US10660251B2
In an inspection device, components are separated and collected after electrical characteristics have been measured. The inspection device includes holding table, pair of measuring elements and configured to grip a component held on holding table and measure electrical characteristics of the component; and a relative movement device configured to relatively move holding table and the pair of measuring elements. The components are separated and collected by the relative position of movable element and holding table being changed based on measurement results of the electrical characteristics of the component.
US10660230B2
An electronic control device includes a relay including a relay case and an electromagnet and a contact part. The relay case is structured to contain the electromagnet and the contact part. The contact part is structured to be opened and closed by action of the electromagnet. A connector terminal is electrically connected to the relay. A circuit board is structured to mount the relay and the connector terminal thereon. An exterior shell is structured to contain the circuit board such that the connector terminal is exposed outside the exterior shell. A thermal mass element is disposed in a wiring route between the relay and the connector terminal.
US10660228B2
A storage card insertable into a host system is provided that includes a plurality of storage devices connectors. The storage card include slot offset features to offset a circuit board of the storage card from a host system slot alignment. This offset provides for storage device connector placement on both sides of the storage card. The storage card also can include a Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) switch circuit configured to communicatively couple the PCIe signaling of the plurality of storage device connectors and PCIe signaling of a host connector of the storage card, where the PCIe switch circuit is configured to receive storage operations over the PCIe signaling of the host connector of the storage card and transfer the storage operations for delivery over the PCIe signaling of selected ones of the plurality of storage device connectors.
US10660224B2
A head-mounted display device including a front element, a pair of extending portions, an adjustable fixing assembly, a top adjustable fixing assembly, a rear adjustable fixing assembly, and a rotatable adjusting mechanism is provided. The front element is adapted to be placed or be installed with a display device and is adapted to cover eyes of a user. The top adjustable fixing assembly is adapted to be in contact with a parietal bone of the user. The rear adjustable fixing assembly is adapted to be in contact with an occipital bone of the user. The adjustable fixing assembly and the top adjustable fixing assembly are adjustable according to head shapes of different users. The rotatable adjusting mechanism adjusts the rear adjustable fixing assembly so that the rear adjustable fixing assembly is adapted to head shapes of different users.
US10660208B2
A system and method for providing a packaged electronics module having a dry film battery incorporated therein is disclosed. The packaged electronics module includes a first dielectric layer, at least one electronic component attached to or embedded in the first dielectric layer, a dry film battery formed on the first dielectric layer, and metal interconnects mechanically and electrically coupled to the at least one electronic component and the dry film battery to form electrical interconnections thereto. Electronic components in the form of a MEMS type sensor, semiconductor device and communications device may be included in the module along with the battery to provide a self-powered module capable of communicating with other like packaged electronics modules.
US10660207B2
A circuit module includes a substrate on which a first electrode and a second electrode are provided, a first electronic component, and a first resin layer. The first electrode includes a first electrode base body and a first plating film. The second electrode and the first electronic component are covered with the first resin layer. The second electrode includes a second electrode base body, a metal column, whose one end is directly connected to the second electrode base body and another end is positioned in an inner side relative to an outer surface of the first resin layer, a second plating film with a cylindrical shape covering a side surface of a connection body of the second electrode base body and the metal column, and a covering portion connected to the other end of the metal column.
US10660202B1
A carrier structure including a glass substrate, a buffer layer, and an inner circuit layer is provided. The glass substrate has a first surface, a second surface opposite to the first surface, and at least one through hole penetrating through the glass substrate. The buffer layer is disposed on the first surface and the second surface of the glass substrate. The inner circuit layer is disposed on the buffer layer and in the through hole of the glass substrate. The inner circuit layer exposes a part of the buffer layer.
US10660200B2
The invention provides an electronic device that includes a first functional body, a second functional body, and at least one connection member connecting the first functional body to the second functional body. The at least one connection member has a spiral pattern, and is suspended in air to allow for stretching, flexing or compressing.
US10660194B2
A heat conducting member includes: a magnetic substance-containing layer containing a magnetic substance, the magnetic substance being oriented along a predetermined orientation direction; and a metal-containing layer containing a metal body including a surface crossing the orientation direction of the magnetic substance.
US10660187B1
A lighting system and its method of operation that enables multiple independent light assemblies to be simultaneously controlled. The light assemblies contain a matrix of LEDs that are capable of generating different color profiles throughout a range of intensities. The light assemblies also contain a control module that controls the color profiles and the range of intensities being produced by the LEDs. A custom software application is run on a smartphone. The software application enables manual selection of the color profiles and the range of intensities, and the smartphone generates command signals that are transmitted to the light assemblies for execution. The software application generates a control screen on the smartphone that plots the color profiles against the range of intensities. The color profiles and the range of intensities are selected by touching a point on the control screen.
US10660185B2
A visible light sensor may be configured to sense environmental characteristics of a space using an image of the space. The visible light sensor may be controlled in one or more modes, including a daylight glare sensor mode, a daylighting sensor mode, a color sensor mode, and/or an occupancy/vacancy sensor mode. In the daylight glare sensor mode, the visible light sensor may be configured to decrease or eliminate glare within a space. In the daylighting sensor mode and the color sensor mode, the visible light sensor may be configured to provide a preferred amount of light and color temperature, respectively, within the space. In the occupancy/vacancy sensor mode, the visible light sensor may be configured to detect an occupancy/vacancy condition within the space and adjust one or more control devices according to the occupation or vacancy of the space. The visible light sensor may be configured to protect the privacy of users within the space via software, a removable module, and/or a special sensor.
US10660184B2
A light-emitting diode (LED) luminaire comprising a normally operated portion and an emergency operated portion is used to replace a luminaire operated only in a normal mode with alternate-current (AC) mains. The normally operated portion comprises LED arrays and a power supply whereas the emergency operated portion comprises a rechargeable battery, a charging circuit, an LED driving circuit, a self-diagnostic circuit, and a charging detection and control circuit. According to availability of the AC mains, the LED luminaire can auto-select to work in an emergency mode when a line voltage from the AC mains is unavailable. The self-diagnostic circuit comprises multiple timers and is configured to provide multiple sequences and to auto-test battery discharging current according to the multiple sequences. During an auto-test period, a terminal voltage on the rechargeable battery and an LED forward voltage across the LED arrays are examined with test results displayed in a status indicator.
US10660183B2
Position indicating devices, systems and methods useable for signaling the positions of pedestrians or vehicles.
US10660181B1
A controllable silicon light regulation apparatus without a driving power element receives an alternating current (AC) from an AC source comprising a first light emitting diode (LED) source module and a second LED source module. The controllable silicon light regulation apparatus stores specified color temperatures. A difference between adjacent specified color temperatures is 100K. Under a segment dimming mode, the controllable silicon light regulation apparatus sets a segment value and selects a number of the specified color temperatures based on the segment value. A color temperature of the controllable silicon light regulation apparatus is gradually regulated in a loop of target color temperatures based on a counted number of turn-on times in a specified time duration of the AC source.
US10660175B2
Enhancements to ornamental or holiday lighting are disclosed including remote control ornamental illumination with color pallet control whereby a user can vary the color/intensity/appearance of an individual bulb or entire light string by selecting the electronic address of the bulb and selecting its attribute. Further disclosures include: motion responsive lights which respond to sensed movement, gesture controlled lights, adjustable white color/white led sets, connectable multi-function lights, controller to sequence lights to music or other input source, rotating projection led light/tree top/table top unit, and remote controlled sequencing icicle lights and ornament lighting system.
US10660163B2
An induction humidification system is disclosed. The induction humidification system includes a base having a circumferential induction coil and a removable and replaceable cartridge received within the interior space defined by the induction coil. The canister has a nonmetallic housing, such as a plastic housing, within which a ferromagnetic member having a circumferential sidewall is disposed. When the canister is received within the base, the ferromagnetic member sidewall and the induction coil are radially overlapping such that a current applied to the induction coil causes the ferromagnetic member to be heated which in turn causes water held within the canister to be converted to steam. Once the ferromagnetic member has reached the end of its useful life, the canister can be simply replaced with a new canister that can be received by the original base.
US10660153B1
A device may connect to a first wireless network; determine whether the first wireless network provides a particular service for determining a position of the device; select the first wireless network as a primary network if the first wireless network provides the particular service for determining a position of the device, or select the second wireless network as the primary network if the first wireless network does not provide the particular service for determining a position of the device. If the device selects the first wireless network as the primary network, the device may send a first request to the first wireless network to make a first emergency call to an endpoint over the first wireless network.
US10660146B2
A Device to Device (D2D) user equipment (UE) is configured to support synchronization in a D2D network. The D2D UE includes an antenna configured to communicate via a D2D communication. The D2D UE also includes processing circuitry configured to enter a communication Mode 2 when certain conditions are met. The certain conditions include: when a first timer (T310) for detecting radio link failure is running, a second timer (T311) for initiating the connection reestablishment is running, or a third timer (T301) for requesting connection reestablishment is running. In communication Mode 2, the D2D UE, on its own, selects resources from resource pool(s) to transmit D2D data and D2D control information. The processing circuitry further configured to exit the communication Mode 2 and enter a communication Mode 1 when the certain condition is no longer met. In communication Mode 1, the D2D UE uses resources configured by another station.
US10660144B2
Systems and methods for managing mobility in a network of moving things. As non-limiting examples, various aspects of this disclosure provide systems and methods for managing mobility in a network in which at least a portion of the network access points are moving.
US10660139B2
Provided is a wireless communication terminal that wirelessly communicates. the wireless communication terminal includes: a transceiver for transmitting and receiving a wireless signal; and a processor for processing the wireless signal. The processor is configured to perform a transmission based on a transmission opportunity (TXOP) limit which is a maximum value of a TXOP, which is a time interval in which a wireless communication terminal has a right to initiate a frame exchange sequence in a wireless medium.
US10660114B2
Apparatuses, systems, and methods for a wireless device to perform simultaneous uplink activity for multiple RATs in the same carrier using frequency division multiplexing. The wireless device may establish a first wireless link with a first base station according to a first radio access technology (RAT) and a second wireless link with a second base station according to a second RAT. The first base station may provide a first cell operating in a first system bandwidth and the second base station may provide a second cell operating in a second system bandwidth. The wireless device may determine whether the wireless device has uplink activity scheduled according to both the first RAT and the second RAT. If so, the wireless device may perform uplink activity for both the first RAT and the second RAT in the first system bandwidth using frequency division multiplexing.
US10660111B2
A device receives network condition information. The network condition information is indicative of network resource availability at a plurality of locations. The device processes the network condition information to associate network resource availability identified in the network condition information with one or more airspace voxels that represent one or more three-dimensional (3D) portions of airspace corresponding to the plurality of locations. The device receives flight parameters relating to a proposed flight plan of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) through airspace represented by a set of airspace voxels, and network performance parameters associated with the proposed flight plan. The device determines that the network resource availability that is associated with the set of airspace voxels fails to satisfy the network performance parameters, and performs one or more actions to enable the UAV to access network resources that satisfy the network performance parameters.
US10660100B2
This disclosure relates to techniques for providing robust downlink control information with flexible resource assignments for wireless devices that operate in a restricted bandwidth compared to the system bandwidth. A base station may determine a resource assignment for a wireless device. The base station may transmit downlink control information to the wireless device. The downlink control information may include an indication of a resource assignment for the wireless device. The indication of the resource assignment may include an indication of a first narrowband associated with the resource assignment, and an indication of whether one or more additional narrowbands are associated with the resource assignment. The base station and the wireless device may communicate data according to the resource assignment.
US10660089B2
Aspects of the present disclosure provide various mechanisms for protection of MU transmissions, such as UL MU MIMO and UL OFDMA. The mechanisms may allow for various NAV setting options for UL MU MIMO or UL OFDMA. Aspects of the present invention relate to a processing system configured to generate a first frame configured to trigger multiple transmissions from multiple devices, wherein the first frame has a duration field set to a value corresponding to a duration that covers at least the multiple transmissions, and an interface configured to output the frame for transmission.
US10660088B2
Embodiments of the present invention disclose an ACK/NACK feedback method in a wireless communication system, including: determining, by a UE, number of public sub-frames, all of which are uplink sub-frame in PCC and any SCC sub-frames of any radio frame in frame structure configurations according to the frame structure configurations of the PCC and any SCC; selecting, by the UE, a configuration, uplink sub-frames of which merely include sub-frames corresponding to the determined number of public sub-frames from existing seven kinds of frame structure configurations; and feeding back, by the UE, to a eNB ACK/NACK information corresponding to PDSCH in the SCC on the PCC adopting a timing relationship between the PDSCH and the ACK/NACK corresponding to the selected configuration. With the ACK/NACK feedback method of the present invention, the UE may adaptively feed back the ACK/NACK according to the configured frame structure configuration of the CC, the carrier aggregation between Bands of different frame structure configurations is effectively supported and the coexistence and performance optimization of different communication systems is implemented without limiting the number of amplifiers of the UE.
US10660073B2
A network node and a user device are provided. The network node comprises: a processor configured to allocate a plurality of Physical Resource Blocks (PRBs) for a Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) having a PUCCH format defined for two or more PRBs, wherein the allocated plurality of PRBs are associated with a user device; a transceiver configured to signal allocation information to the user device, wherein the allocation information comprises a frequency location and a number of allocated plurality of PRBs. The user device comprises: a processor configured to determine uplink control information for one or more network nodes; a transceiver configured to transmit the uplink control information in a PUCCH to the one or more network nodes, wherein a plurality of PRBs are allocated for the PUCCH and wherein the PUCCH has a PUCCH format defined for two or more PRBs.
US10660072B2
A method of performing uplink mobile communications may include identifying a first uplink data and a second uplink data, wherein the first uplink data has a higher transmission priority than the second uplink data, and evaluating a plurality of candidate uplink channels to generate a plurality of uplink channel quality measures. Each of the plurality of uplink channel quality measures may be associated with one of the plurality of candidate uplink channels. The method may further include performing a comparison between one or more of the plurality of uplink channel quality measures to select a first uplink channel from the plurality of candidate uplink channels, transmitting the first uplink data using the first uplink channel, and transmitting the second uplink data using a second uplink channel of the plurality of candidate uplink channels.
US10660070B2
A device includes a reception unit configured to receive first information, second information, and third information; a physical downlink control channel reception unit configured to receive a physical downlink control channel; and a physical downlink shared channel reception unit configured to receive a physical downlink shared channel. When joint coding is configured by the third information, the physical downlink control channel reception unit monitors the physical downlink control channel of a cell configured by the second information, and the physical downlink shared channel reception unit receives physical downlink shared channels of downlink cells indicated by the first information, on the basis of a result of decoding the physical downlink control channel.
US10660067B2
A system described herein may provide a mechanism for efficiently delivering messages to a User Equipment (“UE”) associated with a wireless telecommunications network, such as a UE that is frequently in an inactive state. A message for the UE may be received and buffered. Once the network determines that the UE has transitioned from the inactive state to the active state (e.g., as detected by a Mobility Management Entity (“MME”) or an Access and Mobility Management Function (“AMF”)), the buffered message may be provided to the UE using control plane signaling.
US10660059B1
Embodiments of the present disclosure include an efficient method for identifying receiving devices with similar attributes and displaying their respective locations to each other using data packets receiving from transmission associated with beacons. The system can receive unique beacon identifiers from a first receiving device, determine its location, receive a request for a match comprising a set of attributes, query a database and identify a second user associated with a second receiving device based on the received set of attributes, determine a location for the second receiving device, and generate/transmit a graphical user interface to the first receiving device informing the first user about the location of the second user.
US10660056B2
Various aspects described herein relate to techniques for timing control with filtering in orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM)-based wireless communications systems. In an aspect, the method includes determining whether time-domain filtering or frequency-domain filtering is used for a transmission signal waveform, and identifying a time delay based on a determination that the time-domain filtering is used for the transmission signal waveform. The method further includes applying a timing correction based on the identified time delay. The techniques described herein may apply to different communications technologies, including 5th Generation (5G) New Radio (NR) communications technology.
US10660049B2
Provided are a method and an apparatus for controlling transmission power in a wireless communication system. A wireless device is connected to a first serving cell utilizing a licensed band and a second serving cell utilizing a non-licensed band. The transmission power from the second serving cell is determined by considering the clear channel assessment (CCA) coverage of the wireless device or the second serving cell.
US10660046B2
Embodiments are provided for implementing network adaptation schemes, including small cell on/off adaptation and transmission power control. In an embodiment method for supporting network adaptation, a network component receives a discovery reference signal (DRS) from a network controller that is in a switch-off transmission mode. The network component then performs measurements according to the DRS, and reports the measurements to a network associated with the network controller. In return, the network component receives a radio resource control (RRC) signaling from the network. The RRC signaling includes configuration information allowing a connection between the network component and the network controller. The network component then connects with the network controller in accordance with the configuration information.
US10660036B2
The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates beyond 4th-generation (4G) communication system such as a long term evolution (LTE). A method for performing a paging process by a base station (BS) in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes identifying that paging for a mobile station (MS) is initiated, and transmitting a paging indicator including a first part indicating a paging identifier (ID) and a second part indicating a group in which at least one MS which needs to receive a paging message is included.
US10660029B2
Technology for improving the selection, transfer, and storage of user equipment (UE) radio capability information is disclosed. A cellular mobile network can be configured to identify radio-access-technology (RAT)-specific radio-capability information relating to RATs supported in the cellular mobile network and communicate the RAT-specific radio-capability information to a UE. The UE can use the RAT-specific radio-capability information to help determine which UE radio capability information to send to the network. In addition, the UE may store a list of supported frequency bands and/or supported frequency-band combinations (LOSB) indexed by network operators and use the list to help determine which UE radio capability information to send to the network. A network node may also selectively remove unnecessary information from UE radio capability information before storing the UE radio capability information at a mobility management entity (MME).
US10660025B2
A communication device for handling dual cellular system aggregation includes a storage device for storing instructions and a processing circuit coupled to the storage device. The communication device connects to a network via a first radio access technology (RAT); transmitting a “first RAT-second RAT” joint aggregation capability and at least one of a first RAT sole aggregation capability and a second RAT sole aggregation capability to the network; receiving a second RAT configuration configuring a “first RAT-second RAT” joint aggregation; connecting to the network via a second RAT according to the second RAT configuration; and receiving a first data via the first RAT and a second data via the second RAT, after connecting to the network via both of the first RAT and the second RAT.
US10660019B2
An example device for processing a query for a physical asset includes a processor and a computer-readable medium storing instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations. The operations may include receiving a query for a physical asset from a requesting device, determining a near field communication node that detects the physical asset, and providing to the requesting device an identification of a communication device that is associated with the near field communication node in response to the query.
US10660016B2
An AMF sends a first request message to an NSSF for at least one network slice information for a wireless device. The AMF receives from the NSSF, location based network slice coexistence rule(s) for location(s) of the wireless device. The location based network slice coexistence rule(s) are for allowed network slice information that is a subset of the network slice information. The AMF receives from the wireless device being at a first location, a second request message for a first network slice for the wireless device. The AMF determines to accept the first network slice based on the first location and the location based network slice coexistence rule(s). The AMF sends to the wireless device, a first response message indicating acceptance of the first network slice.
US10660014B2
Wireless communications services on a wireless communications device are selectively restricted in accordance with a location of the wireless device and specific permission and/or restrictions assigned to the wireless device while within/at the location. Services can be selectively blocked (denied), selectively modified, or selectively allowed on a wireless device based on lists indicating permissibility for specific services for specific devices at/within specific locations. A location can be a zone of coverage of a cellular tower, micro/pico/Femto cell or wireless access point, a sector of a zone of coverage, a geographic region within a zone of coverage, or any appropriate combination thereof.
US10660007B2
A mobile communication network system comprising a core network including a core device and at least one static base station; base stations; and Mobile stations communicating via antennae with the base stations; The base stations including at least one moving base station which communicates via antennae with the mobile stations and has a physical e.g. Ethernet back-connection to a co-located radio manager having a physical connection with a co-located mobile station communicating via antennae with at least one selectable static base station, wherein each individual co-located radio manager comprises a radio resource manager; and functionality for receiving information from, and sending information to, other respectively co-located radio managers regarding qualities of their respective connections back to the core network, quality of its own connection back to the core network and channel quality which other base stations are able to provide and which its own base station is able to provide, to mobile stations in the vicinity of the individual co-located radio manager, and for using the information to determine whether to reject at least one mobile station seeking to be served by an individual base station associated with said individual co-located radio manager.
US10660002B2
A method for transferring a communication session from a first network to a second network. The method includes receiving, on the first network, a first request associated with a first user device to transfer a first communication session to a second network and a second request associated with a second user device to transfer a second communication session to the second network, accessing profile information associated with the first user device and the second user device, accessing subscription information associated with the first user device and the second user device, accessing performance requirements associated with each application running on each of the respective first user device and second user device, determining a priority of each of the respective requests based on the accessed profile information, subscription information, and performance requirements; and transferring one or more of the communication sessions to the second network based on the determining step.
US10659991B2
Methods, apparatuses, systems, and non-transitory computer readable storage media for providing bandwidth constrained image processing are described. The disclosed technology determines a data transfer rate of at least one signal received from a vehicle, the at least one signal including state/status data of the vehicle. In response to determining that the data transfer rate satisfies a data transfer rate criterion, a location of the vehicle and a location of at least one of a plurality of objects that obstruct the at least one signal is determined using the state data and external data associated with the vehicle. The disclosed technology generates optimized state data using the state data and the external data.
US10659990B2
If the sequence of a traffic of a first communication link from a communication apparatus to another communication apparatus includes a traffic of a second communication link from that another communication apparatus to a communication apparatus, latency is reduced, thereby saving processing time.If, after data is transmitted from a communication apparatus to another communication apparatus by the upper layer, a data receive response signal is required from that another communication apparatus to the communication apparatus, a predetermined frame including transmission grant information for that another communication apparatus to transmit the receive response signal and data is generated in the communication apparatus. The communication apparatus transmits this generated frame to that another communication apparatus. That is, data and transmission grant information are transmitted from the communication apparatus to that another communication apparatus as a predetermined frame.
US10659986B2
A radio base station is disclosed including an extension station and a central aggregate station, wherein the extension station includes a processor that determines whether a resource used when a user equipment transmits an uplink reference signal is allocated, a first receiver that receives the uplink reference signal from the user equipment based on a determination result of processor, wherein the processor calculates measurement information based on the uplink reference signal received by the first receiver, and a transmitter that transmits the measurement information calculated by the processor to the central aggregate station, and the central aggregate station includes a receiver that receives the measurement information from the extension station.
US10659979B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and device for handling a cell outage. The method for handling a cell outage includes: receiving, by a first base station, an energy saving activation message sent by a second base station when a cell outage happens to a second cell, where the energy saving activation message is used to disable the energy saving function; transferring, by the first base station, the first cell from the energy saving state to the normal state according to the energy saving activation message, or keeping a third cell in the normal state until learning that the cell outage of the second cell is solved. This method prevents a coverage blind area in the network when a cell outage happens to a second cell that covers the area of a first cell which is in the energy saving state.
US10659976B2
Various communication systems may benefit from optimizations, such as signaling optimizations. For example, certain wireless communication systems may benefit from paging enhancement for signaling optimization. A method can include identifying, by a network element, a procedure to be used by a user equipment as a response to a paging message. The method can also include indicating the procedure from the network element to the user equipment.
US10659973B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, a system that facilitates receiving a first group of electromagnetic waves, wherein the first group of electromagnetic waves propagate along a first span of a transmission medium without requiring an electrical return path and without traversing a first supporting device or a second supporting device. The first span of the transmission medium is supported by the first supporting device and the second supporting device, and the first group of electromagnetic waves convey a first communication signal. The first communication signal is extracted from the first group of electromagnetic waves, and the first communication signal is transmitted to a communication device. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10659970B2
One embodiment is directed to a radio access network system for use with a core network. The system comprises a central base station unit and a plurality of remote access points communicatively coupled to the central base station unit via a wired local area network. The remote access points are configured to wirelessly communicate with user equipment using licensed frequency bands. The central base station unit communicatively couples the user equipment to the core network. The wired local area network can comprise an Ethernet network and/or a corporate local area network.
US10659962B2
A wireless access point employs a wireless configuration database for retrieving a stored wireless profile corresponding to a subscriber device from a remote location that enables the user to establish an Internet connection using their subscriber device with the same network identifiers and settings employed from the home wireless profile. The network identifier is typically an SSID (Service Set Identification), and labels the wireless configuration using a mnemonic name familiar to the user. The wireless configuration also denotes authentication and security (passphrase) tokens required for access, and would therefore enable the user to sign on at the remote wireless access point using the passphrase already known from their home WiFi arrangement. Subsequent attempts automatically establishing a connection to the subscriber device upon detection and authentication using the retrieved wireless profile without broadcasting an open SSID receivable by other wireless devices within range.
US10659945B2
Provided is a broadcast receiving device receiving a broadcast service interoperating with a companion device. The broadcast receiving device includes: an IP communication unit configured to establish a pairing session with the companion device; a broadcast communication unit configured to receive an emergency alert message including an emergency alert alerting a disaster situation on the basis of the broadcast service; and a control unit configured to transmit information on the emergency alert message to the companion device.
US10659939B2
A group-based PDCCH capability is proposed in LTE. In particular, information common to a group of UEs, such as those common to a virtual carrier, may be signalled in a group search space within the PDCCH. This common information may include the location of a further control region embedded in the virtual carrier which contains UE-specific information for access the resources of the virtual carrier. Additional methods are introduced for assigning UEs a group identity by implicit signalling, and for determining the aggregation level of the group-based PDCCH search space.
US10659935B1
A collective objects management system using addressable object tracking devices attached to objects without the need for specially constructed cabinets having mounting pegs or locking apertures. Receptacles are slidably stored in ordinary cabinet cavities. Each receptacle has a first Bluetooth® antenna mounted on an outside wall surface and a second Bluetooth® antenna mounted on an inside wall surface. Each antenna communicates with a supervisory MCU via a separate Bluetooth® unit. An electronic lock and a visible indicator mounted on the receptacle front wall are controlled by the MCU. The MCU communicates with an outside host requesting device via the first antenna, and communicates with any object tracking devices in the receptacle via the second antenna. The object tracking devices have a battery and a battery management components which are powered by a transmitting array located in the receptacle.
US10659933B2
An information processing system includes a first electronic device configured to collect data, a second electronic device configured to obtain at least a portion of the data from the first electronic device and process the at least the portion of the data, and a server configured to support a sharing service that obtains the processed data from the second electronic device and posts the processed data in a designated method. The second electronic device is configured to transmit account information on at least one account joined to the sharing service to the first electronic device. The first electronic device is configured to analyze the account information to verify the at least one account, generate an object supporting posting the processed data on the sharing service, and output the object to a display of the first electronic device.
US10659931B2
A method and apparatus for providing a text messaging service are disclosed. For example, the method receives a text message destined to a customer, and determines a preference of the customer for forwarding the text message, wherein the preference comprises a plurality of customer endpoint devices for receiving the text message. The method forwards the text message in accordance with a sender input, if the preference of the customer allows for processing of the text message in accordance with the sender input, and forwards the text message in accordance with the preference of the customer; if the preference of the customer does not allow sender input.
US10659928B2
Techniques for communicating entity references in messaging groups are described. In one embodiment, an apparatus may comprise a client messaging component operative to receive a message at a recipient client device from a messaging system, the recipient client device associated with a recipient user account, the message comprising an entity reference, the message addressed to a message thread; and extract an augmentation element for the entity reference from the message; and a user interface component operative to display the augmentation element in a message thread display for the message thread on the recipient client device. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US10659927B2
A signal transmission method and apparatus are provided. The signal transmission method provided in embodiments of the present invention includes: determining a modulation type of service data that needs to be transmitted, where the modulation type includes hierarchical modulation and non-hierarchical modulation; modulating, by means of the hierarchical modulation when it is determined that the modulation type is the hierarchical modulation, the service data that needs to be transmitted, and sending a modulated hierarchical modulation signal to UE; and sending modulation configuration information to the UE, where the modulation configuration information includes information used to indicate the modulation type. By using the embodiments of the present invention, the system spectrum utilization efficiency and the system throughput can be greatly improved.
US10659922B2
A method and mobile transceiver for asset tracking is provided. In one aspect, a method of operating a mobile transceiver comprising a processor, a memory, a satellite receiver, and at least one wireless transceiver is provided. The method comprises activating a wireless transceiver associated with a last used wireless service from a low power mode, searching for a wireless signal for the last used wireless service, and selecting an alternate wireless service when the last used wireless service is not available. Different approaches for selecting the alternate wireless service are provided.
US10659920B1
Systems and techniques for the quickly and efficiently locating survivors in a disaster area are disclosed. In some embodiments, the system comprises a plurality of robots distributed into a disaster area where each robot comprises at least one processor. The at least one processor is configured to receive discover packets broadcast by one or more mobile devices located in the disaster area. Each discover packet comprises information indicating how many other mobile devices in the disaster area are associated with the broadcasting mobile device. The at least one processor is further configured to determine a path along which to move the robot responsive to receiving one or more of the discover packets. The path is determined based at least in part on the received one or more of the discover packets. The at least one processor is further configured to cause the robot to move according to the determined path.
US10659913B2
Systems, methods, and software technology for providing access control with respect to bots is disclosed herein. In an implementation, an access control service monitors a location of a device with respect to a geographic area. In response to when the device has entered the geographic area, the service grants a bot associated with the geographic area with access to the device. The service may grant the bot with continued access to the device if an end-user conversed with the bot while it had access. However, the service may deny the bot the continued access to the device if the end-user did not converse with the bot.
US10659908B2
An image of a pinna is captured. Based on the image of the pinna, a non-linear transfer function is determined which characterizes how sound is transformed at the pinna. A signal is output indicative of one or more audio cues to facilitate spatial localization of sound via the pinna, where the one or more audio cues is based on the non-linear transfer function.
US10659904B2
An audio signal processing device for processing an audio signal may include a receiving unit configured to receive an audio file including the audio signal, a processor configured to simultaneously render a first audio signal component included in a first track of the audio file and a second audio signal component included in a second track of the audio file, and an output unit configured to output the rendered first audio signal component and the rendered second audio signal component.
US10659901B2
A rendering system including a plurality of loudspeakers, at least one microphone and a signal processing unit. The signal processing unit is configured to determine at least some components of a loudspeaker-enclosure-microphone transfer function matrix estimate describing acoustic paths between the plurality of loudspeakers and the at least one microphone using a rendering filters transfer function matrix using which a number of virtual sources is reproduced with the plurality of loudspeakers.
US10659899B2
Embodiments are directed to a method of rendering adaptive audio by receiving input audio comprising channel-based audio, audio objects, and dynamic objects, wherein the dynamic objects are classified as sets of low-priority dynamic objects and high-priority dynamic objects, rendering the channel-based audio, the audio objects, and the low-priority dynamic objects in a first rendering processor of an audio processing system, and rendering the high-priority dynamic objects in a second rendering processor of the audio processing system. The rendered audio is then subject to virtualization and post-processing steps for playback through soundbars and other similar limited height capable speakers.
US10659896B2
A method provides binaural sound to a user. An intelligent personal assistant selects a location for the user where the user hears binaural sound that emanates from a sound localization point (SLP) in empty space away from a head of the user. A wearable electronic device (WED) receives a voice command from the user to move the SLP to another location.
US10659892B2
A hearing device having an antenna unit is disclosed. The hearing device comprises a transmission line connecting a communication unit and the antenna unit, or at least being part of a connection between them. The transmission line may be configured to transfer a signal from the communication unit to the antenna unit and/or from the antenna unit to the communication unit, so as to minimize parasitic effects on the antenna unit.
