US10757840B2
According to some embodiments, a system to improve heat transfer for a data center may include a substantially cylindrical data center tower. The data center tower may include a data center tower bottom having at least one bottom opening to receive external air and a data center tower top, smaller than the data center tower bottom, having a top opening to expel air containing heat, created by the data center, via the Venturi effect. A plurality of hydrophilic bladders may be located proximate to at least a portion of a side of the data center tower, and plurality of data center computer servers may be arranged proximate to the side of the data center tower. In some embodiments, a heat capturing bottom portion of the side of the data center tower is formed of transparent material and/or a translucent material.
US10757834B2
A method and apparatus for determining a water chilling unit for cooling a data center are provided. The method includes: acquiring a current water output parameter, a current water input parameter, a current water flow parameter and a current outdoor temperature parameter of each water chilling unit of the data center; pre-processing the water output parameter, the water input parameter, the water flow parameter and the outdoor temperature parameter to obtain a characteristic parameter of each water chilling unit; importing the characteristic parameters of each water chilling unit into a pre-established machine learning model to obtain the current electric power of each water chilling unit; and determining a water chilling unit for cooling the data center on the basis of a preset cooling load, a rated cooling capacity of the water chilling unit and the current electric power of each water chilling unit.
US10757819B2
A core or sub-composite structure is provided including a dielectric layer between a first conductive film and a second conductive film. The first conductive film may include a first peelable/removable cover layer formed on or coupled to a first conductive layer. The second conductive film may include a second peelable/removable cover layer formed on or coupled to a second conductive layer.
US10757813B2
A manufacturing method of an embedded component package structure includes the following steps: providing a carrier and forming a semi-cured first dielectric layer on the carrier, the semi-cured first dielectric layer having a first surface; providing a component on the semi-cured first dielectric layer, and respectively providing heat energies from a top and a bottom of the component to cure the semi-cured first dielectric layer; forming a second dielectric layer on the first dielectric layer to cover the component; and forming a patterned circuit layer on the second dielectric layer, the patterned circuit layer being electrically connected to the component.
US10757806B2
A ceramic circuit board and a method of making are provided. The ceramic circuit board includes a substrate and a composite material layer. The composite material layer is formed on the substrate and comprises metal oxide powders and ceramic powders. The composite material layer has an interface layer which is transformed from the metal oxide powders by reduction and includes comprises zero-valent metal, lower-valent metal oxide and eutectic mixture reduced from the metal oxide powders of the composite material layer.
US10757801B2
A printed circuit board having a substrate layer, at least one electrically conductive trace disposed on the substrate layer, and a solder mask layer disposed over the substrate layer and the electrically conductive trace, wherein the solder mask later includes a void region over at least a portion of the electrically conductive trace. Also, a method of optimizing printed circuit board designing including selecting printed circuit board data comprising at least a solder mask layer area, varying the solder mask layer area, determining an insertion loss value for each varied solder mask layer area, comparing the insertion loss values for each varied solder mask layer area, and selecting a solder mask layer area based on the comparing.
US10757800B1
A circuit board transmission line structures has microstrip or stripline transmission line geometries and cross-hatch patterned return planes. The cross-hatch design structure of the return planes and the relative position of the cross-hatch pattern to the transmission lines are configured to increase the usable bandwidth of the transmission lines. By properly adjusting the size and shape of the cross-hatch pattern, the performance of the microstrip and stripline transmission lines can be largely restored to the performance where continuous, solid return planes are used.
US10757798B2
A linac-based X-ray system for cargo scanning and imaging applications uses linac design, RF power control, beam current control, and beam current pulse duration control to provide stable sequences of pulses having different energy levels or different dose.
US10757792B2
A system includes a power source and a plurality of modules, where each module has a control for controlling a function of the module and a user input actuatable by a user. The plurality of modules are electrically connected in series with a power conductor electrically connected between each adjacent module, where the power source provides power to each module over the power conductor. In response to actuation by the user of the user input on a select module of the plurality of modules, the control of the select module generates a control signal that is transmitted to each other module over the power conductor, such that the control of each other module controls the associated function in the same manner as the select module.
US10757788B2
An illuminating lamp includes a box-shaped casing, a plurality of LED light-emitting elements disposed on a light-emitting surface of the box-shaped casing, a conducting wire and an electrical plug for connecting a power source, and a selector switch panel for functional operation disposed on a nonlight-emitting surface of the box-shaped casing. A transparent or semi-transparent outer protective cover is disposed outside the light-emitting surface of the box-shaped casing. A control device including a plurality of control units is disposed in the box-shaped casing.
US10757762B2
A cooktop appliance is provided herein. The cooktop appliance may include a ceramic plate, an electric heating element, a temperature sensor, and a thermal conduction strip. The electric heating element may be positioned below the ceramic plate. The electric heating element may define a horizontal length from a center point projected on the ceramic plate. The temperature sensor may be positioned between the ceramic plate and the electric heating element relative to a vertical direction. The temperature sensor may be spaced apart from the ceramic plate and the electric heating element. The thermal-conduction strip may be attached to the temperature sensor. The thermal-conduction strip may extend in contact with a bottom surface of the ceramic plate between an inner tip proximal to the center point and an outer tip distal to the center point.
US10757757B2
Various systems and methods for enhancing a distributed computing environment with multiple edge hosts and user devices, including in multi-access edge computing (MEC) network platforms and settings, are described herein. A device of a lifecycle management (LCM) proxy apparatus obtains a request, from a device application, for an application multiple context of an application. The application multiple context for the application is determined. The request from the device application for the application multiple context for the application is authorized. A device application identifier based on the request is added to the application multiple context. A created response for the device application based on the authorization of the request is transmitted to the device application. The response includes an identifier of the application multiple context.
US10757756B2
Embodiments of an enhanced directional multi-gigabit (EDMG) station (STA), access point (AP), and method of communication are generally described herein. The EDMG STA may receive, from the AP, a Link Measurement Request Frame that includes a request for information for time division duplexing (TDD) rate adaptation. The EDMG STA may transmit a Link Measurement Response Frame that includes a Directional Multi Gigabit (DMG) Link Margin element that includes a Rate Adaption Control parameter. The DMG Link Margin element may be configurable to include one or more optional fields for the TDD rate adaptation and transmit power control. The Rate Adaptation Control parameter may indicate: a number of space time streams (STSs) for which information is included in the DMG Link Margin element; and whether the DMG Link Margin element includes the one or more optional fields.
US10757754B2
Techniques are described herein to secure a packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) control protocol data unit (PDU). A base station may determine a security configuration for a PDCP control PDU based on various factors including the content of the PDCP control PDU. For example, the security configuration of the PDCP control PDU may be applied because the PDCP control PDU includes a retransmission request. A counter dedicated to PDCP control PDUs may be initialized. The security protocols may be based on the dedicated counter. Some types of security parameters may be shared in some contexts such as in handover procedures or dual connectivity procedures. For example, security configurations associated with a second communication link may be based on security configurations associated with a first communication link. PDCP control PDUs may be secured based on the security configurations, the security parameters, protection keys, or combinations thereof.
US10757741B1
A base station that provides coverage on at least one TDD carrier and at least one FDD carrier detects that the base station is serving a UE on just one or more of the TDD carrier(s) and that the UE is TDD-FDD CA capable. In response, the base station reconfigures the UE to change the UE's carrier prioritization from (i) prioritizing TDD over FDD to (ii) prioritizing FDD over TDD. For instance, if TDD carriers are defined in one or more frequency bands, and FDD carriers are defined in one or more other frequency bands, this could involve changing the UE's band prioritization to cause the UE to prefer connecting on TDD.
US10757737B2
Disclosed herein are methods, computer program instructions and apparatus for performing random access procedures in a wireless communication system. A method includes receiving at a network access node, in different time and frequency resources that are allocated for preamble transmission, and in different ones of a plurality of component carriers, a plurality of random access requests from individual ones of a plurality of user equipments; and transmitting a corresponding plurality of random access responses in a time and frequency resource of a single component carrier.
US10757732B2
Provided are a method and an apparatus for competition-based transmitting of uplink data in a wireless communication system to which a non-orthogonal multiple access scheme is applied. Particularly, a UE receives, from a base station, information relating to a contention zone. The information relating to the contention zone includes predefined contention zone patterns and predefined terminal classes. The terminal selects a terminal class for the terminal from among the predefined terminal classes. The terminal selects a contention zone pattern for the terminal from among the predefined contention zone patterns on the basis of the selected terminal class. The uplink data is transmitted to the base station through a plurality of contention zones included in the selected contention zone pattern.
US10757727B2
A method of receiving a downlink signal by a user equipment in a wireless communication system is discussed. The method includes receiving a plurality of scheduling information, each scheduling information being associated with a respective data in a same time unit, and receiving at least one of a plurality of the respective data based on whether sizes of the first and second data are under a processing capability of the user equipment, wherein the processing capability of the user equipment includes two maximum data sizes, and a first maximum data size T1 is smaller than a second maximum data size T2.
US10757725B2
This application discloses a grant-free transmission method, a network device, and a terminal device. The method includes: detecting, by a network device, a pilot sequence used by a terminal device for uplink transmission; determining, by the network device, a pilot sequence index of the pilot sequence based on the pilot sequence and a correspondence between the pilot sequence and the pilot sequence index; and sending, by the network device, information about a feedback result of the uplink transmission to the terminal device based on the pilot sequence index.
US10757719B2
A distributed sensing and control network includes a plurality of sensing/control nodes, each of the sensing/control nodes includes a sensor, a local controller, a local memory and a wireless transmitter/receiver. The local memory stores instructions for implementing a multiscale networking protocol for wireless transmissions. The multiscale networking protocol controls at least a first factor at a first timescale and at least a second factor at a second timescale, distinct from the first timescale. The at least a first factor includes an instantiated physical-ratio-K (PRK) interference model for wireless transmissions. The at least a second factor includes at least one of a channel assignment, a node transmission signal power control, a node transmission rate control, a real-time scheduling control, and a local signal map stored in the local memory. Wherein the local signal map, together with instantiated physical-ratio-K (PRK) interference models, defines an interference relationship between a sensing/control node storing the local signal map and each other sensing/control node of the plurality of sensing/control nodes within an exclusion region of the sensing/control node storing the local signal map.
US10757718B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. Some wireless communications systems support mobile broadband (MBB) communications and low latency communications. To accommodate low latency communications, a base station may identify resources allocated for MBB communications, and the base station may reassign (or puncture) these resources for low latency communications. The base station may transmit an indication of the reassigned (or punctured) resources to one or more user equipment (UEs). The base station may transmit an indication of the reassigned resources in a transmission time interval (TTI) that is subsequent to a TTI reassigned (or punctured) for low latency communications (e.g., a post indication). The base station may transmit the post indication in a retransmission grant of a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) or in downlink control information (DCI) of a PDCCH.
US10757715B2
A method performed by a user equipment (UE) is provided. The method includes selecting a first beam for a first frequency band and selecting a second beam for a second frequency band. The method further includes receiving scheduling information (SI) for scheduling at least one of an uplink (UL) transmission from the UE and a downlink (DL) transmission to the UE. The SI includes frequency information identifying a frequency band. The method further includes selecting a beam from a set of beams including the first and second beams. The selection is based on the identified frequency band.
US10757714B2
In one embodiment, a device receives data indicative of a routing topology of a network. The network includes a root node and each node in the network has an associated network depth relative to the root node in the routing topology. The device assigns the nodes in the network to timeslots of a channel-hopping communication schedule in order of their associated network depths. The device assigns transmit and receive actions to the timeslots of the communication schedule for a particular time such that parent-to-child and child-to-parent communications alternate with network depth in the timeslots. The device sends the communication schedule with the node and action assignments to one or more of the nodes in the network.
US10757713B2
Mobile devices often use orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) to calculate position information of mobile devices within the network. However, physical distance between the mobile device and a signal source for positioning and other environmental factors can influence the signal strength of received signals. Received signals at the mobile device that are stronger may drown out the weaker signals, particularly when two signal sources occupy the same symbol. In traditional OFDM, a signal source transmits the same symbol for each positioning occasion, so a weaker signal may never be detected over a stronger signal, reducing the accuracy of the positioning calculations. Described herein are systems and methods for using a pattern to vary the designated symbol for each signal source in a wireless network so that a weaker signal from a signal source may be detected on at least some of the positioning occasions.
US10757711B2
Disclosed is a method for identifying a network resource to be allocated to at least one application in a scheduled driving route based on information on a communication state of the scheduled driving route and Quality of Service (QoS) requirement for the at least one application, and a vehicle terminal for the same. In the present disclosure, one or more of a vehicle, a vehicle terminal, and an autonomous vehicle may be associated with an artificial intelligence (AI) module, an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), a robot, an augmented reality (AR) device, a virtual reality (VR) device, a 5G service device, etc.
US10757707B2
The present disclosure relates to a 5G or a pre-5G communication system for supporting a higher data rate following 4G communication systems such as LTE. In accordance with an embodiment of the present disclosure, a method of a base station includes: checking an operation mode depending on whether beam sweeping is supported, transmitting a signal related to the operation mode to a terminal, and performing communication with the terminal according to the operation mode.
US10757704B2
A base station or other device may have access to multiple channels for communicating with a mobile device or other client device. In some cases, these channels may include high power channels and low power channels, where the high power channels are in frequency bands in which higher power signals are legally allowed relative to those of channels in other frequency bands. When allocating bandwidth for use in communicating with the mobile device, the base station is configured to preferentially use channels using relatively low power signals over channels that use relatively high power signals.
US10757703B2
The embodiments of the present application provide a resource scheduling method for same frequency networking in an LTE cluster system and a device thereof. The method includes: determining a first frequency domain resource in the LTE cluster system, wherein the first frequency domain resource is an accessible frequency domain resource available for group services and belongs to a frequency domain resource of the cluster system; dividing the first frequency domain resource into at least two frequency domain resource groups; and selecting one frequency domain resource group from the at least two frequency domain resource groups to perform group services when a newly-built group service exists, so as to implement same frequency networking resource scheduling. The embodiments of the present application can reduce or eliminate the same frequency interference in the group services.
US10757700B2
Facilitating frame structure coordination in wireless communication systems with integrated access and backhaul links in advanced networks (e.g., 4G, 5G, and beyond) is provided herein. Operations of a system can comprise facilitating a first configuration of a first group of flexible symbols and facilitating a second configuration of a first pattern defined for an uplink transmission. Further, the operations can comprise facilitating a third configuration of a second pattern defined for a downlink transmission and facilitating a fourth configuration of a second group of flexible symbols. Flexible symbols can be symbols within a slot that are not defined as uplink symbols or downlink symbols.
US10757698B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure propose techniques for transmission time interval (TTI) bundling for physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) in long term evolution (LTE). According to certain aspects a method is provided for wireless communications. The method may be performed, for example, by a user equipment (UE). The method generally includes identifying a transmit time interval (TTI) bundle comprising a subset of subframes from a set of subframes for transmitting data on a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) and receiving the data on the PDSCH in the subset of subframes.
US10757690B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to wireless communication systems configured to provide piggyback downlink control information within the physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH). A first downlink control information portion may be transmitted within the physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) and may include information indicating a size of a second downlink control information portion transmitted within the PDSCH.
US10757686B2
Disclosed are a data transmission method, device, and system, which are used for resolving the problem of large overhead if an existing manner of sending a public message periodically is used in an ultra-dense network. The method comprises: user equipment sends an uplink request message, the uplink request message being used for requesting for obtaining public information of a first access node in an area in which the user equipment is located; and the user equipment receives the public information sent by the first access node. Because an access node in an area in which user equipment is located does not need to broadcast and send public information periodically, the access node can send, based on an uplink request of the user equipment, the public information, thereby improving the resource utilization and reducing the energy consumption.
US10757685B2
The present invention provides a method and a communication device for performing transmission(s) or reception(s) on BWPs associated to a carrier or a cell by using the same Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) entity and performing transmission(s) or reception(s) on BWPs associated to different carriers or cells by using different HARQ entities.
US10757682B2
An MBMS service reception method and an apparatus are provided for facilitating reception of Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast Service (MBMS) provided in the Long Term Evolution (LTE) system. The method for receiving MBMS in a radio communication system includes receiving User Service Description (USD) information including time information of the MBMS in a connected mode, determining whether a session of the MBMS has started based on the time information, and receiving, when the MBMS session has started, MBMS data of the MBMS session. The MBMS service reception method and apparatus of the present invention facilitates receiving the MBMS service.
US10757681B2
One embodiment of the present invention provides a method for performing a paging-related operation by a base station of a second user equipment (UE) having connection with a first UE in a wireless communication system, the method comprising the steps of: receiving a paging message for the second UE from a second MME by the base station; and when the second UE is in a radio resource control (RRC)-connected state while being in a core network (CN)-idle state, transmitting a message, including information related to a connection state of the second UE, as a response to the paging message to the second MME by the base station.
US10757680B2
Methods and apparatus are provided for paging enhancement for LC-MTC devices. In one novel aspect, a new paging message is used. In one embodiment, a new system information (M-SI)-paging is provided either carrying a bitmap or being generated from specific M-P1-RNTI sequences to indicate the modified SI messages. In another embodiment, a new RRC-paging is used through a UE-specific message, a multicast message, or a broadcast message to inform a UE to establish a RRC connection. The new paging message is either a sequence or an encoded data packet transmitted without control information, or scheduled by M-PDCCH. In another novel aspect, the new paging message is transmitted within one or more cells by a broadcast mechanism to achieve a maximal CE level the one or more cells support, or a multi-cast mechanism to support a specified CE level range, or a unicast mechanism to support a CE level.
US10757679B2
Methods and apparatuses are disclosed for controlling communications devices. An access node can generate a message for at least one communication device for transmission at a resource determined at least partly on the basis of a first identifier value assigned to said at least one communication device. The generation comprises including in the message at least one other identifier value, wherein the other identifier values are assigned to communication devices for a purpose of addressing messages to communication devices. The at least one other identifier value is used exclusively for said at least one communication device at said resource and is recognisable to said at least one communication device as instruction to take one or more actions associated with the at least one other identifier value. A communication device can check for a message at the resource, the checking comprising checking in the message for the one or more other identifier values. In response to detecting one or more of said one or more other identifier values, said communication device can take one or more actions associated with said detected one or more of said one or more other identifier values.
US10757676B1
An electronic device can be commissioned with an identifier for use in a centralized tracking system. The electronic device is assigned an interim unique identifier and authentication key, for instance by a manufacturer of the electronic device. The electronic device and the centralized tracking system each separately generate a permanent unique identifier and a permanent authentication key based on the interim unique identifier and interim authentication key, without requiring the permanent unique identifier and permanent authentication key from being transmitted between the electronic device and the central tracking server. Upon generating the permanent unique identifier and permanent authentication key, tracking device functionality can be enabled within the electronic device, enabling the electronic device to function as a tracking device within the centralized tracking system.
US10757669B2
The disclosure relates to a method and wireless device configured for communication in a wireless communication network, the method comprising the steps of obtaining a first transmission time interval, TTI, used for transmission timing of a first signal, obtaining a second TTI, used for transmission timing of a second signal, obtaining a maximum received time difference, MRTD, parameter, and operating the first signal between a wireless device and a first cell using the MRTD parameter and a first carrier, and the second signal between the wireless device and a second cell using the MRTD parameter and a second carrier, the second carrier being different from the first carrier, wherein the MRTD parameter is obtained by determining the MRTD parameter based on the first and the second TTI. The disclosure further relates to a network node and a method thereof.
US10757666B2
The present invention discloses a method for transmitting and receiving signals between a user equipment and a base station in a wireless communication system and device for supporting the same. More specifically, the invention discloses a method by which, when a base station transmits synchronization signal blocks in various beam directions, a user equipment achieves synchronization with the base station by detecting the index of a received synchronization signal block and then transmits and receives signals with the base station.
US10757663B2
A communication device, method, and computer program product provide communication quality mitigation in response to an intermodulation product resulting from concurrent transmission by first and second transmitters of a communication device. A controller is communicatively coupled to the first and second transmitters and executes an intermodulation mitigation utility that enables the communication device to monitor transmission characteristics of first and second transmitters of the communication device. The controller determines whether concurrent transmissions by the first and second transmitters create an intermodulation product having a power level at one or more frequencies that exceeds an intermodulation threshold for at least one of: (i) spurious emissions to a thirty-party receiver; and (ii) desensing a receiver of the communication device. Controller enables communication device to perform reduced transmit power mode that reduces the power level of the intermodulation product to not exceed the intermodulation threshold and performs communication quality mitigation.
US10757659B2
A terminal includes: a receiver, which, in operation, receives a plurality of data signals that is spatially multiplexed, the plurality of data signals being transmitted from a small-cell base station disposed in an area covered by a macro-cell base station; an estimator, which, in operation, estimates power of a signal from the macro-cell base station as interfering-signal power; and a signal separator, which, in operation, generates a reception weight based on the interfering-signal power and separates the plurality of data signals from each other based on the reception weight.
US10757649B2
Techniques are provided to ensure that a terminal device is able to perform measurements efficiently when an on/off scheme is used by network nodes, particularly in a heterogeneous network environment. An example method, implemented in a network node, comprises obtaining a discovery signal window pattern, the discovery signal window pattern defining one or more discovery signal windows during which each of a plurality of cells is to transmit a corresponding discovery signal, and sending an indication of the discovery signal window pattern to a terminal device.
US10757647B2
In one embodiment, a supervisory device in a network forms a virtual access point (VAP) for a node in the network. A plurality of access points (APs) in the network are mapped to the VAP as part of a VAP mapping and the node treats the APs in the VAP mapping as a single AP for purposes of communicating with the network. The supervisory device determines a traffic type of traffic associated with the node. The supervisory device assigns the node to a selected wireless channel based in part on the traffic type of the traffic associated with the node. The supervisory device controls the VAP to use the channel assigned to the node.
US10757640B2
A radio communication device is mounted on a vehicle including a power source, and the radio communication device includes: a radio communication unit that performs radio communication with one or more base stations; and a control unit that causes the radio communication unit to scan to find the base station capable of performing radio communication, wherein the control unit changes a waiting time until a next scan according to an ON state or an OFF state of the power source in a case where the base station capable of performing radio communication is not found through the scan.
US10757639B2
The present invention relates to the communications field, and discloses a Wi-Fi hotspot recommendation method, a terminal, and a graphical user interface, so as to resolve a problem that a Wi-Fi hotspot selected by a user according to information such as an RSSI is not necessarily a Wi-Fi hotspot with optimal Internet surfing experience in an area in which the user is located. A specific solution is as follows: A terminal scans a Wi-Fi hotspot; determines an Internet-accessible hotspot in Wi-Fi hotspots that are obtained by means of scanning; determines network quality obtained when the terminal accesses a network by using the Internet-accessible hotspot; and displays an identifier of the Internet-accessible hotspot and an identifier that indicates the network quality obtained when the terminal accesses the network by using the Internet-accessible hotspot. The present invention is applied to a Wi-Fi hotspot recommendation process.
US10757638B2
This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer-readable media, for advertising operating channels that are being operated in an unlicensed frequency band. One or more access points (APs) may transmit discovery information on a dedicated discovery channel for the unlicensed frequency band. The discovery information may indicate at least one operating channel that is being used by an AP for providing wireless access. The discovery information also may include other information useful for a station (STA) to discover APs, operating channels, and operating parameters. The STA may monitor the dedicated discovery channel to obtain the discovery information without conducting an active scanning or passive scanning procedure.
US10757636B2
In current approaches to M2M architectures, no interworking application programming interfaces (API's) are exposed to the service layers that are in the local network. Thus, a service layer might not able to make various requests including, for example, that devices be triggered, that the service layer receive notifications when devices are connected to the network, and that the service layer receive notifications when devices are no longer connected to the network. Described herein is a small cell architecture that provides an interworking interface to applications and service layers that reside in the local small cell network. For example, a small cell or eNB may send a notification, for example to a Local Security Capability Exposure Function (L-SCEF) or a core network function, when a UE attaches to or disconnects from a local network.
US10757634B2
A radio network node (12) notifies wireless communication devices (14) in a wireless communication system (10) about an upcoming change of broadcasted system information. In this regard, the radio network node (12) broadcasts current system information (16A). The radio network node (12) also generates a notification (18) indicating that the radio network node (12) will broadcast changed system information (16B). This notification (18) is generated to indicate how the changed system information (16B) will differ from the current system information (16A). The radio network node (12) moreover transmits the notification (18) and, after transmitting the notification (18), broadcasts the changed system information (16B).
US10757631B2
A computer-implemented method includes: monitoring, by a user device, calling activity on the user device; detecting, by the user device and based on the monitoring, that a call has started on the user device; providing, by the user device, a pause instruction to an assistant device based on detecting that the call has started on the user device, causing the assistant device to disable speech response functions; detecting, by the user device and based on the monitoring, that the call has ended on the user device; and providing, by the user device, a resume instruction to the assistant device based on detecting that the call has ended on the user device, causing the assistant device to resume speech response functions.
US10757630B2
Methods and apparatus optimize settings of a wireless communication network via an abstractor. The abstractor receives an event sent by the wireless communication network. The abstractor receives one or more proposed settings from one or more optimizers of the wireless communication network. The abstractor transmits one or more predicted values to the one or more optimizers. The predicted values predict the effect that the one or more proposed settings will have on the wireless communication network.
US10757626B2
Methods and apparatuses for redirecting a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) to a dedicated core network (CN) node are described. An apparatus is configured to initiate a Service Request with a non-dedicated network node. The apparatus is configured to receive a special identifier in response to the Service Request, which indicates the apparatus should be redirected to a dedicated CN node based on subscription information. Radio access network resources associated with the apparatus may be released and the apparatus may then perform a tracking area update (TAU) request which is then forwarded to the dedicated CN node.
US10757625B2
Embodiments of the present invention include a method for enhanced indication of network support of SRVCC and/or Voice-over-IMS for an User Equipment UE in an Evolved Packet System EPS network, said method comprising at least one step based on taking into account support of SRVCC and/or Voice-over-IMS by Radio Access Network RAN nodes and/or by Radio Access Technologies RATs available for SRVCC for said UE in said EPS network.
US10757623B2
A method, system and computer program product includes receiving information related to a temporal obstruction located within a first small cell of a network, analyzing the information related to the temporal obstruction, determining a change in a range of the first small cell caused by the temporal obstruction, and sending a notification related to the change in the range of the first small cell caused by the temporal obstruction.
US10757620B2
A Machine-to-machine (M2M) terminal (11) comprises a radio communication unit (111) and a controller (112). The radio communication unit (111) is configured to communicate with a base station (13). The controller (112) is configured to change at least one of a cell selection operation, a cell reselection operation, and a handover operation according to whether a specific coverage enhancement processing is required or according to whether the specific coverage enhancement processing is supported by at least one of a cell (13) in which the M2M terminal (11) camps on and a neighbouring cell (14) of the cell (13) which the M2M terminal (11) camps on. It is thus possible to provide an improved technique for allowing the M2M terminal that is supporting a special coverage enhancement processing for M2M terminals to camp on an appropriate cell.
US10757617B2
A base station in a master cell group configured to establish a bearer to a mobile station together with a base station in a secondary cell group for communication includes a data transfer instruction unit configured to transmit to the base station in the secondary cell group an instruction on whether to transfer downlink data in the base station in the secondary cell group to the base station in the master cell group upon deletion or modification of the secondary cell group or upon deletion of the bearer in the secondary cell group; a reception unit configured to receive the downlink data transferred from the base station in the secondary cell group according to the instruction; and a transmission unit configured to transmit the received downlink data to the mobile station.
US10757615B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for wireless communications. Devices may exchange information regarding a radio link failure and/or a handover. The information may comprise a radio link failure report which may comprise an indication of packet duplication.
US10757614B2
A method, an apparatus, and a system for paging processing and information displaying are disclosed. The paging processing method includes: receiving a paging request message from a Mobile Switching Center (MSC) which a called User Equipment (UE) registers to; and when the called UE is connected, sending a paging notification message to the called UE, and returning a called-UE paging status message to the MSC. In the embodiments of the present invention, after the Mobility Management Entity (MME) receives the paging request message from the MSC, if the called UE is connected, the MME not only sends a Circuit-Switched (CS) paging notification message to the called UE, but also returns a paging status message to the MSC, indicating that the called UE has received the paging notification message.
