US10461861B2
A coded-light communication device is described, in which the communication has an initial signal-to-noise ratio, which varies according to the lighting conditions. The device comprises at least one photodetector-type light receiver comprising an anode and a cathode and having an initial shunt resistance. The receiver is capable of being simultaneously exposed to a coded light source carrying a signal and a non-coded light source. The anode and cathode are short-circuited by at least one short-circuit resistance arranged inside the photodetector, having a value selected so that the new value of the shunt resistance of the photodetector resulting from the connection of the initial shunt resistance and the short-circuit resistance gives the communication device a new resultant signal-to-noise ratio which remains substantially independent of the intensity of the non-coded light.
US10461859B2
A method of outputting color code for data communication to a display screen, the method includes determining a plurality of sections having a predetermined order of a display screen, mapping the plurality of sections to different binary numbers each having at least one-bit length, and outputting a predetermined color to consecutive sections including at least a first section among the plurality of sections in a direction of the predetermined order or a reverse direction of the predetermined order. The color output to the consecutive sections represents binary numbers in which ‘0’ or ‘1’ is added to a front or end of designated binary numbers in the direction of the predetermined order or the reverse direction of the predetermined order, the designated binary numbers mapped to a last section among the consecutive sections in the direction of the predetermined order or the reverse direction of the predetermined order.
US10461858B2
An apparatus has a pixel array arrangement having a number of photosensitive detectors. Processing circuitry is configured to process data captured by at least one pixel of the array to provide image information and detect data on an encoded pulsed light signal. In a specific embodiment, data is captured at a vehicle. Information for the vehicle is determined based on the encoded pulsed light signal.
US10461855B1
Aspects of the disclosure provide for a method of forming a communication link between two communication devices using a primary search pattern and a secondary search pattern. A misalignment between a first optical system of a first communication device and a second optical system of a second communication device is detected. The first optical system is rotated according to the primary search pattern, and the second optical system according to the secondary search pattern. At the second communication device, a set of frames is captured. Then, it is determined whether a beacon beam transmitted from the first communication device is detected in the one or more of the captured frames. When it is determined that the beacon beam is detected, the communication link is formed between the first communication device and the second communication device.
US10461853B1
In example implementations, an optical gate is provided. The optical gate receives at least one optical signal via a waveguide of an optical memory gate. The optical gate compares a wavelength of the at least one optical signal to a resonant wavelength associated with a resonator. When the wavelength of the at least one optical signal matches the resonant wavelength, a value that is stored in the resonator is read out via the at least one optical signal. Then, the at least one optical signal with the value that is read out is transmitted out of the optical gate.
US10461847B2
Disclosed are techniques for determining a distance (or range) between a first wireless entity and a second wireless entity. In an aspect, the first wireless entity transmits a first positioning reference signaling (PRS) signal to the second wireless entity at a first time, where the first PRS signal is received by the second wireless entity at a second time, and receives a second PRS signal from the second wireless entity at a third time, where the second PRS signal is transmitted by the second wireless entity at a fourth time. The first wireless entity enables the distance to be determined by a location computing entity, for example, by a location server, based on the first, second, third, and fourth times. The first wireless entity may be a mobile device or a base station and the second wireless entity may be the other of the mobile device or base station.
US10461846B2
A system and method for providing communication in a distributed LMR system architecture is provided herein, wherein the system includes a plurality of LMR subsystems interconnected by a data network. In some embodiments, a subsystem may include a distributed simulcast architecture comprising a plurality of LMR sites, each site having a subsystem controller and a plurality of repeaters. In one embodiment, one subsystem controller operates in an active mode and the remaining subsystem controllers operate in standby to provide redundancy. The repeaters include integrated voter comparator and simulcast controller functionality and circuitry. In some embodiments, the repeaters are operable in an active or standby mode, wherein repeaters in the active mode perform voter comparator and simulcast controller functionality. The distributed simulcast architecture provides simulcast controller and voter comparator redundancy, network failure redundancy, and site redundancy.
US10461842B2
This invention relates to an Open Wireless Architecture (OWA) unified airborne and terrestrial communications architecture providing optimal high-speed connections with open radio transmission technologies (RTTs) between aircrafts and ground cells, and between different aircrafts in Ad-Hoc or Mesh network group, to construct the multi-dimensional unified information delivery platform across the airborne networks and the terrestrial networks wherein the same OWA mobile device or OWA mobile computer can be used seamlessly and continuously both in the aircrafts and on the ground.
US10461832B2
Disclosed are a channel status information (CSI) feedback and control method and device. The method comprises: a terminal receives trigger signaling sent by a base station, the trigger signaling being used for instructing the terminal to report CSI obtained within a specified measurement window; and the terminal reports the CSI that is measured by the terminal within the specified measurement window to the base station. Because a terminal reports only CSI that is measured by the terminal within a specified measurement window, the frequency of feeding back CSI by the terminal is reduced, and CSI feedback overheads are also reduced.
US10461830B2
The disclosure relates to a method performed in a network node for transmitting data in a wireless network. The network node is configurable for controlling a multiple input multiple output antenna system. The method comprises beamforming user specific data streams to one or more communication devices, UE1, . . . , UEK, wherein the beamforming is based on respective channel information available for each of the one or more communication devices, UE1, . . . , UEK, precoding control information streams using a transmit diversity scheme; and transmitting the beamformed user specific data streams and the precoded control information streams in a same transmission resource. The disclosure relates to a network node, method in communication device, communication device and computer programs and computer program products.
US10461824B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide methods and apparatus for linear precoding in full-dimensional MIMO (FD-MIMO) systems. According to aspects, an eNB may compress a larger number of antenna elements to a smaller number of antenna ports. The eNB may use a port precoding matrix to transmit reference signals to a UE, receive feedback regarding CSI based on the reference signals, and transmit data to the UE, based on a mapping of multiple data layers and mapping of antenna ports to the physical antenna elements. Further, aspects include performing elevation beamforming by dynamically forming one or more vertical sectors based on UE feedback in the elevation domain.
US10461822B2
A communication method includes determining, by a network device according a value of a resource bundling granularity, at least one precoding resource block group in a scheduling resource corresponding to the terminal device, where a type of the value of the resource bundling granularity is one of a first-type value and a second-type value, and a precoding resource block group determining method corresponding to the first-type value and the second-type value are different. The method further includes transmitting, by the network device, data to the terminal device by using the at least one precoding resource block group. Based on different values of the resource bundling granularity, different methods are used to determine the at least one precoding resource block group in the scheduling resource.
US10461820B2
This invention presents a Wireless Smart Antenna apparatus (WSA) comprising a Base Station Side Radio Unit (BSSRU) and a User Equipment Side Radio Unit (UESRU), wherein if a BSSRU is distributed in the coverage area of a Base Station (BS), the BSSRU communicates with one or more (BSs) using a first frequency band F1 and simultaneously communicates with one or more UESRUs using a second frequency band F2, or if a BSSRU is integrated into a BS, the BSSRU communicates with the BS baseband through circuits and communicates with one or more UESRUs using the second frequency band F2, wherein a UESRU communicates with one or more distributed or integrated BSSRUs using the second frequency band F2 and simultaneously communicates with one or more User Equipment (UEs) using the first frequency band F1, wherein one or more WSAs enable Multi-User Multiple Input Multiple Output spatial multiplexing in the F1 frequency band with UEs distributed over their coverage areas.
US10461808B2
A signal transmission assembly includes a substrate, a first transmission line, and a second transmission line. The first transmission line and the second transmission line are disposed on the substrate and extending along a first direction. The first transmission line comprises at least one first transmission section and at least one second transmission section. The first transmission section is apart from the second transmission line by a first distance. The second transmission section is apart from the second transmission line by a second distance. The first distance is greater than or equal to the second distance. A first edge of the first transmission section and a second edge of the second transmission section are proximal to the second transmission line and parallel to the first direction, and the second transmission line does not contact an edge extension line extending from the second edge along the first direction.
US10461807B2
There is provided a system for transmitting power and data from a host device to a receiver device over an electrical connection, including a host device configured to transmit power and data through an output, and configured to transmit the power through the output at different times to the data; a receiver device having an input connectable to the output of the host device, the receiver device including a power receiving circuit, a data receiving circuit, and a switch element configured to connect the input to the power receiving circuit or the data receiving circuit dependent on a voltage of a signal received from the input. There is also provided a receiver device for receiving power and data from the host device.
US10461796B2
A multimode receiving device configured to receive a standard Bluetooth data packet and a physical layer data packet with enhanced performance, can include: a receiving circuit configured to convert a received radio frequency signal to a baseband modulated signal; a demodulation circuit configured to select a demodulation scheme that conforms to a Bluetooth standard or one of a plurality of despread demodulation schemes, in order to demodulate the baseband modulated signal; and the plurality of despread demodulation schemes being configured to correspond to a plurality of predetermined spread-spectrum modulation schemes.
US10461785B2
Apparatus and methods for front-end systems with reactive loopback are provided. In certain configurations, a front-end system includes an antenna port, a transmit port, a receive port, an antenna switch configured to selectively provide a transmit signal from the transmit port to the antenna port, a low noise amplifier having an input electrically connected to the antenna port and an output electrically connected to the receive port, and a loopback circuit including a reactive loopback impedance and a back switch electrically connected in series between the antenna switch and the receive port. The reactive loopback impedance includes a plurality of capacitors in series with the back switch and operable to provide a portion of the transmit signal to the receive port when the back switch is activated.
US10461784B2
A communication apparatus 1 includes a manipulating unit 10, a power generating unit 20 that generates electric power using force externally applied via the manipulating unit 10, a transmitting unit 40 transmitting a signal, and a control unit 60 that causes, when the manipulating unit 10 is manipulated, the transmitting unit 40 to transmit the signal with priority over another process other than the transmission of the signal using first electric power which is part of the electric power generated by the power generating unit 20 and then performs the other process using second electric power other than the first electric power among the electric power generated by the power generating unit 20.
US10461781B2
For some applications such as high-speed communication over short-reach links, the complexity and associated high latency provided by existing modulators may be unsuitable. According to an aspect, the present disclosure provides a modulator that can reduce latency for applications such as 40 G/100 G communication over copper cables or SMF. The modulator has a symbol mapper for mapping a bit stream into symbols, and a multi-level encoder including an inner encoder and an outer encoder for encoding only a portion of the bit stream. In some implementations, the multi-level encoder is configured such that an information block size of the inner encoder is small and matches a field size of the outer encoder. Therefore, components that would be used to accommodate larger block sizes can be omitted. The effect is that complexity and latency can be reduced. According to another aspect, the present disclosure provides a demodulator that is complementary to the modulator.
US10461777B2
An apparatus includes a convergence detector circuit coupled to an error locator polynomial generator circuit. The convergence detector circuit includes at least two computation circuits configured to generate at least two convergence signals based on a mutual error locator polynomial from the error locator polynomial generator circuit and on at least two different sets of syndromes. Each of the different sets of syndromes corresponds to a different one of the convergence signals.
US10461773B2
An encoder for compressing input data to generate corresponding encoded data is provided. The encoder is operable to process the input data to identify reoccurrence of mutually similar multi-dimensional patterns of data bits and/or data symbols therein. The encoder is then operable to represent one or more duplicate reoccurrences of the mutually similar multi-dimensional patterns of data bits and/or data symbols by way of one or more duplication symbols uniquely identifying the mutually similar patterns.
US10461763B2
A flash analog to digital converter (ADC) includes a first, second, and third double data rate comparator core configured to determine a relative voltage of a first differential input signal during each of a rising edge and a falling edge in a single clock cycle of a comparator clock input to the comparator core. An inverted comparator clock coupled to the third comparator core reduces kickback noise. The ADC includes a first and a second floating voltage reference configured to shift a voltage of a differential comparator input by a fixed amount, and produce the first and second differential input signal. The third comparator core is cross coupled between the first and second comparator core.
US10461756B2
A first frequency accumulator (7a) operates using an output signal of a variable frequency divider (3) as a clock. A second frequency accumulator (7b) operates using a reference signal from a reference signal source (1) as a clock. A comparison operating circuit (11) compares the output values of the first frequency accumulator (7a) and the second frequency accumulator (7b), and calculates a parameter so that a result of the comparison falls within a set value. A digital-analog converter (9) outputs a signal to be added to an output of a loop filter (6) depending on the parameter output from the comparison operating circuit (11).
US10461752B2
It is desired to even further attempt to stabilize temperature in oscillator such as OCXOs (Oven Controlled Crystal Oscillators). A temperature controlling apparatus is provided. The temperature controlling apparatus includes: a temperature sensor; a power supply circuit that supplies, to a first heater, power corresponding to a difference between a target value and a detected value obtained from the temperature sensor; and a second heater that is provided at a position such that thermal conduction therefrom to the temperature sensor is faster than that from the power supply circuit, and changes power consumption of the second heater according to power consumption of the power supply circuit.
US10461750B2
A semiconductor device includes a latch circuit including a first inverter configured to output a first signal based on an input signal, a second inverter configured to output a first clock signal based on a first strobe signal, a third inverter configured to output a second clock signal based on a second strobe signal, a first clock generation circuit configured to generate a third clock signal having transitions that are delayed with respect to the first clock signal, a second clock generation circuit configured to generate a fourth clock signal having transitions that are delayed with respect to the second clock signal, a fourth inverter configured to output an inversion signal of the first signal in accordance with the third and fourth clock signals, and a data latch circuit configured to latch an output signal of the fourth inverter.
US10461740B2
A switch having a drain terminal, a source terminal and a control terminal. The switch comprises a normally-on device including a first terminal, a second terminal, and a control terminal, a normally-off device including a first terminal, a second terminal, and a control terminal, and a clamp circuit. The first terminal of the normally-on device is the drain terminal of the switch and the control terminal of the normally-on device is coupled to the source terminal of the switch. The control terminal of the normally-off device is coupled to the control terminal of the switch. The second terminal of the normally-off device is the source terminal of the switch, and the first terminal of the normally-off device is coupled to the second terminal of the normally-on device. The clamp circuit coupled across the normally-off device and comprises a first transistor coupled to the first terminal of the normally-off device.
US10461724B2
A relaxation oscillator can provide a smaller and cheaper alternative to a crystal oscillator circuit in a wide variety of applications. A sawtooth relaxation oscillator can include overshoot error integration. Separate and distinct oscillator capacitor charging, overshoot error integration, and reset phases can be provided using separate comparators for first and second oscillation capacitors. Potential advantages can include high accuracy high-frequency clock, convenient trimming during initial calibration, clock frequency stability over temperature and time, fast startup with low overshoot, high power supply rejection, low power, or low noise/jitter. The oscillator can charge an oscillation capacitor up to a target voltage, then interrupt charging before beginning an error integration phase that adjusts the target voltage by integrating an overshoot error of a voltage on the oscillation capacitor. After completing the overshoot error integration, the voltage on the oscillation capacitor can be reset. The techniques described are believed to be capable of improving clock frequency accuracy and other characteristics.
US10461722B2
A ring oscillator is configured with a multiple number of logic inverting circuits in a ring shape and generates multi-phase clock signals. A period measuring unit measures a period of a reference clock inputted thereto by the multi-phase clock signals of the ring oscillator and outputs a measured period as a period data value. A frequency spreading calculation unit calculates a frequency spreading command value in accordance with a frequency spreading rate, a frequency spreading period and the period data value of the period measuring unit, which are inputted. A pulse generation unit generates a clock pulse corresponding to the frequency spreading command value in accordance with a data value determined by addition of the frequency spreading command value to the period data value.
US10461705B2
Apparatus and methods for oscillation suppression of cascode power amplifiers are provided herein. In certain implementations, a power amplifier system includes a cascode power amplifier including a plurality of transconductance devices that operate in combination with a plurality of cascode devices to amplify a radio frequency input signal. The power amplifier system further includes a bias circuit that biases the plurality of cascode devices with two or more bias voltages that are decoupled from one another at radio frequency to thereby inhibit the cascode power amplifier from oscillating.
US10461696B2
An LC tank circuit, such as an LC tank circuit of a step-tuned voltage controlled oscillator, includes a plurality of switched capacitor banks and one or more inductors. A first switched capacitor bank switch in response to a range of control signals used to control the VCO output across a range of frequencies. A second switched capacitor bank can switch in response to a subset of the range of control signals used to control the VCO output across a subset of the range of frequencies. The control scheme for the first and second switched capacitor banks can improves the linearity of changes in the frequency of the output signal of the VCO.
US10461685B2
Foldable photovoltaic assemblies and methods of manufacturing such assemblies, including a transparent top sheet having a fold line and a conductive interconnection pattern spanning the fold line. The conductive interconnection pattern includes inter-cell connections configured to interconnect individual photovoltaic cells to form photovoltaic submodules, and also inter-submodule connections configured to interconnect photovoltaic submodules to form an assembly of submodules, which in some cases may be a fully assembled photovoltaic module. The inter-submodule connections span the fold line and are oriented at non-perpendicular angles relative to the fold line.
US10461678B2
Methods and systems for applying adaptive thermal compensation when operating a rotor of a motor are provided. The method includes: receiving a plurality of parameter data of torque and temperature of the rotor and current and voltage of the motor by a region determination module; calculating, by the region determination module from the set of parameter data, a cosine value to determine a region for applying the adaptive thermal compensation wherein the cosine value is calculated from a constant torque direction vector and a voltage limit eclipse vector derived from a functional relationship of the one or more parameter data; and applying, by a reference modification module, a modification value to incrementally modify the motor current when the motor is operating within the region determined by the region determination module for the adaptive thermal compensation.
US10461675B2
A control device includes at least one processor which functions as an advance angle detection unit, a storage unit configured to store information indicating a plurality of loci each indicating a relationship between the advance angle and a rotation speed of a rotor at each driving voltage, a target advance angle calculation unit configured to calculate a target advance angle based on the information, an advance angle control unit, a voltage control unit, and a switching unit configured to switch between a first control state for setting a target rotation speed by controlling the advance angle along one locus among the plurality of loci and a second control state for setting the target rotation speed by controlling the voltage in a state where the advance angle is fixed, according to the locus, the target advance angle, and the driving voltage.
US10461674B2
An electric working machine according to one aspect of the present disclosure comprises a motor, a speed setting unit, a load detection unit, a determination unit, and a parameter setting unit. The determination unit calculates an estimated value of a heat generation amount of the motor, and determines that the motor is in an overload operation state when the estimated value reaches a predetermined threshold. The parameter setting unit sets a parameter to be used for calculating the estimated value and/or the threshold in accordance with a rotation speed set by the speed setting unit.
US10461673B2
A single phase motor drive circuit for driving a single phase motor, comprising: a timer unit for receiving a sensor signal indicative of an angular position of a rotor, and for providing a timing signal in phase with the sensor signal; a waveform generator for generating an waveform for energizing the motor, the waveform generator being adapted for receiving the timing signal and at least one configurable setting (Soff), and for generating the waveform based thereon; a configuration unit adapted for receiving a first input signal indicative of a desired motor speed and a second input signal (Vbat) indicative of the supply voltage, and for determining the configurable setting based on the input signals, and for providing the setting to the waveform generator to dynamically configure the waveform generator. A method of driving a single phase motor.
US10461667B2
A vibration actuator capable of determining positional relationship between a vibration body and driven body with high accuracy while keeping a pressurized contact state therebetween. The driven body contacts with the vibration body in a first direction and moves in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. A holding member that holds the vibration body has two holes. A support member that supports the holding member has two projections that fit in the holes to form first and second fitting parts. The projection contacts with the hole in the second direction and in a third direction perpendicular to both the first and second directions in the first fitting part. The projection contacts with the hole in the third direction in the second fitting part. A contact range of the projection and hole in the third direction in the first fitting part differs from that in the second fitting part.
US10461661B2
A load control device is configured to generate a control signal having a desired magnitude for controlling a load regulation device adapted to control the power delivered to an electrical load. The load control device may comprise a control terminal arranged to provide the control signal to the load regulation device, a communication circuit for generating the control signal, and a control circuit configured to generate an output signal that is provided to the communication circuit. The communication circuit may be characterized by non-linear operation. The control circuit may adjust the magnitude of the output signal in response to the difference between the magnitude of the control signal and the desired magnitude to adjust the magnitude of the control signal towards the desired magnitude. The control circuit may also be configured to determine if an incompatible load regulation device is coupled to the load control device.
US10461660B2
A control device of a power converter includes first and second switching circuits. The device converts AC power supplied from an AC power supply into DC power, and supplies the DC power to the DC circuit. First converter arms are connected in series in the first switching circuit. Second converter arms are connected in series in the second switching circuit. The device further includes first and second control circuits connected to the first and the second switching circuits and control gate pulses of each of the first and the second arms respectively. A first and a second power interruption compensation circuits supply power to the first and the second control circuits for prescribed durations in power interruptions of the first and the second control circuits respectively.
US10461659B2
A semiconductor device includes a module substrate, a first input wiring line disposed on a top surface of the module substrate and including a first portion extending along a first side of the module substrate and a second portion extending along a second side that is adjacent to the first side, the second portion having one end that is connected to one end of the first portion, a first input terminal disposed on another end of the second portion and electrically connected to the first input wiring line, first to fourth transistors, first and second output terminals, a second input wiring line disposed on the top surface of the module substrate so as to be close to a fourth side that is opposite to the first side and adjacent to the second side, a second input terminal, and a module sealing member sealing the top surface.
US10461653B1
This invention provides an active-clamp flyback circuit and a control method thereof. A voltage at the common end of the main power switch tube and the primary-side winding in active-clamp flyback circuit is a node voltage. After the first switch tube is turned off, when the node voltage reaches an input voltage for the first time, start timing. If the node voltage drops to a low threshold before the timing reaches a first time, a turn-off moment of the first switch tube in a next circle is advanced; and if the node voltage is greater than the low threshold when the timing reaches the first time, the turn-off moment of the first switch in the next circle is delayed. This invention can realize zero voltage switching for different input voltages and output voltages, which reduces an energy loss in the circuit.
US10461645B2
A power supply system for recovering degraded performance of a solar cell due to PID is provided. The power supply system includes a solar cell, a non-isolated type DC/DC converter that boosts a DC voltage from the solar cell input from an input end with a predetermined boosting ratio and outputs a DC voltage from an output end, and an inverter that converts a DC voltage output from the output end of the DC/DC converter into an AC voltage, the power supply system being connected to an external power system for system interconnection, wherein the power supply system includes a potential adjustment device for applying a voltage of an external power system to the solar cell via the inverter to set a ground potential of a negative electrode of the solar cell to positive when an output of the solar cell is smaller than a predetermined value.
US10461633B2
One aspect of the invention provides a DC-to-DC driver including: a converter including an output configured to drive a load with an output current; and a feedback controller coupled to the converter. The feedback controller includes: a pulse-width modulator configured to output a first pulse-width modulated signal to the converter; a first switching mechanism coupled to the pulse-width modulator; a compensator having an output coupled to the first switching mechanism, the compensator configured to generate a first duty cycle control signal based on a comparison of the output current and a first reference voltage; and a sampler having an input coupled to the output of the compensator and an output coupled to the switching mechanism, the sampler configured to generate a second duty cycle control signal based on the first duty cycle control signal.
US10461623B2
The present disclosure relates to a voltage conversion circuit including: a plurality of switched capacitors; and a buck converter configured to be alternately applied with a first voltage and a second voltage output from each of two switched capacitors selected from the plurality of switched capacitors and to convert the applied first voltage or second voltage into an output voltage and to provide the output voltage. According to an embodiment, output terminals of each of the plurality of switched capacitors may be selectively electrically connected to an input terminal of the buck converter.
US10461618B2
A PMDC motor has a housing, a stator magnet disposed in an interior of the housing, and a rotor core disposed within the stator magnet. A ratio of an outer diameter of the rotor core to the outer diameter of the housing is from 0.60 to 0.67. The noise of the motor during operation is reduced by increasing the thickness of the stator magnet, reducing the outer diameter of the rotor core, reducing the air gap between the magnet and the rotor core and reducing the rotational inertia of the rotor core. The motor is particularly suited for use in vehicle HVAC systems where low noise is an important requirement.
US10461609B2
In some examples, a half-bridge circuit includes a first switch including a first load terminal, a second load terminal, a first control terminal, and a second control terminal that is electrically isolated from the first control terminal of the first switch. The half-bridge circuit further includes a second switch including a first load terminal electrically connected to the second load terminal of the first switch, a second load terminal, and a control terminal.
US10461608B2
A motor includes a stator unit having a stator, a rotor, a first bearing for supporting a first shaft portion of a shaft of the rotor in a first portion of the stator unit, a second bearing for supporting a second shaft portion of the shaft in a second portion of the stator unit, a first sensor for measuring a first parameter related to an operating state of the first bearing in the first portion of the stator unit, and a guide path provided in the stator unit, for guiding a first signal line of the first sensor from the first portion to the second portion.
US10461607B2
A system for liquid cooling for a motor for a pump is provided. The system includes a motor configured to be coupled to a pump to move a liquid from an inlet side of the pump associated with a first pressure to an outlet side of the pump associated with a second pressure that is greater than the first pressure. The system additionally includes a heat transfer tube adjacent to at least a portion of the motor. The heat transfer tube is configured to receive at least a portion of the liquid from the outlet side of the pump and transfer heat away from said motor using the liquid.
US10461603B2
The present invention relates to a fan motor support for HVAC systems of motor vehicles, comprising a two-part housing (15) having a second part (20) and a first part (20′), a flexible joint (30) connecting the first and second parts (20′, 20), a plurality of internal ribs (40) arranged inside the first and second parts (20′, 20) of the two-part housing (15), locking the motor radially, and at least one pair of projections (50) arranged inside the first and second parts (20′, 20) of the two-part housing (15), locking the motor axially.
US10461599B2
An automotive motor drive unit includes a breather passage (Q) provided in casings (21a, 21r, 22a, 22r) that form an outer shape of the automotive motor drive unit; an entrance port (48m) that is provided at an inlet side of the breather passage and that connects with an internal space (L) defined by the casings; an exit port (67) that is provided at an outlet side of the breather passage and that connects with a space outside the casings; and obstacles (24, 25, 26) standing to form an inner wall of the breather passage and preventing lubrication oil in the internal space from proceeding straight ahead via the entrance port toward the exit port.
US10461586B2
Methods and apparatus for cross connection detection and mitigation in wireless power transfer networks are disclosed. An example method includes receiving communication data from the second PTU, the communication data being generated by the PRU, wherein the first PTU and the second PTU are capable of providing wireless power to power receiving units; determining that the communication data is intended for the first PTU based on the connected device mapping; and transmitting the communication data to the first PTU.
US10461585B2
When a portable electronic appliance is provided with two systems, a wireless power-feeding system and a wireless communication system, each system requires two power-receiving devices, a coil and an antenna, leading to a problem of increased electronic appliance size and cost. Wireless power feeding employs the resonance method and uses a resonance coil using the resonance method and a power-receiving coil that receives power from the resonance coil. At least one of the resonance coil and the power-receiving coil can also be used as an antenna for wireless communication. Thus, a power-receiving device that can be used for two systems, wireless power feeding and wireless communication, can be provided.
US10461584B2
A power receiver includes: a secondary-side resonant coil including a resonant coil part to receive electric power from a primary-side resonant coil through magnetic field resonance; a first capacitor inserted in series in the resonant coil part; a series circuit of a first switch and a second switch; a first rectifier having a first rectification direction; a second rectifier having a second rectification direction opposite to the first rectification direction; a second capacitor inserted in series with the series circuit; a detector configured to detect a voltage waveform or a current waveform of the electric power; and a controller configured to adjust a phase difference between the waveform and a driving signal that includes a first signal for switching on/off the first switch and a second signal for switching on/off the second switch to adjust an amount of the electric power received by the secondary-side resonant coil.
US10461578B2
Methods and systems are provided for optimizing the distribution of electrical energy in an electrical power supply system which includes autonomous supply system regions, including the method steps of: —receiving input data by at least two dispatcher instances, wherein the input data represents energy intervals which are requested by the autonomous supply system regions; —calculating at least one solution of the distribution of electrical energy to the supply system regions by each of the at least two dispatcher instances; —selecting one of the calculated solutions for the distribution of electrical energy in the power supply system by a leader election. The disclosed relates to the technical field of distributing electrical energy and can be used, for example, for smart grids.
US10461574B2
A transfer switch selectively couples at least two power sources to a load. The load may be a home, business, or vehicle. A current transformer is coupled to the output of the transfer switch and generates a load measurement signal that is proportional to the current or power output from the transfer switch. A controller receives the load measurement signal and a switch setting describing the operation of the switch. The controller generates data for a status message for display based on the load measurement signal and the switch setting. The status message may describe the power consumption of the load or indicate when an error has occurred.
US10461573B2
The invention relates to a power supply unit (A) and a method for operating lighting means (6). The emergency power supply unit (A) for operating an emergency lighting means (6), preferably comprising at least one LED, the emergency power supply unit (A) comprising: an energy storage unit (2) configured to providing a battery supply voltage (VBat) in case of a mains voltage loss; a monitoring unit (12) configured to monitor the battery supply voltage (VBat) value; and a controlling unit (5) configured to control the operation of the emergency power supply unit (A) based on the actual battery supply voltage (VBat) value; wherein in a first operating mode of the emergency power supply unit (A), an emergency light (60) is switched-on; wherein in a second operating mode of the emergency power supply unit (A), the controlling unit (5) is non-operative and the emergency light (60) is switched-off; and wherein in a third operating mode, the battery supply voltage (VBat) is galvanically isolated from the controlling unit (5) by a switching means (11).
US10461568B2
A charging system, a charging method and a power adapter are provided. The power adapter includes a first rectification unit, a switch unit, a transformer, a second rectification unit, a first charging interface, a sampling unit, and a control unit. The control unit is configured to output a control signal to the switch unit, and adjust a duty ratio of the control signal based on a voltage sampling value and/or current sampling value sampled by the sampling unit, whereby a voltage of a third pulsating waveform output by the second rectification unit meets the charging requirements. The terminal includes a second charging interface and a battery. The second charging interface is coupled with the battery. When the second charging interface is coupled to the first charging interface, the second charging interface applies the voltage of the third pulsating waveform to the battery.
US10461560B2
A portable information handling system battery module has a self-contained housing having a battery charger, integrated rechargeable batteries and plural ports to transfer power, such as USB Type C ports having bi-directional power transfer capability. A cable couples first battery module port to a portable information handling system port to provide power to the portable information handling system and accept power from the portable information handling system. Plural additional battery modules daisy chain to the first battery module to accept power from and provide power to the portable information handling system. Power transfer is coordinated with communications through the ports, such as by a USB power transfer protocol supported at the information handling system and each battery module.
US10461557B2
A rechargeable tool battery (200), in particular for supplying a hand-held power tool (100), including a rechargeable tool battery housing (290), inside which a secondary cell battery (210) having a nominal cell voltage (UN) is situated, the rechargeable tool battery (200) including a rechargeable battery DC-DC converter (220), integrated into the rechargeable tool battery housing (290), which is electrically connected to the secondary cell battery (210), and is designed for raising the nominal cell voltage (UN) to a supply voltage (UV) which is tappable at a rechargeable tool battery terminal (295) of the rechargeable tool battery (200).
US10461531B2
The present invention includes self-contained, rechargeable power systems for areas having unreliable electrical grids or no electrical grid at all, and methods related thereto. The system may include one or more solar panels of various sizes to provide an off-grid power generation source, battery receivers for receiving batteries of various chemistries, and a control circuitry that is operable to detect the voltage and/or current output of the batteries that are installed in the system to determine their specific battery chemistry and then adjust the charge algorithm of the batteries to optimize both the charge capacity and the cycle life of the batteries. The control circuitry may also be operable to switch configurations of the solar panels and/or the batteries to optimize performance of the system. The system may be operable to power one or more light emitters and/or external electronic devices connected through the system by a charge port.
US10461528B2
An electrical bypass apparatus is provided, which comprises first and second terminals for connection across an electrical component; an electrically-triggered bypass switch being switchable to form a short circuit across the first and second terminals; and a first control circuit connected between the first and second terminals. The first control circuit includes mutually coupled first and second windings, the first winding being isolated from the second winding. The first control circuit is configured to inhibit a current flowing between the first and second terminals from flowing through the first winding when a normal operating voltage is present across the first and second terminals; and to permit a current to flow between the first and second terminals and through the first winding when an overvoltage is present across the first and second terminals and thereby induce a current pulse in the second winding.
