rig support through our 4 pillars of technology. We designed the system to interface with all proportioner brands used by contractors keeping the user interface and majority of components standard for all. Using our system, the rig crew can optimize their performance and the performance of the equipment. Using our system, the average spray rig can improve productivity by 15-20% per job.
US10425702B2
Techniques for detecting physical conditions at a physical premises from collection of sensor information from plural sensors execute one or more unsupervised learning models to continually analyze the collected sensor information to produce operational states of sensor information, produce sequences of state transitions, detect during the continual analysis of sensor data that one or more of the sequences of state transitions is a drift sequence, correlate determined drift state sequence to a stored determined condition at the premises, and generate an alert based on the determined condition. Various uses are described for these techniques.
US10425691B2
In one embodiment, a method receives information for a video entity where a video delivery system delivers the video entity as a plurality of video assets using different video delivery methods. The method generates bundles for the video assets. Also, dependencies are generated between bundles when two bundles include control data parameters that are the same. The method then stores control data parameters for the bundles for the plurality of video assets based on the dependencies. A second bundle is stored with the dependency on a first bundle and the second bundle includes a second set of control data parameters for the second bundle that is different from the first set of control data parameters included in the first bundle. When the second bundle is selected, the method accesses the first set of control data parameters and the second set of control data parameters for the second bundle.
US10425689B2
A configuration by which application control in which an application control message is applied can be executed with certainty is implemented.A transmission apparatus transmits event notification data in which an application control message (ACM) is stored as event data to a reception apparatus. An application controlling unit of the reception apparatus executes application control based on the ACM stored as event data in the event notification message. The event notification data is stored in an MPD that is signaling data or in a segment that is data for transmission of an AV content, and the reception apparatus can acquire the ACM from the MPD or the segment and perform rapid application control.
US10425684B2
A method includes receiving, at a media server, a request to create a media content summary. The request includes a user-specified criterion. The method includes identifying segments of media content based on annotation data. The annotation data includes annotations associated with a first segment of the segments and a second segment of the segments. The first segment is identified based on a number of corresponding annotations. The method further includes generating the media content summary by automatically changing a first size of the first segment and a second size of the second segment such that a total size of the media content summary satisfies the user-specified criterion.
US10425674B2
A method of targeting of advertising content for a consumer product is disclosed. The method comprises obtaining consumer demographic data from a first server over a network, the consumer demographic data including a plurality of demographic attributes for each person among a plurality of persons; obtaining product purchaser data for a plurality of product purchasers of the consumer product from a second server over the network, each product purchaser among the plurality of product purchasers being among the plurality of persons; and enriching the purchaser data with the consumer demographic data. The method further comprises enriching viewing data with consumer demographic data; and selecting viewed media among the aggregated viewed media having the highest similarity to the product purchasers as target media for the advertising content.
US10425672B2
The described technology is directed towards obtaining and returning time offset data instead of current data in response to a data request. The time offset data may be limited to privileged clients only, and only provided thereto when desired, using a time offset value set by the client, for example. For example, a privileged user may request time offset data corresponding to a future time so as to preview how the data may be presented at a future time. Time offset data may be used by a system entity to fill a cache, e.g., as secondary cached data that may be used once primary cached data expires.
US10425671B2
In particular embodiments, one or more computer systems of a social-networking system receive a first video stream from a content source, receive social content from a social graph of the social-networking system, and generate an overlay area comprising at least a portion of the social content. The social graph includes a plurality of nodes and edges connecting the nodes, the nodes comprising user nodes that are each associated with a particular user of the social-networking system. The one or more computer systems of the social-networking system determine a placement for the overlay area within the first video stream, generate a modified video stream using at least the first video stream and the overlay area, and provide the modified video stream for display on a display device. The overlay area is placed within the modified video stream according to the determined placement.
US10425669B2
Methods and systems are described for a media guidance application that enhances the viewing experiences of users consuming media having important content. If a user is prevented from viewing media having important content that will be displayed eminently, the media having the important content may be displayed on a second device. For example, in this manner, a user will not inadvertently miss content from a movie or sports game right before an important scene in the movie or an important play in the sports game is displayed.
US10425667B2
In one embodiment, a method includes identifying at a network device, a characteristic of a video processed by a video service operating at an application layer, inserting the video characteristic into a header of a packet at the network device, and transmitting the packet on a service function path comprising a network function operable to use the video characteristic at a network layer. An apparatus and logic are also disclosed herein.
US10425662B2
An image processing apparatus and a method capable of reducing an amount of codes in encoding or decoding. A type setting unit uses a deblocked pixel value to set a type of a filter which is common between components of Y, Cb, Cr in units of LCUs, and provides the type to a syntax write unit. An offset setting unit uses a deblocked pixel value to set an offset independent for each of components of Y, Cb, Cr in units of LCUs. An SAO control information setting unit provides the offset or a merge flag, which is set by referring to the offset given by the offset setting unit, to the syntax write unit. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, an image processing apparatus.
US10425661B2
The invention relates to a method for protecting a video frame sequence against random and/or burst packet losses, the method comprising: partitioning the video frame sequence into a plurality of interleaved video frame subsequences; independently encoding the plurality of interleaved video frame subsequences by a differential video codec; generating for at least one of the plurality of interleaved video frame subsequences at least one B frame predicted from another one of the plurality of interleaved video frame subsequences; and using the at least one B frame as redundant B frame for protecting the video frame sequence.
US10425654B2
Systems and methods for synchronization of session content are provided. Session video of a plurality of game sessions may be captured at a content synchronization server. Each captured session video of each game session may be associated with an identifier of the respective game session. Additional content may be sent over a communication network to the content synchronization server. Such additional content may be external to the game session and identified as being associated with a game session identifier. One of the captured session videos may be identified as being associated with a game session identifier that matches the game session identifier associated with the received external content. The received external content may be synchronized to the identified session video based on the matching game session identifiers. A composite video may be generated that includes the received external content synchronized to the identified session video.
US10425649B2
Performing a graph-based prediction using a graph signal can be performed using a method that includes obtaining a context signal; generating a graph signal based on a graph parameter set; obtaining a graph-based transform matrix based on the graph signal, wherein the graph-based transform matrix includes an eigenvector; obtaining a prediction vector using an optimal transform vector calculated through an optimization function; and generating a prediction signal using the prediction vector, where the optimization function has the context signal, an eigenvalue of a graph Laplacian matrix and the eigenvector as a variable. Accordingly, a prediction value may be obtained with reduced complexity and the prediction performance may be improved.
US10425642B1
Techniques are described for encoding noisy media content to improve its visual quality. Quantization parameters can be applied to residual coefficient matrices of portions of an image frame as a compression technique. To improve the visual quality of media content, the quantization parameters to be applied can be adjusted to fit within a range around a representative quantization parameter of all of the portions of the image frame.
US10425640B2
A method, a device and an encoder for controlling filtering of intra-frame prediction reference pixel point are disclosed. The method includes: when various reference pixel points in a reference pixel group of an intra-frame block to be predicted are filtered, and the target reference pixel point to be filtered currently is not an edge reference pixel point in a reference pixel group (S202), acquiring a pixel difference value between the target reference pixel point and n adjacent reference pixel points thereof (S203); and selecting a filter with the filtering grade thereof corresponding to the pixel difference value to filter the target reference pixel point (S204). For various reference pixel points not located at an edge in a reference pixel group, according to the local difference characteristics of these reference pixel points, filters with corresponding filtering grades are flexibly configured, thus providing flexibility and adaptivity to the filtering, achieving better effect.
US10425635B2
An imaging directional backlight apparatus including a waveguide, a light source array, for providing large area directed illumination from localized light sources. The waveguide may include a stepped structure, in which the steps may further include extraction features optically hidden to guided light, propagating in a first forward direction. Returning light propagating in a second backward direction may be refracted, diffracted, or reflected by the features to provide discrete illumination beams exiting from the top surface of the waveguide. Viewing windows are formed through imaging individual light sources by waveguide facets and rear reflector images in cooperation. Viewing windows may be provided at first and second different window planes to improve uniformity in a lateral direction. Further, stray light may be reduced by inner and outer portions of reflective facets with different inclinations for the rear reflector.
US10425631B2
An apparatus including: a 2D control unit comprising a single camera processor; and a horizontal line switch downstream from a camera head and upstream of the single camera processor.
US10425630B2
A technique for digital stereo imaging is provided. According to an example embodiment, the technique comprises facilitating stereo image capturing means for capturing image data, said stereo image capturing means comprising a first imaging subsystem that comprises a first image sensor arranged to receive light via a first lens and a second imaging subsystem that comprises a second image sensor arranged to receive light via a second lens, wherein said first and second imaging subsystems are arranged such that the optical axes of said first and second lenses are in parallel to each other; reading pixel values from respective light-sensitive areas of said first and second image sensors, comprising reading pixel values for a first image from a first readout area on the first image sensor, reading pixel values for a second image from a second readout area on the second image sensor, and reading pixel values for support data from at least one portion of the light-sensitive area adjacent to the respective readout area on at least one of the first and second image sensors; and deriving disparity information pertaining to said first and second images on basis of said pixel values read for the first image, for the second image and for said support data.
US10425623B2
A control device includes a data storing unit, a synchronization control unit, a light emission control unit, and a luminance adjustment unit. The light emission control unit derives a luminance adjustment parameter for adjusting a light emission luminance of light emitting elements when a video image is displayed with a total number of vertical lines in a current frame such that a total light emission amount of the light emitting elements during one frame period when the video image is displayed with the total number of vertical lines in the current frame is equal to a total light emission amount of the light emitting elements during one frame period when a video image is displayed with a pre-set minimum number of vertical lines. The luminance adjustment unit adjusts, based on the luminance adjustment parameter, the light emission luminance of the light emitting elements.
US10425613B2
An electronic device can be synchronized with a broadcast of a live sporting event to obtain supplemental sports data over a data network from a server storing data associated with the live sporting event. Supplemental sports data is obtained from the server for display on the electronic device following a triggering activity associated with the broadcast of the live sporting event. Supplemental sports data can be transmitted for rendering on a display associated with the electronic device. Supplemental sports data can include display of an instant replay video of a sports athlete combined with audio of a pre-recorded statement by the sports athlete associated with the instant replay video, an announcement of a score change for a sporting event monitored by the electronic device, and a display of a football widget providing updates on football game status (e.g., possession, ball location, current score) monitored by the electronic device.
US10425605B2
An image sensor comprising: a pixel array in which a plurality of unit pixels are arranged in a matrix; a plurality of signal output lines provided for each column of the pixel array; a signal readout circuit provided for each column of the pixel array; and a control circuit for controlling a signal from the unit pixel of each column in a first row to be output to any of the signal output lines, and controlling the signal output to the any of the signal output lines to be input to the signal readout circuit. The control circuit controls, for each column, a signal from the unit pixel in a second row to be output to another of the signal lines while the signal output to the any of the signal output lines is being input to the signal readout circuit.
US10425599B2
A method for generating an HDR image includes (i) generating, from a plurality of single-exposure images of a scene, having a respective one of a plurality of exposure values, a sharpness map of sharpness values of the single-exposure images, and (ii) generating, from the plurality of single-exposure images, an exposure-value map of composite exposure values of the single-exposure images. The method also includes (iii) determining an optimal exposure value from the sharpness map and the exposure-value map, and (iv) generating the HDR image by combining a reference image of the scene, captured with the optimal exposure value, and at least two of the plurality of single-exposure images. An exposure selector for generating an HDR image, from the plurality of single-exposure images, includes a memory and a microprocessor. The memory stores non-transitory computer-readable instructions and is adapted to store the plurality of single-exposure images. The microprocessor is adapted to execute the aforementioned method.
US10425591B2
There is a demand for increasing the dynamic range of an imaging unit. Provided is an imaging unit comprising a pixel section that outputs a pixel signal corresponding to a reset potential after a reset and a signal potential after charge accumulation; an amplifying section that amplifies the pixel signal with a first amplification ratio or a second amplification ratio that is different from the first amplification ratio; and a control section that causes the amplifying section to amplify the pixel signal corresponding to a change from the reset potential to the signal potential with the first amplification ratio, and then causes the amplifying section to amplify the pixel signal corresponding to a change from the signal potential to the reset potential with the second amplification ratio.
US10425588B2
Embodiments of the subject application disclose various imaging control methods and apparatuses for a digital zoom image and various imaging devices. One of imaging control methods for a digital zoom image comprises: acquiring a digital zoom parameter; determining an actual imaging area of an image sensor according to the acquired digital zoom parameter; adjusting a pixel density distribution of the image sensor, to cause an average pixel density of the actual imaging area after adjustment to become greater than those of other areas of the image sensor; and acquiring, by using the actual imaging area with the adjusted average pixel density, an image of a scene to be photographed. The technical solutions provided in the embodiments of the subject application cause that as many as possible pixels of the image sensor gather at an actual imaging area corresponding to a digital zoom parameter to participate in image collection, thereby improving efficiency of image collection and the definition of a collected image.
US10425587B2
A camera capable of interchanging a mount as a connection part that connects with a lens. Under control of a system control unit, when the power of the camera is in an on state, a type of the mount attached to the camera is discriminated to determine mount interchange. When it is determined that the mount interchange has been performed, with respect to a menu including a plurality of items and a My Menu in which items selected by a user from among the items included in the menu are registered, an item unnecessary for the discriminated type of the mount among the items of the menu is set to non-display, and when toe item set to the non-display has been registered in the My Menu, the item is reset in the My Menu.
US10425586B2
Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products are herein provided for providing markers for improved picture taking. A method may include causing presentation of information representative of a live environment on a screen. The method may further include receiving user input defining a marker and a position of the marker on the screen over at least a portion of the live environment information. The method may further include causing presentation of the marker in the position on the screen. Corresponding apparatuses and computer program products are also provided.
US10425584B2
An image pickup system includes a camera body and a lens device that is attached to the camera body. In the lens device, a shake detecting unit detects a shake, and a splitting unit splits a degree of image blurring correction which is calculated on the basis of the shake into a degree of optical image blurring correction and a degree of electronic image blurring correction. In the first image blurring correction, driving of an image blurring correcting unit is controlled using the degree of optical image blurring correction. In the second image blurring correction, an electronic image blurring correction control unit of the camera body performs image blurring correction through image processing using the degree of electronic image blurring correction. The camera body transmits timing information on an exposure period and information on a correction range of the electronic image blurring correction to the lens device. The lens device transmits the degree of electronic image blurring correction calculated by the splitting unit to the camera body.
US10425577B2
An image processing apparatus includes an image processor, a display unit, an operation unit, and a controller. The image processor combines data of a plurality of images to generate data of a still image deeper in depth of field, the plurality of the images that are generated by shooting an object image while changing a focus position. The display unit displays a range designation screen displaying an image together with a plurality of image areas. The operation unit receives a designation, performed by the user, of an image area in the range designation screen. When a first and a second image area in the range designation screen are designated by the user, the controller sets a combining range having a focus position located between the first and the second image area. The display unit performs a first display-highlighting on the image areas included in the combining range set.
US10425575B2
An information processing device, a program, and an information processing method are provided, capable of instructing an imaging device to start and end a predetermined operation through an operation via a GUI. The information processing device includes: a display control unit configured to control display of a slider on a display unit, the slider being configured such that a display object is movable between predetermined positions; and a process control unit configured to instruct an imaging unit to control photography in a predetermined mode when the process control unit receives an operation of moving the display object.
US10425571B2
A focusing apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire locus data that indicates a position of a focus lens that depends on an object distance and a position of a zoom lens, and an adjustment value used to adjust the position of the focus lens on the locus data, a correction unit configured to correct the adjustment value based on an aberration of an optical system that includes the zoom lens and the focus lens, and a control unit configured to control the position of the focus lens based on the locus data and the corrected adjustment value.
US10425570B2
The disclosure includes a camera array comprising camera modules, the camera modules comprising a master camera that includes a processor, a memory, a sensor, a lens, a status indicator, and a switch, the switch configured to instruct each of the camera modules to initiate a start operation to start recording video data using the lens and the sensor in the other camera modules and the switch configured to instruct each of the camera modules to initiate a stop operation to stop recording, the status indicator configured to indicate a status of at least one of the camera modules.
US10425564B2
An image pickup apparatus capable of focusing correctly and of setting a bounce angle accurately. A lighting device that changes an irradiation angle is attached to an apparatus body. A first control unit drives the lighting device to perform pre-emission when the irradiation angle is controlled for bounce emission photographing where an object is photographed while being illuminated by a reflected light emitted from the lighting device and reflected by reflection material. A first distance measuring unit measures a first distance to the object and a second distance to the reflection material using the pre-emission. A second control unit sets up the irradiation angle based on the first and second distances and controls the lighting device to the set irradiation angle. A second distance measuring unit measures a third distance to the object during focus control. A prohibition unit prohibits the pre-emission when the second distance measuring unit measures the third distance.
US10425558B2
A method of processing a document for printing includes receiving a document; for at least one of the plurality of regions, determining a drop size for that region and determining whether the drop size for printing the region meets a threshold criterion and, if so, processing the region using a tile-based screen for halftoning and, if not, processing the region using an error diffusion screen for halftoning; and printing the processed regions. Another method includes additionally considering coverage level to determine whether to use a tile-based screen or error diffusion screen. Yet another method includes determining whether the region is within a threshold range of a drop step change.
US10425547B2
A system and method for customizing a multifunction peripheral user interface includes a multifunction peripheral with a document processing controller including a processor and memory. The memory stores identified electronic customization groups, each comprised of electronic files. The memory also stores device customization data sets, each data set corresponding to document processing in the multifunction peripheral. A print engine and a scan engine are operational by instructions issued from the controller. The processor generates indicia on a display identifying each of the customization groups and receives a user selection of one or more customization group. A customizations menu listing available customizations from the selections is displayed along with a document processing options menu including corresponding device customization data sets. Selectable user interface packages, where at least one of the interface packages includes a document processing options menu, are stored in the memory.
US10425543B2
An information processing device includes a first generator configured to generate screen definition information that defines an input screen for inputting bibliographic information used in flow definition information that defines a workflow; a control unit configured to perform control such that the input screen based on the screen definition information is displayed on a display unit of an image forming apparatus; a first acquisition unit configured to, when first bibliographic information that is input from the input screen is bibliographic information on which second bibliographic information different from the first bibliographic information depends, acquire the second bibliographic information that is associated with the first bibliographic information from association information; and a transmitter configured to transmit the second bibliographic information that is acquired by the first acquisition unit, to the image forming apparatus to display the second bibliographic information on the input screen.
US10425541B2
An information processing apparatus includes: a display; an operation interface; a controller, which performs: acquiring image data, through the communication interface, image data, designation information, and specific information; displaying, a notification, a notification including the specific information, the notification indicating that the image data, the designation information and the specific information are acquired; and displaying, a result obtained by performing a processing of the image data designated by the designation information, in response to receiving an operation, displaying, a second notification together with a first notification, in a case where second image data, second designation information, and second specific information are acquired during displaying of the first notification indicating that a first image data, a first designation information and a first specific information are acquired, the second notification indicating that the second image data, the second designation information and the second specific information are acquired.
US10425539B2
A charging method, a network device, and a system, where the method includes performing, by a policy and charging enforcement function (PCEF), online charging for user equipment (UE), switching, by the PCEF, the UE from online charging to offline charging, and starting an offline timer when an online charging system (OCS) is unavailable, and restoring, by the PCEF, the UE from offline charging to online charging when the PCEF learns, before the offline timer expires, that the OCS becomes available. Hence, after a user is switched to offline charging, an online charging function can be recovered in a timely manner when the OCS becomes available. In this way, a user account overdraft risk possibly existing in an offline charging process is mitigated, and deactivation of the user can be avoided in the solutions, thereby improving user experience.
US10425534B2
A method and system automatically optimizes agent time. The method performed by a transferring device includes monitoring a communication session between an agent device used by an agent of the contact center and a user device used by a user. The communication session including first communications generated by the agent and second communications generated by the user. The method includes determining when the communication session is to be transferred from the agent device to an automated system of the contact center. The automated system is configured to perform the communication session by generating third communications for the second communications. The method includes generating a control signal upon determining the communication session is to be transferred that is configured to automatically transfer the communications session from the agent device to the automated system.
US10425531B1
Certain aspects of the disclosure are directed to customized communication lists for data communications systems using high-level programming. According to a specific example, a data communications server is configured to interface with a remotely-situated client entity using a first programming language. The data communications server includes a communication control engine that is configured to provide a private branch exchange (PBX) for the client entity. The communication control engine is configured and arranged to identify client-specific sets of control data derived from instructions written in a second programming language that is compatible with the first programming language, and to control communication routing by determining whether to route incoming data communications in response to a comparison of at least one feature of the incoming data communications telephone communications and the client-specific sets of control data.
US10425522B1
The communication device comprising a 1st device remotely controlling implementer, a 2nd device remotely controlling implementer, and a video data transfer implementer.
US10425517B2
An attachable electronic device holder includes a substantially horizontal bottom support surface configured to at least partially support a weight of an electronic device. The bottom support surface includes a first edge and a second edge. A first substantially vertical surface is positioned proximate the first edge of the bottom surface and a second substantially vertical surface may be positioned proximate the second edge of the bottom surface. A fastener is attached to at least one of the bottom support surface, the first vertical surface, and the second vertical surface.
US10425509B2
Techniques are provided that enable a wireless security system that is designed to detect and receive wireless transmissions in one protocol, to use sensor-transmitters that operate in a different protocol. The techniques involve, generally, the use of an integration device, and in some implementations, first enrolling sensor-transmitters of a first protocol into the integration device, along with device type information for the sensor-transmitters. Thereafter, during system operation, transmissions with message packets in the first message packet protocol are received by the integration device, recognized as having been previously enrolled, and a message packet in a second message packet protocol that includes device type information is then formulated and transmitted by the integration device, for receipt by a system control device for the wireless security system. In some scenarios, an enrollment process need not be done in the integration device, and the integration device is utilized in the communication process.
US10425500B2
Techniques are disclosed for a web server to support constraints specified by a client. In one embodiment, the web server receives, from the client, a request for one or more blocks of data. The request includes one or more constraints provided by the client. The web server may perform an action responsive to an increase in network congestion, based on the one or more constraints. Accordingly, the web server may handle the request in a manner that more closely meets the needs of the client.
US10425496B2
In one or more embodiments, a system (e.g., one or more computer systems) of synchronous orchestration may store and/or replay one or more operations of a synchronous orchestration operation if one or more issues impair the synchronous orchestration operation. For example, the system may replay and/or reproduce a task of the synchronous orchestration operation after an amount of time transpires and/or after receiving a notification that indicates an impairment has been overcome. For instance, a replay and/or reproduction process to begin from a point where an orchestration layer was impaired. In one or more embodiments, one or more efforts in repeating an entire synchronous orchestration operation may be reduced.
US10425488B2
A system may include sensor equipment, a local yard maintenance manager and a remote yard maintenance manager. The sensor equipment includes one or more sensors disposed on a parcel of land. The local yard maintenance manager may be disposed proximate to the parcel and configured to interface with the sensor equipment to monitor growing conditions on the parcel. The remote yard maintenance manager may be disposed remotely with respect to the parcel and configured to interface with the sensor equipment.
US10425481B2
A method and a virtual network element of a virtual telecommunications network comprising a cloud infrastructure. The cloud infrastructure comprises a hypervisor arrangement managed by a cloud manager for allocating physical resources to the virtual network element. The virtual network element further comprises a module that retrieves from the hypervisor manager or from the hypervisor arrangement resource identification information identifying the physical resources (HW; NW; disk) allocated to the virtual network element managing service application.
US10425464B2
A method of speeding up the delivery of a dynamic webpage is disclosed. A plurality of responses to a plurality of requests for a webpage is received, the webpage including dynamic components. The plurality of responses is compared to identify common and dynamic components across the plurality of requests. A cached stub is dynamically adapted based on the comparison within a learning window, the cached stub including the identified common components and placeholders for portions of the identified dynamic components. The dynamically adapted cached stub is sent in response to at least some of the plurality of requests for the webpage. A frequency of reloading of the webpage is monitored, wherein a reloading of the webpage is triggered by a detection of the dynamically adapted cached stub having one of a plurality of types of error. The learning window is adjusted based on a frequency of reloading of the webpage.
US10425463B2
This specification describes technologies relating to software execution. A computing device includes a processor. An operating system includes an execution environment in which applications can execute computer-specific commands. A web-browser application includes a scripting environment for interpreting scripted modules. The web-browser application further includes a native environment in which native modules can execute computer-specific commands. The web-browser application further includes an interface between the scripting environment and the native environment. The interface includes functions to asynchronously pass data objects by value, from one of the scripting environment and the native environment, to the other of the scripting environment and the native environment.
US10425459B2
Technologies for seamless data streaming include a control server and one or more client computing devices. A client computing device receives user presence data indicative of whether a user is nearby from one or more sensors. The client computing device may receive user interest data indicative of the user's interest level in the current data stream from one or more sensors. The control server identifies available client computing devices based on the user presence data, selects a target client computing device, and causes the data stream to transition from the current client computing device to the target client computing device. The target client computing device may be selected based on proximity of the user or the user's interest level in the data stream. The volume or balance of the data stream may be adjusted to provide a smooth transition between client computing devices. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US10425454B2
A transfer method and a method for controlling the transfer of digital content. The content is available on a content server, accessible via a service gateway, and can be processed by at least two devices of a user, namely a first device known as the mobile device and at least one second device known as the rendering device. The rendering device is connected to a transfer device. The content is selected on the mobile device and rendered on the rendering device. The transfer method includes: opening a point-to-point communication channel between the mobile device and the transfer device; receiving an identifier of a service gateway over the point-to-point communication channel; connecting the transfer device to a local network using the gateway identifier received; receiving an identifier of content to be rendered; accessing the identified content on the content server via the identified gateway.
US10425449B2
Systems and methods for classifying Internet-of-Things (IoT) gateways using principal component analysis are described. In some embodiments, an Information Handling System (IHS) may be configured to: receive metadata from a plurality of IoT gateways in an IoT network, where the metadata describes hardware attributes of a given IoT gateway and hardware attributes of one or more IoT devices coupled the given IoT gateway, perform principal component analysis upon the metadata by performing an eigenvalue decomposition or a singular value decomposition of a matrix including the metadata, and classify the given IoT gateway based, at least in part, upon the principal component analysis.
US10425448B2
The present disclosure generally relates to the field of network authentication. More specifically, the present disclosure relates to a technique of determining a set of authentication protocols for authentication between a terminal and an authentication server of a communication network. A method embodiment includes obtaining information related to at least one of the terminal, an access network via which the terminal is connected to the communication network, and at least one gateway node or intermediate network via which the terminal is connected to the communication network. The method further includes determining, based on the obtained information, from a plurality of authentication protocols available for authentication between the terminal and the authentication server, at least one of a set of authentication protocols to be offered towards the terminal and a set of authentication protocols to be supported by the terminal for authentication between the terminal and the authentication server.
US10425444B2
A system and method for preventing email social engineering attacks, comprising a whaling/CEO fraud/imposter protection module; a vendor/supplier fraud protection module; a personal email fraud/display name abuse module; an email traffic modeling module; an auto-configure/learn mode module; an in-line protection module; an integrated malware analysis module; an email fingerprinting module; and a trust score module.
US10425443B2
Detecting a volumetric attack on a computer network with fewer false positives and while also requiring fewer processing resources is provided. The systems and methods described herein use observations taken at the network level to observe network traffic to form a predictive model for future traffic. When the network's future traffic sufficiently exceeds the predictive model, the monitoring systems and methods will indicate to the network to take security measures. The traffic to the network may be observed in subsets, corresponding to various groupings of sources, destinations, and protocols so that security measures may be targeted to that subset without affecting other machines in the network.
