US10462338B2
An electronic device includes a front side, a back side separated from the front side by a device thickness, and a camera having a lens side and a sensor side. The electronic device further includes a linkage floatably holding the camera relative to the front side and the back side, the linkage allowing the sensor side to extend from the front side responsive to force on the lens side of the camera, and the linkage allowing the lens side to extend from the back side responsive to force on the sensor side of the camera.
US10462337B2
A display device includes a substrate, a plurality of gate lines disposed on the substrate, and which extends in first direction, a plurality of data lines disposed on the substrate, and which extends in a second direction intersecting the first direction, pixels connected to the gate lines and the data lines, a data drive unit which applies data signals to the data lines, a gate drive unit which supplies gate signals to the gate lines, a timing controller which controls the data signals and the gate signals, an image depth analysis unit which receives an image signal, and generates a foreground image signal based on an image depth of the image signal, and a gamma correction unit which generates a gamma-corrected image signal by applying a plurality of gamma curves to the foreground image signal.
US10462335B2
Provided is a video processing device that generates a display video signal to be supplied to a liquid crystal display having a liquid crystal that is driven by a frame inversion scheme and includes a control microcomputer and a video signal processor. The control microcomputer controls a data enable signal such that a display invalid section having a predetermined number of fields is set for an interlace video signal at a predetermined period based on a vertical synchronization signal included in the interlace video signal input from outside. The video signal processor generates the display video signal by setting the display invalid section for the interlace video signal based on the data enable signal and outputs the display video signal to the liquid crystal display.
US10462322B2
Image scanning apparatus and method of operating an image scanning apparatus, the image scanning apparatus including a line scan detector and being configured to image a surface of an object mounted in the image scanning apparatus in a plurality of swathes, wherein each swathe is formed by a group of scan lines, each scan line being acquired using the scan line detector from a respective elongate region of the surface of the object extending in a scan width direction, wherein each group of scan lines is acquired whilst the object is moved relative to the scan line detector in a scan length direction.
US10462317B2
An image reading apparatus includes a reading unit configured to read an image of a medium fed through a first feed path, a switching unit that isolates a third feed path from a junction so as to guide the medium from a second feed path to the first feed path when being disposed at a first position and that guides the medium from the first feed path to the third feed path when being disposed at the second position, and a drive unit that moves the switching unit to the second position when the medium is fed from the first feed path to the third feed path, wherein the drive unit moves the switching unit to the first position after a lapse of predetermined time from a beginning of feeding the medium from the third feed path toward the first feed path.
US10462314B2
An information processing apparatus is capable of setting favorite function information in an image forming apparatus, the information processing apparatus including: a collector that collects function setting item information from models of image forming apparatuses; a candidate selector that selects combinations of candidates of the function setting item information to be included in the favorite function information from the function setting item information and sets a specified function to each of the selected candidates of the function setting item information; an availability display that displays availability in the models of image forming apparatuses, of each of the specified functions of the candidates of the function setting item information selected and set by the candidate selector; and a storage that stores, a combination of allowed candidates, of the combinations of the candidates of the function setting item information to which the specified functions displayed in the availability display have been set.
US10462311B2
There is provided a communication apparatus. A communication control controls a communication unit so as to connect to one of a plurality of external apparatuses. A transfer unit transfers a data item to an external apparatus to which the communication unit has connected. In a case that a transfer of the data item is failed, a storage control unit stores transfer failure information in which the data item is associated with a transfer-destination external apparatus. In a case that the communication unit has connected to a first external apparatus, a transfer control unit controls a transfer of a data item. If a data item included in the transfer failure information is associated with the first external apparatus, the transfer control unit performs control so as to automatically transfer the data item to the first external apparatus.
US10462308B2
A file generation method for generating, based on an original file in a PDF format, a new file in a PDF format having a larger number of pages than the original file includes a reuse information creation step of creating, by taking the original file or a duplicate of the original file as one initial file and analyzing the initial file, reuse information for allowing specification of whether a use state of each resource is a shared state or a non-shared state, and a page duplication step of generating a page that constitutes the new file, by performing, based on the reuse information, duplication of a page in the initial file in such a way that the use state of each resource is same before duplication and after duplication.
US10462306B1
Systems and methods for mobile device usage optimization are described herein. These methods can include automated mobile device usage data collection, analysis, usage optimization through device level pooling, reallocation, and/or other device plan optimizations.
US10462304B2
A system for managing customer-to-business voice communication has a network-connected communications device and instructions executable on the communications device from a non-transitory physical medium, the instructions providing a first function for determining if a destination asserted requires treatment, a second function for sending data from the communications device to a network-connected server, a third function for receiving alternative destination information from the server, and a fourth function for establishing communication with the business based on the returned destination information.
US10462296B2
A call processing system and method for processing calls from high volume callers. A frequency of call activity is monitored for callers to determine reception of a call from a high frequency caller. When a call is received from such a caller, provided is information predicted to be requested from the caller prior to the caller being voice connected to a company representative. The retrieved information is then provided to a company representative prior to the caller being voice connected with a company representative as to expedite the call. Additionally, a customized message for the high frequency caller may be generated prior to the caller being voice connected with a company representative whereby the customized message contains information predicted to be responsive to a predicted inquiry from the determined high frequency caller to mitigate the need to connect the caller to a company representative.
US10462286B2
Systems and methods for deriving contact information for a calling party analyze all or a portion of the audio of the telephone call to derive such contact. Likewise, all or a portion of a voice message left by a calling party could be analyzed to obtain contact information for the calling party.
US10462279B2
A user of a mobile computing device may provide a first user preference for a first type of event and a second user preference for a second type of event, and the mobile computing device may detect an event comprising reception of the first type of event or the second type of event. The mobile computing device may present, along an edge of a touch-sensitive display of the mobile computing device, a banner alert in response to detecting the first type of event, and may present, on the touch-sensitive display, a pop-up notification in response to detecting the second type of event. The mobile device may dismiss the banner alert based on a user swiping the banner alert off the touch-sensitive display.
US10462276B2
A portable device is configured to provide geographic information to a head unit of a vehicle equipped with a display device. One or more processors determine a user context related to a geographic location and detect that the portable device has been communicatively coupled to the head unit of a vehicle. The one or more processors transmit to the head unit, without an express user command, a request that the head unit accept data from the portable device for output via the display device. In response to receiving an indication that that the request has been granted, the one or more processors cause information related to the geographic location to be displayed via the display device, without an express user input at the portable device.
US10462272B2
An electronic device includes a housing including a first surface, a second surface, and a third surface defining an internal space of the housing, a touch screen display interposed between the first surface and the second surface, and a sensor module disposed under the touch screen display and including a light emitting unit and a light receiving unit, wherein the third surface includes a plurality of through holes each including optical structures, wherein a portion of light emitted from the light emitting unit is guided to an exterior of the electronic device through a first optical structure of a first through hole, and wherein at least a portion of light introduced from the exterior of the electronic device is guided to the light receiving unit on a second optical structure of a second through hole.
US10462268B2
A data transmitting device includes: a judge code generating portion for transmitting a plurality of times a predefined code pattern indicating a head portion of transmission data, as a judge code; a start code generating portion for transmitting at least once a start code having a predefined code pattern different from the judge code, following the judge code; and a valid data generating portion for transmitting valid data, following the start code. After receiving the judge code for a predetermined number of times that is less by at least one than the number of times that the judge code is transmitted, a data receiving device enters a standby state for receiving the start code, and, after receiving the start code, receives the valid data.
US10462265B2
A method and apparatus for providing remote access to an unavailable server is provided. In an embodiment, a proxy server computer receives a request to access data over a network from a client computing device. The proxy server computer identifies a particular server computer that is separate from the client computing device to fulfill the request. The proxy server computer then determines that the particular server computer is unavailable to a client computing device. In response to determining the particular server is unavailable to the client computing device, the proxy server computer maintains a transport layer connection from the client computing device. While maintaining the transport layer connection, the proxy server computer initiates startup of the particular server computer. In response to receiving an indication that the particular server computer is available to the client computing device, the proxy server computer passes the connection from the client computing device to the particular server computer.
US10462264B2
An apparatus for downloading an application from an application store comprises at least one processor and at least one memory storing program instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to receive user input on a touch sensitive graphical user interface providing a view of applications stored on an apparatus, the user input initiating downloading of an application to the apparatus, recognize at least one application in an application store corresponding to the received user input, and download an application of the at least one application from the application store to a memory of the apparatus.
US10462258B2
A resource download method, an electronic device, and an apparatus, where the resource download method includes initiating a first request to a server, receiving a packet generated by the server based on the first request and returned by the server, where the packet includes an entity data part corresponding to the first request, writing a download resource into a first storage area of the electronic device when the entity data part of the packet is the download resource, reading the download resource from the first storage area, and storing the download resource into a second storage area of the electronic device.
US10462253B2
A method, system and computer-readable storage medium for social network grouping are provided. The method includes: acquiring friend relation data of a first user, the friend relation data comprising one or more friend nodes; determining a weight of each of the friend nodes based on the friend relation data acquired; forming a first friend circle with a first friend node having a greatest weight among the friend nodes; traversing the friend nodes to find an optimum friend of the first friend circle; adding the optimum friend into the first friend circle; and repeating the traversing and adding until all optimum friends of the first friend circle are added into the first friend circle. The method determines the weight of each friend node based on the friend relation data and performs grouping by the weights, which is able to conduct a smart grouping with high speed, low throughput, and high efficiency.
US10462246B2
Methods, apparatuses and systems to provide a unified content posting mechanism.
US10462245B2
Methods, terminals, and systems for pushing information are provided. A terminal obtains a business message from a server and determines a type of the business message from a real-time type, a timer-setting type, and an instruction-type. When the type of the business message is determined to be the real-time type, the terminal adjusts a sending interval of a heartbeat package as a first pre-set time duration and restores the sending interval of the heartbeat package back to a benchmark time interval after a second pre-set time duration. The first pre-set time duration is greater than the benchmark time interval and less than the second pre-set time duration. The terminal maintains a network link connection with the server based on the sending policy of the heartbeat package to provide a pushing operation of the business message.
US10462241B2
A web service tagging tool including a memory operable to store logging tags and a web service application. The web service application includes a tagging engine configured to send data content comprising one or more logging tags for a user interface of a user application. Each logging tag is linked to an element of the user interface that comprises a hyperlink and location information identifying a location of the element in the user application. The web service application further includes a data collection engine configured to receive data for the element linked with the one or more logging tags and aggregate the received data for each of the one or more logging tags. The web service application further includes a metric overlay engine configured to generate overlay data for an overlay mapping the aggregated data to elements of the user interface and send the overlay data to the user application.
US10462232B2
A server may receive a first registration request from a communication device, receive a second registration request from a terminal device, determine, by using a first IP address included in the first registration request and a second IP address in the second registration request, whether the communication device and the terminal device are belonging to a same local area network, if the communication device and the terminal device are belonging to the same local area network, send a sending request including a connection information and a specific IP address of the communication device to the terminal device, the sending request being for causing the terminal device to send the connection information to the communication device with the specific IP address as a destination, establish a connection between the server and the communication device by using the connection information, and perform a target service by using the connection.
US10462224B2
An embodiment of network coordinator apparatus may include a node provisioner to provision each of a plurality of low power nodes, a node associater to create a first association for each of the plurality of lower power nodes, and a node coordinator communicatively coupled to the node provisioner and the node associater to coordinate the plurality of lower power nodes.
US10462221B2
A distributed storage resource management in a hyper converged infrastructure is created. The system accesses a virtualized infrastructure comprising a plurality of host machines, each of said plurality of host machines having resources, the resources comprising: a central processing unit (CPU), a memory, and a storage, each of the plurality of host machines communicatively coupled with one or more virtual machines. The resources in each of the host machines are disaggregated. The resources are aggregated based on a nature of the resource into a common pool of shared resources. A request is received for a workload application having a resource requirement. The resource requirement of the workload application is matched with resources in the common pool of shared resources. The matched resources in the common pool of shared resources are assigned to the workload application.
US10462213B2
A system that includes a first network node configured to store a first ledger, a second network node configured to store a second ledger, and a third network node. The third network node includes a transformation engine configured to generate a plurality of shares derived using a data entry, which includes setting a share quantity indicating the number of shares to generate and setting a threshold value indicating the number of shares from the share quantity needed to determine the data entry. The transformation engine generates a first share for the first ledger and a second share for the second ledger using a polynomial function. The transformation engine includes enriched data with information indicating when to publish the first share and the second share. The transformation engine transmits the first enriched share to the first network node and transmit the second enriched share to the second network node.
US10462195B2
Methods and system for scheduling or launching online and phone sessions between two or more people via email and other electronic communication channels without the requirement for an account with the session service provider when scheduling the session. By including a designated service provider email address in the recipient list of the host's email or meeting invitation, a user account can be, and in some embodiments is automatically created by the service provider system in response to receipt of such an Email and session invitations are automatically sent to the host and invitees designated in the host's email or meeting invitation. In this way the host and invites calendars can be automatically updated and populated with session information and information on how to joint the session, e.g., on-line meeting or conference. The Email from the communications provider system can, and in some embodiments does, take the form of an updated invite Email message with the information in the Email from the service provider system updating or replacing information supplied by the original invite from the host.
US10462194B2
According to one or more embodiments of the disclosure, a local network device establishes a communication session with a remote network device in the communication network, and designates at least one program from a plurality of programs executable by the local network device for access by the remote network device to yield a designated program. The local network device further generates a shared display object, and associates each designated program with the shared display object to permit display thereof. The local network device further instantiates one or more shared control objects associated with the shared display object, and facilitate access to each designated program for the remote network device using at least one of the one or more shared control objects.
US10462186B2
Various embodiments and related methods are provided that can include or operate a variety of modular systems such as a group of user interfaces and software modules which receive inputs from the user interfaces to perform Secure Configuration Evaluation, Remediation, and Reporting Tool tasks. Exemplary modules can include a scan or current state module to populate and/or identify a current state configuration as well as collecting available information on available vulnerability patches or system updates, a software, update, and/or patch configuration selection module that generates a “picklist” user interface for all available software, patches or updates or optionally patches or updates that meet one or more search criteria associated with a baseline data, a data store with install files for all selected or available software, patches or updates selected with the picklist user interface, an installer export package system to generate install packages, and an access/use verification system.
US10462174B2
In one aspect, the disclosure provides: A method comprising: inviting a distributed plurality of researchers to participate in one or more computer vulnerability research projects directed to identifying computer vulnerabilities of one or more networks and/or computers that are owned or operated by a third party; assessing reputation and skills of one or more of the researchers, and accepting a subset of the researchers who have a positive reputation and sufficient skills to perform the investigations of the computer vulnerabilities; assigning a particular computer vulnerability research project, relating to a particular network under test, to a particular researcher from among the subset of the researchers; using a computer that is logically interposed between the particular researcher and the particular network under test, monitoring communications between the particular researcher and the particular network under test, wherein the communications relate to attempting to identify a candidate security vulnerability of the particular network under test; validating a report of the candidate security vulnerability of the particular network under test that is received from the particular researcher; determining and providing an award to the particular researcher in response to successfully validating the report of the candidate security vulnerability of the particular network under test that is received from the particular researcher.
US10462171B2
Various embodiments described herein disclose an endpoint modeling and grouping management system that can collect data from endpoint computer devices in a network. In some embodiments, agents installed on the endpoints can collect real-time information at the kernel level providing the system with deep visibility. In some embodiments, the endpoint modeling and grouping management system can identify similarities in behavior in response to assessing the data collected by the agents. In some embodiments, the endpoint modeling and grouping management system can dynamically model groups such as logical groups, and cluster endpoints based on the similarities and/or differences in behavior of the endpoints. In some embodiments, the endpoint modeling and grouping management system transmits the behavioral models to the agents to allow the agents to identify anomalies and/or security threats autonomously.
US10462169B2
A lateral movement application identifies lateral movement (LM) candidates that potentially represent a security threat. Security platforms generate event data when performing security-related functions, such as authenticating a user account. The disclosed technology enables greatly increased accuracy identification of lateral movement (LM) candidates by, for example, refining a population of LM candidates based on an analysis of a time constrained graph in which nodes represent entities, and edges between nodes represent a time sequence of login or other association activities between the entities. The graph is created based on an analysis of the event data, including time sequences of the event data.
US10462168B2
An access classifying device includes a tree building unit, a similarity-degree calculating unit, and a classifying unit. The tree building unit generates multiple trees, in which a first server and multiple second servers are nodes and commands for automatically transferring the sequence of accesses from the above-described first server to the above-described second servers are edges. The similarity-degree calculating unit calculates the degree of similarity between the above-described trees in accordance with the degree of matching between partial trees included in each of the above-described trees generated. The classifying unit classifies the above-described access in accordance with the above-described degree of similarity calculated.
US10462163B2
A method or system of receiving an incoming electronic file containing content data in a predetermined data format, the method including receiving an incoming electronic file containing content data encoded and arranged in accordance with a predetermined file type, determining a purported predetermined file type of the incoming electronic file and an associated set of rules specifying allowable content data, determining at least an allowable portion of the content data that conforms with the set of rules corresponding to the determined purported predetermined file type, extracting, from the incoming electronic file, the at least an allowable portion of content data, creating a substitute electronic file in the purported predetermined file type, said substitute electronic file containing the extracted allowable content data, forwarding the substitute regenerated electronic file, and forwarding the incoming electronic file if a portion, part or whole of the content data does not conform, only when the intended recipient approves the electronic file at the time of receipt.
US10462159B2
A system and method are provided for detecting a botnet in a network based on traffic flow, daisy chained mechanism and white-list generation mechanism. The system and method uses the known malicious components in a botnet such as IP address, domain name and URL, to be the root of a daisy chain and creates a network graph based on given traffic flow data such as NetFlow data, DNS cache data, DNS sinkhole data, DDoS data and Attack log data in threat sensors. The system and method iteratively detects new malicious factors by tracing that network graph. The system and method also introduces a technique to create a white list which is used in the daisy chain to reduce false positive.
US10462157B2
A multi-pattern matching algorithm may be provided that includes: a moving step of moving a moving window from the start of a string one byte by one byte; a DF1 checking step of converting the string on a current position of the moving window into an integer value, and of checking whether or not a bit of a related position in a first direct filter DF1 for patterns having lengths larger than 2 bytes is set to 1; a DF moving step of checking one or more direct filters DF when the bit is set to 1 according to the DF1 checking step; a re-moving step of moving the moving window by one byte again when the bit of a related position in the direct filter DF, which has been checked lastly, is 0; and a terminating step of checking whether the moving window is located at the end of the string or not, and of terminating the algorithm when the moving window is positioned at the end of the string.
US10462146B2
A component of an environment having available bandwidth for performing a task is located. Authorization to connect a device associated with the task to the component is granted. In response to determining that a set of one or more conditions are met, the device is connected to the component. The connection provides network connectivity to the device via the component.
US10462144B2
A system for managing privacy of shared content. The system includes a terminal device and a server device. The terminal device includes a content receiving device configured to receive content, a storage configured to store content by the content receiving device, a privacy setting determiner, a content obfuscator; and a transmitter configured to transmit obfuscated content. The server device includes a receiver configured to receive the obfuscated content from the transmitter of the terminal device, a publisher configured to publish the obfuscated content, and a de-obfuscator configured to, based on the received request to change privacy settings, de-obfuscate the at least a portion of the received content to generate de-obfuscated content.
US10462139B2
A scalable universal full spectrum cyber determining process for accurately and reliably determining and reporting at least one cyber determination from a full spectrum of possible cyber determinations. Utilizing cyber resources and predetermined criteria for providing cyber determinations regarding at least one subject of at least one observation, the cyber determining process: provides cyber determinations for any possible subject of an observation; provides for the utilization of any selected attainable level of accuracy, up to and including 100% accuracy; provides for single, intermittently performed, and constantly performed cyber determinations; utilizes available cyber resources; interacts with itself and utilized cyber resources to perform possible functions; recognizes characteristics from cyber observations and then utilizes recognized characteristics for comparing or determining; provides and utilizes standard designations for representing aspects of itself and its operations; utilizes useful information or outcomes from comparing for making determinations; and, reports on any aspect of its operations at any time.
US10462136B2
In one embodiment, a request may be received from a first cloud network of a hybrid cloud environment to transmit data to a second cloud network of the hybrid cloud environment, wherein the request can include a security profile related to the data. The security profile may be automatically analyzed to determine access permissions related to the data. Based at least in part on the access permissions, data can be allowed to access to the second cloud network.
US10462135B2
Various system configurations and methods for maintaining, accessing, and utilizing secure data of a web browser in a hardware-managed secure data store are disclosed herein. In an example, operations for management of sensitive data such as passwords may be provided with the use of secure enclaves operating in a trusted execution environment. For example, such secure enclaves may be used for sealing and persisting sensitive data associated with a remote service, and transmitting the sensitive data to the remote service, while an unsealed form of the sensitive data is not accessible outside of the trusted execution environment. In further examples, operations for generating a password, storing or updating existing passwords, and replacing web browser input fields with secure data are disclosed.
US10462130B2
An account authentication method performed at a server, including: receiving a login request sent by an initiating terminal; searching, among binding relationships between initiating terminal identifiers, authentication terminal identifiers, and registered biological characteristic information according to the first terminal's identifier, a matching target binding relationship; when found, sending an authentication request to an authentication terminal corresponding to an authentication terminal identifier; receiving biological characteristic information that is sent by the authentication terminal, and determining, through comparison, whether the biological characteristic information is consistent with registered biological characteristic information included in the target binding relationship; and if so, authenticating the login request.
US10462126B2
A network authentication device that includes an authentication engine. The authentication engine is configured to receive an authentication key request from a user device that identifies an account. The authentication engine is configured to obtain an authentication key and to establish a first set of authentication rules for the authentication key. The authentication engine is configured to identify one or more triggering events associated with an increased threat to the account and to establish a second set of authentication rules for the authentication key. The authentication engine is configured to perform key validation for the authentication key using the first set of authentication rules and to send the authentication key to the user device. The authentication engine is configured to detect a triggering event from the one or more triggering events has occurred and perform the key validation for the authentication key using the second set of authentication rules.
US10462124B2
A virtual session manager of an electronic device maintains a web session for a user across multiple electronic devices. The virtual session manager will receive an authentication request from a first electronic device that is in a communication range of the virtual session manager's device. The virtual session manager will transmit the authentication request to an endpoint device, and it will either present a grant token to or receive a grant token from the endpoint. The virtual session manager will receive a first access token from the endpoint device. The virtual session manager will transmit the first access token to the first electronic device so that the first electronic device can establish a virtual session with the first web resource without having any access to the grant token.
US10462119B2
Example implementations involve cloud queue synchronization. An example implementation may involve a playback device sending a request for a window of media items from a cloud queue of media items that is accessible to the playback device via a wide area network, the request including (i) an indication of a reference media item, (ii) a first parameter indicating a number of media items preceding the reference media item to include in the window and (iii) a second parameter indicating a number of media items subsequent to the reference media item to include in the window. The playback device receives, in response to the request for the window of media items, an indication of a particular window of media items from the cloud queue of media items and incorporates the media items of the particular window into a local queue of media items.
US10462095B2
In time and sentiment based messaging, a server obtains information for a set of messages from online social networks related to a specified object. The information includes at least a user identifier associated with each message, a time of each message, and content of each message. For each unique identifier, the server establishes an initial message from the set of messages related to the specified object, analyzes each message in the set of messages to determine a sentiment of each message, and builds a sentiment line time for each unique user identifier. The server then builds a time-based sentiment model related to the specified object by overlapping the sentiment time lines for each unique user identifier according to the initial message for each unique user identifier. A targeted message to a set of one or more users may then be generated using the time-based sentiment model.
US10462081B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a process that determines an identity of a subscriber of a media service. A viewing criterion of the subscriber is determined and a media content item is identified based on the viewing criterion of the subscriber. The media content item is provided for delivery to a media processing device without first requiring a request for delivery of the media content item. The media processing device is identified by a network service provider based on a selection of the media processing device from among a number of devices of the subscriber that are registered with the network service provider. The selection of the media processing device is based on device capabilities and the identity of the subscriber. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10462080B1
A server receives a request for a business account with the messaging system that includes a business name and a contact point. The server determines whether users of the messaging system associate the business name with the contact point. The server also determines whether the business name and/or the contact point has characteristics consistent with the request originating from a genuine business. The business account is validated if users of the messaging system associate the business name with the contact point and at least one of the business name or the contact point have characteristics consistent with the request originating from a genuine business. The business account profile is updated to indicate it is verified. Client devices are adapted to display messages from the business account in conjunction with a visual indicator that the business account is verified.
US10462076B2
A system, apparatus and method for automatic environmental data collection and analysis are provided, including a server comprising: a processor and a communication interface, the processor configured to: receive, using the communication interface, a geographic survey request from a first computing device; translate the geographic survey request into mission data for collecting geographic survey data; transmit, using the communication interface, the mission data to a second computing device associated with a geographic survey entity; receive, using the communication interface, the geographic survey data collected by the geographic survey entity using the mission data; analyze the geographic survey data to generate processed geographic survey data; and, transmit, using the communication interface, the processed geographic survey data to the first computing device.
US10462075B2
A switching device includes a plurality of ports and a switching core, which is coupled to transfer data packets between ingress and egress ports. Switching logic maintains a descriptor queue containing respective descriptors corresponding to the data packets that have been received and queued by the ports, and responsively to the respective descriptors, instructs the switching core to transfer the queued data packets between the ports. Port logic, which is associated with each port, is configured, upon receipt of a data packet from the network at the port, to signal the switching logic to place a descriptor corresponding to the data packet in the descriptor queue and, upon identifying the data packet as meeting a predefined criterion, to convey a request to the switching logic, bypassing the descriptor queue, to instruct the switching core to transfer the data packet immediately to an egress port.
US10462072B2
According to one aspect, a method includes an Intercloud Fabric Switch (ICS) included in a public cloud and an ICS cluster obtaining a packet, and determining if the packet is obtained from a site-to-site link that links the ICS to an enterprise datacenter. If the packet is obtained from the site-to-site link, it is determined whether the packet is an unknown unicast packet. If the packet is an unknown unicast packet, the packet is dropped, and if not, the packet is provided to an access link that links the ICS to a virtual machine. If the packet is not obtained from the site-to-site link, it is determined whether the packet is obtained from an inter-ICS link that allows the ICS to communicate with the ICS cluster. If the packet is obtained from the inter-ICS link, the packet is dropped if it is an unknown unicast packet.
US10462068B2
In accordance with an embodiment, described herein is a system and method for providing an end-to-end lifecycle in a multi-tenant application server environment. A lifecycle manager enables configuration integration across different components, for example application servers, traffic directors or load balancers, and database or other components, which may have their own partition-specific configurations. In accordance with an embodiment, the end-to-end lifecycle infrastructure includes a plugin-based mechanism which enables the different components within a multi-tenant application server environment to use a lifecycle plugin to provide their own component-specific lifecycle functionality. In accordance with an embodiment, the system includes support for a tenant onboarding functionality, which can be used to onboard a tenant for a service to a particular partition. In accordance with an embodiment, the system supports the use of a global runtime within the multi-tenant application server environment.
US10462065B2
An example method is provided for a source device to perform discovery of a path maximum transmission unit (PMTU) of a path between the source device and a destination device in a communications network. The method may comprise configuring and sending a request message to the destination device via an intermediate device on the path. The request message may be configured to have a size of an estimated PMTU of the path, to cause a reply message to be received from the destination device or at least one report message to be received from the intermediate device, and to include a flag that allows fragmentation of the request message. The method may further comprise receiving the reply message from the destination device or the at least one report message from the intermediate device responsive to the request message; and based on the reply message or the at least one report message, determining that fragmentation of the request message has occurred because the estimated PMTU is greater than an actual PMTU and updating the estimated PMTU.
US10462064B2
In some examples, a maximum transmission unit (MTU) is installed by a Software-Defined Network (SDN) controller on a controlled network node for traffic along a datapath in an SDN. The installed MTU can, for example, be selected from MTU sizes in an MTU database for nodes along the datapath. For example, the installed MTU can be selected as the largest allowable MTU size based on the nodes of the datapath.
US10462061B1
The disclosed computer-implemented method for managing quality of service may include (i) providing, in a network storage environment, a quality of service engine to regulate network traffic by assigning three separate factors to applications that are consuming a network resource, (ii) adding, to a configuration of the quality of service engine, a fourth priority factor that establishes two tiers of priority among applications that generate traffic that is regulated by the quality of service engine, and (6) regulating, by the quality of service engine based on the fourth priority factor, network traffic in the network storage environment by providing access to the network resource to an application assigned a higher priority over another application assigned a lower priority such that the fourth priority factor enables the quality of service engine to adhere to a service level agreement. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US10462045B1
In one embodiment, a device in a network identifies a shortest path tree for a point of local repair in the network that excludes at least one link between the point of local repair and a neighbor of the point of local repair in the network. The device evaluates member nodes of a branch of the shortest path tree, to form a list of repair segments. The device further causes one or more segment routing labels to be added to a header of a packet based on the repair segment list and in response to a failure in the network associated with the at least one link excluded from the shortest path tree.
US10462044B2
The disclosure relates to a data forwarding method and a node device for a mesh network. The mesh network comprises a plurality of nodes. At least one of the plurality of nodes is a relay node which forwards a data packet from a source node to a destination node. The method includes determining whether or not to forward the data packet in accordance with a type and a forwarding count value of the data package. The forwarding count value is changed in different manners in accordance with the type of the data packet when the data packet is forwarded. The data forwarding method decreases forwarding times of the data packets, reduces power consumption and increases efficiency of network communication.
US10462040B2
In some examples, a network node receives a packet from an adjacent node in a packet-switched network. The receiving node can forward the packet to a destination node via a minimum cost forwarding node adjacent to the network node or to a non-minimum cost forwarding node adjacent to the network node based on routing criteria for the packet-switched network. The routing criteria can include whether the adjacent node that sent the packet to the receiving node is a non-minimum cost node between a source node and the destination node for the packet.
US10462038B2
The present invention contributes to facilitating: setting for connection between a TEP in a virtual network configured by using a virtual tunnel and a virtual network; and management of the connection. A control apparatus includes: a connection detection unit configured to detect that a virtual machine has newly been connected to one of a plurality of tunnel endpoints each of which functions as an endpoint of a virtual tunnel used for a communication between virtual machines that belong to a virtual network; a virtual network determination unit configured to determine a virtual network to which the detected virtual machine belongs on the basis of information in which virtual machines and virtual networks are associated with each other; and a tunnel endpoint control unit configured to cause, if the tunnel endpoint has not participated in the determined virtual network, the tunnel endpoint to participate in the determined virtual network.
US10462037B1
A network device is described that injects probes for exercising its own forwarding rules (e.g., layer 2 and layer 3). One or more probe packets can be injected into an ingress pipeline of the network device using the agent executing on a local processor. The probes are detected before or after performing at least layer 2 and layer 3 lookups. Hardware in switching logic redirects the probes to an external testing system in order to verify the actual forwarding behavior applied to the probe packet. In order to deliver the probes to the external server, the network device performs an additional layer 3 lookup and generates an encapsulated packet incorporating results of a lookup on the probe packet. In this way, the external server can analyze the lookup on the probe packet to determine whether the lookup was performed correctly.
US10462036B2
A method includes receiving user data packets from customer premises equipment (CPE) in communication with a network terminal over a communication link and enabling a network terminal-side loopback mode to establish a closed traffic test loop across the communication link between the network terminal and the CPE. The received user data packets indicate that a CPE-side loopback mode is enabled. The method also includes injecting a number of data bits into the closed traffic test loop until a saturation threshold of the communication link is satisfied, and when the number of data bits injected into the closed traffic test loop satisfies the saturation threshold, determining a packet error-rate of the number of data bits circulating in the closed traffic test loop. After determining the packet error-rate, the method also includes removing the closed traffic test loop across the communication link between the network terminal and the CPE.
US10462033B2
Techniques for implementing a virtual tap in a virtual topology are described. A request to tap a particular link between a set of virtual topology entities (VTEs) is received. The particular link between the set of VTEs is mapped to a link between a set of instantiated entities in a physical topology. One of the instantiated elements implements a tapping function. Additionally or alternatively, a tapping element is instantiated and the tapping element implements the tapping function. The tapping element is not one of the set of instantiated entities. The tapping function includes: applying a tap filter to a set of data; replicating the data that passes the tap filter; and transmitting the replicated data to a virtual endpoint. The replicated data may be referred to as “tapped data.” A user interface engine presents information regarding the particular link between the set of VTEs based on the tapped data.
