US10455358B2
The present disclosure provides a ProSe information transmission method, a terminal, and a communications device. The method includes: acquiring, by a second terminal, a fourth code word broadcast by a first terminal, where the fourth code word is a code word that is allocated to the first terminal by a first ProSe entity; sending, by the second terminal, a first message to a second ProSe entity when the fourth code word matches a prestored code word, where the first message carries the fourth code word and a first application identity; receiving, by the second terminal, a second message sent by the second ProSe entity, where the second message carries a second identity; and discovering, by the second terminal, a first application user according to the second identity. The present disclosure is applicable to the communications field.
US10455357B2
Systems and methods for detecting the presence of a body in a network without fiducial elements, using signal absorption, and signal forward and reflected backscatter of radio frequency (RF) waves caused by the presence of a biological mass in a communications network.
US10455352B2
A system, computer-implemented method and computer program product for determining location of resources in a predefined region is provided. The system comprises a receiver, installed on one or more resources, to receive one or more signals, from one or more transmitters placed on predetermined locations in the predefined region and determine and forward a reference point ID corresponding to the one or more transmitters. The system further comprises a microcontroller, residing on the one or more resources, to receive the forwarded reference point ID, retrieve location coordinates corresponding to the determined reference point ID from a central server, fetch values of distance traveled by the one or more resources from an on-board diagnostic device installed on the one or more resources and detect direction in which the one or more resources are moving to determine location of the one or more resources in the predefined region in real-time.
US10455348B2
An audio control system can automatically determine an occupancy of an audience seating area, and can automatically adjust a spectral content of an audio signal to at least partially compensate for spectral effects caused by the occupancy in the audience seating area. Such an audio control system can ensure that the sound in a particular room remains constant, or nearly constant, from performance to performance. The occupancy can include a number of people in attendance in the audience seating area, and/or locations of attendees in the audience seating area. The audio control system can automatically adjust the spectral content a single time, at the start of a performance, or can optionally automatically dynamically update the adjustment throughout the performance based on subsequent measurements of the occupancy. The system can determine the occupancy through ticket sales, and/or analysis of imaging of the seats in the audience seating area.
US10455347B2
Systems, methods, and apparatus to process audio signals based on a number of listeners are disclosed. An example implementation involves a playback device processing, via an audio processing component, an audio signal for playback according to a first audio characteristic. While processing the audio signal for playback according to the first audio characteristic, the playback device detects, via a location component, a number of listeners in a listening area. The playback device determines a second audio characteristic based on the detected number of listeners in the listening area, and after determining the second audio characteristic, processes, via the audio processing component, the audio signal for playback according to the second audio characteristic.
US10455345B2
The present technology relates to a sound processing apparatus and a sound processing system for enabling more stable localization of a sound image.A virtual speaker is assumed to exist on the lower side among the sides of a tetragon having its corners formed with four speakers surrounding a target sound image position on a spherical plane. Three-dimensional VBAP is performed with respect to the virtual speaker and the two speakers located at the upper right and the upper left, to calculate gains of the two speakers at the upper right and the upper left and the virtual speaker, the gains being to be used for fixing a sound image at the target sound image position. Further, two-dimensional VBAP is performed with respect to the lower right and lower left speakers, to calculate gains of the lower right and lower left speakers, the gains being to be used for fixing a sound image at the position of the virtual speaker. The values obtained by multiplying these gains by the gain of the virtual speaker are set as the gains of the lower right and lower left speakers for fixing a sound image at the target sound image position. The present technology can be applied to sound processing apparatuses.
US10455333B2
There is provided a personal device to be worn at the body of a user (15), comprising an interface (20) for wireless data exchange with an external device (11, 39, 50); at least one sensor (28, 42, 44, 46) for sensing a parameter indicative of the proximity of the personal device (10) to the user; a loss detection unit (40) for determining, by regularly analyzing signals received from the sensor, whether the personal device is presently worn by the user or not; a control unit (38) for controlling operation of the personal device in a regular mode as long as the loss detection unit determines that the personal device is worn by the user and in a loss mode as long as the loss detection unit determines that the personal device is no longer worn by the user, wherein the wireless interface is directed to transmit in the regular mode a non-traceable device address and to transmit in the loss mode a traceable public device address.
US10455332B2
A method (300) of operating a hearing aid system (100), wherein the dynamic range of input signal levels is improved by reducing the sensitivity of an input transducer in response to a trigger event while at the same time applying a gain adapted to compensate the reduced sensitivity and a hearing aid system (100, 200) adapted to carry out the method.
US10455320B2
A device can be worn by a user and can include a microphone to analyze music and other sound in the surrounding environment. In one embodiment, the device can translate audio into a haptic and/or light of the sound's or music's bassline, in real-time. In one embodiment, no music is recorded by the device. The haptic or vibrational representation of the music can be generated by a motor. In some examples, the light representation of the music can be generated via a red/green/blue light emitting diode.
US10455319B1
A method, a system, and a computer program product reducing noise in audio received by at least one microphone. The method includes determining, from an audio signal received by at least one primary microphone of an electronic device, whether a user that is proximate to the electronic device is currently speaking. The method further includes, in response to determining that a user is not currently speaking, receiving a first audio using a first microphone subset from among a plurality of microphones and receiving at least one second audio using at least one second microphone subset from among the plurality of microphones. The method further includes generating a composite signal from the first audio and the second audio. The method further includes collectively processing the audio signal and the composite signal to generate a modified audio signal having a reduced level of noise.
US10455318B2
A hearing protection earmuff may be configured to dampen vibrations at an interface. Generally, the hearing protection earmuff may comprise two ear cups, a headband attached to and connecting the ear cups, one or more sensors, a processor, an electroacoustic shock absorber, and an electromagnetic controller. Typically, the electromagnetic controller may be associated with an electroacoustic shock absorber and may be configured to control the dampening of the electroacoustic shock absorber. The dampening of the electroacoustic shock absorber may occur as a smart fluid changes viscosity in response to a signal received from the electromagnetic controller. In some embodiments, the clamping force between the headband and the ear cup may be varied by the electroacoustic shock absorber to minimize the vibrational impact on the user's ears. In some embodiments, the electroacoustic shock absorber may control the compressibility of the seal cushion located on each ear cup.
US10455312B1
Aspects of the present disclosure provide an electro-acoustic transducer that serves as an acoustic transducer and as an NFMI coil. The use of a single coil eliminates the need for a dedicated NFMI coil, thereby reducing design complexity and cost of production. Circuitry is provided to allow selective filtering of acoustic and NFMI signals so the acoustic and NFMI signals may coexist in a frequency-divisional multiplexing fashion on a same electro-acoustic transducer coil.
US10455309B2
A MEMS transducer package (1) comprises a semiconductor die element (3) and a cap element (23). The semiconductor die element (3) and cap element (23) have mating surfaces (9, 21). The semiconductor die element (3) and cap element (23) are configured such that when the semiconductor die element (3) and cap element (4) are conjoined, a first volume (7, 27) is formed through the semiconductor die element (3) and into the semiconductor cap element (23), and an acoustic channel is formed to provide an opening between a non-mating surface (11) of the semiconductor die element (3) and either a side surface (10, 12) of the transducer package or a non-mating surface (29) of the cap element (23).
US10455303B2
A method and system for flow tracing for use in a packet-optical network is disclosed herein. A device in the packet-optical network may receive a packet including a header and payload. The device may read intent information from the header, and translate the intent information to generate a device-specific action in an optical layer to provide one or more globally unique identifiers (IDs) associated with the device. The device may execute the device-specific action in the optical layer to generate a response including the globally unique IDs corresponding to the intent, where the response forms part of the flow trace. The device may associate the response with the intent, and encode the response for downstream data forwarding. The device may further add multi-layer proof-of-transit (POT) information to the response that may be used to securely verify the path indicated in the SmartFlow flow trace.
US10455298B2
Systems and methods of fast wireless output device activation in a mesh network system are provided. Methods can include a parent device receiving data from a child device, the parent device determining if the data received from the child device requires an output, and if so, the parent device activating an output device associated with the parent device. In some methods, the parent device need not wait for instructions from a control panel or gateway before activating the output device. Accordingly, the latency time to activate the output device can be reduced.
US10455291B2
Systems and methods provide live broadcasts with real-time feedback from viewers using mobile computing devices. An example method includes providing a live feed broadcast from a source mobile device to a plurality of viewing devices, receiving, during the live feed broadcast, an engagement from one of the plurality of viewing devices, and associating the engagement with a particular time in the live feed broadcast. The method also includes providing an indication of the engagement to the source mobile device, wherein the source mobile device displays a graphic representation of the engagement during the live feed broadcast and adding the indication of the engagement to the live feed so that a graphic representation is displayed during the live feed at the particular time to users of the plurality of viewing devices. The viewing user may each have a graph relationship with a user of the source mobile device.
US10455287B2
A content delivery method, system, and non-transitory computer readable medium, include a media playback device configured to play media content, a determination device configured to determine a cognitive state of a user in response to viewing of the media content, and an action device configured to perform an action regarding a progression of the media content played by the playback device based on the cognitive state determined by the determination device.
US10455275B2
A handset or other end device in a local service domain receives video service notifications. The video service notifications can provide information to a user of the end device about a video service (e.g., a television program or a movie) available within a local network. The video service notification can include a request for a response to the notification, with the request having a corresponding URI or other type of link to cause a desired action (e.g., to commence recording or playing content associated with a particular video service). A mobile device configurable for direct communication in a wide area wireless network can join a local service domain and receive services through a gateway of that local service domain.
US10455273B2
Provided is a signal processing device including a control information acquiring unit configured to acquire image control information regarding control of an image, an image receiver configured to selectively receive one or more images transmitted using multicast based on the image control information, one or more image processing units configured to perform an image process on an image received by the image receiver based on the image control information, and an image sender configured to transmit an image subjected to the image process by the image processing unit based on the image control information, the image being transmitted using multicast.
US10455271B1
A method for voice control component installation is described. In one embodiment, a speech recognizable input spoken by an installer is identified, the speech recognizable input relating to installation of a system component. The system component is in communication with a control panel. An installation task for the system component is performed according to the speech recognizable input.
US10455269B2
System and methods for finding and analyzing targeted content from audio and video content sources, including means and methods for extracting captions from audio and video content sources; searching the captions for a mention of at least one target; extracting audio and video segments relating to the at least one target; delivering extracted audio and video segments to a user device; harvesting social media data relevant to the at least one target; analyzing the search results in correlation with the social media data for target content.
US10455268B2
A system and a method for using the system for targeted commerce in network broadcasting are provided. The system includes an interface device configured to receive a multimedia stream from a network, wherein the multimedia stream includes a close captioning string and wherein the interface device is further configured to process the multimedia stream by providing advertisements in the multimedia stream according to a correlation between the close captioning string and a plurality of vendor keywords; and a viewing device configured to receive the processed multimedia stream and display to a viewer.
US10455267B1
In some embodiments, a method may include receiving subscriber metadata and ad asset metadata from ad campaign manager logic and provisioning the subscriber metadata and the ad asset metadata via a central controller to a subscriber information system and a content information system, respectively; intercepting ad decision messages, ad impression messages, and ad response messages with a digital ad router; accumulating the ad decision messages, the ad impression messages, and the ad response messages in a control structure applied to a measurement system; and operating the measurement system to correlate subregions of the control structure with the subscriber metadata and the ad asset metadata to form a measurement signal to control the ad campaign manager logic.
US10455259B2
One embodiment provides a text metadata encoding logic. The text metadata encoding logic includes a metadata generation logic configured to generate a first text metadata including metadata for each identified text field included in a first image frame. The metadata generation logic maybe further configured to associate the first text metadata with the first image frame. The first text metadata may be transmitted at a text metadata bit rate. The text metadata bit rate may be less than an image data transmit bit rate.Another embodiment provides a text metadata decoding logic. The text metadata decoding logic includes a metadata reader logic configured to decode a text metadata received with an image frame data. The text metadata may have been transmitted at a text metadata bit rate and the image frame data may have been transmitted at a first image transmit bit rate. The text metadata bit rate is less than the first image transmit bit rate. The text metadata may include metadata for each identified text field included in an image frame corresponding to the image frame data. The text metadata decoding logic may further include a metadata rendering logic configured to render each text field based, at least in part, on the received text metadata.
US10455254B2
Aspects of the disclosure provide a method of video coding includes receiving input data associated with a first block and a second block of an image frame. The method further includes identifying a reference size and performing a deblocking process if it is determined that the deblocking process is to be performed. The preforming the deblocking process may include processing pixels adjacent to the block boundary using a first set of deblocking filter settings if a first block size of the first block and a second block size of the second block are greater than the reference size, and processing the pixels using a second set of deblocking filter settings if the first block size or the second block size is not greater than the reference size.
US10455248B2
The present invention relates to a video signal decoding method for adding an intra prediction mode as a sub-macroblock type to prediction of a macroblock in coding a video signal. The present invention includes obtaining a macroblock type, obtaining a sub-macroblock type when a macroblock includes a plurality of coded sub-macroblocks according the macroblock type, obtaining flag information indicating a DC (discrete cosine) transform size, determining the DC transform size of the coded sub-macroblock based on the flag information, when the sub-macroblock is intra prediction coded based on the sub-macroblock type, determining a prediction size of the intra prediction coded sub-macroblock based on the determined DC transform size, obtaining prediction direction information from a block adjacent to the sub-macroblock based on the prediction size of the sub-macroblock, and obtaining a prediction value of the sub-macroblock based on the prediction direction information. Accordingly, the present invention is able to raise coding efficiency of video signal by adding an intra prediction mode as a sub-macroblock type in predicting a macroblock.
US10455247B2
Disclosed herein is a method of performing an arithmetic decoding for data symbols, comprising: creating a decoding table index; obtaining an upper bound value and a lower bound value of a ratio between an interval length and a point within an interval assigned to a symbol from a ROM table; obtaining initial values for a bisection search from a RAM table based on the upper bound value and the lower bound value; and searching a value of sequence in the interval, wherein the interval is determined based on the initial values.
US10455246B2
An image coding method for improving coding efficiency by using more appropriate probability information is provided. The image coding method includes: a first coding step of coding a first set of blocks included in a first region sequentially based on first probability information; and a second coding step of coding a second set of blocks included in a second region sequentially based on second probability information. In the first coding step, the first probability information is updated depending on data of a target block to be coded, after coding the target block and before coding a next target block. In the second coding step, the second probability information is updated depending on the first probability information updated in the first coding step, before coding the first target block.
US10455242B2
Techniques are described for sending output indications in codec-hybrid multi-layer video coding, in which a base layer of video data is provided by an external system and conforms to a different video codec standard than one or more enhancement layers of the video data. An enhancement layer video decoder receives an enhancement layer bitstream that includes at least one enhancement layer to be decoded, an indication that the base layer is provided externally, and an indication of which layers are target output layers to be output for display. The external system does not receive a target output layer indication in a base layer bitstream. The disclosed techniques enable the enhancement layer video decoder, when the base layer is provided by the external system, to send an output indication to the external system indicating whether the base layer or specific base layer decoded pictures need to be output for display.
US10455241B2
Disclosed are an image encoding/decoding method and device supporting a plurality of layers. The image decoding method supporting the plurality of layers comprises the steps of; receiving a bitstream comprising the plurality of layers; and decoding the bitstream so as to acquire maximum number information about sublayers with respect to each of the plurality of layers.
US10455238B2
A method of de-blocking filtering a processed video is provided. The processed video includes a plurality of blocks and each block includes a plurality of sub-blocks. A current block of the plurality of blocks includes vertical edges and horizontal edges. The processed video further includes a set of control parameters and reconstructed pixels corresponding to the current block. A boundary strength index is estimated at the vertical edges and at the horizontal edges of the current block. The set of control parameters, the reconstructed pixels corresponding to the current block and partially filtered pixels corresponding to a set of adjacent sub-blocks are loaded. The vertical edges and the horizontal edges of the current block are filtered based on the boundary strength index and the set of control parameters such that a vertical edge of the current block is filtered before filtering at least one horizontal edge of the current block.
US10455232B2
A method and a device for encoding/decoding an image are disclosed. The method for decoding an image comprises the steps of: decoding information on a quantization matrix; and restoring the quantization matrix on the basis of the information on the quantization matrix, wherein the information on the quantization matrix includes information indicating a DC value of the quantization matrix and/or information indicating differential values of quantization matrix coefficients.
US10455221B2
The invention relates to creating and viewing stereo images, for example stereo video images, also called 3D video. At least three camera sources with overlapping fields of view are used to capture a scene so that an area of the scene is covered by at least three cameras. At the viewer, a camera pair is chosen from the multiple cameras to create a stereo camera pair that best matches the location of the eyes of the user if they were located at the place of the camera sources. That is, a camera pair is chosen so that the disparity created by the camera sources resembles the disparity that the user's eyes would have at that location. If the user tilts his head, or the view orientation is otherwise altered, a new pair can be formed, for example by switching the other camera. The viewer device then forms the images of the video frames for the left and right eyes by picking the best sources for each area of each image for realistic stereo disparity.
US10455214B2
An optical system, suitable for use within an augmented reality (AR)-capable display device, comprises a camera and an optical arrangement configured to acquire stereoscopic imagery of an object using the camera. The optical arrangement comprises a first reflective element arranged along a first optical path and defining a first convex surface configured to reflect first light received from the object as first reflected light, wherein at least a first portion of the first reflected light is directed onto a camera focal plane. The optical arrangement further comprises a second reflective element having a predefined disposition relative to the first reflective element. The second reflective element is arranged along a second optical path and defines a second convex surface configured to reflect second light received from the object as second reflected light, wherein at least a second portion of the second reflected light is directed onto the camera focal plane.
US10455208B2
A color temperature of each of a first sensed image that is sensed by a first image sensing device and a second sensed image that is sensed by a second image sensing device different from the first image sensing device is acquired, a color temperature that is common between the first image sensing device and the second image sensing device is decided based on the acquired color temperatures, and color information in an image sensed by the first image sensing device and an image sensed by the second image sensing device is adjusted based on the decided color temperature.
US10455205B2
There is provided a signal processor including correction circuitry configured to correct a signal for each color input to the signal processor and to output the corrected signal for each color, first conversion circuitry configured to receive the corrected signal for each color, to perform first image processing on each corrected signal for each color, and to generate a first signal having a first color gamut for each color, second conversion circuitry configured to receive the corrected signal for each color, to perform second image processing on each corrected signal for each color, and to generate a second signal having a second color gamut for each color, where the signal processor outputs a first image data having a first color gamut and a second image data having a second color gamut from same corrected signals for each color.
US10455204B2
A display system includes: a video display apparatus; and a mobile terminal that communicate with each other. The video display apparatus includes: a measurement pattern generator that generates a plurality of measurement patterns; a projection unit that projects the measurement patterns; a first transceiver that communicates with the mobile terminal to receive information regarding distortion correction of video; and a distortion corrector that corrects the distortion. The mobile terminal includes: a camera unit that photographs the projected measurement patterns; a controller that generates the distortion correction information based on the photographed measurement patterns; and a second transceiver that communicates with the first transceiver to transmit the distortion correction information to the video display apparatus. The measurement pattern generator adds a common pattern to each measurement pattern, which indicates a reference position of each of the measurement patterns. The controller generates the distortion correction information based on the common pattern.
US10455203B2
Methods and apparatus for controlled shadow casting to increase the perceptual quality of projected content are disclosed. In some examples, an apparatus is to increase a perceptual quality of content projected onto a projection surface. In some examples, the apparatus includes a processor and memory. In some examples, the memory includes computer readable instructions. In some examples, the instructions, when executed, cause the processor to determine a target shutter position for a shutter based on a location of a light source and a location of a projection surface. In some examples, the instructions, when executed, further cause the processor to move the shutter to the target shutter position to cast a shadow onto the projection surface around a portion of content projected onto the projection surface.
US10455200B2
Systems and methods of the invention relate to managing an inventory of items within a storage container. A storage container can house one or more items for distribution among one or more users such as, for instance, employees. The storage container discussed herein provides authentication of a user, tracking of the inventory each user removes or returns, video/image capture of user during access of the storage container, wireless tracking of items housed within the storage container, among others.
US10455199B1
A method and apparatus for countering an attack on a platform. Images are received from cameras associated with the platform, and the images are identified from a group of the cameras that have a desired level of information when a group of light sources is directed at a camera system. A fused image is generated from a combination of the images from the group of the cameras and displayed on a display system for the platform. The fused image enables performing an operation using the platform.
US10455198B1
In some examples, a security camera may be inserted into an executing content item, such as a multi-player video game. The security camera may be associated with a particular participant, such as a player, of the video game or other content item. In some examples, image data, such as video data, associated with the security camera may be rendered by one or more components that are remote from the associated participant, such as one or more remote servers. The remotely rendered security camera image data may then be transmitted to the participant over one or more communications networks, such as by using streaming content delivery techniques. Also, in some examples, audio data associated with the security camera may also be remotely rendered and transmitted in combination with the security camera image data.
US10455197B2
The present disclosure describes a method for transmitting sensor data and positional data for geo-referencing oblique images from a moving platform to a ground station system in real-time. The method involves the aid of a moving platform system to capture sensor data and positional data for the sensor data, save the sensor data and positional data to one or more directories of one or more computer readable medium, monitor the one or more directories of the one or more computer readable medium for sensor data and positional data, and transmit the sensor data and positional data from the moving platform system to the ground station system over a wireless communication link responsive to the sensor data and positional data being detected as within the one or more directories.
US10455195B2
A method and system for controlling multiple auxiliary streams, a control device, and a node, which implements sending and receiving of multiple auxiliary streams of multiple nodes. The method includes determining, by a control device, to allocate a token to m auxiliary streams, where the m auxiliary streams belong to n node or nodes, n≥1, m≥2, and m≥n, allocating a token to the m auxiliary streams, sending a token allocated to an auxiliary stream of a first node to the first node, where the first node is one node of the n node or nodes, and sending a first indication message to the first node, where the first indication message is used to instruct the first node to send a first auxiliary stream according to the received token, and the first auxiliary stream includes at least one auxiliary stream of the m auxiliary streams.
US10455194B1
Techniques for handling sudden changes in available bandwidth in videoconferences implemented with media servers employing SFUs. The techniques involve detecting a sudden drop in available egress network bandwidth from a media server to a video receiver, sending a request to a video sender currently sending a video stream to the media server for forwarding to the video receiver to reduce its transmission bitrate, determining whether to reset the forwarding of the video stream to the video receiver, and, having determined to reset the forwarding of the video stream to the video receiver, stopping the forwarding of the video stream to the video receiver, sending a request for an I-frame to the video sender for use in restarting the forwarding of the video stream to the video receiver, and, having received the requested I-frame, restarting the forwarding of the video stream from the video sender to the video receiver.
US10455188B2
Methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer program products are provided for correlating a user interface (UI) of an executing process with a profiling trace generated for the process. A profiling trace of a process is captured during execution of the process. A window handle associated with the process is determined. Video of a displayed window having the window handle is captured simultaneous with the capturing of the profiling trace. The displayed window displays a user interface (e.g., a graphical user interface) of the process. The captured profiling trace and the video are stored in a profiling trace object, and may be analyzed together to diagnose any problems/issues with the process.
US10455187B2
A 360° camera system that eliminates problems associated with capturing real-time encounters between first responders, i.e., law enforcement personnel (such as police officers) and civilians such that all individuals involved in the encounter can be held accountable for their actions, wherein multiple cameras are provided, e.g., two to three cameras, consisting of cameras that acquire images in a 360° range, as opposed to conventional cameras that shoot up to a range of 170°, such that questions about sequence of events and their circumstances are eliminated.
US10455181B2
Techniques are disclosed for exchanging information between devices. Each device is configured to execute a web browser application. One of the devices is referred to as a streamer device, and the other a receiver device. The receiver device includes a camera for receiving images displayed by the streamer device. A user of the streamer device can orient the display of the streamer towards the camera of the receiver device. The receiver device uses the camera to observe images displayed by any streamer devices that are present within the field of view of the camera. The receiver device, via the camera, analyzes each video frame displayed by the streamer device for a pattern. If the pattern is detected and matches a predefined pattern, the receiver device can retrieve information associated with the pattern, and display that information in the web browser.
US10455176B2
An image sensor in which at least a portion of an imaging plane thereof has a curved shape, wherein the imaging plane includes a plurality of pixels that are two-dimensionally arranged, each of the plurality of pixels having: a photoelectric conversion region that is provided with an impurity region of a first conductivity type that is formed in a semiconductor substrate; and an impurity region of a second conductivity type that is formed on a substrate surface side of the photoelectric conversion region, and impurity concentration in the impurity region of the second conductivity type varies depending on a position on the imaging plane.
US10455171B2
Various embodiments of the present technology may comprise a method and apparatus for anti-eclipse circuit verification. According to various embodiments, the image sensor is configured to test and/or determine the functionality of the anti-eclipse circuit. In various embodiments, the anti-eclipse circuit may employ redundant circuits and/or devices. In a case where a circuit fault is detected, the image sensor generates an error signal.
US10455169B2
The disclosure addresses the vignetting effect caused on an image captured by lightfield camera. A method to compensate for the vignetting effect for a lightfield camera comprising an image sensor array including plurality of photosites. The method includes the operations of obtaining luminance values from the each photosite; obtaining a set of weight values for compensating the vignetting effect for the each photosite being associated with a present setting of the lightfield camera; and changing the luminance values of the each photosite based on the obtained a set of the weight values.
US10455168B2
Architectures for imager arrays configured for use in array cameras in accordance with embodiments of the invention are described. One embodiment of the invention includes a plurality of focal planes, where each focal plane comprises a two dimensional arrangement of pixels having at least two pixels in each dimension and each focal plane is contained within a region of the imager array that does not contain pixels from another focal plane, control circuitry configured to control the capture of image information by the pixels within the focal planes, where the control circuitry is configured so that the capture of image information by the pixels in at least two of the focal planes is separately controllable, sampling circuitry configured to convert pixel outputs into digital pixel data, and output interface circuitry configured to transmit pixel data via an output interface.
US10455150B2
In one aspect, there is provided video headphones, including a plurality of cameras, wherein the cameras are arranged to capture a panorama of at least 270°. In another aspect, there is provided a video headphones system including the video headphones and further including a mobile device (eg. a smartphone) connectable to the video headphones, the mobile device including an application arranged to communicate with the video headphones. In another aspect, there is provided a helmet including a holder configured, in use, to receive and to secure video headphones on a head of a user.
US10455148B2
Provided are an image capturing device, an image capturing method, and a program which allow an image of a subject to be captured in a more appropriate manner. A communication control unit controls a communication process of making a communication with the subject. An image capturing control unit performs image capturing control of controlling image capturing, which is performed by the image capturing unit that captures an image of the subject, in correspondence with the communication process. For example, the present technology is applicable to a digital camera that captures still images or moving images, and other electronic apparatuses equipped with a function of capturing still images or moving images.
US10455139B2
Image processing device is image processing device that uses a plurality of images respectively having focusing positions different from each other to calculate distance information to a subject, and includes frequency converter, amplitude extractor, and distance information calculator. Frequency converter converts the plurality of images into frequency. Amplitude extractor extracts an amplitude component out of a phase component and the amplitude component of a coefficient obtained by converting the plurality of images into frequency. Distance information calculator calculates the distance information, by using lens blur data and only the amplitude component extracted by amplitude extractor out of the phase component and the amplitude component of the coefficient.
US10455137B2
A distance measuring system is provided for auto focusing a camera of an inspection system for inspecting a planar surface that is patterned. The system includes a pattern generator, an image sensor, an optical element(s) and a processor. The pattern generator projects a spatially random pattern toward the planar surface at an oblique angle. The optical element(s) forms the image of the reflected pattern on the image sensor and the image sensor captures an image of the spatially random pattern reflected off the planar surface. The processor processes the image of the spatially random pattern and provides auto-focus information.
US10455136B2
There is provided an information processing system comprising: circuitry configured to acquire information indicating whether at least one of plurality of areas included in a captured image captured by a capturing device are focusable; and to issue a signal to control a display to display first information indicating whether each of the plurality of areas are focusable.
US10455133B2
A digital image capture device streams captured images (e.g. low-resolution images) to a remote viewer terminal, along with image identifiers and/or device position information. The remote viewer terminal displays the images for viewing by a remote viewer. The remote viewer provides inputs to a user interface, which indicate a direction of desired movement of the image capture device, and/or that the remote viewer wants new images (e.g. high-resolution images) to be captured at a desired position. The user interface inputs are translated into requests, which are transmitted to the image capture device. The image capture device provides movement prompts that direct a device operator to move the device in a requested direction or toward a requested position. When a position of the device corresponds to a requested image capture position, the image capture device captures one or more new images, and transmits the new images.
US10455128B2
A smartphone may be freely moved in three dimensions as it captures a stream of images of an object. Multiple image frames may be captured in different orientations and distances from the object and combined into a composite image representing an image of the object. The image frames may be formed into the composite image based on representing features of each image frame as a set of points in a three dimensional point cloud. Inconsistencies between the image frames may be adjusted when projecting respective points in the point cloud into the composite image. Quality of the image frames may be improved by processing the image frames to correct errors. Reflections and shadows may be detected and removed. Further, optical character recognition may be applied. As the scan progresses, a direction for capturing subsequent image frames is provided to a user as a real-time feedback.
US10455122B2
Device-independent coordinate values at an adjustment point are converted into second coordinate values in accordance with a B2A table of an output profile, and the second coordinate values are converted into adjustment target PCS values, which are the device-independent coordinate values, in accordance with an A2B table of the output profile. When values obtained by adding relative values of an adjustment target using PCS coordinates as a reference, are assumed as target PCS values, in an optimization step, an optimization process is carried out to obtain an optimal solution of adjustment color values. The optimization process includes an element for bringing provisional PCS values, obtained by converting, in accordance with the A2B table, provisional color values obtained by adding adjustment color values to the adjustment target color values, closer to the target PCS values.
US10455119B2
Provided is a display device that illuminates a printed material taking into consideration the characteristics of the printed material. The display device obtains an image for illuminating the printed material, and information pertaining to the optical characteristics, such as light reflectance or transmission, of the printed material. Then, on the basis of metadata pertaining to a luminance or color of the obtained image and the obtained information, the display device controls a light source illuminating the printed material. Through this, the display device enhances the dynamic range or the color gamut of the printed material.
US10455117B2
A binary image of an input image is generated, and a character region within the binary image and a region surrounding each character are acquired as character segmentation rectangle information. A thinning process is executed on a region within the binary image which is identified based on the character segmentation rectangle information to acquire a thinned image. An edge detected image of the region identified based on the character segmentation rectangle information is acquired. Whether each character identified based on the character segmentation rectangle information is a character to be separated from a background by the binarization process or not is determined based on a result of a logical AND of the thinned image and the edge detected image.
US10455111B2
An encryption circuit includes a fundamental vector generation circuit configured to generate a random number sequence for serving as a fundamental vector based on an initial vector, an image mask generation circuit configured to generate an image mask with a mask value set for each pixel in a region to be encrypted smaller than a frame size of the image, based on the fundamental vector and coordinate information for specifying the region to be encrypted, and an XOR operation circuit configured to compute an exclusive OR between each mask value of the image mask and each pixel value of the image data to generate encrypted image data.
US10455110B2
The present disclosure describes a system and method to manage image file storage that includes a memory device to store instructions and at least one processing device to execute the instructions stored in the memory device to determine a blur indication or a burst characteristic for each of a plurality of files stored on a storage medium, automatically identify candidate image files to delete based at least in part on the blur indication or the burst characteristic, and delete at least some of the candidate image files based on receiving a delete indication.
US10455106B2
There is provided an image reading apparatus including: a reading device; a carriage which the reading device is loaded; a support shaft which is formed of a conductive material, which is grounded to a ground potential, and which supports the carriage; and a conduction member which allows a conductive part of the carriage and the support shaft to be electrically conducted to each other, in which the carriage includes a bearing section which is formed of a material having electric insulation properties, in which the bearing section is supported by the support shaft in a state of abutting against the support shaft from one side of the support shaft in a direction intersecting with a shaft line of the support shaft, and in which the conduction member is fixed to the carriage, and abuts against the support shaft from a side opposite to the support shaft.
US10455104B2
An information processing apparatus includes: a print data acquisition unit that acquires print data; a layout information acquisition unit that acquires layout information concerning plural image forming parts that are aligned from an upstream side toward a downstream side in a moving direction of a transfer target that moves and form images of respective different colors on the transfer target; and an image information generation unit that generates pieces of image information for the respective colors used by the plural image forming parts from the print data during a generation period and generates image information used by an image forming part located on an upstream side in the moving direction more in a former half of the generation period than in a latter half of the generation period.