US10659876B2
Disclosed is a distributed microphone array. The array comprises: a plurality of distributed microphone array nodes, wherein each microphone array node is provided with one or a plurality of microphone audio acquisition modules; and the microphone array node is connected to an external signal processing unit by means of wireless network communication, and uploads an unprocessed audio signal or an audio signal which has undergone simple signal processing on the array node to the signal processing unit. In the present invention, all the wireless microphone array nodes distributed in a wireless network form a large microphone array. In a wireless microphone array, microphone signal acquisition and transmission are based on a wireless type, and the distribution of microphones is no longer limited by a physical dimension or a cabling connection, so that the distribution of a significant amount of microphones can be achieved, and the distance between the microphones and the coverage area of the microphone array can be greatly increased.
US10659872B2
A speaker apparatus includes a sound guide and a pair of speakers mounted to the sound guide. The sound guide includes a first guide portion configured to guide a sound generated from any one of the pair of speakers in a first direction; and a second guide portion configured to guide a sound generated from the other speaker in a second direction that is plane-symmetric with respect to the first direction. Each of the first and second guide portions includes an opening forming portion formed in an end portion of the corresponding portion and including an opening configured to output a sound generated by the pair of speakers, and a slit forming portion including a slit configured to output a sound, together with the opening, wherein the slit is extended from one side of the opening.
US10659858B2
Disclosed is a display apparatus that may include a display panel configured to display an image by emitting light, a supporting member disposed on a rear surface of the display panel, a sound generating device disposed between the supporting member and the display panel, and a plurality of partitions at a predetermined interval from the sound generating device, wherein the partitions have different compression force deflections.
US10659855B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for voice activated devices with integrated heatsinks and speakers. In one embodiment, an example device may include a light ring, a first light emitting diode, a heatsink having a first side and a second side, and a speaker assembly coupled to the first side of the heatsink assembly. The heatsink and the speaker assembly together may form a first sealed cavity. The device may include a reflector component coupled to the second side and configured to direct light towards the light ring. The reflector component may optionally include a substantially linear member and a bent member.
US10659846B2
A method and a system for transmitting data in a satellite system comprising at least one satellite, a gateway and a user terminal, comprises at least the following steps: transmitting a data content request Rq sent by a user to the gateway, upon receipt of the content of the request Rq, the gateway sends an order to the satellite so that the satellite transmits the content requested by the user to the user, the user acknowledges receipt of all or of at least a portion of this content to the gateway.
US10659815B2
Disclosed aspects may include, for example, maximizing a quality of experience when selecting encoding bitrates for downloading dynamically adaptive 360-degree panoramic video. Some embodiments include predicting a future orientation of a display region based on a first display region of the video, identifying predicted list of tiles for rendering the second display region, calculating a quality of experience from a plurality of encoding bitrates for the tiles in the second display region and one or more tiles in a margin area so that downloading the plurality of tiles at one or more bitrates is within estimated available embodiments, and downloading tiles for display.
US10659810B2
According to the present invention, an image encoding apparatus comprises: a motion prediction unit which derives motion information on a current block in the form of the motion information including L0 motion information and L1 motion information; a motion compensation unit which performs a motion compensation for the current block on the basis of at least one of the L0 motion information and L1 motion information so as to generate a prediction block corresponding to the current block; and a restoration block generating unit which generates a restoration block corresponding to the current block based on the prediction block. According to the present invention, image encoding efficiency can be improved.
US10659805B2
A video intermodal transcoder converts a compressed bitstream formulated according a type-1 compression scheme to a type-2 compressed bitstream formulated according to a type-2 compression scheme. The transcoder includes an augmented type-1 decoder, a transcoder kernel, and an augmented type-2 encoder. The transcoder kernel performs processes of creating motion-vector candidates and pre-computing prediction errors for each cell of a predefined image coding block and for each candidate motion vector for repetitive use in evaluating various image partitions. In an implementation where the type-1 compression scheme follows the H.264 standard and the type-2 compression scheme follows the HEVC standard, the transcoder exploits the flexibility of the coding-tree structure and other HEVC features to significantly reduce the bit rate of the compressed bit stream. The pre-computation of prediction errors significantly reduces the processing effort, hence increases the throughput of the transcoder.
US10659803B2
A picture prediction method includes: determining two pixel samples in a current picture block, and determining a candidate motion information unit set corresponding to each of the two pixel samples; determining a merged motion information unit set i including two motion information units; and predicting a pixel value of the current picture block by using an affine motion model and the merged motion information unit set i.
US10659801B2
A video decoding method performed by a decoding apparatus comprises: deriving control points (CPs) for the current block; obtaining motion vectors for the CPs; deriving a motion vector of a sub-block or a sample unit in the current block on the basis of the obtained motion vectors; deriving a prediction sample for the current block on the basis of the derived motion vector; and generating a reconstruction sample on the basis of the prediction sample. The method enables effective performance of inter prediction through the motion vectors (transformation prediction), not only when an image in the current block is moved in a plane, but also when the image in the current block is rotated, zoomed in, zoomed out, or transformed into a parallelogram. Accordingly, the amount of data for the residual signal for the current block can be eliminated or reduced, and the overall coding efficiency can be improved.
US10659800B2
When performing an inter predictive encoding on any image frame x is required, a reference image frame is determined for image x; image x is a P-frame image or a B-frame image; for each reference image frame, following processes are respectively performed: whether resolution of a reference image frame is the same as resolution of image x is determined; if resolution of the reference image frame is different from resolution of image x, resolution of reference image frame is adjusted to be the same as resolution of image x; if resolution of each reference image frame is the same as resolution of image x, inter predictive encoding is performed on image x based on each reference image frame.
US10659790B2
Methods to improve the quality of coding high-dynamic range (HDR) signals in the ICtCp color space are presented. Techniques are described to a) generate optimum chroma Offset and scaling parameters, b) compute chroma mode decisions by optimizing mode selection distortion metrics based on chroma saturation and hue angle values, and c) preserving iso-luminance by maintaining in-gamut values during chroma down-sampling and chroma up-sampling operations.
US10659781B2
A method of partitioning a parent coding unit (CU) in a tree structure for encoding a video sequence includes splitting the parent CU into more than two CUs including a first CU and a second CU, and generating a concatenated CU by concatenating the second CU to the first CU.
US10659776B2
A more efficient way of addressing different bit-depths, or different bit-depths and chroma sampling format requirements is achieved by using a low bit-depth and/or low-chroma resolution representation for providing a respective base layer data stream representing this low bit-depth and/or low-chroma resolution representation as well as for providing a higher bit-depth and/or higher chroma resolution representation so that a respective prediction residual may be encoded in order to obtain a higher bit-depth and/or higher chroma resolution representation. By this measure, an encoder is enabled to store a base-quality representation of a picture or a video sequence, which can be decoded by any legacy decoder or video decoder, together with an enhancement signal for higher bit-depth and/or reduced chroma sub-sampling, which may be ignored by legacy decoders or video decoders.
US10659771B2
A near-eye display system includes one or more non-planar display panels and a lenslet array to display a near-eye lightfield frame. The near-eye display system further includes a rendering component to render, based on a stereoscopic focus volume associated with a set of display geometry data of the one-or more non-planar display panels, the array of elemental images in the near-eye lightfield frame such that objects within the stereoscopic focus volume are perceived to be in focus by the user's eye. A method of operation of the near-eye display system includes receiving display geometry data for one or more non-planar display panels of the near-eye display system and rendering, based on a stereoscopic focus volume, an array of elemental images at a position within a near-eye lightfield frame such that the non-planar display panels presents objects within the stereoscopic focus volume to be in focus.
US10659765B2
The present application provides a three-dimensional (3D) image system, comprising a structural light module, configured to emit a structural light, wherein the structural light module comprises a first light-emitting unit, the first light-emitting unit receives a first pulse signal and emits a first light according to the first pulse signal, a duty cycle of the first pulse signal is less than a specific value, an emission power the first light-emitting unit is greater than a specific power, and the first light has a first wavelength; and a light-sensing pixel array, configured to receive a reflected light corresponding to the structural light.
US10659761B2
According to one aspect of the present invention, the present invention may relate to a method for transmitting a 360 video. The method for transmitting a 360 video may include processing a plurality of circular images captured by a camera having at least one fisheye lens; encoding a picture to which the circular images are mapped; generating signaling information about the 360 video data; encapsulating the encoded picture and the signaling information into a file, and transmitting the file.
US10659754B2
A gain in multi-view coding is achieved as follows: the residual signal involved with coding a dependent view of the multi-view signal is predicted from a reference residual signal of the current picture of the reference view using block-granular disparity-compensated prediction, i.e. using disparity compensated prediction with a disparity defined at, and varying with, block granularity so that each block of the current picture of the dependent view has its own disparity displacement such as its own disparity vector, associated therewith. In other words, a remaining similarity between the residual signal involved with predictively coding the reference view is used in order to predict the residual signal involved with predictively coding the dependent view.
US10659749B2
In a method to reconstruct a high dynamic range video signal, a decoder receives parameters in the input bitstream to generate a prediction function. Using the prediction function, it generates a first set of nodes for a first prediction lookup table, wherein each node is characterized by an input node value and an output node value. Then, it modifies the output node values of one or more of the first set of nodes to generate a second set of nodes for a second prediction lookup table, and generates output prediction values using the second lookup table. Low-complexity methods to modify the output node value of a current node in the first set of nodes based on computing modified slopes between the current node and nodes surrounds the current node are presented.
US10659735B2
A surveillance system is provided. The surveillance system includes: a first frequency communication module configured to receive a first surveillance image from a first camera, and receive a second surveillance image from a second camera; a second frequency communication module configured to receive second frequency communication module notice information from the second camera; and a processor configured to change a reception signal gain value of the first frequency communication module based on the second frequency communication module notice information, wherein a reception signal strength of the first surveillance image is different from a reception signal strength of the second surveillance image.
US10659733B1
A system and method for presenting remote attendee representations at remote conference session locations where the attendee representations are presented as directional videos such that each representation has an apparent sight trajectory aimed at a target of interest (e.g., typically a content window, another attendee representation, etc.) that is an instance of the same target of interest for the attendee associated with the representation at a different station.
US10659731B2
In one embodiment, a method includes accessing input data from one or more different input sources. The input sources include: one or more cameras, one or more microphones, and a social graph maintained by a social-networking system. Based on the input data, generating a current descriptive model for a current audio-video communication session that comprises one or more descriptive characteristics about (1) an environment associated with the current audio-video communication session, (2) one or more people within the environment, or (3) one or more contextual elements associated with the current audio-video communication session. The method also includes generating one or more instructions for the current audio-video communication session that are based the one or more descriptive characteristics; and sending the one or more instructions to a computing device associated with the one or more cameras and the one or more microphones.
US10659723B2
A data processing system includes a scaler 18 operable to scale a received input data array to provide a scaled output version of the input data array. When it is desired to produce a de-interlaced and scaled output version of an input data array 21, 22, the input data array 21, 22 is provided to the scaler 18, and the scaler 18 scales the input data array 21, 22 so as to simultaneously de-interlace and scale the input data array and to produce a de-interlaced and scaled output version of the input data array.
US10659721B2
A method of processing a sequence of coded video frames conveyed by a digital data stream, where each frame represents an image, includes receiving the sequence of coded video frames at a recording device, determining a frame interval between presentation of an ith coded frame of the sequence and an (i+1)th coded frame of the sequence, calculating a stream time stamp for the ith coded frame, and calculating a stream time stamp for the (i+1)th coded video frame based on the stream time stamp for the ith coded video frame and the previously determined frame interval.
US10659718B2
An image display apparatus are disclosed. The image display apparatus includes a display including a first electrode and a second electrode, for wireless power reception, a signal processor disposed apart from the display, and including a third electrode and a fourth electrode, for wireless power transmission, and a first bridge electrode and a second bridge electrode, including one ends apart from the first electrode and the second electrode, facing the first electrode and the second electrode, and the other ends apart from the first bridge electrode and the second bridge electrode, facing the first bridge electrode and the second bridge electrode.
US10659717B2
An airborne optronic equipment item comprises: at least one image sensor suitable for acquiring a plurality of images of a region flown over by a carrier of the equipment item; and a data processor configured or programmed to receive at least one acquired image and transmit it to a display device; wherein the data processor is also configured or programmed to: access a database of images of the region flown over; extract from the database information to synthesize a virtual image of the region which would be seen by an observer situated at a predefined observation point and looking, with a predefined field of view, along a predefined line of sight; synthesize the virtual image; and transmit it to a display device. A method for using such an equipment item is provided.
US10659715B2
Signals representative of total photocharge integrated within respective image-sensor pixels are read out of the pixels after a first exposure interval that constitutes a first fraction of a frame interval. Signals in excess of a threshold level are read out of the pixels after an ensuing second exposure interval that constitutes a second fraction of the frame interval, leaving residual photocharge within the pixels. After a third exposure interval that constitutes a third fraction of the frame interval, signals representative of a combination of at least the residual photocharge and photocharge integrated within the pixels during the third exposure interval are read out of the pixels.
US10659698B2
A computer-implemented system and method of configuring a path of a virtual camera. The method comprises receiving user steering information to control the path of the virtual camera in a scene; determining a primary target based upon a field of view of the virtual camera; and estimating a future path and a corresponding future field of view of the virtual camera, based on the received steering information. The method further comprises determining a secondary target of the scene proximate to the estimated future path of the virtual camera based on a preferred perspective of the secondary target; and configuring the path to capture the secondary target from the preferred perspective.
US10659695B2
A gimbal control method, a gimbal control system and a gimbal device are provided. The method includes steps of: obtaining simulation position information, measurement position information and simulation angular velocity information of a Pitch axis of a gimbal in real-time; calculating a first position error between the simulation position information of the Pitch axis and the measurement position information of the Pitch axis; processing the first position error with proportional-derivative calculation, wherein the first position error is compensated with the simulation angular velocity information during the proportional-derivative calculation; and, according to a result of the proportional-derivative calculation after compensating, generating a first torque control instruction for controlling a torque of a Pitch axis motor, so as to enable the Pitch axis to reach a position corresponding to the simulation position information of the Pitch axis. According to the present invention, a brush motor is adopted.
US10659694B2
Provided are an imaging device that make it possible to perform high-speed image capture of an observation target such as a cell, and to correct a shake caused by the movement of a stage or the like appropriately and simply. The imaging device includes a stage on which a vessel having an observation target received therein is installed, an imaging optical system that forms an image of the observation target, a horizontal driving unit that moves the stage in a main scanning direction and a sub-scanning direction orthogonal to the main scanning direction, and moves the stage forward and backward in the main scanning direction, an imaging unit that receives the image formed by the imaging optical system, and outputs an image signal of the observation target, and a shake correction unit that performs shake correction for correcting a shake caused by movement of the stage on the image signal.
US10659683B2
A camera system configuration generates 2D or 3D images capable of being stitched together to create panoramic images. The configuration detects a communication coupling of at least two cameras for capturing a sequence of images. The cameras themselves are configured such that their rolling shutters mitigate field of view artifacts from adjacent cameras (2D panoramas) and adjacent 3D camera pairs (3D panoramas) by allowing for the substantially temporally-aligned capture of light in overlap regions between adjacent cameras.
US10659681B2
There is provided an information processing apparatus including an emission unit for emitting a projection image onto a subject, which is to be photographed, so as to allow the subject to perform a predetermined operation, a recognizing unit for recognizing operation performed by the subject, and an execution unit for executing a predetermined processing according to the operation of the subject that is recognized by the recognizing unit.
US10659679B1
A method of determining facial location and orientation may include receiving a location of a first radio frequency (RF) tag on a subject; receiving a location of a second RF tag on the subject; determining a location and orientation of a face of the subject using at least the location of the first RF tag and the location of the second RF tag; and sending commands to one or more camera units. The commands may cause the one or more camera units to capture the location and orientation of the face of the subject.
US10659678B2
Disclosed is a mobile terminal, by which an image can be easily attached. In particular, the present invention includes a 1st camera, a touchscreen, and a controller controlling the touchscreen to output a running screen of a prescribed application and a preview screen of the 1st camera to a 1st region and a 2nd region on the touchscreen, respectively, the controller, if a photograph command is received, attaching an image data photographed through the 1st camera to the prescribed application, wherein a data size of the attached image data is based on a size of the 2nd region.
US10659674B2
An imaging device, a control method, and a program with automatic power-on control in response to contactless communication are disclosed. An imaging preparation operation is performed after the completion of a transmission of connection information for a wireless communication connection. In one example, an imaging device includes a contactless communication part configured to perform contactless communication with an external device, and a control part configured to control power-on/off of the imaging device and an imaging preparation operation. The control part performs control to set the power of the imaging device ON upon detecting a polling command transmitted by the contactless communication from the external device, transmits connection information for wireless communication connection with the external device to the external device after the imaging device is powered on, and performs control such that the imaging preparation operation is performed, when the transmission of the connection information is completed.
US10659658B2
An electronic endoscope processor has a configuration including: a converting means for converting pieces of pixel data that are made up of n (n≥3) types of color components and constitute a color image in a body cavity into pieces of pixel data that are made up of m (m≥2) types of color components, m being smaller than n; a color component correcting means for correcting the converted pieces of pixel data made up of m types of color components with use of a predetermined color component correction coefficient; and an acquiring means for acquiring an evaluation result related to a target illness based on the corrected pieces of pixel data made up of m types of color components.
US10659657B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods are provided herein for texture printing. A system comprises a rasterizer configured to convert an input image with texture information to color data and texture attribute plane data, the rasterizer is configured to set the change bit of pixel n to zero when the texture information associated with pixel n is the same as pixel n−1. The system further comprises a data compressor, a memory device, a data decompressor, a color converter and a halftoner configured to convert the color data to color halftone data, and a texture data generator configured to combine the texture attribute plane data decompressed by the data decompressor and the color halftone data from the halftoner to generate output ink data for a printer engine to print the input image with texture.
US10659654B2
An information processing apparatus includes: a memory; and a processor, in which the processor is configured to operate as an attribution area detection unit that detects an attribution area from a document image, the attribution area including an attribution image representing attribution information, an attribution image detection unit that detects the attribution image included in the attribution area, an attribution information extraction unit that extracts the attribution information represented by the attribution image, a marking detection unit that detects a marking image from an article area, the article area being an area excluding the attribution area in the document image, a marking area image generation unit that generates, from the document image, a marking area image surrounded by the marking image, and a combined image generation unit that combines the marking area image and a character string representing the attribution information to generate a combined image.
US10659651B2
An information processing apparatus that can appropriately delete data of an image forming apparatus used when remote support for an image forming apparatus is performed. The information processing apparatus provides remote support to an image forming apparatus through a relay server. For the remote support, the information processing apparatus acquires data used for remote support from the image forming apparatus through the relay server. The information processing apparatus controls execution of a deletion process of data cached in the information processing apparatus within the acquired data. In a preferable embodiment of the present invention, the information processing apparatus performs a deletion process of cache data when the remote support ends or when logged into the relay server.
US10659650B2
An image forming apparatus includes a CPU. According to user operations, the CPU causes an image reading unit to read, at once, the front surfaces of documents placed on the respective area divisions of a document platen, and obtains individual front surface images. The CPU causes the image reading unit to read the back surfaces of the documents at once, and obtains individual back surface images. The CPU generates image files, each including a front surface image and a back surface image, for the respective area divisions. The CPU determines whether or not a read error is present in each of the obtained images. When an image file includes an image having a read error, the CPU stores, in an HDD, the image file with a file name indicating presence of a read error.
US10659643B2
Aspects of the present disclosure provide methods and apparatuses for processing a digital image of a document, for example, to determine whether the document is a long document. An exemplary method generally includes obtaining a plurality of digital images of the document, segmenting at least a first digital image of the plurality of images into pixels associated with a foreground of the first digital image and pixels associated with a background of the first digital image, detecting a plurality of contours in the segmented first digital image, deciding, for each detected contour of the plurality of contours, whether that contour is an open contour or a closed contour, and determining that one or more sides of the document is out-of-bounds based, at least in part, on the decisions.
US10659641B2
Disclosed is an image forming apparatus, which may execute a job including printing an image. The disclosed image forming apparatus may include: a printer; a detector that may detect a property of a printing paper sheet, the printing paper sheet being a paper sheet used by the printer in the printing; and a determinator that may, on the basis of the property detected by the detector and a situation of the job, determine conditions for executing the printing.
US10659640B2
Provided is an image forming apparatus capable of detecting a type of a sheet accommodated in a sheet feeding tray in advance. The image forming apparatus includes a conveyor, an image former, a fixer, a detector, and a processor. The conveyor conveys the sheet accommodated in the sheet feeding tray along a conveying path. The image former forms an image on the sheet. The fixer fixes the image onto the sheet. The detector is arranged on the conveying path and detects the type of the sheet. The processor executes a sheet type detection mode which is a mode for causing the detector to detect the type of the sheet conveyed by the conveyor before executing an image forming mode which is a mode for causing the image former to form the image and causing the fixer to fix the image.
US10659637B1
According to an embodiment, an image forming apparatus, comprises a document feeder to feed a document page by page, a scanner to scan the document fed by the document feeder and generate image data of the document, a printing apparatus to print images on recording media. An interface is configured to receive print settings and a test printing command. A controller is configured to control the document feeder to feed pages of the document according to the print settings when the test printing command is received, acquire image data of the pages of the document fed by the document feeder, and control the printing apparatus to print images in a test printing. The images in the test printing comprising image data of the pages of the document fed by the document feeder.
US10659634B2
A terminal device may register first device information of a first image processing device in a memory; specify by using the first device information, N applications corresponding to one or more types of image processes that the first image processing device is capable of executing from among M applications; display a first menu screen on a display unit, the first menu screen including N icons indicating the specified N applications, each of the N icons having a first type of displaying state that is capable of accepting a selecting operation for using an application, the first menu screen not including each of (M−N) icons having the first type of displaying state, the (M−N) icons indicating (M−N) applications; send an execution instruction to the first image processing device by using a target application indicated by a target icon selected from among the N icons in the first menu screen.
US10659623B2
To address problems, an image forming apparatus includes a detection unit configured to detect an error, a canceling unit configured to cancel a job in a case where the error is not released when a set period of time has elapsed after the error is detected, and a storage unit configured to store a job history including a cancellation factor indicating that the job is canceled since the set period of time has elapsed after the error is detected.
US10659621B2
An image processing apparatus includes a blank page determination unit configured to determine whether a document is a blank page by using image data obtained by reading the document, a color determination unit configured to determine whether the document is polychrome or monochrome, and a decision unit configured to decide on processing of the image data obtained by reading the document by using a determination result of the blank page determination unit and a determination result of the color determination unit.
US10659612B2
A contact center includes: a microprocessor; a computer readable medium, coupled to the microprocessor, to retrieve, store, and manage desktop analytic data that describes the current state of an agent's desktop. The current state of the agent's desktop can be reported to a contact center where that information can be used as additional information in assigning contacts to the agent. The contact may be sent to the agent having documentation or information readily accessible to response to the issue associated with the contact.
US10659602B1
Embodiments include a system, method, and computer program product that authenticates a caller using calling party information. In an embodiment, an authentication device receives the call request and associated calling party information that includes a calling party number. The authentication device retrieves parameters associated with the calling party number, where a retrieved parameter is a number of accounts linked to the calling party number. The authentication device determines whether the number of accounts is between one and a threshold value, inclusive, and verifies that the call request originates from a location or a device associated with the calling party number. Based on the verifying and determining, the authentication device generates an authentication result that indicates whether the calling party number is authenticated. Then, the authentication device sends the authentication result to a call processing device that processes the call request from the caller according to the authentication result.
US10659599B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a certificate loading method and related products. The method includes: detecting a first process requesting to call a target data processing algorithm, and determining a certificate corresponding to the target data processing algorithm, the target data processing algorithm being one of a plurality of data processing algorithms associated with a currently launched face recognition application; obtaining a set of process names associated with the certificate; detecting that the set of process names comprises a process name of the first process, and loading the certificate to allow the first process to call the target data processing algorithms.
US10659595B2
A method, a mobile device, and a computer program product for determining orientation of a mobile device. The method includes detecting, via an accelerometer, movement of a mobile device and calculating, by a processor, an orientation of the mobile device based on accelerometer data received from the accelerometer as the mobile device is moving. The method further includes tracking the orientation of the mobile device as the mobile device moves over a period of time and maintaining an image capture device and a display in an off state, while the mobile device is moving. The method further includes determining if the mobile device is in a landing position, based, at least partially, on the calculated orientation of the mobile device and in response to determining that the mobile device is not in the landing position, continuing to maintain the image capturing device in the off state such that power consumption of the mobile device is reduced.
US10659588B1
A computer-implemented method for determining potentially undesirable voices, according to some embodiments, includes: receiving a plurality of audio recordings, the plurality of audio recordings comprising voices associated with undesirable activity, and determining a plurality of audio components of each of the plurality of audio recordings. The method may further comprise generating a multi-dimensional vector of audio components, from the plurality of audio components, for each of the plurality of audio recordings to generate a plurality of multi-dimensional vectors of audio components, and comparing audio components between the plurality of multi-dimensional vectors of audio components to determine a plurality of clusters of multi-dimensional vectors, each cluster of the plurality of clusters comprising two or more of the plurality of multi-dimensional vectors of audio components, wherein each cluster of the plurality of clusters corresponds to a blacklisted voice. The method may further comprise receiving an audio recording or audio stream, and determining whether the audio recording or audio stream is associated with a voice associated with undesirable activity based on a comparison to the plurality of clusters.
US10659586B2
The present application provides an intelligent rearview mirror. The intelligent rearview mirror comprises a mirror body; a main electronic device disposed on the mirror body, and comprising a main processor and a mobile communication module; and an in-vehicle terminal device, separated from the mirror body and the main electronic device, and configured to transmit a control signal to the main electronic device. The main processor is configured to control, according to the control signal, the mobile communication module to enter an intercom transmission mode or an intercom reception mode for intercom communication with a cloud serve.
US10659584B2
A display system includes a continuous flexible display, two book halves, two main display supports, and a movement synchronizing coupling. The two book halves is connected to each other via a hinge mechanism. The hinge mechanism has two hinges, and each hinge is rotatable about respective axis. Each of the two main display supports connects to one of the two book halves and is configured to support the flexible display. The coupling is connected to the two main display supports and rotating about a rotation axis that is parallel to the axis of hinge to enable a synchronized movement of the two main display supports.
US10659580B2
The present invention relates to a sled system for physically attaching a mobile device and a peripheral device and electrically connecting both. A modular sled system according to the present invention comprises a mount unit to physically attach a peripheral device to a mobile device and the mount unit comprises an electrical connection part to be electrically connected to each of the peripheral device and the mobile device.
US10659575B2
When a wireless network is constructed, a wireless communication apparatus in the wireless network constructed of a plurality of communication apparatuses decides whether to function as a providing source of communication parameters or as a provision destination that receives communication parameters. In a case where it has been decided that this apparatus is to function as the provision destination that receives communication parameters, the apparatus requests authentication when it participates in the wireless network using communication parameters. In a case where it has been decided that this apparatus is to function as the providing source of communication parameters, the apparatus execute authentication processing in response to an authentication request.
US10659574B2
An operating method of a communication device includes performing a scan procedure to receive a device name and an address of an external device; determining a connection interval corresponding to the external device according to one or more policies stored in the communication device under a condition that the device name and/or the address match the one or more policies; and building a connection with the external device according to the connection interval and the address of the external device, so that the communication device and the external device communicate corresponding to the connection interval.
US10659573B2
A computing system may identify packets received by a network device from a host located in a first network and may generate log entries corresponding to the packets received by the network device. The computing system may identify packets transmitted by the network device to a host located in a second network and may generate log entries corresponding to the packets transmitted by the network device. Utilizing the log entries corresponding to the packets received by the network device and the log entries corresponding to the packets transmitted by the network device, the computing system may correlate the packets transmitted by the network device with the packets received by the network device.
US10659571B1
Disclosed are techniques for implementing network devices with pluralities of packet checkers or packet generators. The packet generators can be configured to self generate data packets with a packet payload and header information and a test type of data packets. The packet checkers can determine if a data packet is a test type of data packet and perform one or more actions.
US10659560B2
In various embodiments, the systems, methods and computer-readable mediums (collectively “system”) discussed herein may be configured to enable a single mobile application to receive dynamically customized content. The criteria and/or preferences that influence the dynamically customized content may be defined by a user and/or may be automatically detected by a user device. The criteria and/or preferences may be associated with the mobile application and/or a mobile device operating the mobile application. The criteria and/or preferences may be provided as part of a request for content to a content distribution system.
US10659558B2
A method, system and computer program product for transmitting content across a link in a communications network. In an embodiment, the method comprises examining traffic in the network at a sender end of the link to determine if the traffic is carrying compressed content; when the traffic is carrying compressed content, decompressing at least one portion of the compressed content; and checking a cache to determine if the cache has content matching the at least one decompressed portion of the content. In an embodiment, the method further comprises when the cache has content matching the at least one decompressed portion of the content, determining an identifier associated with the at least one decompressed portion of the content; and using the identifier to reconstruct, at a receiving end of the link, the at least one decompressed portion of the content. In one embodiment, the at least one decompressed portion of the content from the traffic is replaced with an index, the index is compressed to form the associated identifier, and the associated identifier is sent to the receiving end of the link.
US10659556B2
Provided is a system and method for managing a progressive hybrid web application by storing web content in a local cache. In an example, the method includes receiving a HTTP request from a web application executing on the user device, determining whether requested web content included in the HTTP request is stored in a local cache storage of the user device, and in response to determining the web content associated with the HTTP request is stored in the local cache storage, fetching the web content from the local cache storage and transferring the fetched web content to the web application. According to various aspects, the web content can be provided to the web application executing on the user device via the local cache even in a situation where the user device is not connected to the remote host server of the web application.
US10659546B2
Various embodiments describe controlling usages of channels of a user experience ecosystem. A computer system provides a user interface to a computing device, generates data entries based on user interactions with the user interface, and stores the data entries in a data store. The data entries identify the channels and specify dependencies between the usages of the channels. The computer system adds, to the data store, identifiers of storage locations of content. The computer system provides, to channel systems, access to the data entries and the identifiers of the storage locations in the data store. A usage of a channel by a channel system includes a content publication based on the data entries and the identifiers of the storage locations. The usage of this channel is coordinated with a usage of a different channel by a different channel system based on the dependencies specified in the data entries.
US10659543B2
Described in detail herein is a usage tracking system. In exemplary embodiments, an usage application executed on a device can transmit a request to a computing system for connecting the device to the Internet. The computing system can include a first server and a second server. The computing system can receive the request for connecting the device to the Internet from the application. The first server can initiate a connection of the device with the Internet. The first server can allocate a range of Internet Protocol (IP) addresses to the at least one device based on a set of selected digital services being executed on the at least one device. Each IP address of the range of IP addresses corresponds to a digital service of selected set of digital services executed on the at least one device.
US10659542B2
A system and associated processes to enable a multi-tenant platform operator or administrator to make more optimal decisions with regards to the allocation of platform infrastructure resources (such as computational capabilities, data storage, etc.) among one or more tenants or accounts. In some embodiments, the inventive methods construct a data “signature” for a set of identified users, accounts, or tenants, where the signature contains data regarding the user, account, or tenant's “consumption” of platform infrastructure resources.
US10659541B2
Systems and methods for capturing and monitoring the health, safety, and/or activity of a user are described. In one aspect, the system generates a data usage pattern for the user and monitors the user's current data usage activity to detect data usage deviations from the user's usage pattern. When a deviation is detected, the system may send an alert message to the user or another user indicating that an anomaly may have occurred, permitting the user or another user to respond to the anomaly.