US10462025B2
A system and method for monitoring the performance associated with fulfilling resource requests are provided. One or more client computing devices obtain an original resource request and associate a record identifier with the original resource request. The one or more client computing devices also determine performance data associated with processing each embedded resource request included in a response to the original resource request. Each embedded resource request is associated with a component record identifier that is associated with, but different from, the record identifier of the original resource request. The one or more client computing devices can then transmit the determined performance data with the record identifier to another processing device.
US10462020B2
In one embodiment, a system includes a first interface to receive a request to generate a user interface screen for a selected network device, a memory to store configuration data of the selected network device, a processor to generate, using the configuration data of the selected network device, a first user interface screen showing a graphical representation of an internal configuration of the selected network device in each of at least three different abstraction layers from a plurality of different abstraction layers, one of the at least three different abstraction layers including a physical layer showing a plurality of ports of the selected network device, and a second interface to send the first user interface screen for output to a display device. Related apparatus and methods are also described.
US10462016B2
A communication control system to obtain required reliability for an entire network is provided. The communication control system includes: a means for obtaining, based on a load status of a control device that controls nodes included in a network and receives a content of a control signal sent and received between the nodes as a status notification signal, a capability for processing the status notification signal; a means for determining, based on network status information related to communication on the network, area segments each including an arbitrarily number of the nodes; and a means for calculating, based on the capability, a sending interval of the status notification signal of the node for each of the area segments, and sending the sending interval to the node included in the corresponding area segment.
US10462008B2
Cart mode provisioning of shared computing devices refers to provisioning or configuring the shared computing devices so that the shared computing devices operate in an appropriate mode for a particular shared usage environment. Such a shared usage environment can be, for example, a school environment in which the appropriate mode is a mode in which the shared computing devices are locked so that a limited number of programs and network accessibility is available to the shared computing devices. A user of a setup computing device selects some preferences regarding the setup of the shared computing devices, and a configuration package is generated that includes various configuration information based on the user selections. The configuration package is then made available to the shared computing devices, which are configured or provisioned in accordance with the configuration information.
US10462004B2
The disclosed embodiments provide a system that facilitates the processing of network data. During operation, the system causes for display a graphical user interface (GUI) for configuring the generation of time-series event data from network packets captured by one or more remote capture agents. Next, the system causes for display, in the GUI, a first set of user-interface elements containing a set of statistics associated with one or more event streams that comprise the time-series event data. The system then causes for display, in the GUI, one or more graphs comprising one or more values from the set of statistics. Finally, the system causes for display, in the GUI, a value of a statistic from the set of statistics based on a position of a cursor over the one or more graphs.
US10461978B2
Methods, apparatus, and systems for a physical layer protocol data unit (PPDU) transmission are provided. In one aspect, a method includes: generating a physical layer protocol data unit (PPDU) including a signal extension (SE) field arranged after a last orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol of a plurality of OFDM symbols, the PPDU including indication information in a high efficiency signaling field (HE-SIG), the indication information being generated based on a symbol length of the SE field and configured to indicate whether a receive end needs to adjust a calculated quantity of the plurality of OFDM symbols, and sending the PPDU to the receive end.
US10461963B2
A method includes generating a two-dimensionally filtered pilot tone based on a plurality of received pilot tones received using a first subcarrier of each of a plurality of received OFDM symbols and a plurality of data symbols received using a second subcarrier of each of the plurality of received OFDM symbols. The plurality of OFDM symbols is received sequentially over a plurality of OFDM symbol times. The method may include generating inverse channel coefficients based on the two-dimensionally filtered pilot tone. The method may include applying the inverse channel coefficients to a subsequently received OFDM symbol to recover data encoded in the subsequently received OFDM symbol. Generating the two-dimensionally filtered pilot tone may use at least one least-mean-squares filter.
US10461960B2
A system for providing enhanced and/or supplementary network connectivity to at least one client device being connected to a telecommunications network using a customer premises equipment device includes: the customer premises equipment device; a supplementary access gateway device; and the at least one client device. The supplementary access gateway device is configured to provide enhanced and/or supplementary network connectivity to the at least one client device using the second access network and the first interface of the supplementary access gateway device, the enhanced and/or supplementary network connectivity being provided to the at least one client device instead of or in addition to the network connectivity provided using the first access network and the customer premises equipment device.
US10461959B2
An example method for a programmable infrastructure gateway for enabling hybrid cloud services in a network environment is provided and includes receiving an instruction from a hybrid cloud application executing in a private cloud, interpreting the instruction according to a hybrid cloud application programming interface, and executing the interpreted instruction in a public cloud using a cloud adapter. The method is generally executed in the infrastructure gateway including a programmable integration framework allowing generation of various cloud adapters using a cloud adapter software development kit, the cloud adapter being generated and programmed to be compatible with a specific public cloud platform of the public cloud. In specific embodiments, identical copies of the infrastructure gateway can be provided to different cloud service providers who manage disparate public cloud platforms; each copy of the infrastructure gateway can be programmed differently to generate corresponding cloud adapters compatible with the respective public cloud platforms.
US10461956B2
A semiconductor device includes a plurality of IP cores, a plurality of storage devices, a configuration information acquiring unit that acquires configuration information for specifying a timing when the IP core accesses the storage device, and an allocation determining unit that determines the storage device allocated to the IP core. The configuration information acquiring unit acquires configuration information regarding a first IP core and configuration information regarding a second IP core. The allocation determining unit determines, based on the configuration information, whether an access timing by the first IP core is the same as an access timing by the second IP core, and when it is determined that the access timings are the same, determines allocation in such a way that the storage device allocated to the first IP core becomes different from the storage device allocated to the second IP core.
US10461955B2
Systems and methods are provided herein for preventing interruptions to a media viewing activity caused by operations performed in a household by network-connected devices. A media guidance application may determine that operations are being performed by an IoT device and may cause an interruption to media viewing. The media guidance application may prevent the interruption by extending or otherwise handling the operation.
US10461947B2
Systems and methods for providing default multicast local identifier values per subnet partition as additional subnet management agent attributes in a high performance computing environment. In accordance with an embodiment, a single multicast local identifier can be associated with multiple multicast group identifiers when the multiple multicast group identifiers are associated with a same subnet partition. That is, a default MLID for each subnet partition (i.e. either all subnet partitions or those subnet partitions that are defined to have multicast communication) can be provided. A subnet node can have a default multicast local identifier table for storing default multicast local identifiers. A relationship between the partition key table of the node and the default multicast local identifier table of the nod can map default assigned multicast local identifiers to relevant partitions.
US10461946B2
Various systems and methods for performing bit indexed explicit replication (BIER). For example, one method involves receiving a membership request at a node. The membership request is received from a host and the membership request identifies a multicast group. In response to receiving the membership request, the node generates a membership message. The membership message includes information identifying the multicast group and information identifying the node. The node transmits the membership to an overlay participant that stores a bit string associated with the multicast group.
US10461939B2
Provided is a process including: receiving a request from a first computing device to register another computing device; sending to the first computing device a registration code; receiving the registration code from a second computing device; sending an instruction to the designated application to send a value indicative of access to a cryptographic key; receiving from the designated application the value indicative of access to the cryptographic key; determining, based on the received value, that the received registration code was sent by the designated application and not another untrusted application.
US10461935B2
The invention proposes a method for processing biometric data, comprising verification of the result of a calculation of distance between a biometric candidate datum and at least one biometric reference datum, each comprising a number n of indexed components (ai, bi), said calculation of distance comprising that of a polynomial of the components of the biometric data,the method being executed by a proving entity and a verification entity, the method comprising steps during which: the proving entity communicates to the verification entity the result of calculation of the distance between the candidate and reference biometric data, and said data, the proving entity generates from each datum a function of a number d of variables fa(i1, . . . , id), fb(i1, . . . , id) where d=log2 n, defined for each variable on the set {0,1}, by reformulation of the index i of each component (ai, bi) in binary format, the proving entity generates from each function a polynomial of d variables ã(x1, . . . xd), {circumflex over (b)} (x1, . . . xd) defined on d where is a finite field, such that each polynomial ã, {circumflex over (b)} coincides with the corresponding function fa,fb on the set {0,1}d, and generates from the polynomials ã, {circumflex over (b)} a polynomial p(x1, . . . , xd) of d variables of the same expression as that of the distance between the data, and the proving entity and the verification entity engage in a Sumcheck protocol applied to the polynomial p to verify the result of calculation of the distance between the data.
US10461927B2
A method of establishing a secure channel for communication between a first computing device and a second computing device is described. The method uses an elliptic curve Diffie-Hellman protocol, wherein G is an elliptic curve generator point and the first computing device has a unique private key dc with a public key Qc=dc G certified by a party trusted by the second computing device. The first computing device generates (520) a blinding factor r and sends (540) a blinded public key R=r·Qc to the second computing device. The second computing device generates (510) an ephemeral private key dt and a corresponding ephemeral public key Qt=dt G and sends Qt to the first computing device. The first computing device generates (530) Kc=KDF(r dc·Qt) and the second computing device generates (550) Kt=KDF(dt·R), where KDF is a key derivation function used in both generation operations, to establish a secure channel between the first computing device and the second computing device. G is a point in the elliptic curve group E, wherein E is a group of prime order but E* is the quadratic twist of E and is a group of order m=z·m′ where m′ is prime and z is an integer, wherein r·dc is chosen such that z is a factor of r·dc. Suitable apparatus for performing the method is also described.
US10461923B2
A multivariate signature method for resisting key recovery attack, which establishes a new signature verification condition by adding additional value of signature. The verification condition implies verification of internal information x and y, thereby effectively resisting key recovery attack generated by the existence of equivalence key. Specifically, the method includes the three stages of data preprocessing, signature generation and signature verification. The invention is a signature authentication method based on polynomial equations of a plurality of variables in a finite field, which can effectively resist the key recovery attack, provide the basic technical support for the information security and the establishment of the trust system in the quantum computer era, and provide a secure digital signature option in the quantum era. The present invention is especially suitable for use under application condition which has limited storage and processing time, such as smart cards, wireless sensor networks and dynamic RFID tags.
US10461922B2
There is provided a device or a method for executing an operation of a cryptographic scheme, the operation being applied to a given state of a data block of original data, the operation being defined in a basis ring corresponding to the quotient of a starting ring by a basis ideal generated by at least one element of the starting ring. The operation is executed from a state derived from the current state of the data block, in at least one reference ring, which provides a reference value for each reference ring, each reference ring being the quotient of the starting ring by a reference ideal. The operation is executed from the state derived from the current state of the data block in at least one extended ring corresponding to one or more reference rings, which provides at least one extension value for each extended ring, each extended ring corresponding to one or more reference ring being the quotient of the starting ring by the product of the basis ideal and of the reference ideals of the one or more corresponding reference rings.
US10461914B2
A triplexer having integrated switching circuitry is disclosed. In one embodiment, a triplexer is used, in a transmit mode, to combine a clock signal, a control signal, and a modulated (e.g., a radio frequency, or RF) signal into a composite signal for transmission over a transmission line. In a receive mode, the triplexer receives and separates the composite signal into the clock signal, the control signal, and the modulated signal. The triplexer further includes switching circuitry integrated therein. The switching circuitry is operable to switch the triplexer between the transmit and receive modes.
US10461912B2
There is disclosed a method performed by a wireless device for updating an allocated search space for downlink control information. A corresponding wireless device is also disclosed. There is also disclosed a method performed by a radio network node to enable a wireless device served by the radio network node to perform an update of a search space allocated to the wireless device to monitor for downlink control information. Also provided is a corresponding radio network node. Corresponding computer programs and apparatuses are also disclosed. One particular advantage of the disclosed is that it enables a more tailor made search space for a wireless device.
US10461911B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a channel quality indicator (CQI) feedback method, user equipment, and a network device. The method includes: receiving, by the user equipment, a secondary pilot receive signal of each single sector and that is obtained after a secondary pilot transmit signal of each single sector transmitted by a network device is transmitted by using a radio channel; estimating, by the user equipment, a channel matrix according to the secondary pilot receive signal of each single sector and the pre-known secondary pilot transmit signal of each single sector; estimating, by the user equipment, a CQI of each single sector according to the channel matrix and a first precoding matrix, and estimating a CQI of each joint sector according to the channel matrix and a second precoding matrix; and feeding back, by the user equipment, each CQI to the network device.
US10461908B2
Various aspects described herein relate to communicating using a configurable bandwidth. A user equipment (UE) can receive a control channel from a serving evolved Node B (eNB), where the control channel includes a resource grant for an uplink shared data channel including a number of resource block groups starting from a starting resource block group in an allocation space, and where the allocation space includes a plurality of resource block groups in a frequency domain over a plurality of symbols in a time domain. The UE can transmit data in the uplink shared data channel starting from the starting resource block group in the allocation space and continuing through the number of resource block groups in the allocation space over the frequency domain first and over the time domain second.
US10461901B2
Proposed are a method and a device for transmitting a signal including a data field in a wireless LAN. For example, an access point (AP) allocates, to a second station, a second frequency band adjacent to a first frequency band, wherein the second frequency band can include a plurality of resource units. In addition, a signal including the data field can be transmitted to the second station through the allocated second frequency band. Furthermore, when the first frequency band is allocated to the first station, the AP can allocate, to the second station, as a null resource unit, a resource unit adjacent to the first frequency band among the plurality of resource units.
US10461894B2
A transmission control method for HARQ is provided for improving HARQ performance in a mobile communication system. The transmission control method for Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARQ) in a mobile communication system according to the present invention includes receiving an downlink resource assignment message; determining whether configured downlink assignment has been indicated to an HARQ entity since a previously received downlink assignment for a User Equipment's (UE's) Cell-Radio Network Temporary Identifier (C-RNTI) for the same HARQ process; maintaining, if the configured downlink assignment has not been indicated to the HARQ entity, the HARQ process; and processing, if the configured downlink assignment has been indicated to the HARQ entity, the downlink resource assignment message as a resource assignment message for initial transmission.
US10461893B2
Transmission of information in a wireless network is performed by allocating a channel from a transmitter to a receiver. The channel has at least one time slot with each time slot having a plurality of symbols. Each slot contains at least one reference symbol (RS). As information becomes available for transmission, it is classified as prioritized information (PI) and other information. One or more priority symbols are generated using the digital samples of the priority information. Other symbols are generated using the other data. Priority symbols are transmitted on the channel in a manner that separation of priority symbol(s) and a reference symbol does not exceed a time duration of one symbol. For example, Rank Indicator (RI) is transmitted using symbol k, ACKNAK is transmitted using symbol k+1; and the reference signal (RS) is transmitted using symbol k+2, wherein symbols k, k+1, and k+2 are consecutive in time. The other symbols are transmitted in available locations.
US10461884B2
Methods, systems, and apparatuses are disclosed for server selected bitrate streaming. A server receives a request from a user device for data segments at a first bitrate. The server determines a second bitrate for transmission of the data segments to the user device. The server transmits the requested data segments at the determined second bitrate.
US10461881B2
Systems and methods for identifying a pair of nodes of a plurality of nodes of a virtual optical network (VON); identifying i) an optical route between the pair of nodes and ii) a desired availability of the optical route; determining a probability density function (PDF) of a signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) of a signal of the optical route; determining a SNR threshold such that an integration of the PDF of the SNR of the signal above the SNR threshold corresponds to the desired availability of the optical route; determining a plurality of spectral efficiencies that corresponds to the SNR threshold, each spectral efficiency of the plurality of spectral efficiencies associated with a respective modulation format of a plurality of modulation formats; and identifying a particular modulation format of the plurality of modulation formats that corresponds to a maximum spectral efficiency of the plurality of spectral efficiencies.
US10461871B2
A management apparatus includes a memory and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor is configured to broadcast an activation request to a plurality of information processing devices having a reception period during which the activation request is received. The reception period occurs in a predetermined cycle. The processor is configured to receive a confirmation response from first information processing devices among the plurality of information processing devices. The first information processing devices receive the activation request. The processor is configured to issue an activation instruction to a predetermined number of second information processing devices among the first information processing devices. The activation instruction instructs to activate the second information processing devices. The processor is configured to issue, to the first information processing devices other than the second information processing devices, an activation prohibition instruction to prohibit activation.
US10461870B2
Small changes in a broadcast version of a base media item can be identified by performing a multi-level comparison of digital fingerprints. A fingerprint of a base media item is compared to a fingerprint of a media broadcast to determine whether a media item embedded in a broadcast is likely, to a first level of certainty, to be the base media item. A second, more stringent, match between the fingerprint of the base media item and loosely matched items can be used to identify potentially-altered versions of the base media item. Potentially-altered versions can be compared against each other, and resulting matches are flagged as altered base media items, which can be fingerprinted and tested against broadcast fingerprints in the same manner as the base media item.
US10461866B2
In a modulation system that modulates and transmits an optical signal over at least one optical fiber in response to an input digital data word of N bits, there is an input enabled for receiving the digital data word; an electrically controllable modulator having one or more waveguide branches, where each branch receives an input of an unmodulated optical signal; and a digital to digital converter enabled for converting the N bits to a digital drive vector corresponding to M drive voltage values, where M>N and N>1. The electrically controllable modulator couples the drive voltage values to the unmodulated optical signal(s). The coupling enables pulse modulation of the unmodulated optical signal(s) thereby generating pulse modulated optical signal(s). The electrically controllable modulator outputs the pulse modulated optical signal(s) to one or more outputs that are enabled for transmitting the pulse modulated optical signal(s) over at least one optical fiber.
US10461836B2
There is presented a wireless device for dual-polarization beamforming. The wireless device comprises an antenna array. The antenna array comprises antenna elements of mutually orthogonal polarizations and a baseband chain. The antenna elements of both polarizations are operatively connected to the baseband chain. There is also presented a method for dual-polarization beamforming as performed by such a wireless device.
US10461831B2
The present invention relates to a method for efficiently supporting vehicle communication in a next-generation radio communication system, and a device therefor. To this end, a user equipment (UE) provides, to a central unit (CU) of the UE, primary channel state information measured by each of a plurality of antenna units that are disposed in distributed locations of the UE; determines any one of a plurality of receiving modes by considering the combined gain of the primary channel state information in the CU; determines a secondary channel state information according to the determined receiving mode; and reports, through a transceiver of the UE to the network, information indicative of the determined receiving mode and the determined secondary channel state information.
US10461827B2
Multiple-hop relayed directional beam formed wireless communication (mm-wave mesh network) method and apparatus which takes place at the PHY layer. Network capability is enhanced by improving routing protocols between neighboring STAs when communicating from an originating STA, through intermediate STAs, to a destination STA. The routing takes into consideration antenna sector selection to limit interference with neighboring STAs, and channel time utilization to increase throughput. Link metrics and channel times are established for optimizing routing and the determination of intermediate stations between an originating STA and a destination STA. The apparatus and method balances both end-end path link quality and interference impact.
US10461815B2
The disclosure discloses a MIMO satellite service terminal. By periodically reporting terminal status information to a gateway platform and obtaining satellite communication systems that can be connected by all the MIMO satellite service terminal from broadcast message through a scheduling module, all the MIMO satellite service terminals in the network can update in real time the type of the satellite communication system to which other terminals in the network connect, whereby the same satellite communication system can be selected for communication or the communication across satellite communication systems can be carried out based on the forwarding by the gateway platform. The disclosure can improve the flexibility of satellite communication and make the users of different satellite communication systems realize interconnection and intercommunication, improve the application convenience for the user in the network and improve the bandwidth utilization rate of the communication system as well.
US10461809B2
A circuit, system and method for controlling electrical power to a load, the circuit has a controller with power supply input nodes and a controller data input node. Two power supply input terminals supply electrical power to the circuit. A digital control signal pre-processing unit couples one of the power supply input terminals to the controller data input node. The digital control signal pre-processing unit has a capacitor arranged to block voltage biasing resulting from power supplied across electrical power supply input terminals from being supplied to the controller data input node. The digital control signal pre-processing unit is arranged to generate positive and negative voltage impulses in response to corresponding rising and falling edges of a digital control signal provided at the power supply input terminals. The digital control signal pre-processing unit is further arranged to generate a revised version of the digital control signal without the voltage biasing.
US10461804B2
A method for elimination of crosstalk effects in a non-volatile storage is disclosed, having steps of identifying at least one line connected to the non-volatile storage that causes crosstalk effects to another line connected to the non-volatile storage, sending a command to the non-volatile storage to replace the at least one line causing crosstalk effects, selecting at least one line to replace the at least one line causing crosstalk effects with a spare line and replacing the at least one line causing crosstalk effects with the spare line.
US10461803B1
The present invention discloses a method for rendezvous of unlicensed users having multiple transceivers in cognitive radio networks, including four stages: an initial stage: setting an initial communication environment; a stage of selecting a rendezvous method: selecting a method for generating a channel hopping sequence according to the quantity of transceivers; a stage of generating a channel hopping sequence: using a single-transceiver rendezvous method or a multiple-transceiver rendezvous method to generate a channel hopping sequence; and a rendezvous stage: running, by an unlicensed user, on a corresponding channel and attempting to rendezvous with a destination node of the unlicensed user, where if rendezvous is achieved, the rendezvous process ends; and if rendezvous is not achieved, the rendezvous process continues until rendezvous is achieved. By using the present invention, the problem of rendezvous of unlicensed users equipped with different quantities of transceivers in heterogeneous cognitive radio networks is effectively resolved.
US10461791B2
There are provided methods and systems for effectively analyzing RF interference in wireless networks, such as LTE and NR standards compliant networks, to facilitate tracking, identification, location, and repair of interference sources in such networks. According to an embodiment, a network management server receives measurement data from a plurality of measurement devices in the network. The server processes the measurement data to detect interference of one or more of a plurality of signal pattern types in the network and to generate pattern characterization data that characterizes the detected signal patterns. The server receives a user selection of a signal pattern type and selects, in response to the user selection and for display to the user, pattern characterization data that characterizes signals of the selected signal pattern type.
US10461789B2
A low-power scouting receiver is presented that provides an ability perform low-power scouting functions at a relatively low power. The low-power scouting functions determine context information for the receiver and enable fine-tuning of other receiver operations based on the context information. The low-power scouting functions include receiver control and switching, jammer detection, self-interference detection, or other context-dependent radio parameters.
US10461787B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for spur mitigation for pulse signal drivers in radio frequency (RF) devices. An RF integrated circuit includes RF circuitry and analog-to-digital (ADC) circuitry. The RF circuitry operates using a local oscillator (LO) clock to receive and/or transmit RF signals, and the ADC circuitry samples one or more analog input signals and has internal timing based upon a raw digital clock. A retime circuit receives the raw digital clock and the LO clock and has a retimed clock as an output. The retimed clock represents the raw digital clock retimed with the LO clock. While other digital circuitry is timed using the raw digital clock, one or more drivers are timed by the retimed clock and provide pulse output signals to output pads. Having the drivers timed with the retimed clock and other digital circuitry timed with the raw digital clock improves overall performance.
US10461779B2
Systems and methods are disclosed herein relating to rate-compatible polar codes and the use thereof in a wireless communications system. In some embodiments, a transmit node operable for use in a wireless communications system comprises a rate-compatible polar encoder operable to encode information bits to provide coded bits utilizing parallel concatenated polar codes. The transmit node further comprises a transmitter operable to transmit the plurality of coded bits. In this manner, the transmit node may, in some embodiments, use polar codes having different coding rates to adapt to time-varying channel conditions.
US10461775B2
Embodiments of the present invention include a compression system including one or more compressibility inputs; a compression predictor configured to predict the compressibility of data based on the one or more compressibility inputs; a compressor configured to compress the data; and one or more compression inputs. At least one of the compression predictor or the compressor is configured to determine how to compress the data based on the one or more compression inputs. The one or more compressibility inputs comprise at least one of an object extension dictionary, an object signature dictionary, and an entropy estimation algorithm library. The one or more compression inputs comprise at least one of a quality of service profile, a device performance profile and a compression algorithm performance chart.
US10461770B2
Techniques for a configurable analog-to-digital converter filter to ameliorate transfer function peaking or frequency response issues are provided. In an example, a front-end circuit of a processing circuit can include a resistor-capacitor filter including at least two capacitors and a switch circuit. The resistor-capacitor filter can couple an input analog signal to the processing circuit. The switch circuit can couple to a first capacitor of the at least two capacitors, and can selectively place a terminal of the first capacitor at a selected one of a plurality of distinct nodes of the resistor-capacitor filter to configure the circuit to address the peaking or frequency response issue.
US10461769B2
A ΔΣ modulator includes a first integrator which has first and second capacitors and integrates an analog input signal and a feedback analog signal, a second integrator which has third and fourth capacitors and integrates an output signal of the first integrator, a differential amplifier which has input and output terminals switched and connected via a switch circuit to either the first and second capacitors or the third and fourth capacitors, a chopper switch which switches the polarity of the input terminal and the polarity of the output terminal, to both of which the first capacitor and the second capacitor are connected, a quantizer which compares an added signal and a reference signal to output a digital value, and a digital/analog converter which outputs the feedback analog signal corresponding to the digital value.
US10461768B1
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide a digital-to-analog converter (DAC). The DAC generally includes a plurality of transistors selectively coupled to an output of the DAC, and a biasing circuit coupled to gates of the plurality of transistors. The biasing circuit may include a first transistor having a gate coupled to a drain of the first transistor, a first buffer having an input coupled to the gate of the first transistor, a second transistor having a gate coupled to an output of the first buffer, a first resistive-capacitive (RC) circuit having a first resistive element and a first capacitive element, the first RC circuit being coupled between the gate of the first transistor and the gate of the second transistor, and a first switch coupled between the first resistive element and the first capacitive element.
US10461766B2
A semiconductor device, a signal processing system, and a signal processing method are provided that regulate a change of characteristics in the event of aged deterioration. The semiconductor device of the present invention includes a reference voltage generation circuit that generates a reference voltage, an analog signal processing circuit that outputs a first processing signal according to the reference voltage, a test signal output section that outputs, as a test signal, a second processing signal having a lower voltage than the first processing signal, an input section that receives a regulation signal for the outputted test signal, and a regulator circuit that regulates the output of the analog signal processing circuit in response to the regulation signal.
US10461765B2
A successive approximation type AD converter includes an in-phase voltage detection and supply circuit that supplies an in-phase voltage obtained by impedance voltage division of a first input analog signal and a second input analog signal to a first capacitance DA converter and a second capacitance DA converter. The first capacitance DA converter samples the first input analog signal with reference to the in-phase voltage, and the second capacitance DA converter samples the second input analog signal with reference to the in-phase voltage. After the sampling period ends, a comparator compares the output of the first capacitance DA converter and the output of the second capacitance DA converter, output voltages of the first capacitance DA converter and the second capacitance DA converter are changed by the control signal of a successive approximation logic unit on the basis of a comparison result, and comparison processing is repeated.
US10461761B2
An analog-to-digital converter (ADC) is disclosed. The ADC includes a successive approximation register and a voltage-to-time conversion element. The successive approximation register is configured to receive an input signal and to generate a first digital signal and a residue voltage. The voltage-to-time conversion element is configured to convert the residue voltage to a time domain representation. The voltage-to-time conversion element includes an amplifier having an input coupled to an output of the successive approximation register and configured to receive the residue voltage, and a zero crossing detector directly coupled to an output of the amplifier. A time-to-digital converter is coupled to an output of the zero crossing detector and is configured to generate a second digital signal.
US10461753B1
Systems and methods for synchronizing the clocks of a central device and one or more destination devices are disclosed. In some embodiments the central device and destination devices are implemented in a space-based or high-altitude asset. The central device provides a series of synchronization pulses to the one or more destination devices. In response to detecting, at the destination device, the synchronization pulse, a sample of the destination device clock is stored in a register. The sample is provided to the central device. The sequence is repeated at least once. A phase offset between the central device clock and the destination device clock may be determined based on the returned samples and the position of the samples within the register.
US10461744B2
An electronic device includes: a display assembly including an electronic display configured to generate an optical image viewable from in front of the electronic device; a proximity sensor coupled to at least a portion of the display assembly, the proximity sensor including a sensing element configured to be responsive to presence of an object in front of the electronic device, the sensing element supported by a support structure having an upper surface facing a frontal direction of the electronic device; and a conductor that electrically connects the sensing element of the proximity sensor and the portion of the display assembly, the conductor including a conductive path extending along the support structure to the upper surface of the support structure.
US10461743B2
A system and method are disclosed for operating a computer device using an interface device. The interface device includes at least one emitter of IR light/radiation with a peak intensity of between 780 nm and 1000 nm and at least one detector sensitive to IR light/radiation with a wavelength of 780 nm to 1000 nm wherein the user interface device is located adjacent to transparent, heat insulating glass. The IR emitter directs IR radiation through the glass, wherein the IR radiation is reflected back through the glass to the IR detector and wherein the IR detector transforms the IR radiation into an electronic signal. The method includes the step of activating the detector from a front side of the glass.
US10461742B2
The invention is directed to the selectable mode buffer circuit including a plurality of pads, a mode selecting circuit, and a control circuit. The mode selecting circuit has a plurality of switches, coupled to the pads, and performs a charge pumping operation or an interfacing operating by changing on or off status of at least one of the switches according to a mode selecting signal. The control circuit receives the mode selecting signal, and generates a plurality of input signals for controlling the switches according to the mode selecting signal.
US10461741B2
A power switch and a semiconductor device thereof are disclosed. The power switch device includes a first transistor cell, a second transistor cell, a body region and a conductive layer. The first transistor cell includes a first electrode. The second transistor cell includes a second electrode. The body region is disposed between the first transistor cell and the second transistor cell. The conductive layer is electrically connected with the body region, the first electrode and the second electrode respectively.
US10461738B1
A system is disclosed. The system includes a first stage configured to receive VIN and VREF, the first stage including an input transistor pair, wherein the input voltage is coupled to the input transistor pair, the input transistor pair is coupled to ground, and the input transistor pair includes at a common drain a high-gain node having a voltage VHGN. The system further include a second stage coupled to the high-gain node and configured to generate VOUT based on a difference between VIN and VREF, the second stage comprising a resistor and an inverter transistor pair, wherein the gates of the inverter transistor pair are coupled to the high-gain node of the first stage and the resistor couples the high-gain node of first stage to a common drain of the inverter transistor pair and is configured to provide and/or draw current to and/or from the high-gain node of first stage.
US10461735B2
This electrical switching apparatus has at least two power components each including first and second power transistors. A driver control device of the transistors is configured to deliver a first control signal to each of the first transistors and a second control signal to each of the second transistors, and an electrical interconnect device connecting the driver control device to the power components. The interconnect device includes several electrically conductive plates extending parallel to one another, each being connected between a control electrode of one of the first or second power transistors and a corresponding output of the driver control device.
US10461731B2
A current fluctuating due to a load fluctuation is limited to protect a semiconductor switch. A protection circuit includes a switch circuit that turns on when a predetermined conduction voltage is applied thereto, and a sub-reactance circuit having a predetermined reactance value is connected in parallel to a main reactance circuit through which a high frequency current generated by a semiconductor switch flows. When the switch circuit is turned on, the main reactance circuit and the sub-reactance circuit are connected in parallel, and a high frequency current flows through this parallel connection circuit. The impedance value of the parallel connection circuit is set to be larger than the impedance value of the main reactance circuit so that the current is limited due to the turning on of the switch circuit, and thus, the semiconductor switch is protected.
US10461721B2
A semiconductor apparatus includes an operation oscillator, a reference oscillator, a first operation switch connected in series with the operation oscillator between a power supply potential VDD and a ground potential GND, a first reference switch connected in series with the reference oscillator between the power supply potential VDD and the ground potential GND, a second reference switch connected in parallel with the reference oscillator between the power supply potential VDD and the ground potential GND, an operation counter configured to count the number of output pulses from the operation oscillator in a measurement period, and a reference counter configured to count the number of output pulses from the reference oscillator in the measurement period.
US10461719B2
An acoustic resonator comprises a first electrode and second electrode comprising a plurality of sides. At least one of the sides of the second electrode comprises a cantilevered portion. A piezoelectric layer is disposed between the first and second electrodes. A bridge disposed adjacent to one of the sides of the second electrode.