US10455099B2
Regarding a Pull Scan function, a printing apparatus allows a user to select either employing a method for displaying a specific screen in using the Pull Scan function, or employing a method for permitting the use of the Pull Scan function even without displaying the specific screen.
US10455097B2
Embodiments of systems and methods for the sending, delivery and receiving of faxes according to particular protocols are disclosed. Certain embodiments may receive a fax from a sender and determine if the ability exists to send the fax over a computer based network according to a particular protocol. If there is no destination associated with the fax number for the protocol the fax may be sent according to the fax number. If, however, there is a destination for the protocol associated with the fax number an attempt is made to send the fax to the destination according to the protocol.
US10455092B1
Tangible, non-transitory, machine-readable media include instructions that cause a processor to receive a first indication that a user is attempting to communicate with a provider, and intercept communication between the user and the provider based on the first indication being received. The instructions also cause the processor to send user information to a provider application server based on the first indication being received, and display a visual interface that establishes communication with the relevant provider department or performs a transaction based on the first indication being received. The instructions further cause the processor to receive a second indication associated with performing the action associated with the provider via the visual interface; and performing the action based on the second indication being received.
US10455090B2
Intermediary device for data message network routing and enhancement in a contact center environment
An intermediary device to enhance and route data messages between end user and contact center agent computing devices in a contact center environment is provided. The intermediary device can be disposed in a data communication path of a contact center between an electronic communications network and a contact center agent computing device. The intermediary device can include a data message replication mechanism, a data message aggregator mechanism, or a data message analysis mechanism. The intermediary device can receive a data message. The data message replication mechanism can intercept and replicate the data message to generate a replicated data message. The data message analysis mechanism can generate, from the replicated data message, derivative content. The data message aggregator mechanism can combine the derivative content with the data message to create an enhanced data message that can be provided to the contact center agent computing device in the contact center environment.
US10455087B2
Methods and systems which perform information retrieval using natural language dialog for navigating an inventory of items are described. One example provides an information retrieval system to a user using natural language dialog. The system comprises a user input receiving device, an output device, a database comprising an inventory of items, and a processor. The processor is configured to retrieve one or more items from the inventory of items using an iterative process by: in response to receiving from the user input receiving device a user input, identifying a subset of the inventory based on the user input. The processor is configured to automatically process the subset of items to determine a classification for distinguishing between items of the subset, to generate an enquiry for a user using the classification and to transmit the enquiry to the output device. The user input and/or the enquiry may use natural language.
US10455067B1
A holder for a mobile computing device is provided, which comprises a base member with a plurality of spaced angular adjustment recesses; a device platform, the device platform being pivotably connected to the base member and being configured for receiving a mobile computing device; and a support member, pivotably connected with the device platform and configured for engagement with one of the angular adjustment recesses to allow a plurality of different angular positions of the device platform with respect to the base member. Herein, the support member is spring-loaded to, upon movement of the device platform by a user, move from a first of the adjustment recesses to an adjacent adjustment recess.
US10455066B2
The disclosure herein provides a personal wireless media station including a base station and a wireless earbud. The personal wireless media station may detect that the wireless earbud is docked to the base station, play sound through a speaker of the base station while the wireless earbud is docked to the base station, detect that the wireless earbud is undocked from the base station, cease to play sound through the speaker of the base station in response to detecting that the wireless earbud is undocked from the base station, and cause sound to begin playing through the wireless earbud while the wireless earbud is undocked from the base station.
US10455056B2
Techniques for sharing design elements between different applications and/or devices are provided. A design element is received from a first application as multiple representations, each of the multiple representations corresponding to a complementary storage format for the design element based on a design element type. The design element is stored as the multiple representations in a centrally stored library, the centrally stored library being shared among a plurality of applications. An indication to use the design element in a second application may be received. At least one of the multiple representations may be returned, as determined by the second application.
US10455055B2
A common vendor application that can be called from multiple vendor applications is loaded onto a communication device. When the common vendor application is called from an application provided by a vendor, the common vendor application sends a request to access vendor configuration information to a common vendor server. The request includes a vendor identifier that uniquely identifies the vendor. In response to receiving the request to access the vendor configuration information, the common vendor server identifies vendor configuration information for the vendor. The vendor configuration information is sent the common vendor application on the communication device. The common vendor application uses the vendor configuration information to customize the common vendor application specific to the vendor. This allows multiple vendors to use the same common vendor application, but to have a common look-and-feel. It also reduces the number of applications necessary to support multiple vendors.
US10455053B2
Methods and systems for providing network models and network configurations for communications are described. The method includes establishing, by a device intermediary to a plurality of clients and servers, a first interface on a manager of the device for delivering a network model of the device from the manager of the device to a software defined network (SDN) controller of an SDN. The method includes providing, via the first interface, the network model configured to provide definitions of one or more network layer entities of the device that are configured to provide network layer services. The method includes establishing, a second interface on the manager of the device configured to transmit and receive communications between the device and the SDN controller. The method includes receiving, by the manager via the second interface, network configuration to configure the device to process SDN application requests received from the SDN controller.
US10455052B2
A surgical instrument operable to sever tissue includes a body assembly and a selectively coupleable end effector assembly. The end effector assembly may include a transmission assembly and an end effector. The body assembly includes a trigger and a casing configured to couple with the transmission assembly. An information transmission system transmits instrument information received from a sensor, for example, to a secure server via a secure gateway connected to the instrument. The instrument may be previously tested on a calibration kit to pre-determine and load surgeon-specific settings onto the instrument prior to use.
US10455041B2
According to an example embodiment of the present invention, there is provided an apparatus comprising at least one processing core, at least one memory including computer program code, the at least one memory and the computer program code being configured to, with the at least one processing core, cause the apparatus at least to cause at least one first node to be provided with software and initialized with data, cause the at least one first node to be set to a slave mode, cause a load balancer to be updated with information concerning the at least one first node, and terminate at least one second node, and in connection with terminating the at least one second node, set the at least one first node to an active mode.
US10455039B2
The application provides a method and a router for sending and processing data. In the method, a first router receives a first Internet Protocol IP data packet sent by a network server, where the first IP data packet carries a first data adding instruction; and the first router searches, according to the first data adding instruction, a first local cache for to-be-added data that is indicated by the first data adding instruction, adds, to the first IP data packet, the to-be-added data that is indicated by the first data adding instruction, to form a second IP data packet, and sends the second IP data packet. Because a router can add data to an IP data packet according to a data adding instruction, flexibility of data combinations is improved, and because the IP data packet can support multiple times of data adding, the flexibility of data combinations is further improved.
US10455026B2
A system allowing a user to virtually aggregate the user's digital content from various operating system (O/S) accounts on disparate computer systems for subsequent access via a single dashboard. The system includes a central service administrator (CSA) and a passive content server (PCS) installed in each computer system. The PCSs establish persistent connections with the CSA for the O/S account repositories which the user elects to aggregate. The user can then connect to the CSA over the Internet, receive a list of the selected O/S account repositories via the dashboard, and request content therefrom. The CSA utilizes the corresponding persistent connection to initiate transfer of the requested content from the PCS on the computer system hosting the requested content to the user.
US10455022B2
Embodiments are directed to communicating with and controlling operation of electronically-controlled appliances. In one scenario, a computer system receives a first input from a computing system indicating that an electronically-controlled appliance is permitted to communicate with a cloud computing platform. The computer system generates a notification that is to be sent to a software application, where the software application is configured to control functions of the electronically-controlled appliance. The computer system transmits the generated notification to the software application, where the generated notification indicates that the cloud computing platform is communicably connected to the electronically-controlled appliance. The computer system then receives a second input from the software application indicating that specified functions are to be performed on the electronically-controlled appliance, and transmits instructions to the electronically-controlled appliance to perform the specified functions. These functions are then interpreted and carried out by a hardware controller on the electronically-controlled appliance.
US10455019B2
A system and method can provide a scalable data storage in a middleware environment. The system can include a cluster of replicated store daemon processes in a plurality of processing nodes, wherein each machine node can host a replicated store daemon process of the cluster of replicated store daemon processes. Additionally, the system can include one or more replicated stores associated with an application server the processing node. The replicated store daemon cluster can persist data from a replicated store to another node, the other node also being associated with the replicated store daemon cluster. The system and method can additionally support a messaging service in a middleware environment. The messaging service can use the replicated store to store a copy of a message in the local processing node and on another processing node associated with the same replicated store daemon cluster.
US10455015B2
A method for storing third-party application data to cloud storage is described herein. The method includes determining to upload data associated with a third-party application stored on a client device to a cloud storage server. The data associated with the third-party application includes both binary data and metadata. The method further includes storing the binary data of the third-party application at a first cloud storage location. The first cloud storage location has a storage address and the metadata is updated to include the storage address. The method includes storing the updated metadata to a second cloud storage location different from the first cloud storage location.
US10455005B2
According to some aspects described herein, a system may determine whether a network actor appears to be using an intermediary such as a VPN and/or proxy server. This may be accomplished by directing the network actor to request and/or access a network-segment identification resource which may, in some embodiments, be stored in another region of the global network. The system may include links and/or other identifiers pointing the network actor to one or more network-segment identification resources. The network actor may access the network-segment identification resources using the links or identifiers, and the system may use information about the request for the network-segment identification resource to determine whether the network actor is associated with multiple source addresses.
US10455001B2
A design support device of the present invention is a design support device that is connected to a network to which both an input/output device where input/output regarding designing is performed and a design data accumulation device for storing design data regarding the designing are connected, the design support device including a network monitoring unit that monitors the network, detecting input/output data that is input/output between the network and the input/output device and outputting a monitoring log, and a design process list creation unit that extracts design processes based on a relationship between information regarding the input data and information regarding the output data included in the monitoring log, and creating and outputting a design process list by arranging the extracted design processes in a list.
US10454999B2
A system and a method are disclosed for coordinating an inter-operable Platform as a Service (PaaS) layer and an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) layer. In one example, the method includes receiving, by a processing device associated with a PaaS layer, a message indicating a resource status associated with a plurality of resources of an IaaS layer, determining, by the processing device, a resource among the plurality of resources in the IaaS layer to instantiate a platform service of the PaaS layer, the determining is based on the message indicating the resource status associated with the plurality of resources of the IaaS layer; and transmitting, by the processing device, a message directing the IaaS layer to instantiate the platform service on the determined resource in the IaaS layer.
US10454996B2
Systems according to various embodiments use a file download widget to facilitate the download of one or more files from one or more servers associated with a website. In particular embodiments, the file download widget may be used to facilitate the download of one or more particular files that are associated with the widget directly to a content management system, such as a synched or non-synched cloud-based content management system. In various embodiments, this may: (1) allow the user to download files for later use without storing the downloaded files on the user's computing device; and (2) allow the user to complete the download of files by initiating the transfer of files and then logging off of the website (and/or powering down their computing device) before the transfer of files is complete, which may result in a more convenient and enjoyable download process.
US10454991B2
A network interface device includes a host interface for connection to a host processor and a network interface, which is configured to transmit and receive data packets over a network, and which comprises multiple distinct physical ports configured for connection to the network. Processing circuitry is configured to receive, via one of the physical ports, a data packet from the network and to decide, responsively to a destination identifier in the packet, whether to deliver a payload of the data packet to the host processor via the host interface or to forward the data packet to the network via another one of the physical ports.
US10454990B2
An approach is provided for managing a quality of service (QoS). It is determined that a user communicates with a first video conference participant and no other participant(s). A cognitive focus of attention model is generated. The cognitive focus of attention is a region of a display presenting the video conference that includes a face of the first participant. The model specifies a peripheral vision resolution of the user. First and second actual QoS of other regions and the region, respectively, are generated. Based on the model and the first and second actual QoS, an adjustment to the first actual QoS is determined, without adjusting the second actual QoS, and while maintaining unchanged a perceived QoS. A resolution of the other regions is matched to the peripheral vision resolution by delaying or dropping packets that specify the other regions, which reduces a video bit rate of the other regions.
US10454982B1
In an embodiment, a wireless mix monitor system is provided in which the musicians have one or more wearable electronic devices that may receive digital audio over a wireless connection to a computer. The channels monitored by a given user may be mixed on the computer, on the devices, or on a combination of the computer and the devices. The musicians may be freed from a fixed mix monitor, allowing easy movement about the stage or performance space. Audio buffering and upsampling/downsampling may be used to manage temporal discontinuities in the audio stream.
US10454978B2
Methods and systems for reducing latency during conference calls are provided. The method and system can involve a conference call coordinator that evaluates the regions of participants in the call each time a call is added or dropped and transfers the conference call to a media server in the appropriate region.
US10454971B2
Managing privileged system access may be performed by a risk management system controlling user access privilege to production systems. One example method of operation may provide at least one of detecting an insecure user action at a user device, reducing an access privilege of a user profile associated with the user device to one or more privileged production servers, providing the user device with an application based on the insecure user action, determining that an outcome associated with the application has been achieved, and re-instating the access privilege of the user profile.
US10454969B2
Various embodiments of systems, computer program products, and methods to automatically generate low-interaction honeypots to protect application landscapes through are described herein. In an aspect, representative applications associated with resources in a network are identified. The low-interaction honeypots are automatically generated for the identified representative applications. Further, the representative applications are probed to retrieve responses corresponding to different requests. Templates are generated corresponding to request-response pairs by parsing the responses and the requests. During operation, new requests for accessing the resources are responded based on the generated templates. The new requests and corresponding responses are recorded.
US10454967B1
Clustering is provided of computer security attacks by the threat actor based on features of the attacks. Attack data is obtained for a given attack and a plurality of features of the given attack are extracted from a plurality of attack attributes. A feature-based score is computed for the given attack based on the extracted features relative to each of a plurality of attack clusters. Each attack cluster is comprised of a plurality of attacks performed by a particular attacker. The given computer security attack is assigned to a particular attack cluster if the feature-based score for the particular attack satisfies a predefined score criteria.
US10454965B1
A method for preventing suspicious activity on a computer network is described. In one embodiment, the method includes determining a first identifier of a first packet from a connection associated with network traffic, calculating a first value based at least in part on a portion of data included in the first packet, determining a second identifier of a second packet from the connection associated with the network traffic, the second identifier matching the first identifier, calculating a second value based at least in part on a portion of data included in the second packet, comparing the first value with a the second value, and determining that suspicious activity is occurring on the network based at least in part on the comparison between the first and second values. In some embodiments, the first identifier includes at least one of a sequence number and an acknowledgement number associated with the first packet.
US10454952B2
A threat protection system provides for detecting links in a document and analyzing whether one of the detected links is a malicious link that may direct a user of the document to a malicious universal resource locator (URL). In one implementation of the described technology, when a user selects a link in a document, a link activation module calls a threat protection client module that performs a reputation check for the link. If the selected link is malicious, the threat protection client module sends a URL of a warning page to the link activation module.
US10454946B2
Selecting a receive side scaling (RSS) key is provided. It is determined whether a defined time interval expired. In response to determining that the defined time interval has expired, it is determined whether one or more keys in a set of randomly generated candidate RSS keys have a higher packet distribution score than an active RSS key. In response to determining that one or more keys in the set of randomly generated candidate RSS keys have a higher packet distribution score than the active RSS key, an RSS key having a highest packet distribution score is selected from the one or more keys in the set of randomly generated candidate RSS keys that have a higher packet distribution score than the active RSS key. The RSS key having the highest packet distribution score is used to distribute incoming network packets across a plurality of processors.
US10454941B2
A system for configuring and executing a secure communication network for authorizing access to safeguarded resources is provided. In particular, the system uses person-to-person (P2P) authentication technology to securely transmit resources between users. In this way, an efficient way to for users to manage resources is provided.
US10454940B2
A system for authorizing access to a resource receives a request for an access token that corresponds to the resource, where the request includes user information and application information. The user information includes a role of the user and the application information includes a role of the application. The system evaluates the request by computing scopes for the access token, including determining an intersection between the user information and the application information. The system then provides the access token that includes the computed scopes, the scopes being based at least on the role of the user and the role of the application.
US10454937B2
In a computer system implemented method for generating an authorized response to a message in a network, the computer system detects a message sent by an originator via a network. The computer system selects a group of users to contribute to the authorized response to the message based on the computer system analyzing the message. Users selected by the computer system are notified that they are selected to contribute to the authorized response. The computer system receives input data for the authorized response from respective ones of the users of the group and generates the authorized response based on the input data. The computer system sends the authorized response to the originator via the network.
US10454935B2
A method, system and/or an apparatus to detect discrepancy in infrastructure security configurations from translated security best practice configurations in heterogeneous environments is disclosed. A method of an infrastructure security server communicatively coupled with a set of heterogeneous infrastructures translates a set of security best practice configurations of the heterogeneous infrastructures and/or a set of common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVE) of the heterogeneous infrastructures to programmatic execution. The method monitors the infrastructure security configurations associated with the heterogeneous infrastructures using a processor and a memory. The method analyzes the infrastructure security configurations based on the translated security best practice configurations and/or the translated common vulnerabilities and exposures (CVE). The method detects any discrepancy of the infrastructure security configurations from the translated security best practice configurations, and/or any translated CVE. The method alerts a set of devices and a user through one communication channel about any discrepancy.
US10454929B2
Systems, methods, and software can be used to provide authentication for an enterprise service. In some aspects, an identity server receives an authentication request. An on-premises verification command is transmitted. The on-premises verification command indicates an on-premises agent that verifies on-premises network connectivity. In response to the on-premises verification command, an on-premises verification response message is received. An authentication response is transmitted based on the received on-premises verification response message.
US10454928B2
Techniques are provided herein to achieve data security and integrity using the cryptographic machinery of IEEE MACSec for TCP or UDP packets, for example, VxLAN, iVxLAN, and VxLAN-GPE packet. In particular, the disclosed techniques generate InsSec packets from received VxLAN based packets, in which the generated InsSec packets include an integrity checksum that that does not cover the MAC address of the packet.
US10454923B2
A system and computer-implemented method for providing access to data of a first party including receiving information for identifying the first party, authenticating the first party using the received information for identifying the first party and generating a first read-only personal identification number (PIN). The first read-only PIN is associated with a first set of access rights for the data of the first party and provided to a second party. The first read-only PIN is stored with the first set of access rights in a computer database. A third party receives the first read-only PIN from the second party, authenticates the received first read-only PIN using the stored first read-only PIN and provides the second party with access to at least a portion of the data of the first party using the first set of access rights associated with the first read-only PIN if the received first read-only PIN is authenticated.
US10454907B2
A computer-implemented system processes secure electronic documents from one or more content providers in accordance with subscriber instructions has a processor and modules operative within the processor. A monitoring module obtains a provider GUID, a subscriber GUID, and a transaction ID from public metadata associated with a transaction received from a particular content provider. A determination module determines any designees of the subscriber and contact information one or more of the subscriber and any designees. A transaction module distributes a transaction addressed to at least one of the subscriber and any designees. Each distributed transaction includes data that is used for management, tracking, and alerting. Also described is a station for constructing transactions for distribution to subscribers through such a system, and management of local-advertising to users of such a system. An end-to-end system and method are described.
US10454905B2
The present disclosure relates to the field of computer technologies and it discloses a method for encrypting a picture performed at a sending device, the method including: obtaining, by a sending device raw data of a to-be-encrypted picture, a first key, a second key, and location information that is used for adding disturbance data to the raw data; generating the disturbance data, and adding the disturbance data to the raw data according to the location information, to obtain first data; encrypting the first data by using the first key, to obtain the second data, and encrypting the first key and the length of the disturbance data by using the second key, to obtain first encrypted data; and sending the second data, the first encrypted data, and the second key to a receiving device.
US10454899B1
A system and method for client authentication wherein a client computing system is authenticated by at least performing, at an authentication system different than a target computing system, a set of validation operations on authorization information addressed to a destination port of the target computing system, and, as a result of the client computing system being authenticated by the set of validation operations, switching to a mode wherein a port of the target computing system is opened and data from the client computing system is communicated to the port of the target computing system.
US10454885B2
A method for transmitting a broadcast signal is discussed. The method includes generating transport packets of a transport stream having service data for a broadcast service, compressing headers of the transport packets and extracting context information from the transport packets according to a processing mode, encapsulating the transport packets into link layer packets for data, generating signaling information including the context information and information indicating the processing mode, encapsulating the signaling information into link layer packets for signaling, and transmitting the broadcast signal including the link layer packets for data and the link layer packets for signaling.
US10454880B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide an IP packet processing method and apparatus, and a network system. The method includes: allocating, by an operator service gateway, an IP address to a first intranet of an enterprise; and processing, by the operator service gateway according to the IP address, an interactive service packet between the first intranet and a second intranet of the enterprise. In the technical solutions of the present invention, an operator service gateway allocates an IP address to a first intranet of an enterprise, and the operator service gateway processes, according to the IP address, an interactive service packet between the first intranet and a second intranet of the enterprise, thereby reducing deployment complexity of an enterprise internal network, reducing difficulties and costs in management and maintenance of the enterprise internal network, and reducing investment costs for updating hardware devices in the enterprise internal network.
US10454877B2
A system and a method are disclosed for enabling interoperability between data plane learning endpoints and control plane learning endpoints in an overlay network environment. An exemplary method for managing network traffic in the overlay network environment includes receiving network packets in an overlay network from data plane learning endpoints and control plane learning endpoints, wherein the overlay network extends Layer 2 network traffic over a Layer 3 network; operating in a data plane learning mode when a network packet is received from a data plane learning endpoint; and operating in a control plane learning mode when the network packet is received from a control plane learning endpoint. Where the overlay network includes more than one overlay segment, the method further includes operating as an anchor node for routing inter-overlay segment traffic to and from hosts that operate behind the data plane learning endpoints.
US10454870B2
Location-based notification includes establishment of a rally point and subsequent notification of a user when another user enters the rally point. Senders may set up rally points at various physical locations and specify one or more target recipients that are to be notified when the sender enters the rally point. Target recipients may specify communication settings that dictate whether and/or how they wish to receive notifications under a variety of circumstances. When a sender having a computing device enters a rally point location, a notification is sent from the computing device to a location-based notification service, which notifies each of the target recipients in a manner that complies with the target recipient's individual communication settings.
US10454869B2
Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between computers in content searching, hosting and/or providing systems supported by or configured with devices, servers and/or platforms. The disclosed systems and methods for efficiently monitoring and following up on delivered messages for which a user expects and/or requires a reply. The disclosed functionality provides a fully automated, personalized, easy and efficient way to identify and manage outgoing mail messages that require reply by marking outbound messages as RSVP messages, which are those messages determined to require a reply. Such functionality is based on the ability of the disclosed framework to distinguish between a “satisfactory response” (i.e., a response that includes the required information) and a response that is not.
US10454845B2
Techniques to facilitate enhanced addressing of local and network resources from a computing system are provided herein. In one implementation, a method of operating an object-based memory management unit on a computing system to unify addressing of local and network resources includes maintaining a mapping of virtual addresses to local addresses and network addresses, and identifying resource requests that use the virtual addresses. The method further provides handling the resource requests per the mapping, and wherein a given request of the resource requests implicates a network resource, accessing the network resource associated with the given request over at least the network.
US10454843B2
Techniques and mechanisms for servicing requests for utilization of resources within a computing environment. A request is received from a remote electronic computing device with a regulator agent. The regulator functions to determine whether to regulate a request or to allow the request to be delivered without regulation. Regulating the request includes causing the request to be rejected, re-routed, isolated or delayed. Selectively regulating the request with the regulator based at least on application-level resources to be utilized by the application server in response to the request. Sending the request to a regulation server or to a computing device to provide an application server communicatively coupled with the regulator server depending on the regulation to be performed, if any.
US10454841B2
A convolutional interleaver included in a time interleaver, which performs convolutional interleaving includes: a first switch that switches a connection destination of an input of the convolutional interleaver to one end of one of a plurality of branches; a FIFO memories provided in some of the plurality of branches except one branch, wherein a number of FIFO memories is different among the plurality of branches; and a second switch that switches a connection destination of an output of the convolutional interleaver to another end of one of the plurality of branches. The first and second switches switch the connection destination when the plurality of cells as many as the codewords per frame have passed, by switching a corresponding branch of the connection destination sequentially and repeatedly among the plurality of branches.
US10454840B2
System and techniques for transmission controller protocol (TCP) receiver controller interruption mitigation are described herein. At a receiver device, a physical link degradation indication of a physical link may be obtained. In response to the physical link degradation indication, a transmission queue may be measured to determine bufferbloat that is a result of a temporary blockage of the physical link. The receiver device may then transmit, to a second device on the physical link, a TCP receive window size update that is smaller than a previous TCP receive window size.
US10454832B2
Systems and methods of a balancing data requests over a computer network are provided. The system can receive a request for content to be rendered in a content slot on a computing device. The content slot can be coded with a default timer value. The system can execute a real-time content selection process to identify content items that each have a magnitude. The system can determine a timer value based on the magnitudes, and transmit the timer value to the computing device to override the default timer value to cause the computing device to replace a first content item rendered in the content slot upon expiration of the timer.
US10454831B1
Forwarding of network packets generated by a networking device may be load-balanced. Network packets may be generated by a networking device, such as a packet processor, that also processes and forwards received network packets. Forwarding decisions for the generated network packets may be made according to a load balancing scheme among possible forwarding routes from the networking device. In at least some embodiments, a destination resolution pipeline for determining forwarding decisions for generated network packets may be implemented separate from a destination resolution pipeline for determining forwarding decisions for received network packets in order to determine different forwarding decisions for the generated network packets. The generated network packets may then be forwarded according to the determined forwarding decisions.
US10454828B2
In one embodiment, a device in a network receives in-situ operations administration and management (iOAM) data regarding a plurality of traffic flows in the network. The iOAM data comprises entropy values for the plurality of traffic flows. The device receives network topology information indicative of network paths available in the network. The device generates a machine learning-based entropy topology model for the network based on the received iOAM data and the received network topology information. The entropy topology model maps path selection predictions for the network paths with entropy values. The device uses the entropy topology model to cause a particular traffic flow to use a particular network path.
US10454827B2
A method performed by a network element in a communication network comprises inspecting traffic between a radio device and the communication network. The method also comprises, based on said inspecting, determining that the traffic is part of a TCP subflow of an MPTCP connection. The method also comprises, based on said inspecting, calculating a ratio of how much data is transmitted in the subflow in relation to the total amount of data transmitted in the MPTCP connection over a predetermined time period. The method also comprises observing that the calculated ratio is below a reference ratio. The method also comprises, based on said observing, performing an action for preventing congestion in the communication network.
US10454825B2
The technology disclosed herein enables network traffic routing using a hybrid routing table. In a particular embodiment, a method provides adding a first portion of a network prefix to one or more tiers of one or more tries in the hybrid routing table. Upon reaching a lowest node of the one or more tries when adding the first portion of the network prefix, the method provides adding key information to the lowest node. The key information and at least a second portion of the network prefix comprise a key to locate a value in a hash table of the hybrid routing table. The value indicates routing information for the network prefix. Additionally, the method provides routing packets using the hybrid routing table.
US10454819B2
A method is implemented by a first Provider Edge (PE) network device in a network to configure a pseudo-wire (PW) between the first PE network device and a second PE network device in the network using Intermediate System to Intermediate System (IS-IS). The method includes receiving a first LSP update flooded in the network by the second PE network device via IS-IS, where the first LSP update advertises the PW. The method further includes configuring a local forwarding information base with a local PW label associated with the PW such that the first PE network device forwards traffic encapsulated with the local PW label to an Attachment Circuit associated with the PW and flooding a second LSP update in the network via IS-IS that includes an indication that the first PE network device is ready to receive traffic from the second PE network device over the PW.
US10454817B2
Provided are a method and device for processing a Graceful Restart (GR) of an OpenFlow switch, and an OpenFlow controller. The method includes that: the OpenFlow switch is determined being in a GR state; and the state of the OpenFlow switch is marked as the GR state, wherein marking the state as the GR state includes: keeping a flow table and external connection of the OpenFlow switch before GR still valid, and prohibiting the flow table from being modified. Through the present disclosure, the problem in the related art that GR of an OpenFlow switch cannot be achieved is solved, thereby achieving the effect of effectively implementing the GR of the OpenFlow switch.
US10454814B2
In one embodiment, a method includes, subsequent to receipt of a packet from a first customer network node destined for a second customer network node at a first provider network node, determining whether a local connection exists between the first provider network node and the second customer network node, the provider network node forming part of an Ethernet Virtual Private Network (“EVPN”)—Virtual Private Wire Service (“VPWS”) domain; if a local connection is determined to exist between the first provider network node and the second customer network node, determining whether the local connection has failed; if the local connection is determined not to have failed, switching the packet to the second customer network node via the local connection instead of via the EVPN-VPWS domain; and if the local connection is determined to have failed, switching the packet to the second customer network node via the EVPN-VPWS domain.
US10454802B2
Methods and computing systems may cause SIP backend polling based on nonzero SIP subscribe expiration. A SIP server receives from a SIP client a Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) subscribe message indicating a nonzero expiration time. Based at least on receipt of the subscribe message indicating a nonzero expiration time, the SIP server initiates a backend polling session to a backend server. The SIP server receives, via the backend polling session, state information and provides the state information to the SIP client.
US10454795B1
Devices and processes perform a metrics aggregation process within the context of a serverless compute environment that includes a fleet of execution environment containers for executing ephemeral functions. In response to receipt of triggering events, functions, registered to handle the events, are launched in separate execution environments of an event-driven compute service. The functions generate metrics that are sent to the execution environment via a call (e.g., via asynchronous call) to the execution environment, and the functions may retire, without saving execution state for the function, and before the execution environment passes the metrics to an intermediate metrics aggregation service. The metric aggregation system receives the metrics generated by the fleet of instances of the function from the plurality of execution environments of the event-driven compute service, batch processes the metrics into an aggregated record, and transmits the aggregate record to a metrics reporting service.
US10454794B2
A method for three dimensional wireless network monitoring that includes receiving endpoint device data at one or more access points and receiving wireless coverage data at the one or more access points. The method further includes transmitting the endpoint device data to a client device, wherein, when the endpoint device data is received by the client device, causes the client device to display an endpoint device indicator in a three dimensional graphic visualization using a first set of visual characteristics determined based on the endpoint device data; and transmitting the wireless coverage data to the client device, wherein, when the wireless coverage data is received by the client device, causes the client device to display a wireless coverage indicator in the three dimensional graphic visualization using a second set of visual characteristics determined based on the wireless coverage data.
US10454791B2
A highly scalable distributed connection interface for data capture from multiple network service sources, comprising a connector module wherein, the connector module retrieves a plurality of business related data from a plurality of network data sources; employs a plurality of application programming interface routines to communicate with the plurality of business related data sources; accepts a plurality of analysis parameters and control commands directly from human interface devices or from one or more command and control storage devices; and specifies the action or actions to be taken on the retrieved business data.
US10454779B2
The adaptive learning systems described herein may include machine-learning engines, product configuration engines, and/or various other components configured to improve the efficiency of processing transactions. The systems described herein may detect and/or predict declined transactions, token deficiencies, insufficient system capacities, and/or other system anomalies. As such, the system may perform operations to generate additional tokens associated with assets, provision various bin ranges, and/or share reserve capacities, and/or other operations. Thus, the system may improve system efficiencies, ensure reliability and operability across the system, and optimize the operations for successfully processing transactions.
US10454778B2
One or more servers are deployed in a cloud-based environment such that the cloud-based servers are configured to interface with one or more object processing target sites. In response to an object processing command, various combinations of feasible activities to perform at feasible target sites (e.g., object processing sites) are considered so as to generate object processing scenarios capable of executing object processing commands while observing constraints that may derive from the nature of, and/or attributes pertaining to the object processing sites. A scenario including a determination of one or more target sites is selected from the considered object processing scenarios. The selected one or more target sites are used to activate the object processing commands (e.g., for computation and/or for storage activities). A target site may be a country or state or other jurisdiction that inures benefits (e.g., tax benefits) and/or limitations (e.g., import/export limitations) pertaining to specific activities.
US10454775B2
A computer network discovery system may involve a computing system and a database disposed within a remote network management platform, and a proxy server application disposed within an enterprise network. The computing system may be configured to: transmit first instructions causing the proxy server application to obtain configuration and operational information for virtual machines; store the configuration and operational information for the virtual machines in a first set of tables of the database; transmit second instructions causing the server device to obtain configuration and operational information for services; and store the configuration and operational information for the services in a second set of tables of the database, where the first set and the second set of tables have tables in common that store at least part of the configuration and operational information for the virtual machines and the services.