US10425440B2
Systems, methods, and software described herein enhances how security actions are implemented within a computing environment. In one example, a method of implementing security actions for a computing environment comprising a plurality of computing assets includes identifying a security action in a command language for the computing environment. The method further provides identifying one or more computing assets related to the security action, and obtaining hardware and software characteristics for the one or more computing assets. The method also includes translating the security action in the command language to one or more action procedures based on the hardware and software characteristics, and initiating implementation of the one or more action procedures in the one or more computing assets.
US10425430B2
A system for hierarchical scanning includes an interface and a processor. The interface is to receive an indication to scan using a payload; provide the payload to a set of addresses on a set of ports; and receive a set of responses. Each response is associated with an address and a port. The processor is to: for each response of the set of responses: determine whether a follow-up probe exists associated with the response; and in the event the follow-up probe exists associated with the response: execute the follow-up probe on the address and the port associated with the response; and store the set of data received in response to the follow-up probe in a database.
US10425428B2
Whenever users receive or transfer a copy of any of a set of documents, prior verification of the document is enforced by an administrative system, which associates verification metadata with the copy. As each copy is itself copied, possibly modified, and transferred, updated verification metadata is included with the previous verification metadata to form a verification lineage chain, which can later be examined to determine the circumstances of any verification failure. Documents are preferably verified by comparing the digital signature of the current copy with the signature of a reference copy. Documents may be signed by submitting them as transactions to a blockchain, with the blockchain receipt comprising the digital signature of the respective document.
US10425424B1
A notification is received that a first user device and a second user device would like to share a data set. The data set is retrieved from a database. A first security level associated with the first user device and a second security level associated with the second user device is retrieved. The data set is provided to the first user device and the second user device in accordance with the first security level and the second security level.
US10425422B1
The example embodiments are directed to an application and a system capable of securely delivering message content to an unintended recipient to enhance the security of message delivery. In an example, the method includes at least one of: receiving an electronic message from a user device, the electronic message including secure content and one or more recipients, determining that a recipient of the electronic message is a member of a project group associated with an organization, and in response, identifying an unintended recipient who is associated with the organization but who is not a member of the project group, and transmitting a notification to a device of the recipient indicating that the secure content is accessible via a device of the unintended recipient instead of transmitting the secure content directly to the device of the recipient.
US10425408B2
In an embodiment of the present disclosure, an embodiment includes a user device comprises a conversion engine configured to receive a biometric file comprising biometric identification information of a user and convert the biometric file into a first numeric representation. The user device further comprises a hashing engine configured to create a superimposed numeric representation by performing a convolution operation on the first numeric representation and a second numeric representation, wherein the second numeric representation is based on a key file that is different from the biometric file. The hashing engine is further configured to convert the superimposed numeric representation into a hash value, send, over a network connection, the hash value for authentication, and receive a message indicating whether authentication was successful.
US10425403B2
The present disclosure relates to a method and a device for accessing a smart camera. The method includes detecting access media for accessing the smart camera. The method also includes generating an access request corresponding to the access media when detecting that the access media is a local area network. The access request carries an access password. The method further includes sending the access request to the smart camera, such that the smart camera allows access after successfully verifying the access password in the access request.
US10425396B2
A system allows a reliable and efficient identity management that can, with full interoperability, accommodate to various requirements of participants. For that a system is presented for providing an identity-related information about a user to a requesting entity. The method includes a location-request step initiated by the requesting entity for requesting from a client application a location information that corresponds to a location entity possessing the identity-related information, a redirecting step for connecting the client application to the location entity in order to instruct the location entity to transfer the identity-related information to the requesting entity, and an acquiring step for obtaining the identity-related information. The acquiring step includes a contact step wherein the location entity contacts the requesting entity, a request step wherein the requesting entity requests the identity-related information, and a response step wherein the requesting entity receives the identity-related information from the location entity.
US10425392B2
Particular embodiments of a gateway computing device provide a provisioning service for access credentials to a restricted network, wherein the provisioning service is accessible by an open network. A messaging protocol for the open network may only recognize messages relating to one of a set of services provided by the gateway computing device, including the provisioning service. The gateway computing device may receive, from a client device, a request to connect to the restricted network, wherein the request was sent using the open network. Upon determining whether the client device is authorized to access the restricted network, the gateway computing device may send a response to the client device using the open network.
US10425388B2
A method for protecting encrypted data may includes encrypting, by a client terminal, the sensitive data by using a key in response to receipt of the sensitive data; sending the encrypted sensitive data to a provider server through a first request and obtaining a unique tag corresponding to the sensitive data; and sending the key and the unique tag to the provider server through a second request so that the provider server decrypts the sensitive data corresponding to the unique tag by using the key. The first request and the second request are different requests. Since the client terminal sends the encrypted sensitive data and the key to the provider server respectively in different requests, if others intercept the encrypted sensitive data, it is difficult to intercept the key carried in another request, and the encrypted sensitive data cannot be decrypted. Thus security of the sensitive data is protected.
US10425386B2
A system provides cloud-based identity and access management. The system receives a request by a web gate for an identity management service for reaching an application, and determines a tenancy from a header value of the request. The system looks up a policy configured to be applied for the tenancy, and applies the policy to the request. The system then sends the request to a microservice based on a result of the applying of the policy to the request, where the microservice performs the identity management service for reaching the application.
US10425375B2
A method for delivering messages performed at a server includes: generating a group-sending interface invocation request, and sending the group-sending interface invocation request to an open platform server, where the group-sending interface invocation request carries a to-be-sent message and at least one group identifier, a follower group corresponding to each group identifier includes a user account of at least one follower of a target user account, the target user account is a user account that a service provider applies for to the social networking application, the group-sending interface invocation request is used to invoke a message group-sending interface provided by the open platform server, and the message group-sending interface is configured to send a message to a client terminal corresponding to a user account in a follower group corresponding to each of the at least one group identifier.
US10425373B2
Embodiments describe systems and methods for prioritizing messages for conversion from text to speech. A message manager can execute on a device. The message manager can identify a plurality of messages accessible via the device and can determine, for each message of the plurality of messages, a conversion score based on one or more parameters of each message. The conversion score can indicate a priority of each message to convert from text to speech. The message manager can identify a message of the plurality of messages for transmission to a text-to-speech converter for converting the message from text to speech. The message manager can also receive, from the text-to-speech converter, speech data of the message to play via an audio output of the device.
US10425372B2
A notification that has been generated for a user may be identified. The notification may pertain to a media content item. A determination may be made as to whether the user interacted with the media content item, and a further determination may be made as to whether the user has interacted with the notification. In response to determining that the user has interacted with the media content item and has not interacted with the notification pertaining to the media content item, an affinity score of the user with respect to the notification may be calculated. A condition associated with providing a subsequent notification to the user may be determined based on the affinity score of the user.
US10425366B2
A reminder service is disclosed herein receives action information indicative of an email selected for follow-up action in an email application. The reminder service identifies an additional application through which to surface a reminder about the follow-up action and communicates reminder information to the additional application with which to render the reminder.
US10425364B2
According to an embodiment of the present invention, a system dynamically processes an incoming message. Initially, a system receives a message including a plurality of different contexts. In response to receiving the message, a processor in the system partitions the message into a plurality of sections each associated with a corresponding context, wherein each context includes an inquiry to receive a reply. The processor further generates one or more replies for a corresponding context and generates a response to the message including the sections and the one or more replies, wherein each reply is inserted into a section in the response associated with the corresponding context. Embodiments of the present invention further include a method and computer program product for dynamically processing messages in substantially the same manner described above.
US10425362B2
A wireless communication system, comprising one or several nodes (A) equipped by a wireless radio interface that is adapted for transmitting digital messages modulated in the form of a series of frequency chirps, for example, LoRa-modulated radio signals. The message is received simultaneously by several base stations (C, D, E), and a server (S) is arranged for dividing the frames by the diverse stations and recombining a corrected frame for the intended recipient (B) based on error codes. Advantageously, the base stations being adapt their timing error compensation strategy when the error codes indicate a corruption of the message.
US10425353B1
A method and system for determining of timing for vector following a branched processing model is disclosed. A data source is mined to determine event vectors from a large number of cases that follow a branched processing model. Current event vectors are compared to the mined event vectors with machine learning to predict future nodes for the current event vectors. Historical temporal spacing for the mined event vectors are used to predict temporal position for the current event vector in the future.
US10425324B2
A device and method for providing balanced routing paths in a computational grid including determining a type of topology of the computational grid having a plurality of levels, wherein each level includes a plurality of switches, determining whether the type of topology of the computational grid is a fat-tree, determining whether the fat-tree is odd, determining whether the fat-tree is a regular fat-tree, computing a first set of routing paths for the computational grid based on the determining of whether the fat-tree is odd and is a regular fat-tree, computing a second set of routing paths for the computational grid using a topology agnostic routing technique, and configuring forwarding tables in said switches with the first set of computed routing paths when the topology is determined to be a fat-tree and with the second set of computed routing paths when the topology is determined to not be a fat-tree.
US10425320B2
Methods, systems, and computer readable media for network diagnostics are disclosed. According to one method, the method occurs at a diagnostics controller implemented using at least one processor. The method includes configuring a plurality of diagnostics nodes to observe traffic behavior associated with a system under test (SUT). The method also includes observing, using the diagnostics nodes, traffic behavior associated with the SUT. The method further includes detecting, using the traffic behavior, a SUT issue. The method also includes identifying, using SUT topology information, a network node in the SUT associated with the SUT issue. The method further includes triggering one of the diagnostics nodes to obtain node related information from the network node, wherein the diagnostics node uses at least one communications protocol to poll the network node for the node related information. The method also includes diagnosing, using the node related information, the SUT issue.
US10425317B2
A method includes periodically sending a polling call to an enterprise system outside the firewall at a first polling rate during normal operating conditions, monitoring for a fault condition, periodically sending polling calls to the device outside the firewall at a second polling rate when a fault condition is detected, the second polling rate being higher than the first polling rate. The second polling rate is used as result of a fault condition. The method also includes sending a problem report with the polling calls when the fault condition is detected.
US10425315B2
A personal digital assistant device includes: a memory storing an interactive personal digital assistant program and a processor configured to execute the interactive personal digital assistant program. The interactive personal digital assistant program performs an operation to determine whether the service provider is automated or is not automated. The interactive personal digital assistant program is configured to issue a command to the service provider on behalf of a user of the device, when it is determined that the service provider is automated. The interactive personal digital assistant program is configured to issue an alert on the device when it is determined that the service provider is not automated. The interactive personal digital assistant program may continue until the goal of the interaction is met or human help is sought.
US10425313B2
Disclosed aspects relate to tuple traffic management in a stream computing environment to process a stream of tuples using a set of control group data with respect to a set of operation-system-level virtualization and resource isolation containers. The set of control group data may be collected with respect to a set of containers in the stream computing environment. A tuple flow model may be determined with respect to the set of containers in the stream computing environment based on the set of control group data. The stream of tuples may be processed using the tuple flow model with respect to the set of containers in the stream computing environment.
US10425312B1
In accordance with the teachings of the present disclosure, a method of generating a computer alarm is disclosed. The method includes determining a new instance of a characteristic of an element of a computing network to be monitored, identifying a relationship of the element to other elements of the computing network, and automatically creating an alarm threshold for the new instance of the characteristic based upon the relationship of the element to the other elements of the computing network.
US10425299B2
A method for optimizing network design includes identifying a set of terminal-to-terminal shortest paths in a network, wherein a terminal-to-terminal shortest path is a best connection between two terminals, evaluating a terminal betweenness for each non-terminal vertex in the network, wherein the terminal betweenness of a vertex is a fraction of the total number of terminal-to-terminal shortest paths that include said vertex, calculating an average terminal betweenness for each terminal-to-terminal shortest path based on the terminal betweenness of the vertices in the path, iteratively adding the terminal-to-terminal shortest paths to an output graph in order of decreasing average terminal betweenness until all terminals are represented on the output graph, and using the output graph to design or adjust a network. The method may also include displaying the output graph to a user. A computer program product and computer system corresponding to the method are also disclosed.
US10425290B1
There are disclosed devices, system and methods for creating and displaying a graph representation of a topology of a computer network of physical network objects for an application. A first physical network object selects portions of sets of data messages being sent over a period of time by the application and related network objects; and collects network configuration and time dimension information from the portions of messages. A second physical network object receives the information and uses it to determine topology information for the application over time, which includes unique keys of, types of objects of, types of relationships between pairs of, groupings of, metrics data of, and time dimension data for the physical network objects. The topology information is stored and queried at the second object to create and display various graph representations of the topology information as it changes over time.
US10425279B2
Example methods are provided for a network management entity to implement distributed network emulation in a virtualized computing environment. The method may comprise: generating a translated network emulation rule by translating a source identifier and a destination identifier in a network emulation rule to respective source network address and destination network address, and configuring a source host or destination host to apply the translated network emulation rule to emulate a desired network condition for one or more first packets from the source network address to the destination network address. The method may further comprise: in response to detecting that the source network address or destination network address has been updated, updating the source network address or destination network address in the translated network emulation rule; and reconfiguring the source host or destination host to apply the updated translated network emulation rule.
US10425278B2
An operator node is configured to enable the management of nodes communicatively coupled to the operator node via a network. A selection of node objects is received by the operator node, the selected node objects including software components for inclusion within a node configuration. A configuration policy is generated based on the selected objects, the configuration policy including a set of tests (such as scripts or executables) that, when run, test for the presence of one or more of the selected node objects. A target node is scanned to determine the configuration of the target node, and the set of tests are applied to identify a set of objects identified by the policy but not installed at the target node. The target node is then re-configured to install the identified set of objects at the target node.
US10425275B2
A management node of a server maintains a database of configuration parameters that stores the individual configuration parameters for each compute node. In response to a boot request at a compute node, a configuration parameter control module at the node intercepts locally targeted requests to load configuration parameters. The configuration parameter module sends the requests to the management node and in response the management node sends configuration parameters responsive to the requests. The configuration parameter module provides the configuration parameters to the compute node, thereby emulating a local boot memory for the compute node.
US10425270B2
In one aspect, a wireless transmitter forms (1110) a first signal having a first integer number of symbol intervals in each of one or more time intervals of a predetermined length and forms (1120) a second signal having a second integer number of symbol intervals in each of the one or more time intervals of the predetermined length, the second integer number differing from the first integer number. The wireless transmitter simultaneously transmits (1130) the first and second signals in a frequency band, such that the first and second signals are frequency-domain multiplexed in the frequency band and such that a symbol interval starting time in the first signal is aligned with a corresponding symbol interval starting time in the second signal at least once per time interval.
US10425268B2
A universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter (UART) module is disclosed. The UART module may include an edge detector coupled with a data line of the UART module, wherein the edge detector resets a counter on a rising and a falling edge.
US10425262B2
Methods and systems are provided for adaptive guard interval (GI) combining. A signal carrying a symbol that is preceded by a guard interval (GI) that includes a portion of the symbol may be received, and a portion of the GI that is free from inter-symbol interference (ISI) may be determined. Only a part of the ISI-free portion of the GI may be selected. The selected part of the ISI-free portion of the GI may be less than a whole of the ISI-free portion. The selection may be configured based on a parameter that is applied to a function used in extracting the symbol. The parameter may be a timing adjustment, relative to a start of the symbol, applied to the function when extracting the symbol. Only the part of the ISI-free portion of the GI may then be extracted and combined with a corresponding portion of the symbol.
US10425259B2
Various communication systems may benefit from identification of devices or systems using a channel. For example, certain communication systems may benefit from non-orthogonal cover code for co-channel network isolation. A method can include deciding a cover code index. The method can also include signaling the cover code index to a user equipment. The cover code index can correspond to a non-orthogonal cover code that is created in a network-specific manner.
US10425257B1
Systems and methods are disclosed for detecting sequences of symbols in a received signal in the presence of inter-symbol interference. Maximum Likelihood Sequence Detection (MLSD) is a known method for optimum detection of such sequences. To reduce the complexity of the MLSD, a Reduced-State Sequence Detection (RSSD) technique has been considered based on partitioning the states of the MLSD. In this approach, a simplified sequence detector is placed within a global decision feedback loop. The disclosed architecture shortens the feedback loop by moving the sequence detector outside the loop and converting the interaction between the two to a feed-forward manner. This is achieved through slicing the signal and closing a nested loop around the sliced bins. A further variant simplifies the detector even more by reducing the number of bins.
US10425256B2
An interference mitigation apparatus, comprising: an adaptive feedforward filtering stage and an adaptive feedback filtering stage configured to produce a plurality of output signals from a plurality of frequency downconverted signals, the output signals for being provided to a data decoding stage; a plurality of phase rotators configured to apply phase rotation to the frequency downconverted signals prior to processing by the adaptive feedforward filtering stage and the adaptive feedback filtering stage; and an adaptive controller configured for varying an amount of the phase rotation applied by the phase rotators to the frequency downconverted signals based at least in part on symbol decisions made on the output signals. There may be second phase rotators configured to apply phase rotation after the adaptive feedforward filtering stage so as to produce the output signals for forwarding to the data decoding stage.
US10425242B2
The disclosed technology is generally directed to device provisioning in an IoT environment. For example, such technology is usable in provisioning IoT devices to an IoT Hub. In one example of the technology, an identification message that includes information associated with identification of a first IoT device is received. The validity of the first IoT device is then verified. After the first IoT device is verified, based at least in part on the identification message, an IoT hub is selected from a plurality of IoT hubs. The first IoT device is then caused to be registered with the selected IoT hub.
US10425236B2
An electrical power and data system for group seating arrangements includes a DC power supply for converting an AC voltage input to a DC low voltage output, a low voltage main line and at least one branch line with a power output in communication with the DC output, and an occupancy sensor at a seating area for generating an occupancy signal. The power output of the branch line positionable at the seating area, and configured to supply power to a portable electronic communications device. A switch energizes and de-energizes the electrical power output in response to the occupancy signal, and the branch line, main line, and DC power supply cooperate to provide electronic communications between the portable electronic device and the electronic data network when the DC power supply is energized.
US10425228B2
Embodiments relate to processing streams of encrypted data received from multiple users. A received encrypted data stream is separated into one or more encrypted data chunks, placing the data chunk(s) into a sub-stream, and decrypting the data chunks into plaintext. One or more advanced data functions are applied to the plaintext, thereby effectively transforming the plaintext. The transformed plaintext is organized into one or more data units, and each data unit is encrypted with a wrapped encryption key. The aspect of encrypting the data unit includes creating a fixed size encryption unit, whereby the wrapped encryption key comprises a master key and a private key.
US10425224B1
Systems and methods for identify confirmation and transaction security are described. The system transmits to a client computing system an encrypted challenge generated using a public key of an asymmetric key pair and a first partially decrypted challenge generated by applying a first private key fragment of a private key of the asymmetric key pair to the encrypted challenge. The system receives a decrypted challenge generated by applying a second private key fragment of the private key to the encrypted challenge to generate a second partially decrypted challenge, applying a third private key fragment of the private key to the encrypted challenge to generate a third partially decrypted challenge, and combining the first partially decrypted challenge, the second partially decrypted challenge and the third partially decrypted challenge to generate the decrypted challenge. The system uses the decrypted challenge for verification.
US10425220B2
A method for receiving and transmitting synchronization signal is provided. The method is applicable to a wireless communication device. The wireless communication device has a local timing. The method includes the following steps. Receive at least one synchronization signal. If a signal power of at least one of the at least one synchronization signal is greater than or equal to a signal power threshold, select one of the at least one synchronization signal as a reference synchronization signal according to a priority rule, and synchronize the local timing to the reference synchronization signal. If the signal power of each the synchronization signal is less than the signal power threshold, send a local synchronization signal according to the local timing. If the reference synchronization signal meets a forwarding criterion, forward the reference synchronization signal, wherein the forwarding criterion includes a power constraint and a hop count constraint.
US10425218B2
The present disclosure relates to phase alignment, in particular to phase alignment circuitry (and parts thereof) for example for use in a multiplexer or other circuitry in which data is transmitted from one stage to another. Consideration is given to phase detection and phase rotation. Such circuitry may be implemented as integrated circuitry, for example on an IC chip.
US10425217B2
This disclosure relates to an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program that perform clock recovery processing efficiently and stably when a data stream having time information is received and clock recovery processing is performed. In one example, time information is extracted from a data stream including the time information serving as a reference when generating a system clock signal, and the time information is stored in a storage section. Further, the time information stored in the storage section is output synchronously with the system clock signal on the basis of a transmission rate of the data stream and position information regarding the time information in the data stream, and the clock recovery processing is performed on the basis of the time information output from the storage section and the system clock signal is generated.
US10425212B2
Format of a downlink control channel for a user equipment UE is changed in conjunction with switching the UE between being enabled for cross carrier scheduling and being disabled for cross carrier scheduling. The changed format is used on at least one serving cell of the UE's configured set of component carriers CCs. In one embodiment the changed format comprises an explicit carrier indicator field CIF for the case in which the switching is from disabled to enabled; and the changed format has no explicit CIF when the switching is from enabled to disabled. In another embodiment switching from disabled to enabled comprises the UE's configured set of CCs being changed from one to multiple cells; and switching from enabled to disabled comprises the UE's configured set of CCs being changed from multiple cells to one cell. In one embodiment the changed format is implicit.
US10425201B2
The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates beyond 4th-generation (4G) communication system such as a long term evolution (LTE). An operating method of a transmitting apparatus in a wireless communication system is provided. The operating method includes detecting an achievable rate region for a receiving apparatus, and determining a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) level and a sliding window superposition coding (SWSC) multi-input multi-output (MIMO) scheme corresponding to the achievable rate region.
US10425197B2
Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method for adjusting a length of a timer and a base station, where the method includes: detecting whether a quantity of accessing user equipments UE in a cell exceeds a preset quantity threshold; and increasing a length of a Radio Link Control (RLC) timer by a preset increment when the quantity of accessing UEs exceeds the preset quantity threshold. In the embodiments of the present invention, a radio resource waste can be avoided, and a UE call drop risk can be reduced.
US10425196B2
The disclosure of the present specification provides a method for receiving a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) in a low-capability (LC) or low-cost (LC) device. The method may comprise: a step for receiving repetition of a downlink control channel when coverage enhancement (CE) is set on the LC device; a step for determining multiple subframes to receive the repetition of the PDSCH on the basis of the reception of the repetition of the downlink control channel; a step for assessing whether or not a gap subframe exists among the multiple subframes; and a step for dropping the reception of the PDSCH on the gap subframe.
US10425182B2
A wireless communication device includes one or more transmitter (TX)-receiver (RX) pairs, one or more RX distortion estimators, and a combiner. A first RX distortion estimator receives a first TX signal corresponding to a first TX of the first TX-RX pair and a second TX signal corresponding to a second TX of a second TX-RX pair. The first RX distortion estimator processes the first TX signal and the second TX signal based on a first base function set including at least one base function to generate a first distortion signal set including at least one distortion signal. Then, the first RX distortion estimator processes the first distortion signal set to generate a first RX correction signal. The wireless communication device's combiner generates a first distortion compensated RX signal by compensating for distortion in a first RX signal of the first TX-RX pair based on the first RX correction signal.
US10425175B2
A transmission control method is disclosed. The transmission control method includes: sending, by a base station, downlink data to a terminal at a high frequency when detecting that the downlink data needs to be transmitted at the high frequency; and sending, by the terminal to the base station at the high frequency, control information used for assisting the base station in improving transmission quality of the high frequency downlink data, so that the base station controls a transmission process of the high frequency downlink data according to the control information. Embodiments of the present invention further disclose a base station and a terminal. By means of the present invention, a terminal can rapidly feed back control information at a high frequency in a process in which downlink data is transmitted at a high frequency, and a feedback time is short.
US10425174B2
A system that acquires information from at least first and second electronic devices, the information indicating a quality of a wireless link between the at least first and second electronic devices; generates adjustment information indicating an adjustment of at least one of a position, orientation, antenna position or antenna direction of at least one of the first or second electronic devices to improve the quality of the wireless link between the first and second electronic devices; and controls outputting the adjustment information.
US10425168B2
A target identification system includes: one or more optical receivers (at least one of a first optical receiver or a second optical receiver) which receive outgoing light from a moving body, the outgoing light including an optical signal indicating identification information (first information) for identifying the moving body; a controller connected to the one or more optical receivers; and a wireless communicator connected to the controller. When the one or more optical receivers receive the outgoing light, the controller obtains the identification information, and when the controller receives radio waves including the identification information and service information (second information) via the wireless communicator, in the case where the identification information included in the outgoing light matches the identification information included in the radio waves, the controller obtains the service information, the service information being information necessary for the moving body to receive a predetermined service.
US10425158B2
An apparatus for controlling line guide of an automated material handling system, comprises: optical lines in which a side light emission optical fiber is installed in the whole section of a confluence of a plurality of lines of lines for moving the unmanned transport devices; a main confluence control device which is installed at the confluence, performs optical communication with the unmanned transport device through the optical line; and a sub-confluence control device which is installed in the unmanned transport device, performs optical communication with the main confluence control device through the optical line to report an entry state or a pass completion state for the confluence, and controls the unmanned transport device to perform an entry operation or a standby operation depending on the pass control signal.
US10425141B2
Disclosed is a communication scheme and a system therefor, the communication scheme for merging, with IoT technology, a 5G communication system for supporting a data transmission rate higher than that of a 4G system. The present disclosure can be applied to intelligent services (such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car or connected car, healthcare, digital education, retail business, security, and safety related services) on the basis of 5G communication technology and IoT related technology. A method of receiving channel feedback information by an evolved node B (eNB) in a communication system using multiple antennas, provided in an embodiment of the present disclosure, includes generating reference signal configuration information comprising power boosting information associated with reference signals; transmitting the reference signal configuration information to a user equipment (UE); and receiving channel feedback information on a channel state estimated based on the reference signal configuration information from the UE.
US10425138B2
A UE may receive, from a base station, through a set of beams a set of BRSs. The UE may measure a signal quality of each BRS of the set of BRSs, and each measured signal quality may correspond to a beam of the set of beams. In an aspect, the UE may maintain a set of candidate beam indexes corresponding to a set of best measured signal qualities of the set of BRSs. In an aspect, the UE may transmit, to the base station, information indicating at least one measured signal quality and at least one beam index from the set of maintained candidate beam indexes, and the at least one beam index may correspond to the at least one measured signal quality.
US10425137B2
The disclosed embodiments provide a system that uses a first antenna and a second antenna in a portable electronic device. During operation, the system receives a request to switch from the first antenna to the second antenna to transmit a signal to a cellular receiver. Next, the system loads a set of radio-frequency (RF) calibration values for the second antenna. Finally, the system performs the switch from the first antenna to the second antenna to transmit the signal, wherein the second antenna is operated using the RF calibration values after the switch.
US10425133B2
Aspects of the present disclosure generally pertains a system and method for wireless inter-networking between a wireless wide area network (WWAN) and a local area network (WLAN) employing one or more extended range wireless inter-networking devices. Aspects of the present disclosure more specifically are directed toward a high powered wireless interconnect device that includes high efficiency circuitry to make it possible to implement in a portable or in-vehicle form factor, which may provide reasonable battery life, size, weight, and thermal dissipation.
US10425129B1
Various embodiments are generally directed to techniques communicate in a cellular communication frequency range, detect a resonant signal in response to the communication in the cellular communication frequency range for cellular communication, the resonant signal to indicate presence of a contactless card. Embodiments also include enabling a near-field communication device to send a communication to the contactless card based on the detection of the resonant signal, the near-field communication device to communicate with the contactless card in a near-field communication frequency range.
US10425125B2
The present invention provides to an estimation of a directed signal on a bidirectional duplex transmission line without the need of a directional coupler which has to be physically inserted into the wired transmission line. It is for this purpose, that the signals on the transmission line are measured at two separate spatial positions and the directed signals on the wired transmission line are estimated by analyzing the measured signals.