US10659538B2
A method for at a wireless device establishing a communication connection with an external device is disclosed. The wireless device stores unique information of at least one external device connectable with the wireless device in a connection target list, and receives a connection waiting command from a server connected with the wireless device. In response to the received connection waiting command, the wireless device changes a status thereof to a connection waiting status allowing a connection with the external device, and receives a connection request from the external device finding the wireless device which is in the connection waiting status. If unique information of the connection-requesting external device is contained in the connection target list, the wireless device performs a communication connection with the connection-requesting external device, receives a command data regarding a transportation device from the connected external device, and transmits the received command data to the transportation device.
US10659536B2
In some embodiments, an inverter system may include a plurality of inverters. In some embodiments, a method of controlling the plurality of inverters may include one inverter among the plurality of inverters set as a communication master to control other inverters set as communication slaves, may include the steps of generating a communication master signal in the communication master to transmit to the communication slaves, may verify whether or not the communication master signal is designated to be received by the communication slaves when the communication slaves receive the communication master signal, and may transmit a response signal with respect to the communication master signal to the inverters of the inverter system according to the verification result.
US10659530B2
Embodiment includes of a method and a system of network based operation of an unmanned aerial vehicle is disclosed. One system includes a drone user machine, a drone control machine, and a drone control console. The drone control machine is interfaced with the drone user machine through a network, and the drone control machine is interfaced with a drone through the drone control console. The drone control machine operates to receive user commands from the drone user machine through the network, generate drone control commands which are provided to the drone control console for controlling the drone, wherein the drone control commands are generated based on the user commands, receive video from the drone control console that was generated by a camera located on the drone, and communicate the video to the drone user machine over the network, wherein the video is displayed on a display associated with the drone user machine.
US10659526B2
An exemplary system includes a cloud server configured to provide a service to a client device by way of a network. The cloud server implements a batch layer of a data-processing architecture. The system further includes an edge computing device configured to provide a latency-sensitive task of the service to the client device by way of the network in response to a request from the client device to offload the latency-sensitive task. The edge computing device is separate from and communicatively coupled to the cloud server, is located at an edge of the network such that a latency of data communications between the edge computing device and the client device is lower than a latency of data communications between the cloud server and the client device, and implements a speed layer of the data-processing architecture at the edge of the network.
US10659512B1
A content streaming system and methodology for facilitating the management of adaptive bitrate streaming bundles in content streaming. The management of the adaptive bitrate streaming bundles can include the utilization of an efficiency matrix that associates meta-data associated with the delivery of content streaming data with available bitrate encodings or bitrate/format combinations. The adaptive bitrate streaming bundles can be sent and managed at edge locations in the network. The content streaming system can then manage bitrate manifests to dynamically change encoding bitrates or bitrate/format combinations offered to clients based on network conditions, client attributes, content attributes, and the like.
US10659508B2
A computer implemented education and playbook system, method, and apparatus for providing an interactive, recursive and in situ coaching system. A coach can use a portable electronic device to transmit play information to a number of players via wearable electronic devices, including the claimed helmet apparatus, the play then being filmed and time stamped for subsequent review and storage in a coach's practice plan.
US10659506B2
A method for reducing bandwidth needed for streaming media content. The method includes identifying, by the streaming media server, a subset of a plurality of media content items having a portion of media data in common and extracting, by the streaming media server, the common portion from a first media content item of the subset; generating, by the streaming media server, a common media package comprising the extracted common portion, providing, by the streaming media server to a client media device, the common media package, and receiving, by the streaming media server from the client media device, a request for an item of content. The method also includes selecting an item of content from the subset; and transmitting, by the streaming media server to the client media device, an identification of the common media package and an identification of a chunk of the selected item of content subsequent to the common portion.
US10659502B2
The invention presents a method of providing feedback for receipt of a multicast video stream. The feedback mechanism allows the number of clients receiving over multicast to be determined, which can then be used to manage multicast delivery, including switching decisions between multicast and unicast. Video content is delivered over a multicast stream from a content server to a plurality of client devices. The client devices are each configured to respond at regular intervals whilst receiving the multicast video stream by transmitting an HTTP HEAD request message to the content server. The HTTP HEAD request refers to metadata relating to a manifest file associated with the video stream. The number of client devices receiving the multicast video stream is determined based on the number of HEAD requests received at the content server. The multicast video delivery can then be managed accordingly, and can also take into account the number of unicast clients that are requesting the corresponding unicast stream to the multicast stream.
US10659500B2
The present invention relates to an application that is configured to be operated in a multi-participant environment on a computer network. The application manages participants in an online session of a multi-user application so that if one of the participants exits the session, the session can continue without interruption. The application initiates an online session of the multi-user application, wherein the online session includes two or more participants comprised of network computers that are communicatively linked to a computer network. If the application detects that a first participant has disconnected from the online session, wherein the first participant is responsible for managing certain managerial functionality associated with the running of the multi-user application, then the application broadcasts a notification to existing participants of the online session over the communication network, thereby notifying the existing participants that the first participant has disconnected from the online session. The initiating application then re-assigns the functionality associated with the first participant to an existing participant of the online session. The participants can be communicating in a peer-to-peer arrangement or can be performing server duties in a client-server arrangement.
US10659497B2
A computer-implemented method of extending generic resilient identity services (GRIDS) is provided that comprises: receiving, by a mapping server, a resolve request from an originator endpoint for a locator of a destination endpoint; sending, by the mapping server, a request for authorization to provide the requested locator, the request for authorization indicating an identifier of the originator endpoint; receiving, by a policy server, the request for authorization; accessing, by the policy server, from a database, a set of policies for the destination endpoint; based on the identifier of the originator endpoint and the set of policies for the destination endpoint, sending, by the policy server, an authorization response to the mapping server; and based on the authorization response, sending, by the mapping server, a response to the resolve request to the originator endpoint.
US10659472B2
A storage controller that is coupled to a plurality of storage clouds is maintained. The storage controller determines security requirements for performing a selected operation in the plurality of storage cloud. A subset of storage clouds of the plurality of storage clouds that are able to satisfy the security requirements are determined. A determination is made as to which storage cloud of the subset of storage clouds is most responsive for performing the selected operation. The selected operation is performed in the determined storage cloud that is most responsive.
US10659466B2
The techniques and systems described herein improve security and improve connection reliability by providing a framework for an application to communicate its intent to an authority service so that the authority service can enforce networking security requirements. In various examples, an intent to access a resource over a network is received and queries are sent to resolve a network connection that enables access to the resource. Information for the resource is then collected and stored together in a trusted and secure environment. For instance, the information can include proxy data or can include hostname data. A ticket can be created based on the information. The ticket can be used to establish and maintain a secure network connection to the resource.
US10659465B2
Embodiments described herein relate to a server computer operable to provide a proof of knowledge service. In some embodiments, the server computer includes processor(s) and memory containing instructions executable by the processor(s) such that the server computer is operable to authenticate a user on behalf of a relying party server. The server computer is further operable to obtain results of one or more tests from a client device of the user. The server computer is further operable to send one or more instructions to the relying party server in accordance with the results of the one or more tests, where the one or more instructions have been predefined by the user and define one or more actions to be taken by the relying party server in an event where the user does not pass the one or more tests.
US10659463B2
A customer care site includes a content item posted by a first user. The content item is associated with a first contact link for requesting communication with the first user. When a second user tries to contact the first user by selecting the first contact link, a computing system associated with the customer care site identifies contact information of the first user using information associated with the first contact link. The computing system can establish a communication session between the first user and the second user without revealing contact information of the first user and the second user to each other during the communication session.
US10659459B1
A system and method are disclosed that leverage multi-factor authentication features of a service provider and intelligent call routing to increase security and efficiency at a customer call center. Pre-authentication of customer support requests reduces the potential for misappropriation of sensitive customer data during call handling. A contactless card uniquely associated with a client may provide a second factor of authentication to reduce the potential for malicious third-party impersonation of the client. Pre-authorized customer support calls are intelligently and efficiently routed in a manner that reduces the opportunity for malicious call interference and information theft.
US10659458B2
Method and systems for performing biometric registration and authentication of a user, via a user device, over a communication network to provide access to a secure network. The method includes transmitting, via the communication network, non-biometric authentication credentials of the user to initiate a determination of validity of the non-biometric authentication credentials. The method further includes receiving an authentication token based upon the determination of the validity of the non-biometric authentication credentials. The method further includes obtaining biometric information from the user via the user interface and at least one biometric sensor. Biometric data, produced from the biometric information obtained from the user, is sent to an ID server configured to store the biometric data in association with the user. The client app is configured to perform a biometric authentication to provide access to the secure network based on the biometric data stored by the ID server.
US10659456B2
A device and method for authenticating a user of a wearable biometric device. The method involves performing an initial biometric authentication of the user, the authentication being based on biometric features extracted from one or more image frames corresponding to a first portion of the user's hand and/or wrist, captured with a camera of a wearable device. A second part of the authentication method involves either re-confirming the initial biometric authentication of the user or verifying the liveness of the user or both re-confirming the authentication and verifying the liveness. The second step of the method is based on at least a measure of a second portion of the user's hand or wrist taken when the wearable device is worn against the user's hand or wrist. A notable part of the method is that the initial biometric authentication is performed by temporarily moving the camera away from the first portion of the user's hand and/or wrist.
US10659455B2
A self-authenticating chip includes first and second memory regions storing, respectively, first and second authentication codes. The second memory region is adapted to be unreadable and unmodifiable by the chip or a chip reader. The chip also includes a comparator for providing an indicator of whether given input matches the second authentication code. The chip also includes an authentication circuit that is operable to read the first authentication code from the first memory region, present the first authentication code to the comparator, and in response to receiving an indicator from the comparator indicating that the first and second authentication codes match, unlock at least one of (i) a communication interface of the chip to allow data to be transmitted therethrough to a chip reader and (ii) a third memory region of the chip to allow data to be read therefrom.
US10659451B2
In certain embodiments, a system determines to assign a computing resource to one or more users that are affiliated with an institution. The system pre-injects a first tag into a first portion of the computing resource and then assigns the computing resource to the one or more users. The first tag is associated with the institution and requires a first token to access the first portion of the computing resource. The system mid-process or post injects a second tag into a second portion of the computing resource. The second tag is associated with one of the users and requires a second token to access the second portion of the computing resource. The system controls access to the first and second portions of the computing resource based on whether subsequent requests to access the computing resource comprise the first token, the second token, or both.
US10659447B2
A communication device of a communication network receives, via a network, a challenge, generates a first Diffie Hellman, DH, parameter, a first verification code for the first DH parameter, forwards the challenge or a derivative thereof to an identity module, receives at least one result parameter as response from the identity module, determines, based on the result parameter, whether the first DH parameter is authentic, and if the first DH parameter is authentic, generates and sends a second DH parameter to the network device for session key generation based on the first DH parameter and the second DH parameter.
US10659442B1
Provided is a method in a device under configuration (DUC) for communicating with a remote device over a wireless local area network. The method comprises transmitting a beacon to a remote device, providing a first security key to the remote device using first security measures, authenticating the remote device using second security measures, receiving encrypted secrets from the remote device, and obtaining network access using the secrets. Also, provided is a method of providing network access information over a wireless network. The method comprises identifying a device under configuration (DUC) from information contained in a beacon transmitted by the DUC, retrieving a public KEY from the DUC, authenticating the DUC using first security measures, encrypting secrets, and transmitting encrypted commands to the DUC.
US10659436B2
A method for data processing comprises: S100. if a to-be-sent email needs to be saved cryptographically or sent cryptographically, automatically converting a main body of the mail into an html file, the html file including an attachment link for linking a mail attachment; S200. compressing a filename of the html file and a filename of the mail attachment into a new html filename and a new mail attachment name using a first open source algorithm based on a first password preset between a sender and a recipient, thereby obtaining a renamed html file and a renamed mail attachment; S300. compressing the renamed html and the renamed mail attachment using a second open source algorithm based on a second password preset between the sender and the recipient, thereby obtaining a compressed file; and S400. releasing a memory space and/or a hard disk space occupied by the to-be-sent mail, encrypting the to-be-sent mail and then saving it to a draft box or sending it in a manner in which a mail has a null mail body and the compressed file is used as the mail attachment. In this way, a method and a system for data processing are implemented, which utilize open source algorithms and have a wider applicability.
US10659435B2
Multi-party messaging is disclosed. A plurality of public keys is requested by a first device from a server, wherein the plurality of public keys is associated with a plurality of recipients. A message containing one or more components is encrypted using a symmetric key. The symmetric key is encrypted, using each of the respective public keys, resulting in a plurality of encrypted symmetric keys. The encrypted message and the encrypted symmetric keys are encapsulated in an encapsulation. The encapsulation is transmitted to the server.
US10659424B2
A registrar may determine a registration status for a domain names. The registrar may determine whether the domain name is in a zone file downloaded from a registry. Upon determining that the domain name is not in the zone file, the registrar may determine whether the domain name is in a DNS zone file created by the registrar. Upon determining that the domain name is not in the DNS zone file created by the registrar, the registrar may transmit an EPP
US10659423B2
A system and method for modifying domain name system (DNS) templates are presented. A DNS template database is configured to store DNS templates. A DNS record database is configured to store a plurality of DNS records for a plurality of domain names. A host computer server is configured to receive an electronic signal encoding a request containing a modification to a DNS template from a user, the DNS template being stored in the DNS template database, access the DNS template database to modify the DNS template according to request containing the modification to create a modified DNS template, identify a plurality of domain names using the DNS template, and, for each domain name in the plurality of domain names, access the DNS record database to at least one of modify and create a DNS record for the domain name using the modified DNS template.
US10659420B2
A computer implemented method for automatic, content based potential e-mail recipient determination, the method comprises the steps of comparing, by a sender, application plugin, the content of an e-mail being written by a user with keywords listed in as entries in a database, wherein the keywords are correlated with at least one e-mail address; and presenting, if at least part of the content of the e-mail matches with at least one keyword in the database, the e-mail address associated with the at least one keyword for selection as e-mail recipient to the user. An according system for automatic, content based potential e-mail recipient determination is disclosed.
US10659417B2
Providing a mobile device with web-based access to data objects is disclosed. Authentication information is sent from a mobile device to a relay server. The relay server executes a connection application to establish a connection to a web access server. The authentication information is provided to the web access server associated with a data store hosting a data object. Upon authentication, the data object is provided to the relay server from the data store. The data object is then provided to the mobile device.
US10659414B2
A unique electronic communications account is generated and linked to a physical address of a user. A network of electronic mail addresses linked to physical addresses can be used for the transmission of information in electronic or physical form. Users can send information to a single recipient or multiple recipients by selecting the recipient or an area of recipients on a map generated by the system. A plurality of users can use a single e-mail address linked to a physical address through creation and storage of user profiles. Users can deactivate and transfer their unique electronic mail address upon relocation to a new physical address. The communication platform can overcome technical problems and limitations of electronic mail existing today. The communication platform can create a transparent global communication that can be achieved via an electronic communications account that can be created for every physical address in the world.
US10659413B2
An electronic account is provided to a customer to enable the customer to access electronic services, such as e-mail and electronic transactions. The electronic account links an electronic address of the customer to a physical address of the customer. Using the electronic account, electronic services can be provided to the customer at either the electronic or physical address, or both. The services can be both secure and non-secure and can be provided by any service provider, such as an online merchant, a government agency, or a bank.
US10659400B2
The disclosed exemplary embodiments include computer-implemented apparatuses and processes that automatically populate deep-linked interfaces based n programmatically established chatbot sessions. For example, an apparatus may determine a candidate parameter value for a first parameter of an exchange of data based on received messaging information and on information characterizing prior exchanges of data between a device and the apparatus. The apparatus may also generate interface data that associates the first candidate parameter value with a corresponding interface element of a first digital interface, and may store the store interface data within a data repository. In some instances, the apparatus may transmit linking data associated with the stored interface data to the device, and an application program executed by the device may present a representation of the linking data within a second digital interface.
US10659399B2
A method includes receiving a received message and a draft reply message to the received message, the received message including a received message component, the received message component representing one or more of a question, a request, and a subject. The method also includes parsing the received message to detect the received message component and parsing the draft reply message into one or more reply message components, identifying, using one or more machine learning models, informational components associated with the received message component and the one or more reply message components by at least applying the machine learning module to the received message component and each reply message component of the one or more reply message, and identifying, based on the one or more informational components, one or more deficient components in the subject draft reply message, and outputting, for display, information about the one or more deficient components.
US10659398B2
Interactive virtual conversation interfaces are provided herein. An example method includes receiving a digital document that has textual information, utilizing one or more forms natural language processing of the digital document, based on the nature of the digital document, to ascertain a hierarchical structure of the plain textual information, and determine topics within the plain textual information, generating a tree structure based on relationships between topics of the plain textual information, wherein the topics are arranged into the tree structure, and generating a virtual conversation interface that receives queries and presents responses to the queries using the tree structure.
US10659396B2
Techniques are disclosed for managing data within a reconfigurable computing environment. In a multiple processing element environment, such as a mesh network or other suitable topology, there is an inherent need to pass data between processing elements. Subtasks are divided among multiple processing elements. The output resulting from the subtasks is then merged by a downstream processing element. In such cases, a join operation can be used to combine data from multiple upstream processing elements. A control agent executes on each processing element. A memory buffer is disposed between upstream processing elements and the downstream processing element. The downstream processing element is configured to automatically perform an operation based on the availability of valid data from the upstream processing elements.
US10659392B2
An inline-bypass switch system includes: a first inline-bypass switch appliance having a first bypass component, a first switch coupled to the first bypass component, and a first controller; and a second inline-bypass switch appliance having a second bypass component, a second switch coupled to the second bypass component, and a second controller; wherein the first controller in the first inline-bypass switch appliance is configured to provide a state signal that is associated with a state of the first inline-bypass switch appliance; and wherein the second controller in the second inline-bypass switch appliance is configured to control the second bypass component based at least in part on the state signal.
US10659389B2
A method of providing access control for a software defined network (SDN) controller includes establishing a cascaded flow of flow table entries by linking together flow table entries of flow tables that are installed at network resources and that apply to the same packets or network flows, analyzing the impact of configuration requests from one or more applications regarding the installation and/or removal of flow table entries on existing cascaded flows, and rejecting configuration requests if the installation and/or removal of flow table entries according to the configuration requests would destroy an existing cascaded flow. The SDN controller includes an interface for interacting with one or more applications that are installed to run at the control plane of the SDN atop the SDN controller.
US10659386B2
Technologies for contention-aware cloud compute scheduling include a number of compute nodes in a cloud computing cluster and a cloud controller. Each compute node collects performance data indicative of cache contention on the compute node, for example, cache misses per thousand instructions. Each compute node determines a contention score as a function of the performance data and stores the contention score in a cloud state database. In response to a request for a new virtual machine, the cloud controller receives contention scores for the compute nodes and selects a compute node based on the contention score. The cloud controller schedules the new virtual machine on the selected compute node. The contention score may include a contention metric and a contention score level indicative of the contention metric. The contention score level may be determined by comparing the contention metric to a number of thresholds. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US10659375B2
A domain and a mobile device may exchange data via a radio access node included in a mobile network. During a time of peak demand, a data load level of the radio access node may exceed a threshold. To accommodate the peak demand, historical types and volumes of data may be used to manage a data rate related to data associated with the domain. Based on the historical information, the data rate for a mobile device, a radio access node, a range of time, or a data type may be controlled. The data rate may be managed by a network gateway, such as a gateway included in the mobile network.
US10659373B2
Some embodiments provide a method for processing a packet received by a managed forwarding element. The method performs a series of packet classification operations based on header values of the received packet. The packet classifications operations determine a next destination of the received packet. When the series of packet classification operations specifies to send the packet to a network service that performs payload transformations on the packet, the method (1) assigns a service operation identifier to the packet that identifies the service operations for the network service to perform on the packet, (2) sends the packet to the network service with the service operation identifier, and (3) stores a cache entry for processing subsequent packets without the series of packet classification operations. The cache entry includes the assigned service operation identifier. The network service uses the assigned service operation identifier to process packets without performing its own classification operations.
US10659370B2
A wireless local area network, WLAN, node (400) is adapted to be comprised in an integrated wireless communications network comprising a WLAN and a cellular communications network. The WLAN node (400) comprises a receiving module (401) adapted to receive traffic data from a wireless device. A differentiation module (403) is adapted to determine whether the received traffic data relates to a first traffic type which is to be routed locally within the WLAN or a second traffic type which is to be routed to the cellular communication network. A processing module (405) is adapted to control the handling of the traffic data according to whether the traffic data is determined as relating to the first traffic type or the second traffic type.
US10659359B2
A network device checks forwarding tables of routers in a network by sending check packets designed to reach a target router via label-forwarding. The network device determines a forwarding path from itself to a destination IP address, with the target router on the forwarding path and at N hops from itself. The network device then generates and sends a check packet having a label stack with N link labels correspond to the hops and a TTL value set to N+1. When the check packet is routed by the target router to a next-hop node of the target router, the TTL value is deducted to 0, causing the next-hop node to send a notification message to the network device. Based on the identity of the next hop node, the network device determines whether the forwarding table of the target router is correct.
US10659357B2
Virtual machine environments are provided in the switches that form a network, with the virtual machines executing network services previously performed by dedicated appliances. The virtual machines can be executed on a single multi-core processor in combination with normal switch functions or on dedicated services processor boards. Packet processors analyze incoming packets and add a services tag containing services entries to any packets. Each switch reviews the services tag and performs any network services resident on that switch. This allows services to be deployed at the optimal locations in the network. The network services may be deployed by use of drag and drop operations. A topology view is presented, along with network services that may be deployed. Services may be selected and dragged to a single switch or multiple switches. The management tool deploys the network services software, with virtual machines being instantiated on the switches as needed.
US10659355B2
Some embodiments of the invention provide a novel method of tunneling data packets. The method establishes a tunnel between a first forwarding element and a second forwarding element. For each data packet directed to the second forwarding element from the first forwarding element, the method encapsulates the data packet with a header that includes a tunnel option. The method then sends the data packet from the first forwarding element to the second forwarding element through the established tunnel. In some embodiments, the data packet is encapsulated using a protocol that is adapted to change with different control plane implementations and the implementations' varying needs for metadata.
US10659349B2
Systems and methods for routing real-time voice communication via a private network exchange. A virtual private cloud (VPC) system receives first configuration for a first private network exchange for a first account of the VPC system. The VPC system assigns a first regional exchange system to the first private network exchange based on the first configuration. The first private network exchange is established between the first regional exchange system and a first outside entity system of the first account by mapping an identifier of the first account to the first private network exchange. Real-time voice communication data for the first account is routed from a first real-time voice communication service of the VPC system to the first outside entity system via the first private network exchange based on the mapping.
US10659348B2
A lower level processor holds a link, in response to detecting a link down condition of the link. In response to the holding of the link, the lower level processor transmits a command to an upper level processor indicating the link down condition of the link. The lower level processor initiates a process of link recovery for the link, in response to receiving an authorization from the upper level processor.
US10659344B2
An information transmission method, comprising: a control platform generating forwarding information of a bit indexed explicit replication (BIER) network; and the control platform sending, according to the forwarding information of the BIER network, a BIER flow table to a forwarding device through an OpenFlow protocol. The solution solves the problems that, in a forwarding mode for a multicast message in the relevant OpenFlow technology, a space occupied by an entry is larger and the forwarding efficiency is lower because it is necessary to establish a corresponding flow table and group table on each forwarding device for each flow.
US10659341B2
A first route reflector client manager determines identifies that a distributed lock has been released, wherein the first route reflector client manager corresponds to a first route reflector client. In response to the determining that the distributed lock has been released, the first route reflector client manager retrieves the distributed lock. In response to retrieving the distributed lock the first route reflector client manager provisions the first route reflector client into a first route reflector. The first route reflector client manager advertises information corresponding to the provisioning of the first route reflector client into the first route reflector, wherein the advertising causes at least a second route reflector client to identify the first route reflector client as the first route reflector.
US10659339B2
A transmission control protocol (TCP) session processing architecture for conducting numerous TCP sessions during testing of a network-under-test: multiple processor cores running, allocated to TCP session handling, and program instructions configured to distribute processing of each TCP session across multiple cores with a first set of cores allocated to handle TCP control, a second set of cores allocated to handle TCP packet transmission, and a third set of cores allocated to handle TCP packet receiving. The TCP session processing architecture also includes a shared memory accessible to the first, second and third sets of cores, that holds PCBs for each of numerous TCP sessions during the testing with update access controlled by an atomic spinlock processor instruction that each TCP state machine running on a core must engage to secure the update access to a respective PCB, in order to proceed with state processing of its respective TCP session.
US10659338B1
In one embodiment, an agent process produces synthetic packet traffic and iteratively performs a sub-process that determines isolated network segments of the communication channel between intermediate nodes and computes a set of network metrics for the isolated network segments based at least in part on incrementing TTL expiry error data points. The sub-process also encapsulates, for inclusion within the next packet to be sent, a list of intermediate node IDs along the communication channel up to a latest received node ID and computed sets of network metrics for respective network segments. The agent process may then generate, upon termination of the sub-process, a report, the report including the list of intermediate node IDs along the communication channel up to a latest received node ID and computed sets of network metrics for respective network segments.
US10659323B2
Described is a method performed by a computing device for controlling home network system associated with a plurality of Wi-Fi communicating devices, the method comprising: analyzing operational data associated with the plurality of Wi-Fi communicating devices, the operational data collected from plurality of Wi-Fi communicating devices; providing (or generating) recommendations for improving performance of the home network system according to the analyzed operational data; correlating the recommendations into groups; and aggregating the recommendations from the groups to generate unified recommendations for improving the home network system.
US10659315B2
A data communication system controls Software Defined Network (SDN) Virtual Network Functions (VNFs). A Network Function Virtualization Infrastructure (NFVI) executes the SDN VNFs and responsively transfers SDN Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to a Management and Orchestration (MANO) computer. The MANO computer processes the SDN KPIs from the NFVI to determine an NFVI task to perform for the SDN VNFs. The NFVI task comprises at least one of: SDN VNF relocation, SDN VNF off-boarding, SDN VNF darkening, SDN VNF lightening, and SDN VNF on-boarding. The MANO computer transfers NFVI control data indicating the NFVI task to the NFVI. The NFVI performs the NFVI task for the SDN VNFs responsive to the NFV control data.
US10659307B2
In various exemplary embodiments, a system and associated method for providing a hybrid cloud computing environment are disclosed. For example, a system may authorize an enterprise user based on an enterprise identity. Once authenticated, embodiments may use mapping data and a cloud role to determine an identity to use when the enterprise user accesses a cloud.
US10659293B1
A disclosed method may include (1) executing a virtual router that services traffic within a network in connection with a specific network consumer and (2) dynamically scaling memory of the virtual router to accommodate a networking need of the specific network consumer by (A) installing, in at least one component of a physical network device that hosts the virtual router, a set of networking objects that facilitate servicing the traffic in connection with the specific network consumer, (B) determining an amount of memory that is consumed by the set of networking objects at the component of a physical network device, and (C) modifying a configuration file of the virtual router such that the memory of the virtual router is scaled to store the set of networking objects via the component. Various other systems and methods are also disclosed.
US10659289B2
The present approach relates to the use of a unique key for event messages related to the same event and by employing a publication/subscription framework so that like-keyed event messages are only processed by a subscribing server. The message key may be a numeric value (e.g., from 0-99) calculated or generated based on designated event fields so that similar message keys will have the same message key number. The message key may be used to populate an event bucket field and may also be used as the topic of an event message, allowing a subscribing server to subscribe to this message key and receive and process the related event messages in order of arrival. In this manner, there is no distribution of the event messages having the same message key between parallel processing servers.
US10659282B2
A communication apparatus includes a processor and a memory. The processor executes computer-readable instructions stored in the memory. The instructions instruct the communication apparatus to establish a first network including the communication apparatus and a first device. The instructions instruct the communication apparatus to establish a second network including the communication apparatus and a second device. The instructions instruct the communication apparatus to determine a target IP address. Determining the target IP address includes identifying a particular IP address, which is an IP address of the communication apparatus used in the second type network. Determining the target IP address includes generating the target IP address to be within a particular range using the particular IP address. The particular range is a range of IP addresses that are not available in the second type network. The instructions instruct the communication apparatus to assign the target IP address to the first device.
US10659277B2
A transceiver comprising a transmitter and a receiver is a component of a user terminal. A transmitter-check signal is transmitted from the transceiver to a remote node. Errors in the transmitter-check signal are measured at the remote node. Transmitter-correction information based on the errors is determined within the remote node and sent back to the user terminal. The user terminal utilizes the transmitter-correction information to set a correction module in the terminal to counteract the errors within the transmitter.
US10659274B2
A method during a random access procedure and apparatus is provided, where a first downlink transmit antenna port is selected for transmission on random access channel resources associated with the first downlink transmit antenna port using a first preamble transmit power. A second downlink transmit antenna port is then selected, which is different from the first downlink transmit antenna port, when a random access response message is not received within a random access response reception time window. A preamble transmit power adjustment value is then determined, based upon one or more downlink transmit antenna port specific parameters received from the wireless communication network. A second preamble transmit power based on the determined preamble transmit power adjustment value and the first preamble transmit power is determined. A second preamble with the determined second preamble transmit power is then transmitted on a second subset of random access channel resources, which are associated with the second downlink transmit antenna port.
US10659273B2
Embodiments of the present invention disclose a synchronization signal transmission and detection method, transmission end, and receiving end. The synchronization signal transmission method includes: transmitting on M consecutive transmission symbols, a synchronization signal or a part of the synchronization signal, wherein M is an integer not less than 2, the transmission symbols include a cyclic prefix and a useful symbol portion, and the content carried in the cyclic prefix is the content in the last part of the useful symbol. The embodiments of the present invention also provide a computer storage medium.
US10659267B2
The present specification relates to a method for transmitting and receiving signals in a wireless local area network (WLAN) system and an apparatus therefor, the method comprising the steps of: generating a training sub-field consisting of a certain number of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols; and transmitting, to a second STA, a signal including a header field and the training sub-field, wherein the transmitted signal is repeatedly transmitted T times (where T is a natural number) on the basis of information indicated by the header field after a data field.
US10659266B2
Disclosed is a transmitter. The present transmitter comprises: a frame generation unit for generating a frame including a plurality of subframes, each of which includes data and a pilot; and a transmission unit for transmitting a frame to a receiver, wherein, when the plurality of subframes have the same FFT size, the frame generation unit determines an arrangement order of the plurality of subframes on the basis of the number of subcarriers used for transmission of the data and the pilot, and arranges the plurality of subframes according to the determined arrangement order.
US10659261B2
A radio communication system includes a radio apparatus and a signal processing apparatus that function as a base station, and the radio apparatus includes a channel estimation unit that, on the basis of a radio signal transmitted from a terminal apparatus, estimates channel information relating to a radio transmission path between the radio apparatus and the terminal apparatus; a demodulation unit that performs soft-decision demodulation of the radio signal on the basis of the channel information estimated by the channel estimation unit; a signal switching unit that, depending on the terminal apparatus that transmitted the radio signal, switches an output destination of a log likelihood ratio obtained by the soft-decision modulation between either a first path passing through a decoding unit that decodes the log likelihood ratio or a second path not passing through the decoding unit; and a transmission unit that transmits a signal output from the first path or the second path to the signal processing apparatus.
US10659257B2
A user equipment (UE) may receive, during a first transmission time interval (TTI), one or more broadcasts from a base station over a first frequency range. The UE may receive, during the first TTI, a reference signal over a second frequency range that is disjoint from the first frequency range. The UE may receive, during a subsequent TTI, a downlink grant from the base station scheduling a downlink data transmission over at least portions of both the first frequency range and the second frequency range, wherein the downlink grant comprises a reference signal sharing indication. The UE may obtain a channel estimate for the second frequency range of the subsequent TTI based at least in part on the reference signal and may refrain from applying the channel estimate to the first frequency range in the subsequent TTI.