US10454771B2
The present disclosure generally discloses a network infrastructure virtualization mechanism configured to support virtualization of the network infrastructure (NI) of a communication network to provide thereby a virtualized infrastructure (VI) for the communication network. The network infrastructure virtualization mechanism may be configured to support virtualization of infrastructure resources (IRs) of the network infrastructure to provide virtualized infrastructure resources (VIRs) of the network infrastructure. The IRs of the communication network may include network resources (NRs) which may be virtualized to provide virtualized network resources (VNRs) and service resources (SRs) which may be virtualized to provide virtualized service resources (VSRs). The network infrastructure virtualization mechanism may be configured to support multi-owner virtualization such that multiple owners may share portions of the network infrastructure of the communication network and multi-tenant virtualization such that multiple tenants, at one or more hierarchical layers, may share portions of the network infrastructure of the communication network.
US10454762B2
A system and method of processing media traffic for a hub-based system federating disparate unified communications systems is disclosed. According to one embodiment, a system includes a federation server that is configured to connect to a first unified communications system and a second unified communications system, where the federation server receives a media call initiation request from a first client of the first unified communications system, where the media call initiation request initiates a media call with a second client of the second unified communications system, and where the federation server provides a uniform resource locator to the second client based on the media initiation request, wherein the uniform resource locator is configured to direct a user on the second client to a browser to accept the media call.
US10454761B2
Disclosed are various examples for client device migration to utilize management platform features. In one example, the client device is enrolled with a management service. Enterprise status data is requested and received from a client device. The status data indicates that the client device is compatible with a management platform. An indication that migration is accepted is received from the client device. A previous management profile is uninstalled on the client device. A device record that is compatible with the management platform is created. A management profile that is compatible with the management platform is installed on the client device.
US10454751B1
A cluster file system comprises a burst buffer appliance coupled to a plurality of object storage servers via a network. The burst buffer appliance comprises a controller configured to implement storage tiering control functionality for at least first and second storage tiers comprising respective disjoint subsets of the plurality of object storage servers. The burst buffer appliance is thereby configured to control movement of data between the first and second storage tiers. The object storage servers in the first storage tier may be configured to interface with object storage targets of a first type and the object storage servers in the second storage tier may be configured to interface with object storage targets of a second type different than the first type. For example, the object storage targets of the first type may comprise non-volatile electronic storage devices such as flash storage devices, and the object storage targets of the second type may comprise disk storage devices.
US10454750B2
An exemplary information-processing system includes: a storage unit configured to store identification information of one or more other users; an execution unit configured to execute at least one of a plurality of programs including a first program for accessing an information sharing service and a second program that differs from the first program; a first registration unit configured to register, in the storage unit, identification information of another user, through execution of the first program by the execution unit; and a second registration unit configured to register, in the storage unit, identification information of another user, through execution of the second program by the execution unit.
US10454749B2
Gain variations during a packet can lead to significant performance degradation in communications systems that use high order quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM). A method and the associated apparatus track such variations in an OFDM system and completely eliminate any performance degradation. Gain estimation and compensation is employed with the use of pilot subcarriers in the payload of an OFDM data packet. Estimated pilot magnitude ratios are averaged, throughout the processing life of a packet, to yield accurate gain estimations. A gain compensation factor is used to adjust data carriers. An exclusion method is also employed to eliminate pilot carriers which contribute to noise.
US10454748B2
An apparatus for generating a radio frequency signal based on a symbol within a constellation diagram is provided. The constellation diagram is spanned by a first axis representing an in-phase component and an orthogonal second axis representing a quadrature component. The apparatus includes a processing unit configured to select one of a plurality of segments of the constellation diagram containing the symbol. The segment is delimited by two radially extending boundaries, wherein the two radially extending boundaries span an opening angle of the segment that is different from 90°. The processing unit is further configured to calculate a first coordinate of the symbol with respect to a third axis, and a second coordinate of the symbol with respect to a fourth axis. At least one of the third axis and the fourth axis coincides with one of the two radially extending boundaries. The apparatus further includes a plurality of digital-to-analog converter cells configured to generate the radio frequency signal using the first coordinate and the second coordinate.
US10454744B2
The solution presented herein discloses a method of transmitting first symbols via a transceiver comprising a receiver and a transmitter. The method comprises determining a timing discrepancy between a previous reference timing and a current reference timing. The current reference timing is established responsive to a reduced sampling rate used to process second symbols received by the receiver, where the reduced sampling rate is less than a minimum sampling rate at which an inter-symbol distance between the second symbols can be represented by an integer number of samples. The method further comprises adjusting the current reference timing responsive to the timing discrepancy to generate an adjusted reference timing, and determining an uplink transmission timing responsive to the adjusted reference timing. The method further comprises transmitting the first symbols via the transmitter according to the determined uplink transmission timing. Corresponding transceiver, transceiver apparatus, and computer program product are also disclosed.
US10454735B2
This disclosure relates to a peak reduction circuit and method for reducing peaks by identifying peak sample values exceeding a pre-set threshold value in an aggregated baseband carrier signal and determining a maximum peak sample by detecting its maximum peak absolute value and phase. A search is performed a pre-determined search length beyond an identified peak. A stored, predetermined filter impulse response based on the carrier passband configuration is retrieved and its amplitude and phase of the predetermined filter impulse response is adjusted by means of the phase and absolute value of the determined maximum peak sample. Finally, the aggregated baseband carrier signal and the adjusted predetermined filter impulse response are combined by synchronizing their maximum peaks and their opposite phase values for adjusting the aggregated baseband carrier signal to said pre-set threshold value.
US10454730B2
A method allowing a receiver device of a wireless communication system to receive a useful signal emitted by an emitter device. The useful signal corresponding to a signal, the phase or frequency of which is modulated by a sequence of two-state symbols corresponding to a sequence of binary data. A temporal envelope of the useful signal is detected and compared to a preset threshold value. Transitions between consecutive useful-signal symbols are detected, on the basis of the result of the comparison. A sequence of binary data is extracted from the useful signal depending on the detected transitions.
US10454725B1
Methods, apparatus, and systems for data communication over a multi-wire, multi-phase interface are disclosed. A method includes equalizing three-phase signals received from two wires of the interface to provide equalized signals, providing first and second difference signals by comparing voltage differences between the equalized signals with first and second reference voltage levels respectively, capturing delayed and undelayed versions of the second difference signal using flipflops triggered by different edges in the first difference signal, and adjusting an equalizing circuit until outputs of the first flipflops indicate that a ratio of low-frequency attenuation to high-frequency amplification has been achieved that enables information to be accurately decoded from the three-phase signals. The three-phase signal received from a first of the two wires is in a different phase than the three-phase signal received from a second of the two wires.
US10454721B2
A semiconductor device includes a first chip and a second chip. The first chip includes a first circuit having a first output terminal. The second chip includes a second circuit having a second output terminal, which is electrically connected to the first output terminal via a first signal line. When the first chip and the second chip receive a first command, the second circuit calibrates an output impedance at the second output terminal through a first calibration operation based on an output impedance at the first output terminal.
US10454716B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to techniques for estimating a channel using soft-windowing. A user equipment (UE) may determine, based on a cyclic prefix (CP) length of a channel, a timing window for sampling reference signals transmitted on the channel, determine a set of weights to apply to samples obtained within the determined timing window, wherein each weight corresponds to a sample obtained within the determined window, and estimate the channel by applying the weights to the samples.
US10454714B2
In one aspect, A computerized method of a gateway distributing routes learned through routing protocols (RP) into a Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) includes the step of providing a first gateway that receives a route over a routing protocol. The method includes the step of with the first gateway, redistributing the route to one or more peer routers as a BGP route based on one or more specified criteria. The method includes the step of setting a gateway precedence based on the redistribution of the route to the one or more peer routers as the BGP route. The method includes the step of, based on the gateway precedence, setting a second gateway to automatically redistribute the route with different priorities to influence steering of traffic to a preferred gateway.
US10454712B2
The present application discloses a method for connecting a user device to a network. The access apparatus may obtain a first IP address from a fixed broadband network and a second IP address from a mobile broadband network, where the first IP address corresponds to a fixed broadband network link, and the second IP address corresponds to a radio link. The access apparatus receives a first packet from a user device, where a source IP address of the first packet is an IP address of the user device. The access apparatus obtains a translated IP address according to a service type of the first packet. The access apparatus obtains a second packet by replacing the source IP address of the first packet with the translated IP address, and sends the second packet to a link corresponding to the translated IP address.
US10454709B2
Described herein are techniques enabling the delivery of messages according to a desired delivery order in a software defined network. A desired delivery order for messages sent to multiple nodes in a cluster can be received. The cluster can be associated with a distributed application and the nodes in the cluster can be interconnected via the software defined network. The software defined network can be configured to deliver the messages according to the desired delivery order.
US10454707B2
A system, apparatus, and method for retrofitting a vehicle are presented. The method relates to a vehicle with a factory-installed first apparatus which communicates with a factory-installed second apparatus through a vehicle data bus using a first message. The method includes electrically disconnecting the vehicle data bus between the first apparatus and the second apparatus and electrically connecting a retrofit apparatus to the vehicle data bus. The method further includes transmitting a second message from the retrofit apparatus to the first apparatus which is indistinguishable from the first message.
US10454690B1
Digital certificates include pointers to remote certificate information stores that maintain usage information associated with digital certificates. The pointers provide a mechanism for enabling the remote certificate information stores to be queried for usage information associated with a particular digital certificate. The usage information can be used to determine a validity of the digital certificate.
US10454687B2
Providing an electronic message includes constructing a first digital signature of the message and a personal secret known only to a sender of the message, constructing a second digital signature of the first digital signature and the message, and sending to a receiver the message, the first digital signature, and the second digital signature. The personal secret may be initially generated by the sender. The personal secret may be a pseudo-random number. The receiver may archive the message, the first signature, and the second signature. In response to a challenge, the message and the first and second signatures sent with the message may be compared using first and second signatures reconstructed by the sender. In response to at least one of the message and the first signature not matching, the message may be repudiated. Otherwise, the message may be validated. The sender may be a cell phone.
US10454682B2
A first apparatus performs a pairing providing process of displaying a provision string on the first apparatus and transmitting the provision string to a server apparatus, the provision string being of a given number of digits that changes every given amount of time in such a manner that, every given amount of time, the provision string is subjected to carrying and a new character is added to the rightmost digit of the provision string. A second apparatus transmits an acceptance string to the server apparatus, the acceptance string being input from the second apparatus based on the provision string displayed on the first apparatus. The server apparatus compares the provision string with the acceptance string, and determines that pairing is established between the first apparatus and the second apparatus when the provision string and the acceptance string match each other.
US10454677B1
Techniques are described for cryptographic key generation based on biometric data associated with a user. Biometric data, such as fingerprint(s) and/or heartbeat data, may be collected using one or more sensors in proximity to the user. The biometric data may be analyzed to generate a cryptographic key. In some implementations, the key may be employed by the user to access data, access certain (e.g., secure) feature(s) of an application, authenticate the user, digitally sign document(s), and/or for other purpose(s). In some implementations, the key may be re-generated for each access request or authentication instance, based on the user's fingerprint or other biometric data.
US10454669B2
A processor of an aspect includes a plurality of packed data registers, and a decode unit to decode an instruction. The instruction is to indicate one or more source packed data operands. The one or more source packed data operands are to have four 32-bit results of four prior SM4 cryptographic rounds, and four 32-bit values. The processor also includes an execution unit coupled with the decode unit and the plurality of the packed data registers. The execution unit, in response to the instruction, is to store four 32-bit results of four immediately subsequent and sequential SM4 cryptographic rounds in a destination storage location that is to be indicated by the instruction.
US10454665B2
An apparatus is disclosed for hybrid-controlled clock generation. In an example aspect, the apparatus includes an analog control circuit, a digital control circuit, a transistor array, an oscillator circuit, and a selection circuit. The oscillator circuit is coupled to the transistor array. The selection circuit includes a first input that is coupled to the analog control circuit, a second input that is coupled to the digital control circuit, and an output that is coupled to the transistor array. The selection circuit is configured to obtain a selection signal that is indicative of the first input coupled to the analog control circuit or the second input coupled to the digital control circuit. The selection circuit is also configured to connect, based on the selection signal, the analog control circuit or the digital control circuit to the transistor array.
US10454662B2
There is provided a duplexer having first, second and third ports and adapted for connection between an antenna and uplink and downlink, respectively, in a full duplex communication system. The duplexer has first and second quarter wave transformers connected between the first and third and between the first and second ports, respectively. The duplexer has a balancing resistor connected between the third port and the output of the second transformer. The duplexer has a filter circuit connected between the output of the second transformer and the second port.
US10454660B2
A transmission system for performing communication according to time division duplex (TDD), includes a relay unit configured to relay uplink signals and downlink signals in the first and second communication systems, a TDD information estimation unit configured to estimate a transmission stop period during which no uplink signal of the first communication system is transmitted, an estimation error detection unit configured to detect that the estimation of the transmission stop period is erroneous on the basis of the uplink signal or the downlink signal of the first communication system, and a bandwidth allocation unit configured to prioritize allocation of a bandwidth in the relay unit for the uplink signal of the first communication system over allocation of a bandwidth in the relay unit for the uplink signal of the second communication system if the estimation of the transmission stop period is erroneous.
US10454654B2
System and method embodiments are provided for non-cellular wireless access. In an embodiment, a method for non-cell grid based radio access in a radio access network includes determining, by a controller, a group of transmit points (TPs) to assign to a logical entity; assigning, by the controller, a logical entity identifier (ID) to the logical entity, wherein the logical entity ID identifies the logical entity through which a user equipment (UE) communicates with the radio access network; and causing, by the controller, at least one of the TPs in the logical entity to send signals to the UE.
US10454647B2
A user equipment (UE) (102) that performs control signal transmission according to a single-segment subframe format (21) is described. In an aspect, the UE (102) selects a single-segment subframe format (21) as an uplink transmission format for a subframe instead of a multi-segment subframe format (22). This selection may be based on an indication received by a network node that the single-segment subframe format (21) is to be used for transmission of the one or more control signals. In addition, the UE (102) transmits the one or more control signals on an uplink control channel using the single-segment subframe format (21).
US10454645B2
A method is described, which includes controlling a coordinated transmission between network control elements and terminals on resource elements, detecting whether a resource element includes a specific element, and selecting a resource element for the coordinated transmission, when it is detected that the resource element does not include a specific element. The application also describes some further aspects to improve a coordinated transmission such as a coordinated multipoint transmission is improved.
US10454636B2
According to embodiments of the present disclosure, a transmitting device processes the signals transmitted by one or more UEs, maps the non-orthogonal characteristic patterns for the processed signals for the one or more UEs so as to superpose the signals for different UEs on the corresponding radio resources, and transmits the processed signals for the one or more UEs in accordance with a mapping result.
US10454635B2
A method and a system for signaling and processing control information in a cloud cell environment are provided. According to an embodiment, in a cloud cell, a master Base Station (BS) coordinates with other BSs to determine resources available for use on communication links between a mobile station in the cloud cell and one or all the BSs during a scheduling interval. Based on the resources available, the master BS allocates cumulative resources associated with the BSs to the mobile station for the scheduling interval. Then, the master BS transmits resource allocation control information indicating the allocated cumulative resources to the mobile station over a communication link between the master BS and the mobile station. Upon receiving the resource allocation control information, the mobile station decodes the information and receives data packets from each of the BSs during the scheduling interval according to the decoded resource allocation control information.
US10454631B2
The present disclosure provides methods and apparatuses for HARQ retransmission on an unlicensed carrier in an LTE-LAA system. A method in the base station includes: performing a CCA detection on the unlicensed carrier to determine energy on the unlicensed carrier and, at the same time, initiating an HARQ discarding timer for the unlicensed carrier, when the base station and a UE operate on the unlicensed carrier; comparing the determined energy with a predetermined CCA threshold; if the determined energy on the unlicensed carrier is not smaller than the CCA threshold until the HARQ discarding timer is expired, giving up the HARQ retransmission on the unlicensed carrier; and if the energy is detected to be smaller than the CCA threshold before the HARQ discarding timer is expired, continuing the HARQ retransmission on the unlicensed carrier.
US10454624B2
Provided is a method of transmitting a Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) in a special subframe by a User Equipment (UE). The method includes receiving an Uplink (UL) grant from a base station, the UL grant being included in a downlink time period of Time Division Duplex (TDD) cell, wherein the TDD cell having TDD UL/DL configuration 1, 2 or 6; determining a resource in an Uplink Pilot Time Slot (UpPTS) of a special subframe of the TDD cell to transmit a PUSCH associated with the received UL grant, wherein the special subframe, having subframe number 1 or 6, consists of a Downlink Pilot Time Slot (DwPTS), a guard period (GP), and the UpPTS; transmitting, from the UE, the PUSCH mapped to the resource in the UpPTS; and receiving a Physical Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request Indicator Channel (PHICH) responsive to the PUSCH.
US10454622B2
A radio transmission apparatus and a radio transmission method for readily controlling retransmission timing presets a frame cycle for retransmission, and transmits only packets for which no acknowledgement of receipt has been received within the frame cycle as a reply from a receiving apparatus to a transmitting apparatus. Thus, timing for retransmission can be readily determined. Also, the retransmission timing is determined based on when a packet is actually transmitted. Therefore, the multiple acknowledgement of receipt can be returned as a combined reply.
US10454616B2
A method of processing data in a receiving system, the method includes receiving a broadcast signal including a plurality of data groups that include broadcast data and first parity data; demodulating the received broadcast signal; performing first decoding on the broadcast data in a frame based on the first parity data for error correction, wherein the frame is formed based on the plurality of data groups in the demodulated broadcast signal and wherein the plurality of groups have a same size; and de-randomizing the first decoded broadcast data, wherein second decoding on the broadcast data in the frame is selectively performed, wherein the broadcast signal further includes signaling information that contains a transmission parameter to indicate whether second encoding was performed on the broadcast data in a transmitting system, wherein, when the transmission parameter indicates that the second encoding was performed on the broadcast data.
US10454614B2
The invention relates to a transmitting system, comprising an SNS client that receives SNS messages from at least one SNS server, and a transmitter which transmits a broadcast signal, including the SNS messages and mobile service data, for a mobile broadcast. The transmitter includes: an RS frame encoder, which performs RS encoding and CRC encoding on the mobile service data for the mobile broadcast so as to build RS frames, and divides each RS frame into a plurality of portions; a group-forming unit, which forms data groups that contain each of the plurality of portions, and which adds known data sequences and signaling data to each data group; an inter-leaver for interleaving data of the data groups; and a trellis encoding unit for trellis-encoding the interleaved data.
US10454612B2
Disclosed are a method and apparatus for generating a short training field (STF) sequence that can be used in a wireless LAN system. The STF signal is included in a field used to improve AGC estimation of MIMO transmission. Some of the STF signals may be used for uplink transmission and may be used for uplink MU PPDU transmitted from a plurality of STAs. For example, the STF signal is used for an 80 MHz band or a 160 MHz band and may be generated based on a sequence having a preset repeated M sequence. The preset M sequence may represent a binary sequence of a length having 15 bits.
US10454611B2
This spatial division multiplexing (SDM) in power-limited optical communication systems. In general, an SDM optical transmission system may be configured to increase data capacity over the data capacity of a non-SDM optical transmission system while maintaining power consumption at or below that of the existing non-SDM optical transmission system. To realize such an improvement in performance without increasing power consumption, an example SDM optical transmission may be constructed by reducing system bandwidth, reducing and/or altering equipment for filtering, reducing optical amplifier spacing, reducing operational amplifier power consumption, etc. In this manner, increased data transmission performance may be realized even where available power may be strictly limited.
US10454607B2
A mode division multiplexing system that includes a transmitter system, a receiver system and an optical link that optically connects the transmitter and receiver systems. The optical link includes a rectangular-core optical fiber having a rectangular core with a short dimension and a long dimension. The rectangular-core optical fiber supports only a single mode in the short dimension and multiple modes in the long dimension. A method of transmitting optical signals includes converting single mode optical signals to respective multimode optical signals each having a select spatial mode as defined by the rectangular-core optical fiber. The multimode optical signals are multiplexed and transmitted from the transmitter system to the receiver system over the rectangular-core optical fiber where the multimode optical signals are demultiplexed and converted back to single mode optical signals, which are then detected by respective receivers. A rectangular-core optical fiber is also disclosed.
US10454605B2
Provided are a method for monitoring a control channel in an unlicensed band and an apparatus using the same. In an unlicensed cell, a user equipment (UE) monitors a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) having burst control information in a search space defined in a control region of a subframe. The control region comprises a plurality of control channel elements (CCEs) starting from an index 0, and the search space is defined only in, from among the plurality of CCEs, first four CCEs and first eight CCEs.
US10454591B2
An embodiment includes a track and hold amplifier device. A device may include an emitter follower transistor coupled to each of an input and an output. The device may also include a charging node coupled between the output and a voltage supply, wherein the charging node is also coupled to the input via the emitter follower transistor. Further, the device may include a cascode switch coupled to each of the input and the output. The cascode switch may be configured to cause the emitter follower transistor to operate in a conductive state and charge the charging node during a track mode. The cascode switch may also be configured to cause the emitter follower transistor to operate in a non-conductive state to isolate the charging node from the input during a hold mode. The cascode switch may include a MOS-HBT transistor combination operating in class AB mode.
US10454588B1
An apparatus comprises a DAC configured to convert a digital electrical signal to an analog electrical signal and a laser coupled to the DAC. The laser is configured to generate an optical signal using the analog electrical signal for modulation, the optical signal is a band-multiplexed optical signal comprising frequency bands, the frequency bands comprise a lowest-frequency band, and the lowest-frequency band comprises a baseband IM signal. The laser is configured to transmit the optical signal. A PON comprises an OLT configured to transmit a downstream optical signal, the downstream optical signal is a band-multiplexed optical signal comprising a first band and a second band. The PON includes a first ONU configured to receive the downstream optical signal and equalize only the first band; and a second ONU configured to receive the downstream optical signal and equalize the first band and the second band.
US10454582B2
A transmission system includes: an optical transmission module capable of modulating a first digital radio signal in order to obtain a first optical signal; an optical reception module capable of receiving a second optical signal and demodulating same in order to obtain a demodulated radio signal; and a digitizing module capable of digitizing the demodulated radio signal in order to obtain a second digital radio signal. The transmission module includes: a module for adding a first management signal to the first digital radio signal, the rate of the first management signal being less than that of the first digital radio signal. The optical digitizing module includes an extraction module capable of extracting a second management signal from the demodulated radio signal, the rate of the second management signal being less than that of the second digital radio signal.
US10454581B2
The techniques described herein may be used to deploy a digital kiosk, within a fiber optic network, in a manner that is efficient and that minimizes the risk of damaging the kiosk during the installation process. This may include manufacturing the kiosk with a Fiber Distributed Panel (FDP) that functions as an interface between a fiber optic stub (that connects the kiosk to a fiber optic network backbone) and individual, internal components of the kiosk. A technician therefore may install the kiosk without having to physically open the kiosk and/or configure the fiber cabling and internal components inside the kiosk.
US10454579B1
An active optical cable (AOC) for a helmet mounted display (HMD) includes a transceiver module having a rigid-flex or flex connector packaging to physically couple with an electrical data interface of the HMD. The transceiver module includes one or more media converters to receive electrical data of multiple formats from the helmet mounted display and convert the received electrical data to a common format, and an optical engine communicatively coupled to the one or more media converters to output the converted electrical data as optical data. The AOC includes a cable assembly including at least fiber optic cables with one end of the cable assembly communicatively couple to the transceiver module to receive the optical data output from optical engine; and another transceiver module having a quick-release connector packaging and communicatively coupled to other end of the cable assembly to receive the optical data.
US10454570B2
Broadband satellite communications systems using optical feeder links are disclosed. Various optical modulation schemes are disclosed that can provide improved capacity for fixed spot beam, on board beamforming, and ground-based beamforming broadband satellite systems.
US10454563B2
A system and method for allocating frequency resources in a three-hop repeater are disclosed. Bandwidth can be allocated asymmetrically, and in non-contiguous blocks for the required bandwidth for a transmission operation. Bandwidth is dynamically allocated on an as-needed basis.
US10454562B2
Apparatuses, systems, and methods that allow millimeter-wave communication signals to pass efficiently and reliably through obstructions are disclosed. An apparatus includes a first wireless transceiver and a first phased array antenna coupled to the first wireless transceiver. A second phased array antenna is also coupled to the first wireless transceiver. The apparatus additionally includes a second wireless transceiver and a third phased array antenna coupled to the second wireless transceiver. The third phased array antenna is adapted to emit a third millimeter wave beam through an obstruction. A fourth phased array antenna is also coupled to the second wireless transceiver. The fourth phased array antenna is adapted to receive a fourth millimeter wave beam through the obstruction. A controller is included in the apparatus for managing data transfer between the first wireless transceiver and the second wireless transceiver so that a fully duplexed communication path is available between the antennas.
US10454554B2
A base station and a method thereof for acquiring channel status information in a mobile communication system operating in a multiuser multiple-input multiple-output transmission mode are provided. The method includes generating and transmitting, to a terminal, interference measurement configuration information for measuring interference caused by signals transmitted from a serving base station of the terminal to at least one other terminal in the transmission mode; and receiving channel status information generated using the transmitted information from the terminal. The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation system with a technology for Internet of Things, and may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services.
US10454551B2
The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates beyond 4th-generation (4G) communication system such as long term evolution (LTE). A communication method and apparatus using beamforming are provided. The method includes acquiring transmission beam specific, measurement information of a base station (BS) and measuring a reference signal (RS) transmitted through transmission beams of the BS according to the transmission beam specific, measurement information. The measurement information on each transmission beam is determined according to at least one of an elevation angle of the corresponding transmission beam, an azimuth of the corresponding transmission beam, a handover urgency, information on a handover failure, and information on a radio link failure (RLF). A mobile station (MS) may perform a measurement report or a handover process according to a result of the measurement.
US10454550B2
A multiway switch and related products are provided. The multiway switch includes seven throw (T) ports and 2n pole (P) ports, and the seven T ports include one first T port coupled with all of the 2n P ports. n is an integer and n≥2. The multiway switch is configured to be coupled with a radio frequency circuit and an antenna system of an electronic device operable in a dual-frequency single-transmit mode, to implement a preset function of the electronic device, the antenna system includes 2n antennas corresponding to the 2n P ports, and the preset function being a function of transmitting a sounding reference signal (SRS) through the 2n antennas in turn.
US10454549B1
An antenna switching system is provided. The system includes a radio frequency (RF) circuit for transmitting and receiving signals, a first antenna, a second antenna, a first switch, a first switch assembly, a second switch assembly, and a power divider. The first switch electrically connected to the RF circuit. The first switch assembly electrically connected between the first switch and the first antenna. The second switch assembly electrically connected between the first switch and the second antenna. The power divider electrically connected between the first switch and the first switch assembly and between the first switch and the second switch assembly. When the first switch is switched to the power divider, the signals are transmitted by the first antenna and the second antenna.
US10454548B2
For example, a wireless station may be configured to modulate a plurality of data bit sequences into a plurality of data blocks according to a dual carrier modulation, to map the plurality of data blocks to a plurality of spatial streams according to a space-time diversity scheme, and to transmit a MIMO transmission based on the plurality of spatial streams.
US10454539B2
[Object] To enable a cell appropriate for a terminal device to be selected when beamforming is performed.[Solution] Provided is a device including: an acquisition unit configured to acquire multiple weight sets for beamforming; and a control unit configured to map a reference signal for measurement to radio resources associated with a weight set in advance for each weight set included in the multiple weight sets, and multiply the reference signal by the weight set.
US10454538B2
One aspect includes a method of establishing, via a first access point, a distributed MIMO joint transmission opportunity with one or more second access points to one or more stations. The method comprises generating, via a processor, a first message for transmission to the stations and the second access points. The first message indicates a null data packet transmission and the stations configured to receive a stream during the joint transmission opportunity. The method also comprises transmitting the first message to the second access points and the stations. The method further comprises generating, via the processor, a reference phase signal for transmission to the second access points.
US10454524B2
A tristate output buffer includes a first branch with a first buffer, and a second branch with a second buffer. The first buffer includes a supply port, a ground port, an output port, two switchable semiconductor elements of a first type, and two switchable semiconductor elements of a second type. Switching behavior of the switchable semiconductor elements of the first type differs from switching behavior of the switchable semiconductor elements of the second type. The two switchable semiconductor elements of the first type are connected in series and are between the supply port and the output port such that they can be put in a conductive state independent of each other. The two switchable semiconductor elements of the second type are connected in series and are between the ground port and the output port such that they can be put in a conductive state independent of each other.
US10454523B1
A radio frequency signal generation device may include an optical comb generator configured to generate an optical comb signal including a plurality of first wavelength signals having different wavelengths; a pulse shaper configured to attenuate remaining wavelength signals excluding a plurality of second wavelength signals among the plurality of first wavelength signals; an optical-electronic converter configured to generate a radio frequency signal including a carrier frequency signal from the plurality of second wavelength signals outputted from the pulse shaper; and a pulse shaping controller configured to control the pulse shaper such that a carrier frequency of the carrier frequency signal varies according to a frequency hopping pattern.
US10454514B2
The terminal housing includes a first panel and a second panel, where a material of the first panel or a material of the second panel is glass. The first panel includes a first main face that is flat and straight and a first side face. The first main face has at least one first vertex angle, the first main face has two margins on two sides of the first vertex angle and connected to the first vertex angle, and cross sections in a through-thickness direction of the first panel and respectively vertical to the two margins connected to the first vertex angle are respectively a first through-thickness cross section and a second through-thickness cross section.
US10454513B2
The present invention relates to a phone holder for holding a mobile phone. The holder includes at least one lateral support. At least one insert can be located between the lateral support and the phone. Preferably, the insert can be replaceable, and the lateral support is manufactured separately and fastenable to a common body used with holders for multiple phone types.
US10454501B2
The present technology relates to a data processing device and a data processing method, which are capable of securing excellent communication quality in data transmission using an LDPC code. In group-wise interleave, an LDPC code in which a code length N is 16200 bits and an encoding rate r is 10/15 or 12/15 is interleaved in units of bit groups of 360 bits. In group-wise deinterleave, a sequence of the LDPC code that has undergone the group-wise interleave is restored to an original sequence. For example, the present technology can be applied to a technique of performing data transmission using an LDPC code.
US10454499B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to techniques for enhanced puncturing and low-density parity-check (LDPC) code structure. A method for wireless communications by a transmitting device is provided. The method generally includes encoding a set of information bits based on a LDPC code to produce a code word, the LDPC code defined by a base matrix having a first number of variable nodes and a second number of check nodes; puncturing the code word according to a puncturing pattern designed to puncture bits corresponding to at least two of the variable nodes to produce a punctured code word; adding at least one additional parity bit for the at least two punctured variable nodes; and transmitting the punctured code word.
US10454493B2
Many electronic circuits rely on the ratio of one component to other components being well defined. Current flow in component can warm the component causing its electrical properties to change, for example the resistance of a resistor may increase due to self-heating as a result of current flow. The present disclosure provides a way to reduce temperature variation between components so as to reduce electrical mismatch between them or the consequences of such mismatch. This is important as even a change of resistance of, for example, 20-50 ppm in a resistor can result in non-linearity exceeding the least significant bit value of a 16 bit digital to analog converter.
US10454492B1
A conversion time and an acquisition time of an ADC can be estimated so that a speed of the ADC can be calibrated. An ADC circuit can perform M bit-trials in its conversion phase and continue performing additional bit-trials in a calibration mode. The ADC can count the number of additional bit-trials performed, e.g., X bit-trials, that occur before the next conversion phase, where additional bit-trials can be considered to be the number of available bit-trials during an acquisition time if the ADC continues performing bit-trials instead of sampling an input signal. The ADC can estimate the conversion time and the acquisition time using M and X. Then, the conversion time of the ADC can be calibrated by adjusting one or more of the comparison time, DAC settling delay, and logic propagation delay.