US10757611B2
A target AMF receives a first message requesting a handover of a wireless device from a source AMF. The first message comprises: parameter(s) of an SMF, and second PDU session identifier(s) identifying second PDU session(s) established between a UPF and the wireless device. The target AMF selects a target SMF different from the source SMF. The target AMF sends a second message to the target SMF requesting creation of first PDU session(s) between the UPF and the wireless device. The second message comprises first PDU session identifier(s) identifying the first PDU session(s). The target SMF sends a third message to the UPF requesting establishment of a user plane session for first PDU session(s). The third message comprises an indication that the source SMF is relocated. The target SMF receives a fourth message from the UPF confirming the establishment of the user plane session.
US10757598B2
Apparatuses, systems, and methods for a wireless device to perform methods for improvements of display of signal bars on a user interface of a wireless device. The wireless device may be configured to perform methods for determining a number of signal bars to display on the user interface based, at least in part, on a reference frequency. The reference frequency may be indicated and/or provided by a network.
US10757590B2
Embodiments of a User Equipment (UE) and methods for communication in multi-mode environments are generally described herein. The UE may operate in a failure state as part of a packet-switched (PS) communication session with a PS network, such as a 3GPP LTE network. The UE may determine that a circuit-switched (CS) communication session with a CS network is to be established. The UE may transmit, while operating in the failure state of the PS communication session, a CS registration message to a CS base station of the CS network as part of an establishment of the CS communication session. The UE may refrain from transmission, while operating in the failure state, of messages to the PS network for the establishment of the CS communication session.
US10757588B2
The present disclosure provides a method and a device in a base station used for wireless communication. The base station transmits M1 first-type reference signals; receives M2 second-type radio signals in first time-domain resources, with any of the M2 second-type radio signals being associated with one of the M1 first-type reference signals; and transmits a first radio signal in the first time-domain resources. If an antenna port transmitting the first radio signal is associated with at least one of the M2 second-type radio signals, first-type channel monitoring is adopted targeting transmission of the first radio signal; otherwise, second-type channel monitoring is adopted targeting transmission of the first radio signal. The above method allows the base station to share a COT acquired by a UE in unlicensed spectrums so as to increase channel access efficiency, and at the same time avoids interference with other potential ongoing communications.
US10757581B2
A new design for physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) is proposed for the next generation 5G new radio systems. A UE receives the configuration of a default control resource set (CORESET) in MIB/SIB from its serving base station. The default CORESET contains both common search space and UE-specific search space for candidate PDCCH transmission. A PDCCH in a default CORESET is mapped to physical resource in a distributed or localized manner. Specifically, various REG-to-CCE mapping rules are proposed to improve frequency diversity gain, or frequency selectivity gain, or to reduce latency of PDCCH processing. Further, to facilitate analog beamforming in mmWave systems, the default CORESET is transmitted in a synchronization signal (SS) block associated with a corresponding analog beam direction.
US10757580B2
A plurality of directional antennas are arranged between an inner barrier (e.g., ring, wall, fence, glass, etc encircling a field, court, rink, stage, etc) and an outer barrier (e.g., guardrail, wall, etc encircling a seating region, etc) of the venue. Each directional antenna produces a beam pattern that is oriented such that the beam pattern is directed at an angle off-normal from the inner or outer barrier. Further, at least some of the directional antennas are placed at the openings of pedestrian tunnels leading into the seating region of the venue, near the inner barrier of the venue seating region, or placed near a midpoint between the inner and outer barriers so as to provide wireless communication services to users in the seating region of the venue.
US10757572B2
A network entity may provision a UE and a base station with parameters for securing network communications. The network entity may send a system parameter to a UE and a private security key to a base station. Additionally, the UE and the base station may each receive synchronization information from the network which may be used to create a randomness parameter. The base station may create a signature based on the private security key, a cell identifier, and the randomness parameter and include the signature in a system information message that is to be broadcasted to one or more UEs. A UE connecting to the base station may receive the system information message from the base station, determine the cell identifier, and verify the system information message based on one or more of the cell identifier, the system parameter, or the randomness parameter.
US10757561B2
This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to Wi-Fi based wireless docking Wi-Fi based wireless docking. A device may coordinate with one or more docking stations on a Wi-Fi network to determine a first docking channel to be used for wireless docking of a first station device. The device may adjust a transmit (TX) power of a beacon frame during a discovery mode associated with the wireless docking. The device may determine a discovery channel configured to be different from the first docking channel used for the wireless docking. The device may identify a request from a first station device requesting wireless docking, wherein the request is received on the discovery channel. The device may initiate a wireless docking session with the first station device using the first docking channel.
US10757558B2
Discovery of devices in a network of devices comprises assigning resources for the discovery, and providing accordingly at least two discovery patterns of transmission and reception phases for the devices in the network for communication of information between the devices. A device can transmit or receive information in accordance with a dedicated discovery pattern of transmission and reception phases allocated from a set of different discovery patterns.
US10757555B2
A communication apparatus may include: a first interface being set in one of a first operating state and a second operating state; a second interface; and an apparatus controller. The first interface is configured to: receive specific access point information in a case where a wireless connection is established in a situation where the first interface is set in the first operating state; and not receive the specific access point information in a case where a wireless connection via the first interface is established in a situation where the first interface is set in the second operating state. The apparatus controller performs: setting the first interface in the first operating state in a case where the access point information is not registered; registering the specific access point information; and setting the first interface in the second operating state in a case where the specific access point information is registered.
US10757552B2
Systems and methods for proactively identifying and surfacing relevant content are disclosed herein. An example method includes: detecting, via the touch-sensitive display, a search activation gesture from a user of the electronic device. The method also includes: in response to detecting only the search activation gesture, displaying a search interface on substantially all of the touch-sensitive display, the search interface including: (i) a search entry portion; and (ii) a predictions portion with one or more user interface objects each associated with a respective locally-installed application. Each respective locally-installed application is selected from among a plurality of locally-installed applications for inclusion in the predictions portion based on an application usage history associated with the user of the electronic device.
US10757549B2
A low energy mesh network system, including a mesh network; a central station, a low energy enhanced positional accuracy low energy (EPALE) central station and product local fixed enhanced positional accuracy low energy (EPALE) beacons. The mesh network defines a virtual item container having virtual item container nodes defining boundaries for a physical container. The mesh network tracks items to be positioned within the physical container.
US10757545B2
In a multi-call scenario, a UE can receive an incoming call while an active call is already established on the UE. In response to receiving the incoming call, a process for handling the incoming call in a user-customizable manner can include accessing a history of user input received by the UE in context of handling multiple contemporaneous calls on the UE, and handling the incoming call based at least in part on the history of the user input. By the UE considering past user input received by the UE in context of handling multiple contemporaneous calls, the UE is configured to learn from past user behavior during multi-call scenarios, and adjust its call handling approach for the incoming call based on the past user behavior.
US10757544B1
Systems and methods are described for transmitting a plurality of push-based communications associated with products moving geographically. In various aspects, an application programming interface (API) endpoint server having a push-based API, the push-based API associated with a webhook provided to a delivery service server, may receive via a webhook-push following an update to a delivery status state of a delivery event. The webhook-push includes information associated with the delivery event. A short message service (SMS) webpage server may generate a description of the update to the delivery status state. The SMS webpage server may be further configured to generate an SMS-based webpage including an image of an operator of a mobile delivery vehicle. An SMS delivery component may transmit a communication including the description of the update to a client device associated with the delivery event.
US10757542B2
The present disclosure relates to broadcast bearer management methods and devices. One example method includes receiving, by a first bearer management server (BMS), a first message sent by a server, where the first message includes a group identifier of a service group, determining, by the first BMS, a first broadcast bearer for the service group based on the first message, and sending, by the first BMS, a second message to the server, where the second message carries user plane information of the first broadcast bearer.
US10757541B2
Provided are a method for controlling, by a multi-cell coordination entity (MCE), a session for transmitting a V2X message in a wireless communication system, and an apparatus for supporting the same. The method comprises the steps of: receiving, by the MCE, a cell ID and a multimedia broadcast multicast service (MBMS) service area identity (SAI) from a mobility management entity (MME); determining a multicast broadcast single frequency network (MBSFN) area to which the V2X message is to be transferred on the basis of the cell ID; transmitting a session control message to a base station which belongs to the determined MBSFN area, wherein the cell ID may be an ID of a cell to which the V2X message is transmitted.
US10757517B2
A method and software program is used by patients in situ for fitting and refitting of a DSP-based hearing assistance device. Hearing is tested by selection of one of twenty four playbacks of speech, for each ear. Cognitive training/testing exercises test and train the user to relearn to distinguish between various sounds and particularly speech using the hearing assistance device. The preferred cognitive training/testing includes noise detection exercises, spatial hearing exercises, volume recognition exercises and speech differentiation exercises. The regimens for using the hearing aid depend upon the measured cognitive loss, with different sets of DSP parameters for self-directed, non-assessed cognitive training.
US10757516B2
A device including a transducer and a connection assembly in fixed relationship with the transducer, configured to transfer vibrational energy directly or indirectly, at least one of to or from, the transducer, wherein a first component of the connection assembly is actively held by positive retention to the device by a second component of the connection assembly.
US10757515B2
A hearing aid comprises a housing, comprising: a substrate carrying a wireless interface, the substrate further carrying a processor, the substrate arranged in the housing; an antenna arranged in the housing, the antenna being connected to the wireless interface; the antenna configured to emit and/or receive electromagnetic fields, an electronic element, connected to the processor via an electrical connection line; wherein a decoupling element is provided in the electrical connection line wherein the decoupling element has a characteristic frequency at the frequency, at which the antenna is tuned to radiate and/or receive the electromagnetic fields.
US10757510B2
Some preferred embodiments include a microphone system for receiving sound waves, the microphone including a back plate, a radiation plate, first and second electrodes, first and second insulator layers, a power source and a microphone controller. The radiation plate is clamped to the back plate so that there is a hermetically sealed regular convex polygon-, ellipse-, or regular convex elliptic polygon-shaped gap between the radiation plate and the back plate. The first electrode is fixedly attached to a side of the back plate proximate to the gap. The second electrode is fixedly attached to a side of the radiation plate. The insulator layers are attached to the back plate and/or the radiation plate, on respective gap sides thereof, so that the insulator layers are between the electrodes. The microphone controller is configured to use the power source to drive the microphone at a selected operating point comprising normalized static mechanical force, bias voltage, and relative bias voltage level. Relevant dimensions of the gap, and a thickness of the radiation plate, are determined using the selected operating point so that a sensitivity of the microphone at the selected operating point is an optimum sensitivity for the selected operating point.
US10757508B2
A speaker includes a terminal assembly. The speaker includes a magnetic circuit system and a voice coil, and two leads are extended into the voice coil. The terminal assembly is located at a shaft hollow portion of the magnetic circuit system, and the terminal assembly includes a first part, a second part, and two wires. The first part has a T shape, and a T-shaped top portion is attached to an upper plate of the speaker. An upper portion of the second part is correspondingly engaged with a lower portion of the first part. The two wires pass through the first part and the second part, and the two leads are respectively connected to the two wires on the top portion of the first part.
US10757507B2
In accordance with some embodiments, an apparatus for privacy protection is provided. The apparatus includes an audio output device arranged to output sound directed to an audio input device of a second device. The apparatus further includes an audio coupling interface arranged to provide a cavity for the audio output device and the audio input device of the second device. The apparatus also includes a spectral shaper, coupled to the audio output device, operable to apply a spectral envelope to an audio signal in order to produce a shaped audio signal, wherein the shaped audio signal is selectively coupled to the audio output device.
US10757501B2
An audio system for providing content to a user. The system includes a first and a second transducer assembly of a plurality of transducer assemblies, an acoustic sensor, and a controller. The first transducer assembly couples to a portion of an auricle of the user's ear and vibrates over a first range of frequencies based on a first set of audio instructions. The vibration causes the portion of the ear to create a first range of acoustic pressure waves. The second transducer assembly is configured to vibrate over a second range of frequencies to produce a second range of acoustic pressure waves based on a second set of audio instructions. The acoustic sensor detects acoustic pressure waves at an entrance of the ear. The controller generates the audio instructions based on audio content to be provided to the user and the detected acoustic pressure waves from the acoustic sensor.
US10757500B2
Various implementations include wearable audio devices and related methods for controlling such devices. Some approaches include controlling a wearable audio device by: determining a magnitude of an acoustic transfer function based on an electrical signal from an internal microphone and an audio signal from an acoustic transducer at one or more predetermined frequencies; calibrating a proximity sensor; detecting a change in the state of the wearable audio device from one of: off-head to on-head, or on-head to off-head using both the calibrated proximity sensor and the magnitude of the acoustic transfer function; and adjusting at least one function of the wearable audio device in response to detecting the change from the on-head state to the off-head state or detecting the change from the off-head state to the on-head state.
US10757489B2
Data center interconnections, which encompass WSCs as well as traditional data centers, have become both a bottleneck and a cost/power issue for cloud computing providers, cloud service providers and the users of the cloud generally. Fiber optic technologies already play critical roles in data center operations and will increasingly in the future. The goal is to move data as fast as possible with the lowest latency with the lowest cost and the smallest space consumption on the server blade and throughout the network. Accordingly, it would be beneficial for new fiber optic interconnection architectures to address the traditional hierarchal time-division multiplexed (TDM) routing and interconnection and provide reduced latency, increased flexibility, lower cost, lower power consumption, and provide interconnections exploiting scalable optical modular optically switched interconnection network as well as temporospatial switching fabrics allowing switching speeds below the slowest switching element within the switching fabric.
US10757484B2
A system that uses pulse-based communication may include a first device and a plurality of devices on a series connection. The first device may have a master circuit and the plurality devices may have a slave circuit. The master circuit may enable the first device to communicate with the plurality devices having the slave circuit on the series connection. The master circuit may enable the first device to send a pulse string including one or more pulses to the plurality devices. The slave circuit may enable the plurality devices to receive the pulse string from a previous device on the series connection and change the pulse string. The slave circuit may enable the plurality devices to send the pulse string to a next device on the series connection. Each of the plurality devices may determine its address in the series connection based on the pulse string it receives.
US10757472B2
Various aspects of methods and apparatuses are described herein. Some methods may include receiving video content, receiving metadata including a hierarchical order of metadata fields, and performing an enhancement operation on at least a portion of the video content according to settings associated with at least one of the metadata fields. The enhancement operation may include a video processing operation configured to modify one or more visual characteristics of the video content. The settings associated with the metadata field(s) may be predefined in a device that receives the video content and the metadata. The enhancement operation may be performed at a time based on a time code in the video content. The enhancement operation may be performed on a bounded area of an object. The hierarchical order may correspond to a type of display technology. The hierarchical order may correspond to information associated with a manufacturer of a display.
US10757465B2
A system or method selects among multiple tuners to tune a particular channel. A request is received to tune a first channel. In response to this request, a first tuner is assigned to tune the first channel. A request is received to tune a second channel. If the program tuned by the first tuner is not being recorded, the first tuner is assigned to tune the second channel. If the program tuned by the first tuner is being recorded, the second tuner is assigned to tune the second channel.
US10757461B2
Systems and methods are described herein such that, a media guidance application presents, in an interactive program guide, a virtual content source for binge watching a program series. The media guidance application may determine a program series a user is currently watching. The media guidance application may receive a user selection of a media asset. The media guidance application may determine a length of time between a current time and a start time of the media asset. The media guidance application may determine the next episodes of the program series the user can watch before the start time of the media asset and present them using a virtual content source.
US10757454B2
According to one embodiment, a multiplexing apparatus includes a processor and a multiplexer. The processor is configured to identify the version of the video transmission standard of each of input packets, and to convert the version of the packet into a reference version of a predetermined video transmission standard if the identified version is different from the reference version. The multiplexer is configured to multiplex the input packets, based on the reference version.
US10757453B2
A content streaming system and methodology for facilitating the management of content streaming. A video packaging and origination service requests streaming content that is organized according to content segments. Individual content segments will be encoded according to a plurality of encoding profiles and received at different ingress nodes within video packaging and origination service. The video packaging and origination service utilizes deterministic data generated by the different ingress nodes to determine when receipt of individual content segments is complete.
US10757437B2
Block processing pipeline methods and apparatus in which. motion estimation is performed at a stage of a motion estimation module for a current block with respect to a reference frame at one or more partition sizes to determine candidate motion vectors. The candidate motion vectors may be passed to a next stage for refinement. Motion estimation may then be performed at the next stage to refine the motion vectors. In performing motion estimation at this stage, the input motion vectors of at least one partition size received from the previous stage may be used as candidate motion vectors in searches for at least one other partition size.
US10757436B2
According to the present invention, an inter-prediction method includes: receiving mode information on the inter-prediction of a current block; decoding the received mode information; and performing inter-prediction using the decoded mode information. According to the present invention, image compression efficiency may be improved.
US10757427B2
The present disclosure generally relates to a method and device for obtaining three color difference components from three components C1, C2 and C3 representing colors picture data in an input color space, a first of said color difference components being defined from the component C1, a second of said color difference components being defined from the first color difference component and the component C2, and a third of said color difference components being defined from the first color difference component and the component C3. The method is characterized in that it further comprises: —obtaining a first component by applying a process to the component C1; —obtaining said first color difference component by applying the inverse process to the first component.
US10757426B2
The invention concerns scaling color difference components prior to encoding in order to extend the dynamic range. In one embodiment the color difference components are encoded prior to quantization. In another embodiment the color difference components are encoded after quantization. A decoder is configured to process data representative of the gain factor for a decoding process.
US10757413B2
Methods and systems for improving coding decoding efficiency of video by providing a syntax modeler, a buffer, and a decoder. The syntax modeler may associate a first sequence of symbols with syntax elements. The buffer may store tables, each represented by a symbol in the first sequence, and each used to associate a respective symbol in a second sequence of symbols with encoded data. The decoder decodes the data into a bitstream using the second sequence retrieved from a table.
US10757404B2
A method of decoding JVET video includes receiving a bitstream that includes encoded video data that includes encoded video data. From the encoded data, a horizontal predictor and a vertical predictor for a pixel in the current coding block may be interpolated. A coding block size may be identified to determine whether to use equal weight or unequal weights to apply to each of the horizontal and vertical predictors for calculating a final planar prediction value P(x,y) by comparing the coding block size to a coding block size threshold.
US10757399B2
A method includes receiving an indication of a field of view associated with a three-dimensional (3D) image being displayed on a head mount display (HMD), receiving an indication of a depth of view associated with the 3D image being displayed on the HMD, selecting a first right eye image and a second right eye image based on the field of view, combining the first right eye image and the second right eye image based on the depth of view, selecting a first left eye image and a second left eye image based on the field of view, and combining the first left eye image and the second left eye image based on the depth of view.
US10757389B2
A system and method for providing quality control in 360° immersive video during pausing of a video streaming session. In one embodiment, a paused video frame may comprise a plurality of mixed quality video tiles depending on user gaze vector information. Under pause control, the video quality of all tiles of the tiled video frame is equalized to a highest video quality corresponding to the quality of the tiles presented in a viewport. A replacement video frame is generated having tiles with the same equalized video quality throughout the full 360° immersive video frame, which is presented to the client device player for decoding and displaying instead of the mixed quality video frame while the streaming session is paused.
US10757358B1
There is provided a photographing device having two output interfaces that respectively used to output a first image frame and a second image frame. The first image frame is provided to a processor of the photographing device to perform the feature extraction and tag the second image frame accordingly. The tagged second image frame is for the image recording of an external back end.
US10757357B2
An imaging element includes: a plurality of pixels where each pixel is configured to generate an imaging signal; a noise eliminating circuit configured to eliminate a noise component included in the imaging signal; a plurality of column source follower buffers where each column source follower buffer is configured to amplify the imaging signal from which the noise component has been eliminated by the noise eliminating circuit, and output the amplified signal; a horizontal scanning circuit configured to sequentially select the column source follower buffer and output the imaging signal; and a buffer circuit which is connected with the column source follower buffer sequentially selected by the horizontal scanning circuit to form a voltage follower circuit, the buffer circuit being configured to perform impedance conversion on a voltage of the imaging signal output from the column source follower buffer, and output the converted signal to an outside.
US10757346B1
Systems and methods for extracting objects from a first video and inserting said objects into a second new background. In an embodiment, at least one hardware processor is used to receive a first video depicting a first scene comprising one or more objects and a background; identify the one or more objects in the first video; generating a first video layer by extracting the identified one or more objects from the background of the first video; receive a second video layer depicting a second scene; and merge the first video layer and second video layer to generate a composite scene, wherein the one or more objects of the first video layer overlaid on the second scene such that the one or more objects appear as part of the second scene.
US10757339B2
Disclosed examples include integrated circuits, merge circuits and methods of processing multiple-exposure image data, in which a single pre-processing circuit is used for pre-processing first input exposure data associated with a first exposure of the image, and then for pre-processing second input exposure data associated with a second exposure of the image, and the first and second pre-processed exposure data are merged to generate merged image data for tone mapping and other post-processing. An example merge circuit includes a configurable gain circuit to apply a gain to the first and/or second exposure data, as well as a configurable weighting circuit with a weight calculation circuit and a motion adaptive filter circuit to compute a first and second weight values for merging the pre-processed first and second exposure data.
US10757330B2
The invention relates to recording images with variable resolution for a driver assistance system (101) of a vehicle (100). The driver assistance system (101) comprises a camera (102). In the standard operation mode, the camera (103) is configured to iteratively switch between recording images of a first type and images of a second type with a higher resolution than the images of the first type. In this way, the images of the first type can be used for analyzing a near-range of the vehicle environment without requiring too much computing power. Moreover, the images of the second type have a sufficient resolution for analyzing a far-range of the vehicle environment.
US10757328B2
Disclosed are an apparatus and a method of low-latency, low-power eye tracking. In some embodiments, the eye tracking method operates a first sensor having a first level of power consumption that tracks positions of an eye of a user. In response to detection that the eye does not change position for a time period, the method stops operation of the first sensor and instead operates a second sensor that detects a change of position of the eye. The second sensor has a level of power consumption lower than the level of power consumption of the first sensor. Once the eye position changes, the second sensor resumes operation.
US10757327B2
The embodiments of the present invention provide a panoramic sea view monitoring method, said method including: aligning any two adjacent monitoring cameras among a plurality of monitoring cameras, so that the any two adjacent monitoring cameras are located on the same physical horizontal plane in a field of view; obtaining monitoring images by using the plurality of aligned monitoring cameras and a depth-of-field camera to monitor a panoramic sea view; determining a horizontal spacing parameter and a vertical spacing parameter of the any two adjacent monitoring cameras; and using the horizontal spacing parameter and the vertical spacing parameter to combine the monitoring images in a pairwise manner, so as to construct a two-dimensional scene. The present invention also provides a panoramic sea view monitoring device, a server and a system. The present invention can reduce the complexity of the system while reducing the cost.
US10757311B2
A wearable device is provided. The device includes one or more bands, which can be formed of a flexible material, and can include one or more embedded conductive elements. One or more electronic components can be attached to the device at locations spaced from each other. The electronic components can include an imaging device, a light source, and/or one or more components which can be operated in conjunction with the imaging device and/or light source. The imaging device and/or light source can be rotatable about at least one rotation axis with respect to an orientation of a portion of the band tightly securing the wearable device around a body part.
US10757308B2
Various techniques are disclosed for providing a device attachment configured to releasably attach to and provide infrared imaging functionality to mobile phones or other portable electronic devices. The device attachment may include an infrared imagining module and a non-thermal imaging module that cooperate with one or more of a non-thermal imaging module in an attached device and a light source in the attached device for capturing and processing images.
US10757305B1
A vehicular camera includes a lens accommodated in a lens barrel, a lens holder that accommodates at least part of the lens holder, and a printed circuit board with an imager disposed thereat. The camera utilizes an adhesive to hold the lens optically aligned with the imager. After the lens is optically aligned with the imager, the adhesive is initially curable to an initially-cured state in an initial curing process for an initial-cure time period. The initially-cured adhesive is further curable to a further-cured state in a secondary curing process for a further-cure time period that is longer than the initial-cure time period. As further cured, the further-cured adhesive maintains optical alignment of the lens with the imager for use of the vehicular camera in a vehicle.
US10757299B2
A processing apparatus includes: a process execution unit that executes a process according to a user instruction; a first communication unit that performs wireless communication with a mobile device moved in a predetermined communication area; a recognition unit that recognizes existence/non-existence of use intention; an authentication processing unit that executes a user authentication process in cases where the first communication unit receives a user ID maintained in the mobile device and the recognition unit recognizes that the user who possesses the user ID attempts to cause the process execution unit to execute the process; and a process execution permission unit that permits the process execution unit to execute the necessary authentication process in a case where the reception user ID is recognized as the user ID possessed by the user who has the authority to cause the process execution unit to execute the necessary authentication process.
US10757297B2
n (n is an integer that is equal to or greater than 2) error diffusion processing units are respectively provided to correspond to division images obtained by dividing an image into n images in a main scanning direction, and at least a part of halftone processing on two division images is performed simultaneously. When one error diffusion processing unit that processes the division image which is positioned ahead in the main scanning direction processes one of rasters up to an end portion in the main scanning direction to obtain diffusion errors that are diffused into pixels in the neighborhood of an objective pixel, the one error diffusion processing unit delivers a forward-direction diffusion error to the other error diffusion processing unit. Furthermore, other error diffusion processing unit that receives the forward-direction diffusion error starts the halftone processing on one raster, obtains the diffusion error in an end portion in an opposite direction, and then delivers an opposite-direction diffusion error that is a diffusion error which is used by the one error diffusion processing unit in the halftone processing of a subsequent raster, among the diffusion errors, to the one error diffusion processing unit.
US10757292B1
Provided is a method of embedding and extracting watermark data that is robust against geometric distortion and low-quality photographing and for which the probability of successfully extracting watermark data for an original image is high, while the probability of successfully extracting the watermark data in the case of unauthorized copying is seriously impaired. The data embedding method according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises a step of converting the noise-based image using watermark data, and a step of adjusting the original image using the converted noise-based image.
US10757290B2
An image processing apparatus including: a document table on which at least one document is arrangeable; an image input unit reading the document arranged on the document table; an individual image extractor extracting image data read by the image input unit on a document basis to obtain image data of an individual image; a storage storing association information between an arrangement status of the document with respect to the document table and a reading surface of the document to be read by the image input unit; an arrangement status determiner determining the arrangement status of the document with respect to the document table on the basis of the image data of the individual image; and a reading surface determiner determining the reading surface of the document read by the image input unit on the basis of the association information and the arrangement status determined by the arrangement status determiner.
US10757288B2
An image forming apparatus which is capable of reducing a load on a data bus therein when controlling an image reading apparatus depending on its image processing capability. When acquired identification information about the image forming apparatus is included in a clock control table 600, a clock frequency for controlling hardware of the image reading apparatus in accordance with the clock control table 600, while setting the clock frequency therefor to a default setting of the clock control table 600 when the acquired identification information is not included in the clock control table 600, wherein a minimum value of clock frequencies in the clock control table 600 is set as the default setting of the clock control table 600.
US10757287B2
An image reading device includes reading devices arranged in a main scanning direction perpendicular to a sub-scanning direction, position reference members each including a reference pattern for correcting relative positions of pixels in each of the reading devices or relative positions of the reading devices, and circuitry. The reference members move in the sub-scanning direction relative to the reading devices, and include first reference members for correcting the relative positions of the reading devices and second reference members for correcting the relative positions of the pixels in each of the reading devices. While switching between the first reference members and the second reference members, the circuitry calculates a correction value for a deviation of the pixels in each of the reading devices and a correction value for a deviation of the reading devices based on a result of reading of the reference members.
US10757284B2
An image forming apparatus includes a CPU and a camera. In the image forming apparatus, the camera takes a facial image of a user approaching the image forming apparatus, and on the basis of the facial image, face authentication is executed. Further, in a case where it has been determined as a result of the face authentication that the user approaching the image forming apparatus is a registered user, it is determined whether there is registered job data registered by the registered user. The image forming apparatus is switched from a power-saving mode to a normal mode in a case where it has been determined that there is registered job data of the user approaching the image forming apparatus.
US10757279B2
A sheet stacker includes a sheet adjuster movable to regulate a position of a sheet in the sheet stacker, an operation portion to release the sheet adjuster when the operation portion moves in a predetermined direction, and a lock movable together with the sheet adjuster and the operation portion to regulate a movement of the operation portion in the predetermined direction.