US10659256B2
Systems and methods for connecting devices via a virtual global network are disclosed. In one embodiment the network system may comprise an endpoint device including a tunnel manager and a first virtual interface, an access point server including at least one tunnel listener and a second virtual interface. One or more tunnels are formed connecting the tunnel managers and tunnel listeners. The virtual interfaces provide a logical point of access to the one or more tunnels.
US10659254B2
A highly-programmable access node is described that can be configured and optimized to perform input and output (I/O) tasks, such as storage and retrieval of data to and from storage devices (such as solid state drives), networking, data processing, and the like. For example, the access node may be configured to execute a large number of data I/O processing tasks relative to a number of instructions that are processed. The access node may be highly programmable such that the access node may expose hardware primitives for selecting and programmatically configuring data processing operations. As one example, the access node may be used to provide high-speed connectivity and I/O operations between and on behalf of computing devices and storage components of a network, such as for providing interconnectivity between those devices and a switch fabric of a data center.
US10659251B2
Examples herein involve dividing a ring protection network into multiple ring protection networks. Examples include detecting a disconnection in a ring protection network, determining whether an owner of the ring protection network is in a new ring protection network divided from the ring protection network, and establishing an owner of the new ring protection network based on whether the owner of the ring protection network is in the new ring protection network.
US10659250B2
A method is disclosed for managing an internet connection and informing a user about connectivity to the internet of a user terminal via a gateway, the gateway being connected to the user terminal via a local area network and to an internet service provider via a broadband line. The method includes: remotely provisioning through the first communication link the configuration of the gateway for internet connection; detecting completion of configuration of the gateway for internet connection in accordance with a service subscribed by the user, determining the state of the broadband line; and providing the user with a visual indication of availability of connectivity to the internet when configuration of the gateway for internet connection is completed and the broadband line is active; and managing the activation and deactivation of the connection to the internet by user terminals connected to a gateway via the local area network.
US10659249B2
An activity management device includes a data acquirer, an inferrer, an information acquirer, and an outputter. The data acquirer acquires in-residence data relating to a living environment of a user and acquired in a residence of the user. The inferrer infers a past or future change event in the lifestyle pattern of the user based on the in-residence data acquired by the data acquirer. The information acquirer acquires recommendation information which is information corresponding to the change event inferred by the inferrer and which prompts the user to perform an activity according to the change in the lifestyle pattern. The outputter outputs the recommendation information acquired by the information acquirer.
US10659244B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a multicast profile switching method. In the method, using a multicast profile management module, a multicast profile switching request message is received from a cable modem termination system CMTS. A multicast profile having a maximum rate and commonly supported by all current multicast group members is determined. When the multicast profile having the maximum rate is different from a current multicast profile that is running, a multicast profile switching instruction is sent to the CMTS, where the multicast profile switching instruction is used to instruct the CMTS to perform multicast profile switching.
US10659243B1
Certain aspects of the disclosure are directed to communication bridging in a telecommunication system. According to a specific example, a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) communication server is provided comprising a uniform resource locator (URL) generation module configured and arranged to form a communication bridge between a first protocol-disparate chat room and a second protocol-disparate chat room in response to receipt of a request from a participant of one of the chat rooms. The URL generation module can identify the participant as being associated with a customer, and redirect the participant to a customer-specific account provided by the communication bridging service. Using the customer-specific account, the URL generation module can generate a URL associated with the communication bridge. Using the generated URL an assimilation and processing module can translate chat messages received, and transmit the translated chat messages between the first chat room and the second chat room.
US10659236B2
The present disclosure provides a method for superseding a log-in through PKI-based authentication with respect to a log-in request of a user by using a blockchain database. According to the method, once authentication request information requesting superseding of a log-in through an authentication app is obtained from a service provision app executed on a user terminal, a service provision server transfers authentication request response information to the service provision app and, after an authentication redirection request thereof is transferred to the authentication app and then server challenge request information is obtained, server challenge request response information is transferred to the authentication app, an authentication result message including information on whether certificates of the server and the app are valid is obtained from an authentication server, a predetermined access token is transferred to the service provision app, and thereby the log-in is handled such that a service can be used.
US10659232B2
Disclosed is an authentication apparatus using a public key encryption algorithm. An apparatus according to an embodiment generates a first instant public key through a random number generation process in response to an electronic signature generation request corresponding to a message. Further, the apparatus calculates and uses a first instant private key making a pair with the first instant public key, using the first instant public key.
US10659231B2
A wearable device transmits a service request generated by the wearable device to a server, where the service request is associated to a service application type. The wearable device receives an identity authentication request message associated to the service application type from the server using a preset standard interface. The wearable device verifies a signature in the identity authentication request message according to a public key of the service application type. In response to verifying the signature, the wearable device retrieves service authentication information of an account corresponding to the identity authentication request message from a locally pre-stored service authentication information database. The wearable device transmits a verification response message comprising the acquired service authentication information to the server using the preset standard interface.
US10659229B1
Methods, systems and devices for using charged particle beams (CPBs) to write different die-specific, non-volatile, electronically readable data to different dies on a substrate. CPBs can fully write die-specific data within the chip interconnect structure during the device fabrication process, at high resolution and within a small area, allowing one or multiple usefully-sized values to be securely written to service device functions. CPBs can write die-specific data in areas readable or unreadable through a (or any) communications bus. Die-specific data can be used for, e.g.: encryption keys; communications addresses; manufacturing information (including die identification numbers); random number generator improvements; or single, nested, or compartmentalized security codes. Die-specific data and locations for writing die-specific data can be kept in encrypted form when not being written to the substrate to conditionally or permanently prevent any knowledge of said data and locations.
US10659221B2
Provided is a method of managing keys in a security system of a multicast environment. The key managing method according to the embodiments of the present disclosure enables key management that a key renewal regarding a receiver joining or leaving a group does not affect all groups.
US10659220B2
The invention provides a method and system for encrypting and decrypting two-dimensional code mask. The method comprises: generating a target two-dimensional code containing a function pattern and an identification, an initial mask pattern and a key by a two-dimensional code generating device; sending the identification, the initial mask pattern and the key to a server by the two-dimensional code generating device; sending the identification to the server by the two-dimensional code decoding device; receiving the identification by the server; sending the key and the initial mask pattern to the two-dimensional code decoding device by the server according to the identification; receiving by the two-dimensional code decoding device the key and the initial mask pattern sent by the server; and decrypting the encrypted two-dimensional code by the two-dimensional code decoding device according to the key and the initial mask pattern to acquire the target two-dimensional code. The system has high security.
US10659217B2
Methods, systems, and apparatuses for blockchain-based automated user matching are described herein. In some arrangements, a node within a decentralized peer-to-peer (e.g., P2P) network may receive match parameters from one or more computing devices associated with supply side entities and demand side entities. The node may execute one or more artificial intelligence algorithms to match the supply side entities with the demand side entities based on the received match parameters. In some instances, the artificial intelligence algorithms may be stored in a smart contract on a blockchain and the matching may be performed through execution of the smart contract by nodes of the decentralized P2P network.
US10659216B2
A data processing method and apparatus relate to the field of communications technologies and applicable to data processing used to resolve a low security problem of data stored in a memory. A memory encryption/decryption (MED) apparatus receives a data write command, encrypts to-be-written data, scrambles an address to which data is to be written, and then saves a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) code of the to-be-written data and encrypted to-be-written data in a memory according to a scrambled address to which data is to be written. Solutions provided in the embodiments of the present disclosure are.
US10659209B2
A system and method for low latency acknowledgements includes a first communication unit receiving a data message from a second communication unit on a data channel, decoding the data message, and transmitting, in response to the decoding, an acknowledgement signal on a control channel to the second communication unit. The acknowledgement signal has a partially decodable structure. Transmitting the acknowledgement signal further includes transmitting multiple repetitions of a same time domain waveform during one symbol period. In some embodiments, transmitting the acknowledgement signal further transmitting K repetitions of a same time domain waveform with a frequency domain characteristic consisting of one non-zero tone for every K tones, K being a positive integer. In some embodiments, the acknowledgement signal is processable by the second communication unit using a first N out of the K repetitions, N being a positive integer less than K.
US10659206B2
Various embodiments are generally directed to an apparatus, method and other techniques to determine a bandwidth in a frequency band to communicate information to stations, determine an Orthogonal Frequency-Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) tone allocation scheme based on the bandwidth, the OFDMA tone allocation scheme to include one or more resource units each comprising a plurality of tones and each having a fixed location in the bandwidth, and communicate information to the stations based on the OFDMA tone allocation scheme.
US10659204B2
The present disclosure relates to a 5G or pre-5G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate beyond a 4G communication system such as LTE. To this end, a base station using a large-scale antenna transmits, to a terminal, reference signal resource configuration information including multiple pieces of reference signal configuration information and reference signal port information, for transmission of a reference signal, and transmits the reference signal to the terminal using some or all of channel measurement resources indicated by the multiple pieces of reference signal configuration information and the reference signal port information included in the reference signal resource configuration information. In this case, the channel measurement resources may correspond to antenna ports, the number of which is indicated by a combination of the multiple pieces of reference signal configuration information and the reference signal port information.
US10659201B2
A method for assigning an input channel of a signal analyzer to a signal decoder has the steps of analyzing a digital representation of a signal received by an input channel and generating a characteristic signal parameter of the signal. The parameter is compared to expected values and the corresponding input channel is assigned to the signal decoder according to the result of the comparison. Further, a signal analyzer for measuring a bus signal is shown.
US10659193B2
Some demonstrative embodiments include apparatus, system and method of communicating a transmission encoded according to a Low-Density Parity-Check (LDPC) code. For example, an apparatus may include logic and circuitry configured to cause a wireless station to encode a plurality of data bits into a plurality of codewords according to an LDPC code having an encoding rate of 7/8 and a codeword length of 1248 bits; and to transmit a transmission over a millimeter Wave (mmWave) frequency band based on the plurality of codewords.
US10659183B2
Disclosed is a data transmission method in a mobile communication system. The data transmission method through a code sequence in a mobile communication system includes grouping input data streams into a plurality of blocks consisting of at least one bit so as to map each block to a corresponding signature sequence, multiplying a signature sequence stream, to which the plurality of blocks are mapped, by a specific code sequence, and transmitting the signature sequence stream multiplied by the specific code sequence to a receiver.
US10659180B2
The present disclosure provides a circuit delay self-measurement method, device and system. The device includes: a first communication interface, configured to receive a first analog signal; a receiving circuit module, configured to perform a first processing on the first analog signal to generate a first digital signal; a main control chip, configured to generate a second analog signal; a first switch module, configured to turn off a path between the first stationary end and the first connection end and turn on a path between the first stationary end and the second connection end; the main control chip is configured to send the second analog signal to the receiving circuit module; the receiving circuit module is configured to perform the first processing on the second analog signal to generate a second digital signal; the main control chip is configured to determine the circuit delay of the receiving circuit module.
US10659175B2
Systems and methods for detecting faulty elements in an active planar antenna array of an extremely high frequency (EHF) wireless communication device. A planar antenna array having a matrix of dual-polarization modulated scattering probes is disposed within a near-field region of the antenna under test (AUT). Electromagnetic energy received from the AUT is converted to a complex electrical signal that is modulated by an electrical modulation signal and radiated as a scattering signal. The resulting electromagnetic scattering signal, received and converted to an electrical signal by another antenna, is used in a holographic image reconstruction operation via a backward-propagation transformation to reconstruct the signal spectrum radiated from the surface of the AUT. A comparison of this reconstructed signal spectrum with a reference signal spectrum radiated from the surface of a known good antenna array enables detection of faulty antenna elements within the AUT.
US10659172B2
The present disclosure relates to a capsule endoscope transmitter configured to transmit frames including control frames and data frames to a capsule endoscope receiver. The capsule endoscope transmitter includes a preamble generator configured to generate preambles for synchronizing and identifying the control frames used to select a reception electrode pair that receives the frames, and a line sync generator configured to generate a line sync for synchronizing the data frames and identifying a code value of each of the data frames.
US10659169B2
A transmitter includes a first PCB having a first surface on which first ground wires and anode wires connecting a light-emitting element and a driver are formed, the anode wires being covered with an insulating section, and a second surface on which a second ground wire coupled to the first ground wires is formed, the second surface being opposite the first surface, a connector that supports the first PCB and is coupled to the second ground wire, a conductive housing that covers the first PCB and the connector, a coupling member in contact with the housing and the first ground wires, the coupling member coupling the housing and the first ground wires, and a second PCB on which the connector and the housing are mounted, the second PCB including a third ground wire that is coupled via the connector to the second ground wire and is coupled to the housing.
US10659168B2
The present disclosure pertains to systems and methods for low-power optical transceivers. In one embodiment, a low-power optical transceiver may include a microcontroller and an optical receiver and an optical transmitter in communication with and controlled by the microcontroller. The optical receiver may include a photodetector configured to receive a first optical representation of a first signal to be received and to generate an electrical representation of the first signal. An amplifier may amplify the electrical representation of the first signal, and an output in electrical communication with the amplifier may generate an electrical output. The optical transmitter may include a laser diode configured to generate a second optical representation of a second signal to be transmitted. The microcontroller may be configured to control an output power of the laser diode.
US10659163B2
Supporting analog remote antenna units (RAUs) in digital distributed antenna systems (DASs) using analog RAU digital adaptors. In the digital DAS disclosed herein, a head-end equipment (HEE) is configured to exchange digital communications signals with a plurality of digital RAUs. The digital DAS is also configured to distribute digital communications signals to an analog RAU(s), which is not inherently capable of processing the digital communications signals. In this regard, an analog RAU digital adaptor(s) is provided in an analog remote unit to serve as a digital interface for the analog RAU(s). The analog RAU digital adaptor(s) is configured to provide conversions between the digital communications signals and analog RF communications signals. By providing the analog RAU digital adaptor as the digital interface for the analog RAU(s), the digital DAS can be configured to compatibly communicate with the analog RAU(s) and the digital RAU(s).
US10659152B2
The embodiment of the invention provides a measurement method and a measurement device for quality of a power distribution and utilization channel. The method comprises the steps of determining priority of each branch in the power distribution and utilization channel of which the quality is to be measured; and determining quality of the power distribution and utilization channel of each branch according to the priority. The method and the device are used for improving monitoring strength on a whole optical fiber channel, and enhancing application universality.
US10659149B2
Systems, methods, and software described herein provide enhancements for deploying software payloads to satellite devices, such as when a satellite device is in orbit. In one example, a satellite device includes a communication interface configured to receive one or more software payloads, and a storage system configured to store the one or more software payloads on the satellite device. The satellite device also includes a payload execution system configured to execute the one or more software payloads as one or more virtual nodes.
US10659144B1
Massively distributed and low-cost Internet of things (IoT) gateways can be controlled by software-defined networking (SDN) protocols transferred via an autonomous mobile device (e.g., fly-by drone). The IoT gateways can comprise sensors that capture information that is transferred to the communication network via the autonomous mobile device. For example, the autonomous mobile device can wake the IoT gateways adaptively and perform data collection and/or configuration tasks. Further, the autonomous mobile device can deliver the collected data to network devices of the communication network and return for the next batch of IoT gateway data collections.
US10659133B2
A method for operating a transmitting node of a wireless communication network. The transmitting node includes or is connected to an antenna array having multiple antenna elements. A signal indication indicating a first and/or reference signaling is obtained. The first reference signaling includes transmission on a first plurality of disjunct frequency bands, and the second reference signaling includes transmission on a second plurality of disjunct frequency bands. The first reference signaling and the second reference signaling are transmitted based on a signal map of the first and the second reference signaling to antenna elements of the antenna array.
US10659131B2
Methods and apparatus for feeding back channel quality indication in a communication system. First, a first channel quality indication index is determined in dependence upon a channel quality estimation of a first transmission channel, and a second channel quality indication index is determined in dependence upon a channel quality estimation of a second transmission channel. A differential channel quality indication index of the second channel quality indication index is determined with reference to the first channel quality indication index in dependence upon a differential compression scheme. Then, the first channel quality indication index and the differential channel quality indication index are reported.
US10659125B2
A computer device may be configured to execute the instructions to identify a location for a user equipment (UE) device serviced by a base station slice associated with a base station; access a beam forming database (DB) to determine whether a match exists in the beam forming DB for the identified location; and determine that no match exists in the beam forming DB for the identified location. The computer device may be further configured to perform two-dimensional modeling of radio frequency signal propagation for the identified location using a terrain model, based on determining that no match exists in the beam forming DB for the identified location; determine antenna settings for an antenna array associated with the base station slice based on the performed two-dimensional modeling; and instruct the base station to apply the determined antenna settings to the antenna array.
US10659122B2
A communication device includes a smart antenna, a storage device, and a processor. The smart antenna is capable of switching between a plurality of antenna modes. In each of the antenna modes during a training stage, the smart antenna receives a first feedback datum, and the processor calculates a reward indicator according to the first feedback datum. The processor compares all of the reward indicators with each other and controls the smart antenna to select a specific mode of the antenna modes according to a comparison between all of the reward indicators. In the specific mode, the smart antenna receives a second feedback datum, the processor determines the weight function of the first feedback datum and the second feedback datum of the specific mode, and the processor updates the reward indicator of the specific mode according to the weight function.
US10659121B2
Apparatus and methods for radio frequency front-ends are provided. In certain configurations, a radio frequency front-end includes ultrahigh band (UHB) transmit and receive modules employed for both transmission and reception of UHB signals via at least two primary antennas and at least two diversity antennas, thereby supporting both 4×4 receive MIMO and 4×4 transmit MIMO with respect to one or more UHB frequency bands, such as Band 42, Band 43, and/or Band 48. The radio frequency front-end can operate with carrier aggregation using one or more UHB carrier frequencies to provide flexibility in widening bandwidth for uplink and/or downlink communications.
US10659108B2
A system for transporting data in a Distributed Antenna System (DAS) includes at least one Digital Access Unit (DAU) and a plurality of Digital Remote Units (DRUs) coupled to the at least one DAU. The plurality of DRUs are operable to transport signals between the plurality of DRUs and the at least one DAU. The at least one DAU includes: a data transport coder comprising: a framer, an encoder, a scrambler, and a serializer and a data transport decoder comprising: a deserializer, a decoder, a descrambler, a frame synchronizer, and a deframer.
US10659106B2
An RFID tag with an RFIC module including a substrate, an RFIC chip disposed on the substrate, and a loop conductor disposed on the substrate and connected to the RFIC chip; and an antenna base material mounted with the RFIC module and including an antenna conductor with a radiating portion radiating radio waves and a coupling portion connected to the radiating portion, for electromagnetic field coupling with the loop conductor. Moreover, the loop conductor includes a first loop pattern formed on a first main surface of the substrate, a second loop pattern formed on a second main surface confronting the first main surface, and an interlayer connection conductor extending through the substrate, for connecting the first and the second loop patterns in series.
US10659097B1
A testing system includes: a bilinear polarized antenna for receiving and dividing a circularly polarized radio wave associating with a horizontal and a vertical polarization path of an object-to-be-tested into a first and a second high frequency signal; a phase retarder for delaying a phase of the first high frequency signal by 90 degrees to form a first high frequency signal with a phase delay of 90 degrees; a power splitter for receiving or synthesizing the first high frequency signal with the phase delay of 90 degrees and the second high frequency signal; and a high frequency signal transceiver for measuring power of the first high frequency signal with the phase delay of 90 degrees and the second high frequency signal and determining states of the horizontal and vertical polarization paths of the object-to-be-tested based on the power. Therefore, the testing system can speed up testing of the object-to-be-tested.
US10659087B2
A communication circuit according to one embodiment includes a single element antenna, a plurality of signal-limiting circuits, a high-frequency transceiver circuit, and a low-frequency transceiver circuit. The high-frequency transceiver circuit is adapted to be selectively coupled to the single element antenna via the plurality of signal-limiting circuits and tuned to operate at a high frequency carrier frequency, and the low-frequency transceiver circuit is adapted to be selectively coupled to the single element antenna via the plurality of signal-limiting circuits and tuned to operate at a low frequency carrier frequency.
US10659086B2
A multi-mode radio frequency (RF) circuit is provided. The multi-mode RF circuit is configured to support simultaneous communication in a pair of different frequency bands via an output node(s) coupled to an RF front-end circuit. A switchable filter circuit is configured to communicate one RF signal in a selected frequency band, while a multi-band filter circuit(s) is configured to communicate second RF signal in other frequency bands outside the selected frequency band. The switchable filter circuit is preconfigured to present various inherent impedances against each of the other frequency bands. A switching circuit is provided between the switchable filter circuit and the output node(s). In various operation modes, the switching circuit is configured to selectively provide one of the various inherent impedances to the output node(s), thus helping to mitigate interference caused by any of the other frequency bands used to support simultaneous communication with the selected frequency band.
US10659084B1
A method of soft decoding received signals. The method comprises defining quantisation intervals for a signal value range, determining a number of bits detected in each quantisation interval, a number of bits in each quantisation interval that are connected to unsatisfied constraints and a probability that the error correction code is unsatisfied, determining an overall bit error rate based on the probability that the error correction code is unsatisfied, determining a log likelihood ratio for each quantisation interval based on the overall bit error rate, the number of bits detected in each quantisation interval and the number of bits in each quantisation interval that are connected to unsatisfied constraints and performing soft decoding using the log likelihood ratios.
US10659082B2
There is provided a decoding device including a decoding determination unit that determines a procedure of recovering and decoding missing packets in consideration of a packet missing pattern in data including a set of media packets and redundant packets generated by a two-dimensional XOR-based forward error correction FEC encoding method, and a decoding unit that executes the recovery of the missing packets according to the procedure determined by the decoding determination unit.
US10659077B2
An amending circuit of correcting bouncing misjudgment of a keyswitch includes a comparing unit, a predetermined voltage generating unit and a controlling unit. The comparing unit has a first input terminal, a second input terminal and an output terminal. The first input terminal is adapted to receive a triggering signal generated by the keyswitch. The predetermined voltage generating unit is electrically connected to the second input terminal and adapted to generate a first predetermined voltage. The controlling unit is electrically connected to the output terminal. The controlling unit is adapted to determine whether to execute polling application according to a comparison result of the comparing unit, and to generate a confirming signal while a polling result of the polling application is kept at a specific level. The confirming signal is used by an external processor to confirm that the keyswitch is actually triggered.
US10659073B2
The present invention relates to semiconductor integrated circuitry, and in particular to such circuitry where one or a plurality of similar or identical operating units are each operable to carry out an operation dependent on a reference signal. One example of such an operating unit is a sub-ADC unit of analogue-to-digital converter (ADC) circuitry, which employs one or more such sub-ADC units to convert samples of an input analogue signal into representation digital values. Where there are a plurality of sub-ADC units, they may each convert samples of an input analogue signal into representative digital values. They may also operate in a time-interleaved manner so that their conversion rate (from sample to digital value) can be lower than the overall sample rate by a factor of the number of sub-ADC units.
US10659069B2
Analog circuits are often non-linear, and the non-linearities can hurt performance. Designers would trade off power consumption to achieve better linearity. An efficient and effective calibration technique can address the non-linearities and reduce the overall power consumption. A dither signal injected to the analog circuit can be used to expose the non-linear behavior in the digital domain. To detect the non-linearities, a counting approach is applied to isolate non-linearities independent of the input distribution. The approach is superior to and different from other approaches in many ways.
US10659066B2
An atomic oscillator includes an atom cell that accommodates an alkali metal atom, a container that accommodates the atom cell, a heating device that is disposed in the container and heats the atom cell, a substrate on which the container is disposed, and a positioning member that is disposed on the substrate and positions the container. The atom cell is pressed against the container toward the heating device. The heating device is pressed against the container toward the atom cell, and the container is in turn pressed against the positioning member.
US10659064B1
A phase lock loop circuit includes a phase frequency detector, a voltage controlled oscillator, a phase interpolator, a clock signal selector, a selection module, a multiplexer, and a divider. The phase frequency detector compares phases of a reference clock and frequency divided output signals and generates an error signal. The voltage controlled oscillator, based on the error signal, generates a phase lock loop output signal and output clock signals. The phase interpolator phase interpolates the output clock signals to generate an interpolator output signal. The clock signal selector selects one of the output clock signals. The selection module generates a selection signal based on states of the interpolator output and selected output clock signals. The multiplexer, based on the selection signal, selects the interpolator output signal or the selected output clock signal. The divider frequency divides an output of the multiplexer to provide the frequency divided output signal.
US10659060B2
A spur cancellation circuit receives a target spur frequency indicative of a frequency of a spur to be canceled and supplies a spur cancellation signal based on the frequency. A frequency tracking circuit tracks a change in the frequency of the spur to be canceled based on a change in phase of the spur cancellation signal and generates an updated target spur frequency based on the change in the frequency of the spur.
US10659059B2
A multi-phase clock circuit includes a first delay circuit, a second delay circuit, a third delay circuit, a first clock mixer circuit, and a second clock mixer circuit. The first, second, and third delay circuits are coupled in series. The first clock mixer circuit includes a first input and a second input. The first input is coupled to an output of the first delay circuit. The second input is coupled to an output of the second delay circuit. The second clock mixer circuit also includes a first input and a second input. The first input of the second clock mixer circuit is coupled to an output of the second delay circuit. The second input of the second clock mixer circuit is coupled to an output of the third delay circuit.
US10659058B1
A system, method and circuits are described that pertain to locked loop circuits, distributed duty cycle correction loop circuitry. In some embodiments, the system and circuit may involve or be configured for coupling with lock loop circuitry such as phase locked loop (PLL) circuitry and/or a delay locked loop (DLL) circuitry. For example, one illustrative implementation may include or involve a phase locked loop (PLL) with distributed duty cycle correction loop/circuitry.
US10659055B1
An N bit counter includes a lower counter having a first output having M bits that operates a first counting frequency. An upper counter having a second output having N−M+L bits operates a second counting frequency. The second counting frequency is equal to the first counting frequency divided by 2(M-L). An error correction controller is coupled to receive the first and second outputs and perform operations that include comparing the L least significant bits (LSBs) of the second output and at least one most significant bit (MSB) of the first output, and correcting the N−M MSBs of the second output in response to the comparison. The lower bits of the N bit counter are the M bits of the first output, and the upper bits of the N bit counter are the corrected N−M MSBs of the second output.
US10659053B2
A PCB includes a programmable logic device (PLD), a memory, a live power ON sequence algorithm, and other electronics. The PLD is connectable to a primary DC power supply. The PLD is configurable by a configuration memory device having stored PLD configuration information. Upon completion of the configuring the PLD generates a PLD control signal or the algorithm triggers generation of a PLD control signal substitute to indicate a configuration of PLD is complete and the PLD is in active mode. Power coupling includes the primary DC power supply coupled to a power input of an electronic switch or the primary DC power supply wiring coupled to a power input of a second DC power supply. The PLD control signal or substitute provides an enable signal that controls power arriving through the electronic switch or from the second DC power supply to the other electronics.
US10659051B1
A voltage translator having first and second one-shots shifts a voltage level of a first voltage signal to generate a second voltage signal, and vice-versa. The first one-shot generates a first driver signal when the first voltage signal goes from low to high based on a time duration for which the first voltage signal remains high. The second voltage signal is generated based on the first driver signal. Similarly, the second one-shot generates the first voltage signal when the second voltage signal goes from a low to high based on a time duration for which the second voltage signal remains high.
US10659045B2
An apparatus includes an integrated circuit (IC), which includes complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) circuitry. The CMOS circuitry includes a p-channel transistor network that includes at least one p-channel transistor having a gate-induced drain leakage (GIDL) current. The IC further includes a native metal oxide semiconductor (MOS) transistor coupled to supply a bias voltage to the at least one p-channel transistor to reduce the GIDL current of the at least one p-channel transistor.
US10659041B2
A circuit for controlling an anode-gate thyristor includes a first transistor that couples a thyristor gate to a first terminal to receive a potential lower than a potential of a second terminal connected to the thyristor anode. A control terminal of the first transistor is driven by a control signal which is positive with respect to the potential of the first terminal.
US10659039B2
A semiconductor device according to one embodiment comprises a first transistor, a second transistor, a switch, and a first control circuit. The first transistor including, one end of a current path connected to a first node, another end of the current path connected to a second node, and a gate connected to a third node. The second transistor including, one end of a current path connected to the second node, another end of the current path connected to a fourth node, and a gate connected to the third node. The switch configured to connect the second node and the third node. The first control circuit configured to control the switch.
US10659037B2
Systems and methods for an audio switching circuit. One system includes an audio switching circuit including a first P-channel transistor including a first source terminal, a first gate terminal, and a first drain, a second P-channel transistor including a second source terminal, a second gate terminal, and a second drain terminal, and a control circuit. The second drain terminal is coupled to the first drain terminal. The first P-channel transistor is configured to receive a first audio signal at the first drain terminal. The control circuit is configured to disconnect the first gate terminal from a ground reference, and in response to the presence of the first audio signal, cause a first voltage between the first gate terminal and the first source terminal to be approximately zero and prevent the first audio signal from passing through the first drain terminal.
US10659032B2
A half bridge circuit includes a sapphire substrate, a GaN upper switch on the sapphire substrate, a GaN lower switch on the sapphire substrate and coupled to the GaN upper switch, a first conductor coupled to the upper switch, a second conductor coupled to the lower switch, and a capacitor. A portion of the first conductor and a portion of the second conductor are on a plane vertically separated from the upper switch and the lower switch by a height, and the capacitor is coupled between the portion of the first conductor and the portion of the second conductor.
US10659029B2
An apparatus in a PWM modulator includes a triangular wave generator that generates a triangular wave and a comparator that is responsive to a signal input to generate a signal output. An output of the PWM modulator is responsive to the comparator signal output. A polarity inversion circuit, coupled between the triangular wave generator and the comparator, is configured in one of the following ways: to provide the triangular wave to the comparator when the triangular wave has a first slope polarity and to provide a polarity-inverted version of the triangular wave to the comparator when the triangular wave has a second slope polarity opposite the first slope polarity; and to provide the signal input to the comparator when the triangular wave has the first slope polarity and to provide a polarity-inverted version of the signal input to the comparator when the triangular wave has the second slope polarity.
US10659019B2
A nanosecond pulser system is disclosed. In some embodiments, the nanosecond pulser system may include a nanosecond pulser having a nanosecond pulser input; a plurality of switches coupled with the nanosecond pulser input; one or more transformers coupled with the plurality of switches; and an output coupled with the one or more transformers and providing a high voltage waveform with a amplitude greater than 2 kV and a frequency greater than 1 kHz based on the nanosecond pulser input. The nanosecond pulser system may also include a control module coupled with the nanosecond pulser input; and an control system coupled with the nanosecond pulser at a point between the transformer and the output, the control system providing waveform data regarding an high voltage waveform produced at the point between the transformer and the output.
US10659010B1
An RF driver circuit may include a wideband output impedance matching and gain circuit, a wideband input impedance matching and gain circuit, and a summer configured to sum the outputs of the wideband output impedance matching and gain circuit and wideband input impedance matching and gain circuit. The wideband output impedance matching and gain circuit and wideband input impedance matching and gain circuit may collectively provide the gain of the RF driver circuit. The wideband output impedance matching circuit may have a source follower configuration. The wideband input impedance matching circuit may have a common gate configuration. Controllable bias voltages may be used to maintain a constant gain and interface impedances in multiple modes of operation.
US10658999B1
Systems and methods are disclosed for on-chip harmonic filtering for radio frequency (RF) communications. A filtering and matching circuit for an integrated circuit includes a first capacitance coupled in parallel with a first inductance, a second inductance coupled to the first inductance, and a variable second capacitance coupled between the first and second inductance. The variable second capacitance is controlled to provide filtering with respect to the RF signal as well as impedance matching with respect to a load coupled to the connection pad. For one embodiment, the variable second capacitance includes a coarse-tune variable capacitor circuit and a fine-tune variable capacitor circuit. The coarse-tuning controls impedance matching, and the fine tuning controls a notch for the filtering. The load can be an antenna for the RF communications. The integrated circuit can include a receive path, a transmit path, or both.