US10461718B2
An acoustic wave resonator includes: a piezoelectric substrate; and an IDT that is located on the piezoelectric substrate and includes first regions and second regions alternately arranged in an extension direction of electrode fingers, which excite an acoustic wave, in an overlap region in which the electrode fingers overlap, at least one electrode finger of the electrode fingers in the second regions having a different width from the at least one electrode finger in the first regions, a width of an outer second region of the second regions in the extension direction differs from a width of an inner second region of the second regions.
US10461715B1
Provided are embodiments including methods, systems, and computer-program products for mitigating power supply noise using one or more current supplies. In some embodiments, power is provided to an integrated circuit, wherein a first circuit is coupled to the integrated circuit over a first path. A variation of the current level of the integrated circuit may be determined. Additional power from a second circuit is provided to the integrated circuit may be provided based at least in part on the determined variation, wherein the second circuit is coupled to the integrated circuit over a second path.
US10461695B2
A planar differential inductor reduces an effect of parasitics on common mode inductance of a voltage controlled oscillator (VCO)-based inductor to properly ground a common mode alternating current (AC) ground. In one instance, the planar differential inductor includes a ground plane, routing lines, distributed capacitors, an exterior inductor structure, and an interior inductor structure. The planar differential inductor may be coupled to a capacitor as part of an LC tank that operates as a resonator within a VCO. The bypass capacitor array is coupled between the ground plane and the routing lines. The exterior inductor structure is coupled between the routing lines and a power supply. The interior inductor is within the ground plane and coupled between the routing lines and differential ports.
US10461690B2
A defect inspection method and a defect inspection system for a solar cell are proposed, where the method includes the following steps. Output voltages and output currents of the solar cell are measured by a measuring device. A stepwise current-voltage curve (stepwise IV curve) and a fitted current-voltage curve (fitted IV curve) are generated by a processing device according to the output voltages and the output currents, and whether a first error of the fitted IV curve is less than a first error tolerance is determined by the processing device. When the first error is not less than the first error tolerance, whether there exists at least one surge in steps of the stepwise IV curve is determined by the processing device so as to determine whether the solar cell has a defect. Next, a determined result of the processing device is outputted by the output device.
US10461687B2
A method for testing a photovoltaic panel connected to an electronic module. The electronic module includes an input attached to the photovoltaic panel and a power output. The method activates a bypass to the electronic module. The bypass provides a low impedance path between the input and the output of the electronic module. A current is injected into the electronic module thereby compensating for the presence of the electronic module during the testing. The current may be previously determined by measuring a circuit parameter of the electronic module. The circuit parameter may be impedance, inductance, resistance or capacitance.
US10461686B2
A cooling module for a photovoltaic unit, whereby a core is provided which is in the form of a panel-type 3D fabric, is designed as a knitted fabric spacer and can be penetrated by a fluid.
US10461680B2
A method for operating a universal motor, comprising the following steps: —establishing a synthetic variable from at least two physical operating parameters of the universal motor; and —operating the universal motor using operating parameters of this type so that the synthetic variable remains at a substantially constant level or at least does not exceed a defined permissible upper limit.
US10461677B2
There is provided a vehicle-power-generator control apparatus and the control method thereof that does not notify a passenger of any erroneous alarm indicating an abnormality in an electric power generator, even when a power-generation stop command is received. it is determined that a vehicle power generator is not rotating, when the rotation speed, of the vehicle power generator, that is detected based on a power-generation voltage generated across an armature winding of the vehicle power generator is the same as or lower than a predetermined value; there is generated a power-generation stop holding signal obtained by delaying by a predetermined time a time point at which a power-generation stop signal, generated when the decoded command signal is a power-generation stop command signal for stopping electric-power generation, stops; then, the non-rotation determination signal is masked and invalidated, based on the power-generation stop holding signal.
US10461676B2
A Method for detecting stalling of an electric stepper motor (18), with the following steps is shown: a) samples of the voltage at a coil of the stepper motor (18) are taken continuously or in regular intervals, b) a deviation value is determined corresponding to the deviation between the measured voltages of the two samples, and c) the deviation value is used to determine whether the electric motor (18) is stalling. Further, a stepper motor and a heating, ventilation and/or air conditioning system is shown.
US10461671B2
A multispeed alternating current (AC) machine circuit is for an AC power source having a first side and a second side. The AC machine circuit includes two or more pairs of power switches, one or more windings, and a control circuit to close one pair of power switches to cause current to flow from a first side of the AC power source, through the one or more windings, to the second side of the AC power source and to close the other pair of power switches to cause current to flow from the second side of the AC power source, through the one or more windings, to the first side of the AC power source.
US10461668B2
A system for protecting a power electronic device is provided. The system includes a power electronic device and a controller. The power electronic device includes a piezoelectric substrate, a metal substrate coupled to the piezoelectric substrate, a semiconductor device, and a bonding layer positioned between the metal substrate and the semiconductor device such that the metal substrate is bonded to the semiconductor device. The controller includes a power supply, one or more processors, and one or more memory modules storing computer readable and executable instructions. The computer readable and executable instructions, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the controller to: receive a temperature of the power electronic device, and provide a voltage determined based on the temperature of the power electronic device across the piezoelectric substrate.
US10461650B2
In a control device applied to an insulated DC-DC converter including a transformer and drive switches connected to a input winding of the transformer, the control device operates the drive switches to control an output voltage output via the output winding to a target voltage. Furthermore, the control device includes a voltage acquiring unit acquiring the output voltage and a frequency setting unit setting a switching frequency for the drive switches based on the output voltage acquired by the voltage acquiring unit. The frequency setting unit sets, for the switching frequency, a value increasing with a value of the acquired output voltage, and sets the switching frequency such that an increase in the value of the output voltage increases a frequency increase rate corresponding to an amount of increase in the switching frequency per unit amount of increase in the output voltage.
US10461649B2
A switched-mode power supply circuit that performs a burst-mode operation to stop and restart switching is provided, including: a power supply that supplies DC voltage; a switching element that controls the switching; a first comparator that detects an output voltage of the switched-mode power supply circuit; a storage element that stores an output of the first comparator according to a timing of controlling the switching; and a determination unit that measures a time period for which at least one of an output of the first comparator or an output of the storage element continues to be higher than the predetermined voltage, and if the measurement is not reset within a predetermined elapsed time, determines that the switched-mode power supply circuit is in an overvoltage state, wherein the switched-mode power supply circuit resets the measurement at a timing corresponding to a switching stop timing in the burst-mode operation.
US10461644B1
Techniques are provided for controlling a synchronous rectification (SR) switch within a switched-mode power converter. The SR switch rectifies an output voltage of the power converter, and incurs little power loss in doing so. An SR controller generates control signals, including a turn-off trigger, that control conductivity of the SR switch. Voltages provided to the SR controller are divided down, so that the SR controller inputs do not need to support excessively high voltage levels as may be present in the power converter. The divided voltages are integrated to create a volt-second metric that closely tracks current through a winding of the power converter and the SR switch. The volt-second metric is compared against a threshold to determine when to issue an SR switch turn-off trigger.
US10461641B2
A power supply includes a power converter, a reference voltage generator, and a controller. During operation, the power converter produces an output voltage to power a load. The reference voltage generator (such as a voltage mode amplifier circuit) generates a floor reference voltage, a magnitude of which varies as a function of the output voltage. The controller compares an output voltage feedback signal (derived from the output voltage) to the floor reference voltage to produce control output to control timing of activating switches in the power converter to maintain the output voltage within a desired voltage range.
US10461636B2
A voltage doubler circuit supports operation in both a positive voltage boosting mode to positively boost voltage from a first node to a second node and a negative voltage boosting mode to negatively boost voltage from the second node to the first node. The voltage doubler circuit is formed by transistors of a same conductivity type that share a common bulk that is not tied to a source of any of the voltage doubler circuit transistors. A bias generator circuit is coupled to receive a first voltage from the first node and second voltage from the second node. The bias generator circuit operates to apply a lower one of the first and second voltages to the common bulk.
US10461634B2
A charge pump circuit generates a charge pump voltage that powers a bias circuit. The bias circuit generates a reference current and generates switch currents from the reference current. Gate-source voltages are generated from the switch currents and applied to switching components of switch circuits to connect two nodes. The gate-source voltages can be generated in the bias circuit and provided to the switch circuits. The gate-source voltages can also be generated in the switch circuits.
US10461632B1
Bridgeless PFC converters. Example embodiments are methods of operating a power converter including operating the power converter during a positive half-line cycle of an alternating current (AC) source by: charging an inductance through a low-side switch with a first charging current having a first polarity; measuring the first charging current using a low-side current transformer (CT), while shorting a secondary winding of a high-side CT; and discharging the inductance through a high-side switch with a first discharging current having the first polarity. Operating the power converter during a negative half-line cycle of the AC source by: charging the inductance through the high-side switch with a second charging current having a second polarity; measuring the second charging current using the high-side CT, while shorting a secondary winding of the low-side CT; and discharging the inductance through the low-side switch with a second discharging current having the second polarity.
US10461626B1
An active clamp circuit includes an active clamp switch having a drain node and a source node, an active clamp capacitor coupled in a series combination with the active clamp switch, a delay circuit, and an active clamp controller circuit coupled to the active clamp switch and to the delay circuit. The active clamp controller circuit is configured to i) receive an active clamp switch voltage based on a voltage developed across the drain node and the source node of the active clamp switch, ii) enable the active clamp switch based on a voltage amplitude of the active clamp switch voltage, and iii) disable the active clamp switch based on a delay signal generated by the delay circuit.
US10461625B2
A control unit of a power conversion device calculates a current target value and a voltage target value for a DC/AC converter on the basis of an output current target value, to control the DC/AC converter, and calculates a current target value for the DC/DC converter on the basis of the current target value and the voltage target value, and a voltage target value for the DC/DC converter, to control the DC/DC converter, thereby controlling output of an AC power. The control unit selects, as the voltage target value for the DC/DC converter, a greatest value at a present time, from among a DC voltage value of the DC power supply, an absolute value of a voltage target value for an AC side of the DC/AC converter, and a DC voltage lower limit value which is a predetermined value smaller than a peak value of the absolute value.
US10461621B2
An electro hydrodynamic pump apparatus includes a cartridge body member that includes an interior cavity portion and openings on either end of the cartridge body member. A first electrode member is disposed within the interior cavity portion of the cartridge body member. The first electrode member includes a conductive bar member which has a plurality of spaced apart elements extending therefrom. A second electrode member is also disposed within the interior cavity portion of the cartridge body member. The second electrode member also includes a conductive bar with a plurality of spaced apart elements extending therefrom. The elements of the first electrode member are configure to be interspersed with the elements of the second electrode member when the first electrode member and the second electrode member are disposed within the interior cavity portion of the cartridge body member.
US10461615B2
A rotor for a slip ring motor includes a hollow shaft with an open end, a plurality of electric cables, and a cable guide arranged in the open end guiding the electric cables from inside the hollow shaft towards connection points of the electric cables outside of the hollow shaft.
US10461614B2
A rotor for an electrical machine is provided, comprising a main rotor (2), which can be rotated about a longitudinal axis (3) and which is free of permanent magnets, and having an auxiliary rotor (5), which comprises at least one axial flux rotor (6), which can also be rotated about the longitudinal axis (3) and is arranged in axial direction adjacent to the main rotor (2), in which the axial flux rotor (6) comprises permanent magnets (8). Furthermore, an electrical machine with the rotor (2, 5) and a stator (1) is provided.
US10461602B2
A flush water tank apparatus capable of stable operational control of a discharge valve apparatus, and stable flush water supply to a toilet for long term. The flush water tank apparatus of the present invention includes a power drive unit comprising a motor and an output shaft, being a power drive unit capable of electrically operating a drain valve on a drain valve mechanism; and a housing portion formed so as to surround the perimeter of the outlet on a drive unit internal air passage extending from the motor in the interior of the flush water tank; wherein an air passage communicating from the motor of the power drive unit through the housing portion to the exterior of the flush water tank is formed.
US10461601B2
A motor is provided to improve the damp proof or dustproof effect of the conventional motor. The motor includes an isolating housing, a sealing member and an inner assembly. The isolating housing includes first and second housing parts. A through-hole is formed between the first and second housing parts. The through-hole communicates an internal space of the isolating housing with an external space. The sealing member includes a frame portion and a wire receiving portion. The wire receiving portion is integrally formed with the frame portion. The frame portion is arranged between the first and second housing parts. The wire receiving portion is disposed at the through-hole. A lead wire is received in the wire receiving portion, and includes one end extending into the internal space of the isolating housing. The inner assembly is received in the internal space of the isolating housing and electrically connected to the lead wire.
US10461600B2
A housing for a crankshaft starter generator is designed so as to be divisible and/or a crankshaft starter generator without a housing and with a stator is designed so as to be divisible.
US10461594B2
A rotor of line start permanent magnet synchronous motor is provided. The rotor includes bars of cage windings. The rotor includes an additional inductance coupled to the cage windings and located on a first end of the bars. The rotor includes an end ring located on a second end of the bars. The additional inductance provides a reactance to reduce a starting current during an asynchronous starting of the line start permanent magnet synchronous motor.
US10461591B2
A stator winding is formed by mounting winding bodies individually into pairs of slots of a stator core separated by a predetermined number of slots, the winding bodies each being formed by winding a jointless, continuous conductor wire coated with insulation for m turns into a helical shape such that end portions of rectilinear portions are linked by coil ends, where m is a natural number that is greater than or equal to two, and the coil ends include a top portion that displaces by a predetermined amount in a radial direction at an approximately central portion between the linked rectilinear portions, the radial displacement at the top portions is approximately a×d, where a is a natural number that is greater than or equal to 1 and less than or equal to (m−1), and d is a radial thickness of the rectilinear portions.
US10461590B2
A single phase permanent magnet motor includes a stator. The stator includes a stator core and windings. The stator core includes a ring portion, tooth bodies extending radially from the ring portion, and a pole shoe extending from a distal end to two circumferential sides of each tooth body. Each pole shoe defines a positioning slot. A center of each positioning slot is offset from a center of symmetry of one adjacent tooth body so that a torque fluctuation of an output torque of the single phase permanent magnet motor during operation is less than 50%. As a result, the motor vibration and noise are small.
US10461589B2
A magnetic-plate laminated body includes: a laminated part made up of a plurality of laminated soft magnetic ribbons; first and second metal plates that sandwich the laminated part from upper and lower surfaces in a lamination direction of the laminated part; and a fastening mechanism that penetrates the first and second metal plates and the laminated part and fastening the laminated part by the first and second metal plates.
US10461569B2
A system that acquires information indicating a variation in voltage corresponding to each of a plurality of nodes connected to a direct-current (DC) line; and identifies a topology of the plurality of nodes connected to the DC line based on the acquired information indicating the variation in voltage corresponding to each of the plurality of nodes.
US10461567B2
A feed system has a first electronic unit, a second electronic unit, and a feed unit. The first electronic unit and the feed unit are separated. The feed unit transmits power to a power reception section of the second electronic unit based upon result information of a first authentication between the first electronic unit and the second electronic unit. The feed unit performs a second authentication on the second electronic unit in conjunction with power transmission.
US10461566B2
A capacitive wireless charging system having a charging circuit and the operating characteristics of the charging circuit can be adjusted. The charging circuit includes two coupling capacitors formed by two electrode plates at least partially overlapping two other electrode plates, where the coupling characteristics of the coupling capacitors can be adjusted by moving at least one of the electrodes. When the coupling characteristics of the coupling capacitors reach a pre-determined threshold, the operating characteristics of the charging circuit can be adjusted to optimize the power transfer efficiency of the capacitive wireless charging system.
US10461565B2
An embodiment provides an electronic device comprising: a body; a battery disposed within the body; a first portion extending from the body; a second portion extending from the body; and a charging coil disposed within at least the first portion and the second portion that charges the battery. Other aspects are described and claimed.
US10461556B2
The disclosure provides a charging method, the method includes the following steps: initiating a handshake between an electronic device and a charger when the electronic device is connected to the charger via a charge cable. After the handshake between the electronic device and the charger is created successfully, controlling a first data pin of a power port of the electronic device to connect to a first power pin of the power port and controlling a second data pin of the power port to connect to a first ground pin of the power port. In additional, controlling a third data pin of a charge port of the charger to connect to a second power pin of the charge port and controlling a fourth data pin of the charge port to connect to a second ground pin of the charge port. The disclosure further provides the charger and the electronic device.
US10461553B2
Provided is a power source device having a high efficiency. A power source device 1 includes an insulated AC-DC converter 2 which receives a voltage of an AC power source 10 and outputs a link voltage Vlink, a bidirectional DC-DC converter 3 which receives the link voltage Vlink to charge a main battery 5, an insulated DC-DC converter 4 which receives the link voltage Vlink to supply power to a load 7, an operation mode in which the power is supplied from the AC power source 10 to the main battery 5, and an operation mode in which the power is supplied from the main battery 5 to the load 7.
US10461552B2
A mobile device charger with a folding electrical plug and a battery on a key chain with a retractable cord is disclosed. Our invention allows the user to charge their mobile device either from the battery or using an electrical outlet while it is still attached to their bag so that they do not forget it in the outlet. Our invention allows the user to protect the cord and the metal tip used to charge mobile devices because the cord and metal tip retracts into the protective housing.
US10461551B2
A charging support device is used in charging a battery of a vehicle having a power reception unit on a bottom surface of the vehicle with power supplied from a power transmission device located outside the vehicle. The charging support device includes a controller that generates an overhead image that displays a vehicle image of the vehicle and an image of a surrounding area of the vehicle captured by a camera. The controller calculates a position of the power transmission device based on an image captured by the camera before the power transmission device becomes at least partially hidden under the vehicle, and displays, in the generated overhead image, the power transmission device overlaid on the vehicle image at the calculated position of the power transmission device once the power transmission device starts becoming hidden under the vehicle.
US10461543B2
A receiver coil assembly for a wirelessly rechargeable battery including first and second transverse coils and a third coil encompassing the first and second coils. The receiver coil may be employed in a power receiver of a wirelessly rechargeable battery. Also disclosed is a wirelessly rechargeable battery having a power receiver demountable from an electrochemical cell.
US10461539B2
Control of grid voltage in a power grid. A power transformer converts alternating current (AC) electrical power at a higher voltage on the primary leads to AC electrical power at a lower grid voltage on the secondary leads. An auxiliary AC/AC power converter converts input AC electrical power at the input conductors to output AC electrical power at the output conductors, The auxiliary AC/AC power converter converts substantially less electrical power than the AC electrical power converted by the power transformer. The secondary leads of the power transformer are series-connected to the output conductors of the auxiliary AC/AC power converter. Input conductors of the auxiliary AC/AC power converter are parallel-connected to either (i) the primary leads of the power transformer, or (ii) the secondary leads of the power transformer. The output alternating voltage of the auxiliary AC/AC power converter adds to the output alternating voltage of the power transformer to control the grid voltage in the power grid.
US10461534B2
A starting and stopping method for a static synchronous series compensator (SSSC) is provided. A starting process includes: connecting a converter to a shunt transformer, and closing a breaker which connect the AC system and the shunt transformer to charge the converter until the DC voltage is stable; opening the breaker, and connecting the converter to a series transformer through a change-over switch; and deblocking the converter, and controlling a current of a bypass switch of the series transformer to approach zero. A stopping process includes: switching a control mode of the converter to make the current of the bypass switch approaches zero when closed the bypass switch, then controlling a current of the series transformer to be gradually reduced to zero to make the series transformer out of service, and blocking the converter.
US10461519B2
Systems and methods for detecting and identifying arcing are disclosed. A method of detecting arcing includes obtaining data indicative of voltage and data indicative of current, determining a waveform of a cycle of a primary load current according to the data indicative of current, determining at least one noise signal according to the determined waveform of a cycle of the primary load current and the data indicative of current, determining a probability density of the noise signal according to a time window, and comparing the probability density of the noise signal with at least one model probability density.
US10461515B2
A protector includes a main body having a support surface that supports a wiring material and a back surface and having a first wall and a second wall erected with respect to the first wall from a first edge, wherein the main body has an insertion hole into which a band portion of a band member is inserted and a locking portion which locks a head portion, the band member having the band portion and the head portion, the locking portion corresponds to a pair of protrusions, each of the pair of protrusions has a width direction wall and a locking wall, the locking wall is formed at a second edge, distal ends of locking walls face each other, and an interval between the distal ends of the locking walls is an interval that allows passage of the band portion and regulates passage of the head portion.
US10461511B2
This electric arc extinguishing device for a three-phase power distribution system comprises at least one metal strip (6) and at least one insulating support (7) on which the strip is mounted and comprising means for attaching the device between current distribution bars extending from side to side, the support comprising lateral faces (11) bearing against said bars, the strip being mounted on the support in such a way as to be internally offset relative to said lateral faces.
US10461502B2
A two-dimensional photonic crystal surface emitting laser has, in a plate-shaped base body, a two-dimensional photonic crystal layer in which modified refractive index region pairs are periodically arranged and an active layer provided on one side of the base body, each of the modified refractive index region pairs including a first modified refractive index region and a second modified refractive index region having refractive indexes different from a refractive index of the base body, wherein an area of a planar shape of the first modified refractive index region is larger than or equal to an area of a planar shape of the second modified refractive index region, and a thickness of the first modified refractive index region is smaller than a thickness of the second modified refractive index region.
US10461499B2
Systems and methods for calibrating, operating, and setting the magnitude of the power of light provided by a laser diode in a conducted electrical weapon (“CEW”). The light of the laser diode assists in targeting by providing a visible indication of the projected point of impact of the tethered electrode of the CEW. The calibration process enables laser diode of a CEW to operate within regional guidelines of the maximum output power of light permitted by a laser. The method further permits the magnitude of the power of the light provided by a laser diode to be set and operated in changing environmental conditions in the field.
US10461494B2
A laser apparatus according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes a master oscillator configured to output laser light, a plurality of amplifiers each configured to include carbon dioxide as a laser medium and amplify the laser light, a first optical path pipe configured to cover a laser optical path between the amplifiers, a gas supply port configured to supply, into the first optical path pipe, gas having lower carbon dioxide concentration than that of the air, a first carbon dioxide densitometer configured to measure carbon dioxide concentration in the first optical path pipe, and an alarm device configured to issue an alarm when the carbon dioxide concentration measured by the first carbon dioxide densitometer exceeds a preset prescribed value.
US10461492B2
A method for in situ synthesis of graphene along a lengthwise direction of a waveguide applied to a photonic device includes processing an evanescent field of laser propagating in the waveguide to spread outward the waveguide, depositing a nickel thin film on a surface of the waveguide, growing graphene between a surface of the waveguide and a nickel thin film by irradiating telecommunication laser to a core of the waveguide, and removing the nickel thin film from the waveguide. Accordingly, graphene with high optical nonlinearity is in situ synthesized in the photonic device.
US10461487B2
A terminal crimping apparatus includes a terminal supply device configured to supply a terminal chain member including a plurality of crimping terminals, a first mold including a first edge portion provided at one end of a supporting surface supporting the crimping terminals, a second mold configured to crimp the crimping terminal onto a wire by sandwiching the crimping terminal between the second mold and the supporting surface, and a terminal cutting member including a second edge portion. The terminal cutting member cuts a boundary with the crimping terminal in a link portion using the second edge portion.
US10461484B2
An electrical outlet that is structured to be mounted to a wall and to be electrically connected with an AC power source employs a removable and replaceable power module that includes its own USB power outlets. The electrical outlet includes a base having a receptacle formed therein within which the power module is receivable. The base additionally includes its own AC power outlets. The power module may include, for example, one or more USB power outlets, such as USB type-A outlets, and the power module can easily be removed and replaced with an alternative power module that includes, for example, one or more USB type-C power outlets.
US10461471B2
Provided is a structure for installing an actuator capable of preventing mischief to a connector. The structure for installing the actuator has an installing surface provided on a power receiving connector, and the actuator. The actuator includes a lower housing to be installed over the installing surface, and an upper housing to be attached to the first housing, and the connector for connecting the lower housing and the upper housing. The installing surface has a step surface for hiding a tip of the connector.
US10461470B2
A circuit card assembly for a communication system includes a PCB having a slot receiving a second PCB of a second circuit card assembly in a board loading direction. An electrical connector is mounted to the PCB having a receptacle housing and a mating housing movable within the receptacle housing in a connector loading direction along a connector loading axis parallel to the board loading direction. The mating housing is movable in the receptacle housing in a connector mating direction along a connector mating axis perpendicular to the connector loading axis. Contacts of the electrical connector are mated with contacts of the second electrical connector in a contact mating direction parallel to the connector mating axis.
US10461463B2
The aim is to insert cables into a housing with the minimum possible manual effort. In particular, the housing can be the housing of a plug connector, which possesses a modular system. To this end, the use of special pre-opened sealing inserts is proposed to facilitate the corresponding assembly effort and even enable simplified mechanical fitting.
US10461462B2
An electronics charging block system having a body with a plug configured to connect to an electrical outlet. A bendable utility tentacle is configured to mount to the body and includes an arm portion. An insertion tip is formed at a first end of the arm portion. A tentacle-receiving socket is found in the body, and the insertion tip is configured for removable insertion into the tentacle-receiving socket. The system further includes an electrical interface for enabling an electrical connection to be formed between the charging block and an external electronic device.
US10461451B1
An electronic device quick release structure includes: a first carrier board having a first face, a second face and multiple first perforations, the first perforations being connected with the first and second faces; a second carrier board having a third face, a fourth face and multiple second perforations, the second perforations being connected with the third and fourth faces; at least one elastic member having a first end and a second end, the first end being connected with the second carrier board; and a connection member movably disposed on the fourth face and connected with second end of the elastic member. The connection member has hook sections and an operation section. Each hook section has a first guide wall, a second guide wall and a restriction notch. The hook section passes through the first and second perforations. The first and second carrier boards are inserted in the restriction notch.
US10461443B2
A split grounding bushing for placement on an end of an EMT or a rigid conduit has first and second metal bushing portions forming a ring, a grounding screw extending through the first or second metal bushing portion to make electrical contact with the EMT or rigid conduit, a lug secured to one of the bushing portions, the lug configured to secure a ground conductor thereto, a hinge formed at a second end of the first and second metal bushing portions, so that the first and second bushing portions can be opened or closed, and a removable metallic spacer having a shape that is a section of a cylinder and having an inner smooth surface corresponding to an outer surface of the EMT, the removable spacer also having an outer smooth surface corresponding to an inner surface of the second bushing portion.
US10461441B2
An aluminum alloy element wire has a chemical composition including in mass percent: Mg: 0.3% or more and 0.9% or less, Si: 0.1% or more and 0.7% or less, Fe: 0.1% or more and 0.4% or less, at least one element selected from the group consisting of Cu, Cr, Ni, and Zr: 0.01% or more and 0.5% or less in total, and the balance being Al and unavoidable impurities. The aluminum alloy element wire has a surface roughness Ra in the range of 0.15 μm or more and 2 μm or less as measured with a non-contact surface roughness measuring machine. An aluminum alloy stranded wire includes a plurality of the aluminum alloy element wires twisted together. An automotive electric wire includes the aluminum alloy stranded wire. A wire harness includes the automotive electric wire, and a terminal crimped to the aluminum alloy stranded wire of the automotive electric wire.
US10461439B2
The disclosure concerns an antenna assembly having a substrate with an antenna radiating element and a ground conductor disposed on the substrate, the ground conductor further characterized by a plurality of ground resonators, wherein a length associated with each of the ground resonators increases as the ground resonators are distanced from the antenna radiating element. Additionally, a coaxial cable is routed around the antenna assembly for configuring the coaxial cable as an additional ground resonator associated with the antenna assembly. The resulting antenna provides wide band performance between 700 MHz and 2700 MHz with improved efficiency compared with conventional antennas.
US10461437B2
In one aspect, a multi-layer absorber is disclosed, which comprises a proximal layer having a radiation-receiving surface adapted for receiving electromagnetic radiation, and a distal layer disposed adjacent the proximal layer to receive at least a portion of the received radiation, if any, transmitted through said proximal layer, wherein said proximal layer exhibits an index of refraction having a real part that is less than the real part of an index of refraction of the said distal layer for at least one frequency of the electromagnetic radiation in a range of about 1 GHz to about 110 GHz.
US10461436B2
A hexagonal ferrite material includes a Y phase hexagonal ferrite material having the composition Sr2Co2Fe12O22 or Sr2-xNaxCo2-xScxFe12O22, 0
US10461425B2
An antenna structure includes a metallic member, a feed portion, a ground portion, and a radiator. The metallic member defines at least one slot and is divided into a first combining portion and a second combining portion by the at least one slot. The feed portion feeds current to the first combining portion. The ground portion grounds the first combining portion. The radiator feeds current to the second combining portion. The first combining portion, the feed portion, and the ground portion cooperatively form a first antenna to activate a first mode for generating radiation signals in a first frequency band. The second combining portion and the radiator cooperatively form a second antenna to activate a second mode for generating radiation signals in a second frequency band.
US10461424B2
An antenna structure includes a metallic member and a first feed source. The metallic member includes a front frame, a backboard, and a side frame. The side frame is positioned between the front frame and the backboard. The first feed source is electrically connected to the front frame. The side frame includes at least a top portion, a first side portion, and a second side portion. The first side portion and the second side portion are respectively connected to two ends of the top portion. The side frame defines a slot and the slot is defined on the top portion. The front frame defines a gap. The gap communicates with the slot and extends across the front frame.
US10461411B2
An electronic device may include thin antennas disposed proximate a rear or front surface. An antenna structure may be disposed at a portion of a first surface or a second surface of a non-metal structure within the device, and is electrically connected to the metal structure. The antenna structure may comprise: a first bonding layer attached to a portion of the first surface or the second surface, where an opening is formed in the first bonding layer at a location of the metal structure; a antenna element pattern arranged on the first bonding layer and electrically connected to the metal structure through the opening; a second bonding layer arranged on the antenna element pattern; and an insulation layer arranged on the second bonding layer.
US10461410B2
Coaxial helix antennas in accordance with embodiments of the invention are disclosed. In one embodiment, a coaxial helix antenna includes an inner element having an inner element radius and an inner element length and an outer element having an outer element radius and an outer element length, wherein the outer element radius is greater than the inner element radius, wherein the inner element is driven by a first conductor, wherein the outer element is driven by a second conductor, and wherein the outer element is disposed outside of the inner element such that a portion of the inner element extends beyond the outer element and includes an inner radiating element.
US10461406B2
An antenna assembly that generally combines RF communication circuitry and proximity sensing circuitry. The antenna assembly utilizes a pair of conductive elements (e.g., loop antenna structures) that are parasitically (e.g., capacitively) driven by a directly fed RF feed antenna. The pair of conductive elements are selectively tunable to communicate in a frequency band of RF communication signals by a pair of RF tuning switches. The pair of conductive elements are also utilized as electrodes for proximity sensing by a capacitive proximity sensor module. The proximity sensing module outputs a low frequency signal (as opposed to the high frequency RF signal) to the pair of conductive elements for proximity sensing. The RF tuning switches are isolated from the low frequency signal by a pair of capacitors. The capacitive proximity sensing circuitry is isolated from the RF communication signals by a pair of inductors.
US10461403B2
An antenna device includes a first conductive plate in a board shape, a second conductive plate in a board shape, a short-circuiting section, and a connecting section. The second conductive plate is disposed to face the first conductive plate with a space therebetween. The short-circuiting section is disposed between the first conductive plate and the second conductive plate, has a housing space housing an electronic component, and is connected to both the first conductive plate and the second conductive plate. The connecting section extends from the electronic component disposed inside the short-circuiting section toward the outside of the short-circuiting section without being electrically connected to the short-circuiting section and the first conductive plate, and extends between the first conductive plate and the second conductive plate from the outside of the short-circuiting section without being electrically connected to the first conductive plate, to be electrically connected to the second conductive plate.
US10461400B2
Disclosed is an electronic device having a housing and including an antenna device, and a method of manufacturing the housing. When the antenna device requiring a plating process is applied to the housing, the housing has an antenna and provides exterior deposition and visual enhancement to the electronic device.
US10461399B2
A wafer level package with integrated antenna includes a contacting layer, a redistribution layer as well as a chip layer arranged between the contacting layer and the redistribution layer. An antenna is integrated in the redistribution layer. The antenna is shielded from the chip by means of a via, offset and provided with a reflector. Alternatively, the antenna can also be provided as antenna element in the chip layer.