US10461527B2
A method and apparatus for a battery protection circuit. One embodiment provides a method for protecting a battery including detecting, with a voltage divider having a first resistor and a second resistor connected in series, a voltage across a first current limiting switch and a second current limiting switch provided on a current path of a battery. The method also includes providing, with a control output provided between the first resistor and the second resistor of the voltage divider, a control signal to the first current limiting switch, wherein the control signal opens and closes the first current limiting switch. The method further includes controlling, with the voltage divider, the first current limiting switch to open when the voltage across the first current limiting switch and the second current limiting switch exceeds a predetermined threshold.
US10461522B2
A protection device for a power converter provided between an AC system and a DC power transmission system is configured to: receive an input of an AC current value obtained between a transformer connected to the AC system and the power converter capable of converting AC power into DC power; receive an input of a change rate of a direct current detected by a Rogowski coil provided between a DC line and the power converter, the DC line receiving DC power from the power converter; determine based on the AC current value and the change rate whether a fault occurs or not in one of the power converter and the DC line; and output information for protecting the power converter based on a determination result.
US10461518B2
A grounding system, structured to ground a number of cables supported by a support assembly, includes a multi-function line assembly and a number of conductive mounting assemblies. Each conductive mounting assembly is structured to be coupled to the multi-function line and to a conductive pile.
US10461514B2
A cable securing device facilitates secure connection to a cabling end, and employs a retaining cap, a compression member, a barrel with a tapered interior wall and a fastening device.
US10461513B2
A line cart puller for moving a line cart along overhead conductors and past support towers. The line cart puller has a workspace for supporting a user and/or payload therein, and has a drive wheel able to connect to and disconnect from an overhead conductor hi order to reposition the puller around and past a support tower. The puller also has a motor of a hand-operated tool able to removably connect to a transmission system for driving the drive wheel.
US10461508B2
This disclosure pertains to a protective sleeve for protecting a corona igniter in a spark plug shaft of an internal combustion engine, wherein the protective sleeve comprises a collar for sitting on a rim of a spark plug shaft opening and a tubular section for being inserted into the spark plug shaft and for receiving the corona igniter.
US10461506B2
A laser oscillation apparatus includes a wave plate and a diffraction grating disposed between a laser beam source and a partial reflection mirror. The wave plate changes polarization directions of laser beams emitted from semiconductor lasers to a second direction perpendicular to a first direction. The diffraction grating is disposed at a position where laser beams polarized in the first direction are superposed into one beam and laser beams whose polarization directions are changed to the second direction are superposed into one beam, superposes laser beams polarized in the first direction to have one optical axis, superposes laser beams polarized in the second direction to have one optical axis, and outputs superposed laser beams toward the partial reflection mirror. The laser oscillation apparatus includes a birefringent element to combine laser beams having mutually different optical axes output from the partial reflection mirror into one laser beams having one optical axis.
US10461505B2
Laser diodes formed on a common substrate with layers of suitable thickness and refractive indices produce output beams that are coherently coupled. A phase mask can be situated to produce phase differences in one or more of the output beams to produce a common wavefront phase. The phase-corrected beams propagate with reduced angular divergence than conventional lasers that are not coherently coupled, and the coherently coupled laser diodes can provide higher beam brightness, enhanced beam parameter product, and superior power coupled into doped fibers in fiber lasers.
US10461504B2
A VCSEG-DFB laser, fully compatible with MGVI design and manufacturing methodologies, for single growth monolithic integration in multi-functional PICs is presented. It comprises a laser PIN structure, in mesa form, etched from upper emitter layer top surface through the active, presumably MQW, gain region, down to the top surface of the lower emitter. Lower electrical contacts sit adjacent the mesa disposed on the lower emitter layer with upper strip contacts disposed atop the upper emitter layer on the mesa top. An SEG is defined/etched from mesa top surface, between the upper strip contacts, through upper emitter layer down to or into the SCH layers. Vertical confinement is provided by the SCH structure and the lateral profile in the bottom portion of the mesa provides lateral confinement. The guided mode interacts with the SEG by the vertical tail penetrating the SEG and evanescent field coupling to the SEG.
US10461501B2
To provide a two-dimensional photonic crystal surface emitting laser capable of improving characteristics of light to be emitted, in particular, optical output power. The two-dimensional photonic crystal surface emitting laser 10X includes: a two-dimensional photonic crystal 123 including a plate-shaped base member 121 and modified refractive index regions 122 where the modified refractive index regions 122 have a refractive index different from that of the plate-shaped base member 121 and are two-dimensionally and periodically arranged in the base member; an active layer 11 provided on one side of the two-dimensional photonic crystal 123; and a first electrode 15A and a second electrode 16 provided sandwiching the two-dimensional photonic crystal 123 and the active layer 11 for supplying current to the active layer 11, where the second electrode 16 covers a region equal to or wider than the first electrode 15A, wherein the first electrode 15A is formed so as to supply the current to the active layer 11 with a different density depending on the in-plane position on the first electrode 15A.
US10461486B2
A die extended in the service life. An anvil includes a base portion and a protruding portion, and further, includes a wall portion that is connected to rear surfaces of the base portion and the protruding portion. The wall portion extends further upward than the base portion, and extends further leftward and rightward than the protruding portion. Therefore, the rigidity of the protruding portion in a left-right direction is high.
US10461481B2
An electronic control unit includes a first circuit board and an electrical connection module disposed on a base of a body housing, a first connector group electrically connected to the electrical connection module, and a second connector group disposed on a wall of the body housing. The first connector group and the second connector group are arranged in a first direction along the wall. The base, the electrical connection module, and the first circuit board have respective positioning holes for positioning relative to each other. A positioning pin is insertable into openings of the second positioning hole and the first positioning hole, and another positioning pin is insertable into openings of the third positioning hole and the first positioning hole.
US10461480B1
A shield connector includes a braided conductor through which an electric wire is inserted; a shield shell formed in a tubular shape that has conductivity; and a ring formed in a tubular shape in which a pressing surface that faces the shield shell in an axial direction of the shield shell is formed on an inner surface side over an entire periphery. The pressing surface is inclined in a direction intersecting with the axial direction on a section in the axial direction. The ring is fixed to the shield shell while maintaining a state in which the pressing surface presses the braided conductor against the shield shell in the axial direction over the entire periphery.
US10461478B2
Provided is a connector configured so that tensile strength when an attempt is made to forcibly detach the connector from a partner connector can be enhanced. A housing includes a body portion and a fitting target portion extending to the side of fitting to the partner connector. The diameter of a side portion outer peripheral surface of the fitting target portion is, at at least part thereof, smaller than that of the body portion. A conductive shell includes a first shell and a second shell. The first shell includes a cover portion configured to cover at least part of an outer peripheral surface of the housing, an elastic arm having a free end on the side of fitting to the partner connector, and a support portion elastically connecting the cover portion and the elastic arm and configured to support the elastic arm in a cantilever manner. The elastic arm has a lock portion configured to lock fitting to the partner connector, and has a stepped portion corresponding to a stepped surface of the housing provided using a difference in the diameter. The second shell includes a portion facing the stepped portion at a position closer to the side of fitting to the partner connector than the stepped portion of the elastic arm.
US10461476B2
A connector comprises a housing, a connector body disposed in the housing, a conductive terminal disposed in the connector body, and a conductive shielding sleeve. The conductive shielding sleeve is disposed in the housing such that at least a part of an outer end of the conductive shielding sleeve extends to an exterior of the housing when the conductive shielding sleeve is fully mounted in the housing.
US10461469B2
This invention discloses an information robot apparatus, comprising a robot body, a plug body, a socket body, a plug groove arranged in one end face of the socket body, a first sliding cavity communicated with the plug groove, a second sliding cavity communicated with the extending tail end of the first sliding cavity, a third sliding cavity arranged in the socket body. Wherein the tail end of the bottom of a rotating shaft extends into the third sliding cavity and is fixedly connected with the tail end of the top of an adjusting threaded rod. Therefore, it is convenient to quickly plug in and take out after disconnection with power; meanwhile, the automatic control of the power supply and the disconnection with power before taking out can be realized, so that the operation safety is greatly improved.
US10461455B2
An electrical connector assembly including a first connector having a first main contact element and a first auxiliary contact element, the first auxiliary contact element being electrically connected to said first main contact element, and a second connector having a second main contact element and a second auxiliary contact element, the second auxiliary contact element being electrically connected to said second main contact element. The first and second connectors are mateable in a mating direction parallel to a longitudinal axis of the electrical connector assembly. The first and second main contact elements are configured to disconnect from each other before the first and second auxiliary contact elements disconnect from each other during unmating the first and second connectors. In a fully mated condition the first and second main contact elements are in contact and the first and second auxiliary contact elements are disconnected from each other.
US10461440B2
A radiofrequency transmitter comprises a negative impedance converter having an input port and an output port; a first antenna electrically coupled to the input port of said negative impedance converter and operatively configured to emit electromagnetic radiation of a first polarization; and a second antenna electrically coupled to the output port of the negative impedance converter and operatively configured to emit electromagnetic radiation of a second polarization. The radiofrequency transmitter is operatively configured to emit an oscillating signal having a first frequency.
US10461438B2
Systems, methods, and devices relating to an antenna element and to an antenna array. A three level antenna element provides wideband coverage as well as dual polarization. Each of the three levels is a substrate with a conductive patch with the bottom level being spaced apart from the ground plane. Each of the three levels is spaced apart from the other levels with the spacings being non-uniform. The antenna element may be slot coupled by way of a cross slot in the ground plane. The antenna element, when used in an antenna array, may be surrounded by a metallic fence to heighten isolation from other antenna elements.
US10461435B2
The invention is a dual and stagger-tuned 8-step FZP antenna for use in VSAT operations. The preferred embodiment achieves the desired antenna gain at the RX band (centered at 11.95 GHz) and the TX band (centered at 14.25 GHz). The flexible antenna is 1-meter diameter and less than 1-inch thick, allowing it to be folded to the size of a tissue box for easy storage and transportability.
US10461431B2
Described herein are architectures, platforms and methods for electrically tuning radiators in a portable device.
US10461420B2
A switchable transmit and receive phased array antenna (“STRPAA”) is disclosed. The STRPAA includes a housing, a plurality of radiating elements, and a plurality of transmit and receive (“T/R”) modules. The STRPAA may also include either a first multilayer printed wiring board (“MLPWB”) configured to produce a first elliptical polarization or a second MLPWB configured to produce a second elliptical polarization within the housing.
US10461415B2
A broadband omnidirectional antenna comprises a first radiator which is galvanically isolated from a base plate and extends away therefrom. The first radiator has a first end comprising a foot and/or feed-in point and a second end which is opposite the first end, and radiator surfaces which originate in the region of the first end and extend towards the second end. A second radiator comprises at least one radiator surface, the second radiator being arranged on the first radiator so as to be galvanically isolated therefrom. It is possible for said second radiator to be fed exclusively by the first radiator. The radiator surfaces of the second radiator are arranged as a continuation of the first radiator or the at least one radiator surface of the second radiator is arranged in the region of the second end of the first radiator so as to be in parallel with the base plate.
US10461407B2
A flexible planar antenna device and method for using the same is disclosed. In some embodiments, the flexible planar antenna device includes a planar body comprising a flexible dielectric material that enables the planar antenna device to be flexibly shapeable to a surface of a wireless device under test (DUT). The flexible planar antenna device further includes an antenna element contained within the planar body and for communicatively coupling with at least one antenna of the wireless DUT and at least one adhesive element that enables the planar body to attach to and conform to the surface of the DUT.
US10461404B2
A terminal housing and a terminal are provided. The terminal housing includes: a metal back cover, the metal back cover including an opening and the outer surface of the metal back cover being overlaid with a nonconductive material; a printed circuit board (PCB) arranged on the inner surface of the metal back cover; a plurality of antenna units arranged on the nonconductive material, each of the plurality of antenna units including: a ground portion, the ground portion passing through the nonconductive material and being connected with the outer surface of the metal back cover; and a feed portion, the feed portion being connected with a radio frequency (RF) front-end of the PCB via a shield wire, the shield wire passing through the nonconductive material and entering into the terminal housing via the opening.
US10461396B2
A system for providing information to a magnetic card reader. The system comprises an antenna (in one embodiment comprising a multi-purpose antenna or an antenna module) and a microprocessor for applying a differential signal to the antenna. The differential signal represents data stored in a memory segment of the microprocessor or in a memory connected to the microprocessor. The antenna transmits an alternating magnetic field representing the information the alternating magnetic field is responsive to the differential signal and received by the magnetic card reader.
US10461394B1
A communications device may include an enclosure, mounting structure for mounting the enclosure in a predetermined orientation, an antenna bracket mounted to the enclosure, the antenna bracket having an antenna mounting portion, and an antenna mounted to the antenna mounting portion of the antenna bracket. The antenna bracket is configured so that when the enclosure is mounted in the predetermined orientation a ground plane of the antenna extends along a non-horizontal plane.
US10461393B2
A bidirectional coupler includes: a multilayer substrate; and a first main line, a second main line, and a sub line which are provided in or on the multilayer substrate. The sub line includes a first line portion being a portion electromagnetically coupled with the first main line and an even number of second line portions being portions electromagnetically coupled with the second main line. One half of the second line portions is provided between the first line portion and one end portion of the sub line, and the other half of the second line portions is provided between the first line portion and the other end portion of the sub line.
US10461384B2
A frequency selective limiter (FSL) is provided having a transmission line structure with a tapered width. The FSL includes a substrate having a magnetic material, a signal (or center) conductor disposed on the substrate and first and second ground plane conductors disposed on the substrate. The signal conductor having a first end with a first width and a second end with a second different width such that the signal conductor is provided having a taper between the first and second ends of the signal conductor. First and second ground plane conductors are spaced apart from first and second edges of signal conductor, respectively, by a distance that changes from the first end of signal conductor to the second end of signal conductor such that signal conductor, and first and second ground plane conductors form a co-planar waveguide transmission line.
US10461380B2
An electric tool battery is detachably attached to a battery attachment apparatus. The battery attachment apparatus has a case as an exterior portion thereof, including a lock hole establishing communication between the exterior and interior of the case to allow an external lock member to be locked. Further, the battery attachment apparatus has a cover member closing the opening of the lock hole from within the case, and a mounting portion to which the cover member is mounted and which is set on an inner surface of the case.
US10461371B2
The invention relates to a method for operating a battery cell (10), in particular a lithium-ion battery cell, having at least one wound or stacked electrode assembly (28) arranged in a housing, said electrode assembly comprising a first electrode layer (12), at least one separator layer (16) and a second electrode layer (14), and a non-aqueous electrolyte containing one or more solvents and one or more conductive salts. When the battery cell (10) reaches a critical state, a chemical substance or a chemical substance mixture (46) is released, which forms complexes with the lithium ions (22) in the electrolyte (26).
US10461366B1
An energy storage device includes a first electrode and a second electrode, a separator between the first electrode and the second electrode, and an electrolyte in contact with the first electrode, the second electrode, and the separator. The electrolyte includes at least one of a fluorine-containing cyclic carbonate, a fluorine-containing linear carbonate, and a fluoroether. At least one of the first electrode and the second electrode includes a self-supporting composite material film. The composite material film has greater than 0% and less than about 90% by weight of silicon particles, and greater than 0% and less than about 90% by weight of one or more types of carbon phases. At least one of the one or more types of carbon phases can be a substantially continuous phase that holds the composite material film together such that the silicon particles are distributed throughout the composite material film.
US10461362B2
A calcium-based secondary cell including a negative electrode that includes a negative-electrode active material, a positive electrode that includes a positive-electrode active material, an electrolyte arranged between the negative electrode and the positive electrode, and a temperature control element. The negative-electrode active material is capable of accepting and releasing calcium ions, and the positive-electrode active material is capable of accepting and releasing calcium ions. The electrolyte includes calcium ions and an electrolyte medium, and is not solid at a temperature of about 20° C. and a pressure of about 1 atm. The electrolyte medium includes a non-aqueous solvent.
US10461359B2
Provided are electrode layers for use in rechargeable batteries, such as lithium ion batteries, and related fabrication techniques. These electrode layers have interconnected hollow nanostructures that contain high capacity electrochemically active materials, such as silicon, tin, and germanium. In certain embodiments, a fabrication technique involves forming a nanoscale coating around multiple template structures and at least partially removing and/or shrinking these structures to form hollow cavities. These cavities provide space for the active materials of the nanostructures to swell into during battery cycling. This design helps to reduce the risk of pulverization and to maintain electrical contacts among the nanostructures. It also provides a very high surface area available ionic communication with the electrolyte. The nanostructures have nanoscale shells but may be substantially larger in other dimensions. Nanostructures can be interconnected during forming the nanoscale coating, when the coating formed around two nearby template structures overlap.
US10461353B2
A fuel cell stack includes a stack of fuel cells, a first end plate, a second end plate, a fluid manifold member, and a protrusion. In the stack of fuel cells, the fuel cells are stacked in a stacking direction. The first end plate is disposed on a first end of the stack of fuel cells in the stacking direction. The second end plate is disposed on a second end of the stack of fuel cells in the stacking direction. The fluid manifold member is disposed on at least one of the first and second end plates. The fluid manifold member allows a fluid to flow through the fuel cells. The protrusion is disposed around a joint region at which the fluid manifold member is joined to the at least one of the first and second end plates. The protrusion protrudes outward in the stacking direction.
US10461346B2
A power generator includes a power generator cavity adapted to receive a fuel cartridge, a protrusion disposed with in the cavity to engage a check valve of the fuel cartridge, a fuel cell to convert hydrogen and oxygen to electricity and to generate water vapor, and a passage to transport hydrogen from the cavity to the fuel cell and water vapor to the cavity.
US10461340B2
A power management system 1 comprises: a control unit 540 that performs high-temperature maintaining control maintaining a temperature of an SOFC 110 during an operation within a predetermined temperature range; and a specifying unit 530 that specifies a period during which the high-temperature maintaining control should be performed. The control unit 540 performs the high-temperature maintaining control in the period specified by the specifying unit 530.
US10461333B2
The use of fibril materials, such as fibril cellulose materials and other similar materials, in electrochemical cells and components thereof is generally described.
US10461328B2
Provided are a cathode active material used for a lithium ion secondary battery capable of sufficiently realizing both high charge/discharge capacities and excellent cycle properties, and a lithium ion secondary battery using the cathode active material. The cathode active material contains a plurality of secondary particles formed via agglomeration of a plurality of primary particles of a lithium transition metal composite oxide. Spreading resistance distributions of the secondary particles respectively observed in cross-sections at optional three positions of the cathode active material are measured so as to afford average values of spreading resistance of the secondary particles in the respective cross-sections. The average values of spreading resistance of the secondary particles are further averaged. The resultant averaged value of spreading resistance is made to enter the range of 1.0×106 Ω/cm or more and 1.0×1010 Ω/cm or less.
US10461324B2
A novel hybrid lithium-ion anode material based on coaxially coated Si shells on vertically aligned carbon nanofiber (CNF) arrays. The unique cup-stacking graphitic microstructure makes the bare vertically aligned CNF array an effective Li+ intercalation medium. Highly reversible Li+ intercalation and extraction were observed at high power rates. More importantly, the highly conductive and mechanically stable CNF core optionally supports a coaxially coated amorphous Si shell which has much higher theoretical specific capacity by forming fully lithiated alloy. Addition of surface effect dominant sites in close proximity to the intercalation medium results in a hybrid device that includes advantages of both batteries and capacitors.
US10461312B2
The present invention provides a cathode active material for a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery with a high capacity, high stability and excellent output characteristics and a method for producing the same, and a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery using the cathode active material.The cathode active material for a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery is represented by a general formula: LitNi1-x-y-zCoxAlyTizO2 wherein 0.98≤t≤1.10, 0
US10461311B1
An apparatus comprises a plurality of negative electrode reservoirs configured to contain a negative electrode material, a plurality of positive electrode reservoirs configured to contain a positive electrode material and a reaction chamber. A heating system is configured to heat negative electrode material within a selected negative electrode material reservoir and to heat positive electrode material in a selected positive electrode material reservoir to maintain the electrode materials in the selected reservoirs in a fluid state while maintaining, in a non-fluid state, negative electrode material in a non-selected negative electrode reservoir and positive electrode material in a non-selected positive electrode reservoir. An electrode material distribution system is configured to cycle fluid positive electrode material between the selected positive electrode reservoir and the reaction chamber and configured to transfer, during a discharge state of the apparatus, fluid negative electrode material from the selected negative electrode reservoir to the reaction chamber.
US10461309B2
A method for manufacturing an electrode is provided. A composite including a carrier layer and a collector layer disposed thereon is provided. The collector layer has a first surface and an opposite second surface, and the first surface of the collector layer faces to the carrier layer. A first coating process is performed to coat first electrode material on the second surface of the collector layer. A first curing process is performed to dry the first electrode material. The carrier layer is removed after the first electrode material is dried to expose the first surface of the collector layer. A second coating process is performed to coat a second electrode material on the first surface of the collector layer. A material of the second electrode material is same with that of the first electrode material. A second curing process is performed to dry the second electrode material.
US10461297B2
To afford a laminated body that is usable as a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery separator and that is not easily curled, a laminated body includes: a porous base material containing a polyolefin-based resin as a main component; and a porous layer containing a polyvinylidene fluoride-based resin, the porous base material having a parameter X of not more than 20, the parameter X being calculated in accordance with a particular formula, the polyvinylidene fluoride-based resin containing crystal form α in an amount of not less than 36 mol % with respect to 100 mol % of a total amount of the crystal form α and crystal form β contained in the polyvinylidene fluoride-based resin.
US10461293B2
In accordance with at least selected embodiments, novel or improved separator membranes, separators, batteries including such separators, methods of making such membranes and/or separators, and/or methods of using such membranes and/or separators are disclosed or provided. In accordance with at least certain embodiments, an ionized radiation treated microporous polyolefin, polyethylene (PE), copolymer, and/or polymer blend (e.g., a copolymer or blend comprising PE and another polymer, such as polypropylene (PP)) battery separator for a secondary or rechargeable lithium battery and/or a method of making an ionized radiation treated microporous battery separator is disclosed. The ionized radiation treatment may provide a microporous membrane or battery separator having a lower onset temperature of thermal shutdown, an extended thermal shutdown window, physical, dimensional, and/or mechanical integrity maintained at higher temperatures, improved battery safety performance in a rechargeable lithium battery, a treated polyethylene separator membrane with the high temperature performance of a polypropylene membrane or separator membrane, or polypropylene-based trilayer product (by way of example only, a trilayer membrane made of two polypropylene layers with a polyethylene layer in between), reduced thermal shrinkage resulting in both improved thermal stability and high temperature physical integrity, which maintains the separation of cathode and anode in a battery system and avoids thermal runaway in a rechargeable or secondary lithium battery, and/or combinations thereof.
US10461291B2
A battery cell includes an electrode, a terminal, and a current-interrupt device configured to electrically isolate the terminal from the electrode. The current-interrupt device includes a plate connected to the electrode and defining a hole, and a diaphragm connected to the terminal and joined to the plate forming a ceiling of the hole. A cover of the current-interrupt device is joined to the plate forming a floor of the hole. A dielectric fluid is disposed in the hole. The diaphragm and cover are configured to move toward the terminal, in response to pressure within the cell exceeding a threshold, to separate the diaphragm from the plate forming a gap therebetween and to release the fluid into the gap preventing current from arching across the gap.
US10461290B2
According to an embodiment, an electric storage apparatus includes an electric storage device, an abutment arranged in alignment with the electric storage device, wherein the abutment includes at least three members stacked together, each of the members has a positioning part having a first surface forming a recess and a back surface of the first surface forming a projection, the positioning parts of the members are arranged at positions corresponding to one another, and adjacent members are relatively positioned by inserting a positioning part of one of the adjacent members into a positioning part of the other of the adjacent members.
US10461284B2
A method for producing an organic electroluminescent device includes the step of forming a driving circuit layer on a substrate; the step of forming an inorganic protective layer on the driving circuit layer; the step of forming an organic flattening layer on the inorganic protective layer; the step of reducing moisture contained in the organic flattening layer; the step of forming an organic electroluminescent element layer on the organic flattening layer after the step of reducing moisture; and, after the organic flattening layer is formed but before the organic flattening layer is heated, the step of forming an organic polymer film covering the organic flattening layer and the step of removing the organic polymer film.
US10461281B2
A light emitting device including a substrate, a first electrode, a light emitting layer, a second electrode, a heat shrinkable film and a first adhesive layer is provided. The first electrode is disposed on the substrate. The light emitting layer is disposed on the first electrode. The second electrode is disposed on the light emitting layer. The first electrode, the light emitting layer, and the second electrode are sequentially stacked on the substrate to form a light emitting cell. The heat shrinkable film is disposed on the light emitting cell. The first adhesive layer is disposed between the heat shrinkable film and the second electrode.
US10461273B2
A flexible display includes a display region and a peripheral region. A first reinforcement film is located on the display region of the flexible display and a second reinforcement film is located on the peripheral region of the flexible display. A semiconductor circuit chip is located on the peripheral region and a flexible board is located on the peripheral region. A side end portion of the first reinforcement film is in contact with a first side end portion of the second reinforcement film and a second side end portion of the second reinforcement film is in contact with one side of the semiconductor circuit chip. A third side end portion of the second reinforcement film is in contact with another side of the semiconductor circuit chip and the second reinforcement film is continuously formed from the first side end portion to the second side end portion.
US10461271B2
A light-emitting element with high emission efficiency which includes fluorescent materials is provided. The light-emitting element includes a first light-emitting layer and a second light-emitting layer. The first light-emitting layer includes a first fluorescent material and a first host material, and the second light-emitting layer includes a second fluorescent material and a second host material. The second host material includes a first organic compound and a second organic compound. The first organic compound and the second organic compound form an exciplex. A singlet excited energy level of the first host material is higher than a singlet excited energy level of the first fluorescent material, and a triplet excited energy level of the first host material is lower than a triplet excited energy level of the first fluorescent material.
US10461270B2
An organic EL display device includes an organic EL display panel having a plastic substrate exhibiting flexibility and organic EL elements formed on the plastic substrate, a first inorganic layer provided on an upper surface of the organic EL display panel, and a second inorganic layer provided on a lower surface of the organic EL display panel. The entire thickness T of the organic EL display device is equal to or less than 74 μm.
US10461266B2
Compounds are provided that are photoluminescent and electroluminescent, and may emit intense blue or deep blue light. Also provided are methods of producing photoluminescence and electroluminescence, methods of applying the compounds in thin films, and uses of the compounds described herein in a light emitting device, a luminescent probe, a sensor, and/or an electroluminescent device.
US10461265B2
An organometallic compound represented by Formula 1: wherein, in Formula 1, groups and variables are the same as described in the specification.
US10461261B2
A compound represented by A-D-A is useful as a light. emitting material used in an organic electroluminescent device and others.
US10461260B2
A luminescent materials including donor-acceptor compounds with a nitrogen containing donor connected to the 1-position of a carbazole and triazene acceptor connected at the 9-position is disclosed.
US10461255B2
Disclosed is an organic light emitting diode (OLED) display comprising a substrate; an organic light emitting element disposed on the substrate; an encapsulation substrate disposed on the organic light emitting element; and an adhesive layer formed on the substrate, covering the organic light emitting element, and bonding the substrate on which the organic light emitting element is formed with the encapsulation substrate.
US10461252B2
A resistive random access memory overcomes the low durability of the conventional resistive random access memory. The resistive random access memory includes a first electrode, a second electrode, an enclosing layer and an oxygen-containing resistance changing layer. The first and second electrodes are separate from each other. The enclosing layer forms a first via-hole. The oxygen-containing resistance changing layer is arranged for the first via-hole. The first and second electrodes and the enclosing layer jointly enclose the oxygen-containing resistance changing layer. Each of the first electrode, the second electrode and the enclosing layer is made of an element not containing oxygen.
US10461248B2
A substantially flat bottom electrode for magnetoresistive random access memory (MRAM) devices includes three components: a recessed bulk conductive material such as copper, a conductive liner lining the recess, and a cap layer, wherein the conductive liner is a harder material than the cap layer. The cap layer and the dielectric layer are coplanar having a height differential of less than 3 nanometers. The conductive liner has a lower chemical mechanical planarization removal rate. Also provided are processes for forming the bottom electrode.
US10461247B2
Device and methods of forming a device are disclosed. The method includes providing a substrate and a first upper dielectric layer over first, second and third regions of the substrate. The first upper dielectric layer includes a first upper interconnect level with a plurality of metal lines in the first and second regions. A MRAM cell which includes a MTJ element sandwiched between top and bottom electrodes is formed in the second region. The bottom electrode is in direct contact with the metal line in the first upper interconnect level of the second region. A dielectric layer which includes a second upper interconnect level with a dual damascene interconnect in the first region and a damascene interconnect in the second region is provided over the first upper dielectric layer. The dual damascene interconnect in the first region is coupled to the metal line in the first region and the damascene interconnect in the second region is coupled to the MTJ element.
US10461245B2
According to one embodiment, a method of manufacturing a magnetic memory device, includes forming a stack film including a magnetic layer on an underlying area, forming a hard mask on the stack film, forming a stack structure by etching the stack film using the hard mask as a mask, forming a first protective insulating film on a side surface of the stack structure, and performing an oxidation treatment.
US10461233B2
A light emitting device package of an embodiment including a first lead frame; a light emitting device mounted on the first lead frame; a second lead frame spaced apart from the first lead frame in a first direction; a protective device mounted on the second lead frame; and a body coupled to the first and second lead frames, wherein the first lead frame includes a first stepped portion disposed along an edge of a lower surface thereof, and the second lead frame includes a third stepped portion disposed along an edge of a lower surface thereof, a mounting region of the protective device which is not overlapped in a vertical direction and spaced apart from the third stepped portion, and a second wire recess portion which is partially overlapped with the third stepped portion in the vertical direction.
US10461229B1
Embodiments of the invention include a light emitting diode including a semiconductor structure including an active layer disposed between an n-type region and a p-type region. The active layer emits UV radiation. A first metal layer is in direct contact with the p-type region. A second metal layer is in direct contact with the n-type region. The first and second metal layers are both formed on a first side of the semiconductor structure. A transparent optic is optically coupled to a major surface of the light emitting diode.
US10461213B2
A method of manufacturing a solar cell includes forming a photoelectric converter including an amorphous semiconductor layer, forming an electrode connected to the photoelectric converter, and performing a post-treatment by providing light to the photoelectric converter and the electrode, wherein, in the performing of the post-treatment, a plasma lighting system (PLS) is used as a light source, and a processing temperature is within a range from about 100° C. to about 300° C.
US10461212B2
The present disclosure provides methods for manufacturing a photovoltaic device that comprise a sequence of annealing steps and exposure to electromagnetic radiation during annealing that allow passivating electrically active defects and stabilising the performance of photovoltaic device.
US10461210B2
A method for manufacturing a device (1) for detecting electromagnetic radiation. The method comprises the steps of: supplying a first substrate (400) comprising a reading circuit (340), at least two first contact plugs (343, 344) and at least one first annular bonding element (345) surrounding the first contact plugs (343, 344); supplying a second substrate comprising a cap (210), an annular side wall forming with the cap (210) a cavity filled with a sacrificial material and a detection structure (100) housed in the cavity. The method further comprising the steps of bonding the second substrate (200) on the first substrate (400); arranging at least one opening (212) in the second substrate (200); selective elimination of the sacrificial material; and closing the opening (212) under at least a primary vacuum.
US10461209B2
An avalanche photodiode for detecting ultraviolet radiation, including: a silicon carbide body having a first type of conductivity, which is delimited by a front surface and forms a cathode region; an anode region having a second type of conductivity, which extends into the body starting from the front surface and contacts the cathode region; and a guard ring having the second type of conductivity, which extends into the body starting from the front surface and surrounds the anode region.
US10461205B2
A housing for a solar panel is provided and is comprised of a glazed element and a tray. The tray includes a plate, a pair of side walls, a top end cap and a bottom end cap. The tray also includes a lip configured to seat the glazed element. Wherein the plate, the pair of side walls, the top end cap, the bottom end cap are formed of a single material and configured as a single integral component and wherein the plate, the pair of side walls, the top end cap and the bottom end cap are collectively configured to form a cavity. Wherein said top end cap includes a top header, said top header extending the length of said top end cap and said top header extending outward from said top end cap and in a direction away from said cavity.