US10658983B2
An amplifier has an N number of input networks connected to an input terminal to receive an input signal, a first amplifier to amplify one output signal from the N number of input networks, a (N−1) number of secondary amplifiers to amplify the remaining (N−1) number of output signals, except for the one output signal, from the N number of input networks, where the amplification order of the (N−1) number of secondary amplifiers is determined based on the power level of each output signal from the N number of input networks when the first amplifier is operational, an N number of output networks which are arranged, and a first bias network to supply a D.C. bias voltage to at least one of the N number of output networks. An electrical length of the first bias network is less than 90 degrees.
US10658979B2
A power amplifier with supply switching is provided. The power amplifier detects a magnitude of an outgoing broadband communication signal and determines whether the magnitude exceeds a predetermined voltage threshold. The power amplifier applies a first gain to the outgoing broadband communication signal using a first voltage supply rail when it is determined that the magnitude exceeds the predetermined voltage threshold and a second gain using a second voltage supply rail that is smaller than the first voltage supply rail when it is determined that the magnitude does not exceed the predetermined voltage threshold. The power amplifier produces an output signal from the outgoing broadband communication signal with the applied first gain or the applied second gain, wherein a current of the outgoing broadband communication signal is switched between the first voltage supply rail and the second voltage supply rail in response to the magnitude being detected.
US10658973B2
Techniques for co-tuning of inductance (L) and capacitance (C) in a VNCAP-based LC tank oscillator are provided. In one aspect, an LC tank oscillator includes: a capacitor including at least two metal layers, each metal layer having metal fingers that are interdigitated, wherein an orientation of the metal fingers alternates amongst the at least two metal layers; and an inductor on the capacitor. Inter-layer vias can be present interconnecting the at least two metal layers creating conductive loops between the metal fingers, wherein an arrangement of the inter-layer vias in an area between the at least two metal layers is configured to co-tune both inductance and capacitance in the LC tank oscillator. A method of operating an LC tank oscillator and a method of co-tuning inductance and capacitance in an LC tank oscillator are also provided.
US10658962B2
The present invention discloses a method for determining a rotor angle of a rotor of an electric machine, having the steps of producing a torque-dependent test signal which depends on the torque of the electric machine and has a higher frequency than a supply signal for the electric machine, controlling the electric machine using the supply signal and the test signal which is superimposed on the supply signal, recording phase currents of the electric machine, and determining the rotor angle of the rotor of the electric machine on the basis of the effects of the test signal on the phase currents. The present invention also discloses an angle determination apparatus and a corresponding control apparatus.
US10658958B2
A genset including at least one generator for generating electrical energy, which can be driven by a drive device is provided. Also provided is a detection device for detection of the presence of a grid fault in at least one phase of the power grid, a device for determining an operating state of the generator immediately before or upon detection of a grid fault, and a regulating device, to which the signals of the detection device and the device for determining an operating state of the generator can be fed. The regulating device is designed upon detection of a grid fault to reduce the power of the drive device in dependence of that operating state of the generator, which has been determined immediately before or upon detection of the grid fault.
US10658956B2
A circuit includes a processor that analyzes a pulse width modulated (PWM) signal feedback from a brushless DC motor to determine a transition between a mutual inductance zero crossing condition and a Back Electro Motive Force (BEMF) zero crossing condition of the brushless DC motor. A mutual inductance controller is executed by the processor to commutate the brushless DC motor at startup of the motor when the mutual inductance zero crossing condition is detected by the processor. A BEMF controller is executed by the processor to commutate the brushless DC motor after startup of the motor when the BEMF zero crossing condition is detected by the processor.
US10658950B2
A piezoelectric actuator includes a vibrating plate having a piezoelectric material, and a contact part provided in an end portion of the vibrating plate in contact with a driven part, wherein the contact part has a first portion in contact with the driven part and a second portion provided between the first portion and the vibrating plate and having lower rigidity than the first portion. Further, a width of the second portion in a direction crossing an arrangement direction of the first portion and the second portion is smaller than a width of the first portion in the crossing direction.
US10658948B2
A DC/AC electrical power converter device having inlet terminals for electrically connecting to a DC electricity power supply network, outlet terminals for electrically connecting to an electric motor, a chopper electrical converter coupled to the inlet terminals, and an electrical inverter coupled between the chopper electrical converter and the outlet terminals. The converter device further includes a control unit for controlling the electrical inverter and that is configured to operate using pre-calculated pulse width modulation with pre-calculated unchanging switching instants for the controlled switches of the electrical inverter regardless of the frequency of rotation of the motor and of the voltage of the electricity network for connection to the device.
US10658946B2
Disclosed is a device for detecting an instantaneous maximum output current of an inverting module as a peak-current thereof. The inverting module converts a direct current (DC) link voltage to an alternate current (AC) voltage, and includes three-phases legs. Each leg has lower and upper switching elements connected in series. The device includes a shunt resistor serially connected to a lower switching element of each leg of the inverting module; a current detection module configured for detecting an output current from a signal output from each shunt resistor; and a summer configured for receiving and summing the detected output currents from the current detection module and outputting the instantaneous maximum output current of the inverting module as the peak-current thereof.
US10658944B2
A power converting apparatus and a home appliance having the same according to the present invention includes: an input unit including an AC connection unit which receives an alternating current (AC) power from an external and a DC connection unit which receives a direct current (DC) power; a DC terminal voltage detection unit which detects a voltage of a DC terminal; a heater which is driven based on a voltage of the DC terminal; and a heater power supply unit supplies a voltage having a different magnitude to the heater according to a voltage detected by the DC terminal voltage detection unit, so that the home appliance and the heater can be commonly used for both the DC power and the AC power.
US10658937B1
A controller for a DCX power converter includes an SR controller that controls conduction times of first and second SR transistors in response to respective conduction conditions thereof, and a primary side controller that provides first and second primary phase signals controlling first and second transistors, measures a first sense signal as a time between a gate voltage of the first SR transistor falling below a first threshold and an activation of the second primary phase signal, an adaptive dead time proportional to an average of current conducted in the SR transistors during their respective active times, a first reference signal as a predetermined delay time plus the adaptive dead time, and a first error signal as an average difference between the first sense signal and the first reference signal, and controls a switching speed of the first and second primary phase signals to reduce the first error signal.
US10658936B2
Controlling operation of a converter circuit regulating power transfer between first and second voltage sources includes comparing a detected power value in the converter circuit with a power command value; determining a converter gain based on detected first and second voltage levels of the first and second voltage sources; and determining operation signals for transmitting to switches in the converter circuit during a steady state to control switching time and duration. When the detected power value differs from the power command value, the method includes determining values of two or more variables associated with adjustment of switching time and duration based on the detected first and second voltage levels; and determining operation signals to transmit to the switches during a power transition state based on the determined values of the two or more variables to adjust switching time and switching duration of the switches, thereby regulating power transition.
US10658930B2
The present technique discloses a buck-boost converter. According to a detailed example of the present invention, a number of switching elements of a buck-boost converter is reduced compared with a conventional buck-boost converter, and thereby a buck mode and a boost mode are performed with reduced overall conduction loss and switching loss. In addition, a buck-boost converter that is capable of stepping up and down an input voltage over a wide range using a single control device, that has a simple structure, that has inexpensive manufacturing costs, and that has a high circuit integration density can be realized by configuring the buck-boost converter to connect a two-phase interleaving boost converter unit to a single-phase buck converter unit.
US10658928B2
Various examples are provided related to switched-capacitor converters (SCCs) with multi resonant frequencies. In one example, a multi resonant SCC (MRSCC) includes a series of switches coupled between an input voltage and an output connection; a pair of diodes coupled across the output connection; and a resonant circuit coupled at a first end between first and second switches of the series of switches and at a second end between the pair of diodes. The resonant circuit can comprise a resonant tank including a first capacitor and a resonant inductor, and a resonant component in parallel with at least a portion of the resonant tank. The resonant component can be connected across the resonant tank or across the resonant inductor. The MRSCC topology can also be used with higher voltage conversion ratio converters.
US10658926B2
The present subject matter relates to charge pump devices, systems, and methods in which a plurality of series-connected charge-pump stages are connected between a supply voltage node and a primary circuit node, and a discharge circuit is connected to the plurality of charge-pump stages, wherein the discharge circuit is configured to selectively remove charge from the primary circuit node.
US10658924B2
A power converter includes an input voltage detection section, a power factor correction (PFC) section, a DC-DC conversion section, and a control section that stops power conversion operation in a case where an input voltage value is greater than or equal to a predetermined value. The control section resumes power conversion operation such that a second input current value lower than a first input current value corresponding to the input voltage value is input into the PFC section after stopping the power conversion operation.
US10658918B2
A switching cell includes: a half-bridge circuit including a first electronic switch and a second electronic switch connected in series between a first input terminal and a second input terminal of an electronic converter, wherein a first capacitor is connected in parallel to the first electronic switch and a second capacitor is connected in parallel to the second electronic switch; a first inductor connected between a first output terminal of the electronic converter and an intermediate point between the first electronic switch and the second electronic switch; a second inductor and a first capacitor connected in series between a first terminal of the first inductor and the intermediate point; a switching circuit connected between the first terminal of the first inductor and a second output terminal of the electronic converter; and a third capacitance connected between the first terminal of the first inductor and the second input terminal.
US10658913B2
A linear vibration motor comprising a vibrator and a stator, wherein the vibrator comprises at least two permanent magnets disposed adjacent to each other and a magnetic yoke disposed between any two adjacent permanent magnets, and adjacent ends of the two adjacent permanent magnets have the same polarities; the stator comprises coils and magnetic cores disposed in the coils; magnetization directions of the permanent magnets are perpendicular to axis directions of the coils. The linear vibration motor enables the magnetic lines of flux of the permanent magnets to intensively pass through the coils by means of a repulsive force between two ends with same polarity of two permanent magnets so as to obtain a larger magnetic flux and a stronger vibration sensing effect.
US10658901B2
A cover assembly for on-board electric equipment includes a cover body and a connector including a terminal and a connector housing. The cover body includes a ferrous base metal body, and a Zn-based plating layer formed on a surface of the base metal body. The cover body has a through hole formed through the base metal body and the plating layer. The terminal is passed through the through hole and electrically connected to an electric circuit. The connector housing is formed on the cover body so as to surround the terminal. A laser mark is formed on the cover body. The laser mark has a circular shape about the through hole and penetrates the plating layer to the base metal body. The connector housing extends to the base metal body through the plating layer within the laser mark.
US10658896B2
A method for producing a coil of a compressor (1) which can be electrically driven, a coil which is produced in accordance with this method, and a stator and a compressor which can be electrically driven. The production process for the coil includes the steps of: producing (100) a first winding (101) of the coil (12), producing (200) a second winding (102) of the coil (12), and compacting (300) the first winding (101) and the second winding (102) by virtue of an external action of force. A cross-sectional area (111, 112, 111′, 112′) of a wire of the first winding (101) and of the second winding (102) is deformed.
US10658885B2
A motor includes a rotor that rotates centered on a central axis extending in an axial direction, and a stator. The stator includes a stator iron core in which a plurality of laminated iron cores each including a tooth portion extending in a radial direction are arranged in a circumferential direction, and coils wound around the tooth portion. The laminated iron core includes a plurality of flat plate-shaped iron core pieces laminated in a plate thickness direction. The iron core piece is made of a non-oriented electromagnetic steel plate. A rolling direction of the iron core piece is inclined with respect to the radial direction. The laminated iron core is preferably formed by laminating the iron core pieces to be arranged with a same inclination. At least a pair of the laminated iron cores adjacent to each other in the circumferential direction has inclinations opposite to each other.
US10658882B2
Techniques are described herein for determining which power receiver clients are within a set network and limiting power transmission to these select clients. Ignoring some power requests frees up the wireless power transmission system to preferentially supply power to wireless power receiver clients that are determined to be of higher importance. This may be particularly beneficial within a home or business setting where the wireless power transmission system coverage region extends into locations where unknown devices are located.
US10658877B2
An electric power charge and discharge system for an electronic device having a battery, by which the electronic device can be used for a long period of time. In a wireless communication device including a wireless driving portion including a first battery and a wireless charging portion including a second battery, the first battery is charged by electric power from a fixed power supply and the second battery is charged by using electromagnetic waves existing in an external space. Further, the first battery and the second battery are discharged alternately, and during a period in which the first battery is discharged, the second battery is charged.
US10658871B2
Provided is a wireless power data transmission system that may transmit wireless power and may transmit data using wireless power. A wireless power transmitter may include capacitors, and may convert an electrical connection of the capacitors to a parallel connection for charging. The wireless power transmitter may also convert the electrical connection of at least two of the capacitors to a series connection for discharging.
US10658863B2
This disclosure describes systems, methods, and apparatus related to dominant power receiving unit selection. A device may determine a presence of a first device of one or more devices on a charging area of the device, the charging area including a power transmitting surface. The device may establish a connection with the first device using one or more communication protocols. The device may identify one or more parameters associated with the first device using the established connection. The device may determine that the first device is a dominant device based at least in part on the one or more parameters.
US10658850B2
Disclosed herein is a battery module that includes an external power supply terminal, a battery cell, a monitoring circuit that monitors a state of the battery cell, and a switch circuit that supplies one of an electric power supplied from the external power supply terminal and an electric power supplied from the battery cell to the monitoring circuit based on a switching signal.
US10658847B2
A method of providing a single structure multiple mode antenna is described. The antenna is preferably constructed having a first inductor coil that is electrically connected in series with a second inductor coil. The antenna is constructed having a plurality of electrical connections positioned along the first and second inductor coils. A plurality of terminals is connected to the electrical connections that facilitate numerous electrical connections and enables the antenna to be selectively tuned to various frequencies and frequency bands.
US10658840B2
An example system includes a failure detection circuit. The failure detection circuit is to detect a failure of a first power source electrically coupled to a first load. The failure detection circuit is to output a first signal indicating the detection of the failure of the first power source. The system also includes a current regulating circuit. The current regulating circuit is electrically coupled to the failure detection circuit. The current regulating circuit is to electrically couple a second power source to the first load based on the first signal output by the failure detection circuit. The current regulating circuit is to restrict a first current from the second power source.
US10658837B2
Safety power disconnection for remote power distribution in power distribution systems is disclosed. The power distribution system includes one or more power distribution circuits each configured to remotely distribute power from a power source over current carrying power conductors to remote units to provide power for remote unit operations. A remote unit is configured to decouple power from the power conductors thereby disconnecting the load of the remote unit from the power distribution system. A current measurement circuit in the power distribution system measures current flowing on the power conductors and provides a current measurement to the controller circuit. The controller circuit is configured to disconnect the power source from the power conductors for safety reasons in response to detecting a current from the power source in excess of a threshold current level indicating a load.
US10658833B2
Various implementations described herein are directed to a method for detecting, by a device, an increase in temperature at certain parts of an electrical system, and taking appropriate responsive action. The method may include measuring temperatures at certain locations within the system and estimating temperatures at other locations based on the measurements. Some embodiments disclosed herein include an integrated cable combining electrical conduction and heat-detection capabilities, or an integrated cable or connector combining electrical conduction with a thermal fuse.
US10658831B2
An overcurrent protection circuit includes a current control part configured to control conductance of a transistor so as to limit an output current flowing when the transistor is turned on to a predetermined upper limit or less, and a duty control part configured to forcibly turning on/off the transistor at a predetermined duty ratio when a temperature protection circuit detects a temperature abnormality in a state where the current control part limits the output current.
US10658810B2
A plurality of dies includes a gallium and nitrogen containing substrate having a surface region and an epitaxial material formed overlying the surface region. The epitaxial material includes an n-type cladding region, an active region having at least one active layer overlying the n-type cladding region, and a p-type cladding region overlying the active region. The epitaxial material is patterned to form the plurality of dies on the surface region, the dies corresponding to a laser device. Each of the plurality of dies includes a release region composed of a material with a smaller bandgap than an adjacent epitaxial material. A lateral width of the release region is narrower than a lateral width of immediately adjacent layers above and below the release region to form undercut regions bounding each side of the release region. Each die also includes a passivation region extending along sidewalls of the active region.
US10658808B2
A terminal cassette assembly for a terminal crimping machine includes a cassette housing having a terminal reel chamber holding a terminal reel and a crimp tooling chamber holding crimp tooling with a terminal reel door and a crimp tooling cover, respectively. The crimp tooling includes lower tooling including an anvil and upper tooling including a wire crimper. At least one of the upper tooling and the lower tooling are held in position relative to the terminal crimping machine by the cassette housing when the cassette housing is coupled to the terminal crimping machine.
US10658807B2
A terminal bending tool comprises a plate, a plurality of receiving grooves, and a plurality of rollers. The plate extends in a first horizontal direction. The receiving grooves are disposed in the plate in a row along the first horizontal direction. The rollers are pivotally mounted in the receiving grooves. A terminal is received and positioned in a first receiving groove and is in contact with an outer circumferential surface of a first roller. When the terminal bending tool is moved in a vertical direction perpendicular to the first horizontal direction, the first roller rotates and moves along a surface of the terminal while pressing and bending the terminal.
US10658805B2
A mounting assembly for an electrical fixture can include an upper unit and a lower unit that be releaseably retained together and including respective contacts that touch when the upper and lower units are retained together to create an electric pathway. The units can further include respective contacts for a neutral or ground connection. The assembly can also include a device in electrical contact with both of the contacts of the lower unit to draw power. The lower unit can also include a third contact and a power distribution circuit to deliver a level of electrical power to the third contact that is different than power available through the other contact of the lower unit. In a system of the mounting assemblies, each mounting assembly can include also include a transceiver to communicate with one another.
US10658802B2
A plug comprising: a plurality of pins or a plurality of sockets; a body portion housing the plurality of pins or the plurality of sockets and the body portion extending parallel to a longitudinal axis of the plurality of pins or the plurality of sockets; a connection section connected to the body portion and extending from the body portion at an obtuse angle; and a cord connected to an end of the connection section; wherein the body portion and the connection section are connected at a joint and the joint includes a sub-flush radius on an underside of the joint.
US10658800B1
A power supply assembly for powering and recharging an electronic device includes a power supply unit that is positioned in a housing. The power supply unit is configured to convert alternating current to direct current. A first plug that is operationally coupled to the power supply unit is configured to couple the power supply unit to a source of alternating current. A cord is selectively extensible from and retractable into the housing. The cord is operationally coupled to the power supply unit. A first coupler is coupled to the cord and is positioned external to the housing. Each of a plurality of adaptors is configured to couple a respective electronic device through the first coupler and the cord to the power supply unit. The power supply unit is configured to supply the direct current to power the respective electrical device and to recharge a battery of the respective electrical device.
US10658798B2
Some embodiments include an electric meter assembly including a socket housing with a socket interface extending from a top side of the socket housing, and a removable or portable meter coupled to the socket interface. Further, the electric meter assembly includes at a strap coupled at one end to at least one side of the socket housing. The strap is configured and arranged to extend over at least a portion of the meter from one side of the socket to an opposite side of the socket. Some further embodiments include an electric meter assembly with a support platform including a coupled transformer and socket housing. The socket housing includes a socket interface extending from a top side of the socket housing, and a secondary housing enclosed within the socket housing. The secondary housing includes a CT shunt and a switch assembly including an actuator extending through the top side.
US10658793B2
A system includes a first electrical connector and a first multiplexer. The first electrical connector has multiple electrical contacts including at least a first data contact, a second data contact, a first power contact and a second power contact. The first multiplexer has a first data input, a second data input and a selector. The first data input is coupled to the first data contact. The second data input is coupled to the second data contact. The selector is coupled to the first power contact or the second power contact. The first multiplexer is configured to; direct the first data input to a first bus and direct the second data input to a second bus, or direct the first data input to the second bus and direct the second data input to the first bus, depending whether a voltage is present at the selector.
US10658782B2
A contact stop spring and contact assembly are disclosed. The contact assembly has a contact housing with a contact chamber and a contact resiliently held in the contact chamber by the contact stop spring.
US10658781B2
A connector includes a cable including a plurality of core wires, a plurality of contacts, a body, a body cover housing the body, and an inner mold part. The plurality of contacts are respectively connected to ends, on one side, of the plurality of core wires of the cable. The body includes a plurality of first grooves that have an arc shape on a section orthogonal to an extending direction of the core wires and respectively support the ends, on one side, of the core wires in a contact state. The body cover includes a plurality of lines of rails on an inner side surface thereof, the plurality of lines of rails respectively having second grooves and being extended in parallel with the extending direction of the core wires, the second grooves having an arc shape on the section orthogonal to the extending direction of the core wires.
US10658779B2
A connector for establishing electrical connections with a PCB comprises first and second sets of contact pads arranged in first and second rows on a same surface of the PCB. The connector includes a first set of elongated contacts, a second set of elongated contacts, and a contact block. The first set of contacts have contact surfaces that form a first row of contact surfaces configured to make and break electrical connectivity with the first set of contact pads of the PCB. The second set of contacts have contact surfaces that form a second row of contact surfaces configured to make and break electrical connectivity with the second set of contact pads of the PCB. The contact block supports the first and second sets of contacts and causes the contact surfaces to wipe against the first and second sets of contact pads when making and breaking electrical connectivity therewith.
US10658776B2
Blades 20A to 20D are formed such that arm portions 31A to 31D of electroconductive elongated members 30A to 30D are retained in place with the help of insulating plates 50A-1 to 50D-2, a housing 10 has formed therein holding portions 17A to 17D allowing for the above-mentioned blades 20A to 20D to be inserted from the rear, said holding portions 17A to 17D have formed therein guiding portions 17A-1 to 17D-1 guiding the insertion of the above-mentioned blades 20A to 20D from the rear with the help of guiding grooves 17A-3 to 17D-3 extending in the forward-backward direction, and movement of the above-mentioned blades 20A to 20D in the up-down direction within the guiding grooves 17A-3 to 17D-3 is restricted.
US10658772B1
A connection system has a high-density, high-speed connector that is electrically connected to a plurality of cables by a tiered circuit board. Edges of the circuit board are offset in order to form steps on which conductive pads may be formed. Each set of pads on a given step may be electrically connected to one or more conductors of a cable, such as a twinax ribbon cable. Thus, each of the cables may be coupled to one or more conductive pads on a respective step of the circuit board such that a large number of conductors may be electrically interfaced with the connector in a relatively small space, unencumbered by the bend radius of the cable. In addition, the cables may be coupled to the circuit board in a manner that does not require significant bending at the ends of the cables helping to preserve signal integrity. That is, conductive paths turn at high angles (e.g., close to 90 degrees) within the circuit board rather than at the ends of the cables connected to the circuit board.
US10658769B1
An electronic device includes a casing, a circuit board, an electronic component and a fixing member. The casing includes a fixing pillar and at least one rib. The rib is connected to a periphery of the fixing pillar. The circuit board includes a through hole. The fixing pillar is disposed in the through hole. The circuit board abuts against a second top surface of the rib. A thickness of the circuit board is smaller than a height between a first top surface of the fixing pillar and the second top surface of the rib. The electronic component includes a first metal member. A first ground end of the first metal member is disposed on the first top surface of the fixing pillar. A gap exists between the first ground end and the circuit board. The fixing member fixes the first ground end to the fixing pillar.
US10658764B2
A feeding network of a dual-beam antenna and a dual-beam antenna are disclosed. The feeding network includes: a cavity, including an upper grounding metal plate and a lower grounding metal plate; a printed circuit board PCB, disposed inside the cavity, where a splitting network circuit and a phase-shift circuit in the feeding network are integrated into the PCB, and arrangement of the PCB and the cavity enables a wire on the PCB to have a strip line structure as a whole; and at least two radio-frequency signal input ports, where the at least two radio-frequency signal input ports are connected to the splitting network circuit on the PCB.
US10658762B2
An electronic device may be provided with wireless circuitry that includes a phased antenna array. The array may include first, second, and third rings of antennas on a dielectric substrate that cover respective first, second, and third communications bands greater than 10 GHz. The second ring of antennas may surround the first ring of antennas. The third ring of antennas may be formed over the second ring of antennas. Parasitic elements may be formed over the first ring of antennas to broaden the bandwidth of the first ring of antennas. Beam steering circuitry may be coupled to the rings of antennas. Control circuitry may control the beam steering circuitry to steer a beam of wireless signals in one or more of the first, second, and third communications bands. The array may exhibit relatively uniform antenna gain regardless of the direction in which the beam is steered.
US10658749B2
An electronic device such as a wristwatch may have a housing with metal sidewalls and a display having conductive display structures. Printed circuits having corresponding ground traces may be coupled to the display for conveying data to and/or from the display. The conductive display structures may be separated from the metal sidewalls by a gap. A conductive interconnect may be coupled to the metal sidewalls and may extend across the gap to the conductive display structures. The conductive interconnect may be coupled to the ground traces on the printed circuits and/or may be shorted or capacitively coupled to the conductive display structures. When configured in this way, the metal sidewalls, the conductive display structures, and the conductive interconnect may define the edges of a slot antenna resonating element for a slot antenna.
US10658739B2
An printed circuit board (PCB) assembly and method of assembling the same for a high-speed, short-reach communication link are described that provide a mechanism for transmitting radio frequency (RF) waves from one digital electronic component of the PCB assembly to another, where the second digital electronic component is located either on the same PCB assembly or on a second PCB assembly. The assembly includes a PCB having multiple layers and a digital electronic component supported by the PCB. At least one of the layers defines a channel that confines RF waves therein. An RF antenna in communication with the digital electronic component extends into the channel, and the RF antenna transmits RF signals generated by the digital electronic component into the channel as RF waves or receives RF waves via the channel and conveys corresponding RF signals to the digital electronic component.
US10658719B2
A phase shifter and an antenna, in the field of communications technologies. The phase shifter includes a cavity, and a fixed component, a sliding component, a control rod configured to control sliding of the sliding component, and a dielectric portion in the cavity. A first strip group is disposed in the fixed component, where the first strip group includes two strips. The sliding component is located above the fixed component, and a second strip group is disposed in the sliding component. The second strip group includes two strips, and the two strips of the second strip group are electrically coupled to the two strips of the first strip group respectively.
US10658718B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a redox battery system comprising a three dimensional array of a plurality of nano-batteries and a hydrogen power system comprising a nano-array of hydrogen paper, a heat source and a water source, wherein the hydrogen paper attracts hydrogen from the water source. Further embodiments can include a solar power system comprising an array of a plurality of nano-solar cells and an ionic diode power system comprising two electrodes separated by a polycarbonate membrane, two borophene electric charge capture devices, and a capacitor stack. Additional embodiment can include a power supply controller providing power to a linear amplifier using the redox battery system and causing recharging of the redox battery system utilizing the hydrogen power system, the solar power system, the ionic diode power system, or a combination thereof, to provide charge to the redox battery system. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10658717B2
The present disclosure includes a system having a battery module, where the battery module includes a housing having a top side, a lateral side, and an edge extending along and between the top side and the lateral side. The battery module also includes electrochemical cells disposed in the housing, and a heat sink disposed on the lateral side of the housing. A fan is disposed over the top side of the housing. A hood includes a first hood portion disposed over the top side of the housing and the fan and a second hood portion coupled to the first hood portion and disposed over the lateral side of the housing, where the hood defines an airspace between the hood and the housing and the hood is configured to guide an airflow through the airspace from the fan on the top side of the housing, over the edge between the top side and the lateral side of the housing, and over the heat sink disposed on the lateral side of the housing.
US10658716B2
The present disclosure relates to a battery module having stable strength and rigidity, high sealability and assemblability, and improved productivity. The battery module of the present disclosure includes: a cell assembly; a cooling plate; a front cover having a lower portion welded to the cooling plate; a rear cover having a lower portion welded to the cooling plate; a left side cover having a lower end portion welded to the cooling plate and a rear end portion welded to the rear cover; a right side cover having a lower end portion welded to the cooling plate, a front end portion welded to the front cover, and a rear end portion welded to the rear cover; and an upper plate having a left end portion welded to the left side cover and a right end portion welded to the right side cover.
US10658710B2
A secondary battery structure includes a first electrode structure including a plurality of first electrode elements spaced apart from each other and disposed in a form of an array, a second electrode structure spaced apart from the first electrode structure and including a second electrode element, and an electrolyte which allows ions to move between the first electrode structure and second electrode structure, where the first electrode structure and the second electrode structure define a cathode and an anode, and the number of the first electrode elements and the number of the second electrode element are different from each other.
US10658705B2
Described are solid-state energy storage devices and methods of making solid-state energy storage devices in which components of the batteries are truly solid-state and do not comprise a gel. Useful electrodes include metals and metal oxides, and useful electrolytes include amorphous ceramic thin film electrolytes that permit conduction or migration of ions across the electrolyte. Disclosed methods of making solid-state energy storage devices include multi-stage deposition processes, in which an electrode is deposited in a first stage and an electrolyte is deposited in a second stage.
US10658703B2
The disclosure relates to a negative electrode plate and a secondary battery comprising the same. Specifically, the disclosure provides a negative electrode plate comprising a negative electrode current collector and a negative electrode layer coated on at least one surface of the negative electrode current collector, the negative electrode layer comprising a negative electrode active material, wherein the negative electrode active material comprises graphite, and the negative electrode layer meets: 4×L×VOI−¼×Dn10≤25, wherein L represents the thickness of single-side negative electrode layer on the negative electrode current collector in millimeter; Dn10 represents the particle diameter corresponding to 10% of the number distribution of particles of the negative electrode active material in micrometer; VOI represents the orientation index of the negative electrode layer. The negative electrode plate can allow that a secondary battery containing the same has the combination of high energy density, fast charge, and long cycle life.
US10658699B2
An electrolyte for a lithium secondary battery, the electrolyte including: a lithium salt, an organic solvent, and an organic fluorinated ether compound represented by Formula 1: CH3—CH2—O—CF2—CHF—R1 Formula 1 wherein, in Formula 1, R1 is a C1-C10 alkyl group, a C3-C10 cycloalkyl group, a C1-C10 fluorinated alkyl group, or a C3-C10 fluorinated cycloalkyl group.
US10658698B2
Syntheses of graft copolymers based on PEO and fluorinated functional groups are described. Grafting of fluorinated groups reduces the Tm of PEO and also increases the miscibility of PEO with ionic liquids, so that addition of ionic liquids improves ionic conductivity even at room temperature. The disclosed copolymers containing fluorinated functionality have superior safety and are more flame retardant as compared to traditional electrolytes. Such copolymers can be used as either solid or gel electrolytes in Li batteries.
US10658697B2
A secondary battery is provided. The secondary battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode including a carbon material and a silicon-based material; and an electrolyte layer. The electrolyte layer includes an electrolytic solution and a polymeric compound and has one or more through-holes extending in a thickness direction of the electrolyte layer.
US10658691B2
Disclosed are a method of manufacturing an inorganic electrolyte membrane and a composition for manufacturing an inorganic electrolyte membrane, the method including: (a) mixing primary inorganic particles (<50 nm), a dispersant, and a solvent and dispersing the primary inorganic particles, thus preparing a dispersion of secondary inorganic particles having a hydrodynamic diameter of 120 to 230 nm, determined using DLS (Dynamic Light Scattering), (b) adding and mixing the dispersion of secondary inorganic particles with a binder, (c) applying a mixed solution composed of the dispersion of inorganic particles and the binder and drying the mixed solution, thus forming a green sheet, and (d) firing the green sheet, thus forming an electrolyte membrane.
US10658690B2
The present invention to provide a highly proton conducting metal organic material constituting of phosphate ester based ligand immobilized via gelation with Fe3+ ion in DMF which is used as conducting electrolyte in PEFMCs.