US10454473B2
An optical-controlled driving circuit adapts to a high utility power environment with high voltages, large currents and severe surges, and includes an optical-controlled switch circuit, an SCR with optical-controlled driver and a main circuit. The optical-controlled switch circuit includes an optical-controlled component and a first switching transistor that are connected in serial. The SCR with optical-controlled driver includes at least two switching transistors that are connected in serial and a plurality of diodes, and is coupled to the main circuit. The optical-controlled driving circuit generates a driving current according to the voltage of a utility power. When the optical-controlled driving circuit is used in a DC converter using an SCR as a switch element, the optical-controlled driving circuit helps to increase the operation efficiency when the DC converter works under a light load.
US10454472B2
A drive circuit for a half bridge transistor circuit formed of enhancement mode GaN transistors. A shunt diode is connected to the bootstrap capacitor at a node between the bootstrap capacitor and ground, the shunt diode being decoupled from the midpoint node of the half bridge by a shunt resistor. The shunt diode advantageously provides a low voltage drop path to charge the bootstrap capacitor during the dead-time charging period when both the high side and low side transistors of the half bridge are off.
US10454470B2
A control buffer circuit includes a voltage detection circuit configured to detect whether a received voltage is a negative voltage or a ground voltage and provide a voltage detection signal based on a result of the detecting, and a buffer circuit configured to provide a switching signal based on the voltage detection signal, wherein the switching signal comprises a positive voltage as a switching-on level voltage and includes one or more of the ground voltage and the negative voltage as a switching-off level voltage.
US10454469B2
An embodiment method includes detecting an inverse current condition at a switch, and driving a node associated with a switch driver driving the switch to a predetermined voltage in response to the detection of an inverse current condition at the switch. An embodiment switch device includes a switch driver configured to be coupled to a control terminal of a switch, an inverse current detector configured to detect an inverse current condition at the first and second load terminals of the switch, and a voltage driver configured to drive a node associated with the switch driver to a predetermined voltage in response to the inverse current detector detecting an inverse current condition.
US10454468B1
A power-on reset (POR) circuit with an auxiliary control circuit and an enhanced resistor ladder for brownouts circuit detectors in low power applications includes a power-up detector circuit for detecting power supply ramp-up while charging; a brownout detector circuit for sensing power supply falling down; a set-reset (SR) latch to generate a power-on-reset (POR) signal; a start-up network; and an internal band-gap voltage reference circuit, wherein the internal band-gap voltage reference circuit is configured to be started by the start-up network to serve as a reference for the power-up detector circuit.
US10454466B1
An output stage of an output buffer circuit includes a first drive transistor and a first cascode transistor (coupled in series between a first supply node and an output node) and a second drive transistor and a second cascode transistor (coupled in series between the output node and a second supply node). Gates of the first and second cascode transistors are biased with first and second bias voltages, respectively. The first bias voltage equals the first supply voltage at the first supply node when the first supply voltage is less than a threshold, and is fixed at a fixed voltage for any first supply voltage exceeding the threshold voltage. The second bias voltage equals a fixed voltage when the first supply voltage is less than a threshold voltage, and is offset from the first supply voltage by a fixed difference for any first supply voltage exceeding the threshold.
US10454456B2
Disclosed is a method for driving a transistor device and an electronic circuit that includes a transistor device. The method includes driving the transistor device based on a drive signal such that the transistor device is driven in an on-state when the drive signal has an on-level and an off-state when the drive signal has an off-level. Driving the transistor device in the off-state includes: operating the transistor device in a first off-state after the drive signal changes from the on-level to the off-level; after the first off-state, operating the transistor device in a second off-state different from the first off-state; and after the second off-state, operating the transistor device in a third off-state different from the second off-state if the off-level of the drive signal prevails longer than a predefined maximum time period.
US10454452B2
An apparatus for converting power includes at least one impedance matching network which receives an electrical signal. The apparatus includes at least one AC to DC converter in communication with the impedance matching network. Also disclosed is a method for powering a load and an apparatus for converting power and additional embodiments of an apparatus for converting power.
US10454447B2
Embodiments of a Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) device and methods of fabrication thereof are disclosed. In some embodiments, a SAW device includes a quartz carrier substrate, a piezoelectric layer on a surface of the quartz carrier substrate, and at least one interdigitated transducer on a surface of the piezoelectric layer opposite the quartz carrier substrate, wherein a thickness of the piezoelectric layer is less than twice a transducer electrode period of the at least one interdigitated transducer. Using the piezoelectric layer on the carrier substrate suppresses acoustic radiation into the bulk, thereby improving the performance of the SAW device. Further, by utilizing quartz for the carrier substrate, additional advantages of small viscous losses, small permittivity, and small thermal sensitivity are achieved. Still further, as compared to Silicon, the use of quartz for the carrier substrate eliminates resistive losses.
US10454437B2
Example techniques involve controlling playback volumes of playback zones in a network media system. An example implementation includes displaying a first volume indicator along a first volume scale, the first volume indicator at a first position corresponding to a first volume setting of a first playback zone and a second volume indicator along a second volume scale, the second volume indicator at a second position corresponding to a second volume setting of a second playback zone. The implementation involves receiving input data representing an input to cause the first volume setting to change to be equal to the second volume setting and responsively, displaying the first volume indicator at a third position indicating that the first volume setting is equal to the second volume setting, and transmitting a command to adjust a playback volume of the first playback zone to a volume setting corresponding to the third position.
US10454432B2
Radio frequency (RF) amplifiers, such as power amplifiers, are provided herein. In certain configurations, an RF amplifier includes an input terminal that receives an RF input signal, an output terminal that provides an RF output signal, an injection-locked oscillator driver stage that amplifies the RF input signal to generate an injection-locked RF signal, and a stacked output stage that further amplifies the injection-locked RF signal to generate the RF output signal. The stacked output stage includes a stack of at least a first transistor and a second transistor in series with one another. Thus, the stacked output stage is operable over a wide range of supply voltage to overcome the relatively low breakdown voltages of scaled transistors. Moreover, the injection-locked oscillator driver stage provides the RF amplifier with excellent power efficiency, including in applications in which the stacked output stage operates with a supply voltage that is variable.
US10454425B2
Systems and methods for automatically controlling the bias in a pulsed power amplifier include components for measuring the current in an amplifier, comparing the measured value with the desired value, modifying the bias, and controlling the bias applied to the power amplifier. A measurement circuit converts the measured current to a voltage, and a comparator compares a measured voltage with a reference voltage to continuously indicate whether the amplifier current is less than a desired quiescent value. A circuit controls the level of the gate-bias (Vg) during a pulse, such as with a pulse width modulator. The measurement of the amplifier current is registered after the bias is enabled, but before the signal pulse. Drive control logic implements a control algorithm for adjusting the gate value in between pulses and in time to be used for the next pulse.
US10454423B1
The representative embodiments discussed in the present disclosure relate to techniques in which the operating characteristics (e.g., power consumption) of a power amplifier in a transceiver may be regulated according to an operation mode of the transceiver. More specifically, in some embodiments, different LUTs may be employed for each mode of operation to suitably adjust the supply voltage (e.g., bias voltage) and/or quiescent current input to the power amplifier based on an input signal and a margin by which transmission standards are met. Further, in some embodiments, a method to calibrate a LUT for average power tracking and/or envelope tracking in a transceiver mode of operation may be employed to populate a LUT that may be used to suitably adjust the power and/or current consumption of the power amplifier.
US10454418B1
In an example, a voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) includes: an oscillator having a supply input; and a voltage regulator, coupled to the supply input. The voltage regulator includes: a first transistor and a second transistor providing a first source-coupled transistor pair, and a third transistor and a fourth transistor providing a second source-coupled transistor pair; an active load coupled to drains of the first, second, third, and fourth transistors; a first current source coupled to sources of the first and second transistors, and a second current source coupled to sources of the third and fourth transistors; a fifth transistor having a source and a drain coupled to the source and the drain, respectively, of the first transistor; and a sixth transistor having a source and a drain coupled to the source and the drain, respectively, of the third transistor.
US10454412B2
Methods, apparatus and systems for tunable photonic harvesting for solar energy conversion and dynamic shading tolerance are provided herein. A method includes determining one or more of multiple portions of a solar photovoltaic module that are underperforming in relation to separate portions of the solar photovoltaic module; configuring multiple reflective surfaces to produce a given configuration of the multiple reflective surfaces in relation to a surface of the solar photovoltaic module based on said determining; collecting (i) direct solar radiation and (ii) diffuse solar radiation incident on a plurality of the multiple reflective surfaces; and distributing (i) the collected direct solar radiation and (ii) the collected diffuse solar radiation across the multiple portions of the solar photovoltaic module in a targeted manner based on the given configuration of the multiple reflective surfaces to offset the underperforming portions of the solar photovoltaic module by a given amount.
US10454405B2
A driver assembly comprises a predetermined number of semiconductor switches, wherein one of the semiconductor switches is arranged inside of a circular curve and the remaining semiconductor switches are arranged on the circular curve.
US10454403B2
An axial brushless DC motor comprising a stator including a plurality of coils, a rotor including a magnet with a plurality of pairs of magnetic poles and adapted for movement relative to the stator in one or more full steps, and a coil phase circuit adapted for moving the rotor relative to the stator a fractional step less than the one or more full steps and/or holding the rotor at the fractional or one or more full steps.
US10454399B2
A method and circuit for controlling or starting a U-shape single phase synchronous permanent magnetic motor (U-SPSPM motor) having a rotor and a stator and coupled to a single phase alternating current (AC) power source through a switch, including estimating back electromotive force (back-EMF) of the motor based on an observer model with inputs indicative of the measured signals, and triggering the switch to supply power to the motor based on the estimates of the back-EMF.
US10454392B2
A method of performing an emergency stop of a motor is disclosed. The method includes powering a controller with a power supply after an external power source ceases providing power to the motor, controlling the motor to operate in a generator mode, optionally applying power from the motor to the control power supply, and electronically braking the motor while in the generator state. Also disclosed is a motor drive performing the method.
US10454391B2
A hand-held power tool includes a housing with a handle, a transmission, a drive motor, a tool receiver, and a first switch unit. The transmission and drive motor are arranged in the housing, the transmission being configured to transmit a torque generated by the drive motor to the tool receiver, which is configured to rotate about a rotation axis. The first switch unit is configured to control the drive motor, and has a first switching element and a second switching element that are configured to operate the first switch unit and that enable an operator to influence various control variables of the drive motor. The second switching element is further configured to control a direction of the rotation of the drive motor, and upon actuation, execute a linear movement that is substantially parallel to the rotation axis.
US10454390B2
A system and method to detect an onset of motor rotation for an induction motor. The system and method involves monitoring a power supplied to a motor via a sensor, determining a power quantity based on the power monitored by the sensor, detecting an envelope of the power quantity, detecting an onset of rotation of the motor when an amplitude of the envelope has increased, and inhibiting power flow to the motor when the onset of rotation does not occur within a predetermined time period or logging a first time period of the detected onset of rotation of the motor for use in monitoring the condition of the motor. The power quantity can be a current vector magnitude or an instantaneous power corresponding to the supplied power.
US10454388B2
A power inverter comprises a plurality of high power switching modules that form an alternating current (AC) output; a plurality of terminals in communication with the high power switching modules for outputting the AC output; a capacitor bank that provides a conditioned voltage to the high power switching modules for producing the AC output in response to receiving and storing electrical energy related to a direct current (DC) supply; and a case positioned over the high power switching modules. The capacitor bank is mounted to the case, and the capacitor bank is positioned over the high power switching modules so that the high power switching terminals are proximal the capacitor bank for reducing inductance. A gate driver module at a top region of the high power switching modules includes a plurality of planar transformers for reducing a distance between the capacitor bank and the gate driver.
US10454384B2
A switching power supply is provided which includes an input for an input current at an input voltage, a controlled transistor bridge having two branches each with two transistors, the two branches being connected in parallel to the input terminals, a transformer having a primary connected between the midpoints of the two branches formed between the transistors of each branch, an output for an output current connected to the terminals of a secondary circuit of the transformer, and a control unit for the transistors to alternately switch each of the midpoints between high and low values with a time offset between the switching times of the midpoint values. The control unit is also capable of ensuring that the time order for switching of the midpoints between the high and low values thereof varies over the course of time.
US10454383B1
A bidirectional resonant current-direct current conversion circuit and an uninterruptible power supply are provided. The bidirectional resonant current-direct current conversion circuit includes a full-bridge conversion module, a transformer, and a half-bridge conversion module. The full-bridge conversion module is coupled to the half-bridge conversion module via the transformer. The full-bridge conversion module is configured to convert two-level direct current power into alternating current power, and the half-bridge conversion module is configured to convert the alternating current power outputted by the full-bridge conversion module into three-level direct current power. The half-bridge conversion module is further configured to convert three-level direct current power into alternating current power, and the full-bridge conversion module is further configured to convert the alternating current power outputted by the half-bridge conversion module into two-level direct current power.
US10454369B2
A switched voltage converter may be controlled with load current feedforward control loop in addition to an output voltage feedback loop. The converter includes a first switch device that is controlled to open and close at a selected switching rate with a selected duty cycle. The first switch device is coupled in series with an inductor and conducts current through the inductor while the first switch is closed. A second switch device conducts current from the inductor to an output capacitor and to load while the first switch is open to produce an output voltage and a resulting load current through the load. The load current is measured in a continuous manner and a load current feedforward control signal is generated that is representative of the load current. The switch rate and/or duty cycle of the first switch is adjusted in response to the load current feedforward control signal.
US10454367B2
Two versions of an isolated single stage converter AC/DC Power Factor Corrected (PFC) converter topology have been invented. One is with a full bridge rectifier at its input and the other is a True Bridgeless version. The two versions of the topology feature new configurations and circuitry including a simplified damper circuit and a clamp capacitor flipping circuit and control methods that allow them to realize improved single stage isolated power factor converters which are suitable for high power operation, features Zero Voltage Switching to maximize conversion efficiency and to minimize Electro-Magnetic Interference generation, does not need an additional circuit to limit the inrush current, achieves reasonably low input current Total Harmonic Distortion (THD), and is easy to control. The second version provides a true bridgeless single stage isolated power factor converter with even higher efficiency and lower input current THD.
US10454362B2
A circuit for pre-charging an intermediate circuit having a positive branch and a negative branch includes: a first controllable energy source, a second controllable energy source, the first control energy source and second controllable energy source being looped in series between the positive branch and the negative branch on the output side, a suppression unit, the suppression unit being looped between a connection node of the output of the first controllable energy source and the output of the second controllable energy source and a reference potential, and a controller. The controller is connected to the first energy source and the second energy source for signaling purposes and is configured to actuate the first energy source and the second energy source in order to generate an output signal pattern in order to pre-charge the intermediate circuit.
US10454358B2
An eddy current retarder includes a brake drum, a magnet retention ring, and a switch mechanism. The brake drum is fixed to a rotating shaft. The magnet retention ring is arranged inside the drum and retains magnets at regular intervals entirely in a circumferential direction such that the magnets face the inner peripheral surface of the drum. The switch mechanism includes switch plates that switch, during braking, to a state in which magnetic circuits develop between the magnets and the drum, and switch, during non-braking, to a state in which no magnetic circuits develop. Protrusions are provided on an end face of the drum at regular intervals entirely in the circumferential direction. Electricity generating coils are provided in a non-rotating part of a vehicle at regular intervals entirely in the circumferential direction such that the electricity generating coils face the regions of the end face of the drum.
US10454351B2
A rotor for an asynchronous machine includes a laminated core and a short-circuit cage at least partially integrated in the laminated core. The short-circuit cage is designed with rods having or consisting of a first electrically conductive material and with short-circuit rings having or consisting of a second electrically conductive material. The short-circuit rings are indirectly or directly frictionally welded to the rods.
US10454350B2
A controller-integrated rotating electric machine includes a rotating electric machine having a rotor, a stator, and a housing, and a controller having a plurality of switching element modules. Cooling fins having insulating coatings on surfaces thereof facing the switching element modules are bonded to the switching element module. The controller-integrated rotating electric machine of which the cooling fins are electrically insulated by having the cooling fins having the insulating coating on the surfaces facing the switching element modules, so that the electrolytic corrosion between the cooling fins and the heat sinks of the switching element modules is suppressed from occurring.
US10454336B2
A rotor applicable to a vacuum cleaner motor includes a rotating shaft, a rotor magnetic steel, a load blade, two bearings between the rotor magnetic steel and the load blade, and a pre-tightening spring for providing precompressions to the bearings at two sides. The bearings are arranged between the load blade and the rotor magnetic steel, so that the motor structure is simplified, the overall size of the motor is reduced, and the machining and manufacturing of the vacuum cleaner motor are facilitated. As the pre-tightening spring is arranged between the two bearings, the bearings are close to the load blade as much as possible under the effect of pre-tightening force.
US10454333B2
An actuator includes a metal housing that consists of multiple housing parts, an electric motor, an actuating member, a transmission mechanism that adapts the movement of the electric motor to the actuating member and an electronic system for controlling the electric motor. A heat sink is situated in a housing part consisting of plastic, said heat sink being connected to a metal housing part.
US10454330B2
A motor including a stator including a plurality of stator slots having stator coils disposed therein, and a rotor rotatable within the stator about a central axis. The stator includes a plurality of stator channel formed adjacent to the stator slots and extending in the axial direction of the central axis.
US10454315B2
A keyless entry device and method for powering the keyless entry system, such as a key fob, are disclosed. The keyless entry device has a charging battery, a rechargeable battery, at least one long range function button for a long range function, and at least one short range function button for a short range function. The method includes charging the rechargeable battery using the charging battery, wherein the rechargeable battery has a larger burst current delivery capacity than the charging battery. The method further includes sending a short range transmission from the keyless entry device using at least one of: the charging battery, and the rechargeable battery, when the at least one short range function button is actuated. The method further includes sending a long range transmission from the keyless entry device at least one of: the charging battery, and the rechargeable battery, when the at least one long range function button is actuated.
US10454310B2
A wireless power-transmitting system which wirelessly transmits electric power by making a power-transmitting coil and a power-receiving coil face each other includes: a cover which is slidable between a closing position at which the cover covers an area above a facing surface of the power-transmitting coil and an open position at which the cover is retracted from the area above the facing surface; and a hook member which makes a foreign object placed on the cover move together with the cover sliding from the closing position to the open position.
US10454293B2
Systems and methods of charging and discharging an ultracapacitor are disclosed. In one embodiment, a circuit for charging a capacitor can include a power source configured to provide a source voltage. The circuit can further include an ultracapacitor, a temperature sensing device, a power converter, and one or more control devices configured to receive signals indicative of a temperature from the temperature sensing device, and to control operation of the power converter based at least in part on the one or more signals indicative of the temperature.
US10454291B2
A power supply has a multi-level DC-DC converter and a battery pack with two or more cells provided in series. The switching DC-DC converter provides a regulated voltage at an output. The converter has an energy storage element. The switching regulator is designed to selectively operate in two or more different modes. It switches between a first mode where one cell is connected (between battery and inductor of the converter), and the converter functions like a single cell buck converter and a second mode where two cells are connected in series and the converter functions like a two series cell buck converter. In general, any number of cells and modes can be provided, with successive cells being connected in series in each mode.
US10454285B2
An electricity distribution system includes an electricity supply control unit that receives information on power consumption, estimates the current and the future power consumption, and controls the supply of electricity to the electric device; an information display unit that displays information on a power use situation of an electric device electrically connected with the electricity supply control unit; and a battery server that accumulates power, in which the electricity supply control unit communicates the information on the power consumption with a new electric device when the new electric device is electrically connected, and when the amount of available power is exceeded by supplying electricity to the electric device, does not supply electricity to the electric device, makes the information display unit display that the amount of available power is exceeded by supplying electricity to the information display unit, and determines whether to use the power accumulated in the battery server.
US10454282B2
A battery pack includes at least two battery cells; a circuit board to control charging and discharging operations of the battery cells; and a connection tab electrically connected to the battery cells, extending towards the circuit board, and including a bent portion proximal to the battery cells and located within a battery area defined by the battery cells. A battery pack suitable for a compact type device is provided and a low-resistive design may be applied to the battery pack.
US10454274B2
A storage unit for a consumer is described, having an energy storage in which electric energy can be stored, and a current interface via which the storage unit can be connected to an electricity grid. The storage unit furthermore has a circuit arrangement which is arranged between the energy storage and the current interface in the direction of current flow, and a control interface for controlling the storage unit. The storage unit is controllable only via the control interface which communicates only with an external control. A storage system and a method of controlling a storage system are furthermore described.
US10454266B2
A method for operating a gate driver circuit includes supplying power to the gate driver circuit from a power supply including a positive power supply voltage and a negative power supply voltage. The method also includes comparing the negative power supply voltage with a first voltage at an output terminal of a transistor, wherein the gate driver circuit is coupled to a gate terminal of the transistor. The method also includes operating the gate driver circuit when the negative power supply voltage is more negative than a trigger voltage, wherein the trigger voltage is a predetermined voltage above the first voltage. The method also includes deactivating at least a portion of the gate driver circuit when the negative power supply voltage is more positive than the trigger voltage.
US10454264B2
An adaptor for connecting a power source to a power tool includes a housing having a first end that is configured to connect to a power source and a second end that is configured to connect to a power tool. The adaptor includes a control circuit disposed within the housing. The control circuit is configured to detect an overstress condition in the power tool and to control the power tool responsive to detecting the overstress condition.
US10454260B2
An electrical junction box, preferably configured for use in electrical or hybrid vehicles, includes a junction box housing and a bus bar element located inside the junction box housing. The junction box housing has a first opening for receiving end portions of electrical cables. The bus bar element comprises connecting means configured to connect ferrules, provided at the wire end portions of the electrical cables. The junction box housing is made of a plastic material and the bus bar element is made of metal.
US10454253B2
An ignition plug such as a spark plug or a glow plug configured to ignite an air-fuel mixture in an internal combustion engine includes a mark that is formed of an oxide film generated on the surface of a metal member or is formed of the metal member and the oxide film. The mark is formed by promoting formation of the oxide film on the surface of the metal member or removing the oxide film through radiation of a laser beam onto the surface of the metal member.
US10454250B2
A semiconductor apparatus with improved heat removal and improved heat flow to a heat sink is provided. The semiconductor apparatus includes a p-type semiconductor. An n-p tunnel junction is positioned within an epitaxial structure of the p-type semiconductor. A metal contact layer is connected to the n-p tunnel junction through an alloyed n-type contact interface. The n-p tunnel junction improves heat flow from the semiconductor through an alloyed contact interface formed between the tunnel junction and the metal contact layer which has lower thermal and electrical resistance in comparison to a conventional metallurgically abrupt interface of a p-type contact.
US10454243B2
A light source driver circuit is provided that has at least first and second current source circuits that are electrically coupled to a node of the driver circuit. The first and second current source circuits source first and second fractions, respectively, of a total current needed to drive a light source into a node of the driver circuit. The driver circuit uses a sum of the first and second fractions of the total current in combination with a modulation current to drive the light source. By incorporating at least first and second current source circuits into the driver circuit, each of the current sources can be kept sufficiently small in size that they contribute very little parasitic capacitance, and therefore allow the driver circuit to achieve high-bandwidth operations while also allowing the driver circuit to operate at a low supply voltage.
US10454237B2
A surgical laser system includes a pump module configured to produce pump energy within an operating wavelength, a gain medium configured to convert the pump energy into first laser energy, a non-linear crystal (NLC) configured to convert a portion of the first laser energy into second laser energy, which is a harmonic of the first laser energy, an output, and a first path diversion assembly having first and second operating modes. When the first path diversion assembly is in the first operating mode, the first laser energy is directed along the output path to the output, and the second laser energy is diverted from the output path and the output. When the first path diversion assembly is in the second operating mode, the second laser energy is directed along the output path to the output, and the first laser energy is diverted from the output path and the output.
US10454235B2
A metal terminal where a connecting portion has a receiving portion which receives a wire and a contact segment which extends from the receiving portion by way of a bending scheduled portion is prepared. By applying heat and pressure in a state where the wire is placed on the receiving portion for temporarily fixing the wire, the wire is adhered to the receiving portion using a molten or softened insulating resin coating as an adhesive agent. Next, the connecting portion is bent by way of the bending scheduled portion such that the contact segment faces the receiving portion by way of the wire and the contact segment is brought into contact with the wire. Next, by irradiating a laser beam to a portion of the metal terminal, the wire and the metal terminal are welded to each other.
US10454234B2
A wire guide system includes a wire guide tool assembly mounted to a die of a press automatically connecting an electrical terminal to a wire subassembly. An upper wire guide has a hemispherical shaped upper wire guide portion. A lower wire guide has a hemispherical shaped lower wire guide portion. The upper wire guide moves reciprocally to the lower wire guide. The hemispherical shaped upper and lower wire guide portions when the upper wire guide contacts the lower wire guide combine to temporarily define a conical wire guide aligned with a terminal barrel of the electrical terminal. A lifter is slidably received in the lower wire guide. The lifter displaces a terminal barrel of the electrical terminal away from contact with the lower wire guide after the electrical terminal is crimped to the wire subassembly, providing clearance to automatically remove the wire subassembly from the wire guide tool assembly.
US10454229B2
The invention concerns a rack module for forming a support column, such as a rack, by stacking at least two rack modules, the rack module having at least one site for receiving a device for administering a medical product, this site comprising at least one plug for electric current supply to the administering device and for data transfer. It is also provided with an inlet connector and an outlet connector for connecting two successive modules to each other, power lines and data transfer lines connecting the inlet connector with the plug of the sites on the one hand side and with the outlet connector on the other hand side. In order to improve the connection between the rack modules in order to make its use easier, it is suggested according to the invention that the inlet connector or the outlet connector is movable between a stocking position and a connected position, the movable connector being called mobile connector and the other connector being called second connector, wherein, when a second module is placed over or under the module, the mobile connector in the connected position is in connection with the second connector of a second module placed over or under the module. This allows to stock in a safe position one of the connectors so that during the stocking and the handling of the module there is no risk for it to be damaged.
US10454228B2
A busway assembly includes first and second busway sections and a joint assembly connecting the first and second sections. Each busway section includes a housing including first and second opposing side portions. Each busway section includes a first insulator held in the first side portion and a second insulator held in the second side portion. The first and second insulators each hold one or more bus bar conductors. The joint assembly includes first and second connected joint housings and plurality of joint conductors held in the first and second housings. A first exposed portion of each joint conductor extends out of the first housing and is electrically connected with one of the bus bar conductors of the first busway section. A second exposed portion of each joint conductor extends out of the second housing and is electrically connected with one of the bus bar conductors of the second busway section.
US10454227B1
A socket connector includes an insulating housing, a sliding block, a resilient element, a detection terminal assembly assembled to a rear end of the insulating housing, a connection terminal assembly assembled to the rear end of the insulating housing, at least one ground element, and an outer shell surrounding the insulating housing. A top of the insulating housing has a restricting groove. A rear of the restricting groove extends rearward to form a sliding groove. At least one side surface of the insulating housing is recessed inward to form at least one ground groove. A rear of a bottom of connecting space extends downward and rearward to form a holding groove. The sliding block is mounted in the sliding groove. The at least one ground element is received in the at least one ground groove. The resilient element is assembled to a top of the insulating housing.
US10454222B2
An electrical connector includes an insulative housing, a plurality of contacts retained in the housing, a metallic shielding shell, and a cable sub-assembly. The contact includes a front mating section and a rear connecting section. The cable sub-assembly includes a plurality of wires and a grounding unit. The wire includes an inner/transmission conductor, an inner insulator, an outer/grounding conductor/layer, and an outer insulator sequentially coaxially arranged with one another. The connecting sections of the contacts are mechanically and electrically connected to the inner conductors of the corresponding wires. The grounding unit includes a grounding bar mechanically and electrically connected to the grounding layers of the corresponding wires and with forwardly extending legs for connection to the shielding shell. Also included is a central shielding plate with extensions at opposite ends for connection to the grounding bar.
US10454220B2
In a typical connector, without closing up a clearance between connectors sufficiently upon fitting with a partner connector, a problem such as significant lowering of high-frequency characteristics due to backlash is caused upon high-speed electric signal transfer. A connector is provided, which includes multiple terminals, an insulator holding the multiple terminals, and an outer conductor shell housing the insulator. In the connector, an inclined portion raised from a side wall of the outer conductor shell is provided at a side wall portion which is to contact an edge portion of a fitting recessed portion of a partner connector. Thus, when a fitting portion on a tip end side of the outer conductor shell of the connector is fitted in the fitting recessed portion of the partner connector, an edge portion of an opening of the fitting recessed portion of the partner connector is pressed by the inclined portion provided at the side wall of the fitting portion of the connector, and a side wall of a lock protrusion is pressed against an inner wall of a lock hole. Thus, the clearance can be suppressed.
US10454213B2
A failure detection method in a charging connector locking system includes transmitting, by the main controller, an initial command that is received from the charge controller to the locking device; monitoring, by the main controller, whether the initial command is normally executed by the locking device; and determining, by the main controller, whether a failure occurs in the locking device by monitoring whether the initial command is executed while transmitting, to the locking device, a lock command and an unlock command alternately at predetermined time intervals within a predetermined number of times when the initial command is not normally executed, thereby determining the failure of the locking device with high accuracy.
US10454208B2
A magnetic latching connector for making electrical connections between cables, electrical power and signal sources, equipment and the like in a variety of medical and other applications in which it is desired to have the connection maintained with a predetermined amount of magnetic attractive force. The magnetic latching connector generally includes male and female connector components. The male and female connector components comprise male and female couplings and male and female coupling housings. The male and female coupling housings enclose electrical connections between the male and female couplings and electrical cables. Recessed within the male and female couplings are electrically conductive pins and sockets and male and female magnetic latching elements. When the male and female connector components are coupled, the pins and sockets provide electrical connections and the recessed magnetic latching elements provide a predetermined magnetic attraction force to maintain the connections.
US10454206B2
An electrical connector includes an insulative housing, a number of conductive terminals affixed to the insulative housing and a shielding shell enclosing the insulative housing for forming a receiving room. The insulative housing includes a base portion and a tongue portion extending forwardly from the base portion. The shielding shell includes an annular wall having a riveted joint. The riveted joint is composed of a first inclining surface and a second inclining surface disposed in a thickness direction of the shielding shell.
US10454204B2
A male connector (1) includes terminal-equipped wires (10), a male housing (20) having a male terminal holding portion (21) and a rubber plug accommodating portion (32). A one-piece rubber plug (50) and a holder (60) are accommodated in the rubber plug accommodating portion (31). The rubber plug accommodating portion (31) includes a surrounding wall (33) that surrounds the rubber plug (50) and the holder (60). The surrounding wall (33) includes a lower wall (33B) below the rubber plug (50) and the holder (60). Drainage holes (36) penetrate through the first lower wall (33B), and each has a water inlet (36A) open on an inner side of the lower wall (33B) and a water outlet (36B) open on an outer side. The holder (60) has a contact surface (61A) configured to contact the rubber plug (50), and the water inlets (36A) are arranged right below the contact surface (61A).
US10454203B2
An electrical connector system includes a receptacle connector having a housing, a contact assembly held in the housing and an insert movably received in the housing and supporting the contact assembly. The housing has a cavity and a mating end including a slot receiving a circuit card. The contact assembly is received in the cavity and includes contacts. Each contact has a base fixed in the cavity and a mating end movable relative to the base between an undeflected position and a deflected position. The insert is received in the cavity and is movable in the cavity between a forward position and a retracted position. The insert holds the mating ends of the contacts in the undeflected positions when in the forward position. The insert engages the contacts and forces the contacts to the deflected positions when in the retracted position.
US10454199B1
An electrical connector includes a housing, multiple blade terminals, and a terminal position assurance (TPA) device. The blade terminals are held within cavities of the housing. The blade terminals have two edge sides between two broad sides and a rib projecting from at least one of the two edge sides. The TPA device is coupled to the housing at a mounting end thereof and is movable relative to the housing between an unlock position and a lock position. The TPA device has a base plate that defines multiple terminal openings therethrough. The base plate includes ledges that jut out into the terminal openings. The ledges extend behind and align with the ribs of the corresponding blade terminals when the TPA device is in the lock position to retain the blade terminals within the housing by abutting against back shoulders of the ribs.
US10454187B2
An antenna for a phased array comprises a plurality of rectangular sub-arrays of individual array elements. The rectangular sub-arrays in the plurality are tiled to reduce periodicity of phase centers of the sub-arrays. The antenna utilizes a phase shifter for each sub-array as opposed to using a phase shifter with each individual array element.