US10461201B2
The invention provides highly fluorescent materials comprising a heterocyclic systems represented by formula (I): wherein i is 0 and Het is wherein X is selected from the group consisting of —N(A0)-. The chromophores are particularly useful for absorption and emission of photons in the visible and near infrared wavelength range. The photo-stable highly luminescent chromophores are useful in various applications, including in wavelength conversion films. Wavelength conversion films have the potential to significantly enhance the solar harvesting efficiency of photovoltaic or solar cell devices.
US10461198B2
Disclosed is a thin film transistor substrate that may include a base substrate, a first protection film disposed on the base substrate, an oxide semiconductor layer disposed on the first protection film, a gate electrode insulated from the oxide semiconductor layer and partially overlapped with at least one portion of the oxide semiconductor layer, a source electrode connected with the oxide semiconductor layer, and a drain electrode provided at a predetermined interval from the source electrode and connected with the oxide semiconductor layer, wherein the oxide semiconductor layer has a hydrogen content of 2.4 at % (atomic % or atom %)˜2.6 at %.
US10461195B2
Disclosed is a semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes a substrate, channel semiconductor patterns vertically stacked and spaced apart from each other on the substrate, a gate electrode running across the channel semiconductor patterns, source/drain regions at opposite sides of the gate electrode, the source/drain regions being connected to the channel semiconductor patterns, and air gaps between the substrate and bottom surfaces of the source/drain regions so that the bottom surfaces of the source/drain regions do not contact the substrate.
US10461191B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate, a dielectric layer, a gate structure, a source semiconductor feature, and a drain semiconductor feature. The semiconductor substrate has an active area and a shallow trench isolation (STI) structure surrounding the active area. The semiconductor substrate includes a protrusion structure in the active area and has an undercut at a periphery of the active area. The dielectric layer overlays the protrusion structure of the semiconductor substrate and fills at least a portion of the undercut of the protrusion structure. The gate structure crosses over the protrusion structure. The source semiconductor feature and the drain semiconductor feature are located in the active area and positioned at opposite sides of the gate structure.
US10461190B2
Semiconductor structures and methods reduce contact resistance, while retaining cost effectiveness for integration into the process flow by introducing a heavily-doped contact layer disposed between two adjacent layers. The heavily-doped contact layer may be formed through a solid-phase epitaxial regrowth method. The contact resistance may be tuned by adjusting dopant concentration and contact area configuration of the heavily-doped epitaxial contact layer.
US10461183B2
A device having a drain region with a drain rectangular portion having a first end and a second end, a first drain end portion contiguous with the drain rectangular portion and extending from the first end of the drain rectangular portion away from a center of the drain region, and a second drain end portion contiguous with the drain rectangular portion and extending from the second end of the drain rectangular portion away from the center of the drain region. The semiconductor device also comprises a source region spaced from and surrounding the drain region in the first layer.
US10461181B2
A high voltage semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate, a first region, a second region, and an interconnection region. The first region includes an N-type first semiconductor region, an N-type drain region formed in the N-type first semiconductor region, a P-type first body region, an N-type source region formed in the P-type first body region, and a gate electrode formed between the N-type source region and the N-type drain region. The second region includes an N-type second semiconductor region, and a P-type second body region formed in the N-type second semiconductor region. The interconnection region is disposed between the first region and the second region, and includes a first insulation layer formed between the N-type first semiconductor region and the N-type second semiconductor region, a metal interconnection formed on the first insulation layer, and an isolation region formed in the substrate and disposed below the first insulation layer.
US10461172B2
Embodiments of the invention are directed to a method of forming a semiconductor device by forming a channel fin over a substrate, wherein the channel fin includes a plurality of channel fins, wherein a first spacing is defined between adjacent ones of a first set of the plurality of channel fins, wherein a second spacing is defined between adjacent ones of a second set of the plurality of channel fins, wherein the first spacing is not equal to the second spacing. An initial gate structure is formed over the plurality of channels. Formed along sidewalls of the initial gate structure are spacers that each has a predetermined spacer height, wherein a thickness of each of the spacers is insufficient to allow any one of the spacers to fill the first spacing or the second spacing. Portions of the initial gate structure that are not covered by the spacers are removed.
US10461168B2
A method of manufacturing a field effect transistor using a gate last process includes providing the field effect transistor which includes a high-k dielectric formed between an elevated source and an elevated drain and surrounding a metal gate, and performing a chemical mechanical planarization (CMP) process on an upper surface of the elevated source, and in which a height of the metal gate becomes lower than a height of the elevated source according to the CMP process.
US10461167B2
Disclosed are semiconductor devices and methods of manufacturing the same. The semiconductor device comprises a first transistor on a substrate, and a second transistor on the substrate. Each of the first and second transistors includes a plurality of semiconductor patterns vertically stacked on the substrate and vertically spaced apart from each other, and a gate dielectric pattern and a work function pattern filling a space between the semiconductor patterns. The work function pattern of the first transistor includes a first work function metal layer, the work function pattern of the second transistor includes the first work function metal layer and a second work function metal layer, the first work function metal layer of each of the first and second transistors has a work function greater than that of the second work function metal layer, and the first transistor has a threshold voltage less than that of the second transistor.
US10461165B2
A semiconductor device and method of formation are provided. The semiconductor device includes a channel surrounding a dielectric tube and a gate surrounding the channel. The dielectric tube comprises a high dielectric constant material that has or conducts few to no carriers, such as electrons or holes. The presence of the dielectric tube confines carriers to the channel, which is in close proximity to the gate. The proximity of the channel, and the carriers therein, to the gate affords greater control to the gate over the carriers, thus allowing a length of the channel to be decreased while experiencing little to no short channel effects, such as current leakage through the channel.
US10461163B2
A three-dimensional memory device includes an alternating stack of insulating layers and electrically conductive layers located over a substrate. Memory stack structures are located in a memory array region, each of which includes a memory film and a vertical semiconductor channel. Contact via structures located in the terrace region and contact a respective one of the electrically conductive layers. Each of the electrically conductive layers has a respective first thickness throughout the memory array region and includes a contact portion having a respective second thickness that is greater than the respective first thickness within a terrace region. The greater thickness of the contact portion prevents an etch-through during formation of contact via cavities for forming the contact via structures.
US10461161B1
A lateral transistor includes a source a gate and a drain connection to a transition layer within a semiconductor substrate. One or more capacitively coupled floating field plates are connected to the source connection such that the source voltage is uniformly distributed across the field plates.
US10461146B1
A package structure includes a substrate, a metal-insulator-metal capacitor, a circuit redistribution structure, and a chip. The metal-insulator-metal capacitor is disposed over the substrate and includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and an insulating layer. The circuit redistribution structure is disposed over the metal-insulator-metal capacitor and includes a first circuit redistribution layer and a second circuit redistribution layer. The first circuit redistribution layer includes a first wire electrically connected to the first electrode and a second wire electrically connected to the second electrode. The second circuit redistribution layer is disposed on the first circuit redistribution layer and includes a third wire electrically connected to the first wire and a fourth wire electrically connected to the second wire. The chip is disposed over the circuit redistribution structure and electrically connected to the third wire and the fourth wire.
US10461139B2
A method of manufacturing a light emitting device includes providing a substrate, forming a plurality of photosensitive bumps over the substrate, forming a photosensitive layer over the plurality of photosensitive bumps, forming a buffer layer between the photosensitive layer and the plurality of photosensitive bumps, patterning the photosensitive layer to form a recess through the photosensitive layer to expose a surface, disposing an organic emissive layer on the surface, forming a metal containing layer over the organic emissive layer, and removing the patterned photosensitive layer.
US10461122B2
A light emitting diode display panel and a manufacturing method thereof, and a display device. The light emitting diode display panel includes a substrate, a plurality of light emitting diodes arranged in an array on the substrate; a plurality of polarization layers located on a light exit side of the plurality of light emitting diodes respectively, and the plurality of polarization layers are in a one-to-one correspondence to the plurality of light emitting diodes; the plurality of polarization layers include a plurality of first polarization layers and a plurality of second polarization layers having different polarization directions.
US10461120B2
A display device with a semiconductor layer sequence includes an active region provided for generating radiation and a plurality of pixels. The display device also includes a carrier. The active region is arranged between a first semiconductor layer and a second semiconductor layer. The semiconductor layer sequence includes a recess, which extends from a major face of the semiconductor layer sequence facing the carrier through the active region into the first semiconductor layer and is provided for electrical contacting of the first semiconductor layer. The carrier includes a number of switches, which are each provided for controlling at least one pixel.
US10461117B2
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor structure includes the following steps. A first carrier is adhered to a first surface of a wafer by a first temporary bonding layer. A second surface of the wafer facing away from the first carrier is etched to form at least one through hole and at least one trench, in which a conductive pad of the wafer is exposed through the through hole. An isolation layer is formed on the second surface of the wafer, a sidewall of the through hole, and a sidewall of the trench. A second carrier is adhered to the second surface of the wafer by a second temporary bonding layer, and thus the through hole and the trench are covered by the second carrier. The first carrier and the first temporary bonding layer are removed.
US10461112B1
Among other things, an integral image sensor includes a sensor surface having a surface area at which light-sensitive pixels are arranged in rows and columns. The surface area includes two or more light-sensitive subareas each of the subareas having been configured to have been diced from a wafer along two orthogonal dimensions to form a discrete image sensor. The two or more light-sensitive subareas are arranged along one of the two orthogonal dimensions. The sensor surface of the integral image sensor is flat and continuous across the two or more subareas.
US10461107B2
There is provided an image pickup element including a non-planar layer having a non-planar light incident surface in a light receiving region, and a microlens of an inorganic material which is provided on a side of the light incident surface of the non-planar layer, and collects incident light.
US10461106B2
An imaging element includes a plurality of photoelectric conversion sections. The photoelectric conversion sections are arrayed on a substrate to receive light incident through a dual-pass filter that has transmission bands for visible light and a predetermined range of near-infrared light. The photoelectric conversion sections include a visible light photoelectric conversion section and a near-infrared light photoelectric conversion section. The visible light photoelectric conversion section includes a red light photoelectric conversion section, a green light photoelectric conversion section, and a blue light photoelectric conversion section.
US10461097B2
The present application discloses an array substrate and a method of manufacturing the same. The array substrate includes a first insulating layer disposed on the substrate; a source electrode pattern disposed within the first insulating layer; an annular gate electrode pattern disposed on the first insulating layer and surrounded the periphery of the source electrode pattern; a second insulating layer covering on the annular gate electrode pattern; a semiconductor pattern disposed in the annular area of the annular gate electrode pattern, and is electrically connected to the exposed portion of the source electrode pattern, the semiconductor pattern is further electrical insulation to the annular gate electrode pattern through the second insulating layer; a pixel electrode disposed on the second insulating layer and electrically connected to a side of the semiconductor pattern remote from the substrate.
US10461089B2
Various embodiments of the present application are directed to a method for forming an embedded memory boundary structure with a boundary sidewall spacer. In some embodiments, an isolation structure is formed in a semiconductor substrate to separate a memory region from a logic region. A multilayer film is formed covering the semiconductor substrate. A memory structure is formed on the memory region from the multilayer film. An etch is performed into the multilayer film to remove the multilayer film from the logic region, such that the multilayer film at least partially defines a dummy sidewall on the isolation structure. A spacer layer is formed covering the memory structure, the isolation structure, and the logic region, and further lining the dummy sidewall. An etch is performed into the spacer layer to form a spacer on dummy sidewall from the spacer layer. A logic device structure is formed on the logic region.
US10461083B2
A semiconductor memory cell comprising an electrically floating body. A method of operating the memory cell is provided.
US10461077B2
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device having an SiC-IGBT and an SiC-MOSFET in a single semiconductor chip, including forming a second conductive-type SiC base layer on a substrate, and selectively implanting first and second conductive-type impurities into surfaces of the substrate and base layer to form a collector region, a channel region in a surficial portion of the SiC base layer, and an emitter region in a surficial portion of the channel region, the emitter region serving also as a source region of the SiC-MOSFET.
US10461076B1
A three-dimensional stacked integrated circuit (3D SIC) for implementing an artificial neural network (ANN) having a non-volatile memory die including an array of non-volatile memory partitions, wherein each partition of the array of non-volatile memory partitions is configured to store first parameters of a set of neurons. The 3D SIC also has a volatile memory die including an array of volatile memory partitions, wherein each partition of the array of volatile memory partitions is configured to store second parameters of the set of neurons. The 3D SIC also has a processing logic die including an array of processing logic partitions. Each one of the partitions of the array of processing logic partitions is configured to receive input data and process the input data according to the set of neurons to generate output data.
US10461070B2
Provided is a display apparatus having improved display quality by reducing defects due to static electricity. The display apparatus includes: a substrate including a display area and a peripheral area surrounding the display area, the display area including a main area and a first protruding area and a second protruding area extending from the main area and protruding toward the peripheral area in a first direction, the second protruding area being spaced apart from the first protruding area in a second direction that intersects the first direction, a groove portion is disposed between the first protruding area and the second protruding area; a display unit including a first light emitter and a second light emitter; a first load matching part electrically connected to the first light emitter; and a second load matching part electrically connected to the second light emitter.
US10461067B2
A method of reducing heat flow between IC chips and the resulting device are provided. Embodiments include attaching plural IC chips to an upper surface of a substrate; forming a lid over the IC chips; and forming a slit through the lid at a boundary between adjacent IC chips.
US10461054B2
An anisotropic conductive film that can be produced in high productivity and can reduce a short circuit occurrence ratio has a first conductive particle layer in which conductive particles are dispersed at a predetermined depth in a film thickness direction, and a second conductive particle layer in which conductive particles are dispersed at a depth different from that in the first conductive particle layer. In the respective conductive particle layers, the closest distances between the adjacent conductive particles are 2 times or more the average particle diameters of the conductive particles.
US10461051B2
A via or pillar structure, and a method of forming, is provided. In an embodiment, a polymer layer is formed having openings exposing portions of an underlying conductive pad. A conductive layer is formed over the polymer layer, filling the openings. The dies are covered with a molding material and a planarization process is performed to form pillars in the openings. In another embodiment, pillars are formed and then a polymer layer is formed over the pillars. The dies are covered with a molding material and a planarization process is performed to expose the pillars. In yet another embodiment, pillars are formed and a molding material is formed directly over the pillars. A planarization process is performed to expose the pillars. In still yet another embodiment, bumps are formed and a molding material is formed directly over the bumps. A planarization process is performed to expose the bumps.
US10461049B2
An aluminum electrode (2) is provided on a semiconductor device (1). A metallic film (3) for a solder joint is provided on the aluminum electrode (2). The organic protective film (4) is apart from the metallic film (3). An interval between the organic protective film (4) and the metallic film (3) is equal to or greater than half of a thickness of the organic protective film (4). Thus, even when the organic protective film (4) is deformed during sinter joining, the stress is not transmitted to the metallic film (3). Therefore, it is possible to prevent the solder connection metallic film (3) from cracking.
US10461045B2
A power semiconductor device including an insulating substrate having a metal layer formed on an upper surface thereof, a semiconductor element and a main electrode bonded to the metal layer, a metal wire connecting the metal layer with the semiconductor element, a metal member bonded to a lower surface side of the insulating substrate, a case member surrounding the insulating substrate and being in contact with a surface of the metal member bonded to the insulating substrate, and a sealing resin which fills a region surrounded by the metal member and the case member and has a resin strength of 0.12 MPa or higher at room temperature, a microcrystallization temperature of −55° C. or lower, and a needle penetration of 30 to 50 after storage at 175° C. for 1000 hours and seals the insulating substrate, the metal layer, the semiconductor element, the metal wire, and the main electrode.
US10461027B2
A semiconductor device includes a lower insulating layer disposed on a substrate. A conductive pattern is formed in the lower insulating layer. A middle insulating layer is disposed on the lower insulating layer and the conductive pattern. A via control region is formed in the middle insulating layer. An upper insulating layer is disposed on the middle insulating layer and the via control region. A via plug is formed to pass through the via control region and to be connected to the conductive pattern. The via control region has a lower etch rate than the middle insulating layer.
US10461026B2
Techniques for improving reliability in Cu interconnects using Cu intermetallics are provided. In one aspect, a method of forming a Cu interconnect in a dielectric over a Cu line includes the steps of: forming at least one via in the dielectric over the Cu line; depositing a metal layer onto the dielectric and lining the via such that the metal layer is in contact with the Cu line at the bottom of the via, wherein the metal layer comprises at least one metal that can react with Cu to form a Cu intermetallic; annealing the metal layer and the Cu line under conditions sufficient to form a Cu intermetallic barrier at the bottom of the via; and plating Cu into the via to form the Cu interconnect, wherein the Cu interconnect is separated from the Cu line by the Cu intermetallic barrier. A device structure is also provided.
US10461021B2
In accordance with one aspect of the disclosure, an electronic assembly comprises a semiconductor device with a first side and a second side opposite the first side. The first side has a first conductive pad. The second side has a primary metallic surface. A first substrate (e.g. lead frame) is bonded to a first conductive pad via first metallic bonding layer. A second substrate (e.g., heat sinking circuit board) is bonded to a primary metallic surface via a second metallic bonding layer. In one configuration the second metallic bonding layer is composed of solder and copper, for example.
US10461019B2
A semiconductor package formed utilizing a removable backside protective layer includes a leadframe, a die pad, leads and a molding compound around them. The first surface of the die pad and leads are exposed to an external environment by the plurality of recesses. The recesses are formed by coupling a removable backside protective layer to the leadframe before applying the molding compound. After the molding compound is applied and cured, the backside protective layer is removed to expose the first surface of the die pad and the first surfaces of the leads so the semiconductor package may be mounted within an electronic device. The removable backside protective layer protects the die pad and the leads from mold flashing and residue when forming the semiconductor package during the fabrication process.
US10461007B2
Semiconductor packages with electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding and a method of manufacture therefor is disclosed. The semiconductor packages may house single electronic components or may be a system in a package (SiP) implementation. The EMI shielding may be provided on top of and along the periphery of the semiconductor package. The EMI shielding on the periphery may be formed of cured conductive ink or cured conductive paste disposed on sidewalls of molding that encapsulates the electronic component(s) provided on the semiconductor package. The top portion of the EMI shielding may be a laminated metal sheet provided on a top surface of the molding. The semiconductor package may further have vertical portions of the EMI shielding with conductive ink filled trenches in the molding that may separate one or more electronic components from other electronic components of the semiconductor package.
US10461006B1
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor package includes mounting and electrically connecting a semiconductor die to a substrate. The semiconductor die and the substrate are encapsulated to form an encapsulation. Via holes are laser-ablated through the encapsulation and conductive material is deposited within the via holes to form vias. A first buildup dielectric layer is formed on the encapsulation. Laser-ablated artifacts are laser-ablated in the first buildup layer. The laser-ablated artifacts in the first buildup layer are filled with a first metal layer to form a first electrically conductive pattern in the first build up layer. The operations of forming a buildup layer, forming laser-ablated artifacts in the buildup layer, and filling the laser-ablated artifacts with an electrically conductive material to form an electrically conductive pattern can be performed any one of a number of times to achieve the desired redistribution.
US10460987B2
The present disclosure provides a semiconductor package device, which includes a semiconductor die and a redistribution layer disposed over and electrically coupled to the semiconductor die. The redistribution layer includes a first conductive plate, a second conductive plate disposed over the first conductive plate, an insulating film between the first conductive plate and the second conductive plate, and a first dielectric material encapsulating the first conductive plate, the second conductive plate and the insulating film. The first conductive plate and the second conductive plate are configured as an antenna plane and a ground plane, respectively.
US10460983B2
A method for manufacturing a bonded SOI wafer by bonding a bond wafer and a base wafer, each composed of a silicon single crystal, via an insulator film, including the steps of: depositing a polycrystalline silicon layer on the bonding surface side of the base wafer, polishing a surface of the polycrystalline silicon layer, forming the insulator film on the bonding surface of the bond wafer, bonding the polished surface of the polycrystalline silicon layer of the base wafer and the bond wafer via the insulator film, and thinning the bonded bond wafer to form an SOI layer; As a result, it is possible to provide a method for manufacturing a bonded SOI wafer which can prevent single-crystallization of polycrystalline silicon while suppressing an increase of the warpage of a base wafer even when the polycrystalline silicon layer to function as a carrier trap layer is deposited sufficiently thick.
US10460980B2
A method for fabricating semiconductor device comprising the steps of: forming a first trench and a second trench in a substrate; forming a liner in the first trench and the second trench; forming a first patterned mask on the substrate to cover the second trench; removing the liner in the first trench; removing the first patterned mask; and forming an insulating layer in the first trench and the second trench to form a trap rich isolation structure in the first trench and a deep trench isolation structure in the second trench.
US10460975B2
A vacuum chuck includes: a vacuum chuck stage having a circular vacuum surface; a vacuum protection pad provided to the vacuum surface; an annular or arc-shaped concave portion dividing the vacuum surface into a central region located closer to a center of the vacuum surface and an outer circumferential region located on an outer circumferential side; and radially-extending concave portions formed in the central region. The vacuum protection pad has through holes in communication with the radially-extending concave portions, and the vacuum protection pad is bonded to the vacuum surface at the central region excluding the radially-extending concave portions.
US10460973B2
The pressure sensitive adhesive tape for semiconductor processing of the present invention is a pressure sensitive adhesive tape for semiconductor processing, which, in a step of grinding a back face of a semiconductor wafer having a groove formed on a front face thereof or having a modified region formed therein to singulate the semiconductor wafer into semiconductor chips, is stuck on the front face of the semiconductor wafer and used, the pressure sensitive adhesive tape for semiconductor processing including a base, a buffer layer provided on one face of the base, and a pressure sensitive adhesive layer provided on the other face of the base, and having a ratio (D2/D1) of a thickness (D2) of the buffer layer to a thickness (D1) of the base of 0.7 or less and an indentation depth (X) of the front face on the buffer layer side of 2.5 μm or less.
US10460963B2
A plasma processing method of processing a processing target object, in which an organic film, a mask film and a resist film are stacked in sequence, by plasma includes a process of supplying a modifying gas, which is a H2 gas, a hydrogen halide gas, or a mixed gas containing a rare gas and a H2 gas or a hydrogen halide gas, into a chamber accommodating therein the processing target object in which a preset pattern is formed on the resist film; and modifying process of modifying the resist film of the processing target object by plasma of the modifying gas at a processing temperature equal to or less than −20° C.
US10460953B2
Provided is a semiconductor manufacturing apparatus including: a container in which a processing chamber is installed; a stage installed in the processing chamber and configured to hold a semiconductor substrate; a gas supply line configured to supply reactive gas to the processing chamber; and a vacuum line configured to exhaust the processing chamber, wherein the semiconductor substrate includes a high-k insulating film, and as the reactive gas, mixed gas including complex-forming gas forming a volatile organometallic complex by reacting with a metal element included in the high-k insulating film and complex stabilizing material gas that increases stability of the organometallic complex is supplied.
US10460949B2
There is provided a substrate processing apparatus of performing a predetermined substrate process on a plurality of target substrates under a vacuum atmosphere, including: a plurality of processing parts each configured to perform the substrate process on each of the plurality of target substrates; a gas supply mechanism configured to supply a processing gas to each of the plurality of processing parts; a single exhaust mechanism configured to exhaust the processing gas within the plurality of processing parts; and a control part configured to control the single exhaust mechanism to collectively exhaust the processing gas within the plurality of processing parts, and control the gas supply mechanism to separately supply the processing gas into each of the plurality of processing parts such that a difference between internal pressures of the plurality of processing parts is prevented.
US10460946B2
A technique capable of removing a natural oxide film formed on a surface of a semiconductor layer which contains a compound of indium and an element other than indium as a main ingredient, without making a temperature of the semiconductor layer relatively high. The technique includes supplying a first etching gas which is β-diketone to the semiconductor layer and heating the semiconductor layer to remove an oxide of the indium constituting the natural oxide film; and supplying a second etching gas to the semiconductor layer and heating the semiconductor layer to remove an oxide of the element constituting the natural oxide film. By using the first etching gas, it is possible to remove the indium oxide even if the temperature of the semiconductor layer is relatively low. This eliminates the need to increase the temperature to a relatively high level when removing the natural oxide film.
US10460944B2
Technologies for providing a semiconductor device, which can comprise a fully depleted semiconductor on insulator transistor and a method for forming the same are described. Various embodiments disclose a buried dielectric layer coupled to a semiconductor layer, and a back-gate stack is coupled to the buried dielectric layer, the back-gate stack comprising a back-gate conductor layer, a ferroelectric material layer coupled to the back-gate conductor layer, and a back-gate contact layer coupled to the ferroelectric material layer. A gate insulator can be coupled to the semiconductor layer, and a gate can be coupled to the gate insulator; the semiconductor layer can comprise a source, a drain and a channel region between the source and the drain. The negative capacitance property of the ferroelectric insulator provides back biasing of the fully depleted semiconductor on insulator transistor, including if using a relatively thick buried dielectric layer and a normal operating voltage.
US10460938B2
Techniques disclosed herein provide a method of patterning for creating high-resolution features and also for cutting on pitch of sub-resolution features. Techniques include forming bi-layer or multi-layer mandrels and then forming one or more lines of material running along sidewalls of the mandrels. The different materials can have different etch resistivities to be able to selectively etch one or more of the materials to create features and create cuts and blocks where specified. Etching using an etch mask positioned above or below this multi-line layer further defines a pattern that is transferred into an underlying layer. Having a mandrel of two or more layers of material enables one of those materials to be sacrificial such as when etching a spin-on reversal overcoat material that has filled-in open spaces, but leaves an overburden.
US10460933B2
Methods for gapfilling semiconductor device features, such as high aspect ratio trenches, with amorphous silicon film are provided. First, a substrate having features formed in a first surface thereof is positioned in a processing chamber. A conformal deposition process is then performed to deposit a conformal silicon liner layer on the sidewalls of the features and the exposed first surface of the substrate between the features. A flowable deposition process is then performed to deposit a flowable silicon layer over the conformal silicon liner layer. A curing process is then performed to increase silicon density of the flowable silicon layer. Methods described herein generally improve overall etch selectivity by the conformal silicon deposition and the flowable silicon deposition two-step process to realize seam-free gapfilling between features with high quality amorphous silicon film.
US10460927B2
A method of forming a SiOCN material layer, a material layer stack, a semiconductor device, a method of fabricating a semiconductor device, and a deposition apparatus, the method of forming a SiOCN material layer including providing a substrate; providing a silicon precursor onto the substrate; providing an oxygen reactant onto the substrate; providing a first carbon precursor onto the substrate; providing a second carbon precursor onto the substrate; and providing a nitrogen reactant onto the substrate, wherein the first carbon precursor and the second carbon precursor are different materials.
US10460926B2
A method for processing a semiconductor wafer is provided. The method includes transferring the semiconductor wafer from an interface tool to a Chemical Mechanical Polishing (CMP) tool. The method further includes polishing the semiconductor wafer with the CMP tool. The method also includes transferring the semiconductor wafer back to the interface tool from the CMP tool. In addition, the method includes converting a mixture to a mist spray and discharging the mist spray over the semiconductor wafer in the interface tool after the semiconductor wafer is polished by the CMP tool.
US10460905B2
Multi-beam scanning electron microscope inspection systems are disclosed. A multi-beam scanning electron microscope inspection system may include an electron source and a beamlet control mechanism. The beamlet control mechanism may be configured to produce a plurality of beamlets utilizing electrons provided by the electron source and deliver one of the plurality of beamlets toward a target at a time instance. The multi-beam scanning electron microscope inspection system may also include a detector configured to produce an image of the target at least partially based on electrons backscattered out of the target.
US10460897B2
The present disclosure relates to a magnetic trip device for a circuit breaker capable of maintaining fault information indication until a user removes the cause of an accident subsequent to a trip operation and resets the magnetic trip device. The device comprises an actuator coil part having a plunger; an output plate; a micro switch outputting an electrical signal indicating a state of the circuit breaker; a switch driving lever mechanism rotating to press and releasing the micro switch; a driving lever bias spring elastically biasing the switch driving lever mechanism to rotate; an automatic reset mechanism pressing the plunger to a retracted position; and a driving lever latch rotating to a restraining position for preventing the switch driving lever mechanism from rotating to a first position, and a release position allowing the switch driving lever mechanism-to rotate to the first position.
US10460890B2
Implementations of a multi-pole dome switch configured to simultaneously, or nearly simultaneously, close or open two separate circuits are provided. In some implementations, a multi-pole dome switch may comprise a tactile metal dome and a conductive insert that are separated by an insulator. In some implementations, when the dome is depressed, the dome and the conductive insert are configured to simultaneously, or nearly simultaneously, make conductive contact with two traces of a first circuit and two traces of a second circuit, respectively, positioned thereunder on a PCB. In this way, the multi-pole dome switch is able to simultaneously, or nearly simultaneously, close two separate circuits. Succinctly put, in some implementations, the multi-pole dome switch may be configured to act as a double-pole, double-throw switch.
US10460887B2
A system (100) and method is provided that facilitates functional safety monitoring of relay contacts. The system may include a contactless sensor circuit (108) that includes: an output signal antenna (110) positioned in the contactless sensor circuit to extend between at least two contacts (116, 118) of a relay (120); and first and second input signal antennas (112, 114) positioned in the contactless sensor circuit respectively adjacent the at least two contacts of the relay, such that the output signal antenna and the at least two contacts of the relay are positioned between the first and second input signal antennas. The system may also include a processor (102) configured to cause the output signal antenna to output a wireless signal (122) capable of being received by the first and second input signal antennas while the processor monitors wireless signals received by the first and second input signals antennas. The processor may be configured to determine that the relay has a fault based on the wireless signals received by the first and second input signal antennas, and responsive thereto output at least one communication (126) indicative of a fault with the relay being detected.
US10460886B2
A fused tap for an elbow connector that properly insulates and houses an interruption device or fuse to provide protection on underground distribution power lines. The interruption device is replaceable without the need of replacing the entire assembly. The fused tap provides flexibility in installation for existing and new underground distribution lines and/or feeders.
US10460881B2
A method of making a supercapacitor from waste tires, includes the steps of providing rubber pieces and contacting the rubber pieces with a sulfonation bath to produce sulfonated rubber; pyrolyzing the sulfonated rubber to produce a tire-derived carbon composite comprising carbon black embedded in rubber-derived carbon matrix comprising graphitized interface portions; activating the tire-derived carbon composite by contacting the tire-derived carbon composite with a specific surface area-increasing composition to increase the specific surface area of the carbon composite to provide an activated tire-derived carbon composite; and, mixing the activated tire-derived carbon composite with a monomer and polymerizing the monomer to produce a redox-active polymer coated, activated tire-derived carbon composite. The redox-active polymer coated, activated tire-derived carbon composite can be formed into a film. An electrode and a supercapacitor are also disclosed.
US10460875B2
A multilayer electronic component includes a capacitor body including a plurality of dielectric layers and a plurality of first and second internal electrodes alternately disposed with respective dielectric layers interposed therebetween. One end of each of the first and second internal electrodes extends, respectively, to a third or fourth surface of the capacitor body. First and second external electrodes respectively include first and second connected portions disposed on the third and fourth surfaces, and first and second band portions respectively extended from the first and second connected portions to portions of a first surface of the capacitor body. A first connection terminal is disposed on the first band portion to provide a first solder accommodating portion, and a second connection terminal is disposed on the second band portion to provide a second solder accommodating portion.
US10460873B2
Dielectric ceramic particulates are introduced into thin a sheet of pre-cured elastomer to form a sheet. Successive layers of the sheets may then be laminated together to form a finished article. An electric field may be applied to the article during a curing process while the article is at a temperature near a Curie temperature of the dielectric ceramic particulates to increase a dielectric constant of the article. As each sheet may be different from each other in the finished article, the resulting finished article may have anisotropic dielectric and mechanical properties. Similarly, tiled dielectric ceramic structures may be introduced into the elastomers layers to generate materials with varying dielectric constants.
