US10424985B2
The invention relates to a method for producing a rotor and/or a stator of a dynamoelectric rotary machine by means of the following steps: —producing pre-formed coils from an integral electrically conductive material or pre-insulated or coated electrically conductive wires, —fixing spacers to the pre-formed coil at predefinable intervals, —inserting the pre-formed coil, which is provided with spacers, into slots in a laminated core of a stator or rotor, —making contact with the individual pre-formed coils to form groups of coils and forming a winding system of a rotor and/or stator in accordance with a predefined circuit plan, —insulating the pre-formed coils or the winding system in the slots by complete encapsulation, in particular by complete vacuum encapsulation.
US10424983B2
A bus bar extended end portion of a bus bar that projects from a main body of a bus bar module and a coil conductor extended end portion extend in the same direction, and are disposed adjacent to each other. The respective distal ends of the coil conductor extended end portion and the bus bar extended end portion are welded to each other. The coil conductor extended end portion and the bus bar extended end portion are also fixed to each other at a position away from the weld.
US10424978B2
To provide a rotating electrical machine which can be easily configured at low lost, and which can highly accurately maintain an axial position (position in a thrust direction) of a rotating shaft in a prearranged position, and a machine tool, to which the rotating electrical machine is applied. A rotating electrical machine includes: a stator including a stator core; and a rotor supported on a rotating shaft supported by way of a non-contact bearing. When a section, in which a torque generation member exists in an axial direction of the rotating electrical machine, is defined as a torque generation section, a first end and a second end of the stator core in the axial direction extend outwards in the axial direction from a first end and a second end of the torque generation section at the rotor side in the axial direction. According to one aspect of the present invention, a length of the first end and the second end of the stator core extending outwards in the axial direction, from the first end and the second end of the torque generation section at the rotor side in the axial direction, is longer than a magnetic gap length of the rotating electrical machine.
US10424974B2
Contextually Networked Autonomous Self-Steering Laser Beam is a technique to transfer wireless energy through an ambient intelligence based environment-safe interference-free network of actively self-steering laser beams. CNSLB comprises of (i) a network of sensors in power source, power-scavenging devices and environment to sense/track the real-time change in environmental objects and users with relative distance, orientation and position between the Line of Sight of power source and scavenging device, (ii) a network of power source with laser beam generating and self-steering mechanism, (iii) a photo voltaic cell integrated in scavenger to receive power, (iV) a processing unit on power source, scavenging device and environment that computes the laser beam's steering angle, intensity, selects right power source based on environmental condition and photovoltaic cell on power scavenging device's location, position and orientation (v) a communication system for sharing information (vi) may utilize a passive power source like reflectors to relay the power from power source to scavenging device.
US10424971B2
Systems and methods are described for receiving wireless power and providing wired power. In some embodiments, a wirelessly chargeable battery apparatus comprises a housing and one or more antennas situated within the housing. The antennas are configured to receive wireless radio frequency (RF) power from a wireless charging system. One or more electronic circuit boards (PCBs) situated within the housing are included, and the one or more electronic circuit boards are configured to convert the received wireless RF power to direct current (DC) power. The apparatus also comprises one or more batteries configured to store the DC power and a port configured to couple with a cable external to the housing and to provide stored DC power from the one or more batteries to the cable.
US10424969B2
An electrically conductive material configured having at least one opening of various unlimited geometries extending through its thickness is provided. The opening is designed to modify eddy currents that form within the surface of the material from interaction with magnetic fields that allow for wireless energy transfer therethrough. The opening may be configured as a cut-out, a slit or combination thereof that extends through the thickness of the electrically conductive material. The electrically conductive material is configured with the cut-out and/or slit pattern positioned adjacent to an antenna configured to receive or transmit electrical energy wirelessly through near-field magnetic coupling (NFMC). A magnetic field shielding material, such as a ferrite, may also be positioned adjacent to the antenna. Such magnetic shielding materials may be used to strategically block eddy currents from electrical components and circuitry located within a device.
US10424960B2
The present disclosure provides a charging control method, a charging control device, and a charging cable. The charging control method can be performed in a charging cable through which a power adapter can perform charging on an electronic equipment, and includes: determining temperature of a charging interface, the charging interface includes at least one of the following interfaces: an interface of the power adapter used for electrical connection with the charging cable, an interface of the charging cable used for electrical connection with the power adapter, an interface of the charging cable used for electrical connection with the electronic equipment, and an interface of the electronic equipment used for electrical connection with the charging cable, and controlling charging for the electronic equipment according to the temperature of the charging interface.
US10424958B2
A charging method and an apparatus are provided. The charging method includes: constant-current charging the rechargeable battery until a voltage of the rechargeable battery reaches a first predetermined voltage; and charging the rechargeable battery with a gradually decreasing charging voltage until a charging process is completed. In this way, the capacity of a battery after being fully charged can be further increased while improving the charging speed.
US10424954B2
A power adaptor (100) includes a power conversion unit (110) and a power line (121). The power conversion unit (110) charges a terminal (200) via the power line (121). The power adaptor (100) further includes a communication unit (130) and a data line (122). When the power adaptor (100) is coupled to the terminal (200), the communication unit (130) communicates with the terminal (200) via the data line (122). The power adaptor (100) charges the terminal (200) still using the power line (121). Furthermore, when the power adaptor (100) is coupled to the terminal (200), the power adaptor (100) communicates with the terminal via the data line (122). Compared with the method of data and power time-division multiplexing the power line, the heating phenomenon of the power line caused by an excessively high load of a signal isolation unit can be effectively avoided.
US10424943B2
A mobile power source includes a housing, a connecting plate, a battery assembly, and a circuit board. The housing includes a hollow middle housing having openings at an upper end and a lower end thereof, and an upper cover and a lower cover latched to the openings at the upper end and the lower end, respectively. The middle housing is provided with a plurality of pillars spaced along a vertical direction at an inner side wall thereof. The connecting plate abuts against the support surface and is fixed to the plurality of pillars. The battery assembly is disposed in the housing, which includes a battery pack, and an upper support member and a lower support member disposed at an upper end and a lower end of the battery pack, respectively. The circuit board is disposed on the upper support member.
US10424942B2
A wireless power transfer system comprises: a transmitter comprising a transmit electrode set configured to transfer power via resonant electric field coupling; and a receiver comprising a receive electrode set configured to extract the transferred power via resonant electric field coupling, wherein the electrodes of at least one of the transmit and receive electrode sets are concentric.
US10424929B2
Active impedance-injection module enabled for distributed power flow control of high-voltage (HV) transmission lines is disclosed. The module uses transformers with multi-turn primary windings, series-connected to high-voltage power lines, to dynamically control power flow on those power lines. The insertion of the transformer multi-turn primary is by cutting the line and splicing the two ends of the winding to the ends of the cut high-voltage transmission line. The secondary winding of the transformer is connected to a control circuit and a converter/inverter circuit that is able to generate inductive and capacitive impedance based on the status of the transmission line. The module operates by extracting power from the HV transmission line with the module floating at the HV transmission-line potential. High-voltage insulators are typically used to suspend the module from transmission towers, or intermediate support structures. It may also be directly suspended from the HV transmission line.
US10424928B2
A system for regulating energy provided to an electricity grid from an energy source, the system includes a converter configured to receive the energy from the source. The converter is configured to dynamically predict real-time maximum reactive power capability as a function of at least one from the group including (i) a direct current link maximum voltage, (ii) an instantaneous grid network voltage, and (iii) a line current. The predicted maximum reactive power capability is configured for optimizing regulation of the energy.
US10424926B2
Method for controlling an electric power distribution micro-grid, the micro-grid comprising: an electric coupling node that said micro-grid is electrically disconnectable from an electric power distribution main grid; one or more electric loads, each consuming a corresponding amount of electric power provided by the micro-grid, the electric loads including one or more disconnectable loads electrically disconnectable from the micro-grid; and at least an electric power source including one or more electric power generators. The method of controlling is carried out in response to the disconnection of the micro-grid from the main grid on a disconnection instant and comprises the following: determining whether the electric disconnection of the micro-grid from the main grid is due to a fault in the main grid; if it is determined that the disconnection of the micro-grid from the main grid is not due to a fault in the main grid, executing a load shedding procedure to disconnect in a selective manner one or more disconnectable loads; if it is determined that the disconnection of the micro-grid from the main grid is due to a fault in the main grid, determining whether a drop of a frequency of the micro-grid is in progress following the disconnection of the micro-grid; and if a drop of frequency is in progress following the disconnection of the micro-grid from the main grid, executing the load shedding procedure.
US10424919B2
A component in a process control device such as a valve actuator, for example, is coupled to a protective circuit. In particular, the protective circuit allows an analog current loop (e.g., 4-20 mA) to provide to the component a secondary operating voltage, derived from the analog current loop, in the absence of a primary operating voltage source (e.g., during a power failure), such that the component is not damaged when a signal from the analog current loop is applied to the process control device in the absence of the primary operating voltage source.
US10424911B2
A device for detecting and potentially eradicating a leakage voltage from a water body comprises at least one wire sensor probe to receive the leakage voltage in the water body. The device comprises a voltage sensing circuit operable for receive the leakage voltage, and generate a voltage signal based on the leakage voltage. The device comprises a trigger circuit to receive the voltage signal, based on magnitude of the voltage signal being greater than a predefined threshold value. The trigger circuit activates an alarm circuit, and activates a circuit breaker. The circuit breaker, in response to activation of the circuit breaker, disconnects a power supply from the at least one voltage source immersed in the water body, thereby eradicating the leakage current from the water body if the leakage voltage is caused by the activated circuit breaker.
US10424908B2
A device includes a current monitor, an electronic switch, an energy harvester, and a load controller. The current monitor monitors current drawn by a load coupled to the device and generate an alert signal in response to the monitored current exceeding a predefined threshold value. The electronic switch decouples a battery from the load in response to the alert signal, the electronic switch being electrically disconnected from a negative terminal of the battery coupled to the device. The energy harvester stores energy from the battery while the load is drawing current from the battery. The load controller receives, from the energy harvester, the stored energy from the energy harvester and generates a voltage to power the current monitor to reset the alert signal while the battery is decoupled from the load.
US10424907B2
An electrical junction box has a switch connected between a first connection terminal and a second connection terminal to which a fuse is mounted, and a control circuit configured to perform opening/closing control of the switch, has a storage unit for storing a standard resistance value in an initial state of the fuse and an amount of change in a resistance value of the fuse over time, and detects a first terminal voltage at the first connection terminal and a second terminal voltage at the second connection terminal. The control circuit opens the switch at a time of startup based on a control signal, calculates the resistance value of the fuse, calculates a reference resistance value, determines whether the fuse is correct by comparing the calculated resistance value of the fuse with the calculated reference resistance value, and outputs a first error signal if the fuse is incorrect.
US10424903B2
The disclosure generally relates to an exemplary enclosure that protects an electrical network protection element in various environments such as when the enclosure is submerged in water or when the enclosure is placed in an underground vault that may be flooded during rain. The enclosure has a gasket that includes a first portion having a sloping surface which provides a continuously incremental amount of sealing in cooperation with a beveled edge of a door of the enclosure and a second portion having a flat surface which is compressed by a wedge projection in the door and provides water tight sealing as well. The enclosure includes a locking bar having a tapered portion, which moves into an opening in a flange of the enclosure and automatically creates a continuously incremental amount of pushing force upon the door against the gasket when a pivotable handle is operated for closing the door.
US10424899B2
A surface emitting quantum cascade laser includes an active layer and a first semiconductor layer. The active layer includes a plurality of quantum well layers and is capable of emitting laser light by intersubband transition. The first surface includes an internal region and an outer peripheral region. Grating pitch of the first pits is m times grating pitch of the second pits. The outer peripheral region surrounds the internal region. A first planar shape of an opening end of the first pit is asymmetric with respect to a line passing through barycenter of the first planar shape and is parallel to at least one side of the first two-dimensional grating. A second planar shape of an opening end of the second pit is symmetric with respect to each of lines passing through barycenter of the second planar shape and is parallel to either side of the second two-dimensional grating.
US10424898B2
A semiconductor laser diode includes a layer sequence including a plurality of layers arranged one above another in a growth direction, wherein the semiconductor laser diode includes a first facet and a second facet between which a resonator extending in a longitudinal direction is formed, the layer sequence includes an active layer in which an active region is formed, the layer sequence includes waveguide layers, and the layer sequence includes a stressed layer arranged above the active layer in the growth direction, the stressed layer being provided for influencing a refractive index profile in the waveguide layers at least to partly compensate for an inhomogeneous variation of a refractive index in the waveguide layers, the inhomogeneous variation being brought about by an inhomogeneous temperature distribution during operation of the semiconductor laser diode.
US10424894B2
A passively Q-switched fiber laser system comprises a pump source and an ring cavity connected with each other. The ring cavity comprises a gain fiber, a directional coupler and a saturable absorber connected in order. The saturable absorber is a quantum-dot polymer composite film, which is fabricated by a simple method comprising steps of: mixing a quantum dot material of lead sulfide (PbS) with a colloidal polymer to form a mixture; and drying the mixture at two different temperatures in two stages respectively. The saturable absorber of the present invention has lower saturating intensity and a plurality of absorption bands comprising 1000 nm to 1100 nm and 1500 nm to 1600 nm. The maximum output power and the maximum pulse energy of the passively Q-switched fiber laser system can be superior to those laser systems using the quantum-dot (QD) polymer composite film as saturable absorber.
US10424893B2
An outer sleeve for a CATV filter has, in one embodiment, a first end and a second end. The second end has a face with one or more engagement holes. A torque transmitter for installing a cable television (CATV) filter on an interface port includes a CATV filter header configured to support a CATV filter component. The torque transmitter also includes a torque transmitting housing configured to at least partially house the CATV filter header. The torque transmitting housing is configured to fit a CATV filter installation tool, receive a torque force from the CATV filter installation tool when the torque transmitting housing is fit to the CATV filter installation tool, and transmit the torque force received from the CATV filter installation tool to the CATV filter header so as to allow the CATV filter installation tool to install the torque transmitting housing and the CATV filter on the interface port.
US10424875B2
An electrical connector comprises an insulative housing, a plurality of terminals and a plurality of wires. The plurality of terminals are fixed to the insulative housing, each terminal has a fixed portion fixed to the insulative housing and a contact portion and a soldering portion which are respectively connected to the fixed portion, the soldering portion of each terminal of at least a part of the plurality of terminals is formed with a bending section, and an inner surface of the bending section defines a filling space for filling a solder. A plurality of wires are respectively soldered to the soldering portions of the plurality of terminals and make the solder filled in each filling space.
US10424864B2
A patchboard having multiple honeycomb components, each honeycomb component having a box-shaped housing with two end surfaces and four lateral surfaces which extend between the end surfaces. Each of the end surfaces has at least one connection region, and each of the lateral surfaces has at least one connection element for connecting to another honeycomb component. Individual honeycomb components can be removed from the patchboard in that at least one respective elastic latching arm with a latching hook is arranged on at least two mutually adjacent lateral surfaces of the honeycomb components. Each of the latching arms extends in the direction of the length of each lateral surface, and at least one recess is formed at least on the lateral surfaces on which at least one latching arm is formed, the recess being used to access the latching hook of a latching arm from an end face using a tool.
US10424862B2
A locking structure for terminals includes a connector housing in which a plurality of terminal housing chambers accommodating the terminals connected to wires are formed and a first lance and a second lance extending from rear end parts of the terminal housing chambers toward front sides thereof to lock the terminals. A first sidewall of a pair of sidewalls forming a first terminal housing chamber is disposed to face a second sidewall of the pair of the sidewalls forming a second terminal housing chamber adjacent to the first terminal housing with a space between the first sidewall and the second sidewall.
US10424860B2
Example implementations involve an electrical connector and a test method of the electrical connector, wherein the electrical conduction condition between a ground member and a ground terminal can be easily confirmed while reliably contacting the ground member and ground terminal. Electrical connector involves a plurality of terminals including two types of terminals, namely, signal terminals and ground terminals; a retaining body, made of an insulating material, that arranges and retains the plurality of terminals in a condition where the signal terminals and ground terminals are intermingled; and a ground member retained by the retaining body on the inward side of the retaining body, in a condition contacting at least two ground terminals; wherein the ground member has a detecting part exposed from the retaining body in order to detect an electrical conduction condition between the ground terminals and the ground member.
US10424854B2
The invention relates to a device for power contacting having a contact-pin receptacle and at least one electrical connector where the contact-pin receptacle is integrally formed from two partial contacts that are arranged one over the other at a distance from each other and can be moved relative to each other. Each partial contact has an opening with contact arms protruding into the opening, and the two openings are arranged coaxial to each other. The contact arms of one opening are bent toward the contact arms of the other opening in such a way that the contact arms mesh with each other.
US10424849B2
A crimp connection system for electrical cables, including an electrical cable having a stripped cable end and a fastening sleeve. The stripped cable end is arranged at least partially within the fastening sleeve. The fastening sleeve has a number of fastening protrusions extending from the interior and/or outer surfaces of the fastening sleeve. The fastening protrusions are distributed over the interior and/or outer surfaces of the fastening sleeve. The crimp connection system also includes a contact terminal having a crimp portion. The fastening sleeve is arranged at least partially within the crimp portion.
US10424839B2
The present invention provides a phase shifter assembly for an array antenna, comprising: a first level phase shifter, wherein the first level phase shifter is configured to control the phases of a plurality of sub-arrays of the array antenna, where each sub-array comprises one or more radiating elements; a second level phase shifter, wherein the second level phase shifter is configured to proportionally change the phases of the radiating elements in the corresponding sub-arrays; and a power divider, wherein the power divider is connected between the first level phase shifter and the second level phase shifter. The phase shifter assembly has the advantages of both a distributed phase shifter network and a lumped phase shifter network. Specifically, the phase shifter assemblies can independently control the phases of the radiating elements in the array to obtain better sidelobe suppression. Further, phase control parts of the phase shifter are concentrated within a certain physical space range, so the size of the phase shifter assembly may be greatly decreased, and the cost may be greatly reduced, as compared with a conventional distributed phase shifter assembly design.
US10424837B2
The present invention provides, in alternative embodiments, high temperature transponders that can withstand high temperature shocks and can maintain their physical and electrical characteristics following high temperature exposure, and methods of making said transponders.
US10424831B2
An antenna system includes a dual-polarized antenna, a metal reflection plate, a first metal bending structure, and a second metal bending structure. The metal reflection plate is configured to reflect the radiation energy from the dual-polarized antenna. The first metal bending structure includes a first planar portion and a second planar portion. The second planar portion is coupled through the first planar portion to a first edge of the metal reflection plate. The first planar portion and the second planar portion are not parallel to each other. The second metal bending structure includes a third planar portion and a fourth planar portion. The fourth planar portion is coupled through the third planar portion to a second edge of the metal reflection plate. The third planar portion and the fourth planar portion are not parallel to each other.
US10424826B2
The present disclosure is directed to antenna arrangements. In particular, an arrangement can include at least three antennas. A first and second of the antennas can be positioned such that signals they emit cancel each other out at a physical space comprising a third of the antennas. Additionally or alternatively, an arrangement can include at least two antennas. A first of the antennas can comprise at least two signal-emitting portions positioned such that signals they emit cancel each other out at a physical space comprising a second of the antennas.
US10424811B2
An object of the present disclosure is to provide a solid electrolyte material with excellent ion conductivity at a low temperature. The present disclosure achieves the object by providing a solid electrolyte material to be used for a fluoride ion battery, the solid electrolyte material comprising: a solid electrolyte particle including a crystal phase, that has a Tysonite structure and contains an F element, as a main phase; and CsF; and the CsF content in the solid electrolyte material is 50% by weight or less.
US10424805B2
The present invention provides a redox flow battery comprising a negative electrode (also referred to herein as an “anode”) immersed in a first liquid electrolyte (also referred to herein as a “negative electrolyte” or “anolyte”), a positive electrode (also referred to herein as a “cathode”) immersed in a second liquid electrolyte (also referred to herein as a “positive electrolyte” or “catholyte”), and a cation-permeable separator (e.g., a membrane or other cation-permeable material) partitioning the negative electrode/anolyte from the positive electrode/catholyte. The redox reactant of the catholyte comprises a compound of Formula (I) as described herein.
US10424804B2
The Ce—H2 redox flow cell is optimized using commercially-available cell materials. Cell performance is found to be sensitive to the upper charge cutoff voltage, membrane boiling pretreatment, methanesulfonic-acid concentration, (+) electrode surface area and flow pattern, and operating temperature. Performance is relatively insensitive to membrane thickness, Cerium concentration, and all features of the (−) electrode including hydrogen flow. Cell performance appears to be limited by mass transport and kinetics in the cerium (+) electrode. Maximum discharge power of 895 mW cm−2 was observed at 60° C.; an energy efficiency of 90% was achieved at 50° C. The Ce—H2 cell is promising for energy storage assuming one can optimize Ce reaction kinetics and electrolyte.
US10424799B2
An object is to suppress drying of a fuel cell during continuous operation with high load. There is provided a fuel cell system including a fuel cell. The fuel cell system comprises an impedance detector that is configured to detect an impedance of the fuel cell; and a current limiter that is configured to limit an output current of the fuel cell with a limiting rate. The current limiter changes the limiting rate, based on the detected impedance.
US10424798B2
The present invention provides a relative humidity and condensed water estimator for a fuel cell and a method for controlling condensed water drain using the same. Here, the relative humidity and condensed water estimator is utilized in control of the fuel cell system involving control of anode condensed water drain by outputting at least two of signals comprising air-side relative humidity, hydrogen-side relative humidity, air-side instantaneous or cumulative condensed water, hydrogen-side instantaneous or cumulative condensed water, instantaneous and cumulative condensed water of the humidifier, membrane water contents, catalyst layer oxygen partial pressure, catalyst layer hydrogen partial pressure, stack or cell voltage, air-side catalyst layer relative humidity, hydrogen-side catalyst layer relative humidity, oxygen supercharging ratio, hydrogen supercharging ratio, residual water in a stack, and residual water in a humidifier.
US10424796B2
There is provided a fuel cell system comprising a first fuel stack, a first temperature gauge configured to measure a first temperature value, a power generation voltage meter configured to measure a power generation voltage, a cell voltage meter and a controller configured to control a temperature regulating mechanism such as to perform a temperature rise of the fuel cell stack. The controller is further configured to start the temperature rise of the fuel cell stack when a cell voltage is lower than a predetermined voltage value. When at least one of a plurality of time measurement conditions is satisfied after the first temperature value has reached a first reference temperature after a start of the temperature rise, the controller measures a time duration during which a voltage difference by subtracting the cell voltage from an average voltage of cells is maintained to be not greater than a predetermined voltage difference. When the measured time duration has reached a first reference time, the controller terminates the temperature rise. The plurality of time measurement conditions are conditions that predetermined time periods have elapsed since termination of a warm-up operation, since termination of an intermittent operation, since termination of regenerative braking and since a shift of the state of the fuel cell stack to a power generation capable state.
US10424795B2
A porous gas diffusion substrate that includes: (a) a porous non-woven web comprising carbon fibers; and (b) a carbonaceous residue; wherein the carbonaceous residue is embedded within the porous non-woven web; (c) a fluorinated polymer; and (d) inert particles wherein at least some of the carbon fibers of the porous non-woven web have a coating comprising the fluorinated polymer and inert particles is disclosed.
US10424786B1
The invention relates to a particulate material comprising a plurality of composite particles, wherein the composite particles comprise: (a) a porous carbon framework comprising micropores and mesopores having a total pore volume of at least 0.6 cm3/g and no more than 2 cm3/g, where the volume fraction of micropores is in the range from 0.5 to 0.9 and the volume fraction of pores having a pore diameter no more than 10 nm is at least 0.75, and the porous carbon framework has a D50 particle size of less than 20 μm; (b) silicon located within the micropores and/or mesopores of the porous carbon framework in a defined amount relative to the volume of the micropores and/or mesopores.
US10424785B2
A negative electrode material for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery includes a plurality of composite particles. Each of the plurality of composite particles includes an inorganic particle, one or more covering layers, each of which is in contact with a surface of the inorganic particle, and a carbonaceous material layer that covers the inorganic particle and has voids. The carbonaceous material layer includes a first region having a porosity of 4.3% or more and 10.0% or less, the first region being a region extending from the surface of the inorganic particle to the surface of an imaginary sphere that is centered at the center of the inorganic particle and has a radius of 3r, where r is a radius of the inorganic particle. Each of the voids is separated by one of the one or more covering layers from the surface of the inorganic particle.
US10424783B2
A composite anode active material includes a metallic core alloyable with lithium, and a coating layer on the metallic core, the coating layer including lithium fluoride (LiF) nanoparticles and a carbonaceous material.
US10424779B1
The present disclosure relates to lithium-ion batteries and methods for their manufacture. Specifically, the method includes forming a cathode on a first substrate and forming an anode on a second substrate. The anode material includes silicon. The method includes slitting the first substrate and the second substrate. After slitting the respective substrates, the method includes depositing stabilized lithium metal particles on the anode and forming a cathode electrode tab coupled to the cathode and an anode electrode tab coupled to the anode. The method also includes coupling the anode and the cathode to form a layered structure. The method further includes winding the layered structure to form a rolled structure and placing the rolled structure in a container. The method additionally includes placing an electrolyte in the container sealing the container with the rolled structure and electrolyte placed therein to form a battery.
US10424761B2
An electroluminescent display device includes a substrate including an emissive area and a non-emissive area, a plurality of protrusions over the substrate and in the emissive area, each of the plurality of protrusions spaced apart from each other with an air gap therebetween, a high-viscosity material layer on the plurality of protrusions and the air gaps, a first electrode on the high-viscosity material layer, an emitting layer on the first electrode, and a second electrode on the emitting layer.
US10424753B2
The invention relates to production method of PEDOT:PSS film which comprises the steps of preparing substrate, preparing the mixture of boric acid doped PEDOT:PSS prepare on the substrate surface.
US10424740B2
A compound represented by formula (1) provides an organic electroluminescence device having a low driving voltage and an excellent emission efficiency: wherein R1 to R8, R11 to R18, R21 to R28, R31 to R38, X, Y, L1, L2, L3, and Ar are as defined in the description.
US10424734B2
A method for making an organic light emitting diode includes providing an apparatus including an evaporation device, a vapor deposition device, a connecting tube, and a vacuum pump. A substrate is placed on the support and a first electrode is formed on a surface of the substrate away from the support, wherein the first electrode comprises an electrode surface away from the substrate. The vapor deposition chamber is evacuated by the vacuum pump. The organic light emitting source material is heated to form a gaseous organic light emitting source material, and the gaseous organic light emitting source material is sprayed to the electrode surface, to form an organic light emitting layer. A second electrode is formed on a surface of the organic light emitting layer away from the first electrode.
US10424731B2
According to one embodiment, a memory device includes a first electrode; a variable resistance layer provided on the first electrode, the variable resistance layer including a chalcogenide compound having a crystal structure; and a second electrode provided on the variable resistance layer. The variable resistance layer includes a first region covering one of an upper surface of the first electrode or a lower surface of the second electrode, and a second region, a concentration of the chemical element being lower in the second region than in the first region.
US10424723B2
A Magnetic Tunnel Junction (MTJ) device including pillar contacts coupling the free magnetic layer of cell pillars to a top contact. The pillar contacts are electrically isolated from one or more other portions of the cell pillar by one or more self-aligned sidewall insulators. The MTJ device further including one of a static magnetic compensation layer or an exchange spring layer in the cell pillar.
US10424722B2
Provided is a piezoelectric element containing no lead therein and having a satisfactory piezoelectric constant and a small dielectric loss tangent at room temperature (25° C.) In order to attain this, the piezoelectric element includes a substrate, a first electrode, a piezoelectric film, and a second electrode. The piezoelectric film contains barium zirconate titanate, manganese, and trivalent bismuth. The piezoelectric film satisfies 0.02≤x≤0.13, where x is a mole ratio of zirconium to the sum of zirconium and titanium. A manganese content is 0.002 moles or more and 0.015 moles or less for 1 mole of barium zirconate titanate, and a bismuth content is 0.00042 moles or more and 0.00850 moles or less for 1 mole of barium zirconate titanate.
US10424710B2
An engine includes a cylinder liner. The cylinder liner includes an interior wall, an exterior wall, and a thermoelectric element disposed therebetween. The interior wall forms a cylinder bore forming part of a combustion chamber. The exterior wall is positioned adjacent a coolant jacket. The thermoelectric element is operable to generate an electric current in response to a temperature gradient between the interior wall, which is exposed to the high temperatures of the combustion chamber, and the exterior wall, which is exposed to the cooler temperatures of a coolant in the coolant jacket. An electric current in a circuit of the thermoelectric element may be controlled to affect a cylinder wall temperature. The circuit of the thermoelectric element may be opened, and the voltage of the thermoelectric element may be measured and used to calculate the cylinder wall temperature.
US10424698B2
A method for producing optoelectronic conversion semiconductor chips and a composite of conversion semiconductor chips are disclosed. In an embodiment the method includes growing a semiconductor layer sequence on a growth substrate, applying an electric contact on to a rear side of the semiconductor layer sequence facing away from the growth substrate, thinning the growth substrate, after thinning, cutting the growth substrate at least to the semiconductor layer sequence thereby forming a first intermediate space, applying a conversion layer on to the thinned growth substrate and singulating at least the thinned growth substrate and the semiconductor layer sequence.
US10424697B2
A light-emitting diode package includes a light-emitting diode chip disposed in a housing, a first phosphor configured to emit green light, and a second phosphor configured to emit red light. White light is configured to be formed by a synthesis of light emitted from the light-emitting diode chip, the first phosphor, and the second phosphor. The second phosphor has a chemical formula of A2MF6:Mn4+, A is one of Li, Na, K, Rb, Ce, and NH4, and M is one of Si, Ti, Nb, and Ta, and the Mn4+ of the second phosphor has a mole range of about 0.02 to about 0.035 times the M.
US10424691B2
There is provided a display apparatus and a method of manufacturing the same. The display apparatus includes: a quantum dot unit or a quantum dot sheet capable of improving heat dissipation performance. A wire with high heat transfer rate is provided in the quantum dot unit or the quantum dot sheet, and the wire is connected to the bottom chassis of the display apparatus so as to dissipate heat generated in the quantum dot.
US10424680B2
A targeted-annealing system can automatically cure a conductive paste that may bind cascaded strips of a string together without damaging the strips. The targeted-annealing system can process strings of cascaded strips on a supporting surface, and can anneal conductive paste between overlapping strips by blowing heated air on the overlapping sections of the strips. An air nozzle shaped to target the overlapping sections may provide the heated air. The supporting surface may include a porous material that allows a vacuum to pull on the cascaded strips from below the surface during the annealing process.
US10424679B2
A controllable frequency selective surface. The frequency selective surface has a plurality of conductive patches with integrated circuits straddling gaps between, and connected to, pairs of patches separated by gaps. Each integrated circuit presents a controllable impedance and as a result the characteristics of the frequency selective surface are controllable.
US10424678B2
Double groove diffraction gratings are used in combination with various types of photoelectrodes including dye-sensitized and organic photoelectrodes to increase absorption efficiency as well as to provide one or more of a variety of functions including transparency and reflectivity.
US10424674B2
To provide a liquid crystal display device suitable for a thin film transistor which uses an oxide semiconductor. In a liquid crystal display device which includes a thin film transistor including an oxide semiconductor layer, a film having a function of attenuating the intensity of transmitting visible light is used as an interlayer film which covers at least the oxide semiconductor layer. As the film having a function of attenuating the intensity of transmitting visible light, a coloring layer can be used and a light-transmitting chromatic color resin layer is preferably used. An interlayer film which includes a light-transmitting chromatic color resin layer and a light-blocking layer may be formed in order that the light-blocking layer is used as a film having a function of attenuating the intensity of transmitting visible light.
US10424670B2
A display panel with reduced power consumption is described. An example of the display panel includes an array of light emitting elements that are controllable to form an image, and a Thin-Film-Transistor (TFT) backplane comprising circuitry to drive the array of light emitting elements. The TFT backplane includes a plurality of field effect transistors (FETs). Each FET includes a source electrode, a drain electrode, a channel layer contacting the source electrode and the drain electrode, and a gate electrode adjacent to the channel layer and separated from the channel layer by an insulator. The channel layer includes a layer of metal phosphide.
US10424665B2
There is improved performance of a semiconductor device including a fin-type low-withstand-voltage transistor and a fin-type high-withstand-voltage transistor. A low-withstand-voltage transistor is formed on each of a plurality of first fins isolated from each other by a first element isolation film, and a high-withstand-voltage transistor, which has a channel region including tops and side surfaces of a plurality of second fins and a top of a semiconductor substrate between the second fins adjacent to each other, is formed. At this time, a top of a second element isolation film surrounding the second fins including part of the channel region of one high-withstand-voltage transistor is lower than a top of the first element isolation film.