US10454177B2
The current disclosure is directed to a radar system. More particularly, the current disclosure relates to a fabrication of aperture-matched array of TEM horn antenna system and use of the same. Specifically, the current disclosure is directed to a compact and lightweight impulse radiating TEM array antenna system with high forward-to-back lobe ratio. Furthermore, the current TEM horn antenna system shows radiation efficiency close to 1 at the frequency bands between 150 and 250 MHz. More particularly, the current disclosure provides transverse electromagnetic (TEM) horn antenna including a curved surface extending arcuately at least 180° degrees from an antenna aperture opening defined at a signal-receiving forward end of a horn structure, wherein the curved surface is adapted to suppress large back-lobe properties.
US10454174B2
A GNSS RHCP stacked patch antenna with wide dual band, high efficiency and small size is made of a molded high-permittivity material, such as ceramics, with a patterned cavity in the dielectric substrate. The perforated cavities in the substrate reduce the effective dielectric constant, increase the bandwidth and efficiency. The high-order modes can be manipulated through the design of cavities.
US10454171B2
An electronic device includes a resonance coil forming at least one loop and configured to resonate at a specific frequency. A feeding coil forms at least one loop, is physically separated from the resonance coil, and is located in proximity to the resonance coil to enable electromagnetic coupling with the resonance coil. A communication circuit is electrically connected to the feeding coil and configured to generate an electric signal of the specific frequency.
US10454162B2
In one example, an antenna radome may have at least a first face that includes a plurality of surface features, where the plurality of surface features may include at least a first ridge and at least a first depression, and where the plurality of surface features may be oriented longitudinal along the antenna radome. In another example, an antenna radome may have at least a first face that includes a plurality of surface features, where the plurality of surface features may include at least a first ridge and at least a first depression, and where the plurality of surface features may be oriented transverse along the antenna radome.
US10454155B2
An antenna module is disclosed. The antenna module includes a radiator. The radiator includes a first radiation part, a second radiation part connecting with the first radiation part partially and a coupling slot arranged between the first radiation part and the second radiation part. Further, the antenna module includes a circuit board which is arranged opposite to the radiator and includes a system base, a grounding line connecting with the system base electrically, a feeder line and a tuning switch controlling ON/OFF of the grounding line, and a capacitance feed sheet facing one side of the first radiation part which faces the circuit board and connecting with the first radiation part. The capacitance feed sheet is connected with the feeder line electrically; the grounding line is connected with the first radiation part electrically; and the system base is connected with the said second radiation part electrically.
US10454150B2
A radio frequency waveguide is disclosed. The radio frequency waveguide includes: a dielectric including an exterior input surface, an exterior output surface and other exterior surfaces; and a metal disposed on the other exterior surfaces of the dielectric, wherein the dielectric is voidless and adapted to propagate radio frequency radiation from the exterior input surface to the exterior output surface.
US10454140B2
In an electrode body for use in non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery, a first end of a separator is located more interiorly than one positive electrode end of a positive electrode plate in a width direction, located more exteriorly than one end of a coated positive electrode portion of the positive electrode plate, and located more exteriorly than one end of a coated negative electrode portion of a negative electrode plate. The first end of the separator is thicker than an intermediate portion. A second end of the separator is located more interiorly than an other negative electrode end of the negative electrode plate in the width direction, located more exteriorly than the other end of the coated positive electrode portion of the positive electrode plate, and located more exteriorly than an other end of the coated negative electrode portion of the negative electrode plate. The second end of the separator is thicker than the intermediate portion.
US10454128B2
An electric storage apparatus includes a power-generating element, a case, and an electrode terminal. The power-generating element is configured to have electrode plates wound with a separator and has a reaction area. The electrode plate has a collector plate and an active material layer formed on a portion of the collector plate. A connecting region adjacent to the reaction area of the power-generating element, in a state in which a portion of the collector plate of the electrode plate is wound in layers, is connected to the electrode terminal, the active material layer being not formed on the portion. The power-generating element has a bent portion provided by folding back the electrode plate and a cut portion at a position adjacent to the bent portion and formed by cutting a portion of the connecting region. The electrode terminal is fixed to the cut portion.
US10454125B2
A vehicle fuel cell stack includes a stacked body, a stack case, and a cover member. The stack case accommodating the stacked body therein. The stack case includes an upper wall, a lower wall, and a vent opening. The lower wall is opposite to and below the upper wall in a height direction of a vehicle. The lower wall includes an upper surface and a lower surface opposite to and below the upper surface in the height direction. The vent opening passes through the bottom wall in the height direction. The cover member is disposed on the lower surface of the bottom wall to cover the vent opening when viewed in the height direction and to have an opening between the cover member and the lower surface of the bottom wall when viewed along the lower surface.
US10454121B2
A fuel cell system includes a solid oxide fuel cell configured to receive a supply of an anode gas and a cathode gas to generate electric power. The fuel cell system includes an anode discharge passage through which an anode off-gas discharged from the fuel cell flows, a cathode discharge passage through which a cathode off-gas discharged from the fuel cell flows, a joining portion where the anode discharge passage and the cathode discharge passage join. The fuel cell system further includes a gas supply unit configured to supply a fuel gas using a fuel stored in a fuel tank into the anode discharge passage during a system stop.
US10454120B2
A fuel cell system in a vehicle has a cathode and an anode. A compressor has an inlet and an outlet, the outlet being configured to outlet a compressed air from the compressor. A bypass line is configured to return the compressed air from the outlet to the inlet such that the air returns to the compressor in a loop. A valve is located downstream of the compressor and is operable in a plurality of modes. In a first mode, the valve is configured to block the air from the cathode and return the air via the bypass line. In a second mode, the valve is configured to direct at least some of the air to the cathode. The valve can also be configured to operate in a third mode in which the air is sent to the cathode without going through the bypass line.
US10454119B2
A fuel cell includes: a membrane electrode assembly; cathode and anode-side water-repellent layers; a cathode-side separator that includes a cathode gas passage and an air exhaust manifold communicated to the cathode gas passage. The cathode gas passage includes a water exhaust inhibiting portion and a water storage portion. The water exhaust inhibiting portion is provided on a lowermost passage positioned on a lowermost side in a gravity direction. The water storage portion is provided upstream of the water exhaust inhibiting portion such that liquid water is stored in the water storage portion by the water exhaust inhibiting portion. A liquid water connection portion is provided in the water-repellent layer so as to pass through the water-repellent layer such that liquid water flows between the catalyst layer and the water storage portion.
US10454118B2
A sulfur tolerant anode current collector material includes a mesh or foam that includes a cermet. The cermet includes a metallic component and a ceramic component. The metallic component includes nickel, an alloy including nickel and cobalt, or a mixture including a nickel compound and a cobalt compound. The ceramic component includes a mixed conducting electrolyte material.
US10454116B2
A thin battery is produced on a surface is taught. A first electrode layer and a second electrode layer are provided on the surface. An electrolyte layer is printed on the first electrode layer and the second electrode layer. The electrolyte layer possesses substantial mechanical strength such that further printings on top of the electrolyte layer can be done. A photopolymerizable protection layer is printed on the electrolyte layer and around a perimeter of the electrolyte layer, wherein the photopolymerizable protection layer solidifies on exposure to suitable radiation. The electrolyte layer comprises at least one first functional group and the photopolymerizable protection layer comprise at least one second functional group such that on exposure to the suitable radiation some of the at least one first functional group makes chemical bonds with some of the at least one second functional group.
US10454115B2
Provided is a porous carbon material having carbon nano-rods on the surface thereof. The porous carbon material has an increased specific surface area and an increased electrochemically active area, and thus may be expected to provide improved performance, when used as an electrode for electrochemical reactions. In addition, the carbon nano-rods of the porous carbon material are formed through an etching process using a catalyst for etching formed on the carbon material, and thus the carbon material may have various functions.
US10454111B2
A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery electrode is obtained by coating and drying a slurry including an active material, a crosslinking water-absorbing resin particle, a binder, and water, on a current collector surface to form a mixture layer and then compressing the mixture layer, and a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery includes the electrode, a separator, and a nonaqueous electrolytic solution.
US10454105B2
An electrode for an energy accumulator comprises a substrate, an active anode layer having an active anode material, the active anode material being at least partially a lithium, a lithium alloy and/or a lithium intercalation material, at least one lithium-ion-conducting layer having a material composition which gradually changes over a layer thickness and has at least one lithium-ion-conducting component. A method for forming an electrode for an energy accumulator, and a lithium-ion battery comprising an electrode are also disclosed.
US10454104B2
Improved anodes and cells are provided, which enable fast charging rates with enhanced safety due to much reduced probability of metallization of lithium on the anode, preventing dendrite growth and related risks of fire or explosion. Anodes and/or electrolytes have buffering zones for partly reducing and gradually introducing lithium ions into the anode for lithiation, to prevent lithium ion accumulation at the anode electrolyte interface and consequent metallization and dendrite growth. Various anode active materials and combinations, modifications through nanoparticles and a range of coatings which implement the improved anodes are provided.
US10454087B2
Provided are a separator for a lithium secondary battery in which an entire thickness of the separator and a ratio of a heat-resistant layer included in the separator satisfy specific ranges, respectively, and a battery including the same. The separator has significantly excellent heat resistance and mechanical strength, and it is possible to manufacture a high capacity and high output battery using the separator, thereby making it possible to significantly improve safety even in the high capacity and the high output battery.
US10454078B2
A Li-ion battery is provided in combination with fluorinated material positioned effective to abate combustion by said battery, the fluorinated material being normally non-gaseous and non-liquid and being itself effective to provide the combustion abatement by said battery, such fluorinated material being is such forms as the material of construction of the battery case containing the battery, film wrapped around said battery, and/or semi-solid material at least proximate to the battery, such as by forming a coating on said battery or said film on said battery.
US10454077B2
The present invention provides a battery that includes a plurality of serially connected battery cells. The battery includes an upper housing and a lower housing. The battery comprises: a wire harness assembly; a middle housing that includes a plurality of cell chambers for accommodating the top sections of the plurality of serially connected battery cells. The lower housing includes a plurality of cell chambers for accommodating the bottom sections of the plurality of serially connected battery cells 102; and the middle housing has a top surface for installing the wire harness assembly (1106) and the plurality of cell chambers beneath the top surface (1102) of the middle housing.
US10454075B2
An electronic device includes a flexible conductive member having a first length, and a battery substrate having a second length shorter or equal than the first length. There is an active battery on the battery substrate. An adhesive layer couples the active battery and the battery substrate to the flexible conductive member such that the active battery and the flexible conductive member are electrically coupled, and such that the flexible substrate encapsulates the active battery and the upper portion of the battery substrate without an intervening layer. The flexible conductive member includes an insulating flexible base layer having a conductive via formed therein. Upper and lower metallized layers are formed on the insulating flexible base layer and are electrically coupled to one another by the conductive via.
US10454070B2
Disclosed herein is an organic EL element including a first electrode, a light emitting layer, a ground layer, and a light-transmitting second electrode stacked in this order over a substrate. The ground layer is light-transmitting and electrically conductive, and its surface on which the second electrode is stacked has a surface roughness of 0.3 to 2.7 nm. The second electrode is a silver thin film layer formed of silver or containing silver as a main constituent.
US10454067B2
A display panel includes a base substrate including a front surface and a rear surface and having first and second holes, and a pixel layer on the base substrate. A display area is defined in the front surface. The first hole overlaps with the display area and penetrates the front and rear surfaces. The second hole overlaps with the display area, is adjacent to the first hole, and is recessed from the front surface. The base substrate includes a first base layer including the rear surface, a first barrier layer on the first base layer and including first inorganic films having a first refractive index, and second inorganic films having a second refractive index, a second base layer on the first barrier layer, and a second barrier layer on the second base layer and including the front surface. The first and second inorganic films are alternately stacked.
US10454064B2
A method for encapsulating an OLED device includes providing a substrate on which a barrier layer is formed; forming a surface active layer that includes multiple strips on the barrier layer; forming buffer strips on the surface active layer to correspond, in a one-to-one manner, to the strips of the surface active layer; and allowing the buffer strips to spread over the substrate and cover the barrier layer to form a buffer layer. The surface active layer that is sandwiched between and in direct contact with the barrier layer and the buffer layer includes a material that creates a hydrogen bond with a material of the buffer layer to enhance bonding therebetween.
US10454058B2
An organic light emitting diode display device includes a substrate. A first protective layer is disposed on the substrate. A conductive line is disposed on the first protective layer. A second protective layer is disposed on the conductive line. A first electrode is disposed on the second protective layer. An organic light emitting layer is disposed on the first electrode. A second electrode is disposed on the light emitting layer. The first electrode is symmetric with respect to a center of the conductive line.
US10454056B1
The present invention provides an organic light emitting device including a light emitting layer comprising a compound represented by Chemical Formula 1 and an electron transport layer comprising a compound represented by Chemical Formula 2, and having improved driving voltage and efficiency.
US10454052B2
A light-emitting element containing a fluorescent material and having high emission efficiency is provided. The light-emitting element contains the fluorescent material and a host material. The host material contains a first organic compound and a second organic compound. The first organic compound and the second organic compound can form an exciplex. The minimum value of a distance between centroids of the fluorescent material and at least one of the first organic compound and the second organic compound is 0.7 nm or more and 5 nm or less.
US10454048B2
Disclosed is a flexible display device in which a flexible film is first patterned and in a subsequent process of removing a glass substrate, a structure around the flexible film is removed therewith by external physical force, in order to make the device slim. In the flexible display device, the edge structure of the flexible film may be changed to minimize the generation of particles on the cut plane of the flexible film, thereby preventing damage to the periphery of the flexible film.
US10454041B2
The present invention relates to a process to produce compounds of the formula (1) which are suitable for use in electronic devices, as well as to intermediate compounds of formula (Int-1) and compounds of formula (1-1) and (1-2) obtained via the process. These compounds are particularly suitable for use organic electroluminescent devices. The present invention also relate to electronic devices, which comprise these compounds.
US10454036B2
The present invention relates to a polymeric charge transfer layer comprising a polymer and a p-dopant. The polymer comprises as polymerized units, Monomer A, Monomer B, and Monomer C crosslinking agent. The present invention further relates to an organic electronic device, especially an organic light emitting device containing the polymeric charge transfer layer.
US10454028B2
A semiconductor device includes a stacked structure of cell structures, an electrode structure, and a heating electrode. Each cell structure includes a capping layer, a selection layer, a buffer layer, a variable resistance layer, and a upper electrode layer sequentially stacked. The electrode structure is in an opening passing through the stacked structure, is electrically isolated from the buffer layer, the variable resistance layer, and the upper electrode layer, and is electrically connected to the selection layer. The heating electrode is between the variable resistance layer and the upper electrode layer and operates to transfer heat to the variable resistance layer.
US10454026B2
Subject matter disclosed herein may relate to fabrication of a correlated electron material (CEM) device. In embodiments, after formation of the one or more CEM traces, a spacer may be deposited in contact with the one or more CEM traces. The spacer may operate to control an atomic concentration of dopant within the one or more CEM traces by replenishing dopant that may be lost during subsequent processing and/or by forming a seal to reduce further loss of dopant from the one or more CEM traces.
US10454025B1
A phase change memory cell is provided that includes a phase change material-containing structure sandwiched between first and second electrodes. The phase change material-containing structure has a resistance that changes gradually, and thus may be used in analog or neuromorphic computing. The phase change material-containing structure may contain a plurality of phase change material pillars, wherein each phase change material pillar has a different phase change material composition. Alternatively, the phase change material-containing structure may contain a doped phase change material layer in which a dopant concentration decreases laterally inward from an outermost surface thereof.
US10454022B2
A magnetoresistance effect element has favorable symmetry of an MR ratio even if the sign of a bias voltage is different, which is capable of reversing magnetization to a current, which has a high MR ratio. A magnetoresistance effect element includes a laminate in which an underlayer, a first ferromagnetic metal layer, a tunnel barrier layer, and a second ferromagnetic metal layer are laminated in that order, wherein the underlayer is made of one or more selected from a group containing of TiN, VN, NbN, and TaN, or mixed crystals thereof, and wherein the tunnel barrier layer is made of a compound having a spinel structure and represented by the following composition formula (1). (1): AxGa2Oy where A is a non-magnetic divalent cation and represents a cation of at least one element selected from the group consisting of magnesium, zinc, and cadmium, x is a number that satisfies 0
US10454019B2
A micro electromechanical (mem) device includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and a shaped carbon nanotube with a first end and a second end. The first end of the shaped carbon nanotube is conductively connected to the first electrode and the second end is conductively connected to the second electrode. A system for making the device includes a plurality of electrodes placed outside the growth region of a furnace to produce a controlled, time-varying electric field. A controller for the system is connected to a power supply to deliver controlled voltages to the electrodes to produce the electric field. A mixture of gases is passed through the furnace with the temperature raised to cause chemical vapor deposition (CVD) of carbon on a catalyst. The sequentially time-varying electric field parameterizes a growing nanotube into a predetermined shape.
US10454015B2
Fabricating wiring layers above a Josephson junction multi-layer may include removing a part of the multilayer; depositing an insulating layer to overlie a part of the multilayer; and patterning the insulating layer to define a hole in the insulating layer. The method includes depositing a first superconducting wiring layer over a part of the insulating layer and within a portion of the hole. Further, insulating and wiring layers may be deposited and a topmost wiring layer defined. The method includes depositing a passivating layer to overlie the topmost wiring layer. Fabricating a superconducting integrated circuit comprising a hybrid dielectric system may include depositing a high-quality dielectric layer that overlies a superconducting feature. The method includes depositing a second dielectric layer that overlies at least part of the high-quality dielectric layer. The second dielectric layer can comprise a conventional dielectric material.
US10454014B2
An electronic device (e.g., a diode) is provided that includes a substrate and a patterned layer of superconducting material disposed over the substrate. The patterned layer forms a first electrode, a second electrode, and a loop coupling the first electrode with the second electrode by a first channel and a second channel. The first channel and the second channel have different minimum widths. The device further includes a magnet that applies a magnetic field to the loop, which produces an expulsion current in the loop that travels toward the second electrode in the first channel and toward the first electrode in the second channel. For a range of current magnitudes, when the magnetic field is applied to the patterned layer of superconducting material, the conductance from the first electrode to the second electrode is greater than the conductance from the second electrode to the first electrode.
US10454005B1
Embodiments of the invention include a light emitting diode (UVLED), the UVLED including a semiconductor structure with an active layer disposed between an n-type region and a p-type region. The active layer emits UV radiation. The UVLED is disposed on a mount. A transparent encapsulant is disposed over the UVLED. The transparent encapsulant has an angled sidewall.
US10453998B2
A light emitting device can include a metal support structure comprising Cu; an adhesion structure on the metal support structure; a reflective conductive contact on the adhesion structure; a GaN-based semiconductor structure on the reflective conductive contact, in which the GaN-based semiconductor structure includes a first-type semiconductor layer on the metal support structure, an active layer on the first-type semiconductor layer, and a second-type semiconductor layer on the active layer, the GaN-based semiconductor structure includes a bottom surface proximate to the metal support structure, a top surface opposite to the bottom surface, and a side surface between the top surface and the bottom surface, and a first thickness of the GaN-based semiconductor structure from the bottom surface to the top surface is less than 5 micrometers; an interface layer on the GaN-based semiconductor structure; and a contact pad on the interface layer, in which a second thickness of the metal support structure is 0.5 times less than a width of the top surface of the GaN-based semiconductor structure.
US10453991B2
A light-emitting device comprises a set of nanowires over the whole surface of a substrate, comprising at least a first series of first nanowires and a second series of second nanowires; the first series comprising first nanowires emitting light under electrical control, connected between a first and a second type of electrical contact to emit light under electrical control, the first nanowires covered by at least one conducting layer transparent at the wavelength of the light-emitting device, layer in contact with the first type of electrical contact; the second series comprising second nanowires, encapsulated in a layer of metal allowing the first electrical contact to be formed; the second electrical contact being on the back face of the substrate, opposite to the face comprising the nanowires, and provided by a conducting layer facing the first series of nanowires. A method of fabrication of the light-emitting device is provided.
US10453979B2
Materials and methods may be provided for short-wave infrared (SWIR) superlattice materials. The superlattice material includes a first sub-layer comprising InAs, and a second sub-layer adjacent to the first sub-layer including AlSb, AlAsSb, or InAlAsSb.
US10453964B2
A transistor including an oxide semiconductor, which has good on-state characteristics, and a high-performance semiconductor device including a transistor capable of high-speed response and high-speed operation. In the transistor including an oxide semiconductor, oxygen-defect-inducing factors are introduced (added) into an oxide semiconductor layer, whereby the resistance of a source and drain regions are selectively reduced. Oxygen-defect-inducing factors are introduced into the oxide semiconductor layer, whereby oxygen defects serving as donors can be effectively formed in the oxide semiconductor layer. The introduced oxygen-defect-inducing factors are one or more selected from titanium, tungsten, and molybdenum, and are introduced by an ion implantation method.
US10453961B2
The present disclosure provides an embodiment of a fin-like field-effect transistor (FinFET) device. The device includes a first fin structure disposed over an n-type FinFET (NFET) region of a substrate. The first fin structure includes a silicon (Si) layer, a silicon germanium oxide (SiGeO) layer disposed over the silicon layer and a germanium (Ge) feature disposed over the SiGeO layer. The device also includes a second fin structure over the substrate in a p-type FinFET (PFET) region. The second fin structure includes the silicon (Si) layer, a recessed silicon germanium oxide (SiGeO) layer disposed over the silicon layer, an epitaxial silicon germanium (SiGe) layer disposed over the recessed SiGeO layer and the germanium (Ge) feature disposed over the epitaxial SiGe layer.
US10453958B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate having a first surface and a second surface, a first insulation isolation film in which a first trench is formed and a conductive film having a gate electrode, a first buried part buried in the first trench and a first cap part located on the first buried part. The semiconductor substrate has a source region, a drain region, a drift region and a body region. The gate electrode faces the body region which is sandwiched between the drift region and the source region while being insulated from the body region. The first cap part projects longer than the first buried part in a channel width direction which is a direction along a boundary between the body region and the drift region in a planar view on the first insulation isolation film.
US10453954B2
In a termination structure region, a first semiconductor layer of a first conductivity type, with an impurity concentration lower than that of a semiconductor substrate, is provided on the substrate of the first conductivity type. A second semiconductor layer of a second conductivity type is provided on a first side of the first semiconductor layer, opposite to a second side facing the substrate. Trenches penetrate the second semiconductor layer. At the first side in the first semiconductor layer, a first semiconductor region of the second conductivity type, with an impurity concentration higher than that of the second semiconductor layer, is provided at a side closer to an active region, contacting the second semiconductor layer. A second semiconductor region of the first conductivity type is provided in the second semiconductor layer, outside and adjacent to one of the trenches that is disposed at a farthest position from the active region.
US10453952B2
The second conductivity type thin film includes: a high-concentration layer having a first impurity concentration; a first electric field relaxing layer continuous to the high-concentration layer at an outer circumference of the high-concentration layer, the first electric field relaxing layer having a second impurity concentration lower than the first impurity concentration; a second electric field relaxing layer continuous to the first electric field relaxing layer at an outer circumference of the first electric field relaxing layer, the second electric field relaxing layer having a third impurity concentration lower than the second impurity concentration; and a first electric field diffusion layer continuous to the second electric field relaxing layer at an outer circumference of the second electric field relaxing layer, the first electric field diffusion layer having a fourth impurity concentration lower than the third impurity concentration.
US10453943B2
An embodiment is a method including forming a raised portion of a substrate, forming fins on the raised portion of the substrate, forming an isolation region surrounding the fins, a first portion of the isolation region being on a top surface of the raised portion of the substrate between adjacent fins, forming a gate structure over the fins, and forming source/drain regions on opposing sides of the gate structure, wherein forming the source/drain regions includes epitaxially growing a first epitaxial layer on the fin adjacent the gate structure, etching back the first epitaxial layer, epitaxially growing a second epitaxial layer on the etched first epitaxial layer, and etching back the second epitaxial layer, the etched second epitaxial layer having a non-faceted top surface, the etched first epitaxial layer and the etched second epitaxial layer forming source/drain regions.
US10453941B2
A method for producing a semiconductor device includes depositing a first insulating film and a second insulating film on a planar semiconductor layer formed on a substrate; forming a first hole for forming a gate electrode in the second insulating film; filling the first hole with a first metal to form the gate electrode; forming a side wall formed of a third insulating film on an upper surface of the gate electrode and a side surface of the first hole; performing etching through, as a mask, the side wall formed of the third insulating film, to form a second hole in the gate electrode and the first insulating film; forming a gate insulating film on a side surface of the second hole; and epitaxially growing a semiconductor layer, within the second hole, on the planar semiconductor layer to form a first pillar-shaped semiconductor layer.
US10453937B2
Methods of forming a semiconductor device include forming a layer of activating material on sidewalls of a stack of alternating layers of channel material and sacrificial material. The layer of activating material is annealed to cause the activating material to react with the sacrificial material and to form insulating spacers at ends of the layers of sacrificial material. The layer of activating material is etched away to expose ends of the layers of channel material. Source/drain regions are formed on the ends of the layers of channel material.
US10453934B1
Structures and methods are presented for forming a vertical field effect transistors. The structure generally includes a top source/drain including an L-shaped spacer on sidewalls and a portion of the bottom surface of the top source/drain. At least one airgap top spacer is provided adjacent top sidewalls of the fin and between the top source/drain and the gate electrode.
US10453931B2
A semiconductor device comprises a semiconductor substrate structure comprising a cell region and an edge termination region surrounding the cell region. Further it comprises a plurality of needle-shaped cell trenches within the cell region reaching from a surface of the semiconductor substrate structure into the substrate structure and an edge termination trench within the edge termination region surrounding the cell region at the surface of the semiconductor substrate structure.
US10453929B2
A method of manufacturing a power metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistor includes: forming a field electrode in a field plate trench in a main surface of a semiconductor substrate; forming a gate trench in the main surface, the gate trench extending in a first direction parallel to the main surface; and for a gate electrode in the gate trench, the gate electrode being made of a gate electrode material that comprises a metal. The field plate trench is formed to have an extension length in the first direction which is less than double of an extension length of the field plate trench in a second direction, the second direction being perpendicular to the first direction.
US10453915B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor body having a semiconductor substrate of a first conductivity type and a semiconductor layer of the first conductivity type on the substrate. A trench structure extends into the semiconductor body from a first surface and includes a gate electrode and at least one field electrode arranged between the gate electrode and a bottom side of the trench structure. A body region adjoins the trench structure and laterally extends from a transistor cell area into an edge termination area. A pn junction is between the body region and semiconductor layer. A doping concentration of at least one of the body region and semiconductor layer is lowered at a lateral end of the pn junction in the edge termination area compared to a doping concentration of the at least one of the body region and semiconductor layer at the pn junction in the transistor cell area.
US10453911B2
A display device includes first semiconductor pattern including a first channel portion, a first electrode connected to a driving voltage line, and a second electrode connected to a light emitting element, a first insulating, a first conductive layer including a first gate electrode, a second insulating layer, a second conductive layer including an initialization power line, a third insulating layer, an upper semiconductor layer including a second semiconductor pattern including a second channel portion, a third electrode, and a fourth electrode connected to the first gate electrode, and a third semiconductor pattern including a third channel portion, a fifth electrode connected to the third electrode, and a sixth electrode connected to the second electrode, a fourth insulating layer, and a third conductive layer including a scan line and a control signal line, wherein the upper semiconductor layer does not overlap the first gate electrode and the initialization power line.
US10453908B2
Disclosed herein is an organic light emitting diode display, including a substrate, a first thin film transistor including a first active pattern on the substrate and a first gate electrode on the first active pattern, a data wire on the first gate electrode, a first interlayer insulating layer between the first gate electrode and the data wire, a second interlayer insulating layer positioned the first interlayer insulating layer and the data wire, and an organic light emitting diode positioned on the data wire and connected to the first active pattern.
US10453899B2
A photodetector includes: a semiconductor substrate including first and second impurity regions; a gate insulating layer located on a region of the semiconductor substrate, the region being between the first and second impurity regions, the gate insulating layer including a photoelectric conversion layer; a gate electrode located on the gate insulating layer and having a light-transmitting property; a first charge transfer channel transferring signal charges corresponding to a current occurring between the first impurity region and the second impurity region depending on a change in a dielectric constant of the photoelectric conversion layer caused by light incidence on the photoelectric conversion layer; a second charge transfer channel diverging from the first charge transfer channel; a first charge storage storing charges, among the signal charges, transferred via the second charge transfer channel; and a first gate switching transfer and shutdown of charges passing through the second charge transfer channel.
US10453890B2
A more preferable pixel for detecting a focal point may be formed by using a photoelectric converting film. A solid-state image sensor includes a first pixel including a photoelectric converting unit formed of a photoelectric converting film and first and second electrodes which interpose the same from above and below in which at least one of the first and second electrodes is a separated electrode separated for each pixel, and a second pixel including the photoelectric converting unit in which the separated electrode is formed to have a planar size smaller than that of the first pixel and a third electrode extending at least to a boundary of the pixel is formed in a region which is vacant due to a smaller planar size. The present disclosure is applicable to the solid-state image sensor and the like, for example.
US10453877B2
A CMOS detector with pairs of interdigitated elongated finger-like collection gates includes p+ implanted regions that create charge barrier regions that can intentionally be overcome. These regions steer charge to a desired collection gate pair for collection. The p+ implanted regions may be formed before and/or after formation of the collection gates. These regions form charge barrier regions when an associated collection gate is biased low. The barriers are overcome when an associated collection gate is high. These barrier regions steer substantially all charge to collection gates that are biased high, enhancing modulation contrast. Advantageously, the resultant structure has reduced power requirements in that inter-gate capacitance is reduced in that inter-gate spacing can be increased over prior art gate spacing and lower swing voltages may be used. Also higher modulation contrast is achieved in that the charge collection area of the low gate(s) is significantly reduced.
US10453875B2
A method of manufacturing a display apparatus includes separating a light-emitting diode (“LED”) chip from a base substrate; disposing the separated light-emitting diode chip in a solution; disposing a substrate including a first electrode thereon, in the solution; with the separated light-emitting diode chip and the substrate including the first electrode thereon in the solution, applying a negative voltage to the substrate to attract the separated light-emitting diode chip to the first electrode on the substrate; mounting the light-emitting diode chip attracted to the first electrode, on the first electrode; and removing the substrate with the light-emitting diode chip mounted on the first electrode from the solution and drying the removed substrate, to form the display apparatus.
US10453873B2
To provide a light-emitting device in which variation in luminance among pixels caused by variation in threshold voltage of transistors can be suppressed. The light-emitting device includes a transistor including a first gate and a second gate overlapping with each other with a semiconductor film therebetween, a first capacitor maintaining a potential difference between one of a source and a drain of the transistor and the first gate, a second capacitor maintaining a potential difference between one of the source and the drain of the transistor and the second gate, a switch controlling conduction between the second gate of the transistor and a wiring, and a light-emitting element to which drain current of the transistor is supplied.
US10453872B1
An array substrate and a manufacturing method of a flexible display device utilizes a first source/drain electrode and a second source/drain electrode disposed on an array substrate to connect with each other through a first via hole.
US10453864B2
A semiconductor device includes a base substrate, a buried insulating film on the base substrate, a first semiconductor substrate pattern on the buried insulating film, a second semiconductor substrate pattern on the buried insulating film, the second semiconductor substrate pattern being spaced apart from the first semiconductor substrate pattern, a first device pattern on the first semiconductor substrate pattern, a second device pattern on the second semiconductor substrate pattern, the first and second device patterns having different characteristics from each other, an isolating trench between the first semiconductor substrate pattern and the second semiconductor substrate pattern, the isolating trench extending only partially into the buried insulating film, and a lower interlayer insulating film overlying the first device pattern and the second device pattern and filling the isolating trench.
US10453861B1
A non-volatile storage element including a control gate, a tunneling layer, a charge storage region, and a blocking layer including a ferroelectric material. The tunneling layer is disposed between the control gate and the charge storage region, and the charge storage region is disposed between the tunneling layer and the blocking layer.
US10453859B2
A vertical memory device includes insulating interlayer patterns, of gate electrodes, a channel, and a charge storage pattern structure. The insulating interlayer patterns are spaced in a first direction. The gate electrodes between are neighboring insulating interlayer patterns, respectively. The channel extends through the insulating interlayer patterns and the gate electrodes in the first direction. The charge storage pattern structure includes a tunnel insulation pattern, a charge trapping pattern structure, and a blocking pattern sequentially stacked between the channel and each of the gate electrodes in a second direction. The charge trapping pattern structure includes charge trapping patterns spaced in the first direction. The charge trapping patterns are adjacent to sidewalls of first gate electrodes, respectively. A first charge trapping pattern extends in the first direction along a sidewall of a first insulating interlayer pattern.