US10461395B2
An electronic device may have a display. A display cover layer and a transparent inner display member may overlap a display pixel layer. The display pixel layer may have an array of display pixels for displaying images for a user. A touch sensor layer may be interposed between the display pixel layer and the transparent display member. A ferromagnetic shielding layer may be mounted below the display pixel layer. A flexible printed circuit containing coils of metal signal lines that form a near-field communications loop antenna may be interposed between the ferromagnetic shielding layer and the display pixel layer. A non-near-field antenna such as an inverted-F antenna may have a resonating element mounted on an inner surface of the display cover layer. The resonating element may be interposed between the transparent display member and the display cover layer.
US10461390B2
The present invention relates to the field of communications technologies and discloses a phase shifter and a feed network. The phase shifter includes at least one phase shift component. The phase shift component includes a substrate, a microstrip coupling structure disposed on a first plane of the substrate, a microstrip transmission line connected to and coplanar with the microstrip coupling structure, and a microstrip/coplanar-waveguide coupling structure, where the microstrip/coplanar-waveguide coupling structure includes a microstrip connected to and coplanar with the microstrip transmission line, and a coplanar waveguide disposed opposite to the microstrip on the substrate and coupled with the microstrip. A phase shifter using a microstrip/coplanar-waveguide coupling structure has a small volume and costs low, thereby facilitating feed network design.
US10461389B2
According to one embodiment, a converter includes a first dielectric substrate; a second dielectric substrate provided above the first dielectric substrate through a first adhesive layer; a first signal line provided between the first dielectric substrate and the second dielectric substrate; a first via that penetrates the first dielectric substrate and is coupled to the first signal line on an upper side of the first via; and a first conductor plate provided at least one of below the first dielectric substrate and above the second dielectric substrate.
US10461387B2
Systems and methods for improved chip device performance are discussed herein. An exemplary chip device for use in an integrated circuit comprises a bottom and a top opposite the bottom. The chip device comprises a through-chip device interconnect and a clearance region. The through-chip device interconnect is configured to provide an electrical connection between a ground plane trace on the bottom and a chip device path on the top of the chip device. The clearance region on the bottom of the chip device comprises an electrically conductive substance. The size and shape of the clearance region assist in impedance matching. The chip device path on the top of the chip device may further comprise at least one tuning stub. The size and shape of the at least one tuning stub also assist in impedance matching.
US10461386B2
An impedance compensation structure for a broadband near-field magnetic-field probe, includes: a signal via; and a plurality of grounding vias provided around the signal via to form a coaxial via array; wherein the grounding via and the signal via have an identical size, all distances of each of the plurality of the grounding vias to the signal via are equal, and the plurality of the grounding vias forms a circle centered at the signal via; wherein each of the plurality of the grounding vias is connected with a magnetic field probe top layer shield plane and a magnetic field probe bottom layer shield plane; each of the plurality of the grounding vias keeps in a conducting state from a direct current to a high frequency, in such a manner that impedance matching of the broadband near-field magnetic-field probe is achieved.
US10461385B2
According to some aspects, a circuit is provided comprising a plurality of Josephson junctions arranged in series in a loop, at least one magnetic element producing magnetic flux through the loop, a plurality of superconducting resonators, each resonator coupled to the loop between a different neighboring pair of Josephson junctions of the plurality of Josephson junctions, a plurality of ports, each port coupled to at least one of the plurality of resonators at ends of the resonators opposite to ends at which the resonators are coupled to the loop, and at least one controller configured to provide input energy to each of the plurality of ports that causes the circuit to function as a circulator between the plurality of ports.
US10461374B2
A method is provided. The method is executable by a processor of a battery management system. The method includes sending a first command signal to a multiplexer to cause the multiplexer to select a cell of a battery. The method also includes sending a second command signal to a current source to apply a current to the cell of the battery. The method also includes receiving measurement information based on the application of the current to the cell from a measurement circuit.
US10461370B2
According to one embodiment, a secondary battery is provided. The secondary battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and an electrolyte. The electrolyte contains a water-containing solvent and a nitrogen atom-containing organic sulfur compound. The concentration of the nitrogen atom-containing organic sulfur compound in the electrolyte is within a range of from 0.001 mM to 20 mM.
US10461369B2
According to one embodiment, a battery includes a flat-shaped electrode group, a package member and a terminal section. The package member includes a stainless steel-made first package having a flange at an opening and a stainless steel-made second package. The electrode group is stored in a space formed by welding the flange of the first package to the second package. The terminal section includes a through-hole that is open to the first package, a ring-shaped rising portion that extends from a periphery of the through-hole toward an inside of the package member, a ring-shaped member that is arranged on an outer surface of the rising portion, an insulation gasket, and an external terminal. The external terminal is fixed to the first package by caulking.
US10461356B2
Present disclosure relates to a variable jig which is a jig device to manufacture a battery cell in which an electrode assembly is embedded in a battery case made of a laminate sheet including a resin layer and a metal layer, including a die assembly having an inwardly recessed structure corresponding to a storage configured to mount the electrode assembly located on the laminate sheet or a portion to be molded as the storage; and a fixing die configured to fix an outer periphery of the sheet in a normal position, wherein the die assembly is configured to allow adjustment of at least one of a width or a length of the inward recess according to a size of the electrode assembly.
US10461352B2
During operation of flow battery systems, the volume of one or more electrolyte solutions can change due to solvent loss processes. An electrochemical balancing cell can be used to combat volume variability. Methods for altering the volume of one or more electrolyte solutions can include: providing a first electrochemical balancing cell containing a membrane disposed between two half-cells, establishing fluid communication between a first aqueous electrolyte solution of a flow battery system and a first half-cell of the first electrochemical balancing cell, and applying a current to the first electrochemical balancing cell to change a concentration of one or more components in the first aqueous electrolyte solution. Applying the current causes water to migrate across the membrane, either to or from the first aqueous electrolyte solution, and a rate of water migration is a function of current.
US10461342B2
A fuel cell assembly has a plurality of fuel cell component elements extending between a pair of end plates to form a stack, and plural reactant gas manifolds mounted externally of and surrounding the stack, in mutual, close sealing relationship to prevent leakage of reactant gas in the manifolds to the environment external to the manifolds. The reactant gas manifolds are configured and positioned to maximize sealing contact with smooth surfaces of the stack and the manifolds. One embodiment is configured for an oxidant reactant manifold to overlie the region where the fuel reactant manifold engages the stack. Another embodiment further subdivides an oxidant reactant manifold to include a liquid flow channel, which liquid flow channel overlies the region where the fuel reactant manifold engages the stack.
US10461338B2
An electronic device includes: a casing; a through hole which penetrates a bottom plate of the casing; a pin inserted into the through hole; a battery mounted on the pin inside the casing, wherein the battery includes a first lead terminal connected to an upper face of the battery, and a second lead terminal connected to a lower face of the battery; a first wiring layer disposed inside the casing and connected to the first lead terminal; and a second wiring layer disposed inside the casing to overlap with the second lead terminal in planar view. An upper face of the pin is higher in height than an upper face of the second wiring layer. The pin separates the second lead terminal and the second wiring layer from each other such that the second lead terminal and the second wiring layer are electrically insulated from each other.
US10461337B2
An oxide all-solid-state battery excellent in lithium ion conductivity and joint strength between an anode active material layer and solid electrolyte layer thereof. In the oxide all-solid-state battery, the solid electrolyte layer is a layer mainly containing a garnet-type oxide solid electrolyte sintered body represented by the following formula (1): (Lix-3y-z, Ey, Hz)LαMβOγ; a solid electrolyte interface layer is disposed between the anode active material layer and the solid electrolyte layer; the solid electrolyte interface layer contains at least a Si element and an O element; and a laminate containing at least the anode active material layer, the solid electrolyte interface layer and the solid electrolyte layer has peaks at positions where 2θ=32.3°±0.5°, 37.6°±0.5°, 43.8°±0.5°, and 57.7°±0.5° in a XRD spectrum obtained by XRD measurement using CuKα irradiation.
US10461332B2
The formation method of graphene includes the steps of forming a layer including graphene oxide over a first conductive layer; and supplying a potential at which the reduction reaction of the graphene oxide occurs to the first conductive layer in an electrolyte where the first conductive layer as a working electrode and a second conductive layer with a as a counter electrode are immersed. A manufacturing method of a power storage device including at least a positive electrode, a negative electrode, an electrolyte, and a separator includes a step of forming graphene for an active material layer of one of or both the positive electrode and the negative electrode by the formation method.
US10461321B2
A method of producing a pre-sulfurized active cathode layer for a rechargeable alkali metal-sulfur cell; the method comprising: (a) Preparing an integral layer of meso-porous structure of a carbon, graphite, metal, or conductive polymer having a specific surface area greater than 100 m2/g; (b) Preparing an electrolyte comprising a solvent and a sulfur source; (c) Preparing an anode; and (d) Bringing the integral layer and the anode in ionic contact with the electrolyte and imposing an electric current between the anode and the integral layer (serving as a cathode) to electrochemically deposit nano-scaled sulfur particles or coating on the graphene surfaces. The sulfur particles or coating have a thickness or diameter smaller than 20 nm (preferably <10 nm, more preferably <5 nm or even <3 nm) and occupy a weight fraction of at least 70% (preferably >90% or even >95%).
US10461320B1
Silicon anode compositions are provided which include embedded silicon carbide nanofibers. Methods of production and use are further described.
US10461319B2
An energy storage device can include a first electrode, a second electrode and a separator between the first electrode and the second electrode wherein the first electrode or the second electrode includes elemental lithium metal and carbon particles. A method for fabricating an energy storage device can include forming a first electrode and a second electrode, and inserting a separator between the first electrode and the second electrode, where forming the first electrode or the second electrode can include combining elemental lithium metal and a plurality of carbon particles.
US10461303B2
An electrode stack structure including a plurality of stacked electrode layers including electrode layers having multiple tabs, wherein the multiple tabs include a first tab connected to a first lead; and a second tab that is spaced apart from the first tab, and wherein second tabs of electrode layers having a same polarity are electrically connected to each other.
US10461301B2
A battery pack for a hand-held power tool including a battery pack housing, the battery pack housing accommodating at least two battery cells, and at least one cell connector for connecting the battery cells in parallel and/or in series, the cell connector being connected to a pole of the first battery cell and to a pole of the second battery cell using a welding method, the cell connector including at least two at least partially overlapping, current-carrying cross-sectional areas in an unwelded area between the battery cells.
US10461286B2
The present disclosure discloses a battery pack suitable for improving cooling efficiency of a cooling duct for battery cells in a battery module by reducing a sealing area between a lower case and an upper case configured to fully surround the battery module. The battery pack according to the present disclosure includes a battery module including battery cells sequentially stacked and a cooling duct located on side of the battery cells; a lower case configured to load the battery module and the cooling duct therein; and an upper case coupled to the lower case so as to cover the battery module and the cooling duct, the upper case having a vent structure on the cooling duct. The vent structure has, on the cooling duct, an inner air passage unit opened at a sidewall of the upper case, and an outer air passage unit inserted into the inner air passage unit.
US10461285B2
Provided is a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery including a bottomed cylindrical positive electrode casing, and a negative electrode casing which is fixed to an opening of the positive electrode casing through a gasket. The opening of the positive electrode casing is caulked to the negative electrode casing side to seal an accommodation space. A caulking tip end in the opening of the positive electrode casing is disposed in an inward direction of the negative electrode casing than a tip end of the negative electrode casing. A diameter d of the nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery is in a range of 6.6 mm to 7.0 mm, a height h1 of the nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery is in a range of 1.9 mm to 2.3 mm, a side surface portion of the positive electrode casing is formed in a curved surface shape, a radius of curvature R is set in a range of 0.8 mm to 1.1 mm, and a height h2 of the positive electrode casing is in a range of 65% to 73% with respect to the height h1 of the nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery.
US10461276B2
A method of preventing an analysis of the material composition of an organic optoelectronic component includes: A) providing an organic optoelectronic component having a functional component part and a camouflage layer, and B) determining an overall analysis spectrum of the organic optoelectronic component by IR or X-ray radiation, wherein the overall analysis spectrum is composed of a first analysis spectrum of the functional component part and a second analysis spectrum of the camouflage layer, and determination of the first and/or second analysis spectrum from the overall analysis spectrum is made more difficult or prevented so that, due to the camouflage layer, determination of the material composition of the functional component part is made difficult or prevented.
US10461274B2
Disclosed is a display device, includes a display area configured to display an image, a non-display area adjacent to the display area, a folding area configured to bend based on a folding line, and a first non-folding area and a second non-folding area positioned at opposite sides of the folding area. A first notch pattern is formed in an overlapping area of the non-display area and the folding area.
US10461264B2
An organic EL device includes a pair of electrodes and an organic compound layer between pair of electrodes. The organic compound layer includes an emitting layer including a first material, a second material and a third material, in which singlet energy EgS(H) of the first material, singlet energy EgS(H2) of the second material, and singlet energy EgS(D) of the third material satisfy a specific relationship.
US10461262B2
A condensed cyclic compound represented by Formula 1 and an organic light-emitting device including the same.
US10461256B2
A compound represented by Chemical Formula 1, and a photoelectric device, an image sensor, and an electronic device including the same are disclosed. In Chemical Formula 1, each substituent is the same as defined in the detailed description.
US10461251B2
A method of fabricating a magnetoresistive bit from a magnetoresistive stack includes etching through a first portion of the magnetoresistive stack using a first etch process to form one or more sidewalls. At least a portion of the sidewalls includes redeposited material after the etching. The method also includes modifying at least a portion of the redeposited material on the sidewalls, and etching through a second portion of the magnetoresistive stack after the modifying step. The magnetoresistive stack may include a first magnetic region, an intermediate region disposed over the first magnetic region, and a second magnetic region disposed over the intermediate region.
US10461243B2
Techniques for configuring the layers included in the free portion of a spin-torque magnetoresistive device are presented that allow for characteristics of the free portion to be tuned to meet the needs of various applications. In one embodiment, high data retention is achieved by balancing the perpendicular magnetic anisotropy of the ferromagnetic layers in the free portion. In other embodiments, imbalanced ferromagnetic layers provide for lower switching current for the magnetoresistive device. In various embodiments, different coupling layers can be used to provide exchange coupling between the ferromagnetic layers in the free portion, including oscillatory coupling layers, ferromagnetic coupling layers using materials that can alloy with the neighboring ferromagnetic layers, and discontinuous layers of dielectric material such as MgO that result in limited coupling between the ferromagnetic layers and increases perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA) at the interface with those layers.
US10461239B2
A microscale sensor structure is provided that enables backside electrical connection to flush-mounted microscale sensors without through-wafer-vias (TWVs). A flush-mounted microscale sensor can be fabricated without TWVs by providing a sensor support substrate with openings for electrical connection access to the backside of a device layer. Backside electrical connection is made to the sensing element(s) of the device layer through the openings in the support substrate. Electrical isolation of the sensing element(s) from the support substrate is accomplished through use of an insulating support substrate and/or an insulating layer between the support substrate and the device layer.
US10461231B2
Disclosed is a method for fabricating the light emitting device packages. The method includes: mounting and arranging light emitting device units on a substrate; attaching wavelength converting members to the respective light emitting device units mounted and arranged on the substrate; filling a reflective material between the light emitting device units attached with the wavelength converting members to form a reflective member; and vertically cutting the reflective material such that the reflective material surrounds the individual light emitting device units attached with the wavelength converting members. Also disclosed are light emitting device packages fabricated by the method.
US10461230B2
The present invention relates to a light emitting diode component, comprising a light emitting semiconductor structure having a top surface, and a micro-optical multilayer structure arranged to guide light out from said light emitting semiconductor structure, said micro-optical multilayer structure comprising a plurality of layers, wherein an i+1:th layer is arranged on top an i:th layer in a sequence as seen from said semiconductor structure, wherein a refractive index, ni, of the i:th layer is greater than a refractive index, ni+l, of the i+1:th layer, and wherein a thickness of the i+1:th layer is greater than a thickness of the i:th layer. The present invention also relates to a light emitting diode comprising such a light emitting diode component.
US10461224B2
A molded nanoparticle phosphor for light emitting applications is fabricated by converting a suspension of nanoparticles in a matrix material precursor into a molded nanoparticle phosphor. The matrix material can be any material in which the nanoparticles are dispersible and which is moldable. The molded nanoparticle phosphor can be formed from the matrix material precursor/nanoparticle suspension using any molding technique, such as polymerization molding, contact molding, extrusion molding, injection molding, for example. Once molded, the molded nanoparticle phosphor can be coated with a gas barrier material, for example, a polymer, metal oxide, metal nitride or a glass. The barrier-coated molded nanoparticle phosphor can be utilized in a light-emitting device, such as an LED. For example, the phosphor can be incorporated into the packaging of a standard solid state LED and used to down-convert a portion of the emission of the solid state LED emitter.
US10461220B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device and the device resulted thereof is disclosed. In one aspect, the device has a heterogeneous layer stack of one or more III-V type materials, at least one transmission layer of the layer stack having a roughened or textured surface for enhancement of light transmission. The method includes (a) growing the transmission layer of a III-V type material, (b) providing a mask layer on the transmission layer, the mask layer leaving first portions of the transmission layer exposed, and (c) partially decomposing the first exposed portions of the transmission layer. Suitably redeposition occurs in a single step with decomposition, so as to obtain a textured surface based on crystal facets of a plurality of grown crystals. The resulting device has a light-emitting element. The transmission layer hereof is suitably present at the top side.
US10461214B2
To provide a method for producing a Group III nitride semiconductor light-emitting device using a substrate containing Al such as AlN substrate while suppressing polarity inversion. The production method comprising an oxide film formation step, a first Group III nitride layer formation step, a first semiconductor layer formation step, a light-emitting layer formation step, and a second semiconductor layer formation step. In the production method, an AlN substrate or AlGaN substrate is employed. In the oxide film formation step, an oxide film containing Al atoms, N atoms, and O atoms is formed. In the first Group III nitride layer formation step, an AlN layer or AlGaN layer is formed as the first Group III nitride layer under the condition that the substrate temperature 1200° C. to 1450° C.
US10461208B2
A rear contact heterojunction solar cell and a fabricating method. The solar cell comprises a silicon substrate having a passivating layer and an intrinsic amorphous silicon layer. At a back side of the intrinsic amorphous silicon layer, an emitter layer and a base layer are provided. Interposed between these emitter and base layers is a separation layer comprising an electrically insulating material. This separation layer as well as the base layer and emitter layer may be generated by vapor deposition. Due to such processing, adjacent regions of the emitter layer and the separating layer and adjacent regions of the base layer and the separating layer partially laterally overlap in overlapping areas in such a way that at least a part of the separating layer is located closer to the substrate than an overlapping portion of the respective one of the emitter layer and the base layer.
US10461207B2
A photovoltaic device includes a substrate structure and at least one Se-containing layer, such as a CdSeTe layer. A process for manufacturing the photovoltaic device includes forming the CdSeTe layer over a substrate by at least one of sputtering, evaporation deposition, CVD, chemical bath deposition process, and vapor transport deposition process. The process can also include controlling a thickness range of the Se-containing layer.
US10461206B2
The present invention discloses a solar photovoltaic-thermal system, combined with a solar heat collection assembly and a solar cell assembly, so that solar energy utilization is more efficient.
US10461204B2
Deformable optoelectronic devices are provided, including photodetectors, photodiodes, and photovoltaic cells. The devices can be made on a variety of paper substrates, and can include a plurality of fold segments in the paper substrate creating a deformable pattern. Thin electrode layers and semiconductor nanowire layers can be attached to the substrate, creating the optoelectronic device. The devices can be highly deformable, e.g. capable of undergoing strains of 500% or more, bending angles of 25° or more, and/or twist angles of 270° or more. Methods of making the deformable optoelectronic devices and methods of using, e.g. as a photodetector, are also provided.
US10461203B2
A semiconductor device comprises a plurality of quantum structures comprising predominantly germanium. The plurality of quantum structures are formed on a first semiconductor layer structure. The quantum structures of the plurality of quantum structures have a lateral dimension of less than 15 nm and an area density of at least 8×1011 quantum structures per cm2. The plurality of quantum structures are configured to emit light with a light emission maximum at a wavelength of between 2 μm and 10 μm or to absorb light with a light absorption maximum at a wavelength of between 2 μm and 10 μm.
US10461189B2
An integrated circuit device includes a fin-type active area protruding from a substrate; a plurality of liners sequentially covering lower side walls of the fin-type active area; a device isolation layer covering the lower side walls of the fin-type active area with the plurality of liners between the device isolation layer and the fin-type active area; and a gate insulating layer extending to cover a channel region of the fin-type active area, the plurality of liners, and the device isolation layer, and including protrusions located on portions of the gate insulating layer which cover the plurality of liners.
US10461186B1
Disclosed are methods wherein vertical field effect transistor(s) (VFET(s)) and isolation region(s) are formed on a substrate. Each VFET includes a fin extending vertically between source/drain regions, a spacer layer and a gate around the fin, and a source/drain sidewall spacer around an upper source/drain region. Optionally, a gate sidewall spacer is adjacent to the gate at a first end of the VFET. An isolation region is adjacent to the gate at a second end and opposing sides of the VFET and extends into the substrate. Contacts are formed including a lower source/drain contact (which is adjacent to the first end of the VFET and is self-aligned if the optional gate sidewall spacer is present) and a self-aligned gate contact (which extends into the isolation region at the second end of the VFET and contacts a side surface of the gate). Also disclosed are structures formed according to the methods.
US10461184B1
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate having a first source or drain (S/D) region and a channel. The channel includes a first semiconductor material having a first band gap, and extends vertically from a lower channel portion formed on the first S/D region to an upper channel portion located opposite the lower channel portion. A gate structure is around sidewalls of the channel, and a second S/D region is on the upper channel portion. A band-gap enhancing region is interposed between the second S/D region and the channel. The band-gap enhancing region includes a second semiconductor material having a second band gap that is greater than the first band gap to reduce a gate-induced-drain leakage (GIDL) between the second S/D region and the channel.
US10461180B2
A semiconductor device including: drift regions formed on a semiconductor substrate; gate trench portions extending in predetermined extending directions from a semiconductor substrate upper surface; first and second mesa portions being in direct contact with one and the other sides of a gate trench portion side wall respectively; accumulation regions being in direct contact with the gate trench portions, above the drift regions, and having doping concentration higher than drift region concentration; a base region being in direct contact with the gate trench portions, above the accumulation regions; emitter regions being in direct contact with the one side wall of a gate trench portion on a semiconductor substrate upper surface in the first mesa portion, and having doping concentration higher than drift region concentration; and electrically floating second conductivity type floating regions provided spaced from the gate trench portion below the base region in the second mesa portion is provided.
US10461171B2
A method for forming a semiconductor device structure includes forming a first dummy gate stack and a second dummy gate stack over a semiconductor substrate and forming a dielectric layer over the semiconductor substrate to surround the first dummy gate stack and the second dummy gate stack. The method includes removing the first dummy gate stack and the second dummy gate stack to form a first trench and a second trench in the dielectric layer and removing the first dummy gate stack and the second dummy gate stack to form a first trench and a second trench in the dielectric layer. The method includes partially removing the first metal gate stack, the second metal gate stack, and the dielectric layer to form a recess. The method includes forming an insulating structure to partially or completely fill the recess.
US10461169B2
A method for forming a semiconductor device structure is provided. The method includes forming a metal gate electrode structure and an insulating layer over the semiconductor substrate. The insulating layer surrounds the metal gate electrode structure. The method includes nitrifying a first top portion of the metal gate electrode structure to form a metal nitride layer over the metal gate electrode structure.
US10461164B2
A compound semiconductor field effect transistor (FET) may include gallium nitride (GaN) and alloy material layers. The compound semiconductor FET may also include a pair of L-shaped contacts on the GaN and alloy material layers. The compound semiconductor FET may also include a pair of gate spacers between the L-shaped contacts and on the GaN and alloy material layers, each of the pair of gate spacers contacting one of the L-shaped contacts. The compound semiconductor FET may further include a base gate between the pair of gate spacers and on the GaN and alloy material layers, in which the pair of L-shaped contacts are self-aligned with the base gate.
US10461160B2
This invention relates to an electronic semiconductive component comprising at least one layer (2,3) of a p-type or n-type material, wherein the layer of a said p- or n-type material is constituted by a metal hydride having a chosen dopant. The invention also relates to methods for producing the component.
US10461159B2
Characteristics of a semiconductor device using a nitride semiconductor are improved. A semiconductor device of the present invention includes a buffer layer, a channel layer, a barrier layer, a mesa-type 2DEG dissolving layer, a source electrode, a drain electrode, a gate insulating film formed on the mesa-type 2DEG dissolving layer, and an overlying gate electrode. The gate insulating film of the semiconductor device includes a sputtered film formed on the mesa-type 2DEG dissolving layer and a CVD film formed on the sputtered film. The sputtered film is formed in a non-oxidizing atmosphere by a sputtering process using a target including an insulator. This makes it possible to reduce positive charge amount at a MOS interface and in gate insulating film and increase a threshold voltage, and thus improve normally-off characteristics.
US10461158B2
Occurrence of short-channel characteristics and parasitic capacitance of a MOSFET on a SOI substrate is prevented.A sidewall having a stacked structure obtained by sequentially stacking a silicon oxide film and a nitride film is formed on a side wall of a gate electrode on the SOI substrate. Subsequently, after an epitaxial layer is formed beside the gate electrode, and then, the nitride film is removed. Then, an impurity is implanted into an upper surface of the semiconductor substrate with using the gate electrode and the epitaxial layer as a mask, so that a halo region is formed in only a region of the upper surface of the semiconductor substrate which is right below a vicinity of both ends of the gate electrode.
US10461153B2
A semiconductor memory device includes a substrate including active regions, word lines in the substrate and each extending in a first direction parallel to an upper surface of the substrate, bit line structures connected to the active regions, respectively, and each extending in a second direction crossing the first direction, and spacer structures on sidewalls of respective ones of the bit line structures. Each of the spacer structures includes a first spacer, a second spacer, and a third spacer. The second spacer is disposed between the first spacer and the third spacer and includes a void defined by an inner surface of the second spacer. A height of the second spacer is greater than a height of the void.
US10461148B1
Metal-on-metal insulator structures and methods for making the same. The method includes: providing an insulator layer overlying a semiconductor substrate, forming a plurality of alternating first conductive layers and second conductive layers on the insulator layer, forming at least one dielectric layer between each of the alternating first conductive layers and second conductive layers, forming a first trench at a first location through a first portion of the plurality of the alternating first conductive layers and second conductive layers and the at least one dielectric layer, and first etching the first trench selective to the plurality of alternating first conductive layers and second conductive layers, wherein the first conductive layers are etched faster than the second conductive layers to form a first modified trench, wherein the first conductive layers are recessed relative to the center of the first modified trench greater than the second conductive layers.
US10461144B2
A static electricity prevention circuit of a display device including: a driving circuit configured to drive a display unit that displays an image, at least one clock signal wire configured to transmit a clock signal to the driving circuit, at least one transistor electrically coupled to the clock signal wire, and at least one capacitor including a first electrode coupled to a source electrode and to a drain electrode of the transistor, and a second electrode configured to be maintained at a voltage.
US10461143B2
A transistor substrate may include a base substrate, a data line, a conductive layer, a semiconductor layer, a gate electrode, and a pixel electrode. The data line may directly contact the base substrate. The conductive layer may directly contact the base substrate and may be spaced from the data line. The semiconductor layer may overlap the conductive layer, may be spaced from the conductive layer, and may include a source electrode and a drain electrode. The source electrode may be electrically connected to the data line. The gate electrode may overlap the semiconductor layer. The pixel electrode may be electrically connected to the drain electrode.
US10461141B2
A display device includes a gate insulating layer disposed on a channel region of a semiconductor layer. A gate electrode is disposed on the gate insulating layer over the channel region of the semiconductor layer. A source electrode is disposed in direct contact with the source region of the semiconductor layer and a drain electrode is disposed in direct contact with a drain region of the semiconductor layer. A passivation layer is disposed on the gate electrode, the source electrode, and the drain electrode. The passivation layer is in direct contact with semiconductor layer in a region between the source electrode and the gate electrode, and is in direct contact with the semiconductor layer in a region between the gate electrode and the drain electrode. The first gate electrode, the first source electrode, and the first drain electrode comprise a same layer and a same material.
US10461135B2
A flexible display panel, a flexible display device, and a fabrication method of the flexible display panel are provided. The flexible display panel comprises a stacked structure having a plurality of layers comprising a flexible substrate, a light-emitting device layer, and a polarizing layer stacked in a preset order. The flexible display panel further includes at least one upper-side resistive force-sensitive electrode disposed on a layer above a neutral plane of the stacked structure, and at least one lower-side resistive force-sensitive electrode disposed on a layer below the neutral plane.
US10461134B2
A technique of manufacturing a display device with high productivity is provided. In addition, a high-definition display device with high color purity is provided. By adjusting the optical path length between an electrode having a reflective property and a light-emitting layer by the central wavelength of a wavelength range of light passing through a color filter layer, the high-definition display device with high color purity is provided without performing selective deposition of light-emitting layers. In a light-emitting element, a plurality of light-emitting layers emitting light of different colors are stacked. The closer the light-emitting layer is positioned to the electrode having a reflective property, the shorter the wavelength of light emitted from the light-emitting layer is.
US10461130B2
An imaging device includes: a photoelectric converter including first and second electrodes, a photoelectric conversion layer therebetween, and an electron-blocking layer between the first electrode and the photoelectric conversion layer; and a signal detection circuit connected to the first electrode. The photoelectric converter is adapted to be applied with a voltage between the first and second electrodes. An electron-blocking material in the electron-blocking layer has an ionization potential higher than both a work function of a conducting material in the first electrode and an ionization potential of a photoelectric conversion material in the photoelectric conversion layer, which allows the photoelectric converter to have a range of the voltage within which a density of current passing between the first and second electrodes when light is incident on the photoelectric conversion layer is substantially equal to that when no light is incident. The range of the voltage is 0.5 V or more.
US10461121B2
A miniature LED display panel and a miniature LED display are provided. The miniature LED display panel includes a first substrate, a second substrate having a cathode driving circuit disposed on a surface thereof facing the first substrate, N row signal lines disposed on the first substrate, an insulating layer disposed on the first substrate and the row signal lines, M column signal lines disposed on the insulating layer, M compensation signal lines disposed on the insulating layer, and a plurality of LED light emitting components arranged in an array of M rows and N columns on the first substrate.
US10461108B2
An imaging device includes: a modulator with a first pantoscopic grating pattern, which is configured to modulate light intensity by passage through the first pantoscopic grating pattern; an image sensor configured to convert light passing through the modulator, to image data, and output the image data; and an image processing unit configured to conduct image processing of restoring an image with the use of the image date output from the image sensor, and the imaging device is characterized in that: the first pantoscopic grating pattern is configured to include multiple basic patterns; and each of the basic patterns has the shape of a concentric circle.
US10461104B2
A subject for the invention is to provide a friction material which contains neither any copper component nor metallic fibers and which has stable frictional properties and excellent wear resistance and is less apt to attack mating materials. This invention relates to a friction 10-35% by volume potassium titanate having a plurality of protrudent shapes, 3-10% by volume abrasive material having a Moh's hardness of 7 or higher, and 10-30% by volume elastomer-modified phenolic resin.
US10461101B2
A semiconductor device with high aperture ratio is provided. The semiconductor device includes a transistor and a capacitor having a pair of electrodes. An oxide semiconductor layer formed over the same insulating surface is used for a channel formation region of the transistor and one of the electrodes of the capacitor. The other electrode of the capacitor is a transparent conductive film. One electrode of the capacitor is electrically connected to a wiring formed over the insulating surface over which a source electrode or a drain electrode of the transistor is provided, and the other electrode of the capacitor is electrically connected to one of the source electrode and the drain electrode of the transistor.
US10461100B2
A semiconductor device including a substrate, a first insulating layer above the substrate, a first transistor including a first oxide semiconductor layer above the first insulating layer, and a second transistor including a second oxide semiconductor layer above the first insulating layer, a composition of the second oxide semiconductor layer being different from a composition of the first oxide semiconductor layer.
US10461096B2
A display apparatus includes a substrate partitioned into a central area and a peripheral area disposed adjacent to the central area. The central area includes a display area; a first insulating layer corresponding to the peripheral area of the substrate; at least one slit corresponding to a region of the first insulating layer; and a cladding layer, which covers the at least one slit, on the first insulating layer.