US10757275B2
An information processing apparatus determines whether information extracted from a read two-dimensional code is first connection information about an access point of a network or second connection information for connecting to a communication apparatus. If the information processing apparatus determines that the extracted information is the first connection information, the information processing apparatus connects to the network via the access point corresponding to the first connection information, automatically searches for a plurality of communication apparatuses connected to the network, displays a list of the plurality of detected communication apparatuses, and connects to a communication apparatus selected from the displayed list. If the information processing apparatus determines that the extracted information is the second connection information, the information processing apparatus connects to the communication apparatus using the second connection information.
US10757273B2
A job management server, which is connected to a Web application server and a job processing apparatus via a network, comprises: a registration unit which registers, when a job received from the Web application server is added with information indicating that a request source of the job is the job processing apparatus, the job in a first job queue, and to register, when the job is not added with the information, the job in a second job queue having a lower priority than the first job queue; and a transmission unit which transmits the job registered in the first job queue in response to a request from the job processing apparatus while a user utilizes a Web application via the job processing apparatus.
US10757272B2
An information processing device includes: a storage that stores data; and a hardware processor. The hardware processor: receives the data and stores the data in the storage; checks the data for viruses when the data is received; sends the data stored in the storage to an external device; determines whether the data has been checked for viruses when the data is sent to the external device; and adds, upon determining that the data has been checked for viruses, checked information to the data to be sent.
US10757270B2
A system is disclosed. The system at least one physical memory device to store ink estimation logic and one or more processors coupled with the at least one physical memory device, to execute the ink estimation logic to receive a histogram for each of a plurality of color planes, receive one or more printer system settings and generate estimated ink usage data for each of the plurality of color planes based on the histograms and the one or more printer system settings.
US10757263B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media are used for coordinating callers with customer service representatives. One of the methods includes identifying a number of callers. The method also includes dynamically adjusting a number of customer service representatives based on the number of callers.
US10757257B1
Techniques are described for analyzing communications sent during a service session to provide (e.g., customer) service on a social media channel, the analysis to determine a quality of service provided during the session. Natural language processing, lexical analysis, pattern matching, or other types of analysis may be used to determine an empathy factor and a conversational factor for communications between a service representative (SR) and a user during a session. The factors may be combined with other factors, such as a timely acknowledgement factor and a timely resolution factor, to generate a response quality index (RQI) for the session. Based on the RQI, feedback information may be generated and sent to the SR. In some implementations, the communications may be analyzed and feedback information sent to the SR in real time during the session, to dynamically improve service quality.
US10757253B1
Present disclosure relates to a patient response device. Patient response device includes: a processor controlling operations of patient response device, a network interface controller facilitating communication among patient response device, an emergency response system server and a communication system of an emergency response system, an emergency medicine storage, and a non-volatile memory. Emergency medicine storage includes one or more emergency medicine compartments for storing one or more patient specific emergency medicines for patients. Non-volatile memory stores an operating system, a GPS module for detecting GPS location of patient carrying patient response device, and a patient response device controller. Patient response device controller includes: a patient information storage module, a patient communication control module, and computer executable instructions. Patient information storage module stores patient's information. Patient communication control module facilitates communication through the network interface controller to the emergency response system server and the communication system over a communication network.
US10757251B1
Interactions between agents of a contact center and customers provide the bulk of many communications and generally work well, except when the customer is deaf or mute. Customers that sign would often prefer to conduct interactions in sign language but the pool of agents having such skills is limited. By providing systems and methods to alter an image of a non-signing agent, a customer may be presented with an image of a signing agent. Additionally, systems and methods herein enable a non-signing agent to be presented with generated speech and/or text translated from the signing gestures provided by the image of the signing customer.
US10757249B2
A communication device and system are disclosed for providing communication and data services to residents of a controlled facility. The device can be restricted to communicating only using an internet protocol so as to restrict the device communication to an internal intranet. Wireless access points may be disposed throughout the environment to route calls and data between the device and a central processing center. By converting a protocol of the communications received from the device to a protocol used by the central processing center, minimal modifications to the central processing center are needed to support a wireless communication infrastructure. Many restrictions and safeguards may be implemented within the phone and system in order to prevent improper use.
US10757241B2
Disclosed is a method and system for transmitting, by a processor to a client device, a software application (e.g., a mobile app or a web page) configured to load, by a computer processor of the client device, a graphical user interface (GUI), the GUI including a header space and a content display space. The software application is further configured to display, by the computer processor, the GUI in a first frame, detect, by the computer processor, user interaction with content displayed in the content display space of the GUI, compare, by the computer processor, the user interaction with a set of stored user interactions, and, based on the comparing, change, by the computer processor, the header space in the GUI in the first frame.
US10757240B1
In one example, a first headset establishes a connection with a second headset that is associated with a target participant. The first headset obtains, via the connection, a first audio signal corresponding to speech of the target participant. Based on the first audio signal, one or more parameters associated with a position or a movement of a head of a user of the first headset, one or more head-related transfer functions associated with a shape of the head of the user, and a layout of the environment of the first headset, the first headset modifies the first audio signal to produce a first modified audio signal that corresponds to the speech of the target participant that would be present at the head of the user in absence of the first headset and the noise generated in the environment.
US10757231B2
In one embodiment, a third-party client network access device sends Internet Protocol (IP) encapsulating packets with a predetermined destination address of a node of the network client service provider (NCSP), with these IP encapsulating packets encapsulating original data packets. These IP encapsulating packets are communicated through the ISP network being used by the NCSP in providing its network services. The predetermined destination address, which is typically also a segment identifier, causes network service processing (e.g., according to a corresponding segment routing function) of the received packet by the node of the NCSP. This processing typically includes creating a segment routing packet encapsulating the original packet (extracted from the received IP encapsulating packet) with its segment list(s) being populated with segment identifier(s) according to a current NCSP segment routing policy reflective of a sequence of forwarding and service chaining operations of the NCSP service offering.
US10757220B2
In one example, a processing system including at least one processor obtains a transport control protocol flow associated with a video session that streams a video from a server to a client. The transport control protocol flow comprises a plurality encrypted packets exchanged between the server and the client. The processing system then reconstructs a hypertext transfer protocol transaction that is part of the streaming video session. The reconstructing is performed without decrypting the plurality of encrypted packets.
US10757219B2
A method of improving network access security on a medical device includes opening a communication port on the medical device to establish a communication session on a network and transmitting medical device data to a computer over the network during the communication session. After the medical device data is transmitted to the computer, the method includes transmitting to the computer a request for a command from the computer during the communication session. The method also includes receiving a command from the computer, processing the command, and closing the communication port on the medical device.
US10757203B2
Systems, methods, and apparatuses are disclosed for generating mapping data structures based on predicted relationships across tracking data obtained from tracking online browsing histories of users to a network of websites.
US10757199B2
A method and apparatus are provided for receiving service discovery information in a client in a hybrid delivery multimedia transmission system, the method including receiving service discovery information related to a service and comprising service type information indicating that the service is provided by a plurality of channels including a first channel of a first network and a second channel of a second network, the second channel being different from the first channel, in a plurality of networks including the first network and the second network, different from the first network, and parsing the service type information.
US10757197B2
Embodiments of the invention provide the capability to combine service installation and service registration in a cloud system. This process reduces the installation of a multi-tenant service into a single-step process. For example, a cloud system admin may simply install the new service and registration is accomplished automatically as part of the installation.
US10757196B2
Provided is a method for displaying application data in a wireless communication system, the method including transmitting, by a first device, audio and video data out of application data executed by the first device to a second device in a Wireless Fidelity (Wi-Fi) Display (WFD) session, if the WFD session is established through discovery between the first device and the second device, transmitting, by the first device, text or Graphic User Interface (GUI) data related to the transmitted audio and video data, to the second device in a session that is different from the WFD session, and receiving, by the first device, a close command for the application data and sending a message comprising a set parameter for stopping display of the text or GUI data to the second device.
US10757192B2
A method comprising: establishing a wireless connection between a first medical device and a second medical device, comprising: receiving, by the first medical device, via a short-range wireless technology protocol, connection information related to the second medical device; and establishing, by the first medical device, a wireless connection with the second medical device based on the connection information.
US10757186B2
Automated uploading of user and system data from one or more source computing systems to one or more destination storage repositories is provided. A data uploader module is installed on each computing system or is accessible by each computing system from which user and/or system data may need to be exported to a destination repository. Upon command, a data uploader module reads desired user data or system data from the computing system. The read data is transformed, if required, and the data is then exported to a destination storage repository. The exported data may be stored and analyzed at the destination storage repository from which it may be subsequently exported to other destinations, including back to the source computing system from which it was originally extracted.
US10757184B2
Aspects discussed herein relate to systems, apparatuses, and methods for providing content distribution via a breadth-first approach for peer-to-peer file sharing in a temporary ad hoc mesh network. For example, a peer-to-peer orchestrator may receive requests for the same asset from multiple mobile devices, determine which of the mobile devices are likely to travel along the same route at the same time, group them together and cause transmission of different asset parts of the requested asset to different mobile devices in the group. If the mobile devices in the group lose connection with the peer-to-peer orchestrator, they may form an ad hock mesh network and retrieve asset parts from one another. If the group reconnects with a peer-to-peer orchestrator, additional asset parts of the asset may be transmitted to the group and the process may repeat so that each mobile device may obtain each of the asset parts.
US10757176B1
A variety of methods, systems, devices and arrangements are implemented for controlling server load-distributions. According to one such computer-implemented method, a desired server load-distribution is assigned for a plurality of computer servers that collectively provide services to computer clients. In response to a computer client request for service, a subset of computer servers is selected from the plurality of computer servers. Weight factors for servers of the selected subset of servers are determined as a function of the overall server load-distribution-profile and the selected subset.
US10757175B2
Exemplary methods, apparatuses, and systems transmit a request to a destination site for information indicating whether or not each of a plurality of regions of a destination logical storage device is allocated. Each of the corresponding regions of a source logical storage device is determined to be either allocated or unallocated. The allocation information is received from the destination site. The allocation status of a first region of the plurality of regions of the source logical storage device and of a corresponding first region of the plurality of regions of the destination logical storage device is determined. The first region of the source logical storage device and the corresponding first region of the destination logical storage device are synchronized based upon the determined allocation status of the first region of the source logical storage device and determined allocation status of the corresponding first region of the destination logical storage.
US10757173B2
A content delivery system includes a cache server, a domain name server, and a redirector. The domain name server is configured to receive a request for a cache server address, and provide an IPv6 anycast address. The redirector is configured to receive a content request addressed to the IPv6 anycast address from a client system, receive load information from the cache server, and determine if the cache server is available. The redirector is further configured to forward the content request to the cache server when the cache server is available. The cache server is configured to receive the content request forwarded from the redirectors, send a response to the content request to a client system, the response including an IPv6 unicast address of the cache server as a source address, an IPv6 unicast address of the client system as a destination address, and the IPv6 anycast address as a home address, and provide the content to the requestor.
US10757166B2
A method, program product, and system for re-assembling fragmented HTTP2 fragments is provided. In response to receiving a SSL/TLS segment, a TCP sequence number hash table is queried for the TCP sequence number included in the SSL/TLS segment header. In response to locating a matching TCP sequence number, extracting from the TCP sequence number hash table an associated stream identifier, and resuming fragmented re-assembly using the associated stream identifier, by extracting the matching HTTP2 stream identifier from a HTTP2 hash table, a HTTP2 buffer and the remaining message length. A new HTTP2 hash table entry is created when a matching entry is not found, indicating start of a new message. For each segment, data from the SSL/TLS segment is appended to the HTTP2 buffer until the complete HTTP2 message is re-assembled. The re-assembled HTTP2 response/request is sent to its destination, and the corresponding entries are deleted from the hash tables.
US10757165B2
A system and method are provided for delegating entitlements to media services. The method includes storing, at an intermediary system operable between a plurality of service providers and a plurality of user devices, authorization data for each of a plurality of media services associated with a first user, the authorization data enabling the intermediary system to access the corresponding media service from a service provider on behalf of the first user. The method also includes, after detecting a request to access one of the plurality of media services by a second user, using a set of stored associations to determine whether or not the second user has been delegated an entitlement to the one of the plurality of media services by the first user. The method also includes, after determining that the second user has the entitlement, using corresponding authorization data to access the one of the plurality of media services on behalf of the second user, via a communication interface between the intermediary system and the corresponding service provider.
US10757162B2
Example video data processing methods and apparatus are disclosed. One example method includes obtaining viewport information by a server. The server obtains spatial object information based on the viewport information, where the spatial object information is used to describe a specified spatial object in panoramic space. The server obtains a first bitstream that is obtained by encoding image data in the specified spatial object. The server obtains a second bitstream that is obtained by encoding image data in the panoramic space. The server transmits the first bitstream and the second bitstream to a client.
US10757148B2
An approach is provided for integrating mobile devices into electronic meetings conducted over computer networks using IWB appliances. The approach includes a user-friendly way for users to join electronic meetings using mobile devices. The approach also allows participants to command and control an electronic meeting using their mobile device, and to receive individualized output, such as meeting transcripts, real-time language translation, messages, prompts, meeting information, and personalized audio streams.
US10757136B2
A botnet detector collects data associated with flows between a pair of network elements. The botnet detector processes the flow data to determine whether some of the flows are associated with botnet beaconing and/or tunneling. For example, the botnet detector may determine whether some of the flows occur at a regular interval or whether some of the flows are associated with extended length sessions, respectively. To determine whether some of the flows occur at a regular interval, the botnet detector may convert the flow data to the frequency domain and may determine an interval associated with a highest vector magnitude. If the botnet detector determines that the pair of network elements are exchanging beaconing or tunneling signals, the botnet detector may forward a notification that the pair of network elements are associated with the botnet.
US10757133B2
A method and system include identifying a virtual asset creation template associated with virtual assets to be verified. A test virtual asset is generated using the virtual asset creation template and deployed in a testing environment. The test virtual asset is then analyzed in the testing environment to identify any vulnerabilities. If a vulnerability is identified in the designated test virtual asset, a remedy to the vulnerability is applied to the virtual asset creation template which is used to create a virtual asset in a production environment. The method and system further include monitoring the production environment virtual asset for potential security threats, with a virtual asset agent, and determining a severity of identified security threats. and potentially creating a new virtual asset with the virtual asset agent and decommissioning the current virtual asset as a result.
US10757131B2
The disclosure is directed towards systems and methods for improving security in a computer network. The system can include a planner and a plurality of controllers. The controllers can be deployed within each zone of the production network. Each controller can be configured to assume the role of an attacker or a target for malicious network traffic. Simulations of malicious behavior can be performed by the controllers within the production network, and can therefore account for the complexities of the production network, such as stateful connections through switches, routers, and other intermediary devices. In some implementations, the planner can analyze data received from the controllers to provide a holistic analysis of the overall security posture of the production network.
US10757130B2
Assessing a risk of a message is disclosed. A sender specified by the message is identified. A measure of authenticity that the sender specified by the message is an actual sender of the message is determined using at least one sender model associated with the sender. The sender model was at least in part automatically generated using one or more previously observed messages. The measure of authenticity is utilized to perform a risk assessment of the message.
US10757124B2
A system and method for detecting unauthorized access to a plurality of network assets is described. The system and method receive a network asset feed from a plurality of data sources and then generating at least one social graph with the network asset feed. User communities are identified with the social graph and user accounts are associated with user communities. Commonly accessed network assets are identified from a firewall log, a router log or the combination thereof. A derived community is identified based on the user accounts associated with commonly accessed network assets. The systems and methods monitor communications associated with the user community so that the communications correspond to the derived community, and then reports an anomalous communication when the user community communications do not correspond to the derived community.
US10757122B2
A network user behavior system that detects anomalous user behavior includes a memory system with a user behavior module. The user behavior module creates a user profile based on user activity that includes user activity logs that record parameters related to user activity; selects indicator features, wherein the indicator feature includes user activity related to the parameters; creates a user identifier (UID) for each combination of the indicator feature and user; associates each UID with a timestamp to establish a UID and timestamp relationship; establishes a UID and timestamp relationship range indicative of non-anomalous user behavior; and identifies an anomalous user behavior as a UID and timestamp relationship outside of the range indicative of non-anomalous user behavior.
US10757120B1
An electronic message is analyzed for malware contained in the message. Text of an electronic message may be analyzed to detect and process malware content in the electronic message itself. The present technology may analyze an electronic message and attachments to electronic messages to detect a uniform resource location (URL), identify whether the URL is suspicious, and analyze all suspicious URLs to determine if they are malware. The analysis may include re-playing the suspicious URL in a virtual environment which simulates the intended computing device to receive the electronic message. If the re-played URL is determined to be malicious, the malicious URL is added to a black list which is updated throughout the computer system.
US10757119B2
A method for protecting a network having multiple network subscribers against a cyberattack, in which bits or bit sequences of a message are transmitted between the network subscribers in the network via different voltage levels on at least one transmission route of the network. For this purpose, at least one characteristic of the voltage levels or of the transmitted bits or bit sequences is actively modified in at least one of the network subscribers or on the at least one transmission route and the origin of the transmitted bits or of the at least one transmission route is determined on the basis of the at least one characteristic. The cyberattack on the network is detected or the cyberattack on the network is localized in the network as a function of the ascertained origin.
US10757116B2
The present disclosure discloses a system and method for dynamically modifying role based access control for a client based on the activity. Generally, a client device is granted access to a network resource based on a first reputation score assigned to the client device. The activity of the client device is monitored. Responsive to monitoring the activity of the client device, a second reputation score is determined for the client device based on the activity. The access by the client device to the network resource is then modified to be granted based on the second reputation score.
US10757113B2
Methods are provided herein for communications bus signal fingerprinting. A security module monitors a plurality of voltage lines of at least one electronic control unit (ECU) electrically coupled to a communications bus. A voltage differential across at least two of the plurality of voltage lines of the at least one ECU is measured. The voltage differential is compared to a plurality of predetermined signal fingerprints associated with the at least one ECU. A variance in the compared voltage differential is identified relative to one or more of the plurality of predetermined signal fingerprints. Data characterizing the identified variance is provided.
US10757104B1
A system and method for efficiently accessing Web resources. A directory service and an authentication service may be used to determine whether a login session attempt on a deployed device is successful. At least one deployed device in a system receives credentials from a user during a login request and requests authorization using the received credentials for both a login session and for accessing Web resources. The device sends the authorization request to Web services on a server hosting the Web resources. The Web services interact with an authentication service to verify authentication for the user. The device receives an access token upon verification for authorization for the given user and securely stores it. When a client program executing on the device requests access to the Web resources, the device sends an access request with a copy of the stored access token to the server hosting the Web resources.
US10757100B2
A machine implemented method for protecting a target domain and a source domain from unauthorized accesses. The method comprising: identifying an exit call gateway comprising an exit transition instruction and at least one exit access parameter, said exit access parameters restricting exit from said source domain; identifying an entry call gateway corresponding to said exit call gateway, said entry call gateway comprising a transition instruction and at least one entry access parameter, said entry access parameters restricting access to said target domain; determining that said exit access parameters and said entry access parameters are compatible with each other; and performing a context switch from said source domain to said target domain, when said exit access parameters and said entry access parameters are complied with.
US10757091B2
A technique to establish a secure session to a network-accessible application from a mobile device executing a native app. Initially, the network-accessible application is provisioned for access by an enterprise associating a set of one or more of its enterprise users with the network-accessible application. Thereafter, access to the application is enabled via an identity provider. In operation, the identity provider receives a request to validate that an enterprise user seeking access to the network-accessible application is associated with the application. The request is generated by the application in response to a login request initiated from the native app from a mobile device, wherein a certificate for the application is not available to the native app. Upon validating that the enterprise user is associated with the network-accessible application, the identity provider returns to the application an authentication token evidencing that the enterprise user is permitted to access the network-accessible application for a session.
US10757090B2
A proxy server receives a synchronization request from an application program resident on a user device. The proxy server determines that the user device requires removal of application program data and synchronizes the application program resident on the user device with a null account that is associated with application program.
US10757089B1
A mobile communication device. The device comprises a client application that checks a non-transitory memory of the device for a web application access token corresponding to the client application, determines that the non-transitory memory does not store the web application access token, transmits a web application access token request via a cellular radio transceiver of the device to a Media Access Gateway (MAG), where the web application access token request comprises an identification of an Internet Protocol (IP) address allocated to the device when authenticating into a radio access network (RAN) by the cellular radio transceiver, receives a web application access token from the MAG, stores the web application access token in the non-transitory memory, and sends a request to access a web application comprising the web application access token to a web application server, where the web application server is different from the MAG.
US10757085B2
According to one embodiment, a method of managing access to a trading network is provided. A first network login request for a first user is received from a client application. The first network login request includes first authentication information. Based at least on the first authentication information, the first network login request is approved, which authorizes the first user to access the trading network. One or more associated users for which the first user is authorized to act as a proxy is identifying from a plurality of users. User profile information for one of the associated users is obtained and communicated to the client application. The user profile information includes information regarding the second user that can be used to allow the first user to engage in trading activity via the trading network on behalf of the second user.
US10757084B1
Retrieving access data for blockchain networks using highly available trusted execution environments
Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for retrieving data from external data sources for processing within a blockchain network. One of the methods includes receiving a request for data that includes encrypted data, the encrypted data including access data that is encrypted using a service public key of a key management node; selecting a relay system node from a plurality of relay system nodes that share a service private key of the key management node; transmitting the request to the relay system node; receiving a response provided from the relay system node, the response including result data and a digital signature, wherein the digital signature is generated based on the result data and the service private key of the key management node; and transmitting the response to a client.
US10757081B2
A system and method for homomorphic encryption in a healthcare network environment is provided and includes receiving digital data over the healthcare network at a data custodian server in a plurality of formats from various data sources, encrypting the data according to a homomorphic encryption scheme, receiving a query at the data custodian server from a data consumer device concerning a portion of the encrypted data, initiating a secure homomorphic work session between the data custodian server and the data consumer device, generating a homomorphic work space associated with the homomorphic work session, compiling, by the data custodian server, a results set satisfying the query, loading the results set into the homomorphic work space, and building an application programming interface (API) compatible with the results set, the API facilitating encrypted analysis on the results set in the homomorphic work space.
US10757080B2
A computer-readable medium storing computer program instructions, which, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to perform a method of tokenization, the method comprising the steps of receiving a request for tokenization from a user, the request including a Session Token; decoding and validating the Session Token; retrieving a token definition, a token key, and a security policy; appending the user key and the token key to the received value to create an input value; replacing each input value character with a known character to create a replacement input value using a lookup table; generating a secure hash of the replacement input value to create a derived key; substituting characters of the replacement input value with a character from lookup tables to create a third input value; and returning the input value to the user.
US10757079B2
Method and devices are provided for controlling access of a device to a remote desktop or a remote application running on a remote desktop or application server using a remoting protocol. The method includes the following steps: setting up a connection between the device and the remote desktop or application server to establish or to an existing user session, using the remoting protocol; setting up a virtual channel within the connection using the remoting protocol; monitoring the device to determine a device state; sending the device state over the virtual channel to the application server; and determining based on the received device state if an access to the remote desktop or remote application running in the user session is allowed, and blocking the access if the access is due to the received state not allowed.
US10757076B2
Described herein are systems, methods, and software to enhance the management of packet filters for host computing systems. In one implementation, a method of managing packet filters for a physical network interface on a host computing system includes obtaining dispatch statistics for media access control (MAC) addresses associated with virtual nodes communicating over the physical network interface via a virtual switch. After obtaining the dispatch statistics, the method further provides identifying a filter configuration based on the dispatch statistics, wherein the filter configuration classifies received packets at the physical network interface into processing queues based on attributes identified in the received packets, and applying the filter configuration in the physical network interface.
US10757066B2
An apparatus configured to provide active-active access to a transparent interconnection of lots of links (TRILL) campus. The apparatus includes a first access port associated with a first customer equipment (CE) and a second access port associated with a second CE. The first access port is configured to receive a frame from the first CE. The apparatus includes a processor configured to replicate the frame to generate a replicated frame, determine that a pseudo-nickname associated with the first access port and the pseudo-nickname associated with the second access port are the same, and determine that the first access port and the second access port are associated with different multi-chassis link aggregations (MC-LAGs). The apparatus also includes a transmitter configured to forward the replicated frame to the second CE using the second access port.
US10757063B2
A method, system, and devices for online inserting messages in at least one social network content application of a plurality of social network content applications of at least one social network platform is described. The method includes collecting a plurality of social network messages originating from the plurality of social network content applications, determining a set of messages having a certain degree of similarity from the plurality of social network messages, by comparing each message with each further message of the plurality of message, extracting a topic from the plurality of social network messages included in the set of messages having at least the certain degree of similarity, and determining a second certain degree of similarity between the topic and an second message of a plurality of second messages based on the degree of similarity between respective suffix trees corresponding to each message of the messages.
US10757060B2
A message notification method includes obtaining, by a terminal, a plurality of notification messages, determining, by the terminal, a notification message with an ongoing attribute in the notification messages, sorting, by the terminal, the notification messages to obtain a notification message queue such that the notification message with an ongoing attribute is arranged in front of another notification message, and displaying, by the terminal, the notification message queue.
US10757049B2
A messaging system for effecting effect instant messaging communication sessions (chats) between users of the messaging system allows “actions” to be exchanged in chats. The actions are generated in an action database. A template-creating user can create a custom action template for generating actions, which is only available to certain users.
US10757044B2
A chatbot system includes a parent chatbot and a plurality of sub-chatbots. Each sub-chatbot is associated with a specific domain. The parent chatbot is adapted to receive a user query and direct the user query to a relevant sub-chatbot. Each sub-chatbot includes at least one chatbot dialog, and is adapted to respond to the user query using the at least one chatbot dialog. Each sub-chatbot is implemented by a program entity adapted to return a return function. The return function is a function configured to accept a context object unique to the sub-chatbot as an input argument. The at least one chatbot dialog is accessed by at least one access function. The access function is a function configured to accept the context object of the sub-chatbot.
US10757043B2
A messaging application may automatically analyze content of one or more messages and/or user information to automatically provide suggestions to a user within a messaging application. The suggestions may automatically incorporate particular non-messaging functionality into the messaging application. The automatic suggestions may suggest one or more appropriate responses to be selected by a user to respond in the messaging application, and/or may automatically send one or more appropriate responses on behalf of a user.
US10757038B2
Examples relate to switching devices comprising a switch controller and a plurality of interconnected sub-switches forming an internal network of the switching device. A packet is received at a first sub-switch of the plurality of interconnected sub-switches. The packet is to be routed to a particular external output port of a second sub-switch of the plurality of interconnected sub-switches. Upon reception of the packet, the switch controller reserves a space for the packet in a queue associated to the particular external output port. Then, the switch controller routes the packet on the internal network to the particular external output to occupy the reserved space for the packet.
US10757037B2
A method and system for dynamic scheduling and allocation of network traffic are provided. The method includes: distributing, by a central scheduling system, a domain name initial configuration table and a determination strategy to each detection node; detecting, by each detection node, each server node of a pre-set domain name in the domain name initial configuration table, thereby obtaining performance information of each server node; generating, by each detection node, a corresponding best coverage record; and converting, by the central scheduling system, the best coverage record into a target server node and feeding back, by the central scheduling system, the target server node to a local DNS server. The disclosed method and system for dynamic scheduling and allocation of network traffic improves network access speed and reduces operation and maintenance cost.
US10757026B2
In one example, a method performed by a client includes measurement of an available bandwidth of a communication path between the client and another entity. Data deduplication rate information is accessed concerning one or more historical deduplication processes performed in connection with the client, and the client determines a required bandwidth associated with a future transfer of a target dataset between the client and another entity along the communication path. The required bandwidth is expressed partly in terms of a data deduplication rate (DDR), and the target data set includes data generated at the client. Finally, when the available bandwidth exceeds the required bandwidth, the client transfers the target dataset from the client to the other entity, and when the available bandwidth is inadequate to support transfer of the target dataset, the client sends an alert to the other entity indicating that the available bandwidth is inadequate.
US10757025B2
A load balancing system for a packet switched communications network, the load balancing system comprising: at least one stateful load balancer configured to receive and process copies of control plane packets propagated by the network to determine a characterizing vector for each target feature of at least one target feature that characterizes packets propagated by the network, which vector comprises one or more characterizing components and is useable to associate packets propagated by the network with the target feature; and at least one non-stateful load balancer configured to: receive the at least one characterizing vector and copies of packets propagated by the network; use the at least one characterizing vector to associate a target feature of the at least one target feature with each of a plurality of the received packets; and load balance and transmit copies of packets that the non-stateful load balancer associates with a target feature of the at least one target feature to at least one probe, and copies of packets associated with a same target feature to a same probe of the at least one probe.