US10460872B2
An electronic device includes a case, a device element housed in the case, and a filling resin with which the case is filled so as to embed the device element in the filling resin. The device element includes a fixing portion that fixes the device element to the case. The case has a support portion that supports the fixing portion, the support portion having an upper surface which faces a lower surface of the fixing portion. The fixing portion and the support portion are in contact with each other at two contact portions A non-contact region where the fixing portion and the support portion are not in contact with each other is provided between the lower surface and the upper surface. At least a part of lower surface is inclined with respect to a bottom surface of the case. The non-contact region is embedded in the filling resin.
US10460862B2
An object of the invention is to provide: an MgB2 superconducting thin-film wire that exhibits excellent Jc characteristics even under a 20 K magnetic field; and a method for producing thereof. The MgB2 superconducting thin-film wire includes a long substrate and an MgB2 thin film formed on the long substrate. The MgB2 thin film has a microtexture such that MgB2 columnar crystal grains stand densely together on the surface of the long substrate, and has Tc of 30 K or higher. In grain boundary regions of the MgB2 columnar crystal grains, a predetermined transition metal element is dispersed and segregated. The predetermined transition metal element is an element having a body-centered cubic lattice structure.
US10460858B2
The present disclosure provides embodiments of power distribution system components, such as arresters, isolators, bushings, and fuses that include one or more end caps that have predefined heat resistant characteristics that can withstand high temperatures without melting, flowing or generating sparks when subject to such high temperatures.
US10460857B2
A percutaneous connector assembly including a feedthrough assembly having a body and a plurality of electrically conductive feedthroughs extending through the body from a first end toward a second end thereof. A cable assembly having a plurality of conductors arranged side-by-side within a first plane to form a substantially flat portion thereof is included, each conductor being connected to a corresponding feedthrough of the feedthrough assembly and the flat portion extending from the body.
US10460851B2
Provided is a silver-tellurium-coated glass powder including: a tellurium-based glass powder containing tellurium in an amount of 20% by mass or more; and a coating layer on a surface of the tellurium-based glass powder, the coating layer containing silver and tellurium as a main component. Preferable aspects include an aspect where the coating layer containing silver and tellurium as a main component further contains a component that is other than silver and tellurium and contained in the tellurium-based glass powder, and an aspect where the component that is lo other than silver and tellurium and contained in the tellurium-based glass powder contains one or more kinds selected from zinc, lead, bismuth, silicon, lithium, and aluminum.
US10460833B2
A method for storing data of photoelectrically synchronous brain activity recording, said method comprising: generating data when a photoelectrically synchronous brain activity detection system is operating; generating from said data a data storage file comprising a basic information data segment, a near-infrared spectrum data segment and a brain electrical activity data segment, and sequentially storing said data segments into a .neg file in binary form according to the above order. The method can store comprehensive test information, flexibly configure the near-infrared and brain electrical measurement information, and realize synchronous storage of near-infrared data and brain electrical data and maintain file version compatibility.
US10460828B2
A method of nucleic acid fragment detection includes capturing a target nucleic acid fragment by an oligonucleotide probe to form a hybridised double strand. The oligonucleotide probe has an identification sequence complementary to the target nucleic acid fragment and a reproducible sequence. The hybridised double strand is removed to expose the reproducible sequence of the oligonucleotide probe. The repeats of the reproducible sequence are produced. The repeats of the reproducible sequence are labelled by a detection probe for identification and quantitation.
US10460805B2
A semiconductor circuit in the disclosure includes a first circuit that is able to generate, on the basis of a voltage in a first node, an inverted voltage of the voltage and to apply the inverted voltage to a second node; a second circuit that is able to generate, on the basis of a voltage in the second node, an inverted voltage of the voltage and to apply the inverted voltage to the first node; a first transistor that couples the first node to a third node; a second transistor that supplies a first direct-current voltage to the third node; a third transistor including a drain or a source to be coupled to the third node and including a gate coupled to the first node or the second node; and a first storage element that is coupled to the third node, and is able to take a first resistance state or a second resistance state. The first circuit and the second circuit are configured to cause the voltage in the first node to easily become a predetermined initial voltage after application of power.
US10460803B2
Semiconductor devices and fabrication methods thereof are provided to form a memory cell. The memory cell includes a first diode, a second diode separated from the first diode. The first diode includes a first well region in a substrate, a first N-type doped region adjacent to the first well region and connected to a bit line, and a first P-type doped region adjacent to the first well region and separated from the first N-type doped region. The second diode includes a second well region in the substrate, a second N-type doped region adjacent to the second well region, and a second P-type doped region. The memory cell further includes a bottom electrode connected to the first P-type doped region and the second N-type doped region, respectively, a top electrode connected to a word line, and a data storage material layer located between the bottom electrode and the top electrode.
US10460797B2
A method for programming a non-volatile memory and a memory system are provided. Each of multiple cells of the non-volatile memory stores data having at least 2 bits. The method includes the following steps. At least one programming pulse is provided for programming a target cell of the cells. At least one program-verify pulse is provided for verifying whether the target cell is successfully programmed. It is determined that whether a threshold voltage of the target cell is greater than or equal to a program-verify voltage. When the threshold voltage is greater than or equal to the program-verify voltage, the target cell is set as successfully programmed. Next, a post-verifying operation is performed to the successfully programmed cell. The post-verifying operation includes determining whether the threshold voltage of the target cell is greater than or equal to a post-verifying voltage.
US10460793B2
A semiconductor memory device includes a command decoder configured to generate an auto-sync signal in response to a command for writing data at a memory cell or reading data from a memory cell, and an internal data clock generating circuit configured to phase synchronize a second clock, having a clock frequency higher than a clock frequency of a first clock, with the first clock in response to the auto-sync signal.
US10460785B1
A magnetoresistive random access memory (MRAM) and associated apparatus and methods are described. The MRAM generally includes a heavy metal layer coupled to a source line, and a plurality of bit cells coupled to a word line, a plurality of bit lines, and the heavy metal layer, such that the heavy metal layer is a continuous layer coupling the bit cells to the source line, wherein each of the bit cells comprises a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) and a transistor, a gate of the transistor being coupled to the word line, and at least one of a source or a drain of the transistor being coupled to the MTJ or at least one of the bit lines.
US10460774B2
This technology relates to a memory control apparatus for processing data into a memory device and an operating method of the memory control apparatus. A method for controlling a memory may include converting received program data with a first address into compressed data, searching a deduplication table including compressed data, a second address of a memory device in which non-compressed data corresponding to the compressed data has been written and a counter indicative of the write number of the data for the converted compressed data, and if the converted compressed data is searched for in the deduplication table, mapping a second address corresponding to the compressed data in the deduplication table to the first address, not performing a write operation of the memory device for the received program data, and updating the deduplication table.
US10460754B2
Disclosed herein is a magnetic storage device that comprises a suspension arm co-movably fixed to a carriage arm. The suspension arm comprises a slider attachment side and at least one first electrical contact pad on the slider attachment side. The suspension arm also comprises a slider co-movably fixed to the suspension arm. The slider comprises a suspension attachment side, a non-head side facing the suspension arm and intersecting the suspension attachment side at a first slider edge of the slider, a head side facing away from the suspension arm, and at least one electrical contact component on the suspension attachment side up to the first slider edge. At least one solder weldment is directly coupled to the at least one first electrical contact pad and the at least one electrical contact component. Additionally, a read-write head is coupled to the head side of the slider.
US10460752B2
A magnetic recording write head and system has a spin-torque oscillator (STO) located between the write head's write pole and trailing shield. The STO's ferromagnetic free layer is located near the write pole with a multilayer seed layer between the write pole and the free layer. The STO's nonmagnetic spacer layer is between the free layer and the STO's ferromagnetic polarizer. The polarizer may be the trailing shield of the write head or a separate polarizer layer. The STO electrical circuitry causes electron flow from the write pole to the trailing shield. The multilayer seed layer removes the spin polarization of electrons from the write pole, which enables electrons reflected from the polarizer layer to become spin polarized, which creates the spin transfer torque on the magnetization of the free layer. The multilayer seed layer includes Mn or a Mn-alloy layer between one or more metal or metal alloy films.
US10460743B2
Systems, methods and computer-readable media are provided for capturing audio that is memorable. Buffered audio is stored in a first device over a recent interval such as 5 minutes. In the absence of an indication a circular buffer is used that continually replaces old audio. When a user hears something that he wants to capture, he manipulates a control on the first device that results in buffered audio being transferred to another storage area. An audio file is automatically created. A second device can receive the created audio file, and it is capable of annotating the audio with a more descriptive title, an appropriate photo, etc. The second device is also able to provide a control interface for the capture application in the first device.
US10460738B2
Disclosed is an apparatus for processing an input signal, having a perceptual weighter and a quantizer. The perceptual weighter has a model provider and a model applicator. The model provider provides a perceptual weighted model based on the input signal. The model applicator provides a perceptually weighted spectrum by applying the perceptual weighted model to a spectrum based on the input signal. The quantizer is configured to quantize the perceptually weighted spectrum and for providing a bitstream. The quantizer has a random matrix applicator and a sign function calculator. The random matrix applicator is configured for applying a random matrix to the perceptually weighted spectrum in order to provide a transformed spectrum. The sign function calculator is configured for calculating a sign function of components of the transformed spectrum in order to provide the bitstream. The invention further refers to an apparatus for processing an encoded signal and to corresponding methods.
US10460731B2
An apparatus, method, and non-transitory computer readable storage medium for generating control instructions based on text are provided. The apparatus analyzes a text with at least one string to generate a text timestamp document, analyzes the at least one string to generate a plurality of pieces of emotion information, a plurality of pieces of action information, and a plurality of pieces of environment information, and decides a plurality of emotion tags and their corresponding timestamps, a plurality of action tags and their corresponding timestamps, and a plurality of environment tags and their corresponding timestamps according to a feature database. The apparatus further generates control instruction(s) and the corresponding timestamp(s) according to the emotion tags and their corresponding timestamps, the action tags and their corresponding timestamps, and the environment tags and their corresponding timestamps.
US10460729B1
A method for selective transmission of audio data to a speech processing server uses detection of an acoustic trigger in the audio data in determining the data to transmit. Detection of the acoustic trigger makes use of an efficient computation approach that reduces the amount of run-time computation required, or equivalently improves accuracy for a given amount of computation, by using a neural network to determine an indicator of presence of the acoustic trigger. In some example, the neural network combines a “time delay” structure in which intermediate results of computations are reused at various time delays, thereby avoiding computation of computing new results, and decomposition of certain transformations to require fewer arithmetic operations without sacrificing significant performance.
US10460726B2
A language processing method and apparatus is disclosed. The language processing method includes obtaining, using an encoder, a first feature vector representing an input word based on an input sequence of first characters included in the input word. The method also generates, using a word estimator, a second feature vector representing a predicted word associated with the input word by processing the first feature vector using a language model, and decodes, using a decoder, the second feature vector to an output sequence of second characters included in the predicted word using the second feature vector.
US10460717B2
The present disclosure is directed to controlling, reducing, and/or altering sound generated by an aerial vehicle, such as an unmanned aerial vehicle (“UAV”), while the aerial vehicle is airborne. For example, one or more transducers, such as piezoelectric thin-film transducers, or carbon nanotube transducers may be applied or incorporated into or on the surface of propeller blades that are used to aerially navigate the aerial vehicle. As the propeller blade rotates and generates sound, the transducers may be activated to generate one or more anti-sounds that cancel, reduce, or otherwise modify the sound generated by the rotation of the propeller blade. The anti-sound combines with the sound and causes interference such that the combined, or net-effect, is an overall cancellation, reduction, or other modification of the sound.
US10460714B1
Broadband acoustic absorbers may be capable providing good absorption performance between 0 and 3,000 Hz, and particularly below 1,000 Hz. Reeds may be incorporated in a single layer, multiple layers, or bundles. Such broadband acoustic absorbers may be applied for acoustic absorption in aircraft, spacecraft, residential and commercial buildings, vehicles, industrial environments, wind tunnels, or any other suitable environment or application where noise reduction is desired.
US10460712B1
Playback of a graphical representation of a digital musical score is synchronized with an expressive audio rendering of the score that contains tempo and dynamics beyond those specified in the score. The method involves determining a set of offsets for occurrences of score events in the audio rendering by comparing and temporally aligning audio waveforms of successive subclips of the audio rendering with corresponding audio waveforms of successive subclips of an audio rendering synthesized directly from the score. Tempos and dynamics of human performances may be extracted and used to generate expressive renderings synthesized from the corresponding digital score. This enables parties who wish to distribute or share music scores, such as composers and publishers, to allow prospective licensors to evaluate the score by listening to an expressive musical recording instead of a mechanically synthesized rendering.
US10460708B2
A cymbal is disclosed that reduces the presence of high partials and some midrange frequencies from a vibrating cymbal, without noticeable changes of volume, sustain and free movement of the cymbal. This design reduces the amplitude of the cymbal at high frequencies and a specific midrange, while leaving other frequencies relatively unchanged. The cymbal may be played in a normal manner by the drummer, reducing unwanted changes in rhythm. The invention teaches the introduction of rings of apertures around the central mounting hole. The apertures are approximately ⅛″ or 3.175 mm in diameter, and are evenly spaced around the ring. The location of these rings (measured from the center of the mounting hole) and the number of apertures in each ring is specified.
US10460701B2
A display mura correction method includes: obtaining initial image data of an initial image displayed on a display of a terminal, where the initial image data includes image data of a mura region corresponding to the initial image, when at least one pixel whose brightness value is not in a reference threshold set exists in the initial image data, the mura region is a region that is covered by the at least one pixel on the display, and a target feature data set of the mura region includes a set of target feature data of the at least one pixel; obtaining, according to a correspondence between feature data and a correction value and the target feature data of the at least one pixel, a target correction value set corresponding to the target feature data set; and writing the target correction value set into the terminal.
US10460698B2
A method for rendering a electronic content on a rendering device, the rendering device communicating with a mobile device. The method includes: recognition of data acquired by the mobile device in order to obtain metadata associated to the acquired data; selection of a rendering device; retrieval of configuration parameters of the selected rendering device; based on the configuration parameters of the selected rendering device, determination of a set of metadata associated to the acquired data the selected rendering device is able to render; and transmission to the selected rendering device of an electronic content to be rendered, the electronic content consisting at least in the metadata associated to the acquired data.
US10460694B2
According to one embodiment, a display device which includes a plurality of signal line drivers which drive a display area of a display panel by dividing the display area into a plurality of division display areas is provided. The plurality of signal line drivers include a master signal line driver and a slave signal line diver. Each of the master signal line driver and the slave signal line driver drives at least one of the division display areas. An outward path outputs a direct-current voltage from the master signal line driver to the slave signal line driver. A return path is electrically connected to and is contiguous with the outward path, and returns the direct-current voltage to the master signal line driver.
US10460687B2
The invention provides a display panel and a gate driving circuit thereof including multiple stages of gate driving units. Each gate driving unit includes: a first pulling control circuit for outputting a first pulling control signal at a first node; a first pulling circuit for generating a gate driving signal according to the first pulling control signal and a first clock signal; a second pulling control circuit for outputting a second pulling control signal; and a second pulling circuit for pulling levels at the first node and an output terminal of the gate driving signal according to the second pulling control signal. A frequency of the second pulling control signal is lower than a frequency of the first clock signal but higher than a refresh rate of the display panel. The invention can prevent thin film transistor characteristic drift and thereby improve reliability of the gate driving unit.
US10460684B2
The disclosure, which relates to a display device is created so that it can be integrated in a surface, providing in particular a seamless extension and an integrated appearance between the surface surrounding the display device and the display device itself and thus appears to the viewer of the display device as being part of a surface.
US10460683B2
To provide a novel semiconductor device or display device. The semiconductor device includes a decoder circuit, an amplifier circuit, and an arithmetic circuit. The amplifier circuit includes a first amplifier and a second amplifier. One of the first amplifier and the second amplifier has a function of inspecting an output of the other of the first amplifier and the second amplifier. The arithmetic circuit has a function of calculating an error of a potential output from the first amplifier or the second amplifier, on the basis of a result of the inspection. The decoder circuit has a function of correcting a video signal input to the decoder circuit by subtracting the error of the potential from the video signal.
US10460682B2
The present application discloses a method for driving display panel pixel and a display device. The method includes: dividing a pixel unit of a display panel into a plurality of pixel sets; acquiring an original driving data for each pixel sets; acquiring a gray scale value lookup table according to the hue range of the hue; the original driving data of each of the blue sub-pixels in the gray scale value lookup table corresponds to the unequal first voltage signal and the second voltage signal; dividing the blue sub-pixels of each pixel group into a plurality of groups including adjacent a first blue sub-pixel and a second blue sub-pixel; acquiring a first luminance signal and driving the first blue sub-pixel according to the first luminance signal; acquiring a second luminance signal and driving the second blue sub-pixel according to the second luminance signal.
US10460681B2
The embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and apparatus for adjusting gray-scale chromatic aberration for a display panel, as well as a display device. The method comprises: inputting a data signal of a test picture to sub-pixels of the display panel, for causing the display panel to display the test picture; collecting optical parameters of respective regions in the test picture; comparing the optical parameter of each region in the test picture with an optical parameter of a standard picture; and adjusting the data signal inputted to the sub-pixels, such that a difference between the optical parameter of each region in the test picture and the optical parameter of the standard picture falls within a predetermined range. The optical parameter comprises a color coordinate and its corresponding brightness.
US10460678B2
A display device includes a light emitting diode array including a plurality of light emitting diodes, a monitoring circuit configured to generate a monitoring signal corresponding to a forward voltage of a first light emitting diode of the plurality of light emitting diodes, a backlight controller configured to control the amount of current flowing to the light emitting diode array, and a first luminance compensation circuit configured to increase the amount of current flowing to the light emitting diode array in response to the monitoring signal.
US10460671B2
The present application discloses a scanning driving circuit and a display apparatus. The scanning driving circuit includes a scanning signal output terminal; a pull-up circuit controlling the scanning signal output terminal to output a high level scanning signal; a transmission circuit for outputting a stage transmission signal of a current stage; a pull-up control circuit to charge the pull-up control signal point; a pull-down maintaining circuit maintains the low level of the pull-up control signal point and the scanning signal output terminal and releases the high potential of the pull-up control signal point; a bootstrap circuit raises the potential of the pull-up control signal point; a pull-down circuit controls the scanning signal output terminal to output a low level, thereby solving the problem of the large current generated when the display device is turned on and off.
US10460657B2
An EL display device includes a display screen; a first gate signal line; a second gate signal line; gate driver ICs (circuits); a current generating circuit which supplies a current to EL elements; a current amount obtaining circuit which obtains a magnitude of a current flowing through a plurality of pixels; and an on-voltage generating circuit which generates a control voltage output by the gate driver IC (circuit) to the first gate signal line. Each of the pixels includes a first switching transistor. The control voltage is a voltage which causes the first switching transistor to be in a conducting state. The on-voltage generating circuit varies a first control voltage based on an output result from the current amount obtaining circuit.
US10460648B2
A method for controlling a display panel includes steps of: providing a display panel, where the display panel includes a plurality of pixels arranged into a plurality of columns and rows and a plurality of data lines, where one of the data lines is coupled to pixels arranged in odd number rows of one of two columns which are adjacent to the one of the data lines, and coupled to pixels arranged in even number rows of the other one of two columns which are adjacent to the one of the data lines; receiving the data signals in a driving manner of column inversion by the data lines during a display period; and receiving the data signals in a driving manner of N-dot inversion by the data lines during a blanking period.
US10460646B2
A display system that can solve the problem of an inadequate band in a connector or transmission path and that enables processing of a high-resolution image signal, includes a display device and an electronic apparatus that is electrically connected to the display device via a connector. The electronic apparatus receives or generates an original image signal indicating an original image that is to be displayed and supplies a plurality of divided image signals each indicating a respective image of a plurality of partial images into which the original image has been divided. The display device displays the original image on the basis of a combined image signal into which the plurality of partial image signals supplied from the electronic apparatus have been combined.
US10460642B2
Systems, methods, and devices are provided to reduce noise present in sensing circuits used for calibrating light emitting diodes (e.g., organic light emitting diodes) in electronic display devices. Such a system may include a display that renders image data using self-emissive pixels. Values on the pixels may be sensed using a current source that outputs a current and a comparator that receives the current. The comparator changes states when a voltage signal output by the capacitor crosses a first threshold voltage or a second threshold voltage. A controller receives a first time when the comparator component changes states based on the voltage signal, receives a second time when the comparator component changes states based on the voltage signal, determines a current value based on the first time and the second time, and calibrates a pixel based on the current value.
US10460641B2
Disclosed are an image processing circuit and image processing method which is capable of enhancing gray level presentation, and a display device using the same. The image processing circuit and image processing method performs a differential extension of each gray level to a higher gray level with respect to a perceived brightness picture level (PBPL) reflecting a distribution of high gray levels of the input image, and then overdrives a light emitting device in the region of high gray levels higher than or equal to the threshold gray level.
US10460639B2
A luminance compensation system of a display device and a luminance compensation method thereof are disclosed. The luminance compensation system includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels, a TFT and an OLED, a luminance meter configured to measure luminance at a plurality of positions and obtain a plurality of measure values for each of the plurality of positions in a state where modeling voltage patterns are applied to the plurality of positions, a first modeling unit configured to model the plurality of measure values to derive a first luminance characteristic approximate equation, and a second modeling unit configured to obtain a luminance error between the measure value and a luminance value in accordance with the first luminance characteristic approximate equation, after calculating an offset correction parameter, and apply the offset correction parameter to the first luminance characteristic approximate equation to derive a second luminance characteristic approximate equation.
US10460630B2
A baby bottle-adaptable reusable label provides a wide, resilient sleeve that snugly encapsulates a portion of a baby bottle to help identify the contents and provide information and instructions associated with the contents of the baby bottle. The sleeve has a length greater than the circumference. The sleeve is fabricated from a resilient fabric material that snugly encapsulates variously sized and dimensioned baby bottles. The sleeve includes an inner wall for engaging a bottle outer surface, an outer wall that is visible while affixed to the baby bottle. The outer wall is also configured to enable marking and erasing of a removable identifying indicia. This indicia is a characteristic relating to the contents of the baby bottle. The sleeve has a pair of peripheral edges running parallel and forming notches. The notch enables facilitated manipulation and gripping of the bottle during labeling and while a baby drinks from the bottle.
US10460617B2
A testing system includes apparatus and methods of testing a subject according to a forced-choice scheme. The scheme is based on Thurstonian Item-Response. Theory and is particularly relevant to personality assessment. The invention provides dynamic test generation and scoring for efficient testing of subjects using unique tests.
US10460616B2
A method and system for conducting interactive classroom learning that can utilize a plurality of electronic audio and video equipment, mobile computing devices, and processing servers, interconnected via a first network infrastructure in a classroom or presentation hall to deliver seamlessly interactive multimedia contents to each of one or more participants in classroom or presentation hall; wherein the participants comprises one or more lecturers or presenters, and one or more students or audiences. The method and system allow the control and coordination of the electronic audio and video equipment, mobile computing devices, and the processing servers to deliver the interactive multimedia contents to the participants in the classroom or presentation hall simultaneously and to facilitate the information input-output interactions to and from the participants; wherein the interactive multimedia contents can be divided into multiple parts or streams, and each being personalized for each or each subset of the participants.
US10460610B2
A system, computer-readable medium, and a method including obtaining flight data for a prescribed flight from at least one of an airborne system of a particular aircraft to execute the prescribed flight and a system other than the airborne system of the particular aircraft having a source of data related to the prescribed flight, the flight data including specific details relating to at least one of the particular aircraft and parameters of the prescribed flight; performing, by a processor of an external computational asset and based on the obtained flight data, a control optimization to generate optimized path specific controls for the prescribed flight; transmitting the optimized path specific controls via a communication uplink from the external computational asset to the particular aircraft; and guiding, in response to receiving the optimized path specific controls by the particular aircraft, the particular aircraft in accordance with the optimized path specific controls to execute the prescribed flight.
US10460607B2
This infrastructure is characterized in that the multimodal network grouping together a plurality of monomodal networks, each monomodal network being equipped with an individual operating system, the supervision infrastructure includes a plurality of local supervision modules, each local supervision module being associated with a transfer station providing an interconnection between at least two of the monomodal networks and being able to perform a real-time synthesis of the traffic at the associated transfer station and continuously execute a plurality of operating rules by using operating data from the traffic synthesis so as to generate at least one setpoint, and to send the setpoint to at least one operating system of one monomodal network from among the monomodal networks interconnected to the associated transfer station.
US10460593B2
Described herein are techniques for receiving an alert associated with an entity and dynamically determining, based on the alert and on substantially real-time attributes for the entity, a geographically dispersed group in which each member of the geographically dispersed group either is a device associated with the entity or shares at least one attribute with the entity. The techniques further include requesting information about the entity from the geographically dispersed group, receiving information from at least a subset of the group, and taking action responsive to the alert based on the received information.
US10460586B1
A sensing and lighting device includes a lighting fixture comprising a light emitting diode (LED) light source. The sensing and lighting device further includes a sensor to sense the air at the sensor, and a power source. The LED light source and the sensor are powered by the power source.
US10460581B1
In a general aspect, a method is presented for determining a motion-zone confidence. In some aspects, the method includes obtaining, from a database of a motion detection system, ranges of motion-zone parameters associated with respective motion zones in a space between wireless communication devices. The method also includes analyzing the ranges of motion-zone parameters to identify, for one or more of the motion zones, overlapping ranges of motion-zone parameters and non-overlapping parameter ranges of motion-zone parameters. The method additionally includes storing, in the database of the motion detection system, the overlapping and non-overlapping ranges of motion-zone parameters. The overlapping and non-overlapping ranges of motion-zone parameters are used to identify one of the motion zones based on a motion event detected by the motion detection system.
US10460569B2
A lottery ticket dispenser array includes a frame and a plurality of separate bins contained within the frame. Each bin includes a housing having a front side that faces a purchaser in operational use of the dispenser array, an opposite back side, and an internal space for receipt of a supply of interconnected lottery tickets, wherein each lottery tickets contains a code printed thereon. Each bin has an electronic drive mechanism that dispenses the lottery tickets therefrom. A controller is in communication with each of the drive mechanisms to initiate a dispense sequence upon receipt of a ticket dispense command from the controller. The controller is configured on the frame and is variably positional relative to the frame between different operational positions.
US10460559B2
A system and method of providing a player loyalty program to award a player of an electronic gaming machine, including conducting games with enhanced payouts based on a cash in or initial investment amount. In response to a player's initial investment or cash in amount, a payout schedule is selected. The larger the initial investment the better the selected payout schedule for the player. Live games facilitated by electronic gaming machines or devices and server-based games may utilize the method disclosed herein. Players may also receive enhanced awards such as enhanced player points based on the amount of the initial investment. Awards and bonuses may also be provided to players who exhaust an initial investment exceeding a threshold amount.
US10460549B2
In an exemplary method of monitoring usage of an electronically operated dispenser, a dispensing mechanism is operated by an internal controller of the dispenser in response to user activation of an actuator of the dispenser in communication with the controller. In response to operation of the dispensing mechanism, dispenser data is written to an internal dispenser memory in wired communication with the controller, with the controller and the dispenser memory being electrically connected with and powered by a power source. The dispenser memory receives a wireless interrogation signal from an external reader and collects energy from the wireless interrogation signal. In response to receipt of the wireless interrogation signal, the dispenser memory wirelessly transmits the written dispenser data to the external reader, with the dispenser memory being powered by the collected energy.
US10460548B2
An article dispensing apparatus includes: one article discharging apparatus; and another article discharging apparatus, the one article discharging apparatus and the other article discharging apparatus being capable of being combined in a back-to-back manner. The one article discharging apparatus includes: a driving source; an output gear configured to rotate by a driving force from the driving source when a discharging instruction has been given to the one article discharging apparatus; link levers where each link lever is provided rotatably about an axis of the link lever; and a controller configured to, when the output gear is rotated from the standby position by the discharging instruction, prohibit stopping of drive of the driving source to allow the rotation of the output gear until a preset prohibited time elapses from starting of the rotation of the output gear even when supply of electric power to the driving source is interrupted.
US10460546B2
A relay box for securely transporting medications or other items. The relay box includes a main enclosure defining a hollow interior space, and a lockable lid. The lockable lid has a closed position that encloses the hollow interior space and an open position that provides access to the hollow interior space. The relay box further includes a display area and a memory storing a globally unique electronically readable identifier. The relay box may optionally include a battery and wireless communication circuitry. In other implementations, the relay box does not include a battery.
US10460542B2
A communication system for communicating with a barrier operator for remotely controlling operation of a barrier. The communication system may include a remote device that can be handheld or incorporated into a vehicle. The communication system may also include a remote token separate from the remote device and capable of communicating information to the remote device. The remote device may be paired with a communication channel for communicating one or more commands to the barrier operator. The remote device may be configured to suppress or disable communication of a requested command on the communication channel until after information is received from the remote token that authorizes communication of the requested command on the communication channel.
US10460537B2
A gate control system includes an authentication device and a gate control device. The authentication device specifies a card number of a credit card of a user of a gaming facility, performs a credit inquiry of the credit card using the card number, and transmits permission information indicating that the gate should be opened to the gate control device when a result of the credit inquiry indicates that using the credit card is approved. Upon receiving the permission information from the authentication device, the gate control device opens the gate.
US10460535B1
To determine a treatment facility for repairing a damaged vehicle, a display allows a user to select from several treatment facilities assigned to the same treatment complexity level category as the damaged vehicle. The display may be generated by receiving and analyzing sensor data for the damaged vehicle to determine an extent of damage to the vehicle. The extent of damage is then used to determine the treatment complexity level for the vehicle. The display may also include availability information for each treatment facility, an estimated amount of time for completing the treatment, and/or an estimated cost of repair. Once the user selects a treatment facility for performing the treatment, a request to transport the damaged vehicle to the treatment facility may be sent to the selected treatment facility or to a vehicle transporter.
US10460532B2
The present invention discloses a method to identify distance proximity between driver and a vehicle comprising; capturing geo location of the vehicle; capturing geo location of the driver; comparing the distance proximity between geo location of the vehicle and the geo location of the driver, wherein the proximity distance is calculated at same instance of time; an ascertaining that the driver and vehicle are in a same place in case the distance proximity is within a tolerable distance.
US10460531B2
A facility abnormality prediction model generation system includes: a data receiver receiving data of sensors of a facility previously obtained during an operation of the facility; an abnormality notification time predictor detecting a malfunction time of a malfunction of the facility based on the data of the sensors and determining an abnormality notification time for pre-notification of the malfunction of the facility based on the detected malfunction time; an optimal sensor combination calculator generating a chromosome based on the data of the sensors and performing a genetic algorithm using the generated chromosome to calculate an optimal sensor combination which is a combination of sensor data related to the determined abnormality notification time; and a facility abnormality prediction model generator generating a facility abnormality prediction model for the pre-notification of the malfunction of the facility, based on the optimal sensor combination.
US10460522B2
Concepts and technologies are disclosed herein for explorable augmented reality displays. An augmented reality service can receive a request for augmented reality display data. The request can be associated with a device. The augmented reality service can determine a location associated with the device and identify augmented reality data associated with the location. The augmented reality service can provide augmented reality display data to the device.
US10460502B2
A method and an apparatus for rendering an object by using a mipmap including N+1 textures having resolutions that are reduced from level 0 to level N are provided. The object may be rendered by obtaining a coordinate of a pixel to be rendered, obtaining an index value related to the obtained coordinate, determining availability of a cached texel with respect to a texel related to the obtained coordinate among texels in a texture of a level identified by the index value, and if the cached texel is available, rendering the pixel by using the cached texel. A method and an apparatus for generating a plurality of index values with respect to a mipmap including N+1 textures having resolutions that are reduced from level 0 to level N are also provided.
US10460500B1
In one embodiment, a computing system may determine a pixel area in a display coordinate system and project it into a three-dimensional coordinate system to determine a projected area. Based on the projected area, the system may determine a portion of a data structure that contains an analytical definition of a glyph in a two-dimensional coordinate system. The system may access a portion of the analytical definition associated with the selected portion of the data structure, the portion of the analytical definition defining one or more areas of the glyph. The system may project the portion of the analytical definition into the display coordinate system and compute a coverage proportion of the pixel area that overlaps with one or more areas defined by the projected portion of the analytical definition. Based on the coverage, the system may determine a color for the pixel and render the glyph.