US10461095B2
A non-volatile storage element is provided that includes a control gate, a blocking layer including a ferroelectric material, a charge storage region, and a tunneling layer. The blocking layer is disposed between the control gate and the charge storage region, and the charge storage region is disposed between the tunneling layer and the blocking layer.
US10461092B2
A semiconductor memory device according to an embodiment comprises: a semiconductor substrate; a stacked body having a plurality of first insulating layers and conductive layers stacked alternately on the semiconductor substrate; a columnar semiconductor layer contacting the semiconductor substrate in the stacked body being provided extending in a stacking direction of the stacked body and including a first portion and a second portion which is provided above the first portion; a memory layer provided on a side surface of the columnar semiconductor layer facing the stacked conductive layers and extending along the columnar semiconductor layer; and a second insulating layer provided between one of the first insulating layer and the conductive layers of the stacked body. The columnar semiconductor layer has a boundary of the first portion and the second portion, the boundary being close to the second insulating layer; and an average value of an outer diameter of the memory layer facing a side surface of the second insulating layer is larger than that of the memory layer facing a side surface of a lowermost layer of the first insulating layers in the second portion.
US10461086B2
Provided is a memory cell including a rectangular shaped via for at least one Vss node connection. In some embodiments, the rectangular shaped via has a length/width of greater than 1.5. The rectangular shaped via may be disposed on the Via0 and/or Via1 layer interfacing a first metal layer (e.g., M1). The memory cell may also include circular/square shaped vias having a length/width of between approximately 0.8 and 1.2. The circular/square shaped vias may be coplanar with the rectangular shaped vias.
US10461069B2
A semiconductor device structure is provided. The semiconductor device structure includes a bonding structure formed between a first substrate and a second substrate. The bonding structure includes a first polymer bonded to a second polymer, and a first conductive material bonded to a second conductive material. The semiconductor device includes a first TSV formed in the first substrate and an interconnect structure formed over the first TSV. The first TSV is between the interconnect structure and the bonding structure.
US10461065B2
A method of manufacturing a light emitting device includes: mounting light emitting elements on a collective substrate; arranging a first protruding member surrounding the light emitting elements; arranging a second protruding member between the light emitting elements; forming a cover member covering an upper end of the second protruding member, a lateral surface of each of the light emitting elements in a region surrounded by the first protruding member; and singulating the light emitting devices by cutting the cover member, the second protruding member, and the collective substrate at a portion including the second protruding member. The second protruding member is harder than the cover member. An upper end of the second protruding member is located lower than that of the first protruding member but higher than the upper surface of each of the light emitting elements.
US10461061B2
Apparatuses and methods for semiconductor die heat dissipation are described. For example, an apparatus for semiconductor die heat dissipation may include a substrate and a heat spreader. The substrate may include a thermal interface layer disposed on a surface of the substrate, such as disposed between the substrate and the heat spreader. The heat spreader may include a plurality of substrate-facing protrusions in contact with the thermal interface layer, wherein the plurality of substrate-facing protrusions are disposed at least partially through the thermal interface layer.
US10461060B2
Structures and formation methods of a chip package are provided. The chip package includes a semiconductor die and a protective layer surrounding the semiconductor die. The chip package also includes an interface between the semiconductor die and the protective layer. The chip package further includes a conductive layer over the protective layer and the semiconductor die, and the conductive layer has a first portion and a second portion. The first portion is closer to an inner portion of the semiconductor die than the second portion. The first portion is in direct contact with the second portion. The second portion extends across the interface, and the second portion has a line width greater than that of the first portion.
US10461057B2
The disclosure relates to a dual-interface integrated circuit (IC) card module for use in a dual-interface IC card. Embodiments disclosed include a dual-interface integrated circuit card module (150), the module comprising: a substrate (104) having first and second opposing surfaces; a contact pad (102) on the first surface of the substrate; an integrated circuit (110) on the second surface of the substrate (104), the integrated circuit (110) having electrical connections to the contact pad (102) through the substrate (104); and a pair of antenna pads (108) disposed in recesses (103) in the second surface of the substrate (104) and electrically connected to corresponding antenna connections on the integrated circuit (110).
US10461047B2
Metal-free frame designs for silicon bridges for semiconductor packages and the resulting silicon bridges and semi-conductor packages are described. In an example, a semiconductor structure includes a substrate having an insulating layer disposed thereon, the substrate having a perimeter. A metallization structure is disposed on the insulating layer, the metallization structure including conductive routing disposed in a dielectric material stack. A first metal guard ring is disposed in the dielectric material stack and surrounds the conductive routing. A second metal guard ring is disposed in the dielectric material stack and surrounds the first metal guard ring. A metal-free region of the dielectric material stack surrounds the second metal guard ring. The metal-free region is disposed adjacent to the second metal guard ring and adjacent to the perimeter of the substrate.
US10461043B1
The present disclosure provides electromagnetic shielding for integrated circuit (IC) modules. First, a precursor package with a number of IC modules is provided. The precursor package is then placed onto a chemical resistant tape. After a sweller process and a desmear process are performed, the chemical resistant tape is removed. Next, the precursor package is singulated to form a number of individual IC modules. The individual IC modules are placed onto a carrier tape, such that a bottom surface of each individual IC module is covered by the carrier tape, and a top surface and side surfaces of each individual IC module are exposed. A shielding structure is applied completely over the top surface and the side surfaces of each individual IC module. Herein, the shielding structure is electrically coupled to a ground plane within each individual IC module.
US10461041B2
An electronic package and a method for fabricating the same are provided. The method includes disposing an electronic component on a lower side of a first carrier and forming an encapsulant on an upper side of the first carrier. A first conductor is disposed on the encapsulant and configured for generating radiation energy by an alternating voltage, an alternating current or radiation variation. As such, the electronic package has a reduced thickness and improved antenna efficiency.
US10461040B2
Capacitor devices having multiple capacitors with similar nominal capacitances are described. The capacitors may be multilayer ceramic capacitors (MLCCs) and may be fabricated employing class 2 materials. The arrangement of the electrodes in the device may reduce relative variations between the capacitors of the device. The capacitor devices may be allow high performance and compact electrical circuits that may employ matched capacitors.
US10461039B2
A mark forming method includes: forming recessed portion on a mark formation area of a substrate; coating the recessed portion with a polymer layer containing a block copolymer, allowing the polymer layer in the recessed portion to form a self-assembled area; selectively removing a portion of the self-assembled area; and forming a positioning mark by using the self-assembled area from which the portion thereof has been removed.
US10461036B2
A multi-stacked package-on-package structure includes a method. The method includes: adhering a first die and a plurality of second dies to a substrate, the first die having a different function from each of the plurality of second dies; attaching a passive device over the first die; encapsulating the first die, the plurality of second dies, and the passive device; and forming a first redistribution structure over the passive device, the first die, and the plurality of second dies, the passive device connecting the first die to the first redistribution structure.
US10461025B2
A method for metallization during fabrication of an Integrated Circuit (IC). The IC includes a semiconductor wafer having a back surface and a front surface. The method includes etching a via hole through the semiconductor wafer. After this, a seed metal layer is deposited on the back surface of the semiconductor wafer. Thereafter, a photoresist layer is deposited on the back surface of the semiconductor wafer such that the via hole remains uncovered. After depositing the photoresist layer, a metal layer is formed along the walls of the via hole to electrically connect the back surface and the front surface of the semiconductor wafer. Finally, the photoresist layer is removed subsequent to forming the metal layer.
US10461024B2
In a semiconductor device, first to fourth circuit patterns are formed on an insulating substrate in a case. A first end of a first lead frame is connected via solder to the first circuit pattern and another end of the first lead frame extends outside from the case. In the same way, a first end of a second lead frame is connected via solder to the fourth circuit pattern and another end extends outside from a case. Portions of the second and third circuit patterns are covered by the first lead frame and are respectively buried by insulating layers. In addition, a semiconductor element is provided via solder on a region of the first lead frame above the first circuit pattern. Wires electrically connect the semiconductor element and a region of the second lead frame above the fourth circuit pattern.
US10461012B2
A semiconductor module includes a semiconductor chip; an insulating circuit board that has on one of principal surfaces of an insulating substrate a circuit member electrically connected to the semiconductor chip, and a first metal member disposed in the other principal surface of the insulating substrate; a second metal member that is disposed on a side of an outer edge of the first metal member and is at least partially disposed further toward an outer side than the insulating substrate; a molding resin portion that seals the semiconductor chip, the insulating circuit board, and the second metal member such that a portion of the first metal member and a portion of the second metal member are exposed; a cooler; a first bonding member that bonds the cooler and the first metal member; and a second bonding member that bonds the cooler and the second metal member.
US10461004B2
An integrated circuit substrate and its method of production are described. The integrated circuit substrate comprises at least an internal conductive trace layer formed by one or more internal conductive traces that is deposited on a partially or completely removable carrier; and a dielectric layer encapsulating the internal conductive trace layer through a lamination process or a printing process. The top surface of the topmost internal conductive trace layer and bottom surface of the bottommost internal conductive trace layer are exposed and not covered by the dielectric layer. External conductive trace layer can also be deposited outside of the dielectric layer. The internal conductive trace layers are deposited through plating or printing of an electronically conductive material, whereas the external conductive trace layer is deposited through electroless and electroplating, or printing of the electronically conductive layer.
US10460997B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate, an isolation structure, and a spacer. The semiconductor substrate includes at least one fin structure. The isolation structure is partly disposed in the fin structure and partly disposed above the fin structure. The fin structure includes a first fin and a second fin elongated in the same direction. A part of the isolation structure is disposed between the first fin and the second fin in the direction where the first fin and the second fin are elongated. The spacer is disposed on sidewalls of the isolation structure on the fin structure. The isolation structure in the present invention is partly disposed in the fin structure and partly disposed above the fin structure. The negative influence of a gate structure formed on the isolation structure and sinking into the isolation structure on the isolation performance of the isolation structure may be avoided accordingly.
US10460996B2
A fin field effect transistor (FinFET) and a method for fabricating the FinFET are provided. The method includes providing a plurality of discrete fins on a semiconductor substrate, and forming a dummy gate across a length portion of the fins and covering portions of top and sidewall surfaces of the fins. The method also includes forming an interlayer dielectric layer, covering the dummy gate and the fins, and forming an opening in the interlayer dielectric layer. In addition, the method includes forming a gate dielectric layer in the opening and on the interlayer dielectric layer, and forming a barrier layer on the gate dielectric layer. Moreover, the method includes removing the gate dielectric layer and the barrier layer from the interlayer dielectric layer, and performing an annealing treatment. Further, the method includes removing the barrier layer in the opening, and forming a metal gate in the opening.
US10460992B2
High-frequency thin film chip attenuators can include a substrate having a first side and a second side, a first portion coupled to the first side of the substrate, and a second portion coupled to the second side of the substrate. The first portion can include a ground section, an input contact section, and an output contact section. The second portion can include a ground section, an input section, an output section, and a plurality of resistive sections providing electrical communication between the input section, the output section, and the ground section. The resistive sections can be arranged in an attenuation configuration to attenuate a signal received at the input section and output via the output section. A plurality of through-holes extending through the substrate can provide electrical communication between sections on the first side of the substrate and associated sections on the second side of the substrate.
US10460991B2
Disclosed herein is a resin package substrate processing method for processing a resin package substrate including a mold resin in which a filler is mixed. The resin package substrate processing method includes a fixing step of fixing the resin package substrate through an adhesive tape to an annular frame, a dividing step of applying a laser beam having an absorption wavelength to the mold resin of the resin package substrate, to the mold resin to thereby form a plurality of division grooves dividing the resin package substrate into a plurality of package device chips, an interchip distance increasing step of expanding the adhesive tape to thereby increase the distance between any adjacent ones of the plural package device chips of the resin package substrate, and a cleaning step of supplying a cleaning liquid to the resin package substrate to thereby remove the filler caught between the adjacent package device chips.
US10460989B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor element, a semiconductor substrate on which the semiconductor element is mounted, a conductive layer formed on the substrate, and a sealing resin covering the semiconductor element. The substrate is formed with a recess receding from a main surface of the substrate and including a bottom surface and first and second sloped surfaces spaced apart from each other in a first direction perpendicular to the thickness direction of the substrate. The conductive layer includes first conduction paths on the first sloped surface, second conduction paths on the second sloped surface and bottom conduction paths on the bottom surface. The second sloped surface includes exposed regions line-symmetrical to the first conduction paths with respect to a line perpendicular to both the thickness direction of the substrate and the first direction, and the second conduction paths are not disposed at the exposed regions.
US10460985B2
A semiconductor structure and a process for forming a semiconductor structure. There is a back end of the line wiring layer which includes a wiring line, a cap layer and an ILD layer. A metal-filled via extends through the ILD layer to make contact with the wiring line. There is a reliability enhancement material in the cap layer. The reliability enhancement material surrounds the metal-filled via only in the cap layer to make a bottom of the metal-filled via that contacts the wiring line be under compressive stress, wherein the compressive reliability enhancement material has different physical properties than the cap layer. The reliability enhancement material may be compressive as deposited or may be made compressive after deposition.
US10460979B2
A semiconductor substrate of first conductivity type is provided. At least one active area is formed on the semiconductor substrate. A major axis of the active area extends along a first direction. A first oblique ion implantation process is performed to form a first doped region of second conductivity type above a first depth on an end surface of the active area. A second oblique ion implantation process is performed to form a second doped region of third conductivity type above a second depth on the end surface of the active area. The third conductivity type and the second conductivity types are opposite to each other, so that a localized doped region having the second conductivity type is formed between the first depth and the second depth. A trench isolation structure is formed around the active area and adjacent to the end surface of the active area.
US10460977B2
A lift pin holder assembly includes a lift pin holder including a central bore defining a first groove arranged on a radially inner surface of the central bore. The lift pin holder is made of a non-metallic material. A lift pin includes a second groove arranged on a radially outer surface thereof. A spring is at least partially arranged in the first groove of the lift pin holder and the second groove of the lift pin to retain the lift pin in the lift pin holder.
US10460974B2
Disclosed is a wafer processing method for dividing a wafer into individual chips by applying to the wafer a laser beam having such a wavelength as to be absorbed in the wafer. The wafer processing method includes: an adhesive tape attaching step of attaching to the wafer an adhesive tape that emits plasma light different from plasma light emitted by the wafer upon application of a laser light thereto; a holding step of holding the adhesive tape side on the chuck table so as to expose the wafer; a dividing step of dividing the wafer while relatively moving the chuck table and the laser beam; and a plasma light detection step of detecting the plasma light generated at the time of the dividing step.
US10460962B2
A substrate processing apparatus can suppress a rear surface of a substrate from being contaminated when moving the substrate and a liquid supply unit upwards. When a lift pin 22 and a liquid supply pipe 40 are moved from a neighboring position where they are adjacent to a holding plate 30 to a distanced position, an elevating device 60 raises only the lift pin 22 for a time during which the first lifting member 61 is moved up to a preset position while being connected to the lift pin 22. The elevating device 60 raises the lift pin 22 and the liquid supply pipe 40 for a time during which the first lifting member 61 is raised from the preset position to the distanced position.
US10460959B2
A manufacturing method of a package structure is provided. The method includes the following steps. A semiconductor chip is bonded on a carrier, wherein the semiconductor chip comprises a plurality of conductive pads. An insulating material layer is formed over the carrier and encapsulating the semiconductor chip, wherein a thickness of the insulating material layer is greater than a thickness of the semiconductor chip. A first surface of the insulating material layer is patterned to form first openings that expose the conductive pads of the semiconductor chip, and second openings that penetrate through the insulating material layer. A plurality of conductive posts is formed in the first openings, wherein the plurality of conductive posts is electrically connected to the plurality of conductive pads of the semiconductor chip. A plurality of conductive vias is formed in the second opening.
US10460947B2
The present invention is method for polishing silicon wafer, the method including recovering used slurry containing polishing abrasive grains that have been supplied to the silicon wafer and used for polishing, and circulating and supplying the recovered used slurry to the silicon wafer to polish the silicon wafer, wherein mixed alkali solution containing chelating agent and either or both of a pH adjuster and a polishing rate accelerator is added to the recovered used slurry without adding unused polishing abrasive grains, and the recovered used slurry is circulated and supplied to the silicon wafer to polish the silicon wafer. As a result, there is provided a method for polishing a silicon wafer that can suppress the occurrence of metal impurity contamination and stabilize the composition (e.g., the concentration of the chelating agent) of the used slurry when the used slurry is circulated and supplied to the silicon wafer for polishing.
US10460937B2
A method for reducing crystalline defects in a semiconductor structure is presented. The method includes epitaxially growing a first crystalline material over a crystalline substrate, epitaxially growing a second crystalline material over the first crystalline material, and patterning and removing portions of the second crystalline material to form openings. The method further includes converting the first crystalline material into a non-crystalline material, depositing a thermally stable material in the openings, depositing a capping layer over the second crystalline material and the thermally stable material to form a substantially enclosed semiconductor structure, and annealing the substantially enclosed semiconductor structure.
US10460930B2
Methods and apparatuses for selectively depositing silicon oxide on dielectric surfaces relative to a metal-containing surface such as copper are provided. Methods involve exposing a substrate having dielectric and copper surfaces to a copper-blocking reagent such as an alkyl thiol to selectively adsorb to the copper surface, exposing the substrate to a silicon-containing precursor for depositing silicon oxide, exposing the substrate to a weak oxidant gas and igniting a plasma to convert the adsorb silicon-containing precursor to form silicon oxide, and exposing the substrate to a reducing agent to reduce any oxidized copper from exposure to the weak oxidant gas.
US10460929B2
Described herein are precursors and methods for forming silicon-containing films. In one aspect, the precursor comprises a compound represented by one of following Formulae A through E below: In one particular embodiment, the organoaminosilane precursors are effective for a low temperature (e.g., 350° C. or less), atomic layer deposition (ALD) or plasma enhanced atomic layer deposition (PEALD) of a silicon-containing film. In addition, described herein is a composition comprising an organoaminosilane described herein wherein the organoaminosilane is substantially free of at least one selected from the amines, halides (e.g., Cl, F, I, Br), higher molecular weight species, and trace metals.
US10460924B2
The present invention relates to a novel process for producing a surface-treated gallium arsenide substrate as well as novel provided gallium arsenide substrates as such as well as the use thereof. The improvement of the process according to the invention is based on a particular final surface treatment with an oxidation treatment of at least one surface of the gallium arsenide substrate in dry condition by means of UV radiation and/or ozone gas, a contacting of the at least one surface of the gallium arsenide substrate with at least one liquid medium and a Marangoni drying of the gallium arsenide substrate. The gallium arsenide substrates provided according to the invention exhibit a so far not obtained surface quality, in particular a homogeneity of surface properties, which is detectable by means of optical surface analyzers, specifically by means of ellipsometric lateral substrate mapping for the optical contact-free quantitative characterization.
US10460917B2
A system for ion pumping including an anode, a cathode, and a magnet. The magnet comprises a Halbach magnet array.
US10460915B2
A substrate support assembly includes a shaft assembly, a pedestal coupled to a portion of the shaft assembly, and a first rotary connector coupled to the shaft assembly, wherein the first rotary connector comprises a first coil member surrounding a rotatable shaft member that is electrically coupled to the shaft assembly, the first coil member being rotatable with the rotatable shaft, and a second coil member surrounding the first coil member, the second coil member being stationary relative to the first coil member, wherein the first coil member electrically couples with the second coil member when the rotating radio frequency applicator is energized and provides a radio frequency signal/power to the pedestal through the shaft assembly.
US10460914B2
RF isolation for power circuitry includes one or more ferrite cages surrounding a pair of coils, one coil connected to power input, and the other coil connected to a load such as a heater. The ferrite cage provides universal isolation for the coils, avoiding the necessity of specially tuned filters or more complicated coil arrangements. A pair of dielectric discs support respective coils. In one aspect, the ferrite cage is constituted by ferrite pieces which fan out from a central portion of the dielectric discs and are connected at an outer periphery of the dielectric discs, and at the central portion of the dielectric discs. In one aspect, the fanned-out ferrite pieces comprises either manganese-zinc or magnesium-zinc ferrites, and the ferrite pieces connecting the fanned-out ferrite pieces comprise nickel-zinc ferrites.
US10460908B2
A multiple charged particle beam writing apparatus includes a circuitry to calculate, for each of the plurality of combinations, a first distribution coefficient for each of the three beams configuring the combination concerned, for distributing a dose to irradiate the design grid concerned to the three beams such that the gravity center position of each distributed dose coincides with the position of the design grid concerned and the sum of the each distributed dose coincides with the dose to irradiate the design grid concerned; and a circuitry to calculate, for each of the four or more beams, a second distribution coefficient of each of the four or more beams relating to the design grid concerned by dividing the total value of at least one first distribution coefficient corresponding to the beam concerned in the four or more beams by the number of the plurality of combinations.
US10460901B2
A liquid metal or spiral groove bearing structure for an x-ray tube and associated process for manufacturing the bearing structure is provided that includes a bearing shaft rotatably disposed in a bearing housing or shell. The shell includes a thrust seal engaged with a sleeve to maintain co-axiality for the rotating liquid metal seal formed in the shell about the shaft. The shaft has a bore for the introduction of a cooling fluid into the bearing assembly in which is disposed a cooling tube. The cooling tube includes turbulence-inducing features to increase the turbulence of the cooling fluid flowing through the cooling tube, consequently enhancing the heat exchange between the cooling fluid and the shaft. This maximizes the heat transfer from the shaft to the oil, allowing materials with lower thermal conductivities, such as non-refractory materials, to be used to form the bearing shaft and shell.
US10460898B2
Provided is a circuit breaker including a single pole breaking unit with a pressure trip device that rotates a trip bar through an arc gas and an opening/closing mechanism unit adjusted to be in a trip state as the trip bar rotates through the pressure trip device. The pressure trip device includes: a first case connected to the single pole breaking unit and having an arc gas discharge hole; a barrier positioned in the front of the arc gas discharge hole and bent through an arc gas discharged through the arc gas discharge hole; a shooter seated on the first case and configured to drive the trip bar while moving through the arc gas discharged through the arc gas discharge hole; and a second case connected to cover the first case.
US10460895B2
A safety switching device for fail-safely disconnecting an electrical load has an input part for receiving a safety-relevant input signal, a logic part for processing the at least one safety-relevant input signal, and an output part. The output part has a relay coil and four relay contacts. The first and second relay contacts are arranged electrically in series with one another. The third and fourth relay contacts are also arranged electrically in series with one another. The first and the third relay contacts are mechanically coupled to each other and form a first group of positively driven relay contacts. The second and the fourth relay contacts are mechanically coupled to each other and form a second group of positively driven relay contacts. The logic part redundantly controls the first and the second groups of positively driven relay contacts to selectively allow, or to interrupt in a fail-safe manner, a current flow to the electrical load, depending on the safety-relevant input signal. The relay coil is electromagnetically coupled to the first and second groups of positively driven relay contacts so that the logic part can control the relay contacts together via a single relay coil.
US10460892B2
Methods for assembling low-profile, singulated keyboards by prefabricating key assemblies onto a chassis strip that is divided into individual key assemblies only after the substrate is affixed to a feature plate of keyboard. For example, a row of key assemblies is fabricated onto a chassis strip. The row corresponds to a partial or complete row of keys of the keyboard. The chassis strip is thereafter affixed to a feature plate in a specific location, thereby aligning each prefabricated key assembly to a precise location on the feature plate. While connected, each prefabricated key assembly is independently affixed to the feature plate. Thereafter, interconnecting portions of the chassis strip between the prefabricated key assemblies are removed, thereby singulating each key assembly.
US10460889B2
A lockout device is presented to maintain an on/off switch lever of a disconnect box in a preferred position. A grasp portion of the lockout device that is in an unlocked position may be inserted in the on/off switch lever of the disconnect outlet box preventing the on/off switch lever from being moved from an off position to an on position, or vise versa. Once the grasp hook is inserted in the on/off switch lever, the lockout device can be moved to a locked position and secured with one or more padlocks to prevent the lockout device from being removed. A middle portion of the lockout device may be made of varying lengths to allow easy access to on/off switch levers of disconnect boxes located overhead, below the user's feet or in confined spaces without the requirement for ladders or other special access equipment.
US10460884B2
A switching arrangement (1), in particular a polarity switching means, for a control transformer (10) which comprises a first winding (2) for a phase of an AC power supply system, which phase is to be controlled, comprises —a first connection terminal (1.1) which can be connected to the winding (2); —a second connection terminal (1.2) which can be connected to a discharge line (3); —a vacuum interrupter (4); —an isolator (5); —a resistor (6) which is connected in series with the vacuum interrupter (4) and the isolator (5); wherein —the first connection terminal (1.1) is connected to the second connection terminal (1.2) by means of the series circuit.
US10460871B2
A method for fabricating a non-planar magnet includes extruding a precursor material including neodymium iron boron crystalline grains into an original anisotropic neodymium iron boron permanent magnet having an original shape, wherein the original anisotropic neodymium iron boron permanent magnet has at least about 90 percent neodymium iron boron magnetic material by volume. The original anisotropic neodymium iron boron permanent magnet is heated to a deformation temperature. The original anisotropic neodymium iron boron permanent magnet is deformed into a reshaped anisotropic neodymium iron boron permanent magnet having a second shape substantially different from the original shape using heated tooling to apply a deformation load to the original anisotropic neodymium iron boron permanent magnet. The original anisotropic neodymium iron boron permanent magnet and the reshaped anisotropic neodymium iron boron permanent magnet each have respective magnetic moments substantially aligned with a respective local surface normal corresponding to the respective magnetic moment.
US10460870B2
An induction coil assembly and a wireless electrical power transmission system are disclosed. A wire that forms the induction coil assembly is wound on a first surface and a second surface of a substrate, two parts of the wire are coupled with each other via a through hole of the substrate, and the coil on the first surface and the coil on the second surface are wound in order of an upper surface to a lower surface, or are cross-wound according to upper-lower surfaces, so that an area surrounded by each winding of the coil is increased as much as possible on the premise of limited substrate dimensions, thereby maximizing the total inductance value of the coil and increasing an induced voltage of the coil.
US10460869B2
The present invention discloses a multi-series continuous-flow magnetoelectric coupling processing system and applications thereof. The processing system comprises multi-series of induction units, a power supply and a feed liquid container, wherein each series of the induction unit comprises a closed iron core, a primary coil wound around one side of the closed iron core, and a secondary coil wound around the other side of the closed iron core and arranged in an induction cavity, the secondary coil comprises an insulation pipe for circulation of feed liquid, and the two ends of the insulation pipe are exposed from the induction cavity and are respectively acted as a feeding hole and a discharge hole; the power supply is in parallel connection with each primary coil in the induction unit and provides excitation voltage to each primary coil; and the feed liquid container is in series connection with the insulation pipes of the multi-series induction units to form a feed liquid circulation loop. According to the multi-series continuous-flow magnetoelectric coupling processing system and the applications thereof, operation parameters are abundant; no electrode directly contacts with the feed liquid, thereby avoiding ionic polarization, electrochemical reactions, and heavy metal contamination; besides, the multi-series continuous-flow magnetoelectric coupling processing system has advantage of high mass transfer efficiency.
US10460867B2
An upright composite common mode coil assembly includes a coil carrier and a seat. The coil carries includes two bobbins with a plurality of coils wounded thereon. The seat includes a base, a bottom portion, a top portion and a separating portion. The base has a back plate on a surface thereof, hollow portions formed at an upper position and a lower position thereof, a wire slot and an indentation are provided at either side of the back plate. The bottom portion and the top portion extend vertically from two sides of the base. A recessed portion is formed at each of the corners of the bottom portion, and a pin is inserted into each of the recessed portions. The top portion has a flat top face. The separating portion extends from another surface of the base and tapered to form a curved surface, and form two receiving slots with the top portion and the bottom portion, respectively. Each of the bobbins of the coil carrier is received in one of the receiving slots of the seat, and wires of a group of the coils are guided into some of the recessed portions through the wire slots and the indentations, and wires of another group of the coils are guided into the other recessed portions through the notches, so that the wires of the coils do not protrude out of the seat and are neatly soldered on the pins.
US10460866B2
A configuration for the rapid replacement of a faulty multiphase transformer includes a plurality of single-phase transformers each of which has a housing filled with an insulating fluid and in which a core having a higher-voltage and a lower-voltage winding is disposed. At least one bushing socket is connected by a winding connection lead extending within the housing to the higher-voltage or lower-voltage winding. At least one high-voltage feed-through or bushing can be inserted into the bushing socket and a cooling module, which can be detachably connected to the housing and is filled with insulating fluid, cools the insulating fluid.
US10460864B2
A magnetic substance holding device includes: a first pole piece assembly including a first N-pole piece, a first S-pole piece, and a first permanent magnet; a second pole piece assembly including a second N-pole piece, a second S-pole piece, and a second permanent magnet; at least one first coil; at least one second coil; and a control device controlling current applied to the first coil and the second coil so as to control magnetic fluxes passing through the first coil and the second coil, thereby allowing the first pole piece assembly and the second pole piece assembly to switch between the first arrangement and the second arrangement, to control magnetic fluxes passing through the holding faces of the first pole piece assembly and the second pole piece assembly.
US10460863B2
Techniques for tuning magnetic potential using a variable gap in a parallel dipole line (PDL) trap are provided. In one aspect, a PDL trap is provided. The PDL trap includes: a pair of dipole line magnets separated from one another by a variable gap g; and a diamagnetic object levitating above the dipole line magnets. The dipole line magnets can be separated from one another by at least one spacer, or a variable gap fixture can be used in which the dipole line magnets are affixed to separate mounts for varying the gap g between the dipole line magnets. A bigger trap or track can be built with multiple segments of PDL trap. A method of operating a PDL trap is also provided.
US10460860B2
A controllable rotary knob including at least one base, at least one drive unit rigidly connected to the base, at least one transmission, and an operating part, and the operating part is configured as a housing surrounding the drive unit and the transmission, and the transmission establishes a connection between the drive unit and the operating part, wherein the drive unit has an axially symmetric structure and the drive unit and the operating element are arranged coaxially to one another.
US10460853B2
An electrical cable is provided with a rounded insulated electrical conductor that transitions to a flattened section to fit into areas where the rounded portion does not fit. A round electrical conductor transitions to a flattened section for electrical conduction routing via the undercarriage of a vehicle, for routing under the carpeting of the passenger compartment, or other confined spaces. The electrical cable may illustratively be used in an electric car application where distribution of electrical current from the battery compartment to the motor requires additional wiring in the vehicle not found in combustion based engines. The reduced vertical profile of the flattened section provides for additional clearance between the vehicle undercarriage and the road, or between the undercarriage frame and the interior passenger compartment carpet.
US10460852B2
The present invention relates to an electrode having a multilayer nanomesh structure using single-crystalline copper and a method for manufacturing same, the electrode comprising: a substrate; a single-crystalline copper electrode layer formed on the substrate and having a hive-shaped pattern with a nano-sized line width; and a metal oxide layer formed on the single-crystalline copper electrode layer, this providing an electrode having excellent optical transmittance, low electrical sheet resistance, and excellent mechanical stability. The present invention is technically characterized by an electrode having a multilayer nanomesh structure using single-crystalline copper, the electrode comprising: a substrate; a single-crystalline copper electrode layer formed on the substrate and having a hive-shaped pattern with a nano-sized line width; and a metal oxide layer formed on the single-crystalline copper electrode layer.
US10460848B2
A device for suspending an x-ray grid has a first rotating frame which can be rotated about a first axis. The x-ray grid is disposed in or on the rotating frame. Two first flexible hinge elements are connected to the first rotating frame and are aligned along the first axis. The first rotating frame is reversibly rotatable about the first axis. An x-ray arrangement has one or more such suspension devices between an x-ray emitter and an x-ray detector. The articulated flexible elements of the novel device are completely play-free and significantly more cost-effective that separate hinges.
US10460845B2
Seals are positioned between abutting nuclear reactor components. Example seals are held in position by gravity, grooves, retainers, direct joining, or other mating structures to seal the abutting components. Compression of example seals drives the seals against the joining components, preventing fluid passage therebetween. Example seals may include a cavity opening to a higher pressure fluid outside the joined components to drive expansion or sealing of the seal. Seals may have a C-shaped, E-shaped, O-ring, coiled, helical, or other cross-section to provide such a cavity. Example seals may be flexible materials compatible with radiation and heat encountered in a nuclear reactor. Seals may be continuous or sectional about the abutment of the components. An annular seal may extend continuously around a perimeter of removably joined core plates, supports, shrouds, and/or chimney heads and structures. Seals can be installed between and in the components at any time access is available to the components.