US10757023B2
A method and system for increasing the collection of network traffic data in a network based on the occurrence of predetermined criteria. A network appliance manages network traffic in the network and passes data traffic on the network. Network traffic data is collected based on the data traffic passing through the network appliance at a normal level. It is determined whether the network traffic data indicates an abnormal condition. The collection of network traffic data is increased through the network traffic appliance when an abnormal condition is detected. The network traffic data from the increased collection is stored in a memory device.
US10757017B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to assisting forwarding of multicast traffic over Ethernet Virtual Private Network (EVPN) from a multicast source to a host multi-homed to multiple provider edge (PE) devices. Embodiments are based on the inclusion of an Ethernet Segment Identification (ESI) to EVPN type-6 routes advertised by PE devices which received a multicast Join message. Other PE devices receiving such routes are able to determine whether they belong to the ES identified by the ESI and to determine whether they are designated forwarders (DFs) for the host. Furthermore, PE devices which are the DFs are configured to re-originate the EVPN type-6 routes, i.e. re-send the advertisements, indicating themselves as DFs. This ensures that a remote PE device associated with the multicast source will also send multicast traffic to such DF PE devices, which, in turn, would allow the multicast traffic to successfully reach the host.
US10757014B2
A method is implemented by a control plane device in a Software Defined Networking (SDN) network to configure a data plane device in the SDN network to perform network address translation (NAT) for a flow so that the flow can bypass a NAT device. The method includes receiving a translation rule for the flow from the NAT device, configuring the data plane device to steer the flow such that the flow bypasses the NAT device, configuring the data plane device to perform NAT for the flow according to the translation rule for the flow, and transmitting an indication to the NAT device that the flow is to bypass the NAT device.
US10756991B2
The technology disclosed offers a declarative and visualization framework that implements a state machine for multi-step progression of interaction with an entity. The declarative framework is usable over and over for a broad range of applications because it provides a simple rule-based authoring tool that can be used for specifying different elements and components of a complex state machine, including state definitions, state transition triggers, state transition conditions and state transition actions. Once defined, the state machine is automatically generated and visually implemented based on the declarative input provided by a non-technical user.
US10756987B2
A technique for validating Service Level Agreements (SLAs) for roaming user terminals is presented. A method implementation of the technique performed in a home network of the roaming user terminal comprises obtaining Service level-related Performance Data (SPD) that have been collected by the user terminal while roaming in a visited network. Additionally, subscription information associated with the user terminal and indicative of an SLA is obtained. Next, the SLA is validated based on a comparison of the SPD, or data derived therefrom, with the subscription information.
US10756986B2
Techniques are disclosed for presenting notifications that can receive input data. The techniques include presenting a notification in response to occurrence of an event, wherein the notification is associated with a specified data type and a data source from which data is to be received, receiving input data of the specified data type from the data source, wherein the notification is presented until the input data is received, and storing the input data. The notification can block access to a user interface of at least one application until the input data is received. The data source can be a data entry component of a user interface that receives user input, or can be an application that provides data of the specified data type, and receiving input data can include requesting data of the specified data type from the application, and receiving the input data from the application via inter-process communication.
US10756982B2
According to some embodiments, a machine learning architecture design platform may access a microservice architecture design data store that contains existing microservice architecture designs, and a graphic abstraction computing component may automatically create existing graph models of the existing designs. A pattern recognition computing component may then execute a machine learning algorithm to access the existing graph models and automatically detect existing design patterns. A designer interface computing component may interactively and iteratively exchange information with a designer, including receipt of at least one design requirement from the designer. Based on the at least one received design requirement and the automatically detected existing design patterns, a dynamic recommendation computing component may automatically construct a recommended microservice architecture for the cloud computing environment. In some embodiments, a quality assessment computing component may evaluate a potential microservice architecture design.
US10756961B2
System and method of assigning admin partition membership based on switch connectivity in a high performance computing environment. An exemplary embodiment can provide an admin partition for use in a subnet of a network fabric. The admin partition can be defined by a P_Key, and the P_Key can be stored in an admin partition registry. A subnet manager that executes from a node within the subnet can be provided. The subnet manager can obtain information that a subnet switch is associated with the admin partition. The subnet manager can also receive a list of identifiers (IDs), each identifier corresponding to a host channel adapter that is directly connected to the subnet switch. Each of the IDs from the list can be added to the admin partition registry and a relationship between each of the added IDs and the P_Key can be created in the registry.
US10756957B2
The systems and methods of the invention provide a notification system that analyzes the state of the user to deliver notifications when the user is anticipated to be both cognitively receptive AND able to act upon external stimuli. In accord with at least one aspect, the system assesses the context (of a user) by interpreting the user and surroundings in order to reach a general state of the user. In a technically efficient manner—utilizing different levels of processing in conjunction with leveraging previously performed processing through queuing results of such processing—the system provides the ability to reduce scenarios in which missed or inappropriate notifications occur. The systems and methods of the invention perform processing, in a technically efficient manner, to assess data input from sensors (in the real-world environment in which a user exists) and responsively generate appropriate notifications or other communications that are output to a user or a person associated with the user.
US10756953B1
Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer readable mediums for seamlessly reconfiguring a data center after a failure are disclosed. In one embodiment, a system includes at least a primary data center and a secondary data center. When a failure occurs at the primary data center, software executing on the secondary data center dynamically identifies the storage resources correlation that is setup for disaster recovery. The software executing on the secondary data center will automatically identify the resources correlation based on the replication properties of the storage configuration. The resources will then be configured with the new parameters when new hardware and software is added to the primary data center after the failure.
US10756947B2
Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with logging event messages in a computing grid using a distributed memory are described. In one embodiment, a method includes storing, in a distributed memory, a batch of log messages received from one of a plurality of handlers. Storing the batch in the distributed memory includes storing the batch in one of a plurality of memories that are part of the distributed memory and storing the batch with a group of batches from the plurality of handlers. The example method may also include generating, after a predefined period of time has elapsed, a formal log from the group of batches. The predefined period of time is an amount of time after a reporting period within which batches from the reporting period are expected to arrive in the distributed memory. The formal log includes sorted messages from the group of batches.
US10756941B1
The method: extracts symbols at pilot positions from the received stream of symbols, estimates noise variances at pilot positions, determines a rough channel estimation from the symbols extracted at pilot positions, determines weighting coefficients from the estimated noise variances, weights the rough channel estimation by the determined weighting coefficients, filters the weighted rough channel estimation using predetermined coefficients, at least one predetermined coefficient being different from the other predetermined coefficients, the predetermined coefficients being determined for a constant noise variance, determines normalization coefficients from the determined weighting coefficients and predetermined filter coefficients, normalizes the filtered weighted rough channel estimation using the determined normalization coefficients.
US10756940B2
The present invention relates to a wireless communication system and particularly to a method and a device for the method, the method comprising: a step of receiving a subframe having a control duration configured with a plurality of OFDM symbols; a step of receiving a control channel by monitoring a plurality of control channel candidates in the control duration of the subframe; and a step of performing an operation corresponding to the control channel, wherein, if the plurality of OFDM symbols correspond to multi-beam directions, a plurality of control channel resources constituting each control channel candidate are present only in the same OFDM symbol in the control duration, and if the plurality of OFDM symbols correspond to a single-beam direction, the plurality of control channel resources constituting each control channel candidate are present across the plurality of OFDM symbols in the control duration.
US10756937B2
The present invention relates to a method for receiving and configuring a reference signal of a vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) device for V2V communication in a wireless communication system. Particularly, the method comprises the steps of: performing synchronization with a first synchronization source having a frequency for dedicated short range communication (DSRC) as a center frequency; and receiving, from the first synchronization source, a reference signal on an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol configured according to a reference signal configuration, wherein the reference signal configuration is defined for frequency correction according to a hop sync of the center frequency.
US10756933B2
A filtering device includes a low-pass filter (LPF), a noise estimation circuit and a first combining circuit. The LPF receives and filters a pre-filtering signal to generate an output signal of the filtering device. The noise estimation circuit estimates an estimated noise signal according to the output signal and the pre-filtering signal. The first combining circuit subtracts the estimated noise signal from an input signal of the filtering device to generate the pre-filtering signal.
US10756931B2
Described is an apparatus which comprises: a Variable Gain Amplifier (VGA); a set of samplers to sample data output from the VGA according to a clock signal; and a Clock Data Recovery (CDR) circuit to adjust phase of the clock signal such that magnitude of a first post-cursor signal associated with the sampled data is substantially half of a magnitude of a primary cursor tap associated with the sampled data.
US10756923B2
Systems and methods systems and methods for efficiently and securely forming a communication network. As a non-limiting example, various aspects of the present disclosure provide systems and methods, for example utilizing a plurality of different security modes, for forming a premises-based network (e.g., a MoCA network).
US10756922B2
A communications module for a household device includes a sensor device that is configured to be attached in the region of a device housing of the household device, a wireless data interface and a processor. The sensor device is configured to scan an emission signal, penetrating outwards through the device housing, of a component of the household device carrying out the operating process of the household device. The processor is configured to determine an operating state of the household device based on measurement values of the sensor device and to provide same by means of the data interface. In addition, the communications module can be used optionally in different types of household devices.
US10756921B2
Systems and methods for training network-connected objects to provide configurations in association with events within media assets. A respective configuration setting of a network-connected object and a baseline biometric state of a user may be stored in a database for each event within a media asset. An event within a media asset (for display) may be detected. In response, a command may be sent to the network-connected object to implement the respective configuration setting. A determination may be made whether the user adjusts the respective configuration setting to a new configuration setting within a predefined time of the event. A biometric state of the user may be retrieved from a biometric device in response to the adjustment to a new configuration setting. If the biometric state does not correspond to the baseline biometric state, the respective configuration setting may be replaced with the new configuration setting.
US10756916B2
A distributed processing network system (10), an integrated response system (50) comprising multiple distributed processing network systems and related methods providing situational awareness information for emergency responses. In one embodiment there is disclosed a response system (50) comprising first and second server based systems (10, 11) each providing real time awareness of personnel (18, 19) for different organizations, the first system receiving information for a first organization and the second system receiving information for a second organization, the first system coupled to the second system to communicate information generated in the first system to personnel in the second organization via the second system to facilitate timely and appropriate response by personnel in the second organization to an emergency situation in the first organization.
US10756914B2
The present invention relates to a communication technology and system converging the fifth generation (5G) communication system for supporting a data rate higher than that of the 4G system with the IoT technology. Further, the present invention is applicable to the intelligent services based on the 5G communication and IoT technologies (e.g., smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car or connected car, health care, digital education, retail, security, and safety services). In more detail, a broadcast resource congestion control method of a multi-cell/multicast coordination entity (MCE) includes receiving a message including multimedia broadcast and multicast service (MBMS) congestion information from a base station, selecting an MBMS service to be controlled based on the MBMS congestion information, and transmitting a scheduling message including first control information related to the selected MBMS service to the base station.
US10756911B2
A cloud-management system intercepts API calls from a client application. Based on the expected amount of cloud resources required to service the API call, and given the terms of the client's billing plan, the system estimates the cost to service the call. The system embeds this cost into its response to the API call and the client application, or an IDE hosting the application, keeps a running total of API-related costs incurred by the application. The system can also run in an emulation mode, estimating the application's API resource-consumption costs without actually consuming cloud resources. In this mode, the system replaces each GET and PUT call in the intercepted API call with an equivalent HEAD call that does not consume resources. The system still, however, predicts the actual cost of the original API call by returning the cost of each original GET and PUT.
US10756908B1
In embodiments, an authentication server interfaces between a user device with a self-signed certificate and a verifying computer that accepts a user name and password. The user device generates a self-signed certificate signed by a private key on the user device. The self-signed certificate is transmitted to a verifying party computer over a network. The verifying party stores the self-signed certificate with user identification data, including at least one of a user name, user address, user email, user phone number, user tax identification (ID), user social security number and user financial account number. In subsequent communications, the verifying party receives a certificate chain including the self-signed certificate, and matches that with the user identification data stored in a database.
US10756904B1
An apparatus in one embodiment includes at least one processing device comprising a processor coupled to a memory. The processing device is configured to implement a first ledger maintenance node. The first ledger maintenance node is configured to communicate over one or more networks with a plurality of additional ledger maintenance nodes, to identify a block for proposed addition to a distributed ledger collectively maintained by the first and additional ledger maintenance nodes, to apply a digital signature of the first ledger maintenance node to the block, and to receive digital signatures on the block from at least a subset of the additional ledger maintenance nodes. Responsive to receipt of sufficient digital signatures from respective ones of the additional ledger maintenance nodes to meet a specified quorum of digital signatures required for addition of the block to the distributed ledger, the first ledger maintenance node adds the block to the distributed ledger.
US10756898B2
Examples of the present disclosure describe systems and methods relating to content delivery verification. In an example, a root authority is used to provide aspects of content delivery verification. The root authority receives supplemental content from a content source, which it uses to generate secured content. The content source provides the secured content to a publisher (e.g., directly or indirectly, e.g., via a content marketplace). In examples, the root authority evaluates at least a part of the secured content and/or information associated with the publisher to determine whether the unsecured content should be displayed by the publisher on a client device. In other examples, the client device may perform verification aspects. If it is determined that the content should be displayed, the unsecured content may be provided for display. If, however, it is determined that the content should not be displayed, alternate content may instead be provided.
US10756892B2
Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, are provided for securing data in a multi-tenant cloud-based system. In some implementations, there is provided a method. The method may include requesting access to at least one encrypted data element; obtaining, in response to the requesting, a long bit stream assigned to a client associated with the requested access; generating a key to decrypt the at least one data element, the key generated by selecting, based on a permutation, portions of the long bit stream; and decrypting, based on the generated key, the at least one data element. Related systems, methods, and articles of manufacture are also disclosed.
US10756888B2
Methods and systems for securely deleting electronic files and other data stored within a data storage system are described. Each file or separately deletable portion of data stored within the data storage system may be encrypted using a distinct data encryption key. When the file is selected for deletion, both the file and the corresponding data encryption key may be deleted. The data encryption key used for encrypting the file may be encrypted using a key encryption key. If the file and the corresponding data encryption key are both stored using an SSD, then the key encryption key may be stored using a HDD. The ability to physically delete or directly overwrite the key encryption key stored within the HDD may ensure that the file and the data encryption key stored using the SSD are no longer cryptographically recoverable.
US10756881B2
Embodiments of methods and systems for operating a communications device are described. In an embodiment, a method for operating a communications device that communicates via inductive coupling involves adjusting a phase configuration of the communications device in response to at least one system or environmental parameter, modulating a carrier signal with the adjusted phase configuration using active load modulation (ALM), and transmitting the modulated carrier signal from the communications device for inductive coupling.
US10756876B1
Mitigating interference in such potential interference areas of a wireless communication network includes determining that a first sector associated with a first wireless air interface and configured with a first subcarrier spacing is facing a second sector associated with a second wireless air interface and configured with a second subcarrier spacing, wherein the first and second subcarrier spacings are different, and assigning resources towards the second sector in a different order than resources assigned to the first sector.
US10756874B2
The present disclosure describes techniques and systems for beam search pilots for paging channel communications. In some aspects, a user device receives, from a base station of a wireless network, a beam search pilot on a beam. The user device determines that a signal quality of the beam search pilot meets a signal quality threshold. Based on this determination, the user device transmits, to the base station, an indication that the beam search pilot meets the signal quality threshold. The user device then receives a paging channel communication on the beam provided by the base station.
US10756869B2
A wireless communication device is configured to perform demodulation of device-to-device (D2D) communication signals or LTE uplink signals in a User Equipment. In a transmitter, demodulation reference signal (DMRS) generation circuitry is provided for selective insertion of DMRS signals in resource elements of resource blocks of the signal for transmission using a pattern of resource elements spanning at least one of the resource blocks such that a minimum temporal spacing between consecutive symbols of the demodulation reference signal pattern is less than one slot. In a receiver the DMRS signals are used to perform channel estimation. A user equipment having the DMRS generation circuitry is provided. A computer program product is also provided. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
US10756864B2
According to one embodiment of the present invention, a method by which a terminal transmits a signal in a wireless communication system comprises the steps of: receiving timing advance (TA) information on a self-contained subframe having all of a downlink control region, a downlink data region, a guard period (GP) for transmission/reception switching, and an uplink control region; and transmitting uplink control information by advancing transmission timing corresponding to the uplink control region by the time length indicated by the TA information, wherein, when the time length indicated by the TA information is shorter than a predetermined magnitude, the terminal can first transmit a specific uplink signal, and then transmit the uplink control information in a GP remaining period remaining after completion of the transmission/reception switching.
US10756860B2
Aspects of this disclosure relate to distributed multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) downlink configuration. Features are described for a network controller (e.g., baseband unit) to receive one or more requests including a desired transmission mode and/or active set of serving nodes for wireless communication service(s) for user equipment. The baseband unit may determine an optimal configuration in consideration of the desired parameters along with other network information. The network controller may then transmit one or more configuration messages via the network to optimally allocate resources distributed within the network.
US10756857B2
Embodiments relate to a controller operable to transmit digital data messages to a receiver via a communication link having at least a first and a second transmission path, the controller comprising a first signal terminal the first transmission path and a second signal terminal for the second transmission path. The first signal terminal is operable to digitally transmit a first message to the receiver according to a first transmission technique and the second signal terminal is being operable to digitally transmit a second message to the receiver according to a second, different transmission technique.
US10756846B2
A wireless device may decode a polar coded codeword using a successive cancellation list (SCL) decoder. The decoder may implement a distributed feedback architecture, where the decoder stores one or more state maps and a set of bit arrays in memory for each layer of decoding. For different phases of decoding in a layer, the decoder may update the state maps and sets of bit arrays to limit the resources used. Additionally, when performing bit updating following the decoding of a bit of the codeword, the decoder may not update each layer of the decoding process. Instead, each sub-decoder may send a state map up to the calling layer for bit updating when the sub-decoder has completed its invocation, and may not return any intermediate state maps prior to completing invocation. Thus, each decoder and sub-decoder may perform bit updating just twice, reducing the complexity and latency of decoding.
US10756842B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a transmission device that includes at least one transceiver configured to modulate data to generate a plurality of first electromagnetic waves. A plurality of couplers are configured to couple at least a portion of the plurality of first electromagnetic waves to a transmission medium, wherein the plurality of couplers generate a plurality of mode division multiplexed second electromagnetic waves that propagate along the outer surface of the transmission medium. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10756839B1
A hybrid optical transceiver is provided. An optical component disposed on a substrate, the optical component comprising a transmitter section and a receiver section. Transmitter section comprises a plurality of vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL) arrays communicatively coupled to a plurality of multiplexers, configured to launch multiplexed optical signals into the lowest order mode group of a multimode fiber or the lowest order mode of a single mode fiber. Receiver section comprises a photodetector array comprising a plurality of optical detectors, and configured to receive demultiplexed optical signals of unknown polarization without routing waveguides. In various embodiments, each section being independently removable from a substrate.
US10756835B2
The present invention proposes a method of transmitting a broadcast signal. The method of transmitting a broadcast signal according to the present invention provides a system capable of supporting next-generation broadcast services in an environment supporting next-generation hybrid broadcast using terrestrial broadcast networks and the Internet. In addition, an efficient signaling method for covering terrestrial broadcast networks and the Internet in an environment supporting next-generation hybrid broadcast is proposed.
US10756828B2
This invention presents a RF channel emulator for testing a millimeter wave (mmWave) wireless communication system, including embodiments of using over-the-air channels for connecting a RF channel emulator and mmWave wireless communication system, placement of antenna arrays, antenna array design, antenna selection, and polarization matrices estimation that complete both the beam scanning at the BS and UEs and normal data transmission.
US10756822B1
An apparatus includes a digital signal processor to perform perturbation-based optical nonlinearity compensation of optical data signals of a communication stream. The digital signal processor includes first digital circuits to calculate multiplicative factors for corrections to the optical data signals from products of values of the optical data signals at a reduced set of times. The reduced set is a down-sampling of the sequence of consecutive symbol times of the communication stream. The digital signal processor also includes second digital circuits to calculate the multiplicative factors for corrections to the optical data signals at the consecutive symbol times by interpolating the multiplicative factors evaluated at the reduced set of times.
US10756820B2
A phase analog coherent demodulation system includes a difference frequency and pulse generator configured to generate a pulsed light and a continuous light with different frequency from the pulsed light, a controller, and an I/Q demodulation module. The controller locks the frequency difference signal of the pulse light, and the pulsed light generates the backward scattered light of constant frequency in the measured medium, and the backward scattered light returns along the original path and mixing beat with the continuous light in the I/Q demodulation module, the difference frequency electrical signals of the two optical signals are obtained. The I/Q demodulation module orthogonally demodulates the difference frequency electrical signal by using the frequency difference signal of the pulsed light and the continuous light as the fundamental frequency signal of the orthogonal demodulation, to detect phase information of the vibration signal. The invention reduces the operating frequency required for quadrature demodulation in system phase detection.
US10756814B2
Systems, methods, and apparatus for an electromagnetic (EM) panel are disclosed. In one or more embodiments, a disclosed electromagnetic (EM) panel comprises an outer skin, an inner skin, a core disposed between the outer skin and the inner skin, and at least one receiver to receive at least one first signal. In at least one embodiment, at least one receiver is disposed within an opening on the outer skin of the EM panel. At least one receiver is an optical sensor(s) and/or a radio frequency (RF) antenna(s). In one or more embodiments, the EM panel further comprises at least one transmitter to transmit at least one second signal. In at least one embodiment, at least one transmitter is disposed within an opening on the outer skin of the EM panel. At least one transmitter is a laser(s) and/or a RF antenna(s).
US10756807B2
A system comprising a radar subsystem including a radar transmitter and a radar receiver, and an encoder subsystem including a computer connected to a transmitter and two antennas. The computer is configured to encode and transmit a custom payload AIS Type 8 message. A second computer connected to a receiver and antenna receives the message. The custom payload AIS Type 8 message contains target longitude, latitude fields, range, and bearing fields.A method for transmitting and receiving the radar track of a target ship including: receiving the radar signal at the own ship; encoding the target ship longitude, latitude, speed, and course into a custom payload AIS Type 8 message; transmitting the custom message to a receiver ship; decoding and displaying the target ship longitude, latitude, course, and speed at the receiver ship.
US10756799B2
Disclosed are: a communication technique for merging, with the Internet of Things (IoT) technology, a 5th-generation (5G) communication system for supporting a data transmission rate higher than that of a 4th-generation (4G) system; and a system therefor. The disclosure can be applied to intelligent services (for example, smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car or connected car, health care, digital education, retailing, security and safety related services) on the basis of 5G communication technology and IoT related technology. One embodiment of the present invention enables a terminal to receive at least one reference signal from a base station in a mobile communication system, and to generate channel state information on the basis of the at least one reference signal so as to transmit the channel state information to the base station, wherein the at least one reference signal is received in a downlink pilot time slot (DwPTS) by using a resource determined on the basis of a special subframe configuration.
US10756798B2
The present invention describes a phased array transmitter and a method for beamforming. The phased array transmitter comprises a plurality of transmitting branches configured for up-converting an IF signal to an RF signal with a desired RF phase shift. Each transmitting branch is configured for phase shifting the IF signal with a first phase shift and the LO signal with a second phase shift such that the combined first and second phase shift is the desired RF phase shift of the transmitting branch.
US10756794B2
Disclosed herein is a method for reporting channel state information to a base station by a terminal having distributed antenna units in a wireless communication system. Specifically, the method for reporting channel state information comprises the steps of: receiving a reference signal from the base station; and reporting multi-channel state information on the basis of the reference signal, wherein the multi-channel state information includes a channel quality indicator for each of the distributed antenna units.
US10756788B1
A wireless communication system comprises a base station and one or more relay docks and transmits directional wave signals between components using high frequency waves, such as millimeter waves. A beam forming decision engine utilizes position information collected from one or more position or motion sensors of a user device to determine a direction in which to form a directional wave signal being transmitted between components of the wireless communication system.
US10756786B1
Isolation for antennas in a wireless communication system is achieved between transmit and receive paths for a multiple input multiple output (MIMO) antenna array by separating a first transmit path from an associated receive path to be matched with a second transmit path and matching the first receive path with the second receive path. It is expected that the two transmit paths operate on sufficiently different frequencies that there is minimal interference there and the additional spacing from the transmit path to the receive path will reduce interference therebetween without increasing a footprint of the antenna array.
US10756778B1
Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media are configured to determine data for subcarriers of a cable modem signal. Values which characterize the cable modem signal can be generated. A plot can then be generated. The plot can depict one or more of the values which characterize the cable modem signal.
US10756775B2
A method and devices are disclosed that increase the range of active geo-location from the airborne measuring station as compared with known methods by increasing the effective receive sensitivity of the airborne measuring station. In one embodiment this may be accomplished by transmitting a predetermined ranging packet and correlating the raw received bit stream of the response packet with the predetermined bit stream. In one embodiment, the disclosed method applies to the reception of IEEE 802.11 direct sequence spread spectrum DSSS ACK and DSSS CTS packets in response to DSSS data null and DSSS RTS packets respectively, in the 2.4 GHz band.
US10756773B2
Modular mounting systems for supportably engagement of one or more devices. The systems may include corresponding attachment members and carrier members for selective supportive engagement of one or more devices relative to a base. The attachment members and carrier members may be magnetically engageable. Various form factors for devices, base members, carrier members, attachment members, and other portions of the system are described.
US10756771B2
A wireless switch comprising: a movable section provided to be freely displaceable; an operation unit elastically held by the movable section and, when in a non-neutral state, vibrating as a result of an action of elastic force that causes return to a neutral state and displacing the movable section in a direction corresponding to a direction of the vibration; a power generation unit generating a voltage of a polarity corresponding to a direction of displacement when the movable section has been displaced; a wireless transmission unit wirelessly transmitting a signal on the basis of power generated by the power generation unit; and a voltage supply control circuit, when the operation unit in the neutral state has been operated such that the operation unit is brought into a non-neutral state, supplying a voltage to the wireless transmission unit using power generated by the power generation unit at a time of an initial state change of the operation unit and then disabling voltage supply to the wireless transmission unit by the power generated by the power generation unit accompanying the vibration of the operation unit caused by the action of the elasticity afterward.
US10756759B2
In column domain dictionary compression, column values in one or more columns are tokenized by a single dictionary. The domain of the dictionary is the entire set of columns. A dictionary may not only map a token to a tokenized value, but also to a count (“token count”) of the number of occurrences of the token and corresponding tokenized value in the dictionary's domain. Such information may be used to compute queries on the base table.
US10756757B2
A data deduplication method includes detecting a deduplication transaction including a data pattern associated with a data pattern address (DPA) and a reference, to the pattern, associated with a data reference address (DRA). A deduplication key may be determined based on the DPA and the DRA by concatenating the DPA and the DRA with the DPA as the most significant bits. The key may be stored in a key field of a record in a persistent and sequentially-accessed log, which is part of a log-with-index (LWI) structure that also maintains, in RAM or SSD, a binary index of the log records. When full, the log is cleared by writing the records in key-sorted order to the new tablet. From time to time, two tablets in the tablet library are merged. Tablet merging may include two or more atomic merges, each atomic merge corresponding to a portion of the tablet.
US10756756B2
Computer-implemented methods, systems, and devices to perform lossless compression of floating point format time-series data are disclosed. A first data value may be obtained in floating point format representative of an initial time-series parameter. For example, an output checkpoint of a computer simulation of a real-world event such as weather prediction or nuclear reaction simulation. A first predicted value may be determined representing the parameter at a first checkpoint time. A second data value may be obtained from the simulation. A prediction error may be calculated. Another predicted value may be generated for a next point in time and may be adjusted by the previously determined prediction error (e.g., to increase accuracy of the subsequent prediction). When a third data value is obtained, the adjusted prediction value may be used to generate a difference (e.g., XOR) for storing in a compressed data store to represent the third data value.
US10756755B2
An encoder generates quantized signal words based on a difference signal. The encoder includes an adaptive quantizer. A step size applied by the adaptive quantizer is generated in a feedback loop and based on a loading factor and quantized signal words generated by the adaptive quantizer. The encoder includes coding circuitry which generates code words based on quantized signal words generated by the adaptive quantizer. The coding circuitry generates an escape code in response to a quantized signal word not being associated with a corresponding coding code word.