US10425124B1
Repeaters are described that operate to rapidly transition from low-power standby states to a low frequency signal transmission state. Bandwidth for high-frequency signal transmission is preserved.
US10425121B2
A same-aperture any-frequency simultaneously transmit and receive (STAR) system includes a signal connector having a first port electrically coupled to an antenna, a second port electrically coupled to a transmit signal path, and a third port electrically coupled to receive signal path. The signal connector passes a transmit signal in the transmit signal path to the antenna and a receive signal in the receive signal path. A signal isolator is positioned in the transmit signal path to remove a residual portion of the receive signal from transmit signal path. An output of the signal isolator provides a portion of the transmit signal with the residual portion of the receive signal removed. A signal differencing device having a first input electrically coupled to the output of the signal isolator and a second input electrically coupled to the third port of the signal connector subtracts a portion of the transmit signal in the receive signal path thereby providing a more accurate receive signal.
US10425119B2
A high-frequency switch module (10) includes a switch element (20) and LC parallel resonant circuits (31 and 32). The switch element (20) includes selection target terminals (P14 and P21) used to transmit communication signals using different frequencies. The LC parallel resonant circuits (31 and 32) are connected between a connection conductor (901) connected to the selection target terminal (P14) and a connection conductor (902) connected to the selection target terminal (P21). The LC parallel resonant circuits (31 and 32) are connected in series between the connection conductors (901 and 902). The LC parallel resonant circuits (31 and 32) have different attenuation pole frequencies.
US10425118B2
The embodiments set forth techniques for enabling mobile devices to trigger an electronic Subscriber Identity Module (eSIM) provisioning process. In some embodiments, a main operating system (OS) of the mobile device communicates a provisioning command to an embedded Universal Integrated Circuit Card (eUICC) included in the mobile device. In turn, the provisioning command causes the eUICC to establish a secure channel with a provisioning server. The provisioning command can include, for example, a network address (e.g., a uniform resource locator (URL), Internet Protocol (IP) address, etc.) associated with the provisioning server, an indication of a security protocol to be used for the secure channel, and/or other information. Using this information, the eUICC establishes the secure channel with the provisioning server, whereupon the provisioning server can provision the eSIM to the eUICC over the secure channel.
US10425116B2
An elastic wave device includes a LiNbO3 substrate, an IDT electrode provided on the LiNbO3 substrate, and a dielectric film that is provided on the LiNbO3 substrate so as to cover the IDT electrode and includes a projection on an upper surface of the stated dielectric film. A main mode of an elastic wave excited by the IDT electrode uses a Rayleigh wave, and a thickness of the IDT electrode is set such that a frequency at which a response by an SH wave appears is lower than a resonant frequency of the Rayleigh wave.
US10425115B2
A system for self-interference cancellation includes a frequency downconverter that decomposes a sampled RF transmit signal into an in-phase transmit signal and a quadrature transmit signal; a first analog vector modulator that scales the transmit signals to generate first scaled transmit signals; a second analog vector modulator that scales delayed transmit signals to generate second scaled transmit signals; a frequency upconverter that recomposes the scaled transmit signals into an RF self-interference cancellation signal; and a receive coupler that that combines the RF self-interference cancellation signal with a RF receive signal to reduce self-interference.
US10425114B2
In various embodiment, the disclosed systems, methods, and apparatuses describe the application of a pre-distortion at a transmitting device, such as a headend or a remote PHY device, to modify signals to be transmitted on a cable network in order to account for the distortions to the signals received by one or more devices on the network. In an embodiment, the pre-distortions can be implemented in the analog domain or in the digital domain, for example, using analog filters, or digital signal processing (DSP) devices. In an embodiment, the pre-distortion can be applied on particular subcarriers associated with the signals, without being applied to other subcarrier associated with the signals.
US10425108B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to techniques and apparatus for increasing decoding performance and/or reducing decoding complexity. An exemplary method generally includes receiving, via a wireless medium, a codeword encoded using a tailless convolutional code (TLCC) with a known start state, evaluating a set of decoding candidate paths through a trellis decoder that originate at the known start state of the TLCC, performing, for each of a plurality of the decoding candidate paths, a back trace from a respective end state to the known start state, and selecting one of the decoding candidate paths based, at least in part, on path metrics generated while performing the back trace. Other aspects, embodiments, and features are also claimed and described.
US10425098B2
Embodiments of the disclosure can provide digital-to-analog converter (DAC) termination circuits. A single or multiple parallel impedance networks can be coupled to a DAC to reduce the DAC's AC impedance, increase the DAC speed, and reduce the DAC settling time. The parallel impedance networks can be coupled to one or more of the DAC terminals in termination specific cases, or to nodes within the DAC. In an example, one-sided T-termination can be used with a single termination impedance path coupled in parallel with the DAC terminals, for reducing AC impedance at the DAC reference terminals, increasing speed, and reducing settling time. In an example, multiple impedance networks can be used in an H-bridge termination solution, which can be useful for high resolution DACs with or within a high voltage range.
US10425091B2
A full quadrant analog interpolator used in a fractional clock generator. A quadrature clock signal with minimal jitter is provided to the full quadrant analog interpolator. The full quadrant analog interpolator uses a series of switches and current sources to develop a differential output signal based on a digital input value, thus allowing digital control of the delay developed by the full quadrant analog interpolator. The differential output of the full quadrant analog interpolator is provided to multi-stage comparator. The output of the multi-stage comparator is provided to an integer divider to provide the final output clock. A digital control section utilizes a ΣΔ modulator and a summer to utilize an input N.α control input which provides the desired fractional division amount to provide a signal to a phase accumulator. The output of the phase accumulator is the digital control or β value of the full quadrant analog interpolator.
US10425090B2
Apparatuses and methods for phase interpolators are provided. An example apparatus comprises a phase interpolator and a controller coupled to the phase interpolator. The controller is configured to provide a digital timing code to the phase interpolator, and the phase interpolator is configured to apply a correction to the received digital timing code based, at least in part, on phase interpolator error correction data from a data structure containing phase interpolator error correction data.
US10425082B2
An integrated analog and digital adaptive platform includes: a plurality of adaptive analog blocks, each of the plurality of adaptive analog blocks being integrated with a respective digital wrapper; and a programmable digital fabric configured to programmably connect one or more of the plurality of adaptive analog blocks by connecting a plurality of digital wrappers integrated with the one or more of the plurality of adaptive analog blocks. The plurality of adaptive analog blocks that are programmably connected using the programmable digital fabric provide one or more programmable analog functions.
US10425078B2
A circuit for controlling a high-side power switch includes a level shifting circuit configured to receive an input signal for selectively configuring a logic command circuit to be in a set state, for providing a first output signal to the high-side power switch, and in a reset state, for providing a second output signal, different from the first output signal, to the high-side power switch. The circuit also includes a regulation circuit configured to detect an indicative signal indicative of the output signal provided to the high-side power switch and to change sensitivity of the level shifting circuit to the input signal, based on the indicative signal that is detected.
US10425075B1
Driver circuits with S-shaped gate drive voltage curves for ramp-up and ramp-down of power field effect transistors are presented. In ramp-up, the S-shaped curve rapidly ramps the gate voltage of the power FET to its threshold. This ramp-up is self-terminating. The gate voltage of the power FET is slewed through saturation with a time constant. After a predetermined time, the gate of the power FET is driven to approach the supply voltage level. In ramp-down, the S-shaped curve rapidly ramps the gate voltage of the power FET down to its threshold voltage. This ramp-down is self-terminating. The gate voltage of the power FET is slewed through saturation. The gate-source voltage of the power FET is rapidly ramped down to zero. Such S-shaped curves for the gate drive signal allow the control of the transition times of the gate drive signal to acceptable levels of voltage/current spikes and electromagnetic interference.
US10425074B2
There has been a problem in semiconductor apparatuses of related art in which a circuit operation cannot be returned after a reverse current occurred. In one embodiment, a semiconductor apparatus includes a timer block configured to count up a count value to a predetermined value in response to a control signal being enabled, the control signal instructing a power MOS transistor to be turned on, and a protection transistor including a drain connected to a gate of the power MOS transistor, a source and a back gate connected to a source of the power MOS transistor, and an epitaxial layer in which the power MOS transistor is formed, the epitaxial layer being supplied with a power supply voltage. The protection transistor short-circuits the source and gate of the power MOS transistor in response to an output voltage of the power MOS transistor meeting a predetermined condition and the count value reaching the predetermined value. The timer block resets the count value when the output voltage of the power MOS transistor no longer meets the predetermined condition.
US10425063B2
A band-pass filter is described comprising a first first-order filter stage comprising a first resistor characterized by a first impedance and connected to a first node, referred to as a filter input node, and, through a second node to a first reactive component connected to a third node, the first impedance being such that a first current therethrough is dependent on the difference between the voltages at the first and second nodes; and a second first-order filter stage comprising a second resistor characterized by a second impedance and connected to the second node, and, through a fourth node, to a second reactive component connected to a fifth node. The second impedance is such that a second current therethrough is dependent on the negative of the sum of the voltages at the second and fourth nodes. The band-pass filter further comprises summing means for summing the voltages at the second and fourth nodes to output a voltage at a sixth node.
US10425059B2
A crystal resonator includes a crystal element and excitation electrodes. The crystal element has a pair of principal surfaces parallel to an X′-axis and a Z′-axis. The X′-axis is an axis of rotating an X-axis as a crystallographic axis of a crystal in a range of 15 degrees to 25 degrees around a Z-axis as a crystallographic axis of the crystal. The Z′-axis is an axis of rotating the Z-axis in a range of 33 degrees to 35 degrees around the X′-axis. The excitation electrodes are formed on the respective principal surfaces of the crystal element. Elliptical mesa portions or elliptical inverted mesa portions are formed on the respective principal surfaces. The mesa portions project from outer peripheries of the principal surfaces. The inverted mesa portions are depressed from the outer peripheries of the principal surfaces.
US10425057B2
A rectangular quartz crystal blank having long sides substantially parallel to a Z′ axis of the quartz crystal blank, and short sides substantially parallel to an X axis of the quartz crystal blank. The quartz crystal blank includes a center region, a second region and a third region that are adjacent to the center region along a long-side direction, and a fourth region and a fifth region that are adjacent to the first region along a short-side direction. A thickness of the second region and a thickness of the third region are smaller than a thickness of the first region, and/or a thickness of the fourth region and a thickness of the fifth region are smaller than a thickness of the first region, and 25.93≤W/T≤27.07, where W is a length of a short side and T is a thickness.
US10425052B2
In some embodiments, a differential input stage comprises a first n-type metal oxide semiconductor transistor (NMOS) pair coupled to a first input and a second input, a second NMOS pair coupled to the first input, a first output node, the second input, and a second output node, a first diode coupled to the first NMOS pair and the first output node, a second diode coupled to the first NMOS pair and the second output node, and a cascaded current source coupled to the first NMOS pair and the second NMOS pair.
US10425049B2
A wireless electric power transmitter for transmitting electric power for a charging function to a wireless electric power receiver is provided. The wireless electric power transmitter includes an electric power supply unit which supplies electric power; an amplifier which amplifies and outputs the electric power supplied from the electric power supply unit by a preset gain as a magnitude of measured impedance increases; and a transmitter which transmits the amplified electric power to the wireless electric power receiver.
US10425036B2
A data collection device for photovoltaic power generation is provided. The data collection device according to an embodiment includes a receiver that receives data on an amount of photovoltaic power generation, a storage unit that stores a representative pattern of a graph for monitoring the amount of photovoltaic power generation, a control unit that extracts a graph for a first piece of data on the amount of photovoltaic power generation received by the receiver and compares the extracted graph with the representative pattern stored in the storage unit to extract a pattern comparison value, and a transmitter that transmits the first piece of data compared by the system control unit to an external device.
US10425033B2
It is an aspect of the present disclosure to provide a motor driving apparatus, and a method of controlling the same. In accordance with one aspect of the present disclosure, the motor driving apparatus includes an inverter configured to supply driving power to a motor; a sensing unit configured to sense a DC voltage supplied to the inverter and a driving current supplied from the inverter to the motor; and a controller configured to compensate for an iron loss and a copper loss by calculating a loss of the motor based on the sensed DC voltage and driving current and controlling the inverter to adjust the driving current based on the calculated loss of the motor.
US10425029B1
A motor controller for an electric motor includes a drive circuit that regulates power supplied to a stator of the electric motor to turn a rotor. The motor controller includes a communication interface that receives coefficients. The motor controller includes a processor coupled to the drive circuit. The processor receives an airflow rate demand, computes a speed, computes a torque set point as a function of at least a sum of first and second terms. The first term is defined as the first coefficient multiplied by the airflow rate demand raised to a power greater than one, and the second term is defined as the second coefficient multiplied by the speed raised to a power greater than one. The processor controls the drive circuit based on the torque set point to supply electrical power to the electric motor.
US10425025B2
Magnetic flux generated when a current flows through a main circuit wiring serves as disturbance of a magnetic sensor, and accurate rotor position information is obtained. A motor drive apparatus controls an operation of a power conversion device outputting a current to an AC motor on the basis of a desired torque command value, and includes a main circuit wiring that is electrically connected to a switching element forming the power conversion device, and through which a DC current or an AC current is transmitted thereto, a magnetic sensor that detects a magnetic flux change of a sensor magnet attached to a rotor of the AC motor, and a controller that calculates a current command value which is output from the power conversion device to the motor on the basis of position information of the rotor detected by the magnetic sensor, in which the controller includes a magnetic flux error correction unit that detects or calculates a magnetic flux component generated by a current flowing through the main circuit wiring.
US10425017B2
A space vector PWM technique includes defining a target voltage vector located in a sector defined by two switching voltage vectors, applying one switching voltage vector to each leg of a power conversion device for a first subperiod of a fixed switching period, applying the other switching voltage vector to each leg for a second subperiod of the switching period and applying some allocation of zero voltage vectors to each leg for a third subperiod of the switching period such that the device outputs approximately the voltage defined by the target voltage vector during the switching period. The zero voltage vectors are allocated, based on a minimum amount of time specified for the current sensors to accurately sense current, such that the zero voltage vector which causes current to flow through the current sensors is applied for a different length of the third subperiod than the other zero voltage vector.
US10425007B2
According to an embodiment, a multiphase regulator includes a plurality of output phases each of which is operable to deliver a phase current through a separate inductor to a load connected to the output phases via the inductors and an output capacitor. A controller is operable to regulate a voltage delivered to the load by adjusting the phase currents delivered to the load by the output phases, monitor the phase currents delivered to the load by the output phases, test the output phases in a predetermined sequence, and determine if the phase currents respond in a predetermined way.
US10425006B2
A method of controlling a voltage regulator includes regulating a voltage output by the voltage regulator to correspond to a target voltage, generating a voltage ramp that starts at a first voltage and ends at a second voltage and responsive to the voltage ramp, modifying the output voltage response of the voltage regulator based on one or more compensation parameters.
US10425005B2
The present disclosure relates to a power supply unit having: an output for outputting an output current and an output voltage; and a protective element having a signal output path, wherein the protective element is connected downstream of the output and designed to maintain the signal output path when the output current exceeds a first amplitude threshold value and to interrupt the signal output path when the output current exceeds a second amplitude threshold value, the second amplitude threshold value being higher than the first amplitude threshold value; wherein the power supply unit is designed to reduce an amplitude of the output voltage and to increase an amplitude of the output current above the second amplitude threshold value, in order to interrupt the signal output path, when the output current exceeds the first amplitude threshold value.
US10425000B2
Methods and apparatus to increase efficiency of a power converter using a bias voltage on a low side drive gate are disclosed. An example power converter includes an inductor; a transistor coupled to the inductor; and a driver coupled to a gate of the transistor, the driver to apply (A) a first voltage to the gate to enable the transistor, (B) a second voltage to the gate to disable the transistor, and (C) a third voltage to the gate during a transition between applying the first voltage and the second voltage, the third voltage being between the first voltage and the second voltage.
US10424995B2
A method for manufacturing a laminated core includes a laminating process of obtaining a laminate in which a plurality of core pieces are laminated, and a welding process of forming a weld bead which extends in a thickness direction of the laminate on a side surface of the laminate. In the welding process, a heat input when a center portion in a longitudinal direction of the weld bead is formed is greater than a heat input when an end portion of the weld bead is formed.
US10424986B2
An actuator for a vehicle air-conditioning unit, has a housing, an output driven by a gear train, a motor driving the output via the gear train, a PCB connected to the motor for supplying power to the motor; and lead wires connected to the PCB via a direct connection connector to supply power to the PCB. Terminals of the connector are crimped to the lead wires and make direct mechanical contact with contact pads formed on the PCB.
US10424982B2
The present invention includes a rotor with rotor sectors arranged around a center along the peripheral direction and a bridge between adjacent rotor sectors for connecting the adjacent rotor sectors, so that when inserting a shaft in the center of the rotor, it can be readily and firmly connected thereto by thermal and pressed insertion, and in the rotor having core plates laid on one another, a skew structure may be readily attained by connecting the core plates laid sequentially shifted by a given angle in one direction to the shaft.
US10424981B2
A rotating electric machine includes an armature and a field rotor. The field rotor includes magnetic pole teeth, an annular body portion, a bypass gap portion and permanent magnets. The magnetic pole teeth are arranged so that the polarities thereof alternate between N and S in a circumferential direction of the field rotor. The annular body portion connects the magnetic pole teeth at their root portions. The bypass gap portion is provided on an opposite side of the annular body portion to the magnetic pole teeth. The permanent magnets are provided in the annular body portion so as to be spaced from one another in the circumferential direction. The bypass gap portion includes first magnetic gaps each of which is formed adjacent to one of the permanent magnets. Each of the permanent magnets is arranged within an inter-pole angular range between one circumferentially-adjacent pair of the magnetic pole teeth.
US10424976B2
A control architecture for electric vehicle wireless power transmission systems that may be segmented so that certain essential and/or standardized control circuits, programs, algorithms, and the like, are permanent to the system and so that other non-essential and/or augmentable control circuits, programs, algorithms, and the like, may be reconfigurable and/or customizable by a user of the system. The control architecture may be distributed to various components of the wireless power system so that a combination of local or low-level controls operating at relatively high-speed can protect critical functionality of the system while higher-level and relatively lower speed control loops can be used to control other local and system-wide functionality.
US10424970B2
A control scheme and architecture for a wireless electrical energy transmission circuit employs two solid-state switches and a zero voltage switching (ZVS) topology to power an antenna network. The switches drive the antenna network at its resonant frequency and simultaneously energize a separate resonant circuit that has a resonant frequency lower than the antenna circuit. The resonant circuit creates out of phase voltage and current waveforms that enable the switches to operate with (ZVS).
US10424967B2
A magnetic flux pad (BPP) is provided for receiving magnetic flux. The pad may be used with an inductive power transfer system, and comprises a magnetically permeable core (4) and two substantially flat overlapping coils (2, 3) magnetically associated with the core (4).
US10424962B2
A charging assembly for wireless power transfer. In embodiments, the charging assembly comprises a housing, a cap structure, a ferrimagnetic sleeve, an inductive coil, a magnet, a printed circuit board assembly (PCBA), and a four-pin connector extending from a bottom surface of the PCBA. A ridge of the cap structure can be coupled to a lip of the housing. The housing can include a bottom housing surface having an aperture, and a sidewall extending between the bottom housing surface and the lip that extends outward from the sidewall along a perimeter of the housing parallel to the bottom housing surface. The four-pin connector can extend through the aperture of the housing. Some embodiments are directed to a charging device that incorporates the charging assembly.
US10424961B1
Disclosed is a method for identifying a battery type and/or a battery user. Measuring circuitry may be used to collect battery parameters that may be analyzed by control circuitry to create an adaptive charge profile that is applied to a battery by charging circuitry. Battery parameters may be recorded in a battery use signature. Logic may be used to process a battery use signature and identify a single user across multiple battery operated devices and/or discriminate between multiple users of a device. In some cases, battery use signature may be used to identify battery information including the make, model, and lot from which the battery was manufactured.
US10424956B2
A fob for a passive entry passive start (PEPS) system includes a LF receiver, an UHF transmitter, an UWB transceiver, a primary battery to power the receiver and the transmitter, a rechargeable secondary battery to power the transceiver, and a controller. The controller may cause the primary battery to recharge the secondary battery when the secondary battery has a low charge. The controller may cause the transmitter to transmit an indication to a base station of the PEPS system that the primary battery has a low charge. This indication is to alert a user to replace the primary battery. The controller may cause the transmitter to transmit an indication that the secondary battery is dead when the secondary battery is detected to be dead. This indication is to alert the base station that PEPS communications of the fob will not involve the transceiver.
US10424948B2
A receptacle circuit is provided that includes a first circuit path that provides reverse current blocking and reverse polarity protection associated with a positive terminal of a first power source that is connected in parallel with a second power source, a second circuit path that bypasses blocking of the first circuit path, a third circuit path that provides reverse polarity protection associated with a negative terminal of the first power source, and a bypass control circuit that controls the first and second circuit paths based on determination of a predetermined condition.
US10424947B2
A battery monitoring device includes a battery information input terminal, a battery state monitoring unit, an output terminal, a circuit board, and a housing member. The battery information input terminal is electrically connected to a battery state detecting member. The battery state monitoring unit receives a battery state detection signal via the battery information input terminal. The output terminal outputs monitoring information on the battery state corresponding to the battery state detection signal to an external arithmetic processor. The circuit board is provided with the battery information input terminal, the battery state monitoring unit, and the output terminal. The housing member is integrally formed with the battery information input terminal, the battery state monitoring unit, the output terminal, and the circuit board so as to accommodate at least the whole battery state monitoring unit and the whole circuit board and expose terminal connecting portions to the outside.
US10424927B2
A system of surge suppressor units is connected at multiple locations on a power transmission and distribution grid to provide grid level protection against various disturbances before such disturbances can reach or affect facility level equipment. The surge suppressor units effectively prevent major voltage and current spikes from impacting the grid. In addition, the surge suppressor units include various integration features which provide diagnostic and remote reporting capabilities required by most utility operations. As such, the surge suppressor units protect grid level components from major events such as natural geomagnetic disturbances (solar flares), extreme electrical events (lightning) and human-generated events (EMPs) and cascading failures on the power grid.
US10424922B2
A power supply device for a molding machine with an intermediate circuit, which can be connected with at least one drive of the molding machine and is suitable for supplying the at least one drive with electrical energy; a supply module connected to the intermediate circuit; an energy storage device connected to the intermediate circuit; and a closed loop control device for closed loop controlling an energy content of the energy storage device. The energy storage device can be closed loop controlled by means of the closed loop control device so that the energy content of the energy storage device does not go outside a range, in which a power input and/or a power output of the energy storage device is essentially constant.
US10424916B2
A power control device includes a communication device configured to be disposed in a borehole and configured to couple electrical power from a power source to a downhole component from a conductor disposed along a borehole string, a circuit breaker system including a first circuit breaker disposed at a connection between the conductor and the downhole component and configured to be closed to connect the downhole component to the conductor, and a controller configured to monitor at least one of a current level and a voltage level at the connection and at the conductor. The controller is configured to control the circuit breaker system and autonomously perform opening the first circuit breaker in response to detecting a deviation in the at least one of the current levels and voltage levels at the connection, to isolate the downhole component from the conductor and the power source.
US10424914B2
A protective circuit protects against overheating of the stator windings of an EC motor. The stator windings are connected to a semiconductor output stage which is designed for time-offset control of the stator windings using a driver circuit of a commutation controller. The protective circuit has two redundant sensor circuits, wherein two resistance-dependent sensor elements connected in series are provided in the first sensor circuit and one resistance-dependent sensor element is provided in the second sensor circuit. The first and the second sensor circuits are connected, respectively, to two evaluating circuits separated from each other and cause an interruption of the driver circuit using switch-off means when a system-specific resistance value of the first sensor element or the one sensor element associated with the second sensor circuit is reached.
US10424912B2
The present invention provides a phase control device applied to a three-phase circuit including a three-phase transformer and a three-phase breaker that turns on/off the transformer. The device suppresses an excitation rush current generated in the transformer. The device includes a controller that closes any one phase of the breaker as a closing first phase and subsequently closes the other phases, a determiner that determines the closing first phase based on residual magnetic fluxes of the respective phases in the transformer, a determiner that determines, based on a pre-arc characteristic and a closing time variation characteristic of the breaker, target closing phases and target closing times of the closing first phase and the other phases, a calculator that calculates a closing time of each phase of the breaker, and an operation time table that stores, as a median of the variation characteristic represented by a normal distribution, the calculated time.
US10424906B2
To achieve high waterproofness, a grommet that is attached so as to cover a shield pipe and a corrugated tube so as to bridge therebetween includes a pipe-side end portion that is formed in a tubular shape capable of being sealingly connected to an outer circumferential side of the pipe, and a corrugated-side end portion that is formed in a tubular shape capable of being sealingly connected to an outer circumferential side of the corrugated tube. A plurality of sealing lips that closely contact to an outer surface of the shield pipe are formed on an inner surface of the pipe-side end portion. The sealing lips are disposed inside and outside a width region W that is fastened by a fastening band disposed on an outer surface of the pipe-side end portion.
US10424902B2
An ignition device capable of more reliably protecting a primary winding of an ignition coil from high temperature is provided. The ignition device includes an ignition coil, a switching element, a temperature sensor, and a thermal cutout circuit. A primary winding of the ignition coil is connected to a DC power supply and the switching element. The temperature sensor is provided to measure the temperature of the switching element. The thermal cutout circuit forcibly turns off the switching element when the temperature of the switching element becomes higher than a predetermined forcible turn-off temperature Toff. The thermal cutout circuit is configured to lower the forcible turn-off temperature Toff when the power supply voltage Vb of the DC power supply decreases.
US10424891B2
The terminal connection strip includes: a carrier formed in a strip shape; and a plurality of terminal fitting which project from at least one edge side of the carrier in a width direction. The terminal fitting includes a crimping section which connects by crimping at least a conductor tip of an insulated wire provided with the conductor tip where a conductor is covered with an insulating cover and the conductor is exposed by peeling off the insulating cover on a distal end side of the insulated wire to the terminal fitting. The crimping section is formed into a hollow shape which allows the insertion of at least the conductor tip from a proximal end side of the crimping section and allows the crimping section to surround the conductor tip.
US10424889B2
A wire brush for a slipring includes a contact section, from which a stabilizer arm is extending backwards towards the brush block of the slipring. The stabilizer arm holds a friction section, which is in friction contact with the contact section at a friction contact area. Such contact, in operation, generates internal friction within the brush when the brush is moved and, therefore, suppresses oscillations of the brush.
US10424888B2
Embodiments relate to a system to support a power a fixture as well as installation thereof. A base enclosure is converted to a power junction container that functions to mechanically support a fixture and to electrical transform an outlet receptacle embedded in the container into an electrical outlet. The power junction container electrically connects a plug of a received fixture into the electrical outlet.
US10424885B2
Systems and apparatuses are provided in which outlets are coupled to a power distribution unit (PDU) or PDU module in various configurations. The outlets may be coupled to a recessed surface within a PDU housing. The outlets and recessed surface may be formed as part of a single mold. The outlets may be coupled to a printed circuit board that is at least partially disposed within the PDU housing. The outlets may extend away from the recessed surface or printed circuit board towards or beyond a front face of the PDU housing.