US10658685B2
An illustrative example system includes at least one fuel cell that is configured to generate electricity based on an electrochemical reaction. The fuel cell includes an exhaust. A heat pump includes an evaporator, a condenser, a compressor, and an expansion valve. A coolant loop is external to the at least one fuel cell. The coolant loop has a first portion associated with the exhaust such that heat from the exhaust increases a temperature of coolant fluid in the first portion. The coolant loop has a second portion downstream of the first portion. The second portion of the coolant loop is associated with the evaporator such that heat from the coolant fluid in the second portion increases the temperature of the evaporator.
US10658684B2
A glass-ceramic seal for ionic transport devices such as solid oxide fuel cell stacks or oxygen transport membrane applications. Preferred embodiments of the present invention comprise glass-ceramic sealant material based on a Barium-Aluminum-Silica system, which exhibits a high enough coefficient of thermal expansion to closely match the overall CTE of a SOFC cell/stack (preferably from about 11 to 12.8 ppm/° C.), good sintering behavior, and a very low residual glass phase (which contributes to the stability of the seal).
US10658674B2
An electrode for improving the durability of a battery includes a current collector and an active material layer. The current collector has a conductive resin layer including a polymer material and a conductive filler. The electrode further includes a conductive member, which is in electrical contact with the conductive filler, between the current collector and the active material layer.
US10658669B2
A rechargeable alkali metal battery comprising: (a) an anode comprising an alkali metal layer and a dendrite penetration-resistant layer comprising an amorphous carbon or polymeric carbon matrix, an optional carbon or graphite reinforcement phase dispersed in this matrix, and a lithium- or sodium-containing species that are chemically bonded to the matrix and/or the optional carbon or graphite reinforcement to form an integral layer that prevents dendrite penetration, wherein the lithium- or sodium-containing species is selected from Li2CO3, Li2O, Li2C2O4, LiOH, LiX, ROCO2Li, HCOLi, ROLi, (ROCO2Li)2, (CH2OCO2Li)2, Li2S, LixSOy, Na2CO3, Na2O, Na2C2O4, NaOH, NaX, ROCO2Na, HCONa, RONa, (ROCO2Na)2, (CH2OCO2Na)2, Na2S, NaxSOy, or a combination thereof, wherein X═F, Cl, I, or Br, R=a hydrocarbon group, x=0-1, y=1-4; (b) a cathode; and (c) a separator and electrolyte component; wherein the dendrite penetration-resistant layer is disposed between the alkali metal layer and the separator.
US10658668B2
A lithium-sulfur battery which includes an electrolyte containing lithium-ions, an anode and a cathode containing sulfur. The lithium-sulfur battery also contains a surface layer which is arranged between the anode and the cathode. The lithium-sulfur battery further includes areas on the cathode side which contain polysulfides. The surface layer of the lithium-sulfur battery contains at least one graphene layer which is permeable to lithium ions and impermeable to polysulfides.
US10658664B2
The present invention relates to a method for producing lithium-nickel-manganese-based transition metal oxide particles, the transition metal oxide particles which are obtained with the method, and the use thereof as electrode material. The present invention particularly relates to lithium-nickel-manganese-based transition metal oxide particles in over-lithiated form with high tamped density, a method for production thereof and use thereof as cathode material in lithium secondary batteries.
US10658654B2
A composite anode active material includes: a core comprising silicon; and a carbonaceous shell, wherein the carbonaceous shell includes a carbonaceous material and lithium titanium oxide.
US10658649B2
An electronic equipment chamber is disclosed. The electronic equipment chamber has an electronic equipment chamber board on which at least one electronic component among a current sensor, a relay, and a fuse is disposed, a controller located in a center of the electronic equipment chamber board, the controller electrically connected to the electronic component and configured to control the electronic component, and a plurality of busbars electrically connected to the electronic component and disposed along an outer edge of the electronic equipment chamber board, the plurality of busbars spaced apart from the controller.
US10658636B2
A power storage device includes a plurality of battery modules, a rack for arranging and housing the plurality of battery modules, and a wall plate attached so as to close a back side-surface of the rack. The wall plate is transparent at least in part and is provided facing the connector terminal detachably connected to the battery module.
US10658634B2
The present disclosure relates to a battery module that includes a housing having a first absorptive material configured to absorb a laser emission, a cover having a second absorptive material configured to absorb the laser emission, and a collar configured coupled to the housing and coupled to the cover via a laser weld. The collar includes a transparent material configured to transmit the laser emission through the collar and toward the housing or the cover.
US10658630B2
The present application discloses an evaporation plate for depositing a deposition material on a substrate. The evaporation plate has a first side and a second side opposite to the first side. The evaporation plate includes a main body plate; a first cooling layer on the main body plate and on the first side of the evaporation plate; and a first heating layer on a side of the first cooling layer distal to the main body plate. The first cooling layer is configured to cool the first heating layer on the first side of the evaporation plate. The first heating layer is configured to heat a material deposited on the first side of the evaporation plate.
US10658629B2
Disclosed is an organic electroluminescent element including a first electrode, a hole transport layer, a light emitting layer, an electron transport layer and a second electrode in this order. The light emitting layer has a first light emitting layer including a coating film on the hole transport layer side, and has a second light emitting layer including a vapor-deposited film on the electron transport layer side.
US10658623B2
An electroluminescent display device includes an overcoat layer on a substrate; a plurality of low-refractive members formed of an inorganic matter and disposed on the overcoat layer; a first electrode on the overcoat layer and the plurality of low-refractive members; a bank layer disposed on the overcoat layer and the first electrode and including an opening configured to expose the first electrode; an emitting layer disposed on the first electrode; and a second electrode disposed on the emitting layer, wherein each of the plurality of low-refractive members includes a first flat surface contacting the first electrode, a second flat surface having an area greater than that of the first flat surface and contacting the overcoat layer and first and second inclined surfaces connecting the first flat surface and the second flat surface, and, wherein a refractive index of each of the plurality of low-refractive members is lower than those of the overcoat layer and the first electrode.
US10658617B2
A display device in an embodiment according to the present invention includes a substrate including a first surface and a second surface opposing the first surface, a display area on the first surface of the substrate and including a plurality of pixels, a periphery area on an outer side of the display area of the first surface, and a sealing layer covering the display area and the periphery area. The periphery area includes a drive circuit outputting a signal to the display area, an input terminal part input with a signal for driving the drive circuit, and a plurality of wirings arranged between the drive circuit and the input terminal part, and the sealing layer includes at least one opening part exposing the first surface of the substrate in an area inside a corner part of the substrate in the periphery area.
US10658612B2
The present application discloses a display panel. The display panel includes a first substrate; and a second substrate facing the first substrate. The first substrate includes a base substrate and a passivation layer on the base substrate. The passivation layer includes a base portion and a protruding portion on a side of the base portion distal to the base substrate. The protruding portion is in a peripheral area of the display panel and encloses a display area of the display panel.
US10658607B2
An organic EL element (10) includes a first light-emitting layer (33a) having the shortest emission peak wavelength of a light-emitting layer (33) and containing a host material and a TTF material or at least the TTF material, a second light-emitting layer (33b) containing at least a TADF material, a third light-emitting layer (33c) having the longest emission peak wavelength of the light-emitting layer (33) and containing at least fluorescent material. The excited triplet level of the TTF material is lower than the excited triplet level of the TADF material.
US10658605B2
A quantum-nano light emitting diode (Q-NED) pixel includes a switching transistor configured to transfer a data voltage in response to a scan signal, a storage capacitor configured to store the data voltage transferred by the switching transistor, a driving transistor coupled to a first power supply voltage line, and configured to generate a driving current based on the data voltage stored in the storage capacitor, a plurality of Q-NEDs configured to emit light based on the driving current, the Q-NEDs having an ohmic contact resistance at anodes and cathodes of the Q-NEDs, a first sensing transistor configured to couple the Q-NEDs to a sensing line in response to a sensing signal when a sensing operation for sensing the ohmic contact resistance of the Q-NEDs is performed, and a second sensing transistor configured to decouple the Q-NEDs from a second power supply line in response to an inverted sensing signal.
US10658600B2
A fabricating method of a flexible substrate is provided, including: step 1: fabricating a first flexible base; step 2: fabricating at least one layer of a laminated material made of silicon oxide and amorphous silicon on the first flexible base; step 3: performing a dehydrogenation treatment to the laminated material; and step 4: fabricating a second flexible base on the laminated material to obtain a flexible substrate. Compared with the prior art, by disposing two layers of flexible bases and a laminated material between the flexible bases, the stability of multiple bending can be improved; by performing a dehydrogenation treatment of the laminated material, the defects of the flexible substrate in the back-end process can be reduced.
US10658599B2
The present invention relates to a semiconducting material comprising an electron transport matrix compound comprising at least one electron transporting structural moiety and at least one polar structural moiety; a matrix compound and electronic device utilizing the semiconducting material.
US10658589B2
An intermediate semiconductor device structure includes a first area including a memory stack area and a second area including an alignment mark area. The intermediate structure includes a metal interconnect arranged on a substrate in the first area and a first electrode layer arranged on the metal interconnect in the first area, and in the second area. The intermediate structure includes an alignment assisting marker arranged in the second area. The intermediate structure includes a dielectric layer and a second electrode layer arranged on the alignment assisting marker in the second area and on the metal interconnect in the first area. The intermediate structure includes a hard mask layer arranged on the second electrode area. The hard mask layer provides a raised area of topography over the alignment assisting marker. The intermediate structure includes a resist arranged on the hard mask layer in the first area.
US10658583B1
A memory device with crossbar array structure includes two sets of parallel bottom electrodes positioned on a substrate. The lower bottom electrodes are located at a lower position relative to higher bottom electrodes. The device includes a first set of corner tips of the lower bottom electrodes, and a second set of corner tips at a top of the higher bottom electrodes. The device also includes a set of parallel top electrodes intersecting the two sets of parallel bottom electrodes. A dielectric is formed as a resistive random-access memory (RRAM) cell under each intersection of each top electrode and each of bottom electrode. The device further includes one set of contacts at one end of an array that contacts the lower bottom electrodes and another set of contacts at the other end of the array that contacts the higher bottom electrodes.
US10658581B2
A semiconductor device structure is provided. The semiconductor device structure includes a semiconductor substrate and a lower electrode over the semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor device structure also includes a first oxide layer over the lower electrode, a second oxide layer over the first oxide layer, and a third oxide layer over the second oxide layer. Oxygen ions are bonded more tightly in the second oxide layer than those in the first oxide layer, and oxygen ions are bonded more tightly in the second oxide layer than those in the third oxide layer. The semiconductor device structure further includes an upper electrode over the third oxide layer.
US10658576B2
A method of manufacturing a magnetoresistive stack/structure comprising (a) etching through a second magnetic region to (i) provide sidewalls of the second magnetic region and (ii) expose a surface of a dielectric layer, (b) depositing a first encapsulation layer on the sidewalls of the second magnetic region and over a surface of the dielectric layer, (c) thereafter: (i) etching the first encapsulation layer which is disposed over the dielectric layer using a first etch process, and (ii) etching re-deposited material using a second etch process, wherein, after such etching, a portion of the first encapsulation layer remains on the sidewalls of the second magnetic region, (d) etching (i) through the dielectric layer to form a tunnel barrier and provide sidewalls thereof and (ii) etching the first magnetic region to provide sidewalls thereof, and (e) depositing a second encapsulation layer on the sidewalls of the tunnel barrier and first magnetic region.
US10658572B2
A magnetoresistance effect element includes first and second magnetic layers having a perpendicular magnetization direction, and a first non-magnetic layer disposed adjacent to the first magnetic layer and on a side opposite to a side on which the second magnetic layer is disposed. An interfacial perpendicular magnetic anisotropy exists at an interface between the first magnetic layer and the first non-magnetic layer, and the anisotropy causes the first magnetic layer to have a magnetization direction perpendicular to the surface of the layers. An atomic fraction of all magnetic elements to all magnetic and non-magnetic elements included in the second magnetic layer is smaller than that of the first magnetic layer.
US10658566B2
Embodiments of the invention include piezoelectrically driven switches that are used for modifying a background color or light source color in display systems, and methods of forming such devices. In an embodiment, a piezoelectrically actuated switch for modulating a background color in a display may include a photonic crystal that has a plurality of blinds oriented substantially perpendicular to a surface of the display. In an embodiment, the blinds include a black surface and a white surface. The switch may also include an anchor spaced away from an edge of the photonic crystal and a piezoelectric actuator formed on the surface of the anchor and a surface of the photonic crystal. Some embodiments may include a photonic crystal that is a multi-layer polymeric structure or a polymer chain with a plurality of nanoparticles spaced at regular intervals on the polymer chain.
US10658565B2
Actuator assemblies, mechanical assemblies including the actuator assemblies, and methods of fabricating the same are disclosed herein. The actuator assemblies include a piezoelectric element having a first side and a second side, a first electrode in electrical communication with the first side, and a second electrode in electrical communication with the second side. The first electrode includes a flexible, electrically conductive membrane. The mechanical assemblies include a first structure, which includes a first interface surface, a second structure, which includes a second interface surface, and the actuator assembly. The actuator assembly is configured to provide a motive force for relative motion between the first structure and the second structure. The methods include defining a first electrode on a first side of a piezoelectric element and defining a second electrode on a second side of the piezoelectric element. The first electrode includes a flexible, electrically conductive membrane.
US10658559B2
A light emitting element includes a semiconductor layered body, an insulating film, first and second electrodes, first external connecting parts and at least one second external connecting part. The semiconductor layered body includes a first semiconductor layer, a light emitting layer, and a second semiconductor layer. The first electrode is connected to the first semiconductor layer at exposed parts through openings in the insulating film, and partially arranged on the second semiconductor layer via the insulating film. The first external connecting parts are connected to the first electrode. The first external connecting parts are spaced apart from the exposed parts in a plan view. A group comprising at least one of the first external connecting parts and other group comprising at least one of the first external connecting parts respectively surround adjacent ones of the exposed parts while being spaced apart from each other in the plan view.
US10658558B2
A light-emitting device is disclosed, including: a substrate; a light-emitting diode (LED) formed on a first surface of the substrate, the LED being arranged to emit primary light; a fence disposed on a second surface of the substrate, the fence including a plurality of walls arranged to define a cell; a light-converting structure disposed in the cell, the light-converting structure being arranged to convert at least a portion of the primary light to secondary light having a wavelength that is different from the wavelength of the primary light; and a reflective element formed on one or more outer surfaces of the walls of the fence, such that the reflective element and the light-converting structure are disposed on opposite sides of the walls of the fence.
US10658557B1
A transparent light emitting diode (LED) includes a plurality of III-nitride layers, including an active region that emits light, wherein all of the layers except for the active region are transparent for an emission wavelength of the light, such that the light is extracted effectively through all of the layers and in multiple directions through the layers. Moreover, the surface of one or more of the III-nitride layers may be roughened, textured, patterned or shaped to enhance light extraction.
US10658556B2
An LED package structure includes a multilayer circuit board, an LED chip, and a cover. The multilayer circuit board has a conductive layer, a first resin layer disposed on the conductive layer, and a first circuit layer disposed on the first resin layer. The first resin layer has a first opening, and a portion of the conductive layer is partially exposed from the first resin layer via the first opening such that a mounting region is exposed. The first circuit layer has a second opening, and the second opening exposes the mounting region. The LED chip is fixed on the mounting region by passing it through the first and second openings, and the LED chip is connected to the first circuit layer by wires. The cover is disposed on the first resin layer and covers the LED chip and the first circuit layer.
US10658549B2
Disclosed is a unit substrate for an optical device, the unit substrate including: an optical device-mounting region provided on an upper surface of the unit substrate; and first and second metal substrates bonded to each other with a vertical insulating layer interposed therebetween. A lower surface of the unit substrate is electrically connected to the mounting region, and side and upper surfaces of the unit substrate are electrically isolated from the mounting region such that an optical device is capable of operating in an environment with low electrical resistance.
US10658541B2
According to at least some embodiments of the present disclosure, a method of manufacturing semiconductor wafers comprises: selectively growing a nitride buffer layer on a first surface of a patterned substrate, the patterned substrate including at least the first surface and a second surface; and growing an epitaxial layer on the nitride buffer layer, wherein a crystal surface of the epitaxial layer grows along a normal direction of the patterned substrate. The epitaxial layer does not include multiple crystal surfaces having different crystal growth directions that cause a stress at a junction interface where the crystal surfaces having the different crystal growth directions meet.
US10658540B2
A micro-light-emitting diode device includes a first semiconductor layer, an active layer, and a second semiconductor layer. The first semiconductor layer has a first bottom surface. The active layer is disposed on the first semiconductor layer. The second semiconductor layer is disposed on the active layer. The second semiconductor layer and the active layer have an interface. A surface of the second semiconductor layer opposite to the active layer is a light-exiting surface of the micro-light-emitting diode device. A distance between the light-exiting surface and the interface decreases from a central axis of the second semiconductor layer to an edge of the second semiconductor layer, so as to provide a focusing effect for the light by the light-exiting surface.
US10658537B2
In manufacturing a crystalline silicon-based solar cell having an intrinsic silicon-based thin film and a conductive silicon-based thin film in this order on a conductive single-crystalline silicon substrate, plasma treatment is performed after the intrinsic silicon-based thin film is formed on the conductive single-crystalline silicon substrate. In the plasma treatment, a surface of the intrinsic silicon-based thin film is exposed to hydrogen plasma while a hydrogen gas and silicon-containing gases are being introduced into a CVD chamber. The amount of the hydrogen introduced into the CVD chamber during the plasma treatment is 150 to 2500 times the introduction amount of the silicon-containing gases.
US10658533B2
The present disclosure provides interconnect elements and methods of using interconnect elements. In one embodiment, the interconnect element includes: a first end including at least three members, each member having a pair of parallel gap apertures for mounting an adjoining first component; a second opposing end including at least two members, each member having a pair of parallel gap apertures for mounting an adjoining second component; and one or more interconnect connecting portions to attach the first end of the interconnect element to the second end of the interconnect element.
US10658527B2
A solar cell comprising: a semiconductor substrate; a metallization paste on a surface of the semiconductor substrate; and a tunneling layer between the substrate surface and the metallization paste.
US10658525B2
A method of fabricating a solar cell can include forming a dielectric region on a silicon substrate. The method can also include forming an emitter region over the dielectric region and forming a dopant region on a surface of the silicon substrate. In an embodiment, the method can include heating the silicon substrate at a temperature above 900 degrees Celsius to getter impurities to the emitter region and drive dopants from the dopant region to a portion of the silicon substrate.
US10658522B2
Provided are a transistor which has electrical characteristics requisite for its purpose and uses an oxide semiconductor layer and a semiconductor device including the transistor. In the bottom-gate transistor in which at least a gate electrode layer, a gate insulating film, and the semiconductor layer are stacked in this order, an oxide semiconductor stacked layer including at least two oxide semiconductor layers whose energy gaps are different from each other is used as the semiconductor layer. Oxygen and/or a dopant may be added to the oxide semiconductor stacked layer.
US10658515B2
An operation method and an electronic device are provided. A proximity detection mode is activated in response to deactivating the display during an execution of a call application. In response to activating the proximity detection mode, a proximity distance of an object is identified based on outputting the light through the light emitting unit and receiving the light through the light receiving unit. If the identified proximity distance is larger than a pre-defined proximity recognition distance, the proximity detection mode is deactivated and the display is activated.
US10658512B2
A fabrication method for a fin field effect transistor is provided. The method includes forming a base substrate including a substrate and fins protruding from the substrate. The substrate includes a first region and a second region. The fins include at least a first fin protruding from the substrate in the first region, and at least a second fin protruding from the substrate in the second region. The second fin includes a sacrificial layer and a semiconductor layer covering the sacrificial layer. Then a first dummy gate oxidation layer is formed on a portion of the first fin by an in-situ steam generation (ISSG)-decoupled plasma nitrogen (DPN) treatment process. A second dummy gate oxidation layer is formed on a portion of the second fin by an atomic layer deposition process.
US10658502B2
III-N transistor including a vertically-oriented lightly-doped III-N drift region between an overlying III-N 2DEG channel and an underlying heavily-doped III-N drain. In some embodiments, the III-N transistors are disposed over a silicon substrate. In some embodiments, lateral epitaxial overgrowth is employed to form III-N islands self-aligned with the vertically-oriented drift region. A gate electrode disposed over a portion of a III-N island may modulate a 2DEG within a channel region of the III-N island disposed above the III-N drift region. Charge carriers in the 2DEG channel may be swept into the drift region toward the drain. Topside contacts to each of the gate, source, and drain may be pitch scaled independently of a length of the drift region.
US10658501B2
A high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) includes a channel semiconductor structure including a stack of layers arranged on top of each other in an order of magnitudes of the polarization of materials of the layers to form multiple carrier channels at heterojunctions formed by each pair of layers in the stack. The stack of layers includes a first layer and a second layer. The magnitude of polarization of the first layer is greater than the magnitude of polarization of the second layer arranged in the stack below the first layer, and the width of the first layer is less than the width of the second layer to form a staircase profile of the semiconductor structure. The HEMT includes a source semiconductor structure including a heavily doped semiconductor material, a drain semiconductor structure including the heavily doped semiconductor material. The HEMT includes a source, a drain, and a gate electrodes to modulate the conductivity of the carrier channels. The gate electrode has a staircase shape having trends and risers tracking the staircase profile of the semiconductor structure.
US10658500B2
A layer structure for a normally-off transistor has an electron-supply layer made of a group-III-nitride material, a back-barrier layer made of a group-III-nitride material, a channel layer between the electron-supply layer and the back-barrier layer, made of a group-III-nitride material having a band-gap energy that is lower than the band-gap energies of the other layer mentioned. The material of the back-barrier layer is of p-type conductivity, while the material of the electron-supply layer and the material of the channel layer are not of p-type conductivity, the band-gap energy of the electron-supply layer is smaller than the band-gap energy of the back-barrier layer. In absence of an external voltage a lower conduction-band-edge of the third group-III-nitride material in the channel layer is higher in energy than a Fermi level of the material in the channel layer.
US10658491B2
A method includes forming a dummy gate electrode layer over a semiconductor region, forming a mask strip over the dummy gate electrode layer, and performing a first etching process using the mask strip as a first etching mask to pattern an upper portion of the dummy gate electrode layer. A remaining portion of the upper portion of the dummy gate electrode layer forms an upper part of a dummy gate electrode. The method further includes forming a protection layer on sidewalls of the upper part of the dummy gate electrode, and performing a second etching process on a lower portion of the dummy gate electrode layer to form a lower part of the dummy gate electrode, with the protection layer and the mask strip in combination used as a second etching mask. The dummy gate electrode and an underlying dummy gate dielectric are replaced with a replacement gate stack.
US10658481B1
Structures and/or methods that facilitate self-aligned gate cut on a dielectric fin extension in direct stacked vertical transport field effect transistor (VTFET). A semiconductor structure can comprise a silicon on insulator (SOI) semiconductor fin comprising a dielectric fin extension. The semiconductor structure can further comprise a first vertical transport field effect transistor (VTFET) comprising a first self-aligned gate on the dielectric fin extension. The semiconductor structure can further comprise a second VTFET comprising a second self-aligned gate on the dielectric fin extension. The semiconductor structure can further comprise a gate contact extending through the dielectric fin extension through the second VTFET to the first self-aligned gate.
US10658474B2
Various embodiments of the present application are directed to a method for forming a thin semiconductor-on-insulator (SOI) substrate without implantation radiation and/or plasma damage. In some embodiments, a device layer is epitaxially formed on a sacrificial substrate and an insulator layer is formed on the device layer. The insulator layer may, for example, be formed with a net charge that is negative or neutral. The sacrificial substrate is bonded to a handle substrate, such that the device layer and the insulator layer are between the sacrificial and handle substrates. The sacrificial substrate is removed, and the device layer is cyclically thinned until the device layer has a target thickness. Each thinning cycle comprises oxidizing a portion of the device layer and removing oxide resulting from the oxidizing.
US10658471B2
Described herein are methods and structures integrating one or more TMDC crystal heteroepitaxially grown on one or more group III-Nitride (III-N) crystal. The TMDC crystal may be grown on a III-N heteroepitaxial crystal that has been grown on crystalline silicon substrate. One or more of III-N devices and silicon devices employing separated regions of the heteroepitaxial substrate may be integrated with a TMDC device fabricated on with the TMDC crystal. In some embodiments, impurity-doped III-N source/drain regions provide a low resistance coupling between metallization and a TMDC-channeled transistor.
US10658470B2
A method includes providing a black phosphorus (BP) layer over a substrate, forming a dopant source layer over the BP layer, annealing the dopant source layer to drive a dopant from the dopant source layer into the BP layer, and forming a conductive contact over the dopant source layer.
US10658468B2
A method and structure for providing a two-step defect reduction bake, followed by a high-temperature epitaxial layer growth. In various embodiments, a semiconductor wafer is loaded into a processing chamber. While the semiconductor wafer is loaded within the processing chamber, a first pre-epitaxial layer deposition baking process is performed at a first pressure and first temperature. In some cases, after the first pre-epitaxial layer deposition baking process, a second pre-epitaxial layer deposition baking process is then performed at a second pressure and second temperature. In some embodiments, the second pressure is different than the first pressure. By way of example, after the second pre-epitaxial layer deposition baking process and while at a growth temperature, a precursor gas may then be introduced into the processing chamber to deposit an epitaxial layer over the semiconductor wafer.
US10658466B2
A semiconductor element includes: a semiconductor substrate of a first conduction type; a silicon carbide semiconductor layer of the first conduction type disposed above a principal surface of the semiconductor substrate; a terminal edge region of a second conduction type disposed in the silicon carbide semiconductor layer; an insulating film; a first electrode disposed on the silicon carbide semiconductor layer; and a seal ring surrounding the first electrode. The terminal edge region is disposed to surround part of a surface of the silicon carbide semiconductor layer when viewed in a normal direction of the principal surface of the semiconductor substrate. The terminal edge region includes a guard ring region of the second conduction type, and a terminal edge injection region of the second conduction type. The seal ring is formed on the terminal edge injection region through an opening disposed on the insulating film.
US10658458B2
A method of forming a semiconductor structure is disclosed. A fin structure is formed on a substrate and a trench is formed in the fin structure. The trench has a top corner, an upper portion having an upper sidewall and a lower portion having a lower sidewall. A first dielectric layer is then formed on the substrate and fills the lower portion of the trench. After that, a second dielectric layer is formed on the substrate and covers the top corner and the upper sidewall of the trench. The second dielectric layer also covers an upper surface of the first dielectric layer.
US10658449B2
A package substrate includes a base substrate having a light-transmitting region and a non-light-transmitting region, wherein metal electrodes and a spacer located on at least a part of a surface of the metal electrodes away from the base substrate are provided on the base substrate, an orthogonal projection of the spacer on the base substrate is within an orthogonal projection of the metal electrodes on the base substrate, and an orthogonal projection of the metal electrode on the base substrate is within the non-light-transmitting region of the base substrate, and an interval exists between the spacer and the metal electrodes. A method of manufacturing the package substrate is used for manufacturing the above package substrate. The package substrate provided by the present disclosure is used in a display device.
US10658448B2
A display device includes signal lines and pixels connected thereto. A first pixel includes a first transistor including a first gate electrode, a first channel region overlapping the first gate electrode, a first source region, and a second drain region facing the first source region, with the first channel region interposed between the first source region and the second drain region. A third transistor includes a third gate electrode, a third channel region overlapping the third gate electrode, a third drain region connected to the first gate electrode, and a third source region facing the third drain region with the third channel region interposed between the third source region and the third drain region. A shielding part overlaps a boundary between the third source region and the third channel region and does not overlap a boundary between the third drain region and the third channel region.
US10658439B2
Disclosed is a display device possessing: a substrate having a display region and a peripheral region surrounding the display region; a pixel over the display region; a passivation film over the pixel; a resin layer over the passivation film; a first dam over the peripheral region and surrounding the display region; and a second dam surrounding the first dam. The passivation film includes; a first layer containing an inorganic compound; a second layer over the first layer, the second layer containing an organic compound; and a third layer over the second layer, the third layer containing an inorganic compound. The second layer is selectively arranged in a region surrounded by the first dam. The resin layer is selectively arranged in a region surrounded by the second dam.
US10658434B2
An organic light-emitting display device and a method of manufacturing the same are disclosed. The organic light-emitting display device includes a touch sensor having a plurality of touch electrodes on an encapsulation stack covering a light-emitting element. The touch electrodes are formed at a low temperature and are crystallized through an annealing process, whereby it is possible to prevent damage to an organic light-emitting layer at the time of forming the touch electrodes. Thus the touch electrodes can be formed on the encapsulation stack without an additional bonding process to bond the touch sensor to the organic light-emitting display device.
US10658429B2
A method is presented for integrating a resistive random access memory (ReRAM) device with vertical transistors on a single chip. The method includes forming a vertical field effect transistor (FET) including an epitaxial tip defining a drain terminal and forming the ReRAM device in direct contact with the epitaxial tip of the vertical FET such that a current conducting filament is formed at the epitaxial tip due to electric field enhancement.
US10658428B2
Phase change memory apparatuses include memory cells including phase change material, bit lines electrically coupled to aligned groups of at least some of the memory cells, and heating elements electrically coupled to the phase change material of the memory cells. The heating elements include vertical portions extending in a bit line direction. Additional phase change memory apparatuses include dummy columns positioned between memory columns and base contact columns. The dummy columns include phase change memory cells and lack heating elements coupled to the phase change memory cells thereof. Additional phase change memory apparatuses include heating elements operably coupled to phase change memory cells. An interfacial area between the heating elements and the phase change memory cells has a length that is independent of a bit line width. Methods relate to forming such phase change memory apparatuses.
US10658426B2
To provide a high-speed, large-scale non-volatile skyrmion random access memory that prevents incorrect writing and incorrect erasure, has a circuit with good storage-data sensitivity, generates smaller leakage current, and consumes less power. To provide a magnetic element for generating and erasing a skyrmion including: a first magnetic material thin film in which the skyrmion is generated and erased; a sensing element for sensing the skyrmion; and at least one of a first transistor for selecting the first magnetic material thin film, and a second transistor for selecting the skyrmion sensing element.
US10658424B2
A superconducting integrated circuit includes at least one superconducting resonator, including a substrate, a conductive layer disposed over a surface of the substrate with the conductive layer including at least one conductive material including a substantially low stress polycrystalline Titanium Nitride (TiN) material having an internal stress less than about two hundred fifty MPa (magnitude) such that the at least one superconducting resonator and/or qubit (hereafter called “device”) is provided as a substantially high quality factor, low loss superconducting device.
US10658422B2
A micro-light emitting diode (LED) display panel and a method of forming the display panel, the micro-LED display panel having a monolithically grown micro-structure including a first color micro-LED that is a first color nanowire LED, and a second color micro-LED that is a second color nanowire LED.
US10658416B2
An image sensor may include a semiconductor substrate in which a photodiode is formed; a metal interconnection layer located above the semiconductor substrate; and an absorption layer located between the semiconductor substrate and the metal interconnection layer, wherein the absorption layer is configured to absorb light travelling through the semiconductor substrate.
US10658414B1
The present invention provides an image capturing module and a portable electronic device, including a circuit substrate, an image sensing chip, a filter element, and a lens assembly. The upper surface of the circuit substrate includes a chip placing area, a first solder area, and a second solder area. The upper surface of the image sensing chip includes an image sensing area, a carrier area, a first conductive area, and a second conductive area, and the carrier area surrounds the image sensing area. The lower surface of the filter element has a light transmitting area and a connecting area surrounding the light transmitting area. The first conductive area and the second conductive area of the image sensing chip are electrically and respectively connected to the first solder area and the second solder area of the circuit substrate.