US10756749B1
A DAC device includes a first DAC circuit and a second DAC circuit. The first DAC circuit includes multiple DAC portions, each of which includes multiple pMOSFETs. The second DAC circuit includes multiple DAC portions, each of which includes multiple nMOSFETs. For each of the first and second DAC circuits, bulk terminals of at least some of the MOSFETs of each DAC portion are for receiving a respective one of bulk voltages with different magnitudes, a gate terminal of each of the MOSFETs of the DAC portions is for receiving a gate signal, and voltage magnitudes of at least some of the gate signals received by each DAC portion switch between a respective one of different logic high levels and a respective one of different logic low levels.
US10756741B2
Apparatus and methods for rotary traveling wave oscillators (RTWOs) are provided herein. In certain configurations, an RTWO includes a differential transmission line connected in a ring and a plurality of segments distributed around the ring. The segments include metal stubs extending from the RTWO's differential transmission line. The metal stubs aid in providing access to additional layout resources for tuning capacitors and other circuitry of the RTWO's segments, while permitting the length of RTWO's ring to be relative short. Thus, the metal stubs do not inhibit the RTWO from operating with relatively high oscillation frequency, while providing connectivity to tuning capacitors that tune the RTWO's oscillation frequency over a wide tuning range and/or provide fine frequency step size.
US10756728B2
An insulated gate device drive apparatus for driving an insulated gate device by using a charging current outputted from a totem-pole output circuit constituted by a high-side output transistor and a low-side output transistor. The insulated gate device drive apparatus includes a charging current correction circuit configured to perform correction to increase the charging current that is decreased by an increased voltage drop of high-side wiring resistance between a power supply and the high-side output transistor.
US10756719B2
Described herein are multiple designs for an improved analog switch for use in transmitting high voltage signals without using high voltage power supplies for the switch. The analog switches are able to pass and block input signals in the approximate range of −100V to +100V. The use of translinear loops and a bootstrap configuration results in a constant on-resistance of the symmetrical switches and matches the conductance of each analog switch to the transconductance of an NMOS transistor, which can be easily stabilized with a constant gm biasing scheme. In certain embodiments, a shunt termination (T-switch) configuration is used for better off-isolation, and each of the symmetrical switches has its own translinear loop and thus flexibility of on-resistance and termination voltage.
US10756718B2
A gate driving apparatus for a power semiconductor device may include: a first off-resistor and a second off-resistor each having a first end connected to a gate of the power semiconductor device; a first off-switch configured to determine a connection state between a second end of the first off-resistor and a ground based on a gate driving signal for determining an on/off state of the power semiconductor device; a second off-switch configured to determine a connection state between a second end of the second off-resistor and the ground; an electric current detector configured to detect an electric current flowing from a collector (drain) of the power semiconductor device to an emitter (source) of the power semiconductor device; and a controller configured to determine an open/closed state of the second off-switch based on the gate driving signal and a magnitude of the electric current detected by the electric current detector.
US10756702B2
An acoustic resonator includes a substrate, and a resonant portion comprising a center portion in which a first electrode, a piezoelectric layer and a second electrode are sequentially laminated on the substrate, and an extending portion disposed along a periphery of the center portion, wherein the resonant portion is configured to have an asymmetrical polygonal plane, an insertion layer is disposed below the piezoelectric layer in the extending portion, and the piezoelectric layer is configured to have a top surface which is raised to conform to a shape of the insertion layer, and the insertion layer is configured to have an asymmetrical polygonal shape corresponding to a shape of the extending portion.
US10756694B1
An electro-mechanical MHz range harmonic load pull tuner is made as a cascade of filter sections and independent tuning sections; the filter section includes three parallel series resonant circuits, each set including one inductor and one adjustable capacitor. The tuning section includes three parallel tuning modules; each module comprising three adjustable shunt air capacitors inter-connected using coaxial cables of appropriate length. Each capacitor is remotely adjustable to 10 or 20 values (settings); the tuner creates independently controllable impedances at three (harmonic) frequencies in octave size frequency bands between 5 and 150 MHz. An Error Function-based optimization algorithm allows impedance tuning at three frequencies independently, by optimized searching among the more than 209=512*109 possible combined tuner states. Stepper motors, drivers and control software are used to automate, calibrate and use the harmonic tuner for automated harmonic load pull measurement.
US10756690B2
In conventional optical receivers the dynamic range is obtained by using variable gain amplifiers (VGA) with a fixed trans-impedance amplifier (TIA) gain. To overcome the SNR problems inherent in conventional receivers an improved optical receiver comprises an automatic gain control loop for generating at least one gain control signal for controlling gain of both the VGA and the TIA. Ideally, both the resistance and the gain of the TIA are controlled by a gain control signal.
US10756682B1
A method for communication includes producing an error signal by comparing a driving signal applied to a transmitter to an output signal generated by the transmitter in response to the driving signal. The error signal is decomposed into a linear component having a first memory depth and a nonlinear component having one or more polynomial orders and a second memory depth that is less than the first memory depth. First coefficients, up to the first memory depth, of a linear predistortion kernel are computed for application to the driving signal so as to compensate for the linear component of the error signal. Second coefficients for the one or more polynomial orders, up to the second memory depth, of a nonlinear predistortion kernel are computed so as to compensate for the nonlinear component of the error signal. Operation of the transmitter is optimized using the first and second coefficients.
US10756677B2
Doherty power amplifier having high supply voltage. In some embodiments, a power amplification system can include a supply system configured to provide a high-voltage supply signal, and a Doherty power amplifier having an input splitter configured to receive and split a signal into a carrier amplifier and a peaking amplifier. The Doherty power amplifier can further include a combiner configured to combine amplified signals from the carrier and peaking amplifiers to provide an output signal. The Doherty power amplifier can be configured to receive the high-voltage supply signal for operation of the carrier and peaking amplifiers. The power amplification system can further include an output path configured to couple the combiner to a filter. The Doherty power amplifier can have an impedance substantially the same as an impedance of the filter when operated with the high-voltage supply signal.
US10756674B2
An amplifier including a first routing circuit, an input stage circuit, an output stage circuit, a second routing circuit, and a bias voltage generating circuit is provided. The bias voltage generating circuit generates a first bias voltage and a second bias voltage for respectively supplying a first tail current source and a second tail current source of the input stage circuit. During a first period, the first bias voltage is related to the voltage at a first input terminal of the amplifier, and the second bias voltage is related to the voltage at a second input terminal of the amplifier. During a second period, the first bias voltage is related to the voltage at the second input terminal of the amplifier, and the second bias voltage is related to the voltage at the first input terminal of the amplifier.
US10756669B2
Photovoltaic solar panels are a know means of generate electricity from ultra-violet and solar power. Known problems associated with photovoltaic solar panels include poor efficiency and a short apparatus lifespan; alongside an inability to be easily integrated into architectural surroundings. Disclosed herein is a photovoltaic solar panel, designed to be attached to the front face of a roof tile, which generates electricity with an improved efficiency, has increased longevity and can be incorporated into a variety of architectural surroundings.
US10756662B2
A load control device may control power delivered from a power source, such as an alternating-current (AC) power source, to at least two electrical loads, such as a lighting load and a motor load. The load control device may include multiple load control circuit, such as a dimmer circuit and a motor drive circuit, for controlling the power delivered to the lighting load and the motor load, respectively. The load control device may adjust the rotational speed of the motor load in a manner so as to minimize acoustic noise generated by the load control device and reduce the amount of time required to adjust the rotational speed of the motor load. The load control device may remain powered when one of the electrical loads (e.g., the lighting load) has been removed (e.g., electrically disconnected or uninstalled) and/or has failed in an open state (has “burnt out” or “blown out”).
US10756655B2
A method of operating a resolver management device according to the present invention includes: generating an excitation signal by using an external control signal; counting a time interval (a first delay time) to a first pole of the excitation signal based on one period of the external control signal by using an internal clock; receiving an excitation signal reflected from a resolver sensor; counting a time interval (a second delay time) to a second pole of the reflected excitation signal at the first pole by using the internal clock; and transmitting a first count value corresponding to the first delay time and a second count value corresponding to the second delay time to a microcontroller unit (MCU).
US10756648B2
A multiphase inverter for an electric vehicle drive has a plurality of drivers to provide drive signals to respective gate loops of upper and lower transistors in the phase legs. A transformer has a secondary winding in a first gate loop of a first transistor in one phase leg and a primary winding connecting a Kelvin-emitter of the first transistor to a Kelvin-emitter of a second transistor in the other phase leg. Switching transients of transistors are shortened because when gate signal is toggled to change a conduction state of a transistor in a first phase leg, a rate of current change in the first leg is sensed in a transformer primary winding connected across a stray inductance of the first leg. A voltage proportional to the sensed rate is added to the gate signal via a transformer secondary winding, thereby increasing a common source inductance of the transistor.
US10756647B2
A power converter includes: a converter circuit converting an alternating current to a direct current; a reactor electrically connected to one of output terminals of the converter circuit; a capacitor electrically connected to the other output terminal of the converter circuit and the reactor; and an inverter circuit electrically connected to the capacitor converting the direct current to an alternating current. The capacitor is a film capacitor. The capacitor and the reactor are mounted on an identical circuit board.
US10756642B2
A configurable power converter includes a chassis, a plurality of circuit terminals, power conversion hardware, and a controller. The chassis has an exterior and defines an interior cavity. The plurality of circuit terminals are coupled to the exterior of the chassis. The power conversion hardware is disposed within the interior cavity of the chassis and connected to the plurality of circuit terminals. The power conversion hardware includes at least one of a plurality of electrical switches, a plurality of capacitors, or a plurality of inductors. The controller is configured to detect a hardware configuration of the plurality of circuit terminals and the power conversion hardware, determine a maximum voltage limit and a maximum current limit for each of the plurality of circuit terminals based on the hardware configuration, and operate the plurality of switches based on at least one of (i) the hardware configuration or (ii) the maximum voltage limit and the maximum current limit for each of the plurality of circuit terminals.
US10756635B2
Peak primary current control on the secondary side. In a power converter having a primary side and a secondary side separated by a main transformer, example methods include: driving primary current through a primary winding of the main transformer; creating, on the secondary side of the main transformer, a signal indicative of current through the primary winding of the main transformer; and ceasing the driving of primary current through the primary winding when the signal indicative of primary current reaches a predetermined value.
US10756632B2
A DC power supply includes a point-of-load (PoL) regulator providing power to a load with a desired efficiency only when a PoL input voltage is in a first sub-range of a specified larger system input voltage range. The supply has an auxiliary circuit with an output in series with the supply input, generating an auxiliary voltage and adding it to the DC supply voltage to form a boosted supply voltage. Switching circuitry connects the supply input to the PoL input to apply a DC supply voltage as the PoL input voltage when the supply voltage is in the first sub-range, and connects the output of the auxiliary circuit to the PoL input to apply the boosted supply voltage as the PoL input voltage when the supply voltage is outside the first sub-range, maintaining the PoL input voltage within the first sub-range.
US10756627B2
A switch mode power supply (voltage converter) is adapted as a current-mode control buck regulator for different loading conditions. The voltage converter operates in a continuous conduction mode (CCM) during heavy load conditions using pulse width modulation (PWM). When a zero-current detector determines no inductor current during light load conditions (discontinuous conduction mode (DCM) region), the controller initiates adaptive duty control using pulse frequency modulation (PFM). Adaptive duty estimation circuitry provides controllable energy to charge the power inductor to maintain voltage accuracy and maximize efficiency when in the PFM mode. Using clock synchronization and a single control-loop, smooth transition between PFM, PWM, and bypass modes is automatically performed. Clock synchronization from a master oscillator provides a base for frequency division in different operation modes which gives controllable evenly distributed switching harmonics. An inductor zero-current detector triggers an adaptive estimated duty cycle that is synchronized with the master oscillator.
US10756618B2
A regulator device includes a first switch, a second switch, a protecting circuit, and a driving circuit. The first switch is configured to receive power supply voltage. One terminal of the second switch and the first switch are coupled at a node. The other terminal of the second switch is coupled to ground. The protecting circuit is coupled to the node, and outputs at least one protecting signal according to the turn on/off state of the first switch and the second switch and the voltage of the node. The driving circuit is coupled to the first switch, the second switch, and the protecting circuit, and turns off the first switch or the second switch according the at least one protecting signal.
US10756612B2
The disclosed is a deceleration device including a cylindrical brake member fixed to a rotary shaft, a plurality of permanent magnets arrayed in a circumferential direction of a circle around the rotary shaft, a cylindrical magnet holder holding the permanent magnets, and a switching mechanism that switches between a braking state and a non-braking state. The plurality of permanent magnets include primary magnets and secondary magnets that are arrayed alternatively in the circumferential direction. When viewed on a surface facing the brake member, north poles of the primary magnets are circumferentially adjacent to and in contact with north poles of the secondary magnets, and south poles of the primary magnets are circumferentially adjacent to and in contact with south poles of the secondary magnets. The magnetic holder is ferromagnetic.
US10756602B2
The disclosure presents a geared motor unit including a housing having an electric motor formed of a coiled stator assembly and of a magnetized rotor, the housing further including a printed circuit board for connecting and controlling the motor, a movement-reducing gear train, a sensor magnet and a magnetosensitive probe. The gear train includes a toothed movement output gear, the sensor magnet being ring-shaped and being rigidly connected to the output gear. An output gear is extended on either side of the sensor magnet by two guides cooperating with the two opposite walls of the housing; a ring-shaped magnet surrounds the axis of rotation of the output gear; a printed circuit board includes a controller controlling the motor and extends up to the vicinity of the output gear. The printed circuit board includes, in the area located in the vicinity of the output gear, the magnetosensitive probe which is connected directly, electrically and mechanically, to the area and is located axially or radially facing a ring-shaped magnet.
US10756593B2
A drive apparatus is provided which includes a motor and a control unit. The control unit has a heat sink secured to a cover. The motor is equipped with leads extending toward the control unit through a housing. The control unit has a substrate which is equipped with connectors detachably joined to the leads, thereby eliminating soldering or welding to achieve an electrical connection of the motor and the control unit. Such a connection is accomplished by inserting the leads into the connectors, thus eliminating the need for a special and large-sized equipment and resulting in a decrease in production cost of the drive apparatus. The non-destructive disassembling of the motor and the control unit is achieved by disengaging them from each other to remove the second terminal from the first terminal.
US10756592B2
A stator for an electric motor, connected to a circuit board, comprising a stator housing in which several winding arrangements consisting of winding wires wound to form coils are arranged. Contact support receptacles are formed on the stator housing, in which, in each case, an insulation displacement contact element is introduced, which establishes an electrical contact between, in each case, a winding arrangement and a jumper wire on the circuit board.
US10756591B2
Provided is a motor including a shaft; two rotors attached to the shaft and spaced from each other in an axial direction by a predetermined distance; a stator arranged between the two rotors; a busbar unit arranged on one axial side of at least one of the two rotors, and arranged to hold a busbar; and a housing arranged to hold the stator and house the two rotors therein. The stator includes a plurality of cores arranged in a circumferential direction, and coils wound around the cores. A lead wire drawn out from the coils is arranged to extend, radially outside of the one of the rotors, from the corresponding core to a position on the one axial side of the one of the rotors, and is connected to the busbar at the position. The busbar unit is housed in the housing.
US10756576B2
A power receiving circuit, a power transmitting circuit, an apparatus, and a feed system are disclosed. The power receiving circuit receives power in a noncontact manner, and comprises an LC parallel resonant circuit and a reactance element that is electrically connected in series to the LC parallel resonant circuit. The reactive element may be a capacitive or inductive element. In effect, a coil or capacitor in the LC parallel resonant circuit and the reactance element define another LC resonant circuit, namely, an LC series resonant circuit. The power transmitting circuit transmits power in a noncontact manner, and in one example, may also include a similar configuration.
US10756553B2
A programmable battery protection system. Implementations may include a battery protection integrated circuit (IC) with an array of fuses, a plurality of latches coupled with the array of fuses, a plurality of MOSFETs coupled with the plurality of latches, and a plurality of resistors coupled in series and in parallel with each one of the plurality of MOSFETs. The IC may also include a comparator coupled with the plurality of resistors and with a battery control circuit. Whether any one of the array of fuses is open or closed (remains closed) may be set by a fuse trimming signal from the battery control circuit. A voltage supplied to the comparator by the plurality of resistors during operation may be one of a discharge overcurrent threshold voltage, a charge overcurrent threshold voltage, or a short current threshold voltage.
US10756548B2
A quick charging device connects, in a charging operation, a plurality of battery modules in series, and connects the battery modules that are connected in series to a charger, and selects, in a discharging operation, one of the battery modules, and connects the selected battery module to a load unit. When the amount of charge in the battery module connected to the load unit drops by a predetermined amount during the discharging operation, the quick charging device connects another battery module having the largest amount of charge to the load unit.
US10756530B2
The present overcurrent detection circuit includes: a comparative voltage generation unit that generates a comparative voltage that changes in accordance with a power supply voltage; and a comparison unit that generates a comparison result signal by comparing a drain-source voltage of a switching transistor with the comparative voltage.
US10756528B2
A system and method for installing a section of heat shrink tubing on a wire is disclosed. The system includes an infeed guide that receives the continuous length of tubing and initially opens the tubing from a compressed condition. The continuous length of tubing is received in a cutting guide and cut to a desired length. After cutting, a pair of spaced support jaws move together to open the cut section of tubing. A funnel having a first opening and a second opening is moved into engagement with the section of tubing such that the second opening is received within the section of tubing. A wire is inserted into the funnel which guides the wire into the cut section of tubing. Once the wire is received within the cut section of tubing, the funnel and support jaws are removed and the wire is removed with the section of support tubing installed thereon.
US10756525B2
A wall plate system with screwless cover includes a baseplate having one or more central apertures, and a shape that is complementary to the front end of an electrical box. The system includes at least one modular insert that is positionable within the central apertures of the baseplate. Each modular insert including a raised front surface and at least one access opening for engaging an operable portion of a wired device that is located within the electrical box. The system also includes a front cover having one or more cover apertures that compressively engage the raised front surface of each modular insert.
US10756520B2
A sleeve unit for a motor of a ceiling fan includes a tubular member and a wire isolation member. The tubular member has a lateral slot extending through the tubular member from an inner periphery to an outer periphery of the tubular member. The lateral slot extends from a first axial end face towards a second axial end face of the tubular member along an axis of the tubular member. The wire isolation member includes an isolation plate unit delimiting a wire channel. The wire channel is located in the lateral slot. The isolation plate unit includes a stopper plate which is located in the lateral slot but does not come into a space delimited by the inner periphery of the tubular member.
US10756519B2
Disclosed herein are adapter assemblies for use with a cable stripper and a power drill. Some disclosed assemblies include a cable stripper comprising a body and one or more cutting heads coupled to an adapter. Exemplary embodiments comprising an adapter comprising a bracket having an engagement member, where the engagement member is configured to engage with a factory power drill chuck. The adapter may further comprise a pivot pin for hingedly coupling the adapter and the cable stripper, while allowing the cable stripper to rotate relative to the adapter so that a user can select from the one or more cutting heads of the cable stripper. The adapter may further comprise a locking mechanism which when in the locked position prevents the cable stripper from pivoting relative to the adapter.
US10756511B2
Methods and apparatus for measuring objects comprise a plurality of light sources to generate a plurality of light beams directed toward a spot generator array comprising a plurality of spot generating lenses. The plurality of light sources is separated from the spot generator array with a separation distance sufficient to overlap the plurality of light beams at each of the spot generating lenses. The overlap of each of the beams at each of the spot generating lenses provides smoothing of the energy profile of the light energy incident on the spot generating lenses. The spot generator array generates focused spots comprising overlapping focused beams. The overlapping beams may comprise overlapping beams of a vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL) array, and the overlapping focused beams can decrease optical artifacts.
US10756509B2
This invention provides an accurate current mirror circuit in a low voltage headroom applied to common-anode laser drivers, including a reference current detection unit, a tail current source unit, and a control unit. The reference current detection unit generates a bias voltage and a reference voltage according to a reference current from the reference current source; the tail current source unit receives the bias voltage and generate a mirror current accordingly; the control unit receives the reference voltage and an output voltage corresponding to the mirror current and carry out a feedback regulation to the bias voltage accordingly. In this invention, the reference voltage and the output voltage are locked at same level, and then the bias voltage is mirrored to generate the mirror current outputted to the laser, thus avoiding the problem of inaccurate current output caused by the offset of the control unit in the low voltage headroom.
US10756503B2
The present disclosure relates to an optical waveguide system. The system may include a first waveguide having a core-guide and a material portion surrounding and encasing the core-guide. The core-guide enables a core-guide mode for an optical signal travelling through the core-guide. A second waveguide forms a lossy waveguide on an outer surface of the first waveguide. The construction of the second waveguide is such as to achieve a desired coupling between the core-guide mode and the lossy waveguide to control an energy level of the optical signal travelling through the core-guide.
US10756489B2
A card edge connector includes a housing defining a card slot, a terminal module and a grounding member. The terminal module includes two rows of terminals and an insulating base with a first surface, a second surface and end surfaces between and connecting with the first and second surfaces. Each row of terminals includes a plurality of signal terminals and a plurality of grounding terminals. The terminals includes contacting sections extending out the first surface of the insulating base and into the card slot, leg sections extending out the second surface of the insulating base, and connecting sections. The grounding member fitly surrounds the end surfaces of the insulating base and includes a group of first contacting arms and a group of second contacting arms, each grounding terminal is contacted with one first contacting arm and one second contacting arm.
US10756488B2
A bidirectional electrical connector includes a floating or fixed tongue. One metal plate is deployed without overlap to manufacture upper and lower contact interfaces and a metal tongue. The tongue and the H-shaped limit structure can eliminate the short-circuited problem when the bidirectional electrical connector is docked with a complementary electrical connector. The metal tongue or the structure with the metal reinforcement sheets added into the insulation tongue can optimize the use of the bidirectional electrical connector. A snap structure on a metal housing facilitates smooth docking, and the docked state cannot easily get loose, thereby enhancing the docking stability.
US10756487B2
A plug contact set, comprising a plug contact strip (10) having several first plug contacts (12, 14) arranged in a first housing (11), at least one of which is formed as a checking contact (14) having a shorter length than the rest of the plug contacts (12), and having a plug connector (20) having several second plug contacts (22) arranged in a second housing (21), at least one of which is configured to come into electrical contact with the checking contact (14), wherein the first housing (11) has at least one first latch element (31) and the second housing (21) has at least one second latch element (32) which are configured to latch together when the first plug contacts (12) are completely contacted with the second plug contacts (22), is characterised in that the second housing (21) has a third latch element (33) which can be latched with the first latch element (31) and which is arranged to be spaced apart from the second latch element (32) in the plugging direction (S) in such a way that, by latching the third latch element (33) with the first latch element (31), an as clearance-free as possible fixing of the second housing part (21) on the first housing part (11) in the completely contacted state of the first and second plug contacts (12, 14; 14) is achieved.
US10756480B2
A connector and a connector assembly capable of being attached to a freely bendable object such as clothes when used are provided. A connector is attached to a predetermined object such as a clothes and capable of being detachably fitted into a counterpart connector The connector includes: a plate-shaped housing made of an insulating material having bendability; a retention member provided in the housing so as to allow for the bendability, the retention member being configured to retain a fit state with the counterpart connector; a flexible sheet attached to the housing in such a manner as to cover at least a part of the retention member and attached to the object by attaching material; and a conductive contact provided on the sheet.
US10756479B2
An audio connector that has enhanced strain protection. Advantageously, the strain protection can be provided integral with the audio connector. In one embodiment, an audio connector includes an outer shell configured to connect to an audio system, an inner shell coupled to the outer shell, and a strain release member coupled to the inner shell. The strain release member can have a forward portion coupled to the inner shell and having a rearward portion extending rearward. The audio connector can also include a cable that can be secured to the rearward portion of the structural post.
US10756475B2
A holding frame for a heavy plug-type connector can receive identical and/or different plug-type connector modules. The holding frame comprises a main body which has two side parts which lie opposite one another, and at least one fixing clip which is held at least on a side part, and by way of which the plug-type connector modules can be fixed within the main body. The at least one fixing clip has at least one holding arm which moves parallel to the plane of the side parts during the introduction of a plug-type connector module into the holding frame. As a result, plug-type connector modules can be introduced into the holding frame particularly simply and even in the installed state of said holding frame. At the same time, the holding frame variant which is shown here is more stable than the previously known holding frames which have the same functionality.
US10756469B2
An electrical plug (EP) of an electrical plug-in (EPI) connection, including the plug and mating plug (MP), an electrical connection between EPI contacts of the plug contacts (PC) and mating contacts (MC) of the MP occurring when the plug and MP are inserted into each other, including: at least one connector strip (CS) in which EPI contacts, for electrical connection to MCs of the MP, are held by a first end; a free second end (FSE) of the EPI contacts projects away from the CS; a plug-in contact receiving chamber (PCRC) having subchamber bodies (SBs), the FSE of at least one of the EPI contacts projects into each of the SBs; the PCRC being open in the direction of the FSEs of the EPI contacts, the CS and the PCRC being separate components connected to one another, and at least two SBs of the PCRC being connected to one another by an elastic element permitting relative movement of the SBs in a plane perpendicular as to the EPI contacts.
US10756467B2
A communication system includes a first circuit card assembly having a first PCB including a first slot and a first electrical connector mounted to the first PCB along the first slot and having a first mating end. The communication system includes a second circuit card assembly having a second PCB and a second electrical connector mounted to the second PCB and having a second mating end. The first and second circuit card assemblies are mated along a board mating axis parallel to the first slot with the first PCB oriented perpendicular to the second PCB. The first and second mating ends are oriented parallel to the board mating axis. The second PCB is received in the first slot to align the second mating end with the first mating end.
US10756462B2
A resin multilayer substrate includes a substrate main body including first, second, and third wiring portions connected to one another by a connecting portion. First, second and third external connection terminals are respectively included in the first, second and third wiring portions. The first external connection terminal includes a conductor exposed at a surface of the substrate main body. The second and third external connection terminals include connectors mounted on conductors on the surface of the substrate main body. An auxiliary mounting conductor is disposed between the first external connection terminal and the second and third external connection terminals on the surface of the substrate main body.
US10756461B2
An adapter for a housing opening in a housing of a splice block can include an adapter body that is movably coupled to the housing and includes a conductor passage. The adapter body can be selectively movable between a closed configuration and an open configuration, in which the conductor passage is, respectively, in and out of alignment with the housing opening.
US10756455B2
A coaxial cable connector for coupling a coaxial cable to an equipment port, the coaxial cable including a center conductor surrounded by a dielectric material, the dielectric material being surrounded by an outer conductor, the coaxial cable connector including: a post including a first end adapted to be inserted into a prepared end of the coaxial cable between the dielectric material and the outer conductor, wherein the post includes a second end including an enlarged shoulder, wherein the enlarged shoulder has a radial face that faces away from the first end of the post, wherein the radial face is substantially flat; a body member adjacent to the post; a coupler including an internally-threaded region for engaging the equipment port; and a grounding member contacting the post and the coupler, wherein the grounding member provides an electrically-conductive grounding path through the post and the coupler while allowing the coupler to rotate, wherein the grounding member includes at least one resilient portion.
US10756453B2
A quick connection system and method of installing a wall-mounted or ceiling-mounted fixture to house current. The system comprises a light fixture or the like with a plate having a conductive track and a pair of conductive pins, a plate for a junction box having a conductive track with a plurality of openings such that when the conductive pins of the fixture are inserted into the junction plate openings, an electrical connection is made between the fixture and the junction box. A kit is provided having a light fixture or the like with a plate having a conductive track and conductive pins, a plate for a junction box having a conductive track have a plurality of openings to accommodate the conductive pins. The kit is useful for retrofitting the junction box or light fixture and the like. A method of using the system and the kit is disclosed.
US10756449B2
Difficulty of manufacturing is reduced while ensuring waterproof property with respect to a contact portion with an aluminum core wire. A barrel portion of a crimp terminal includes an inner barrel piece and an outer barrel piece, and includes a seal member which is attached over a first region, a second region and a third region and which seals, after crimping, a space between the inner barrel piece and the outer barrel piece, an opening of the barrel portion on a terminal portion side, and a space between a covered portion and the barrel portion. An inner surface of the barrel portion is provided with a plurality of recesses arranged dispersedly, the recess having a circular shape in a plane view with respect to the inner surface.
US10756446B2
An antenna includes a substrate, a first array of transmit antenna patches on the substrate, and a second array of receive antenna patches on the substrate. A spatial orientation of the first array with respect to the second array is selected based on a predetermined desired radiation coupling between the first array and the second array. The antenna can be part of an automotive radar sensor.