US10424879B2
Hybrid plug connectors are provided for connecting different electronic modules to insulators arranged in an outer casing and for receiving a power conductor transmitting a power supply and a shielded data conductor for data transmission for transmitting signals/data of an industrial bus, such as ISA, ethernet or similar, wherein the power conductor has at least two power lines and the data conductor has at least one data line, wherein the power lines and the data lines are guided in contact parts designed as plugs or sockets and can be coupled via these contacts parts, and wherein the outer casings of the pair-type hybrid plug connectors can be joined inside one another for interlocking coupling. The insulator arranged in each of the plug connectors can be arranged in a shield housing as a contact carrier receiving arrangement, the shield housing accommodating a contact carrier, which carries forward the data line(s) designed as plug sockets or plug pins in a shielded manner in the plug connector, and wherein the coupleable contacts form a shape-encoded interlocking connection in the plugged-in state of the connection.
US10424876B1
A connector includes a terminal having one end soldered to a substrate; an insulating member that supports the terminal; a metal case that covers a part of the insulating member and the terminal; and a metal shield that is spot-welded to the case at several positions and covers an exposed part of the insulating member. The shield includes: an upper shielding part that covers the upper plate of the case; and an inner shielding part that bends from the end of the upper shielding part and reaches the mounting face of the substrate or a position close to the mounting face and covers the substrate-inward lateral face of the insulating member. The inner shielding part has ground posts.
US10424872B2
A connector is disclosed. The connector has a plug and a jack receiving the plug. The plug has a plug housing surrounding a plurality of plug contacts and including a plurality of symmetric male fit sections. The jack has a jack housing supporting a plurality of jack contacts corresponding to the plurality of plug contacts. The jack housing includes a plurality of symmetric female fit sections.
US10424871B1
An electrical receptacle including a body having a plurality of electrical connections, a device face connected to the body and movable with respect to the body, a plurality of electrical plug contacts positioned behind the device face, and wherein the electrical plug contacts retain an electrical plug prong at a first tension when the device face is in a first position and the electrical plug contacts retain the electrical plug prong at a second tension when the device face is in a second position.
US10424859B2
A separable clasp connector is provided that has first and second parts that are pivotable with respect to one another by a die set. The clasp connector includes one or more die alignment features to ensure proper alignment with the die set so as to apply an unlocking force in a predetermined direction. Die sets and methods also provided to move a separable clasp connector back-and-forth among a locked position and an unlocked position.
US10424858B2
A terminal and a manufacturing method thereof includes: S1: providing a metal plate sheet, and punching the metal plate sheet to form a through slot thereon, such that the metal plate sheet forms two branches on two opposite sides of the through slot; S2: cutting one end of each of the two branches, such that the ends of the two branches are separated from each other to form two contact portions respectively, and a first distance is initially provided between the two contact portions; and S3: extruding at least one of the two branches, such that the extruded branch plastically deform to increase the first distance between the two contact portions to become a second distance, preventing the two contact portions of the terminal from contacting each other and moving altogether in the process where the terminal is pressed by the chip module and elastically deforms.
US10424857B2
A connector is disclosed comprising at least one contact clip. The contact clip comprises an electrically conductive substrate having a longitudinal axis, a first terminal located at a first end of the substrate, wherein the first terminal comprises at least two contact tongues between which a longitudinal slot is formed, which contact tongues are elastically deformable with respect to each other in a first direction which is perpendicular to the longitudinal axis, and a second terminal located at a second end of the substrate. The connector may further comprise a chassis and a PCB. In addition, a device comprising an energy consumer, an electrical energy source, a PCB and at least one connector is disclosed.
US10424855B2
A connector lead has a lead terminal that includes a recessed solder wicking restriction area for ensuring that enough solder remains on or near the lead terminal. The lead terminal has a neck portion and a base portion extending from the neck portion. The neck portion has a width that is narrower than the width of the lead. The narrower neck portion defines a recessed solder wicking restriction area that encourages more solder to accumulate on or near the base portion instead of wicking up the lead. The width of the neck portion may also be narrower than the width of the base portion, causing the lead terminal to resemble an inverted “T” when viewed from the front. A band of solder resistive material may be applied circumferentially or laterally around the connector lead above the lead terminal to limit wicking in some embodiments.
US10424850B2
The present invention relates to a self-locking wire device being adapted to receive at least one wire according to at least one insertion direction, the self-locking device comprises a housing being electrically insulating and a locking element being electrically conductive. The locking element comprises one or more bases extending all along an inner side of the housing and at least one locking portion being configured in a way to block any movement of the at least one wire in a direction being opposite to the insertion direction.
US10424848B2
A headphone wire includes a plurality of inner cores each having a conductor and enamel coating layer covered on the conductor so as to provide an insulation effect. The inner cores are covered with an insulating skin and interwoven together inside it; one end of the inner cores is penetrated out of the insulating skin to form an electroplating end, on which a tin plated portion is electroplated; and a connecting terminal is riveted onto the tin plated portion. Whereby, space can be saved and the flexibility is better because the inner cores are interwoven together, and the riveting is used instead of spot welding connecting, capable of increasing service life and being easy to be assembled and maintained.
US10424843B2
An antenna arrangement comprising an antenna feeding network, an electrically conductive reflector and at least one radiating element arranged on said reflector is provided. The antenna feeding network comprises at least one substantially air filled coaxial line, each coaxial line comprising a central inner conductor and an elongated outer conductor at least partly surrounding the central inner conductor, wherein at least one radiating element and at least one coaxial line are configured to interconnect indirectly.
US10424842B2
A terrestrial transceiver is described, which is operable for exchanging RF signals with communication satellites. The transceiver has a patch antenna sensitive to signals within an L-Band RF range and operable for providing a gain to the RF signals. A metallic reflector of a characteristic dimension is operable for shaping a pattern of the RF gain of the patch antenna. A printed circuit board assembly (PCBA) has a dielectric substrate, an electronic component disposed upon the substrate, and a hole penetrating the substrate and disposed substantially within a central region thereof. Based on the dimension characteristic of the reflector and on a positioning and/or a dimension of the hole, the RF gain diverges over an angle from a boresight of the patch antenna.
US10424825B2
A thin film, flexible, leaky-wave CPW antenna that can mounted to a dielectric substrate on a vehicle, such as vehicle glass, where the antenna has application for a MIMO LTE cellular system, and where the conductive portion of the antenna can employ transparent conductors. The antenna includes a ground plane having opposing first and second ground lines defining a gap therebetween and an antenna radiating element extending between the ground lines in the gap. The antenna radiating element includes a plurality of leaky-wave tuning stubs crossing the antenna radiating element at predetermined intervals that operates to change the radiation pattern of the antenna to be more parallel to the ground.
US10424818B2
According to one embodiment, a secondary battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode and an aqueous electrolyte. The negative electrode includes a titanium-containing oxide. The aqueous electrolyte includes a sodium ion having a concentration of 3 mol/L or more and at least one type of first anion selected from the group consisting of [N(FSO2)2]−, SO32−, S2O32− and SCN−.
US10424817B2
A pouch type rechargeable battery according to an exemplary embodiment includes: an electrode assembly that includes a first electrode, a separator, and a second electrode; a fixing member that includes a first fixing member and a second fixing member positioned at opposite sides of the electrode assembly; and a pouch that is provided with an accommodation part for accommodating the electrode assembly and a sealing part that surrounds the accommodation part and is thermo-bonded, wherein the fixing member may have a first part overlapping the electrode assembly, a second part overlapping the sealing part, and a width of the second part is narrower than the sealing part.
US10424816B2
A lithium-ion secondary battery (100) includes a wound electrode body (80), a nonaqueous electrolyte, and a box-shaped case (50). The wound electrode body includes a positive electrode (10), a negative electrode (20), and a separator (40). The box-shaped case contains the wound electrode body and the nonaqueous electrolyte. The wound electrode body includes a starting-end-side negative electrode remainder portion (22) provided in a winding-direction starting end portion (81) of the wound electrode body. The winding-direction starting end portion exists at a winding center side. The starting-end-side negative electrode remainder portion protrudes toward the winding center side along a winding direction beyond the positive electrode. A surplus nonaqueous electrolyte exists in a gap between the wound electrode body and the box-shaped case. The starting-end-side negative electrode remainder portion is positioned in a region where the surplus nonaqueous electrolyte exists, when the lithium-ion secondary battery is disposed in a predetermined posture.
US10424815B2
A battery including a positive electrode layer and a negative electrode layer is provided. The positive electrode layer includes a positive electrode current collector, a positive electrode active material layer, and a positive electrode-side solid electrolyte layer; the positive electrode active material layer is arranged in contact with the positive electrode current collector in a region smaller than that thereof; the positive electrode-side solid electrolyte layer is arranged in contact with the positive electrode current collector and the positive electrode active material layer in the same region as that of the positive electrode current collector; the negative electrode layer has the structure similar to that of the positive electrode layer. Since the positive and negative electrode layers are laminated to each other, the positive electrode active material layer faces the negative electrode active material layer with the positive and negative electrode-side solid electrolyte layers provided therebetween.
US10424810B2
Provided is a surface-stabilized anode active material particulate (for use in a lithium battery), comprising: (a) one or a plurality of prelithiated or un-prelithiated anode active material particles (with or without a coating of carbon, graphene, or ion-conducting polymer); (b) a protecting polymer layer that wraps around, embraces or encapsulates the one or plurality of anode active material particles, wherein the protecting polymer layer has a thickness from 0.5 nm to 5 μm, and a lithium ion conductivity from 10−8 S/cm to 5×10−2 S/cm at room temperature and the protecting polymer layer contains a polymer selected from poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO), polypropylene oxide (PPO), poly(acrylonitrile) (PAN), poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA), poly(vinylidene fluoride) (PVdF), poly bis-methoxy ethoxyethoxide-phosphazene, polyvinyl chloride, poly(vinylidene chloride), polydimethylsiloxane, poly(vinylidene fluoride)-hexafluoropropylene (PVDF-HFP), polyethylene glycol (PEG), a PEG derivative, polyethylene glycol methyl ether, polyethylene glycol dimethyl ether, a sulfonated polymer, or a combination thereof.
US10424803B2
An ionic liquid catholyte includes an ionic liquid, such as 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium chloride (EMICl), at least one half of a redox couple, and a sodium salt. The ionic liquid catholyte is suitable for use as a liquid cathode in an electrochemical device including an anode current collector, an anode in contact with the anode current collector, a cathode current collector, a liquid cathode in contact with the cathode current collector, and a solid electrolyte separating the anode and cathode current collectors. The one half of the redox couple includes a metal in a first oxidation state that is oxidized or reduced to yield the metal in a second oxidation state, and the redox couple includes the metal in the first oxidation state and the metal in the second oxidation state. The solid electrolyte is permeable to sodium ions and is in contact with the liquid anode and the liquid cathode.
US10424793B2
An electrodeposited copper foil of high toughness having a lightness L* value of the deposit side in the range of 36 to 74, the copper foil having a tensile strength in the range of 40 to 70 kg/mm2, and a weight deviation of less than 3%. The electrodeposited copper foils are particularly useful as current collectors for anode components of rechargeable secondary batteries and tend not to form wrinkles during charge-discharge cycles of the battery and are resistant to fracture during pressing of the anode active materials onto the copper foil. Secondary batteries and methods of manufacture are also described.
US10424781B2
Disclosed is a cathode active material comprising a combination of lithium manganese composite oxide with a spinel structure represented by the following Formula 1 and a specific oxide represented by the following Formula 2, the cathode active material having a broad potential region at 3.0 to 4.8V upon initial charge: LixMyMn2-yO4-zAZ (1) wherein 0.9≤x≤1.2, 0
US10424775B2
A lithium battery includes an anode, a cathode, and a protective film disposed on at least one of the anode and the cathode, in which the protective film includes a compound including: i) at least one element selected from a Group 13 element, a Group 14 element, a Group 15 element, and a first Group 16 element; and ii) a second Group 16 element, in which the first Group 16 element is different from the second Group 16 element.
US10424771B2
A battery cell, in particular lithium-ion battery cell. The battery cell has a metallic housing (2), an electrode assembly (3) being received in the metallic housing (2). The metallic housing (2) has a first housing element (4), which is connected electrically to a positive pole (8) of the electrode assembly (3), and a second housing element (5), which is connected electrically to a negative pole (9) of the electrode assembly (3). The battery cell (3) also has at least one insulation element (10), which is configured for insulating the two housing elements (4, 5) from one another electrically and is arranged between the two housing elements (4, 5). The at least one insulation element (10) has at least one barrier layer (6).
US10424769B1
Provided herein are battery packs for electric vehicles. A battery pack can include a housing having cavities. The battery pack can include electrode structures having a first tab terminal and a second tab terminal. A cover can be disposed over the housing. The cover can include first junction connectors extending between a first surface of the cover and a second surface of the cover. The first tab terminal of each electrode structure can be welded to respective first junction connectors.
US10424768B2
Provided is a battery pack having a plurality of single cells connected to one another, the battery pack being capable of preventing a temperature elevation caused by a short-circuit current that is generated when a sharp conductive foreign matter penetrates each of the single cells. The battery pack disclosed herein is a battery pack that has single cells arranged adjacent to each other, these adjacent single cells being electrically connected in series. In this battery pack, among a plurality of positive and negative electrode sheets configuring layered electrode bodies of the respective single cells, a negative electrode sheet is disposed on the lowermost stream side in the arrangement direction, and this negative electrode sheet disposed on the lowermost stream side is configured to have a lower electric resistance than the other negative electrode sheets configuring the layered electrode bodies and to break at a temperature lower than the temperatures at which the other negative electrode sheets break.
US10424767B2
A filling device (1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4) for filling battery devices (BV) with battery cells (4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5), in particular lithium-ion battery cells, comprising a retaining device (2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.4) with a fixing device (3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4) for fixing battery cells (4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.5), and a filling nozzle suitable for connecting to battery devices (BV) and for filling battery devices (BV) with battery cells, wherein the retaining device comprises a cooling device (5) that is suitable for cooling the retaining device and the battery cells.
US10424766B2
A battery housing including at least one interior space for accommodating at least one battery, and including at least one contact element which, in a connection position, establishes a connection to a counter-contact element, the connection passing through the battery housing out of the interior space and/or into the interior space, the connection being cut off in an out-of-contact position with the counter-contact element, the counter-contact element being situated on an insulation component movable relative to the battery housing, which is movable from a first position, in which the counter-contact element and the contact element are in the connection position, into a second position, in which the counter-contact element and the contact element are in the out-of-contact position, the contact element being thermally insulated in the out-of-contact position by the insulation component.
US10424764B2
A flexible package has a bendability effective to at least maintain the bendability of at least one flexible battery cell accommodated therein. The flexible package includes a support module disposed in a flexible body and including a first structural member, a second structural member and at least two cushioning members that define a space for accommodating the at least one flexible battery cell when the support module is under the binding force of the flexible body. When the flexible body and the at least one flexible battery cell bend, the stress acting on the at least one flexible battery cell is reduced by the first structural member, the second structural member and the at least two cushioning members. Therefore, electrode layers inside the at least one flexible battery cell are protected and the integrity, safety, cycle life and bendability of the flexible cell are improved.
US10424762B2
A method for manufacturing a transparent display device includes: providing a transparent flexible substrate on a support substrate; forming a display unit on a front side of the transparent flexible substrate; separating the transparent flexible substrate from the support substrate; and cleaning a rear side of the transparent flexible substrate with plasma.
US10424759B2
A method of manufacturing an organic light-emitting display apparatus includes preparing a lower substrate comprising a display area and a peripheral area surrounding the display area. A first thin film transistors (TFTs) is formed in the display area of the lower substrate. A first insulating layer is formed and disposed in the display area and at least a portion of the peripheral area of the lower substrate and that covers the first TFTs. Organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs) are formed to be electrically connected to the first TFTs. A barrier layer is formed on at least a portion of the first insulating layer that is formed in the peripheral area of the lower substrate. A sealant is formed on the barrier layer such that at least a portion of the sealant overlaps the first insulating layer, and an upper substrate is sealed with the lower substrate.
US10424747B2
Provided are a substrate for an OED, a method of manufacturing the same, and a use thereof. The substrate includes a flexible base film and an inorganic material layer, and the inorganic material layer includes a multilayer structure of at least two thin layers. Such an inorganic material layer may have an excellent physical property, for example, a barrier property, by inhibiting crystallinity. In addition, by employing the multilayer structure, an inorganic material layer having a physical property which is difficult to be realized by a conventional inorganic material layer, for example, a high refractive index, in addition to the barrier property may be formed.
US10424736B2
An aging test system and method are disclosed. An aging test system includes a vacuum chamber provided with an aging device for aging a display panel; a lighting mechanism electrically connected to the display panel for lighting up the display panel; at least one spectrometer for detecting a color coordinate and a brightness of the display panel; at least one camera for detecting a dark spot defect of sub-pixels of the display panel. Accordingly, the present invention can save the inspection time, increase the inspection efficiency and save the inspection device in order to reduce the inspection cost.
US10424729B2
A resistive memory structure, for example, phase change memory structure, includes one access device and two or more resistive memory cells. Each memory cell is coupled to a rectifying device to prevent parallel leak current from flowing through non-selected memory cells. In an array of resistive memory bit structures, resistive memory cells from different memory bit structures are stacked and share rectifying devices.
US10424728B2
A self-selecting memory cell may be composed of a memory material that changes threshold voltages based on the polarity of the voltage applied across it. Such a memory cell may be formed at the intersection of a conductive pillar and electrode plane in a memory array. A dielectric material may be formed between the memory material of the memory cell and the corresponding electrode plane. The dielectric material may form a barrier that prevents harmful interactions between the memory material and the material that makes up the electrode plane. In some cases, the dielectric material may also be positioned between the memory material and the conductive pillar to form a second dielectric barrier. The second dielectric barrier may increase the symmetry of the memory array or prevent harmful interactions between the memory material and an electrode cylinder or between the memory material and the conductive pillar.
US10424726B2
A method for improving photo resist adhesion to an underlying hard mask layer. The method includes a cleaning step that includes applying tetramethylammonium hydroxide (TMAH) to coat a hard mask layer of a wafer. The method further includes puddle developing the wafer for a first desired amount of time, and rinsing the wafer in running water for a second desired amount of time. The method further includes spin drying the wafer, and baking the wafer for a third desired amount of time. The method concludes with the proceeding of subsequent photolithographic processes on the wafer.
US10424719B2
A piezoelectric module includes an element substrate that includes a plurality of piezoelectric bodies (piezoelectric elements) arranged in an array, and a plurality of connection electrodes (lower connection electrode and upper connection electrode) that are connected to the piezoelectric body (piezoelectric element) and are drawn between the piezoelectric body (piezoelectric element) and an adjacent piezoelectric body (piezoelectric element), an input and output circuit that is provided on one surface side of the element substrate and independently inputs and outputs a signal from and to each of the connection electrodes (lower connection electrode and upper connection electrode), and columnar electrodes (first through electrode and second through electrode) each of which is provided between each of the connection electrodes (lower connection electrode and upper connection electrode) and the input and output circuit and connects each of the connection electrodes (lower connection electrode and upper connection electrode) and the input and output circuit to each other.
US10424706B2
An LED flip chip die-bond conductive adhesive structure includes an LED flip chip and an electronic circuit board. An LED flip chip negative electrode, an LED flip chip nonmetallic region and an LED flip chip positive electrode are sequentially arranged on a lower surface of the LED flip chip from left to right; a circuit board negative electrode, a circuit board nonmetallic region and a circuit board positive electrode are sequentially arranged on an upper surface of the electronic circuit board from left to right. The LED flip chip and the electronic circuit board are fixedly connected through a thermosetting die-bond insulating adhesive bonded between the LED flip chip nonmetallic region and the circuit board nonmetallic region; and the LED flip chip positive and negative electrodes are respectively conductively connected with the circuit board positive and negative electrodes in a direct metal-metal contact manner.
US10424702B2
LED packages are disclosed that are compact and efficiently emit light, and can comprise encapsulants with curved and planar surfaces. The packages can comprise a submount with a one or a plurality of LEDs, and in those with a plurality of LEDs each of the LEDs can emit the same or different wavelengths of light than the others. A blanket conversion material layer can be included on at least some of the LEDs and the submount. The encapsulant can be on the submount, over at least some of the LEDs, with each of the planar surfaces being vertical and aligned with one of the edges of the submount. The packages can also comprise reflective layers to minimize losses due to light absorption, which in turn can increase the overall package emission efficiency.
US10424700B2
The present disclosure relates to a LED lamp source and the manufacturing method and the backlight module thereof. The LED lamp source includes a substrate and a LED chip, fluorescent adhesive, and a white reflective layer being fixed on the substrate. The fluorescent adhesive encapsulates the LED chip on the substrate, and the white reflective layer is configured for reflecting light beams emitted from the fluorescent adhesive and being radiated on the white reflective layer. A positive projection of the fluorescent adhesive on the substrate is within the positive projection of the white reflective layer on the substrate.
US10424699B2
A light emitting device includes lead electrodes, and a housing including a resin molded body. The resin molded body has a first outer surface facing toward a first direction, a second outer surface facing toward a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, and a recess having an opening on the second outer surface and a bottom opposite to the opening in the second direction. Each of the lead electrodes includes an outer lead portion, and an inner lead portion to define the bottom of the recess. The outer lead portion is provided on the first outer surface and includes an inward surface and an outward surface opposite to the inward surface. The inward surface faces the first outer surface and is covered by a light-transmissive covering film. The outward surface is opposite to the inward surface in the first direction and is exposed from the light-transmissive covering film.
US10424695B2
An emissive nanocrystal particle includes a core including a first semiconductor nanocrystal including a Group III-V compound and a shell including a second semiconductor nanocrystal surrounding the core, wherein the emissive nanocrystal particle includes a non-emissive Group I element.
US10424688B2
Provided is a wire transfer apparatus of a tabbing apparatus. A wire transfer apparatus of a tabbing apparatus according to the present invention includes: a first transfer gripper unit configured to grip a wire; a second transfer gripper unit disposed in parallel to the first transfer gripper unit and configured to grip the wire at a location spaced apart from the first transfer gripper unit together with the first transfer gripper unit; and a gripper transfer unit configured to transfer the wire while moving the first transfer gripper unit and the second transfer gripper unit.
US10424684B2
An MSM ultraviolet ray receiving element has a low dark state current value and a good photosensitivity. The MSM ultraviolet ray receiving element has a first nitride semiconductor layer on a substrate, a second nitride semiconductor layer on the first nitride semiconductor layer, and first and second electrodes on the second nitride semiconductor layer. The first nitride semiconductor layer contains AlXGa(1-X)N (0.4≤X≤0.90). The second nitride semiconductor layer contains AlYGa(1-Y)N with a film thickness t (nm) satisfying 5≤t≤25. The first electrode and the second electrode contain a material containing at least three elements of Ti, Al, Au, Ni, V, Mo, Hf, Ta, W, Nb, Zn, Ag, Cr, and Zr. Al composition ratios X and Y and a film thickness t satisfy −0.009×t+X+0.22−0.03≤Y≤−0.009×t+X+0.22+0.03.
US10424677B2
An inverse diode die is “fast” (i.e., has a small peak reverse recovery current) due to the presence of a novel topside P+ type charge carrier extraction region and a lightly-doped bottomside transparent anode. During forward conduction, the number of charge carriers in the N− type drift region is reduced due to holes being continuously extracted by an electric field set up by the P+ type charge carrier extraction region. Electrons are extracted by the transparent anode. When the voltage across the device is then reversed, the magnitude of the peak reverse recovery current is reduced due to there being a smaller number of charge carriers that need to be removed before the diode can begin reverse blocking mode operation. Advantageously, the diode is fast without having to include lifetime killers or otherwise introduce recombination centers. The inverse diode therefore has a desirably small reverse leakage current.
US10424671B2
A novel semiconductor device or memory device is provided. Alternatively, a semiconductor device or memory device in which storage capacity per unit area is large is provided. The semiconductor device includes a sense amplifier provided to a semiconductor substrate and a memory cell provided over the sense amplifier. The sense amplifier includes a first transistor. The memory cell includes a capacitor over the semiconductor substrate, a second transistor provided over the capacitor, a conductor, and a groove portion. The capacitor includes a first electrode and a second electrode. The first electrode is formed along the groove portion. The second electrode has a region facing the first electrode in the groove portion. The second transistor includes an oxide semiconductor. One of a source and a drain of the second transistor is electrically connected to the second electrode through the conductor.
US10424662B2
Semiconductor structures and fabrication methods thereof are provided. An exemplary semiconductor structure includes a base substrate having a first well and a second well region; a first insulation layer over the base substrate and dividing the second well region into a first region adjacent to the first well region, a second region away from the first well region and a third region under the first insulation layer; a gate structure over the base substrate in the first well region and the first region of the second well region; a first mask gate structure on a portion of the second region adjacent to the first region; a first stress layer on the first well region at a side of gate structure away from the first insulation layer; and a second stress layer on the second well regions at a side of the mask gate structure away from the isolation layer.
US10424656B2
Electronic apparatus, systems, and methods in a variety of applications can include a fin field effect transistor (FinFET) having a deposited fin body. Such a FinFET can be implemented as an access transistor in a circuit of an integrated circuit. In an embodiment, an array of FinFETs having a deposited fin bodies can be disposed on digitlines. For the array of FinFETs having a deposited fin bodies structured in memory cells of a memory, the digitlines can be coupled to sense amplifiers. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed.
US10424654B2
This invention discloses a semiconductor power device disposed in a semiconductor substrate including an active cell areas and a termination area. The semiconductor power device further comprises a plurality of gate trenches formed at a top portion of the semiconductor substrate in the active cell area wherein each of the gate trenches is partially filled with a conductive gate material with a top portion of the trenches filled by a high density plasma (HDP) insulation layer. The semiconductor power device further comprises mesa areas of the semiconductor substrate disposed between the gate trenches wherein the mesa areas are recessed and having a top mesa surface disposed vertically below a top surface of the HDP insulation layer wherein the HDP insulation layer covering over the conductive gate material constituting a stick-out boundary-defining layer surrounding the recessed mesa areas in the active cell areas between the gate trenches.
US10424653B1
A method for fabricating a semiconductor structure includes the following steps. A plurality of dielectric layers is formed on a substrate, wherein the material composition and layer positioning of each of the plurality of dielectric layers are selected to enable defined junctions for one or more features of the semiconductor structure. A trench is formed through each of the plurality of dielectric layers to the top of the substrate, wherein the height and width dimensions of the trench are selected in accordance with an aspect ratio trapping process. A vertical fin structure is formed by epitaxially growing material within the trench on the top of the substrate. In further steps, gate stack and source/drain regions are formed around the vertical fin structure in accordance with the positioning of the plurality of dielectric layers. The resulting semiconductor structure, in one or more examples, is a vertical transport field-effect transistor.
US10424652B2
A tunneling field-effect transistor (TFET) device is disclosed. A protrusion structure is disposed over the substrate and protrudes out of the plane of substrate. Isolation features are formed on the substrate. A drain region is disposed over the substrate adjacent to the protrusion structure and extends to a bottom portion of the protrusion structure as a raised drain region. A drain contact is disposed over the drain region and overlap with the isolation feature.
US10424647B2
In accordance with at least one embodiment of the invention, a transistor comprises a semiconductor, a first drift layer, a drain region, a body region, a source region, a shallow trench isolation region, a dielectric, and a gate. The first drift layer is formed in the semiconductor and has majority carriers of a first type. The drain region is formed in the first drift layer and has majority carriers of the first type. The body region is formed in the semiconductor and has majority carriers of a second type. The source region is formed in the body region and has majority carriers of the first type. The shallow trench isolation region is formed in the first drift layer and disposed between the drain region and the body region. The dielectric is formed on the semiconductor, and the gate is formed over the dielectric and has a lift-up region.