US10460490B2
Disclosed are an information processing method and terminal. The method includes: acquiring a first operation (101); in response to the first operation, selecting a plurality of pictures from a local information base or an information base pulled and obtained by a background server, and displaying the same on a user interface of a terminal (102); acquiring a second operation (103); in response to the second operation, partitioning to-be-added first target information into a plurality of items of second target information according to a preset rule, and overlaying the plurality of items of second target information on the plurality of pictures in one batch (104); and forming complete information corresponding to the first target information by the plurality of items of second target information, the second target information being partial information in the first target information (105).
US10460483B2
A tool is provided via a user interface for a digital media application that supports digital illustrations. The tool combines operations to create different types of segments for a drawing shape and covert between types of segments. The tool is configured to analyze the drawing to recognize segments that are straight, arc, or curved portions of the drawing path. For segments recognized as curved, the segments are represented as Bezier curve segments. For segments recognized as straight, the segments are represented as line segments. Additionally, line segments are associated with handle elements operable to convert the line segments to regular arc segments. Responsive to manipulation of a handle element for a particular line segment, the tool computes a corresponding regular arc and converts the line segment into a regular arc segment.
US10460478B2
The invention relates to a system comprising providing means for providing data, electing means for electing one or more parameters associated to said data, assessment means for assessing at least one characteristic of at least one of said elected parameter, and a lighting system for office rooms which comprises one or more light sources, the lighting system being capable of emitting light of different characteristic to the office room. The system is configured such that the characteristic of the light emitted to the office room is changed depending on the characteristic of the elected parameter.
US10460472B2
A method for adapting a matching model of an object comprising the step of providing an electronic image of the object; providing a matching model of the object, the matching model consisting of a plurality of points; determining a pose of the object in said electronic image by using a matching approach that uses said matching model; transforming the matching model according to said pose, yielding a transformed model; determining for at least one point of said transformed model a corresponding point in said electronic image; and adapting the matching model according to the at least one determined corresponding point.
US10460468B2
In aspects of user pose and item correlation, a mobile device includes a correlation module that receives an indication a user of the mobile device has positioned a hand proximate an item based on a pose of the user. The mobile device includes wireless radio systems to scan for wireless-enabled devices corresponding to items tagged with the wireless-enabled devices. The correlation module of the mobile device is implemented to receive the indication that the hand of the user of the mobile device is positioned proximate the item, and initiate a scan from the mobile device for the wireless-enabled devices proximate the user based on the indication of the hand of the user positioned proximate the item. The correlation module receives identifying data of the item that is proximate the hand of the user responsive to the scan of the wireless-enabled devices, and can correlate the item with the user.
US10460463B2
Certain examples described herein relate to modelling a three-dimensional space. Image data from at least one capture device is used to generate a three-dimensional model of the three-dimensional space. In certain examples, the three-dimensional model is segmented into active and inactive portions based on at least one model property. The examples are configured to use the active portions to update the three-dimensional model over time. Registration is also performed to align active portions of the three-dimensional model with inactive portions of the three-dimensional model over time. The registration aligns active portions of the three-dimensional model generated following an observation of a region of the three-dimensional space with inactive portions of the model generated following at least one previous observation of said region.
US10460457B2
Image parameters of an overlay image may be adjusted based on image parameters of an optical image displayed in a surgical microscope. The overlay image may then be displayed with the optical image to a user of the surgical microscope.
US10460452B2
The disclosure relates to method of processing three-dimensional images or volumetric datasets to determine a configuration of a medium or a rate of a change of the medium, wherein the method includes tracking changes of a field related to the medium to obtain a deformation or velocity field in three dimensions. In some cases, the field is a brightness field inherent to the medium or its motion. In other embodiments, the brightness field is from a tracking agent that includes floating particles detectable in the medium during flow of the medium.
US10460448B2
A system (10) quantifies uncertainty in contours. The system (10) includes at least one processor (42) programmed to receive an image (18) including an object of interest OOI (20). Further, a band of uncertainty (32) delineating a region (34) in the received image (18) is received. The region (34) includes the boundary of the OOI (20). The boundary is delineated in the region (34) using iterative filtering of the region (34) and a metric of uncertainty of the delineation is determined for the region (34).
US10460442B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for locally distorting a two dimensional (2D) image to produce a three dimensional (3D) effect. A region of a display displaying a 2D image can be distorted to make the 2D image appear 3D within the region of distortion. Upon selection of the region of the display to distort, one or more distortion elements corresponding to the selected region are determined and activated to cause the selected region to distort. The distortion element(s) can be overlapping strips of an electroactive polymer arranged in orthogonal and/or non-orthogonal directions.
US10460441B2
Disclosed are systems, devices, and methods for marking a main carina and a trachea of a patient, an exemplary method comprising importing slice images of a chest of the patient, generating a three-dimensional (3D) model based on the imported slice images, displaying the 3D model in a graphical user interface (GUI), locating the main carina by viewing 2D images of the 3D model in an axial orientation, marking the main carina in one of the 2D images of the 3D model, adjusting a view plane of the 3D model around a rotation axis defined by the marked location of the main carina to adjust the view plane from an axial orientation to a coronal orientation while keeping the main carina in the view plane to thereby display the entire trachea on the GUI, and marking an upper end of the trachea in one of the 2D images of the 3D model.
US10460435B2
A pattern inspection method includes calculating a first coefficient of a filter function by using data of optical images of plural small regions selected and data of developed images of the plural small regions based on design data; calculating a second coefficient of a filter function by using data of an optical image of a reference small region selected and data of a developed image of the reference small region selected; and determining, for each pixel, whether there exists a pixel for which a difference, between a first temporary reference image to be compared with the optical image of the reference small region generated using the filter function in which the first coefficient is defined and a second temporary reference image to be compared with the optical image of the reference small region generated using the filter function in which the second coefficient is defined, is larger than a threshold.
US10460430B2
An image processing apparatus, comprising: one or more processors; and a memory storing instructions which, when the instructions are executed by the processors, cause the image processing apparatus to function as: a detection unit configured to detect an unnecessary component generating region, which is a region of an image in which an unnecessary component is generated, based on a first viewpoint image and a second viewpoint image with different viewpoints, the image being obtained by combining the first viewpoint image and the second viewpoint image, the detection unit being configured to detect the unnecessary component generating region based on a plurality of correlation values between a first region of interest in the first viewpoint image and a plurality of second regions of interest in the second viewpoint image; and a reduction unit configured to perform processing of reducing the unnecessary component.
US10460425B2
A method of processing an image in a device, and the device thereof are provided. The method includes determining a distortion correction ratio of each of a plurality of vertices included in a source image, based on information about a lens through which the source image is projected, determining corrected location information of pixels located between the plurality of vertices, based on the distortion correction ratio of each of the plurality of vertices and interpolation ratios of the pixels, and rendering a distortion-corrected image including pixels determined as a result of performing interpolation on the plurality of vertices based on the corrected location information.
US10460423B2
Methods for representing multiple scales in an image using a variational algorithm are provided. An iterative decomposition of an image into a total variation (“TV”) part, which may be a weighted TV (“TVα”) part, and a residual part motivates the design and use of a partial differential equation that may be referred to as a multiscale total variation flow, or multiscale weighted total variation flow. This produces a multiscale representation of the image. The speed of this decomposition can be controlled with a user-defined function, and is fast enough to allow for real-time applications of denoising and image registration.
US10460422B2
The polarization imaging unit generates a polarized image including pixels for each of a plurality of polarization components. The demosaicing unit calculates a pixel signal for each polarization component by using the pixel signal of the target pixel of the polarized image and the pixel signal of the pixel for each of the identical polarization components located near the target pixel. In one example, a low frequency component is calculated for each polarization component using the pixel signal of the pixel located near the target pixel for each of the identical polarization components. In addition, component information indicating relationship between the low frequency component of the polarization component of the polarized image and the pixel signal of the target pixel is acquired. Furthermore, the pixel signal for each polarization component in the target pixel is calculated based on the low frequency component and the component information for each polarization component.
US10460404B2
Devices and methods comprise determining an actual weather independent energy consumption value and actual weather dependent energy consumption value of a building. The devices and methods further comprise, obtaining energy simulation information from a data source. Further, an ideal weather independent energy consumption value and one or more ideal loads are generated based on the energy simulation information, building information, and total energy consumption of the building. The devices and methods further comprise determining a benchmarking score for the building using the actual weather independent energy consumption value, the actual weather dependent energy consumption value, the ideal weather independent energy consumption value, and the one or more ideal loads for managing energy consumption associated with the building.
US10460400B2
Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can determine one or more social networking system anniversary events associated with a first user, the anniversary event having a month and a day that is identical to the current month and day. The one or more anniversary events are filtered using filtering criteria. An indication, such as a notification or a promotion, relating to the one or more anniversary events is generated based on satisfaction of the filtering criteria.
US10460398B1
Disclosed methods and systems crowdsource the detection of usability issues in user experience pages of a tax return preparation system, according to one embodiment. Testing and debugging combinations and sequences of user experience pages can be time consuming and costly, and crowdsourcing the detection of usability issues can reduce the length of time typically consumed in detecting issues in a user experience flow, according to one embodiment. The methods and system include monitoring users' navigation behavior (e.g., system access data) within user experience pages, using predictive models to detect when users are experiencing a potential issue, and providing issue resolution content to both help the users and characterize the potential issue, according to one embodiment. If the potential issue is a usability issue, the methods and systems include requesting more information about the usability issue, to facilitate resolving the usability issue for current and subsequent users, according to one embodiment.
US10460397B2
Transaction data is gathered for a plurality of successful payment device transactions in a first environment. The transaction data is filtered to identify successful payment device transactions associated with payment devices for which offline authentication is not supported, to obtain a whitelist. The whitelist is made available to at least one of (1) a merchant in a second, different environment, and (2) a third party acting on behalf of such a merchant.
US10460394B2
Aspects of the disclosure include a first risk-transfer system, a second risk-transfer system, and an expert-system based circuit. The first risk-transfer system is configured to provide a first risk-transfer based on first risk-transfer parameters from a plurality of motor vehicles to the first risk-transfer system, and receive and store first payment parameters associated with risk exposures of the plurality of motor vehicles. The second risk-transfer system is configured to provide a second risk-transfer based on second risk-transfer parameters from the first risk-transfer system to the second risk-transfer system, and receive and store second payment parameters associated with risk exposures transferred to the first risk-transfer systems. The expert-system based circuit is configured to receive environmental parameters and operating parameters from the plurality of motor vehicles, adjust the first risk transfer parameters and correlated first payment transfer parameters, and adjust the second risk transfer parameters and correlated second payment transfer parameters.
US10460390B2
An improved computing architecture for managed-account transactions is presented. In accordance with embodiments, a computing system may receive data indicating various investment allocations prescribed by different investment managers and may generate corresponding investment strategies. Responsive to receiving a request to allocate client funds amongst the strategies, the computing system may instantiate, in an account object associated with the client, a sleeve object for each of the strategies. For each asset prescribed by the managers, the computing system may determine, based on a percentage to be invested in the asset indicated by the corresponding strategy and a percentage of the funds allocated by the request to the strategy, a number of units of the asset to be purchased for the client and may instantiate, for each unit of the units, an object representing the unit in the sleeve object for the strategy.
US10460375B2
Device and method for implementing a vehicle sharing reward program. The present invention provides for a cost-sharing plan where two or more constituencies share the rental cost associated with a user who rents a shared vehicle in a vehicle sharing program. This results in a reimbursement of the rental cost to the user. When enrolling in the vehicle sharing reward program, the user is given a health prescription to adhere to on any trip taken while using a shared vehicle. On a selected travel route, the user visits a vehicle sharing station, where the sharing station includes a kiosk that the user uses to check-in and upload relevant information such as distance traveled and locations visited. By complying with the health prescription issued to the user, the user can have its total rental cost reimbursed.
US10460371B2
Durable memento method that enables the storage of data associated with mementos, which are objects that serve to provide a reminder of a person, place, thing, or an event. Embodiments are configured to store and recall data including but not limited to pictures, movies, sounds, text, or other information such as performance data indirectly associated with a memento such as but not limited to a keepsake, souvenir, gift, gift card, medal or award, tool or any combination thereof. One or more embodiments may include a visual and/or machine-readable and/or human-readable code to associate the data with the memento. The durable data may be stored remote from the memento, which prevents obsolescence by securing data robustly. This enables the data to be accessed years later even if the file formats or display technology for the data has changed by that time and even if the original memento has been lost.
US10460369B2
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.
US10460368B2
Methods and systems are provided for facilitating a home-improvement product purchasing experience by facilitating contextual visualizations in which images of currently available products are shown as being installed in an installation location associated with a potential customer's property. The currently available product information is maintained in a quoting database that is also used to generate product quotes, including current prices. A portable device may include an imaging device and may instantiate a visualizer to facilitate viewing contextual visualizations of product locations on-site.
US10460363B2
The present invention provides a system, method and computer program for integrating point of sale systems by providing a common data model. A system of the invention may include one or more point of sale agents linkable to one or more diverse point of sale systems. The system may also include an order manager linked to the point of sale agents. The one or more point of sale agents are operable to communicate point of sale data between the one or more diverse point of sale systems and the order manager by mapping the point of sale data to a common data model. The present invention also provides a system, method and computer program for enabling dissemination of promotions to consumers based on point of sale data.
US10460362B2
Aspects of performing power management operations in a distributed computer system are described. In some aspects, predicted demand data is generated for clients executed in a cluster of host computers. The predicted demand data is based on observed resource demands of the clients. A power management setting for a time period is determined. The power management setting is based on the predicted demand data. A host computer is caused to power-down or power-up in order to apply the power management setting.
US10460355B1
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for augmenting real-time bidding data with proprietary data. One method includes: receiving, at a server over an electronic communications network from a real-time impression bidder, a bid request or a request to augment a bid request with proprietary data; accessing, by the server from an internal database, proprietary data of a data augmenting service based on a user identifier of the bid request; determining, by the server, proprietary data to include in an augmented bid request based on at least one of the received bid request and the user identifier; formatting, by the server, the augmented bid request into a standardized, augmented bid request; and transmitting, by the server over the electronic communications network, the standardized, augmented bid request to the real-time impression bidder.
US10460344B2
A favorable merging or grouping of simply connected regions into which the array of information samples is sub-divided, is coded with a reduced amount of data. To this end, a predetermined relative locational relationship is defined enabling an identifying, for a predetermined simply connected region, of simply connected regions within the plurality of simply connected regions which have the predetermined relative locational relationship to the predetermined simply connected region. Namely, if the number is zero, a merge indicator for the predetermined simply connected region may be absent within the data stream. In other embodiments, spatial sub-division is performed depending on a first subset of syntax elements, followed by combining spatially neighboring simply connected regions depending on a second subset of syntax elements, to obtain an intermediate sub-division.
US10460343B2
An online system provides a local reach advertisement create flow that determines an estimated radius of a target area for serving an ad to optimize local awareness of the ad based on the advertiser's ad campaign goals. The ad create flow receives location information about an ad target location identified by or associated with the advertiser, and information describing the ad campaign associated with the advertiser. Using the advertising information and population density information associated with the ad target location, the online system selects a target area for serving the ad to reach an estimated number of online system users based on the ad budget and provides an indication of the selected region and the estimated ad reach to the advertiser.
US10460342B1
Methods and software that allow one or more users to utilize targeted-advertising functionality in the context of a product program. For example, such logistical functionality may enable users to benefit from the use of one or more functionalities enabled by targeted advertising, such as fully or partially ad-sponsored software, relevant training or assistance recommendations, and user-customized advertising, among others. Various corresponding and related methods and software are described.
US10460341B2
A system and method for offer targeting is disclosed. According to one embodiment, a method for offer targeting may comprise: providing a plurality of offers and a plurality of groups, wherein each group comprises one or more accounts; maintaining an offer counter for each of the plurality of groups; and assigning the plurality of offers, in a predetermined order, to the plurality of groups by repeating the following steps: (1) assigning an offer to one or more groups, wherein the one or more groups are selected from groups that are pre-qualified for the offer based on a plurality of business rules, and the selection of the one or more groups is based at least in part on the offer counters of the one or more groups; (2) incrementing offer counters associated with the one or more groups; and (3) sorting the plurality of groups based on the incremented offer counters.
US10460340B2
A method for verifying an ad request includes verifying a signature including the ad request using symmetric or asymmetric keys. Using symmetric keys, after an ad request having a first signature is received, a signature generation algorithm is executed to generate a second signature. If the first signature matches the second signature, then the ad request is determined to be verified. Using asymmetric keys, after an ad request having a signature is received, a signature verification algorithm is executed to determine if the signature matches the ad request. If so, then the ad request is determined to be verified.
US10460335B2
A method for geo-filtering consumers for presenting credit card offers is described, and includes: determining a brand of interest for which one or more credit card offers will be communicated to the identified customer; and comparing a brand policy of the brand of interest, the stored customer information relating to the identified customer, the stored location information relating to the determined location of the mobile device and credit offer conversion factors, wherein the credit offer conversion factors assign values to combinations of subsets of information of at least any of the following types of information: the brand policy; the stored customer information relating to the identified customer; and the stored location information relating to the determined location of the mobile device; and generating a credit card offer to be transmitted to the identified customer.
US10460327B2
Techniques are described that provide a reading pane for reading one or more content portions of a work and a guide pane that displays a structured overview of additional information from the corpus that is focused by an analysis of information from the currently-visible content portion of the work. The contents of the currently-visible content portion displayed within the reading page are used to derive dynamic representations of the user's immediate interests. At the user's request, a structured persistent context-aware guide is computed and displayed. The persistent context-aware guide provides a framework for accessing other parts of the corpus having the most-related information. The elements in the persistent context-aware guide are other content portions or other organizations such as sections, chapters, or articles in the corpus. The persistent context-aware guide may also incorporate additional closely-related information elements from outside the corpus including advertisements. Advertisements for information on the topics of immediate interest to the user can be incorporated within the structured, context-aware guide so that the reader can purchase them and review that information in the context of the current session. The guide pane and the reading pane support navigation controls so that the user can go to new or previous sub-portions of the content portion, new or previous content portions and/or new or previous persistent context-aware guides.
US10460324B1
In some examples, a system and method for scheduling communication between a merchant and a service agent associated with a payment processing system (PPS). The method includes obtaining a current state of the POS application to indicate a technical failure. Based on the current state, the PPS determines a time window within which the merchant is available to communicate with the payment processing system or the POS terminal. Prior to establishing communication, if a current transaction is in progress, PPS defers the establishment of the communication channel to another time window, wherein the other time window is determined based on the transaction history or on a merchant-specified time window.
US10460319B2
A phone-based electronic wallet providing authenticated transactions across multiple channels of commerce. The electronic wallet may be used for point-of-sale payments, remote mobile payments and/or web-based payments, and may use authentication tools such as offline PINs, SecureCode PINs and/or online PINs.
US10460318B2
Methods, computer-readable storage media and apparatuses for processing event notifications are disclosed. For example, a processor receives an event notification of an event from a device of a service provider that is providing a service to a user, wherein the network service provider is distinct from the service provider, determines that the service provider and the event are of a type of service provider and a type of event, respectively, that the user has consented to receive the event notification, sends a message in a unified message format to a device of the user, the message comprising the event, receives a response from the device of the user containing an indication of whether the event is an authorized event, and sends the indication of whether the event is an authorized event to the device of the service provider.
US10460316B2
In one embodiment, a transaction is authenticated by a payment provider, as opposed to a merchant, using two user devices without the user having to enter information, such as an email or password. When the user is ready to make a purchase from a merchant site, a unique transaction ID is created by the payment provider. That transaction ID, along with data about the transaction, such as specific items and cost, is automatically sent to the payment provider through a second device linked to the purchasing device. The payment provider compares the identifier from the sending device, such as the phone number, and the transaction ID with information stored in its database. If there is a match, the transaction/user may be approved or authenticated.
US10460311B2
A gift card system and method for purchasing gift cards at a kiosk is disclosed. The system/method includes a gift card distribution kiosk located at a retail establishment that provides a user with access to a multitude of different forms of gift cards that may be purchased and printed onto a customizable card with a personalized message. The kiosk includes a kiosk processor interface, a gift card dispenser, a card reader and gift card management server connected to a network. The gift card management server, through the kiosk processor interface, provides vendor options to users to select and pay via the card reader. In another embodiment, the kiosk is used to redeem unused user gift cards for a reduced value user selected gift card, reduced cash value, full value store card, rewards points, bank debit, and/or electronic code user towards online purchases.
US10460310B2
A mobile transaction device may present nearby event or location related merchants to a user and allow the user to check in at the event or location. The mobile transaction device may then present merchants who are associated with the event or location to the user. Thus, the user may quickly find relevant merchants with whom the user wishes to conduct mobile transactions. For example, merchants associated with an event, such as merchants in a farmer's market, food trucks along the same street, or the like, may be grouped together into a merchant group associated with an event/location. A name/picture/icon of the event/location may be presented to the user on the mobile transaction app of the user device. Thus, the user may select the event/location to check in at the event or location. The merchants associated with the event or location may be quickly located for transactions.
US10460309B2
Methods, apparatuses and systems of payment verification are disclosed. A method includes receiving a request for connecting to a receiver access point (AP) from a terminal of a payer to be verified and geographical location information of the receiver AP, verifying whether account information included in the request matches with pre-stored payment account information; returning a verification result to the receiver AP; receiving a payer terminal geographical location information verification request from a payment server if the verification result indicates a match; verifying geographical location information of the terminal of the payer to be verified based on the geographical location information of the receiver AP; and returning a verification result of the payer terminal geographical location information verification request to the payment server. The method increases the security of a payment process and prevents a legitimate user from suffering financial losses and unnecessary troubles.
US10460303B2
Systems, methods, and articles of manufacture for performing an operation comprising receiving, from a self-checkout platform and as part of a purchase transaction for a first product, a data value of a barcode of the first product, storing an indication in a product store that the first product has been purchased, receiving a first item-specific identifier stored in a first radio frequency identification (RFID) tag associated with the first product, cross-referencing the first item-specific identifier with the indication in the product store to verify the purchase transaction of the first product via the self-checkout platform, receiving a second item-specific identifier stored in a second RFID tag associated with a second product, cross-referencing the product store to determine the second product has not been purchased via the self-checkout platform, and emitting a security notification related to the second product.
US10460302B2
Embodiments of the disclosure can include systems, methods, computer-readable media, techniques and methodologies for transactional document processing. Users can utilize documents to complete transactions. A user device, such as a point of sale (POS) device may be used to enter user information as well as capture an image of a check. A financial service server, in communication with the POS device, may forward the request to a document analysis server. The document analysis server may use the information received from the POS device to determine whether the document is approved to be used in a transaction. The document analysis server may obtain financial information from an image of the check. The document analysis server may use the user information and financial information to obtain additional information (e.g., credit history, transaction history, etc.). The document analysis server may also determine whether to generate a recommendation with an approval or rejection of the use of the document for the transaction.
US10460297B2
A system and method for interfacing with financial information. The system includes a touch screen display. The touch-screen display includes a plurality of logical regions. Each one of the plurality of logical regions includes content that is expandable based on a user selection. The system also includes logic to associate a plurality of a user's financial data of a predetermined type with each one of the logical regions. The system further includes logic to vary an amount of the associated financial data displayed on the display based on a first type of user selection of one of the logical regions.
US10460296B2
Systems, computer program products, and methods are described herein for processing a set of information associated with a check image using one or more disposition parameters to determine an automated disposition of the check associated with the check image. The present invention is configured to receive a set of information associated with a check image; receive one or more disposition parameters associated with a financial institution; apply the one or more disposition parameters to the set of information associated with the check image; determine automated disposition of the check based on at least applying the one or more disposition parameters to the set of information associated with the check image; and execute the automated disposition of the check.
US10460287B2
The disclosure includes a system and method for indexing synthetically modified images of a high quality image. An image recognition application receives images of a product, crops background regions from the images, scales the image based on a minimum value among width and height of the image and generates multiple image sizes, blurs the images, brightens the image and indexes the images as being associated with the product. The images can be of box-shaped packages that include four or six images or cylindrical packages that include, for example, eight images of the packages. The images can be indexed in a k-dimensional tree for faster retrieval.
US10460282B2
The present disclose is directed to a method for dropping off a shipment in a motor vehicle. In one embodiment, the method comprises: transmission of a digital key to a control device of the motor vehicle, transmission of a piece of authentication information to an authentication element, capture of the piece of authentication information or of a piece of information derived from the piece of authentication information, actuation of a vehicle device to allow access to at least part of the motor vehicle interior by the control device when an authentication condition that evaluates both the piece of authentication information or the derived piece of information and the digital key is met, and actuation of the vehicle device and/or of a further vehicle device to close the motor vehicle following storage of the shipment in the motor vehicle or after a prescribed waiting time.
US10460280B2
Embodiments for delivering goods to customers by a processor are described. An item is selected to be delivered to a delivery point. The selected item is loaded onto a first drone. The delivery point is scanned with a second drone. Based on the scanning of the delivery point, the delivery point is determined to be in a first condition or a second condition. If the delivery point is in the first condition, the first drone delivers the selected item to the delivery point.
US10460274B2
The present invention is directed to systems and methods for performing energy disaggregation of a whole-house energy usage waveform, based at least in part on the whole-house energy usage profile, training data, and predetermined generic models, including: a module for pairing impulses identified in the whole-house energy usage waveform to indicate an appliance cycle, pairing impulses with at least one up transition with at least one down transition; a module for bundling impulses that are representative of an appliance cycle; a classification module, which upon determination of a type of appliance associated with bundles, is configured to classify the bundles of transitions in accordance with bundles exhibited by similar appliances with similar characteristics; and utilizing such pairing module and module for bundling to perform energy disaggregation. Moreover, the present invention sets forth graphical user interfaces for the presentation of such data and the receipt of user-supplied validation and information.
US10460260B2
A method and system for providing an overlay window for an application to display augmentation data over the user interface of the application is provided. An overlay system includes an overlay component and an engine component that interface with the application and a presentation manager used by the application to provide the application window. When the overlay system starts up, it initializes the overlay component and the engine component. The overlay component tracks the portion of the application that is currently visible and displays augmentation data in an overlay window over the application window. The engine component provides augmentation functionality that generates the augmentation data and generates the overlay window based on the augmentation data. When the visible portion of the application data changes, the overlay component requests the engine component to generate the overlay window for the currently visible application data.
US10460258B2
The present invention is to provide a computer system and a method and a program for controlling an edge device that acquire data for a predetermined machine learning from a combination of sensors in a network, perform possible learning with the sensors without the user's intention, and output the result. According to the present invention, a computer system that performs machine learning with an edge device 100 connected with a gateway 200 detects an edge device 100 connected with the gateway 200, determines the combination of the detected edge devices 100, determines a program for an edge device 100 and a program for machine learning based on the determined combination, and causes the edge devices 100 to execute the program for an edge device 100 and causes a predetermined computer to execute the program for machine learning.
US10460255B2
Disclosed is a technique that can be performed by an electronic device. The technique can include generating raw data based on inputs to the electronic device, and sending the raw data or data items over a network to a server computer system. The sent raw data or the data items can include training data. The technique can further include receiving global model data from the server computer system over the network. The global model data may have been derived from the training data in accordance with a machine learning process. The technique can further include generating an updated local model by updating a local model associated with the electronic device based on the received global model data, and processing local data based on the updated local model to generate output data. The local data can include raw data or data items generated based on inputs to the electronic device.
US10460253B2
A method for solving the NP complete problem 3SAT and other computational problems which can be reduced to it. Quantum mechanical operations are performed on a finite number of quantum mechanical bits, or “qubits,” in such a way as to concentrate probability in states which solve a given 3SAT problem, provided they exist. Concentration of probability is achieved by generalizing the traditional, reversible model of quantum computation to include irreversible operations mapping one density matrix to another.
US10460252B2
A system and method improves the probability of correctly detecting an object from a collection of source data and reduces the processing load. A plurality of algorithms for a given data type are selected and ordered based on a cumulative trained probability of correctness (Pc) that each of the algorithms, which are processed in a chain and conditioned upon the result of the preceding algorithms, produce a correct result and a processing. The algorithms cull the source data to pass forward a reduced subset of source data in which the conditional probability of detecting the object is higher than the a priori probability of the algorithm detecting that same object. The Pc and its confidence interval is suitably computed and displayed for each algorithm and the chain and the final object detection.
US10460251B2
Apparatus, methods, and systems for cross-domain time series data conversion are disclosed. In an example embodiment, a first time series of a first type of data is received and stored. The first time series of the first type of data is encoded as a first distributed representation for the first type of data. The first distributed representation is converted to a second distributed representation for a second type of data which is different from the first type of data. The second distributed representation for the second type of data is decoded as a second time series of the second type of data.
US10460245B2
A flexible persistence modeling system and method for building flexible persistence models for education institutions using a Markov model based on units of academic progress of a non-traditional learning program of an education institution. The Markov model is used to quantify transitions of students between the states as parameters of state transitions so that features from the Markov model with the parameters of state transitions can be extracted that are related to the non-traditional learning program of the education institution using defined flexible persistence. The extracted features can then be used to build at least one flexible persistence model for different segments of the students.
US10460243B2
Techniques and systems are provided for predictive modeling based on interactions with a network device. For example, a method may include generating a prediction including a correlation between an interaction with a network device and a context, wherein the interaction is associated with a function performed by the network device. Confidence parameters associated with the prediction can be determined. The prediction can be tested by analyzing received interaction data and contextual data, and the analysis can include determining whether the interaction with the network device occurred in the correlated context. A confidence value can be calculated based on the testing outcome, and can be compared to the confidence parameters. A message relating to modification of the confidence parameters can be transmitted.
US10460237B2
Artificial neural networks (ANNs) are a distributed computing model in which computation is accomplished using many simple processing units (called neurons) and the data embodied by the connections between neurons (called synapses) and the strength of these connections (called synaptic weights). An attractive implementation of ANNs uses the conductance of non-volatile memory (NVM) elements to code the synaptic weight. In this application, the non-idealities in the response of the NVM (such as nonlinearity, saturation, stochasticity and asymmetry in response to programming pulses) lead to reduced network performance compared to an ideal network implementation. Disclosed is a method that improves performance by implementing a learning rate parameter that is local to each synaptic connection, a method for tuning this local learning rate, and an implementation that does not compromise the ability to train many synaptic weights in parallel during learning.
US10460235B1
Methods for generating data models using a generative adversarial network can begin by receiving a data model generation request by a model optimizer from an interface. The model optimizer can provision computing resources with a data model. As a further step, a synthetic dataset for training the data model can be generated using a generative network of a generative adversarial network, the generative network trained to generate output data differing at least a predetermined amount from a reference dataset according to a similarity metric. The computing resources can train the data model using the synthetic dataset. The model optimizer can evaluate performance criteria of the data model and, based on the evaluation of the performance criteria of the data model, store the data model and metadata of the data model in a model storage. The data model can then be used to process production data.
US10460234B2
Systems and methods for private deep neural network training are disclosed. Method includes storing first private values at first machine and second private values at second machine; providing, to third machine, first share of first private values and first share of second private values; providing, to fourth machine, second share of first private values and second share of second private values; computing, at third machine, third machine-value based on first share of first private values and first share of second private values; computing, at fourth machine, fourth machine-value based on second share of first private values and second share of second private values; providing, to first machine and second machine, third machine-value and fourth machine-value; and computing, at first machine, a mathematical function of first private values and second private values, mathematical function being computed based on first private values stored at first machine, third machine-value, and fourth machine-value.
US10460231B2
An image signal processing (ISP) system is provided. The system includes a neural network trained by inputting a set of raw data images and a correlating set of desired quality output images; the neural network including an input for receiving input image data and providing processed output; wherein the processed output includes input image data that has been adjusted for at least one image quality attribute. A method and an imaging device are disclosed.
US10460222B2
A graphically encoded icon comprises a label attached to an object. The label includes a static portion and an intrinsic portion. The static portion has an area of machine-readable indicia. The intrinsic portion includes at least one area comprising a stimuli-responsive material. The stimuli-responsive material is configured to change from a first state to a second state in response to a trigger, and the change in state is based on an attribute about the object.