US10756443B1
An antenna array system comprises a plurality of antenna elements arranged in an antenna array in a geometric shape. The antenna array system further includes a first sub-array that forms an interior of the antenna array and a second sub-array that forms an exterior of the antenna array. In addition, the first sub-array is a subset of the second sub-array. A number of antenna elements in the first sub-array is greater than a number of antenna elements in the second sub-array. The antenna array system determines an exact satellite location of a satellite within a solid angle of ambiguity using a first virtual pattern and a second virtual pattern.
US10756441B2
Disclosed are multiple-input, multiple-output (MIMO) antenna systems with high gain having an impedance bandwidth greater than 1 GHz and high side-lobe rejection. Suitable systems are configurable to have a radar lens with, for example, an 8×1 antenna array. Additionally, beam steering architecture that concentrates radiated energy through a dielectric lens to achieve a narrow high-gain beam.
US10756439B2
Exemplary embodiments, the present disclosure are related to an antenna system including radiating elements and reflectors. The reflectors can be disposed with respect to the radiating elements to reflect radiation from the radiating elements to generate a coverage area that exceeds the coverage area generated by the radiating elements without the reflectors.
US10756435B2
An antenna module is described where uniform radiation pattern coverage is provided in the plane of a low profile antenna radiating element. A polarization that is orthogonal to the plane of the low profile antenna radiating element can be achieved for the radiated field. A ground plate aperture is implemented into the antenna ground plate to minimize frequency shift as the antenna is installed on metallic (conductive) and non-metallic (non-conductive) ground planes of varying sizes. This antenna system technique is applicable for use in communication systems such as a local Area network (LAN), cellular communication network, and Machine to Machine (M2M).
US10756432B2
An RF antenna includes a first substrate having a first top surface and a first bottom surface and a second substrate having a second top surface and a second bottom surface, wherein the first substrate is disposed on top of the second substrate, the second bottom surface including a ground plane disposed thereon. The RF antenna further includes a low-band (LB) radiation element disposed on the first top surface of the first substrate. The LB radiation element is to resonate within a first frequency band to transmit and receive RF signals associated with the first frequency band. The RF antenna further includes multiple high-band (HB) radiation elements disposed between the first bottom surface of the first substrate and the second top surface of the second substrate. Each HB radiation element is to resonate within a second frequency band to transmit and receive RF signals associated with the second frequency band.
US10756426B2
Proposed is a millimeter-wave band communication device which does not generate spatial resonance in a cover shielding unnecessary radio waves from the outside.Disclosed is a millimeter-wave band communication device including: a substrate; a radio frequency circuit element for a millimeter-wave band provided on the substrate; and a cover made of a bulk material that covers at least a part of the radio frequency circuit element and a surface of the substrate, the cover being formed by blending a dielectric loss material in a base.
US10756425B2
A sensor probe with reduced coupling between the various antenna elements and suppression of radio frequency interference. In one embodiment the sensor probe comprises a first antenna and a second antenna. A first and a second decoupling loop is electrically connected to one of the first and second antennas with current flow in opposite directions in the first and second decoupling loops. A third decoupling loop is electrically connected to another one of the first and second antennas and physically disposed between the first and second decoupling loops. Coupling between the first and second antennas is responsive to a location of the third decoupling loop relative to the first and second decoupling loops.
US10756422B2
Shroud isolation, including choke shroud isolation, apparatuses for wireless antennas for point-to-point or point-to-multipoint transmission/communication of high bandwidth signals, and integrated reflectors including a shroud or choke shroud. A choke shroud systems may include a cylindrical body with an isolation choke boundary at the distal opening to attenuate electromagnetic signals to, from, or within the antenna. The isolation choke boundary region may have ridges that may be tuned to a band of interest. The isolation choke boundary may provide RF isolation when used near other antennas.
US10756390B2
The present invention provides a single-phase or homogeneous solution comprising a high concentration of a salt, in particular a lithium salt, in an organic solvent. Such a high salt content in organic solvent is useful in a variety of applications including, but not limited to, in electrical energy storage devices as well as other devices that can benefit from a low-volatility liquid electrolyte.
US10756389B2
The present invention concerns methods for the manufacture of ethylene carbonate substituted with a fluorinated alkoxy group, certain ethylene carbonates substituted with a fluorinated alkoxy group as well as their use as solvent or solvent additive for lithium ion batteries and supercapacitors.
US10756386B2
The present invention provides a lithium ion battery including a lithium ion battery body. The lithium ion battery body includes a positive electrode sheet, a separator, a cushion rubber and a solid-state negative electrode sheet. The positive electrode sheet and the solid-state negative electrode sheet are provided at upper and lower surfaces of the separator. The cushion rubber is located in the positive electrode sheet and the separator. The present invention further provides a method for preparing a lithium ion battery including the preparation of the positive electrode sheet, the preparation of the solid-state negative electrode sheet and the preparation of the cushion rubber.
US10756380B2
An electrode assembly includes a cell stack part having (a) a structure in which one kind of radical unit is repeatedly disposed, or (b) a structure in which at least two kinds of radical units are disposed in a predetermined order, the one kind or the at least two kinds of radical units having same number of electrodes and separators alternately disposed. The one kind of radical unit has four-layered structure in which first electrode, first separator, second electrode and second separator are sequentially stacked or repeating structure of the four-layered structure. Each of the at least two kinds of radical units are stacked by ones to form the four-layered structure or the repeating structure. An outer separator that is a separator among separators of a radical unit positioned at the outermost part of the cell stack part is extended from a side of the cell stack part.
US10756368B2
A fuel cell system includes: a fuel cell stack; a sensor configured to sense a current and a voltage of the fuel cell stack; and a controller configured to acquire weight information based on a relationship between a usage time of a fuel cell and the current or voltage of the fuel cell stack and to determine a humidity state of the fuel cell stack based on the weight information, the current of the fuel cell stack and the voltage of the fuel cell stack.
US10756366B2
A fuel cell system and a fuel consumption system verify the location of a filling failure at a time that a fuel gas filling process suffers from such a filling failure. Either one of encoded data indicating an infrared radiation signal related to the fuel gas filling process, which is sent from a vehicle to an external hydrogen station, and a drive signal, which comprises a train of binary pulses converted from the encoded data, is recorded in a recording unit of the vehicle.
US10756365B2
The invention relates to a water separator for separating product water from a fuel cell, a fuel cell including a water separator and a motor vehicle including a fuel cell. To design the water separator to be as compact as possible and to be able to operate it in a frost-proof manner, it is provided according to the invention that the water separator has a sealing element and a riser pipe extending through the sealing element.
US10756354B2
A membrane catalyst layer assembly production method is provided for producing a membrane catalyst layer assembly by discharging catalyst ink having a solvent and a solid component onto an electrolyte membrane. The membrane catalyst layer assembly production method includes forming a first catalyst ink layer having a first porosity on the electrolyte membrane by controlling a porosity of a catalyst ink layer that is formed by the catalyst ink making impact with the electrolyte membrane by adjusting an amount of solvent in the catalyst ink in drop form prior to impact with the electrolyte membrane, and forming a second catalyst ink layer having a second porosity, which is different from the first porosity, on the first catalyst ink layer, by adjusting the amount of solvent in the catalyst ink in drop form prior to impact with the first catalyst ink layer.
US10756348B2
The present invention relates to polymers and to the use thereof in the form of active electrode material or in an electrode slurry as electrical charge storage means, the electrical charge storage means especially being secondary batteries. The secondary batteries are especially notable for high cell voltages, a small drop in capacity even on undergoing several charging and discharging cycles, and simple and scalable processing and production methods (for example by means of screen printing).
US10756346B2
A porous carbon material is provided. The porous carbon material having a value of specific surface area of at least 10 m2/g as measured by a nitrogen BET method, a pore volume of at least 0.1 cm3/g as measured by a BJH method and a MP method, and a R value of 1.5 or greater, wherein the R value is expressed as R=B/A, wherein A is an intensity at an intersection between a baseline of a diffraction peak of a (002) plane as obtained based on powdery X-ray diffractometry of the porous carbon material and a perpendicular line downwardly drawn from the diffraction peak of the (002) plane, and wherein B is an intensity of the diffraction peak of the (002) plane.
US10756309B2
A method of manufacturing a light-emitting display device, the method including forming a first electrode on a substrate, the substrate including a plurality of pixel regions divided by a non-pixel region, in each of the pixel regions; forming a pixel defining layer, the pixel defining layer having a plurality of pixel openings, each of the pixel openings exposing the first electrode, on the substrate; forming a hole injection layer on the first electrode; forming a lyophilic layer on the hole injection layer to completely overlap the hole injection layer; forming a hole transport layer on the lyophilic layer; forming a light-emitting layer on the hole transport layer; and forming a second electrode on the light-emitting layer.
US10756306B2
A nanostructured article having a first layer with a nanostructured surface is described. The nanostructured surface includes a plurality of pillars extending from a base surface of the first layer. The pillars have an average height greater than an average lateral dimension of the pillars. An average center-to-center spacing between pillars is no more than 2000 nm. The average lateral dimension is no less than 50 nm. Each pillar in the plurality of pillars has at least a lower portion and an upper portion where the lower portion is between the upper portion and the base surface, and the upper and lower portions have differing compositions. The nanostructured article includes a second layer disposed over the plurality of pillars and extending continuously to the base surface.
US10756300B2
A display apparatus includes a display panel which displays an image; and a cover on a first surface of the display panel. The cover includes a flexible member, and a rigid member which has less flexibility than the flexible member, the flexible member and the rigid member respectively being portions of a same layer on the first surface of the display panel. One member among the flexible member and the rigid member defines a cavity therein, and the other member among the flexible member and the rigid member is disposed in the cavity.
US10756298B2
An OLED device comprising a substrate with a top surface; a first electrode covering the top surface of the substrate; a first insulating structure patterned over a portion of the first electrode where the pattern defines an inside area of the first electrode that is completely surrounded by the insulating structure, and an outside area of the first electrode not covered by the insulating structure; at least one organic layer for light emission within the inside area defined by the insulating structure; a second electrode over the at least one organic layer within the inside area defined by the insulating structure and at least partially over the first insulating structure; a cover slip located at least over the second electrode in the inside area defined by the insulating structure; and an electrically conductive solder seal making a hermetic seal between the insulating structure and the cover slip where the solder seal is in electrical contact with the second electrode. The insulating structure is desirably made of glass frit.
US10756296B2
The present application discloses a packaging structure, the packaging structure includes a first substrate, a side of the first substrate including a power supply terminal; a second substrate; a metal extension layer, extending from the power supply terminal to both ends of the first side of the first substrate; and a packaging layer, covering the metal extension layer and fastening the first substrate and the second substrate.
US10756294B2
A method is specified for production of an insulator layer. This method comprises the following process steps: A) providing a precursor comprising a mixture of a first, a second and a third component where—the first component comprises a compound of the general where R1 and R2 are each independently selected from a group comprising hydrogen and alkyl radicals and n=1 to 10 000; the second component comprises a compound of the general where R3 is an alkyl radical, and the third component comprises at least one amine compound; B) applying the precursor to a substrate; C) curing the precursor to form the insulator layer. The first compound comprises an epoxy group and a hydroxyl group. The second compound comprises an ester group. The curing takes place at room temperature or at temperatures between 50° C. and 260° C.
US10756292B2
A method of manufacturing an OLED panel and an OLED panel are provided. The method includes forming an anode connected to a source of a TFT, and a strap electrode connected to an auxiliary electrode on a TFT substrate. A sharp shaped corner is formed on the strap electrode, therefore an area of the electron transport layer and the electron injection layer corresponding to the sharp shaped corner have a thinner thickness. By applying a voltage between the auxiliary electrode and the cathode, the electron transport layer and the electron injection layer corresponding to the sharp shaped corner are punctured, the cathode is directly connected to the strap electrode and further conducted to the auxiliary electrode, resulting in a signal is inputted to the cathode through the auxiliary electrode during display. The problem of uneven display of the OLED panel due to the IR drop of the cathode is improved.
US10756290B2
An organic light-emitting display device is provided. The organic light-emitting display device comprises a substrate, a thin-film transistor (TFT) disposed on the substrate, an overcoat layer disposed on the TFT, a first electrode disposed on the overcoat layer and including a lower electrode layer, an intermediate electrode layer, which is disposed on the lower electrode layer, and an upper electrode layer, which is disposed on the intermediate electrode layer, an emission layer disposed on the first electrode, and a second electrode disposed on the emission layer, wherein the first electrode includes a first area in which the lower electrode layer, the intermediate electrode layer and the upper electrode layer are sequentially stacked and a second area in which the lower electrode layer and the upper electrode layer are sequentially stacked.
US10756286B2
A light-emitting element with high luminous efficiency is provided. The light-emitting element contains a first organic compound and a second organic compound. The first and second organic compounds form an exciplex. The first organic compound emits no fluorescence but phosphorescence at a temperature ranging from low temperature to normal temperature. The luminescence quantum yield of the first organic compound is higher than or equal to 0% and lower than or equal to 40% at room temperature. Light emitted from the light-emitting element includes light emitted from an exciplex formed by the first organic compound and the second organic compound.
US10756283B2
A sensor including a layer of amorphous selenium (a-Se) and at least one charge blocking layer is formed by depositing the charge blocking layer over a substrate prior to depositing the amorphous selenium, enabling the charge blocking layer to be formed at elevated temperatures. Such a process is not limited by the crystallization temperature of a-Se, resulting in the formation of an efficient charge blocking layer, which enables improved signal amplification of the resulting device. The sensor can be fabricated by forming first and second amorphous selenium layers over separate substrates, and then fusing the a-Se layers at a relatively low temperature.
US10756280B2
A method for manufacturing an organic thin film transistor includes steps of: forming a graphene layer on a surface of a metal substrate; covering a surface of the graphene layer with an organic solution and heating the graphene layer to form organic semiconductor nano lines on the surface of the graphene layer; and transferring the organic semiconductor nano lines to a target substrate. The graphene layer is formed on the surface of the metal substrate in mass production. The organic semiconductor nano lines (monocrystalline semiconductor) are grown in mass production by the graphene layer. The semiconductor layer having organic thin film transistors is formed after transferring the organic semiconductor nano lines on the target substrate. A large amount of the organic semiconductor nano lines can be formed simultaneously on the surface of the metal substrate with a large area.
US10756274B2
An organic light-emitting device including a first electrode; a second electrode; emission units stacked between the first electrode and the second electrode and including at least one emission layer; and charge generation layers between two adjacent emission units, the charge generation layers each including an n-type charge generation layer and p-type charge generation layer, a maximum emission wavelength of light emitted by at least one of the emission units is different from that of another emission unit, one n-type charge generation layer includes a first compound and a metal-containing material, the first compound being represented by Formula 1, the p-type charge generation layers include an amino group-free compound, at least one of the emission units further includes a hole transporting (HT)-emission auxiliary layer on a first electrode side thereof, and the HT-emission auxiliary layer includes at least one second compound, the second compound being represented by Formula 2:
US10756269B2
A composition comprising an organic EL material, a solvent (A) represented by the formula (1), an aromatic hydrocarbon solvent (B) and an aromatic ether solvent (C): [wherein R1 represents an alkyl group having a number of carbon atoms of 10 to 12].
US10756264B2
The resistance change memory device including a first resistance change memory element, a second resistance change memory element, and a memory controller is provided. The first resistance change memory element is disposed on a chip. The second resistance change memory element is disposed on the same chip. The memory controller is disposed on the same chip. The memory controller is configured to control data access of the first resistance change memory element and the second resistance change memory element. An accessing frequency of the first resistance change memory element is different from an accessing frequency of the second resistance change memory element.
US10756263B2
A method of switching a phase-change device (Device), including changing phase of the Device from a semiconducting 2H phase to a new 2Hd phase with a higher conductivity, the Device having an active material with a thickness including a phase transition material to thereby transition the Device from a high resistive state (HRS) to a low resistive state (LRS) by application of a set voltage and further to return the Device from the LRS back to the HRS by application of a reset voltage.
US10756245B2
An optoelectronic component has at least one lead frame section, wherein an optoelectronic element is arranged on the lead frame section, a mold material is applied at least on a first face of the lead frame section and adhesively connected to the lead frame section by the first face, the lead frame section consists of a predetermined material, a part of the first face of the lead frame section is provided with a coating, a region of the first face is free of the coating, and the mold material connects to the material of the lead frame section in the free region.
US10756239B2
A synthetic quartz glass lid is provided comprising a synthetic quartz glass and an adhesive formed on a periphery of a main surface of the window member. Further, an optical device package is provided comprising a box-shaped receptacle having an open upper end, an optical device received in the receptacle, and a window member of synthetic quartz glass bonded to the upper end of the receptacle with an adhesive. The adhesive is a low-melting metallic glass consisting of Te, Ag and at least one element selected from W, V, P, Ba, and Zr.
US10756238B2
A semiconductor light emitting device includes a light emitting structure having a first conductivity-type semiconductor layer, an active layer, and a second conductivity-type semiconductor layer, a transparent electrode layer on the second conductivity-type semiconductor layer, and a reflective electrode structure on the transparent electrode layer that includes a light-transmitting insulating layer on the transparent electrode layer with insulating patterns, portions of sides of the insulating patterns being open, and a contact region of the transparent electrode layer being defined by a region between the insulating patterns, air gaps between the transparent electrode layer and the insulating patterns, the air gaps extending in the open portions of the sides of the insulating patterns, and a reflective electrode layer on the insulating patterns to cover the open portions of the insulating patterns, the reflective electrode layer being connected to the contact region of the transparent electrode layer.
US10756235B2
A method of forming a semiconductor structure is provided. The method includes providing a substrate with a first melting point. A sacrificial layer with a second melting point is forming over the substrate. The second melting point is less than the first melting point. A stack of semiconductor layers is formed over the sacrificial layer. The stack of semiconductor layers has a third melting point greater than the second melting point and a formation temperature less than the second melting point. A thermal process is performed at a temperature greater than the second melting point and less than the first melting point and the third melting point in order to melt the sacrificial layer such that the substrate is stripped from the stack of semiconductor layers.
US10756234B2
In various embodiments, extraction efficiency of light-emitting devices fabricated on aluminum nitride substrates is enhanced via removal of at least a portion of the substrate.
US10756232B2
Disclosed is a semiconductor device comprising a thin film transistor and wirings connected to the thin film transistor, in which the thin film transistor has a channel formation region in an oxide semiconductor layer, and a copper metal is used for at least one of a gate electrode, a source electrode, a drain electrode, a gate wiring, a source wiring, and a drain wiring. The extremely low off current of the transistor with the oxide semiconductor layer contributes to reduction in power consumption of the semiconductor device. Additionally, the use of the copper metal allows the combination of the semiconductor device with a display element to provide a display device with high display quality and negligible defects, which results from the low electrical resistance of the wirings and electrodes formed with the copper metal.
US10756228B2
The present disclosure relates to a sensor comprising: an array of photodetectors comprising a first subarray of at least one photodetector and a second subarray of at least one photodetector; a first optical arrangement to direct incoming photons toward the first subarray; and a second optical arrangement to direct incoming photons toward the second subarray.
US10756221B2
Materials and methods for preparing Cu2XSnY4 nanoparticles, wherein X is Zn, Cd, Hg, Ni, Co, Mn or Fe and Y is S or Se, (CXTY) are disclosed herein. The nanoparticles can be used to make layers for use in thin film photovoltaic (PV) cells. The CXTY materials are prepared by a colloidal synthesis in the presence of labile organo-chalcogens. The organo-chalcogens serves as both a chalcogen source for the nanoparticles and as a capping ligand for the nanoparticles.
US10756218B2
A solid state imaging apparatus includes an insulation structure formed of an insulation substance penetrating through at least a silicon layer at a light receiving surface side, the insulation structure having a forward tapered shape where a top diameter at an upper portion of the light receiving surface side of the silicon layer is greater than a bottom diameter at a bottom portion of the silicon layer. Also, there are provided a method of producing the solid state imaging apparatus and an electronic device including the solid state imaging apparatus.
US10756212B2
Roughly described, a computer program product describes a transistor with a fin, a fin support, a gate, and a gate dielectric. The fin includes a first crystalline semiconductor material which includes a channel region of the transistor between a source region of the first transistor and a drain region of the transistor. The fin is on a fin support. The fin support includes a second crystalline semiconductor material different from the first crystalline semiconductor material. The first crystalline semiconductor material of the fin and the second crystalline semiconductor material of the fin support form a first heterojunction in between. A gate, gate dielectric, and/or isolation dielectric can be positioned to improve control within the channel.
US10756211B2
A semiconductor device includes an active pattern protruding from a substrate, a gate structure crossing over the active pattern, and source/drain regions disposed on the active pattern at opposite sides of the gate structure. Each of the source/drain regions includes a first epitaxial pattern contacting the active pattern and a second epitaxial pattern on the first epitaxial pattern. The first epitaxial pattern comprises a material having a lattice constant which is the same as that of the substrate, and the second epitaxial pattern comprises a material having a lattice constant greater than that of the first epitaxial pattern.
US10756209B2
A semiconductor device including a substrate having a fin structure surrounded by a trench isolation region; a trench disposed in the fin structure; an interlayer dielectric layer disposed on the substrate; a working gate striding over the fin structure and on the first side of the trench; a dummy gate striding over the fin structure and on the second side of the trench; a doped source region in the fin structure; and a doped drain region in the fin structure. The dummy gate is disposed between the trench and the doped drain region. The fin structure extends along a first direction and the dummy gate extends along a second direction. The first direction is not parallel with the second direction.
US10756206B2
A compound semiconductor field effect transistor may include a channel layer. The compound semiconductor transistor may also include a multi-layer epitaxial barrier layer on the channel layer. The channel layer may be on a doped buffer layer or on a first un-doped buffer layer. The compound semiconductor field effect transistor may further include a gate. The gate may be on a first tier of the multi-layer epitaxial barrier layer, and through a space between portions of a second tier of the multi-layer epitaxial barrier layer.
US10756200B2
A silicon carbide semiconductor element includes n-type silicon carbide epitaxial layers formed on an n+-type silicon carbide semiconductor substrate, plural p base layers selectively formed in surfaces of the silicon carbide epitaxial layers, a p-type silicon carbide epitaxial layer formed in the silicon carbide epitaxial layer, and a trench penetrating at least the silicon carbide epitaxial layer. The silicon carbide semiconductor element also includes, in a portion of the silicon carbide epitaxial layer, a mesa portion exposing the p base layer. The silicon carbide semiconductor element further includes, between consecutive mesa side faces of the mesa portion, a flat portion substantially parallel to the silicon carbide substrate. The remaining thickness of the exposed p base layer is larger than 0.5 μm and smaller than 1.0 μm.
US10756193B2
A gate driver integrated circuit is provided. The gate driver integrated circuit includes a substrate having a drift region of a first doping type therein, and a field effect transistor including a drain region of the first doping type, a source region of the first doping type, and a gate structure. The gate driver integrated circuit also includes a first well region of a second doping type and a first contact region of the second doping type. Each of the first well region and the drain region is formed in the drift region, the source region is formed in the first well region, and an end portion of the gate structure near the source region covers a portion of the first well region. Further, the gate driver integrated circuit includes a field plate structure formed on the substrate and disposed between the source region and the drain region.
US10756190B2
The invention provides a precursor composition for forming an amorphous metal oxide semiconductor layer, containing a metal salt, a primary amide, and a water-based solution. An amorphous metal oxide semiconductor layer is formed by use of the composition.
US10756184B2
The present disclosure relates to semiconductor structures and, more particularly, to faceted epitaxial source/drain regions and methods of manufacture. The structure includes: a gate structure over a substrate; an L-shaped sidewall spacer located on sidewalls of the gate structure and extending over the substrate adjacent to the gate structure; and faceted diffusion regions on the substrate, adjacent to the L-shaped sidewall spacer.
US10756182B2
Provided is a semiconductor device including a semiconductor substrate doped with impurities, a front surface-side electrode provided on a front surface side of the semiconductor substrate, a back surface-side electrode provided on a back surface side of the semiconductor substrate, wherein the semiconductor substrate has a peak region arranged on the back surface side of the semiconductor substrate and having one or more peaks of impurity concentration, a high concentration region arranged closer to the front surface than the peak region and having a gentler impurity concentration than the one or more peaks, and a low concentration region arranged closer to the front surface than the high concentration region and having a lower impurity concentration than the high concentration region.
US10756181B1
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device include first and second electrodes, first, second, third, fourth, fifth, and sixth semiconductor regions, a gate electrode, and an interconnect portion. The first semiconductor region is provided on the first electrode. The second semiconductor region is electrically connected to the first electrode and provided around the first semiconductor region. The third semiconductor region is provided on the first and second semiconductor regions. The fourth semiconductor region is provided on a portion of the third semiconductor region. The fifth semiconductor region is provided selectively on the fourth semiconductor region. The gate electrode opposes the fifth and fourth semiconductor regions, and the portion. The sixth semiconductor region is provided on another portion of the third semiconductor region. The second electrode is provided on the fourth and fifth semiconductor regions. The interconnect portion is electrically connected to the gate electrode.
US10756160B2
A magnetic component includes a semiconductor substrate, a first winding that is located in the semiconductor substrate and that includes at least two turns, and intra-winding insulation located between two adjacent turns of the at least two turns and including doped regions in the semiconductor substrate that define either an NPN-junction or a PNP junction.
US10756157B2
Disclosed is an electroluminescent display device which is capable of preventing a current density from being concentrated when low-potential power is supplied from a low-potential power supply pad, wherein the electroluminescent display device includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels, a pad portion provided in the edge of the display panel, and configured to include a low-potential power pad supplied with low-potential power, and a low-potential contact portion for electrically connecting the low-potential power pad with the plurality of pixels, wherein the low-potential contact portion has a round shape.
US10756153B2
An organic light emitting display device is disclosed, which removes an inorganic film from a bending area and minimizes a crack of a routing line to enable an extreme bending. The organic light emitting display device comprises a substrate having a display area and a bending area; a display assembly provided on a display area of the substrate; a routing line arranged on the bending area of the substrate and connected to the display assembly; and an organic layer provided on the bending area of the substrate, covering the routing line, wherein the bending area of the substrate has only the routing line and the organic layer.
US10756150B2
A thin-film transistor substrate may include a substrate, a transistor on the substrate, and including an active pattern, and a gate electrode insulated from the active pattern, and a first protection member on the transistor, and overlapping the transistor in a plan view.
US10756149B2
Disclosed is an organic light emitting display device including: an organic light emitting diode disposed in a first area of a substrate; and a reflective layer disposed in a second area adjacent to the first area. The reflective layer electrically contacts a cathode of the organic light emitting diode.
US10756148B2
An inkjet printing OLED display panel and manufacturing method are provided. The method includes sequentially forming a passivation layer and a planarization layer on thin-film transistors on a glass substrate, and the passivation layer covers the thin-film transistors; forming vias both at the passivation layer and the planarization layer; forming anodes on the planarization layer, and the anodes are electrically connected to the thin-film transistors through the vias; depositing a pixel definition layer on the planarization layer, and the pixel definition layer covers the anodes; using a half-tone mask to define a pattern of the pixel definition layer such that a region of the pixel definition layer located above the anodes forms a notch, and a height of the pixel definition layer located between the anodes is decreased; using an inkjet printing technology to form a light-emitting layer in the notch of the pixel definition layer.
US10756135B2
A display device is disclosed. The display device includes a substrate having a front surface and a rear surface opposite the front surface, an electrode layer formed on the front surface, a light source provided on the front surface and connected to the electrode layer, a first resin layer attached to the front surface of the substrate, and including a through hole exposing at least a part of the electrode layer and the light source to outside, and a second resin positioned in the through hole and covering the part of the electrode layer exposed to the outside. A volume of the second resin is 30 to 70% of a difference between a volume of a space formed by the through hole and a volume of the light source.
US10756127B2
A method for fabricating an image sensor array having a first group of photodiodes for detecting light at visible wavelengths a second group of photodiodes for detecting light at infrared or near-infrared wavelengths, the method including growing a germanium-silicon layer on a semiconductor donor wafer; defining pixels of the image sensor array on the germanium-silicon layer; defining a first interconnect layer on the germanium-silicon layer, wherein the interconnect layer includes a plurality of interconnects coupled to the first group of photodiodes and the second group of photodiodes; defining integrated circuitry for controlling the pixels of the image sensor array on a semiconductor carrier wafer; defining a second interconnect layer on the semiconductor carrier wafer, wherein the second interconnect layer includes a plurality of interconnects coupled to the integrated circuitry; and bonding the first interconnect layer with the second interconnect layer.