US10453856B1
A memory device, which can be configured as a 3D NAND flash memory, includes a stack of conductive strips and an opening through the stack exposing sidewalls of conductive strips on first and second sides of the opening. Some of the conductive strips in the stack are configured as word lines. Data storage structures are disposed on the sidewalls of the stack. A vertical channel film is disposed vertically in contact with the data storage structures. The vertical channel film is connected at a proximal end to an upper channel pad over the stack, and at a distal end to a lower channel pad disposed in a lower level of the opening. The upper and lower channel pads may comprise an epitaxial semiconductor and be thicker than the vertical channel film disposed on the sidewalls of the stack.
US10453851B2
To reinforce power supply wirings without sacrificing the interconnectivity of semiconductor devices. When three wirings are formed in parallel in the same wiring layer and the center wiring among them is shorter than the outer wirings, a projecting portion integrated into the outer wiring is formed utilizing a free space remaining on the extension of the center wiring. For example, when the outer wirings are used as power supply wirings, the power supply wirings can be reinforced by adding the projecting portion. At this time, because the projecting portion is arranged in the free space, the interconnectivity is not sacrificed.
US10453850B2
A 3-D IC includes a substrate having a substrate surface. A first semiconductor device has a first electrical contact and is formed in a first area of the surface on a first plane substantially parallel to the substrate surface. A second semiconductor device has a second electrical contact and is formed in a second area of the surface on a second plane substantially parallel to the surface and vertically spaced from the first plane in a direction substantially perpendicular to the surface. A first electrode structure includes opposing top and bottom surfaces substantially parallel to the substrate surface, and a sidewall connecting the top and bottom surfaces such that the electrode structure forms a three dimensional electrode space. A conductive fill material is provided in the electrode space, and a dielectric layer electrically separates the conductive fill material into a first electrode electrically connected to the first contact of the first semiconductor device and a second electrode electrically connected to the second semiconductor device and electrically insulated from the first electrode. A first circuit terminal extends vertically from the top or bottom surface of the electrode structure and is electrically connected to the first electrode.
US10453846B2
A semiconductor device in which stored data can be held even when power is not supplied and there is no limitation on the number of writing operations is provided. A semiconductor device is formed using a material which can sufficiently reduce the off-state current of a transistor, such as an oxide semiconductor material that is a wide-gap semiconductor. When a semiconductor material which can sufficiently reduce the off-state current of a transistor is used, the semiconductor device can hold data for a long period. In addition, by providing a capacitor or a noise removal circuit electrically connected to a write word line, a signal such as a short pulse or a noise input to a memory cell can be reduced or removed. Accordingly, a malfunction in which data written into the memory cell is erased when a transistor in the memory cell is instantaneously turned on can be prevented.
US10453843B2
A semiconductor device including an nFET device and pFET device adjacent one another. The semiconductor device includes a shallow trench isolator (STI), a gate and a substrate having fins extending upwardly through the STI. The fins include: nFET fins disposed in an nFET epi well formed in the STI and disposed in a pFET epi well formed in the STI, a top the STI being above a top of the fins.
US10453831B2
The invention provides a punching packaged light-emitting diode apparatus, which comprises: a substrate, including a first molding material, a first nano heat conductive material, and a first fluorescent material; a light-emitting unit, located on a surface of the substrate; two wiring units, individually connected to the light-emitting unit; and a packaging material, including a second molding material, a high refractive material, a second nano heat conductive material, and a second fluorescent material, to cover the wiring units and the light-emitting unit in a solidified structure formed by a punching process; wherein, the light-emitting unit emits light to outside through the substrate and the packaging material.
US10453824B1
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming a plurality of silicon germanium and silicon layers on a semiconductor substrate in a stacked configuration comprising a repeating arrangement of a silicon layer stacked on a silicon germanium layer. The stacked configuration is patterned into a plurality of patterned stacks spaced apart from each other. The patterning forms a plurality of recessed portions in the substrate. In the method, the silicon germanium layers are etched to remove portions of the silicon germanium layers from exposed lateral sides of the silicon germanium layers, and inner spacer layers are formed in place of the removed portions. A plurality of lower epitaxial layers are grown in the recessed portions. A plurality of epitaxial source/drain regions are grown from the lower epitaxial layers and from exposed lateral sides of the silicon layers.
US10453817B1
A microelectronic device has bump bond structures on input/output (I/O) pads. The bump bond structures include copper-containing pillars, a barrier layer including cobalt and zinc on the copper-containing pillars, and tin-containing solder on the barrier layer. The barrier layer includes 0.1 weight percent to 50 weight percent cobalt and an amount of zinc equivalent to a layer of pure zinc 0.05 microns to 0.5 microns thick. A lead frame has a copper-containing member with a similar barrier layer in an area for a solder joint. Methods of forming the microelectronic device are disclosed.
US10453813B2
A device and method of manufacture is provided that utilize a dummy pad feature adjacent contact pads. The contact pads may be contact pads in an integrated fan-out package in which a molding compound is placed along sidewalls of a die and the contact pads extend over the die and the molding compound. The contact pads are electrically coupled to the die using one or more redistribution layers. The dummy pad features are electrically isolated from the contact pads. In some embodiments, the dummy pad features partially encircle the contact pads and are located in a corner region of the molding compound, a corner region of the die, and/or an interface region between an edge of the die and the molding compound.
US10453811B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor structure. The method includes depositing a conductive material over a substrate, and removing a portion of the conductive material to form a conductive structure having a barrel shape. A width of a body portion of the conductive structure is greater than a width of an upper portion and a width of a bottom portion of the conductive structure.
US10453803B2
A semiconductor wiring substrate includes a first wiring layer, a second wiring layer stacked on the first wiring layer, and a dielectric layer sandwiched between the first wiring layer and the second wiring layer. The first wiring layer includes first signal lines and first grounding lines which are interleaved and spaced apart in the first wiring layer. The second wiring layer includes second signal lines and second grounding lines which are interleaved and spaced apart in the second wiring layer. An orthographic projection of one of the second signal lines to the first wiring layer is located between each two adjacent ones of the first signal lines.
US10453801B2
A magnetic random-access memory (MRAM) device and a semiconductor package include a magnetic shielding layer that may suppress at least one of magnetic orientation errors and deterioration of magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) structures due to external magnetic fields. A semiconductor device includes: a MRAM chip including a MRAM; and a magnetic shielding layer including an upper shielding layer and a via shielding layer. The upper shielding layer is on a top surface of the MRAM chip, and the via shielding layer extends from the upper shielding layer and passes through the MRAM chip.
US10453798B2
A three-dimensional memory device includes laterally spaced apart vertically alternating stacks of insulating strips and word line electrically conductive strips located over a substrate, memory stack structures extending through the multiple vertically alternating stacks, word line contact via structures contacting a top surface of the respective word line electrically conductive strips, field effect transistors overlying the word line contact via structures, and connector line structures which are electrically connected to respective subsets of the word line electrically conductive strips in different vertically alternating stacks through the field effect transistors.
US10453795B2
A ground isolation webbing structure package includes a top level with an upper interconnect layer having upper ground contacts, upper data signal contacts, and a conductive material upper ground webbing structure that is connected to the upper ground contacts and surrounds the upper data signal contacts. The upper contacts may be formed over and connected to via contacts or traces of a lower layer of the same interconnect level. The via contacts of the lower layer may be connected to upper contacts of a second interconnect level which may also have such webbing. There may also be at least a third interconnect level having such webbing. The webbing structure electrically isolates and reduces cross talk between the signal contacts, thus providing higher frequency and more accurate data signal transfer between devices such as integrated circuit (IC) chips attached to a package.
US10453789B2
An electrical connectors with electrodeposited terminals that are grown in place by electroplating cavities formed in a series of resist layers. The resist layers are subsequently stripped away. The resulting terminal shape is defined by the shape of the cavity created in the resist layers. Complex terminal shapes are possible. The present conductive terminals are particularly useful for electrical interconnects and semiconductor packaging substrates.
US10453788B2
A fan-out semiconductor package includes: a frame including insulating layers, wiring layers disposed on the insulating layers, and connection via layers penetrating through the insulating layers and electrically connecting the wiring layers to each other, and having a recess portion; a semiconductor chip having connection pads and disposed in the recess portion so that an inactive surface is connected to the stopper layer; an encapsulant covering at least portions of the semiconductor chip and filling at least portions of the recess portion; and a connection member disposed on the frame and an active surface of the semiconductor chip and including one or more redistribution layers electrically connecting the wiring layers and the connection pads to each other, in which the recess portion includes walls having different inclined angles.
US10453784B2
A semiconductor device has a first semiconductor die with a base material. A covering layer is formed over a surface of the base material. The covering layer can be made of an insulating material or metal. A trench is formed in the surface of the base material. The covering layer extends into the trench to provide the cantilevered protrusion of the covering layer. A portion of the base material is removed by plasma etching to form a cantilevered protrusion extending beyond an edge of the base material. The cantilevered protrusion can be formed by removing the base material to the covering layer, or the cantilevered protrusion can be formed within the base material under the covering layer. A second semiconductor die is disposed partially under the cantilevered protrusion. An interconnect structure is formed between the cantilevered protrusion and second semiconductor die.
US10453779B2
A semiconductor device includes: a seal portion; a first electronic element; a second lead terminal having one end that is disposed to be close to the one end of the first lead terminal within the seal portion, and another end that is exposed from another end of the seal portion, the other end of the seal portion being along the longitudinal direction; a first connecting element disposed within the seal portion, and having one end that is electrically connected to the first electrode disposed on the first electronic element, and another end that is electrically connected to the one end of the second lead terminal; and a conductive bonding agent.
US10453777B2
A 2-in-1 power electronics assembly includes a frame with a lower dielectric layer, an upper dielectric layer spaced apart from the lower dielectric layer, and a sidewall disposed between and coupled to the lower dielectric layer and the upper dielectric layer. The lower dielectric layer includes a lower cooling fluid inlet and the upper dielectric layer includes an upper cooling fluid outlet. A first semiconductor device assembly and a second semiconductor device assembly are included and disposed within the frame. The first semiconductor device is disposed between a first lower metal inverse opal (MIO) layer and a first upper MIO layer, and the second semiconductor device is disposed between a second lower MIO layer and a second upper MIO layer. An internal cooling structure that includes the MIO layers provides double sided cooling for the first semiconductor device and the second semiconductor device.
US10453772B2
Provided is a heat-sink-attached power-module substrate, in which a metal layer and first layers are formed from aluminum sheets having a purity of 99.99 mass % or greater and a heat sink and second layers are formed from aluminum sheets having a purity lower than that of the metal layer and the first layers: when a thickness is t1 (mm), a joined-surface area is A1 (mm2), yield strength at 25° C. is σ11 (N/mm2), yield strength at 200° C. is σ12 (N/mm2) in the second layers; a thickness is t2 (mm), a joined-surface area is A2 (mm2), yield strength at 25° C. is σ21 (N/mm2), and yield strength at 200° C. is σ22 (N/mm2) in the heat sink.
US10453760B2
A lid array panel includes multiple lids, where each lid includes an outer side wall. The lid array panel further includes a bridge section surrounding and attached to the outer side walls of the lids, where the lids are connected to each other by the bridge section, the lid array panel further includes a reinforcement attached to the bridge section. A package structure includes a carrier, a chip disposed on an upper surface of the carrier, a lid, a bridge section, and a reinforcement. The lid includes a top wall and an outer side wall, the top wall and the outer side wall of the lid together define a cavity, and the outer side wall of the lid is attached to the upper surface of the carrier. The bridge section surrounds, and is attached to, the outer side wall of the lid. The reinforcement is attached to the bridge section.
US10453755B2
A CMOS transistor manufacturing method includes: forming a gate insulating film on a semiconductor substrate; forming a first gate electrode pattern on the gate insulating film in an NMOS transistor area; forming a second gate electrode pattern on the gate insulating film in a PMOS transistor area; forming a first photoresist pattern covering the NMOS transistor area to expose the second gate electrode pattern; performing a first ion injection process into the PMOS transistor area to form an n-type well region and a p-type LDD region; removing the first photoresist pattern; forming a second photoresist pattern covering the PMOS transistor area to expose the first gate electrode pattern; performing a second ion injection process into the NMOS transistor area to form a p-type well region and an n-type LDD region; removing the second photoresist pattern; and forming sidewall spacers at sidewalls of the first and second gate electrode patterns.
US10453743B2
The present invention provides a barrier layer removal method, wherein the barrier layer includes at least one layer of ruthenium or cobalt, the method comprising: removing the barrier layer including ruthenium or cobalt formed on non-recessed areas of a semiconductor structure by thermal flow etching. The present invention further provides a semiconductor structure forming method, comprising: providing a semiconductor structure which includes a dielectric layer, a hard mask layer formed on the dielectric layer, recessed areas formed on the hard mask layer and the dielectric layer, a barrier layer including at least one layer of ruthenium or cobalt formed on the hard mask layer, sidewalls of the recessed areas and bottoms of the recessed areas, a metal layer formed on the barrier layer and filling the recessed areas; removing the metal layer formed on the non-recessed areas and the metal in the recessed areas, and remaining a certain amount of metal in the recessed areas; removing the barrier layer including ruthenium or cobalt formed on the non-recessed areas, and the hard mask layer by thermal flow etching.
US10453741B2
A method of making a semiconductor device includes forming a gate stack that include a gate electrode and a spacer layer extending along a sidewall of the gate electrode; forming a source/drain (S/D) feature that is adjacent to the gate stack; forming a dielectric layer over the gate stack and the S/D feature; forming a contact hole in the dielectric layer to expose the S/D feature, wherein the contact hole includes a first sidewall that is formed by the spacer layer and part of the dielectric layer; doping an upper portion of the first sidewall; and performing an etching process thereby cleaning oxides in the contact hole.
US10453736B2
A semiconductor device is fabricated with a first layer of a first sacrificial material deposited over a surface of a substrate. A first set of layers of a second sacrificial material and a second set of layers of a channel material are deposited over the first layer. A liner is deposited in a first recess, which exposes a first connection end of a layer in the second set, where the first recess reaches into the substrate for at least a fraction of a total depth of the substrate. An insulator material is filled in the first recess and etched up to a stop depth, stopping the etching at a height above the surface of the substrate. The liner is removed from at least the first connection end of the layer in the second set. An electrical connection is formed with a source/drain structure using the first connection end.
US10453731B2
A method of transferring an integrated circuit (IC) onto an alternative substrate is provided at a wafer level to enable coefficient of thermal expansion (CTE) matching for a circuit layer to a different material. The method is executable relative to a wafer with a circuit layer, a first major surface, a second major surface opposite the first major surface, and a substrate affixed to the first major surface. The method includes temporarily bonding a handle to the second major surface, removing a majority of the substrate to expose the first major surface and bonding a second substrate to the first major surface with deposited bonding material.
US10453723B2
Disclosed is a gas purge filter used in a housing container provided with a container main body and a lid body. The gas purge filter has a filter housing having a ventilation space where gas outside the housing container and gas of a housing space can be ventilated, and a pad formed outside the housing space of the filter housing to cover an outer peripheral face of a nozzle portion that forms a part of the ventilation space. The pad is formed of an elastic body.
US10453710B2
An apparatus for manufacturing a flexible display device, including a first pressing unit including a recess, a window within the recess and having two end portions with a first radius of curvature, the window contacting a display panel, and a second pressing unit facing the first pressing unit, the display panel being between the first and second pressing units, wherein the second pressing unit includes an upper portion having a second radius of curvature and a convex second mounting surface, the second radius of curvature being different from the first radius of curvature, a pressing buffer portion extending from opposite portions of the upper portion and having a third radius of curvature different from the second radius of curvature, a lateral portion connected to the pressing buffer portion, and a lower portion connected to the lateral portion at an obtuse angle.
US10453709B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure generally relate to cleaning substrates, and more particularly, to methods and apparatus for endpoint detection of a cleaning process. The apparatus includes an outer cleaning basin, a liner, and a circulation system coupled to the liner. The circulation system includes a filter for removing particles from a fluid. A liquid particle counter is fluidly coupled to fluid in the liner for performing particle counting. Methods for using the apparatus are also described.
US10453702B2
The present disclosure describes a chemical mechanical polishing device and a chemical mechanical polishing method. The chemical mechanical polishing device includes: a cleaning apparatus and a polishing pad conditioner disc positionally configurable relative to the cleaning apparatus, where the cleaning apparatus includes: a cleaning disc; a pre-polishing pad disposed inside the cleaning disc and configured to perform a pre-polishing operation of the polishing pad conditioner disc when positioned in contact with the polishing pad conditioner disc; a pre-polishing grinding liquid dispensing assembly disposed on a side edge of the cleaning disc and configured to supply a pre-polishing grinding liquid to the pre-polishing pad; and a rotation driver configured to drive the pre-polishing pad to rotate during the pre-polishing operation. The present disclosure beneficially reduces wafer scratches and increases evenness of distribution of a grinding liquid during polishing.
US10453700B2
A method of forming an interconnect structure for an integrated circuit. A dielectric stack is formed on the substrate including an etch-stop layer, a low-k or ULK dielectric layer, and a hard mask layer. The low-k or ULK dielectric is etched using at least two etching processes wherein each etching process is followed by an etch repair process where the etch repair process includes flowing at least one hydrocarbon into the reactor and generating a plasma. The photoresist may be removed using at least two ashing processes wherein each ashing process is followed by an ash repair process where the etch repair process includes flowing at least one hydrocarbon into the reactor and generating a plasma.
US10453698B2
Methods of fabricating an integrated circuit device are provided. The methods may form feature patterns on a substrate using a quadruple patterning technology (QPT) process including one photolithography process and two double patterning processes. Sacrificial spacers obtained by first double patterning process and spacers obtained by second double patterning process may be formed on a feature layer at an equal level.
US10453692B2
Techniques herein include systems and methods for correcting pattern overlay errors by correcting or adjusting bowing of wafers. Location-specific tuning of stress on semiconductor substrates reduces overlay error. Location-specific tuning of stress independently modifies specific regions, areas, or point locations on a substrate to change wafer bow at those specific locations, which reduces overlay error on substrates, which in turn improves overlay of subsequent patterns created on the substrate. Techniques herein include receiving a substrate with some amount of overlay error, measuring bow of the substrate to map z-height deviations across the substrate, generating an overlay correction pattern, and then physically modifying internal stresses on the substrate at specific locations with modifications independent of other coordinate locations. Such modifications can include etching a backside surface of the substrate. One or more processing modules can be used for such processing.
US10453683B2
A method for reducing crystalline defects in a semiconductor structure is presented. The method includes epitaxially growing a first crystalline material over a crystalline substrate, epitaxially growing a second crystalline material over the first crystalline material, and patterning and removing portions of the second crystalline material to form openings. The method further includes converting the first crystalline material into a non-crystalline material, depositing a thermally stable material in the openings, depositing a capping layer over the second crystalline material and the thermally stable material to form a substantially enclosed semiconductor structure, and annealing the substantially enclosed semiconductor structure.
US10453682B2
Provided is an epitaxial wafer having an excellent gettering capability and a suppressed formation of epitaxial defects. The epitaxial wafer has a specified resistivity, and includes a modifying layer formed on a surface portion of the silicon wafer and composed of a predetermined element including at least carbon, in the form of a solid solution in the silicon wafer; and an epitaxial layer having a resistivity that is higher than the resistivity of the silicon wafer, wherein a concentration profile of the predetermined element in the modifying layer in a depth direction thereof meets a specified full width half maximum and a specified peak concentration.
US10453680B2
A terahertz antenna includes at least one photoconductive layer which generates charge carriers upon irradiation of light and two electroconductive antenna elements via which an electric field can be applied to at least one section of the photoconductive layer. The photoconductive layer being doped with a dopant in a concentration of at least 1×1018 cm−3, the dopant being a transition metal. The photoconductive layer is produced by molecular beam epitaxy at a growth temperature of at least 200° C. and not more than 500° C., the dopant being arranged in the photoconductive layer such that it produces a plurality of point defects.
US10453679B2
Methods and devices integrating circuitry including both III-N (e.g., GaN) transistors and Si-based (e.g., Si or SiGe) transistors. In some monolithic wafer-level integration embodiments, a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) substrate is employed as an epitaxial platform providing a first silicon surface advantageous for seeding an epitaxial III-N semiconductor stack upon which III-N transistors (e.g., III-N HFETs) are formed, and a second silicon surface advantageous for seeding an epitaxial raised silicon upon which Si-based transistors (e.g., Si FETs) are formed. In some heterogeneous wafer-level integration embodiments, an SOI substrate is employed for a layer transfer of silicon suitable for fabricating the Si-based transistors onto another substrate upon which III-N transistors have been formed. In some such embodiments, the silicon layer transfer is stacked upon a planar interlayer dielectric (ILD) disposed over one or more metallization level interconnecting a plurality of III-N HFETs into HFET circuitry.
US10453669B2
In some embodiments, an electrodeless lamp may be provided. The lamp may include an outer tube and an inner tube. The inner tube may be sealed to the outer tube to define a sealed space in which a gas may be contained. The gas may be configured to emit electromagnetic radiation when an electromagnetic field is applied thereto.
US10453656B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a plasma chamber design that allows extremely symmetrical electrical, thermal, and gas flow conductance through the chamber. By providing such symmetry, plasma formed within the chamber naturally has improved uniformity across the surface of a substrate disposed in a processing region of the chamber. Further, other chamber additions, such as providing the ability to manipulate the gap between upper and lower electrodes as well as between a gas inlet and a substrate being processed, allows better control of plasma processing and uniformity as compared to conventional systems.
US10453653B2
Described herein are architectures, platforms and methods for determining endpoints of an optical emission spectroscopy (OES) data acquired from a plasma processing system. The OES data, for example, includes an absorption—step process, a desorption—step process, or a combination thereof. In this example, the OES data undergoes signal synchronization and transient signal filtering prior to endpoint determination, which may be implemented through an application of a moving average filter.
US10453637B2
A direct-current (DC) air circuit breaker for opening and closing a circuit according to various embodiments includes a circuit unit having a main circuit, a detecting unit having a detection circuit for detecting a fault current in the main circuit, and a circuit operating device configured to allow connection or isolation between the main circuit and the detection circuit.
US10453634B2
A wireless switch includes a cover member, a button member, a first plunger, a second plunger, a trigger spring, a return spring, a shaft, a housing, and a power generation module. An intermediate member constituted of the first plunger, the second plunger, the trigger spring, the return spring, and the shaft is connected between the button member and the power generation module. The intermediate member prevents a position of the shaft making contact with the power generating shaft of the power generation module from changing, and causes stress to build up in the trigger spring, until a movement distance of the button member reaches a predetermined distance. The intermediate member releases the stress built up in the trigger spring and pushes the power generation shaft with the shaft using the released stress upon the movement distance of the button member reaching the predetermined distance.
US10453631B1
A stroke adjustment cover for clip-type micro switch, the stroke adjustment cover comprises a cover body connected to a clip-type micro switch, a stroke adjustment member disposed in the cover body, and an elastic member used to provide the stroke adjustment member with a reciprocating stroke perpendicular to the direction of an actuation stroke of the clip-type micro switch. Through an adjustment section of the stroke adjustment member includes at least one brake portion used for braking the clip-type micro switch to generate the actuation stroke in the reciprocating stroke provided by the elastic member. The present invention not requires modification of the actuation stroke and structure of the clip-type micro switch, while an actuation time of a switching command signal of the clip-type micro switch is extended by the stroke adjustment cover provided with the different reciprocating strokes and being easy to install.
US10453627B2
A position switch retention device for use with an appliance including a body defining a first end, a cap extending outwardly from a second end of the body opposite the first end, and a first tab extending from a side of the body. The first tab defines a ramp extending away from the body to an edge directed toward and spaced from the cap.
US10453618B2
An electrolytic capacitor includes a capacitor element and an electrolyte solution. The capacitor element includes: an anode foil on which a dielectric layer is formed; a cathode foil which is opposite to the anode foil; and a conductive polymer layer that is interposed between the anode foil and the cathode foil, conductive polymer layer including a conductive polymer. A conductive layer provided with a carbon layer including conductive carbon is formed on the cathode foil. The conductive polymer layer is a layer formed with use of a dispersion or a solution containing the conductive polymer. And a proportion of water in the electrolyte solution ranges from 0.1% by mass to 6.0% by mass, inclusive.
US10453617B2
A composite electronic component includes an electronic element mounted on a resistance element in a height direction. The electronic element includes an electronic element body, and first and second external electrodes separated from each other in a length direction. The resistance element includes a base portion, a resistor disposed on an upper surface of the base portion, and first and second upper surface conductors on the upper surface of the base portion. The first and second upper surface conductors are separated from each other in the length direction, and the resistor is located between the first and second upper surface conductors. A dimension in the height direction of the resistor is smaller than both a dimension in the height direction of the first external electrode of a portion located on a lower surface of the electronic element body, and a dimension in the height direction of the second external electrode of a portion located on a lower surface of the electronic element body.
US10453615B2
A method for manufacturing a multilayer ceramic electronic component includes preparing a laminate including internal electrodes stacked through a ceramic green sheet, the internal electrodes being exposed on a surface of the laminate, heating a functional sheet while the functional sheet is in contact with a predetermined surface of the laminate, on which the internals electrode are exposed, cooling the heated functional sheet, and forming a covering layer formed of the functional sheet on the predetermined surface of the laminate by punching out the functional sheet having been cooled with the laminate.
US10453613B2
A conductive resin paste that includes a conductive component and a resin component, where the conductive component includes at least Ag and Cu, and the proportion of the Ag to the total amount of the Ag and Cu included in the conductive component falls within the range of 11.6 mass % to 28.8 mass %. As the conductive component, an Ag-coated Cu powder is used which has a Cu powder with a surface at least partially coated with Ag.
US10453611B2
Disclosed is a method for manufacturing a vacuum capacitor (1) provided with an insulating pipe (2), terminal electrodes (3, 4) that are disposed at open ends of the insulating pipe (2), and spiral electrodes (5, 6) that are connected to the terminal electrodes (3, 4). An electrode plate (7) and a spacer (8) are wound on a core member (9) to prepare a spiral electrode (5), and an electrode plate (10) and a spacer (8) are wound on a core member (11) to prepare a spiral electrode (6). A linear brazing material (12) is disposed in a groove (3c) formed in a surface of the terminal electrode (3) on an inner side of the insulating pipe (2). A platy brazing material (13) is sandwiched between the terminal electrode (3) and the spiral electrode (5) to fix the spiral electrode (5) to the terminal electrode (3). The insulating pipe (2) and the spiral electrode (6) are placed on the terminal electrode (4), and the terminal electrode (3) is disposed on the insulating pipe (2), thereby temporarily assembling the vacuum capacitor (1). The vacuum capacitor (1) is put into a vacuum heating furnace, and the terminal electrode (3) and the spiral electrode (5), the terminal electrode (4) and the spiral electrode (6), and the insulating pipe (2) and the terminal electrodes (3, 4) are respectively brazed.
US10453610B2
A multilayer ceramic capacitor with improved moisture resistance includes a laminate in which dielectric ceramic layers and internal electrodes are alternately stacked, and a pair of external electrodes provided on corresponding outer portions of the laminate. Each dielectric ceramic layer positioned between the internal electrodes, a first region positioned between the internal electrode and a first side surface in a width direction, and a second region positioned between the internal electrode and a second side surface, contains a perovskite compound containing Ba and Ti, and at least one element selected from a group consisting of Ba, Mg, Mn and a rare-earth element. Relationships S1
US10453602B2
An inductor component including a spiral wiring wound into a planar shape. A first magnetic layer and a second magnetic layer are located at positions sandwiching the spiral wiring from both sides in a normal direction relative to the plane of the wound spiral wiring. A vertical wiring extending from the spiral wiring in the normal direction penetrates the inside of the first magnetic layer or the second magnetic layer.
US10453593B2
A chip resistor includes an upper electrode provided on a substrate, a resistor element connected to the upper electrode, and a side electrode connected to the upper electrode. The side electrode, arranged on a side surface of the substrate, has two portions overlapping with the obverse surface and reverse surface of the substrate, respectively. An intermediate electrode covers the side electrode, and an external electrode covers the intermediate electrode. A first protective layer is disposed between the upper electrode and the intermediate electrode, and held in contact with the upper electrode and the side electrode. The first protective layer is more resistant to sulfurization than the upper electrode. A second protective layer is disposed between the first protective layer and intermediate electrode, and held in contact with the first protective layer, side electrode and intermediate electrode.
US10453591B2
An end closure for a superconductive electric cable which has at least one superconductive conductor which is surrounded by a tubular cryostat serving for conducting a cooling agent, which at its end is surrounded by a housing. The housing (G) has two walls (7, 8) which are separated from each other by an intermediate space (9) and having insulating material, wherein a thermal insulation containing gas is placed in the intermediate space. The pressure in the intermediate space (9) of the housing (G) is adjusted to a value of between 10−9 mbar and 1000 mbar and, connected to the intermediate space (9) are a pressure measuring device (12) and a vacuum pump (11) which serve for adjusting the pressure prevailing in the intermediate space (9) of the housing (G).
US10453590B2
Disclosed is a superconducting article comprising a silver overlayer consisting of no more than about 20% of grains over about 1 μm, having a minimum Vickers micro-hardness value of about 100, and a porosity of less than about 1%. A method of manufacturing a superconducting tape is disclosed as comprising, deposition of silver, oxygenation at about 400° C. for about 30 minutes, slitting, deposition of silver at a temperature of less than about 250° C., and application of copper.
US10453575B1
Methods, apparatus, devices, and systems for creating, controlling, conducting, and optimizing fusion activities of nuclei. In particular, the present inventions relate to, among other things, fusion activities that are conducted individually or collectively on a very small scale, preferably on the nano-scale or smaller such as pico to femto scales, for the utilization of energy produced from these activities in smaller devices and for aggregation into larger devices.
US10453574B2
A medical processor computes concept associations by mining aggregated data from patient documents thereby reducing risk of PHI exposure. The processor identifies clinically relevant terms in patient documents, compute associations between pairs of clinically relevant terms using co-occurrences, and filter out random associations. A knowledge provider receives user query concepts, retrieves patient concepts, and extracts relevant apixions from an association matrix. The knowledge provider intersects relevant apixions with patient concepts, ranks and provides the results to the user.
US10453572B1
A medical cart includes a controller, display unit and display application that enables a user to select controls to specify different functions to be executed by the controller and to specify different status data to be displayed. A system for providing remote services to the medical cart includes a database and a server, both of which are located remotely from the cart. The database includes a plurality of applications. The server includes a data collection unit to collect data associated with the medical carts, and an analysis unit to analyze the collected data to detect a condition associated with the cart. In response to the detected condition, the control unit executes one or more of the applications, determines parameters to be communicated to the cart, automatically downloads one or more applications to the cart, and/or activating a web page having information to a user displaying information about the cart.
US10453570B1
A device to enhance and present a medical image using a corrective mechanism is described. An image analysis application executed by the device captures a digital copy of the medical image displayed on a display device. A flawed photography effect associated with the digital copy is identified by processing the digital copy. Next, the digital copy is enhanced based on the flawed photography effect. Furthermore, the enhanced digital copy can be processed with an artificial intelligence mechanism to generate an annotation. The annotation is associated with a cancer identification. In addition, the enhanced digital copy and the annotation are displayed.
US10453563B2
A computer-implemented method includes generating a matching rule defined by a user, where the matching rule is a clear text rule, and receiving a transaction message that includes patient data from one or more health care facilities, where the patient data includes one or more patient health care events. A custom extension to a relational database is generated based on the received patient data, and the generated matching rules is applied to the received patient data at the custom extension to the relational database. Related patient event records within the custom extension to the relational database are identified and the related patient event records are configured based on the applied matching rule.
US10453562B2
A set of information including manually entered health-related data for a user, automatically collected health-related data for the user, and test results for the user may be received. In response to receiving the set of information, the manually entered health-related data for the user, the automatically collected health-related data for the user, and the test results for the user may be integrated into a comprehensive health profile for the user. Upon a request made on behalf of the user, at least part of the comprehensive health profile may be provided to the user.
US10453561B2
Generally, the present disclosure is directed to displaying patient medical data in a multi-modality medical processing system. The method and system described herein present medical data in multiple different modalities on a single user interface screen, allowing a practitioner viewing the user interface to manage all acquired data sets associated with a patient regardless of modality. As such, the amount of time a practitioner must spend reviewing patient medical data is reduced, leading to more efficient diagnosis and treatment. Further, multiple patient cases corresponding to different patients may be presented on a single user interface screen to simplify multi-patient case management.