US10424638B2
A semiconductor device includes a gate electrode, an insulating layer, a first carbon nanotube, a second carbon nanotube, a P-type semiconductor layer, an N-type semiconductor layer, a conductive film, a first electrode, a second electrode and a third electrode. The insulating layer is located on a surface of the gate electrode. The first carbon nanotube and the second carbon nanotube are located on a surface of the insulating layer. The P-type semiconductor layer and the N-type semiconductor layer are located on the surface of the insulating layer and apart from each other. The conductive film is located on surfaces of the P-type semiconductor layer and the N-type semiconductor layer. The first electrode is electrically connected with the first carbon nanotube. The second electrode is electrically connected with the second carbon nanotube. The third electrode is electrically connected with the conductive film.
US10424634B1
In a semiconductor device, a source and a drain layers are located in a surface region of a substrate. A source crystal layer is located in a contact region of the source layer to extend to a position higher than the substrate. A drain crystal layer is located in a contact region of the drain layer to extend to a position higher than the substrate. A source contact is located on the source crystal layer. A drain contact is located on the drain crystal layer. A gate width or a gate length extends to a crystal orientation <110> of the substrate. A long side or a major axis of the source crystal layer or a long side or a major axis of the drain crystal layer extends in a direction inclined with respect to the crystal orientation <110> in a planar layout parallel to the surface of the substrate.
US10424627B2
An organic light-emitting display device includes a first pixel electrode, a second pixel electrode, a pixel-defining layer disposed on the first pixel electrode and the second pixel electrode and exposing at least portions of the first pixel electrode and the second pixel electrode, a first stack disposed on the exposed portion of the first pixel electrode, a first protective layer, a second stack disposed on the exposed portion of the second pixel electrode, and a first inorganic conductive layer. The first stack includes a first intermediate layer including an emission layer and a first opposite electrode on the first intermediate layer. The first protective layer is disposed on the first stack. The second stack includes a second intermediate layer including an emission layer and a second opposite electrode on the second intermediate layer. The first inorganic conductive layer is disposed between the second pixel electrode and the second stack.
US10424622B2
A display device comprised of OLEDs and micro LEDs which allows for blue light degradation of the OLEDs includes a first substrate and a second substrate in a double-decked configuration. First light emitting elements are located and spaced on the first substrate and second light emitting elements are located and spaced on the second substrate, the light emitting elements on the lower deck being staggered so as not to be hidden by the light emitting elements on the upper deck. The upper deck has openings (or is transparent) therein to allow egress of light from the light emitting elements of the lower deck. The display device provides a solution for uneven display cause by degradation of pixels.
US10424621B2
The invention provides a manufacturing method for white OLED device, comprising manufacturing a first OLED device and a corresponding second OLED device respectively on a first substrate and a second substrate, wherein the light emitted by the first OLED device and the light emitted by the second OLED device are mixed to form white light, and then the second OLED device is correspondingly stacked onto the first OLED device to obtain a white OLED device. The manufacturing method can greatly reduce the complicated process caused by layer-by-layer stacking of multi-layered films in the structure of known white OLED devices, without the need to address the complex issues caused by interlinking of multiple color devices and light color resonance, so as to greatly simplify the process.
US10424616B1
Integrated circuit devices including vertical Hall elements and lateral Hall elements and methods for fabricating integrated circuits are provided. In an exemplary embodiment, an integrated circuit device includes a substrate including a lateral element region and a vertical element region. The integrated circuit device includes a well in the lateral element region and in the vertical element region of the substrate. Further, the integrated circuit device includes an insulating layer disposed over the substrate in the lateral element region, a semiconductor-over-insulator (SOI) semiconductor layer disposed over the insulating layer in the lateral element region, and lateral element conductive taps located in the semiconductor layer, wherein a lateral Hall element is defined in the lateral element region. Also, the integrated circuit device includes vertical element taps located in the well in the vertical element region, wherein a vertical Hall element is defined in the vertical element region.
US10424613B2
A solid-state imaging device has: a counter dope region of a first conductivity type which is formed so as to surround a drain region of a transfer transistor of the solid-state imaging device and in which impurity concentration of the first conductivity type is lower than that of the drain region; and an isolating region of a second conductivity type which is formed in a deep region below channel regions of a plurality of transistors and in which impurity concentration of the second conductivity type is higher than that of a well region, wherein a depth position of a lower surface of the counter dope region is deeper than a depth position of a lower surface of a buried channel region.
US10424612B2
A method of forming a semiconductor device includes the steps of providing a first circuit layer including a plurality of first contacts, providing one or more semiconductor devices disposed on a stamp, the one or more semiconductor devices including a plurality of second contacts, bonding the plurality of second contacts to the plurality of first contacts via a pressure applied by the stamp.
US10424610B2
A capacitor, an image sensor circuit and fabricating methods are provided. The method includes providing a base substrate including a trench region and a body region adjacent to the trench region. The method also includes forming a first trench structure and a second trench structure on the first trench structure, in the base substrate in the trench region. In addition, the method includes forming a dielectric layer on a sidewall surface and a bottom surface of the first trench structure and an electrode layer on the dielectric layer in the first trench structure. Further, the method includes forming an isolation layer filling the second trench structure.
US10424607B2
A manufacturing method of a TFT substrate uses a top gate structure and the entire process can be completely done with seven masks. The number of masks used is reduced. The manufacturing process of a TFT substrate is simplified. Product yield can be increased to effectively improve productivity. Heavy and light ion doping can be simultaneously achieved with one single doping operation so that manufacturing cost can be reduced. By subjecting two ends of a semiconductor pattern to heavy ion doping to form a source electrode and a drain electrode, the manufacturing steps can be reduced and the source electrode and the drain electrode so formed do not need to extend through a via hole formed in an interlayer dielectric layer to contact the two ends of the active layer thereby effectively reducing contact resistance and improving product yield. Also provided is a TFT substrate manufactured with the method.
US10424597B2
A semiconductor device includes a first semiconductor layer, a second semiconductor layer spaced apart from the first semiconductor layer and disposed on the first semiconductor layer, a gate stack structure disposed on the second semiconductor layer, a third semiconductor layer positioned between the first and second semiconductor layers, and a channel pillar passing through the gate stack structure, the second semiconductor layer and the third semiconductor layer and extending into the first semiconductor layer.
US10424593B2
A three-dimensional non-volatile memory and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. The three-dimensional non-volatile memory includes a substrate, a charge storage structure, a stacked structure and a channel layer. The charge storage structure is disposed on the substrate. The stacked structure is disposed at a side of the charge storage structure and includes insulating layers, gates, a buffer layer and a barrier layer. The insulating layers and the gates are alternately stacked. The buffer layer is disposed between each of the gates and the charge storage structure and on the surfaces of the insulating layers. The barrier layer is disposed between each of the gates and the buffer layer. An end of the gate is convex with respect to an end of the barrier layer in a direction away from the channel layer.
US10424591B2
In a memory cell region of a semiconductor device, a memory active region is defined by an element isolation insulating film. In the memory cell region, the position of the upper surface of the element isolation insulating film is set to be lower than the position of the main surface of a semiconductor substrate. A buried silicon nitride film and an etching stopper film are formed over the element isolation insulating film. The position of the upper surface of the etching stopper film is higher than that of the upper surface of the element isolation insulating film defining a peripheral active region.
US10424588B2
A method includes providing metal gate structures in a first and a second region, respectively, of a semiconductor substrate, simultaneously cutting the metal gate structures by a two-step etching process to form a first and a second trench in metal gate structures of the first and the second region, respectively, and filling each trench with an insulating material to form a first and a second gate isolation structure. Each step of the two-step etching process employs different etching chemicals and conditions. The metal gate structures in the first region and the second region differ in gate lengths and composition of gate electrode.
US10424581B2
An integrated circuit (IC) including a circuit block including a plurality of complementary metal oxide semiconductor field-effect transistors (CMOSFETs), and a tunnel field-effect transistor (TFET) between the circuit block and ground for power gating the circuit block.
US10424567B2
A display apparatus includes: an emission layer including a light-emitting element which generates and emits light; a driving layer which drives the light-emitting element of the emission layer to generate and emit the light; and an adhesive layer which connects the light-emitting element to the driving layer. The driving layer includes: a substrate; and a conductive layer on the substrate and connected to the light-emitting element of the emission layer by the adhesive layer. The emission layer includes: a bank layer on the conductive layer of the driving layer, and an opening in the bank layer which exposes a portion of the conductive layer of the driving layer. The adhesive layer is disposed between the exposed portion of the conductive layer and the light-emitting element, and extends therefrom to be disposed on inner surfaces of the bank layer at the opening.
US10424564B2
In an apparatus in which an electrical interconnection interconnects stacked active and passive layers, switches, including at least first, second, third, and fourth switches, on the active layer define a switching network that, when connected to a fly capacitor on the passive layer, define a circuit having a first node connected to the first and second switches and to a first terminal of the fly capacitor, a second node connected to the second switch and third switches, and a third node connected to the third switch and fourth switches and to a second terminal of the fly capacitor.
US10424556B2
An electronic component package includes a substrate and an electronic component mounted to the substrate, the electronic component including a bond pad. A first antenna terminal is electrically connected to the bond pad, the first antenna terminal being electrically connected to a second antenna terminal of the substrate. A package body encloses the electronic component, the package body having a principal surface. An antenna is formed on the principal surface by applying an electrically conductive coating. An embedded interconnect extends through the package body between the substrate and the principal surface and electrically connects the second antenna terminal to the antenna. Applying an electrically conductive coating to form the antenna is relatively simple thus minimizing the overall package manufacturing cost. Further, the antenna is relatively thin thus minimizing the overall package size.
US10424555B2
A mounting component includes a main body and a metal layer. The main body has a first main surface and a second main surface. The metal layer is arranged on the first main surface of the main body. The metal layer includes at least one concave recognition mark having an inclined surface that is inclined with respect to a main surface of the metal layer.
US10424552B2
A microelectronic device includes a reflow structure. The reflow structure has a copper-containing member and a solder member, and a barrier layer between them. The barrier layer has metal grains, with a diffusion barrier filler between the metal grains. The metal grains include at least a first metal and a second metal, each selected from nickel, cobalt, lanthanum, and cerium, with each having a concentration in the metal grains of at least 10 weight percent. The diffusion barrier filler includes at least a third metal, selected from tungsten and molybdenum. A combined concentration of tungsten and molybdenum in the diffusion barrier filler is higher than in the metal grains to provide a desired resistance to diffusion of copper. The barrier layer includes 2 weight percent to 15 weight percent of the combined concentration of tungsten, and molybdenum. A bump bond structure and a lead frame package are disclosed.
US10424542B2
A semiconductor device includes a first semiconductor chip having a first surface with a semiconductor element and a second surface opposing the first surface. A first metal layer has a third surface supporting the first semiconductor chip and a fourth surface opposing the third surface. The third surface is larger than the second surface. A resin layer has a fifth surface facing the first semiconductor chip and a sixth surface facing the first metal layer. A pad is on the first surface of the first semiconductor chip. A first via contact is within the resin layer on the third surface of the first metal layer. A second via contact is within the resin layer on the pad. The first and second via contacts are connected to first and the second interconnects, respectively.
US10424537B2
A device with pillar-shaped components, includes a substrate; a wiring layer disposed on the substrate; and pillar-shaped components disposed on any of the substrate and the wiring layer, each of the pillar-shaped components having a bottom part connected to the substrate and/or the wiring layer, a top part opposed to the bottom part, and a lateral face part extending from the bottom part and connected to the top part; wherein each of the pillar-shaped components includes a first pillar-shaped part formed by plating, a second pillar-shaped part formed on the first pillar-shaped part by plating, and a ring-like projection part formed on the lateral face part to project outward and extend in a circumferential direction, and to be in a position higher than a joint position between the first pillar-shaped part and the second pillar-shaped part.
US10424534B2
A semiconductor device includes a lead frame including a die paddle and a lead, a semiconductor chip, and a clip. The semiconductor chip has a first side and a second side opposite to the first side. The first side is attached to the die paddle and the second side includes a first bond pad and a second bond pad. The clip electrically couples the first bond pad to the lead. The clip contacts the first bond pad at a first edge portion of the first bond pad adjacent to the second bond pad and defines a first cavity between a central portion of the first bond pad and the clip. Solder is within the first cavity to electrically couple the clip to the first bond pad. The semiconductor device includes a first opening to the first cavity to route flux away from the second bond pad during reflow soldering.
US10424533B1
A semiconductor device includes an integrated circuit that is disposed at a first face side of a semiconductor substrate, the semiconductor substrate having a first face and a second face, the second face opposing the first face, the semiconductor substrate having a through hole from the first face to the second face; an external connection terminal that is disposed at the first face side; a conductive portion that is disposed in the through hole, the conductive portion being electrically connected to the external connection terminal; and an electronic element that is disposed at a second face side.
US10424529B2
It is an object of the present invention to obtain a ceramic circuit substrate having high bonding strength, excellent heat cycle resistance, enhanced reliability of operation as an electronic device, and excellent heat dissipation properties. The present invention provides a ceramic circuit substrate in which metal plates, particularly copper plates, and both main surfaces of a ceramic substrate are bonded vial silver-copper brazing material layers. The silver-copper brazing material layers are formed from a silver-copper brazing material including i) 0.3-7.5 parts by mass of carbon fibers, and ii) 1.0-9.0 parts by mass of at least one active metal selected from titanium, zirconium, hafnium, niobium, tantalum, vanadium, and tin; with respect to iii) a total of 100 parts by mass of a) 75-98 parts by mass of silver powder and b) 2-25 parts by mass of copper powder. The carbon fibers having an average length of 15-400 μm, an average diameter of 5-25 μm and an average aspect ratio of 3-28.
US10424523B2
A method for forming a sealed cavity includes bonding a non-conductive structure to a first substrate to form a non-conductive aperture into the first substrate. On a surface of the non-conductive structure opposite the first substrate, the method includes depositing a first metal layer. The method further includes patterning a first iris in the first metal layer, depositing a first dielectric layer on a surface of the first metal layer opposite the non-conductive structure, and patterning an antenna on a surface of the first dielectric layer opposite the first metal layer. The method also includes creating a cavity in the first substrate, depositing a second metal layer on a surface of the cavity, patterning a second iris in the second metal layer, and bonding a second substrate to a surface of the first substrate opposite the non-conductive structure to thereby seal the cavity.
US10424517B2
A method for manufacturing a dual work function semiconductor device includes forming a first silicon oxide layer on a substrate and forming a first hafnium-containing dielectric material layer on the first silicon oxide layer. The method further includes forming an aluminum-containing dielectric material layer on the first hafnium-containing dielectric material layer and performing a thermal treatment to intermix the silicon oxide layer, the first hafnium-containing dielectric material layer and the aluminum-containing dielectric material layers. This results in an intermixing dielectric layer containing hafnium, aluminum, silicon, and oxygen. The method further includes forming a first metal-containing conductive layer on the intermixing dielectric layer and patterning the first metal-containing conductive layer and the intermixing dielectric layer, thereby forming a first gate stack in a first region.
US10424511B2
A method of processing a plate-shaped workpiece that includes on a face side thereof layered bodies containing metal which are formed in superposed relation to projected dicing lines includes the steps of holding a face side of the workpiece on a holding table, thereafter, applying a laser beam having a wavelength that is absorbable by the workpiece to a reverse side thereof along the projected dicing lines to form laser-processed grooves in the workpiece which terminate short of the layered bodies, and thereafter, cutting bottoms of the laser-processed grooves with a cutting blade to sever the workpiece together with the layered bodies along the projected dicing lines. The step of cutting bottoms of the laser-processed grooves includes the step of cutting bottoms of the laser-processed grooves while supplying a cutting fluid containing an organic acid and an oxidizing agent to the workpiece.
US10424506B2
Integrated circuits, as well as methods of their formation, include a first conductive structure at a first level of the integrated circuit, a second conductive structure at a second level of the integrated circuit, a first conductor at a third level of the integrated circuit between the first level and the second level, a second conductor at the third level and parallel to the first conductor, and a third conductor at the third level and parallel to the first conductor and to the second conductor. The first conductive structure is in physical and electrical contact with the first conductor and the second conductor. The second conductive structure is in physical and electrical contact with the second conductor and the third conductor.
US10424503B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming a plurality of fins by forming a plurality of first device isolating trenches repeated at a first pitch in a substrate, forming a plurality of fin-type active areas protruding from a top surface of a first device isolating layer by forming the first device isolating layer in the plurality of first device isolating trenches, forming a plurality of second device isolating trenches at a pitch different from the first pitch by etching a portion of the substrate and the first device isolating layer, and forming a second device isolating layer in the plurality of second device isolating trenches, so as to form a plurality of fin-type active area groups separated from each other with the second device isolating layer therebetween.
US10424501B2
A method of manufacturing an electronic device includes: in transferring one or a plurality of element sections onto a first substrate from a second substrate, forming part or all of the one or the plurality of element sections on the second substrate with a resin layer in between; peeling off the one or the plurality of element sections that are formed on the second substrate from the second substrate through laser irradiation performed on the resin layer, and disposing, onto the first substrate, the one or the plurality of element sections peeled off; and using, as the resin layer, resin having glass-transition temperature and thermal decomposition temperature that differ from each other by 150 degrees centigrade or less.
US10424499B2
A substrate accommodating and processing apparatus is provided with a cassette mounting table, a processing part, a substrate transfer mechanism, a partition wall, a cassette stage, and a lid attaching/detaching mechanism. The lid attaching/detaching mechanism is provided with a key configured to be engaged with a key hole installed in the lid, and configured to switch a latch between locking and unlocking positions. The mechanism is also provided with a lid abnormality detecting sensor, a lid attaching/detaching mechanism closing sensor, a lid attaching/detaching mechanism opening sensor, a pressure sensor and a control part.
US10424493B2
A method and structure for stabilizing an array of micro devices is disclosed. The array of micro devices is formed on an array of stabilization posts formed from a thermoset material. Each micro device includes a bottom surface that is wider than a corresponding stabilization post directly underneath the bottom surface.
US10424491B2
An etching method for etching a silicon-containing layer into a pattern of a mask is provided. The mask is formed by etching, from a block copolymer layer that includes a first polymer and a second polymer, that is layered on the silicon-containing layer of an object to be processed via an intermediate layer, and that is enabled to be self-assembled, a second region including the second polymer and the intermediate layer right under the second region. The etching method includes generating plasma by supplying a process gas including carbon C, sulfur S, and fluorine F to the inside of a processing chamber of a plasma processing apparatus in which the object to be processed is provided; and forming a protective film on the mask and etching the silicon-containing layer according to the generated plasma.
US10424484B2
Method for manufacturing a bonded SOI wafer by bonding a bond wafer and base wafer, each composed of a silicon single crystal, via an insulator film, including the steps: depositing a polycrystalline silicon layer on the base wafer bonding surface side, polishing the polycrystalline silicon layer surface, forming the insulator film on the bonding surface of the bond wafer, bonding the polished surface of the base wafer polycrystalline silicon layer and bond wafer via the insulator film; thinning the bonded bond wafer to form an SOI layer; wherein, in the step of depositing the polycrystalline silicon layer, a wafer having a chemically etched surface as base wafer; chemically etched surface is subjected to primary polishing followed by depositing the polycrystalline silicon layer on surface subjected to the primary polishing, and in the step polishing the polycrystalline silicon layer surface, which is subjected to secondary polishing or secondary and finish polishing.
US10424483B2
A metal film is deposited on a front surface of a semiconductor wafer of silicon. After the semiconductor wafer is received in a chamber, the pressure in the chamber is reduced to a pressure lower than atmospheric pressure. Thereafter, nitrogen gas is supplied into the chamber to return the pressure in the chamber to ordinary pressure, and the front surface of the semiconductor wafer is irradiated with a flash of light, so that a silicide that is a compound of the metal film and silicon is formed. The oxygen concentration in the chamber is significantly lowered during the formation of the silicide because the pressure in the chamber is reduced once to the pressure lower than atmospheric pressure and then returned to the ordinary pressure. This suppresses the increase in resistance of the silicide resulting from the entry of oxygen in the atmosphere in the chamber into defects near the interface between the metal film and a base material.
US10424482B2
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming a plurality of amorphous silicon germanium (a-SiGe) structures having a first percentage of germanium on a substrate, forming a plurality of spacers on sides of the plurality of a-SiGe structures, performing an annealing to convert a portion of each of the a-SiGe structures into respective portions comprising a-SiGe having a second percentage of germanium higher than the first percentage of germanium, and to convert each of the spacers into respective silicon oxide portions, removing from the substrate at least one of: one or more unconverted portions of the a-SiGe structures having the first percentage of germanium, one or more of the converted portions of a-SiGe structures, and one or more of the silicon oxide portions, and transferring a pattern to the substrate to form a plurality of patterned substrate portions, wherein the pattern includes the portions remaining after the removing.
US10424461B2
Systems and methods controlling ion energy within a plasma chamber are described. One of the systems includes an upper electrode coupled to a sinusoidal RF generator for receiving a sinusoidal signal and a nonsinusoidal RF generator for generating a nonsinusoidal signal. The system further includes a power amplifier coupled to the nonsinusoidal RF generator. The power amplifier is used for amplifying the nonsinusoidal signal to generate an amplified signal. The system includes a filter coupled to the power amplifier. The filter is used for filtering the amplified signal using a filtering signal to generate a filtered signal. The system includes a chuck coupled to the filter. The chuck faces at least a portion of the upper electrode and includes a lower electrode. The lower electrode is used for receiving the filtered signal to facilitate achieving ion energy at the chuck to be between a lower threshold and an upper threshold.
US10424455B2
Disclosed embodiments include vacuum electronics devices and methods of fabricating a vacuum electronics device. In a non-limiting embodiment, a vacuum electronics device includes: an electrode; a first film layer disposed on the electrode about a periphery of the electrode; and a second film layer disposed on the first film layer, the second film layer including a plurality of electrically conductive grid lines patterned therein that are supported only at the periphery of the electrode by the first film layer.
US10424454B2
The present invention relates to a multi-pole molded case circuit breaker, more particularly, to a multi-pole molded case circuit breaker having a safety device (with an isolation function) which prevents a manipulation handle from being moved to an off-position when a fusion occurs on a contact part.
US10424446B2
Keyboard assemblies having reduced thicknesses and methods of forming the same. A keyboard assembly may include a printed circuit board (PCB) and a single membrane sheet adhered directly to the PCB. The single membrane sheet may substantially cover the PCB. The keyboard assembly may also include a group of dome switches coupled directly to the single membrane sheet. Another keyboard assembly may include a group of conductive pads and a group of membrane pads. Each of the group of membrane pads may be adhered directly to a corresponding one of the group of conductive pads. The keyboard assembly may also include a group of dome switches coupled directly to the membrane pads. Each of the group of dome switches may be coupled directly to a corresponding one of the group of membrane pads.
US10424441B2
An ultra-high charge density electret is disclosed. The ultra-high charge density electret includes a three-dimensional structure having a plurality of sidewalls. A porous silicon dioxide film is formed on the plurality of sidewalls, and the porous silicon dioxide film is charged with a plurality of positive or negative ions.
US10424435B2
An apparatus for reducing a magnetic unidirectional flux component in the core of a transformer with at least three legs, in particular a three-phase transformer having at least one compensation winding per transformer leg, wherein the compensation windings are magnetically coupled to the core of the transformer, where two compensation windings are provided per leg, the first compensation windings of a leg are each electrically connected together in a first delta connection, in each case the second compensation windings of a leg are each electrically connected together in a second delta connection, the compensation windings of at least one leg have different numbers of windings, and where at least one switching unit is arranged in series with the compensation windings for phase angle control.
US10424432B2
An inductor bridge is configured to bridge-connect a first circuit and a second circuit to each other, and includes a flexible flat plate base body, a first connector at a first end portion of the base body and connected to the first circuit, a second connector at a second end portion of the base body and connected to the second circuit, and an inductor section in the base body between the first connector and the second connector. The inductor section includes conductor patterns including a plurality of layers. The inductor bridge further includes a bending portion between the inductor section and the first connector, and a slot at an inner side of the bending portion that reduces a thickness of the base body.
US10424421B2
The present invention discloses a flat cable, which comprises signal unit sets and the insulating layer which wraps and fixes the signal unit set. The signal unit set is formed by at least two signals units arranged substantially on the same plane at an interval or side by side. The left and right sides of the signal unit set are directly wrapped by insulating layers. The insulating layer is formed by splicing and bonding at least one insulating film, and the splicing points at two ends of the insulating film are located on the upper side or the lower side of the signal unit set. In the flat cable of the present invention, the length of the overlapping portion can be set as required, effectively preventing the phenomenon such as insulating film tear and short circuit caused by insulating film tear.
US10424418B2
A back surface field aluminum paste for point contacts of efficient bifacial crystalline silicon solar cells and its preparation method is disclosed. The aluminum paste, which is used to cover the notched area in the back surface of a bifacial passivated solar cell, and not to cover the entire area covered by a back surface passivation film, comprises 85-95 parts by weight of aluminum powder, 10-15 parts by weight of organic carrier and 0.1-6 parts by weight of inorganic binder. The organic carrier includes thickening agent, thixotropic agent, dispersing agent and solvent. Sintered aluminum gate lines have a certain height to width ratio.
US10424411B2
A method for predicting a cancer staging score from medical image data includes receiving patient data for a plurality of patients, where patient data for each of the plurality of patients includes one or more of an image volume of a suspected tumor in an organ, blood test data, demographic data, and ground truth tumor staging scores for the suspected tumor in the organ, extracting features from the patient data, and using the features extracted from the patient data to train a classifier to predict a cancer staging score for a new patient from one or more of an image volume of a suspected tumor in the organ, patient blood test data and patient demographic data of that new patient.
US10424396B2
The present disclosure provides a computer-implemented method for analyzing variants from a plurality of nucleic acid sequence reads using a computation pipeline, which comprises a module depending on a location-dependent parameter. The method comprises executing on a processor the steps of: receiving a plurality of nucleic acid sequence reads comprising at least a first nucleic acid sequence read and a second nucleic acid sequence read; mapping the first nucleic acid sequence read and the second nucleic acid sequence read to a first location and a second location in a genome, respectively; setting a first value and a second value for the location-dependent parameter on the basis of the first location and the second location in the genome, respectively; passing the first nucleic acid sequence read and the second nucleic acid sequence read through the module using the first value and the second value, respectively; and generating a variant call.
US10424394B2
Provided herein are methods, processes and apparatuses for non-invasive assessment of genetic variations.
US10424393B2
Dynamic redundancy buffers for use with a device are disclosed. The dynamic redundancy buffers allow a memory array of the device to be operated with high write error rate (WER). A first level redundancy buffer (e1 buffer) is couple to the memory array. The e1 buffer may store data words that have failed verification or have not been verified. The e1 buffer may transfer data words to another dynamic redundancy buffer (e2 buffer). The e1 buffer may transfer data words that have failed to write to a memory array after a predetermined number of re-write attempts. The e1 buffer may also transfer data words upon power down.
US10424390B2
A pulse is inputted to TFTs 101 and 104 so that the TFTs would turn ON and then potential of a node α rises. When the potential of the node α reaches (VDD−VthN), the node α became in a floating state. Accordingly, a TFT 105 then turns ON, and potential of an output node rises as a clock signal reaches the level H. On the other hand, potential of a gate electrode of the TFT 105 further rises due to an operation of capacitance 107 as the potential of the output node rises, so that the potential of the output node would be higher than (VDD+VthN). Thus, the potential of the output node rises to VDD without voltage drop caused by a threshold of the TFT 105.
US10424389B2
An integrated circuit device that utilizes multiple OTP bits to enable and re-enable access to evaluation and testing components comprises a set of multiple one-time programmable (OTP) bits, a programming module operable to trigger a change in each bit of the set of multiple OTP bits, decode logic to determine a value for a collective state of the set of multiple OTP bits, and a control element to control access to at least one resource of the integrated circuit device based on a value of the collective state for the set of multiple OTP bits.