US10756104B2
A semiconductor memory device includes a semiconductor substrate including a diode formed in an upper layer portion of the semiconductor substrate, a first insulating film provided above the semiconductor substrate, a first conductive film provided above the first insulating film and coupled to the diode, a stacked body provided above the first conductive film, an insulator and an electrode film being stacked alternately in the stacked body, a semiconductor member piercing the stacked body and being connected to the first conductive film, and a charge storage member provided between the electrode film and the semiconductor member.
US10756093B1
Some embodiments include a method of forming an integrated assembly. Conductive blocks are formed over a construction. Each of the conductive blocks is over a set which includes a pair of storage-element-contact-regions and a digit-line-contact-region. Each of the conductive blocks is entirely laterally surrounded by first insulative material. Central regions of the conductive blocks are removed to split each of the conductive blocks into a first conductive portion over one of the storage-element-contact-regions and a second conductive portion over another of the storage-element-contact-regions. Second insulative material is formed between the first and second conductive portions. Digit-lines are coupled with the digit-line-contact-regions, and storage-elements are coupled with the storage-element-contact-regions.
US10756090B2
The present invention provides a storage node contact structure of a memory device comprising a substrate having a dielectric layer comprising a recess, a first tungsten metal layer, and an adhesive layer on the first tungsten metal layer and a second tungsten metal layer on the adhesive layer, wherein the second tungsten metal layer is formed by a physical vapor deposition (PVD).
US10756089B2
Present disclosure provides a hybrid semiconductor transistor structure, including a substrate, a first transistor on the substrate, a channel of the first transistor including a fin and having a first channel height, a second transistor adjacent to the first transistor, a channel of the second transistor including a nanowire, and a separation laterally spacing the fin from the nanowire. The first channel height is greater than the separation. Present disclosure also provides a method for manufacturing the hybrid semiconductor transistor structure.
US10756081B2
The invention relates to an avalanche diode that can be employed as an ESD protection device. An avalanche ignition region is formed at the p-n junction of the diode and includes an enhanced defect concentration level to provide rapid onset of avalanche current. The avalanche ignition region is preferably formed wider than the diode depletion zone, and is preferably created by placement, preferably by ion implantation, of an atomic specie different from that of the principal device structure. The doping concentration of the placed atomic specie should be sufficiently high to ensure substantially immediate onset of avalanche current when the diode breakdown voltage is exceeded. The new atomic specie preferably comprises argon or nitrogen, but other atomic species can be employed. However, other means of increasing a defect concentration level in the diode depletion zone, such as an altered annealing program, are also contemplated.
US10756076B2
A semiconductor package includes a package substrate, a logic chip on the package substrate, a memory stack structure on the package substrate and including first and second semiconductor chips stacked along a first direction, and a first bump between the package substrate and the memory stack structure. The logic chip and the memory stack are spaced apart along a second direction, crossing the first direction, on the package substrate. The first semiconductor chip includes a through via electrically connected to the second semiconductor chip, a chip signal pad connected to the through via, and a first redistribution layer electrically connected to the chip signal pad and having an edge signal pad in contact with the first bump. A distance between the logic chip and the edge signal pad along the second direction is less than that between the logic chip and the chip signal pad.
US10756074B2
A light emitting assembly (100), a spot lamp and a luminaire are provided. The light emitting assembly comprises at least one first package (110) with a solid-state light emitting a first color of light, a second package (120) with a solid-state light emitter emitting a second color of light and a third package (130) with a solid-state light emitter emitting a third color of light. The first package has a smallest side (w1) that is at least 60% smaller than the sides (w2, w3, l2, l3) of the second package and the third package. The packages are provided on a substrate (140). Seen in along a view direction towards a top surface of the substrate; an envelope around said packages is a circle or an ellipse (150) having a center (152), one first package is positioned on the center, or two first packages are provided at positions adjacent to the center and intersect with a virtual line through the center.
US10756066B2
A light-emitting device and a method for manufacturing the light-emitting device is disclosed. Such a light-emitting device comprises a substrate, a plurality of cells disposed on the substrate, and a plurality of semiconductor dice, wherein each of the plurality of cells accommodates at least one of the plurality of dice. Each of the plurality of cells may be filled with an encapsulant, phosphor or a mixture of an encapsulant with phosphor to control light characteristics of the light-emitting device. In an alternative aspect, cells may be filled with an encapsulant, and comprise a transparent cover coated with or filled with phosphors to control light characteristics of the light-emitting device.
US10756065B2
A method of fabricating a package structure including at least the following steps is provided. A carrier is provided. A first package is formed on the carrier. The first package is formed by at least the following steps. A first redistribution layer is formed on the carrier, wherein the first redistribution layer has a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface. A semiconductor die is bonded on the first surface of the first redistribution layer. The semiconductor die is electrically connected to the first redistribution layer through a plurality of conductive wires. An insulating material is formed to encapsulate the semiconductor die and the plurality of conductive wires. A thinning process is performed to obtain an insulating encapsulant by reducing a thickness of the insulating material until a portion of each of the conductive wires is removed to form a plurality of conductive wire segments, wherein the semiconductor die is electrically insulated from the first redistribution layer after the thinning process. A second redistribution layer is formed on a top surface of the insulating encapsulant, and over the semiconductor die. The second redistribution layer is electrically connected to the first redistribution layer and to the semiconductor die by the plurality of conductive wire segments.
US10756057B2
A half-bridge power semiconductor module includes an insulating wiring board including a positive-electrode wiring conductor, a bridge wiring conductor, and a negative-electrode wiring conductor arranged on or above a single insulating plate in such a way as to be electrically insulated from each other. The back-surface electrodes of a high-side power semiconductor device and a low-side power semiconductor device are joined to the front sides of the positive-electrode wiring conductor and the bridge wiring conductor. Front-surface electrodes of the high-side power semiconductor device and the low-side power semiconductor device are connected to the bridge wiring conductor and the negative-electrode wiring conductor by a plurality of bonding wires and a plurality of bonding wires.
US10756056B2
The present disclosure provides a packaging method for wafer-level system in package. The packaging method for wafer-level system in package includes bonding at least two wafers together along a stacking direction perpendicular to surfaces of the at least two wafers, each wafer containing a plurality of chips. The bonding includes adjoining two wafers to-be-bonded together, and after adjoining, forming a plurality of plugs to electrically connect the plurality of chips in the two wafers.
US10756055B2
Provided are a stacked image sensor package and a packaging method thereof. A stacked image sensor package includes: a stacked image sensor in which a pixel array die and a logic die are stacked; a redistribution layer formed on one surface of the stacked image sensor, rerouting an input/output of the stacked image sensor, and including a first pad and a second pad; a memory die connected with the first pad of the redistribution layer and positioned on the stacked image sensor; and external connectors connected with the second pad, connecting the memory die and the stacked image sensor with an external device, and having the memory die positioned therebetween.
US10756049B2
A microelectronic package includes a substrate having a first surface. A microelectronic element overlies the first surface. Electrically conductive elements are exposed at the first surface of the substrate, at least some of which are electrically connected to the microelectronic element. The package includes wire bonds having bases bonded to respective ones of the conductive elements and ends remote from the substrate and remote from the bases. The ends of the wire bonds are defined on tips of the wire bonds, and the wire bonds define respective first diameters between the bases and the tips thereof. The tips have at least one dimension that is smaller than the respective first diameters of the wire bonds. A dielectric encapsulation layer covers portions of the wire bonds, and unencapsulated portions of the wire bonds are defined by portions of the wire bonds, including the ends, are uncovered by the encapsulation layer.
US10756035B2
A semiconductor device is presented. The semiconductor device comprises a semiconductor body coupled to a first load terminal and to a second load terminal and configured to carry a load current between the first load terminal and the second load terminal. The first load terminal comprises a contiguous metal layer coupled to the semiconductor body; and at least one metal island arranged on top of and in contact with the contiguous metal layer and configured to be contacted by an end of a bond wire and to receive at least a part of the load current by means of the bond wire, wherein the contiguous metal layer and the metal island are composed of the same metal.
US10756031B1
An IC device carrier includes organic substrate layers and wiring line layers therein. To reduce stain of the organic substrate layers and to provide decoupling capacitance, one or more decoupling capacitor stiffeners (DCS) are applied to the top side metallization (TSM) surface of the IC device carrier. The DCS(s) reduce the amount of curvature of the IC device carrier and reduce the strain seen by the organic substrate layers, thereby mitigating the risk for cracks forming and expanding or other damage within the carrier. The DCS(s) also include two or more capacitor plates and provides capacitance to electrically decouple electrical subsystems of the system of which the DCS is apart.
US10756022B2
Some embodiments include a semiconductor package. The semiconductor package has a semiconductor die with a primary region which includes integrated circuitry, and with an edge region which includes a portion of an alignment mark location. The portion of the alignment mark location includes a segment of an alignment mark. The alignment mark includes a pattern of lines and spaces, with the lines extending along a first direction. The portion of the alignment mark location also includes a texture having a pattern other than lines extending along either the first direction or along a second direction substantially orthogonal to the first direction. Some embodiments include methods for alignment marking semiconductor wafers.
US10756020B2
A fabric-based item may include fabric layers and other layers of material. An array of electrical components may be mounted in the fabric-based item. The electrical components may be mounted to a support structure such as a flexible printed circuit. The flexible printed circuit may have a mesh shape formed from an array of openings. Serpentine flexible printed circuit segments may extend between the openings. The electrical components may be light-emitting diodes or other electrical devices. Polymer with light-scattering particles or other materials may cover the electrical components. The flexible printed circuit may be laminated between fabric layers or other layers of material in the fabric-based item.
US10756014B2
A semiconductor device includes a capacitor structure. The capacitor structure comprises conductive vias extending through openings in a stack of alternating dielectric materials and first conductive materials, each conductive via comprising a second conductive material extending through the openings and another dielectric material on sidewalls of the openings, first conductive lines in electrical communication with a first group of the conductive vias, and second conductive lines in electrical communication with a second group of the conductive vias. Related semiconductor device, electronic systems, and methods are disclosed.
US10756012B2
A circuit assembly is provided. The circuit assembly includes: a first bus bar and a second bus bar that are part of a power circuit; and a control board to which a control circuit configured to control current flow in the power circuit is mounted, the circuit assembly including: a semiconductor switching element including a drain terminal and a source terminal that are connected to the first bus bar and the second bus bar, respectively, and a gate terminal configured to receive input of a control signal from the control circuit configured to control current flow in the power circuit; and a third bus bar configured to electrically connect the gate terminal and the control board.
US10756007B2
A package includes a corner, a device die having a front side and a backside, and a molding material molding the device die therein. A plurality of redistribution lines is on the backside of the device die. The plurality of redistribution lines includes a plurality of metal pads. A polymer layer contacts the plurality of metal pads. A plurality of openings is formed in the polymer layer, with the plurality of metal pads aligned to and exposed to the plurality of openings. The plurality of openings includes a corner opening that is elongated and an additional opening farther away from the corner than the corner opening. The additional opening is non-elongated.
US10755992B2
The present disclosure relates to a mold module that includes a device layer, a number of first bump structures, a first mold compound, a stop layer, and a second mold compound. The device layer includes a number of input/output (I/O) contacts at a top surface of the device layer. Each first bump structure is formed over the device layer and electronically coupled to a corresponding I/O contact. The first mold compound resides over the device layer, and a portion of each first bump structure is exposed through the first mold compound. The stop layer is formed underneath the device layer. The second mold compound resides underneath the stop layer, such that the stop layer separates the device layer from the second mold compound.
US10755981B2
An embodiment provides a display device manufacturing method comprising the steps of: preparing a substrate having a plurality of semiconductor chips arranged thereon (S1); bonding at least one first semiconductor chip of the plurality of semiconductor chips to a transfer member (S2); irradiating laser light to the first semiconductor chip to separate the first semiconductor chip from the substrate (S3); disposing the first semiconductor chip on a panel substrate of a display device by means of the transfer member (S4); and irradiating light to the transfer member to separate the first semiconductor chip from the transfer member (S5), wherein the transfer member comprises: a transfer layer and a bonding layer disposed on one surface of the transfer layer; the bonding layer comprises at least one bonding protrusion; and the first semiconductor chip is bonded to the bonding protrusion in step S2.
US10755978B2
A butted contact structure is provided. In one embodiment, a structure includes a first transistor on a substrate, the first transistor comprising a first source or drain region, a first gate, and a first gate spacer being disposed between the first gate and the first source or drain region. The structure includes a second transistor on the substrate, the second transistor comprising a second source or drain region, a second gate, and a second gate spacer being disposed between the second gate and the second source or drain region. The structure includes a butted contact disposed above and extending from the first source or drain region to at least one of the first or second gate, a portion of the first gate spacer extending a distance into the butted contact to separate a first bottom surface of the butted contact from a second bottom surface of the butted contact.
US10755977B2
A semiconductor device and a method for manufacturing a semiconductor device are provided. The semiconductor device includes a substrate, a gate stack, a gate spacer, a conductive feature, and a conductive cap. The substrate has a source/drain region. The gate stack is on the substrate. The gate spacer is alongside the gate stack. The conductive feature is on the source/drain region. The conductive cap is on the conductive feature and has a top in a position lower than a top of the gate spacer.
US10755973B2
A metal wiring layer can be formed within a recess of a substrate and an unnecessary plating layer is not left on a surface of the substrate. A metal wiring layer forming method includes forming a first plating layer 7 as a protection layer at least on a tungsten or tungsten alloy 4 formed on a bottom surface 3a of a recess 3 of a substrate 2; removing an unnecessary plating layer 7a formed on a surface 2a of the substrate 2; and forming a second plating layer 8 on the first plating layer 7 within the recess 3.
US10755969B2
Multi-patterning methods are provided for use in fabricating an array of metal lines comprising metal lines with different widths. For example, patterning methods implement spacer-is-dielectric (SID)-based self-aligned double patterning (SADP) methods for fabricating an array of metal lines comprising elongated metal lines with different widths, wherein an “unblock” mask is utilized as part of the process flow to overlap mandrel assigned and non-mandrel assigned features in a given SADP pattern to define regions to unblock a metal fill (remove dielectric material between wires) in a dielectric layer between defined metal lines of an a SADP pattern thus enabling the formation of wide metal lines within any region of a pattern of elongated metal lines formed with a minimum feature width.
US10755944B2
An etching method selectively etches a first region of a substrate with respect to a second region of the substrate. At least a portion of the first region, which includes the surface of the first region, is modified by plasma to form a first modified region. At least a portion of the second region, which includes the surface of the second region, is modified by plasma to form a second modified region. The first modified region is selectively etched with respect to the second modified region by plasma.
US10755939B2
Disclosed is a method of manufacturing multilayer graphene, including (a) contacting of a metal substrate with a nonmetal element, (b) reduction through heat treatment, and (c) chemical vapor deposition of a graphene precursor on the metal substrate containing the nonmetal element dissolved therein, thereby manufacturing multilayer graphene that is doped with the nonmetal element on the metal substrate. In the multilayer graphene thus manufactured, the number of graphene layers and the work function are simultaneously adjusted by controlling the concentration of doped nonmetal element in a thickness direction of graphene through interactions related to the reduction of the nonmetal element dissolved in a copper catalyst and the growth of graphene, and moreover, the stacking structure of graphene is maintained and the optoelectronic properties of multilayer graphene can be controlled by simultaneously regulating graphene growth and doping during the synthesis procedure without additional processing.
US10755938B2
The present disclosure provides a semiconductor structure, including an active region with a first surface; an isolated region having a second surface, surrounding the active region, the first surface being higher than the second surface; and a metal gate having a plurality of metal layers disposed over the first surface and the second surface. A ratio of a thinnest portion and a thickest portion of at least one of the plurality of metal layers is greater than about 40%.
US10755937B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes providing a substrate structure including a substrate and a semiconductor column vertically protruding from the substrate, sequentially forming a first protective layer and a second protective layer on the substrate, etching a portion of the second protective layer to expose a portion of the first protective layer on the substrate and a portion of the first protective layer on an upper surface of the semiconductor column, removing the exposed portion of the first protective layer on the substrate to expose a lower portion of the semiconductor column, removing a remaining portion of the second protective layer, and forming a first contact material layer on the substrate and in contact with the lower portion of the semiconductor column. The first contact material layer in contact with the lower portion of the semiconductor column does not increase the source series resistance.
US10755930B2
A method and device for bonding a first substrate with a second substrate inside a sealed bonding chamber. The method includes: a) fixing of the first and second substrates, b) arranging of the first and second substrates, c) mutual approaching of the first and second substrates, d) contacting the first and second substrates at respective bond initiation points, e) generating a bonding wave running from the bond initiation points to side edges of the substrates, and f) influencing the bonding wave during course of the bonding wave, wherein targeted influencing of the bonding wave takes place by a regulated and/or controlled change of pressure inside the bonding chamber.
US10755929B2
A method and a device for bonding a first substrate with a second substrate inside a sealed bonding chamber. The method includes: a) fixing of the first and second substrates, b) arranging of the first and second substrates, c) mutual approaching of the first and second substrates, d) contacting the first and second substrates at respective bond initiation points, e) generating a bonding wave running from the bond initiation points to side edges of the substrates, and f) influencing the bonding wave during course of the bonding wave, wherein targeted influencing of the bonding wave takes place by a regulated and/or controlled change of pressure inside the bonding chamber.
US10755924B2
A method for forming a material having a Perovskite single crystal structure includes alternately growing, on a substrate, each of a plurality of first layers and each of a plurality of second layers having compositions different from the plurality of first layers and forming a material having a Perovskite single crystal structure by annealing the plurality of first layers and the plurality of second layers.
US10755921B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, includes forming a film on a substrate by performing a cycle a predetermined number of times. The cycle includes non-simultaneously performing (a) supplying a precursor containing a first element to the substrate, (b) supplying a plasma-excited nitrogen gas to the substrate after the act (a), (c) supplying a reactant containing a second element to the substrate after the act (b), and (d) supplying a plasma-excited nitrogen gas to the substrate after the act (c). A gas purge of a space where the substrate is located and vacuumization of the space without gas supply are not performed between the act (a) and the act (b) and between the act (c) and the act (d).
US10755919B2
A method of manufacturing semiconductor devices, including the steps of providing a substrate with a first active region, a second active region and a third active region, forming dummy gates in the first active region, the second active region and the third active region, removing the dummy gates to form trenches in the first active region, the second active region and the third active region, forming a high-k dielectric layer, a first bottom barrier metal layer on the high-k dielectric layer, a second bottom barrier metal layer on the first bottom barrier metal layer, and a first work function metal layer on the second bottom barrier metal layer in the trenches, removing the first work function metal layer from the second active region and the third active region, removing the second bottom barrier metal layer from the third region, and filling up each trench with a low resistance metal.
US10755918B2
The present disclosure relates to semiconductor structures and, more particularly, to a spacer with laminate liner and methods of manufacture. The structure includes: a replacement metal gate structure; a laminate low-k liner on the replacement metal gate structure; and a spacer on the laminate low-k liner.
US10755915B2
Mass spectrometry systems or assemblies therefore include an ionizer that includes at least one planar conductor, a mass analyzer with a planar electrode assembly, and a detector comprising at least one planar conductor. The ionizer, the mass analyzer and the detector are attached together in a compact stack assembly. The stack assembly has a perimeter that bounds an area that is between about 0.01 mm2 to about 25 cm2 and the stack assembly has a thickness that is between about 0.1 mm to about 25 mm.
US10755910B2
The invention generally relates to methods and devices for synchronization of ion generation with cycling of a discontinuous atmospheric interface. In certain embodiments, the invention provides a system for analyzing a sample that includes a mass spectrometry probe that generates sample ions, a discontinuous atmospheric interface, and a mass analyzer, in which the system is configured such that ion formation is synchronized with cycling of the discontinuous atmospheric interface.
US10755901B2
The present invention relates generally to a plasma source utilizing a macro-particle reduction coating and method of using a plasma source utilizing a macro-particle reduction for deposition of thin film coatings and modification of surfaces. More particularly, the present invention relates to a plasma source comprising one or more plasma-generating electrodes, wherein a macro-particle reduction coating is deposited on at least a portion of the plasma-generating surfaces of the one or more electrodes to shield the plasma-generating surfaces of the electrodes from erosion by the produced plasma and to resist the formation of particulate matter, thus enhancing the performance and extending the service life of the plasma source.
US10755892B2
A particle-beam inspection system may include a reflective particle-beam imaging system providing an image of a selected portion of a sample and a diffraction pattern of the selected portion of the sample and a controller communicatively coupled to the reflective particle-beam imaging system. The controller may receive two or more sample-plane images from the reflective particle-beam imaging system associated with two or more selected portions of the sample, where at least some of the two or more selected portions of the sample overlap. The controller may further receive two or more diffraction-plane images from the reflective particle-beam imaging system associated with the two or more selected portions of the sample. The controller may further construct one or more output images of the two or more selected portions of the sample from the two or more diffraction-plane images using phase information obtained from the two or more sample-plane images.
US10755883B2
An electromagnetic relay includes a housing, a pair of fixed terminals, a movable contactor that is movably disposed so as to approach and separate from a fixed contact placement surface of each of the pair of fixed terminals, a movable shaft capable of moving in conjunction with the movable contactor, electromagnetic drive unit that drives the movable shaft to move the movable contactor in a moving direction, and an attenuation mechanism unit that includes an insulating attenuation member disposed between the movable contactor and the electromagnetic drive unit, and a sound insulating gap provided between the attenuation member and the electromagnetic drive unit.
US10755880B2
A temperature-dependent switch has a housing with a cover part having a lower side and an upper side and with an electrically conductive lower part having a circumferential shoulder and a circumferential wall with an upper section that overlaps the cover part. The switch has a first external contact surface on the upper side of the cover part and a second external contact surface externally on the housing, wherein the upper section of the circumferential wall presses the cover part onto the circumferential shoulder. A temperature-dependent switching mechanism is arranged in the housing and, depending on its temperature, establishes or opens an electrically conductive connection between the first and second external contact surfaces. A circumferential cutting burr is arranged on the shoulder in the lower part.
US10755869B2
To provide a flexible, highly reliable power storage device or light-emitting device. The device includes a battery unit or a light-emitting unit and a member with rubber elasticity. The battery unit includes a secondary battery. The light-emitting unit includes a light-emitting element. The member with rubber elasticity is provided with a first projection and a second projection. The first projection and the second projection are arranged on a first surface of the battery unit or the light-emitting unit. The first projection and the second projection come in contact with each other when the power storage device is bent such that the first surface of the battery unit faces inward.
US10755867B2
The present invention is directed to a method for pre-lithiation of negative electrodes during lithium loaded electrode manufacturing for use in lithium-ion capacitors. There is provided a system and method of manufacture of LIC electrodes using thin lithium film having holes therein, and in particular, to the process of manufacturing lithium loaded negative electrodes for lithium-ion capacitors by pre-lithiating electrodes with thin lithium metal films, wherein the thin lithium metal films include holes therein, and the lithium loaded negative electrodes are manufactured using a roll-to-roll lamination manufacturing process.
US10755858B2
A taping electronic component array includes a tape including a long carrier tape, in which recesses are provided along a longitudinal direction, and a cover tape that is provided on the carrier tape to cover the recesses; and a first coil component and a second coil component, which are disposed in each of the recesses. The first coil component includes a first core and a first coil in which a first wire and a second wire are wound around the first core in a predetermined winding direction while twisted in a predetermined twist direction, and the second coil component includes a second core and a second coil in which the first wire and the second wire are wound around the second core in the predetermined winding direction while twisted in an opposite direction to the predetermined twist direction. Thus, degradation of manufacturing capacity is prevented.
US10755849B2
In an exemplary embodiment, a coil component includes: a core 10 having a pillar part 24, and a hollow space 22 around the pillar part 24; a coil conductor 40 having a spiral part 42 placed around the pillar part 24, and a lead part 48a or 48b led out from the spiral part 42 toward the bottom face 28 of the core 10, which lead part includes an end part 46a or 46b extending in parallel with the bottom face 28 and serves as an external terminal 49a or 49b; and an insulated terminal 60 electrically insulated from the coil conductor 40, which is provided on at least the bottom face 28; wherein the total base area of the bottom part 72 of the dummy terminal 60, on the bottom face 28, is greater than the total base area of the external terminals 49a, 49b.
US10755847B2
A coil electronic component includes a support member and a plurality of insulating patterns supported by the support member. Each of the plurality of insulating patterns includes an innermost insulating pattern adjacent to a through-hole of the support member, an outermost insulating pattern on the opposing side of the insulating patterns, and a plurality of central insulating patterns between the innermost insulating pattern and the outermost insulating pattern. At least one of the plurality of central insulating patterns has its largest width at a lower surface thereof where it is in contact with the support member.
US10755839B2
A resistor element is provided, comprising a substrate including an upper surface and lower surface opposite to each other; a pair of electrodes separately disposed on the upper surface; at least one first groove extended from the upper surface to lower surface and defined by first side walls and a first bottom surface, wherein the depth from the upper surface of the substrate to the first bottom surface is a first depth; and a resistant layer disposed on the upper surface and electrical connected to the pair electrodes. The resistant layer covers the first side wall, the first bottom surface and part of the upper surface. The substrate with grooves increases the current path of the resistant layer, so that the resistor element having higher resistance can be obtained.
US10755838B2
A tensioning device is provided for a surge arrester having an end fitting and tensioner. The tensioning device has an axial clearance for receiving a tensioner and a region being conically tapered in axial direction to be introduced into a clearance of the end fitting being shaped for a substantially exact fit. The conically tapered region has delimitation walls defining the axial clearance for the tensioner being movable toward a clearance interior. An antifriction layer is applied to the surface of the conically tapered region. A production method for a surge arrester and a corresponding surge arrester are also provided.
US10755829B2
A device that will enable material to be irradiated as needed to produce a desired transmutation product inside the core of a nuclear reactor. The device provides a means for monitoring neutron flux in the vicinity of the material being irradiated to allow determination of the amount of transmutation product being produced. The device enables the irradiated material to be inserted into the reactor and held in place at desired axial positions and to be withdrawn from the reactor when desired without shutting down the reactor. The majority of the device may be re-used for subsequent irradiations. The device also enables the simple and rapid attachment of unirradiated target material to the portion of the device that transmits the motive force to insert and withdraw the target material into and out of the reactor and the rapid detachment of the irradiated material from the device for processing.
US10755824B2
Controlled-debris elements inhibit the formation of a fibrous/particulate debris bed that unduly increases the pressure head loss through the perforated plates of strainers in a nuclear power plant emergency core cooling system. In a loss of cooling accident, pumps draw cooling water through the plates, which retain on their surfaces fibrous material in the circulating water to prevent it from reaching the pumps while permitting entrained particulate matter to pass through the perforations. The controlled-debris elements have a specific gravity substantially the same as the circulating water so they are entrained in the cooling water that is drawn toward the strainers and intimately intermix with the fibrous and particulate matter in the cooling water. The elements are configured to provide open structures in the bed formed on the plate surfaces to distribute fibers in the flow away from the surface and maintain cavities between the elements for the particulates.
US10755820B2
A method of using an ICF chamber may include causing a target in the ICF chamber to emit x-ray radiation; receiving the x-ray radiation through a plurality of holes in a wall of the ICF chamber; and absorbing the x-ray radiation in a gas contained in a plurality of tubes that are coupled to the plurality of holes.
US10755818B2
An apparatus configured to quantify and display a time buffer for at least one patient during a blood treatment session is described. A blood treatment apparatus which includes such an apparatus or is in signal communication therewith, and a method for quantifying and presenting the time buffer for at least one patient at a blood treatment session are also described, as well as a computer program, a computer program product and a digital storage medium.
US10755817B2
A system for predicting medical events and conditions that are reflected in gait may include a data capture subsystem configured to capture data pertaining to a position and/or motion of a patient, a data analysis and outcome generation subsystem configured to analyze the captured data and to generate output pertaining to a likelihood of the patient experiencing a medical event or medical condition, and a user interface subsystem configured to provide the output to a user, e.g., healthcare provider, and to receive feedback from the user. Methods for predicting medical events and conditions reflected in gait are also provided.