US10453555B2
Regulated changes in gene expression underlie many biological processes, but globally profiling cell-to-cell variations in transcriptional regulation is problematic when measuring single cells. Transcriptome-wide identification of regulatory heterogeneities can be robustly achieved by randomly collecting small numbers of cells followed by statistical analysis. However, this stochastic-profiling approach blurs out the expression states of the individual cells in each pooled sample. Various aspects of the disclosure show that the underlying distribution of single-cell regulatory states can be deconvolved from stochastic-profiling data through maximum-likelihood inference. Guided by the mechanisms of transcriptional regulation, the disclosure provides mixture models for cell-to-cell regulatory heterogeneity which result in likelihood functions to infer model parameters. Inferences that validate both computationally and experimentally different mixture models, which include regulatory states for multicellular function occupied by as few as one in 40 cells of the population, are also encompassed. When the disclosed method extends to programs of heterogeneously coexpressed transcripts, the population-level inferences are much more accurate with pooled samples than with one-cell samples when the extent of sampling was limited. The disclosed deconvolution method provides a means to quantify the heterogeneous regulation of molecular states efficiently and gain a deeper understanding of the heterogeneous execution of cell decisions.
US10453553B2
Methods for identifying disease-related pathways that can used to identify drug discovery targets, to identify new uses for known drugs, to identify markers for drug response, and related purposes.
US10453546B2
The present disclosure provides a shift register, including: an input circuit, electrically connected to a triggering signal line that provides a triggering signal, a first clock signal line that provides a first clock signal, and a first node; configured for controlling whether the triggering signal is outputted to the first node based on the first clock signal; a control circuit, electrically connected to the first node, a second node, the first clock signal line, a second clock signal line that provides a second clock signal, and a turn-on signal line that provides a turn-on signal, configured for controlling whether the turn-on signal is outputted to the second node; and an output circuit, electrically connected to the first node, the second node, a first signal line that provides a first signal, a second signal line that provides a second signal, and a driving signal output line that outputs a driving signal.
US10453544B2
A read only memory (ROM) having a first row of ROM cells, a first conductive line along the first row of ROM cells, and a second conductive line along the first row of ROM cells. The ROM cells of the first row of ROM cells are selectively coupled during programming to the first conductive line and the second conductive line so that in a first mode of the ROM the first row of ROM cells provide a first combination of logic highs and logic lows and in a second mode of the memory the first row of ROM cells provide a second combination of logic highs and lows independent of the first combination of logic highs and logic lows.
US10453534B2
A programmable memory 10 comprises programmable data bit cells. A data word comprises a group of the programmable data bit cells. A method of configuring patch code in the memory 10 comprises identifying a first location (e.g. 0x1234) in the programmable memory 10 where a patch is required; modifying a data word at the first location to a predetermined data value (e.g. 0xFFFF); writing patch code for the patch at a patch code location (e.g. 0xABCD); and storing the patch code location. The predetermined data value can be, or can map to, a value of an exception instruction of the processor 20 which will cause the processor 20 to read from a patch table 14. The programmable memory 10 can be a One Time Programmable (OTP) memory.
US10453530B2
System and method for a unified memory and network controller for an all-flash array (AFA) storage blade in a distributed flash storage clusters over a fabric network. The unified memory and network controller has 3-way control functions including unified memory buses to cache memories and DDR4-AFA controllers, a dual-port PCIE interconnection to two host processors of gateway clusters, and four switch fabric ports for interconnections with peer controllers (e.g., AFA blades and/or chassis) in the distributed flash storage network. The AFA storage blade includes dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) and magnetoresistive random-access memory (MRAM) configured as data read/write cache buffers, and flash memory DIMM devices as primary storage. Remote data memory access (RDMA) for clients via the data caching buffers is enabled and controlled by the host processor interconnection(s), the switch fabric ports, and a unified memory bus from the unified controller to the data buffer and the flash SSDs.
US10453529B2
This invention introduces a resistive random access memory (RRAM) device, a write verify method and a reverse write verify thereof which are capable of improving the performance of RRAM operations and improving the uniform performance for each RRAM cell. A first resistance value sensed from a RRAM cell is compared with a plurality of reference resistance values to obtain a comparison value. A set or a reset operation is performed on the RRAM cell by applying a first set or reset pulse to change the first resistance value to a second resistance value. Next, the second resistance value is compared with the comparison value to determine whether to continue the set or reset operation on the RRAM cell.
US10453519B2
A semiconductor device includes a SRAM (Static Random Access Memory) circuit. The SRAM circuit includes a static memory cell, a word line coupled with the static memory cell, a pair of bit lines coupled with the static memory cell, a first interconnection coupled with the static memory cell, and supplying a first potential, a second interconnection coupled with the static memory cell, and supplying a second potential lower than the first potential, a first potential control circuit controlling a potential of the second interconnection, and a second potential control circuit controlling a potential of the first interconnection. The SRAM circuit includes, as an operation mode a first operation mode for reading data from the SRAM circuit, or for writing data into the SRAM circuit, and a second operation mode for reducing power consumption than the first operation mode.
US10453518B1
A layout of a sense amplifier includes a pre-charge and equalizer area. A pre-charge transistor, an equalizer transistor and a gate line are disposed within the pre-charge and equalizer area. The gate line and the pre-charge transistor share a share plug. The share plug serves as a gate contact plug for the gate line and a source/drain contact plug for the pre-charge transistor.
US10453517B2
The embodiments described herein describe technologies for using the memory modules in different modes of operation, such as in a standard multi-drop mode or as in a dynamic point-to-point (DPP) mode (also referred to herein as an enhanced mode). The memory modules can also be inserted in the sockets of the memory system in different configurations.
US10453503B2
A method and apparatus for implementing row hammer avoidance in a dynamic random access memory (DRAM) in a computer system. Hammer detection logic identifies a hit count of repeated activations at a specific row in the DRAM. Monitor and control logic receiving an output of the hammer detection logic compares the identified hit count with a programmable threshold value. Responsive to a specific count as determined by the programmable threshold value, the monitor and control logic captures the address where a selected row hammer avoidance action is provided.
US10453495B2
One embodiment provides a system that facilitates access control. During operation, the system generates, by a first mobile computing device associated with a first user, a request to record information of a second user associated with a second mobile computing device. In response to receiving, from the second mobile computing device, an acceptance of the request, the system records, by the first mobile computing device, the information of the second user based on recording-related preferences of the second user. In response to receiving, from the second mobile computing device, a rejection of the request, the system precludes the first mobile computing device from recording the information of the second user, thereby facilitating intuitive and socially aligned access control.
US10453493B2
A method and an apparatus for recording and replaying a video of a terminal are described, which can solve a problem, which is caused by failure to continuously reflect a running status of a program, of low efficiency of recording and replaying the video of the terminal. The method includes: receiving screenshots that are sent by a terminal according to a first preset time interval and performance data of the terminal that is sent by the terminal according to a second preset time interval, wherein the first preset time interval is less than the second preset time interval; synthesizing the received screenshots into video data that has a start time and an end time; and playing, according to a playback time selected by a user, the video data and the performance data corresponding to the playback time.
US10453461B1
Techniques for remotely executing a secondary-device driver for generating commands for a secondary device are described herein. For instance, a secondary device (or “appliance”) may reside within an environment, along with a device to which the secondary device communicatively couples. The device may be configured to send control signals to the secondary device for causing the secondary device to perform certain operations. For instance, a user in the environment may provide, to the device, a request that the secondary device perform a certain operation. The device, which may lack some or all of a device driver associated with the secondary device, may then work with a remote service that executes the device driver for the purpose of receiving a command from the device driver and sending the command along to the secondary device. Upon receiving the command, the secondary device may perform the operation.
US10453457B2
A method and device for performing voice control on a device with a microphone array are disclosed. The method includes the following steps. It is confirmed that the device is in an audio playing state. An interference sound interfering the device in the audio playing state is analyzed. A voice enhancement mode adopted by the device is selected according to a feature of the interference sound. A user's voice is detected in real time for a wake-up word, and when the wake-up word is detected, the device is controlled to stop audio playing. An interference sound interfering the device after playing audios is stopped is analyzed, and the voice enhancement mode adopted by the device is adjusted according to a feature of the interference sound. A command word from a user is acquired to control the device to execute a corresponding function, to respond to the user.
US10453449B2
Systems, methods, and devices for outputting visual indications regarding voice-based interactions are described. A first speech-controlled device detects spoken audio corresponding to a voice message to a second speech-controlled device. The first device captures the audio and sends audio data corresponding to the captured audio to a server. The server performs speech processing on the audio data to determine a recipient and message content. The server then determines a second speech-controlled device associated with the recipient and sends the message content to the recipient's second speech-controlled device. Thereafter, the server receives an indication from the recipient's speech-controlled device that the second device is detecting speech, presumably in response to the original message. The server then causes a visual indication to be output by the first speech-controlled device, with the visual indication representing the recipient-speech controlled device is detecting speech.
US10453448B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and a device for managing a dialogue based on artificial intelligence. The method includes the followings. An optimum system action is determined from at least one candidate system action according to a current dialogue status feature, a candidate system action feature and surrounding feedback information of the at least one candidate system action and based on a decision model. Since the current dialogue status corresponding to the current dialogue status feature includes uncertain results of natural language understanding, the at least one candidate system action acquired according to the current dialogue status also includes the uncertain results of natural language understanding.
US10453446B1
Deep recurrent neural networks applied to speech recognition. The deep recurrent neural networks (RNNs) are preferably implemented by stacked long short-term memory bidirectional RNNs. The RNNs are trained using end-to-end training with suitable regularisation.
US10453443B2
This relates to providing an indication of the suitability of an acoustic environment for performing speech recognition. One process can include receiving an audio input and determining a speech recognition suitability based on the audio input. The speech recognition suitability can include a numerical, textual, graphical, or other representation of the suitability of an acoustic environment for performing speech recognition. The process can further include displaying a visual representation of the speech recognition suitability to indicate the likelihood that a spoken user input will be interpreted correctly. This allows a user to determine whether to proceed with the performance of a speech recognition process, or to move to a different location having a better acoustic environment before performing the speech recognition process. In some examples, the user device can disable operation of a speech recognition process in response to determining that the speech recognition suitability is below a threshold suitability.
US10453438B1
Described are methods and systems for broad-band active reduction of noise in target spaces, such as spaces around headrests in aircraft cabins. Systems describe herein are effective over wide frequency ranges without causing undesirable amplification at any subrange ranges. Specifically, a system comprises a speaker and a resonator, both coupled to an enclosure. The interior space of the resonator is in fluid communication with the enclosed space of the enclosure, allowing the resonator to reduce the amplitude of unwanted amplification by the audio reducing sound generated by the speaker. The amplitude is reduced in a selected frequency range, which may correspond to an expected amplification for this particular system. The resonator may partially extend into the enclosure or may be completely incorporated into the enclosure. Some examples of the resonator include a Helmholtz resonator, a passive radiator, a quarter wave resonator, a pipe resonator, and an acoustic metamaterial.
US10453436B2
An anti-acoustics streamline apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes an air impedance wall having a front face, a rear face, and a plurality of openings extending from the front face to the rear face defining open areas; and a plurality of flow separating structures disposed adjacent to the front face, each of the plurality of flow separating structure extending vertically along the front face of the wall. The openings are configured to define first wall regions in the air impedance wall adjacent to each of the plurality of flow separating structures and second wall regions between the first wall regions. A first ratio of the open areas in the first wall regions to a total area in first wall regions is less than a second ratio of the open areas in the second wall regions to a total area in the second wall regions.
US10453435B2
A musical sound evaluation device includes a musical sound acquisition unit which acquires an inputted musical sound, a feature quantity calculation unit which calculates a feature quantity from the musical sound, a feature quantity distribution data acquisition unit which acquires feature quantity distribution data representing a distribution of respective feature quantities for a plurality of musical sounds previously acquired, an evaluation value calculation unit which calculates an evaluation value for the inputted musical sound based on the feature quantity calculated by the feature quantity calculation unit and the feature quantity distribution data acquired by the feature quantity distribution data acquisition unit, and an evaluation unit which evaluates the musical sound based on the evaluation value.
US10453433B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a tone bar woody material and a xylophone that are superior in acoustic characteristics and stable in quality. In the tone bar woody material of the present invention, at least a partial region of a surface layer of a wood material was impregnated with a resin composition, and the wood material comprises in the partial region, a plurality of pores each having an average diameter less than 1.2 times an average diameter of vessels in the wood material.
US10453430B2
Methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture to provide extended graphics processing capabilities are disclosed. A disclosed example method involves sending a display panel parameter to a shared library module. The display panel parameter is sent by a programmable driver interface in communication between the shared library module and a graphics hardware device driver. The shared library module includes a first graphics processing capability. The graphics hardware device driver includes a second graphics processing capability different from the first graphics processing capability. The example method also involves performing a render operation via the programmable driver interface on a frame buffer based on the first graphics processing capability. The first graphics processing capability is received at the programmable driver interface from the shared library module based on the display panel parameter. The frame buffer is output to a display.
US10453424B2
An apparatus for co-ordinating display data sent to a display device includes two or more panels or sub-displays together forming a single display screen for displaying at least one complete image. Each display panel has a display input for receiving display data of part of the complete image from a corresponding display output of a display control device. The display control device receives, from a host device, packets of display data destined for one of the display panels. The display control device directs the packets to one or more processors in the display control device for processing and storing the display data in a respective buffer according to which respective display panel the display data is destined for. The processed display data is output from the buffers at a synchronized time to the display output corresponding to the respective display panel for which the display data is destined.
US10453421B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a pixel circuit and a method for driving the same and a display apparatus and a method for driving the same. The pixel circuit comprises an energy storage circuit, a driving circuit, a display circuit and a reset circuit, wherein the energy storage circuit is connected to a first scanning signal line, a data signal line and the driving circuit, and is configured to store a data signal input through the data signal line under control of the first scanning signal line, the driving circuit is connected to a second scanning signal line and the display circuit and is configured to drive the display circuit to display a picture under control of the second scanning signal line; the display circuit is connected to a second voltage terminal and is configured to display a picture under control of the driving circuit and the second voltage terminal; and the reset circuit is connected to a third scanning signal line, the data signal line and the display circuit, and is configured to set a reset signal input through the data signal line to the display circuit under control of the third scanning signal line to reset a voltage in the display circuit.
US10453415B2
A GOA circuit and an embedded touch display panel are provided. By providing an abnormity protection module in the nth-level GOA unit, the level of the scanning signal of the nth-level GOA unit is pulled up when the embedded touch display panel is powered off abnormally. The risk of abnormal display resulted from the residual of charges in pixels due to the abnormal power-off of the GOA circuit is reduced.
US10453413B2
The present application discloses an array substrate comprising a plurality of gate lines and a plurality of data lines crossing over each other thereby defining an array of a plurality of sub-pixel areas, each sub-pixel area comprising a pixel electrode and multiple switching transistors having respective gate electrodes coupled to multiple different gate lines, wherein the pixel electrode is configured to be charged by a data signal from a data line only with all the multiple switching transistors being turned on concurrently during a pixel electrode charging period by an effective voltage level applied on the respective multiple different gate lines.
US10453410B2
Disclosed is a gate driving circuit, which includes multi-stages of gate driving units. Each stage of gate driving unit includes an input control module, an output control module, a pull-down module, a pull-down maintenance module, and an electric current compensation module. The electric current compensation module effectively compensates an electric potential of an output end of a present stage of gate driving unit, so that a stability of the gate driving circuit can be greatly improved, and a display effect of a liquid crystal display panel can be improved.
US10453403B2
According to one embodiment, a display device includes a display panel, a light source unit, and a controller which controls the display panel and the light source unit, wherein the controller applies scattering voltage between a common electrode and a first pixel electrode in a first area and between the common electrode and a second pixel electrode in a second area, and a liquid crystal layer scatters light in a first display color in the first area, and scatters light in a second display color different from the first display color in the second area.
US10453400B2
An electro-optical device is provided with a plurality of data lines, a plurality of potential lines supplied with a predetermined potential, a driving transistor controlling a current level according to the voltage between the gate and the source, a first storage capacitor which holds the voltage between the gate and a source of the driving transistor, and a light-emitting element. One data line among the plurality of data lines and one potential line among the plurality of potential lines are arranged to be adjacent to each other, and a second storage capacitor holding the potential of the one data line is formed by the one data line and the one potential line.
US10453395B2
An electroluminescent (EL) display apparatus and method of controlling are provided. A display screen includes gate and source signal lines. A pixel corresponds to each intersection of the gate and source signal lines. Each pixel includes: an EL device including anode and cathode terminals, the cathode terminal being connected to a common reference voltage; a driving transistor to flow a current to the EL device; a first switch transistor provided on a current path through which the current flows from a power line through the driving transistor to the EL device; a second switch transistor to supply, to the driving transistor, an image signal from one source signal line; and a third switch transistor provided between the anode terminal of the EL device and a voltage line. The voltage line is configured to supply a reverse bias voltage for reverse biasing the anode terminal of the EL device.
US10453390B2
The present disclosure relates to a pixel circuit and a method for driving the same. The pixel circuit includes: first and second transistors, control terminals of which receive a first scan signal; third and fourth transistors, control terminals of which receive a second scan signal; a fifth transistor, a control terminal of which is electrically coupled to a capacitor; sixth, seventh and eighth transistors, control terminals of which receive a control signal; and a light emitting diode. The present disclosure can reduce or reversely compensate the current leakage, and thus the holding capability of the capacitor can be enhanced. Consequently, the image flicker and thereby the image reliability can be improved.
US10453383B2
An embodiment display panel may include a housing including a recess, a substrate disposed in the recess, and a plurality of light emitting diodes (LEDs) attached to a front side of the substrate, in which the plurality of LEDs form a front surface of the display panel. The display panel may further include a back cover enclosing the recess and a back side of the substrate. The back cover may form a back surface of the display panel, and the back cover may be configured to prevent ingress of water or dust through a thickness of the back cover. The display panel may further include a power supply disposed in the recess and physically attached to the back cover and not to the housing or substrate, in which the power supply is configured to power the plurality of LEDs.
US10453379B2
A display apparatus includes: a plurality of pixels arranged in a row-column configuration and divided into a plurality of units each including a plurality of rows; a plurality of scanning signal lines configured to select one row from the pixels; a plurality of pixel signal lines configured to supply pixel signals to the one row; a control circuit configured to output an image signal in which the pixel signals are time-division multiplexed and a plurality of separation control signals for separating the pixel signals from the image signal; and a separation circuit including signal lines and configured to separate the pixel signals from the image signal and output the pixel signals to the pixel signal lines based on the separation control signals. The control circuit switches ends to be supplied with the separation control signals between first ends and second ends of the signal lines in each unit.
US10453375B2
A data processing system can store a long-term history of pixel luminance values in a secure memory and use those values to create burn-in compensation values that are used to mitigate burn-in effect on a display. The long-term history can be updated over time with new, accumulated pixel luminance values.
US10453370B1
A control apparatus is used in a display apparatus. The control apparatus includes a laser element; a temperature sensor configured to detect a temperature of the laser element; a laser driver configured to drive the laser element; and a laser control unit configured to control a driving current to be supplied to the laser element by the laser driver, such that an optical output value of the laser element converges to a target optical output value. The laser control unit determines an initial driving current value that causes an initial optical output value to be output from the laser element, based on temperature characteristic data of the initial driving current value, and a detection temperature of the laser element detected by the temperature sensor, and controls the driving current to start from the determined initial driving current value.
US10453361B2
Disclosed herein are methods of providing location-based information with respect to a topological map. A method may include (a) receiving a query for location-related information, (b) optionally generating data representing the topological map, (c) accessing the location-related information in a map-to-scale, (d) optionally determining an association between one or more points (or links) in the map-to-scale and one or more corresponding points (or links) in a topological map, (e) identifying one or more points (or links) in the map-to-scale that relate to the location-related information and that correspond to one or more points (or links) in the topological map, (f) optionally determining a relative position of the location-related information with respect to the identified one or more map-to-scale points (or links), and (g) displaying the location-related information with respect to the corresponding one or more points (or links) in the topological map.
US10453360B2
An ultrasound simulation method for rendering an ultrasound image of an anatomy model, comprises acquiring, with at least one model sensor, a position and/or orientation of the model; acquiring, with at least one probe replicate sensor, a position and/or orientation of an ultrasound imaging probe replicate, the ultrasound imaging probe replicate interacting with low friction with at least one anatomy model surface, the model surface being deformed by the pressure of the ultrasound imaging probe replicate; aligning a VR/AR model to the tracked position and orientation of the anatomy model and the ultrasound imaging probe replicate; interpolating a 2D ultrasound slice by sampling through a standard reconstructed 3D ultrasound volume, as a function of the tracked position and orientation of the anatomy model and the ultrasound imaging probe replicate.
US10453357B2
An intelligence toy used with graph cards, comprising: a base, a building block base, a building block set, and at least one graph card. The building block base includes twenty five perforations, the building blocks consist of six different building blocks, each consisting of 3 to 5 block units, and the graph card includes at least one mark, the mark corresponds to the perforation of the building block base above and is visible through the perforation, and then the six building blocks are arranged in the twenty five perforations of the building block base corresponding to the marks, whereby a variety of games are displayed through the different marks displayed on the graph card, providing to young children aged 3-6 in order to understand and operate, and to achieve the effect of inspired intelligence.
US10453348B2
A base module may be used to receive and house one or more unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) via one or more cavities. The base module receives commands from a manager device and identifies a flight plan that allows a UAV to execute the received commands. The base module transfers the flight plan to the UAV and frees the UAV. Once the UAV returns, the base module once again receives it. The base module then receives sensor data from the UAV from one or more sensors onboard the UAV, and optionally receives additional information describing its flight and identifying success or failure of the flight plan. The base module transmits the sensor data and optionally the additional information to a storage medium locally or remotely accessible by the manager device.
US10453347B2
Disclosed herein is a method for managing aeronautical safety-critical services or data links, comprising: receiving quality measurement data indicative of a quality parameter measured for an aeronautical safety-critical service or data link used by an aircraft; receiving a four-dimensional position associated with the quality measurement data, wherein said four-dimensional position includes a three-dimensional space position and a corresponding time that are computed based on a Global Navigation Satellite System and related to the measured quality parameter; tagging the quality measurement data with the associated four-dimensional position; determining, on the basis of the tagged quality measurement data and of a predefined task policy, a task to be performed, which task includes an adaptation of the aeronautical safety-critical service used by the aircraft or of resources allocated to the aeronautical safety-critical data link used by the aircraft, wherein said adaptation is based on said tagged quality measurement data; and performing the determined task.
US10453330B1
A computer-implemented system includes the following. A remote terminal unit (RTU) is configured to receive alarm information and communicate alarm event information to a control center. An optical master unit (OMU) is configured to receive alarm information from sensors at remote locations. A circuit board is configured to serve as a middle device between the RTU and the OMU. A circuit board includes a microcontroller that communicates with the OMU and processes replies from the OMU to confirm the existence of and identify the type of an alarm at a particular remote location. The circuit board also includes multiple output relays connected to the RTU and corresponding to remote alarms, each output relay associated with a particular sensor at a remote location. The computer-implemented system also includes an input relay for communicating with the OMU.
US10453320B2
A method and system for assigning working addresses to slave units in a vehicle fire system. Slave units responding to a default address are identified along with available working addresses. Individual slave units are isolated at the default address by instructing the slaves to compare their serial numbers to a broadcast serial number until only a single slave responds, wherein bits in the serial numbers are reversed to create a more sparse distribution of the serial numbers of the slave units, and assigning the slave units, which responded to the default address, to the available working addresses.
US10453315B1
A haptic engine in which a moving coil structure is powered by a suspended flexible printed circuit having multiple traces.
US10453304B2
Systems, apparatuses and methods for enhancing payouts in gaming activities. One or more payout modifiers may be presented in the game play area, where portions of the game play area identified by the one or more payout modifiers are made eligible for award enhancement for awards occurring on paylines or other pay areas that pass through or otherwise use the identified portions of the game play area that are currently eligible for the award enhancement. In various embodiments, the payout modifiers may identify different volumes of the portions of the game play area to be eligible for the award enhancement, and/or may move about the play area, and/or intersect to form new and potentially more lucrative payout modifiers.
US10453298B2
A system, apparatus and method are presented wherein games operated by users may be added, modified, and/or deleted in a manner that eliminates the need to substantially reconfigure all or mostly all of the related subsystems. In various embodiments, game containers, game container setups, and a game catalog server combine such that desired changes to game types are generated in bundles of game data setup packages and distributed for execution by respective game containers. The game data setup packages contain parameters that can be updated or modified via the game catalog server in order to effectuate desired game additions, modifications or deletions.
US10453296B2
A system and associated method are provided for conducting a lottery game play purchase at a retail establishment. At an interactive kiosk located within the retail establishment and in communication with a central lottery server, payment is accepted from a player via the kiosk for a lottery game play selected by the player at the kiosk. A transaction ID is generated at the server associated with the lottery game play, and is transmitted back to the kiosk. The player is able to input the transaction ID to their mobile smart device via an application downloaded to the mobile smart device, wherein the application generates an identifier code unique to the mobile smart device. The identifier code is transmitted by the mobile smart device to the server and is stored with the transaction ID in a file, along with the identity of the selected lottery game plays. For subsequent play of the lottery game play, the server accepts the identifier code transmitted by the mobile smart device and, if validated, retrieves and transmits the selected lottery game plays to the mobile smart device for subsequent play of the games. The server does not require or store personal information related to the player with the unique identifier and transaction ID for conducting the lottery game play transaction.
US10453287B1
A device receives, from a short-range wireless communication device associated with a safe deposit box, first data identifying a first transaction card, and identifies a bank employee associated with the first data. The device determines whether the bank employee is authorized to access the safe deposit box, and starts a timer when the bank employee is authorized to access the safe deposit box. The device receives, from the short-range wireless communication device, second data identifying a second transaction card, and determines whether the second data is received prior to an expiration of the timer. The device identifies a customer associated with the second data when the second data is received prior to the expiration of the timer, and determines whether the customer is authorized to access the safe deposit box. The device causes the safe deposit box to be unlocked when the customer is authorized.
US10453275B2
An apparatus for sensor management in computer-assisted or autonomous driving (CA/AD) vehicles, comprising a sensor analyzer and a sensor manager. The sensor analyzer is to determine a difference between a baseline sensor reading of a landmark, and a subsequent reading of the same landmark at a later point in time. The sensor manager is to determine whether a management action is needed on the basis of the determined difference, in further consideration of differential experiences from other CA/AD vehicles.
US10453274B2
Provided are a texture compressing method and a texture compressing apparatus, which compress some color information of a texture block, which is unable to realize all colors included in the texture block by a determined compression bit number, to be stored in a compression data bit of a texture block, which is able to realize all colors included in the texture block by a bit number lower than the determined compression bit number, based on a color distribution of each texture block, and a texture decompressing method and a texture decompressing apparatus corresponding to the texture compressing method and the texture compressing apparatus.
US10453269B2
Optical scan data including a first set of images representing a first portion of a three-dimensional object is received. A processing device receives ultrasound scan data including a second set of three-dimensional images representing a second portion of the three-dimensional object. The processing device performs image stitching between the second set of three-dimensional images using the optical scan data. The processing device then creates a virtual model of the three-dimensional object based on the stitched second set of three-dimensional images.
US10453265B1
Method and device for the virtual try-on of garments based on augmented reality with multi-detection
Method for the virtual try-on of garments (9) based on augmented reality with the aid of an electronic communication device (1) equipped with at least one screen (2) and one image acquisition organ (3), comprising at least the following steps: a) detecting with the aid of the image acquisition organ (3) at least the face and shoulders of at least one person (5, 6) positioned in front of the electronic communication device (1), b) defining digital data representative of the shape and dimensions of the face and shoulders of the person (5, 6) detected at step a), c) defining digital data representative of the position of the face and shoulders of the person (5, 6) on the screen (2) based on the data defined at step b), d) superimposing, on the screen (2) the image of a garment (9) from a database onto the image of the person (5, 6) by using the data defined in steps b) and c), e) maintaining, on the screen (2), the superimposition of the image of the garment (9) on the image of the person (5, 6) during the movement of the latter, characterized in that: steps a) to e) are repeated for as many times as there are persons (5, 6) positioned in front of the image acquisition organ (3) and in that, before step d), at least one additional step f) is performed, involving superimposing an image of the graphical motif (7) from a database (8) onto the image of the garment (9).
US10453243B2
Processing of non-real-time and real-time workloads is performed using discrete pipelines. A first pipeline includes a first shader and one or more fixed function hardware blocks. A second pipeline includes a second shader that is configured to emulate the at least one fixed function hardware block. First and second memory elements store first state information for the first pipeline and second state information for the second pipeline, respectively. A non-real-time workload executing in the first pipeline is preempted at a primitive boundary in response to a real-time workload being dispatched for execution in the second pipeline. The first memory element retains the first state information in response to preemption of the non-real-time workload. The first pipeline is configured to resume processing the subsequent primitive on the basis of the first state information stored in the first memory element.
US10453241B2
A computing system to obtain an output includes a multi-plane rendering module includes a renderer receives a plurality of graphical objects to generate one or more image planes of object data, a resampler upscales lower resolution image planes to a higher resolution used by the output image, and a rasterizer combine pixels from a common location in the plurality of image planes after each image plane is upsampled to the higher resolution. The renderer receives one of the graphical objects having a location value along a z-axis of the scene, determines which of a plurality of image planes the graphical objects is located using the z-axis location for the graphical object, each of the planes possess a corresponding image resolution, and renders the graphical object into the image plane at the image resolution corresponding determined image plane.
US10453233B2
The systems may include superimposing a canvas layer having a pixel system over the digital map; aligning the coordinate system of the digital map with the pixel system of the canvas layer; obtaining a location coordinate of the coordinate system to each site of interest of a plurality of sites of interest, wherein the location coordinate is associated with a location of the site of interest on the digital map; associating the location coordinate for the site of interest with a pixel in the pixel system; and creating a marker on the canvas layer on the pixel associated with the location coordinate for the site of interest.
US10453232B2
In an approach to alignment assistance, one or more computer processors receive one or more calibration parameters associated with an installation of a product. The one or more computer processors determine one or more boundaries for product registration associated with a receiving surface for the product. The one or more computer processors overlay, based, at least in part, on the received calibration parameters and the one or more boundaries for product registration, one or more alignment markings in a field of view of the receiving surface.
US10453228B2
A visualization system suitable for visualizing differences between data sets is provided. The system determines a first data set and a second data set along with a difference between the first and second data set. A value corresponding to each unit of display of the second data set is plotted on at least one graph. The visualization system determines, for each unit of display of the second data set, whether the first data set has a value for the unit of display. In response to the first data set having the value, the visualization system plots a difference of the value of the first data set on the at least one graph. In response to the first data set not having the value, the visualization system plots a missing structure element on the at least one graph. The at least one graph is displayed to a user.
US10453227B2
A mass spectrometry data processing apparatus having a function of displaying a plurality of MSn spectra in an arranged manner is allowed to display these MSn spectra in a state where a user can easily grasp presence or absence of a common neutral loss. A mass spectrometry data processing apparatus 20 that displays, on a display screen, an MSn spectrum resulting from mass spectrometric analysis of n−1 stage dissociation, where n is integer of two or more, of an ion, includes: a precursor ion identifying section 32 configured to identify, for each of a plurality of MSn spectra, a mass-to-charge ratios m/z of a precursor ion from which the MSn spectra are obtained; and a spectrum aligning section 33 configure to display the MSn spectra on the display screen in a vertically arranged manner such that positions of the mass-to-charge ratios m/z of the respective precursor ions are located at a same horizontal position of the display screen.
US10453222B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and apparatus for processing image data, the method including: generating a first window and a second window; loading preview image data in the first window; acquiring at least one of a feature image, current time information and geographical location information; loading at least one of the feature image, the time information and the geographical location information in the second window; and when receiving a generation instruction of the image data, embedding the at least one of the feature image, the time information and the geographical location information into generated target image data according to a first coordinate position, the first coordinate position being a coordinate of the at least one of the feature image, the time information and the geographical location information in the second window relative to the preview image data. The embodiments of the present disclosure achieve automation of post processing of the image data, greatly increase simplicity of operation, lower the operation threshold, and reduce the processing time.