US10424648B2
To provide a copper and/or copper oxide dispersion capable of forming an electroconductive film exhibiting excellent stability with respect to temporal change and having a fine pattern form, an electroconductive film laminate obtained by laminating the electroconductive film produced using the copper and/or copper oxide dispersion, and an electroconductive film transistor. The copper and/or copper oxide dispersion contains 0.50-60 mass % of copper and/or copper oxide microparticies and the following components (1)-(4): (1) a surface energy modifier; (2) an organic compound having a phosphate group; (3) 0.050-10 mass % of a solvent having a vapor pressure of 0.010 Pa to less than 20 Pa at 20° C.; and (4) a solvent having a vapor pressure of 20 Pa to 150 hPa at 20° C. The electroconductive laminate is obtained by laminating an electroconductive film containing copper on a substrate.
US10424642B2
The current diffusion layer is interposed between the divided portions of the first base region. The second base region is provided adjacent to both sides of the trench current diffusion layer. The body region is provided on the trench current diffusion layer and the second base region. The source region is provided on the body region. The trench is provided to extend from a surface of the source region to the trench current diffusion layer through the source region and the body region. The trench has a bottom surface that is separated from and overlaps with the center portion of the first base region in a perpendicular direction. A width of the center portion in a horizontal direction is larger than a width of the bottom surface of the trench.
US10424641B1
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide a semiconductor device. One example semiconductor device generally includes a first semiconductor region; a first non-insulative region disposed adjacent to a first lateral side of the first semiconductor region; a second non-insulative region disposed adjacent to a second lateral side of the first semiconductor region, the second lateral side being opposite to the first lateral side; a second semiconductor region disposed adjacent to a third lateral side of the first semiconductor region, the second semiconductor region and the first semiconductor region having at least one of different doping types or different doping concentrations; an insulative layer adjacent to a top side of the first semiconductor region; and a third non-insulative region, the insulative layer being disposed between the third non-insulative region and the first semiconductor region.
US10424640B2
A semiconductor device according to an embodiment includes a SiC layer, an electrode electrically connected to the SiC layer and an impurity region provided between the SiC layer and the electrode. The impurity region includes first position and second position, the first position having highest concentration of an impurity in the impurity region, the highest concentration being not lower than 1×1020 cm−3 and not higher than 5×1022 cm−3, the second position having concentration of the impurity one digit lower than the highest concentration, the first position being between the electrode and the second position, a distance between the first position and the second position being 50 nm or shorter.
US10424637B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device that includes a semiconductor layer of a first conductivity type, and a parallel pn layer formed on the semiconductor layer, the pn layer having first semiconductor regions of the first conductivity type and second semiconductor regions of a second conductivity type, the first and second regions being alternately arranged parallel to a surface of the semiconductor layer. In one embodiment, the method includes repeatedly performing the following steps to stack the epitaxial growth layers on the semiconductor layer to form the pn layer: forming an epitaxial growth layer of the first conductivity type or non-doped, the epitaxial growth layer having an impurity concentration lower than that of the semiconductor layer, ion implanting a first-conductivity-type impurity into the epitaxial growth layer, selectively ion implanting a second-conductivity-type impurity into the epitaxial growth layer and ion implanting a group 18 element into the epitaxial growth layer.
US10424631B2
A display device includes a substrate including a bending area located between a first area and a second area. The substrate is bent in relation to a bending axis. A first wiring unit including a plurality of first wirings is arranged on the substrate to sequentially extend over the first area, the bending area, and the second area. First central axes included in each of the plurality of first wirings are spaced apart from each other by a first pitch in the bending area. A second wiring unit including a plurality of second wirings is arranged on the substrate to sequentially extend over the first area, the bending area, and the second area. Second central axes included in each of the plurality of second wirings are spaced apart from each other by a second pitch greater than the first pitch in the bending area.
US10424617B2
A crossbar switch includes a plurality of first wires extending in a first direction and second wires extending in a second direction. The switch includes third wires extending in a third direction and fourth wires extending in a fourth direction. The switch includes switch cells connected to the first and second wires. The first wires are skewed relative to the second and fourth wires, while the third wires are skewed relative to the second and fourth wires. The switch cells are connected to the third and fourth wires, and the third wires are also connected to the switch cells connected to the first wires adjacent to the respective first wires, or alternatively the fourth wires are also connected to the switch cells connected to the second wires adjacent to the respective second wires.
US10424615B2
A display panel including a backplane, a first bonding layer, a plurality of micro light-emitting diodes, a first insulation layer, and a second bonding layer is provided. The first bonding layer is disposed on the backplane. The micro light-emitting diodes are disposed on the first bonding layer and are electrically connected to the first bonding layer. The first insulation layer is located between any adjacent two of the micro light-emitting diodes. The first insulation layer has a concave-convex surface. The second bonding layer is disposed on the micro light-emitting diodes and the first insulation layer and is electrically connected to the micro light-emitting diodes. A micro light-emitting diode apparatus including a substrate, a plurality of micro light-emitting diodes, and a first insulation layer is provided. The first insulation layer is located between any adjacent two of the micro light-emitting diodes. The first insulation layer has a concave-convex surface.
US10424614B2
A process for producing a light emitting diode device, the process including: forming a plurality of quantum dots on a surface of a layer including a first area and a second area; exposing the first area of the surface to light having a first wavelength while exposing the first area to a first etchant that causes the quantum dots in the first area to be etched at a first etch rate while the quantum dots have a dimension at or greater than a first threshold dimension; exposing the second area of the surface to light having a second wavelength while exposing the second area to a second etchant that causes the quantum dots in the second area to be etched at a third etch rate while the quantum dots have a dimension at or greater than a second threshold dimension; and processing the etched layer to form the LED device.
US10424609B2
An image sensor may include a pixel array. The pixel array may include a plurality of sub pixel arrays arranged two-dimensionally. Each of the plurality of sub pixel arrays may include a first pixel block and a second pixel block adjacent to the first pixel block in a row direction. Each of the first and second pixel blocks may include a light reception unit including first to fourth unit pixels arranged in a 2×2 matrix structure and a driving circuit. The driving circuit of the first pixel block may be positioned at an upper side of the light reception unit of the first pixel block, and the driving circuit of the second pixel block may be positioned at a lower side of the light reception unit of the first pixel block. The upper side of the first pixel block and an upper side of the second pixel block may be aligned with each other in the row direction, and a lower side of the first pixel block and the lower side of the second pixel block may be aligned with each other in the row direction.
US10424605B2
A method is presented for forming a semiconductor device. The method may include forming a first gate structure on a first portion of a semiconductor material located on a surface of an insulating substrate, the first gate structure including a first sacrificial layer and a second sacrificial layer and forming a second gate structure on a second portion of the semiconductor material located on the surface of the insulating substrate, the second gate structure including a third sacrificial layer. The method further includes etching the first and second dielectric sacrificial layers to create a first contact region within the first gate structure and etching the third dielectric sacrificial layer to create a second contact region within the second gate structure. The method further includes forming silicide in at least the first and second contact regions of the first and second gate structures, respectively.
US10424602B2
A display panel including a display region and a non-display region, a plurality of gate lines, a plurality of data lines, a pixel array and a gate on array circuit. The non-display region is located at one side of the display region. The plurality of gate lines and the plurality of data lines are disposed in the display region. The pixel array is located in the display region, wherein the pixel array is composed of a plurality of pixel units that are repeatedly arranged. The pixel units consist of three gate lines, two data lines and six sub-pixels, and each sub-pixel is electrically connected to one of the gate lines and one of the data lines located in the pixel array respectively. The gate on array circuit is disposed in the pixel array.
US10424601B2
An array substrate comprising: a plurality of scanning lines (G) arranged in a first direction; a plurality of data lines (S) arranged in a second direction, wherein said scanning lines (G) and said data lines (S) intersect and insulate, a plurality of defined array areas intersected by said scanning lines (G) and by said data lines (S) are a plurality of sub-pixels, wherein the sub-pixel corresponding to the data line is a sub-pixel column, and the sub-pixel corresponding to the scanning line is a sub-pixel row; and a plurality of data lines (S) are divided into a plurality of data line groups 10 arranged in the second direction, wherein each data line group 10 comprises six data line pairs, and data lines in one data line pair connect each other; there are at least four data line pairs corresponding to the same color sub-pixel column in one said data line group, and said sub-pixels comprise at least three colors.
US10424587B2
A method of fabricating a memory array includes designing first layout sections in a row direction, each first layout section including first and second control lines in a first metal layer, and an upper conductive line in a third metal layer. A lower conductive line in a second metal layer is coupled to the first control line and the first control line is isolated from the second control line. A second layout section is inserted at every N-th first layout section, N being a positive integer equal to or greater than 2. The second layout section includes the first control line, the second control line and a lower conductive line in the second metal layer coupled to the second control line and to an upper conductive line in the third metal layer. The lower conductive lines in the first and second layout sections are isolated from each other.
US10424586B2
A memory device includes a semiconductor substrate having at least one active area that is defined by a device isolation structure. The memory device further includes two neighboring buried word lines disposed in the semiconductor substrate of the active area. The memory device further includes a trench isolation structure disposed in the semiconductor substrate between the buried word lines.
US10424580B2
Semiconductor devices having modulated nanowire counts and methods to form such devices are described. For example, a semiconductor structure includes a first semiconductor device having a plurality of nanowires disposed above a substrate and stacked in a first vertical plane with a first uppermost nanowire. A second semiconductor device has one or more nanowires disposed above the substrate and stacked in a second vertical plane with a second uppermost nanowire. The second semiconductor device includes one or more fewer nanowires than the first semiconductor device. The first and second uppermost nanowires are disposed in a same plane orthogonal to the first and second vertical planes.
US10424579B2
A semiconductor device for electric discharge protection is disclosed. In one aspect, the semiconductor device includes a substrate having a p-type doping. The semiconductor device includes a first well and a second well having an n-type doping and arranged spaced apart within a surface layer of the substrate, and a third well having a p-type doping and arranged in the surface layer of the substrate between the first well and the second well. The semiconductor device further includes an emitter region and a base contact region having a p-type doping and arranged within a surface layer of the first well, and a collector region having a p-type doping. The collector region is arranged at least partly within a surface layer of the third well and such that it overlaps both of the first well and the second well. An integrated circuit including a semiconductor device is also provided.
US10424578B2
A semiconductor device of an embodiment includes a conductive semiconductor substrate, an insulating film formed on the semiconductor substrate, an overvoltage protection diode configured to be formed on the insulating film and to include an n-type semiconductor layer and a p-type semiconductor layer alternately arranged adjacent to each other, and an insulating film that covers the overvoltage protection diode. The concentration of the p-type impurities in the p-type semiconductor layer is lower than the concentration of the n-type impurities in the n-type semiconductor layer. The concentration peak of the p-type impurities is disposed in a non-boundary region between a boundary region and a boundary region.
US10424576B2
A method is presented for forming a layout of a MOSFET (metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistor) circuit. The method includes forming a plurality of gate conductors, forming a plurality of active areas, and forming at least one gate contact (CB contact) within an active region of the plurality of active regions. The method further includes placing a marker over the at least one gate contact to identify a location of the at least one gate contact. Additionally, a distance between the at least one gate contact and at least one TS contact is optimized based on device specifications.
US10424575B2
Based on a basic idea to effectively utilize a space created in a third wiring layer (M3) by a zero-th wiring layer (M0) which can exist by miniaturization of a FINFET, an auxiliary line AL is arranged in the space created in the third wiring layer, and this auxiliary line AL and a word line WL are electrically connected to each other. Thus, a measure (device) based on such new knowledge that rising time of a word line voltage is largely affected by a wiring resistance of the word line is achieved, a high-speed operation in an SRAM using the FINFET is achieved.
US10424571B2
An electronic device package includes a package substrate, an interposer located above the package substrate and electrically connected to the package substrate, a processing device located above the interposer and electrically connected to the interposer, at least one high bandwidth memory device located above the interposer and electrically connected to the interposer and the processing device, a power management integrated circuit device located above the interposer and electrically connected to the interposer and the processing device, and a passive device located on or inside the interposer and electrically connected to the power management integrated circuit device.
US10424570B2
A power conversion apparatus performs power conversion. The power conversion apparatus includes a semiconductor module and a cooler. The semiconductor module includes an insulated-gate bipolar transistor, a metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor, and a lead frame. The insulated-gate bipolar transistor and the metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor are connected in parallel to each other and provided on the same lead frame. The cooler has a coolant flow passage. The coolant flow passage extends such that the coolant flow passage and the lead frame of the semiconductor module are opposed to each other. The semiconductor module is configured such that the metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor is not disposed further downstream than the insulated-gate bipolar transistor in a flow direction of a coolant in the coolant flow passage of the cooler.
US10424562B2
A light emitting device includes a first light emitting element, a second light emitting element, a first phosphor sheet containing a first phosphor and a third phosphor, and covering a top face of the first light emitting element, and a second phosphor sheet containing a second phosphor and a fourth phosphor, and covering a top face of the second light emitting element, wherein a peak wavelength of light which is wavelength-converted by the first phosphor or the third phosphor is equal to or less than a peak wavelength of light which is wavelength-converted by the second phosphor or the fourth phosphor.
US10424560B2
A three-dimensional integrated circuit cooling system is provided for removing heat from a three-dimensional integrated circuit. Plural fluid microchannels are formed among plural middle chip layers and a main chip layer of the three-dimensional integrated circuit. The three-dimensional integrated circuit cooling system comprises a base and a fluid pump. The base has an introduction opening, a discharge opening and a fluid passage. The fluid pump is fixed on the base and seals the edge of the introduction opening. When the fluid pump is enabled, an ambient fluid is driven by the fluid pump, introduced into the fluid passage through the introduction opening, and discharged through the discharge opening. The discharged fluid passes along every fluid microchannel of the three-dimensional integrated circuit as flowing through the plural middle chip layers and the main chip layer so as to perform heat exchange therewith.
US10424551B2
In described examples of forming an integrated circuit wave device, a method includes: (a) affixing an integrated circuit die relative to a substrate; (b) creating a form relative to the integrated circuit die and the substrate; and (c) forming a wave shaping member having a shape conforming at least in part to a shape of the form.
US10424550B2
A multi-band antenna package structure includes a first redistribution layer; an integrated circuit layer, formed on the first redistribution layer, comprising at least one metal via, at least one metal pillar, an integrated circuit chip, and a molding layer, wherein the molding layer is used to fill openings formed by the metal via, the metal pillar and the integrated circuit chip which are disposed on the first redistribution layer, the metal via is electrically connected to one of the first metal patterns of the first redistribution layer; a second redistribution layer, formed on the integrated circuit layer; and a first antenna unit layer, comprising a first dielectric layer and third metal patterns formed in openings of the first dielectric layer, wherein at least one of the third metal patterns is electrically connected to one of the second metal patterns, and the third metal patterns form a first antenna unit.
US10424549B2
A method of forming a trench structure is provided. The method includes depositing a silicon carbide (SiC) layer on a top metal layer, forming a first passivation layer on the SiC layer, removing a portion of the first passivation layer to form a first opening, forming a second passivation layer on the first passivation layer, the second passivation layer including a first portion in the first opening, and forming a second opening by removing a part of the first portion of the second passivation layer. The forming the second opening exposes the top metal layer.
US10424548B2
According to one aspect of the present invention, a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device is provided, which includes a bonding step bonding a semiconductor substrate having a semiconductor element disposed on a first surface, to a support substrate, at least through an adhesive layer between the semiconductor substrate and the support substrate, and a groove forming step forming a groove in a scribe area of the semiconductor substrate, from a side of a second surface of the semiconductor substrate, the second surface being opposite to the first surface, and in the groove forming step, a conductive layer between the semiconductor substrate and the support substrate is exposed at a bottom of the groove, without the adhesive layer being exposed in the groove.
US10424546B1
An electromagnetic interference absorber for an integrated circuit is provided. The absorber includes a geometric ring of electromagnetic energy absorbing material, dimensioned to fit over a ball grid array (BGA) integrated circuit package assembled to a substrate. The geometric ring has at least one projection arranged to fit into a gap between the substrate and a body of the BGA integrated circuit package so as to retain the geometric ring to the BGA integrated circuit package. Methods to contain electromagnetic interference and to manufacture an electromagnetic interference absorber are also provided.
US10424545B2
The present disclosure provides for a semiconductor package device and a method for manufacturing the same. The semiconductor package device includes a substrate, a shielding wall and a package body. The substrate has a top surface. The shielding wall is disposed on the top surface. The shielding wall has a conductive main body and a plurality of protruding portions extending from the conductive main body. The package body encapsulates the shielding wall.
US10424535B2
A pre-molded leadframe device includes a leadframe and a first molding layer. The leadframe includes a plurality of leadframe units spaced apart from one another, a framing portion surrounding and spaced apart from all of the leadframe units, and a gap interposed among the leadframe units and the framing portion. Each of the leadframe units has a leadframe top surface and a leadframe bottom surface. The first molding layer fills the gap and has a molding-layer bottom surface that is coplanar with the leadframe bottom surfaces. The first molding layer is further formed with a plurality of solder grooves, each of which extends across the gap and having at least one end connected to one of the leadframe units.
US10424522B2
A case and a semiconductor device including the case are provided for solving the following issues: when fixing a lid body to a case body by an adhesive, a process of attaching the lid body to the case body by applying the adhesive and curing the adhesive by heating is necessary, which requires much labor; also, when fixing the lid body to the case body by an engaging claw, it still requires much labor due to forming the engaging claw. The case includes a first member and a second member that is engaged with the first member to form an accommodation space inside the case, and the first member has a protruding portion extending from the first member side toward the second member side and having an end portion crushed from the opposite side of the first member to fix the second member to the first member.
US10424519B2
An SEM image is acquired. The SEM image shows a metal line and a via hole disposed above the metal line. The via hole exposes a portion of the metal line vertically aligned with the via hole. A first portion and a second portion of the via hole are each vertically not aligned with the metal line and are disposed on opposite sides of the metal line. The acquired SEM image is processed to enhance a contrast between the first and second portions and their surrounding areas. A first dimension of the first portion and a second dimension of the second portion of the via hole are measured in a first direction. The first direction is different from a second direction along which the metal line extends. An overlay between the via hole and the metal line is determined based on the first dimension and the second dimension.
US10424513B2
A semiconductor device, comprising: a substrate which includes an active circuit region, and a boundary region surrounding the active circuit region, the boundary region including an edge portion of the substrate; a first lower conductive pattern disposed on the substrate of the boundary region; and a first upper conductive pattern connected to the first lower conductive pattern over the first lower conductive pattern, wherein the first upper conductive pattern includes a first portion having a first thickness, a second portion having a second thickness greater than the first thickness, and a third portion having a third thickness greater than the second thickness, and the third portion of the first upper conductive pattern is connected to the first lower conductive pattern, is provided.
US10424500B2
A method of transferring a semiconductor light emitting device, and which includes positioning a transfer head having a head electrode facing a semiconductor light emitting device having an undoped semiconductor layer, the semiconductor light emitting device arranged on a carrier substrate; moving the head electrode of the transfer head close to the undoped semiconductor layer of the semiconductor light emitting device; applying a voltage to the head electrode to provide an attachment force to the undoped semiconductor layer by an electrostatic force; and picking-up the semiconductor light emitting device and transferring the semiconductor light emitting device to base substrate.
US10424497B2
A wafer carrier including a case having an opening at one end, slots disposed in the case and receiving wafers, and a wireless communication circuitry disposed on an inner sidewall of the case and configured to detect humidity of a gas contained in the case may be provided. The wireless communication circuitry may be further configured to compare the detected humidity with a threshold humidity predetermined, and transmit a first warning signal to an external host via wireless communication when the detected humidity is greater than the threshold humidity.
US10424496B2
An upper end of a tubular member surrounding a common pipe line is closed by a lid member. The lid member has an opening formed therein for supplying liquids to adjacent the rotation center on the back surface of a wafer. Deionized water supplied at normal temperature to the interior of the tubular member, after serving to cool the common pipe line, flows out of a lower end of the tubular member.
US10424490B2
Provided are a hardmask composition and a method of forming a fine pattern using the hardmask composition, the hardmask composition including a solvent, a 2D carbon nanostructure (and/or a derivative thereof), and a 0D carbon nanostructure (and/or a derivative thereof).
US10424488B2
The yield of a product is improved when a substrate held by a conveyance carrier is subjected to a plasma treatment. A method of manufacturing an electronic component includes preparing a substrate which is bonded to a holding sheet of a conveyance carrier, the conveyance carrier including the holding sheet and a frame disposed on an outer peripheral portion of the holding sheet, the substrate having a circuit layer; heating the holding sheet after preparing the substrate; cooling the holding sheet after heating the holding sheet; and plasma etching the substrate to singulate the substrate into the electronic component in a state that the substrate is placed above a stage included in a plasma treatment apparatus and the substrate is in contact with the stage via the holding sheet.
US10424473B2
A miniature mass spectrometer is disclosed comprising an atmospheric pressure ionization source, a first vacuum chamber having an atmospheric pressure sampling orifice or capillary, a second vacuum chamber located downstream of the first vacuum chamber and a third vacuum chamber located downstream of the second vacuum chamber. A first vacuum pump is arranged and adapted to pump the first vacuum chamber, wherein the first vacuum pump is arranged and adapted to maintain the first vacuum chamber at a pressure <10 mbar. A first RF ion guide is located within the first vacuum chamber and an ion detector is located in the third vacuum chamber. The ion path length from the atmospheric pressure sampling orifice or capillary to an ion detecting surface of the ion detector is ≤400 mm.
US10424472B2
A first rod electrode set has a first center axis, into which ions and air current are introduced. A second rod electrode set has a second center axis at a distance from the first center axis, from which the ions are discharged. A power supply applies voltages to the first rod electrode set and the second rod electrode set. The first rod electrode set and the second rod electrode set have a region where the sets overlap each other in the longitudinal direction, and form a single multipole ion guide by being combined to each other in the region. Different offset DC voltages are applied to the first rod electrode set and the second rod electrode set, respectively, and a DC potential for moving the ions to the second rod electrode set in the region is formed, the ions having been guided by the first rod electrode set.
US10424471B1
An apparatus includes a flexible ion conduit extending between an input end situated to receive ions and an output end to define an ion passageway having an axis, the flexible ion conduit including an inner conduit portion having an inner surface facing the interior ion passageway and having a plurality of RF electrodes adjacently situated to receive RF voltages that are out of phase with respect to each other to direct the received ions away from the inner surface and into the ion passageway.
US10424464B2
Embodiments of the present technology may include a method of etching a substrate. The method may include striking a plasma discharge in a plasma region. The method may also include flowing a fluorine-containing precursor into the plasma region to form a plasma effluent. The plasma effluent may flow into a mixing region. The method may further include introducing a hydrogen-and-oxygen-containing compound into the mixing region without first passing the hydrogen-and-oxygen-containing compound into the plasma region. Additionally, the method may include reacting the hydrogen-and-oxygen-containing compound with the plasma effluent in the mixing region to form reaction products. The reaction products may flow through a plurality of openings in a partition to a substrate processing region. The method may also include etching the substrate with the reaction products in the substrate processing region.
US10424462B2
A processing system is disclosed, having a multiple power transmission elements with an interior cavity that may be arranged around a plasma processing chamber. Each of the power transmission elements may propagates electromagnetic energy that may be used to generate plasma within the plasma process chamber. The power transmission elements may be designed to accommodate a range of power and frequency ranges that range from 500 W to 3500 W and 0.9 GHz to 9 GHz. In one embodiment, the power transmission elements may include a rectangular interior cavity that enables the generation of a standing wave with two or more modes. In another embodiment, the power transmission elements may have a cylindrical interior cavity that may be placed along the plasma processing chamber or have one end of the cylinder placed against the plasma processing chamber.
US10424456B2
A field emission transistor includes a gate, a fold over emitter, and fold over collector. The emitter and the collector are separated from the gate by a void and are separated from a gate contact by gate contact dielectric. The void may be a vacuum, ambient air, or a gas. Respective ends of the emitter and the collector are separated by a gap. Electrons are drawn across gap from the emitter to the collector by an electrostatic field created when a voltage is applied to the gate. The emitter and collector include a first conductive portion substantially parallel with gate and a second conductive portion substantially perpendicular with gate. The second conductive portion may be formed by bending a segment of the first conductive portion. The second conductive portion is folded inward from the first conductive portion towards the gate. Respective second conductive portions are generally aligned.
US10424452B2
An operation coil drive device includes a drive control unit to perform control to set, for a semiconductor switching element to switch on and off the source voltage applied to an operation coil of a magnetic contactor, a larger ON/OFF time ratio for a circuit-closing control and a smaller ON/OFF time ratio for a holding control, wherein the drive control unit includes: a circuit-closing-control inductance calculation unit to calculate an inductance of the operation coil immediately after a start of the circuit-closing control; a circuit-closing-control resistance value calculation unit to calculate a direct current resistance value of the operation coil based on the calculation result; and a circuit-closing-control switching correction unit to correct the ON/OFF time ratio of the semiconductor switching element for the circuit-closing control based on the calculation result.
US10424445B2
An electronic device, according to one embodiment of the present invention, can comprise: a housing which has an opening part penetrating through the inside and the outside of the electronic device and forms the outside of the electronic device; a key button inserted into the opening part so as to be movable; a sealing member which is disposed such that the sealing member slidably contacts the outer surface of the key button, and prevents communication between the inside and the outside of the electronic device through the inner surface of the opening part and the outer surface of the key button; and a push switch accommodated in the housing and pressed by an inward movement of the key button. Various other embodiments are possible.
US10424442B2
An arc eliminator includes a housing having a space formed therein and including an opening, an arc extinguishing part installed in the housing and including a moving rod disposed to be movable to the space, an indicator rotatably installed within the housing and seen through the opening, and an indicator rotating mechanism interworking with the moving rod when the moving rod moves, to rotate the indicator. A closing state and opening state of an arc extinguishing part may be easily recognized through an indicator and an arc accident may be minimized.
US10424436B2
The present disclosure relates to an electric vehicle charging station including a transformer. The transformer is a multi-winding transformer including one primary winding and a plurality of secondary windings. The secondary windings are electrically isolated from one another. The electric vehicle charging station further includes an AC/DC converter to which a secondary winding is connected.
US10424433B2
Traces, vias, or other conductive paths are formed on or through printed circuit boards or other insulating substrates to function as loops of an electromagnetic coil. The substrate itself insulates one side of each loop except at the inter-loop connection point, allowing the loops to be connected directly to each other. A ratio of trace width to depth may be selected to prevent or mitigate skin-effect losses at high operating frequencies. Nested sleeves on an insulated housing lengthen the surface distance between the coil and any nearby conductor such as an interior core or winding, presenting an effective obstacle to surface flashover between the coil and the nearby conductor. Optionally, field-shaping electrodes at the ends of the coil may discourage breakdown by reducing the electric field magnitude. Trace-based electromagnetic coils used as secondary windings in high-power transformers may be smaller than traditional wire-wound secondaries meeting similar voltage hold-off requirements.
US10424430B2
A module includes an insulating layer, a ring-shaped magnetic core built in the insulating layer, a coil electrode disposed in the insulating layer so as to spirally wind around the magnetic core, and heat-dissipating metal bodies respectively disposed outside and inside the magnetic core within the insulating layer. Building the magnetic core into the insulating layer as described above eliminates the need to provide the principal face of the insulating layer with a large mounting area for mounting a coil formed by the magnetic core and the coil electrode. This allows the area of the principal face of the insulating layer to be reduced to achieve miniaturization of the module. The presence of the heat-dissipating metal bodies respectively disposed outside and inside the magnetic core within the insulating layer improves dissipation of the heat generated from the coil.
US10424429B2
A solenoid assembly is provided that includes male and female plungers and an electromagnetic coil configured to be energized to create a magnetic flux. Each plunger has a plunger face, where the female plunger face is configured to correspond with the male plunger face. The male plunger has a plurality of angled plunger steps that define the male plunger face, each angled plunger step including a corner having an angle in the range of 95 degrees to 115 degrees. The female plunger face has a similar, corresponding angled face. The solenoid assembly is suitable for use as a long stroke linear solenoid.
US10424423B2
A coaxial cable of the present invention comprises a center conductor, a dielectric surrounding the center conductor, a shielding tape surrounding the dielectric, a braided metal surrounding the shielding tape, and an outer jacket surrounding the braided metal. The shielding tape comprises: (i) a first shielding layer bonded to a first separating layer; (ii) a second shielding layer bonded to the first separating layer and a second separating layer; and (iii) a third shielding layer bonded to the second separating layer. The present invention eliminates the potential problem of the outer shielding structures separating and interfering with connector attachment. Furthermore, the use of three or more shielding layers in the shielding tape of the present invention improves the flex life of the shield tape by covering micro-cracks in the metal layers with additional shielding layers, thus reducing signal egress or ingress. Accordingly, the present invention provides cost savings and/or an improvement in shielding performance.
US10424420B1
A dual axial cable is provided with adjacent and substantially parallel first and second wires. Each wire is formed from electrical conductor surrounded by a respective first and second electrical insulator having lengthwise drain alignment groove on outward side and having respective first and second inward sides of interlocking structure. First and second inward sides of interlocking structure of first and second electrical insulators mutually engage to prevent relative transverse displacement of first and second wires. The interlocking structure maintains the planar alignment of lengthwise drain alignment grooves and electrical conductors of first and second wires. First and second drain conductors are received respectively in lengthwise drain alignment grooves of first and second electrical insulators and run adjacent and substantially parallel to first and second electrical conductors. Drain conductors are maintained in parallel alignment to electrical conductors to provide shielding benefits.
US10424415B2
Systems and methods for manufacturing metal fuel are described. Methods for fabricating a metal-fuel-matrix cermet nuclear fuel may include crushed ceramic particles combined with metallic fast reactor fuel via bottom pour casting or injection casting, or a powdered metallurgical process. A maximum quantity of crushed ceramic particles added to the metallic fuel must not exceed that which would fail to yield a continuous matrix of metal fuel. After a short irradiation period, the microstructure of the fuel may be substantially identical to that of injection cast fuel, without crushed ceramic particles, irrespective of the fabrication process. Thus, the extensive existing database for injection cast fuel, without crushed ceramic particles, may be an excellent indicator of expected irradiation performance. Each of the processes may contribute to a solution of the spent nuclear fuel problem and may denature Pu239 during the process.
US10424412B2
A privacy-controlled care requester communication system includes a care-requester onsite monitoring and communication device and a cloud-computing server accommodating on-demand caregiver conferencing and vital stat alert capabilities. The care-requester onsite monitoring and communication device provides a closed-circuit visual and audio monitoring of the care requester's vicinity with specialized privacy permission rules that are set and adjusted by the care requester to achieve a personally-comfortable balance between health/safety risk monitoring and privacy considerations for a grownup patient. The care-requester onsite monitoring and communication device also enables either the care requester or the caregiving entity to initiate a “welfare check” webcam conferencing using the same care-requester onsite monitoring and communication device. Optionally, the privacy-controlled care requester communication system incorporates a care requester emergency bell device, a care requester wearable device, and environmental and/or vital sensors that can remotely measure the care requester's vital signs and environmental risk factors.
US10424406B2
A method includes receiving an initial dataset. Each record of the initial dataset comprises a set of quasi-identifier attributes and a set of non-quasi-identifier attributes. A processor assigns a link identifier to each record and replaces each set of quasi-identifier attributes with a range to form a generalized set. The processor removes duplicate records based on identical generalized sets to generate de-duplicated records. The processor generates a randomized record by replacing the generalized set of each de-duplicated record with a corresponding set of random values. The processor passes the set of random values of each randomized record through multiple hash functions to generate multiple outputs. The multiple outputs are mapped to a Bloom filter. The processor forms a dataset by combining each randomized record with one or more sets of non-quasi-identifier attributes. The set of random values is a fingerprint for a corresponding record of the dataset.
US10424399B2
Systems and methods of editing a polygonal-shaped chemical structure having a set number of vertices
A device comprising a display, a user interface configured to receive gesture input, and a processor is provided. The device is configured to electronically detect, with the user interface, at least one gesture input from the user in an approximately circular motion that traces a substantially closed curve without corners about a point on the user interface. The device is configured to display, on a portion of the display, a polygonal shaped chemical structure symbol representing a polygonal ring of carbon atoms in response to the detecting, the polygonal ring having a set number of vertices representing a set number of carbon atoms. A non-transient computer readable medium having instructions stored thereon that cause a device comprising a display, a user interface configured to receive gesture input, and a processor to perform a method is also provided.