US10460843B2
A probabilistic digital signal processor using data from multiple instruments is described. In one example, an analyzer is configured to: receive discrete first and second input data, related to a first and second sub-system of the system, from a first and second instrument, respectively. A system processor is used to fuse the first and second input data into fused data. The system processor optionally includes: (1) a probabilistic processor configured to convert the fused data into at least two probability distribution functions and (2) a dynamic state-space model, the dynamic state-space model including at least one probabilistic model configured to operate on the at least two probability distribution functions. The system processor iteratively circulates the at least two probability distribution functions in the dynamic state-space model in synchronization with receipt of updated input data, processes the probability distribution functions, and generates an output related to the state of the system.
US10460841B2
A system, apparatus, and related methods for the collection, processing, evaluation, transformation, and reporting of individual health care information from diverse information systems and sources. A individual health record (IHR) of the present invention provides a structure for individuals to participate in, and manage, their health and their medical care, while still meeting the needs of health care organizations and caregivers. An IHR object may be formed by obtaining information from diverse health care information systems and sources, and transforming and re-purposing into a coherent account of the individual's overall health and care using a comprehensive health care ontology. As information from various sources is updated or available, the IHR is dynamically updated on a continuous or periodic basis. In one embodiment, the IHR system is contained in a self-contained package or “appliance” designed to “plug and play” in existing health care information technology systems and networks, with minimal effort and intervention.
US10460840B2
Techniques and examples pertaining to evaluating the health condition of a patient based on a diagnostic aspect of the patient are described. A method for evaluating the health condition may involve obtaining a measurement value of the diagnostic aspect of the patient by a diagnostics measurement device. The method may also involve calculating a relative ratio by a processor communicatively coupled to the diagnostics measurement device. The processor may calculate the relative ratio by dividing the measurement value by a standard average value of the diagnostic aspect. The method may also involve the processor calculating a health deviation by subtracting a baseline value from the relative ratio. The method may also involve the processor designating a health indicator based on the health deviation, such that the health indicator serves as an indication of the health condition of the patient.
US10460839B1
Data mining of a dental image is described. In an example scenario, an aggregator service receives a dental image of a patient from a dental image provider. The dental image is processed with a machine learning (ML) anatomy dataset. An anatomy from the ML anatomy dataset is identified and matched to the dental image. The dental image is next matched and identified with a ML pathology and treatment dataset. A pathology and a treatment from the ML pathology and treatment dataset are matched to the dental image. Next, the dental image and the anatomy, the pathology, and the treatment associated with the dental image are inserted to a patient dataset associated with the patient. A cluster analysis of the patient dataset is performed with a cluster dataset to produce a correlated dental image information. The correlated dental image information is provided to a data mining entity and to compile a diagnostic aid for a user.
US10460835B2
A method and system assists in management of data associated with a home medical equipment (HME) device provided to a patient. An HME identifier may be received by a physician terminal or an HME provider terminal. In an example, an HME identifier may be stored, encoded, engraved or otherwise applied to a component of an HME device such as a removable storage medium (e.g., an SD card). A records management system may then be searched for a patient record associated with the HME device identifier based on retrieval of the identifier from the component. If a patient record is found, the identity of the patient may be verified. Optionally, if no such patient record is found, then a new patient record associated with the HME identifier may be created.
US10460832B2
A system for reconstructing haplotypes from genotype data includes a memory, a processor, and a reconstruction module. The reconstruction module is configured to access a set of progeny genotype data including n progenies encoded with m genetic markers. A first set of parent haplotypes associated with a first parent of the n progenies and a second set of parent haplotypes associated with a second parent of the n progenies are identified based on at least the set of progeny genotype data. An agglomerate data structure including a collection of sets of haplotype sequences characterizing the n progenies is constructed based on the set of progeny genotype data and the first and second sets of parent haplotypes. Each set of haplotype sequences includes a number of crossovers equal to a total minimum number of observable crossovers in the n progenies.
US10460829B2
In one embodiment, a method of encoding variation data for a population comprises receiving, by a variant encoding engine executing on a processor, information describing genetic variation of a population of individuals. The information comprises a plurality of variable sites within the reference genome of the population and the genotypes of a plurality of individuals in the population with respect to those variable sites. The method further comprises selecting an encoding strategy for the information based on the characteristics of the genetic variation across the population, and encoding the information according to the selected encoding strategy. In certain embodiments, selecting an encoding strategy may comprise determining the variability of a variable site within the population, and encoding information associated with the variable site based on the variability.
US10460823B2
A test control circuit includes a test mode generation circuit. The test mode generation circuit may be configured to generate, while in a fast access mode, a fast test mode signal based on information included in one of a plurality of mode signals and a fast set signal. The test mode generation circuit may be configured to generate, while in a normal mode, a normal test mode signal based on information included in two or more mode signals from the plurality of mode signals and a normal set signal.
US10460822B2
A circuit includes a bitcell array having a plurality of bitlines, and an I/O functional unit to read data stored in the bitcell array. The I/O functional unit includes a first multiplexer to select a first input port or a first bitline among a first group of bitlines, a first latch to latch the output of the first multiplexer, a second multiplexer to select a second input port or a second bitline among a second group of bitlines. The second input port is coupled to an output port of the first latch. The I/O functional unit further includes a second latch to latch the output of the second multiplexer.
US10460821B2
A built-in self-test (BIST) parallel memory test architecture for an integrated circuit, such as a system-on-a-chip (SoC), is disclosed. A BIST controller generates a test data pattern for memories of a common memory type, with this test data pattern forwarded to the memories, with pipeline delay stages inserted in the data path according to the operational speed of the memory in its normal operation. The expected data response of these memories, when read, and corresponding to this test data pattern is delayed for a group of memories by a local delay response generator shared by those memories. For example, the memories in the group of memories may be physically near one another. The local delay response generator delays the expected data response by a delay corresponding to the memory latency of those memories in the group, before applying the expected data response to local comparators associated with the memories in the group.
US10460816B2
A high-performance write operation to program data to a group of non-volatile memory cells may be completed in response to applying a single programming pulse to the group. Programming of the cells may be verified (and/or corrected) after completion of the command. Verifying programming of the cells may comprise identifying under-programmed cells, and applying an additional programming pulse to the identified cells. The under-programmed cells may comprise cells within an under-program range below a target level. The under-program range may be determined based on a threshold voltage distribution of the cells in response to applying the single programming pulse.
US10460815B2
A decoding method and a storage controller for a rewritable non-volatile memory module are provided. The method includes choosing a target word line among a plurality of word lines, wherein a plurality of target memory cells of the target word-line are programmed; reading the target memory cells by respectively using different X read voltage sets, so as to obtain X Gray code count deviation summations, wherein the X read voltage sets and the corresponding X Gray code count deviation summations are all ordered based on a first predefined order; and choosing one of the X read voltage sets as an optimized read voltage set according to the X Gray code count deviation summations.
US10460813B2
A nonvolatile memory device according to some embodiments of the inventive concepts may include a memory cell array, a first page buffer connected to the memory cell array via a first plurality of bit lines, and a second page buffer connected to the memory cell array via a second plurality of bit lines. The first page buffer circuit may include a first bit line selection circuit, a first bit line shut-off circuit, and a first latch circuit. The second page buffer may include a second bit line selection circuit, a second bit line shut-off circuit, and a second latch circuit. The first and second bit line selection circuits, the first and second bit line shut-off circuits, and the first and second latch circuits may be sequentially arranged in a direction away from the memory cell array. A width of the data lines may be greater than a width of the bit lines.
US10460800B2
A data storage device includes a memory cell array and sense circuitry to detect a data value stored to a memory cell of the memory cell array. The data storage device also includes a controller to bias the sense circuitry during a read phase of a write operation to increase the probability that the sense circuitry will detect an opposite value that is opposite from the value being written to the memory cell.
US10460799B2
In a method of reading a resistive memory device according to an embodiment, a memory cell including a selection element and a variable resistance element is prepared. The selection element exhibits a snap-back behavior on a current-voltage sweep curve for the memory cell. First and second read voltages to be applied to the memory cell are determined within a voltage range in which the selection element maintains a turned-on state. The magnitude of the second read voltage is less than that of the first read voltage and selected in a voltage range in which the selection element exhibits the snap-back behavior. The first read voltage is applied to the memory cell to measure a first cell current. The second read voltage is applied to the memory cell to measure a second cell current. A resistance state stored in the memory cell is determined based on the first cell current and the second cell current.
US10460798B2
Resistance variable memory cells having a plurality of resistance variable materials and methods of operating and forming the same are described herein. As an example, a resistance variable memory cell can include a plurality of resistance variable materials located between a plug material and an electrode material. The resistance variable memory cell also includes a first conductive material that contacts the plug material and each of the plurality of resistance variable materials and a second conductive material that contacts the electrode material and each of the plurality of resistance variable materials.
US10460794B1
SRAM arrays are provided. In each SRAM cell arranged in the same column of cell array, first pull-down transistor and first pass-gate transistor are formed in first P-type well region. First and second pull-up transistors are formed in N-type well region. Second pull-down transistor and second pass-gate transistor are formed in second P-type well region. Each well strap cell includes an N-well strap structure formed on the N-type well region and a P-well strap structure formed on the first or second P-type well region. In the same column of cell array, a first distance between an active region of the P-well strap structure and the N-type well region is greater than a second distance from an active region of the first pull-down transistor and the first pass-gate transistor or an active region of the second pull-down transistor and the second pass-gate transistor to the N-type well region.
US10460789B2
A volatile memory array using vertical thyristors is disclosed together with methods of operating the array to read data from and write data to the array.
US10460788B2
According to various embodiments, a memory cell may include: a channel region, a gate isolation structure disposed at the channel region; and a memory structure disposed over the gate isolation structure, the memory structure comprising a first electrode structure, a second electrode structure, and at least one remanent-polarizable layer disposed between the first electrode structure and the second electrode structure; wherein the first electrode structure, the gate isolation structure, and the channel region form a first capacitor structure defining a capacitor area of a first size; and wherein the first electrode structure, the at least one remanent-polarizable layer, and the second electrode structure form a second capacitor structure defining a capacitor area of a second size, wherein the second size is less than the first size.
US10460787B1
A first thin-film transistor (TFT) communicatively couples a word line to a source signal in response to a selection signal applied to a first gate of the first TFT. The word line used to enable and disable a memory element that is coupled to the word line. A second TFT communicatively decouples the word line from a ground in response to the first signal being applied to a second gate of the second TFT.
US10460784B2
According to one embodiment, a magnetic memory includes: a memory cell including a first magnetoresistive effect element; a reference circuit including a second magnetoresistive effect element having a first resistance state and a third magnetoresistive effect element having a second resistance state; and a read circuit configured to read data in the memory cell based on a first signal based on an output from the memory cell and a second signal based on an output from the reference circuit. At a time of reading of the data, a first voltage is applied to the first magnetoresistive effect element, and a second voltage higher than the first voltage is applied to the second magnetoresistive effect element and the third magnetoresistive effect element.
US10460780B2
Magneto-resistive random access memory (MRAM) employing an integrated physically unclonable function (PUF) memory. The MRAM includes an MRAM array comprising an MRAM data array of data MRAM bit cells and an MRAM PUF array comprising PUF MRAM bit cells to form an integrated MRAM PUF array in the MRAM array. A resistance sensed from the PUF MRAM bit cells is compared to a reference resistance between the reference MRAM bit cells in the accessed MRAM bit cell row circuit in response to a read operation to cancel or mitigate the effect of process variations on MRAM bit cell resistance. The difference in sensed resistance and reference resistance is used to generate a random PUF output. By integrating the MRAM PUF array into an MRAM array containing an MRAM data array, access circuitry can be shared to control access to the MRAM data array and MRAM PUF, thus saving memory area.
US10460776B2
A semiconductor memory device is provided. The semiconductor memory device includes a column selection circuit, a sensing circuit, an output circuit, and a verification circuit. The column selection circuit selects n-bit data from data read from a memory cell array according to a column selection signal and outputs the selected n-bit data to an n-bit data bus. The sensing circuit senses the n-bit data on the data bus in response to an activation signal. The output circuit selects m-bit data from the n-bit data sensed by the sensing circuit in response to an internal clock signal synchronized with a serial clock signal applied from outside and outputs the selected m-bit data from output terminals. The verification circuit compares the data sensed by the sensing circuit with the data output by the output circuit to verifying the correctness of read-out data.
US10460773B2
The present disclosure includes apparatuses and methods related to converting a mask to an index. An example apparatus comprises an array of memory cells and periphery logic configured to: generate an indicator mask by resetting, in response to a first control signal, a second digit of a mask different from a first digit of the mask that is set; and convert, in response to a second control signal, a digit position in the indicator mask of the first digit that is set to an identifier value as an index.
US10460771B2
A semiconductor chip module includes a chip unit including first and second semiconductor chips formed over a single body to be adjacent in a first direction with a scribe line region interposed therebetween, and having a first surface over which bonding pads of the first and second semiconductor chips are positioned; redistribution lines formed over the first surface, having one set of ends which are respectively electrically coupled to the bonding pads, and extending in a direction oblique to the first direction toward the scribe line region; and redistribution pads disposed over the first surface, and electrically coupled with another set of ends of the redistribution lines. The redistribution pads includes shared redistribution pads electrically coupled in common to the redistribution lines electrically coupled to the bonding pads of the first semiconductor chip and the redistribution lines electrically coupled to the bonding pads of the second semiconductor chip; and individual redistribution pads individually electrically coupled to the redistribution lines which are not electrically coupled with the shared redistribution pads.
US10460769B2
A memory device includes a first memory cell array connected to a first internal data line; a second memory cell array connected to a second internal data line; and a line swap circuit configured to connect the first and second internal data lines with first and second external data lines based on an externally received driving signal. The line swap circuit is configured such that, when the driving signal has a first logic level, the line swap circuit connects the first and second internal data lines with the first and second external data lines, respectively, and when the driving signal has a second, different logic level, the line swap circuit swaps the first and second external data lines so that the first internal data line is connected to the second external data line and the second internal data line is connected to the first external data line.
US10460759B1
Technologies are provided for partially updating shingled magnetic recording (SMR) zones in SMR storage devices. An SMR storage device can receive and process a command to update a write pointer for an SMR zone to point to an arbitrary write position within the SMR zone. A partial SMR zone update command can be received and processed to modify part of the data stored in the SMR zone. A write position within the SMR zone where data to be modified is stored can be identified. Data stored in the SMR zone following the identified write position can be read to a temporary location and modified. A write pointer for the SMR zone can be updated to point to the identified write position. The modified data can then be written to the SMR zone, starting at the write position identified by the write pointer, or to another SMR zone of the storage device.
US10460753B1
A disk drive including a disk drive base having a lower portion and a base post extending upwardly from the lower portion, a rotatable spindle attached to the disk drive base, and a head actuator pivotally attached to the disk drive base. The head actuator includes an actuator body having a bore therein, and an actuator pivot bearing disposed at least partially within the bore, the actuator pivot bearing having a cover attachment member extending at least partially into a distal end of the base post. An upper portion of the pivot shaft includes an annular groove and a lower portion of the pivot shaft includes an annular recess.
US10460749B1
A voice activity detection (VAD) system includes an input processing module configured to receive an acoustic signal, convert the acoustic signal into an analog signal, and subsequently, a digital signal; an energy-based detection module configured to receive one of the analog/digital signals and determine a sound activity decision; an area-function-based detection module configured to derive an area-related function from the digital signal and use a machine learning method to output an area-based decision according to the area related function; and a VAD decision module configured to make a final VAD decision based on the sound activity decision from the energy-based detection module and the area-based decision from the area-function-based detection module.
US10460746B2
A process for real-time language detection and language heat map data structure modification includes a computing device receiving, from a first electronic audio source, first audio content and identifying a first geographic location of the first audio content. The computing device then determines that the first audio content includes first speech audio and identifies a first language in which the first speech audio is spoken. A first association is created between the first geographic location and the first language, and a real-time language heat-map data structure modified to include the created first association. Then a further action is taken by the computing device as a function of the modified real-time language heat-map data structure.
US10460744B2
Methods, systems, and media for voice communication are provided. In some embodiments, a system for voice communication is provided, the system including: a first audio sensor that captures an acoustic input; and generates a first audio signal based on the acoustic input, wherein the first audio sensor is positioned between a first surface and a second surface of a textile structure. In some embodiments, the first audio sensor is positioned in a region located between the first surface and the second surface of the textile structure. In some embodiments, the first audio sensor is positioned in a passage located between the first surface and the second surface of the textile structure.
US10460737B2
Conventional audio compression technologies perform a standardized signal transformation, independent of the type of the content. Multi-channel signals are decomposed into their signal components, subsequently quantized and encoded. This is disadvantageous due to lack of knowledge on the characteristics of scene composition, especially for e.g. multi-channel audio or Higher-Order Ambisonics (HOA) content. A method for decoding an encoded bitstream of multi-channel audio data and associated metadata is provided, including transforming the first Ambisonics format of the multi-channel audio data to a second Ambisonics format representation of the multi-channel audio data, wherein the transforming maps the first Ambisonics format of the multi-channel audio data into the second Ambisonics format representation of the multi-channel audio data. A method for encoding multi-channel audio data that includes audio data in an Ambisonics format, wherein the encoding includes transforming the encoded multi-channel audio data into a second format encoded multi-channel audio data is also provided.
US10460735B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for identifying a user in a multi-user environment. One of the methods includes receiving, by a first user device, an audio signal encoding an utterance, obtaining, by the first user device, a first speaker model for a first user of the first user device, obtaining, by the first user device for a second user of a second user device that is co-located with the first user device, a second speaker model for the second user or a second score that indicates a respective likelihood that the utterance was spoken by the second user, and determining, by the first user device, that the utterance was spoken by the first user using (i) the first speaker model and the second speaker model or (ii) the first speaker model and the second score.
US10460734B2
Methods and systems for speech signal processing an interactive speech are described. Digitized audio data comprising a user query from a user is received over a network in association with a user identifier. A protocol associated with the user identifier is accessed. A personalized interaction model associated with the user identifier is accessed. A response is generated using the personalized interaction model and the protocol. The response is audibly reproduced by a voice assistance device.
US10460733B2
According to one embodiment, a signal processing apparatus includes a memory and a processor electrically coupled to the memory. The processor separates a plurality of signals by a separation filter, and outputs a plurality of separate signals. The plurality of signals includes signals which are received at different positions and come from different directions. The processor estimates incoming directions of the plurality of separate signals, respectively, and associates the plurality of separate signals with transmission sources of the signals, and present association between the plurality of separate signals and the transmission sources of the signals.
US10460724B2
A method and system are provided. The method includes separating a predicate that specifies a set of events into a temporal part and a non-temporal part. The method further includes comparing the temporal part of the predicate against a predicate of a known window type. The method also includes determining whether the temporal part of the predicate matches the predicate of the known window type. The method additionally includes replacing (i) the non-temporal part of the predicate by a filter, and (ii) the temporal part of the predicate by an instance of the known window type, responsive to the temporal part of the temporal predicate matching the predicate of the known window type. The instance is parameterized with substitutions used to match the temporal part of the predicate to the predicate of the known window type.
US10460716B2
A system and method include filtering with controllable transfer functions in signal paths upstream of K≥1 output paths and downstream of Q≥1 source input paths, and controlling with filter control signals of the controllable transfer functions according to an adaptive control algorithm based on error signals on M≥1 error input paths and source input signals on the Q source input paths. The system and method further include at least one loudspeaker-room-microphone constraint.
US10460709B2
One embodiment provides a system, method, and device for utilizing inaudible tones for music. A song is initiated with enhanced features. A determination is made whether inaudible tones including information or data are associated with a portion of the song. The associated inaudible tone is played. Playback of the song is continued.
US10460704B2
Systems and methods are provided for rendering of a dual eye-specific display. The system tracks the user's eye movements and/or positions, in some implementations, based on electroencephalography (EEG) of the user, to correctly label the central (foveal) and peripheral (extra-foveal) areas of the display. Foveal data is fully rendered while extra-foveal data is reduced in resolution and, in some implementations, shared between the two displays.
US10460703B2
A display control apparatus configured to be connected to an imaging apparatus is provided. The display control apparatus includes an obtaining unit configured to obtain image data captured by the imaging apparatus by capturing an image behind a vehicle; an edge image generation unit configured to generate edge image data that clearly indicates a peripheral portion of the image data to be viewed via an electric mirror that is placed at a rear-view mirror position inside the vehicle; a display image generation unit configured to generate display image data by superimposing the generated edge image data onto the obtained image data; and a control unit configured to control the generated display image data to be viewed via the electric mirror.
US10460697B2
A circuit device 500 includes a comparator circuit CP and a switching circuit SW. The switching circuit SW supplies a detection voltage Vdet that is based on a result of detection from the environment sensor to a first input terminal Tin1 of the comparator circuit CP and a reference voltage Vref to a second input terminal Tin2 of the comparator circuit CP during a first period out of a detection period, and supplies the reference voltage Vref to the first input terminal Tin1 and the detection voltage Vdet to the second input terminal Tin2 during a second period out of the detection period. TB>TA is satisfied, where TA denotes a duration of the detection period, and TB denotes a duration of a period from an end of a first detection period to a start of a second detection period that is subsequent to the first detection period.
US10460695B2
Provided is an electrochromic display device including a display panel including a plurality of pixels configured to display an image on a basis of a unit frame defined as first to third sub-frames, a timing controller configured to output a data signal and an off signal, and a data driving circuit configured to provide, to the pixels, a data voltage generated based on the data signal during the second sub-frame and provide, to the pixels, an off voltage generated based on the off signal during the third sub-frame, wherein each of the pixels includes an electrochromic element, and a power supply voltage is delivered to the electrochromic element in response to the data voltage during the second sub-frame and the power supply voltage provided to the electrochromic element is blocked in response to the off voltage during the third sub-frame.
US10460685B2
Disclosed are a gray scale voltage compensation method of a liquid crystal panel, a circuit for a liquid crystal panel and a liquid crystal panel including the circuit. The invention adjusts the common voltage and/or compensates the pixel voltage to minimize the afterimage of the whole liquid crystal panel under the premise of saving the cost of the liquid crystal panel and greatly improves the panel display performance.
US10460680B2
The present invention discloses a liquid crystal display panel and a driving method thereof, and a liquid crystal display, which the driving method comprises: normalizing an image to be displayed first, to obtain characteristic data of the input image; extending backlight boundary of each backlight partition according to a default condition, and determining a backlight opening coefficient of each backlight partition by data information after the backlight boundary extension; the backlight opening coefficient of each backlight partition subjected to a fusion process, to obtain a driving current of the liquid crystal display panel; obtaining characteristic data of output image of each backlight partition based on the characteristic data of the input image and the driving current; displaying the output image by the driving current and the characteristic data. It is possible to display high-quality picture information in the case of optical crosstalk existing in the liquid crystal display panel.
US10460677B2
The present disclosure relates to a display component and a circuit component of display devices. The display component includes a display panel having a display area and an assembly area, a flexible circuit board, a display driving circuit configured within the assembly area or the flexible circuit board for processing the display signals so as to drive the backlight component of the display panel. One end of the flexible circuit board being fixed within the assembly area, and the other end of the flexible circuit board connecting to the host to input the display signals. With such configuration, the manufacturing efficiency of display components and display devices may be enhanced while the dynamic backlight adjustment may be realized.
US10460673B2
The disclosure discloses a pixel circuit, a method for driving the same, and a display panel. Before a drive control module controls a drive transistor to drive a light emitting device to emit light, a node reset module provides a gate of the drive transistor with a signal of a first voltage terminal; and also while the node reset module is providing the gate of the drive transistor with the signal of the first voltage terminal, a light emitting control module provides a first electrode of the drive transistor with the signal of the first voltage terminal.
US10460668B2
The embodiments of the present application relate to a pixel compensation method, a pixel compensation apparatus and a display apparatus. In blanking periods of two adjacent display frames, detection lines for various color sub-pixels to be compensated in a (2n−1)th row and a (2n)th row are charged respectively, wherein a non-zero grayscale is input to one of the (2n−1)th row and the (2n)th row and a zero grayscale is input to the other one. Voltages on the detection lines for the various color sub-pixels to be compensated in the rows to which the non-zero grayscale and the zero grayscale are input are detected respectively, and a detected voltage of each color sub-pixel to be compensated in the row to which the non-zero grayscale is input is obtained according to voltages on detection lines for color sub-pixels in the (2n−1)th row and the (2n)th row and belonging to the same column.
US10460667B2
A driving control system for driving pixel driving circuits in a display apparatus includes a selecting module, a compensating circuit, and a controller. The pixel driving circuit sequentially operates during a detecting time period and a displaying period. Each pixel driving circuit comprises a driving transistor and an OLED. During the detecting time period, the selecting circuit selects at least one of the pixel driving circuits, the driving transistor in the selected at least one of the pixel driving circuits becomes saturated, the compensating circuit detects a detecting current of the selected pixel driving circuit and converts the detecting current into a specified parameter, the controller adjusts a driving voltage provided to the selected pixel driving circuit based on the specified parameter.
US10460665B2
An OLED pixel driving circuit includes a first TFT, having a gate connected to a second node, and a source and a drain connected to a third node and a fourth node respectively; a second TFT, having a gate receiving a first signal, and a source and a drain connected to the second node and the fourth node respectively; a third TFT, having a gate receiving a second signal, and a source and a drain connected to a first node and the second node respectively; a fourth TFT, having a gate receiving a third signal, and a source and a drain connected to the fourth node and an anode of an OLED respectively; and a capacitor having two ends connected to the first node and the second node respectively. The third node is connected to a high voltage source and the first node is connected to a voltage input end.
US10460663B2
A display according to various embodiments is disclosed. The display has a frontplane including at least one OLED pixel having multiple subpixels connected to at least one power line. A backplane of the display includes at least one driver circuit connected to two or more of the multiple subpixels. Methods for powering the display are also disclosed.
US10460658B2
An organic light-emitting display panel, a driving method and an organic light-emitting display device are provided. The organic light-emitting display panel includes a first pixel driving circuit, and a second pixel driving circuit disposed adjacent to the first pixel driving circuit along a row direction of a pixel matrix. The first pixel driving circuit is connected to a first scanning signal line, and the second pixel driving circuit is connected to a second scanning signal line. The first and the second pixel driving circuits share a same data line. The same data line is configured to time-sharingly provide an initialization signal to the first and the second pixel driving circuits, time-sharingly detect threshold voltages of driving transistors in the first and the second pixel driving circuits, and time-sharingly provide a compensated data signal to the first and the second pixel driving circuits.
US10460653B2
A graphical display device includes a plurality of color-specific subpixels spatially distributed across a display region. Subpixel wear compensation is performed for some or all of the color-specific subpixels. For each color-specific subpixel, the compensation may include sampling one or more display signals directed to the color-specific subpixel to obtain a time-series of sampled values. The compensation may further include storing, in non-volatile storage, compensation data for the color-specific subpixel derived from the time-series of sampled values. The compensation may further include driving the color-specific subpixel based on the compensation data.
US10460651B2
A method of driving a display having a light emitting diode (LED) is provided. A driving pulse of a pulse width modulation method is applied to each pixel by a drive circuit, and a time for illuminating a red light, a blue light, and a green light, which are three primary colors, of each pixel is controlled, thereby controlling the luminance of the pixel.
US10460650B2
A display device includes a display including a plurality of LED lines, a scan driver for successively supplying a power to the plurality of LED lines, and a processor for controlling the scan driver to successively supply the power to the plurality of LED lines in a repeated manner for each of a plurality of sub-periods that form a scan period and changing a turn-on order of the plurality of LED lines for each of the plurality of sub-periods.
US10460647B2
A display device with a narrow bezel is provided. The display device includes a pixel circuit and a driver circuit provided on one plane. The driver circuit includes a selection circuit and a buffer circuit. The buffer circuit includes a first transistor and a second transistor. Sources of the first and second transistors are electrically connected with each other. Drains of the first and second transistors are electrically connected with each other. Gates of the first and second transistors are electrically connected with each other. The first transistor and the second transistor are stacked so that the direction of the current flow in the first transistor is parallel to that in the second transistor.
US10460645B2
A power supplying system and a power module are provided. The power supplying system includes a power supplying apparatus configured to supply power to a display apparatus, and process an image signal received from outside and transmit the processed image signal to the display apparatus, and a power module configured to supply power to an external apparatus, wherein the power module is configured to be docked with the power supplying apparatus.
US10460644B2
The present disclosure relates to a driving system of display panels. The driving system includes a main board and a display panel. The main board is configured with a driving chip, and the driving chip electrically connects to the display panel via a flexible circuit board to drive the display panel to display. With such configuration, the driving system is configured with the main board and the driving chip, and the driving chip is arranged on the main board, instead of the flexible circuit board. With such configuration, the space of the display area occupied by the components is reduced so as to realize the narrow border design for a top border and a bottom border of the display panel. In this way, the screen ratio of the display panel is increased.
US10460634B2
A light assembly includes a thermally conductive support structure, a plurality of light emitting diodes (LEDs) attached to a circuit board and thermally coupled to a heat sink and a single transparent substrate with a corresponding plurality of optical elements over the LEDs. Each of the optical elements include a first portion configured to direct light in a second direction, a second portion configured to direct light in a second lateral direction, and a third portion configured to direct light in a third direction.
US10460633B2
A pixel array, a display substrate and a display device are provided, the pixel array includes a plurality of pixel units, each pixel unit includes a plurality of windmill-shaped sub-pixels, each windmill-shaped sub-pixel is configured to display one primary color, each windmill-shaped sub-pixel includes a plurality of separated parts which are disposed around a center position of this windmill-shaped sub-pixel, and the plurality of separated parts are disposed apart from each other; between two adjacent separated parts of each windmill-shaped sub-pixel, a separated part of an adjacent windmill-shaped sub-pixel is disposed.
US10460632B2
Described in detail herein are systems and methods for an automatic physical object status marking system. An electronic label can display a machine-readable element encoded with an identifier associated with a physical object on the display. A first computing system can receive instructions to modify a status of the physical object. The first computing system can retrieve the identifier associated with the physical objects and the identifier associated with the electronic label. The first computing system can control display of the electronic label to display a visual indicator associated with the status. An RFID reader can detect a RFID tag of the electronic label. The RFID reader can transmit the identifier associated with the electronic label to the second computing system. The second computing system is prevented from scanning a machine-readable element associated with the physical object in response to receiving the first identifier from the RFID reader.
US10460629B1
A perpetual month display calendar, consisting of three components: a month/day display loop, a date display loop, and a back cover, configured independently and assembled together to display a full month's information. The desired month is selected by vertically shifting the month/day display loop pieces and positioning the piece of the corresponding month on the top front section. The layout of the dates is selected by horizontally shifting the date display loop pieces, which then embrace the month/day display loop. The back cover is attached to enhance the appeal and functionality of the back of the calendar. The calendar does not comprise small loose individual pieces, allowing its manipulation with no concern of possibly losing one of them.
US10460627B1
A training filter includes an upper shell having a substantially central hole; a lower shell adjoined to the upper shell; and a plug positioned in the substantially central hole and extending through the lower shell, wherein the plug includes a top wall having a plurality of apertures; a valve adjacent to the top wall and the plurality of apertures; the plug defining a hollow breathing resistance core adjacent to the valve; an angled sidewall flanking the breathing resistance core; and a connection mechanism connected to the plug opposite the top wall. The training filter duplicates the weight, size, shape, and breathing resistance of an actual filter and is reusable and cleanable without a shelf life unlike an actual filter.
US10460625B2
A system and method for providing a medical simulation device that utilizes open software platforms and provides functionality in both software and hardware modules is disclosed. The medical simulation system facilitates plug and play operation with installed hardware and software modules that are automatically recognized by the system for compatibility and the system configures itself according to identification information of the hardware module.
US10460619B2
A system, method, computer program, and on-line computer site is provided for customizing scripture study to enhance scriptural fluency. The method includes specifying a range of passages from a small assortment to a complete canon of scripture, then randomly generating a passage from within the range, optimizing a study to meet personal goals using interactive features, and producing a study report to save and share with peers for collaboration and feedback. Preferably, the invention is operated in conjunction with an interactive Web site or stand alone software program.