US10658411B2
Image sensors are provided. An image sensor includes a semiconductor substrate including a pixel region. The image sensor includes first and second photoelectric conversion elements in the pixel region. The image sensor includes an isolation region between the first and second photoelectric conversion elements. The isolation region is off-center with respect to the pixel region.
US10658409B2
A semiconductor structure is disclosed. The semiconductor structure includes: a semiconductor substrate having a front surface and a back surface facing opposite to the front surface; a filling material extending from the front surface into the semiconductor substrate without penetrating through the semiconductor substrate, the filling material including an upper portion and a lower portion, the upper portion being in contact with the semiconductor substrate; and an epitaxial layer lined between the lower portion of the filling material and the semiconductor substrate. An associated manufacturing method is also disclosed.
US10658408B2
The present disclosure relates to a solid-state imaging device, a manufacturing method thereof, and an electronic apparatus, in which both oblique light characteristics and sensitivity can be improved. The solid-state imaging device includes pixel array unit in which a plurality of pixels is two-dimensionally arranged in a matrix and multi-stage light shielding walls are provided between the pixels. The present disclosure is applicable to, for example, a back-illuminated type solid-state imaging device and the like.
US10658396B2
An array substrate having a substrate witha bonding region on one side, the bonding region having a plurality of bonding pads arranged in order, where at least one dummy pad is provided in a first position of the bonding pads. The at least one dummy pad is used for dividing the bonding region into a plurality of bonding sub-regions, where each bonding sub-region has a plurality of bonding pads. This disclosure further provides a display panel.
US10658392B1
A micro light-emitting diode display device including a driving transistor and a micro light-emitting diode is provided. The driving transistor includes a substrate, a bottom gate, a gate insulator, a semiconductor layer, an etch stopper, a drain electrode, a source electrode, and an insulating layer. The drain electrode is ring-shaped and a contact portion between the drain electrode and the semiconductor layer surrounds the semiconductor layer. The source electrode is in contact with the semiconductor layer and is enclosed by the drain electrode. The insulating layer has a via therein to expose a portion of the source electrode. The micro light-emitting diode is electrically connected to the source electrode. The micro light-emitting diode includes a current injection channel present in the micro-light emitting diode. The current injection channel is separated from a side surface of the micro light-emitting diode.
US10658388B2
A method includes forming a first circuit element in and above a first semiconductor layer, the first semiconductor layer being formed on a first buried insulating layer, forming drain and source regions of the first circuit element at least partially in the first semiconductor layer, and forming a layer stack above the first circuit element, the layer stack including a conductive layer, a second buried insulating layer formed above the conductive layer, and a second semiconductor layer formed above the second buried insulating layer, wherein the conductive layer is electrically isolated from the drain and source regions.
US10658379B2
A method for forming a 3D memory device is disclosed. The method comprises: forming an alternating conductive/dielectric stack on a substrate; forming a slit vertically penetrating the alternating conductive/dielectric stack; forming an isolation layer on a sidewall of the slit; forming a first conductive layer covering the isolation layer; performing a plasma treatment followed by a first doping process to the first conductive layer; forming a second conductive layer covering the first conductive and filling the slit; performing a second doping process followed by a rapid thermal crystallization process to the second conductive layer; removing an upper portion of the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer to form a recess in the slit; and forming a third conductive layer in the recess.
US10658372B2
A method includes providing metal gate structures in a first and a second region, respectively, of a semiconductor substrate, simultaneously cutting the metal gate structures by a two-step etching process to form a first and a second trench in metal gate structures of the first and the second region, respectively, and filling each trench with an insulating material to form a first and a second gate isolation structure. Each step of the two-step etching process employs different etching chemicals and conditions. The metal gate structures in the first region and the second region differ in gate lengths and composition of gate electrode.
US10658371B2
A method for producing a pillar-shaped semiconductor device includes, forming a first semiconductor pillar, a second semiconductor pillar, and a third semiconductor pillar on a substrate. A gate insulating layer and gate conductor layer are formed surrounding each of the pillars and impurity regions are formed in each pillar. The gate conductor layer is selectively processed to form gate conductors around the pillars and to interconnect the gate conductors.
US10658357B2
A circuit includes a first bipolar junction transistor (BJT) including a first base, a first collector, and a first emitter, the first collector connected to a first supply voltage node and a second BJT including a second base, a second collector, and a second emitter, the second collector connected to the first emitter at an output node. The circuit also includes a capacitor including a first capacitor terminal and a second capacitor terminal, the first capacitor terminal connected to the second emitter of the second BJT and the second capacitor terminal connected to a second supply voltage node. A current source device is also included that is connected in parallel with the capacitor.
US10658352B2
There is provided a protective circuit, an array substrate and a display panel. The protective circuit includes: a control sub-circuit, having a first end electrically connected to a voltage input terminal and a second end configured to output a common voltage signal supplied by the voltage input terminal; and a discharge sub-circuit, having a first end electrically connected to the second end of the control sub-circuit and a second end electrically connected to at least one data line. The discharge sub-circuit releases electric charges on the at least one data line under the control of the common voltage signal supplied from the control sub-circuit.
US10658348B2
A semiconductor package includes a semiconductor device including a first UBM structure, wherein the first UBM structure includes multiple first conductive strips, the first conductive strips extending in a first direction, multiple second conductive strips separated from and interleaved with the multiple first conductive strips, the second conductive strips extending in the first direction, wherein the multiple first conductive strips are offset in the first direction from the multiple second conductive strips by a first offset distance, and a substrate including a second UBM structure, the second UBM structure including multiple third conductive strips, each one of the multiple third conductive strips bonded to one of the multiple first conductive strips or one of the multiple second conductive strips.
US10658336B2
Stacked semiconductor die assemblies with die support members and associated systems and methods are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a semiconductor die assembly can include a package substrate, a first semiconductor die attached to the package substrate, and a support member attached to the package substrate. The support member can be separated from the first semiconductor die, and a second semiconductor die can have one region coupled to the support member and another region coupled to the first semiconductor die.
US10658333B2
A package structure includes at least one semiconductor die, an insulating encapsulant, an isolation layer and a redistribution layer. The at least one first semiconductor die has a semiconductor substrate and a conductive post disposed on the semiconductor substrate. The insulating encapsulant is partially encapsulating the first semiconductor die, wherein the conductive post has a first portion surrounded by the insulating encapsulant and a second portion that protrudes out from the insulating encapsulant. The isolation layer is disposed on the insulating encapsulant and surrounding the second portion of the conductive post. The redistribution layer is disposed on the first semiconductor die and the isolation layer, wherein the redistribution layer is electrically connected to the conductive post of the first semiconductor die.
US10658332B2
A stack package includes a second sub-package stacked on a first sub-package. The stack package also includes a plurality of dummy balls located between the first and second sub-packages to support the second sub-package. Each of the first and second sub-packages includes a semiconductor die and a bridge, die which are spaced apart from each other.
US10658327B1
Provided are a chip bonding apparatus and bonding method. The apparatus comprises: a chip supply unit (10); a substrate supply unit (20); a first pick-up assembly (30) arranged between the chip supply unit (10) and the substrate supply unit (20), comprising a first rotating component and a first pick-up head arranged on the first rotating component; a second pick-up assembly (40) comprising a second rotating component and a second pick-up head arranged on the second rotating component, wherein the first pick-up assembly (30) picks up a chip (60) from the chip supply unit (10) or the second pick-up assembly (40), and delivers the chip (60) onto a substrate of the substrate supply unit (20) to complete the bonding; and a vision unit (50) for realizing the alignment of the chip (60) and the substrate on the first pick-up assembly (30), wherein the chip supply unit (10), the substrate supply unit (20), the second pick-up assembly (40) and the vision unit (50) are respectively located on four work positions of the first pick-up head. The chip (60) is transported through rotation, improving the productivity of chip (60) bonding; and the chip (60) is reversed by utilizing the second pick-up assembly (40), which is compatible with two ways of bonding, i.e. a mark face of the chip (60) facing upwards and downwards.
US10658322B2
Integrated component packages and methods of assembling integrated component packages are provided. The integrated component package can comprise a bump pitch relaxing layer. A high-bandwidth memory component directly mechanically coupled to the bump pitch relaxing layer on a first side of the bump pitch relaxing layer via a first set of bump bond connections. The high-bandwidth memory component directly electrically coupled to the bump pitch relaxing layer on the first side of the bump pitch relaxing layer via the first set of bump bond connections. The bump pitch relaxing layer mechanically coupled to a first side of a substrate via second set of bump bond connections. The high-bandwidth memory component electrically coupled to the substrate via the bump-pitch relaxing layer and the second set of bump bond connections, and a bump pitch of the second set of bump bond connections is larger than the first set of bump bond connections.
US10658319B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor element, a trace disposed adjacent to a surface of the semiconductor element, a bonding pad disposed adjacent to the surface of the semiconductor element and connected to the trace, and a pillar disposed on the bonding pad. The pillar includes a first end wall, a second end wall opposite the first end wall, a first side wall, and a second side wall opposite the first side wall. The first side wall and the second side wall connect the first end wall to the second end wall. One or both of the first side wall and the second side wall incline inwardly from the first end wall to the second end wall. The pillar is disposed on the bonding pad such that the first end wall is closer to the trace than is the second end wall.
US10658310B2
The subject disclosure relates to techniques for providing semiconductor chip security using piezoelectricity. According to an embodiment, an apparatus is provided that comprises an integrated circuit chip comprising a pass transistor that electrically connects two or more electrical components of the integrated circuit chip. The apparatus further comprises a piezoelectric element electrically connected to a gate electrode of the pass transistor; and a packaging component that is physically connected to the piezoelectric element and applies a mechanical force to the piezoelectric element, wherein the piezoelectric element generates and provides a voltage to the gate electrode as a result of the mechanical force, thereby causing the pass transistor to be in an on-state. In one implementation, the two or more electrical components comprise a circuit and a power source. In another implementation, the two or more electrical components comprise two circuits.
US10658309B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a structured interlayer on the substrate and having a defined edge, and a structured metallization on the structured interlayer and also having a defined edge. The defined edge of the structured interlayer faces the same direction as the defined edge of the structured metallization. The defined edge of the structured interlayer extends beyond the defined edge of the structured metallization by at least 0.5 microns so that the defined edge of the structured metallization terminates before reaching the defined edge of the structured interlayer. The structured interlayer has a compressive residual stress at room temperature and the structured metallization generates a tensile stress at room temperature that is at least partly counteracted by the compressive residual stress of the structured interlayer.
US10658306B2
Various embodiments relate to a semiconductor package structure. The semiconductor package structure includes a first chip having a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface. The semiconductor package structure further includes a supporter surrounding an edge of the first chip, and the supporter includes a recessed portion. The semiconductor package structure further includes a conductive layer disposed over the first surface of the first chip and electrically connected to the first chip. The semiconductor package structure further includes an insulation layer disposed over the first surface of the first chip. The semiconductor package structure further includes an encapsulant between the first chip and the supporter and surrounding at least the edge of the first chip.
US10658300B2
A semiconductor package includes a lower chip, an upper chip on the lower chip, and an adhesive layer between the lower chip and the upper chip. The lower chip has first through silicon vias (TSVs) and pads on an upper surface thereof. The pads are connected to the first TSVs, respectively. The upper chip includes bumps on a lower surface thereof. The bumps are bonded to the pads. Vertical centerlines of the bumps are aligned with vertical centerlines of the first TSVs, respectively. The vertical centerlines of the bumps are offset from the vertical centerlines of the pads, respectively, in a peripheral region of the lower chip.
US10658299B2
A method of forming a semiconductor structure comprises forming a plurality of fins disposed over a top surface of a substrate and forming one or more vertical transport field-effect transistors (VTFETs) from the plurality of fins using a replacement metal gate (RMG) process. A gate surrounding at least one fin of a given one of the VTFETs comprises a gate self-aligned contact (SAC) capping layer disposed over a gate contact metal layer, the gate contact metal layer being disposed adjacent an end of the at least one fin.
US10658296B2
A method for semiconductor manufacturing is disclosed. The method includes receiving a device having a first surface through which a first metal or an oxide of the first metal is exposed. The method further includes depositing a dielectric film having Si, N, C, and O over the first surface such that the dielectric film has a higher concentration of N and C in a first portion of the dielectric film near the first surface than in a second portion of the dielectric film further away from the first surface than the first portion. The method further includes forming a conductive feature over the dielectric film. The dielectric film electrically insulates the conductive feature from the first metal or the oxide of the first metal.
US10658285B2
A method of forming circuitry components includes forming a stack of horizontally extending and vertically overlapping features. The stack has a primary portion and an end portion. At least some of the features extend farther in the horizontal direction in the end portion moving deeper into the stack in the end portion. Operative structures are formed vertically through the features in the primary portion and dummy structures are formed vertically through the features in the end portion. Horizontally elongated openings are formed through the features to form horizontally elongated and vertically overlapping lines from material of the features. The lines individually extend from the primary portion into the end portion, and individually laterally about sides of vertically extending portions of both the operative structures and the dummy structures. Sacrificial material that is elevationally between the lines is at least partially removed in the primary and end portions laterally between the horizontally elongated openings. Other aspects and implementations are disclosed.
US10658284B2
Herein provided are: a ceramic board; a semiconductor element for electric power, on one surface of which an electrode is formed, and the other surface of which is bonded to the ceramic board; a lead terminal, one end side of which is bonded to the electrode, and the other end side of which is to be electrically connected to an outside thereof; and a sealing member by which the semiconductor element for electric power is sealed together with a part, in the lead terminal, bonded to the electrode; wherein, near an end in said one end side of the lead terminal, an inclined surface is formed which becomes farther from the circuit board as it becomes closer to the end.
US10658282B2
A package substrate structure includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a plurality of conductive pillars and an adhesive layer. The first substrate includes a plurality of vias and a plurality of pads. The vias and the pads are disposed on the first substrate, and fills the vias. The second substrate is disposed opposite to the first substrate. Each conductive pillar is disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, where each conductive pillar electrically connects each pad and the second substrate, and the adhesive layer fills the gaps between the conductive pillars. A bonding method of the package substrate structure is also provided.
US10658281B2
According to various embodiments of the present disclosure, a substrate for an integrated circuit includes a dielectric layer. The substrate further includes a conductive layer extending in an x or y direction. The conductive layer is at least partially embedded within the dielectric layer. The conductive layer includes a via having a first end and an opposite second end. The via has a first height in a z-direction and a constant cross-sectional shape between the first end and the second end. A trace is adjacent to the via and has a second height in the z-direction that is different than the first height.
US10658278B2
In described examples, a terminal (e.g., a conductive terminal) includes a base material, a plating stack and a solder finish. The base material can be a metal, such as copper. The plating stack is arranged on a surface of the base material, and includes breaks in the plating stack. The breaks in the plating stack extend from a first surface of the plating stack to a second surface of the plating stack adjacent to the surface of the base material. The solder finish is coated over the breaks in the plating stack.
US10658268B2
A lower electrode, a semiconductor chip provided on the lower electrode, a pressure pad provided above or below the semiconductor chip, an upper electrode provided on a structure in which the pressure pad is overlapped with the semiconductor chip, and a connection conductor that provides a new current path between the lower electrode and the upper electrode only when a distance between the lower electrode and the upper electrode becomes larger than a predetermined value are provided. The distance between the lower electrode and the upper electrode is variable, and the pressure pad electrically connects the lower electrode and the upper electrode together via the semiconductor chip regardless of the distance between the lower electrode and the upper electrode.
US10658265B2
A heat dissipation structure comprises a flexible substrate, a graphite sheet, and a heat insulating material. The flexible substrate comprises a first surface and a second surface facing away from the first surface. The graphite sheet is connected to the second surface. At least one containing cavity is defined on an interface between the second surface and the graphite sheet. The heat insulating material is filled in the at least one containing cavity to form a heat insulating structure.
US10658248B2
Semiconductor structures and fabrication methods thereof are provided. An exemplary fabrication method includes providing a base substrate; forming a gate structure over the base substrate; forming a mask layer on a top surface of the gate structure; forming pocket regions in the base substrate at both sides of the gate structure; after forming the pocket regions, forming a first protective portion covering a top surface of the mask layer and protruding from sidewall surfaces of the gate structure; and after forming the first protective portion, forming doped source/drain regions in the base substrate and portions of the pocket regions at both sides of the gate structure.
US10658247B2
In accordance with some embodiments, a device includes first and second p-type transistors. The first transistor includes a first channel region including a first material of a first fin. The first transistor includes first and second epitaxial source/drain regions each in a respective first recess in the first material and on opposite sides of the first channel region. The first transistor includes a first gate stack on the first channel region. The second transistor includes a second channel region including a second material of a second fin. The second material is a different material from the first material. The second transistor includes third and fourth epitaxial source/drain regions each in a respective second recess in the second material and on opposite sides of the second channel region. The second transistor includes a second gate stack on the second channel region.
US10658243B2
The present disclosure relates to methods for forming replacement metal gate (RMG) structures and related structures. A method may include: forming a portion of sacrificial material around each fin of a set of adjacent fins; forming a first dielectric region between the portions of sacrificial material; forming a second dielectric region on the first dielectric region; forming an upper source/drain region from an upper portion of each fin; removing only the second dielectric region and the sacrificial material; and forming a work function metal (WFM) in place of the second dielectric region and the sacrificial material. The semiconductor structure may include gate structures surrounding adjacent fins; a first dielectric region between the gate structures; a second dielectric region above the first dielectric region and between the gate structures; and a liner between the first dielectric region and the gate structures such that the second dielectric region directly contacts the gate structures.
US10658242B2
A structure and a method of a semiconductor device structure are provided. The method includes forming a first fin structure, a second fin structure, and a third fin structure over a semiconductor substrate. The method includes forming first spacer elements over sidewalls of the first fin structure and the second fin structure and partially removing the first fin structure and the second fin structure. The method includes forming second spacer elements over sidewalls of the third fin structure and partially removing the third fin structure. The second spacer element is taller than the first spacer element. The method includes epitaxially growing a semiconductor material over the first fin structure, the second fin structure, and the third fin structure such that a merged semiconductor element is formed on the first fin structure and the second fin structure, and an isolated semiconductor element is formed on the third fin structure.
US10658241B2
A method of fabricating an integrated circuit includes the following steps. A first reticle is used to form a first pattern, wherein the first pattern includes a first feature and a first jog part protruding from and orthogonal to the first feature. A second reticle is used to form a second pattern, wherein the second pattern includes a second feature, and the first feature is between the second feature and the first jog part. A third reticle is used to form a third pattern, wherein the third pattern includes a third-one feature overlapping the first jog part and a third-two feature overlapping the second feature.
US10658240B1
In a described example, a method includes: forming stress induced dislocations along scribe lanes between semiconductor dies on a semiconductor wafer using a laser; mounting a first side of the semiconductor wafer on the first side of a first dicing tape; removing a backgrinding tape from the semiconductor wafer; attaching a second dicing tape to a second side of the semiconductor wafer opposite the first side, the second dicing tape adhering to portions of the first dicing tape that are spaced from the semiconductor wafer, forming a dual taped wafer dicing assembly; separating the semiconductor dies by stretching the first dicing tape and stretching the second dicing tape; removing the second dicing tape from the semiconductor dies; and removing the semiconductor dies from the first dicing tape.
US10658238B2
Embodiments are directed to a package that includes an electric device having a recess. In one embodiment, the electric device is a sensor and the recess reduces signal drift of the sensor caused by thermal expansion of the package. In another embodiment, the recess is substantially filled with adhesive material, thus increasing adhesion between the electric device and a substrate of the package while at the same time allowing for lower adhesive fillets.
US10658227B2
A semiconductor on insulator multilayer structure is provided. The multilayer comprises a high resistivity single crystal semiconductor handle substrate, a textured oxide, nitride, or oxynitride layer, a polycrystalline silicon layer, a dielectric layer, and a single crystal semiconductor device layer. The multilayer structure is prepared in a manner that reduces wafer bow.
US10658225B2
FinFET devices and methods of forming the same are disclosed. One of the FinFET devices includes first fins, second fins, a first gate strip, a second gate strip and a comb-like insulating structure. The first and second fins are disposed on a substrate. The first gate strip is disposed across the first fins. The second gate strip is disposed across the second fins. The comb-like insulating structure is disposed between the first gate strip and the second gate strip and has a plurality of comb tooth parts. In some embodiments, each of the comb tooth parts has a middle-wide profile.
US10658224B2
Integrated chips and methods of forming the same include oxidizing a portion of a semiconductor fin, which includes a channel layer and an intermediate semiconductor layer, to electrically isolate active regions of the semiconductor fin by forming an oxide that fully penetrates the channel layer and the intermediate semiconductor layer. A semiconductor device is formed on each of the active regions.
US10658222B2
A substrate processing system includes a processing chamber and a pedestal arranged in the processing chamber. An edge coupling ring is arranged adjacent to a radially outer edge of the pedestal. A first actuator is configured to selectively move the edge coupling ring to a raised position, relative to the pedestal to provide clearance between the edge coupling ring and the pedestal to allow a robot arm to remove the edge coupling ring from the processing chamber.
US10658221B2
A method for cleaning a semiconductor wafer is provided. The method includes placing a semiconductor wafer over a supporter arranged around a central axis of a spin base. The method further includes securing the semiconductor wafer using a clamping member positioned on the supporter. The movement of the semiconductor wafer during the placement of the semiconductor wafer over the supporter is guided by a guiding member located over the clamping member. The method also includes spinning the semiconductor wafer by rotating the spin base about the central axis. In addition, the method includes dispensing a processing liquid over the semiconductor wafer.
US10658207B2
Techniques for reducing particle contamination on a substrate are disclosed. In one particular exemplary embodiment, the technique may be realized with a platen having different regions, where the pressure levels in the regions may be substantially equal. For example, the platen may comprise a platen body comprising first and second recesses, the first recess defining a fluid region for holding fluid for maintaining a temperature of the substrate at a desired temperature, the second recess defining a first cavity for holding a ground circuit; a first via defined in the platen body, the first via having first and second openings, the first opening proximate to the fluid region and the second opening proximate to the first cavity, wherein pressure level of the fluid region may be maintained at a level that is substantially equal to pressure level of the first cavity.
US10658197B2
There is provided a method for manufacturing a transistor from a stack including at least one gate pattern comprising at least one flank, the method including forming at least one gate spacer over at least the flank of the gate pattern; and reducing, after a step of exposure of the stack to a temperature greater than or equal to 600° C., of a dielectric permittivity of the at least one gate spacer, the reducing including at least one ion implantation in a portion at least of a thickness of the at least one gate spacer.
US10658195B2
Some embodiment structures and methods are described. A structure includes an integrated circuit die at least laterally encapsulated by an encapsulant, and a redistribution structure on the integrated circuit die and encapsulant. The redistribution structure is electrically coupled to the integrated circuit die. The redistribution structure includes a first dielectric layer on at least the encapsulant, a metallization pattern on the first dielectric layer, a metal oxide layered structure on the metallization pattern, and a second dielectric layer on the first dielectric layer and the metallization pattern. The metal oxide layered structure includes a metal oxide layer having a ratio of metal atoms to oxygen atoms that is substantially 1:1, and a thickness of the metal oxide layered structure is at least 50 Å. The second dielectric layer is a photo-sensitive material. The metal oxide layered structure is disposed between the metallization pattern and the second dielectric layer.
US10658194B2
A method for processing a substrate in a processing chamber, comprising forming a deposition over the substrate is provided. A silicon containing gas is flowed into the processing chamber. A COS containing gas is flowed into the processing chamber. A plasma is formed from the silicon containing gas and the COS containing gas in the processing chamber, wherein the plasma provides the deposition over the substrate.
US10658184B2
A method for semiconductor manufacturing includes providing a substrate and a patterning layer over the substrate; forming a hole in the patterning layer; applying a first directional etching along a first direction to inner sidewalls of the hole; and applying a second directional etching along a second direction to the inner sidewalls of the hole, wherein the second direction is different from the first direction.
US10658183B2
An impurity-doping apparatus is provided with: a supporting plate which supports a semiconductor substrate; a wall-like block disposed above the supporting plate floating away from the semiconductor substrate, the wall-like block implements a recess inside so as to establish a space for a solution region containing impurity elements, the solution region is localized on an upper surface of the semiconductor substrate, the upper surface being opposite to an bottom surface facing to the supporting plate; and a laser optical system, configured to irradiate a laser beam onto the upper surface of the semiconductor substrate, through the solution region surrounded by the wall-like block, wherein the impurity elements are doped into a part of the semiconductor substrate by irradiation of the laser beam.
US10658181B2
A method of spacer-defined direct patterning in semiconductor fabrication includes: providing a photoresist structure having a target width of lines; trimming the photoresist structures such that a width of each trimmed photoresist structure is smaller than the target width; depositing an oxide film on the template, thereby entirely covering with the oxide film an exposed top surface of the template and the trimmed photoresist structures; etching the oxide film-covered template to remove an unwanted portion of the oxide film without removing the trimmed photoresist structures so as to form vertical spacers isolated from each other, each spacer substantially maintaining the target width and being constituted by the trimmed photoresist structures and a vertical portion of the oxide film covering sidewalls of the trimmed photoresist structures; and etching the spacer-formed template to transfer a pattern constituted by the spacers to the template.
US10658180B1
A method is presented for amplifying extreme ultraviolet (EUV) lithography pattern transfer into a hardmask and preventing hard mask micro bridging effects due to resist residue in a semiconductor structure. The method includes forming a top hardmask over an organic planarization layer (OPL), depositing a photoresist over the top hardmask, patterning the photoresist using EUV lithography, performing ion implantation to create doped regions within the exposed top hardmask and regions of hardmask underneath resist residue, stripping the photoresist, and selectively etching the top hardmask by either employing positive tone or negative tone etch based on an implantation material.
US10658179B2
Aspects of the disclosure provide a method. The method includes providing a substrate having a structure formed on the substrate, and forming a spacer layer on the structure. Then, the method includes forming a mask layer over the spacer layer. The mask layer includes a first layer, a second layer over the first layer, and a third layer over the second layer. Further, the method includes patterning the third layer of the mask layer, and etching the first layer and the second layer of the mask layer with a dry etching process using the third layer as an etch mask to form an opening that exposes a portion of the spacer layer. Then, the method includes removing the second layer using a wet etchant before a formation of a backfill material layer in the opening and over the first layer.
US10658171B2
A laser processing apparatus including a condenser having a function of spherical aberration. Since the condenser has a function of spherical aberration, the focal point of a laser beam to be focused by the condenser and applied to a wafer can be continuously changed in position along the thickness of the wafer. Accordingly, a uniform shield tunnel composed of a fine hole and an amorphous region surrounding the fine hole can be formed so as to extend from the front side of the wafer to the back side thereof, by one shot of the laser beam.
US10658160B2
A stage includes a plate having a top surface on which a substrate is to be placed and a bottom surface; a plurality of first tubes each extending toward different regions of the bottom surface and providing opening ends facing the bottom surface; a partition wall defining a plurality of spaces surrounding the respective first tubes, the spaces forming a plurality of flow passages through which a heat exchange medium discharged from the first tubes flows; and a plurality of second tubes connected to the partition wall to communicate with the respective flow passages. The stage further includes a plurality of adjusting mechanisms provided in the respective flow passages. Each of the adjusting mechanisms is configured to be deformed depending on the temperature of the heat exchange medium in the corresponding flow passage to adjust the conductance of the flow passage in accordance with the temperature.
US10658159B2
Plasma reactor vessel comprising a vacuum chamber; a first electrode in the vacuum chamber; a second electrode in the vacuum chamber, opposed to the first electrode and spaced from the first electrode; a power source electrically connected to one of the first or second electrodes; a substrate carrier having an electrically conductive material, the substrate carrier being configured to be in electrical contact with the second electrode and to hold a substrate at such that at least the majority of upper and lower surfaces of the substrate are untouched by any part of the plasma reactor and can be exposed to the plasma. The reactor vessel further includes a third electrode between the substrate carrier and the second electrode, wherein the third electrode is electrically insulated from the second electrode. And the third electrode and the substrate carrier are arranged such that when the substrate carrier holds a substrate, a first clearance gap is between the substrate and the third electrode. There is further provided a corresponding assembly and method for performing plasma processing.
US10658151B2
To provide a lightweight and highly rigid stage device that can move in X and Y directions and a Z direction, and a charged particle beam device including the stage device. A stage device includes a chuck that is loaded with a sample, an XY stage that moves in X and Y directions, and a Z stage that moves in a Z direction. The Z stage includes: an inclined part that is fixed to the XY stage and includes an inclined surface inclined with respect to an XY plane; a movement part that moves on the inclined surface; and a table that is fixed to the movement part and is provided with the a plane parallel to the XY plane.
US10658149B1
An ion source head structure of a semiconductor ion implanter including a filament, a filament clamp, a cathode, a cathode clamp, an insulation assembly is provided. The filament clamp clamps the filament. The cathode presents a shell shape and has a receiving space. The filament is located in the receiving space. The cathode clamp clamps the cathode. The insulation assembly is disposed between the filament clamp and the cathode clamp such that the filament clamp is insulated from the cathode clamp. The insulation assembly has a first surface, a second surface opposite to the first surface, and an outer surface between the first surface and the second surface, wherein the first surface of the insulation assembly is in contact with the filament clamp, and the second surface of the insulation assembly is in contact with the cathode clamp. A step difference exists on the outer surface of the insulation assembly.
US10658146B2
A radiation emitting target, a radiation generating device, and a radiography system are provided in which adhesion between a target layer and a diamond substrate is improved and stable radiation emitting properties are exhibited. A transmission type target includes a target layer, a carbon-containing region including sp2 bonds, and a diamond substrate that supports the target layer. The carbon-containing region is positioned between the target layer and the diamond substrate.
US10658141B2
An electromagnetic relay including: an electromagnet; a movable spring having a movable contact; a first terminal to which one end of the movable spring is connected; a second terminal having a fixed contact opposite to the movable contact; an actuator that rotates by excitation of the electromagnet, rotates the movable spring, and causes the movable contact to come in contact with the fixed contact or to separate from the fixed contact; a nonmagnetic card to be attached to the actuator; a plurality of magnetic members that sandwich the movable contact and the fixed contact, and apply a magnetic flux to the movable contact and the fixed contact to extend an arc; and a permanent magnet attached between the magnetic members.
US10658134B2
A keyboard includes a bottom plate and keyswitch devices. Each keyswitch device includes a keycap, a first supporting member, and a second supporting member. The keycap is over the bottom plate. The first and second supporting members are connected between the bottom plate and the keycap and respectively include first and second magnetic attraction portions. The second magnetic attraction portion is configured to attract the first magnetic attraction portion. The first and second magnetic attraction portions respectively have first and second abutting surfaces. When the first abutting surface abuts against the second abutting surface, the keycap is at a highest position relative to the bottom plate. When the keycap moves toward the bottom plate from the highest position, the first abutting surface is at least partially separated from the second abutting surface.
US10658123B2
A capacitor assembly that is stable under extreme conditions is provided. A capacitor assembly that is capable of achieving a high capacitance and yet remain thermally and mechanically stable under extreme conditions. Even at high capacitance values, good mechanical stability can be achieved by connecting multiple individual capacitor elements to the housing of the assembly. Without intending to be limited by theory, it is believed that the use of multiple elements increases the surface area over which the elements are connected to the housing. Among other things, this allows the elements to dissipate vibrational forces incurred during use over a larger area, which reduces the likelihood of delamination. The capacitor elements are also enclosed and hermetically sealed within a single housing in the presence of a gaseous atmosphere that contains an inert gas, thereby limiting the amount of oxygen and moisture supplied to the solid electrolyte of the capacitor elements. Through the combination of the features noted above, the capacitor assembly is able to better function under extreme conditions.