US10424381B2
A program method of a nonvolatile memory device that performs a plurality of program loops is provided. At least one of the plurality of program loops includes dividing a channel of a selected cell string into a first side channel and a second side channel during a first interval and a second interval, turning off a string selection transistor of the selected cell string by applying a string select line voltage of a first level during the first interval, and boosting a first voltage of the first side channel and a second voltage of the second side channel, and turning on the string selection transistor by applying the string select line voltage of a second level different from the first level during the second interval, and performing a hot carrier injection (HCI) program operation on a selected memory cell corresponding to the first side channel or the second side channel.
US10424378B2
In one example in accordance with the present disclosure a control circuit is described. The control circuit includes a source following component to receive an input voltage and output a switching voltage. The circuit also includes an input leg of a current mirror coupled to the source following component. The input leg of the current mirror replicates the switching voltage to an output leg of the current mirror of a memristive bit cell. The circuit also includes a number of current control components. At least one of the current control components enforces a constant current through the source following component and other current control components maintain the input leg of the current mirror and the output leg of the current mirror at the same current.
US10424372B1
Sensing memory cells can include: applying a voltage ramp to a group of memory cells to sense their respective states; sensing when a first switching event occurs to one of the memory cells responsive to the applied voltage ramp; stopping application of the voltage ramp after a particular amount of time subsequent to when the first switching event occurs; and determining which additional memory cells of the group experience the switching event during the particular amount of time. Those cells determined to have experienced the switching event responsive to the applied voltage ramp are sensed as storing a first data value and those cells determined to not have experienced the switching event responsive to the applied voltage ramp are sensed as storing a second data value. The group stores data according to an encoding function constrained such that each code pattern includes at least one data unit having the first data value.
US10424370B2
A sensor device comprising a computational memory and electronic circuitry. The sensor device is configured to receive an input signal, to compress the input signal into a compressed signal and to compute a reconstructed signal from the compressed signal. The electronic circuitry is configured to perform a reconstruction algorithm to compute the reconstructed signal. The computational memory is configured to compute the compressed signal and partial results of the reconstruction algorithm. A related method and a related design structure may be provided.
US10424365B2
Memory devices, systems including memory devices, and methods of operating memory devices in which multiple counters are provided to permit memory refresh commands greater freedom in targeting subsets of the memory device for data refresh operations. In one embodiment, a memory device is provided, comprising a plurality of memory banks, and circuitry configured to (i) store a plurality of values, each of the plurality of values corresponding to one of the plurality of memory banks; (ii) refresh first data stored in a first one of the plurality of memory banks; and (iii) update a first one of the plurality of values corresponding to the first one of the plurality of memory banks based at least in part on refreshing the first data.
US10424364B1
A memory device includes a memory array, a switch device, and a controller. The switch device is arranged between a first voltage node and a second voltage node. The second voltage node is connected to the memory array. The controller is enabled to output a refresh mode signal, a refresh trigger signal, and a pre-start up signal. The memory device enters a self-refresh mode in response to the refresh mode signal. The memory device performs a self-refresh on the memory array in the self-refresh mode. In self-refresh mode, the controller outputs the pre-start up signal first prior to the refresh trigger signal to enable the switch device, so that the voltage of the second voltage node is increased to the voltage of the first voltage mode.
US10424363B2
Apparatuses and methods for self-refreshing a plurality of dies are described. An example apparatus includes a first die including a first bank and a second bank, the first bank and the second bank including memory cells; and a second die vertically slacked with the first die, the second die including a third bank and a fourth bank, the third bank and the fourth bank including memory cells. The third bank is vertically aligned with the first bank. The first bank and the fourth bank are configured to be refreshed prior to refreshing the second bank and the fourth bank.
US10424344B2
An information processing apparatus includes: a casing which includes a side plate on each of left and right sides; and a processing apparatus to be mounted in the casing, wherein the processing apparatus includes: a board on which an arithmetic processing device and a storage device are mounted; a rail which is provided on each of the left and right sides of the board and extends in the horizontal direction to make the board slidable; a locking portion which locks the board to the casing; and a detection portion which detects that the board is taken out when the board is taken out from the casing by that locking by the locking portion is released and the board slides against the rails.
US10424335B2
An information reproduction apparatus includes plural magazines in which optical discs are set, plural drives for performing recording and reproduction on an optical disc set therein, a changer mechanism that transports a magazine between its setting position and one or more drives and mounts and remove a prescribed optical disc or discs in and from the one or more drives by performing either one of a single move process and a multi-move process, and a controller. The controller judges whether to conduct the single move process or the multi-move process based on a reading data list and use statuses of the respective drives.
US10424331B1
A data storage cartridge according to one embodiment comprises a housing configured to house a data storage medium, a sensor coupled to the housing, and a microcontroller coupled to the sensor. The microcontroller is configured to wirelessly communicate information about the sensor. Other embodiments relate to a data storage cartridge comprising a housing configured to house a data storage medium, a cartridge memory coupled to the housing, the cartridge memory having a wireless communications interface, and a microcontroller in physical communication with the cartridge memory. The microcontroller is configured to wirelessly communicate information retrieved from the cartridge memory. Additional embodiments relate to a data storage cartridge comprising a mechanical write protect mechanism coupled to the housing of the data storage cartridge, an actuator coupled to the mechanical write protect mechanism for selectively changing a state of the mechanical write protect mechanism, and a microcontroller configured to control the actuator.
US10424330B2
A magnetic tape includes a back coating layer having a thickness less than or equal to 0.30 μm and containing fatty acid ester. The logarithmic decrement acquired by a pendulum viscoelasticity test performed regarding the surface of the back coating layer is less than or equal to 0.060. The full width at half maximum of spacing distribution measured by optical interferometry regarding the surface of the back coating layer before and after performing a vacuum heating with respect to the magnetic tape is respectively greater than 0 nm and less than or equal to 10.0 nm, and the difference between the spacing measured by optical interferometry regarding the surface of the back coating layer after performing the vacuum heating and the spacing measured before performing the vacuum heating is greater than 0 nm and less than or equal to 8.0 nm.
US10424322B2
This magnetic head, which reads and writes magnetic information, prevents a signal from being read between the magnetic head and the write circuit during reading of magnetic information. A card reader 1 is provided with a magnetic head 6 which reads and writes magnetic information. Bidirectional diodes 54A, 54B are arranged inside of a head case 21 of the magnetic head 6. A write signal from a write circuit 72 is inputted via the bidirectional diodes 54A, 54B to a writing coil 34 wound around a core 32 of the magnetic head 6. The bidirectional diodes 54A, 54B and a demodulation IC 61 are mounted on a first board surface 62A of a control circuit board 62, and the control circuit board 62 is fixed to the head case 21 so that the bidirectional diodes 54A, 54B and the demodulation IC 61 are covered by the head case 21.
US10424319B2
Input of a conversation is received. The conversation includes at least a first user. An utterance of the conversation is analyzed to identify a dialog act attribute, an emotion attribute, and a tone attribute. The dialog act attribute, emotion attribute, and tone attribute are annotated to the utterance of the conversation. The conversation is validated based on the annotated attributes compared with a threshold. The annotated conversation and the validation of the conversation are stored.
US10424317B2
Disclosed methods and systems are directed to determining a best microphone pair and segmenting sound signals. The methods and systems may include receiving a collection of sound signals comprising speech from one or more audio sources (e.g., meeting participants) and/or background noise. The methods and systems may include calculating a TDOA and determining, based on the TDOA and via robust statistics, the best pair of microphones. The methods and systems may also include segmenting sound signals from multiple sources.
US10424306B2
An audio coding terminal and method is provided. The terminal includes a coding mode setting unit to set an operation mode, from plural operation modes, for input audio coding by a codec, configured to code the input audio based on the set operation mode such that when the set operation mode is a high frame erasure rate (FER) mode the codec codes a current frame of the input audio according to a select frame erasure concealment (FEC) mode of one or mom FEC modes. Upon the setting of the operation mode to be the High FER mode, the one FEC mode is selected, from the one or more FED modes predetermined for the High FER mode, to control the codec by incorporating of redundancy within a coding of the input audio or as separate redundancy information separate from the coded input audio according to the selected one FEC mode.
US10424305B2
An error-concealing audio decoding method comprises: receiving a packet comprising a set of MDCT coefficients encoding a frame of time-domain samples of an audio signal; identifying the received packet as erroneous; generating estimated MDCT coefficients to replace the set of MDCT coefficients of the erroneous packet, based on corresponding MDCT coefficients associated with a received packet directly preceding the erroneous packet; assigning signs of a first subset of MDCT coefficients of the estimated MDCT coefficients, wherein the first subset comprises such MDCT coefficients that are associated with tonal-like spectral bins, to coincide with signs of corresponding MDCT coefficients of said preceding packet; randomly assigning signs of a second subset of MDCT coefficients of the estimated MDCT coefficients, wherein the second subset comprises MDCT coefficients associated with noise-like spectral bins; replacing the erroneous packet by a concealment packet containing the estimated MDCT coefficients and the signs assigned.
US10424303B1
Methods and systems for authenticating a user are described. In some embodiments, a one-time token and a recording of the one-time token is read aloud by the user. The voice characteristics derived from the recording of the one-time token are compared with voice characteristics derived from samples of the user's voice. The user may be authenticated when the one-time token is verified and when a match of the voice characteristics derived from the recording of the one-time token and the voice characteristics derived from the samples of the user's voice meet or exceed a threshold.
US10424299B2
Techniques are disclosed for reliably masking speech commands directed to one or more computing devices to prevent the speech commands from being rendered. In some embodiments, each of the one or more computing devices includes components configured to generate acoustic data from ambient sound waves, process the acoustic data to identify a speech command sequence, and mask the speech command sequence from being rendered. At least some of the systems and methods disclosed herein monitor inbound audio at a fine grain level of detail. Working at this level of granularity enables the system and methods described herein to detect potential speech commands early within the user's utterance thereof and to discriminate quickly between true speech commands and other user utterances. These early detection and discrimination features, in turn, enable some embodiments to manage potential communication disruptions (e.g., jitter and/or latency) by modifying rates of audio prior to rendering.
US10424292B1
An audio controlled assistant captures environmental noise and converts the environmental noise into audio signals. The audio signals are provided to a system which analyzes the audio signals for a plurality of audio prompts, which have been customized for the acoustic environment surrounding the audio controlled assistant by an acoustic modeling system. The system configured to detect the presence of an audio prompt in the audio signals and transmit instructions associated with the detected audio prompt to at least one of the audio controlled assistant or one or more cloud based services, in response.
US10424290B2
Example apparatus and methods concern establishing context for a phone call. A computing device is controlled to display content and applications that are relevant for the call during the call. A party on the call is identified using data received from a phone used by the party. The relevant content and the relevant application are identified using actions (e.g., purchase to make, call to make) and intentions (e.g., family matter, business matter) identified in text provided in a text-based transcript of the call. The text-based transcript is provided in real time by a natural language processing (NLP) service during the call. The devices are controlled to selectively present the relevant content and the relevant application to make the call more automated and more productive. A to-do list is automatically generated based on the intentions, the actions, and on subject matter or content discussed or accessed during the call.
US10424288B2
This disclosure relates generally to the text-to-speech synthesis and more particularly to a system and method for rendering textual messages using customized natural voice. In one embodiment, a system for rendering textual messages using customized natural voice, is disclosed, comprising a processor and a memory communicatively coupled to the processor. The memory stores processor instructions, which, on execution, causes the processor to receive present textual messages and at least one of previous textual messages, response to the previous textual messages or receiver's context. The processor further predicts final emotional state of sender's customized natural voice based on an intermediate emotional state and the receiver's context. The processor further synthesizes the sender's customized natural voice based on the predicted final emotional state of the sender's customized natural voice, voice samples and voice parameters associated with the at least one sender.
US10424284B2
An underwater sound source includes an acoustical driver, a controller of the acoustical driver, and a resonant tube acoustically coupled to the acoustical driver. The resonant tube has a pair of slotted portions, in which each slotted portion is disposed along the length of the resonant tube at a location corresponding to a node of a harmonic of the resonant tube. The sound system is configured to emit an output signal within a bandwidth defined by a dual resonance characteristic of the resonator tube. The sound source may also include a pair of coaxial tubular sleeves disposed around the resonant tube, each sleeve configured to slidably cover one of the slotted portions, and tune the resonance frequency of the tube over a wide range. At a high frequency end, when slots are uncovered, the frequency response of the resonant tube obtains a dual-resonant form.
US10424275B2
An upright piano includes an internal space enclosed by a case including an upper front board disposed above a key bed and a lower front board disposed below the key bed, and a resonance tube in which a hollow region having an opening is formed and that is disposed in the internal space, in which the opening is disposed at the left end of the lower end of the upper front board or the upper end of the lower front board, or at the right end of the lower end of the upper front board or the upper end of the lower front board.
US10424265B2
The present disclosure relates to a liquid crystal display device, and particularly, to a gamma voltage generating circuit capable of increasing a gamma point without an addition buffer and without increasing a chip size, and a liquid crystal display (LCD) device including the same. By adding a gamma point by utilizing an output buffer for inputting a reference voltage, a gamma curve may be minutely adjusted without increasing cost and a size.
US10424264B2
A display device and method of operation that provides self-generated power. The device includes: a display portion including a plurality of pixels; a data driver applying a data signal to data lines connected to the plurality of pixels; a signal controller transmitting an image data signal for generation of the data signal to the data driver; a power supply generating a driving voltage for operation of the signal controller and the data driver; a thermoelectric generation portion generating electrical energy by using heat generated by at least one of the signal controller, the power supply, and the data driver; and a converter generating an auxiliary driving voltage that is the same as the driving voltage by using the electrical energy.
US10424262B2
A gate driving circuit includes a plurality of stages. A k-th stage from among the plurality of stages, the k-th stage includes a first input circuit to receive a (k−1)th gate signal from a (k−1)th stage and to precharge a first node, a second input circuit to receive a (k+2)th gate signal from a (k+2)th stage to transmit the received (k+2)th gate signal to a second node, an output circuit to output a first clock signal as a k-th gate signal in response to a signal of the first node, a discharge circuit configured to discharge the first node through the k-th gate signal in response to a signal of the second node, a first transfer circuit to transfer a second clock signal to the first node, and a second transfer circuit to transfer the first clock signal to the second node.
US10424260B2
A display device includes a plurality of pixels, each including a first sub-pixel indicating a first color, a second sub-pixel indicating a second color, and a third sub-pixel indicating a third color, data lines coupled to pixels arranged in a first direction and configured to supply a data signal to the coupled pixels, gate lines coupled to pixels arranged in a second direction crossing the first direction and configured to supply a gate signal to the coupled pixels, and a compensation circuit configured to calculate a difference between grayscale values of a data signal to be supplied to the first to third sub-pixels, and generate a clock signal based on the difference that controls a start time at which the data signal is inputted to the pixels.
US10424257B2
Disclosed is a backlight driving method. The backlight driving method includes: obtaining a first backlight brightness eigenvalue of one block of the frame; obtaining a backlight brightness eigenvalue of one block of each of M adjacent frames; calculating an absolute value of a difference between the first backlight brightness eigenvalue and a second backlight brightness eigenvalue of one block of a previous frame; determining a time-averaged length according to the absolute value; calculating a third backlight brightness eigenvalue of the one block of the frame according to the first backlight brightness eigenvalue and a backlight brightness eigenvalue of one block of each of the T adjacent frames; and driving the backlight corresponding to the one block of the frame according to the third backlight brightness eigenvalue.
US10424255B2
A display device includes a display panel including a gate line, a data line, and a pixel at a crossing region of the gate line and the data line, a timing controller configured to generate a gate driving control signal, a data driving control signal, and a power control signal based on a display period corresponding to a time interval of frames, a gate driver configured to provide a gate signal to the pixel through the gate line based on the gate driving control signal, a data driver configured to provide a data signal to the pixel through the data line based on the data driving control signal, and a power supply configured to generate a power voltage to drive the pixel, and configured to adjust the power voltage based on the power control signal during the display period.
US10424249B2
A pixel driving circuit and a driving method thereof, an array substrate, and a display device. The pixel driving circuit includes a drift suppression unit, a data writing unit, a compensating unit, and a working unit; the drift suppression unit receives a reference control signal and a reference signal; the drift suppression unit is configured to output the reference signal to the compensating unit under control of the reference control signal during a drift suppression period and a resetting period; during the drift suppression period, an electrical potential of the reference signal is smaller than zero.
US10424245B2
A display with a pixel circuit for driving a current-driven emissive element includes a feedback capacitor in series between the emissive element and a programming node of the pixel circuit. During driving, variations in the operating voltage of the emissive element due to variations in the current conveyed through the emissive element by a driving transistor are accounted for. The feedback capacitor generates voltage adjustments at the programming node that correspond to the variations at the emissive element, and thus reduces variations in light emission. A reset capacitor connected to a select line is selectively connected to the gate terminal of the driving transistor and resets the driving transistor prior to programming. The select line adjusts the voltage on the gate terminal to reset the driving transistor by the capacitive coupling of the select line to the gate terminal created by the reset capacitor.
US10424243B2
An organic light emitting diode display is discussed. The organic light emitting diode display includes a display area, in which first scan lines, second scan lines, and emission lines are disposed to intersect data lines, and pixels are disposed in a matrix, a data driver supplying a data voltage to the data lines, and a shift register supplying a first scan signal to the first scan lines, supplying a second scan signal to the second scan lines, and supplying an emission control signal to the emission lines. The shift register includes first scan signal stages sequentially supplying the first scan signal to pixels arranged on two adjacent horizontal lines, second scan signal stages sequentially supplying the second scan signal to the pixels, and an emission control signal stage simultaneously supplying the emission control signal to the pixels.
US10424238B2
A display device includes a timing controller and a display. The timing controller is connected to a connector of a USB cable and receive image signals from a host through the USB cable. The display receives the image signals from the timing controller to display an image. The timing controller includes an interface controller, a control signal selector, a data transmitter, and a data processor. The interface controller outputs control signals to control an output order of the image signals. The control signal selector selects and outputs a control signal corresponding to a connection position of the connector from the interface controller. The data transmitter determines the output order of the image signals from the host based on the control signal from the control signal selector. The data processor receives the image signal from the data transmitter and provides the image signal to the display.
US10424236B2
A method for displaying an image with a curved surface display effect is disclosed, which comprises: acquiring a position of a visual center point relative to a flat display panel; generating a curved surface based on the position, wherein a line between the visual center point and any point on the curved surface passes through a plane formed by the flat display panel, and intersects the curved surface once; generating a pixel grid on the curved surface based on resolution of the flat display panel; determining color information and luminance information of a pixel in the pixel grid; determining a valid pixel set in the flat display panel corresponding to the pixel grid; rendering the valid pixel set of the flat display panel based on the color information and the luminance information of the pixel grid.
US10424233B2
A control device includes at least one button, a veneer secured to an outer surface of the button, and at least one light source configured to backlight the button. The veneer includes indicia defining an open portion exposing a portion of a body of a respective button, a floating portion, and at least one rib that suspends the floating portion. The rib has an upper surface recessed relative to a front surface of the veneer, and opposed sides extending from a base of the rib to the upper surface. The opposed sides are tapered between the base and the upper surface, such that the upper surface is narrower than the base.
US10424220B2
Disclosed is a tutorial model including at least one frame provided with an assistance template for assisting in the recording of the frame, the recording of the frame being a rush that can be incorporated into a framework for a film or series of images or image; the invention also relates to a film or series of images or image which includes a framework and rushes incorporated into the framework, the rushes being produced from such a model; a method for designing a personalized film or series of images or image; a tutored coaching method for helping a user to record frames that can be incorporated into a framework; and a tutored coaching method for helping a user to learn professional gestures.
US10424219B2
Provided are systems and methods using which users may learn and become familiar with the effects of various aspects of their lifestyle on their health, e.g., users may learn about how food and/or exercise affects their glucose level and other physiological parameters, as well as overall health. In some cases the user selects a program to try; in other cases, a computing environment embodying the system suggests programs to try, including on the basis of pattern recognition, i.e., by the computing environment determining how a user could improve a detected pattern in some way. In this way, users such as type II diabetics or even users who are only prediabetic or non-diabetic may learn healthy habits to benefit their health.
US10424218B2
At least an expiratory period during which a user is instructed to take an expiratory action as a respiratory action and an inspiratory period during which the user is instructed to take an inspiratory action as the respiratory action are set. One of enlargement and reduction of a first object is performed during the expiratory period, and the other of the enlargement and the reduction of the first object is performed during the inspiratory period, the first object representing a loop path. During the expiratory period, a second object is caused to move along and complete one full circuit of the path in a time from a beginning to an end of the expiratory period, and during the inspiratory period, the second object is caused to move along and complete one full circuit of the path in a time from a beginning to an end of the inspiratory period.
US10424215B2
A combat simulation system is disclosed herein. The system includes a plurality of simulation weapons each having a trigger configured to simultaneous control emission of a light beam and initiate a combustion event to generate noise and provide kickback, a plurality of wearable sensors, and a plurality of user devices each configured to determine a user's location. The system further includes an administration computing device for: administering a simulated mission, deploying virtual weapons having blast events defined by a maximum blast radius and a plurality of rings, monitoring user locations, user operating parameters, and status of mission objectives during a simulated mission; and enabling dynamic control of the simulated mission including user operating parameters, simulated event objects, and mission parameters associated with the simulated mission, and displaying a plurality of graphical images indicative of information and parameters associated with the simulated mission including the monitored user locations.
US10424212B2
A computer-implemented method, a computer program product, and a system are provided. A plurality of multi-level cognitive exercises are provided to an individual. Each of the multi-level cognitive exercises includes at least one task to perform. The individual is requested to respond to a cognitive exercise in the plurality of cognitive exercises by performing the at least one task contained in the cognitive exercise. A response provided by the individual to the cognitive exercise is monitored. Based on the monitoring, a determination is made whether the individual performed the at least one task at a predetermined performance level, wherein the performance level is defined by the at least one task contained in the cognitive exercise. Based on the determining, the individual is requested to perform at least another task. At least one activity for the individual to perform is generated. The at least one activity is based on responses to the multi-level cognitive exercises by the individual.
US10424207B2
A system and method to alert pilots of the presence of drone aircraft and to document or report errant drone flight operations, in particular to alert and report drone aircraft which may present a hazard to a piloted aircraft and/or are operating outside governing regulations. In one embodiment, the system comprises a surveillance subsystem configured to identify a drone operating in an airspace adjacent the aircraft; an imaging subsystem configured to acquire at least one image of the drone; a triggering subsystem interconnected with the surveillance subsystem and configured to activate the imaging subsystem; a navigational subsystem configured to provide aircraft state data associated with the at least one image; and a communication subsystem configured to transmit the at least one image and the associated aircraft state data to a receiving station; wherein the at least one image and the associated aircraft state data are transmitted to the receiving station.
US10424202B1
A method, apparatus, and computer program product are provided in accordance with an example embodiment described herein for providing a recommendation for a parking strategy. A method may be provided for providing the recommendation for a parking strategy for a vehicle in vicinity of a link that includes: determining an availability metric for the link; determining a turnover metric of vehicles in the link; calculating, by a processor, a strategy metric based on a function of at least the availability metric and the turnover metric, for identifying a strategy for providing parking related recommendation, and providing data for indicating the identified strategy for parking to a user interface. The data for indication may include data for indicating a route for the vehicle on the user interface to navigate to a favorable parking spot in the vicinity of the link, in accordance with the identified strategy for parking.
US10424198B2
A mobile starting light signaling system for a pair of vehicles in a race having at least two units. A primary unit is connected to a primary vehicle and a second unit is connected to a secondary vehicle. Each unit has a sensor in electrical communication with a display. The display has a green light, a yellow light, and a red light. The first sensor is in bidirectional communication with the second sensor to determine whether or not the primary vehicle is in alignment with the secondary vehicle. The red light is illuminated when the primary vehicle is not in alignment with the secondary vehicle. The yellow light is illuminated when the primary vehicle is in alignment with the secondary vehicle. The green light is illuminated to indicate the start of the race when the primary vehicle is in alignment with the secondary vehicle for a predetermined time.
US10424179B2
Invention describes set of units able to communicate one with each other by means of cooperating software, mutually control themselves and imagine displays from other units. Invention enables by means of indicated set or individual units as well, to make remote monitoring of persons and control their location, heath condition and capacity. Also, it enables to monitored persons to check their condition on mobile unit.
US10424175B2
A method, device, and system for video monitoring based on feedback provided by one or more users. The device includes a processor configured to acquire video data and analyze the video data, based on a set of rules, to determine whether to generate an alert indicating a motion event. The processor of the device is further configured to transmit the alert to a recipient f an alert is generated and to update the set of rules based on feedback or an action of the recipient in response to the alert.
US10424170B1
The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for an Automated Teller Machine to issue a secured bank card. An Automated Teller Machine to issue a secured bank card includes one or more memories storing instructions and one or more processors configured to execute instruction to perform operations. The operations include receiving a request for a secured bank card from a user, determining if the user is a current customer, obtaining bank card application information about the user, receiving additional information to confirm the identity of the user, determining if there are already existing accounts tied to the user, transmitting the bank card application information to a server associated with the card issuer, receiving card options the user is qualified for, presenting the card options and instructions to select a cash amount to be remitted, approving, upon receipt of the cash amount, issuance of the secured bank card, creating a unique account for the secured bank card, activating the secured bank card and associating it with the unique account, and dispensing the newly activated secured bank card.
US10424162B2
The present disclosure is directed to a gaming system and method providing a gaming tournament with a dynamic equalizer feature. In various embodiments, responsive to the dynamic equalizer feature being triggered, the gaming system may select a player who is not performing well in the tournament and provide that player enough tournament points to bring that player back into contention in the tournament. The dynamic equalizer feature provides a way to compensate for the inherent variability of tournament play—i.e., some players by chance accumulating more tournament points than others during the same time period—so players with low tournament point balances always feel like they have a chance to win the tournament regardless of their bad luck during tournament game play. This ensures that at all players remain engaged and entertained throughout the duration of the tournament.
US10424160B2
A system and method of providing wagering over a computerized system. The system includes a computerized multi-player game. The game includes an integral game mechanics module for providing a game-play session over a computerized network. The game mechanics module is in real-time communication with a wagering module and therethrough the wagering module automatically receiving real-time game event information. The game mechanics module provides a wagering option to a player in real-time that is selectable by a game-play action.
US10424157B2
Embodiments of the invention include a mystery degressive bonus system. Instead of a bonus that increases its value as the likelihood of winning the bonus increases, embodiments of the invention disconnect the likelihood of winning a mystery bonus from the amount awarded for triggering the mystery bonus. In some embodiments as the likelihood of winning the mystery bonus increases, the award for winning the mystery bonus decreases. Some embodiments include a minimum value for winning the mystery bonus. Additional embodiments are directed to an indicator system to show to the player a present amount of the mystery bonus award as well as the likelihood of winning the award. Further embodiments include a gaming device that includes a bonus game in which the amount awarded to the player decreases over time.
US10424156B2
A gaming system comprising a gaming server, and a plurality of user terminals, the gaming server and the gaming machines being connected via a network; the gaming server providing a database to store a plurality of records, each record having an account number as a key value; each of the gaming machines comprising a biometric interface for requesting a user's biometric data for storing with the account; and means for handling e-wallet cash information of the user; and wherein at least one user terminal is adapted as a cash out terminal to provide cash payout of the users e-wallet to the user upon authentication by means of the biometric interface and the stored biometric data.
US10424154B2
In certain embodiments, a casino system has a server and a kiosk that receives, from a user, a voucher/player card having an associated monetary value and dispenses, to the user, a portion of the monetary value in paper currency, while the network converts the remainder of the monetary value to player points associated with the user. The kiosk may enable the user to select the portion of the monetary value to convert to player points and/or the portion of the monetary value to receive in paper currency, where the rate of converting monetary value to player points may increase as the selected portion of monetary value increases. Alternatively, the network may automatically select the portion to dispense in paper currency and the portion to convert to player points based on the smallest denomination of paper currency available to be dispensed by the kiosk.
US10424151B1
The present disclosure relates generally to a system that utilizes an application running on a mobile device to collect game-based data regarding a player's experience at a gaming establishment.
US10424143B2
A delivery and collection system comprises a plurality of automated locker assemblies, each comprising a plurality of contiguous lockers which are monitored and controlled by a central computer system. Each locker has an autonomous lock unit including a processor, memory and short range wireless transceiver which communicates with any of a plurality of mobile phones or other wireless devices. Customers of the system are granted access to the lockers by validation codes which are communicated via an enabling message from the central computer system to an app running on the customer's device. The app is configured to send an access request to the lock unit based on the enabling message, and to transmit event details downloaded from the lock unit back to the central computer system. Each enabling message may authorise the user device to perform multiple deliveries or collections or may be a one-time code.
US10424137B2
A method, system, and apparatus for dynamically presenting desired vehicular-reference information for a motor vehicle under evaluation is provided. In one aspect, an example method includes: (a) a computing system receiving, via a user interface, (i) vehicular-reference data indicating at least one vehicle parameter, and (ii) first information-presentation data indicating at least one information-presentation preference; (b) the computing system selecting at least one first piece of vehicular-reference information based on at least one of the received vehicular-reference data and the received first information-presentation data; (c) the computing system selecting a presentation window based on at least one of the received vehicular-reference data and the received first information-presentation data; and (d) the computing system causing a visual depiction of (i) the selected vehicular-reference information and (ii) the selected presentation window to be displayed on a graphical display.
US10424132B2
In some examples, a system may receive, over a network from a vehicle computing device onboard a vehicle, sensor data for at least one sensed parameter of a vehicle component. The system may determine, based on the sensor data, a damage result indicative of fatigue damage to the vehicle component. Based at least partially on the damage result, the system may send a communication to at least one of the vehicle computing device onboard the vehicle, or a computing device associated with an account associated with the vehicle. In some cases, the damage result may be determined from at least one of accessing a lookup table using the sensor data, or executing a fatigue simulation using sensor data.
US10424131B2
A fleet management system for vehicles and batteries at a geographical location may include vehicle identification devices each associated with a corresponding vehicle at the geographical location. The system may also include wireless battery monitors at the geographical location associated with the batteries. Each of the wireless battery monitors may be configured to, when the associated battery is connected to a vehicle, during a discharge cycle, communicate with the vehicle identification device associated with the vehicle to collect a vehicle identifier associated with the vehicle identification device, and store battery activity records for the associated battery along with the vehicle identifier. The system may also include a fleet management cloud server configured to remotely collect the battery activity records and process the battery activity records to determine vehicle utilization for each vehicle based upon a corresponding vehicle identifier and battery utilization for each battery across the vehicles and batteries.
US10424129B2
A tire condition telematics system. The system includes a vehicle having an onboard computer and one or more wheel assemblies with one or more tires with a tire tread. A prediction as to when said tire tread will fall below a minimum tread depth in performed. The prediction is based on an amount of distance said wheel assemblies experience said wheel slip condition, a distance said wheel assemblies drive over said one or more road materials, a distance said wheel assemblies drive in rain and snow, a distance one or more loads are on said vehicle.
US10424126B2
Systems and methods which provide for activation of postage indicia at a point of sale are shown. In operation according to embodiments, unassigned (e.g., not yet activated or not yet representing postage value) tokens (e.g., IBI barcodes) suitable for later use as postage indicia are distributed to various point of sale locations, such as retail locations, consumer kiosks, vending machines, etc. and made available for purchase by users. Upon purchase, at a point of sale, such unassigned tokens are preferably activated as valid or “live” postage indicia. Thereafter, the postage indicia may be used to post mail items.
US10424120B2
The quality of service one may expect from a given network is often hard to determine in advance. Further, given agreements between network service providers and a variety of content providers, the complexity inherent in selecting a given available network is increasing for consumers. Embodiments described herein provide mechanisms for creating an augmented reality presentation of networks and the service quality of those networks. The presentation may display information regarding a variety of factors including content transit agreements with content providers, quality-of-service or prioritization guarantees for certain types of content, or low-level Wi-Fi signal quality. These presentations allow users to ascertain where in a given spatial area good quality is available for whichever services they intend to use.
US10424113B2
Apparatus and associated methods relate to fitting a virtual mask to a virtual face by first fitting a chin region of the virtual mask to the virtual face, then determining an virtual mask angle that maintains the fitted chin region while simultaneously fitting a nose-bridge region of the virtual mask to the virtual face, and then calculating a fit-quality metric corresponding to the fitted position. In an illustrative embodiment, the fitted chin region may include the high curvature menton region of the chin. In some examples, a virtual mask may be virtually pressed toward the virtual face using a predetermined force corresponding to a force of a mask securing device of a real mask corresponding to the virtual mask In an exemplary embodiment, the fitting of a virtual mask to a virtual face may advantageously yield a mask's fit quality in a brief amount of time.