US10460219B2
In an example, a method is described that includes dividing an input image into a plurality of strips, where each strip is smaller than a whole of the input image. A plurality of binary images is then generated, where each of the binary images corresponds to one of the strips. Connected component labeling is performed on the binary images, one binary image at a time. An object map for the input image is then generated based on the results of the connected component labeling.
US10460218B2
A bitmap processing system for creating digital documents on a digital printing press by a fulfiller includes a fulfiller operated raster image processor that receives customer application Page Description Language (PDL) job files containing information for creating the digital documents and generates bitmaps in accordance with the files and a fulfiller operated editor that modifies the bitmaps so that the resulting documents process more efficiently in production steps downstream of a printing process.
US10460212B1
A method is disclosed for using digital camera fingerprints to create bins of digital images generated by the same digital camera. The method includes determining, for each digital image in the set of digital images, a digital fingerprint. The method also includes sorting each digital image into one of a high-quality subset and a low-quality subset. The method also includes sorting each digital image in the high-quality subset into one of a plurality of bins. In each bin the images were determined, based on the digital fingerprints of the images in the bin, to have been generated by a single digital camera associated with the bin. The method also includes sorting each digital image in the low-quality subset into one of the plurality of bins, the sorting being performed based on the digital fingerprint of the digital image.
US10460210B1
A method of neural network operations by using a grid generator is provided for converting modes according to classes of areas to satisfy level 4 of autonomous vehicles. The method includes steps of: (a) a computing device, if a test image is acquired, instructing a non-object detector to acquire non-object location information for testing and class information of the non-objects for testing by detecting the non-objects for testing on the test image; (b) the computing device instructing the grid generator to generate section information by referring to the non-object location information for testing; (c) the computing device instructing a neural network to determine parameters for testing; (d) the computing device instructing the neural network to apply the neural network operations to the test image by using each of the parameters for testing, to thereby generate one or more neural network outputs.
US10460205B2
A method of analyzing a set of digital images each having been captured with a digital camera, the method comprising, using at least one processor: a) extracting a camera fingerprint from each image so as to form a set of camera fingerprints, each camera fingerprint being representative of the camera used to capture the image, and being of a first dimension; b) forming a set of dimensionally reduced camera fingerprints from each camera fingerprint, the dimensionally reduced camera fingerprint being of a second dimension smaller than the first dimension; c) forming a first subset of dimensionally reduced camera fingerprints and a second subset of dimensionally reduced camera fingerprints; d) determining a level of similarity between every pairing of the dimensionally reduced camera fingerprints of the first subset; e) determining a level of similarity between every pairing of the dimensionally reduced camera fingerprints of the second subset; f) determining a level of similarity between every pairing of, on the one hand, the dimensionally reduced fingerprints of the first set and, on the other hand, the dimensionally reduced fingerprints of the second subset; g) recording those pairings which indicate a comparatively higher level of similarity; h) substituting for the contents of the first subset those dimensionally reduced camera fingerprints of the first and second subsets which have been recorded as part of a pairing showing a comparatively higher level of similarity; i) substituting for the contents of the second subset a different subset of the set of the dimensionally reduced camera fingerprints; j) repeating steps (e) to (i), typically until all of the dimensionally reduced camera fingerprints have been processed; k) performing a clustering algorithm on all dimensionally reduced camera fingerprints based on the pairings having a comparatively higher level of similarity to produce a plurality of first clusters each comprising a set of dimensionally reduced camera fingerprints; l) for each of the first clusters, determining a level of similarity between each of the camera fingerprints corresponding to the dimensionally reduced camera fingerprints of that cluster; and m) splitting and merging the coarse clusters dependent upon the similarities between the camera fingerprints to form a plurality of second clusters.
US10460185B2
A system and method for roadside image tracing are described herein. The system includes a camera mounted on a vehicle configured to capture images of objects around the vehicle while driving along a route of a plurality of routes, and processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to receive the captured images from the camera and vehicle parameters including speed, a fuel level, and a mileage, extract objects and locations of the objects within the captured images including information related to driving, determine a route ranking based on the information collected from the objects during one or more trips along each route of the plurality of routes, generate route options based on the route ranking and the vehicle parameters, and transmit route options to a display.
US10460183B2
A method or system is capable of detecting operator behavior (“OB”) utilizing a virtuous cycle containing sensors, machine learning center (“MLC”), and cloud based network (“CBN”). In one aspect, the process monitors operator body language captured by interior sensors and captures surrounding information observed by exterior sensors onboard a vehicle as the vehicle is in motion. After selectively recording the captured data in accordance with an OB model generated by MLC, an abnormal OB (“AOB”) is detected in accordance with vehicular status signals received by the OB model. Upon rewinding recorded operator body language and the surrounding information leading up to detection of AOB, labeled data associated with AOB is generated. The labeled data is subsequently uploaded to CBN for facilitating OB model training at MLC via a virtuous cycle.
US10460180B2
Systems and method are provided for controlling an autonomous vehicle. A camera configured to capture an image, and a controller can execute an autonomous driving system (ADS) that classify that image. The ADS comprises a classification system for classifying objects in an environment within a driveable area of the autonomous vehicle. The classification system comprises a processor configured to execute a region proposal generator module and an image classification module. The region proposal generator module generates a set of bounding box region proposals for the image. The bounding box region proposals are selected areas of the image that include objects to be classified. The image classification module classifies, via a neural network executed by the processor, the objects from the image that are within one of the bounding box region proposals.
US10460171B2
Access to a set of media content items is acquirable. Identified processors can perform, in parallel, object detection for the set. In some cases, information about a current system state, a user, and/or object popularity metrics is acquirable for selecting a subset of object models. Object recognition is performable, based on the subset, for the set of media content items. In some instances, a camera view can be provided. Object recognition is performable for representations of the view. An object depicted in the representations is identifiable. An interface portion is presentable to provide a label for the object. In some cases, object recognition is performable for the set of media content items to identify an object depicted in a content item. A label is associable with the content item. A search through the set of media content items can identify, based on the label, a subset that depicts the object.
US10460170B1
A computer-implemented method for processing images to determine EI site status is provided. The method includes image processing of an aerial image by two EI feature recognition models. A first EI feature recognition model recognizes a first EI feature and a second EI feature recognition model recognizes a second EI feature. The results of each model are further used to determine a composite indication of EI site status.
US10460166B2
A method determining a retinal pigment epithelium identifies a plurality of regions using captured image data of the eye and fits a curve into at least some of the regions. A curve score is determined associated with the fitted curve using at least a distance between the fitted curve and at least some of the regions in which a contribution of the regions to the curve score is biased towards (asymmetric) regions below the fitted curve. These steps are repeated whereupon one of the fitted curves is selected, using the corresponding associated curve score, for classifying some of the regions as forming at least a part of a retinal pigment epithelium.
US10460152B2
Proposed are a method and apparatus for pushing information, the method comprises: detecting face information, and acquiring control information; acquiring pushing information according to the face information and the control information; and presenting the pushing information.
US10460151B2
The present invention is a photograph sharing process and/or system that allows professional photographers, who photograph weddings or other events where large numbers of photographs containing varying subject, to send photographs in which a subject or individual appears directly to that particular individual. Thus, the photographs are shared only with intended recipients and may be viewed essentially simultaneously or in close proximity to the photographed event.
US10460150B2
Techniques for classifying a human cutaneous tissue specimen are presented. The techniques may include obtaining a computer readable image of the human tissue sample and preprocessing the image. The techniques may include applying a trained deep learning model to the image to label each of a plurality of image pixels with at least one probability representing a particular diagnosis, such that a labeled plurality of image pixels is obtained. The techniques can also include applying a trained discriminative classifier to contiguous regions of pixels defined at least in part by the labeled plurality of image pixels to obtain a specimen level diagnosis, where the specimen level diagnosis includes at least one of: basal cell carcinoma, dermal nevus, or seborrheic keratosis. The techniques can include outputting the specimen level diagnosis.
US10460149B2
A method and an apparatus for updating fingerprint templates, and a mobile terminal are provided. The method includes acquiring a fingerprint image input by a user. The fingerprint image is compared with fingerprint templates pre-stored in a fingerprint template set, where the fingerprint template set comprises N fingerprint templates and N is a positive integer. A mobile terminal performs a target operation when a match value between the fingerprint image and an ith fingerprint template of the fingerprint template set is greater than a first preset threshold. The method determines whether the match value set is greater than a second preset threshold. The method generates a new fingerprint template based on the fingerprint image and adds the new fingerprint template to the fingerprint template set when the match value between the fingerprint image and the ith fingerprint template is greater than the second preset threshold.
US10460144B2
A method for detecting a finger at a fingerprint sensor includes detecting a presence of an object at a fingerprint sensor and, in response to detecting the presence of the object, acquiring image data for the object based on signals from the fingerprint sensor. The method further includes, for each subset of one or more subsets of the image data, calculating a magnitude value for a spatial frequency of the subset, and identifying the object as a finger based on comparing the magnitude value to a threshold.
US10460142B2
A barcode identification method includes generating a binarization barcode by using a binarization process from a sampled barcode, acquiring a first region from the binarization barcode, acquiring a first narrow element width from the first region, acquiring a second region from the binarization barcode, acquiring a second narrow element width from the second region, generating an extension region by extending the second region when the second narrow element width is smaller than the first narrow element width, generating a plurality of binarization sequences corresponding to the extension region, decoding at least one of the binarization sequences for generating at least one decoded sequence by using a lookup table, and verifying the at least one decoded sequence for generating a verified sequence by using a checksum code.
US10460138B2
The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for decoding matrixed bar codes, such as Quick Response (“QR”) codes. In one implementation, system for decoding an intrinsic matrixed bar code may include an image-receiving device; at least one processor configured to execute instructions; and at least one memory storing the instructions. The instructions may be to perform operations including receiving an image using the image-receiving device; determining a grid for the image, the grid having a plurality of cells; selecting at least one cell of the grid as a candidate cell for containing an intrinsic matrixed bar code; extracting at least one intrinsic matrixed bar code located within the candidate cell; determining that the at least one extracted matrixed bar code is degraded; and repairing the at least one extracted matrixed bar code.
US10460129B2
According to one embodiment of the disclosure, a method includes receiving, from a first requestor, a request to create a cooperative synthetic identity case for an original identity. The method includes determining whether a cooperative synthetic identity case has already been created for the original identity. The method also includes generating a case identifier that uniquely identifies the cooperative synthetic identity case. The method further includes associating the case identifier with an expiration period. The method also includes storing the cooperative synthetic identity case, the case identifier, and the expiration period to a memory. The method also includes sending the case identifier to the first requestor.
US10460127B2
A method of providing material based on a user-initiated request utilizing an electronic database includes receiving search keywords to conduct a search and accessing a first database having previously stored contact information for the particular user in an initial table record. The method includes transforming data in the fields of the record for the particular user in the initial table to generate a record in a sanitized table, accessing a second electronic database having previously stored data structures corresponding to businesses, where each data structure maps selected keyword combinations to corresponding icons, and to particular material corresponding to each keyword combination, and displaying icons associated with search results having corresponding selected keywords near associated result items on an electronic display. The method includes initiating sending of particular material corresponding to the request based on the selected icon and contact data for the user obtained from the sanitized table.
US10460118B2
A system for secure storage audit verification includes a transaction pool and a processor. The processor is configured to verify a transaction stored in the transaction pool and sign a proposed block. The proposed block is based at least in part on the transaction. The processor is further configured to receive a counter signed proposed block and add the counter signed proposed block to a blockchain.
US10460106B2
A method and apparatus for identifying computer virus variants are disclosed to improve the accuracy of virus identification and removal, and may relate to the field of internet technology. The method includes running a virus sample to be tested and recording an API call sequence produced during running of the virus sample. The method further includes obtaining a characteristic API call sequence for each one of a plurality of virus families, matching the API call sequence produced during running of the virus sample to be tested with the characteristic API call sequences of the virus families, and obtaining a matching result. The method also includes determining the virus sample to be tested is a virus variant by extent of a match between the API call sequence produced by the virus sample and any characteristic API call sequence of any one of the virus families.
US10460104B2
A security system and method secures and responds to security threats in a computer having a CPU, a Kernel/OS, and software applications. A data collector intercepts a selection of first tier calls between the CPU and Kernel/OS and/or second tier calls between the Kernel/Operating System and the applications, and stores information pertaining thereof. An Analytic Engine maps the stored first and second tier call information to a rulebase containing patterns of security threats, to generate a threat analysis, and then responds to the threat analysis. The Analytic Engine enlarges or contracts the selection of first and second tier calls to increase or decrease specificity of the threat analysis. A Management Module generates user interfaces accessible remotely by a user device, to update the rulebase and configure the collector, the Kernel module, and the Analytic Engine.
US10460103B2
According to one embodiment of the present invention, a system provides security for a device and includes at least one processor. The system monitors a plurality of networked devices for a security risk. Each networked device is associated with a corresponding security risk tolerance. In response to a monitored security risk for one or more of the plurality of networked devices exceeding the corresponding risk tolerance, a network service is initiated to perform one or more actions on each of the one or more networked devices to alleviate the associated security risk. Embodiments of the present invention further include a method and computer program product for providing security to a device in substantially the same manner described above.
US10460098B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus include computer programs encoded on a computer-readable storage medium, including a method for linking devices. An application, provided to plural devices, is configured to gather account information for services accessed by a given device. Data packages are received from each of a first device and a second different device. Each data package includes a first device identifier and encrypted account information for accounts associated with the device. The account information includes, for a given account, a one-way encrypted account identifier. The encrypted account information associated with the first device is compared with the encrypted account information associated with the second different device to locate one or more matching one-way encrypted identifiers. Based on a comparing, a determination is made that the first device and second different device are associated with a same user, and the first device identifier and second different device identifier are linked.
US10460095B2
A method of verifying an identity of a user using a set of earpieces includes communicating a first sound toward a tympanic membrane of the left ear, communicating a second sound toward a tympanic membrane of the right ear, receiving reflected sounds from an ear canal of the left ear, receiving reflected sounds from an ear canal of the right ear, comparing acoustic properties of the reflected sounds with acoustic properties stored in a memory device, and verifying the identity of the user if the acoustic properties of the reflected sounds match the stored acoustic properties.
US10460088B2
A digital camera adapted to be used with an SD card, which has a security-lock function, includes a password inputting part configured to input a password for releasing the security lock into the SD card. The digital camera releases the security-lock function of the SD card and establishes a communication between the SD card and a personal computer.
US10460083B2
A method for issuing digital credentials can include assigning a digital credential to a user account maintained by the digital content delivery system; receiving, from a mobile computing device associated with the user account, a first request for the digital credential; in response to receiving the first request: determining whether a current location of the mobile computing device is within a predetermined geographic distance of the selected exhibitor location, and determining whether a remaining amount of time until a scheduled start time of the selected scheduled presentation is less than a threshold amount of time; and in response to determining that either the current location of the mobile computing device is outside of the predetermined geographic distance of the selected exhibitor location or the remaining amount of time until the scheduled start time of the selected scheduled presentation is greater than the threshold amount of time, denying the first request.
US10460077B2
A system for recording HIPAA compliant medical imagery may be configured using two separate systems. A first system comprising a separate and independent medical imaging device such as a microscope, an endoscope, or a similar medical imaging tool. The desired medical imaging tool is configured so that a high-definition recording device is able to capture the imagery displayed by the medical imaging tool. The separate and independent medical imaging device is further configured to transmit the high-definition captured imagery to a second separate and independent medical imagery processing system. The second separate and independent medical imagery processing system may be configured to include a special purpose computer with a processor, a hard drive, a random-access memory, and a removable encrypted flash drive. The processor may be configured, using well understood techniques, to process the high-definition imagery that is transmitted from the separate and independent medical imaging device. The processor may be further configured to store the processed data in an encrypted format only on a removable encrypted flash drive that is connected to the second separate and independent medical imagery processing system.
US10460072B2
A modeling assembly (100) for layout of rigid tubing comprises a first releasable coupling assembly (110) and a second releasable coupling assembly (120). The modeling assembly (100) also comprises a lockable adjustment assembly (130) comprising a first component (140) and a second component (150). The first component (140) is configured to be removably coupled to an end A of a first rigid tube (102) via the first releasable coupling assembly (110). The second component (150) is configured to be removably coupled to an end C of a second rigid tube (104) via the second releasable coupling assembly (120). With the lockable adjustment assembly (130) in the loose coupled state, the first component (140) and the second component (150) have only three degrees of freedom relative to each other. With the lockable adjustment assembly (130) in the locked coupled state, the first component (140) and the second component (150) have zero degrees of freedom relative to each other.
US10460069B1
Electronic design automation systems and methods for functional reactive parameterized cells (FR-PCells) are described. In one embodiment, a PCell includes a reactive parameter that is based on context information regarding other cells or elements of an overall circuit design. Processing of the FR-PCell may then depend on processing of other PCells or other elements of a circuit design. Similarly, an FR-PCell may provide context information to other FR-PCells. In some embodiments, processing of an FR-PCell to generate an instance of the FR-PCell is managed by a reaction engine that monitors updates to context information or other PCells to automatically adjust instances of the FR-PCells.
US10460066B1
Aspects of the present disclosure address improved systems and methods for resolving single-entry constraint violations in hierarchical integrated circuit designs. In routing multi-pin nets of IC designs, the system employs a partition-entry-aware search algorithm to identify single-entry-violation-free routing results for two-pin nets, which are then combined to form routed multi-pin nets. The search algorithm is “entry-aware” in that it penalizes multiple entries into a single partition. Consistent with some embodiments, the system may further employ a post fix stage to remove extra partition entries for the multi-pin nets with single-entry violations by choosing a main entry to enter a partition and rerouting the paths that cause the violations such that the paths share the main entry.
US10460059B1
A system and method for generating standard delay format (SDF) files is disclosed. For each timing closed hierarchical instance, timing arcs on internal register to register paths may be marked as zero delay arcs. If the zero delay causes a hold violation, an adjustment may be computed to fix the violation. If the adjustment does not cause a setup violation, the adjustment may be applied to the end point register.
US10460058B2
A method of exhaustively verifying a property of a hardware design to implement a floating point power function. The method includes, formally verifying that the hardware design is recurrent over sets of β input exponents, wherein β is an integer that is a multiple of the reciprocal of the exponent of the power function; and for each recurrent input range of the hardware design, exhaustively simulating the hardware design over a simulation range to verify the property is true over the simulation range, wherein the simulation range comprises only β input exponents.
US10460055B1
A computer performing a transient vectorless power analysis of a multi-clock domain integrated circuit (IC) design may execute a scheduling cycle based on the dominant clock frequency and schedule events based on comparing instance clock frequencies with the dominant clock frequency. If the instance clock frequency matches the dominant clock frequency, the computer may schedule a single event per scheduling cycle for the sequential circuit devices driven by the respective instance clocks. If the instance clock frequency is faster than the dominant clock frequency, the computer may schedule number of events per scheduling cycle based on the ratio of the instance clock frequency to the dominant clock frequency. If the instance clock frequency is less than the dominant clock frequency, the computer may schedule a single event per scheduling cycle if the computer determines that there is a triggering edge of the instance clock within the scheduling cycle.
US10460044B2
A system, computer-readable medium, and a method including receiving a textual representation of a natural language expression for a system requirement; analyzing, by the processor, the textual representation of the natural language expression to determine a natural language object, the natural language object including the textual representation of the natural language expression and syntactic attributes derived therefrom; traversing, by the processor, a grammar graph representation of a modeling language to determine a partial translation of the natural language object, the partial translation including at least one ontology concept placeholder; determining, by the processor, ontology concepts corresponding to the at least one ontology concept placeholder to complete a translation of the textual representation of the natural language expression; and generating a record of the completed translation.
US10460039B2
A method for controlling identification includes obtaining first text, which is text in a first language, obtaining second text, which is text in a second language obtained by translating the first text into the second language, obtaining correct labels, which indicate content of the first text, inputting the first text and the second text to an identification model common to the first and second languages, and updating the common identification model such that labels identified by the common identification model from the first text and the second text match the correct labels.
US10460035B1
Technologies are provided for determining deficiencies in narrative textual data that may impact decision-making in a decisional context. A candidate text document and a reference corpus of text may be utilized to generate one or more topic models and document-term matrices, and then to determine a corresponding statistical perplexity and probabilistic coherence. The reference corpus may be known or normatively deemed to be epistemically persuasive and adequate with respect to a particular context. Statistical determinations of a degree to which the candidate deviates from the reference normative corpus are determined, in terms of the statistical perplexity and probabilistic coherence of the candidate as compared to the reference. If the difference is statistically significant, a message may be reported to user, such as the author or an auditor of the candidate text document, so that the user has the opportunity to amend the candidate document so as to improve its adequacy for the decisional purposes in the context at hand.
US10460034B2
An intention inference system includes, a morphological analyzer to perform morphological analysis for a complex sentence with multiple intentions involved, a syntactic analyzer to perform syntactic analysis for the complex sentence morphologically analyzed by the morphological analyzer and to divide it into the first simple sentence and the second simple sentence, an intention inference unit to infer the first intention involved in the first simple sentence and the second intention involved in the second simple sentence, a feature extractor to extract as the first feature a morpheme showing execution order of operations involved in the first simple sentence and to extract as the second feature a morpheme showing execution order of operations involved in the second simple sentence, and an execution order inference unit to infer the execution order of the first operation corresponding to the first intention and the second operation corresponding to the second intention on the basis of the first feature and the second feature extracted by the feature extractor. This enables the system to infer user's intentions accurately.
US10460026B2
Programmer input in a programming language is received, the programmer input including i) specification data corresponding to an electronic form to be generated, and ii) a parameter that indicates a function to be applied to user input. The programmer input is evaluated to generate an electronic form object that includes one or more user-interface mechanisms for receiving the user input, wherein evaluating the programmer input includes evaluating the specification data and/or the parameter that indicates the function to generate code in the electronic form object which is capable of being processed by an application to render the electronic form. The electronic form object is generated such that the electronic form object is configured to apply, upon being processed by the application, the function to the user input received via the one or more user-interface mechanisms.
US10460022B2
To be able to further facilitate interaction between users using AR technologies. Provided is a display control device including: a picture image acquiring unit configured to acquire a moving image corresponding to a sight of a first user in real time; a display control unit configured to display the moving image toward a second user different from the first user, and an annotation detection unit configured to detect that an annotation input by the second user with respect to the moving image is displayed in the sight of the first user or is output to be displayed. The display control unit further displays the displayed or output annotation toward the second user.
US10460007B1
Systems and methods are provided for approximating an electric current on a surface of an object. A mesh is received. A matrix comprising a system of equations is generated based on the mesh. An entry of the matrix is associated with (i) a source function that approximates an electric current on the surface of the object, and (ii) a test function that tests a field of the source function on the surface. A near part of the matrix and a far part of the matrix are determined. The far part of the matrix is represented using a submatrix that is based on Gaussian points on elements of the mesh. The electric current on the surface of the mesh is calculated by solving the system of equations of the matrix.
US10460001B2
Provided are a window switching method, and device and storage medium thereof. The method comprises the steps: obtaining a first pre-reading keyword meeting the requirement in all contents on a page opened through a current window, determining a first pre-reading URL corresponding to the first pre-reading keyword, utilizing the pre-reading window to load a pre-reading page corresponding to the first pre-reading URL, and switching the pre-reading window loaded with the pre-reading page to the current window when an instruction of entering the pre-reading page is received. An improved pre-reading function can be achieved, and the technical problem of low user experience caused by the fact that contents on a pre-reading page cannot be displayed completely after switching to the pre-reading page is further solved.
US10460000B2
In one embodiment, a computing device accesses a social graph comprising nodes and edges connecting the nodes. Each of the edges between two of the nodes represents a single degree of separation between them. The nodes include user nodes corresponding to users of an online social network, and concept nodes corresponding to places. A particular place corresponds to a particular concept node, and corresponds to an associated location and a perimeter. A number of check-ins are received, each check-in being associated with the particular place and having a geographic location. Each check-in corresponds to an edge of the social graph between a user node and the particular concept node. Based on the received check-ins the computing device determines whether to update the associated location and the perimeter.
US10459996B2
The present disclosure discloses a big data based cross-domain recommendation method and apparatus. Correlation between domains and correlation between user behavior characteristics are obtained by connection and cross analysis of a user's online input and offline behaviors in different domains, and content is recommended to the user according to the established correlation. The technical solution of the present disclosure is applied to the precise consumer brand recommendation to users and the precise positioning of potential consumer brand customers in the Internet+retail area. The technical solution can solve a series of problems, such as cross-drainage of users in multiple domains, precise marketing and precise positioning of potential customers, and the effect is very obvious. From the offline simulation test and online real consumption test, the brand recommendation and user positioning accuracy is largely improved, while the GMV of the offline retail is largely improved.
US10459994B2
A webpage is received. A request to tag a webpage is received. The webpage may be parsed in response to the received request to tag the webpage. One or more critical words may be identified within the parsed webpage. A tag dictionary may be searched for the identified one or more critical words. One or more tags for selection by an end user may be displayed in response to searching the tag dictionary. The parsed webpage may be tagged with a received selection of a tag of the displayed one or more tags.
US10459993B2
A system and method is provided that facilitates a progressive guided search for PLM objects. The system may comprise a processor configured to generate a GUI that enables a plurality of objects classified by library nodes to be searchable via a selection of one or more library nodes and a selection of one or more filter values for a plurality of filters corresponding to different object features. The processor may be responsive to a selection of a library node and/or filter value: to determine a subset of objects having object features corresponding to the selection; to cause the subset of objects to be displayed in the GUI; to determine a second plurality of filters based on the determined subset of objects; and to cause the second plurality of filters to be displayed in the GUI in an order based on the filter values associated with the second plurality of filters.
US10459986B2
Systems and methods for profiling a user include providing a user account to a user and, in response, storing a user account identifier in association with the user account in a database. First user data is then received that is associated with the user account identifier and that includes activity associated with the user account, and the first user data is association with the user account in the database. Subsequent user data is then received that includes information about the user and that is associated with additional user identifiers and the user account identifier and, in response, the additional user identifiers are association with the user account identifier and each other in the database, and the additional user data is associated with the user account in the database. A user profile may then be creating using the first user data, the second user data, and the third user data.
US10459985B2
Systems and methods for managing behavior in a virtual collaboration session. In some embodiments, an Information Handling System (IHS) may include a processor and a memory coupled to the processor, the memory including program instructions stored thereon that, upon execution by the processor, cause the IHS to: receive engagement metrics from a participant of a virtual collaboration session, wherein the engagement metrics are indicative of the participant's level of engagement in the virtual collaboration session; calculate a score based upon the engagement metrics; and provide the score to the participant.
US10459984B2
An apparatus and method for searching and displaying using cognitive pattern recognition including searching for document(s) with at least one search text, wherein each search text is associated with a highlight option; selecting to enable or disable the highlight option for each of the search text; displaying a progressive relationship of the document(s) in scaled common image format (CIF) by displaying: a first display presenting the document(s), wherein each of the document(s) includes all of the search text; a second display presenting only pages from the document(s) where the only pages presented include one or more of the search text with its associated highlight option enabled; and a third display presenting one page from the only pages wherein all occurrences of the search text where the highlight option for the search text is enabled are displayed simultaneously on the page.
US10459982B2
A system, method, computer program product and computer program for evaluating links between objects are provided. A receive ontology component receives an ontology and an identify component identifies, from the ontology, semantic feature types within the ontology that can be used to measure the links between the objects. A data receive component receives instance information and maps the instance information into an ontological form of the instance information. An analyze component analyzes the ontological form to generate an ontological mapping of the instance information. A match component analyzes the mapping to identify matches with semantic patterns. A strength component analyzes the associated semantic features associated with the objects of the matches to determine weightings for the links of the matches. An alert component provides the links and associated weightings.
US10459980B2
A display system for an issue comprises an input unit, a display unit and an processing unit. The input unit receives an initial keyword corresponding to an issue. The display unit displays at least a derivative issue generated from the issue during a time period according to time-based characteristics. The processing unit coupled to the input unit and the display unit obtains tags of subject contents of web pages, and obtains a present keywords group according to co-occurrence correlation of the tags. The processing unit analyzes the correlation between the present keywords calculated based on social voice, analyzing overlap rate for the present keywords compared with the initial keywords, and compares correlation between the present keywords with correlation between the initial keywords calculated based on social voice, in order to determine whether at least one of the derivative issue is generated.
US10459977B2
In embodiments, the present invention provides a method and system for providing video content to a display of a user, wherein the providing of the video content comprises generating a mobile media streaming server log using a real-time streaming protocol, determining that a portion of the video content has been viewed by the user resulting in a viewed portion, and identifying a first advertisement and media content within the viewed portion. The first advertisement is identified from among a group of advertisements of the video content. A settlement agreement is identified regarding viewing of the first advertisement and media content of the viewed portion, and financial account is settled according to the settlement agreement according to the mobile media streaming server log.
US10459976B2
A method, system and apparatus for applying an annotation to a portion of a video sequence. The method comprises the steps of receiving the video sequence in real-time during capture of the video sequence, monitoring in real-time a plurality of signals associated with the video sequence, and receiving an indication associated with a spatial area of interest of at least one frame during capture of the video sequence. The method further comprises selecting, from the plurality of monitored signals, a temporal portion of one of the plurality of monitored signals for annotation, said selection being based upon at least the spatial area of interest and a temporal variation measure in at least one of the plurality of monitored signals, applying an annotation to a portion of the video sequence corresponding to the selected temporal portion; and storing the annotation in an annotation record associated with the video sequence.
US10459969B2
Each of vehicles acquires its own position, and transmits an image of a nearby outside taken by an own camera and a piece of information of the own position. An information center communicatable wirelessly with the vehicles receives the images and the pieces of information of the vehicles' positions transmitted by the vehicles, and recognizes pieces of first character information appearing in the received images, respectively. Based on the received pieces of information of the vehicles' positions as well as at least either points of interest or areas stored as collection target information, the information center determines at least either points of interest or areas for the recognized pieces of first character information, respectively, and stores association information where the pieces of first character information are associated with the determined at least either points of interest or areas.
US10459963B2
An optimized fact checking system analyzes and determines the factual accuracy of information and/or characterizes the information by comparing the information with source information. The optimized fact checking system automatically monitors information, processes the information, fact checks the information in an optimized manner and/or provides a status of the information. In some embodiments, the optimized fact checking system generates, aggregates, and/or summarizes content.
US10459961B2
A system for segmenting an input data stream using vector processing, comprising a processor adapted to repeat the following steps throughout an input data stream to create a segmented data stream consisting a plurality of segments: apply a rolling sequence over a sequence of consecutive data items of an input data stream, the rolling sequence includes a subset of consecutive data items of the sequence, calculate concurrently a plurality of partial hash values each by one of a plurality of processing pipelines of the processor, each for a respective one of a plurality of partial rolling sequences each including evenly spaced data items of the subset, determine compliance of each of the plurality of partial hash values with one or more respective partial segmentation criteria and designate the sequence as a variable size segment when at least some of the partial hash values comply with the respective partial segmentation criteria.
US10459952B2
A system and method are disclosed for categorizing search terms. The system accesses search history for the search terms. The system also categorizes each of the search terms based on the number of times that the respective search term appears in the search history. If the number of times the search term appears in the search history exceeds a first threshold, a search result of the search term is determined and the search term is categorized as a type that is provided for registration to a user with recognized association with the search term or a type that is excluded from registration, where the categorizing based on a ratio of a number of times the search result was selected subsequent to receiving the search term to the number of times that the search term appears in the search history.
US10459946B2
A method for sharing data between blockchains in a multi-chain network including receiving a first plurality of account addresses associated with first and second blockchains and an account state for each account associated with the first plurality of account addresses and generating a first hash tree comprising a mapping between the first plurality of account addresses and the account states, defining a world state trie and a root hash thereof. The method further includes receiving a first plurality of transactions associated with the first and second blockchains and generating a second hash tree comprising the first plurality of transactions, defining a transactions trie, and a root hash thereof. The method further includes receiving a first plurality of transaction receipts associated with the plurality of transactions and generating a third hash tree comprising the first plurality of transactions receipts, defining a transaction receipts trie, and a root hash thereof.