US10453217B2
A vehicular camera calibration system includes a camera disposed at a vehicle and having a field of view exterior of the vehicle and being operable to capture image data. Responsive to processing of image data captured by the camera, the camera calibration system determines features at the ground adjacent to the vehicle and tracks the determined features over two or more frames of captured image data. Responsive to processing of frames of captured image data during movement of the vehicle along a straight path on a planar surface, the camera calibration system is operable to determine a misalignment of the camera. The camera calibration system calibrates the misaligned camera by using an assumption that the determined features lie in a plane parallel to the planar surface along which the vehicle is traveling. The camera calibration system calibrates the camera by reducing ambiguity in vectors normal to the planar surface.
US10453214B2
An object having a high attention degree is selected from objects detected by a detection means, brightness of a captured image is calculated by using an attention region corresponding to the selected object as a detection frame, and exposure control is performed based on the calculated brightness. The attention degree is evaluated higher with the decrease in the distance. Alternatively, the attention degree is evaluated higher as the direction becomes closer to the traveling direction. The attention region is made larger with the decrease in the distance to the object. It is also possible to judge the type of the object and determine the size of the attention region based on the result of the judgment. A subject to be paid attention to is made clearly visible.
US10453212B2
A wireless transmitting/receiving system includes a transmitter, a first directional receiver, a camera, a storage device and a processor. The transmitter is disposed on a target object and transmits a wireless signal. The first directional receiver is disposed with respect to an entry/exit boundary. The first directional receiver receives the wireless signal and generates a first received signal strength indication. The camera captures an image of the entry/exit boundary. The storage device stores a mapping table of target object location and received signal strength. The processor is electrically connected to the storage device and determines a location of the target object and a moving direction of the target object with respect to the entry/exit boundary according to the image and the mapping table of target object location and received signal strength.
US10453201B2
Methods of sensing a fault in an electronic display may include receiving streaming data to be displayed, appending the streaming data with an animation instruction, displaying the streaming data via a screen, monitoring the animation via a photo-sensor, sensing an interruption in the animation via the photo-sensor, and signaling, in response to the sensing step, a fault in the electronic display. The displaying step may include producing, in response to the animation instruction, an animation in a dedicated area of the screen. In some examples, the sensing and signaling steps may be performed without programmable software.
US10453198B2
A method for delineating a metal object for artifact reduction in tomography images is provided. Projection images of a body containing the metal object are received and a volume model of the body is formed on the basis of the projection images. Voxels that are part of a region encompassing the metal object and at least one metal artifact are chosen in the volume model on the basis of segmentation criterion and combined to form a first volume mask. The first volume mask is projected onto the projection images and a respective projection mask is generated. The projection masks are is altered on the basis of pixel values of the projection images. A second volume mask is determined from the altered projection masks. The second volume mask is altered on the basis of voxel values of the volume model and the altered volume mask is supplied as a description of the metal object.
US10453193B2
Various methods and systems are provided for shading a 2D ultrasound image, generated from ultrasound data, using a gradient determined from scalar values of the ultrasound image data. As one example, a method includes correlating image values of a dataset acquired with an ultrasound imaging system to height values; determining a gradient of the height values; applying shading to a 2D image generated from the dataset using the determined gradient; and displaying the shaded 2D image.
US10453189B2
There is provided a computer-implemented method for detecting and measuring stomata present in the epidermis of a plant leaf, the method comprising obtaining an image of the epidermis of a plant leaf; detecting valid stomata candidates within the image; determining physical dimensions of the valid stomata candidates; and determining vital functions of the plant based on the physical dimensions of the valid stomata candidates. There is also provided a computing device capable of measuring leaf stomata.
US10453188B2
An image processing method includes capturing an initial image of a subject based on a preset initial exposure value, capturing a compensatory image of the subject based on a preset compensatory exposure value greater than the initial exposure value, calculating a synthesized pixel value at a pixel coordinate position based on a pixel value of an initial pixel at the pixel coordinate position in the initial image and a pixel value of a compensatory pixel at the pixel coordinate position in the compensatory image, and generating a captured image based upon the synthesized pixel value.
US10453182B2
A database (52) stores image recipient reconstruction profiles each comprising image reconstruction parameter values. An image reconstruction module (30) is configured to reconstruct medical imaging data to generate a reconstructed image. An image reconstruction setup module (50) is configured to retrieve an image recipient reconstruction profile from the database (52) for an intended image recipient associated with a set of medical imaging data and to invoke the image reconstruction module (30) to reconstruct the set of medical imaging data using image reconstruction parameter values of the retrieved image recipient reconstruction profile to generate a reconstructed image for the intended image recipient. A feedback acquisition module (54) is configured to acquire feedback from the intended image recipient pertaining to the reconstructed image for the intended image recipient. A profile updating module (56) is configured to update the image recipient reconstruction profile of the intended image recipient based on the acquired feedback.
US10453177B2
A system and method are provided for identifying scale, scale error, or improper positioning during construction or reconstruction of a multi-dimensional (e.g., 3D) building model using known architectural dimensions. The system identifies architectural elements that have known architectural standard positions relative to planes within the multi-dimensional model. Dimensional measurements of architectural elements in the multi-dimensional model (poorly scaled) are compared with known architectural standard dimensions, with or without scale error, to properly scale, rescale or position one or more planes within the multi-dimensional building model.
US10453173B2
System and method of performing various transformations between an omnidirectional image model and a rectilinear image model for use in vehicle imaging systems. In particular, a panel transform system and method for transforming an omnidirectional image from an omnidirectional camera positioned on a vehicle to a rectilinear image. The rectilinear image is then displayed to the driver for use while performing vehicle maneuvers. The panel transform system and method also provide a rectilinear image model based on the omnidirectional camera for use with existing rectilinear imaging processing systems. The rectilinear image model is determined based on a variable set of input parameters that are defined by both automatic and manual system inputs such as a steering wheel angle sensor and a user interface.
US10453162B2
A monochrome imager used in such systems as a scanner can detect watermarks that have been encoded in the color space or chrominance. Such watermarks are called chroma watermarks and are considered more reliable than the traditional classic watermarks, which are encoded based on luminance. The monochrome imager detects the chroma watermark, which has been illuminated with ambient white light from a blue light emitting diode (LED) coated with phosphor.
US10453145B2
A computer system for processing data for verification of vehicle repair estimates in connection with insurance claims includes an insurance claims database having data relating to insurance claims. One or more computer processors are configured to receive claim identifying data from a repair facility computer system; determine, based on the claim identifying data, an insurance claim associated with the claim identifying data; establish secure communication with the repair facility computer system; receive data indicative of a repair estimate associated with the insurance claim from the repair facility computer system; access an evaluation of the estimate based on a plurality of rules, compare the estimate to one or more thresholds, and forward the estimate to a claim handler system.
US10453139B2
The disclosure details the implementation of an apparatus, method, and system for a macroeconomic equity investment design and trade system (the Wavefront system). The disclosure teaches a set of quantitative tools to help investors design trades around macro themes. Part of the approach is a linked set of models called Wavefronts, which describe how economic shocks ripple through the economy into company performance, market value and equity returns in the US market. In one embodiment, the modeling may be viewed as having in three parts. The first converts an economic shock into a comprehensive set of shifts in the economy. The second takes those economic shifts and drives them into company fundamentals. The third values those fundamentals based on what the market normally pays. As a consequence, the Wavefront system maps economic views and risks into predictions of what the market will pay for those changes, and the industries and companies that will over- and under-perform, which allows for and results in the construction of more risk-efficient portfolios. In an alternative embodiment, the Wavefront system may also inverse the progression of the three parts to uncover and move industry specific information to uncover macroeconomic themes.
US10453138B2
The present embodiments are provided to facilitate the automatic trading of spreads in a fast and accurate manner. One or more market data feeds that contain market information for tradeable objects are received at an exchange. A spread data feed is generated in response to the market data feeds and from one or more spread setting parameters, which can be entered by a user. The spread data feed is preferably displayed in a spread window as bid and ask quantities associated with an axis or scale of prices. The user can enter orders in the spread window and the legs will be automatically worked to achieve, or attempt to achieve, the spread. In addition, other tools disclosed herein may be utilized to assist the user in making such trades.
US10453135B2
An improved computing architecture for managed-account transactions is presented. In accordance with embodiments, responsive to receiving a request to purchase a number of units of an asset for an account of a client, a computing system may instantiate, in a client object associated with the client, objects, comprising variables for storing bases for the units and may instantiate, in an account object stored within the client object and associated with the account, objects representing the units. And for each of the units, responsive to receiving data indicating a price and time at which the unit was purchased, the computing system may store, an indication of the price and time and data associating the indication with one of the objects that represents the unit and may store data indicating the price at which the unit was purchased in one of the objects for storing bases for the units.
US10453132B2
In various embodiments, an apparatus includes a processor and a memory. The memory is communicatively coupled to the processor. The memory stores software instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to receive a trading order for a particular quantity of a trading product. The trading order specifies that a first portion of the particular quantity is a displayed quantity and that a second portion of the particular quantity is a reserved quantity. The trading order specifies at least one of a decay rule, a decay interval, a decay rate, decay quantity, and one or more conditions. The software instructions, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to cause the reserved quantity to decay based at least in part on at least one of the decay rule, the decay interval, the decay rate, and the decay quantity, and one or more conditions.
US10453131B2
The APPARATUSES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR A LOCKED-IN TRADE FACILITATION ENGINE (“LITF ENGINE”) provides and facilitates delivery of open futures positions, upon or before expiry, into financial instruments, such as currency-denominated fixed income market positions. The LITF ENGINE facilitates cash trade transactions produced upon expiration of currency-denominated interest rate and fixed income futures contracts such as U.S. Treasury futures. In one embodiment, the LITF ENGINE provides a delivery process for U.S. Treasury futures, where contracts that remain open after the close of trading on the last trading day of the delivery month may be automatically submitted as locked-in trades in the underlying U.S. Treasury securities eligible for settlement on a delivery vs. payment (DVP) basis on the next business day.
US10453123B2
An electronic trading system utilizes a Match Engine that receives orders, stores them internally, calculates tradable combinations and advertises the availability of real and implied orders in the form of market data. New tradable items defined as combinations of other tradable items may be included in the calculation of tradable combinations. The disclosed embodiments relate to detection of market conditions where identification of implied opportunities may, for example, subvert real orders resulting in undesirable effects. Under circumstances where such undesirable effects are likely to occur, identification of implied opportunities may be delayed thereby allowing market forces to attempt to resolve the aberrant market conditions and avoid the undesirable effects.
US10453117B1
A system capable of performing natural language understanding (NLU) using different application domains in parallel. A model takes incoming query text and determines a list of potential supplemental intent categories corresponding to the text. Supplemental applications within those categories are then identified as likely candidates for responding to the query. Application specific domains, including NLU components for the particular supplemental applications, are then activated and process the query text in parallel. Further, certain system default domains may also process incoming queries substantially in parallel with the supplemental applications. The different results are scored and ranked to determine highest scoring NLU results.
US10453106B2
The invention provides systems and methods for maximizing revenue generating throughput of a multi-user parallel data processing platform across a set of users of the service provided with the platform. The invented techniques, for any given user contract among the contracts supported by the platform, and on any given billing assessment period, determine a level of a demand for the capacity of the platform associated with the given contract that is met by a level of access to the capacity of the platform allocated to the given contract, and assess billables for the given contract at least in part based on such met demand and a level of assured access to the capacity of the platform associated with the given contract, as well as billing rates, applicable for the given billing assessment period, for the met demand and the level of assured access associated with the given contract.
US10453104B2
A method, system, and computer program product for pricing data according to contribution in a query are provided in the illustrative embodiments. A set of data cubes is identified, wherein a data cube in the set of data cubes comprises a quantum of data configured for trading in exchange for a payment, the set of data cubes being usable for answering a query. A first portion of a price for performing the query is computed, wherein the first portion corresponds to a first number of records used from a first data cube by the query, the first data cube being included in the set of data cubes. The first portion and the first number of records are presented in a pricing preview of the query.
US10453100B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for optimizing an online advertising campaign both before the campaign begins, and dynamically during the campaign. Optimizations are performed comparatively between a plurality of MPs (Media Properties) based on their relative cost-per-engagement. Comparisons are performed by first stack ranking MP inventory including any of sites, feeds, and verticals, based on cost per engagement. Once ranked, scores are assigned to the targeted inventory and a mean score is determined. Then, the inventory is rated as high, normal, or low impact based on their scores compared with the mean and a standard deviation for all scores. Higher impact sites with scores at least a standard deviation above the mean are initially favored, and the MP targeting strategy is dynamically adjusted during the campaign based on periodically re-evaluating the MP rankings, frequencies of engagement, and campaign progress relative to fulfillment in an allotted run time.
US10453089B2
Techniques for avoiding race conditions in a content delivery system are provided. Multiple content delivery campaigns that are affected by at least one remapping in a set of remappings are identified. Each remapping in the set of remappings maps an old identifier to a new identifier that is different than the old identifier. For at least some of the plurality of content delivery campaigns, identification data that identifies the content delivery campaign is sent to a particular service. In response to the particular service receiving the identification data, the particular service retrieves targeting data associated with the content delivery campaign. The particular service applies a subset of the set of remappings to the targeting data to generate updated targeting data. The particular service causes the updated targeting data to be stored in association with the content delivery campaign.
US10453086B1
A payment processing system is configured to provide financing to a merchant, the merchant having an account with a payment provider who operates the payment processing system to process a plurality of financial transactions between the merchant and buyers via a mobile point-of-sale (POS) terminal. The payment processing system receives repayment of the financing from the merchant by withholding a portion of funds from the plurality of financial transactions processed for the merchant by the payment processing system. The payment processing system evaluates financial transactions conducted by the merchant through the payment processing system and, based on the evaluation, provides the merchant with one or more offers defining an incentive of financing or modification of current financing arrangements in order to induce activity by the merchant. The payment processing system identifies that the merchant has performed the activity identified in the offer and implements the incentive in the offer.
US10453082B2
Systems and methods for an accredited advisor management are provided. First information enabling unique identification of a first advisor may be processed. The first advisor may be matched to a first category of advising services. Input from the first advisor may be processed based at least in part on the first category. Data sources corresponding to accrediting authorities may be selected. Credential information that came electronically from the data sources may be processed. A first set of advisor information may be consolidated at least partially based on the input and on the credential information. A second set of advisor information may be prepared for exposure to advisees. At least part of the second set of advisor information may be transmitted to an end-user communication device.
US10453080B2
Techniques are described for collecting customer data through a software application in order to optimize registration form to maximize registration success rates, based on a user engagement score related to user's interest, needs, registration behavior patterns, and source of user. In some examples, a method includes evaluating user data indicating interactions of a user with a software application. The method further includes determining a user engagement score for the user based at least in part on the user data. The method further includes determining, based at least in part on the user engagement score, a number and a type of one or more registration fields. The method further includes outputting the one or more registration fields to a display device based at least in part on a triggering event.
US10453071B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to a method for processing computer readable electronic files in an investigation in a computer system including a processor coupled to a display and an electronic storage device coupled to the processor. The method includes the processor accessing the electronic files and related data from a data source. The accessed files and related data are culled by the processor based on predetermined filter criteria. The processor stores the remaining files and related data in a third-party data repository and maps a set of electronic files and related data stored in the third-party data repository into a predetermined database schema. The mapped files and related data are analyzed by the processor, which applies a status decision on them. The analyzed electronic files and related data are submitted to a third-party e-discovery processing application based on the applied status decision.
US10453066B2
A system, method and device for detecting keystroke entries in a field entered by keyboard in connection with an online transaction that may be fraudulent or erroneous. A score can be assigned to a keystroke based upon its distance from another keystroke. The scores of keystrokes in a string can be summed to obtain a string score. The string score can be normalized by dividing the string score by the number of keystrokes summed to obtain the normalized string score. A risk of fraud or error can be determined based upon the value of the normalized string score in comparison to a predetermined value.
US10453062B2
In some embodiments, a method of performing a person-to-person financial transaction includes receiving an active authentication transaction key at a mobile financial transaction instrument of a transferor from a financial institution, storing the active authentication transaction key in a non-transient machine-readable storage medium of the mobile financial transaction instrument of the transferor, and transferring the active authentication transaction key to a mobile financial transaction instrument of a transferee for completion of the person-to-person financial transaction using wireless transmission.
US10453057B2
A system, a medium, and a method are provided to split data paths among various devices in data communications system. In some instances, the server device receives a request from a remote device such as a website server or a checkout device, where the request indicates a user request to purchase one or more items. An account management component of the server device determines a user account associated with the user request and identifies a user device associated with the user account, such as the user's smartphone. An authentication component of the server device generates an electronic message that indicates that the user must authenticate the request such that the request may be processed and initiates a transmittal of the electronic message to the user's smartphone. The user may accept or authenticate the request to process the request. As such, a communication interface of the server device may receive user data from the user's smartphone in response to the transmittal of the electronic message, possibly to process the request.
US10453047B2
A mobile scanner gun system is designed for a retail store with integrated mobile tablet device carried by employees. The mobile tablet device is connected to the pistol gun base housing through a base mount universal receiver with rotational coupling, and communicates to a USB barcode scanner/reader and MSR through a specialized universal serial bus wiring harness. The Main PCB has an EEPROM controlling operations of a scanner and an MSR. The mobile tablet device has mobile applications which allow wireless communication in the form of Wi-Fi or wireless cellular with a POS store systems server and corporate ERP system, and also commands the EEPROM. Merchandise to be purchased is scanned and received by the mobile tablet device and then sent wirelessly to the POS store systems server and corporate ERP system to obtain product data concerning description, price, inventory, electronic and physical coupon, promotions, customer loyalty data and rewards.
US10453045B2
The present invention provides a POS terminal that can prevent errors in registering product information relating to a product for sale from occurring when sales processing is performed. The POS terminal is for managing sales information of products at a store. A voice recognition dictionary (5) includes product names of products for sale registered therein. When a product name included in a voice uttered by an operator matches one of the product names registered in the voice recognition dictionary (5), a voice recognition unit (3) outputs the product name included in the voice as a voice-recognized product name. An operator display unit (10) displays product buttons for inputting the product names. When a product name of a product button pressed by the operator matches the product name voice-recognized by the voice recognition unit (3), product information of a product having the matched product name is registered.
US10453043B2
The present invention provides an accounting software application and related system and method for generating and presenting unfileable tax documents to clients for review and upon approval and payment converting the unfileable tax document into a final, fileable document for filing with a tax entity by either the service provider or the client. Watermarks, obscuring text, and other techniques may be employed to render draft tax documents unfileable so as to promote payment of services when presenting work product, such as tax returns, electronically to clients and confirming payment by the client prior to presenting or making accessible a fileable version of the document.
US10453037B2
An auto repair quote platform may be provided. The platform may allow a user to enter a set of parameters and request quotes from service providers based on those parameters. Service providers may also enter parameters for matching their quotes to a request. The platform may further allow a user to accept a quote and schedule an appointment with the chosen service provider.
US10453034B2
Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to instant messaging and provide a novel and non-obvious method, system and computer program product for managing e-mail user confidentiality. In one embodiment of the invention, a method for managing e-mail user confidentiality can be provided. The method can include transmitting an e-mail message for delivery to multiple e-mail users and corresponding e-mail addresses, identifying a privacy preference for a particular one of the e-mail users; and, concealing a display within the e-mail message of an e-mail address associated with the particular one of the e-mail users responsive to the privacy preference.
US10453030B2
System and methods for enhancing user productivity by integrating multiple services and providing a centralized output to a user as disclosed. A message notification server may receive various notifications, and may dynamically prioritize them for a ranked order presentation to users. The system may automatically re-rank the notifications based on changed conditions or to present messages of greatest urgency or importance. The system may also store sender-specific sets of rules, governing how notifications are to be handled for different application servers or services.
US10453029B2
An audit system automatically ensures compliance with relevant policy by identifying an entity offering a non-audit service that also provides audit services to the enterprise, and ensuring the service is permissible and proper approval has been obtained. If the non-audit service is prohibited or proper approval from an audit committee has not been obtained, execution of the service is prevented. When a permissible non-audit service is executed, this service can be monitored and execution suspended when circumstances change such that the service is no longer permissible or approval for the service expires. The audit system can forward a message to the audit committee or other authority about any suspended business process. If the audit committee subsequently approves the suspended permissible non-audit service, execution of the instance of the business process resumes. The audit system determines whether the vendor entity was paid demands a refund where necessary.
US10453026B2
A system and method for grouping units for forecasting purposes is presented. A sales forecast for a set of stock keeping units (SKUs) is desired. The SKUs are separated into clusters based on the similarity of the SKUs. Then a set of Bayesian multivariate dynamic linear models is chosen to be used to calculate a sales forecast for each of the clusters of SKUs. The accuracy of each dynamic linear model is determined in a training procedure and a set of weights for each dynamic linear model is calculated. Thereafter, the weights can be used with the dynamic linear models to create a weighted average forecast model. The training procedure can be run periodically to maintain the accuracy of the weights. Each procedure can operate on a sliding window of data. Other embodiments are also disclosed herein.
US10453022B2
Systems and methods include UAVs that serve to assist carrier personnel by reducing the physical demands of the transportation and delivery process. A UAV generally includes a UAV chassis including an upper portion, a plurality of propulsion members configured to provide lift to the UAV chassis, and a parcel carrier configured for being selectively coupled to and removed from the UAV chassis. UAV support mechanisms are utilized to load and unload parcel carriers to the UAV chassis, and the UAV lands on and takes off from the UAV support mechanism to deliver parcels to a serviceable point. The UAV includes computing entities that interface with different systems and computing entities to send and receive various types of information.
US10453015B2
A method and system for identifying workplace risk factors is provided. The method includes monitoring via execution of multiple geographically distributed sensor devices, workplace injury based events associated with individuals at a multisite distributed workplace environment. Current injury data describing the workplace injury based events is stored and predicted future workplace injury based events associated with future workplace injury based events with respect to a predicted plurality of individuals at the multisite distributed workplace environment are determined. Injury risk mitigating actions associated with prevention of said predicted future workplace injury based events are generated and an associated cost optimized reduction plan for prioritized implementation of the injury risk mitigating actions is generated.
US10453014B2
Systems and methods for utilizing compliance drivers to conserve system resources are provided. Data that corresponds to a pre-determined historical period may be used. A method may extract issue information, regulations data, operations loss data, drivers data, pending activities data and/or pending examinations data. The method may perform a plurality of transformations on the issue information, the drivers data, the regulations data, and the operations loss. The transformations may apply enterprise compliance hierarchy information and transform the data associated with the issue information, the drivers data, the regulations data, and the operations loss data into quarterly information. The method may include performing transformations on issue information, regulations data, operations loss data and drivers data. The method may perform final transformations in order to either allocate resources to remediate a compliance trend, remediate a compliance projection, or correct a current compliance issue.
US10453010B2
A computer device, a method, and an apparatus for business flow scheduling. The method for business flow scheduling includes determining that a transaction savepoint is configured on a to-be-scheduled node, creating an asynchronous task according to the transaction savepoint, where the asynchronous task includes a to-be-scheduled task that is on the to-be-scheduled node and that is after the transaction savepoint, using a first thread to execute a transaction that includes a task in the flow other than the asynchronous task, and submitting the transaction executed by the first thread in order to ensure data consistency, and using a second thread to execute the asynchronous task in order to implement transaction splitting between task nodes.
US10453009B2
In some embodiments, systems, apparatus and methods are provided herein useful to improve store management by reducing the instances that may cause lost sales or result in a customer assistance inquiry. The solutions disclosed herein allow users to start with sales frequency to identify potential alerts or anomalies and then optionally allows for further customization and/or prioritization regarding the potential anomalies in a way that will address specific needs or concerns of a particular system user and allows for the system to be tuned or changed over time as desired.
US10453005B2
Embodiments of the present invention generally relate to the modeling of building occupant behavior. An embodiment of the present invention relates to a method for generating interdependent schedules in an occupant simulation model. Within schedules generated in accordance with the present invention may be included activities that require the attendance of other occupants. Disclosed are methods for distributing multi-occupant activities among other occupants of a building. In another embodiment of the present invention, personas are used to generate simulated occupant schedules from a limited number of real-world occupant surveys. Characteristics of the real-world schedules are manipulated so as to fit desired characteristics. Multiple persona models are disclosed.
US10453003B2
A digital rights management license provides access to a content key that can be used to decrypt an encrypted digital content item. The digital rights management license also includes a policy that defines circumstances in which the content key is allowed to decrypt the encrypted digital content item. Further, the digital rights management license includes a license identifier. The license identifier is a digital fingerprint of at least a portion of the policy of the license.
US10452991B1
A method for operating a quantum processing device is provided including at least two quantum circuits coupled to a tunable coupler, wherein the quantum circuits are subject to cross-talk, the method including: applying a primary signal to the quantum circuits so as to drive one or more energy transitions between states spanned by the quantum circuits; and applying a compensation signal to the tunable coupler, the compensation signal designed so as to shift at least one state spanned by the quantum circuits, in energy, to compensate for cross-talk between the quantum circuits. Related quantum processing devices and chips are also provided.
US10452985B2
Provided is an apparatus which selects desired explanatory variables from a plurality of candidate explanatory variables in a statistical model that expresses, by a predetermined function, a relationship between a linear predictor and an expectation value of a response variable or a probability of the response variable having certain values, by using a variable selecting model that expresses the linear predictor as a sum of a constant and a linear combination of the candidate explanatory variables and their corresponding coefficients, the apparatus including a sign condition acquisition unit for acquiring sign conditions for at least one of the coefficients; an estimator for calculating an estimate of the respective coefficients and an estimate of the constant under the sign conditions, using plural data; and a selection unit for selecting, as the desired explanatory variable, the candidate explanatory variable corresponding to the coefficient of which the estimate is calculated to be non-zero.
US10452981B1
A system includes a centralized repository for tracking rule content and managing subscriptions to rule content by organizations and providers utilizing the system; a rule-evaluation server for receiving requests for rule-evaluations for specific patients, wherein the server determines content needing to be evaluated and retrieves the content to be used; a rule engine for performing the evaluations, wherein content, patient data, and rule evaluation parameters are provided to the engine, and the engine returns recommendations triggered by the evaluation, if any; an aggregator for aggregating recommendations from multiple sources, detecting and coordinating related recommendations, and applying configuration settings based on the patient and/or provider in context; and a client component for coordinating communication between an electronic health records system, the server, and the aggregator.
US10452980B1
A learning method for extracting features from an input image by hardware optimization using n blocks in a convolutional neural network (CNN) is provided. The method includes steps of: a learning device instructing a first convolutional layer of a k-th block to elementwise add a (1_1)-st to a (k_1)-st feature maps or their processed feature maps, and instructing a second convolutional layer of the k-th block to generate a (k_2)-nd feature map; and feeding a pooled feature map, generated by pooling an ROI area on an (n_2)-nd feature map or its processed feature map, into a feature classifier; and instructing a loss layer to calculate losses by referring to outputs of the feature classifier and their corresponding GT. By optimizing hardware, CNN throughput can be improved, and the method becomes more appropriate for compact networks, mobile devices, and the like. Further, the method allows key performance index to be satisfied.
US10452979B2
An apparatus and method of training a convolutional neural network (CNN) are provided. A method of training a CNN including a plurality of convolution layers stored in a memory involves approximating, using a processor, a convolution layer among the plurality of convolution layers using a low-rank approximation; reducing the number of output reconstruction filters of the approximated convolution layer; and modifying a structure of the CNN based on an approximation result and the reduced number of output reconstruction filters.
US10452977B2
A lightened neural network, method, and apparatus, and recognition method and apparatus implementing the same. A neural network includes a plurality of layers each comprising neurons and plural synapses connecting neurons included in neighboring layers. Synaptic weights with values greater than zero and less than a preset value of a variable a, which is greater than zero, may be at least partially set to zero. Synaptic weights with values greater than a preset value of a variable b, which is greater than zero, may be at least partially set to the preset value of the variable b.
US10452967B2
A multi layered card embodying the invention includes an outer layer of an amorphous laser reactive copolymer material which is embossed with a selected pattern at a selected temperature which is above the glass transition temperature, Tg, of the copolymer and below its melting temperature, Tm. So embossed, the selected pattern is set in the copolymer layer, and its external shape cannot be changed from the embossed form to which it was set at the selected temperature, without destroying the selected pattern. The outer layer may be laminated with the other layers of the card and laser engraved before or after lamination.
US10452965B2
A radio frequency identification (RFID) tag and a method of monitoring Quality of Service (QoS) of a RFID tagThe RFID tag (200) comprising: a first communication module (201) to receive signals from a RFID reader (100) and including means for extracting energy from the received signals providing a supply voltage Vdd to the RFID tag (200); an energy storage module (203) to store said extracted energy from the received signals of the RFID reader (100); a second communication module (202) to communicate with an external device (300); a power output (204) to provide a power-supply voltage to the external device (300) using said stored energy; a control module (205) to perform a tracking of said power-supply voltage provided by said power output (204), wherein the first communication module (201) also transmits to the RFID reader (100) a quality indicator of an energy status of the RFID tag (200) based on the result of said tracking.
US10452959B1
Various systems, methods and non-transitory computer-readable media are described, which may involve performing operations comprising: receiving, with an object detector, a first image from a first positional angle comprising a first perspective of a scene, receiving, with the object detector, a second image from a second, different positional angle comprising a second perspective of the scene, and performing, with the object detector, object detection on the first image from the first perspective and on the second image from the second perspective by cross-referencing data related to the first image and the second image within the object detector.
US10452955B2
Methods of encoding image data for loading into an artificial intelligence (AI) integrated circuit are provided. The AI integrated circuit may have an embedded cellular neural network for implementing AI tasks based on the loaded image data. An encoding method may apply image splitting, principal component analysis (PCA) or a combination thereof to an input image to generate a plurality of output images. Each output image has a size smaller than the size of the input image. The method may load the output images into the AI chip, execute programming instructions contained in the AI chip to generate an image recognition result based on the at least one of the plurality of output images, and output the image recognition result. The encoding method also trains a convolution neural network (CNN) and loads the weights of the CNN into the AI integrated circuit for implementing the AI tasks.
US10452953B2
A plurality of captured images obtained by repeatedly shooting a rotating object are obtained. In a case where a feature point corresponding to a certain point on the object is specified in one captured image and another captured image, a position information obtaining unit obtains position information relating to a position of the feature point in the one captured image and the another captured image. A rotation angle information obtaining unit obtains rotation angle information relating to a rotation angle of the object between a point of time when the one captured image is shot and a point of time when the another captured image is shot based on position information. A moving image data generating unit generates moving image data by selecting frame images of the moving image data from the plurality of photographed images based on rotation angle information of each of the plurality of photographed images.
US10452951B2
An imaging method includes obtaining an image with a first field of view and first effective resolution and the analyzing the image with a visual attention algorithm to one identify one or more areas of interest in the first field of view. A subsequent image is then obtained for each area of interest with a second field of view and a second effective resolution, the second field of view being smaller than the first field of view and the second effective resolution being greater than the first effective resolution.
US10452947B1
A camera is configured to output a test depth+multi-spectral image including a plurality of pixels. Each pixel corresponds to one of the plurality of sensors of a sensor array of the camera and includes at least a depth value and a spectral value for each spectral light sub-band of a plurality of spectral illuminators of the camera. An object recognition machine is previously trained with a set of labeled training depth+multi-spectral images having a same structure as the test depth+multi-spectral image. The object recognition machine is configured to output a confidence value indicating a likelihood that the test depth+multi-spectral image includes a specified object.
US10452944B2
A system for multifunction peripheral assisted optical mark recognition uses a scanner to scan at least one printed page to generate a scanned image of the at least one printed page and to optically detect a presence of a visible label on the scanned image. Then, the multifunction peripheral may extract a model identification and a template identification from the visible label, select a template, identifying locations from which image data is to be extracted from the scanned image, select a model, specifically identifying at least two types of acceptable marks within the image data to be extracted from the scanned image, and perform optical mark recognition on the location from which image data is to be extracted identified by the template using the at least two types of acceptable marks identified by the model to extract useful data from the image data.
US10452937B2
An electronic device includes a display including at least one pixel and at least a partial area of which is transparent. The electronic device also has a fingerprint sensor disposed in an area under the display, on which a screen is displayed, to collect light, a direction of which is changed by an object approaching the display and acquire image information related to fingerprint authentication. In addition, the electronic device has a processor adapted to acquire image information of the fingerprint sensor.