US10424111B2
A client device receives a request to render a digital map of a certain geographic area. The client device retrieves a first map image layer covering the geographic area from a memory of the client device, where the first map image layer has a first resolution, and receives a second map image layer covering the same geographic area from the map server, where the second map image layer has a second resolution different from the first resolution. The client device combines the first map image layer retrieved from the memory of the client device with the second map image layer received from the map server to generate a single digital map of the geographic area.
US10424103B2
Examples relating to attracting the gaze of a viewer of a display are disclosed. One example method comprises controlling the display to display a target object and using gaze tracking data to monitor a viewer gaze location. A guide element is displayed moving along a computed dynamic path that traverses adjacent to a viewer gaze location and leads to the target object. If the viewer's gaze location is within a predetermined divergence threshold of the guide element, then the display continues displaying the guide element moving along the computed dynamic guide path to the target object. If the viewer's gaze location diverts from the guide element by at least the predetermined divergence threshold, then the display discontinues displaying the guide element moving along the computed dynamic guide path to the target object.
US10424092B2
A system or computer usable program product for representing a piece of a road as a first ordered series of line segments connected in an end-to-end fashion; representing the piece of the road as a second ordered series of line segments connected in an end-to-end fashion; for each given pair of two consecutive points of the second ordered series of points, determining a corresponding plurality of in-between points from the first ordered series of points; for each given line segment of the second ordered series of line segments, determining a first traffic characteristic value corresponding to the given line segment and a portion of the piece of the road which the given line segment represents; and presenting a visual representation of the piece of the road.
US10424091B1
A method of beamforming datasets from a tomographic detection system. The system comprises scintillation detectors that are arranged in D detector pairs, D≥1, wherein the detectors are adapted to count radiation hits. According to the method in one aspect, a tomographic dataset is received for each detector pair coordinates (θd, pd) of a detector pair d of the D detector pairs, so as to obtain a plurality of tomographic datasets. Each of said datasets is associated with respective detector pair coordinates (θd, pd). Then, for each point y of interest, the received datasets are coherently combined by weighting the datasets according to respective beamforming weights d(y)=ω(θd, pd; y), based on said respective detector pair coordinates (θd, pd) and coordinates of said each point y of interest. This way, a signal focusing on said each point y is obtained. Related tomographic detection systems and computer program products may be also presented.
US10424089B2
The disclosure relates to a method for reconstructing a preview of a magnetic resonance examination, a magnetic resonance apparatus, and a computer program product. The method includes recording a first set of magnetic resonance data, from which a second set of magnetic resonance data is selected. Based on the second set of magnetic resonance data, a preview is reconstructed.
US10424076B2
A method can include generating reference image data representing a field of view of an interior of a fuel tank, and generating active image data representing the field of view of the interior of the fuel tank when the fuel tank contains fuel. The method can further include producing, by a processing device, a fuel measurement value representing an amount of fuel contained in the fuel tank based on the reference image data and the active image data, and outputting, by the processing device, an indication of the fuel measurement value.
US10424065B2
Systems and methods for performing three-dimensional semantic parsing of indoor spaces in accordance with embodiments of the invention are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving input data representing a three-dimensional space, determining disjointed spaces within the received data by generating a density histogram on each of a plurality of axes, determining space dividers based on the generated density histogram, and dividing the point cloud data into segments based on the determined space dividers, and determining elements in the disjointed spaces by aligning the disjointed spaces within the point cloud data along similar axes to create aligned versions of the disjointed spaces normalizing the aligned version of the disjointed spaces into the aligned version of the disjointed spaces, determining features in the disjointed spaces, generating at least one detection score, and filtering the at least one detection score to determine a final set of determined elements.
US10424057B2
An active real-time characterization system for detecting unwanted elements and/or physical imperfections on a semiconductor wafer during manufacturing. Infrared and visible light sources output beams of coherent light directed at a particular area on the semiconductor wafer via associated polarizing control elements. A series of cameras, including a visible light camera, a visible light second harmonic generation camera, an infrared camera, an infrared second harmonic generation camera, a sum-frequency camera and a third-order camera are configured to receive return beams of light via associated polarizing control elements. The polarizing control elements include a polarizer, a quarter wave plate and/or a half wave plate. A processor processes the signals received from the cameras to detect unwanted elements and/or physical imperfections on the semiconductor wafer.
US10424047B2
Systems and methods for creating a ground confidence map of a geographic area, comprising the steps of creating a ground confidence map of a geographic area, the ground confidence map having a plurality of pixels with each pixel corresponding to a particular geographic location; assigning the pixels in the ground confidence map with pixel values indicative of composite ground confidence scores; and storing pixel values indicative of a statistical probability that the geographical location represented by the particular pixels represent the ground.
US10424043B1
Graphics processing systems and methods are described. A graphics processing apparatus may comprise one or more graphics processing cores, a shared buffer accessible to a user mode driver (UMD) associated with an application in an unprivileged domain, the UMD to write one or more commands to the shared buffer, and a controller parse a workload in the shared buffer to identify one or more commands in the workload, the workload added by the application executing in the unprivileged domain, associate a trigger with a command in the workload, transfer the workload to one or more components of the graphics processing apparatus for execution, and upon execution of the command associated with the trigger, sample the shared buffer to identify a new workload added to the shared buffer. The one or more components of the graphics processing apparatus automatically execute the new workload added to the shared buffer.
US10424038B2
The present disclosure relates to advanced image processing and encoded signal processing. One claim recites an image processing method comprising the acts: receiving a digital representation of product packaging artwork, comprised of pixels; defining a guard band region surrounding text characters included in the artwork, in which a first region encloses the guard band region, and a second region encloses the first region; and altering the artwork to redundantly encode a machine-readable plural-bit payload across different regions of the artwork. The altering only alters the artwork outside of the guard band region, wherein a strength of the encoding has a first value in the first region, and has a second, stronger, value in the second region. Of course, other claims and combinations are described as well.
US10424035B1
Individuals are remotely monitored over a data communication network to automatically detect and responds to anomalous conditions. A user account of a plurality of user accounts is configured for remote monitoring for emergency conditions of monitored individuals. A monitoring device can be wearable and in physical contact with a first individual. A notifying device can also be wearable for a second individual for notification of emergency conditions. An anomalous condition is detected. The monitoring device includes sensors that measure conditions within and around the first individual, and send readings to the anomalous condition server for analysis. An alert is sent responsive to the anomaly determination, from the network communication interface, to the notifying device, according to personalized settings of the second individual.
US10424015B2
A system for managing trading orders comprises a memory operable to store a first trading order for a particular trading product, wherein the first trading order comprises a display portion and a reserve portion and is received from a first trader. The memory is further operable to store a second trading order for the particular trading product, wherein the second trading order comprises a display portion and a reserve portion and the second trading order is received from a second trader after the first trading order. The system further comprises a processor communicatively coupled to the memory and operable to receive from a counterparty trader a counterorder for the trading product. The processor is further operable to use the counterorder to fill the display portion of the first trading order. The processor is further operable to use the counterorder to fill the display portion of the second trading order. After filling the display portion of the second trading order, the processor is further operable to exclusively offer at least a portion of the counterorder to the first trader for a configurable period of time.
US10424014B2
Methods and systems are disclosed for providing seller-initiated financing in a sale of an item between private parties. A financial service system configures a financing program to give sellers the opportunity to offer prospective buyers financing directly. The financial service system enrolls a given seller in the program, providing resources and services to the seller to help market the sale and select a credit-worthy buyer. Once the transaction is completed, the financial service system transfers proceeds to the seller, then configures a loan account and payment plan for the buyer. Alternatively, the program can be implemented with an intermediate service provider, such as an online marketplace retailer. The service provider enrolls the seller and assists with marketing and buyer selection, and the financial service system transfers proceeds to the seller and service provider, and configures a loan account and payment plan for the buyer.
US10424009B1
Disclosed are various embodiments for facilitating a shopping experience that spans multiple display devices of multiple computing devices. Image data for a selected item is obtained from an item catalog. The selected item corresponds to a user selection made via a first computing device. An image of the user is obtained. An image of the selected item is rendered relative to the image of the user on a display of a second computing device. The image of the selected item is generated from the image data.
US10424003B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for management of physical items. A method includes actions of receiving, for each of a plurality of users, a list that identifies types of items that are indicated as of interest to the user, determining a particular item that is likely of interest to the plurality users, receiving, for each of the plurality of users, reservation information that indicates a particular geographic area and a corresponding time that the user is scheduled to visit, determining that each of the plurality of users is scheduled to visit at a particular time period, identifying a facility physically located in or nearby the particular geographic area, determining that the particular item is not presented in a particular area of the facility at the particular time period, and generating instructions to cause the particular item to be presented.
US10423999B1
Techniques are described for determining personalized category-based product information for a user. The described techniques may in some situations be used by or on behalf of an online retailer to determine a sorted order of at least some products within a product category for the online retailer to display to a customer user on a category-specific Web page of the online retailer, such as based on a browse request by the customer for that category or on another identification of the category by the customer. The determination of particular personalized category-based sorted products for such a customer may in some situations be performed based at least in part on prior activities of the customer, including prior interactions by the customer with the online retailer (e.g., actions by the customer to view and/or purchase particular products, product brands, product sub-categories, product sizes, etc.).
US10423997B2
Electronic commerce over a computer network is facilitated by a computer system that forms a community of computers that enable the users to buy and sell items in an online marketplace. To list the item on an online marketplace website, for example, the selling user posts an item with a seller marketplace item management website by completing an online-item marketplace item creation form. The form requires input related to the item, such as a description, sale price or minimum bid, shipping instructions, and the like, and an image file or image file location illustrating the marketplace item. The seller marketplace item management server provides a marketplace administrator server the marketplace item data including original image file or image file location. The server contains a random image size generator that generates at least two additional images of the marketplace item for display in a seller marketplace item web page to advertise the marketplace item.
US10423995B2
Systems, methods, and devices of the various embodiments enable virtual displays of an item, such as vehicle, to be generated. In an embodiment, a plurality of images of an item may be captured and annotation may be provided to one or more of the images. In an embodiment, the plurality of images may be displayed, and the transition between each of the plurality of images may be an animated process. In an embodiment, an item imaging system may comprise a structure including one or more cameras and one or more lights, and the item imaging system may be configured to automate at least a portion of the process for capturing the plurality of images of an item.
US10423993B2
A method begins with a marketplace server authenticating value of an exchange item to produce an authenticated value of the exchange item and continues with the marketplace server obtaining control over a secure exchange item package, where the secure exchange item package includes identity of the exchange item. The method continues with the marketplace server receiving, from a buyer device, a request to purchase the exchange item and securely passing, to the buyer device, control over the secure exchange item package. For use of the exchange item, the method continues with the buyer device securely passing, to a merchant server, control over the secure exchange item package. The method continues with the merchant server executing use of the exchange item by updating the value of the exchange item, generating an updated secure exchange item package, and securely passing, to the buyer device, control over the updated secure exchange item package.
US10423989B2
A computer-implemented method includes receiving a vehicle condition query via a computer network and retrieving condition data corresponding to a vehicle from a vehicle condition database. Further, the method includes determining a condition of the vehicle based on a collective analysis of the condition data, wherein the condition of the vehicle relates to at least one of a quality or a value of the vehicle, and developing one or more condition descriptors reflecting the condition of the vehicle. Still further, the method includes generating a vehicle condition report including an indication of the one or more condition descriptors and communicating, via the computer network, the vehicle condition report to a remote computing device for presentation to a user of the remote computing device.
US10423981B2
The disclosure herein provides systems and methods for a media enhancement system configured to associate a secondary media signal (for example, the secondary media signal can comprise an advertisement) to a primary media signal (for example, a radio broadcast). The disclosure herein additionally provides systems and methods for a media enhancement system that enables the generating, transmitting, displaying, and/or responding to a plurality of associated and/or unassociated secondary media signals, based on a primary media content from a primary media signal, user characteristics (for example, demographic and/or geographic information), and/or third-party preferences (for example, the goals of advertisers). The secondary media signals can be used to enhance the primary media content already being provided to the user on a user device. The secondary media signals can also be used to create psychological associations or relationships with the primary media content already being provided to the user.
US10423980B2
A payment system for parking locations communicates with a plurality of parking meters, each of which is associated with a predetermined geographic location corresponding to a parking location. The system receives user identifying information via a communication related to payment for a parking session at a parking location identified by the communication, and determines a user credit/debit card data for payment of the parking session based on the user identifying information. Data related to the parking session at the geographic location of the parking meter is stored in a database associated with a parking history of the user, and determines one or more advertisements to communicate to the user based on the geographic location of the parking meter and previously stored data related to the parking history of the user.
US10423958B2
The present invention provides a method, apparatus, and system for voice verification, wherein the method comprises: at a network side, obtaining a user voice communication number according to a voice verification request from a user side, and determining voice verification information corresponding to the voice verification request; at the network side, initiating a call to a corresponding user according to the user voice communication number, and in the case of call through, playing the determined voice verification information to the user; at the user side, performing an automatic listening and recording operation when monitoring that the user is called, and upon termination of the call, sending recording information obtained from the recording to the network side; at the network side, determining a verification result according to the voice verification information and the recording information.
US10423956B1
A computer-implemented method and system for authenticating identification of a customer during interaction with a company representative. Data is received and stored relating to the customer at a computer. The data includes one or more identification attributes associated with the customer and one or more authentication data attributes associated with the customer. An interaction is commenced between the customer and the company representative. Captured is one or more identification attributes and authentication data attributes relating to customer from the interaction between the customer and the company representative. The customer is identified by matching a captured identification attribute with a stored identification attribute. The customer is authenticated by matching a captured authentication data attribute with a like stored authentication data attribute associated with the identified customer.
US10423954B2
A program product and device for processing a resource account transaction within a wireless electronic device, such as a smartphone or other portable electronic device. During or at the initiation of a resource transaction with a near-field transaction terminal, the device receives from the terminal via a first communication interface, a resource account system ID. A locally stored resource account is selectively identified based on the received resource account system ID. The device sends a resource account application ID corresponding to the selected resource account to the near-field transaction terminal via the first communication interface. From the near-field transaction terminal, the device receives a token ID that is associated with the selected resource account, and sends, the token ID to an account management system via a second communication interface. The device receives from the account management system a transaction token comprising the token ID associated with a specified transaction resource value.
US10423953B2
A system, method, and computer readable medium (collectively, the “system”) are provided. The system may include a processor configured to perform operations and/or steps comprising storing, by a processor, a session key on a mobile device, wherein the session key is encrypted. The system receiving a transaction request, decrypting the session key, and broadcasting a signal configured for being received by a magnetic stripe reader. Track 1 data and/or track 2 data may be encoded in the signal. The track 1 data and/or the track 2 data may also comprise a dynamically generated value that is generated based on the session key.
US10423949B2
A method of transaction between a mobile payment device and a vending machine is described, together with a system and elements of a system supporting such a method of transaction. The method comprises establishing wireless contact between the mobile payment device and the vending machine. Vending machine transaction details are established between the mobile payment device and the vending machine. These vending machine transaction details are sent to a vending platform associated with a payment infrastructure where the vending machine transaction is authorized. The vending platform then provides an authorization token for the vending machine transaction, allowing the vending machine to enable vending when the authorization token has been received.
US10423946B2
A POS terminal device capable of improving a recognition rate in a process for recognizing a commodity irrespective of the surrounding environment is provided. A POS terminal device (1) includes a brightness measurement unit (2), an irradiation unit (4), an image pickup unit (6), and a recognition process unit (8). The brightness measurement unit (2) measures the brightness of environmental light around the POS terminal device (1). The irradiation unit (4) irradiates a commodity with light, the light being adjusted according to the brightness of the environmental light measured by the brightness measurement unit (2). The image pickup unit (6) shoots the commodity irradiated with the light by the irradiation unit (4) and thereby generates an image thereof. The recognition process unit (8) performs a process for recognizing the commodity based on the image generated by the shooting performed by the image-pickup unit (6).
US10423945B2
An iron-type golf club and a method of creating the iron-type golf club including the steps of forming a club head blank having a blank loft, a blank head weight of 345-400 grams, and an external sacrificial region having an ESR thickness, an ESR sole portion, an ESR face portion, and an ESR leading edge portion. A finished club head is formed having a finished club head weight of less than 310 grams by machining off an ESR removed mass from at least a portion of the external sacrificial region including at least a portion of the ESR sole portion, a portion of the ESR face portion, and a portion of the ESR leading edge portion.
US10423940B2
A session to enroll customers to make payments has two stages, a first stage completed on the telephone or on a merchant or debt collector website, and a second stage completed via a communications link such as a telephone or Internet link. The customer enrollment record is linked to financial account information received from the customer in the second stage and stored on a second, secure server. A token linked to the securely stored financial account information is returned to the merchant and then used by the merchant to initiate payments on that financial account. The merchant's personnel and customer record system do not store or have access to the underlying financial account information.
US10423930B2
A schedule management apparatus includes a schedule information receiving unit that receives schedule information generated by one or more client devices from each of the client devices, the schedule information including a description of an event, a location of the event, and a date/time of the event. On the basis of the schedule information received by the schedule information receiving unit, information is displayed on each of the client devices about an event to be newly added that matches the schedule information without overlapping with a date/time of each of events scheduled before and after the event, the information representing at least one of a duration of the event, a location of the event, and a route to the event.
US10423916B1
A computer implemented method for generating a performance rating for a developer may include monitoring developer activities to obtain near real-time activity data; exploring the near real-time activity data to identify entities; structuring the near real-time activity data into data-frame objects; performing a feature engineering procedure to measure representative behaviors of the developer and performing a performance analysis to produce performance rating of the developer.
US10423912B2
Certain example embodiments relate to systems and/or methods for providing enhanced control over potentially sensitive data sharable among and/or between different parties. For example, certain example embodiments provide views into computer-enabled workflows managed by external parties, including views into what sensitive data has been accessed, who has accessed it, etc., e.g., throughout the lifecycle of a product granted on the basis of an analysis of such data. A computer-enabled system for automatically assessing received sensitive data in accordance with one or more digitized rule sets also is provided in certain example embodiments, as are computer-mediated tools for helping to automatically, semi-automatically, and/or manually resolve issues detected in the assessments, e.g., via enhanced communication and collaboration, among and/or between parties to a transaction, as well as third-parties who indirectly are involved in the transaction. The data remains secure and traceable, e.g., in accordance with its provider's specifications.
US10423909B2
In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for managing business deals. The mechanisms and methods for managing business deals may enable embodiments to provide a dynamic and interactive user-interface including any combination of contacts, accounts, opportunities, allowing users to create tasks, events, leads (e.g., from Data.com), reports, dashboards, instant messenger, external deal spaces, email service (e.g., Outlook), a cloud-based productivity suite for businesses that allows work on any device (e.g., Google apps), mobile access, private messaging, lead management, mass email templates, social media monitoring (e.g., from Radian6), role-based sharing and security, and/or additional storage, for example. In an embodiment, the number of contacts may be unlimited.
US10423904B2
A computer-implemented method provides a job performance plan for a plurality of jobs to be performed at geographical locations. The computer receives job data that represent job requirements for specified locations and processes the job data with the data-structure to provide an initial job performance plan. The computer receives updated job data and identifies a sub-set of the data structure. The computer processes the updated job data with the sub-set to provide an updated job performance plan, wherein some of the routes are re-assigned to specified job performers. The sub-set is selected under consideration of location clusters. Step repetitions with different clusters are provided to increase accuracy.
US10423897B2
A method, system and computer-readable device for presenting geographically relevant content are provided. They can include reading a remote internet protocol address of a user computing device based on an initial request for content from the user computer device, determining a primary home airport based on the internet protocol address of the user computing device and searching a database for an available flight and hotel package having a flight originating at the primary home airport. They can also include identifying a preferred flight and hotel package from among a plurality of available flight and hotel packages having flights originating at the primary home airport by eliminating travel packages from among the plurality of available flight and hotel packages that have destinations unlikely to be popular for a particular geographic region associated with the internet protocol address.
US10423892B2
Techniques are disclosed for analyzing and learning behavior in an acquired stream of video frames. In one embodiment, a trajectory analyzer clusters trajectories of objects depicted in video frames and builds a trajectory model including the trajectory clusters, a prior probability of assigning a trajectory to each cluster, and an intra-cluster probability distribution indicating the probability that a trajectory mapping to each cluster is least various distances away from the cluster. Given a new trajectory, a score indicating how unusual the trajectory is may be computed based on the product of the probability of the trajectory mapping to a particular cluster and the intra-cluster probability of the trajectory being a computed distance from the cluster. The distance used to match the trajectory to the cluster and determine intra-cluster probability is computed using a parallel Needleman-Wunsch algorithm, with cells in antidiagonals of a matrix and connected sub-matrices being computed in parallel.
US10423879B2
Weighted population code in neuromorphic systems is provided. According to an embodiment, a plurality of input values is received. For each of the plurality of values, a plurality of spikes is generated. Each of the plurality of spikes has an associated weight. A consumption time is determined for each of the plurality of spikes. Each of the plurality of spikes is sent for consumption at its consumption time.
US10423876B2
A processor comprises a neural network unit (NNU) and a processing complex (PC) comprising a processing core and cache memory. The NNU comprises neural processing units (NPU), cache control logic (CCL) and a memory array (MA). To transition from a first mode in which the MA operates to hold neural network weights for the array of NPUs to a second mode in which the MA and CCL operate as a victim cache, the CCL begins to cache evicted cache lines into the MA in response to eviction requests and begins to provide to the PC lines that hit in the MA in response to load requests. To transition from the second mode to the first mode, the CCL invalidates all lines of the MA, ceases to cache evicted lines into the MA in response to eviction requests, and ceases to provide to the PC lines in response to load requests.
US10423874B2
Presented herein are embodiments of a multimodal Recurrent Neural Network (m-RNN) model for generating novel image captions. In embodiments, it directly models the probability distribution of generating a word given a previous word or words and an image, and image captions are generated according to this distribution. In embodiments, the model comprises two sub-networks: a deep recurrent neural network for sentences and a deep convolutional network for images. In embodiments, these two sub-networks interact with each other in a multimodal layer to form the whole m-RNN model. The effectiveness of an embodiment of model was validated on four benchmark datasets, and it outperformed the state-of-the-art methods. In embodiments, the m-RNN model may also be applied to retrieval tasks for retrieving images or captions.
US10423869B1
An appliance communication system is provided herein. The appliance communications system may include an appliance and a passive command tag. The appliance may include a controller configured to direct an operating cycle and an interface module configured to receive an instruction signal corresponding to the operating cycle. The passive command tag may be separably engaged with the appliance in selective communication with the interface module. The passive command tag may be configured to transmit the instruction signal in response to a read signal received from the interface module. The controller may be configured to vary the operating cycle based on the received instruction signal.
US10423860B1
A method for learning parameters of an object detector based on a CNN adaptable to customers' requirements such as KPI by using an image concatenation and a target object merging network is provided. The CNN can be redesigned when scales of objects change as a focal length or a resolution changes depending on the KPI. The method includes steps of: a learning device instructing an image-manipulating network to generate n manipulated images; instructing an RPN to generate first to n-th object proposals respectively in the manipulated images, and instructing an FC layer to generate first to n-th object detection information; and instructing the target object merging network to merge the object proposals and merge the object detection information. In this method, the object proposals can be generated by using lidar. The method can be useful for multi-camera, SVM(surround view monitor), and the like, as accuracy of 2D bounding boxes improves.
US10423840B1
A post-processing method for detecting lanes to plan the drive path of an autonomous vehicle by using a segmentation score map and a clustering map is provided. The method includes steps of: a computing device acquiring the segmentation score map and the clustering map from a CNN; instructing a post-processing module to detect lane elements including pixels forming the lanes referring to the segmentation score map and generate seed information referring to the lane elements, the segmentation score map, and the clustering map; instructing the post-processing module to generate base models referring to the seed information and generate lane anchors referring to the base models; instructing the post-processing module to generate lane blobs referring to the lane anchors; and instructing the post-processing module to detect lane candidates referring to the lane blobs and generate a lane model by line-fitting operations on the lane candidates.
US10423839B2
A vehicular traffic monitoring system which is capable of providing a complete monitoring system in an assembly capable of being mounted in a plane above or beside a roadway in order to monitor substantially all factors of interest with respect to approaching and receding vehicular traffic along the roadway below.
US10423838B2
In a method for determining the spatial extent of a free queue, proceeding from position information, firstly a monitoring region comprising the free queue is subdivided into a plurality of positions. Proceeding from the position information, objects assigned to the free queue are identified and tracked. A current position of at least a portion of the tracked objects is periodically stored. An average speed of at least a portion of the objects is determined, wherein the average speed of an object is determined on the basis of a plurality of the stored positions of the respective object. Finally, a first map is created, which records, in relation to the positions in the monitoring region, an occurrence density of objects at the corresponding positions, Objects having an average speed outside a predefined range are not taken into account when creating the first map. Proceeding from a predefined exit region of the free queue, a flood fill method is carried out for generating a continuous region corresponding to the extent of the free queue. The first map is used for a validity check.
US10423830B2
Techniques related to eye contact correction to provide a virtual user gaze aligned with a camera while the user views a display are discussed. Such techniques may include encoding an eye region of a source image using a pretrained neural network to generate compressed features, applying a pretrained classifier to the features to determine a motion vector field for the eye region, and warping and inserting the eye region into the source image to generate an eye contact corrected image.
US10423821B2
Disclosed are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media for automated profile image generation based on scheduled video conferences. A profile image generation system generates, based on image data captured during a first video conference, a first facial feature data set for a first identified face identified from the image data. The first facial feature data set includes numeric values representing the first identified face. The profile image generation system calculates, based on the first facial feature data set and historic facial feature data sets generated from image data captured during previous video conferences, a first value indicating a likelihood that the first identified face is a first meeting participant that participated in the first video conference. The profile image generation system determines that the first value meets or exceeds a threshold value, and in response, determines that the first identified face is the first meeting participant.
US10423817B2
Systems and methods may be used by an automatic fingerprint identification system to estimate ridge flow maps in latent fingerprints. A latent fingerprint image and a plurality of reference ridge flow maps may initially be obtained. A latent ridge flow map for the obtained latent fingerprint image may be computed. One or more characteristics associated with the latent ridge flow map may be compared to one or more characteristics associated with each of the plurality of reference ridge flow maps. A similarity score between the latent ridge flow map and a particular reference ridge flow map may be computed for each of the reference ridge flow maps. The top closely matched ridge flow maps are used to improve the latent ridge flow map to enhance the latent fingerprint image to extract better set of minutia points to improve latent to ten-print matching accuracy.
US10423814B2
A method for unlocking a mobile terminal may include the follows. A set of feature points are acquired. The set of the feature points are acquired via a scanning partition of a fingerprint recognition sensor. The fingerprint recognition sensor includes M scanning partitions, the number of sensing electrodes within each of the M scanning partitions is greater than a first preset threshold, and M is a positive integer greater than 1. The mobile terminal is unlocked when the set of the feature points are successfully matched with a template stored in advance in the mobile terminal.
US10423795B2
The disclosure provides a method, a checking device and a system for determining security of a processor. The method comprises: setting an initial running state of the checking device according to initial running state information of the processor during the target running process, and taking input information of the processor during the target running process as input information of the checking device; causing the checking device to execute a task of the target running process in a manner conforming to predefined behavior to obtain at least one of output information and final running state information of the checking device, wherein the predefined behavior is a standard of hardware behavior of the processor; and determining whether the processor is secure during the target running process according to at least one of the output information and the final running state information of the checking device when the checking device completes the task of the target running process.
US10423787B2
Cybersecurity systems and techniques are described. A cybersecurity method may include generating a process fingerprint of a process, wherein the process fingerprint identifies the process based, at least in part, on dynamic features of the process. Generating the process fingerprint may include performing a cryptographic hash operation on data representing dynamic features of the process. The method may further include comparing the process fingerprint to a plurality of process fingerprints, and based, at least in part, on a result of the comparison, performing a data reduction operation on data associated with the process and/or determining whether the process is a malware process.
US10423782B2
There is disclosed in one example a computing apparatus, including: an interface to a backup source in a current state; a backup storage having stored thereon a first backup version of a previous state of the source; and a backup engine to: compute a delta between the current state and the previous state; save via the backup storage a second backup version sufficient to reconstruct the current state; and assign the second backup version a reputation relative to one or more previous backup versions.
US10423780B1
System and method for synthesis of correct-by-construction cryptographic software from specification
Described is a system for synthesis of cryptographic software from specification. During operation, the system generates a first level formalization code of a cryptographic protocol based on a user input protocol specification and a library of transformation rules. A second level formalization code is then generated by implementing communication protocols to the first level formalization code. A third level formalization code subsequently generated by implementing cryptographic primitives to the second level formalization code. Finally, the third level formalization code is encoded on a computer readable medium as an executable code.
US10423767B2
The present disclosure is directed to a content protection system using biometric authentication. In general, a user may be authenticated using sensed biometric data prior to receiving content from a content provider. An example device may comprise a biometric identification (BI) module and a content delivery (CD) module. The CD module may cause the BI module to sense biometric data from a user of the device. Authentication data may be generated based on the biometric data. In one embodiment, the authentication data may comprise a key generated from the biometric data. The authentication data may then be sent to the content provider, and upon authentication, the content provider may deliver the content to the device. The CD module may also be able to register new users with the content provider and/or allow users to purchase content not already licensed to the user.
US10423757B2
A system and method for ablation planning includes defining (502) shapes and sizes for one or more ablation volumes based on probability of treatment, and determining (510) a target volume to be treated. A procedure plan is provided (516) by determining a number and location of planned ablations within the target volume using the one or more ablation volumes. A joint probability distribution (520) is determined for at least two planned ablations in the target volume. A final configuration is visualized (530) to determine if plan objectives are met based on a probability of treatment for the target volume.
US10423756B2
A method for designing a gear train having first and second enmeshed gears includes performing a first analysis with the first and second gears in a first configuration. The first analysis includes determining a first transmission error (TE) characteristic of the first configuration, and providing a first geometric representation of the first TE characteristic. The method also includes performing a second analysis with the first and second gears in a second configuration. The second analysis includes determining a second TE characteristic of the second configuration and providing a second geometric representation of the second TE characteristic. Moreover, the method includes providing a comparison of the first and second TE characteristics by providing a comparison of the first and second geometric representations.
US10423755B2
Motor control centers are designed and configured by a series of interface screens that are served to a configuration computer. The system configuration may be based on a default configuration, and customization is made based upon user selection or input of data via the interface screens. The particular screens presented and the type and detail of data presented may be adapted so that more or less is available based upon a security access model. The system may be fully integrated with various other systems, such as enterprise resource planning tools. The system may be online, such that the interface, data, offerings, options and so forth may be easily adapted and updated, and design and configuration may be made by different parties at different locations with a minimum of specialized configuration computer programming.
US10423754B1
In general, the present embodiments are directed to designing an electronic system such as an IC, and more particularly to a design technique that can determine an optimal number and placement of ESD cells in a design for an IC. In embodiments, the technique includes determining an effective resistance criteria between a set of candidate ESD cells to the bumps/pads of the IC and finding a minimum set of ESD cells that covers all the bumps/pads. In embodiments, the technique is employed at the early stage of the design of the IC.
US10423744B1
A system, method, and computer program product for reduced resource harmonic balance circuit simulations is disclosed, wherein a lattice structure is implemented in place of conventional approaches in order to reduce the amount of data being processed in each iteration of the harmonic balance process. Additionally, sparse frequency cuts, which correspond to the lattice structures, are disclosed. The sparse frequency cuts and the lattice structure may be may be customized, modified, and/or adjusted to match a variety of circuits with non-linear components, such as those found in microwave, RF, and multicarrier (e.g. LTE) implementations.
US10423741B1
A method including selecting multiple input parameters of a device configuration environment to perform multiple simulations on an electronic device defined by the device configuration environment is provided. The method with multiple values for the multiple input parameters and a value of an output parameter resulting from the multiple simulations, and extracting a distribution of output parameter values and a distribution of input parameter values from a database. The method also includes finding a correlation involving the multiple input parameters and the output parameter based on a target range of the output parameter, and identifying an expected value of the output parameter using a range of values of the multiple input parameters in the correlation involving the multiple input parameters and the output parameter. A system and a nontransitory, computer-readable medium including instructions to perform the above method are also provided.