US10459944B2
In an example embodiment, a solution is provided that synchronizes data from a lower-dimensionality projection of a high-dimensionality database with another high-dimensionality database in a manner that recreates information lost during the projection process as well as generates new high-dimensionality information from the lower dimensionality project. This allows, for example, for project team information, which was never contained in a database storing hierarchical reporting structure information, to be automatically generated, as well as for logical team information, which was originally contained in the database storing hierarchical reporting structure information but was lost during the projection process, to be recreated.
US10459942B1
A system determines samples of datasets that are typically processed by big data analysis systems. The samples are for use for development and testing of transformations for preprocessing the datasets in preparation for analysis by big data systems. The system receives one or more transform operations input datasets for the transform operations. The system determines samples associated with the transform operations. According to a sampling strategy, the system determines samples that return at least a threshold number of records in the result set obtained by applying a transformation. According to another sampling strategy, the system receives criteria describing the result of the transform operations and determines sample sets that generate result sets satisfying the criteria as a result of applying the transform operations.
US10459935B2
Systems, methods and computer-readable media are disclosed for generating integrated data records by correlating source data records stored at different registry source data repositories. A set of source data records is retrieved based on execution of one or more search queries against a set of registry source data repositories. A data record matching rule is selected for execution on the set of source data records. The matching rule specifies one or more input properties, each of which specifies at least one data field designator, and optionally, a matching algorithm and an input property match threshold value. The matching rule is executed on pairwise combinations of source data records to obtain a set of matched source data records. An integrated data record is generated and populated with respective data from each of one or more of the matched source data records. The integrated data record is linked to each source record.
US10459926B2
A system ranks results. The system may receive a list of links. The system may identify a source with which each of the links is associated and rank the list of links based at least in part on a quality of the identified sources.
US10459924B2
An information processing device assists generation of social communication, based on user communication information exchanged through a network. The information processing device includes: a communication information collection unit that collects the communication information; a life log information extraction unit that extracts life log information included in the collected communication information; a life log information storage unit that stores the extracted life log information in a configuration capable of being searched at least on an individual user unit basis, the life log information storage unit memorizing scores of a plurality of indexes while associating the scores with the life log information, the indexes indicating degrees of contribution of the life log information to new social communication generation; and a life log information management unit that manages the life log information stored in the life log information storage unit, based on a combination of the scores of the indexes.
US10459923B2
A system and method are provided for enabling querying of a large set, including accessing a data structure associated with a metadata parameter and configured to store partial information associated with the data set in a plurality of bins. Each bin, associated with a unique time interval, is configured to store a plurality of entries associated with identified respective members of the metadata parameter's that have a detection time included in the bin's time interval. Each entry has at least one of an updated maximum and minimum possible count value determined using a probabilistic algorithm. The method includes receiving a query having a requested time interval, selecting two or more bins f the data structure that in combination describe the requested time interval, selecting k entries from a combination of the entries in the selected bins based on at least one of an updated maximum and minimum possible count value associated with entries of the selected bins, and determining top-k data, the top-k data including identification of the selected k entries.
US10459914B2
A method includes accessing a first set of content objects of an online social network posted within a predetermined timeframe, and identifying trending topics. Each object may be associated with one or more topics. The method further includes accessing a second set of content objects, and identifying a plurality of co-occurring topics associated with the second set. Each content object of the second set is associated with at least one of the identified trending topics. Then, the method includes accessing a third set of content objects, and analyzing the plurality of trending topics and co-occurring topics to detect key topics. Each content object of the third set of content objects may be associated with at least one of the identified co-occurring topics or trending topics. The key topics may be detected based on determining the co-occurring topics or trending topics that are associated with a threshold number of content objects.
US10459901B2
In an example embodiment, for each of a plurality of different entities in a social network structure, the entity is mapped into a vector having n coordinates. The vector for each of the plurality of different entities is stored in a deep representation data structure. One or more objective functions are applied to at least one combination of two or more of the vectors in the deep representation data structure. Then, an optimization test on each of the at least one combination of two or more of the vectors is performed using a corresponding objective function output for each of the at least one combination of two or more of the vectors, and, for any combination that did not pass the optimization test, one or more coordinates for the vectors in the combination are altered so that the vectors in the combination become closer together within an n-dimensional space.
US10459895B2
Equipment, tools, systems, storage media, and methods that allow a user to monitor database storage at various granularities and set thresholds for generating alerts are described. In one aspect, a system includes a client device configured to execute an application, a database configured to support the client device, a storage array configured to provide information to the database, and a computing device. The computing device may execute a Database Storage Throughput Analyzer (DSTA) tool, specify an interval, specify a particular database cluster of the database, specify a service level objective for controlling communications between the database and the storage array, generate a query, receive storage throughput measurements for the database, and apply the query to the storage throughput measurements to aid users in identifying database storage issues.
US10459893B2
The purpose of the present invention is, in a file storage, to shorten an access response time to shared data. When a file storage apparatus receives a command for a specific manipulation of a file system, a specific apparatus determines, based on a state of the file system and a manipulation history, whether or not an unapplied manipulation affects a target of the specific manipulation, the unapplied manipulation being a manipulation which has been previously executed by another file storage apparatus among a plurality of file storage apparatuses and which has not been applied to the file system. When it is determined that the unapplied manipulation affects the target of the specific manipulation, the file storage apparatus applies the unapplied manipulation to the file system, executes the specific manipulation on the file system, and transmits, to a cloud storage apparatus, manipulation information which represents the specific manipulation.
US10459883B1
Example embodiments of the present invention relate to methods, systems, and computer program products for determining replicas for removal from a plurality of replicas. The method includes identifying a set of user conditions associated with time windows as defined in a data retention policy. The method further includes, for each user condition, determining a plurality of replicas satisfying the user condition having a time value in the associated time window and, if the plurality of replicas exceeds a maximum for the user condition as defined in the data retention policy, removing extraneous replicas from the plurality of replicas so the plurality of replicas does not exceed the maximum for the user condition.
US10459879B2
A method receives, by a first user device, content from a second user device. The content was previously provided through a transmission from a distribution system to the second user device. The method receives, by the first user device from the second user device, transmission data indicative of the previous transmission of the content from the distribution system to the second user device. The method sends, by the first user device to a server, a request for program data associated with the content. Responsive to the request, the method receives, by the first user device, the program data that identifies a title of the content. The program data is identified using the transmission data that is specific to the previous transmission of the content.
US10459876B2
A processing element (PE) of a systolic array can perform neural networks computations in parallel on two or more sequential data elements of an input data set using the same weight. Thus, two or more output data elements corresponding to an output data set may be generated in parallel. Based on the size of the input data set and an input data type, the systolic array can process a single data element or multiple data elements in parallel.
US10459874B2
According to an embodiments, a system and method for managing electromagnetic interference in an electronic charging unit is disclosed. The operating frequencies of multiple electronic devices interfacing with the electronic charging unit may be dynamically altered to manage electromagnetic interference from each electronic device such that the aggregated electromagnetic interference from all electronic devices remains within predetermined limits.
US10459871B2
Apparatus and methods structured with respect to a data bus having a number of data lines and a number of shield lines can be implemented in a variety of applications. Such apparatus and methods can include driver and receiver circuits that operate to generate and/or decode a data bit inversion signal associated with data propagated on data lines of the data bus. The driver and receiver circuits may be arranged to operate on a two bit basis to interface with the data bus having data lines grouped with respect to the two bits with shield lines for the respective two bit data lines.
US10459868B1
An expansion bridge chip for a modular chip system includes at least one upstream interface for communicating with an application processor module, a plurality of downstream interfaces for communicating with peripheral modules, and an upstream address decoder on each interface for directing data on the upstream interface to a downstream interface. In such an expansion bridge chip, each upstream interface may have a first bandwidth, each downstream interface may have a respective bandwidth, and the expansion bridge chip may be balanced, such that a sum of all respective bandwidths of the plurality of downstream interfaces is equal to the first bandwidth. Alternatively, each upstream interface may have a first bandwidth, each of the downstream interfaces may have a respective bandwidth, and the expansion bridge chip is unbalanced, such that a sum of all respective bandwidths of the plurality of downstream interfaces exceeds the first bandwidth, and interfaces contend for bandwidth.
US10459866B1
Systems, methods, and apparatuses relating to integrated control and data processing in a configurable spatial accelerator are described. In one embodiment, a processor includes a core with a decoder to decode an instruction into a decoded instruction and an execution unit to execute the decoded instruction to perform a first operation; a plurality of processing elements; a network between the plurality of processing elements to transfer values between the plurality of processing elements; and a first processing element of the plurality of processing elements including a first plurality of input queues having a first width coupled to the network, a second plurality of input queues having a second, larger width coupled to the network, at least one first output queue having the first width coupled to the network, at least one second output queue having the second, larger width coupled to the network, a first operation circuitry coupled to the first plurality of input queues having the first width, a second operation circuitry coupled to the second plurality of input queues having the second, larger width, and a configuration register within the first processing element to store a configuration value that causes the first operation circuitry to perform a second operation on values from the first plurality of input queues to create a first resultant value, and when the first resultant value is a first value, the second operation circuitry is to perform a third operation on values from the second plurality of input queues to create a second resultant value and store the second resultant value in the at least one second output queue.
US10459861B2
A unified cache subsystem includes a data memory configured as both a shared memory and a local cache memory. The unified cache subsystem processes different types of memory transactions using different data pathways. To process memory transactions that target shared memory, the unified cache subsystem includes a direct pathway to the data memory. To process memory transactions that do not target shared memory, the unified cache subsystem includes a tag processing pipeline configured to identify cache hits and cache misses. When the tag processing pipeline identifies a cache hit for a given memory transaction, the transaction is rerouted to the direct pathway to data memory. When the tag processing pipeline identifies a cache miss for a given memory transaction, the transaction is pushed into a first-in first-out (FIFO) until miss data is returned from external memory. The tag processing pipeline is also configured to process texture-oriented memory transactions.
US10459853B2
A memory system may include: a memory controller; a plurality of ranks; and a rank shared bus configured to couple the memory controller and the plurality of ranks. Each of the plurality of ranks may include: a plurality of banks; a rank bus coupled to the plurality of banks and configured to selectively transmit data to the rank shared bus or an intermediate buffer and selectively receive data from the rank shared bus or the intermediate buffer; and an intermediate buffer configured to be selectively coupled to the rank bus or the rank shared bus, according to a first signal from the memory controller.
US10459851B2
A method and apparatus for executing a process on a device, the device including one or more processors for executing the process and a memory, wherein the process has an associated first type of privilege. The method includes obtaining a portion of the memory for use by the process or for use by a further process being created by the process, wherein the portion of the memory is identified as both writable and executable memory, and wherein the portion of the memory has an associated second type of privilege that is different from the first type of privilege.
US10459845B1
Devices and techniques for host accelerated operations in managed NAND devices are described herein. A controller can receive an operation. Here, the operation includes address data with a logical address portion and a physical address portion. The controller can then extract an index value and a location value from the physical address portion. The controller can retrieve a key using the index value and invoke a reversible function—using the index value and the location value—to produce a physical address. The controller can then perform the operation using the physical address.
US10459843B2
A streaming engine employed in a digital data processor specifies a fixed read only data stream defined by plural nested loops. An address generator produces address of data elements. A steam head register stores data elements next to be supplied to functional units for use as operands. An element duplication unit optionally duplicates data element an instruction specified number of times. A vector masking unit limits data elements received from the element duplication unit to least significant bits within an instruction specified vector length. If the vector length is less than a stream head register size, the vector masking unit stores all 0's in excess lanes of the stream head register (group duplication disabled) or stores duplicate copies of the least significant bits in excess lanes of the stream head register.
US10459836B2
A memory device and associated control method are provided. The memory device includes a memory array and a control circuit, which are electrically connected with each other. The memory array includes a plurality of memory groups. A first memory group among the plurality of memory groups includes at least one first memory unit. The control circuit executes the control method including following steps. Firstly, a first timestamp corresponding to a first time point is recorded when one of the at least one first memory unit is programmed. Then, state of the first memory group is identified based on the first timestamp and an identification rule, and the first memory group is retired when a condition being predefined in the identification rule is satisfied.
US10459827B1
Embodiments of an automated anomaly detection system are disclosed that can detect anomalous data from heterogeneous data sources. The anomaly detection system can provide an automated system that identifies data anomalies within data sets received from application host systems. The anomaly detection system may identify patterns using machine learning based on data set characteristics associated with the each data set. The anomaly detection system may generate a model that can be applied to existing data sets received from the application host systems in order to automatically identify anomalous data sets. The anomaly detection system may automatically identify the anomalous data sets and implement appropriate actions based on the determination.
US10459820B2
A computer-implemented method of testing a compatibility of an update to an enterprise resource planning system that includes clustering documents into groups, where documents are generated from transactional data of an enterprise stored in an in-memory database and have attributes. Groups are stored in memory and include documents that are structurally identical. According to method, one or more processors then add one document from each group into a test set of documents, run a simulation of the update on this test set, and based on the simulation provide data characterizing the compatibility of the update. Related apparatus, systems, techniques and articles are also described.
US10459816B2
A communication setting notification apparatus may automatically investigate communication setting of I/O data communication of EtherNet/IP compatible with adapter equipment, the apparatus comprising an I/O data confirming unit configured to transmits an I/O data read request message to the adapter equipment and determines a valid instance ID based on an I/O data read response message from the adapter equipment, a communication start testing unit configured to transmits a communication start request message to the adapter equipment and determines valid communication setting based on whether or not I/O data communication can be established with the adapter equipment, and a communication setting notifying unit configured to outputs the valid communication setting.
US10459814B2
Mapped RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) technology divides individual drives into multiple drive extents, allocates the drive extents to RAID extent entries in a RAID mapping table, and performs “end of life” detection and proactive copying of data between data storage drives on a per drive extent basis. A given drive extent is determined to be “end of life” when the ratio of soft media errors to total I/O operations for the drive extent exceeds a threshold error ratio. Data stored on the drive extent is then proactively copied to a newly allocated drive extent, the RAID mapping table is modified so that the data is subsequently accessed from the newly allocated drive extent, and the drive extent is excluded from being used again to store host data. As a result, the rate at which the drives experience soft media errors is slowed, lengthening their effective life.
US10459805B2
The present teaching relates to managing a request in a data system of a plurality of nodes in a network. In one example, a request is received for a transaction of data by a first node in the data system. A second node in the data system is determined based on the request, where the second node is to carry out the transaction. The request is stored into a first request queue at the first node. The request is sent to the second node. A notice is obtained by the first node indicating that information associated with the transaction has been persistently stored. The request is removed from the first request queue in response to the notice being obtained.
US10459799B2
A circuit allowing self-recovery of an operating system (OS) includes a PCH chip, a switch chip, a first ROM, a second ROM, a connector, and a storage unit. The switch chip, the second ROM, and the connector are coupled to the PCH chip. The first ROM is coupled to the PCH chip through the switch chip. The second ROM controls the PCH chip to output a signal according to the state of the operating system. The first ROM stores a backup the operating system. The switch chip receives control signal from the PCH chip, and controls whether the first ROM communicates with the PCH chip, to allow recovery of the entire or part of the OS in the event that repair is required.
US10459794B2
A memory system includes a first memory device, a second memory device, and a controller. The second memory device has a write endurance which is higher than a write endurance of the first memory device. The controller performs an error correction process on original data outputted from a host to generate a codeword including the original data and parity data. The controller separates the codeword into the original data and the parity data to write the separated original data into the first memory device and to write the separated parity data into the second memory device.
US10459792B2
A method for a dispersed storage network begins by receiving one or more revisions of a data object for storage within a time frame and facilitating, for each revision of the one or more revisions, storage of the revision in the selected primary storage target including at least some encoded data slices of each set of encoded data slices of a plurality of sets of encoded data slices are stored in the selected primary storage target and, for each of the revisions, facilitating subsequent storage of remaining encoded data slices of each set of encoded data slices that were not stored in the selected primary storage target, and determining to store the remaining encoded data slices in another storage target, identifying a most recently stored revision of the data object and facilitating storage of the remaining encoded data slices of the most recently stored revision in the other storage target.
US10459772B2
Embodiments disclosed herein can allow a user of mobile device in a network environment to switch between using public network services and using private network services. To access private network services, a virtualization cloud client application running on mobile device connects to a virtualized device hosted in virtualization cloud and brokers access to private network services as well as local device functions. Embodiments disclosed herein provide a system, method, and computer program product for capturing touch events for a virtual mobile device platform and relaying the captured touch events to the virtual mobile device platform while ensuring that movements and speed of touch events are accurately represented at the virtual mobile device platform.
US10459766B1
The present disclosure is directed to a novel system for a multidimensional (or “N-dimensional”) services framework. The framework may be used to evaluate the efficiency and effectiveness of various services along multiple dimensions which may be specified by the system or be added to the framework in the future. By evaluating the various possibilities and opportunities to modify the services as the services reach varying levels of maturity, the services may be compared with one another to establish the relational impacts among the services tracked by the system. Through the use of the N-dimensional framework, an entity may be better able to prioritize resources allocated toward the enhancement of certain evaluated services.
US10459764B2
A service provider may provide a companion container instance associated with a mobile device in order to facilitate operation of the mobile device. The companion container instance and the mobile device may be associated in a database operated by the service provider. Furthermore, the companion container instance may execute various operations on behalf of the mobile diver based at least in part on a task definition indicating a software function to be executed by the companion container instance. The software function configured to execute the various operations on behalf of the mobile device.
US10459757B1
A multi-layer compute sizing correction stack may generate prescriptive compute sizing correction tokens for controlling sizing adjustments for computing resources. The input layer of the compute sizing correction stack may generate cleansed utilization data based on historical utilization data received via network connection. The input layer may receive one or more resource configurations that may be applied to implement the sizing correction. A prescriptive engine layer may generate a compute sizing correction trajectory indicative of a sizing adjustment to a computing resource. The compute sizing correction trajectory may account of historic processor, network, and memory utilization. Based on the compute sizing correction trajectory and a selected resource configuration, the prescriptive engine layer may generate the compute sizing correction tokens that that may be used to control compute sizing adjustments prescriptively.
US10459754B2
A method for discovering an application topology relationship provided by this application, in a packet transmission process, API calling information is recorded, and a topology discovery server determines, by analyzing collected API calling information, whether interaction exists between virtual machines in a virtual machine cluster. By using the foregoing analysis manner, the topology discovery server may further determine interaction frequency that is between virtual machines and to which the collected API calling information relates, and determine an application topology relationship between the virtual machines according to the interaction frequency of the virtual machines. The foregoing solution provides a method for discovering an application topology relationship between virtual machines in a virtualization scenario, where an application topology relationship between virtual machines is determined by analyzing API calling information generated in a packet transmission process, and therefore complexity of the solution is relatively low.
US10459753B2
A system, computer-implemented method and computer program product for agent based transaction recordings for service virtualization is provided. The system comprises a proxy manager configured to receive a request from one or more proxy agents for registration. The system further comprises one or more smartstub clients configured to provide one or more options for selecting one or more proxy agents from a list of registered proxy agents and receiving service information. Furthermore, the one or more selected proxy agents configured to record simultaneously, each of the one or more service transactions between the one or more service endpoints and the corresponding one or more consumer applications and forward the one or more recorded service transactions to the proxy manager, wherein the proxy manager provides the one or more recorded service transactions to the one or more smartstub clients for service virtualization.
US10459745B2
Software program “help” functionality includes features enhancing its relevance to users. An engine may receive/record context data arising from interactions between a user and the software program. The engine may process that context data to reference a plurality of sources (e.g., official help documentation, user blogs, partner web sites, etc.) and harvest relevant help information. Based upon stored context data and help information available from the plurality of sources, certain embodiments may generate suggested questions allowing further exploration of help issues. Some embodiments may offer help information in the form of an interactive “hotspot” focusing upon a specific UI element (e.g., icon). Processing the context data may allow the engine to assign a particular skill level (e.g., novice/intermediate/expert) to individual users, tailoring the help information to that skill level. The interactive nature of the help functionality may enhance its use in conjunction with complex workflows encountered in many software programs.
US10459723B2
Systems and methods relate to performing data movement operations using single instruction multiple data (SIMD) instructions. A first SIMD instruction comprises a first input data vector having a number N of two or more data elements in corresponding N SIMD lanes and a control vector having N control elements in the corresponding N SIMD lanes. A first multi-stage cube network is controllable by the first SIMD instruction, and includes movement elements, with one movement element per SIMD lane, per stage. A movement element selects between one of two data elements based on a corresponding control element and moves the data elements across the stages of the first multi-stage cube network by a zero distance or power-of-two distance between adjacent stages to generate a first output data vector. A second multi-stage cube network can be used in conjunction to generate all possible data movement operations of the input data vector.
US10459718B2
Techniques and architectures for maintaining metadata version controls. A change to metadata within a computing environment is detected. Metadata subject to the change is decompiled into a source object that is in a format compatible with a version control system (VCS). The source object is stored in the VCS with relationship information to indicate a relationship to another source object, if the relationship is determined.
US10459695B2
Techniques and solutions are described for detecting and correcting errors in software, such as in source code, using machine learning. A machine learning algorithm can be trained using source code, source code corrections, and extracted code features to provide a trained classifier. Test data, such as code to be scanned for errors or code known to have an error, can be submitted to the trained classifier. The classifier can generate a code correction or corrected code. Code corrections can be applied to the source code to provide corrected code.
US10459687B2
A method and system are described for controlling an Internet of Things (IoT) device using multi-modal gesture commands. The method includes receiving one or more multi-modal gesture commands comprising at least one of one or more personalized gesture commands and one or more personalized voice commands of a user. The method includes detecting one or more multi-modal gesture commands using at least one of a gesture grammar database and a voice grammar database. The method includes determining one or more control parameters and IoT device status information associated with a plurality of IoT devices in response to the detection. The method includes identifying IoT device that user intends to control from plurality of IoT devices based on user requirement, IoT device status information, and line of sight information associated with user. The method includes controlling identified IoT device based on one or more control parameters and IoT device status information.
US10459682B2
Battery unit for an electronic price label and an electronic price label, which includes a separate, external, replaceable battery unit having a battery, and a fastening means, which may be detachably fasten the battery unit to the frame part of the electronic price label.
US10459674B2
Methods and apparatus for packing and transporting data within an electronic device. In one embodiment, a consumer electronics device having one or more sensors (e.g., camera sensors) uses modified DisplayPort micro-packets for transmission of RAW format data over one or more lanes of a DisplayPort Main Steam. The RAW data is transported over the one or more lanes by mapping symbol sequences generated from the RAW data based on Y-only data mappings schemes of DisplayPort. A mapping scheme is in one variant selected based on the bits length (e.g., bits per pixel) of the RAW data, in addition to the number of lanes used to transport over the Main Stream. In order for the sink correctly unpack received the micro-packets, the transmitting source transmits Main Stream Attribute (MSA) data packets configured to indicate at least the mapping scheme used.
US10459672B2
A printer driver does not transmit a page start command for a first page of a print job to a printer at a time when the printer driver receives page start information for the first page of the print job. The printer driver transmits the page start command for the first page to the printer in a mode related to a both-side designating command, in response to receipt of the page start command for a second page. When the printer driver receives job end information for the print job without receiving the page start information for the second page, the printer driver transmits the page start command corresponding to the first page in a mode related to the one-side designating command, thereby one-side printing being performed when the number of pages of a print-target document is one and the print setting is set to the both-side printing.
US10459664B1
A virtualized copy-by-reference includes: receiving, from a first computer system, a request for reference information for source data within a source volume; providing, to the first computer system, the reference information, wherein the reference information corresponds to a metadata representation of the source data; receiving, from a second computer system, a request to write the source data to a target volume, and wherein the request to write the source data indicates the reference information; and copying, using the reference information, the metadata representation of the source data to the target volume.
US10459661B2
A storage system for managing an array of SSDs includes the array of SSDs and a host controller. Each of the SSDs is operable to store data. The host controller is configured to manage the array of SSDs as multiple logical volumes. Each of the logical volumes is associated with at least one stream ID. At least one of the SSDs and the host controller stores a system code configured to execute stream ID commands to access each of the logical volumes. Each of the logical volumes is dedicated to a memory region of each of the SSDs. Each of the logical volumes corresponding to the memory region of each of the SSDs are combined to form a logical volume group using the at least one stream ID. The host controller uses the stream ID commands to communicate with logical volumes of the logical volume group.
US10459660B2
A memory module with multiple memory devices includes a buffer system that manages communication between a memory controller and the memory devices. The memory module additionally includes a command input port to receive command and address signals from a controller and, also in support of capacity extensions, a command relay circuit coupled to the command port to convey the commands and addresses from the memory module to another module or modules. Relaying commands and addresses introduces a delay, and the buffer system that manages communication between the memory controller and the memory devices can be configured to time data communication to account for that delay.
US10459657B2
Methods and storage arrays are described. One example method is for storage processing on a storage array. The method includes executing a storage application on the storage array. The storage application is configured to process write commands and read commands to and from storage of the storage array, and the write commands and the read commands being from an application. The method includes, processing, by the storage application, a write command from the application. The processing includes storing data blocks of the write command to a write buffer of the storage array. The method also includes processing said data blocks, while processing said storing, to identify data blocks and/or metadata to store in a read cache-on-write buffer. In this example, only a sub-set of said data blocks are temporarily stored in said read cache-on-write buffer. The method includes draining data blocks, from time to time, from said read cache-on-write buffer to end storage of said storage. The draining includes producing data segments that include two or more of said data blocks.
US10459654B2
A storage apparatus includes a backup controller and a remote copy controller. The backup controller identifies a common data area being an area storing data common to a first volume and a second volume, each of the volumes including a storage area capable of storing data. The backup controller transmits an instruction to a backup destination storage apparatus including a backup volume, the instruction causing to copy, in the backup destination storage apparatus, data stored in the common data area, from a backup volume of the second volume to a backup volume of the first volume. The remote copy controller transmits at least part of data stored in an area different from the common data area in the first volume to the backup destination storage apparatus.
US10459650B2
A data operation method and an electronic device are provided. The method includes assigning a reserved area of a memory of an electronic device, which receives power associated with maintaining a data write state when the supply of a main power is blocked to a file system of a RAMDisk associated with processing a data input/output (I/O) and controlling file processing of the file system of the RAMDisk.
US10459641B2
For efficient serialization of journal data using a processor device, serialization is combined with journaling of data into one data storage system on a write operation with subsequent consolidation for serialization of the journal data.
US10459640B2
A method, a computing device, and a non-transitory machine-readable medium for performing a multipath selection based on a determined quality of service for the paths. An example method includes a host computing device periodically polling a storage system for path information including an indication of a recommended storage controller. The host computing device periodically determines a quality of service information corresponding to a plurality of paths between the host computing device and a storage volume of the storage system, where at least one of the plurality of paths including the recommended storage controller. The host computing device identifies a fault corresponding to a path of the plurality of paths that routes I/O from the host computing device to the storage volume. The host computing device re-routes the I/O from the path to a different path of the plurality of paths, where the different path is selected for the re-routing based on the quality of service information and the path information.
US10459635B2
Window based mapping is used to reduce the usage of volatile memory for storing the mapping of logical to physical addresses for accesses to data in a flash drive. Two separate mapping tables for translation of logical addresses to physical addresses (L2P), e.g., an L2P front map and an L2P back map, are used where the L2P front map acts as a window to the L2P back map. The L2P front map has smaller granularity for data accesses than the L2P back map. The data accessed using the L2P front map can allow the flash drive to function with relatively same performance as a fully mapped drive with a single mapping table.
US10459631B2
In a computer-implemented method for managing deletion of logical objects, a request to delete a logical object of a managed system is received, wherein the logical object is referenced by a second logical object, and wherein deletion of the logical object does not result in deletion of the second logical object. The logical object is marked as deleted such that the logical object is unavailable for reference by the second logical object. The logical object and data associated with the logical object are maintained in a memory space of the managed system for access by a module of the managed system, such that the memory space is unavailable for any other use by the managed system.
US10459626B2
A method and an apparatus input test in a touch screen terminal. The method comprises designating a certain region on a keyboard interface picture, not permitting text input through a keyboard when touch drag started from the designated region is sensed and acquiring a path of the touch drag, acquiring a path of following touch drag when at least the one or more following touch drag are sensed, and reading out at least the acquired one or more paths by cursive character recognition, deducing a character, determining the deduced character as an input target, and permitting the text input through the keyboard.
US10459619B2
Various systems and methods are provided that display various geographic maps and depth graphs in an interactive user interface in substantially real-time in response to input from a user in order to determine information related to measured data points, depth levels, and geological layers and provide the determined information to the user in the interactive user interface. For example, a computing device may be configured to retrieve data from one or more databases and generate one or more interactive user interfaces. The one or more interactive user interfaces may display the retrieved data in a geographic map, a heat map, a cross-plot graph, or one or more depth graphs. The user interface may be interactive in that a user may manipulate any of the graphs to identify trends or current or future issues.
US10459616B2
An on-board vehicle navigation system (NAV system) may provide a variety of information and may be integrated with a variety of on-board vehicle systems or features. The NAV system may have the display set to show information about a single system in a full screen mode or have the display divided to show information about multiple systems simultaneously (mixed display mode). The NAV system may allow the user to select an automatic switching from a mixed display mode to a full display mode upon the occurrence of predetermined system conditions. The full display mode may be temporary and automatically return back to the previous display mode or may require a user acknowledgement prior to returning back to the previous display mode. The switch to the full display mode allows more information to be communicated to the user.
US10459615B2
An apparatus for monitoring machine components includes: a device for acquiring video image files; a data analysis system including processor and memory; a computer program operating in said processor to identify an area in said images where periodic movements associated with a mechanical vibration may be detected and quantified using an adaptive array comparison procedure; and, an interface to output said vibration information in a usable form. The apparatus may further include a graphical user interface and an accessible database. An associated method for using the apparatus is also disclosed.
US10459614B2
An object action control system which performs a method for controlling the object action on the basis of a single touch or multiple touches may be provided that includes: a touch panel; a touch sensing module which recognizes a single touch or multiple touches on the touch panel by at least one input means; a change sensing module which senses at least any one of a pressure magnitude, area and time period of the touch on the touch panel by the input means which has applied the single touch and multiple touches; and an action module which performs different actions of one object in accordance with the single touch or multiple touches in conformity with a predetermined action standard.
US10459613B2
An object display device is disclosed. An object display device includes a display unit, a detection unit and a control unit. The display unit is configured to display an object. The detection unit is configured to detect a location and a load of a pressing to the display unit. The control unit can control a movement of the object based on conditions of first and second pressings.
US10459611B1
A method and system for anonymously associating a workstation user's station control preferences with a workstation, the method comprising the steps of correlating anonymous user IDs with user preference sets in a database, obtaining input from a user at a workstation, comparing the user input to the anonymous user IDs to distinguish one distinguished user from other users without determining the identity of the user, accessing the user preference set associated with the distinguished user and controlling workstation affordances per the accessed user preferences while the user is located within a present zone proximate the workstation.
US10459609B2
The present disclosure relates to systems and techniques for multi-stage rendering of data pages for display in a data page display window. The present disclosure also relates to rendering data as part of a background instance of a data page renderer. The present disclosure also relates to displaying data requested from a workspace application in a data page window once the requested data is sufficiently rendered as part of a background instance of a data page renderer. The present disclosure also relates to providing a pool of background instances of multiple data page renderers for rendering and pre-rendering data pages for storage and eventual display in a data page window.
US10459606B2
A user terminal and a driving method thereof, a control device and a driving method thereof, and a control system of a controlled device are provided. The user terminal includes: a communication interface configured to communicate with a plurality of controlled devices which are operated based on individually set setting values; a user interface configured to receive an adjustment value for collectively controlling the plurality of controlled devices as a group; and a controller configured to individually adjust each of the setting values based on a ratio which relates to the received adjustment value, and to control the plurality of controlled devices based on the adjusted setting values.
US10459594B2
A pre-configured hyper-converged computing device for supporting a virtualization infrastructure includes one or more independent server nodes that comprise a central processing unit (CPU), memory, and storage. The independent server nodes also include a pre-configured software module that when executed causes the device to display a list of a plurality of hosts and a centralized management tool of the virtualization infrastructure via a graphical user-interface, wherein the plurality of hosts are for hosting one or more virtual machines, and the centralized management tool is for centrally managing the virtualization infrastructure; and in response to selecting one of the plurality of hosts, displaying host configuration properties associated with the selected one of the plurality of hosts via the graphical user-interface.