US10424388B2
A memory system includes multiple storage devices that each include a nonvolatile memory device. A client device is configured to collect deterioration information of the nonvolatile memory devices provided from the storage devices. A server device is configured to receive the collected deterioration information and to predict a degree of deterioration of the nonvolatile memory devices in real time by performing machine learning based on the collected deterioration information and initial deterioration information. The client device determines a read level of the nonvolatile memory device based on the degree of deterioration of the nonvolatile memory devices from the server device. The storage device sets the nonvolatile memory device to operate based on the read level determined in the client device.
US10424386B2
An erasing method used in a flash memory comprising at least one memory block divided into a plurality of memory sectors is illustrated. Whether the memory block or the memory sector corresponding to an address has at least one under-erased transistor memory cell according to a sector enable signal is verified, wherein the sector enable signal is determined according to whether the memory block has at least one over-erased transistor memory cell. The transistor memory cells of the memory block or the memory sector will be erased according to the sector enable signal if the memory block or the memory sector corresponding to the address that has the under-erased transistor memory cell.
US10424383B1
A decoding method and a storage controller for a rewritable non-volatile memory module are provided. The method includes: choosing a target word line among a plurality of word lines, wherein preset data is programmed into a plurality of target memory cells of the target word-line; identifying a plurality of preset bit values according to the preset data; respectively using different X read voltage sets to read the target memory cells to obtain X read bit value sets respectively corresponding to the X read voltage sets, and obtain X deviation amount summation sets by comparing the X read bit value sets and the preset bit values; and determining N−1 optimized read voltages of an optimized read voltage set according to the X deviation amount summation sets.
US10424382B2
Devices and techniques for increased NAND performance under high thermal conditions are disclosed herein. An indicator of a high-temperature thermal condition for a NAND device may be obtained. A workload of the NAND device may be measured in response to the high-temperature thermal condition. Operation of the NAND device may then be modified based on the workload and the high-temperature thermal condition.
US10424377B2
A semiconductor integrated circuit according to an embodiment includes: first to third wirings; first current limiters corresponding to the first wirings; second current limiters corresponding to the second wirings; third current limiters corresponding to the third wirings; first drivers corresponding to the first current limiters; second drivers corresponding to the second current limiters; third drivers corresponding to the third current limiters; and a first array and a second array, wherein the first array comprising: fourth wirings corresponding to the first wirings; fifth wirings corresponding to the second wirings; first transistors corresponding to the first wirings; second transistors corresponding to the second wirings; and first resistive change elements arranged in intersecting areas of the fourth wirings and the fifth wirings, respectively, the first resistive change elements including a first terminal connected to corresponding one of the fourth wirings and a second terminal connected to corresponding one of the fifth wirings.
US10424376B2
The present disclosure includes apparatuses and methods for material implication operations in memory. An example apparatus may include a plurality of memory cells coupled to a first access line and a plurality of second access lines, and a controller coupled to the plurality of memory cells. The controller of the example apparatus may be configured to apply a first signal to the first access line, and while the first signal is being applied to the first access line, apply a second signal to a first of the plurality of memory cells via another respective one of the plurality of second access lines and apply a third signal to a second of the plurality of memory cells via another respective one of the plurality of second access lines. The material implication operation may be performed as a result of the signals (e.g., first, second, and third signals) applied and a result of the material implication operation is stored on the second of the plurality of memory cells subsequent to the application of the third signal.
US10424375B2
Structures and methods for a multi-bit phase change memory are disclosed herein. A method includes establishing a write-reference voltage that incrementally ramps over a write period. The increments of the write-reference voltage correspond to discrete resistance states of a storage cell of the multi-bit phase change memory.
US10424374B2
Methods, systems, and devices for programming enhancement in memory cells are described. An asymmetrically shaped memory cell may enhance ion crowding at or near a particular electrode, which may be leveraged for accurately reading a stored value of the memory cell. Programming the memory cell may cause elements within the cell to separate, resulting in ion migration towards a particular electrode. The migration may depend on the polarity of the cell and may create a high resistivity region and low resistivity region within the cell. The memory cell may be sensed by applying a voltage across the cell. The resulting current may then encounter the high resistivity region and low resistivity region, and the orientation of the regions may be representative of a first or a second logic state of the cell.
US10424373B2
The invention provides a system and method of provisioning a resource to an electronic device. The method comprises the steps of: (a) maintaining a library of resources at a remote server from the device; (b) after a triggering event, providing a data transmission to the device, the data transmission containing access information for the library that can be extracted by the device and used to access the library; and (c) after a selection event initiated on the device for a specific resource from the library, providing a second data transmission to the device, the second data transmission containing a copy of the specific resource. The system provides a server, a resource, a device and a communication link incorporating the method.
US10424366B2
A semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell array to which a plurality of word lines are coupled, a voltage generation circuit configured to apply operating voltages to the plurality of word lines during a program operation, and a control logic configured to control the voltage generation circuit to perform a discharge operation for the plurality of word lines when an external power supply voltage is reduced during the program operation, wherein the control logic controls the voltage generation circuit such that, during the discharge operation, a potential level of a selected word line among the plurality of word lines is discharged, and then potential levels of the other unselected word lines are discharged.
US10424362B2
A memory device and a data refreshing method thereof are provided. When an automatic refresh word line address and a row hammer refresh word line address belong to the same memory cell array, memory cells corresponding to the automatic refresh word line address are refreshed, and a time to refresh memory cells corresponding to the row hammer refresh word line address is postponed.
US10424360B2
Methods, systems, and devices for time-based access of memory cells in a memory array are described herein. During a sense portion of a read operation, a selected memory cell may be charged to a predetermined voltage level. A logic state stored on the selected memory cell may be identified based on a duration between the beginning of the charging and when selected memory cell reaches the predetermined voltage level. In some examples, time-varying signals may be used to indicate the logic state based on the duration of the charging. The duration of the charging may be based on a polarization state of the selected memory cell, a dielectric charge state of the selected state, or both a polarization state and a dielectric charge state of the selected memory cell.
US10424357B2
The various embodiments described herein include methods, devices, and systems for fabricating and performing operations on magnetic memory devices. In one aspect, a magnetic memory device includes: (1) a reference magnetic layer configured to have a first current threshold corresponding to a spin current level required to change a magnetic polarization of the reference magnetic layer; (2) a composite magnetic layer comprising a plurality of non-magnetic layers and a plurality of magnetic layers including a storage layer; and (3) a non-magnetic spacer layer between the reference magnetic layer and the composite magnetic layer; where the composite magnetic layer is configured such that the second current threshold is lowered, without decreasing thermal stability of the magnetic memory device, by spin current and/or coupling fields between adjacent magnetic layers of the plurality of magnetic layers.
US10424354B2
Apparatuses and methods including an interface die that interfaces with dice through memory channels are described. An example apparatus includes a first die. The first die receives a first command including first command information and second command information provided after the first command information. The first die changes an order of providing the first command information and the second command information and provides a second command to a second die, the second command including the second command information and the first command information provided after the second command information in the changed order. The first command information is related to a command function and the second command information is related to a destination of the command function.
US10424353B2
A current-sensing circuit for a memory and a sensing method thereof are provided. The current-sensing circuit includes a pre-charge circuit, a sensing current-to-voltage generator, an auxiliary current-to-voltage generator, a reference current-to-voltage generator, and a detection circuit. The pre-charge circuit provides a pre-charge signal to a selected bit line during a pre-charge time period. The sensing current-to-voltage generator generates a sensing voltage to a memory cell current of the selected bit line via a first load. The auxiliary current-to-voltage generator provides a detection voltage to a portion of the memory cell current of the selected bit line via a second load. The reference current-to-voltage generator provides a reference voltage during a data-sensing time period. The detection circuit determines an end time point of the pre-charge time period by comparing a detected voltage generated by the second load with a reference voltage.
US10424352B2
There are provided a memory system and a method for operating the same. A memory system includes: a semiconductor memory device for outputting a ready/busy (R/B) signal by performing an internal operation in response to an operation command, and outputting status data by performing a status check operation in response to a status check command; and a controller for outputting the operation command and the status check command to the semiconductor memory device, and determining validity of the status data, based on the R/B signal.
US10424348B2
According to one embodiment, a method of controlling a memory device includes supplying a second potential having a first value to a second electrode and simultaneously, or thereafter, supplying a third potential to a third electrode, and thereafter stopping supply of the third potential such that the potential of the third electrode decays while reducing the potential of the second electrode, and thereafter supplying a first potential to the first electrode.
US10424340B2
There is provided a system and method for latency compensation in a 360° VR video editing system. One embodiment involves a determination of the latency delay between the computer that stores and edits the video and a VR headset worn by the user. This delay might be caused by the need to read, prepare, and wirelessly transmit each video frame to the headset. The determined latency delay is used within the computer to adjust the timeline location of editing commands issued by the user so that they match the timeline locations seen by the user within the headset. This is done so that the user's edit commands are applied within the computer at the same video frame the user was viewing within the VR headset when the command was issued. In some embodiments the display device of the VR headset might be a smart phone.
US10424337B2
A method involving associating a first audio track to a first image stored in memory means associated with a processor; associating a second audio track to a second image stored in said memory means; selecting said first image and said second image for sequential presentation; reproducing said first image for a first length of time of said first audio track; and subsequently reproducing said second image for a second length of time of said second audio track. The step of associating a first audio track to a first image and the step of associating a second audio track to a second image provide for storing a first identification code of the first audio track in first metadata of said at least first image, and storing a second identification code of the second audio track in second metadata of said at least one second image.
US10424329B2
A magnetic recording medium includes a substrate, a seed layer, an under layer, and a perpendicular recording layer having a granular structure. (Ms·αδ1.5(1−Rs)0.33), Ms, and α satisfy (Ms·α·δ1.5(1−Rs)0.33)≤0.1 [μ·emu·(mm)−1.5], Ms≥450 [emu/cc], and α≥1.2. In the above formulas, Ms indicates a saturated magnetization amount, α indicates the gradient of a M-H loop around a coercive force Hc, δ indicates the thickness of the perpendicular recording layer, and Rs indicates a squareness ratio.
US10424327B1
A head suspension assembly for testing a slider. The head suspension assembly includes a load beam assembly and a gimbal coupled to the load beam assembly. A clamp is coupled to the gimbal. The clamp is configured to releasably secure a slider in the head suspension assembly. The clamp includes an alignment feature for positioning the slider in the head suspension assembly.
US10424321B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for analyzing an audio sample to determine whether the audio sample includes music audio data. One or more detectors, including a spectral fluctuation detector, a peak repetition detector, and a beat pitch detector, may analyze the audio sample and generate a score that represents whether the audio sample includes music audio data. One or more of the scores may be combined to determine whether the audio sample includes music audio data or non-music audio data.
US10424316B2
An audio processing apparatus and an audio processing method are provided. The audio processing apparatus includes a microphone array, a processor, and an audio signal processor. The microphone array is configured to provide an external audio signal having a first sampling frequency. The external audio signal includes a first audio signal and a second audio signal. The processor provides a first setting command and a second setting command according to the external audio signal and the second audio signal. The audio signal processor generates the second audio signal having a second sampling frequency according to the first setting command, adjusts the second sampling frequency of the second audio signal to the first sampling frequency according to the second setting command, and separates the first audio signal in the external audio signal according to the second audio signal having the first sampling frequency.
US10424314B2
A sound source localization apparatus configured to identify a location for an active sound object within a defined physical space is described. The sound source localization apparatus may include an acoustic component, a thermal component, and an analysis component. The acoustic component determines an approximate location for at least one sound object within the defined physical space. The thermal component determines an approximate location for at least one thermal object within the defined physical space. The analysis component identifies the active sound object when the approximate locations for at least one acoustic object and at least one thermal object match. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US10424312B2
Higher Order Ambisonics represents three-dimensional sound independent of a specific loudspeaker set-up. However, transmission of an HOA representation results in a very high bit rate. Therefore compression with a fixed number of channels is used, in which directional and ambient signal components are processed differently. For coding, portions of the original HOA representation are predicted from the directional signal components. This prediction provides side information which is required for a corresponding decoding. By using some additional specific purpose bits, a known side information coding processing is improved in that the required number of bits for coding that side information is reduced on average.
US10424311B2
An audio processing circuit may have a first path for processing multi-bit audio signals in parallel with a second path for processing single-bit audio signals. The parallel paths may share a common input node for receiving audio data and a common output node for reproducing audio at a transducer. Each path may have a volume control for adjusting an output of the path. The audio processing circuit may determine a type of an audio signal received at the input. The path not corresponding to the detected type of the audio signal is muted, and the path corresponding to the detected type of audio signal is unmuted.
US10424310B2
A digital watermark embedding device includes a generating unit that makes use of a key random number which is input, and outputs a filter for determining a first band and a second band which represent at least a single pair of frequency bands in which a digital watermark bit is to be embedded; and an embedding unit that, when the digital watermark bit is to be embedded in a unit frame of a voice signal which is input, varies a sum of amplitude spectrum intensities of at least one of the first band and the second band in such a way that a first sum of amplitude spectrum intensities of the first band is greater than a second sum of amplitude spectrum intensities of the second band.
US10424308B2
An audio sound signal encoding device includes: a converter that adds up all multiple channel signals included in multichannel voice sound input signals to generate an addition signal and generates a difference signal between channels of the multiple channel signals; a first encoder that encodes the addition signal in a coding mode in accordance with a characteristic of the addition signal to generate first encoded data; a second encoder that encodes the difference signal in the coding mode that was used for encoding the addition signal, to generate second encoded data; and a multiplexer that multiplexes the first encoded data and the second encoded data to generate multichannel encoded data.
US10424307B2
An audio scene is captured in multiple audio channels by distributed microphones. Based on at least one of a viewpoint of a user and at least one preference of a user, two or more of those multiple audio channels are selected from among those multiple audio channels; those selected two or more audio channels are prioritized based on at least one of preferences of the user, requirements of a software application of a device operated by the user, and requirements of operating conditions of the device. After that prioritizing, at least one of the selected two or more audio channels is encoded into a coded monitor mix; which is sent to the device over a transmission link.
US10424304B2
A lossless encoding method is provided that includes determining a lossless encoding mode of a quantization coefficient as one of an infinite-range lossless encoding mode and a finite-range lossless encoding mode; encoding the quantization coefficient in the infinite-range lossless encoding mode in correspondence with a result of the lossless encoding mode determination; and encoding the quantization coefficient in the finite-range lossless encoding mode in correspondence with a result of the lossless encoding mode determination.
US10424301B2
A dictation device includes: an audio input device configured to receive a voice utterance including a plurality of words; a video input device configured to receive video of lip motion during the voice utterance; a memory portion; a controller configured according to instructions in the memory portion to generate first data packets including an audio stream representative of the voice utterance and a video stream representative of the lip motion; and a transceiver for sending the first data packets to a server end device and receiving second data packets including combined dictation based upon the audio stream and the video stream from the server end device. In the combined dictation, first dictation generated based upon the audio stream has been corrected by second dictation generated based upon the video stream.
US10424295B2
Systems, methods and articles of manufacture for calibrating an augmented reality headset. Embodiments output for display in the augmented reality headset, a plurality of reference points, where the augmented reality headset is adapted to further display a fixed reference line. A user selection of a first one of the plurality of reference points that appears closest to the fixed reference line is received, and a calibration profile for the augmented reality headset is generated based on the user selection of the first reference point. Embodiments render one or more frames for display, in which a depiction of at least one virtual object within the one or more frames is dynamically generated based at least in part on the calibration profile.
US10424293B1
Functionality is disclosed herein for using an interactive content service to provide content. A user may interact with the interactive content service to access interactive content, such as interactive fiction, interactive text adventure games, and other interactive content. A user may also use the interactive content to receive auditory output from applications configured to provide text-based content. The interactive content service maintains state information that identifies the current state of the interactive content. For example, before starting a particular interactive adventure game, the state identifies a beginning location within the interactive content. As the user interacts with the game, the interactive content service updates the state of the user within the game. In this way, when the user resumes playing the game, regardless of the computing device used to interact with the interactive content service, the interactive content service causes the correct portion of the interactive content to be presented.
US10424289B2
A speech recognition system includes a phone classifier and a boundary classifier. The phone classifier generates combined boundary posteriors from a combination of auditory attention features and phone posteriors by feeding phone posteriors of neighboring frames of an audio signal into a machine learning algorithm to classify phone posterior context information. The boundary classifier estimates boundaries in speech contained in the audio signal from the combined boundary posteriors.
US10424281B2
A hammer unit for use in a keyboard device or the like includes a plurality of hammer arms which are respectively operated in response to key depression operations on a plurality of keys, and a hammer connecting section which has a length corresponding to array of the plurality of keys, is connected to the plurality of hammer arms to support the plurality of hammer arms in an arrayed state, and has mounting sections which are provided in a direction of the array in areas where the hammer arms are not connected, and by which the hammer connecting section is mounted to a keyboard chassis. As a result, the assembling workability is improved.
US10424278B2
A bell and method of tuning a bell with its lowest frequency partials at f1=f and f2=3f=2. The simultaneous presence of physical tones at these partial frequencies yields a difference tone, perceived by the listener, at f2f1=3f=2f=f=2. The difference tone is subharmonic, in that its perceived frequency (f=2) is below the frequency of the fundamental (f). Preferably, the bell has one or more additional partials at frequencies fn=(n+1)f=2, with n 2 f3; 4; 5: : : g, strengthening the listener's perception of the difference tone at f=2. The bell thus yields a strike tone at f=2 but has a characteristic dimension (e.g. height or diameter) equal to that of conventional bells with a strike tone at f, providing art eightfold savings in bell mass.
US10424277B2
Accessory weights and kits for brass instruments to reduce sympathetic vibration of a brass instrument having an instrument neck directed towards the instrument at a first end and connected to a mouthpiece at a second end; wherein the connection of the mouthpiece to the neck second end can be by a friction fit of a cork sleeve having a collar fixed to an outer surface of the neck second end; and a weight connected to the neck second end also by a friction fit to cork sleeve, wherein sympathetic vibration of a brass instrument is reduced while in use by between 10 and 50 percent.
US10424242B2
A shift register unit and a drive method thereof, a gate drive circuit, and a display device are disclosed. The shift register unit includes a shift resister circuit which delays a phase of an input signal from an input terminal to output a first output signal from a first output terminal and an inverting circuit which generates an inverting signal having an inverted voltage with respect to the first output signal and output it from a second output terminal. The shift resister circuit includes a first input circuit configured to control a voltage of a first node, a second input circuit configured to control a voltage of a second node, a latch circuit configured to latch the voltage of the first node and that of the second node as being inverted, and a first output circuit configured to selectively output the second clock signal or a first voltage.
US10424241B2
A system includes a display panel having an input to receive pixel data representative of a sequence of display images and an array of display elements. Each display element includes a first buffer stage, a second buffer stage coupled to the first buffer stage, and a light emitting diode (LED) coupled to the second buffer stage. The display panel further includes a controller to control the array of display elements to concurrently activate the LEDs of the array for a first time interval based on pixel data of a first display image stored at the second buffer stages of the array of display elements and to receive and store at least a portion of pixel data of a second display image at the first buffer stages of the array of display elements during the first time interval.
US10424235B2
The embodiments of the application disclose a control device for a gate driving circuit, a display panel and a display device. The control device for a gate driving circuit provided in the embodiment comprises a level shifter and a control module electrically connected with an output of the level shifter. The control module is used for controlling an output signal of the level shifter to be a low level signal when each input clock signal for the level shifter is low.
US10424234B2
De-saturated color injected sequences in a color sequential image system are provided. The system comprises: at least one spatial light modulator; a light system configured to produce a series of colors illuminating the modulator, the series comprising: saturated colors; and, de-saturated colors which respectively replace one or more of the saturated colors on either side of a center of the series of colors; and, an image processor configured to control the modulator to inject one or more of the de-saturated colors both prior to and following an active sequence of the saturated colors in at least a portion of pixels within a video frame, respective locations of the de-saturated colors selected to minimize respective times between at least one first de-saturated color prior to a first saturated color in the active sequence and between at least one second de-saturated color following a last saturated color in the active sequence.
US10424229B2
A flexible display device includes a plurality of back bars coupled to the rear surface of a display panel, and a spacing member disposed up to a boundary between a non-display area and a display area such that the display panel can be prevented from being scratched and damaged by friction during the rolling of the display panel. According to the aspects disclosed herein, in a flexible display device capable of implementing a rollable display or a foldable display, when rolling a display panel, it is possible to prevent the display panel from being scratched or damaged.
US10424221B2
A mobile terminal and an operation method are provided. The operation method of a mobile terminal includes executing a sport application, obtaining at least one of exercise information and location information on a user from a wearable device, and providing a game result or setting a team strategy of a game that the user performs on the basis of the obtained at least one of exercise information and location information.
US10424216B2
A musical score display device is provided, the device include a display section to display musical score representing a predetermined piece of music; a memory to store the musical score; an input section to transmit document of the musical score into the memory; a wireless transmitter module to transmit signal of turning pages of the score; a wireless receiver module to receiver the signal of turning pages of the score; a controller that control the display section, the memory, the input section and the wireless receiver module. The device can be easily operated when playing the music.
US10424209B2
Systems and methods for providing trajectory amendments are provided. In one embodiment, a method can include receiving, by one or more first computing devices, a plurality of parameters associated with an aircraft. The method can further include determining, by the one or more first computing devices, a trajectory amendment associated with the aircraft based at least in part on the plurality of parameters. The method can include determining, by the one or more first computing devices, a projected operations value associated with the trajectory amendment. The method can further include providing, by the one or more first computing devices to one or more second computing devices of an operator associated with the aircraft, a set of data identifying the trajectory amendment and the projected operations value associated with the trajectory amendment.
US10424206B2
The presently disclosed subject matter includes a collision warning and avoidance system and method for detecting a collision risk between an interrogating aircraft and at least one interrogated aircraft. Signals received from the at least one interrogated aircraft or by the at least one interrogated aircraft and at least one other interrogating aircraft are used for determining various situation awareness data which is used for determining whether the interrogating aircraft is in a risk of collision. If indeed a collision risk exists a collision warning is generated, the collision warning including data indicative of at least an estimated location of the at least one interrogated aircraft.
US10424204B1
Automated collision warnings may be provided by stationary vehicles. Stationary vehicles may monitor the external environment of the vehicle for moving objects. If a possible collision with a moving object is detected, a collision avoidance action may be selected. The vehicle may be directed to perform the collision avoidance mechanism, which may include visual warnings, auditory warnings, vehicle-to-vehicle warning communications, or automated movement of the stationary vehicle to avoid the collision. A wakeup mechanism may be implemented to reduce power consumption of automated collision warnings by initiating monitoring for possible collision events automatically when a possible collision is likely.
US10424193B1
The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods of enabling and disabling a functionality of a trainable transceiver. The trainable transceiver may include a plurality of buttons, a control circuit, and a locking mechanism. The plurality of buttons may cause the control circuit to control one or more functions of a remote device. The control circuit may compare a sequence of inputs on the plurality of buttons to a predetermined sequence. The control circuit may acquire a sensor reading and compare the sensor reading to predetermined data. The locking mechanism may enable or disable operation of the control circuit in controlling the one or more functions of the remote device, responsive to a determination that the sequence of inputs matches the predetermined sequence and the sensor reading matches the predetermined data.
US10424171B2
Systems and methods for transferring resource access from a sender to a recipient are disclosed that can allow a sender to specify an amount of a resource to provide access to (e.g., an amount of money or an amount of access rights), while still providing security for the sender's sensitive credential information (e.g., PAN and/or PIN). These systems and methods can allow a sender to transfer resource access from any location and at any time of the day. In the case of money transfers, the recipient can quickly and directly obtain the money from any ATM location associated with any bank and at any time of the day, even without a bank account.
US10424155B2
A transaction based interleaved wagering system including an interactive controller configured to: communicate wagering event gift purchase; receive wager parameter display instructions; display wager parameters; communicate an indication to trigger a wager; display award; a wager controller constructed to: receive wager request instructions; determine a wager outcome; and the application controller constructed to: receive the wager setup indication; communicate the recipient information request; receive recipient information data; determine wager parameters; generate a wagering event identification; communicate the wager parameters; receive the indication to trigger the wager; communicate the wager request; receive the wager outcome; determine the award; communicate the award display.
US10424153B2
A gaming system that includes communication objects adapted to be worn by players wherein at least one of said communication objects comprises an RFID tag and an associated closed electrical circuit and is adapted to alter its communication pattern in response to any break of said closed electrical circuit. The system includes player tracking devices adapted to obtain information regarding a specific player from said communication objects, wherein at least one of said player tracking devices is adapted to grant priority seating at a restaurant to the specific player. The system includes a computer server having a player verification program adapted to verify whether obtained information regarding said specific player is adequate according to one or more set criteria, said computer server is adapted to deny the initiation or continuation of a particular gaming event when said player verification program determines that obtained information is unacceptable or insufficient.
US10424152B1
A system and method are provided for allowing a plurality of consumers to each select his or her own fixed odds and associated winning payoff from a common universal drawing. The consumer selected custom odds are derived by subdividing one drawing event into a series of variable sized “bins” that reduce wagered odds to a subset of the greater odds of the universal drawing where the totality of generated bins thereby contains 100% of the possible drawing outcomes. A modulo operation is then performed to create a unique pointer position to a congruence number for each of the created previously created bins. Thus, any desired subset of reduced wagering odds can be achieved with the virtual creation of the corresponding number of bins.
US10424147B2
A parking meter is described that comprises components for providing parking meter functionality and a display for displaying parking information and a metal housing for protecting the parking meter components from an environment that has a display aperture through which the display is visible. The parking meter also comprises an antenna for a contactless payment reader arranged in or on the parking meter in close proximity to the display.
US10424142B2
The disclosed system and method allows opening of a safe by either the safe's electronic lock, and/or by any on-site or remote access control systems. The system and method provides a data audit of all safe opening and closing, with user, time and date recordings, allows for exceptions reporting of any safe openings with a keyed bypass, and utilizes a variety of electronic high security safe locks and audit locks. An access control relay powers the safe lock's internal actuator, bypassing the safe lock's logic decoding, allowing the safe to be opened. A diode may prevent feedback to lock's logic circuits.
US10424139B2
Multiple application devices (such as multiple application modules (MAMs) and multiple application units (MAUs) for receiving of signals in wireless distribution systems (WDSs), including but not limited to distributed antenna systems (DASs), and providing a variety of network services are disclosed. The multiple application devices are wireless telecommunication circuitry associated with wireless distribution components in a WDS. By associating multiple application devices into components of a WDS, network services and applications within the WDS can be provided. A multiple application device includes a multiple applications processor and is configured to: receive at least one of downlink and uplink signals; determine that a request has been received in one of the downlink and uplink for a service from another device; execute, via the at least one multiple applications processor, an application layer application corresponding to the requested service; and communicate application level information sufficient to perform the requested service.
US10424135B2
Systems, methods, and vehicles for taking a vehicle out-of-service are provided. In one example embodiment, a method includes obtaining, by one or more computing devices on-board an autonomous vehicle, data indicative of one or more parameters associated with the autonomous vehicle. The autonomous vehicle is configured to provide a vehicle service to one or more users of the vehicle service. The method includes determining, by the computing devices, an existence of a fault associated with the autonomous vehicle based at least in part on the one or more parameters associated with the autonomous vehicle. The method includes determining, by the computing devices, one or more actions to be performed by the autonomous vehicle based at least in part on the existence of the fault. The method includes performing, by the computing devices, one or more of the actions to take the autonomous vehicle out-of-service based at least in part on the fault.