US10423740B2
Some embodiments of the present invention provide techniques and systems for simulating a circuit design so that the simulation follows hardware semantics. Specifically, some embodiments ensure that the simulation follows hardware semantics by properly handling race conditions in state elements and/or glitches in clock trees that can occur during logic simulation. Each logic simulation cycle can include two stages: a stimuli application stage in which the system evaluates signal values of the circuit design which do not depend on a clock signal, and a clock propagation stage in which the system evaluates signal values that depend on a clock signal. Some embodiments of the present invention sample signal values during the stimuli application stage, and use the sampled signal values during the clock propagation stage to handle race conditions in state elements and/or glitches in clock trees that may occur during logic simulation.
US10423725B2
An intention acquisition method, an electronic device and a computer-readable computer storage are provided. The method includes: segmenting a text sentence into multiple words; mapping the multiple words obtained by segmentation to preset keywords; determining an intention node most semantically approximate to the mapped words in a preset knowledge graph; performing semantic supplementing on the most approximate intention node according to a preset supplementing manner to obtain a supplemented intention node; if the supplemented intention node is an egress node, acquiring detailed intention information associated with the supplemented intention node in a specified range in a detailed intention layer of the knowledge graph according to intention information corresponding to the supplemented intention node, and determining an intention of a user according to the acquired detailed intention information; and if the supplemented intention node is a non-egress node, determining the intention of the user according to a preset query mode.
US10423716B2
A method and system for creating multimedia prototype presentations use the linear compression or stretching of playback speed record of creating and editing graphic images, which does not lead to degradation of quality perception. When using manually created drafts, schemes and drawings as graphic images of the presentation, the playback of record of their creating and editing process can be sped up or slowed down in a broad time range without losing quality perception of the visual content. The synchronization of the audio and the video track is made by a linear compression or stretching playback speed record of creating and editing the graphic images until the playback duration of the frame visual content and the duration of its sound match.
US10423714B2
Some examples described are directed to operations performed by a processor of a computer system to receive text data corresponding to a piece of text (e.g., a text string) displayable via a display device. The processor can further perform operations to determine, based on evaluation of the text data using text-filtering logic, that a revision condition exists for at least a portion of the piece of text. The processor can further perform operations to, in response to determination that the revision condition exists, determine, for a display data set corresponding to the piece of text, to either not display the at least the portion of the piece of text or display a modified form of the at least the portion of the piece of text. The processor can further perform operations to, present, via the display device, a display (e.g., a graphical-user-interface object) corresponding to the display data set.
US10423712B2
Techniques for creating and managing chattels to control design asset behaviors are described. A behavior is assigned by a digital content creation system to design asset data. The behavior can indicate how the design asset data will respond in different conditions. Then, access level data is generated that identifies different user types and how the behavior of the design asset data is modifiable by the different user types. The digital content creation system subsequently generates chattel data that includes the behavior, the access level data, and a visual form of the design asset data and outputs the chattel data. The chattel data may be output to a centralized storage location, such as a cloud storage location, that allows other users to access the chattel data. The centralized storage location provides centralized control, allowing updates to the chattel to occur at each location where the chattel appears.
US10423708B2
Methods and systems in accordance with the present invention allow users to efficiently manipulate, analyze, and transmit eXtensible Business Reporting Language (“XBRL”) reports. They allow users to automatically build financial reports that are acceptable to governing agencies such as the IRS. In one embodiment, the reports are developed by a parser that transforms text documents into software elements containing a format with a hierarchal relationship between the software elements, and an editor that develops reports by referencing the software elements transformed from the text documents. Methods and systems in accordance with the present invention also enable reports to be automatically scheduled by gathering desired information from an accounting system, formatting the information into an XBRL document, and transmitting it to an end source. Furthermore, systems and methods in accordance with the present invention allow a user to translate an XBRL document into RDL format and use the RDL system to manipulate and analyze it.
US10423703B1
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for detecting and rendering endnotes in digital content. A user selection of a link rendered at a first location in digital content may be detected and various filtering criteria may be evaluated to determine whether the link references a second location in the digital content that is associated with endnote content. If the link is determined to reference endnote content, the endnote content may be extracted and rendered in association with a portion of the digital content corresponding to the first location.
US10423701B1
A system for web asset modification comprises a processor and a memory. The processor is configured to: receive a request for a web asset for display on a device; determine one or more groups for the web asset, wherein each of the one or more groups comprises a group for adapting display of the web asset on the device; and modify the web asset based at least in part on one group of the one or more groups. The memory is coupled to the processor and is configured to provide the processor with instructions.
US10423696B2
Techniques facilitate intelligent message processing of messages. With regard to a message, an intelligent message processor component (IMPC) can intelligently identify a desired file folder and archive the message in the folder in response to as little as one user interface (UI) control manipulation (e.g., click), when the intelligent message processor UI (IMPUI) is activated. When the IMPUI is activated, the IMPC automatically parses the message and identifies, or allows the user to identify, a keyword/phrase in the message. The IMPC automatically identifies the desired folder based on the identified keyword/phrase, and the user can click on the identified keyword/phrase to store the message in the identified file folder. The IMPUI also can comprise other UI controls that can, e.g., forward a message to another user, archive the message or related attachment in a remote storage destination, perform a customized message process, etc.
US10423689B2
Methods and systems of providing a guided navigation experience are described. According to various embodiments, a first type of use case may be determined for a first use of a website by a user. The first type of use case may be determined amongst a plurality of types of use cases. A first navigation recommendation may be determined based on the determined first type of use case. The first navigation recommendation may comprise a recommendation for the user to navigate to a first content on the website. The first navigation recommendation may be caused to be displayed to the user. In some embodiments, the plurality of types of use cases may comprise at least one of viewing an update of a profile of another user, viewing an event associated with the profile of another user, performing a job search, and participating in or viewing a discussion.
US10423687B2
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a query comprising one or more n-grams, generating a plurality of query commands based on a parsing of the query input, wherein each query command comprises an inner query constraint and an outer query constraint, scoring the query commands based at least in part on a number of objects matching the inner query constraint of the respective query command, selecting a first query command based at least in part on the respective scores of the query commands, and executing the first query command to identify a plurality of objects based on: (1) a first set of objects matching the first inner query constraint and at least in part matching the first outer query constraint, and (2) a second set of objects matching the first outer query constraint.
US10423679B2
Systems and methods that improve client-side searching are described. In one aspect, a system and method for identifying an article, and determining a ranking score for the article based at least in part on duration data, access data, URL data, or trajectory data associated with the article is described.
US10423674B1
When a client device loads a resource, a request for a first content item for a first content item slot is transmitted to a content item selection system. The content item selection system uses a predictive model to determine a predicted content item slot based on a document object model position of the first content item slot and a URL of the resource or a publisher identifier. Parameters for the predicted content item slot are used to select a subsequent content item for the predicted content item slot. The first content item and the subsequent content item are transmitted to the client device responsive to the request. The subsequent content item includes metadata indicative of the parameters of the predicted content item slot to be matched to a subsequent content item slot of the resource.
US10423669B2
A manufacturing process visualization apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes: at least one processor configured to implement: a data receiving unit which receives apparatus data from at least one production apparatus of a manufacturing process line processing a plurality of products; and a matching unit which extracts product record information about each of the products from the received apparatus data, classifies the extracted product record information as information corresponding to specific product flow properties of the manufacturing process line, generates product flow information indicating the specific product flow properties by using the classified product record information, and generates graphic process information about the manufacturing process line in which the product flow information about each product is represented in graphics; and a screen display which displays the generated graphic process pattern information on a screen.
US10423668B2
A computer-implemented system, method, and user interface for searching and organizing information, particularly large information sets such as those found on the Internet and World Wide Web. Information is organized and searched according to content, and this organization is reflected directly in the user interface provided to users for searching as well as the search results they are shown.
US10423667B2
A method for generating a pattern matching machine for identifying matches of a plurality of symbol patterns in a sequence of input symbols, the method comprising: providing a state machine of states and directed transitions between states corresponding to the plurality of patterns; applying an Aho-Corasick approach to identify mappings between states in the event of a failure, of the state machine in a state and for an input symbol, to transition to a subsequent state based on the directed transitions of the state machine, characterized in that one of the symbol patterns includes a wildcard symbol, and mappings for one or more states representing pattern symbols including the wildcard symbol are based on an input symbol to be received, by the pattern matching machine in use, to constitute the wildcard.
US10423666B2
A semiconductor device that writes, into respective memory spaces of a plurality of separate memories constituting a search memory mat, an entry address corresponding to key data to be written. In this semiconductor device, pieces of divided data are assigned respectively to the separate memories, and, by employing each divided data as an address, entry addresses corresponding to the divided data are written sequentially into memory spaces specified by memory addresses of the separate memories (first writing process). In this first writing process, if another entry address is already written in an accessed memory space, no entry address is written into that memory space. If an entry address corresponding to a single one of the plurality of pieces of divided data is successfully written into a memory space, the first writing process is ended. Second write processing to a verification memory may also be performed. Key data may be written to a backup memory when a whole collision occurs. The semiconductor device may also include multiple encoding circuits using different algorithms, and a narrowing unit to narrow down entry address candidates.
US10423663B2
Techniques herein accelerate graph querying by caching neighbor vertices (NVs) of super-node vertices. In an embodiment, a computer receives a graph query (GQ) to extract result paths from a graph in a database. The GQ has a sequence of query vertices (QVs) and a sequence of query edges (QEs). The computer successively traverses each QE and QV to detect paths of the graph that match the GQ. Traversing each QE and QV entails retrieving NVs of a current graph vertex (CGV) of a current traversal path. If the CGV is a key in a cache whose keys are graph vertices having an excessive degree, then the computer retrieves NVs from the cache. Otherwise, the computer retrieves NVs from the database. If the degree is excessive, and the CGV is not a key in the cache, then the computer stores, into the cache, the CGV as a key for the NVs.
US10423660B1
Techniques for identifying and correcting synchronization errors between audio and subtitles for media content are described herein. For example, a portion of a subtitle file associated with media content may be extracted based on subtitle cues included in the portion of the subtitle file. In embodiments, an audio to text file may be generated from the extracted portion using a speech to text algorithm. A detected subtitle text file may be generated using the subtitle file, the audio to text file, and an edit distance algorithm. In embodiments, one or more synchronization errors between the audio and subtitles for the media content may be identified based on time stamp information associated with the audio to text file and a subtitle cue for the extracted portion of the subtitle file.
US10423657B2
Systems and methods of the present disclosure are directed to analyzing screenshots. A system can include a computing device including a processor coupled to a memory and a display screen configured to display content. The system can include an application stored on the memory and executable by the processor. The application can include a screenshot receiver configured to access, from storage to which a screenshot of the content displayed on the display screen captured using a screenshot function of the computing device is stored, the screenshot including an image and a predetermined marker. The application can include a marker detector configured to detect the predetermined marker included in the screenshot. The application can include a link identifier configured to identify, using the predetermined marker, a link to a resource mapped to the image included in the screenshot, the resource accessible by the computing device via the link.
US10423655B2
The present disclosure relates to methods for automatically controlling loading processes of dose information images. In one example, the method includes receiving a data record at a local data repository, wherein the data record contains a dose information image and a scanner index. The method further includes: comparing the scanner index against a whitelist from the central data repository; transmitting the data record from the local data repository to a checking directory of the central data repository when the scanner index is not contained in the whitelist; validating the dose information image from the checking directory by character recognition; and entering the scanner index in the whitelist in the event of successful validation of the dose information image.
US10423650B1
Described is a system for identifying predictive keywords and generating a forecast. The system receives time-series of keyword counts (the time-series of keyword counts having a plurality of candidate keywords). The time-series of keyword counts are separated (i.e., marked or designated) into a group of time-series from active periods and a group of time-series from inactive periods. A covariance matrix is generated for each group of time-series. Generalized eigenvectors are generated between the two covariance matrices. Candidate keywords are ranked based on the generalized eigenvectors, such that candidate keywords having a rank exceeding a predetermined threshold are designated as predictive keywords. The predictive keywords are then provided to a machine learning system that generates a forecast based on the predictive keywords. Finally, a device is operated based on the forecast.
US10423649B2
A training query generation system is usable to generate fully formed training questions from prior search queries, some of which may be fully formed search queries and some of which are not fully formed. The system may identify fully formed questions from a query database stored on a storage device. The query database includes a plurality of search query character string, The system further identifies partially formed questions from the query database, creates question templates from the identified fully formed questions, and stores the question templates in a template database. The system then identifies entities with the partially formed questions, classifies each entity, and stores the classified entities in an entity database. Fully formed questions can then be generated using the question templates from the template database and classified entities from the entity database.
US10423645B2
Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can determine at least one content item to be categorized, wherein the content item relates to a topic. The topic related to the content item can be determined. A set of categories can be determined based at least in part on the topic. A determination can be made that the content item corresponds to a first category in the set of categories. The content item can be associated with the first category, wherein the content item is included in a page corresponding to the topic within the first category.
US10423635B2
A method for processing a time series includes dividing, with a processing device, the time series into a plurality of windows by time; extracting at least one group of similar subsequences from a current window among the plurality of windows; and updating a candidate list on the basis of comparison between similar subsequences in each group of the at least one group with k characteristic subsequences in the candidate list; wherein the k characteristic subsequences are k characteristic subsequences with a greatest number of occurrences in at least processed parts of the time series.
US10423634B1
A storage system is provided, comprising a processor and a storage array comprising a data storage entity storing computer-accessible data and a container executing within the storage array. The container is configured to run a temporal query service configured to query the data storage entity in the storage array from within the storage array, wherein a structure of a temporal query generated in accordance with the temporal query service comprises a query format configured to be compatible with a temporal structure of the data storage entity. The temporal query service is configured to parse at least a first temporal query received from a requesting entity to determine a set of temporal query parameters relating to data stored on the data storage entity, query the data storage entity with a second temporal query formed in accordance with the set of query parameters, and return temporal query results.
US10423629B2
An intelligent tabular big data presentation in search environment based on prior human input configuration is provided. In some examples, a server may execute a search service that may receive a request from a party associated with the data to modify a presentation of a subset of the data and may present configuration options to the requesting party. The configuration options may include a selection of the subset of the data and parameters associated with the presentation of the subset of the data. The selected subset of the data may be formatted based on the received selection of the configuration options. A search query associated with the data may be received and may be executed on the subset of the data. A preview table may be generated and provided based on two dimensionally ranked search results of the subset of the data in accordance with the selection of the parameters.
US10423628B2
A computer-implemented method performed at a server system having one or more processors and memory, the method comprising receiving a set of curated documents comprising one or more documents identified as being relevant to a sector, analyzing the set of curated documents to determine one or more words and a count of each of the one or more words for all documents of the curated set of documents, further analyzing the set of curated documents, by analyzing one or more n-grams based on the one or more words, determining a first score based on a term frequency and a global document frequency of each of the one or more words of each of the one or more n-grams, determining a document vector based on averages of the first score, where the document vector comprises a perfect document for the sector, and storing the document vector in the data store.
US10423627B2
The present inventive concepts encourage users to actively form friend relationships and also incentivize users to actively utilize services provided by an SNS and the like by assigning ranks to users in consideration of the users' friend relationships. A management server including a memory configured to store computer-readable instructions, and one or more processors configured to execute the instructions to determine a personal rank of a target user based on a personal utilization record for the target user, obtain the personal rank of at least one related user who is associated with the target user, and derive an overall rank of the target user based on the personal rank of the at least one related user and the personal rank of the target user may be provided.
US10423602B2
The present invention provides a data update method, an apparatus, and an eUICC. The method is applied to an eUICC in which a management apparatus and at least one SE are disposed, where the at least one SE is configured to store an application corresponding to at least one profile. The management apparatus receives a profile enabling request, where the enabling request is used to switch a source profile to a target profile, the enabling request includes identifier information of the target profile, and the source profile is a profile that is in an enabled state before the switching; and updates a first correspondence to a second correspondence according to the enabling request; and the second correspondence is a correspondence between a second application set and the target profile, and the second application set includes at least one application in the first application set.
US10423600B2
Systems for high-performance, low-latency database log mining applications. A method commences upon receiving a log mining query. The query specifies desired results that correspond to a prior logical state of the database system. A first type of processing entity is invoked to process contents of the redo stream by loading metadata into a data dictionary, and a second type of processing entity is invoked to construct metadata from the redo stream, wherein the constructed metadata pertains only database objects referenced in the query. During the time that the first type of processing entity is processing contents of the redo stream by loading metadata into a data dictionary, a process of a second type serves incoming queries using a subset of entries in the redo stream. When the data dictionary is completed, a switchover point is reached and thenceforth, incoming queries are served using the first type of processing entity.
US10423597B2
A method, apparatus and computer program product for performing database maintenance is described. Index information for data stored in a tree based file system running in a computer is received. The file system includes a set of data blocks arranged in logical layers and a set of pointers within the set of data blocks which reference respective data blocks in different logical layers. The received index information is parsed. A model of the file system is built based on the parsed index information. A graphical user interface having an index panel is presented. In the index panel, ones of a plurality of icons respectively represent ones of the set of data blocks and are arranged in layers representing the logical layers.
US10423593B2
Embodiments relate to visually encoding data and analyzing an associated dataset. More specifically, the embodiments relate to encoding a dynamic dataset and supporting data exploration of the dynamic dataset. In various embodiments, data and data viewing history are tracked according to defined criterion, which form a data version and viewing analysis record. The data and record can be displayed in many ways. In one embodiment, a visual display of differences between a first version and a second version of data is shown. In another embodiment, the visual display is dynamic and changes in real-time.
US10423578B2
A method, performed by a computing system, includes detecting a data call from an application running on the system, the data call being to access data through a Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX) Application Programming Interface (API), the data being stored on a storage system associated with the computing system. The method further includes, in response to detecting the data call, obtaining, through use of a context extraction module, contextual information associated with the data call. The method further includes accessing the data according to the data call and storing the contextual information.
US10423572B2
The described embodiments set forth techniques for performing live updates to file system volumes (e.g., operating system (OS) file system volumes) of computing devices through the utilization of snapshots. In particular, the techniques enable a computing device to remain active while a majority of an update process is performed, which eliminates the considerable functional downtime that is normally imposed when implementing conventional update techniques. Moreover, the overall robustness of the update process is enhanced as the techniques described herein reduce the amount of time that is required for the computing device to remain in the above-described specialized update mode.
US10423571B2
A method for configuring a real or virtual electronic control unit, wherein a control unit software is executed on the control unit, and the control unit software comprises a basic software layer, the basic software layer is configured by a module configuration file by setting values of parameters, the scope of the configurable parameters being defined in a first module definition file which contains the identifiers of the configurable parameters. The first module definition file is replaced by a second module definition file, and a conversion of the first module configuration file into a second module configuration file takes place.
US10423570B2
Methods and systems for enumerating digital circuits in a system-on-a-chip (SOC) are disclosed. The method includes incrementing an enumeration value received from a previous enumerable instance to uniquely identify an immediately adjacent enumerable instance of a plurality of enumerable instances in a daisy chain configuration.
US10423569B2
Examples of a system, method, and machine-readable non-transitory storage medium including instructions executable by a processor are disclosed herein. An example of the machine-readable non-transitory storage medium includes instructions executable by a processor to allow selection of a capture mode of a sensor module to record still images and/or a video mode of the sensor module to record video, retrieve default calibrated sensor module settings from a persistent memory, allow creation of at least one user defined sensor module setting that differs from one of the default calibrated sensor module settings, and utilize the at least one user defined sensor module setting along with the remaining default calibrated sensor module settings with the selected sensor module mode.
US10423565B2
A data transmission system is provided. The data transmission system includes a plurality of data transmitters that respectively constitute a plurality of transmission lanes. Each of the plurality of data transmitters includes a serializer and an output signal storage circuit. The serializer coverts parallel input data into serial output data and outputs the serial output data. The output signal storage circuit stores the serial output data output from the serializer.
US10423564B2
Examples of a competing device for universal serial bus data routing are disclosed. In one example implementation according to aspects of the present disclosure, a computing device may include one or more processors, a memory, and a data store. The computing device may also include a first universal serial bus (USB) connection port to communicatively couple an attached computing device to the host computing device, and a second USB connection port to communicatively couple a peripheral device to the host computing device. The computing device may further include a USB data routing module stored in the memory and executing on at least one of the one or more processors to route data between the attached computing device and the peripheral device via the host computing device.
US10423563B2
Embodiments for a memory access broker system with application-controlled early write acknowledgment support. A memory access broker may be selectively enabled to facilitate early write acknowledgement (EWACK) operations and notification of failed EWACK write requests to one or more issuing applications such that the failed EWACK write requests are logged by the memory access broker for inspection by the one or more issuing applications.
US10423559B2
A selectively upgradeable disaggregated server is generally described herein. An example modular server unit, the modular server unit includes a processor module coupled to an input/output (I/O) module via a connector. The processor module to communicate with the I/O module via the connector to store and retrieve data. The processor module is a separate hardware unit from the I/O module.
US10423552B2
A data structure is accessed that defines configuration parameters of one or more integrated blocks in an integrated circuit device. One or more of the integrated blocks is configured based on corresponding configuration parameters defined in the data structure. The configuration parameters are set prior to runtime and are to be persistently stored in the data structure.
US10423537B2
A method is provided for controlling processing of target program code on a host data processing apparatus to simulate processing of the target program code on a target data processing apparatus. In response to a target memory access instruction of the target program code specifying a target address within a simulated address space having a larger size than a host address space supported by a memory management unit of the host data processing apparatus, an address space resizing table is looked up to map the target address to a transformed address within said host address space, and information is generated for triggering a memory access based on translation of the transformed address by the memory management unit of the host data processing apparatus.
US10423535B2
Various systems and methods for caching and tiering in cloud storage are described herein. A system for managing storage allocation comprises a storage device management system to maintain an access history of a plurality of storage blocks of solid state drives (SSDs) managed by the storage device management system; and automatically configure each of a plurality of storage blocks to operate in cache mode or tier mode, wherein a ratio of storage blocks operating in cache mode and storage blocks operating in tier mode is based on the access history.
US10423526B2
A method for reducing the cost of stack scanning in garbage collection (GC) includes, in the GC of the first-generation heap area, registering, in a nursery object reference list prepared for each thread, one or more addresses, within each stack, which each refer to a nursery object, and updating a scanning unnecessary area starting pointer such that the addresses listed in the nursery object reference list are included in the area from the bottom of the stack to the address pointed to by the scanning unnecessary area starting pointer. The method further includes, in the next GC of the first-generation heap area, for the area from the bottom of the stack to the address pointed to by the scanning unnecessary area starting pointer, performing the GC processing on the addresses included in the nursery object reference list.
US10423523B2
Systems, methods and computer program products for performing software regression testing are provided. A sitemap comprising a hierarchy of nodes is displayed on a display, each node representing a block of source code for a program. An indication of a user selection of a plurality of nodes in the hierarchy is received. Responsive to receiving the indication, a lowest node of the nodes that is located at a lowest level of the hierarchy is determined and identified as a user selected node. A list of test cases to test the source code represented by the user selected node is displayed. Responsive to receiving an indication of a selection of one of the test cases in the list of test cases displayed, a message having an indication to execute the one of the test cases in the list of test cases displayed is transmitted, to a server device via a network.
US10423521B2
A test case data set that includes test step data sets is received. The test step data sets include a first test step data set that specifies a dependency data field. Test step objects to be used to execute test steps in a test case are generated based on the test step data sets. The test steps include a first test step to be executed using a first test step object generated based on the first test step data set. The first test step object is used to execute the first test step. The first test step as executed populates values in the dependency data field. The values in the dependency data field are accessed and used in a second test step in the test steps while the second test step is being executed using a second test step object in the test step objects.
US10423518B2
Systems and methods automatically detect violations of coding rules of a coding standard in computer programming code. The systems and methods may mark the locations in the code where the violations are found. The coding rules may be mapped to code verification checks that check for undesired runtime behavior in the code. The systems and methods may identify the code verification check mapped to a given violation detected in the code. The systems and methods may apply that check to the code. If the check proves that the undesired runtime behavior will not occur, the violation may be marked as justified. If the check proves that the undesired runtime behavior will occur, the violation may be marked as not justified.
US10423515B2
A method of recording user-driven events within a computing system includes receiving at a motion-sensitive display surface at least one user-performed gesture, which includes user movement of an object over the surface that recognizes such user interaction therewith. Touch information is generated corresponding to the at least one user-performed gesture. The touch information is configured to be provided to an application. The touch information is intercepted and recorded before it is provided to the application. The intercepted touch information is grouped into at least one chunk, and the at least one chunk is output to the application.
US10423505B2
Example implementations relate to network namespaces. The multiple network namespaces host a set of virtual machines, with each network namespace being defined, at least in part, by a set of rules by which the individual virtual machines are to access the set of network resources. An agent is initiated to operate autonomously to detect at least one of network namespace corruption or network namespace failure for each of the multiple network namespaces.
US10423504B2
A transmitting computer for a vehicle is disclosed, and includes a command circuit, a monitor circuit, and a master circuit. The command circuit receives a real-time signal and executes a first set of instructions to analyze the real-time signal, and generates a plurality of command signals based on executing the first set of instructions. The monitor circuit receives the command signals and the real-time signal. The monitor circuit executes a second set of instructions to analyze the real-time signal and generates a plurality of replica signals based on executing the second set of instructions. The monitor circuit generates an initial reset command in response to determining an initial miscompare between one of the plurality of command signals and the plurality of replica signals. The master circuit is in communication with both the command circuit and the monitor circuit and receives an indication that the initial reset command is generated.
US10423502B2
A method for execution by a dispersed storage network (DSN), the method begins by determining a failure rate of storage units of an active storage unit pool, establishing a number of standby storage units based on the determined failure rate, identifying an associated DSN address range of the failed storage unit, selecting an available standby storage unit, facilitating populating the selected available standby storage unit with data slices associated with the failed storage unit, utilizing the selected available standby storage unit, facilitating population of a replacement storage unit with the data slices from the selected available standby storage unit and facilitating processing of further receive data access requests for data associated with the associated DSN address range by utilizing the replacement storage unit.
US10423500B2
Systems and methods for limiting performance variation in a storage device are described. Storage devices receive work requests to perform one or more operations from other computing devices, such as a host computing device. Completing the work requests may take a response time. In some embodiments, if the response time of executing the work request exceeds a threshold, the storage device may assign additional computing resources to complete the work request.
US10423493B1
In response to determining that continuous data protection is to be enabled for a particular table of a database service, a service component verifies that automated transmission of change records of the table to a log-structured journal has been configured. A given change record comprises a before-image and an after-image associated with a committed database write, and is assigned a unique sequence number. In response to a determination to restore the table as of a specified point in time, a restore record set is identified from the journal with respect to a selected snapshot of the table. The restore record set includes change records which are not represented in the snapshot and are to be represented in the restored table. A restore result table is created using the selected snapshot and the restore record set.
US10423492B2
A flash memory device includes a flash memory configured to store a plurality of pages and a control circuit coupled to the flash memory. The control circuit is configured to retrieve data from a page of the flash memory, determine a number of zeroes or ones of the retrieved data, determine whether the number is between a first value and a second value, and determine that the retrieved data has one or more errors based on determining that the number is not between the first value and the second value.
US10423487B2
A storage system includes a plurality of solid-state drives (SSDs) in which each SSD is an endpoint of a peer group in which one SSD is a primary SSD of the peer group, or all SSDs are treated as equal peers. Each SSD further includes a host interface port coupled to a host computing device that receives receive input/output (I/O) communications from the host computing device, a peer-interface port coupled to the peer-interface port of each other SSD in the peer group; and a controller coupled to the host interface port and the peer-interface port. The primary SSD controller is responsive to I/O communications received from the host computing device to provide data-protection computations relating to a coordinated data-protection configuration provided by the peer group and to pass the coordinated data-protection configuration information to the controllers of the other end points of the peer group through the peer-interface port.
US10423474B2
Arrangements described herein relate to performing diagnostic tracing of an executing application. A trace entry in trace data can be identified, the trace entry comprising a pointer that refers to a memory address. Whether a value that is, or has been, stored at the memory address is an erroneous value can be determined. Responsive to determining that the value that is, or has been, stored at the memory address is an erroneous value, the pointer can be indicated as being a suspicious value.
US10423473B2
A method for controlling a gas turbine engine having a constrained model based control (CMBC) system. The method including obtaining information about a current and previous states of the engine, updating model data information in the CMBC and a parameter estimation system based on the obtained information, and identifying trends in the data based on the information. The method also includes diagnosing the engine, based on the identified trends, determining at least one of a new constraint, objective, initial condition, model characteristic, prediction horizon, and control horizon for the control system based on the diagnosing step if the diagnosing step identified a fault condition, and adapting the CMBC system based on the at least one new constraint, objective, initial condition, model characteristic, prediction and control horizon. The method further includes generating at least on control command based on the adapting and commanding an actuator based on the control command.
US10423465B2
Methods and systems for allocating disk space and other limited resources (e.g., network bandwidth) for a cluster of data storage nodes using distributed semaphores with atomic updates are described. The distributed semaphores may be built on top of a distributed key-value store and used to reserve disk space, global disk streams for writing data to disks, and per node network bandwidth settings. A distributed semaphore comprising two or more semaphores that are accessed with different keys may be used to reduce contention and allow a globally accessible semaphore to scale as the number of data storage nodes within the cluster increases over time. In some cases, the number of semaphores within the distributed semaphore may be dynamically adjusted over time and may be set based on the total amount of disk space within the cluster and/or the number of contention fails that have occurred to the distributed semaphore.
US10423463B1
Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for computational task offloading for virtualized graphics are disclosed. A virtual GPU attached to a virtual compute instance is provisioned in a multi-tenant provider network. The virtual compute instance is implemented using a physical compute instance, and the virtual GPU is implemented using a physical GPU. Using a microcode compilation service, program code is compiled into microcode for a target GPU type associated with the virtual GPU. The microcode is executed on the virtual GPU.
US10423462B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for dynamically allocating data to multiple nodes. The method includes determining the usage of multiple buffers and the capability factors of multiple servers. Data is then allocated to multiple buffers associated with multiple active servers, based on the determined usage and capability factors, in order to keep the processing load on the multiple servers balanced.
US10423459B1
A resource manager arranges the resources in a computer system into one or more resource pools. The resource manager allocates a number of active resources and a number of backup resources to a particular resource pool. For each resource managed by the resource manager, the resource manager acquires information that describes the capacity and reliability of the resource. Capacity and reliability information for the particular resource pool is determined based on the capacity and reliability information associated with the resources assigned to the pool. In response to a request, the resource manager may provide an application with resources from several resource pools. The likelihood that the resource manager will be able to provide sufficient resources to the application may be determined based at least in part on the reliability information associated with the several resource pools.
US10423435B1
Disclosed are examples of memory allocation and reallocation for virtual machines operating in a shared memory configuration creating a swap file for at least one virtual machine. One example method may include allocating guest physical memory to the swap file to permit the at least one virtual machine to access host physical memory previously occupied by the guest physical memory. The example method may also include determining whether an amount of available host physical memory is below a minimum acceptable level threshold, and if so then freeing at least one page of host physical memory and intercepting a memory access attempt performed by the at least one virtual machine and allocating host physical memory to the virtual machine responsive to the memory access attempt.
US10423420B2
A computer-implemented method for predicting a taken branch that ends an instruction stream in a pipelined high frequency microprocessor includes receiving, by a processor, a first instruction within a first instruction stream, the first instruction comprising a first instruction address; searching, by the processor, an index accelerator predictor one time for the stream; determining, by the processor, a prediction for a taken branch ending the branch stream; influencing, by the processor, a metadata prediction engine based on the prediction; observing a plurality of taken branches from the exit accelerator predictor; maintaining frequency information based on the observed taken branches; determining, based on the frequency information, an updated prediction of the observed plurality of taken branches; and updating, by the processor, the index accelerator predictor with the the updated prediction.
US10423417B2
A fault tolerant multi-threaded processor uses the temporal and/or spatial separation of instructions running in two or more different threads. An instruction is fetched, decoded and executed by each of two or more threads to generate a result for each of the two or more threads. These results are then compared using comparison hardware logic and if there is a mismatch between the results obtained, then an error or event is raised. The comparison is performed on an instruction by instruction basis so that errors are identified (and hence can be resolved) quickly.
US10423410B1
A computer system processes an authoritative piece of source code to identify one or more formats with which the piece of source code is compliant. A second non-authoritative piece of source code is processed, and the system determines whether in the second non-authoritative piece of source code complies with the one or more formats. In an embodiment, the computer system provides suggestions to make the second non-authoritative piece of source code compliant with the authoritative piece of source code. In an embodiment, the authoritative piece of source code is in a shared source code repository, and the computer system designates the authoritative piece of source code as authoritative based at least in part on the relative age, stability, or authorship of the authoritative source code and other source code in the repository.