US10460618B2
A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium stores a scoring rule application target specification program that causes a computer to execute a process including: receiving specification of one or more areas in an image; and storing the one or more areas in a storage in a manner associated with a question number in order of being received.
US10460611B2
Flight path determination for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in which three-dimensional coverage information, corresponding to a wireless network, is used to optimize the flight path to ensure that the UAVs maintain network coverage throughout the flight. The flight path information may be provided as a service to UAV operators. In one implementation, network coverage for a network may be mapped in a three-dimensional manner. That is, the radio signal strength of the network may be mapped at various heights that correspond to heights at which UAVs are likely to fly.
US10460605B2
A driver assistance system for motor vehicles, including at least one sensor for detecting object properties of objects which are located in the surroundings of the motor vehicle; a first interface; an output unit for transmitting the object properties to a user; and a control unit. The sensor transmits the object properties in a form of a first signal to the first interface. The first interface transmits the object properties, received in the form of the first signal, to the control unit in the form of a second signal, the control unit being configured to forward the object properties, received in the form of a second signal, to the output unit and to control the output of the object properties by the output unit.
US10460604B2
A collision determination apparatus used in a mobile body includes: a receiver receiving radio waves from reference stations; a pseudo range identifying unit identifying a pseudo range to a captured reference station; a self-single difference calculation unit calculating a self-single difference between a first reference station and a second reference station; a transmission unit transmitting a pseudo range associated information into surrounding the mobile body; a reception unit receiving the pseudo range associated information of an external apparatus; an external single difference identifying unit identifying an external single difference between the pseudo ranges to the first and second reference stations; a double difference calculating unit calculating a double difference between the self-single difference and the external single difference; and an approaching relationship determination unit determining whether or not the double difference tends to decrease and determining an approaching relationship when the double difference tends to decrease.
US10460596B2
In order to detect movements of objects and/or living beings in a radio range, which enables easily with a minimum of hardware complexity an automated movement detection based on a Single-Sensor, it is proposed to: Collect as input data for the movement detection based on received radio signals of an intended or unintended communication between a transmitting radio terminal being mobile or fixed and a receiving local fixed radio device in the radio range a set of “Channel State Information”-values, determine a change in the received radio signals, which are derived from the facts that the movement influences the transmitted radio signal in the radio range based on the collected CSI-values by the indication of a statistical parameter value, and assess on the basis of the statistical parameter value a “chaos index” value until the “chaos index” value in accordance with a threshold check provides a reliable statement.
US10460594B2
A motion sensor includes an infrared detector with a first set of detector elements and a second set of detector elements. The motion sensor also includes an optical system to direct electromagnetic energy from a first row of monitored volumes spaced at a pitch in a first direction onto the first set of detector elements and to direct electromagnetic energy from a second row of monitored volumes spaced at the pitch in the first direction onto the second set of detector elements. The second row of monitored volumes has an offset from the first set of monitored volumes in the first direction and the first row of monitored volumes and second row of monitored volumes are substantially non-overlapping.
US10460592B2
A system for monitoring the safety of personnel on a work site, by providing workers on the site with portable battery powered safety monitors equipped with alarms, sensors to detect hazardous conditions, at least two forms of geo-location and two forms of voice and data telecommunication and two CPU's sharing the computation load, each CPU equipped to monitor and reset the other in case of failure to function, with each monitor capable of serving as a node in a mesh network and relaying information concerning alarms detected including location thereof to other monitors on the mesh network.
US10460591B2
A personal portable communication device and system is provided which includes a handheld beacon that has a controller, a short range signal transmitter, and a power source, and at least one switch, an indicator light and a short range signal receiver that transmits and receives signals to a secondary relay communication device such as a smartphone wherein the secondary device sends second communication signals including messages according to predetermined instructions to predetermined destinations.
US10460582B2
A computer-implemented method for detecting a person in a room using a sensor, such as a radar sensor or depth cameras is provided. The method can be used to detect sleeping persons in a publically accessible location to prevent loitering. Furthermore, the method can be used to identify which rooms amongst a plurality of rooms are occupied, for example changing rooms.
US10460578B2
A window sensing device with movement detection enables use of a window sensing arrangement to provide an indication even when a window sash that is open is moved, while an alarm system is armed. The window sensing device includes an accelerometer configured to sense movement of a window sash in a given direction. A magnetic sensor is configured to sense presence of a magnet when the window sash is in a closed position. An electronic controller outputs a normal state wireless signal when the magnetic sensor senses the magnet and outputs an alarm state wireless signal when the magnetic sensor does not sense the presence of the magnet. When the electronic controller is outputting an alarm state wireless signal and the accelerometer senses movement of a window sash, the electronic controller outputs an indication of movement of a window sash in a given direction.
US10460577B2
A system included and a computer-implemented method performed in an autonomous-driving vehicle are described. The system performs: detecting one or more movable objects; determining a target movable object from the one or more detected objects; determining a manner of generating a directed alert notification selectively toward the target movable object; and causing a directed alert notification of the determined manner to be generated toward the target movable object.
US10460572B2
A system for processing customers of a retail establishment through a point-of-sale system at which multiple items can be simultaneously scanned for purchase may include a conveyance path to transport items for purchase from the retail establishment, a multiple-item scanner to substantially simultaneously price scan multiple items grouped together on the conveyance path as the conveyance path transports the multiple items thereby, a plurality of separate item collection areas coupled to the conveyance path, each of the plurality of item collection areas configured to selectively receive items from the conveyance path after price scanning by the multiple-item scanner, and a plurality of customer payment interfaces each positioned at a different one of the plurality of item collection areas and each configured to process customer payment for purchase of items routed only to the one of the plurality of item collection areas at which that customer payment station is positioned.
US10460571B1
Disclosed is an automated transaction machine (ATM) including a card receptacle of a user interface, the card receptacle having a wall extending adjacent a main surface of the user interface, and a support extending between the main surface and the wall. The support, the wall, and the main surface of the user interface define a cavity operable to receive a transaction card. The ATM may further include an exit device of the user interface, the exit device including a container for receiving the transaction card, and a door positioned adjacent the container. The door is biasable between a first position and a second position, wherein in the first position the door substantially covers an exit opening through the main surface of the user interface, and wherein in the second position the door permits access to the container through the exit opening.
US10460570B2
The present disclosure provides an automatic transaction device including: a device casing that is formed at side faces of the device; a door that can be opened and closed to form a device opening at one face of the device; and a device base plate that is formed at a base of the device, a first gap is present between an internal unit of the device and the device casing, the device base plate includes plural fixing member holes disposed in the first gap for fixing the device to a floor, and the fixing member holes are disposed at the device opening side with respect to a backmost position as viewed from the device opening.
US10460561B2
A non-sequential frame insertion interleaved wagering system including an interactive processing device to provide an interactive application; communicate application telemetry data; incorporate application resource data into the interactive application; a wager controller to: determine a wager outcome; and communicate wager data; and the process controller operatively connecting the interactive processing device and the wager controller, and constructed to: generate non-sequential frames; determine whether disruption system parameters are met; communicate generated non-sequential frames; determine a change in user performance; when a change in user performance is determined, notify the wager controller; trigger a wager request; distribute wagering telemetry and application resource data.
US10460543B2
Systems and methods are provided for providing access to secure-access facilities based on pairing of the secure-access facilities with a user device such as a wearable device. A pairable secure-access facility may be a public storage facility or device such as a locker that includes communications circuitry for pairing with the user device. Once paired with the user device, the locker may operate a locking mechanism to lock the locker when the user device is away from the locker and to unlock the locker when the user device is in the vicinity of the locker. The locker may include a beacon for detecting and pairing with the user devices. Pairing the user device and the locker may include entering a locker identifier into the user device to ensure that the intended user device is paired with the intended locker.
US10460534B1
One or more driving analysis computing devices in a driving analysis system may be configured to analyze driving data, determine driving behaviors, and determine whether a collision is imminent or has occurred using vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications. Determination of whether a collision has occurred may be based on X-axis, Y-axis, and Z-axis positional data from two vehicles. Driving data from multiple vehicles may be collected by vehicle sensors or other vehicle-based systems, transmitted using V2V communications, and then analyzed and compared to determine various driving behaviors by the drivers of the vehicles.
US10460528B2
According to one embodiment, there is provided a control method of a figure drawing apparatus including a processor, the control method performed by the processor including a process in which, when drawing one or more arbitrary shapes formed by connecting a plurality of points included in a plane to be drawn and thereby drawing the plane to be drawn within a drawing area of a display screen of a display device, if a predetermined first combination of two or more points of the plurality of points of one arbitrary shape among the one or more arbitrary shapes is not located within the drawing area, the one arbitrary shape is not drawn within the drawing area of the display screen by the display device.
US10460527B2
Disclosed herein is a system comprising a display, at least one imaging device for capturing at least one user image of at least part of the user, a determination unit connected to the at least one imaging device, said determination unit being used for determining information relating to the user's eye based on the at least one user image. The system further comprises a scene renderer connected to the display and the determination unit, the scene renderer being used to generate a first image on the display, whereby the scene renderer is configured to generate at least a partially modified image relative to the first image in real time, without the user noticing, based on the information relating to the user's eye.
US10460523B1
A system for calculating and visualizing a position of buried assets during a buried asset locate procedure in a target area includes an electromagnetic locate device (ELD) including electromagnetic antennas configured for sensing an electromagnetic (EM) field emanating from a buried asset at a target area, and an augmented reality system comprising a camera, a display, inertial sensors for measuring motion and distance moved, and processors configured for reading camera data and sensor data, calculating motion and distance moved, generating a 3D model representing the target area, generating a 3D vector field representing the EM field emanating from the buried asset, calculating a position of the buried asset based on the 3D vector field and the 3D model, creating an object in the 3D model that represents the buried asset, and rendering video of the target area including a graphic representation of the position of the buried asset.
US10460515B2
Systems and methods relate to encoded video streams including geometric-data streams transmitted to a receiver for rendering of a viewpoint-adaptive 3D persona. A method includes obtaining a three-dimensional (3D) mesh of a subject generated from depth-camera-captured information about the subject, obtaining a facial-mesh model, locating a facial portion of the obtained 3D mesh of the subject, computing a geometric transform based on the facial portion and the facial-mesh model, the geometric transform determined in response to one or more aggregated error differences between a plurality of feature points on the facial-mesh model and a plurality of corresponding feature points on the facial portion of the obtained 3D mesh, generating a transformed facial-mesh model using the geometric transform and generating a hybrid mesh of the subject at least in part by combining the transformed facial-mesh model and at least a portion of the obtained 3D mesh.
US10460508B2
A framework for facilitating visualization, including localizing at least one anatomical structure of interest in image data. The structure of interest is then highlighted by reformatting the image data by mapping landmarks associated with the structure of interest to corresponding points along a contour of a geometric shape and warping the image data based on the mapped landmarks. The resulting reformatted image data is rendered for display to a user.
US10460506B2
A method for generating an acceleration structure used for ray tracing includes generating a linear code, the linear code representing a position of each of a plurality of primitives included in a three-dimensional (3D) space, arranging the plurality of primitives according to the generated linear code, determining a rate of change of a size of a generated bounding box while sequentially inputting the plurality of arranged primitives into the generated bounding box, selecting one of the plurality of arranged primitives based on the rate of change of the size of the generated bounding box and classifying the plurality of arranged primitives into a plurality of determined bounding boxes according to the selected primitive.
US10460503B2
Apparatus ad method for texturing a 3D model by UV map in-painting, generates a first UV map from the 3D model and applies color values to the first UV map based on correspondence between a first color image and the first UV map mapped to the first region of the 3D model. A first point is detected on a boundary between a textured region and a first non-textured region within the textured region of the first UV map and a region-of-interest is detected around the first point on the boundary that is utilized to determine texture information of a specific patch of the textured region. A first portion of the first non-textured region of the detected region-of-interest is texturized to obtain a textured region-of-interest in the first UV map, which is utilized to generate a second UV map and texture the at least the first region of the 3D model.
US10460501B2
A computer-implemented method of processing digital video is provided. The method includes determining at least one frame region the contents of which would be rendered substantially invisible, were frames of the digital video to be subjected to a predetermined texture-mapping onto a predetermined geometry; and inserting non-image data into at least one selected frame by modifying contents within at least one determined frame region of the selected frame. Another computer-implemented method of processing digital video is provided. The method includes, for each of a plurality of frames of the digital video: processing contents in one or more predetermined regions of the frame to extract non-image data therefrom; subjecting the frame to a predetermined texture-mapping onto a predetermined geometry, wherein after the texture-mapping the contents of the one or more predetermined regions are rendered substantially invisible; and causing the texture-mapped frame to be displayed. Another computer-implemented method of processing digital video is provided. The method includes for each of a plurality of frames of the digital video: extracting a frame identifier uniquely identifying a respective frame by processing contents in one or more predetermined regions of the frame; and for each of a different plurality of frames of the digital video: estimating the frame identifier based on playback time of the digital video. Another computer-implemented method of processing digital video is provided. The method includes causing frames of the digital video to be displayed; for a period beginning prior to an estimated time of display of an event-triggering frame and ending after the estimated time, causing a frame that is to be displayed prior to the beginning of the period to remain displayed; and after the period, executing at least one event associated with the event-triggering frame and resuming display of subsequent frames of the digital video. Systems and computer-readable media are also provided.
US10460487B2
Methods and apparatus for automatically synthesizing images are disclosed. The methods may include receiving a plurality of input frames with a common background. The methods may also include determining a number of the input frames. The methods may also include selecting, based on the number, a method to detect foregrounds of the input frames. The methods may further include using the selected method to generate an output frame comprising a combination of a plurality of the foregrounds.
US10460474B2
A method includes obtaining first color information for each of a plurality of first samples of a first target color with a color measurement device connected to a computing device including a display. A digital color image of at least one first target color is displayed on the display. An offset value for each first target color is determined such that the digital color image of each first target color matches the corresponding first target color on each of the first samples. A second sample including a second target color is scanned to obtain second color information. A processor of the computing device determines, using the offset values of the first target colors, an interpolated offset for the display such that the digital image of the second target color matches the second tar get color.
US10460470B2
Various embodiments include systems and methods structured to provide recognition of an object in an image using a learning module trained using decomposition of the object into components in a number of training images. The training can be based on an overall objectness score of the object, an objectness score of each component of the object, a pose of the object, and a pose of each component of the object for each training image input. Additional systems and methods can be implemented in a variety of applications.
US10460467B2
An object recognition processing apparatus includes: an object fusion processing unit 6 for fusing detection information signals of objects existing around a vehicle, which are detected by a plurality of object detection units to output object fusion signals; a same object fusion result combination candidate selection processing unit for selecting, for a combination of object fusion signals, candidates of the object fusion signals to be combined; a same object fusion result combination determination processing unit for determining whether or not a combination of the selected object fusion signals is a combination of object fusion signals of the same object; and a same object fusion combination integration processing unit for recognizing the objects existing around the vehicle on the basis of a result of the determination.
US10460450B2
A method for determining the fat mass of a subject includes the steps of acquiring an image of the subject through a digital device, and generating a virtual frame that contains at least in part that image. The virtual frame contains the subject, on the basis of its height or of the greater size in the case of animals, to provide an estimation of the content of the fat mass through an algorithm on the basis of at least an indicative index of the area occupied by the subject with respect to the area of the frame in which it is contained at least in part.
US10460447B2
Methods and systems for segmenting images having sparsely distributed objects are disclosed. A method may include: predicting object potential areas in the image using a preliminary fully convolutional neural network; segmenting a plurality of sub-images corresponding to the object potential areas in the image using a refinement fully convolutional neural network, wherein the refinement fully convolutional neural network is trained to segment images on a higher resolution compared to a lower resolution utilized by the preliminary fully convolutional neural network; and combining the segmented sub-images to generate a final segmented image.
US10460443B2
Provided is an electronic device including a display configured to display a first image; and one or more processors electrically connected with the display, wherein the one or more processors are configured to: select a region surrounding a first object comprising a first sub-region surrounding a first part of the first object and a second sub-region surrounding a second part of the first object from the first image, apply a first correction scheme to the first sub-region surrounding the first part of the first object, apply a second correction scheme to the second sub-region surrounding the second part of the first object, and generate a second image comprising the corrected first sub-region surrounding the first part of the first object and the corrected second sub-region surrounding the second part of the first object.
US10460434B2
There are provided system and method of detecting defects on a specimen, the method comprising: capturing a first image from a first die and obtaining one or more second images; receiving: i) a first set of predefined first descriptors each representing a type of DOI, and ii) a second set of predefined second descriptors each representing a type of noise; generating at least one difference image based on difference between pixel values of the first image and pixel values derived from the second images; generating at least one third image, comprising: computing a value for each given pixel of at least part of the at least one difference image based on the first and second sets of predefined descriptors, and surrounding pixels centered around the given pixel; and determining presence of defect candidates based on the at least one third image and a predefined threshold.
US10460415B2
An embodiment of a graphics apparatus may include a context engine to determine contextual information, a recommendation engine communicatively coupled to the context engine to determine a recommendation based on the contextual information, and a configuration engine communicatively coupled to the recommendation engine to adjust a configuration of a graphics operation based on the recommendation. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.
US10460409B2
Implementations are directed to providing a user of a mobile device access to patient information and patient physiological data. Actions can include receiving user input, the user input indicating a user command to display a location screen, in response to the user input, processing user-specific data and facility-specific data to determine one or more graphical representations to be displayed, and displaying the location screen on the mobile device, the location screen including one or more display regions and the one or more graphical representations, each graphical representation depicting at least a portion of a facility.
US10460405B2
When detecting a reduction in the price of an airline ticket included in an airline ticket and plan voucher combination that does not meet any set of desired purchase conditions specified by users, a set item providing server SA notifies information to prompt reduction in the price of a plan voucher included in a combination that fails to satisfy any set of desired purchase conditions that has no hits, among combinations of the marked-down airline ticket and a plan voucher, to the facility provider that provides the plan voucher.
US10460402B2
A system, a machine-readable storage medium storing instructions, and a computer-implemented method are described herein are directed to Large Scale Optimizing Engine. The Large Scale Optimizing Engine determines a probability, for each content item in a set of content items, of the respective member account performing a content item action. The Large Scale Optimizing Engine identifies a select content item from the set of content items based on determining display of the select content item will meet a first and second target. The Large Scale Optimizing Engine causes display of the select content item in a content slot in the respective member account's social network feed based on satisfaction of the first and second targets.
US10460395B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure include a server that receives a plurality of financial transactions and stores information corresponding to those transactions in a database. The server can communicate with a client application to communicate transaction data and to display the transaction data in a conversational view. The conversational view includes a graphical user interface having one or more polygons that contain the transaction data.
US10460392B1
Methods, systems, apparatus, and non-transitory computer readable media are disclosed for providing a web-based application that allows a customer to submit relevant information for obtaining insurance policy products that may require medical underwriting. Various aspects allow a customer to use the web-based application for a variety of insurance products, which may include term, full, and/or universal life insurance policies. The web-based application simplifies the application process by filtering questions and/or prompts presented to the customer based upon a customer's specific needs, previous answers, and/or other information. Various aspects also include determining whether a customer qualifies for temporary or permanent life insurance coverage based upon a customer's information and/or answers to one or more knockout questions, and if so, providing the customer with a binding receipt of temporary insurance coverage upon payment for a period of time in which the underwriting may be completed.
US10460388B2
A system for managing trading orders comprises a memory operable to store an order associated with a first price. The system further comprises a processor communicatively coupled to the memory and operable to identify a latency value. The processor is further operable to receive a counterorder and to identify a potential trade associated with the order and the counterorder, the potential trade based at least in part on the first price. If the latency value satisfies a configurable condition, the processor is further operable to initiate a configurable period of time. If the potential trade is not valid upon expiration of the configurable period, the processor is further operable to prevent the execution of the potential trade.
US10460384B2
The invention relates to an automated risk monitoring method and a corresponding risk monitoring system for automated risk monitoring, in the case of which control data for different companies are transferred to a monitoring unit and evaluated, a company specific asset distribution and a corresponding threshold value being determined, said threshold value corresponding to the expected value of the asset parameter for the occurrence of the insolvency of a company, recovery rate factors being determined by means of a standardization module of the monitoring unit, and wherein, using a MonteCarlo module of the monitoring unit (20), MonteCarlo asset parameters are generated for each company by means of which the companies with the lowest expected recovery rate factors are determined and dynamic adjustment of the portfolio accordingly made by means of the monitoring unit.
US10460381B1
An image of a check may be presented for payment in a banking system in place of the physical paper check. The check to be deposited can be collected from a depositor using a scanner. A web site, accessed through a depositor's web browser, can be used to drive the process of collecting the check, but in some contexts (e.g., in less popular computing environments, such as those that do not run the most popular operating systems), it is economically infeasible to obtain the certificates that would be used to allow a program executing in the web browser to control the scanner. Thus, a depositor can be instructed to capture and upload images of the check in the form of files, where the image files are then presented for payment through a banking system.
US10460380B2
A method and system for remotely exchanging weighment information via a wireless device, such as a cell phone, pertaining to a vehicle, such as truck, at a vehicle weight station. The system and method may include determining a present location of a vehicle to be weighed, verifying identification information of the vehicle to be weighed and receiving a vehicle weight from a server remote from the wireless device. The system and method may also include exchanging payment information between one or more servers and a wireless device.
US10460379B1
A computer-implemented data processing system includes a data storage device and a processor and program logic stored in memory and executable by the processor. The program logic may include account management logic coupled to the data storage device to manage accounts respectively associated with a plurality of users, and interface logic coupled to the account management logic and the data storage device to connect the data processing system to computing systems associated with the plurality of users by way of the Internet, the interface logic providing the users with web access to an on-line banking area of a website of a financial institution, the interface logic further configured to establish a connection with one of the users and provide the user with a user interface. The user interface may be customizable based on inputs received from the user to provide selected ones of display modules.
US10460373B2
Disclosed is a recommendation method and apparatus. The recommendation method comprises: identifying at least one core user of a network service provider and a set of users who have demonstrated one or more network-related behaviors with respect to a first predetermined association item; sampling the set of users to identify a set of sample users; calculating a similarity between the sample users to identify a list of similar users; and sending a recommendation of potential users to a network service provider, the recommendation of potential users based on the list of similar users and the at least one core user of a network service provider. Potential users may be efficiently recommended to a network service provider.
US10460372B1
A method and apparatus are disclosed that create an electronic form based on table data provided by Internet searching operations. One example may include determining at least one search term, querying, via a server, information provided by at least one network based on the search term, and copying at least one data table resulting from the information discovered during the querying operation. Additional operations may include parsing the at least one data table and storing the information in the server, displaying the data table to an end user so that the end user may select whether the data table should be included in the electronic form, and providing the user with the option to select and edit the contents of the data table. Upon the user's approval the data table may be copied into the electronic form.
US10460365B2
A system and method for generating an electronic catalog for online computer users is disclosed. The system and method in an example embodiment includes providing access to a data store of images; enabling selection of a plurality of images from at least some of the images provided in the data store; enabling association of each the plurality of selected images with a respective page in a computer-generated electronic catalog; recording an identifier of each of the respective computer-generated electronic catalog pages; and recording information associating each of the plurality of selected images with the identifier of each of the respective computer-generated electronic catalog pages.
US10460359B1
Methods and systems for arranging hyperlinks on a graphical user-interface (GUI) of a computerized system include receiving, via the GUI, a user selection to display a plurality of hyperlinks, the hyperlinks corresponding to one or more nodes of a first set. The methods and systems further include determining, by a processor, a rank of each hyperlink in the plurality of hyperlinks. Determining a rank includes constructing a first bipartite graph between the one or more nodes of the first set and one or more nodes of a second set, the first set and the second set being mutually exclusive, wherein edges of the first bipartite graph are weighted according to a first criterium and constructing a second bipartite graph between the one or more nodes of the first set and the one or more nodes of the second set, wherein edges of the second bipartite graph are weighted according to a second criterium, different from the first criterium. The first bipartite graph and the second bipartite graph are aggregated to form an aggregated bipartite graph. The one or more hyperlinks are ranked ordinally according to an aggregate weight of the corresponding node in the aggregate bipartite graph. The first-ranked hyperlink is automatically moved to a first position on the GUI and the second and subsequently ranked hyperlinks are automatically moved to second and subsequent positions, respectively, on the GUI.
US10460356B2
Systems and related methods providing for dynamic message creation are discussed herein. Circuitry may be configured receive generic configuration data that references work chunks for message generation and time data indicating a message send time. The work chunks may include references to message data, but not the actual message data. Based on the time data, the work chunks may be placed in a message queue. Circuitry may also be configured to retrieve a work chunk from the message queue and to generate one or more messages based on the retrieved work chunk. The references to message data in the work chunk may be used to retrieve the message data at the time of message generation.
US10460354B2
A mediator system, which serves as a conduit between a customer and merchants, includes customer profile data. The mediator system analyzes the customer profile data, and assigns an indication to a customer represented by the customer profile data. The mediator system then provides the indication to the merchants, and then receives bids from the merchants. The bids are for establishing a connection between the merchants and the customer. The mediator system provides to a portion of the merchants, based on the bids, a connection to the customer.
US10460350B2
Embodiments of the invention are directed to methods, systems, and apparatuses for providing digital concierge services through a portable electronic device. The digital concierge may be provided through an application installed on a portable electronic device that is configured to contact a concierge service, provide filtered and relevant offers including promotions and accountholder benefits, and provide ATM location services for users as they travel. One embodiment of the present invention is directed to a method comprising determining a location of a portable electronic device, receiving concierge data associated with the user, filtering, by a processor, a plurality of offers according to the location of the portable electronic device and the concierge data associated with the user, and presenting filtered offers to a user. Some embodiments may further filter the plurality of offers according to an issuer associated with the user of the portable electronic device.
US10460336B2
Methods, systems, and computer program products for incentivizing adoption of predefined practices using digital transactable assets are provided herein. A computer-implemented method includes processing measurements from a collection of activity meters over a predetermined period of time, wherein each of the activity meters is linked to at least one user, and wherein the measurements represent user activity in furtherance of a predefined objective; generating units of a digital transactable asset to be allocated among the users in connection with the predefined objective; allocating the generated units of the digital transactable asset among the users based on said processing; and converting the generated units of the digital transactable asset allocated to each of the users to an alternative value source upon completion of (i) the predefined objective and/or (ii) the predetermined period of time.
US10460333B2
Certain embodiments of the disclosure relate to methods and systems that support automated, targeted polling of consumers via an e-commerce promotions platform for administering e-commerce promotional activities, such as, for example, sweepstakes, contests, giveaways, and/or instant wins.
US10460325B2
A customer service dashboard comprises an account pane and a partially surrounding administrative layer. The account pane presents information that is typically available in a customer-facing account management portal. The administrative layer presents additional content that is not typically available to customers. The administrative layer may have a menu component for selecting and navigating between customer accounts, as well as for viewing calendared items. The administrative layer may also have a module selection component for opening panes corresponding to functional modules. These modules can expose functionality relating to the current customer account. In one example, a module such as this is used for quickly navigating between interrupted tasks that are being performed in the account view. The administrative layer can be quickly hidden by selecting a visible toggle control, so that the dashboard closely replicates what would be available to and seen by a customer.
US10460323B2
Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can determine a request for establishing a communication between a first computing device and a second computing device. Information to be provided to the second computing device can be determined. An address can be associated with the information to be provided to the second computing device. The communication between the first computing device and the second computing device can be established. The address can be provided to the second computing device when establishing the communication and the second computing device can obtain the information using the at least one address.
US10460317B2
Conducting hands-free transactions comprises a server at a payment processing system, a user computing device, and a merchant computing device. The payment processing system registers a merchant system as a hands-free payment participant and provides a beacon identifier. The payment processing system receives a communication from a hands-free payment application on a user computing device, the communication comprising a transaction token, an identification of a user account, and the beacon identifier received by the user computing device via a wireless communication from a device associated with the merchant system and transmits the transaction token to the merchant system computing device. The payment processing system receives from the merchant system computing device, a transaction request, the transaction request comprising the token and transaction data associated with the transaction request and conducts the transaction between the user account and the merchant system based on the received token and transaction request.
US10460315B2
A computer-implemented remote control method and system are disclosed for providing financial account security to prevent unauthorized use of the financial account. The method may include providing, for an account holder device, a graphical user interface for facilitating automatic activation and deactivation of the financial account and receiving over a network from the account holder device, an account holder command entered through the provided graphical user interface. The method may additionally include authenticating the account holder command and processing the account holder command entered through the provided graphical user interface using a command processing engine including computer processing components, the command processing engine changing an account status from an active state to an inactive state or from an inactive state to an active state in accordance with the received command.
US10460312B1
A computing system receives first input from a customer to establish an account at the financial institution having a physical payment card associated therewith, approves the customer for the account based on account registration information received from the customer, and establishes the account for the customer. Establishing the account includes generating a card number for the physical payment card and associating the card number with a first status indicator, the first status indicator being associated with an inactive status of the account. Once the account is established, the computing system transmits a prompt instructing the customer to establish a PIN for the account and receives a customer-input PIN for the account. Additionally, the computing system receives another input from the customer to provision the account to a mobile wallet, provisions the account to the mobile wallet, and enables the customer to engage in mobile wallet transactions with the account prior to the customer receiving the physical payment card.
US10460299B1
Methods and systems for retaining credit card usage through systematic recognition of recurring payments are described. In some embodiments, a method includes receiving user transaction data relating to a payment instrument issued to a user. The user transaction data may include payees and a schedule of payments to the payees. The method may further include identifying recurring payees based on a category of each of the payees. In response to a triggering event requiring an account update of the payment instrument, a report identifying the recurring payees may be generated for the user.
US10460295B1
Remote deposit of checks can be facilitated by a financial institution. A customer's general purpose computer and image capture device may be leveraged to capture an image of a check and deliver the image to financial institution electronics. Additional data for the transaction may be collected as necessary. The transaction can be automatically accomplished utilizing the images and data thus acquired.
US10460294B1
Techniques of detecting errors on a transaction channel. As described herein, nodes that perform actions of a transaction channel automatically generate reception records that memorialize receptions by the nodes of transaction items that represent financial transactions. These reception records can be analyzed to determine whether a node that performs an action in the transaction channel failed to receive a transaction item within an expected time. If a node that performs an action in the transaction channel failed to receive a transaction item within the expected time, an error remediation process may be performed.
US10460279B2
Embodiments relate to a client-facing application for interacting with a transport service that transports items via unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). An example graphic interface may allow a user to order items to specific delivery areas associated with their larger delivery location, and may dynamically provide status updates and other functionality during the process of fulfilling a UAV transport request.
US10460276B2
A method for comparing predictive data models based on a predictive model search is provided. The method may include receiving a first and second portion of a set of data. The method may also include identifying a first and second variation of the second portion, wherein the first variation is different from the second variation. The method may further include generating first predictive data models based on the first variation, and second predictive data models based on the second variation. Additionally, the method may include applying a criteria to rank the first and second predictive data models based on predictive strength. The method may also include presenting a display of the ranked criteria, comprising the first portion, and a portion of the first and second predictive data models, wherein the portion of the first and second predictive data models are collectively ranked and presented according to the predictive strength.
US10460270B2
In accordance with disclosed embodiments, there are provided methods, systems, and apparatuses for implementing cross-organizational processing of business intelligence metrics including, for example, means for scheduling a time for metrics collection from databases of a host organization; generating one or more messages and associated parameters to implement the metrics collection at the host organization; enqueuing the one or more messages and associated parameters for processing by the host organization; dequeuing the one or more messages and associated parameters into the host organization for processing, wherein the processing is to output the metrics collection into an intermediate table; capturing the metrics collection output via the processing at the intermediate table; and exposing the intermediate table to metrics queries. Other related embodiments are disclosed.
US10460259B2
Systems for dynamically recognizing progress and generating recommendations are provided. In some examples, a system may image data from an augmented reality device. The image data may include video images, still images, images of machine-readable code, and the like. The received image data may be analyzed in real-time to identify an object within the data. In some examples, machine learning may be used to identify one or more characteristics of the object. The identified characteristics may be compared to one or more pre-defined goals or limits and a notification may be generated based on the comparison. The notification may be transmitted to the augmented reality device and displayed on the augmented reality device. In some examples, based on the comparison, machine learning may be used to generate one or more recommendations and a notification may be generated including the recommendations and may be transmitted to the augmented reality device for display.