US10424134B2
There is a method, system, and device for diagnosing an anomaly of a monitored component in a drive train, the method including obtaining original data based on samples of a vibration signal and a tachometer signal; generating a time synchronous average vibration signal; processing the time synchronous average vibration signal to produce a frequency-domain spectrum; determining the complex magnitudes of the frequency-domain spectrum; selecting a sub-synchronous band of the complex magnitudes of the frequency-domain spectrum to generate a sub-synchronous spectrum; and determining the mean of the sub-synchronous spectrum to generate a condition indicator.
US10424130B2
Exemplary embodiments relate to a drone system including a drone configured for navigation of an outdoor facility and equipped with an RFID reader, an optical code reader, and at least one of powertrain control module data receiver and an electronic control module data receiver. The system includes a computing system in communication with the drone.
US10424121B1
A method of reality augmentation, including: (a) determining the identity of a container, for example chocolate spread, with a top opening; (b) acquiring an image of the container from a top thereof; (c) estimating a geometry of the filling of said container based on said identity and said image; and (d) overlaying an augmentation, for example, a coupon or a toy, on an image, based on said estimation.
US10424118B2
A method and a device are disclosed for the perspective representation, via an output image, of at least one virtual scene component arranged within a real scene. In the method, depth image data of the real scene is captured from a first perspective via a depth image sensor, and 2D image data of the real scene is captured from a second perspective via a 2D camera. Further, a virtual three-dimensional scene model of the real scene is created with reference to depth information from the depth image data, and at least one virtual scene component is inserted into the three-dimensional virtual model. Finally, an output image is generated by way of perspective projection of the 2D image data corresponding to the second perspective onto the virtual three-dimensional scene model comprising the virtual scene component.
US10424115B2
The invention relates to a device for obtaining and processing of 3D images.The device includes a head assembly, on which two cameras are arranged, with each camera having an associated monitor for displaying a respective image of each camera, so that the optical axes of the monitors coincide with the optical axes of the eyes of a user of the device or can be aligned at least parallel to the optical axes of the eyes of a user. The device further includes a data processing unit for data processing of camera images. The device is characterized in that the cameras are synchronized with each other so that they focus on a common point with same aperture and the same zoom.The inventive device enables 3D scanning, which is controlled by the natural vision with two eyes.
US10424112B2
One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for smoothing boundaries associated with meshes of primitives. The technique involves receiving a mesh of primitives that has a mesh boundary and an initial surface, identifying a first vertex associated with the mesh boundary and having a first location, and identifying a second vertex having a second location and a third vertex having a third location. Both the second vertex and third vertex are proximate to the first vertex. The technique further involves determining a fourth location based on the second location and the third location, projecting the fourth location onto the initial surface to determine a fifth location, and moving the first vertex to the fifth location.
US10424100B2
An animation preset graphical user interface (GUI) enables users to select a 3D model of an object and to further select between multiple animation presets that each individually cause a 3D animation engine to apply combinations of animation features against the 3D model. An exemplary animation preset may cause the object to translate across a display area (e.g., move from left to right across screen) while simultaneously rotating against a rotational axis (e.g., spinning so that different surfaces of the object become more prominent). The animation preset GUI may enable the user to dynamically toggle through different intensity levels to cause a selected animation preset to be rendered in accordance with different acceleration parameters and/or magnitude parameters. The animation preset GUI may enable the user to dynamically toggle between predefined animation spaces for animating the object. Animation-parameters may be persisted to a file to enable future editing of the animations.
US10424096B1
A computer-implemented technique for orthogonal edge routing of directed layered graphs with edge crossings reduction is presented. The pre-arranged nodes are positioned on a rectangular grid consisting of layers across the flow direction and lanes along the flow direction. The layers are separated by rectangular regions defined as layer pipes, and the lanes are separated by rectangular regions defined as lane pipes. Each pipe contains one or more ordered segment tracks. The edges are routed along the shortest paths as orthogonal polylines composed of chained line segments. Each segment is assigned to a pipe. The segments within a pipe are positioned on segment tracks. The edge crossings reduction phase contains iterative procedures to resolve intersections between segments. To resolve the crossings between edges the pairs of conflicting segments are swapped or segments are repositioned on adjacent segment tracks, effectively rubber banding the segments while considering the shortest paths of edges.
US10424095B2
An example method comprises receiving a multidimensional data set, receiving a predetermined number of features for a set of landmark features, when a current number of features of the set is less than the predetermined number: for each landmark feature of the set of landmark features, calculate a distance between that particular landmark feature and each non-selected feature that is not within the set, identify a closest non-selected feature to that particular landmark feature, identify a particular closest non-selected feature related to a largest distance among the distances, and adding the particular non-selected feature to the set of landmark features, and if the current number of features of the set of landmark features is equal to or greater than the predetermined number of features for the set of landmark features, then providing identification of at least a subset of features of the set of landmark features.
US10424090B2
A method for determining a spatial distribution of a material property value in an examination region of an examination object is described. With an embodiment of the method, projection scan data is acquired which has been produced with the aid of a single-energy CT scan with a defined X-ray energy spectrum from the examination region of the examination object using a defined scan projection geometry. Furthermore, a target function is established which includes a spectral forward projection of the sought spatial distribution and the acquired projection data. Finally, a spatial distribution of a material property value is determined for which the target function assumes an extremal value. A material property distribution-determining device is also described. A computer tomography system is described, moreover.
US10424085B2
A computer-implemented method for approximating an image may include (i) dividing an original image into a plurality of approximation sectors, (ii) calculating a representative color for each approximation sector, (iii) selecting, based on the representative color of each approximation sector, at least one color gradient and a direction for each color gradient, such that the color gradients form a visual approximation of the original image, and (iv) providing, to an endpoint computing device and based on the selected color gradients, instructions that enable the endpoint computing device to render, prior to displaying the original image, the visual approximation of the original image. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US10424071B2
The described technology regards an augmented reality system and method for estimating a position of a location of interest relative to the position and orientation of a display based upon a retroactive adjustment of a previously rendered position and orientation of the display, by means of an adjust-update-predict (AUP) cycle, and calculating the location of interest relative to the position and orientation of the display. Systems of the described technology include including a plurality of sensors, a processing module or other computation means, and a database. Methods of the described technology use data from the sensor package useful to accurately render graphical user interface information on a display.
US10424070B2
Described examples include an integrated circuit having a point identifier configured to receive a stream of input frames and to identify point pairs on objects in the input frames. A ground plane converter transposes a position of the point pairs to a ground plane, the ground plane having a fixed relationship in at least one dimension relative to a source of the input frames. A motion estimator estimates a motion of the source of the input frames by comparing a plurality of point pairs between at least two input frames as transposed to the ground plane, in which the motion estimator compares a motion estimate determined by the plurality of point pairs and determines a refined motion estimate based on the plurality of point pairs excluding outliers from the plurality of point pairs.
US10424069B2
A method, computer readable medium, and system are disclosed for estimating optical flow between two images. A first pyramidal set of features is generated for a first image and a partial cost volume for a level of the first pyramidal set of features is computed, by a neural network, using features at the level of the first pyramidal set of features and warped features extracted from a second image, where the partial cost volume is computed across a limited range of pixels that is less than a full resolution of the first image, in pixels, at the level. The neural network processes the features and the partial cost volume to produce a refined optical flow estimate for the first image and the second image.
US10424064B2
Certain aspects involve semantic segmentation of objects in a digital visual medium by determining a score for each pixel of the digital visual medium that is representative of a likelihood that each pixel corresponds to the objects associated with bounding boxes within the digital visual medium. An instance-level label that yields a label for each of the pixels of the digital visual medium corresponding to the objects is determined based, in part, on a collective probability map including the score for each pixel of the digital visual medium. In some aspects, the score for each pixel corresponding to each bounding box is determined by a prediction model trained by a neural network.
US10424062B2
This disclosure relates to representing an interior of a volume, such as but not limited to, a lumen. Examples of lumens may comprise a colon or bronchus. An input port receives the captured image data of the interior of the volume. The processor selects one of the multiple candidates such that the selected one of the multiple candidates corresponds to the captured image data. Each candidate is associated with simulated image data of the interior of the volume. The processor stores an association of the selected candidate with the captured image data to represent the interior of the volume. Aspects of the disclosure include computer implemented methods, computer systems and software.
US10424059B2
Implementations of the present disclosure relate to methods, systems, and computer program products for quality evaluation. In one implementation, a computer-implemented method is disclosed. In the method, a pattern period may be extracted from an image of a target object, the pattern period indicating a period of a pattern that is repeated in the image. A reference image may be generated by repeating the pattern based on the extracted pattern period. Quality of the target object may be evaluated by comparing the generated reference image and the image of the target object. In other implementations, a computer-implemented system and a computer program product for quality evaluation are disclosed.
US10424051B2
An image analyzing apparatus includes a controller. In a first analyzing process, the controller performs: sequentially identifying line pixel groups from a first side toward a second side in a first direction; when identifying an m1th line pixel group, creating m1th first distance information corresponding to the m1th line pixel group based on m1−1th pixel information corresponding to an m1−1th line pixel group and on m1−1th first distance information corresponding to the m1−1th line pixel group; and when the m1th line pixel group contains a first subject group constituted by at least one first-type pixel contiguous to each other in the second direction each as the first-type pixel, determining, based on the created m1th first distance information, whether the first-type pixel not contiguous to the first subject group is present in a first region surrounding the first subject group.
US10424049B2
An image processing device includes a viewpoint separating unit configured to separate multi-viewpoint image data, including images of multiple viewpoints and representing intensity distribution of light and the direction of travel of light according to positions and pixel values of pixels, into a plurality of single-viewpoint image data for each of the individual viewpoints; and a parallax control unit configured to control amount of parallax between the plurality of single-viewpoint image data obtained by separation into individual viewpoints by the viewpoint separating unit.
US10424031B2
A system transfers healthcare session operation data between a portable device and a first computer. The portable device includes, an imaging device for acquiring image data including a readable code from a displayed image associated with a current operating session of a first application and presented by the first computer. A code interpreter for image to text conversion converts the readable code to text comprising a URL (universal resource locator) and context data associated with the current operating session. An executable application automatically initiates a session of operation of a second application corresponding to the current operating session of the first application, on the portable device in response to the text. A display processor generates data representing at least one display image associated with the session of operation of the second application.
US10424028B2
A method, computer program product, and system includes a processor(s) determining, based on obtaining data from the one or more sensors over the wireless communications connection, that individuals are within a given vicinity. The processor(s) queries personal computing devices associated with the individuals to determine an identity of each individual in the given vicinity. The processor(s) assigns a service provider(s) to a portion of the identified individuals. The processor(s) obtains preference information related to the portion and determines environmental information related to an environment experienced by the portion by locating at least one sensor within a predetermined distance of the portion, and communicating, over the wireless communications connection, with the at least one sensor. The processor(s) generate simulations for providing services to the portion that include temporal parameters and selects an optimal simulation. The processor(s) communicates instructions to achieve aspects of the optimal simulation to the service provider(s).
US10424026B2
An approach is provided in which a risk assessment is performed that accesses the risk to a user of an information handling system due to the user's link to a social network contact. Risky action values is received with the values corresponding to the social network contact. A risk level is calculated with the risk level corresponding to one or more of the risky action values. A preventative security action is then performed based on the calculated risk level. In another embodiment, an approach is provided in which the potential risks posed by a user are transmitted to the user's social network contacts. In this approach, potentially risky actions that are performed by the user are detected. Risky action values are identified that correspond to the detected potentially risky actions. The risky action values are then transmitted to the user's social network contacts over a computer network.
US10424024B1
Systems and methods are disclosed herein for pricing an insurance premium based on telematics data. The system includes a communications interface and a business logic processor in communication with the communications interface. The communications interface receives telematics data collected by a telematics acquisition device. A business logic processor determines an insurance quote for a user based on the received telematics data, vehicle data, and vehicle owner data. The communications interface transmits the insurance quote to the user of the vehicle.
US10424017B2
Various embodiments relate to intelligently activating and deactivating a trading tool element of a trading tool to improve a user's confidence in the trading tool. By dynamically activating and deactivating elements on the trading screen, the trading tool effectively increases a user's confidence in placing a trading order, canceling a trade order, or both, for example, by eliminating or reducing undesirable options. Undesirable options might include those that are risky, contrary to a particular trading strategy, would result in a loss of money, and so on. Such an embodiment can improve the overall speed at which a user places or cancels a trade order by, among other things, effectively increasing the user's overall confidence in the trading tool.
US10424013B2
An online system uses, in various embodiments of the invention, credit report information, loan affordability screening and credit approval and management functionality to facilitate the purchase and finance of products online. The online system may include both sellers of products and lenders that offer financing to buyers seeking to purchase the products. The system may automatically obtain a buyer's credit report information and use that information to determine if the buyer is pre-approved, for example, to obtain financing for a particular product or products. The system also enables use of buyer credit information to identify only those of a seller's products for which the buyer is pre-approved, for example, to finance using one or more loans. The system then enables selection of an identified product or products for purchase, and selection of a loan, for example, for financing of the selected product or products. Credit approval (or pre-approval) may be performed automatically, and along with credit processing, may be performed completely online.
US10423991B1
A network system provides interventions to providers to reduce the likelihood that its users will experience safety incidents. The providers provide service to the users such as transportation. Providers who are safe and have positive interpersonal behavior may be perceived by users as high quality providers. However, other providers may be more prone to cause safety incidents. A machine learning model is trained using features derived from service received by users of the network system. Randomized experiments and trained models predict the effectiveness of various interventions on a provider based on characteristics of the provider and the feedback received for the provider. As interventions are sent to providers, the change in feedback can indicate whether the intervention was effective. By providing messages proactively, the network system may prevent future safety incidents from occurring.
US10423984B2
Particular embodiments receive a request from a user of the social networking system to view notifications. One or more notifications for the user may be assessed based on advertisement criteria for target social actions. Advertisements and corresponding criteria may be provided by a third party. Relevance scores may be determined for at least one of the one or more advertisements with respect to the user. At least one advertisement may be selected for delivery to the user in a notification interface. Advertisement(s) may be selected when corresponding relevance score(s) exceed a pre-determined threshold score. Finally, the selected at least one advertisement may be provided to a notification controller for delivery to the user.
US10423973B2
Provided is a process, including: obtaining geolocations histories of computing devices; assigning different subsets of the location histories to different computing devices in a compute cluster; querying a geographic information system (GIS) with geolocations in the geolocations histories to obtain identifiers of chain retail establishments; determining visit graphs for the individuals; and determining, for a given retail chain and a given individual, a score indicative of an affinity of the given individual to the given retail chain based on the visit graphs for more than 100 individuals including the given individual.
US10423968B2
A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a processor operable to determine whether a correlation exists between first products or services consumed by a subscriber leader and second products or services consumed by a plurality of subscriber followers. The first and second products or services can be distributed by a media service provider over a communication system and can be consumed by way of one or more media processors. The processor can be further operable to identify a plurality of market sector classifications for each of the second products or services consumed, to assess a plurality of values of consumption for the plurality of market sector classifications, and to determine a plurality of marketable values for the subscriber leader. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10423967B2
Certain of the disclosed embodiments present a system and method for providing in-home targeted advertisements to individual consumers. For instance, the disclosed embodiments include an in-home advertising device that enables a user to interact with the in-home advertising device and purchase items with the push of a button. Additionally, in some embodiments, the in-home advertising device may include a built in printer for enabling a user to print an advertised and/or coupon.
US10423965B2
A payment processor or network receives an incoming PAN pursuant to a payment card transaction between a merchant and a customer and translates the PAN into a token having a token value for N digits within a middle portion of the PAN, while preserving a PAN value for M digits within a terminal portion of the PAN. Pursuant to generation of the token, the payment processor or network performs BIN substitution on the PAN to replace the BIN within the PAN with a different BIN. The payment processor or network sends the token downstream for downstream processing of the transaction. Upon completion of downstream processing, the payment processor or network translates the token back into a PAN for any further processing of the transaction upstream.
US10423950B2
The present invention relates to a method and system for activating a first mobile terminal and a second mobile terminal to operate with a server. The method performed by a processor of the mobile device, the method comprising: providing a first authentication data from said first terminal to the server; verifying said first authentication data; providing a first data set and a unique identity by said first terminal to the server; providing a recognition data to said first terminal; providing said recognition data to said second terminal; decoding said recognition data by said second terminal; providing to said server by said second terminal said decoded recognition data and a second identity, verifying by said server said decoded recognition data and providing a second data set to said second terminal; verifying the second data set by said second terminal; and executing an event with respect to result of said verification of the second data set.
US10423927B2
A process-enabled collaboration system integrates the collaboration tools and applications needed for a remote project into a single portal. The collaboration system identifies the type of project to be performed, and generates a custom collaboration site tailored to the specific project. The custom collaboration site provides a convenient and direct relationship between remote members of a project team and the collaborative tools and information they will use.
US10423926B1
A method and a device for tracking an item using a tracking device associated with the item are described. The method, executed in a processor of the tracking device, comprises identifying a location state of the tracking device as one of an indoor location and an outdoor location relative to an indoor facility, based on at least one of satellite based data and connectivity to an access point in the indoor facility. Upon identifying the location state as the indoor location, a wireless transceiver and one or more sensor devices may be activated. The sensor devices may include at least one of a wireless signal strength sensor, a wireless signal connectivity sensor, an inertial sensor, a magnetic field sensor, a barometric sensor, and an ambient light sensor. Further, indoor localization data gathered by the sensor devices may be provided for localization.
US10423910B2
In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods are provided herein useful for monitoring and updating a supply chain record for one or more products. More specifically, a wearable smart device can be utilized by users to access a supply chain for a particular product, which can include shipping information, delivery vehicle information, package information, package condition, source information, destination information, storage information, and so forth. The wearable smart device can include an output device to present the supply chain to the user. The wearable smart device can also include a user input to add, update, or revise various pieces of information in the supply chain.
US10423907B2
Disclosed are examples of systems, apparatus, methods and computer program products for displaying work items according to detected user locations, schedules, and other information. For example, a user's location may be detected by a user device, and work items may be selected for display on the user device. The user may be affiliated with a business organization and the work items may identify business records of the business organization that have associated addresses nearby the user's location and that may be accommodated by the user's schedule. Certain priorities can govern which work items are provided. The work items may be organized as cards of an information deck. The user may interact with and share the cards.
US10423902B2
A processor extracts a first file name from a file path indicating a storage location of a first file used when launching a first job. The processor calculates, for each of a plurality of second jobs that have been executed, a similarity based on a comparison between partial character strings included in the first file name and partial character strings included in a second file name corresponding to a second file that was used when launching the second job. The processor acquires, from history information indicating an actual power consumption of each of the plurality of second jobs and in accordance with the calculated similarity, the actual power consumption of at least one second job and estimates power consumption of the first job based on the acquired actual power consumption.
US10423890B1
A single data record is identified from a first set of data. The first set of data comprises a first plurality of data records, each of the data records including multiple items of data describing an entity. Using pattern recognition, the single data record is processed to identify a group of records from within the first set that have corresponding characteristics equivalent to the single data record. A score for each of the records in the first set is determined. The score describes how similar each of the records in the first set is to the single data record.
US10423887B2
Among the embodiments disclosed herein are quantum circuits (and associated compilation techniques) for performing Shor's quantum algorithm to factor n-bit integers. Example embodiments of the circuits use only 2n+2 qubits. In contrast to previous space-optimized implementations, embodiments of the disclosed technology feature a purely Toffoli-based modular multiplication circuit. Certain other example modular multiplication circuits disclosed herein are based on an (in-place) constant-adder that uses dirty ancilla qubits to achieve a size in (n log n) and a depth in (n).
US10423884B2
Methods and devices for providing and using a technical computing environment (TCE) for receiving a TCE model that, when executed, simulates behavior of a dynamic physical system, and that represents one or more physical components and their respective reliability information in a block diagram model. Applications of the model include automated system-level datasheet and bill of materials generation, component reliability information discovery, fault and stress assertions, and identification of emergent faults.
US10423878B2
Artificial neuron apparatus includes first and second resistive memory cells. The first resistive memory cell is connected in first circuitry having a first input and output. The second resistive memory cell is connected in second circuitry having a second input and output. The first and second circuitry are operable in alternating read and write phases to apply a programming current to their respective memory cells on receipt of excitatory and inhibitory neuron input signals, respectively. During the write phase, resistance of the respective cells is changed in response to successive excitatory and inhibitory neuron input signals. During the read phase, a read current is applied to their respective cells to produce first and second measurement signals, respectively. An output circuit connected to the first and second outputs produces a neuron output signal at a neuron output when a difference between the first and second measurement signals traverses a threshold.
US10423872B2
An object identification device includes a visual indicator, an RFID module, and an NFC assembly. The RFID module includes identification data. The RFID module harvests power from an electromagnetic field and may continuously direct that power to the visual indicator upon reception of a command conveyed by the electromagnetic field. The NFC assembly includes data associated with the identification data included in the RFID module. The NFC assembly may transmit the data included therein to a consumer communication device having NFC capabilities.
US10423868B2
Removing an embedded barcode in an image. A barcode-embedding area in an image is acquired. Pixels in the barcode-embedding area can be changed from a RGB color space to a color space with a luminance component. The luminance values of the pixels can be determined on a dark side or a light side. The luminance values of the pixels on the dark side or the light side can be mapped to luminance values falling into a whole range of a luminance interval. The pixels in the barcode-embedding area can be changed from the color space with the luminance component to the RGB color space.
US10423864B2
A plurality of marks (11) equidistantly provided on both side edge parts (1a) of a long medium (1), a plurality of first indicator holes (12) equidistantly given on at least one of the side edge parts (1a), and a plurality of second indicator holes (13) given on at least one of the side edge parts (1a) on a straight line different from a row of the first indicator holes (12) at spacings shorter than spacings of the first indicator holes (12) are provided, and the second indicator holes (13) are each provided to a side of a trailing-end mark (11b), and each gradually comes closer to a leading-end mark (11a) as the long medium (1) runs toward a trailing end.
US10423854B2
In an image processing apparatus, a controller is configured to perform: acquiring target image data representing a target image including a plurality of pixels; determining a plurality of first candidate character pixels from among the plurality of pixels, determination of the plurality of first candidate character pixels being made for each of the plurality of pixels; setting a plurality of object regions in the target image; determining a plurality of second candidate character pixels from among the plurality of pixels, determination of the plurality of second candidate character pixels being made for each of the plurality of object regions according to a first determination condition; and identifying a character pixel from among the plurality of pixels, the character pixel being included in both the plurality of first candidate character pixels and the plurality of second candidate character pixels.
US10423853B2
An information-processing apparatus includes: a first acquisition unit configured to acquire gradation characteristic information which relates to a gradation characteristic; a second acquisition unit configured to acquire axial characteristic information which relates to an axial characteristic including a distribution, on an axis, of graduations corresponding to brightness-related values related to brightness of input image data; and a generation unit configured to generate, based on the input image data, the gradation characteristic information, and the axial characteristic information, distribution information indicating a distribution of the brightness-related value of the input image data using the axis according to the axial characteristic information.
US10423849B2
The arrangement comprises a filter region (10) filtering electromagnetic radiation and a shielding component (20) inhibiting propagation of electromagnetic radiation. The filter region comprises a central filter region (11) and a separate peripheral filter region (13). The shielding component comprises an aperture (21). The aperture is arranged above the central filter region. The central filter region and the peripheral filter region are optimized for different angles of incidence (α, β) and provided for measurements by individual sensor regions (18, 19).
US10423846B2
A method for identifying a driver change in a motor vehicle with the aid of an interior camera for monitoring the driver, which is characterized in that a driver change is detected when the head of the driver is not detected in the viewing range of the camera. In addition, a corresponding device and a computer program and a machine-readable memory medium are provided.
US10423842B2
A vision system of a vehicle includes at least one camera disposed at a vehicle and having a field of view exterior of the vehicle, and an image processor operable to process image data captured by the camera. Responsive to image processing of captured image data, the image processor determines objects present in the field of view of the camera. The vision system processes additional frames of captured image data to enhance determination of objects of interest. The vision system initially detects an object present in the field of view of the camera and conducts hypotheses filtering and hypotheses merging and, responsive to the hypotheses merging, the system determines that the detected object is an object of interest or determines that the detected object is not an object of interest.
US10423836B2
An information providing system 10 includes an acquiring unit 210 that acquires an image captured by an imaging unit (a camera 100-1, a camera 100-2, and a camera 100-3) via a network, an analyzing unit 220 that analyzes the image to generate at least situation information indicating whether a captured person carries a rain gear, and a display control unit 240 and 320 that displays the situation information on a user terminal.
US10423832B1
The described positional awareness techniques employing visual-inertial sensory data gathering and analysis hardware with reference to specific example implementations implement improvements in the use of sensors, techniques and hardware design that can enable specific embodiments to provide positional awareness to machines with improved speed and accuracy.
US10423831B2
A camera captures an image of a structural bearing, such as a hanger bearing or a rocker bearing. Additionally, an instrument detects a temperature. A computing system determines, based on the temperature, an expected angle of the bearing relative to a base line. The computing system also determines an actual angle of the bearing relative to the base line. The computing system superimposes a first line on the image, the first line indicating the expected angle. Furthermore, the computing system superimposes a second line on the image, the second line indicating the actual angle.
US10423820B2
The subject matter of the present disclosure generally relates to techniques for image analysis. In certain embodiments, various morphological or intensity-based features as well as different thresholding approaches may be used to segment the subpopulation of interest and classify object in the images.
US10423813B2
A contact image sensor having an illumination source; a first SBG array device; a transmission grating; a second SBG array device; a waveguiding layer including a multiplicity of waveguide cores separated by cladding material; an upper clad layer; and a platen. The sensor further includes: an input element for coupling light from the illumination source into the first SBG array; a coupling element for coupling light out of the cores into output optical paths coupled to a detector having at least one photosensitive element.
US10423811B2
In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods are provided herein useful to monitoring a plurality of RFID tags in a remote location. In some embodiments, a garment for monitoring a plurality of RFID tags in a remote location comprises a garment body, an RFID reader attached to the garment body, the RFID reader configured to read the plurality of RFID tags in the remote location, an antenna attached to the garment body, and a control circuit attached to the garment and configured to receive, from the RFID reader, one or more identifiers, wherein the one or more identifiers are associated with the plurality of RFID tags, generate, based on the one or more identifiers, emulated identifiers, determine that the garment is within a designated area separate from the remote location, and in response to determining that the garment is within the designated area, cause the emulated identifiers to be transmitted.
US10423805B2
A private key of a public-private key pair with a corresponding identity is written to an integrated circuit including a processor, a non-volatile memory, and a cryptographic engine coupled to the processor and the non-volatile memory. The private key is written to the non-volatile memory. The integrated circuit is implemented in complementary metal-oxide semiconductor 14 nm or smaller technology. The integrated circuit is permanently modified, subsequent to the writing, such that further writing to the non-volatile memory is disabled and such that the private key can be read only by the cryptographic engine and not off-chip. Corresponding integrated circuits and wafers are also disclosed.
US10423801B2
Computer systems and methods are provided for distributing a data bookmark. An interface of a device that is secured in a private network receives a scope definition. The scope definition includes information that defines a scope of access to data that corresponds to data stored by one or more databases that are secured in the private network. A pointer is generated for the data bookmark. The data bookmark is generated using the pointer and the scope definition. A device that is secured in the private network stores the generated data bookmark. Information about the data bookmark, including the pointer for the data bookmark, is transmitted to at least one remote device at a remote location that is outside of the private network.
US10423797B2
Managing access to confidential content is provided. An indication of an identity of a teleconference participant is received via a voice communication headset that includes a skull conduction speaker and microphone. A database is analyzed to identify confidential information the teleconference participant is not authorized to hear. Voice communication content is provided in real time to the teleconference participant. The identified confidential information the teleconference participant is not authorized to hear is muted in the voice communication content.