US10423405B2
A computer-implemented method and apparatus, the method comprising: responsive to a user of a mobile device selecting a specific application, starting a parent application with a parameter associated with the specific application, wherein the parent application is configured to provide a functionality of the specific application; retrieving from a local database in the mobile device a configuration of the specific application, wherein the configuration comprises a set of modules used by the specific application and a manner of usage thereof; and activating the set of modules to provide the functionality of the specific application by the parent application.
US10423404B2
The described unified service management system provides a unified console to perform functions of individual management specialists. A unified console facilitates an administrator to perform the complex tasks that were performed by the individual management specialists. The unified console provides a “wizard” based approach to the administrator to design all aspects of the complex tasks including placement of components or computing devices, deciding on policies of the components or computing devices, deciding on health policies of components or computing devices, fixing data protection policies of components or computing devices, etc.
US10423397B2
Systems, methods and computer readable medium described herein relate to techniques for automatic type inference from machine code. An example technique includes receiving a machine code of a program, generating an intermediate representation of the machine code, generating a plurality of type constraints from the intermediate representation, generating one or more inferred types based at least upon the plurality of type constraints, converting the generated inferred types to C types, updating the intermediate representation by applying the inferred types to the intermediate representation, and outputting said inferred types, said converted C types, and/or at least a portion of the updated intermediate representation.
US10423378B2
A display processing apparatus acquires a plurality of images and time data corresponding to the respective images. The display processing apparatus selects, as the time interval at which the plurality of images are switched and displayed one by one, either a time interval based on the difference between time data corresponding to images before and after switching, or a predetermined interval. The display processing apparatus switches the plurality of images at the selected time interval, and displays them on a display device.
US10423368B2
The present image forming apparatus, upon accepting, in accordance with a user input, an instruction for execution of processing for adjusting an image forming condition, forms a predetermined test pattern on a sheet, and detects the density of the predetermined test pattern. Furthermore, the image forming apparatus obtains an area ratio of halftone dots in a highlight region of a formed image from the detected density, and, based on the area ratio of halftone dots, decides a smallest dot size for a screen that represents a halftone of the highlight region by a dither pattern.
US10423367B1
Print shop operations may be visualized graphically to show relationships between a stream of incoming print jobs and a group of available print production devices, such as printing and finishing machines. A visualization process is performed with microservices to generate UI device panes, which form elements of a graphic user interface from which print shop operation can be monitored or controlled. Each microservice corresponds a different one of the print production devices. This can allow for rapid adjustments and customization of the UI, as may be needed due to user feedback, change in user requirements, and introduction of new print production devices to the print shop. Information may be added to the graphic user interface in combination with the UI device panes to facilitate assignment of print jobs to particular print production devices and/or to show which devices can be used sequentially or in parallel to complete the print jobs.
US10423363B2
Apparatuses, hybrid memory modules, memories, and methods for configuring I/Os of a memory for a hybrid memory module are described. An example apparatus includes a non-volatile memory, a control circuit coupled to the non-volatile memory, and a volatile memory coupled to the control circuit. The volatile memory is configured to enable a first subset of I/Os for communication with a bus and enable a second subset of I/O for communication with the control circuit, wherein the control circuit is configured to transfer information between the volatile memory and the non-volatile memory.
US10423355B2
An information processing apparatus includes: a first memory that stores an information processing program; a second memory that stores a file-to-be-erased; and a processor that executes the information processing program, in which when the processor executes the information processing program, the processor, when the processor executes a job which requires to generate a temporary file, selects a file having a size equal to or less than a size of the temporary file out of one or more files-to-be-erased stored in the second memory, treats the selected file as a file-to-be-unerased, writes the temporary file over the file-to-be-unerased stored in the second memory to thereby generate the temporary file, and after the temporary file is used in the job, treats the temporary file as a file-to-be-erased.
US10423353B2
The present disclosure includes apparatuses and methods related to memory alignment. An example method comprises performing an alignment operation on a first byte-based memory element and a second byte-based memory element such that a padding bit of the first byte-based memory element is logically adjacent to a padding bit of the second byte-based memory element and a data bit of the first byte-based memory element is logically adjacent to a data bit of the second byte-based memory element.
US10423351B1
One embodiment is related to a method for implementing a demoted chunk, comprising: replicating a first chunk from a first zone of a cloud storage system to a third zone of the cloud storage system; replicating a second chunk from a second zone of the cloud storage system to the third zone; creating an exclusive or (XOR) chunk at the third zone based at least in part on the replicated first chunk and the replicated second chunk; and marking the replicated first chunk and the replicated second chunk as demoted first chunk and demoted second chunk, respectively, at the third zone.
US10423346B2
An apparatus for processing data 2 contains multiple power domains which may be in a non-retaining power state or a retaining power state. If a power domain is in a non-retaining power state in which it is not able to retain a copy of a stored parameter value and it is switched into a retaining power state in which it requires a copy of that parameter value, then it fetches the parameter value from a store within another power domain. One of the power domains contains a master copy of the parameter value to which writes changing in the parameter value are made. At least one of the other power domains fetches a copy of the parameter value if required from a power domain other than the power domain containing the master copy.
US10423345B2
Devices, systems, and methods are provided that include a controller configured to receive a first data packet from a memory device; determine a bit error count for the first data packet; and determine whether the bit error count exceeds a predetermined threshold. When the bit error count exceeds the predetermined threshold, the controller corrects errors identified in the bit error count; generates and inserts pre-defined data into the first data packet at a location where errors occurred in the first data packet; and generates and inserts a tag into the first data packet. The tag includes information indicating a size and a location of the pre-defined data in the first data packet.
US10423342B1
Scaling events may be detected for hosting hierarchical data structures. Scaling events may be detected to modify the capacity of a data store for hierarchical data structures to handle changing write workloads, read workloads, or storage capacity. Hierarchical data structures may be moved from one group of storage hosts to another group of storage hosts according to a filtered snapshot that includes the hierarchical data structures to be moved that is provided to the destination storage hosts. Changes made to the hierarchical data structures made at the source storage hosts during the move can be applied to the filtered snapshot so that the hierarchical data structures may be made available at the destination storage hosts inclusive of the changes.
US10423324B2
Provided is a method of controlling an electronic device by using a remote control device comprising a touch screen, the method including selecting one of a plurality of functions supported by the electronic device via the touch screen, sequentially displaying a plurality of user interfaces, usable for controlling the function selected with an input detected by the touch screen, one-by-one, and controlling the electronic device by using one of the plurality of user interfaces that are sequentially displayed.
US10423323B2
A vehicle terminal may include a touch interface that detects a touch input that is input at a point of a touch panel and when a main controller detects a first tap that is input to the touch panel and then detects at least one second tap within a specified time period with the first tap maintained, the main controller that recognizes a tap-tap interaction based on an input direction of the first tap and the at least one second tap and processes a function that is assigned to the recognized tap-tap interaction.
US10423318B1
A device is disclosed that includes an interface component configured to generate a user interface for playing and requesting videos and a reception component configured to receive a subset of videos from a set of videos in accordance with a video streaming session having a preset duration of time and play the subset of videos for the preset duration of time via the user interface. The device further includes a request component configured to request an increase to the preset duration of time of the video streaming session by a segment of time after reception of a video included in the subset of videos, wherein in response to the request, the reception component is configured to receive the subset of videos for an amount of time including the preset duration of time plus the segment of time and play the subset of videos for the amount of time.
US10423312B2
A method of styling content on a touch screen device is provided. The method includes receiving a user's input with respect to an attribute item of a stroke-based object, receiving a user's touch input with respect to a region indicating the stroke-based object on a touch screen, and changing an attribute value of the stroke-based object based on the attribute item of the stroke-based object and the received user's touch input.
US10423310B2
An object configuration module for configuring an object retrieves a view object associated with a user from a database. The view object may comprise a plurality of attributes. The object configuration module may further retrieve configuration information for the view object from the database. The configuration information may comprise properties of the attributes, and the properties may be customized by the user for the view object. The object configuration module may then set the properties for each of the attributes based on the retrieved configuration information.
US10423309B2
Systems, devices, and methods for managing a security system are described. A method may comprise receiving a request to join a security system by a user device. A whitelist may indicate devices, device types, device makes, device models, and/or device firmware versions authorized to join the security system. The method may further comprise enabling, based on a determination that the whitelist comprises an indication that the user device is authorized to join the security system, the user device to exchange data with the security system.
US10423302B2
Techniques are described herein that are capable of generating a graphic flow having an unlimited number of connections between shapes. The shapes are provided in a visual representation of a workspace defined by pixels. For instance, a first shape may have an outer perimeter defined by a first subset of the pixels; a second shape may have an outer boundary defined by a second subset of the pixels, and so on. Any pixel in each subset may serve as a connection point. For example, a first pixel of the first subset may serve as a first connection point based on any of a variety of first criteria, and a second pixel of the second subset may serve as a second connection point based on any of a variety of second criteria. In accordance with this example, a connection may be provided between the first and second connection points.
US10423295B1
A mobile computer network for the navigation among and transfer of context information from remote participants with an enabling Network architecture and related business model.
US10423292B2
In some implementations, vehicle data indicating a state of a vehicle is received. A current vehicle context is determined based on the vehicle data. Message data indicating one or more candidate messages is received, with each message having a corresponding display context. It is determined whether a particular message of the candidate messages has a display context that matches the current vehicle context. In response to determining that a particular message of the candidate messages has a display context that matches the current vehicle contexts, the particular message is provided for output on a display of the vehicle.
US10423291B2
Methods, systems, and products manage events in an electronic calendar. A calendar event may be associated with a rule, with the rule comprising a reminder and a date and a time of expiration. After the date and time of the expiration, the electronic calendar ceases to present the reminder. That is, no reminders of expired events are visually/audibly presented by the electronic calendar.
US10423279B2
A touch sensitive processing apparatus is provided for detecting whether a touch panel is mostly covered by a conductive liquid or object. The apparatus includes a driving circuit for providing a driving signal to one of multiple parallel electrodes of the touch panel; a sensing circuit for sensing multiple values by the electrodes with respect to the driving signal; and a processor. The processor is configured for commanding the driving circuit to provide the driving signal and receiving the multiple sensing values from the sensing circuit; calculating a maximum difference between the largest and the smallest values of the sensing values; and if the maximum difference is less than a threshold, then determining that the touch panel is mostly covered by a conductive liquid or object.
US10423278B2
A portable device including drift-compensated capacitive proximity sensor that exploits a special method of drift compensation based on the variation of the measured proximity signal. The drift is tracked when the variation is within a stated interval, and frozen when the variation is outside. The sensor is capable of following a drift not only when the phone is inactive, but also when it is close to the body of the user, by freezing the tracking when the capacity varies steeply, as when the user moves the device, and resuming it when the variation is within acceptable limits.
US10423276B2
In one embodiment, a non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising logic is configured to, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising measuring samples from a touch sensor. Each sample is measured by determining, based on a first pattern of polarities, a polarity of a charging signal to be applied to an electrode of the touch sensor, the first pattern of polarities based on a signal associated with a noise source; applying the charging signal to the electrode, the charging signal, as applied, having the polarity determined based on the first pattern of polarities; and measuring a received signal from the touch sensor, the received signal resulting, at least in part, from the charging signal applied to the electrode. The operations comprise determining whether a touch event has occurred at the electrode by analyzing the received signals from the samples.
US10423273B2
Differential transmission is provided in a capacitive sensor for reducing cross-talk between rows and columns. A capacitive touch sensitive device as disclosed herein includes row conductors and column conductors, a first row signal generator for transmitting a first row signal on a first row conductor, a second row signal generator for transmitting a second row signal on a second row conductor, and a touch processor for identifying a touch event on the touch interface by processing signals present on at least one of the column conductors. The first and second row signals together form a differential row group of signals that cancel each other out or at least substantially mitigate each other so as to reduce cross-talk interference in the sensor.
US10423263B2
A portable electronic device is provided. The portable electronic device includes a display unit, an input unit and a hinge member. The hinge member is detachably connected to the display unit and pivotally connected to the input unit, and the hinge member and the display unit are rotatable relative to the input unit around a rotary axis. The display unit has at least a slot and the hinge member has at least a guide pin corresponding to the slot. The guide pin has a first slope structure and a vertical surface structure. The first slope structure and the vertical surface structure are arranged in a direction parallel to the rotary axis.
US10423258B2
An in-cell touch screen is provided and has a color filter substrate and an array substrate disposed and facing the color filter substrate. The array substrate has a substrate, a buffer layer, a gate insulating layer, an interlayer insulating layer, a first planarization layer, a common electrode layer, a metal mesh wire, a second planarization layer, and sensing electrode wires, all of which are stacked in sequence. The sensing electrode wires are connected with the metal mesh wire through vias.
US10423252B2
An array substrate includes a first touch electrode array having m number of strip-shaped first touch electrodes extending in a first direction, a first integrated circuit having m number of touch signal terminals, each of which provides a drive signal to a corresponding first touch electrode; and a plurality of first touch signal lines, each of which is connected between one of the touch signal terminals and one of the first touch electrodes for transmitting the drive signal supplied from each touch signal terminal to the corresponding first touch electrode. The drive signal includes a touch drive signal and a display drive signal; during a display stage, each touch signal terminal supplies the display drive signal to the corresponding first touch electrodes; and, during a touch detection stage, each touch signal terminal supplies the touch drive signal to the corresponding first touch electrode.
US10423249B2
An information processing method and an electronic device are provided according to the disclosure. The method includes: determining first deformation information corresponding to a first deformation; generating a first instruction corresponding to the first deformation information; and executing the first instruction.
US10423241B1
An operating area for a virtual reality system may be defined based on the positions of sensors (e.g., infrared sensors) or fiducial markings within an environment where the virtual reality system is to be operated. The sensors or the fiducial markings may be provided on an operating surface in the form of a carpet, a mat or another like floor covering. When the virtual reality system is to be calibrated prior to use, positions of the sensors or the fiducial markings may be sensed by a base station, a headset or another virtual reality system unit, and an operating area may be defined based on virtual boundaries constructed using such positions.
US10423240B2
An approach, performed by a device, for recommending at least one word to be input through a keyboard is provided. The approach displays the keyboard to be used to input at least one character or text on the device. The approach selects at least one language model. The approach recommends the at least one word related to at least one character or text inputted on the keyboard, based on the at least one inputted character or text and the at least one selected language model, in which the at least one selected language model comprises at least one of a language model based on demographic properties of a user of the device, a language model based on text input histories of the user of the device, and a language model based on a context in which the keyboard is executed.
US10423236B2
A method, system and computer program product for controlling a digital stylus are disclosed. In an embodiment, the method comprises receiving an indication that a digital stylus will be used in connection with a computing device, receiving an indication from a wearable device how the digital stylus should be used on the computing device, and executing the indication from the wearable device on the computing device. In an embodiment, the receiving an indication from a wearable device includes receiving an indication from the wearable device for determining specified characteristics of the digital stylus, and the executing the indication from the wearable device includes executing the specified characteristics of the digital stylus on the computing device. In an embodiment, the executing the indication from the wearable device includes executing the indication from the wearable device in different ways depending on a defined context of the digital stylus.
US10423231B2
An apparatus such as an appliance with a printed circuit board, PCB, (202) mounted haptic feedback device (200) is provided. The apparatus comprises a printed circuit board (PCB) having an opening (204) defined therein, and a spool (206) affixed to the PCB and having a shaft with a coil (208) wound thereabout. The shaft defines an opening aligned with the opening of the PCB. The apparatus also comprises a spring-loaded plunger positioned and movable within the opening of the shaft. The spring-loaded plunger includes a metallic disk operatively coupled to an end of the plunger and distally positioned to the spool. A control component of the apparatus is configured to energize the coil according to a haptic feedback pattern, and thereby cause the coil to at tract the metallic disk and move the plunger within the opening of the shaft of the spool, and through the opening of the PCB.
US10423226B2
The technology disclosed relates to providing haptic-like feedback for an interaction between a control object and a virtual object. In particular, it relates to defining virtual feeler zones of the control object and generating for display a feeler indicator that provides visual feedback over a range of hover proximity of the feeler zones to the virtual object, applied forces on the virtual object, and other material properties of the virtual object.
US10423223B2
A method of displaying content on a device includes sensing first color information of at least one object reflected on a transparent display of the device; comparing second color information of content displayed on the transparent display with the first color information; and changing the second color information based on a difference between the first color information and the second color information.
US10423212B2
This application relates to techniques that adjust the sleep states of a computing device based on user proximity detection procedures. The technique includes detecting a first pattern, using a first subset of sensors of one or more sensors coupled to the computing device, to determine if the object is proximate to the computing device. Provided the first pattern is not indicative of the object being proximate to the computing device, the technique detects a second pattern, using a second subset of sensors of the one or more sensors, to determine if the object is proximate to the computing device. Furthermore, provided either the first pattern or the second pattern is indicative of the object being proximate to the computing device and provided a first portion of a computer system within the computing device is operating within a low-power sleep state, the technique causes the first portion to enter into a high-power sleep state.
US10423210B2
A multiphase voltage regulator (VR) has a VR controller that performs automatic VR phase assignment and configuration for single or multi-output rails of an Information Handling System (IHS). VR power circuit has power stages selectably coupled to output voltage connection(s) or rail(s) that deliver electrical energy to information handling resource(s). VR controller is coupled to the VR power circuit and provides a first reference voltage (IREF) signal to the VR power circuit. VR controller identifies any power stages that return a load current monitor (IMON) signal that indicates that the respective power stage is coupled to the first IREF signal. VR controller regulates identified power stages of the VR power circuit during delivery of electrical power to information handling resource(s). Regulation is according to a VR configuration that is selected based on identified VR phases assigned to a first output voltage loop and associated with the first IREF signal.
US10423207B2
Procedures are described for enhancing target system execution integrity determined by power fingerprinting (PFP): by integrating PFP into the detection phase of comprehensive defense-in-depth security; by deploying a network of PFP enabled nodes executing untrusted devices with predefined inputs forcing a specific state sequence and specific software execution; by embedding module identification information into synchronization signaling; by combining signals from different board elements; by using malware signatures to enhance PFP performance; by automatic characterization and signature extraction; by providing secure signature updates; by protecting against side-channel attacks; performing real-time integrity assessment in embedded platform by monitoring their dynamic power consumption and comparing it against signatures from trusted code, including pre-characterizing power consumption of the platform by concentrating on trace sections carrying the most information about the internal execution status; by using PFP from sequence of bit transitions to detect deviations from authorized execution of software in a digital processor.
US10423201B2
An information handling system includes an application processor that executes instructions of an intelligent energy management system that determines energy demands for an enterprise, application processor determines a statistical model of power demand estimation for a client in the enterprise. The information handling system includes a network adapter that receives component device utilization data from client, and includes a memory device that stores component device utilization data received from the client. The application processor determines power consumption for component devices across the enterprise that has the client for use in the statistical model of consumed power.
US10423194B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a housing, a display exposed through a first surface of the housing, a first camera exposed through a second surface of the housing that is opposite to the first surface, a second camera exposed through the second surface, a memory storing an image obtained by the first or second camera, and a processor electrically connected with the display, the first camera, the second camera, and the memory. The processor is configured to output a first image obtained by using the first camera on the display and, when an area recognized as a face in the first image has a size satisfying a specified condition, output a second image obtained by using the second camera on the display.
US10423191B2
A clock comparator sign control is used in a compare operation. A clock comparator sign control that determines whether unsigned arithmetic or signed arithmetic is to be used in a comparing operation is obtained. The clock comparator sign control is then used in a comparison of a value of a clock comparator and at least a portion of a value of a time-of-day clock to determine whether a selected action is to be recognized.
US10423183B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relates to a method and device for balancing a supply current. In one embodiment, a current supply current for a load is detected. A first signal representing the current supply current is transmitted to a digital logic module. A second signal representing a maximum supply current and a third signal representing a minimum supply current are received from the digital logic module. A subsequent supply current for the load is determined based on the current supply current, the maximum supply current and the minimum supply current. By using the method and device according to the embodiments of the present disclosure, the supply currents of a plurality of power supply units for the load can be balanced a simple way with a low hardware cost.
US10423175B2
A method for providing a voltage reference at a present operating temperature in a circuit is provided. The circuit comprises a first MOS transistor having a first threshold voltage; and a second MOS transistor having a second threshold voltage different from the first threshold voltage is provided. Temperature insensitivity is obtained by compensating the difference between the first threshold voltage and the second threshold voltage with a parameter representative of the present operating temperature.
US10423162B2
Various embodiments relate generally to autonomous vehicles and associated mechanical, electrical and electronic hardware, computing software, including autonomy applications, image processing applications, cloud storage, cloud computing applications, etc., and computing systems, and wired and wireless network communications to facilitate autonomous control of vehicles, and, more specifically, to systems, devices, and methods configured to identify permissioned parking relative to multiple classes of restricted and privileged parking. In some examples, a method may include determining a parking area for an autonomous vehicle; based at least in part on the parking area, determining a parking place for the autonomous vehicle; determining a parking duration for the autonomous vehicle in the parking place; based at least in part on the parking duration, determining a classification of the parking place; and based at least in part on the classification, initiating a command to position the autonomous vehicle in the parking place.
US10423161B2
A predicted course estimating apparatus for estimating a predicted course of the own vehicle, includes: a data acquiring means for acquiring turning data that indicates a turning direction of the own vehicle; a filtering means for removing a high-frequency component that is included in the turning data; a course predicting means for calculating an estimated value for course prediction of the own vehicle, based on the turning data that has been filtered and a speed of the own vehicle; a determining means for determining whether the own vehicle is traveling a part of a road where the shape changes; and a characteristics changing means for changing the extent of removing of the high-frequency component by the filtering means when it is determined that the own vehicle is traveling a part of the road where the shape changes.
US10423147B2
This control device for a machine tool is provided with: a display unit that displays information relating to a machine tool; a display control unit that controls the display of the display unit; and a storage unit. A display setting of the display unit that corresponds to an operation of an operator or the condition of the machine tool is stored in advance in the storage unit. The display control unit acquires an operation of the operator or the condition of the machine tool, reads the display setting corresponding to the operation of the operator or the condition of the machine tool from the storage unit, and changes the display of the display unit on the basis of the display setting.
US10423138B2
An energy storage system for a building includes a battery asset configured to store electricity and discharge the stored electricity for use in satisfying a building electric load. The system includes a planning tool configured to identify one or more selected functionalities of the energy storage system and generate a cost function defining a cost of operating the energy storage system over an optimization period. The cost function includes a term for each of the selected functionalities. The planning tool is configured to generate optimization constraints based on the selected functionalities, attributes of the battery asset, and the electric energy load to be satisfied. The planning tool is configured to optimize the cost function to determine optimal power setpoints for the battery asset at each of a plurality of time steps of the optimization period.
US10423136B2
Methods, systems, and devices relating to administration of a portable electronic key are disclosed. The portable electronic key is configured for controlling access to an electronic locking device. A motion detection sensor detects a movement of the portable electronic key. Based on the movement of the key, a wireless communications link is established between the portable electronic key and an access administration device for exchanging messages related to access control information.
US10423130B2
A system includes a processor configured to receive weather data including a plurality of measured data points in an area around a vehicle, from a remote weather server. The processor is also configured to receive a path from a vehicle subsystem. The processor is further configured to combine the data points and path to form a predictive model reflecting expected weather conditions along the path at future times, the model based on predefined parameters defining expected weather behavior and send the model to a requesting vehicle subsystem.
US10423128B2
This working apparatus for a component or a board includes a head unit and a control portion. The control portion performs control of calculating a rotation angle in a horizontal plane of the head unit from displacement of the center of a first imaging portion and displacement of the center of a second imaging portion and correcting the center position of a working mechanism portion on the basis of the amount of rotation-induced displacement of the center of the working mechanism portion due to the rotation angle, a first amount of displacement in a first direction in the horizontal plane being not induced by rotation of the center of the working mechanism portion, and a second amount of displacement in a second direction in the horizontal plane being not induced by the rotation of the center of the working mechanism portion when moving the head unit.
US10423122B2
An image sensor is provided. The image sensor includes: a plurality of photoelectric elements for receiving an incident light. The photoelectric elements are arranged into a plurality of unit cells, and each of the unit cells includes a first photoelectric element and a second photoelectric element. The first photoelectric element in each of the unit cells captures a first pixel in a first phase, and the second photoelectric element in each of the unit cells captures a second pixel in a second phase, wherein the first phase is different from the second phase.
US10423115B2
An image forming apparatus including an image carrying member, an intermediate transfer belt having conductivity, a toner image on the image carrying member being primarily transferred to the intermediate transfer belt, a secondary transfer member in contact with an outer peripheral surface of the intermediate transfer belt, the secondary transfer member secondarily transferring the toner image on the intermediate transfer belt to a transfer material, a power supply applying a voltage to the secondary transfer member, the toner image being primarily transferred from the image carrying member to the intermediate transfer belt by having a voltage be applied to the secondary transfer member from the power supply, a contact member in contact with the intermediate transfer belt, and a constant current diode, an anode side thereof being connected to the power supply, and a cathode side thereof being connected to the contact member.
US10423113B2
A driving force transmission device includes a sun gear that rotates upon receipt of a driving force, an internal gear that has a hollow portion and internal teeth on an inner surface of the hollow portion, the internal gear being disposed coaxially with the sun gear, a planetary gear that rotates and revolves in mesh with the sun gear and the internal gear, a rotating member that supports a rotating shaft of the planetary gear, and rotates about an output shaft as the planetary gear revolves, and a retaining member that contacts with one end of the rotating shaft of the planetary gear on one surface side of the rotating member to retain the rotating shaft.
US10423111B2
An image forming apparatus includes a measuring unit configured to measure a stopping time period in which rotation of a developer carrying member is stopped; a correcting unit configured to control an image forming unit to form a pattern image, control a detecting unit to detect the pattern image, and correct an image formation condition of the image forming unit based on a detection result of the detecting unit; and a correcting unit configured to correct a correction amount of the image formation condition, which is corrected by the correcting unit, based on the stopping time period measured by the measuring unit.
US10423108B2
A developing cartridge may include a rotary gear rotatable about one axis and a detection gear rotatable about another axis. The detection gear is configured to be not rotatable with the rotary gear in a case where the rotary gear rotates from a first rotational position to a second rotational position, while being configured to be rotatable with the rotary gear in a case where the rotary gear rotates from the second rotational position to a third rotational position.
US10423104B2
An image forming apparatus includes: a first image forming unit which forms a first image on a first recording medium with a first material that is not thermally decolorizable; a second image forming unit which forms a second image on a second recording medium with a second material that is thermally decolorizable; a fixing device which is on a common carrying path shared by the first recording medium and the second recording medium and fixes the first image to the first recording medium; and a controller which controls the fixing device so that a temperature of the fixing device is lower than a decolorizing temperature of the second material when the second recording medium reaches the fixing device.
US10423101B2
A cam mechanism includes a cam, an output object and a counter object. The cam has a profile including an ascending region where a radius gradually increases along a rotating direction and a descending region where the radius gradually decreases along the rotating direction. The ascending region and the descending region are shifted each other by 180 degrees. The output object abuts on the cam with a predetermined pressure and linearly moves in an abutting direction in which the output object abuts on the cam and in a counter-abutting direction opposite to the abutting direction by rotating of the cam. The counter object abuts on the cam with the predetermined pressure from the counter-abutting direction at a position shifted by 180 degrees with respect to an abutting position between the output object and the cam.
US10423099B1
A fuser apparatus includes first and second rollers in nip relation to transport a receiver member therebetween. A stripping mechanism a skive assembly having an elongated, thin, flexible skive finger, wherein a tip of the skive finger is beveled forming a sharp edge along an upper surface of the skive finger. At least one raised bump protrudes from the lower surface of the skive finger, spaced apart from a tip of the skive finger. A mounting mechanism positions the skive finger in operative relation to the first roller with the at least one raised bump contacting the surface of the first roller at a contact point such that the sharp edge along the first surface of the skive finger is spaced apart from the surface of the first roller by a distance of between 50 and 120 microns.
US10423094B2
Liquid electrophotography apparatus including a plurality of members defining a flow path for a printing liquid. At least a first member of the plurality of members is arranged to generate an electric field. The liquid electrophotography apparatus also includes a first insulation layer arranged around at least a portion of a surface of the first member to prevent electrical discharge from the printing liquid.
US10423089B2
A positively chargeable toner includes a plurality of toner particles. The toner particles each contain a crystalline polyester resin, a non-crystalline polyester resin, a carnauba wax, and a quaternary ammonium salt. The crystalline polyester resin has an SP value of at least 10.0 (cal/cm3)1/2 and no greater than 10.1 (cal/cm3)1/2. An amount of the crystalline polyester resin is at least 5 parts by mass and no greater than 19 parts by mass relative to 100 parts by mass of the toner particles. An amount of the carnauba wax is at least 21.0% by mass and no greater than 42.0% by mass relative to a total mass of the crystalline polyester resin, the quaternary ammonium salt, and the carnauba wax.
US10423088B1
An electrostatic charge image developing toner includes a styrene-acrylic resin and exhibits a z average molecular weight Mz of 80,000 to 400,000 and a molecular weight distribution curve satisfying Expression (1): 1.3≤b/a≤2.0, and an electrostatic charge image developing toner includes a styrene-acrylic resin, and exhibits a z average molecular weight Mz of 100,000 to 400,000 and a molecular weight distribution curve satisfying Expression (A): 0.75≤(c+d)/(2×d)≤0.95, wherein a, b, c and d are defined in the specification.
US10423080B2
A liquid immersion exposure apparatus includes a liquid immersion member which forms a liquid immersion space on an object disposed opposite to an emitting surface of an optical member. The liquid immersion member includes (i) a first member that has a first liquid supply port, and a first opening, through which exposure light is projected and (ii) a second member that has a first liquid recovery port facing downwardly and a second liquid supply port and that is movable with respect to the first member. The first member has a second liquid recovery port. The first liquid supply port faces an outer surface of the optical member and is provided on one side of the optical member. The second liquid recovery port faces the outer surface of the optical member and is provided on the other side of the optical member.
US10423075B2
The present invention relates to methods and systems for designing gauge patterns that are extremely sensitive to parameter variation, and thus robust against random and repetitive measurement errors in calibration of a lithographic process utilized to image a target design having a plurality of features. The method may include identifying most sensitive line width/pitch combination with optimal assist feature placement which leads to most sensitive CD (or other lithography response parameter) changes against lithography process parameter variations, such as wavefront aberration parameter variation. The method may also include designing gauges which have more than one test patterns, such that a combined response of the gauge can be tailored to generate a certain response to wavefront-related or other lithographic process parameters. The sensitivity against parameter variation leads to robust performance against random measurement error and/or any other measurement error.
US10423074B2
A method for calculating the parameters of a resist model of an IC manufacturing process is provided. Accordingly, a function representative of the target design convoluted throughout the whole target design with a kernel function compounded with a deformation function with a shift angle. The deformation function is replaced by its Fourier series development, the order of which is selected so that the product of convolution is invariant through rotations within a tolerance of the corrections to be applied to the target design. Alternatively, the product of convolution may be decomposed into basic kernel functions selected varying by angles determined so that a deformation function for a value of the shift angle can be projected onto a couple of basic kernel functions the angles of which are proximate to the shift angle.
US10423063B2
A correction method for a mask pattern is provided. The method includes providing a chip pattern region including a plurality of main features, and providing first auxiliary patterns around each main feature. The method also includes performing a first optical proximity correction to correct the main features into first correction features, and providing a plurality of detection regions. Each detection region is connected to an adjacent first correction feature via the first auxiliary pattern. In addition, the method includes performing an exposure process to obtain a light intensity distribution corresponding to each detection region after performing the exposure process. Moreover, the method includes correcting the first auxiliary patterns into second auxiliary patterns based on an auxiliary pattern correction model and the light intensity distribution of each detection region. Further, the method includes performing a second optical proximity correction on the first correction features to obtain second correction features.
US10423062B2
Methods for correcting target patterns and masks having corrected target patterns are provided. An exemplary correction method includes dividing contours of target patterns into fragments; performing an optical proximity correction to obtain mask patterns; obtaining simulated exposure patterns; detecting the simulated exposure patterns to find out existence of at least one weak point; determining a correction window in the target patterns; comparing the target patterns in the correction window with the simulated exposure patterns to obtain a position error of each fragment; calculating an effect value of a correction value of each fragment in the correction window on position errors of all fragments in the correction window; determining the correction value of each fragment according to the effect value of the correction value in the correction window on position errors of all fragments and the position error of each fragment; and obtaining corrected target patterns using the correction value.