US10460247B2
Techniques are disclosed for automatically assigning weights to attributes of media content based in part on how many users actually viewed or listened to the content, as well as how many users “liked” or otherwise indicated a preference for the content. The content items can be any type of audio or visual media content, such as songs, videos, or movies, as well as written content, such as books, articles, journals, advertisements, or magazines. A first similarity score is determined based on a similarity between user preferences for content items. A second similarity score is determined based on a similarity between one or more common attributes of the content items. These attributes are assigned ratings that represent the number of users who consumed the corresponding content. Next, weights are assigned to each of the attributes based on the first and second similarity scores using, for example, linear equation regression techniques.
US10460246B2
A personal taste assessment system recommends and predicts a person's preference for a consumable or other item. The system accesses a user profile for a person. The user profile includes a preference model representing associations between the person's ratings of items and a set of item characteristics. The system also accesses a database of characteristic values for a group of items, uses the identifying information to identify a candidate item having characteristic values whose properties match characteristics associated with the rated items that the person found to be appealing, and processes the characteristic values of the candidate item with the user profile to generate a predicted rating as a prediction of how the person would rate the identified candidate item. The system then causes an electronic device to output an identification of the candidate item and the predicted rating.
US10460241B2
A server and a cloud computing resource optimization method thereof for big data cloud computing architecture are provided. The server runs a dynamic scaling system to perform the following operations: receiving a task message; executing a profiling procedure to generate a profile based on an to-be-executed task recorded in the task message; executing a classifying procedure to determine a task classification of the to-be-executed task; executing a prediction procedure to obtain a plurality of predicted execution times corresponding to a plurality of computing node numbers, a computing node type and a system parameter of the to-be-executed task; executing an optimization procedure to determine a practical computing node number of the to-be-executed task; and transmitting an optimization output message to a management server to make the management server allocate at least one data computing system to execute a program file of the to-be-executed task.
US10460240B2
A system and method for associating equipment sensor tags with tags associated with analytic programs including embodiments that receive a list of equipment tag names and corresponding descriptions as well as a list of analytic tag names and descriptions. The equipment tag descriptions are normalized to create normalized equipment tag descriptions, and the analytic tag descriptions are normalized to create normalized analytic tag descriptions. A first matrix of vectors that associates content in a dictionary with aspects of the equipment tag names is created using corresponding normalized tag descriptions. A second matrix of vectors that associates the content in a dictionary with aspects of the normalized analytic tag description is created.
US10460233B2
A method of updating a neural network may be provided. A method may include computing gradients for an operating matrix of a current layer of the neural network based on data of at least one of the current layer and at least one other layer of the neural network. The method may also include updating the operating matrix based on the computed gradients. Further, the method may include updating an indexing matrix of the current layer based on the updated operating matrix.
US10460227B2
Disclosed are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for utilizing a virtual assistant as part of a communication session. One or more of the participant users can select to utilize a virtual assistant to assist the participant users with tasks during the communication session. A user can use a communication application to enter a message directed to the virtual assistant. The virtual assistant can analyze the entered message and determine that the message was directed to the virtual assistant rather than to the other participants of the communication session. As a result, the message will not be transmitted to the other participants of the communication session and the virtual assistant will assist the user with the identified task. A virtual assistant can assist a user with a variety of different tasks.
US10460226B2
A tire includes a plurality of tire components defining a plurality of layers. A radio frequency identification (RFID) tag is disposed between at least two of the plurality of layers. The RFID tag is in contact with each of the at least two layers and is configured to transmit a response signal in response to receiving a request signal. When no air is in a region surrounding the RFID tag, a first response signal is emitted from the tire at a first frequency and first power. However, when air is in the region surrounding the RFID tag, a second response signal is emitted from the tire at the first frequency and a second power different from the first power.
US10460216B2
The present invention is a collation/retrieval system collating a product manufactured by or delivered from a producer or a distributor with a product to be collated comprising: a storage unit that stores an image feature of a predetermined collation area of the product determined in advance at a position relative to a reference section common in every product; a to-be-collated product feature extraction unit that receives an image of the product to be collated and detecting the reference section of the product from the received image to extract an image feature of the collation area determined by reference to the reference section; and a collation unit that collates the stored image feature with the image feature of the collation area of the product to be collated.
US10460214B2
Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media are disclosed for segmenting objects in digital visual media utilizing one or more salient content neural networks. In particular, in one or more embodiments, the disclosed systems and methods train one or more salient content neural networks to efficiently identify foreground pixels in digital visual media. Moreover, in one or more embodiments, the disclosed systems and methods provide a trained salient content neural network to a mobile device, allowing the mobile device to directly select salient objects in digital visual media utilizing a trained neural network. Furthermore, in one or more embodiments, the disclosed systems and methods train and provide multiple salient content neural networks, such that mobile devices can identify objects in real-time digital visual media feeds (utilizing a first salient content neural network) and identify objects in static digital images (utilizing a second salient content neural network).
US10460213B2
Disclosed is a method for state decision of image data. The method for state decision of image data may include: acquiring first output data by the network function based on the image data; acquiring second output data by an algorithm having a different effect from the network function based on the image data; and deciding state information of the image data based on the first output data and the second output data.
US10460211B2
A neural network system that includes: multiple subnetworks that includes: a first subnetwork including multiple first modules, each first module including: a pass-through convolutional layer configured to process the subnetwork input for the first subnetwork to generate a pass-through output; an average pooling stack of neural network layers that collectively processes the subnetwork input for the first subnetwork to generate an average pooling output; a first stack of convolutional neural network layers configured to collectively process the subnetwork input for the first subnetwork to generate a first stack output; a second stack of convolutional neural network layers that are configured to collectively process the subnetwork input for the first subnetwork to generate a second stack output; and a concatenation layer configured to concatenate the pass-through output, the average pooling output, the first stack output, and the second stack output to generate a first module output for the first module.
US10460206B2
To differentiate physical and non-physical events, a discrimination system based on unsupervised machining learning is used to predict a plausibility of objects' behaviors between a starting and ending time point. The discrimination system receives a set of initial, or “starting” content frames, each depicting a state of objects at a starting time point and an arrangement or “behavior” of those objects at the starting time. To train the discrimination system, the first model uses the starting content frame to generate a subsequent content frame, while the second model generates a subsequent content frame without using the starting content frame. A discriminator model may thus be trained without supervision by treating the subsequent content frame generated from the first model as a possible behavior of the starting content frame, and the subsequent content frame generated from the second model as an impossible behavior of the starting content frame.
US10460204B2
Systems and methods for non-invasive assessment of an arterial stenosis, comprising include segmenting a plurality of mesh candidates for an anatomical model of an artery including a stenosis region of a patient from medical imaging data. A hemodynamic index for the stenosis region is computed in each of the plurality of mesh candidates. It is determined whether a variation among values of the hemodynamic index for the stenosis region in each of the plurality of mesh candidates is significant with respect to a threshold associated with a clinical decision regarding the stenosis region.
US10460203B2
The disclosed systems and methods include pre-calculation, per object, of object feature bin values, for identifying close matches between objects, such as text documents, that have numerous weighted features, such as specific-length word sequences. Predetermined feature weights get scaled with two or more selected adjacent scaling factors, and randomly rounded. The expanded set of weighted features of an object gets min-hashed into a predetermined number of feature bins. For each feature that qualifies to be inserted by min-hashing into a particular feature bin, and across successive feature bins, the expanded set of weighted features get min-hashed and circularly smeared into the predetermined number of feature bins. Completed pre-calculated sets of feature bin values for each scaling of the object, together with the scaling factor, are stored for use in comparing sampled features of the object with sampled features of other objects by calculating an estimated Jaccard similarity index.
US10460198B2
An image processing system comprises a template matching engine (TME). The TME reads an image from the memory; and as each pixel of the image is being read, calculates a respective feature value of a plurality of feature maps as a function of the pixel value. A pre-filter is responsive to a current pixel location comprising a node within a limited detector cascade to be applied to a window within the image to: compare a feature value from a selected one of the plurality of feature maps corresponding to the pixel location to a threshold value; and responsive to pixels for all nodes within a limited detector cascade to be applied to the window having been read, determine a score for the window. A classifier, responsive to the pre-filter indicating that a score for a window is below a window threshold, does not apply a longer detector cascade to the window before indicating that the window does not comprise an object to be detected.
US10460194B2
A technique and system for counting the number of repetitions of approximately the same action in an input video sequence using 3D convolutional neural networks is disclosed. The proposed system runs online and not on the complete video. It analyzes sequentially blocks of 20 non-consecutive frames. The cycle length within each block is evaluated using a deep network architecture and the information is then integrated over time. A unique property of the disclosed method is that it is shown to successfully train on entirely synthetic data, created by synthesizing moving random patches. It therefore effectively exploits the high generalization capability of deep neural networks. Coupled with a region of interest detection mechanism and a suitable mechanism to identify the time scale of the video, the system is robust enough to handle real world videos collected from YouTube and elsewhere, as well as non-video signals such as sensor data revealing repetitious physical movement.
US10460193B2
An image processing apparatus approximates a three-dimensional shape of a target object, acquired from an image of of the target object, by a quadric surface, applies a plane expansion process that expands the quadric surface into an expansion plane, to data of the image, computes corresponding points before and after the plane expansion process, and generates normalized data of the image from the corresponding points that are computed. The corresponding points are computed based on a point on a straight line of the expansion plane in contact with a point on the quadric surface and corresponding to a reference point on the target object, and an intersection point of an imaginary straight line, passing through the point on the straight line and extending in a direction of a first normal vector with respect to the straight line, and a quadratic curve of the quadric surface.
US10460192B2
A method and system are provided for optical character recognition (OCR) of multi-language content. The method includes extracting a text portion from an image received from a user-computing device. The text portion comprises a plurality of keywords associated with a plurality of languages. The method further includes segmenting the plurality of keywords into a plurality of layers. Each layer of the plurality of layers comprises one or more keywords which are associated with a language. The method further comprise generating an OCR output of each of the plurality of layers based on the language associated with the one or more keywords in each of the plurality of layers. The method further comprises generating an electronic document of the received image based on the generated OCR output of each of the plurality of layers. The method further includes transmitting the generated electronic document to the user-computing device.
US10460179B2
A lane recognition system and method are disclosed. The lane recognition system according to an embodiment of the present invention includes an image sensor for capturing an image comprising a lane; a neuromorphic system in which a plurality of neurons in which a pattern vector related to a lane information are stored are connected by a parallel bus; and a lane recognition unit for generating [1×N] size input vectors of a predetermined size for a region of interest of the input image frame input from the image sensor, for inputting the generated vector to the neuromorphic system, and for recognizing a lane in the input image based on lane information of a neuron having a pattern vector most similar to an input vector among a plurality of neurons stored in the system.
US10460153B2
In an embodiment, the disclosure includes an object detecting device. The object detecting device is configured to execute the instructions to: obtain a first picture comprising a first object at a first time instant; determine a first feature pattern of the first object based on the first picture; generate a first feature map of the first object based on the first feature pattern; generate a first feature vector of the first object based on the first feature map; and send the first feature vector to a server. In this embodiment, the first feature vector is generated based on the first feature map by the object detecting device rather than starting another process of directly generating the first feature map based on the first picture. Therefore, the speed and the computing resource cost of generating the feature vector may be better.
US10460147B2
A display screen is provided, including a display layer and a first light shielding layer. The display layer has a display surface, the first light shielding layer is arranged on the display surface and has a fingerprint recognition area, the fingerprint recognition area includes at least one first through hole sensing signals emitted and received by a fingerprint unit located below the display screen can be transmitted through the first through hole. A display device is provided, including the display screen and an optical fingerprint unit. The optical fingerprint unit is disposed at a side of the display layer away from the first light shielding layer and located at a position corresponding to an optical fingerprint recognition area. The fingerprint unit includes a light emitter and a light inductor, and a light signal emitted by the light emitter is transmitted to a fingerprint and received by the light inductor after being reflected by the fingerprint. A mobile terminal is provided.
US10460145B2
A device for capturing imprints of a body part on-the-fly, including a stand which includes a region of free space through which a user may pass a body part. When in this zone, the body part is simultaneously illuminated by a light source that produces a uniform illumination of the body part and a sight-projecting module that projects a sight onto the body part, and an image of the body part thus illuminated is acquired by the image-acquiring module. The capturing device is able to model the variations in light intensity of the projection of the sight on the body part by determining parameters of a preset parametric mathematical model, and generate a synthetic image of said projection on the basis of said model and using parameters determined beforehand. The synthetic image is then subtracted from the acquired image in order to obtain a sight-free image of the body part.
US10460141B2
A method of decoding a coherent RGB color barcode captured by a RGB camera includes: displaying a coherent RGB color barcode on the RGB display; capturing an image of the displayed barcode; performing a pilot block RGB color interference cancellation process to estimate a per pixel color interference; applying the per pixel color interference to the image of the displayed coherent RGB color barcode to extract each separate barcode of the coherent RGB color barcode; binarizing each of the three separate monochrome grey images of each barcode of the coherent RGB color barcode; and decoding each of the three separate binarized monochrome grey images to provide a decoded data for each barcode of the coherent RGB color barcode displayed on the RGB display. A method of decoding an incoherent RGB color barcode captured by a mobile device RGB camera is also described.
US10460136B2
A terminal for magnetic secure transmission (MST) includes a body including a magnetic head and a coil member wound around the magnetic head, and an electromagnetic wave shielding structure disposed around the magnetic head and being formed of a magnetic material.
US10460133B2
Systems and methods of making a diagnostic test strip, the method including marking a machine-readable pattern onto the diagnostic test strip which contains information that allows a meter designed to work with the test strip to convert raw signal data from the diagnostic test strip into a meaningful concentration value for an analyte of interest. The method further includes printing the machine-readable pattern having a modified based code that is different from a base code of the diagnostic test strip being produced, wherein the modified based code is based on a strip geometry parameter, a chemistry parameter or both the strip geometry and chemistry parameters that are measured for the diagnostic test strip.
US10460132B2
A self-locking USB filter device is disclosed that comprises at least one permanently attachable self-locking USB plug having at least one locking tooth to permanently connect the permanently attachable self-locking USB plug to a USB jack of a protected computing apparatus. The self-locking USB filter protects the protected computing apparatus by blocking unauthorized data transfer and blocks all communication unless the authenticator is authenticated by software installed in the protected computing apparatus. A method of protecting USB jacks of a computing device is also disclosed.
US10460128B2
In an example embodiment, an attribute interference model is trained by a machine learning algorithm to output missing attribute values from a member profile of a social networking service. In an attribute inference phase, an identification of a member of a social networking service is obtained. A member profile corresponding to the member of the social networking service is retrieved using the identification. The member profile is then passed to the attribute inference model to generate one or more missing attribute values for the member profile. A collection flow, defined in a user interface of a computing device, is modified based on the generated one or more missing attribute values, the collection flow defining a sequence of screens for collecting confidential data. The modified collection flow is then presented to the member in the user interface to collect confidential data from the member.
US10460126B2
The present disclosure relates to a digital verification system that enables users (e.g., consumers) to control the sharing of their personal information among online providers. The digital verification system provides systems and methods that enable a user to authorize verification requests from third-party providers that request private information about the user. The digital verification system also provides a secure database that stores user information and securely processes authorized verification requests. In particular, the secure database stores lifetime value blockchains for users that the digital verification system accesses when verifying authorized requests.
US10460123B1
Systems and methods are provided executing jobs immediately upon receipt of a notification. The systems and methods may include receiving, at a cloud compute service, a notification that a sensitive file comprising sensitive data has been received at a file receipt location, the sensitive file being sent by a client device; generating, by the cloud compute service, a container instance in response to the notification; retrieving, by the container instance, the sensitive file from the file receipt location; generating, by the container instance, a stripped file by stripping the sensitive data from the sensitive file based on a configuration file; transmitting, by the container instance, the stripped file to a storage location; deleting the sensitive file and associated file pointers from the file receipt location; and terminating the container instance, wherein terminating the container instance comprises deleting files comprising sensitive data and associated file pointers.
US10460121B2
A method is proposed for authorizing use of at least one object, in particular at least one machine, in particular at least one hand-held power tool, in which at least one evaluation unit of an electronic authorization device provides an item of authorization information at least in dependence on at least one item of use-related information.
US10460113B2
A method, a computer program product, and a computer system for a security fix of a container in a VM (virtual machine) environment. A computer detects a container in a container environment, determines whether the container has a security issue performs live migration of the container to a created VM, fixes the security issue of the container in the created VM, and determines whether the security issue is fixed. In response to determining that the security issue is fixed, the computer performs live migration of the created VM to the container environment.
US10460112B2
A system and method detect privacy leaks in applications of an operating system of a mobile device. An instrumentation module permits tracking of privacy-sensitive information without modification of a middleware of the operating system and a process virtual machine.
US10460109B2
An execution of a data object is identified by a computing device. In response to identifying the execution of the data object, it is determined that the data object has requested a sensitive action of the computing device before interacting with a user of the computing device. In response to determining that the data object has requested the sensitive action, the data object is classified as a high-risk data object.
US10460099B2
Disclosed are system and method for detecting malicious code in files. One exemplary method comprises: intercepting, by a processor, one or more application program interface (API) calls during an execution of a process launched from a file of a computing device; determining and detecting, by the processor, a presence of an exit condition of the process; in response to detecting the exit condition, identifying one or more signatures of a first type and transferring one or more saved memory dumps of the computing device to an emulator for execution; and determining and identifying a malicious code in the file in response to detecting one or more signatures of a second type based at least upon execution results of the transferred memory dumps of the computing device.
US10460094B2
Method, apparatus, and storage medium for data processing are provided. The method may include: obtaining an access configuration of encrypted data in a terminal, when receiving an access request for the encrypted data, the access configuration including a biometric key access method and/or a character key access method; outputting key entry prompt information according to the access configuration; performing a verification by calling a system API of the terminal to collect an entered target biometric key when a biometric key entry operation performed according to the key entry prompt information is detected, and obtaining a verification result; and responding to the access request according to the verification result. Encrypted data may thus be accessed based on a biometric key access method, an operation process of accessing encrypted data is simplified, data access efficiency and data processing efficiency are improved, and intelligence of a terminal is improved.
US10460087B2
A method is implemented by a network device communicatively coupled to a datacenter to detect a presence of unauthorized software and hardware in the datacenter. The method includes initiating deployment of a virtual agent on a node in the datacenter, where the virtual agent is to perform a security scan of the node and store results of the security scan in a memory allocated to the virtual agent at the node, and where the results of the security scan are to be encrypted using a data encryption key. The method further includes initiating migration of the virtual agent to a preconfigured location, where the results of the security scan are to be extracted from the virtual agent and decrypted at the preconfigured location.
US10460062B2
Embodiments relate to a method and computer program for determining a placement of at least one circuit for a reconfigurable logic device. The method comprises obtaining (110) information related to the at least one circuit. The at least one circuit comprises a plurality of blocks and a plurality of connections between the plurality of blocks. The plurality of blocks comprise a plurality of logic blocks. The method further comprises calculating (120) a circuit graph based on the information related to the at least one circuit. The circuit graph comprises a plurality of nodes and a plurality of edges. The plurality of nodes represent at least a subset of the plurality of blocks of the at least one circuit and wherein the plurality of edges represent at least a subset of the plurality of connections between the plurality of blocks of the at least one circuit. The method further comprises determining (130) a force-directed layout of the circuit graph. The force-directed layout is based on attractive forces based on the plurality of connections between the plurality of blocks and based on repulsive forces between the plurality of blocks. The method further comprises determining (140) a placement of the plurality of logic blocks onto a plurality of available logic cells of the reconfigurable logic device based on the force-directed layout of the circuit graph.
US10460038B2
Exemplary embodiments relate to detecting, removing, and/or replacing objectionable words and phrases in a machine-generated translation. A classifier identifies translations containing target words or phrases. The classifier may be applied to the output translation to remove target words and phrases from the translation, or to prevent target words and phrases from being automatically presented. Further, the classifier may be applied to a translation model to prevent the target words and phrases from appearing in the output translation. Still further, the classifier may be applied to training data so that the translation model is not trained using the target words of phrases. The classifier may remove target words or phrases only when the target words or phrases appear in the output translation but not the source language input data. The classifier may be provided as a standalone service, or may be employed in the context of a machine translation system.
US10460024B2
Techniques for assisting users electronic forms. One exemplary technique involves initiating a workflow assistant based on user input of the user or a predetermined triggering event to prompt the user to complete the electronic form. The workflow assistant downloads or obtains the electronic form based on a user response and identifies a workflow based on the electronic form. The workflow identifies a sequence of user interactions to complete the electronic form. Identifying the workflow includes developing, based on fields in the electronic form, requests for content of fields from the user and possible predicted answer choices for the content of each of the fields. The workflow assistant then executes the workflow to conduct the user interactions to obtain the content for the fields of the electronic form to complete the electronic form.
US10460020B2
A method and apparatus produces documentation from customized extensible mark-up language (XML) by generating a schema-specific Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) specialization. The DITA specialization is generated from XML schemas which define the XML documents. During the process of generating the DITA specialization, a XSL transform is also generated. The XSL transform is applied to the XML file to produce a DITA file that follows the rules of the DITA specialization. Prior art transforms can then be used to convert the DITA file and the DITA specialization to standard documentation. Generating schema-specific DITA specializations may be an automatic process or a dynamic process under the direction of a user.
US10460016B2
The present disclosure provides a method and an apparatus for playing multimedia in a browser of a User equipment. The method includes: playing a multimedia file in a multimedia playing container located in a browser visible area; moving the browser visible area, and monitoring a position of the multimedia playing container relative to the browser visible area; and setting, in case of determining according to the position of the multimedia playing container relative to the browser visible area that the multimedia playing container is moved out of the browser visible area, a position attribute of the multimedia playing container to move the multimedia playing container into the browser visible area. By using the embodiments of the present disclosure, a user can still normally browse multimedia when a multimedia playing area is moved out of a current visible area of the browser screen, and operational complexity is also reduced.
US10460010B2
Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with computing scenario forecasts according to electronic inputs are described. In one embodiment, a method includes, in response to receiving a signal that triggers data collection, collecting electronic data from one or more electronic databases by aggregating the electronic data into data structures of a processing table. The electronic data defines historic values of a set of instruments. The method also includes computing projected values for each of the set of instruments according to correlations identified in the historic values. The projected values form primary forecasts that model expected future values of the set of instruments. The method includes, in response to receiving electronic inputs including scenario variables of a scenario that affects the primary forecasts, generating scenario forecasts for the set of instruments according to the scenario variables and the projected values to identify how the scenario influences the primary forecasts.
US10460005B2
A system includes reception of first Web application code for a first Web page from a first Web server, reception of second Web application code for the first Web page from a second Web server, execution of the first Web application code to register a first data model in a container of the first Web page, and execution of the second Web application to query the container of the first Web page for data models, request the first data model from the container, receive the first data model from the container, extract first data from the first data model, and present the first data in the first Web page.
US10459990B1
A data processing method, apparatus, medium and terminal thereof are disclosed in the present disclosure, the method comprising: determining data-to-be-processed based on data provided by a data provider, the data-to-be-processed includes plaintext description data; storing the plaintext description data to a database, the database may be used to support a search engine; and in response to confirmation of search results from the search engine by a data requestor, triggering a smart contract running on blockchain, the smart contract includes communication and records between the data requestor and the data provider. The technical solution in some embodiments improves search efficiency of data in blockchain technology applications.
US10459988B2
Techniques for presenting a recommendation to a member of a social network in a specific field of study are described. A predictor can access, from a database in the social network, educational data of a plurality of students and post-graduate data of a plurality of graduates in the social network. Additionally, the predictor can determine a subset of students associated with a specific field of study, and can calculate a demand for the specific field of study based on the accessed data. A recommendation generator can calculate a competition value for the specific field of study based on the determined subset of students and the calculated demand for the specific field of study. Subsequently, the recommendation generator can cause a presentation, on a display of a device, of a recommendation associated with the specific field of study, the recommendation being based on the calculated competition value.
US10459983B2
The present disclosure provides a method and a device of hierarchical document filtering. The method includes: selecting multiple documents from a to-be-filtered document set of a current document filtering layer according to a preset sampling strategy, and forming a first document list by using the selected documents according to an order of the selected documents in the to-be-filtered document set; calculating a quality value of each document in the first document list respectively according to a relevance calculation method for the current document filtering layer; reordering the documents in the first document list according to the quality value of each document in the first document list, to obtain a second document list; and filtering the to-be-filtered document set of the current document filtering layer according to the degree of consistency between the first document list and the second document list.
US10459978B2
Techniques for generating and transferring bulk messages from one computing device to another computing device in a cluster are provided. Each computing device in a cluster is assigned a different set of nodes of a graph. A first computing device may be assigned a particular node that is neighbors with multiple other nodes that are assigned to one or more other computing devices in the cluster. When processing graph-related code at the first computing device, information about the neighbors may be required. The first computing device receives a bulk message from one of the other computing devices. The bulk message contains information about at least a subset of the neighbors. Therefore, the first computing device is not required to send multiple messages for information about the subset of neighbors. In fact, the first computing device is not required to send any message for the information.
US10459973B2
A method includes determining, at a processor of a device, an unordered match between a set of consecutive portions of a first audio fingerprint and a set of non-consecutive portions of a second audio fingerprint. The method also includes setting, based at least in part on a station associated with the second audio fingerprint, a length criterion to indicate a first length or a second length. The method further includes, in response to determining that a length of the unordered match satisfies a length criterion, outputting an indicator that the first audio fingerprint matches the second audio fingerprint.
US10459972B2
A system and method for the automatic, procedural generation of musical content in relation to biometric data. The systems and methods use a user's device, such as a cell phone to capture image data of a body part, and derive a biometric signal from the image data. The biometric signal includes biometric parameters, which are used by a music generation engine to generate music. The music generation can also be based on user-specific data and quality data related to the biometric detection process.
US10459970B2
According to one embodiment, a request is received for evaluating matching between a content item and an image that were identified and selected from a plurality of content items and images in response to a search query. First metadata associated with the content item, second metadata associated with the image, and third metadata associated with the search query are obtained. A first similarity score is determined based on the first metadata associated with the content item and the third metadata associated with the search query. A second similarity score is determined based on the second metadata associated with the image and the third metadata associated with the search query. An evaluation score is calculated for matching of the content item and the image in view of the search query. The evaluation score is utilized to identify subsequent content items and images in response to a subsequent search query.
US10459964B2
Techniques and constructs to facilitate suggestion of image-based search queries can provide personalized trending image search queries. The constructs may enable identification of trending image searches and further personalize those trending image search queries for an identified user based on information about on the user's search history and the search histories of other users. The constructs also may select a representative image for display to the user, such that selection of the representative image will execute the search query. The representative image may be selected from a plurality of candidate images based on its burstiness.
US10459951B2
The present disclosure relates to a method and system for determining automation sequences for resolution of an incident ticket by an automation system. The automation system retrieves data associated with plurality of incident tickets received from a ticketing system during predefined time duration and groups the plurality of incident tickets into one or more clusters based on the data. The automation system receives a plurality of user actions associated with the plurality of incident tickets performed across a plurality of user devices and identifies similarity among sequences of the plurality of user actions for each ticket cluster. Based on the similarity, the automation system groups the sequences of the plurality of user actions into one or more bucket and determines automation sequences for resolution of the incident ticket by correlating the data associated with plurality of incident tickets with one or more buckets of the sequences.
US10459950B2
In one embodiment, a method includes deriving input topics based on a content item, generating a matrix of scores for the input topics according to a first set of cross-indexed topics, where each of the scores indicates a degree of similarity between a corresponding one of the input topics and a corresponding one of the first cross-indexed topics, calculating a total score for each of the first cross-indexed topics based on the scores for the first cross-indexed topic across all of the input topics, and selecting one or more of the first cross-indexed topics based on the total scores of the first cross-indexed topics. Deriving the input topics may include using a topic tagger to identify the topics based on the content item. The first set of cross-indexed topics may be generated from a database of topics, such as an online encyclopedia.
US10459948B2
A content recommendation system includes: an attribute value storage means which stores one or more attribute values of attributes for each content; a preference distribution storage means which stores a user preference degree for each attribute value; an attribute value acquisition means which acquires an attribute value of at least one attribute for each content; a preference distribution update means which updates the storage contents in the preference distribution storage means in accordance with the acquired attribute value; a condition determination means which selects an attribute value of one or more attributes in accordance with probability based on the user preference degree stored in the preference distribution storage means and determines the condition of the attribute value of the one or more attributes in accordance with the selected attribute value; and a content selection means which selects some or all of the contents in accordance with the determined condition.
US10459947B2
Using historical queries to determine database columns to populate a partial database. A partial database is created based, at least in part, on key values related to columns in a database for which the columns are most frequently accessed.
US10459945B2
Methods and systems for managing for migrating feedback data from one digital asset to another digital asset are disclosed. Typically, the one digital asset is available for distribution from a network-based media distribution system, but then subsequently is removed from distribution for any of a number of reasons. However, since the one digital asset has been in use at the network-based media distribution system, it has accumulated feedback data. Hence, if the another digital asset serves (e.g., due to equivalency) to replace the one digital asset, then the accumulated feedback data from the one digital asset can be transferred to the another digital asset. As a result, the another digital asset can benefit from the feedback data that was previously associated with the one digital assert.
US10459943B2
A method comprising receiving a request for media content from a client, accessing a plurality of source files associated with the requested media content based on the request, wherein the plurality of source files comprise the media content in one or more source formats, and generating a portion of a plurality of target files based on the plurality of source files. The method further comprising generating an auxiliary file for the generated portion of the plurality of target files to facilitate transmission of the generated portion of the plurality of target files to the client and transmitting to the client as a seamless media transmission the generated portion of the plurality of target files, wherein the portion of the plurality of target files are transmitted to the client simultaneously with generation of another portion of the plurality of target files and a corresponding auxiliary file.
US10459941B2
A method of generating context-specific content from a database system for display in a user interface of a personal information management (PIM) application is provided. The method comprises receiving, by a database server, user selection of one or more database applications from a requesting user to generate context-specific content customized by the requesting user for display in a PIM application user interface. The method further comprises generating, using the user-selected database applications, user-customized context-specific content and transmitting to the PIM application, by the database server, the user-customized context-specific content for display in the PIM application user interface along with a PIM message. The user-customized context-specific content is relevant to the PIM message. Related apparatus, systems, techniques and articles are also described.
US10459939B1
Disclosed are a system and a method for providing user-interactive parallel coordinates charts. In an embodiment, a machine data search and analysis system retrieves search results including a plurality of events, each of the events containing time-stamped data in response to a search query. The system identifies a plurality of characteristics from the data corresponding to the events. The system causes display of a multiple-dimensional chart (e.g., a parallel coordinates chart) depicting the data corresponding to the events. The multiple-dimensional chart includes a plurality of axes. Each of the axes corresponds to one of the identified characteristics. The multiple-dimensional chart further includes a plurality of polylines representing the events. Each of the polylines includes a plurality of vertices on the axes.
US10459915B2
Managing queries performed on one or more data sources includes: storing at least a first query in a storage medium; selecting the first query for processing; instructing a query engine to process the first query on a first portion of data in the one or more data sources for a first query interval; receiving result data from the query engine based on processing the first query on the first portion of data; saving a state of the first query in the storage medium after the first query interval; instructing the query engine to process a second query during a second query interval after the first query interval; and instructing the query engine to process the first query on a second portion of data in the one or more data sources during a third query interval after the second query interval.
US10459894B2
A separate, central server operating in a system including one or more database server machines and a graphical user interface displayed on a user's computer is disclosed and provides a technological improvement. In one example, computer-readable instructions are stored in computer memory on this shutdown control server. A user, such as a database administrator, may access the shutdown control server to initiate the shutdown, reboot, and/or restart of database services on one or more separate database servers. At least one advantage of such an arrangement is that the shutdown control server provides plug-and-play capabilities that may allow one or more database servers of one or more different database types to concurrently connect to the shutdown control server.
US10459892B2
A software and hardware facility persistently maintains metrics on directories at different levels within a tree of a filesystem. The facility hierarchically aggregates attributes of files contained by directories and stores them as metric values in each directory within a tree. The stored values represent summed or otherwise aggregated data from the descendant directories and files. The metric values represent aggregated attributes such as total space consumed by a directory and all the descendant directories and files, total number of files within a directory, total data blocks used by a directory and its descendant directories and data files, etc.