US10459582B2
A touch sensor includes a plurality of electrode patterns, an optical adjusting layer interposed between the electrode patterns, and an insulation layer at least partially covering the electrode patterns and the optical adjusting layer. The insulation layer may have a refractive index less than that of the optical adjusting layer.
US10459576B2
A display apparatus includes a display, a communication module that communicates with an input device, and a processor. The processor is configured to add pattern information to a first image by changing a pixel value of at least one of a plurality of pixels included in the first image, to display the first image, to which the pattern information is added, on the display, to receive a second image captured by the input device from the input device via the communication module, and to identify input coordinates of the input device or a function to be executed by the display apparatus based on pattern information included in the received second image.
US10459573B2
An in-cell touch panel and a display device are provided, and the in-cell touch panel includes: an upper substrate and a lower substrate which are opposite to each other; a plurality of separate self-capacitive electrodes arranged in an array and in a same layer; and a plurality of conductive wires respectively connected with the self-capacitive electrodes. Both the conductive wires and the self-capacitive electrodes are arranged at a side, facing the lower substrate, of the upper substrate, or at a side, facing the upper substrate, of the lower substrate; and the self-capacitive electrodes each are provided with a plurality of hollowed-out regions. The in-cell touch panel can improve the touch control sensitivity of the touch panel while ensuring a narrow frame design.
US10459565B2
A display device includes a plurality of gate lines; a plurality of data lines; a plurality of thin film transistors each connected to one of the gate lines and one of the data lines; a plurality of pixels each including a first electrode and a second electrode insulated from the first electrode and connected to one of the thin film transistors, the pixels arranged in a plurality of pixel rows and a plurality of pixel columns; and a plurality of sensing lines connected to the first electrodes. The gate lines include front gate lines and rear gate lines arranged at a front and a rear of each of the respective pixel rows, and a rear gate line of a front pixel row and a front gate line of a rear pixel row are arranged between adjacent pixel rows, and two pixel columns are arranged between adjacent data lines.
US10459562B2
An array substrate, a display panel, and an electronic device are provided. The array assembly includes: a substrate defining a display region and a peripheral region; gate lines and data lines which are set in the display region; touch control electrodes which are set in the display region and electrically isolated; and a first metal layer set on the substrate, which includes: touch control lines set in the display region, wherein each of the touch control lines is electrically connected with corresponding touch control electrode, and adapted to provide a first signal for the corresponding touch control electrode; and a first BUS line set in the peripheral region, where the first BUS line is adapted to provide a second signal for at least one of the touch control lines, the gate lines, and the data lines Accordingly, BUS lines are arranged on different metal layers, thus narrow frame is achieved.
US10459549B2
The present disclosure related to a touch sensitive element and a display device including the same. The touch sensitive element according to an exemplary aspect of the present disclosure includes an electroactive film which is formed of a polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) based polymer and a cyanide (CN) based polymer.
US10459541B2
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, at each of at least four receivers of a stylus, a signal from an electrode line oriented along a first axis of a touch-sensing device and determining, by a processor of the stylus, a signal strength of the signal at each of the at least four receivers of the stylus. The received signal has a different signal strength at each of the at least four receivers. The method includes determining, by the processor of the stylus, a tilt direction of the stylus based on the determined signal strength at a plurality of the at least four receivers, and providing, by a transmitter of the stylus, a response signal to the touch-sensing device. The tilt direction includes a direction of the stylus along a second axis of the touch-sensing device and the second axis is oriented in a different direction than the first axis.
US10459540B2
A stylus is provided, which includes a core body, an electrode disposed adjacent to the core body, a transmitter that sends a downlink signal including switch information SW1 using the electrode, and a controller that determines whether the stylus is in contact state with an operating surface or the stylus is in hover state. In the contact state, the controller controls the transmitter to send the switch information SW1 at a first bit rate. In the hover state, the controller controls the transmitter to send the switch information SW1 at a second bit rate smaller than the first bit rate. A technical advantage includes lowering the possibility of a failure to receive downlink signals when the stylus is in hover state, even though the stylus sends the downlink signals with the same intensity as when the stylus is in contact state.
US10459534B2
An augmented reality system for communication between a plurality of user devices. The system includes a wearable device with a headset, controller, display, camera, earphone and microphone. The controller has a local memory with a maximum video file size. The camera records video data for storage in the local memory. A server is configured for data communication with the plurality user devices, the server has a server memory and plurality of user accounts. The server is configured to establish data connection between the wearable device and at least one other user device. A video management located is configured to determine whether the video data stored in the local memory equals the maximum video file size and in this event, the video management engine is configured to transfer the video data to the server for storage in the server memory and delete the video data from the local memory.
US10459528B2
Gesture inputs at an information handling system adapt to manage end user resolution constraints by selectively assigning a physical input device to accept fractional inputs of the gesture type. For example, an end user maintains a gesture for a predetermined time to command a totem device to adapt from a first type of input, such as scrolling, to the gesture input so that the end user may more precisely manage the desired gesture input through the totem. Upon movement from the gesture, the physical input device reverts from the gesture input to the first type of input.
US10459517B2
Methods and devices for scheduling processing tasks in a computing device configured with a group of low-power processor cores and at least one high-performance processor core may include identifying multiple application streams related to communication with a wireless local area network (WLAN), computing a total WLAN throughput requirement for the application streams, and determining whether the total WLAN throughput requirement is less than a first threshold value. The first threshold value may be based on power characteristics of the low-power processor cores. In response to determining that the total WLAN throughput requirement is less than the first threshold value, the computing device may schedule all processing tasks for the multiple application streams on one of the low-power processor cores.
US10459512B2
An electronic device includes a receiver sense circuit configured to generate a detection signal responsive to detecting a connection to a sink device via a connector. The electronic device further includes a controller coupled to a hot plug detect (HPD) interface. The controller is configured to enable a direct current (DC) voltage source based on the detection signal received from the receiver sense circuit.
US10459506B1
A method and apparatus is provided wherein a server is powered by a battery connected to a charging circuit. The voltage output by the battery is monitored and when it falls below a threshold, a determination is made that the battery is being depleted. In response to the determination, the server is brought into a reduced power consumption state or a data saving state.
US10459498B1
According to certain embodiments, a computer chassis is divided into three isolated thermal chambers to confine the heat loads in separately managed areas.
US10459496B2
A modular computer system, comprises a casing, wherein the casing is an enclosed structure having an exterior and an interior; at least one slide groove, wherein the slide groove is integrated into the interior of the casing; a motherboard, wherein the motherboard is secured within the at least one slide groove; an opening in the exterior permitting a hard drive to be inserted through the opening so that the hard drive extends into the interior and electrically connects it with the motherboard via a Serial ATA (SATA) connector positioned to permit the connection; and a power supply electrically connected to the motherboard. The at least one slide groove permits the motherboard to slide out from the interior during servicing.
US10459494B2
A portable electronic device comprises a main body and an antenna. The main body comprises a first casing, a second casing and a hinge, with the hinge connecting the first casing and the second casing so as to allow the first casing to be flipped relatively to the second casing. The antenna comprises a radiation structure and an excitation circuit. The radiation structure comprises a first metal layer and a second metal layer, with the first metal layer disposed at the first casing, the second metal layer disposed at the second casing, and a slot formed between the first metal layer and the second metal layer. The excitation circuit is disposed in the first casing, and comprising an electromagnetic wave emitting portion configured to emit an electromagnetic wave towards the slot.
US10459491B2
A housing (1) for an electronic device (15) is provided with a circumferential seal (7) between a lower shell (3) and an upper shell (4), which is formed by at least two juxtaposed sealing segments (8, 9, 10, 11), and/or to configure the lower shell (3) and the upper shell (4) without undercuts and/or to hold them together with clip-on, transferable clamps (38).
US10459487B2
The present disclosure relates to a support for an electronic device. The support comprises an elongated main body which defines a main body first surface, a main body second surface found opposite the main body first surface, a main body first end, and a main body second end found the main body first end. The support further comprises a first grasping portion which extends from the main body first end in a direction opposite the main body first surface, a second grasping portion which extends from the main body second end in a direction opposite the main body first surface, and a device securing portion which extends from the elongated main body in a direction opposite the main body second surface. The device securing portion together with the elongated main body defines first and second securing notches for receiving the electronic device according to two different positions.
US10459485B2
An attachable article or device, such as a wristband, includes a flexible electronic display disposed thereon in a manner that is bendable or conformable to a user's wrist or other curved surface, and that enables various images to be displayed on the electronic display in a manner that is easily viewable to the user. The attachable article implements a messaging routine that enables a user or wearer to receive notifications of incoming messages and to selectively view incoming messages or indications thereof. Upon receipt of a message, the attachable article may activate one or more vibrational or other tactile signal generating element elements disposed at various locations on the article to inform the wearer that a new message exists and may present the contents of a message in a split display screen format or using a natural messaging methodology that waits for the user to take some specific natural action before displaying the message. Different vibrational patterns across the plurality of vibrational elements may signify different types of messages, and associations between vibrational patterns, message types, and locations on the flexible display at which different message indicators are displayed may be configurable.
US10459473B2
Systems and methods are described herein for managing the operations of a plurality of microgrid modules. A microgrid module includes transformers and/or power converters necessary for modifying the input AC or DC power sources to meet the required characteristics of the output power. The microgrid module further comprises a control software module and a power router software module. The control software module receives data from sensors in the microgrid module and controls the flow of power with controllable elements. The power router software module controls the operation of the power router. The power router can detect changes in demand for power within the microgrid module or from other microgrid modules. The power router can adjust the flow of power between the microgrid modules in response to changes in the supply of power to the microgrid module and changes in the demand for power from the microgrid module.
US10459472B2
Embodiments are directed to a model predictive control for power electronics. The model predictive control includes a plurality of switching matrices defining potential states of a plurality of power converter switches of a multi-level power converter and a control. The control is configured to select a current switching matrix from the switching matrices that models the multi-level power converter in a current state. The control determines a targeted switching matrix from the switching matrices that best aligns with a targeted state based on alignment with a multi-objective function and changes with respect to the current state. The control adjusts a switch state of the power converter switches based on the targeted switching matrix. The control sets the current switching matrix to the targeted switching matrix and monitoring for changes with respect to the multi-objective function and the current state.
US10459465B2
Active post-power loss discharging of capacitors is provided. In an integrated circuit having a startup behavior depending on a capacitor voltage, a discharge transistor is provided to discharge the capacitor. A power-down discharger actively drives the discharge transistor after a power supply voltage drops below a threshold. The power-down discharger may include, or be coupled to, an internal capacitance that is charged when the power supply voltage is above the threshold, thereby storing sufficient energy for later driving of the discharge transistor. A diode is employed to ensure that the loss of power does not drain away the needed energy until after the discharge has been completed. One illustrative discharging method includes: sensing a condition indicative of power supply voltage loss for an integrated circuit; and actively driving the discharge transistor into a conducting state. The sensing may include driving the discharge transistor inversely to a signal from a pin.
US10459462B2
A method of using sensor feedback for controlling fluid pressures in a machine includes receiving signals from each of a plurality of Inertial Measurement Units (IMU's) mounted on different components of the machine, receiving a signal from at least one non-IMU sensor, fusing the signals received from the IMU's with each other and with a signal from the at least one non-IMU sensor, determining best estimates of current output joint angles for each of the plurality of components of the machine with reference to a machine reference frame, solving a kinematic equation using the best estimates of current output joint angles for the components of the machine and structural design information characterizing the machine, and applying a determination from the solution of the kinematic equation in an implementation of a controlled adjustment to a fluid pressure supplied to a fluid actuation cylinder.
US10459455B2
A vehicle control apparatus of an autonomous driving vehicle performing autonomous driving includes a display, a wireless communication unit transmitting and receiving a message to and from a certain vehicle positioned within a predetermined range, and a controller controlling the display on the basis of a message received through the wireless communication unit, wherein the controller turns on or off a group driving mode on the basis of a user input, and when the group driving mode is turned on, the controller controls the display to display a list of candidate vehicles which may be included in a group among vehicles positioned within the predetermined range.
US10459450B2
A system for delivering an article from a first location to a second location with a robot having a closeable transport container for housing the article during transport. A closeable recipient container is provided at the second location for receiving the article. At least one computer configured to navigate the robot over an outdoor transportation network between locations is provided. The robot has a robot article transport mechanism controlled by the at least one computer for removing the article from the transport container and the recipient container has a recipient article transport mechanism for moving the article inside the recipient container.
US10459449B2
Example systems and methods are disclosed for implementing vehicle operation limits to prevent vehicle load failure during vehicle teleoperation. The method may include receiving sensor data from sensors on a vehicle that carries a load. The vehicle may be controlled by a remote control system. The load weight and dimensions may be determined based on the sensor data. In order to prevent a vehicle load failure, a forward velocity limit and an angular velocity limit may be calculated. Vehicle load failures may include the vehicle tipping over, the load tipping over, the load sliding off of the vehicle, or collisions. The vehicle carrying the load may be restricted from exceeding the forward velocity limit and/or the angular velocity limit during vehicle operation. The remote control system may display a user interface indicating to a remote operator the forward velocity limit and the angular velocity limit.
US10459447B2
A control system of an agricultural work vehicle system includes a controller that includes a memory and a processor. The controller is configured to determine multiple partitions based, at least in part, on a map of an agricultural field. Further, the controller is configured to determine a partition list of the multiple partitions based, at least in part, on a set of bounding characteristics of each of the multiple partitions. In addition, the controller is configured to determine an order of the multiple partitions based on the partition list of the multiple partitions. Moreover, the controller is configured to output a signal indicative of a travel path for the agricultural work vehicle.
US10459446B2
A mechanism having an autonomous operation verification device having a function of determining satisfiability of expected operation and safety requirement under a predetermined operation-time precondition and determining occurrence possibility of hazard violating the safety requirement in a predictive manner and achieving operation safety of an autonomous system operating in an open environment is provided. A function for determining whether the expected operation and operation safety are satisfiable or not in a case where operation planning means provides a planned operation and evaluating the operation safety of the planned operation during operation is provided. Further, an autonomous system having a function of calculating an alternative operation by using the predictive determination function and recovering operation safety by avoiding the hazard is provided.
US10459431B2
A three-dimensional printing apparatus includes a liquid tank, a curing platform and a light source device. A bearing member of the liquid tank is air proof, and forms an accommodating space with a side wall of the liquid tank. The curing platform is disposed at a first side of the bearing member corresponding to the accommodating space for allowing a workpiece to be cured on a surface thereof. After the accommodating space accommodates a liquid material, a curing light beam provided by a light source device disposed at a second side of the bearing member opposite to the accommodating space cures at least part of the liquid material on a surface of the curing platform via the bearing member. The use of a solid release material between the curing platform and the bearing member may be omitted. Methods for printing and releasing a three-dimensional workpiece are also provided.
US10459429B2
Methods and systems display a computer-aided design (CAD) model with finish material specificity. An example embodiment begins by defining a CAD model in memory where the CAD model represents a real world physical object and the CAD model comprises a plurality of parts. Next, the example embodiment obtains spreadsheet data that relates material finishes with item numbers, and then, reformats the obtained spreadsheet data into a structured database. In turn, indications associating the parts or model elements of the CAD model with the item numbers are received and the CAD model is automatically displayed with the parts having the material finishes based on the structured database and the received indications of item numbers associated with the parts of the CAD model.
US10459424B2
Provided is a numerical controller capable of shortening cycle time while maintaining machining accuracy of a rigid tap. The numerical controller includes: a rigid tap control unit that executes a rigid tap by synchronizing rotational speed of a spindle with feedrate; a synchronization error monitoring unit that starts or terminates monitoring of a synchronization error between the rotational speed of the spindle and the feedrate at a point R set to a height equal to or higher than a top of a workpiece; and a workpiece top detection unit that detects a position of the workpiece top. The synchronization error monitoring unit starts monitoring the synchronization error at the position of the workpiece top instead of the point R.
US10459418B2
Techniques for assessing and presenting differences between the current commissioning data of a set of process control devices within a process plant and the respective baseline or defined commissioning parameters of the set of process control devices. According to embodiments, systems and methods may obtain the current commissioning data from the set of process control devices and access baseline parameters corresponding to the commissioning data. The systems and methods may compare the current commissioning data to the baseline parameters to determine a set of differences, and present, via a user interface, the set of differences for review by an administrator. In reviewing the set of differences, the administrator may facilitate different functionalities including rebaselining or reconfiguring process control devices.
US10459416B1
Power control for environmental control components (e.g. lighting, blinds, temperature) is controlled and distributed by a regulated power controller in accordance with user preferences and/or a schedule. The outputs of the regulated power controller include at least one regulator capable of a mixed mode output, operable in any of several output modes that can include DC regulation and pulse width modulation, as well as polarity inversion. The centralized control of electrical power facilitates the coordination of environmental control components for holistic control.
US10459412B2
A structure having convergence of a control system and a data analytics system. The control system may involve input-output models of items, for example, homes, buildings and process plants. The system may use sensor data and scientific principles to implement control models. The models may help to precisely achieve a desired value of a parameter. The data analytics system may involve analysis of diverse data and may create insights of the items. The control system plus the data analytics system may close the loop between insights and on-premise controls of the items represented by the input-output models. The control and data analytics systems may merge the best of both worlds to solve difficult issues pertaining to the items. The structure may be for comfort control, energy reduction, and so on, having improved performance based on the convergence.
US10459411B2
The present invention is directed to utility service delivery wherein distributed intelligence and networking is used in the optimization of the service delivery. The present invention employs a network of data collection nodes and aggregation nodes located on a power grid controlled by a controlling agency. The data collection nodes comprise Intelligent Communicating Devices (ICDs) and Communicating Devices (CDs), which transmit metrics they collect over the power grid from locations near meters or service transformers to the aggregation nodes. Commands, policies, and program updates may be transmitted from a server at an aggregation node to the ICDs and CDs. The ICDs are also capable of issuing control commands to the CDs and grid management devices, acting locally and/or in conjunction with other ICDs, CDs, aggregation nodes, and central controlling agencies. Through these communications and commands, utility services delivery and utilization is optimized.
US10459408B2
An electronic timepiece, including: a counter; a display section; a first processor; a second processor; and a power supply section which supplies electric power to each section from a battery, wherein when an output voltage from the power supply section decreases to less than a predetermined first reference voltage, the first processor stops a display operation by the display section, when the time information is acquired by the processing operation of the second processor, the first processor corrects the time counted by the counter based on the acquired time information and causes the display section to display the corrected time, and when the output voltage decreases to less than the first reference voltage following an acquisition operation of the time information by the second processor, the first processor does not stop a time display operation during a predetermined pending period.
US10459405B2
The present invention relates to a wristwatch comprising a mechanical clock movement with a tuning fork resonator. The oscillator preferably comprises a material A with a low internal friction. In the oscillator of the invention, the unwanted symmetrical oscillations are avoided, for example, by the choice of the materials from which the tuning fork is manufactured. According to preferred embodiments, the rod and/or fastening of the oscillator comprises a material having greater internal friction than that of said material A, such that the quality factor Q2 of the symmetrical oscillations is reduced, in contrast to the quality factor Q1 of the anti symmetrical oscillation mode.
US10459398B2
A developing cartridge attachable to an image forming apparatus includes a developing roller, a housing, and a storage medium. The developing roller may be rotatable about a first axis extending in a first direction. The housing may be pivotable between a first position and a second position with respect to the image forming apparatus in a state where the developing roller is positioned at one end portion of the housing and the developing cartridge is attached to the image forming apparatus. The storage medium may include an electric contact surface. The electric contact surface may be out of contact with an electric connector of the image forming apparatus in a state where the housing is at the first position, the electric contact surface being in contact with the electric connector of the image forming apparatus in a state where the housing is at the second position.
US10459378B2
An image forming apparatus includes: a driving roller that conveys a paper sheet; a detector that detects a desired point on the driving roller; and a hardware processor that: acquires a waveform signal indicating one of a change in an image forming position with respect to the paper sheet and a change in a sheet conveyance velocity; extracts a synchronous waveform signal from the waveform signal acquired by the hardware processor, the synchronous waveform signal being synchronized with one revolution of the driving roller, the one revolution being detected by the detector; and inputs a drive signal to a drive source of the driving roller, the drive signal being input to weaken an amplitude of the synchronous waveform signal extracted by the hardware processor.
US10459375B2
The image forming apparatus includes a photosensitive member configured to bear a toner image, the photosensitive member having a surface layer containing acrylic resin, and an intermediate transfer member configured to secondarily transfer the toner image having been primarily transferred from the photosensitive member onto a transfer material, the intermediate transfer member having a surface layer containing acrylic resin and having a ten-point average roughness Rz set within a range of 0.35 μm≤Rz≤1.5 μm.
US10459373B2
A transfer device includes a transfer member that transfers an image from an image carrier to a recording medium; a first member that is electrically connected to the transfer member; a downstream member that is located downstream of the transfer member in a direction in which the recording medium moves, that is electrically connected to the transfer member via the first member, and that transfers the recording medium to a second member that is located downstream of the downstream member and that is electrically insulated from the downstream member; and a first electric potential controller that, when the recording medium is changed to a recording medium having a higher bending strength, changes an electric potential of the downstream member to an electric potential that is higher than an electric potential of the downstream member before the recording medium is changed.
US10459370B2
A system with a container including a protrusion, and a receiver to receive the container. The receiver includes a slide block that is movable relative to a body of the receiver, the slide block including two surfaces, a first surface, initially contacted by the protrusion of the container during insertion of the container into the receiver, having a first slope to resist movement of the container towards the receiver, and a second surface, subsequently contacted by the protrusion of the container during the insertion of the container into the receiver, having a second slope to interact with the protrusion of the container to assist movement of the container towards the receiver. This construction provides the user with a changing insertion force to indicate proper mounting of the container.
US10459364B2
An opening, from which a cleaning member is inserted from the outer side of a main body of the image forming apparatus according to the present invention, is provided further toward the front side than an end portion of a front side of a holding member. The opening guides movement of the cleaning member in the direction of insertion as the inserted cleaning member moves toward the downstream side in the direction of insertion, so that downstream-side end portions of engaging portions in the insertion direction engage upstream-side end portions of protruding portions formed on the holding member in the direction of insertion.
US10459348B2
Inspection system for a device under test (DUT) includes an image sensor, N image obtaining devices, K switches, M image processing devices, and at least one added image processing device. The image obtaining devices are connected to the image sensor, and each of the N image obtaining devices receives image data of the image of the DUT captured by the image sensor. Each of the K switches is connected to a respective one of the image obtaining devices. Each of the M image processing devices is connected to a respective one of the switches, receives the image data that is output from one of the N image obtaining devices and is distributed by one of the K switches, and generates processed image data in real-time. The added image processing device is connected to one of the switches, receives the image data, and generates additional processed image data in real-time.
US10459343B2
An object is to provide an illumination apparatus that achieves illumination with a uniform illuminance distribution, while reducing a light quantity loss. An illumination apparatus for illuminating an illumination target surface has: a deflection member configured to form an illuminance distribution with a periodic pattern along a predetermined direction on a predetermined face traversing an optical path; and an optical integrator system having a plurality of wavefront division facets arrayed on the predetermined face and configured to form secondary light sources with use of a beam from the deflection member; the deflection member forms the illuminance distribution with the periodic pattern of an integer times or a unit fraction times an array period of the plurality of wavefront division facets.
US10459339B2
This resist pattern forming method comprises: a step for coating a substrate with a chemically amplified resist; a subsequent step for forming a latent image of a pattern by exposing the resist film on the substrate; a subsequent step for irradiating the exposed resist film selectively with infrared light from a first heating source having wavelengths 2.0-6.0 μm; a subsequent step for heating the substrate by means of a second heating source that is different from the first heating source for the purpose of diffusing an acid that is produced in the resist film by exposure; and a subsequent step for forming a pattern of the resist film by supplying a developer liquid to the substrate. Consequently, roughening of sidewalls of the resist pattern can be suppressed.
US10459335B2
According to an embodiment, a template is provided which includes a template substrate, and a device formation pattern and an alignment mark provided on a common surface of the template substrate. The alignment mark includes a refraction layer provided at a bottom of a first concave pattern provided on the template substrate, and an insulating layer filling the first concave pattern provided with the refraction layer.
US10459329B2
A projection-type display apparatus includes a light source unit, reflection-type light modulation elements, a color combining unit, a color separation unit, and a filter. The light source unit is capable of emitting first color light, second color light, third color light, and near infrared light. A first polarization separation unit receives the first color light, and a second polarization separation unit receives the second color light and the third color light. The color separation unit guides near infrared light to the first polarization separation unit, and the color combining unit guides the near infrared light from the first polarization separation unit to color combining unit. The projection-type display apparatus can be switched between a first mode in which a first region of the filter unit is inserted into the light path and a second mode in which a second region of the filter unit is inserted to the light path.
US10459326B2
A dual-color projector is disclosed that includes a blue laser device configured to emit a blue laser light, a red laser device configured to emit a red laser light, and a fluorescent wheel whose surface is coated with green fluorescent powder which is excitable by the blue laser light to emit a green fluorescent light. The dual-color projector may also include a first diffusion element and a second diffusion element.
US10459323B2
An illumination system includes a lens group having an optical axis and a light flux cross-section perpendicular to the optical axis, a dichroic device including first and second dichroic layers, first and second excitation light sources and a phosphor wheel. The first and second dichroic layers reflect first and second excitation beams to the lens group respectively. A projection region collectively formed by projecting the first dichroic layer and the second dichroic layer on the light flux cross-section in a direction parallel to the optical axis is larger than a ¼ area of the light flux cross-section and smaller than a ½ area of the light flux cross-section. The phosphor wheel receives the first and second excitation beams passing through the lens group and has a reflective region and at least one phosphor region.
US10459321B2
Optical systems having at least one polarization beam splitter (PBS) are operable to receive randomly-polarized light bundles from a projector lens. The PBS is further operable to direct light bundles having a state of polarization (SOP) along a light path and operable to direct other light bundles having a different SOP along different light paths. The light paths have optical path lengths which may differ. Each light path produces an image having a distortion which may differ from the distortion of an image produced by a different light path. A compensation in a light path is operable to convert a non-compensated distortion of an image into a compensated distortion that more closely matches the distortion of images in other light paths.
US10459320B2
A portable printer includes a camera, a printing part, a supporting part, and a mirror. The supporting part is configured to support a portable electronic device including a display, in a way in which the display faces the camera with a predetermined distance away from the camera. The support member is configured to cover a space between the portable electronic device and the camera. The mirror is configured to reflect an image on the display and form reflected image thereon. The reflected image on the mirror is viewable by a user. The camera is configured to capture the image on the display. The printing part is configured to print the image captured by the camera.
US10459314B2
A digital camera with which a captured image can be easily recognized through an electronic viewfinder regardless of whether the digital camera is oriented vertically or horizontally. A camera having an imaging lens, an electronic viewfinder to observe the image captured by the imaging lens, a guide mechanism guiding the vertical movement of the electronic viewfinder, and a biaxial rotation mechanism capable of causing the electronic viewfinder to rotate according to the vertical screen position or the horizontal screen position. The biaxial rotation mechanism is provided with a linking part linking the electronic viewfinder and the guide mechanism; a first shaft part for supporting the electronic viewfinder on the linking part so as to rotate in a first direction; and a second shaft part supporting the linking part on the guide mechanism so as to rotate in a second direction.
US10459313B2
A lens barrel includes an imaging optical system, a diaphragm operation ring, and click-stop mechanisms. The click-stop mechanism includes a first spherical body, first fitting portions, and a first biasing member. The click-stop mechanism includes a second spherical body, second fitting portions, and a second biasing member. The first spherical body is fitted to the first fitting portion in a case in which the diaphragm operation ring is set to a position corresponding to main series. The second spherical body is fitted to the second fitting portion in a case in which the diaphragm operation ring is set to a position corresponding to subordinate series.
US10459309B2
An electronic paper and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The electronic paper includes a first substrate provided with a microstructure and multiple first electrodes thereon; a second substrate arranged opposite to the first substrate and provided with multiple second electrodes thereon, the microstructure is arranged on a side of the first substrate facing the second substrate; and pixel isolation walls arranged between the first and second substrates, for dividing the electronic paper into pixel units; each pixel unit includes: one first substrate; one second substrate; charged particles arranged between the first and second electrodes, the first and second electrodes control, depending on a voltage applied thereto, contact between the charged particles and the microstructure; when the charged particles are not in contact with the microstructure, light from outside is subject to total internal reflection after being radiated to the microstructure through the first substrate.
US10459307B2
An electrochromic device includes one or more flame-retardant agents.
US10459302B2
The present disclosure discloses an array substrate, a display panel and a display device. The array substrate comprises a substrate; a plurality of scanning lines and a plurality of data lines located on one side of the substrate, the plurality of scanning lines are extended in a second direction, the plurality of data lines are extended in a first direction, the plurality of scanning lines intersect the plurality of data lines in an insulated manner; and a plurality of sub-pixels defined by the plurality of scanning lines and the plurality of data lines; where each of the plurality of sub-pixels includes a thin film transistor which comprises an active layer, a gate, a source and a drain, the active layer, the gate, the source and the drain are located on one side of the substrate. The active layer includes a channel region.
US10459298B2
A display device, array substrate and manufacturing method thereof are provided. The array substrate includes an active area and a non-active area, and the active area includes a plurality of scan lines and a plurality of data lines intersecting with the plurality of scan lines, and a plurality of pixel units formed by the intersecting plurality of scan lines and plurality of data lines; the non-active area includes a driving circuit providing scan signals to the scan lines, and the driving circuit is located along an extension direction of the data lines so as to reduce area size of the non-active area along an extension direction of the scan lines to achieve narrowing border size. As such, the ultra-narrow border for display device is achieved.
US10459288B2
Provided is a backlight unit having high optical efficiency and a holographic display device including the backlight unit. The backlight unit includes a light source unit configured to provide a light beam, a first beam expander configured to mix the light beam provided from the light source unit, expand the light beam in a first direction, and output the mixed and expanded light beam as white light, and a second beam expander configured to expand the white light output from the first beam expander in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction and output the expanded white light as surface light.
US10459285B2
A device for producing polarized light includes a plurality of photonic crystal grid structures on a substrate. The plurality of photonic crystal grid structures includes one or more structured regions for the transmission of polarized blue light, polarized green light, and polarized red light. A green quantum dot layer is substantially positioned on the one or more structured regions for the transmission of polarized green light and a red quantum dot layer is substantially positioned on the one or more structured regions for the transmission of polarized red light. A blue light emitting diode array is disposed on the polarized light device such that the emission from the blue light emitting diode array facilitates the emission of red and green light from the red and green quantum dot layers.
US10459284B1
A polarizer for the display side of a liquid crystal display is provided. The polarizer comprises a polarizing layer, a light collimation layer and a quantum dot diffraction layer. The polarizing layer has a light incident surface and a light exiting surface. The light collimation layer is disposed on the light exiting surface of the polarizing layer. The quantum dot diffraction layer is disposed on the light collimating layer on the opposite side of the polarizing layer, and comprises a diffraction microstructure layer disposed on the light collimation layer, and a quantum dot planarization layer which fills and planarizes the diffraction microstructure layer and can be divided into a plurality of pixel regions.
US10459283B2
A display device includes a transparent liquid crystal panel configured to allow an object arranged at the rear surface to be viewed from the front surface; a first polarizer arranged on at least one of the front surface and the rear surface of the transparent liquid crystal panel; a light source; a light guide element arranged at the other of the front surface and the rear surface of the transparent liquid crystal panel; a second polarizer arranged between the light guide element and the transparent liquid crystal panel, or between the light guide element and the light source and arranged to not block at least a portion of light transmitted through the light guide element via the object; and a controller.
US10459278B2
A display device and a method of manufacturing the same are disclosed. The display device includes a lower substrate, subpixels positioned on the lower substrate, and a fine alignment key positioned in at least one of the subpixels. The method of manufacturing the display device includes forming an alignment key outside a target substrate and forming a fine alignment key inside an active area defined as a display area on the target substrate, aligning the target substrate and a mask substrate using the alignment key and the fine alignment key, and performing an exposure operation using the target substrate and the mask substrate.