US10423060B2
The present invention is related to a smile triggered device (1) for encouraging people to smile, the smile triggered device (1) comprising, a frame (2); a mirror (3) having at least one reflecting surface and installed into the frame (2); a switchable material (4) which can be switched to transparent or non-transparent state and covered on the reflecting surface of the mirror (3); a camera (5) capturing images of the user; a control unit (6) connected to the camera (5) and adapted to processes facial expressions of the user in real time for detecting whether the user smile or not, wherein the control unit (6) changing the state of the switchable material (4) to the transparent state by applying voltage thereto if a smile detected. The mirror (4) function of the smile triggered device (1) is maintained until the user changes his facial expression.
US10423059B2
To provide a projection-type image display apparatus which projects an image on a dome screen and a dome type screen apparatus for image projection.An image display apparatus 100 includes a dome screen 101, a support body 102 configured to support the dome screen 101 so that the dome screen 101 is rotatable around a horizontal axis, two projectors 103 and 104 and a display control apparatus 105, and a chair 106 on which a viewer sits is provided inside space. By rotating the dome screen 101, it is possible to expand a viewing field in a vertical direction.
US10423057B2
A projection system is provided, including: a projection unit to output a projection image; a retardation plate arranged obliquely with respect to an optical axis of the projection image, the retardation plate to modulate a polarization state of the projection image incident thereon; a reflective polarizing plate stacked on a side of the retardation plate opposite to that on which the projection image is incident, the reflective polarizing plate to reflect a first polarization component of the projection image transmitted through the retardation plate; and a retro-reflective element provided along a direction in which the projection image is reflected by the reflective polarizing plate, the retro-reflective element to output reflected light against a direction in which the light is incident, wherein the reflective polarizing plate transmits a second polarization component of the projection image reflected by the retro-reflective element and modulated by the retardation plate.
US10423046B2
A liquid crystal lens includes first and second electrodes facing each other, and a liquid crystal layer interposed between the first and second electrodes. The first electrode includes at least one unit pattern. The unit pattern includes a pattern electrode and an aperture. The pattern electrode is disposed adjacent to a boundary of the unit pattern and the aperture is disposed inside the pattern electrode.
US10423044B2
A transparent photovoltaic (TPV) integrated directly into the structure of an electrochromic (EC) device is beneficial in that it can eliminate at least one substrate and provide more uniform coloring. Integration of a transparent photovoltaic with an electrochromic device may also reduce or eliminate the need for an electrical bus on a substrate. In some embodiments, positioning the TPV internally with the EC cell may eliminate the need for additional substrate layers or a conductive layer on one side of the TPV cell. Integrating a PV cell into the EC device can additionally reduce the need for external wiring and an external power supply. Alternatively, the TPV can assist in charging a battery where the battery can be used to power the EC device when there is no sunlight available.
US10423040B2
A liquid crystal display apparatus includes an array substrate, a liquid crystal layer, and an opposite substrate. The array substrate includes a first pixel and a second pixel. The first pixel includes a first active device and a first pixel electrode. The first pixel electrode is electrically connected to the first active device via a first through-hole. The first pixel electrode includes a plurality of first electrode strips extended along a first direction. The first through-hole is located at a first corner of the first pixel electrode. The second pixel includes a second active device and a second pixel electrode. The second pixel electrode is connected to the second active device via a second through-hole. The second pixel electrode includes a plurality of second electrode strips extended along a second direction. The second through-hole is located at a second corner of the second pixel electrode. A virtual straight line connecting between the first corner and the second corner is substantially not parallel to the first direction.
US10423039B2
The present invention provides an array substrate and a manufacturing method thereof. The array substrate includes: a backing plate, a TFT layer arranged on the backing plate, a protective layer covering the backing plate and the TFT layer, a color resist layer arranged on the protective layer, an organic planarization layer set on and covering the color resist layer and the protective layer, and a BPS light-shielding layer arranged on the organic planarization layer. The BPS light-shielding layer includes: a black matrix and a main photo spacer and a sub photo spacer arranged on the black matrix. The organic planarization layer is formed with a first recess in an area thereof that corresponds to at least a part of the black matrix and the first recess is filled up with the black matrix. By forming the first recess in the organic planarization layer and filling the first recess with the black matrix, the extent by which the black matrix projects beyond a pixel area can be reduced to prevent the black matrix from forming a barrier wall between sub-pixels that affects flowability of liquid crystal and to ensure the quality of a liquid crystal boxing process and the displaying performance of a device.
US10423038B2
A display assembly includes a display unit for displaying an image. The display unit includes a backlight unit configured to provide light. A color conversion layer is positioned adjacent to and configured to receive the light from the backlight unit. A structural layer is positioned adjacent to the color conversion layer and configured to support the display unit. A first stack is positioned adjacent to the structural layer and includes a first thin-film-transistor (TFT) layer, a color filter layer and a first liquid crystal layer. The display unit is configured to be bendable to a fixed shape such that the display unit retains the fixed shape.
US10423037B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a liquid crystal display panel, including: a first substrate; a second substrate; and a liquid crystal layer arranged therebetween; the first substrate includes a plurality of sub-pixels, the sub-pixels are divided into a plurality of repeat units arranged in an array, each repeat units includes a plurality of sub-units arranged in an array; in each repeat units, a first sub-unit, a second sub-unit and a third sub-unit are arranged in both a row direction and a column direction; and each of the first sub-unit, the second sub-unit and the third sub-unit includes at least two color sub-pixels and at least two highlight sub-pixels; in each sub-unit, a total number of the color sub-pixel is equal to a total number of the highlight sub-pixel; a total number of the first, second and third color sub-pixel in each sub-unit is the same.
US10423033B2
[Problem] The purpose of the present invention is to provide a method for developing a large anchoring energy by simple processes. [Solution] There is provided a method for manufacturing a liquid crystal alignment film, comprising: a process (I) of mixing a solvent with a photoresponsive polymer to prepare a photoresponsive polymer solution; a process (II) of coating the photoresponsive polymer solution on a substrate, followed by drying at 50 to 100° C. for 1 to 3 minutes and then drying at 120° C. to 180° C. for 5 to 75 minutes to form a coating film; and a process (III) of adjusting a temperature of the coating film while the coating film is irradiated with a light of 200 to 350 nm to 40° C. to 100° C.
US10423030B2
Provided is a partial drive-type light source device capable of suppressing coloring of a section intended to be a dark section when a plurality of light-emitting elements is driven in a partial manner. The partial drive-type light source device includes an excitation light source, a phosphor sheet that is disposed at a position separated from the excitation light source and contains a phosphor that releases emitted light in a wavelength region differing from incident light, and a wavelength-selective reflection film that is disposed between the excitation light source and the phosphor sheet and that transmits at least part of light in the wavelength region of the incident light from the excitation light source and reflects at least part of light in the wavelength region of the emitted light from the phosphor sheet.
US10423021B2
In one embodiment, the present invention includes a substrate; a detection electrode provided in a display region on a plane parallel to the substrate, the detection electrode including a plurality of metal wires; a first conductive layer provided in a peripheral region located to the outside the display region; a protective layer provided on the detection electrode; a polarizing plate provided above the protective layer; and a second conductive layer provided between the polarizing plate and the protective layer in a direction perpendicular to the substrate. The second conductive layer has a higher sheet resistance than the metal wires and is electrically coupled to the first conductive layer.
US10423020B2
Disclosed herein includes an assembly structure, including a back cover and a frame. The back cover includes a bottom wall and at least one side wall, wherein the bottom wall and the at least one side wall cooperatively form a housing, and the bottom wall or the at least one side wall is provided with at least one first snap member. The frame includes a load plate and a side plate, wherein the side plate is provided with at least one second snap member. The at least one first snap member and the at least one second snap member are configured to form at least one snap-fit assembly.
US10423019B1
Disclosed is a foldable display device. According to an embodiment of the present invention, the foldable display device includes a first body and a second body that are formed in the same shape as a plate and are arranged symmetrically with each other, and a hinge device assembled to connect the first body and the second body to each other, such that the hinge device rotates within an opened state range where the first and second bodies are placed on the same plane and within a closed state range where the first and second bodies overlap each other.
US10423014B2
An optical modulator includes: an optical modulator chip having an optical waveguide having a bent waveguide portion that is bent between a light input end portion and a light output end portion, a bias electrode provided between the light input end portion and the bent waveguide portion along the optical waveguide, and a signal electrode provided between the bent waveguide portion and the light output end portion along the optical waveguide; a bias input terminal configured to input a bias voltage, the bias input terminal being electrically connected to the bias electrode, and a signal input terminal configured to input an electric signal, the signal input terminal being provided closer to a receiver configured to receive an electric signal than the bias input terminal and being electrically connected to the signal electrode.
US10422997B2
A HMD device includes an illumination system, a display device, a lens module and a waveguide system. The illumination system includes an aperture stop. The display device converts an illumination beam into an image beam. The waveguide system guides the image beam, and projects the image beam to a projection target. The waveguide system includes a first waveguide element and a second waveguide element. The image beam is projected to the projection target through the lens module, the first and the second waveguide elements, and is converged to a first stop within the first waveguide element. The first stop is located in the first waveguide element. The image beam is projected to a second stop outside the second waveguide element. The second stop is located at the projection target. The illumination beam is converged to a third stop within the illumination system. The aperture stop is located at the third stop.
US10422991B2
Described herein are embodiments of fiber scanning systems and methods of scanning optical fibers. The disclosed systems and methods advantageously provide an improvement to the scanning range, the oscillation amplitude, and/or the maximum pointing angle for an optical fiber in a fiber scanning system by inducing a buckling of a portion of the optical fiber.
US10422987B2
In an image acquisition device, imaging is performed using an imaging element capable of rolling reading an optical image of a sample irradiated with instantaneous light. Therefore, the image can be captured with a sufficient S/N ratio even when the optical image is weak. Further, the image acquisition device includes a light source control unit that causes the instantaneous light to be emitted from a light source from the start of exposure of a pixel row of which reading last starts to the start of reading of a pixel row of which the reading first starts. That is, in the image acquisition device, the light source control unit causes the sample to be irradiated with the instantaneous light from the light emitting means during a period of time in which all pixel rows of the imaging element are exposed.
US10422982B2
A super-wide angle lens and a photographing apparatus including the super-wide angle lens are provided. The super-wide angle lens includes a first lens having a negative refractive power and a second lens having a positive refractive power, wherein the first lens and the second lens are disposed in sequential order from an object side to an image side, and wherein the super-wide angle lens has a half view angle of 80 degrees or greater.
US10422974B2
A camera module comprises a lens barrel, a lens driving device including a focusing unit moving a lens barrel in an optical axis direction and a movement correction unit moving the lens barrel in a direction perpendicular to the optical axis direction, and a housing accommodating the lens barrel and the lens driving device. A focus sensing portion of the focusing unit is disposed in an area not including a planar surface on which a focusing magnet and a focusing coil are mounted.
US10422973B2
A process and system for making a water resistant cable component and water resistant cable components are provided. The water resistant cable includes a cable body including an inner surface defining a channel within the cable body and an elongate cable component located within the channel of the cable body. The cable also includes a contiguous layer of crosslinked super absorbent polymer surrounding the elongate cable component. The layer of crosslinked super absorbent polymer is formed by applying a liquid layer including a carrier material and an uncrosslinked super absorbent polymer pre-polymer material onto an outer surface of a component of the cable and then by crosslinking the super absorbent polymer pre-polymer while on the cable component to form a layer of crosslinked super absorbent polymer surrounding the cable component.
US10422967B2
An optical coupling apparatus and method are described. An embodiment of an optical coupling apparatus may include a first optical chip, a second optical chip, and an optical writing waveguide block. In the apparatus, the first optical chip is coupled to the optical writing waveguide block in a first coupling manner, and the second optical chip is coupled to the optical writing waveguide block in a second coupling manner. Furthermore, in the apparatus, the first optical chip is optically interconnected to the second optical chip by using the optical writing waveguide block. Compatibility between a plurality of coupling manners is therefore enabled by using the technical solutions described herein.
US10422966B2
The present disclosure provides an optical fiber receptacle, an optical fiber connection device and an optical fiber receptacle module. The optical fiber receptacle comprises a housing, a plurality of positioning hooks and at least one clamping unit. The housing has a rear wall, and at least one slot opened on an opposite side of the rear wall. The rear wall has an inner surface facing the slot and an outer surface opposite to the inner surface, the slot is used to be inserted by an optical fiber plug. The positioning hook protrudes from the outer surface of the rear wall in a column shape, is used to pass through a mounting hole of a panel to latched with a hole edge defining the mounting hole of the panel. The clamping unit is formed to the rear wall corresponding to the slot and comprises a clamping channel penetrating the rear wall and communicated with the corresponding slot for clamping a holding member of the optical fiber joint so that the first ferrule of the optical fiber plug and the second ferrule of the optical fiber joint are connected relative to each other. The optical fiber receptacle of the present disclosure can reduce the volume and greatly reduce the material costs.
US10422964B2
An optical connector attached to a plurality of buffered optical fibers each including: a bare optical fiber; and a tube in which the bare optical fiber is inserted in. A multi-fiber optical connector is connected to first ends of the buffered optical fibers, and a plurality of single-fiber optical connectors are respectively connected to second ends of the buffered optical fibers. The multi-fiber optical connector includes: a ferrule fixed to ends of the bare optical fibers; a connector housing that houses the ferrule therein; and a tube fixing portion that fixes the tubes to the connector housing. The buffered optical fiber has a bare fiber fixing portion in which the bare optical fiber and the tube are fixed at a location closer to the ferrule than the tube fixing portion within the multi-fiber optical connector.
US10422962B2
The present disclosure relates to a fiber optic connection system that uses a slide clip to provide robust retention of a fiber optic connector within a mating fiber optic adapter. In certain examples, the fiber optic connector may be a hybrid connector that provides both electrical and optical connectivity.
US10422959B2
The present invention provides a method for fabricating a metallic micro/nanostructure at an optical fiber end-facet by the glue-and-strip method, wherein, firstly a metallic micro/nanostructure is fabricated on a substrate which has a relatively low binding force with it, then an optical fiber end-facet is applied with an adhesive, or a surface of the metallic micro/nanostructure is applied with the adhesive, after that, the optical fiber end-facet and the metallic micro/nanostructure are glued at a predetermined angle, and finally, the adhesive is cured and the optical fiber end-facet and the metallic micro/nanostructure are stripped off the substrate to complete the fabrication. The present invention is based on the idea in the glue-and-strip method that a noble metal is stripped off a weakly bound substrate, and thus demonstrates a new method which enables fabricating a metallic micro/nanostructure at an optical fiber end-facet with high quality, and the process of which is simple, fast, and low cost.
US10422958B2
A high-order optical fiber multi-wavelength filter includes a polarization beam splitter configured to form a polarization-diversity loop configuration by splitting light received from a broadband light source into two polarization components, combining circulated and input light of the two polarization components, and outputting the combined light, a pair of polarization controllers each including at least one wave plate in combination, and configured to change a polarization state of input light, and a pair of polarization-maintaining fibers configured to form interference spectrums by assigning phase differences through birefringence.
US10422957B2
Methods and systems for a low-loss optical Y-Junction power splitter are disclosed and may include a semiconductor die having an optical Y-junction. The optical Y-junction may comprise an input waveguide, two or more output waveguides, a taper region and a step feature. The input waveguide and the taper region may include a smooth transition between the input waveguide and the taper region, and the step feature may be between the taper region and the output waveguides. The semiconductor die may receive an optical signal in the input waveguide, and communicate substantially equal power optical signals to the output waveguides. The semiconductor die may comprise a photonically-enabled silicon CMOS integrated circuit. An optical signal may be received in each of the output waveguides and a summed output signal may be communicated to the input waveguide. The step feature may extend in a direction perpendicular to an axis of the output waveguides.
US10422950B2
The optical interconnection apparatus includes a laminated structure having an inner glass sheet, an adhesive layer, and an outer glass sheet. The laminated structure has a first bend section with bend angle and front and back opposite ends. An optical fiber is operably supported by the laminated structure so that it has a second bend section that follows the first bend section. The front end of the optical fiber resides proximate to the front end of the laminated structure and the back end of the optical fiber resides proximate to the back end of the laminated structure. The first bend section is formed by bending the laminated structure and then curing the adhesive. A protective coating can be deposited over the optical fiber and a portion of the laminated structure.
US10422943B2
A luminaire comprises a light guide having light outcoupling elements at one side and a flat light output surface at the other side, which is visible in use of the luminaire. An array of solid state lighting elements is arranged around the edge of the light guide facing the general light output direction. A respective reflector is associated with each solid state lighting element for reflecting light into the light guide. By providing the lighting elements all facing the general light output direction, they can be formed as a single unit, or as a small number of sub-units, thereby simplifying the manufacture. The design of the reflectors, the positioning of the lighting elements, and the design of the light outcoupling elements together may be used to create an asymmetrical light output beam shape. Actuation of different lighting elements may be used to provide different asymmetric light outputs.
US10422940B2
A display panel is provided. The display panel includes a display layer, a light diffusion layer, and a light guide plate. The display layer is used to display an image. The light guide plate is disposed under the display layer. The light guide plate guides a light of a back light source to the display layer. The light diffusion layer is disposed between the display layer and the light guide plate. The light diffusion layer is controlled by at least one control voltage, so as to dynamically change the transparency of the light diffusion layer.
US10422935B2
A pressure-sensitive adhesive layer attached polarizing film of invention includes a polarizing film; and a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer provided on the polarizing film, wherein the polarizing film comprises a polarizer and a transparent protective film provided on only one side of the polarizer, the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer is provided on a side of the polarizer opposite to the side on which the transparent protective film is provided, and the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer is made from a pressure-sensitive adhesive composition including a (meth)acryl-based polymer (A), an onium-anion salt (B1), and an alkali metal salt (B2). The pressure-sensitive adhesive layer attached polarizing film has a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer possessing an antistatic function and satisfactory durability even after a humidity test under severe conditions and is less prone to degradation of optical properties even after a humidity test under severe conditions.
US10422925B2
The disclosed embodiments include a method, apparatus, and computer program product for generating hybrid computational meshes around complex and discrete fractures for the purpose of reservoir simulation. For example, one embodiment is a computer-implemented method for modeling three-dimensional (3D) geological fractures. The method includes the steps of receiving a set of fractures with geometry that has been discretized in a two-dimensional plane by a collection of line segments. The method generates closed loops around all the line segments associated with a fracture using a set of stadia and further generates shape elements within the closed loops. A constrained mesh around the closed loops of the set of fracture is generated to fill in a remainder space of the two-dimensional plane. The cell elements in the two-dimensional plane can then be extruded in a third dimension to form a three-dimensional model usable for performing reservoir simulations.
US10422922B2
A system and method to predict rock strength by directly inverting for petrophysical properties. In one embodiment, seismic data is received or obtained from a seismic survey (step 101). The seismic data are then conditioned (step 103) in order to prepare them for an inversion process (step 105). The inversion process has an embedded rock physics model that allows the inversion to be formulated based upon, and thereby outputting or calculating (step 107), petrophysical properties. Rock strength data may then be calculated from the petrophysical properties (step 109).
US10422921B2
A downhole system comprises a main sensor, such as a gamma sensor, and a backup sensor. The backup sensor may be of a different type from the main sensor. In some embodiments the backup sensor is a high reliability sensor that may have a different sensitivity from the main sensor. The system operates both the main and backup sensors and generates calibration data for the backup sensor. If the main sensor fails the calibration data may be applied to process data from the backup sensor to yield an estimate of the data that the main sensor would have yielded if it had remained operational. The calibration data may compensate for temperature variations and/or temporal drift, for example.
US10422920B2
A method for simulating a response of a neutron well logging instrument includes in a computer, defining a function of neutron migration length with respect to expected radiation detector counting rate. The function is defined for selected values of formation porosity. The function is related to neutron slowing down length and neutron diffusion length. The function is weighted for formation density. An expected radiation detector counting rate is calculated in the computer using the defined function based on an initial estimation of formation porosity and density.
US10422913B2
An electromagnetic field measuring device utilizes metamaterials to manipulate electromagnetic fields. Such a device is useful in a variety of applications including, for example, downhole gradiometric ranging.
US10422912B2
A system includes at least one processing unit and a bottomhole assembly (BHA) that includes or communicates with the at least one processing unit. The BHA includes at least one drilling component and at least one acoustic transducer to convert drilling noise into one or more electrical signals. The at least one processing unit analyzes the one or more electrical signals or related data to categorize different components of the drilling noise as rock contact noise and mechanical noise. The at least one processing unit derives a data log, a plan, or a control signal based on the categorized drilling noise components.
US10422904B2
A measure of structural growth of subsurface geological formations layers or intervals is obtained to investigate and analyze layer structure development history. The measure or indication can be considered a structural growth index (SGI) and is used to evaluate for possible presence of hydrocarbons in the layers or strata in a structure of concern. The structural growth measure or index for a given geologic interval of interest is defined as the ratio of the layer thickness difference measured at two selected locations, one at a structural high and the other at a structural low of layer or interval, over the larger number of the paired-thickness measurements. The structural growth measure is determined for a series of sequentially layered geologic formations of interest and displays of determined measures are formed as functions of geologic time for the formations. Based on the structural growth measure, the geologic growth history of the given oil field structure is revealed quantitatively.
US10422902B2
A method is herein presented to statistically combine multiple seismic attributes for generating a map of the spatial density of fractures. According to an embodiment a first step involves interpreting the formation of interest in 3D seismic volume first to create its time structure map. The second step is creating depth structure of the formation of interest from its time structure map. In this application geostatistical methods have been used for depth conversional, although other methods could be used instead. The third step is extraction of a number of attributes, such as phase, frequency and amplitudes, from the time structure map. The next step is to project the fracture density onto the top of the target formation. The final step is to combine these attributes using a statistical method known as Multi-variant non-linear regression to predict fracture density.
US10422901B2
Some aspects of what is described here relate to seismic data analysis techniques. A seismic excitation is generated in a first directional wellbore section in a subterranean region. A seismic response associated with the seismic excitation is detected in a second directional wellbore section in the subterranean region. Seismic response data based on the seismic response are analyzed to identify geomechanical properties of subterranean rock in a fracture treatment target region in the subterranean region. In some cases, the geomechanical properties include pore pressure, stress, or mechanical properties.
US10422900B2
A system and methods for analyzing seismic data are provided herein. The method includes identifying, via a computing device, a representation of a seismic data set (1802) and determining a number of feature descriptors corresponding to each of a number of aggregates within the representation (1804). The method also includes identifying a query relating to the representation and one or more vocabulary definitions relating to the query (1806), analyzing the representation to compute a likelihood that each of the aggregates satisfies the query (1808), and returning a result of the query (1810).
US10422897B2
Described herein is method for the detection of seismic activity using a network of lights, and in particular, street lights (43) arranged over a number of streets (42). Each light includes a control module having the facility for both long- and short-distance communication, the control modules being grouped with other control modules and associated with a group controller to create a short-distance or mesh network. Each control module includes a sensor which is capable of detecting seismic activity and data relating to such activity may be transmitted to a central server via its group controller using long-distance communication. Even if the sensors are relatively inaccurate, the high number of such sensors present in the network makes it possible to detect and analyze the activity using geocoordinate information provided by the control modules at the server. Information relating to an epicentre of an earthquake can be determined and distributed to control modules in the vicinity of the detected seismic activity (50) to provide warning light signals for the population in that vicinity.
US10422891B1
Compositions, related to plastic scintillating materials based on a monomer combined with a cross-linker, an oxazole, and a fluorophore and/or an organometallic compound are disclosed. The disclosed plastic scintillator materials may advantageously provide gamma-neutron pulse shape discrimination capabilities.
US10422886B1
A method for detecting radiation exposure by a smart radiation dosimeter (SRD) is described. The method comprises a step of activating a radiation sensor of the SRD by establishing a communicative coupling between the radiation and a dongle of the SRD. The method also comprises receiving, by the radiation sensor, personal identification information (PII) from the dongle, the PII identifying an individual holding the SRD. The method also comprises detecting, by the radiation sensor, a radiation level and recording, by the radiation sensor, the radiation level. The method also comprises generating, by the radiation sensor, one or more data packets that include the radiation level, the PII, a time stamp of when the radiation level was detected and location information pertaining to where the radiation level was detected; and transmitting the one or more data packets to a network device or cloud storage.
US10422877B2
Disclosed herein is an electronic device having a substrate, and an integrated circuit disposed within the substrate and having a top surface. The integrated circuit may be a laser emitting integrated circuit or a reflected light detector. A first interconnect layer is formed on the top surface of the substrate. A first optically transparent layer is formed on the top surface of the substrate and covering the top surface of the integrated circuit. A second interconnect layer is formed on a top surface of the first optically transparent layer. The second interconnect layer is patterned so as to not obstruct light traveling to or from the top surface of the integrated circuit through the first optically transparent layer.
US10422875B2
A fastening device is configured to be used for fastening an object to a target device. The fastening device includes a holder part configured to hold the object, a fastening part configured to be bonded to the target device, a contact part allowing the fastening part to be located between the contact part and the holder part, and a connecting part for connecting the contact part with the fastening part while allowing the protruding length to be variable. The contact part protrudes toward the target device more than the fastening part by a protruding length, the contact part contacting the target device before the fastening part contacts the target device when being fastened to the target device. This fastening device improves workability.
US10422874B2
A method is described for spatial modelling of an interior of a vehicle. The method includes transmitting a wireless signal, from each of multiple transmitters, each transmitter having a known location in the vehicle, receiving, by multiple receivers, multiple reflection signals having been reflected in the interior of the vehicle, each receiver having a known location in the vehicle. The method also includes, for the received reflection signals, determining a source data set by determining multipath propagation components, Doppler shifts, phase shifts and time differences of the received reflection signals, and determining a spatial model of at least a portion of the vehicle interior by applying a computer vision algorithm on the source data set. A system is also described for performing the method.
US10422872B2
Methods for radar altimeter integrity monitoring are provided. One method comprises obtaining one or more GNSS measurements, or one or more hybridized GNSS/INS measurements, in an earth-centered-earth-fixed (ECEF) coordinate frame for a vehicle; obtaining one or more altitude measurements from one or more radar altimeters; transforming the altitude measurements into the ECEF coordinate frame using a terrain map and a GNSS or hybridized GNSS/INS based position estimate with ensured integrity; determining a full solution estimate of position for the vehicle based on the transformed altitude measurements, and the GNSS or hybridized GNSS/INS measurements; determining one or more sub-solution estimates of position based on a subset of the transformed altitude measurements, and the GNSS or hybridized GNSS/INS measurements; comparing the full solution estimate with the sub-solution estimates using statistical analysis; and determining an altitude protection level based on a probability of hazardous misleading information and a probability of false detection.
US10422871B2
A vehicle as a moving body is provided with an imaging device as first object detecting means and a radar apparatus as second object detecting means. The object recognition apparatus is provided with axis displacement learning means for learning an axis displacement of the reference axis X1 of the first object detecting means; axis displacement determining means for performing, based on an object detecting result of the first object detecting means and the second object detecting means, an axis displacement determination process for determining whether or not an axis displacement has occurred in the reference axis of the second object detecting means; and disabling means for disabling, based on a learning result of the axis displacement by the axis displacement learning means, information about an axis displacement of the second object detecting means acquired by the axis displacement determination process.
US10422870B2
A system for tracking position of objects in an industrial environment includes an interrogator, a transponder, and a processor. The interrogator transmits a signal and provides a first reference signal corresponding to the transmitted signal. The transponder provides a response signal. The interrogator receives the response signal and provides a second reference signal corresponding to the response signal. The processor determines a location of either the interrogator or the transponder, relative to the other, based on the two reference signals.
US10422869B2
The present invention relates to a method and system for identifying and eliminating second time-around ambiguous targets and, more particularly, to a method and system for identifying and eliminating second time-around ambiguous targets using waveform phase modulation.
US10422866B2
According to an embodiment, a distance measuring apparatus includes an irradiator that emits an irradiation wave to a measuring target, a first detector that directly detects the irradiation wave, a second detector that detects a reflection wave, a simulation signal generator that generates a simulation signal, a first meter that measures a first time and an emission time of the irradiation wave, a second meter that measures a second time and an incidence time of the reflection wave, a first subtractor that subtracts the emission time from the incidence time to obtain a measurement time period, and that subtracts the first time from the second time to obtain an error time period and a second subtractor that subtracts the error time period from the measurement time period to obtain an offset measurement time period.
US10422863B2
One aspect is a scanning light detection and ranging (LiDAR) having an optical structure which shares a transmitting and receiving lens. In one embodiment, the LiDAR includes a hole mirror disposed to have a first angle with respect to a horizontal surface and including a hole and a reflecting surface and a beam source configured to output a pulsed laser beam from one side of the hole mirror toward the hole. The LiDAR also includes a transmitting and receiving lens configured to generate a collimated beam to move the pulsed laser beam which passed through the hole toward a measurement target, receive a beam reflected from the measurement target, and transmit the reflected beam to the hole mirror. The LiDAR further includes a beam detector disposed to face the reflecting surface of the hole mirror and configured to receive the beam reflected from the hole mirror and convert the reflected beam into an electronic signal.
US10422862B2
A LiDAR apparatus comprising a laser source for emitting laser pulses. An SiPM detector is provided for detecting reflected photons. Optics and an aperture stop is provide. The aperture stop is provided intermediate the SiPM detector and the optics for limiting an angle of view of the SiPM detector.
US10422858B2
Methods for optimizing the detection of marine targets and airborne radar implementing such a method
A detection method for a given mission comprises: a phase of analyzing the environment, wherein phase elements of influence on the sea clutter perceived by the radar are sought and stored in memory; a phase of updating the path to be followed by the carrier depending on the requirements of the mission and the elements of influence issued from the result of the analyzing phase, the path to be followed decreasing the power of the clutter received by the radar when the antenna is pointing towards a search zone liable to contain a target; the phases being repeated throughout the mission.
US10422856B2
Various embodiments include methods and systems having a frequency-modulated continuous wave radar operable to compensate a return signal for nonlinearity in the associated radar signal that is transmitted. The radar signal can be mixed with a delayed version of the radar signal such that the mixed signal can be used to generate an estimate of the nonlinearity. The estimate can be used to compensate the return signal from an object that reflects the associated transmitted radar signal. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods can be implemented in a variety of applications.
US10422855B2
A radar system having side lobe blanking capability is disclosed. The system can include a single channel antenna and receiver system, the side lobe blanking system being time multiplexed, but requiring no dedicated guard channel data collection period such that the scan rate of the system is not degraded.
US10422848B1
Disclosed are examples of a method, system and asset tag that enables general, coarse and fine estimates of a location of the asset tag. The asset tag receives a signal transmitted from radio frequency (RF)-enabled nodes within a space. Each respective received signal includes a unique node identifier of the respective RF node that transmitted the respective received radio signal. Each RF node has a physical node location in the space that is associated with the unique node identifier. The tag measures the received signal strength of each respective received signal that is associated with the node identifier of the RF node that transmitted the respective received signal. The strongest measured received signal strengths are selected, and a tuple containing the node identifiers for the selected strongest signal strengths is forwarded for estimating a location of the asset tag by a computing device.
US10422846B2
A method for calibrating a radio frequency test instrument is described wherein a first frequency response is measured using a radio frequency and coarse intermediate frequency grid. A first matrix is created comprising data obtained from said first frequency response measuring. A second frequency response is measured using a radio frequency and fine intermediate frequency grid. A second matrix is created comprising data obtained from said second frequency response measuring. Said first matrix and said second matrix are processed and combined in order to determine a frequency response for a radio frequency desired, said first matrix and said second matrix comprising data obtained from measurements performed with different radio frequency and intermediate frequency grids. Further, a radio frequency test instrument is described.
US10422840B2
In a method for manufacturing a flat insulation layer for use in a gradient coil, a thermoplastic insulating material in the form of a plate, strip or foil is three-dimensionally deformed in a hot shaping step to form specified local elevations on at least one side, which are spaced apart from one another.
US10422839B2
An HF coil assembly for generating independent alternating magnetic fields in an examination volume of a magnetic resonance apparatus is presented, the HF coil assembly comprising a first coil pair of saddle coils and a second coil pair of saddle coils, each saddle coil having longitudinal conductor elements and curved conductor elements arranged along a common lateral surface of a circular cylinder having a cylinder axis. Each coil pair comprises curved conductor elements and longitudinal conductor elements which are interconnected at a high frequency. The saddle coils also have diagonal conductor elements and/or bridge elements that connect the longitudinal and curved conductor elements. The coil pairs are opposite to each other relative to the cylinder axis.