US10423791B2
A device runs a hypervisor and a virtual machine. The virtual machine includes a virtual security module, which can be a virtual trusted platform module (TPM). The virtual security module for the virtual machine is encrypted, and in order for the hypervisor to run the virtual machine the virtual security module is decrypted using a security module key. If a host guardian service is accessible, then the hypervisor obtains the key to decrypt the virtual security module from the host guardian service. However, if the host guardian service is inaccessible, then the hypervisor uses a key securely stored in a key cache of the device to decrypt the virtual security module. In one or more embodiments, the hypervisor can obtain the key from the key cache only if a health certificate indicating that the host guardian service trusts the device has been previously obtained from the host guardian service.
US10423774B1
Disclosed are systems and methods for establishing secure communication between virtual machines, and, more particularly, to a system and method for establishing secure communication channels between two or more homogenous virtual machines. An exemplary method includes generating, by a first virtual machine, an encryption key compatible with a symmetric encryption algorithm and storing the encryption key in a memory of the first virtual machine; generating a second virtual machine by performing a virtual machine forking operation on the first virtual machine, wherein a memory of the generated second virtual machine contains the encryption key; receiving, by one of the at least two virtual machines, a communication transmitted by another of the at least two virtual machines, wherein the communication comprises data encrypted using the encryption key; and decrypting the data, by the recipient virtual machine, using the encryption key.
US10423769B2
The purpose of the present invention is to provide a portable terminal and an application software start-up system whereby the application software that is started up is limited depending on the state of a user, thereby providing an improved ease of use. For this purpose, an application software start-up method for an information processing device comprises: performing identity authentication based on static biological information; determining the state of the user by comparing dynamic biological information acquired from the body of the user with previously measured dynamic biological information; and limiting the application software that is started up in accordance with the determined state of the user and on the basis of a permission level that is set in advance for each application software item.
US10423768B2
A computing device includes a housing, a processor, memory, a human interface device (i.e., a keyboard or a trackpad), and a biometric sensor integrated into the housing. The biometric sensor is configured for capturing biometric data (i.e., heartbeat data or a vein scan) from one or more of hands of a user of the device while the user's fingers are interacting with the human interface device. The memory stores executable instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the computing device to: compare the captured biometric data to one or more records of biometric data associated with the user; determine, based on the comparison, whether the captured biometric data satisfies a matching condition with the one or more records of biometric data; and authenticate the user, when the captured biometric data satisfies the matching condition.
US10423764B2
Systems, methods, software, and apparatus are described for facilitating the distribution and management of fragmented content. In one embodiment, a packager packages content into fragments and generates a manifest including policies and metadata associated with the content. A downloader obtains the manifest, and uses it to obtain the content from one or more uploaders. For example, a downloader might forward a search request to one or more trackers, which, in turn, are operable to locate one or more uploaders that can meet the request, subject to any relevant policy limitations. The uploaders forward fragments to the downloader, subject to any relevant policy. The downloader assembles the content from the fragments. The operations and interactions of the entities can be subject to policy limitations associated with the fragments, the content as a whole, or the like.
US10423762B2
A method for detecting digital content misuse can include clustering a set of data points into a set of known violator dusters; determining, based on the set of known violator clusters, that a first user account is potentially a digital content violator, the first user account being represented by a first data point that is not included in the first set of data points, and the first data point having been determined based on usage signal data describing digital content usage association with the first user account; and in response to determining that the first user account is potentially a digital content violator, executing a remedial action with respect to the first user account.
US10423761B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for linking a first electronic data set to a second set of data fields in a second electronic data set. Automatically identifying a prescribing physician identifier based on the linked first and second electronic data sets. Determining a relationship between a physician associated with the prescribing physician identifier and at least one of the approved entities based on comparing the prescribing physician identifier and identifiers of the one or more approved entities to a fourth set of data fields from a fourth electronic data set. Automatically generating an electronic notification indicating that a product sold by the merchant is eligible for the discount in response to determining a relationship between a physician and the at least one of the approved entities.
US10423760B2
A wearable scribing system includes a camera and a microphone which communicate information to a remote system via a receiver/transmitter device. A scribe at the remote system inputs the information into an electronic health record. The wearable scribing system enables direct physician to physician communication.
US10423758B2
A processor is configured to: acquire clinical information containing cases each indicating a disease of a patient and a medical care event performed on the patient; acquire literature information containing literature indicating a name of the disease and a word indicating the medical care event; calculate a frequency of one case indicating a combination of a plurality of diseases based on the clinical information; analyze the literature information using each of the name of the disease and the word indicating the medical care event; acquire a criterion for determining a disease for which the medical care event has been performed; acquire first relevance information indicating whether the medical care event has been performed for the disease based on the analysis result, the calculated frequency and the acquired criterion; and generate medical information indicating a relationship between the medical care event and the disease based on the first relevance information.
US10423752B2
Embodiments of the invention include methods, systems, and computer program products for checking metal coverage in a laminate structure. Aspects of the invention include receiving, by a processor, metal shadowing rules and a semiconductor package design comprising a plurality of laminate layers, a plurality of metal power shapes, and a plurality of signal lines. Each metal power shape is mapped to one or more cells in a two-dimensional array. The processor determines, for each signal line in the semiconductor package design, whether the metal power shapes satisfy the metal shadowing rules. The processor displays a list of signal lines that do not satisfy the metal shadowing rules.
US10423743B2
A method for optimizing a circuit design includes computing clock latency estimates for a set of sequential circuit elements, modifying the clock latency estimates based on relative optimizability of (1) a set of input data paths that are electrically coupled to one or more inputs of the sequential circuit element and (2) a set of output data paths that are electrically coupled to one or more outputs of the sequential circuit element, and optimizing the circuit design based on the modified clock latencies.
US10423738B1
Systems and methods are provided for analyzing an electromagnetic field in an original domain. An original domain is decomposed into one or more finite-element-boundary-integral (FEBI) regions and one or more integral-equation (IE) regions. A model is determined for an electromagnetic field in the one or more FEBI regions and the one or more IE regions. An initial block system matrix for the original domain is generated based at least in part on the model. The initial block system matrix includes a first diagonal block corresponding to the one or more FEBI regions and a second diagonal block corresponding to the one or more IE regions. A replacement matrix is generated based at least in part on a physical optics (PO) method. A final block system matrix is generated by replacing the second diagonal block in the initial block system matrix with the replacement matrix.
US10423730B2
To deal with lightweight and other gear modification in contact modeling, the compliance of the gear is refined for the simulation. The compliance of the teeth of the gear due to contact is separated into bulk and local contact compliance. The bulk compliance accounts for the web variation and is pre-calculated to reduce processing time during simulation. The local compliance is treated quasi-statically to limit time integration during the simulation. One or more of other possible features are included in the simulation, such as calculating compliance resulting from contact of one gear with multiple objects instead of just one pair of gears, neglecting compliance of a stiff gears, accounting for coupling between successive teeth pairs without bulk compliance calculation in the simulation, accounting for gear blank geometry, accounting for a dynamic response of the gear flexibility by assuming that only a part of the gear bulk compliance responds quasi-statically, and modeling non-wheel like shapes for the gear.
US10423727B1
Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for processing electronic information indicative of natural language. An example method includes receiving first electronic information indicative of a sequence of words provided by a user and identifying, based on the first electronic information, a first word and a first natural language. The example method further includes receiving second electronic information indicative of an exogenous event and identifying, based on the second electronic information, the exogenous event. The example method further includes generating one or more natural language attribute data sets based on the identified first word, first language, and exogenous event. The example method further includes generating a natural language transliteration data set based on the one or more natural language attribute data sets. Subsequently, the example method includes generating, based on the natural language transliteration data set, a translation of the first word in a second natural language.
US10423726B2
A system, computer program product, and method are provided to automate a framework for knowledge graph based persistence of data, and to resolve temporal changes and uncertainties in the knowledge graph. Natural language understanding, together with one or more machine learning models (MLMs), is used to extract data from unstructured information, including entities and entity relationships. The extracted data is populated into a knowledge graph. As the KG is subject to change, the KG is used to create new and retrain existing machine learning models (MLMs). Weighting is applied to the populated data in the form of veracity value. Blockchain technology is applied to the populated data to ensure reliability of the data and to provide auditability to assess changes to the data.
US10423721B2
A computer program product, for automatically editing a medical record transcription, resides on a computer-readable medium and includes computer-readable instructions for causing a computer to obtain a first medical transcription of a dictation, the dictation being from medical personnel and concerning a patient, analyze the first medical transcription for presence of a first trigger phrase associated with a first standard text block, determine that the first trigger phrase is present in the first medical transcription if an actual phrase in the first medical transcription corresponds with the first trigger phrase, and insert the first standard text block into the first medical transcription.
US10423697B2
A computerized system including a graphical interface is provided for storing, retrieving, and displaying individual sentences or subunits of a data source as stand-alone entities, independent of how they are ordered within the source document. The graphical user interface provides an interactive display that allows a user to dynamically develop his or her own context for displayed document subunits, such as sentences, by means of incremental displays of surrounding material or of material related by other relations or criteria, so that relevant sentences or subunits from a single source or different sources can be retrieved, aggregated, compared, and displayed along with context specifically tailored for each user-relevant sentence or subunit as appropriate.
US10423691B1
A user accessing content via a Web browser or other application can be provided with an option to deep link (or automatically redirected) into an identified application in order to access corresponding content via the identified application. The deep link can be determined using a set of rules and filters to ensure that the appropriate link is determined and that the option to deep link is only provided in accordance with user preferences and behaviors, or any restrictions on the display of the content. If the identified application is not installed on the device, the user can be automatically redirected to an application store or other source from which the application can be obtained.
US10423690B2
There is disclosed a method and a system for classifying a web resource. The method comprises retrieving data associated with a plurality of browser logs of browser applications. The browser logs include information about past browsing activities: an identifier of a given web resource associated with an access attempt, an indication of a parent process that initiated the access attempt, and a first launch parameter. In response to (i) the first launch parameter being indicative of the access attempt being executed as part of the first launch of the browser application and (ii) the parent process not being listed in a parent process white list, analyzing the plurality of past search session log of a search engine server to determine a historical search parameter associated with the given web resource. Based on the analysis of the historical search parameter, adding the given web resource to a blacklist of web resources.
US10423685B2
A method of generating a question data set from a knowledge base including a plurality of statements includes generating at least one question template based on a structure of selected statements of the plurality of statements, generating a seed question for each selected statement based on the at least one question template with a processor, generating at least one first extension question with a search engine by processing each of the seed questions through the search engine, and storing at least one of the at least one first extension questions and the seed questions in a memory as the question data set.
US10423683B2
Computer systems, devices, and associated methods of providing personalized content suggestion are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a method performed by a search engine includes receiving an indication to perform a search for content items from a member. In response to the received indication, the search engine generates a list of content items represented as nodes in an interaction graph. The nodes uniquely correspond to the member from whom the indication to perform the search is received. In the nodes, at least one is indirectly connected to a node representing the member via at least one other node in the interaction graph.
US10423677B2
A method includes receiving a search query containing one or more query terms from a remote device, determining one or more entity types implicated by the search query based on the one or more query terms, and determining an entity score indicating a likelihood that the search query implicates the entity type. The method also includes identifying one or more index clusters from index clusters to search based on the one or more entity types implicated by the search query, generating a query execution plan based on the entity scores, and performing a consumer driven search on the identified index clusters based on a set of query terms corresponding to the one or more query terms and in accordance with the query execution plan to identify a delivery consideration set of records. The method also includes generating delivery search results based on the delivery consideration set of records.
US10423665B2
The present teaching relates to generating a conversational agent. In one example, a plurality of input utterances may be received from a developer. A paraphrase model is obtained. The paraphrase model is generated based on machine translation. For each of the plurality of input utterances, one or more paraphrases of the input utterance are generated based on the paraphrase model. For each of the plurality of input utterances, at least one of the one or more paraphrases is selected based on an instruction from the developer to generate selected paraphrases. The conversational agent is generated based on the plurality of input utterances and the selected paraphrases.
US10423661B2
Methods, systems, and media for providing a media consumption history annotated with social context. In some embodiments, the method comprises: receiving, from a first user device that is associated with a sharing user, a request to share a video item; providing an address associated with the video item; receiving a request, associated with the address, to play the video item; determining, based on the address, that the request to play the video item is associated with the request to share the video item; and causing, via a user interface, a media consumption history to be presented that includes an indication that the video item was shared by the sharing user.
US10423653B2
A computing system includes a processor system with at least one processing unit. The processor system is configured to receive image data of a template platform that is associated with fabricating a product. The processor system is configured to obtain barcode data associated with the image data. The processor system is configured to obtain customized data from the image data based on the barcode data. The customized data includes shape data corresponding to a structural attribute of the product. The processor system is configured to obtain template data of the product based on the barcode data. The template data includes product design data. The processor system is configured to provide fabrication data for a digital fabrication system to create the product in accordance with at least the customized data and the product design data. The processor system is configured to transmit the fabrication data to at least one fabrication tool of the digital fabrication system to create the product.
US10423652B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for extending and reinforcing a knowledge graph using wiki-like web pages as a source of information. A web crawler parse a wiki-like source and obtain a topic entity from the source. Relationships between the topic entity and sub-topics within the source are identified and a graph is built with the topic and relationships to sub-topics. A candidate topic in the knowledge graph is identified, and a sub-graph of the knowledge graph is either identified or generated. The knowledge sub-graph contains the candidate topic and relationships to sub-topics. A similarity is computed between the source graph and the knowledge sub-graph. If the two graphs are sufficiently similar, then the source topic graph is merged with the knowledge graph.
US10423639B1
Approaches for preserving customizations made to a data management system. Metadata that identifies a mapping between data fields of one or more data source schemas to columns of one or more data tier schemas is maintained. Each of the one or more data tier schemas stores data retrieved from the one or more data source schemas. Values from the metadata are read to dynamically generate software processes. The software processes may update one or more existing ETL processes to reflect an updated state of the one or more data tier schemas and may generate any new ETL processes required to retrieve data stored in the one or more data source schemas and load the retrieved data into the one or more data tier schemas. Customizations made to portions the data management system are preserved in an automated fashion when new versions of system components are deployed.
US10423623B2
A system includes a stored table comprising a plurality of rows and at least one column, each of the plurality of rows associated with a node of a hierarchy, and one of the at least one columns implicity representing a position of a row's associated node within the hierarchy, wherein a Structured Query Language query is received and, response to the query, one or more values of the one of the at least one columns are determined and one or more properties of the hierarchy are determined based on the one or more values.
US10423621B2
Systems and methods of voice activated thread management in a voice activated data packet based environment are provided. A natural language processor (“NLP”) component can receive and parse data packets comprising a first input audio signal to identify a first request and a first trigger keyword. A direct action application programming interface (“API”) can generate a first action data structure with a parameter defining a first action. The NLP component can receive and parse a second input audio signal to identify a second request and a second trigger keyword, and can generate a second action data structure with a parameter defining a second action. A pooling component can generate the first and second action data structures into a pooled data structure, and can transmit the pooled data structure to a service provider computing device to cause it device to perform an operation defined by the pooled data structure.
US10423617B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for remote query optimization in multi data sources. The method includes receiving a database query from a remote source requesting data-points from multiple data sources. The method further includes receiving and analyzing the data-points, creating a data set based on the analysis, and transmitting the data set to the remote source.
US10423616B2
An example technique includes assigning partitions of a dataset of multidimensional points to a plurality of local memory nodes of a multicore machine and using the local memory nodes for a search query to determine similarity matches in the dataset for a given multidimensional point. The using includes parallel searching with the local memory nodes in the assigned partitions to identify candidate similarity matches to the given multidimensional point using indexes derived from the multidimensional points, the parallel searching for each node progressing through a sequence of search distances and providing an ongoing search result for each search distance from the given multidimensional point and regulating an extent of the parallel searching based on the ongoing search results.
US10423612B2
Methods, systems, and computer-readable media are disclosed to generate an interface for a web service and to query the web service. A method includes generating a user interface associated with a web service. The user interface includes one or more input parameter options associated with the web service. The user interface is generated based on a service specification and one or more series specifications associated with the service specification. User input is received via the user interface, where the user input includes a selection of at least one of the one or more input parameter options. A query of the web service is generated based on the user input, and the query reflects at least one selected input parameter option.
US10423607B2
Provided is a modulo scheduling method. The modulo scheduling method includes conducting a search, based on a data dependency graph of a loop, for a recurrence in which a sum of iteration distances between command nodes is less than a predetermined critical value; and determining a processing order of the recurrence.
US10423601B2
In one respect, there is provided a method. The method can include identifying, based on a plurality of queries executed at a distributed database, a disjoint table set. The identifying of the disjoint table set can include: identifying a first table that is used in executing a first query; identifying a second query that also uses the first table used in executing the first query; identifying a second table that is used in executing the second query but not in executing the first query; and including, in the disjoint table set, the first table and the second table. The method can further include allocating, based on the disjoint table set, a storage and/or management of the disjoint table set such that subsets of the disjoint table set are stored at and/or managed by different nodes in the distributed database system. Related methods and articles of manufacture are also disclosed.
US10423596B2
A Huffman cache is used to hold Huffman dictionaries that are changeable for dynamically selecting literal frequencies that are similar, wherein the Huffman cache is a data storage cache.
US10423595B2
Embodiments are directed towards a method for searching data. The method comprises providing an inverted index that comprises at least one record, wherein the at least one record comprises at least one field name and a corresponding at least one field value. The at least one field name and corresponding value are extracted from time-stamped searchable events that are stored in a field searchable datastore and comprise portions of raw data. The at least one record further comprises a posting value that identifies a location in the field searchable datastore where an event associated with the at least one record is stored. The method further comprises receiving an incoming search query that references a field name and evaluating the incoming search query. Furthermore, responsive to the evaluating, the method comprises determining results for the incoming search query using both of the field searchable datastore and the inverted index.
US10423594B2
Methods, systems and computer readable storage medium for updating a search engine (SE) version of a repository, the SE version of the repository maintained by a search engine system and corresponding to an SCM version of the repository maintained by an SCM system.
US10423592B2
An existing use case is associated with a program code. The program code is executed when a portion of the existing use case is executed. The program code is analyzed to identify a reference made by at least one of an input and an output of the program code, referencing an existing data model, which participates in a migration activity and results in a new data model. The reference is modified according to a data mapping to form a modified reference, the data mapping describing a manner of changing a representation of data from a representation in the existing data model to a representation in the new data model, the modified reference referencing the representation of the data in the new data model. The existing use case is modified to use the modified reference relative to the program code, the modifying resulting in a migrated use case.
US10423585B2
The embodiments of disclosure disclose a method for differential upgrading of a variable-partition system, which includes the following steps that: partition information is acquired from a differential upgrade package; data backup is performed to data of old partitions; partition re-division is performed on the old partitions to obtain new partitions according to the partition information, and the new partitions are formatted; the backed-up data is recovered into the new partitions; and differential upgrading is performed of the variable-partition system by virtue of the differential upgrade package. The embodiments of the disclosure also disclose a device for differential upgrading of the variable-partition system. The embodiments of the disclosure further disclose a method for making a differential upgrade package with partition information. The embodiments of the disclosure further disclose a device for making a differential upgrade package with partition information. By the embodiments of the disclosure, the problem in the related art that differential upgrading cannot be implemented when partition information of a target version and the partition information of an original version are varied is effectively solved.
US10423581B1
A data storage system operates to shrink an intermediate logical volume and lower file system upon deletion of a first upper data unit of an upper file system without moving file data on the physical storage devices. Initially, a second upper data unit of the upper file system is identified that is mapped to an end location of the intermediate logical volume. Within the lower file system, a non-end location of the volume file is re-mapped to a first location on the physical storage devices where the data of the end location of the intermediate logical volume is stored. Within the upper file system, the second upper data unit is re-mapped to the non-end location of the intermediate logical volume. Subsequently, the intermediate volume is truncated by removing the portion at the non-end location.
US10423580B2
A method and system for storage of an aggregation file and method and system for compression of the same. The method for compressing an aggregation file includes: acquiring the aggregation file to be compressed; copying remaining files in the acquired aggregation file into a new aggregation file based on metadata of a deleted object stored in a deletion file corresponding to the acquired aggregation file; and removing the acquired aggregation file. The present invention also provides a system for compressing an aggregation file and a method and system for storing an aggregation file.
US10423579B2
Aspects of the present invention include a method, system and computer program product for navigating through a computer file and visualizing portions of the navigated file. The method includes a processor selecting a file to provide for navigation of its contents; determining to provide for navigation of the file as structured record segments; providing for navigation of the file as structured record segments; and displaying, by the processor, the structured record segments during navigation of the file. The method also includes the processor determining, by the processor, to provide for navigation of the file as spanned structured records; and displaying, by the processor, the spanned structured records during navigation of the file.
US10423573B1
A technique for data sharing among multiple filers that share a volume in a private or public cloud object store is implemented. In this approach, a mechanism is provided to enable a local filer to determine whether other filers that are sharing the volume have a consistent view of new data being written to the cloud object store by the local filer. The begins by associating together a collection of one or more files in a “push class.” On demand, a push operation for the push class is initiated on the local filer. Preferably, the push is managed according to one or more push criteria associated with the push class. Typically, the push operation pushes file data and metadata associated with the one or more files of the push class in respective phases, with the file data being pushed to the cloud during a first phase and the metadata associated with that file data being pushed during a second phase that follows the first phase. After the push operation completes, a determination is made whether the new version of the file is available at one or more other filers that share the volume.
US10423568B2
A method and system for transferring NVMe data over a network comprises using a discrete buffer memory device to generate a write command from an NVMe-over-RDMA write command request, store the user data from a client host of the network, and send an interrupt signal to a NVMe storage device of the network. The NVMe storage device retrieves the write command from the discrete buffer memory device and performs a direct memory access transfer of the stored user data from the discrete buffer memory device to the NVMe storage device. The discrete buffer memory device comprises a controller and a random access memory for generating commands and storing the commands in a submission queue of the random access memory. The controller can clear commands from the submission queue based on completion commands received in a completion queue of the random access memory.
US10423561B2
An example computing device includes a module interface to communicate with a peripheral device. The computing device also includes a hot swapping prediction circuit to detect a physical movement of the computing device and to generate a hot swapping prediction signal based on the detected physical movement. The computing device further includes a processor coupled to the hot swapping circuit. The processor is to, in response to detecting the hot swapping prediction signal from the hot swapping circuit, change a parameter of a peripheral device detection operation to be executed by an operating system of the computing device.
US10423560B2
A hot plug method, a host controller, a host, and a PCIe bridge device. The method includes: generating, by a host controller, a first notification packet, where the first notification packet includes hot plug interruption information, and the hot plug interruption information indicates that a first PCIe device is to be hot-plugged; sending, by the host controller, the first notification packet to a host, so that the host performs, according to the first notification packet, a hot plug operation corresponding to the PCIe device; and receiving, by the host controller, a second notification packet sent by the host, and sending the second notification packet to a user equipment controller, to facilitate the user equipment controller to instruct a user to insert or remove the PCIe device, where the second notification packet is for indicating that the hot plug operation corresponding to the PCIe device is completed.
US10423551B2
Systems, methods, and apparatus for data communication are provided. A method performed by a device operating as a bus master may include transmitting a first pulse on a first wire of a multi-wire interface, transmitting a second pulse on a second wire of the multi-wire interface while the first pulse is present on the first wire of the multi-wire interface, and initiating a low-latency mode of communication immediately after termination of the first pulse. The second pulse may be shorter in duration than the first pulse.
US10423547B2
Systems, methods, apparatuses, and software for data storage systems are provided herein. In one example, a data storage platform includes data storage assemblies each comprising one or more storage drives that service data storage operations over associated storage interfaces. A control processor is coupled to ones of the data storage assemblies over at least two types of sideband communication interfaces different than the storage interfaces of the storage drives. During an initialization process for the one or more storage drives, the control processor configured to transfer initialization data to each of the data storage assemblies over a first type of sideband communication interface and transfer further initialization data to at least one of the data storage assemblies over a second type of sideband communication interface when the at least one of the data storage assemblies does not respond to the initialization data over the first type of sideband communication interface.
US10423546B2
A method for coupling transactions with a configurable ordering controller in a computer system. The method comprises sending, by a coupling device, first data packets with an unordered attribute being set to an ordering controller. The method further comprises sending, by the coupling device, second data packets with requested ordering to the ordering controller, back-to-back after the first data packets, without waiting until all of the first data packets are completed. The method further comprises sending, by the ordering controller, the first data packets to a memory subsystem in a relaxed ordering mode, wherein the ordering controller sends the first data packets to the memory subsystem in an arbitrary order, and wherein the ordering controller sends the second data packets to the memory subsystem after sending all of the first data packets to the memory subsystem.
US10423532B2
Systems and methods for data storage management technology that enables a guest module of a virtual machine to indicate an order in which a host module should write data from physical memory to a secondary storage. An example method may comprise: identifying, by a processing device executing a host module, a plurality of modifications to direct access excited (DAX) memory made by a plurality of direct access operations executed by a guest module of a virtual machine; determining, by the host module, an order of the plurality of modifications to DAX memory; receiving, by the host module, a synchronization request from the guest module; and responsive to the synchronization request, copying, by the host module, data from the DAX memory to a secondary storage in view of the order of the plurality of modifications.
US10423531B2
Subject matter disclosed herein relates to techniques to read memory in a continuous fashion.
US10423527B2
An object manager can manage memory in a mobile device to provide more effective use of resources and a better user experience. The object manager can store objects in different types of memory (e.g., ashmem or native memory) instead of the JAVA heap. When storing data objects in different types of memory, the system can use reference counting to manage objects. The object manager can also coordinate retrieval and display of images to further improve a user experience by progressively displaying images or asynchronously retrieving images from a network. The object manager can, for example, display a low resolution image first while a second higher resolution image is retrieved from a network and that image is progressively displayed. Also, the object manager can retrieve objects from local memory, a cache, or the network sequentially or in parallel.
US10423508B2
One embodiment facilitates a high-priority read. During operation, the system receives, by a controller module of a storage device, a first request to write first data to a non-volatile memory of the storage device. The system commences a write operation to write the first data to the non-volatile memory. In response to detecting a second request to read second data from the non-volatile memory, the system: suspends the write operation; reads the second data from the non-volatile memory; and resumes the suspended write operation.
US10423501B2
The present disclosure discloses a metadata recovery method and apparatus, the method includes: searching for a target node, where the target node has been damaged or index information recorded in the target node has been lost; and recovering the index information in the target node according to index information recorded in a related node, where the related node includes a parent node and a child node that are of the target node and an adjacent node belonging to a same layer as the node, and the index information includes brother index information pointing to the adjacent node belonging to the same layer as the node, parent index information pointing to the parent node of the node, and child index information pointing to the child node of the node. The present disclosure is mainly applied to a process of virtual data recovery.
US10423497B2
A method includes generating an entry for inclusion in a configuration queue regarding a configuration submission regarding DSN managed by a managing unit that uses a manager's configuration database stored in a first database. The method further includes updating a first version of the configuration queue stored in first database and a second version of the configuration queue stored in a manager's vault to include the entry. When the manager's configuration database requires restoring, the method further includes copying a backup version of the manager's configuration database to the first database to create an initially restored manager's configuration database and establishing an association between the managing unit and the initially restored manager's configuration database. When associated, the method further includes accessing the second version, identifying configuration changes not included in the initially restored manager's configuration database, and updating the initially restored manager's configuration database to include the identified configuration changes.
US10423495B1
A method for grouping backup images in deduplication groups is described. In one embodiment, the method includes identifying a new backup image, obtaining metadata from one or more nodes in the new backup image, and comparing the metadata from the one or more nodes in the new backup image with information from one or more nodes in a backup image from a first deduplication group. Each of the one or more nodes include at least in part a file or a directory. The first deduplication group is one group from a plurality of deduplication groups.