US10658119B1
A power capacitor including: a casing, a first bushing, a second bushing or an earthing stud having the same electric potential as the casing, wherein the first and second bushing extend through the casing, a dielectric liquid, and a plurality of wound capacitor elements, each wound capacitor element including: a first electrode having two first layers of electrically conducting material connected to the first bushing, the two first layers being arranged movable towards and from each other, a second electrode having two second layers of electrically conducting material connected to the second bushing or to the earthing stud, the two second layers being arranged movable towards and from each other, and a dielectric layer arranged between the first electrode and the second electrode, wherein the two first layers, the two second layers and the dielectric layer are together wound in a plurality of turns to obtain a plurality of layers of the first electrode, of the second electrode and of the dielectric layer, wherein the wound capacitor elements are arranged in a stacked manner in the casing, adjacent wound capacitor elements being in direct contact with each other, and wherein the capacitor elements are submerged in the dielectric liquid.
US10658114B2
A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes: a ceramic body including dielectric layers and having first and second surfaces opposing each other, third and fourth surfaces connecting the first and second surfaces to each other, and fifth and sixth surfaces connected to the first to fourth surfaces and opposing each other; a plurality of internal electrodes disposed in the ceramic body, each exposed to the first and second surfaces and having one ends exposed to the third or fourth surface; and a first side margin portion and a second side margin portion disposed, respectively, on the first and second surfaces of the ceramic body, wherein a metal or a metal oxide is disposed in each of the first and second side margin portions, and a ratio of a diameter of the metal or the metal oxide to a thickness of the dielectric layer is 0.8 or less.
US10658110B2
The invention relates to a capacitive block, notably for an electrical equipment, comprising a case, a capacitive element housed in the case, a substance filling the space between the case and the capacitive element so as to ensure leak tightness of the capacitive element, a heat sink against which the capacitive element is in direct contact. In the capacitive block, the heat sink is different from the filling substance, a face of said heat sink, designated free face, forming an outer face of the capacitive block and being devoid of said filling substance.
US10658109B2
A method of manufacturing electromagnet coils for use in a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system is provided. The method comprises forming a coil representation of a coil surface for the electromagnet coils; setting a plurality of performance metric requirements for a plurality of performance metrics for the electromagnet coils, the plurality of performance metrics including a magnetic field-shape metric and an eddy-field metric; forming a performance functional, based on the coil representation and the plurality of performance metrics, for generating a current density pattern over the coil surface; optimizing the performance functional based on the plurality of performance metric requirements; generating a current density pattern over the coil surface based on the minimized performance functional; and obtaining coil windings from the current density pattern.
US10658108B2
Disclosed is a method for producing a magnet, including a step of preparing a magnet represented by the formula: uRwBxGayCuzAlqM(balance)T, where RH is 5% or less, 0.20≤x≤0.70, 0.07≤y≤0.2, 0.05≤z≤0.5, 0≤q≤0.1; when 0.40≤x≤0.70, v and w satisfy the following inequality expressions: 50w−18.5≤v≤50w−14, and −12.5w+38.75≤v≤−62.5w+86.125; and, when 0.20≤x≤0.40, v and w satisfy the following inequality expressions: 50w−18.5≤v≤50w−15.5 and −12.5w+39.125≤v≤−62.5w+86.125, and x satisfy the following inequality expression: −(62.5w+v −81.625)/15+0.5≤x≤−(62.5w+v−81.625)/15+0.8; a high-temperature heat treatment step of heating the magnet to a temperature of 730° C. or higher and 1,020° C. or lower, and then cooling to 300° C. at a cooling rate of 20° C./min; and a low-temperature heat treatment step of heating the magnet to a temperature of 440° C. or higher and 550° C. or lower.
US10658106B2
To provide a safe stationary induction electrical apparatus that prevents a fragment coming off a magnetic shield, wound around an iron core leg portion of the stationary induction electrical apparatus, due to vibrations from being released in a tank accommodating the stationary induction electrical apparatus and thus prevents a trouble such as dielectric breakdown. Moreover, to provide a stationary induction electrical apparatus that does not need to be changed in the dimensions of an iron core for securing an insulation distance due to the placement of a magnetic shield and can reduce a compressive force generated in a winding. A magnetic material is provided in the interiors of insulating members whose interiors are hollow and which are provided in the vicinities of upper and lower ends of the winding wound around the iron core leg portion of the stationary induction electrical apparatus.
US10658099B2
The present disclosure provides a display module. The module includes a module support structure, a plurality of light-emitting elements coupled to the module support structure, and one or more latch assemblies configured to removeably couple the module support structure to a support chassis. Each of the one or more latch assemblies includes a first magnet movably coupled with the module support structure at a first location. The assemblies further include a second magnet movably coupled with the module support structure at a second location. The second magnet is movable relative to the module support structure between a first corresponding position and a second corresponding position. The assemblies further include a shaft connecting the first magnet and the second magnet so that the first magnet and the second magnet move together.
US10658095B2
The present invention relates to an Sm—Fe—N magnet material including: 7.0-12 at % of Sm; 0.1-1.5 at % of at least one element selected from the group consisting of Hf, Zr, and Sc; 0.1-0.5 at % of Mn; 10-20 at % of N; and 0-35 at % of Co, with the remainder being Fe and unavoidable impurities. The present invention also relates to an Sm—Fe—N bonded magnet including a powder of the Sm—Fe—N magnet material and a binder.
US10658093B2
A cable includes one or more conductor sets, one or more dielectric unitary blocks or reservoirs, first and second conductive shielding films disposed on opposite first and second sides of the conductor sets and the dielectric blocks or reservoirs, and an adhesive layer. The shielding films include cover portions and pinched portions arranged such that, in cross-section, the cover portions of the shielding films in combination substantially surround each conductor set and each unitary block or reservoir, and the pinched portions of the shielding films in combination form pinched portions of the cable on each side of the conductor set and on at least one side of the unitary block or the reservoir. The adhesive layer bonds the first shielding film to the second shielding film in the pinched portions of the cable.
US10658092B2
An electric wire conductor having both flexibility and a space-saving property, a covered electric wire, and a wiring harness containing such an electric wire conductor. The electric wire conductor contains a plurality of elemental wires, and has a flat portion in which a cross-section intersecting an axial direction of the wire strand has a flat shape. In the cross-section of the flat portion, a vacancy ratio defined as a ratio of vacancies not occupied by the elemental wires is 17% or higher. Further, a covered electric wire contains the electric wire conductor and an insulator covering the electric wire conductor. Furthermore, a wiring harness contains the covered electric wire.
US10658091B1
A coating mixture comprising at least one ceramic powder and a first and second binder that when applied to a substrate and heat treated produces a thin ceramic electrical insulation coating suitable for superconducting magnet applications.
US10658084B2
An improved basal insulin management system and an improved user interface for use therewith are provided. User interfaces are provided that dynamically display basal rate information and corresponding time segment information for a basal insulin program in a graphical format. The graphical presentation of the basal insulin program as it is being built by a user and the graphical presentation of a completed basal insulin program provides insulin management information to the user in a more intuitive and useful format. User interfaces further enable a user to make temporary adjustments to a predefined basal insulin program with the adjustments presented graphically to improve the user's understanding of the changes. As a result of being provided with the user interfaces described herein, users are less likely to make mistakes and are more likely to adjust basal rates more frequently, thereby contributing to better blood glucose control and improved health outcomes.
US10658076B2
A system and method are disclosed for enhancing the efficiency and accuracy of analysis and interpretation of medical diagnostic laboratory test data for real-time clinical decision support, utilizing artificial intelligence techniques to automatically improve analytical performance and enhance provider and patient communications.
US10658072B2
The present invention relates to a method of evaluation of molecular binding interactions at a sensing surface, and more particularly to a method for evaluation of screening data obtained from an interaction between an analyte in a fluid sample and a ligand immobilized on a sensor surface of a biosensor that is independent of interaction models. Preferably the biosensor is a SPR biosensor.The invention also relates to a biosensor system arranged to perform the method and a computer program arranged to control the operation of the biosensor system.
US10658063B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell, a read circuit, a correcting circuit and a write circuit. The read circuit is configured to read first data from the memory cell by receiving a first command. The correcting circuit is configured to generate second data by correcting an error included in the first data. The write circuit is configured to write the second data to the memory cell in response to receiving a second command.
US10658056B2
An embodiment of a semiconductor package apparatus may include technology to attempt to program data in a first portion of a nonvolatile memory, determine if the attempt was successful, and recover the data to a second portion of the nonvolatile memory with an internal data move operation if the attempt is determined to be not successful. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.
US10658055B2
According to one embodiment, a memory system includes a memory device and a controller. The controller is configured to make the memory device apply a first verify voltage to a first word line for determining whether writing of a first data value into a first cell transistor has been completed. The controller is configured to make the memory device apply a second verify voltage to a second word line for determining whether writing of the first data value into a second cell transistor has been completed. The second verify voltage is different from the first verify voltage.
US10658053B2
The inhibit voltage is a voltage applied to wordlines adjacent to a program wordline having a memory cell to write during the program operation. The inhibit voltage for a program operation can be ramped up during the program pulse. Instead of applying a constant high inhibit voltage that results in the initial boosted channel potential reducing drastically due to leakage, a system can start the inhibit voltage lower and ramp the inhibit voltage up during the program pulse. The ramping up can be a continuous ramp or in finite discrete steps during the program pulse. Such ramping of inhibit voltage can provide better tradeoff between program disturb and inhibit disturb.
US10658050B2
Provided herein may be a memory controller and a method of operating the same. The memory controller may include a control component configured to control an operation of a semiconductor memory device including a plurality of memory cells in response to a request from a host. The control component may be configured to select a subset of memory cells, among all memory cells in a selected page of the semiconductor memory device, and to determine an optimal read voltage based on the select subset of memory cells.
US10658049B2
Provided herein may be a memory controller and a method of operating the same. The memory controller may include a control component configured to control an operation of a semiconductor memory device including a plurality of memory cells in response to a request from a host. The control component may be configured to select a subset of memory cells, among all memory cells in a selected page of the semiconductor memory device, and to determine an optimal read voltage based on the select subset of memory cells.
US10658047B1
A memory sub-system can be determined to be operating within a target operating characteristic based on a threshold success rate associated with error control operations using a particular parameter. Upon determining that the memory sub-system is operating within the target operating characteristic, a sticky read mode is entered by performing subsequent read operations using the particular parameter. It is determined that additional error control operations are triggered for at least a first threshold number of read operations using the particular parameter during the sticky read mode. Upon determining that the additional error control operations are triggered for at least the first threshold number of read operations using the particular parameter during the sticky read mode, the sticky read mode is exited by performing further read operations using a default parameter associated with the memory sub-system.
US10658045B1
A method for programming memory blocks in a memory system includes identifying, using at least one memory block characteristic, candidate memory blocks of the memory blocks in the memory system. The method also includes performing a pre-erase operation, using a pre-erase verify level, on the candidate memory blocks. The method also includes storing, on a pre-erase table, pre-erase information for each memory block of the candidate memory blocks. The method also includes identifying, using the pre-erase table, at least one memory block to be programmed. The method also includes programming the at least one memory block by performing a preprogram erase operation on the at least one memory block using the pre-erase verify level, and performing a write operation on the at least one memory block.
US10658043B2
A method of operating a memory device includes performing a data read operation on at least one victim sub-block within a memory block containing a plurality of sub-blocks therein, in response to an erase command directed to a selected sub-block within the plurality of sub-blocks. Next, a soft program operation is performed on the at least one victim sub-block. This soft programming operation is then followed by an operation to erase the selected sub-block within the plurality of sub-blocks. This operation to erase the selected sub-block may include providing an erase voltage to a bulk region of a substrate on which the memory block extends, and the at least one victim sub-block may be disposed between the selected sub-block and the substrate.
US10658034B1
In an example, a first data structure can be read with a first read voltage dedicated to the first data structure. A second data structure that stores a larger quantity of data than the first data structure can be with a second read voltage that is dedicated to the second data structure. The first data structure can be with a third read voltage in response to a quantity of errors in reading the first data structure being greater than or equal to a first threshold quantity. The second data structure can be read with the third read voltage in response to a quantity of errors in reading the second data structure being greater than or equal to a second threshold quantity. The read voltages can be based on a temperature of an apparatus that includes the first and second data structures.
US10658033B2
A non-volatile memory device is provided that uses one or more volatile elements. In some embodiments, the non-volatile memory device can include a resistive two-terminal selector that can be in a low resistive state or a high resistive state depending on the voltage being applied. A MOS (“metal-oxide-semiconductor”) transistor in addition to a capacitor or transistor acting as a capacitor can also be included. A first terminal of the capacitor can be connected to a voltage source, and the second terminal of the capacitor can be connected to the selector device. A floating gate of an NMOS transistor can be connected to the other side of the selector device, and a second NMOS transistor can be connected in series with the first NMOS transistor.
US10658028B2
A semiconductor storage device includes a plurality of memory cells arranged in a matrix, a word line provided corresponding to a memory cell row, a dummy word line formed in a metal interconnection layer adjacent to a metal interconnection layer in which the word line is formed, a word driver circuit configured to drive the word line, and a dummy word driver circuit configured to increase voltage on the word line based on interline capacitance between the word line and the dummy word line.
US10658022B1
A magnetoresistive random access memory (MRAM) system is described. The system includes a sense amplifier that performs a two-phase read, including a first phase in which a first n-channel transistor is coupled to a reference resistance and a second n-channel transistor is coupled to a data resistance, and a second phase in which the first n-channel transistor is coupled to the data resistance and the second n-channel transistor is coupled to the reference resistance. The circuit further includes a first active amplifier for controlling a gate voltage of the first n-channel transistor and a second active amplifier for controlling a gate voltage of the second n-channel transistor. The circuit further includes a comparator configured to output the data state of the cell based on input of a first voltage related to a reference resistance and a second voltage related to a data resistance.
US10658020B2
A strobe signal generation circuit includes a trigger circuit configured to generate a pull-up signal and a pull-down signal according to a clock signal; a first main driver configured to generate a differential data strobe signal in response to receiving the pull-up signal and the pull-down signal; and a second main driver configured to generate an other differential data strobe signal in response to receiving the pull-up signal and the pull-down signal from among the at least one pull-down signal through opposite terminals than the first main driver received the pull-up signal and the pull-down signal.
US10658013B2
The present disclosure is drawn to, among other things, a magnetic memory. The magnetic memory comprises a first common line, a second common line, and a memory cell. The magnetic memory further includes a bias voltage generation circuit and a voltage driver. The bias voltage generation circuit and the voltage driver are configured to provide driving voltages to the memory cell during access operations.
US10658007B2
Arrangements involving portable devices (e.g., smartphones and tablet computers) are disclosed. One arrangement enables a content creator to select software with which that creator's content should be rendered—assuring continuity between artistic intention and delivery. Another utilizes a device camera to identify nearby subjects, and take actions based thereon. Others rely on near field chip (RFID) identification of objects, or on identification of audio streams (e.g., music, voice). Some technologies concern improvements to the user interfaces associated with such devices. Others involve use of these devices in connection with shopping, text entry, sign language interpretation, and vision-based discovery. Still other improvements are architectural in nature, e.g., relating to evidence-based state machines, and blackboard systems. Yet other technologies concern use of linked data in portable devices—some of which exploit GPU capabilities. Still other technologies concern computational photography. A great variety of other features and arrangements are also detailed.
US10658005B1
Systems and methods are disclosed configured to train an autoencoder using images that include faces, wherein the autoencoder comprises an input layer, an encoder configured to output a latent image from a corresponding input image, and a decoder configured to attempt to reconstruct the input image from the latent image. An image sequence of a face exhibiting a plurality of facial expressions and transitions between facial expressions is generated and accessed. Images of the plurality of facial expressions and transitions between facial expressions are captured from a plurality of different angles and using different lighting. An autoencoder is trained using source images that include the face with different facial expressions captured at different angles with different lighting, and using destination images that include a destination face. The trained autoencoder is used to generate an output where the likeness of the face in the destination images is swapped with the likeness of the source face, while preserving expressions of the destination face.
US10658000B2
A data storage cartridge according to one embodiment comprises a housing configured to house a data storage medium, a sensor coupled to the housing, and a microcontroller coupled to the sensor. The microcontroller is configured to wirelessly communicate information about the sensor. Other embodiments relate to a data storage cartridge comprising a housing configured to house a data storage medium, a cartridge memory coupled to the housing, the cartridge memory having a wireless communications interface, and a microcontroller in physical communication with the cartridge memory. The microcontroller is configured to wirelessly communicate information retrieved from the cartridge memory. Additional embodiments relate to a data storage cartridge comprising a mechanical write protect mechanism coupled to the housing of the data storage cartridge, an actuator coupled to the mechanical write protect mechanism for selectively changing a state of the mechanical write protect mechanism, and a microcontroller configured to control the actuator.
US10657990B2
A magnetic head includes a main magnetic pole, a write shield separated from the main magnetic pole by a write gap, a first side shield that is separated from the main magnetic pole by a first side gap, a second side shield that is separated from the main magnetic pole by a second side gap, a first layer that has a first magnetic relative permeability and is disposed in the write gap between the main magnetic pole and the write shield, and a second layer that has a second magnetic relative permeability and is disposed in the first side gap and the second side gap, wherein the first magnetic relative permeability is smaller than the second magnetic relative permeability.
US10657988B2
A method is disclosed for forming a perpendicular magnetic recording writer with an all wrap around (AWA) shield design wherein a surface of the leading shield that contacts the lead gap has a notch that is recessed 20 to 120 nm from the air bearing surface (ABS) and has a first side with a down-track dimension of 20-200 nm that is aligned parallel to the ABS. In one embodiment, the notch is aligned below the main pole leading side and has a cross-track width substantially the same as the track width of the main pole trailing side. The notch has two sidewalls formed equidistant from a center plane that bisects the leading shield wherein each sidewall intersects the first side at an angle of 90 to 170 degrees. Accordingly, overwrite and bit error rate are improved while adjacent track interference and tracks per square inch capability are substantially maintained.
US10657986B2
Apparatus, systems and methods for use in imparting linear tonearm tracking for a record player are provided. The systems can include a joint member having three separate movable connections to a tonearm, guiding slot and slidable pivot base, wherein a rear pivot location of the tonearm is on the slidable pivot base. A movement of the tonearm can cause the joint member to adjust a position of the slidable pivot base, as a function of a configuration of the guiding slot, and this combination of interactions is combined to impart substantial linear tracking for the tonearm.
US10657982B2
An apparatus comprising at least one processor and at least one memory including computer program code the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to perform processing at least one control parameter dependent on at least one sensor input parameter, processing at least one audio signal dependent on the processed at least one control parameter, and outputting the processed at least one audio signal.
US10657981B1
Techniques for improving acoustic echo cancellation to attenuate an echo signal generated by a loudspeaker included in a device are described. A system may determine a loudspeaker canceling beam (LCB) (e.g., fixed beam directed to the loudspeaker) and may use the LCB to generate LCB audio data that corresponds to the echo signal. For example, based on a configuration of the loudspeaker relative to microphone(s) of the device, the system may perform simulation(s) to generate a plurality of filter coefficient values corresponding to the loudspeaker. By subtracting the LCB audio data during acoustic echo cancellation, the system may attenuate the echo signal even when there is distortion or nonlinearity or the like caused by the loudspeaker. In some examples, the system may perform acoustic echo cancellation using the LCB audio data and playback audio data.
US10657976B2
The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for encoding and decoding spectrum coefficients in the frequency domain. The spectrum encoding method may comprise the steps of: selecting an encoding type on the basis of bit allocation information of respective bands; performing zero encoding with respect to a zero band; and encoding information of selected significant frequency components with respect to respective non-zero bands. The spectrum encoding method enables encoding and decoding of spectrum coefficients which is adaptive to various bit-rates and various sub-band sizes. In addition, a spectrum can be encoded using a TCQ method at a fixed bit rate using a bit-rate control module in a codec that supports multiple rates. Encoding performance of the codec can be maximised by encoding high performance TCQ at a precise target bit rate.
US10657971B1
The disclosed computer-implemented method for detecting suspicious voice calls may include (i) identifying an incoming voice call, (ii) extracting, from audio of the incoming voice call, a plurality of characteristics, (iii) calculating a trustworthiness score of the plurality of the characteristics based on a response by a recipient of the incoming voice call, and (iv) storing the trustworthiness score of the plurality of characteristics in a reputation database that (a) receives a request for the trustworthiness score, the request originating from an additional computing device and including an additional plurality of characteristics extracted from an additional incoming voice call, (b) determines that the additional plurality of characteristics matches the plurality of characteristics, and (c) enables the additional computing device to perform a security action on the additional incoming voice call by sending the trustworthiness to the additional computing device. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US10657969B2
An identity verification method and an identity verification apparatus based on a voiceprint are provided. The identity verification method based on a voiceprint includes: receiving an unknown voice; extracting a voiceprint of the unknown voice using a neural network-based voiceprint extractor which is obtained through pre-training; concatenating the extracted voiceprint with a pre-stored voiceprint to obtain a concatenated voiceprint; and performing judgment on the concatenated voiceprint using a pre-trained classification model, to verify whether the extracted voiceprint and the pre-stored voiceprint are from a same person. With the identity verification method and the identity verification apparatus, a holographic voiceprint of the speaker can be extracted from a short voice segment, such that the verification result is more robust.
US10657965B2
Various implementations include audio systems for controlling audio feedback to user requests. In some particular cases, a headphone system includes at least one headphone including an acoustic transducer having a sound-radiating surface for providing an audio output; at least one microphone for receiving an audio input from a user; and a control system including a recommendation engine, the control system coupled with the at least one headphone and the at least one microphone, the recommendation engine configured to: analyze the audio input for a non-specific request from the user; and provide an audio sample to the user along with a prompt for feedback about the audio sample in response to the non-specific request.
US10657964B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for controlling a smart device, a computer device and a non-transitory computer readable storage medium. The method includes performing speech recognition on a speech signal acquired by the smart device; determining whether a control instruction corresponding to the speech signal matches with a present operation scene of the smart device; and adjusting an operation state of the smart device according to the control instruction when the control instruction matches with the present operation scene.
US10657963B2
Provided is a user command processing method and system to provide and adjust an operation of a device by analyzing a presentation of a user speech. The user command processing method includes managing at least one pre-defined operation to be performed according to a user command, a plurality of options being preset in relation to each of the at least one pre-defined operation, receiving a user command at least including a voice input received from a user, selecting an operation corresponding to a keyword extracted from the voice input, determining at least one option corresponding to the extracted keyword among a plurality of options preset in relation to the selected operation, according to a presentation of the voice input, and performing the selected operation in association with the determined at least one option.
US10657951B2
A system, a computer program product, and method for controlling synthesized speech output on a voice-controlled device. One or more sensors are used to detect whether one person or more than one person is within a first settable distance from the voice-controlled device. Next a determination is made whether the audio input received is recognized as speech. In response to only one person being detected within the settable distance, begin outputting synthesized speech based on the audio input without waiting for an attention word to be recognized and otherwise wait for additional criteria before outputting synthesized speech based on the speech input. The additional criteria includes determining that more than one person is detected and recognizing that the attention word is received before outputting synthesized speech based on the audio input. Another criteria includes more than one person being detected and determining that the person is looking at the voice-controlled device before outputting synthesized speech based on the audio input.
US10657950B2
A headphone has a driver, an internal microphone, an accelerometer, and an external microphone. An audio processor analyzes signals to detect wind noise. Gain of lower frequencies is reduced relative to higher frequencies, in a first filter that is operating on an audio signal from the external microphone in a feedforward path, responsive to detecting increased wind noise. A second filter in an audio signal feedback path may be adjusted to compensate for the gain change in the first filter that may mitigate occlusion effect. Outputs of the feedforward path in the feedback path are combined to produce an audio signal for the driver. The driver produces sound in the aural canal that has transparency with reduced wind noise, relative to sound external to the headphone. Other aspects are also described and claimed.
US10657943B2
The present disclosure relates to a method and system for calibrating a musical device. In some embodiments, a method for calibrating a musical device includes: energizing an actuator to actuate a key using a force corresponding to a first intensity level; obtaining, from a sensor, a first sensor signal representing motion information of the key corresponding to application of the force; and calibrating the musical device based on the first sensor signal.
US10657941B2
An electronic musical instrument includes a memory storing a musical piece data that includes a first note or chord to be played by the performer at a first timing, a second note or chord to be played by the performer at a second timing, and a third note or chord to be played by the performer at a third timing and a processor that determines a target melodic interval direction from the first note or chord to the second note or chord, and that causes an automatic accompaniment to output from the second timing to a point in time immediately prior to the third timing even if the performer performs a wrong note as the second note as long as a melodic interval direction actually performed by the performer matches the target melodic interval direction.
US10657939B2
A keyboard apparatus includes: keys; at least one frame configured to support at least one of the keys; at least one bendable portion disposed between one of the keys and the frame and having flexibility in a scale direction; and a coupler configured to couple the bendable portion and the key to each other attachably and detachably. Two couplers each as the coupler which correspond respectively to the keys adjacent to each other are disposed respectively at positions different from each other in a longitudinal direction of the key.
US10657938B2
A method for customizing appliance alert tunes includes downloading a user selected alert tune from a server to an appliance over a network. The user selected alert tune is a plurality of synthesized notes. The method also includes saving the user selected alert tune in a memory of the appliance and playing the user selected alert tune on a sound emitter of the appliance in response to an activation condition for the user selected alert tune.
US10657933B2
The invention is an algorithmic method that can be used for the fundamental task of optimally spelling the pitches of any given musical scale. The method consists of generating all potential solutions containing all possible spellings for the pitch classes in a given input sequence (numbers of which represent any randomly compiled subset of the chromatic scale), and subjecting them to five filtering stages to find the correct solution. The invention can be used in spelling all possible scales that can be derived from the chromatic scale, in addition to conventional major and minor scales.
US10657928B2
There is provided a display device including a display unit, and a projection unit provided in a direction intersecting with a direction perpendicular to a display surface of the display unit, with a rear side of the display surface as a projection direction.
US10657927B2
A system for providing hands-free input to a computer. The system includes one or more artificial cilia mounts attached to an eyelid or eyelash of a user, by which one or more of the artificial cilia extending therefrom are adapted to cause generation of an input command in response to an intentional blinking motion, and a computer to which blinking-derived input commands are transmittable. The system further includes a movement sensor mounted for detecting a calibrated instantaneous head orientation of the user. The system includes a means for duplicating a portion of video data or a representation thereof that would cause corresponding images to be viewable by the user on a computer screen in response to the instantaneous head orientation and for displaying the images corresponding to the duplicated portion.
US10657923B2
The embodiments of the present disclosure propose a display control circuit, a display control method thereof and a display apparatus, so that power supply to the display driving circuit is controlled to be disabled when the display driving circuit is in the sleep-in mode and is controlled to be enabled when the display driving circuit is in the wakeup mode by setting a switch circuit in the display control circuit and turning on and turning off the switch circuit.
US10657922B2
Damaging a device that is not compatible with a functional extension is to be avoided.A signal is transmitted to an external device through a transmission channel. A data block containing capability information indicating existence/non-existence of compatibility with an extended function is received from the external device through the transmission channel.A layer field that indicates the connection layer is provided in this data block. A check is made to determine whether all the devices existing in the path are compatible with the extended function based on the value of the layer field provided in the data block, and the contents of the transmission signal are then determined.
US10657921B2
The present disclosure provides a shift register unit and a driving method thereof, a gate driving device and a display device. The shift register unit includes an input circuit, an output circuit, a pull-down circuit, a first pull-down control circuit, and a second pull-down control circuit, wherein the second pull-down control circuit is provided with a first pull-down compensation transistor and a second pull-down compensation transistor and connected to a second power supply voltage, to compensate a threshold voltage drift of a second pull-down control transistor in the second pull-down control circuit so as to avoid abnormality of the shift register unit which would be caused by the threshold voltage drift of the second pull-down control transistor driven by a long-time high voltage, thereby ensuring the stability of the shift register unit.
US10657920B2
A display panel, a display device and a signal transmission device are provided. The display panel includes: an array substrate; an opposed substrate arranged opposite to the array substrate; a circuit board, disposed on a side of the array substrate away from the opposed substrate; a driving circuit, disposed on a side of the array substrate close to the opposed substrate; a light emitter, disposed on a side of the circuit board close to the array substrate and electrically connected with the circuit board, in which the light emitter includes a light emitting surface which faces the array substrate; and a light receiver, disposed on a side of the array substrate close to the opposed substrate and electrically connected with the driving circuit, in which the light receiver includes a light receiving surface which faces the light emitter.
US10657919B2
Disclosed are a gate driving circuit and a driving method thereof, and a display device using the driving circuit. In the gate driving circuit, a Qn node in a nth-stage circuit is precharged when a Qn−1 node output signal in a previous-stage driving circuit and a Qn+1 node output signal in a next-stage driving circuit are both at high levels, and thus stability of a Gn output end in the nth-stage circuit can be greatly improved. Meanwhile, a first transistor and a second transistor are connected in series, and a third transistor and a fourth transistor are connected in series.
US10657914B2
A driving method for a liquid crystal apparatus of the invention wherein at least a counter electrode of a plurality of pixel electrodes and the counter electrode is covered with an insulating film, the method including applying an alternating current voltage to a plurality of pixels, the alternating current voltage being set in a manner that first regions in which a center potential VC1 is offset to a high potential side and second regions in which a center potential VC2 is offset to a low potential side, with reference to a counter electrode potential Vcom applied to the counter electrode, are alternately arranged in a plane of a display region in which the plurality of pixels are arranged.
US10657909B2
A liquid crystal display panel (100) includes a plurality of pixels, each of the pixels including a first subpixel and a second subpixel arranged so as to adjoin each other in a column direction. In any given frame period, the plurality of pixels include a plurality of pixel row pairs each associated with two selected pixel rows. In each pixel column, one pixel of each of the plurality of pixel row pairs is connected with a first source bus line (14a) associated with the pixel column, and the other pixel is connected with a second source bus line (14b) associated with the pixel column, and the plurality of pixel row pairs are each simultaneously selected. A plurality of frame periods include a first type frame period and a second type frame period differing in terms of combinations of two pixel rows to be associated with each of the plurality of pixel row pairs.
US10657908B2
According to one embodiment, a display device, includes a display panel having a light transmission property, the display panel includes a first sub-pixel exhibiting a first color, a second sub-pixel exhibiting a second color, a third sub-pixel exhibiting a third color, a dummy pixel exhibiting a fourth color having brightness lower than the first to third colors, and a light modulating layer capable of changing a light transmission property and a light scattering property of regions corresponding to the first to third sub-pixels and the dummy pixel, respectively.
US10657907B2
A calculation method for viewing-angle compensation of a display device, a viewing-angle compensation structure, and a display device is disclosed. The method includes: measuring tristimulus values for red, green, and blue displayed in grayscale of a display device in a viewing angle and a luminance gamma curve; calculating a central viewing angle, a first viewing angle, and a second viewing angle of an observation viewing angle of the display device, to obtain a viewing angle range of the observation viewing angle; obtaining a display look-up table (LUT) by using an angle of the viewing angle and the luminance gamma curve and according to a viewing angle algorithm; then obtaining a viewing-angle compensation value by using the central viewing angle and the viewing angle range and according to the display LUT; and eventually adjusting the corresponding tristimulus values in the display device according to the viewing-angle compensation value.
US10657902B2
Disclosed is a sensing circuit of a display device for external compensation of an OLED. The sensing circuit includes a current receiving unit configured to receive a pixel current containing a leakage current, convert the pixel current at a preset current ratio, and output the converted pixel current; a current source unit; a current sinking unit; a current detection unit; and a detection signal output unit configured to sample an offset voltage corresponding to the leakage current using the detected current.