US10422834B2
A method and system for iteratively determining state of charge (SOC) of a battery cell (“selected cell”) using a controller. For each of the iterations, the controller determines determine a predicted SOC of the selected cell; determines a predicted error covariance of the predicted SOC; and updates the predicted SOC and the predicted error covariance for use in subsequent iterations of the method. The updated SOC is treated as the SOC of the selected cell for that iteration of the method. Cell voltage used to determine the updated SOC may be low-pass filtered prior to its use. When the selected cell is one of multiple cells in a battery pack, the selected cell may be selected to have the lowest SEV of the cells in the pack. The error covariance may also vary directly with pack current magnitude to model inaccuracies that generally directly vary with current flow.
US10422832B2
A sequential circuit includes a data input terminal, a data path, and a redundant feedback loop. The data input terminal receives input data. The data path is connected to the data input terminal and transmits the input data to a data output terminal based on a first clock signal and a second clock signal. The redundant feedback loop is connected to the first data path and stores first data based on at least one of the first or second clock signals when the first data is equal to second data. The first data corresponds to the input data. The second clock signal is a delayed signal of the first clock signal. The second data is delayed data of the first data.
US10422826B2
The present embodiments are directed to locating electrical faults in an electrical circuit, in particular electrical faults in transmission wires of an electrical circuit. Examples of the present embodiments provide a method and apparatus for opening a switch in the electrical circuit to cause an open circuit or discontinuity at the fault; transmitting a signal to be reflected from the open circuit or discontinuity and receiving the signal reflected from the open circuit or discontinuity to determine the location of the fault. Examples are particularly suitable for high voltage systems, for example over 100V.
US10422824B1
A system and method for determining an estimated battery cell state-of-charge and for determining an estimated battery cell resistance and for determining an estimated battery cell available energy is provided. The method includes measuring at least one of a battery cell voltage, a battery cell current, and a battery cell temperature. The method further includes determining an adapted estimated polarization voltage vector. The method further includes estimating the battery cell state-of-charge based on the adapted estimated polarization voltage vector and at least one of the battery cell voltage, the battery cell current, and the battery cell temperature. The method can further include computing the estimated battery cell resistance. The method further stores values corresponding to the estimated battery cell state-of-charge and the estimated battery cell resistance and the estimated battery cell available energy in a memory.
US10422821B2
A system to verify the identity of modules within a stack light is disclosed. A sensor is mounted to a circuit board inserted within a housing of the module, and a target is mounted to or integrally formed in the housing. The sensor detects and generates a signal corresponding to the detected target. Different targets or locations for the target are provided for each housing. The module, a base for the stack light, or a remote controller in communication with the stack light identifies the housing in which the circuit board is mounted based on the feedback signal generated by detecting the target. At power-up, a routine may initiate a verification routine by which each module in the stack light determines the type of housing in which the circuit board for that module is located.
US10422817B2
An adjustable load transmitter for adjusting an alignment between a probe card and a bridge beam of a wafer prober, where the probe card is separated from the bridge beam by a gap. The adjustable load transmitter located in the gap, the adjustable load transmitter comprising two rotatable plates adapted for transmitting a load via a load transmission path between the bridge beam and the wafer prober and each comprising two flat, non-parallel contact faces. The adjustable load transmitter removes an angular misalignment between the bridge beam and the set of plates by rotating each of the rotatable plates about a pre-determined adjustment angle such that two angles of inclination are adjusted to zero. The adjustable load transmitter establishes the load transmission path by closing a clearance between the bridge beam and the contact face.
US10422811B2
A sensing structure for an accelerometer includes a support and a proof mass mounted to the support by flexible legs for in-plane movement in response to an applied acceleration along a sensing direction. The proof mass includes a plurality of moveable electrode fingers extending substantially perpendicular to the sensing direction and spaced apart in the sensing direction. The structure also includes at least one pair of fixed capacitor electrodes comprising first and second sets of fixed electrode fingers extending substantially perpendicular to the sensing direction and spaced apart in the sensing direction; the first set of fixed electrode fingers arranged to interdigitate with the moveable electrode fingers with a first offset in one direction from a median line therebetween, and the second set of fixed electrode fingers arranged to interdigitate with the moveable electrode fingers with a second offset in the opposite direction from a median line therebetween.
US10422809B2
A wristwatch includes a storing unit that stores relational data for predetermined user classifications, such as gender and body height, indicating a relationship between a traveling pitch, which is the number of steps taken by a user per predetermined amount of time, and a traveling speed which is a running speed or a walking speed. A correcting unit corrects the stored relational data based on a set of a measured traveling pitch and a measured traveling speed. A speed calculating unit calculates a traveling speed of the user from a measured traveling pitch of the user based on the stored relational data that correspond to a user classification input by the user and that has been corrected.
US10422807B2
The present invention provides a sensitive and specific indirect homogeneous mobility shift assay using size exclusion chromatography to measure biologics such as vedolizumab and ustekinumab in a patient sample. The assays of the present invention are particularly advantageous for detecting the presence or level of biologics that target complex or large antigens including cell surface proteins, transmembrane proteins, heavily glycosylated proteins, and multimeric proteins, as well as antigens that cannot be purified, impure antigens, and partially or substantially purified antigens. The present invention also provides isolated soluble α4β7 integrin heterodimers and isolated soluble IL-12p40 monomers that are suitable for use in the indirect assays described herein.
US10422799B2
A problem to be solved by the present invention is to provide an immunochromatographic test strip and a detection method using immunochromatography avoiding aggregation of colloidal gold conjugates while red blood cells in whole blood are agglutinated and then separated and removed in the case of using polybrene as a blood-agglutinating agent and the colloidal gold conjugates as a detection reagent. To solve the problem, the present inventers reviewed a past reagent configuration itself from a completely different viewpoint rather than selecting type and amount of polyanions and, as a result of extensive study on each element, the inventers surprisingly found that aggregation of colloidal gold can be suppressed by using a certain buffer solution without using neutralization by polyanions.
US10422796B2
A method for measuring fibroblast growth factor-23 (FGF-23) in a sample, which comprise the following steps: (1) reacting, in an aqueous medium, FGF-23 in a sample with magnetic particles, a first antibody or a fragment thereof which binds to FGF-23, and a second antibody or a fragment thereof which binds to FGF-23, to form on the magnetic particles an immunocomplex comprising the first antibody or a fragment thereof which binds to FGF-23, FGF-23, and the second antibody or a fragment thereof which binds to FGF-23; (2) collecting the magnetic particles in the reaction mixture after step (1) by magnetic force, and separating the magnetic particles collected by magnetic force from the other components; and (3) measuring the immunocomplex on the magnetic particles separated in step (2). The present invention provides a method for measuring FGF-23 in a sample, which have a high sensitivity and have a wide measurement range.
US10422769B2
A tester for bonded composite materials uses a magnetic source to generate a response signal from wires infused in an adhesive used between layers of the composite material. Acoustic or magnetic response signals, separately or in combination, can be received and analyzed to detect stresses in wires indicative of voids in the adhesive or other defects affecting the bond quality between layers of the composite material.
US10422768B2
When measuring electrophoretic mobility it is customary to apply an electric field and determine the electrophoretic velocity while minimizing all other contributions to the particle movement. A method and apparatus for the measurement of mobility while the sample is flowing is disclosed. Combined with a fractionation system, this approach further enables the direct measurement of individual species' mobility within a multi-modal sample. Other advantages of this new mobility measurement approach include the ability to easily pressurize the sample to suppress electrolysis, mitigation of oxidation-reduction effects and efficient heat dissipation.
US10422767B2
A chemical sensor is described. The chemical sensor includes a chemically-sensitive field effect transistor including a floating gate conductor having an upper surface. A material defines an opening extending to the upper surface of the floating gate conductor, the material comprising a first dielectric underlying a second dielectric. A conductive element contacts the upper surface of the floating gate conductor and extending a distance along a sidewall of the opening.
US10422764B2
A system for determining chemistry of a molecule in a high background interfering liquid environment by application of an electronic signal at a biased metal-electrolyte interface is disclosed. One or more of a resonant exchange of energy between one or more electrons exchanged by the metal and the electrolyte and vibrating bonds of a molecular analyte, for example, may be sensed by measuring small signal conductivity of an electrochemical interface.
US10422763B2
A method for measuring the relative dielectric constant of powder in a powder-dispersed composite material. A composite material is assumed as a cell combination in which unit cells having the same length a in each of an x-axis direction, a y-axis direction, and a z-axis direction are combined together and which has a length l in the x-axis direction, a length m in the y-axis direction, and a length n in the z-axis direction, each of the unit cells of the cell combination is considered to be constituted by a single powder element or a single medium element, the cell combination is created in which the powder element or the medium element is assigned to each of the unit cells in consideration of the number-based median particle diameter D50, the maximum diameter Dmax, the minimum diameter Dmin, and the geometric standard deviation σg.
US10422758B2
A composition analysis method includes iteratively irradiating a sample with an ion beam, irradiating a specific portion of the sample that is thinned by the irradiation of the ion beam with an electron beam, and detecting an intensity of an X-ray generated from the sample by the irradiation of the electron beam. The method further includes determining an identity of an element included in the sample based on at least one detection result obtained in the iterative process.
US10422751B2
An optical fiber cord includes: an optical fiber; and a cover material covering the optical fiber, the cover material being formed by braiding a plurality of yarns. Moreover, an abnormality detection system includes: the optical fiber covered with the cover material formed by braiding the plurality of yarns; a scattered light detector configured to detect scattered light occurring in the optical fiber and output data on intensity distribution in a longitudinal direction of the optical fiber; and a data processor configured to determine the presence or absence of an abnormality based on the data outputted from the scattered light detector.
US10422742B2
A method and system for an aerospace vehicle. A pulse of electromagnetic radiation is transmitted into the composite sandwich panel such that the composite sandwich panel is heated above an ambient temperature. An amount of infrared radiation generated in the composite sandwich panel is detected in response to transmitting the pulse of electromagnetic radiation into the composite sandwich panel using a time window selected to detect the amount of infrared radiation when the pulse of electromagnetic radiation heats the composite sandwich panel. The amount of infrared radiation detected indicates a level of moisture in the composite sandwich panel.
US10422739B1
Reflectometer, spectrophotometer, ellipsometer, and polarimeter systems having a supercontinuum laser source of coherent electromagnetic radiation over a range of about 400-about 2500 nm, a stage for supporting a sample and a detector of electromagnetic radiation, wherein the supercontinuum source provides a coherent beam of electromagnetic radiation which interacts with a sample, and the detector system comprises functional combinations of gratings and/or combination dichroic beam splitter-prisms, which themselves can be optimized as regards wavelength dispersion characteristics, directs wavelengths in various ranges to various detectors that are well suited to detect them.
US10422738B2
Systems and methods for imaging a plurality of blood fluid samples or other types of samples include processing at least a portion of a sample to enhance imageability of certain particles in that portion and subsequently imaging the sample portion. In some instances, processing and imaging of various samples may be staged in a manner to optimize throughput of the system or method.
US10422735B2
A pneumatic transport system (10), comprising at least one material transport carrier for transporting a pneumatic transportable material (M) in the pneumatic system (10) by means of a pneumatic device (1a) adapted to operate with negative pressure on the material transport carrier to transport the pneumatic transportable material (M) in the pneumatic system (10) comprising one or more tubes (13) forming a continuous transport path (CL), wherein a pressure-drop monitoring element (3a) is provided and adapted to monitor filter performance of a separating filter (16) provided in the transport path (CL) and adapted to separate the material transport carrier and the transportable material (M) in the transport path (CL).
US10422734B2
Method of characterizing particles suspended in a fluid dispersant by light diffraction, comprising: obtaining measurement data from a detector element, the detector element being arranged to measure the intensity of scattered light; identifying a measurement contribution arising from light scattered by inhomogeneities in the dispersant; processing the measurement data to remove or separate the measurement contribution arising from light scattered by inhomogeneities in the dispersant; calculating a particle size distribution from the processed measurement. The detector element is one of a plurality of detector elements from which the measurement data is obtained. The detector elements are arranged to measure the intensity of scattered light at a plurality of scattering angles, the plurality of scattering angles distributed over a plurality of angles about an illumination axis. Identifying a measurement contribution arising from light scattered by inhomogeneities in the dispersant comprises identifying measured scattered light that is asymmetric about the illumination axis.
US10422729B1
The present disclosure relates to devices, methods and kits for blood sample separation and analysis. More particularly, the disclosure relates to devices, methods and kits that rapidly separate a blood sample into uniform solid and liquid phases in a sealed environment. A specific example includes a device with a door coupled to the housing, a blood sample separation medium, a mesh material and a desiccant. In one example, the blood sample separation medium is disposed between the housing and the mesh material, the desiccant is coupled to the door, the desiccant is distal from the mesh material when the door is in a first open position, and the desiccant is proximal to the mesh material when the door is in a second closed position.
US10422726B2
An exhaust sampling system for an engine is provided. The exhaust sampling system may include a source of exhaust gas, an exhaust collection unit including at least one collection bag that selectively receives the exhaust gas, and a sample probe in fluid communication with the source of exhaust gas that selectively supplies the at least one collection bag with the exhaust gas. The exhaust sampling system may also include a controller that permits flow of the exhaust gas from the sample probe to the at least one collection bag in a first state and prevents flow of the exhaust gas from the sample probe to the at least one collection bag in a second state. The controller may determine an extraction rate of the sample probe based on an ON time of the engine during a test phase.
US10422724B2
A sample sectioning device including a housing having a base member, a cutting mechanism positioned on the base member and operable to cut sections from a sample, a sample holder dimensioned to hold a sample and operable to move with respect to the cutting mechanism during a cutting operation, and a waste removal assembly positioned below the cutting mechanism and the sample holder, the waste removal assembly having a first member and a second member that are dimensioned to remove waste produced during the cutting operation.
US10422723B2
A fixture for testing stiffness of a vehicle wheel by measuring vibration of the wheel includes a base and a retention member. The retention member is integral to the base. The retention member defines a distal end including a distal diameter and a proximal end being proximate to the base and including a proximal diameter. The proximal end includes a plurality of studs extending upwardly therefrom for being received by lug apertures defined by the vehicle wheel thereby securing the vehicle wheel to the retention member. The distal diameter includes a ratio to the proximal diameter of between 0.6 to 0.8 to one.
US10422721B2
The invention provides a measurement system to interrogate at least one birefringent optical sensor and a method to interrogate birefringent optical sensors at high speed and high resolution. The system and method detects, at least, a first and a second spectral feature that are polarization dependent, wherein the detected first and second spectral features correspond to different responses of at least one birefringent optical sensor.
US10422714B2
Technologies are generally described that relate to managing and/or generating sensor data. An example method may include receiving output data generated by a pressure sensor. The method may also include determining surface data, indicative of a surface type associated with a force applied to a surface of the pressure sensor, based on the output data. Furthermore, the method may include adjusting the output data based on the surface data to facilitate generating adjusted output data indicative of an adjusted pressure value generated by the pressure sensor.
US10422707B2
A force/torque sensor comprising a Tool Adapter Plate (TAP) connected to a Mounting Adapter Plate (TAP) by one or more radially-spaced, deformable beams features a pair of strain gages affixed to only one surface of each beam. The two strain gages are affixed to, e.g., the top surface on either side of, and spaced away from, a neutral axis of the beam. This enables a very compact sensor design, in one embodiment, machined from a single piece of metal stock. The two sensors may be connected in a quarter bridge topology. In one embodiment, another pair of strain gages is affixed to the same side of the beam, and the four gages are wired in a half-bridge topology. In another embodiment, a second pair of strain gages is affixed to the opposite side of the beam, and the four gages are wired in a half-bridge topology—although this embodiment gives up some of the space and ease of manufacture advantages, it allows for electrical elimination of common-mode signal components, such as those induced by temperature drift. In one embodiment, a strain gage is connected to a non-stressed member of the sensor 10 to provide a signal for temperature calibration.
US10422701B2
A temperature sensor includes a temperature detector, an element electrode wire, a lead wire, and an intermediate member. Each of the lead wire and the intermediate member is made of a Ni-based alloy or an Fe-based alloy. The element electrode wire and the intermediate member are welded together in such a manner that opposing surfaces, facing each other abut against each other to constitute an element-side weld. The intermediate member and the lead wire are welded together such that they overlap each other in a longitudinal direction Z to constitute a lead-side weld. The lead wire is extended closer to the temperature detector than the element-side weld is located. A gap between the element electrode wire and the lead wire at least in the longitudinal direction Z is filled with a filler. The element electrode wire, the element-side weld, and the lead wire are fixed to one another by the filler.
US10422699B1
A hybrid plasmonic-pyroelectric detector and laser detection system is disclosed. The hybrid plasmonic-pyroelectric detector includes a substrate and a refractory ground plane mounted on a surface of the substrate. A plasmonic array defines a plurality of apertures formed in the array. A highly-oriented pyroelectric layer is mounted on a surface of the ground plane and a surface of the plasmonic array. The plasmonic array is constructed and arranged to select particular wavelengths. Alternatively, a semiconductor or an avalanche material may be used. A pair of electrode contacts are coupled to each of the plasmonic array and the refractory ground plane. A laser detection system in accordance with the disclosure includes a mechanical chopper, a lens, a folding mirror, and a chip carrier for mounting the hybrid plasmonic-pyroelectric detector.
US10422689B2
A weighing scale is provided at a product processing workstation having a horizontal bed for supporting a horizontal bed window and an upright raised tower for supporting an upright tower window. A platter is mounted on the scale for joint movement therewith. The platter has a horizontal platter portion at least partly overlying the horizontal bed, and an upright platter portion at least partly overlying the raised tower. A guard on the upright platter portion overlies parts of the workstation for reducing weighing errors associated with weighing a product on the scale. The guard prevents the product from contacting and resting on the parts of the workstation and from being erroneously weighed.
US10422685B2
A load measuring device for a railcar bogie in which a vibrationproof rubber between an axle box and a bogie frame includes a vertical load fluctuation sensor in parallel with the vibrationproof rubber and configured to deform in conjunction with elastic deformation of the vibrationproof rubber in a vertical direction, the vibrationproof rubber supporting a downward load from the bogie frame. The vertical load fluctuation sensor changes an electric output by the deformation of the vertical load fluctuation sensor in conjunction with the elastic deformation of the vibrationproof rubber in the vertical direction.
US10422684B2
The present invention relates to a field device adapted to determine a process parameter value related to a tank, the field device comprising a terminal block with: a first interface configured to connect to two wires of a loop; a first electrical conductor and a second electrical conductor for connecting the first interface with field device electronics, the second electrical conductor having a voltage drop generating element; a first power supply conductor connected to said second electrical conductor upstream of the voltage drop generating element and a second power supply conductor connected to said second electrical conductor downstream of the voltage drop generating element; and a second, auxiliary interface adapted for wired connection to an external device and configured at least for communication with said external device, wherein the second auxiliary interface comprises a communications connector which is galvanically isolated from the field device electronics.
US10422682B2
The invention relates to a radar level gauge comprising a signal generator for generating electromagnetic waves and an antenna for emitting the electromagnetic waves in a container and for receiving electromagnetic waves reflected by the container. The radar level gauge also comprises a safety device for verifying the functional capability or for improving the measuring quality of the radar level gauge, said safety device having a reflector and an adjustment device and/or a reduction device and being suitably designed to adjust the reflector and/or the reduction device at least between a first position, in which the reflector reflects the electromagnetic waves and a second position, in which the reflector reflects the electromagnetic waves in a reduced manner. The safety device also has at least one additional sensor for detecting a measured variable in the container.
US10422680B2
A method and an apparatus for monitoring at least one media-specific property of a medium in automation technology with a measuring probe, wherein the at least one media-specific property is ascertained in a conductive operating mode and in a capacitive operating mode of the measuring probe. The conductive operating mode and the capacitive operating mode are operated alternately, wherein based on the measured values, which are ascertained in at least one of the two operating modes, it is checked, whether the at least one media-specific property to be monitored lies within a predetermined tolerance band, and wherein a report and/or a switching signal is generated, when the at least one media-specific property to be monitored lies outside of the predetermined tolerance band.
US10422665B2
Adjusting emulated encoder frequencies in an example embodiment can include determining a difference between an encoder count and a theoretical encoder count and adjusting a frequency of an emulated encoder signal to mitigate at least some of the difference between the encoder count and the theoretical encoder count.
US10422662B2
A magnetic field sensor is disclosed that includes at least one magneto-resistive spin-valve sensor element configured to sense a first magnetic field component H1, and at least one AMR sensor element configured to sense a second magnetic field component H2 which is perpendicular to the first magnetic field component H1. In one example the at least one magneto-resistive spin-valve sensor element is a tunnel magneto-resistive (TMR) or giant magneto-resistive (GMR) sensor, and in one example the AMR sensor element includes an antiferromagnetic layer coupled to a ferromagnetic layer generating a bias magnetization for the AMR sensor element.
US10422656B2
A map display control device includes a display processor to cause a display to display a map, an operation information acquiring unit to acquire information on an operation performed by a user, a scroll processor to scroll the map displayed on the display, and a priority object setting unit to determine a priority object having higher priority than other objects contained in the map. The scroll processor scrolls the map in step with an operation performed by the user to scroll the map, and automatically scrolls the map toward the priority object when determining that the operation has been ended.
US10422652B2
A vehicle includes: a communication unit to receive image information from a plurality of other vehicles existing around a vehicle; a determining unit which matches the received image information to create around view information and determines a lane on which the vehicle travels, based on the around view information; and a controller to control a device in the vehicle based on the result of the determination on the lane on which the vehicle travels to provide a route guidance.
US10422649B2
First and second sets of data are collected in a vehicle from respective data sources. Each of the first and second sets of data are provided for determinations respectively selected from first and second categories of autonomous vehicle operations. A determination is made to take an autonomous action selected from the first category of autonomous vehicle operations. Data is used from each of the first and second data sets relating respectively to the first and second categories of autonomous vehicle operations to determine the autonomous action.
US10422648B2
Provided is a process, including: obtaining, with one or more processors, first depth data, wherein: the first depth data indicates a first distance from a robot at a first position to a surface of, or in, a workspace in which the robot is disposed, the first depth data indicates a first direction in which the first distance is measured, the first depth data indicates the first distance and the first direction in a frame of reference of the robot, and the frame of reference of the robot is different from a frame of reference of the workspace; translating, with one or more processors, the first depth data into translated first depth data that is in the frame of reference of the workspace; and storing, with one or more processors, the translated first depth data in memory.
US10422639B2
A vehicle computing system performs enhances relatively sparse data collected by a LiDAR sensor by increasing the density of points in certain portions of the scan. For instance, the system generates 3D triangles based on a point cloud collected by the LiDAR sensor and filters the 3D triangles to identify a subset of 3D triangles that are proximate to the ground. The system interpolates points within the subset of 3D triangles to identify additional points on the ground. As another example, the system uses data collected by the LiDAR sensor to identify vertical structures and interpolate additional points on those vertical structures. The enhanced data can be used for a variety of applications related to autonomous vehicle navigation and HD map generation, such as detecting lane markings on the road in front of the vehicle or determining a change in the vehicle's position and orientation.
US10422636B2
A processing device includes: a pushing drive mechanism control unit that brings a measurement tip into contact with a surface of a calibration artifact at a single point in each of five directions are all normal directions to the surface of the calibration artifact; a scanning drive mechanism control unit that reciprocates the measurement tip on the surface of the calibration artifact on each of three planes perpendicular to one another; a coordinate acquisition unit that acquires a moving amount and a probe output of a measuring probe; a matrix generation unit that generates a correction matrix; and a probe output correction unit that corrects the probe output with the correction matrix. This enables an improvement in asymmetric probe characteristics of the probe output, which is outputted from the measuring probe, in a particular plane. Thus, shape coordinates of an object to be measured can be obtained with high accuracy.
US10422633B2
The disclosure relates to a method and a determination device for determining a surface shape of an object. In order to build the determination device as compact as possible, according to the invention, the object is illuminated by an illuminating line and illuminating light reflected by the object is directed to a sensor line of the determination device.
US10422632B2
The present disclosure relates to a device for distance measurement for a laser processing system, comprising a collimator lens system, which is set up to collimate an optical measuring beam, a deflection lens system, which defines an optical axis, wherein the deflection lens system comprises at least one transmissive optical element, which is displaceable relative to the optical axis, in order to deflect the collimated optical beam from the optical axis, and a focusing lens system, which is set up to focus the deflected measuring beam onto a workpiece.
US10422627B2
Systems and methods that provide a framework for location tracking of a movable target component or device (e.g., an automated device or a hand-operated device) to accurately cover an area of interest along a specified path or in a specified region. Grid patterns are projected onto a surface of a workpiece or a part. The projected grid lines may be straight or curved. Straight grid lines can be parallel or intersecting. The grid pattern may include a path to be followed. The lines of the projected grid pattern are detected by a grid detection sensor which is mounted onboard the movable target component or device. Information from the grid detection sensor is fed to a location mapping program. The systems and methods also enable navigation for use in automated and autonomous manufacturing and maintenance operations, as well as other tracking-based applications.
US10422624B2
An optical system includes a polarized light phase shift optical circuit that includes a polarizing beam splitter that splits light having a coherence length shorter than a difference in optical path length between a normal optical path and a delay optical path having an optical path length longer than the normal optical path, the light being split into normal light, which travels along the normal optical path, and delay light, which travels along the delay optical path; a separator where the normal light and the delay light are individually emitted at a reference flat and the separator divides the reflected light that reflects off the reference flat into a plurality of light beams; and a plurality of image capture elements that respectively detect the intensities of the plurality of divided light beams, and the optical system also includes an information processor that includes a calibrator.
US10422620B2
A contact-type position measuring device is configured by a straight hole diameter measuring probe measuring a diameter of straight hole by moving in a radius direction and contacting to an internal peripheral surface of a straight hole, which extends to an axis direction; and a chamfered hole diameter measuring probe measuring a diameter of chamfered hole by moving in the axis direction and contacting to an internal peripheral surface of a chamfered hole.
US10422604B2
A firearm assembly is disclosed. The firearm assembly may include a slide comprising a guide slot and a barrel attachment comprising a main body and an elongated guide beam. The elongated guide beam may be configured to slide within the guide slot.
US10422601B2
A locking box magazine safety device, comprising a magazine body comprising a rigid material shaped to conform to the internal dimensions and features of a box magazine well in a magazine-operated device; a lock cylinder comprising a key-operated lock and an operating rod, the operating rod configured to move when the appropriate key is used in the key-operated lock; and a pivoting arm configured to pivot about an axis, configured to be fixed in place by the movement of the operating rod, and configured to obscure the action of a magazine-operated device when fixed in place.
US10422599B2
A magazine loader for loading a batch of rimmed cartridges into a tubular rifle magazine is disclosed. In embodiments, the magazine loader comprises an elongate body comprising a hopper portion and a tubular magazine receiving portion with a circular aperture for receiving the tubular rifle magazine. In embodiments, the body defines a feed passageway extending between the hopper portion and the circular aperture of the tubular magazine receiving portion. The body may define, extending along the feed passageway, a first cartridge orienting passageway defined by a first cartridge orienting portion, a second cartridge orienting passageway defined by a second cartridge orienting portion, a third cartridge orienting passageway defined by a third cartridge orienting portion, and a fourth cartridge orienting passageway defined by a fourth cartridge orienting portion.
US10422573B2
An insulation structure for an appliance includes a cabinet having an outer wrapper and an inner liner, with an insulating cavity defined therebetween. Insulating powder material is disposed substantially throughout the insulating cavity. An insulating gas is disposed within the insulating cavity, wherein the insulating powder material is combined with the insulating gas and cooperatively defines a suspended state and a precipitated state. The suspended state is defined by the insulating gas in motion and the insulating powder being in an aeolian suspension within the insulating gas while in motion. The precipitated state is defined by the insulating gas being in a deposition state and the insulating powder being precipitated from the insulating gas and deposited within the insulating cavity.
US10422568B2
A refrigerator includes a partition wall provided between first and second storage chambers and having a partition wall insulator, an evaporator case arranged in the partition wall and communicating with the first and second storage chambers, an evaporator installed inside the evaporator case, a grill cover provided on a rear side of the evaporator case and configured to accommodate a blower fan, and support guides provided in the grill cover and supporting a rear portion of the evaporator, such that an internal storage space of the refrigerator is increased, and a withdrawal distance of a drawer provided in the refrigerator is increased.
US10422567B2
A condensate collection system for use in HVAC equipment configured to remove condensate from a coil assembly before unintentional release into the surrounding environment and increase energy efficiency by preventing substantial air mixing within the air conditioner itself. The condensate collection system comprising, a tray configured to collect condensate and a lid configured to both prevent the mixing of air and collect condensate, operatively connected by a plurality of standoffs attached to the base of the tray and the bottom of the lid wherein the lid is supported by the tray and the plurality of standoffs. The system further may include one or more condensate drain channels configured to collect and drain condensate from the top of the lid into the tray and subsequently drain from the tray through an exit port.
US10422566B2
An air-conditioning apparatus, including: a heat source-side heat exchanger including a plurality of heat transfer tubes each having a flattened shape and being arranged in parallel, the heat source-side heat exchanger being used at least as a condenser of a refrigeration cycle; and an outdoor fan for generating flows of air passing through the heat source-side heat exchanger in a predetermined air velocity distribution. The heat source-side heat exchanger is configured to exchange heat between the air and refrigerant flowing through the heat transfer tubes and includes a plurality of refrigerant paths, each including at least one of the plurality of heat transfer tubes and a plurality of two-phase paths for allowing gas refrigerant to flow into and out as two-phase refrigerant; and a plurality of liquid-phase paths for allowing the two-phase refrigerant flowing out of the plurality of two-phase paths to flow out as subcooled liquid refrigerant.
US10422565B2
A method of packing a temperature sensitive product utilizes a temperature controlled product shipper that includes a phase change material bladder which can be filled at the point of packaging. The temperature sensitive product is contained within an product box or master case, which is in turn packed inside an insulated liner and an outer box. The PCM bladder fits between the master case and the insulated liner and is filled with a preconditioned flowable PCM at the point of packing just before closing the box for shipment.
US10422564B2
Apparatus and methods for constructing ice structures are provided. An apparatus for construction of a structure from ice may include multiple tubes. Each of the tubes may be disposed in an upright position. Each of the tubes may have a constant inner diameter and/or a closed bottom. The tubes may be disposed within a frame for transport of the tubes.
US10422556B2
A thermoelectric temperature-control unit may include a first contact plate, a second contact plate, and at least one plate-shaped thermoelectric transducer. The thermoelectric transducer may have a first transducer side and a second transducer side facing away from the first transducer side. The thermoelectric transducer may be coupled to the first contact plate on the first transducer side and coupled to the second contact plate on the second transducer side. At least one of the first contact plate and the second contact plate may include a coupling zone on a respective inner side. A circumference of the coupling zone may be surrounded by a groove. A heat-conducting material may be arranged in the groove and along the coupling zone, and may directly contact the i) respective inner side and ii) one of the first transducer side and the second transducer side facing the respective inner side.
US10422552B2
A device is describe for collecting energy in electromagnetic radiation, where the device includes a first panel that includes a first height, a first end, and a second end such that a first length is defined between the first end and the second end. The device further includes a second panel that includes a second height, a third end, and a fourth end such that a second length is defined between the third end and the fourth end. In addition, the first height and the second height are substantially parallel to a reference axis, the first end and the third end intersect to form a leading edge that is substantially parallel to the reference axis, and the first panel and the second panel form a channel positioned between the first panel and the second panel. Further, the channel is configured for the flow of a first heat-transfer medium through the channel, and at least a part of the first panel and at least a part of the second panel are configured to absorb electromagnetic radiation to transfer energy from the electromagnetic radiation to the first heat-transfer medium.
US10422542B2
A system and method for crowd-sourced environmental system control and building maintenance includes a server for providing selective access to building occupants and managers. Users are permitted to generate building reports in the form of (i) thermal reports using a thermal report module, and/or (ii) maintenance reports using a maintenance report module. The reports are each geo-located to locations within the building, and are then captured, stored, and aggregated at the server. The aggregated reports are sorted according to their geo-locations and comfort rules are used to (i) permit a manager at a client computer to access the server to respond, and/or (ii) automatically respond and assign a response status to particular reports. An inspection checklist interface is generated and populated to display a list of preventative maintenance tasks, each of the tasks being user-selectable to designate completion, with the updated status of the reports being stored at the server.
US10422541B2
A computer-implemented method of controlling an operational mode of an outdoor unit connected to a plurality of indoor units, the method including: determining an operational mode of an outdoor unit; determining, at a master decision unit, a target outdoor mode for the outdoor air-conditioning unit based on the priority, the current area mode, the current area temperature, and the set point for each of the indoor units, the maximum actual standby duration and the maximum allowable standby duration of each of the indoor units, and the minimum active duration and the current active duration for the outdoor unit; and systematically controlling the operational mode to become the target outdoor mode when the target outdoor mode is different from the operational mode.