US10755812B1
A computer-assisted method to timely provide notifications of treatments, the method including receiving de-identified longitudinal medical records, receiving notification data, identifying anonymized patients that received the treatment, identifying notifications for the treatment that were received by the recipients, determining, for each of the identified notifications, whether the recipient is an anonymized patient identified as having received the treatment, determining, for each of the identified notifications for the treatment determined to be received by a recipient that is an anonymized patient identified as having received the treatment, a time relationship between the time when the treatment was received by the anonymized patient and the time that the notification was received by the recipient that is the anonymized patient, and determining, for each of the anonymized patients that received the treatment, associations between one or more time relationships for notifications received by the anonymized patient.
US10755810B2
Methods and systems are disclosed for structuring and using information pertinent to in vivo biomarkers, specifically quantitative imaging biomarkers, using semantic web technology for personalized medicine and discovery science. It supports the development and application of statistical evidence at a level of granularity and sophistication more closely tied to the complexity of the disease itself and its underlying biology, including technology linking multiple biological scales, than has previously been eedisclosed. It provides data and computational services to analyze quantitative imaging and non-imaging data, coupled with multi-scale modeling to elucidate pre-symptomatic and clinical disease processes. It may be used to assess technical or analytical performance for its own sake and/or to further annotate the quantitative analysis. It supports statistical hypothesis testing to determine and present analytical performance, determine the clinical relevance and establish to what extent a biomarker is causally rather than coincidentally related in clinical contexts of use.
US10755809B2
A home medication management system and method are provided comprise a home medication management device, a computing device associated with a user of medication management system, and a server in communication with the home medication management device and the computing device. The server comprises memory storing an application program interface (API) that is configured to manage the home medication of a patient including the registration of prescriptions, transmission of the registered prescriptions to the home medication management device, association of medications of the registered prescriptions with recesses of the home medication management device, presentation of alerts to the patient at scheduled times to take the medications based on the prescriptions, monitoring the patient for compliance with the alerts, determining whether the patient has taken the medication as scheduled, and presenting the determination to the user via the computing device.
US10755806B2
Methods and user interfaces are provided for the display of data comprising series of data over time, with particular application to medical laboratory results and prescriptions of medication. A user may view multiple results simultaneously in a single display, with the abilities to zoom the time scale in and out and to select the time period for which results are displayed. Multiple displayed items of data may be selected for simultaneous display along a common time axis in a zoomable graph, facilitating interpretation of relationships between and/or among data items.
US10755801B2
The present invention provides methods and systems for identifying and classifying epitopes and use of that information to analyze proteins and peptides within proteins, especially potential epitopes, and to use the information to design synthetic peptides and proteins, analyze biopharmaceutical proteins, and diagnose autoimmune conditions. Peptides which are bound in MHC grooves comprise two sets of amino acids: those that face inwards into the groove and determine the binding affinity to the MHC molecule (the groove exposed motifs or GEM) and those which do not interact with the groove but rather are on the obverse side exposed outwardly to the T-cells (the T-cell exposed Motifs or TCEM). The present invention utilizes information related to the identity and physiochemical characteristics of the GEM and TCEM.
US10755796B2
Provided is a semiconductor device including a regulator that generates a first voltage and applying the first voltage to a first line; an external terminal that is connected to the first line and externally connects an external component; and a test circuit that inspects a connection state of the external component. The test circuit includes a test discharge execution unit that is configured, upon receiving a test start signal, to stop the operation of the regulator and discharge the external component by connecting the first line to a predetermined potential; and a discharge duration measurement unit that measures a time required from the reception of the test start signal to a drop of the voltage of the first line below a predetermined second voltage, as a discharge duration of the component, and generate discharge duration information about the discharge duration.
US10755788B2
An apparatus comprising an impedance compensation circuit is disclosed. The impedance compensation circuit compensates for impedance differences between a first pathway connected to a first transistor and a second pathway connected to a second transistor. However, rather than making a compensation based on a signal (e.g., voltage) applied to either the first or the second pathway, a compensation is made based on the signals (e.g., voltage pulses) applied to third and fourth pathways connected to the transistors.
US10755787B2
A storage device includes storage circuitry and multiple memory cells. The memory cells are organized in multiple memory blocks of a nonvolatile memory. The storage circuitry is configured to define a partial verification scheme that specifies testing only a data portion of the data programmed to the memory blocks, to program data to a memory block, calculate redundancy data over the data, and save the calculated redundancy data in a dedicated memory, to verify that the data portion specified for the memory block in the partial verification scheme has been programmed successfully, to check a predefined condition for conditionally performing full verification to the memory block, when the predefined condition is fulfilled, to verify that data programmed to the memory block and not tested using the partial verification scheme has been programmed successfully, and to recover, using the redundancy data, at least part of the data programmed that failed verification.
US10755785B2
A memory system may include performing a first read operation on first data stored in first memory cells coupled to a first word line, performing an error correction operation on the first data, performing an interference program operation on second memory cells coupled to a second word line when the error correction operation fails, and performing a second read operation on the first data stored in the first memory cells after performing the interference program operation.
US10755779B2
Various architectures and layouts for an array of resistive random access memory (RRAM) cells are disclosed. The RRAM cells are organized into rows and columns, with each cell comprising a top electrode, a bottom electrode, and a switching layer. Circuitry is included for improving the reading and writing of the array, including the addition of a plurality of columns of dummy RRAM cells in the array used as a ground source, connecting source lines to multiple pairs of rows of RRAM cells, and the addition of rows of isolation transistors.
US10755773B2
An SRAM cell with dynamic split ground (GND) and split wordline (WL) for extreme scaling is disclosed. The memory cell includes a first access transistor enabled by a first wordline to control access to cross coupled inverters by a first bitline. The memory cell further includes a second access transistor enabled by a second wordline to control access to the cross coupled inverters by a second bitline. The memory cell further includes a split ground line comprising a first ground line (GNDL) separated from a second ground line (GNDR). The GNDL is connected to a transistor of a first inverter of the cross coupled inverters and the GNDR is connected to a first transistor of a second inverter of the cross coupled inverters.
US10755771B2
Embodiments include apparatuses, methods, and systems to implement a multi-read and/or multi-write process with a set of memory cells. The set of memory cells may be multiplexed with a same sense amplifier. As part of a multi-read process, a memory controller coupled to a memory circuit may precharge the bit lines associated with the set of memory cells, provide a single assertion of a word line signal on the word line, and then sequentially read data from the set of memory cells (using the sense amplifier) based on the precharge and the single assertion of the word line signal. Additionally, or alternatively, a multi-write process may be performed to sequentially write data to the set of memory cells based on one precharge of the associated bit lines. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
US10755765B2
A layout structure of a bit line sense amplifier in a semiconductor memory device includes a first bit line sense amplifier which is connected to a first bit line and a first complementary bit line, and is controlled via a first control line and a second control line. The first control line is connected to a first node of the first bit line sense amplifier and the second control line is connected to a second node of the first bit line sense amplifier, and the first bit line sense amplifier includes at least one pair of transistors configured to share any one of a first active region corresponding to the first node and a second active region corresponding to the second node.
US10755760B2
Methods, systems, and devices for time-based access of memory cells in a memory array are described herein. During a sense portion of a read operation, a selected memory cell may be charged to a predetermined voltage level. A logic state stored on the selected memory cell may be identified based on a duration between the beginning of the charging and when selected memory cell reaches the predetermined voltage level. In some examples, time-varying signals may be used to indicate the logic state based on the duration of the charging. The duration of the charging may be based on a polarization state of the selected memory cell, a dielectric charge state of the selected state, or both a polarization state and a dielectric charge state of the selected memory cell.
US10755757B2
A transparent four rank memory module has a front side and a back side. The front side has a third memory rank stacked on a first memory rank. The back side has a fourth memory rank stacked on a second memory rank. An emulator coupled to the memory module activates and controls one individual memory rank from either the first memory rank, the second memory rank, the third memory rank, or the fourth memory rank based on the signals received from a memory controller.
US10755754B2
A method for programming a phase change memory cell placed in an initial crystalline state, the memory cell being called of taking a plurality of resistance values belonging to a range of values called “programming window”, the method including parameterizing a lower limit of the programming window by applying to the memory cell a single gradual writing voltage pulse or a first series of identical gradual writing voltage pulses; progressively adjusting the resistance value of the memory cell by the following operations: a gradual erasing operation during which a series of identical gradual erasing voltage pulses is applied to the memory cell; a gradual writing operation during which a second series of identical gradual writing voltage pulses is applied to the memory cell; the gradual writing and gradual erasing voltage pulses have a width less than 50 ns.
US10755752B2
A memory device includes a first sense amplifier, and a second sense amplifier. During a read operation, a first signal based on a first output of the first sense amplifier corresponding to data stored in a memory cell before writing reference data therein and a second signal based on a second output of the first sense amplifier corresponding to data stored in the memory cell after writing reference data therein, are supplied to the second sense amplifier, which compares the first and second signals to output a comparison result representative of the data stored in the memory cell. During a test operation, a third signal based on the first output and a fourth signal based on an output from a voltage supply circuit are supplied to the second sense amplifier, which outputs a comparison result of the third and fourth signals as a test result.
US10755748B2
Video production systems and methods are provided for generating annotated class discussion videos, which contain real-time student commentary post-production annotations responsive to such student commentary, or a combination thereof. In an embodiment, the video production system includes a display device, a dedicated video input source, and a video processing device. The video processing device contains, in turn, a wireless receiver configured to receive wireless input signals from the dedicated video input source and a plurality of devices executing a student commentary capture application during a presentation, a controller operably coupled to the wireless receiver, and a memory storing computer-readable instructions. When executed by the controller, the computer-readable instructions cause the video processing device to generate an output video containing student commentary synchronized with the presentation as captured, at least in part, utilizing the dedicated video input source. The output video is then presented on the display device.
US10755737B2
Provided is an Fe—Pt based magnetic material sintered compact, comprising BN and SiO2 as non-magnetic materials, wherein Si and O are present in a region where B or N is present at a cut surface of the sintered compact. An object of the present invention is to provide a high density sputtering target which enables production of a magnetic thin film for heat-assisted magnetic recording media, and also reduces the amount of particles generated during sputtering.
US10755736B2
A magnetic recording medium includes a recording surface comprising a first recording layer having a first ferromagnetic resonant frequency and a second recording layer having a second ferromagnetic resonant frequency. The first recording layer is configured for storing user data and the second recording layer configured for storing servo data. A recording head arrangement is configured for microwave-assisted magnetic recording (MAMR) and writing user data to the first recording layer. The recording head arrangement comprises a write pole configured to generate a write magnetic field, and a write-assist arrangement proximate the write pole. The write-assist arrangement is configured to generate a radiofrequency assist magnetic field at a frequency that corresponds to the first ferromagnetic resonant frequency. A reader of the recording head arrangement is configured to read combined signals from the first and second recording layers.
US10755731B2
A method for utterance section detection includes: executing pitch gain calculation processing that includes calculating a pitch gain indicating an intensity of periodicity of an audio signal expressing a voice of a speaker for each of frames that are obtained by dividing the audio signal and that each have a predetermined length; and executing utterance section detection processing that includes determining that an utterance section on the audio signal starts when the pitch gain becomes greater than or equal to a first threshold value after a non-utterance section on the audio signal lasts, wherein the utterance section detection processing further includes determining that the utterance section ends when the pitch gain becomes less than a second threshold value lower than the first threshold value after the utterance section lasts.
US10755730B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a storage device, for beep detection and interpretation is disclosed. In one aspect, a monitoring system is disclosed that includes a processor and a storage device storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, causes the processor to perform operations. The operations may include obtaining sound data of audio sounds detected by a microphone that is located at the property, determining whether the sound data includes data representing one or more audio tones generated by a device, based on determining that the obtained sound data includes one or more audio tones generated by a device, generating an audio fingerprint of the sound data, determining, using the generated audio fingerprint, a state of the device that generated the one or more audio tones, and performing an operation based on the state of the device that generated the one or more audio tones.
US10755722B2
Provided is an audio-signal dynamic-range-compression system. An input line accepts an input signal. A filter set coupled to the input line divides the input signal into a set of frequency bands, including a first frequency band and a second frequency band. A compressor has a first input that receives the first frequency band, a second input and an output. An adder has a first input coupled to the output of the compressor, a second input coupled to the second frequency band, and an output. An overshoot estimation module has an input coupled to the output of the adder and an output coupled to the second input of the compressor. The output of the overshoot estimation module provides an overshoot signal that indicates a result of a comparison between a signal at the input of the overshoot estimation module and a specified threshold.
US10755721B1
Systems and methods for multichannel, multirate lattice wave filters receive digital signal channels at a first sample rate and include a first multiplexer to combine the digital signal channels into a first digital data stream, and a first lattice wave filter comprising a first delay elements and a first feedback path to the first multiplexer, the first lattice wave filter produces a first output digital data stream having a second sample rate that is different than the first sample rate. The first multiplexer is configured to receive a first feedback signal through the first feedback path and combine the first feedback signal with the digital signal channels to produce the first digital data stream. The system may include a first processing branch comprising the first multiplexer and the first lattice wave filter structure, and a second processing branch comprising a second multiplexer and a second lattice wave filter structure. This may enable the implementation of simplified filters of lower complexity by reuse of hardware.
US10755717B2
Methods, systems, and computer program products for providing reminders to users based on voice recognition are provided. Aspects include monitoring, via a microphone of a user device, a communication of a user. Aspects also include determining an identity of a person communicating with the user based on a voice signature of the person. Aspects further include providing a notification to the user based on a determination that the user has a reminder event for the person.
US10755714B2
Systems and methods are described for improving endpoint detection of a voice query submitted by a user. In some implementations, a synchronized video data and audio data is received. A sequence of frames of the video data that includes images corresponding to lip movement on a face is determined. The audio data is endpointed based on first audio data that corresponds to a first frame of the sequence of frames and second audio data that corresponds to a last frame of the sequence of frames. A transcription of the endpointed audio data is generated by an automated speech recognizer. The generated transcription is then provided for output.
US10755705B2
A data processing method includes acquiring voice data collected by at least two collecting devices from a voice source, acquiring a recognition result of the voice data that corresponds to a voice generated by the voice source, and executing a corresponding command in response to the recognition result.
US10755702B2
An arrangement is described for conducting natural language dialogs with a user on a mobile device using automatic speech recognition (ASR) and multiple different dialog applications. A user interface provides for user interaction with the dialogue applications in natural language dialogs. An ASR engine processes unknown speech inputs from the user to produce corresponding speech recognition results. A dialog concept module develops dialog concept items from the speech recognition results and stores the dialog concept items and additional dialog information in a dialog concept database. A dialog processor accesses dialog concept database information and coordinates operation of the ASR engine and the dialog applications to conduct with the user a plurality of separate parallel natural language dialogs in the dialog applications.
US10755694B2
An electronic device includes an audio synthesizer. The audio synthesizer can generate a voice-synthesized audio output stream as a function of one or more audible characteristics extracted from voice input received from an authorized user of the electronic device. The audio synthesizer can also apply an acoustic watermark to the voice-synthesized audio output stream, the acoustic watermark indicating that the voice-synthesized audio output stream is machine made.
US10755690B2
A headphone device includes a speaker housing, a first feedforward microphone, and a second feedforward microphone. The first feedforward microphone is coupled to the speaker housing at a first location, and the second feedforward microphone is coupled to the speaker housing at a second location. The headphone device also includes an active noise cancelling (ANC) circuit configured to generate an anti-noise signal based on at least one of a first signal from the first feedforward microphone and a second signal from the second feedforward microphone. The headphone device also includes a speaker configured to generate an audio output at least partially based on the anti-noise signal.
US10755676B2
A display assembly displays a virtual object in a select location wherein an eye viewing the virtual object has an expected gaze direction. Deformation of the display assembly is detected. The deformation causes the virtual object to be viewable in an altered location wherein the eye has altered gaze direction. The virtual object may be displayed in a corrected location wherein the eye viewing the virtual object in the correct location has a corrected gaze direction that is moved closer to the expected gaze direction than the altered gaze direction.
US10755674B2
Technologies and techniques for operating of a touch-sensitive display device of a vehicle. A processor display generates content on the touch-sensitive display device, wherein the content includes assigned elements configured to function in a display mode and an operating mode, depending on a user's presence in at least one of a first position and a second position of the vehicle. A sensing apparatus detects an approach by a user toward the touch-sensitive display device. The processor identifies that the user is in the second position relative to the display device, and, based on the identifying, changes an operating state of the display device to change at least one display mode element of the display content assigned to the second position from display mode to operating mode.
US10755671B2
A technique is provided to facilitate visual recognition of deviations and misalignments in a superposed image. The superposed image is generated by superposing laser scanning point clouds on a panoramic image, which is obtained by stitching base images that are taken from different points of view. The panoramic image can include deviations between the base images. The superposed image can include misalignments between the point cloud image and the panoramic image. A display controlling device for a survey image includes a panoramic image generating unit that generates a panoramic image by stitching multiple still images, an image and point-cloud-image superposing unit that superposes laser scanning point clouds on the panoramic image, and a point-cloud-image transparency adjuster that adjusts a transparency of the image of the laser scanning point clouds to cause the laser scanning point clouds to be visually recognized while the underlying panoramic image is also visually recognized.
US10755663B2
A display panel driver includes a timing controller and a data driver. The timing controller generates a data signal based on an input image data. The data driver receives the data signal, converts the data signal into a data voltage and outputs the data voltage to a display panel. The data signal includes positive data and negative data. The data driver includes a data skew compensating circuit which samples the positive data using the negative data and compensates a skew of the data signal.
US10755662B2
Disclosed are a display driving circuit and a display apparatus including the same. A display driving circuit includes a first amplifier configured to drive a first data line of a display panel based on first pixel data and a second amplifier configured to drive a second data line of the display panel based on second pixel data, wherein, when a first data difference between the first pixel data and the second pixel data is greater than or equal to a data value indicating one grayscale and is less than or equal to a first threshold value, the second amplifier is turned off, and the first amplifier is configured to drive the first data line and the second data line based on the first pixel data and the second pixel data.
US10755660B2
A display device includes an array of sub-pixels, each of which include a memory to store sub-pixel data. The display device also includes a plurality of memory selection line groups respectively corresponding to the sub-pixel memories in rows of the array. The memory selection line groups are operated under control of a memory selection circuit, which outputs a memory selection signal based on a set value, thereby to perform sequential switching of memory selection lines. The sequential switching of the memory selection lines results in a sequential switching of the image being displayed.
US10755659B2
A drive circuit, a drive method of the drive circuit and a display device are provided. The drive circuit includes a signal output module, a first level signal output end; and a plurality of switch modules. The signal output module includes N output ends for outputting a gate drive signal step by step to N scan lines. The switch modules each correspond to one of the scan lines. A control end of the i-th switch module is electrically connected with the i−1th scan line. A first connecting end is electrically connected with the corresponding i-th scan line. A second connecting end is electrically connected with the first level signal output end. Wherein, N is a positive integer, and i is a positive integer greater or less or equal to N.
US10755658B2
A display device comprising: a plurality of pixels, each pixel including at least one sub-pixel; each sub-pixel comprising: a drivable visual segment, being operative to exhibit at least a first visible state and a second visible state; a first electrical potential setting section coupled with the drivable visual segment and with a first select terminal and a first data terminal, the first electrical potential setting section being operative to drive the drivable visual segment, at least from the first visible state to the second visible state; a second electrical potential setting section coupled with the drivable visual segment and with a second select terminal and a second data terminal, the second electrical potential setting section being operative to drive the drivable visual segment, independently from the first electrical potential setting section, at least from the first visible state to said second visible state.
US10755657B2
Disclosed are a data driver, a display, and a method of driving a display. The data driver for driving a data line which is a capacitive load having one end electrically connected to a unit pixel includes an energy retrieving unit configured to drive the data line by applying a voltage to the data line, and a data driving unit configured to finely tune a voltage and drive the data line with an end voltage. The energy retrieving unit retrieves energy charged up in the data line in stages by driving the data line with voltages from a start voltage to the end voltage through an intermediate voltage.
US10755654B2
An image display device includes a display panel having a uniform resolution, an image data conversion unit for converting first image data including a plurality of pieces of pixel data to second image data including a smaller number of pieces of pixel data, and a drive circuit for driving the display panel based on the second image data. The display panel has a first region in which one piece of the pixel data is written to one pixel and a second region in which one piece of the pixel data is written to two or more pixels, and has a third region and a fourth region. The image data conversion unit performs a calculation on the pixel data of the pixel in the fourth region, the calculation performed in accordance with a distance of the pixel from a reference position, and does not perform the calculation on the pixel data of the pixel in the third region.
US10755652B2
A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal panel including a plurality of liquid crystal pixels, wherein the liquid crystal panel is configured to display a same picture in two adjacent frames; a driving module disposed on the non-display area, wherein the driving module is used to respectively provide each liquid crystal pixel with a same polarity pixel voltage of different levels in the two adjacent frames so as to deflect liquid crystal molecules of each liquid crystal pixel, and in each frame of the two adjacent frames, the level of the pixel voltage of each liquid crystal pixel is different from the level of the pixel voltage of the adjacent liquid crystal pixels in front, back, left or right.
US10755638B2
A display has rows and columns of pixels (22). A data line (Dn) in each column provides image data signals to the pixels of that column. Each row has first and second control lines (select[m], monitor[m]) coupled to the gates of first and second respective transistors (SE, MO) in each pixel. A third transistor in each pixel serves as a drive transistor (DR) and is coupled in series with a light-emitting diode (30) between positive and ground power supply voltages (VDD, VSS). A display driver circuitry in the display characterizes each of the light-emitting diodes in a column using the data line in an adjacent column from that light-emitting diode. Each of the drive transistors in a column is characterized using the data line in that column and the data line in an adjacent column.
US10755637B2
A display method includes: determining whether there is a dynamic part in a current frame of picture, according to image data of a previous frame of picture and the current frame of picture; in a case where there is no dynamic part in the current frame of picture, in a display stage of the current frame of picture, providing a first light emitting control signal being always at an effective electric level state to each of pixel units of a display panel; in a case where there is a dynamic part in the current frame of picture, in the display stage of the current frame of picture, providing a second light emitting control signal, including a part at an effective electric level state and a part at a non-effective electric level state, to pixel units corresponding to at least a part of the dynamic part.
US10755635B2
An organic light-emitting display device may include a first pixel, a first data line, a first scan line, a data driver, and a scan driver. The first pixel unit may include a sensing transistor and a scan transistor. The data driver may be electrically connected to the scan transistor through the first data line. The scan driver may be electrically connected to the scan transistor through the first scan line. The scan transistor may be turned on during a first period and a second period. The sensing transistor may be turned on during a third period between the first period and the second period. The first period, the second period, and the third period are included in one frame.
US10755631B2
Aspects of the present disclosure relate to display region filtering. A pixel priority value for each of a plurality of pixels on a display region are assigned in response to identifying portions of the display region for prioritization, wherein the pixel priority values indicate a relative importance of each of the pixels, respectively, for viewing based on a magnitude of the pixel priority values. The pixel priority value of each pixel is compared to a first pixel priority threshold to identify pixels of the plurality of pixels having pixel priority values which do not satisfy the first pixel priority threshold. The pixels of the plurality of pixels having pixel priority values which do not satisfy the first pixel priority threshold are deactivated, wherein a subset of pixels satisfies the first pixel priority threshold and remain active.
US10755612B1
A vehicle mountable holographic promoting system and method of use; the vehicle mountable holographic promoting system includes a body with at least one light, a mount, and a controller in communication with a software application and the body. The body is mountable to the vehicle via the mount. The mount is able to be removably attachable or otherwise secured to roof of a vehicle. The controller controls the body such that the body is able to visually promote via an image display at least one promotable item using the at least one light. The promotable item appearing to float on a plane above the vehicle.
US10755606B2
A multilayered sheet assembly includes a carrier layer on which a sign layer is arranged on a first side via a first adhesive layer. The sheet assembly further includes a strip layer which is arranged via a second adhesive layer in adhesively separable manner on a second side of the carrier layer. A further includes arranging the multilayered sheet assembly on a cutting device, arranging a peripheral cut in the sheet assembly along an outer periphery of a sign, arranging an inner cut in the sheet assembly along a peripheral line of at least one enclosed surface area not forming part of the sign, separating the strip layer with adhesive retention of the at least one enclosed surface area not forming part of the sign, and separating the sign layer from the carrier layer.
US10755596B1
A multi-page illustrated and written book printed on synthetic paper with an electronics module that can record sounds through one or more microphones to solid-state, digital memory and playback pre-recorded or user recorded audio data from the digital memory device through one or more speakers is disclosed. The book may include one or more of the following either on the front or back cover or on any of the plurality of pages inside the book: mirror, signature page, pocket page, or high-contract geometric patterns.
US10755593B2
An online feedback network provides feedback from contributors to a feedback recipient for a project. A request modifier may receive a default request from a data source and allow the feedback recipients to use the default request, modify the default request and/or allow the feedback recipient to create an initial request in requesting feedback for each feedback recipient's project from the contributors. The request modifier may also modify the default or initial request so that the request from the feedback recipient receives a desired volume, type, source or network of feedback. For instance the request modifier may increase the number of contributors receiving the request or simplify the type of requested feedback in order to increase the volume of feedback received by the feedback recipients based on previous requests for feedback and the volume of feedback received by the past requests. The submitted request may be stored for future use.
US10755591B2
An electronic device for collecting evidence during training sessions. The electronic device comprises a communications module for acquiring real-time training session data during a training session; a real-time data acquisition module for generating time-stamped training session data; an input unit for acquiring instructor rating data input by an instructor during the training session; a real-time instructor rating module for generating time-stamped instructor rating data; a storing module for storing real-time data of the training session in a data repository, including the time-stamped training session data and the time-stamped instructor rating data; a debriefing module for retrieving real-time data of a training session from the data repository, replay the real-time data on a display, and update the instructor rating data in the data repository with updated instructor rating data received from an instructor during the replay.
US10755585B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for unmanned aerial vehicle authorization and geofence envelope determination. One of the methods includes determining, by an electronic system in an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), an estimated fuel remaining in the UAV. An estimated fuel consumption of the UAV is determined. Estimated information associated with wind affecting the UAV is determined using information obtained from sensors included in the UAV. Estimated flights times remaining for a current path, and one or more alternative flight paths, are determined using the determined estimated fuel remaining, determined estimated fuel consumption, determined information associated wind, and information describing each flight path. In response to the electronic system determining that the estimated fuel remaining, after completion of the current flight path, would be below a first threshold, an alternative flight path is selected.
US10755578B2
A system includes a processor configured to receive a vehicle request, including a requesting-occupant physical parameter. The processor is also configured to send a request, including the physical parameter, to a vehicle-hailing service. The processor is further configured to receive identification of a vehicle having sufficient space to accommodate the requesting-occupant, based on the physical parameter, responsive to the request. Also, the processor is configured to receive confirmation of the vehicle from the requesting-occupant, and request use of the vehicle, responsive to the confirmation.
US10755573B2
A collision avoidance device includes an electronic control unit configured to: determine whether or not a driver of a host vehicle performs turn-back steering based on a detection value of a steering angle or steering torque detected by a steering sensor of the host vehicle; and execute the collision avoidance control for avoiding a collision between the host vehicle and an obstacle in a case where the electronic control unit determines that there is a collision possibility between the host vehicle and the obstacle based on a path of the host vehicle and a position of the obstacle, wherein the electronic control unit is configured not to execute the collision avoidance control while the electronic control unit determines that the driver of the host vehicle performs turn-back steering.
US10755571B1
A system and method are disclosed, in which two or more points of a target object from a two-dimensional (2D) image may be “reverse projected” from a 2D plane to a 3D space. The method may comprise receiving a 2D image from a 2D camera, the 2D image including a representation of a physical topography and a target object of a plurality of target objects, the plurality of target objects being associated with a common physical characteristic, the common physical characteristic of the target object being detectable within the 2D image. The method may further comprise determining a position relative to the physical topography of the target object based upon a position of the target object in the image and the common physical characteristic of the target object.
US10755566B2
A method, apparatus and computer program product are described so as to provide more additional information regarding vehicular behavior. In the context of a method, information is received regarding a location of the vehicle at a plurality of instances in time. The plurality of instances in time define a time period. The method also includes determining an environmental condition at the location during the time period and comparing the behavior of the vehicle to that of other vehicles at the location that are also subjected to the environmental condition. Additionally, the method may determine a score for the vehicle in relation to a risk factor based upon the behavior of the vehicle and the comparison to other vehicles at the location that are also subjected to the environmental condition.
US10755564B2
Embodiments of the disclosure provide systems and methods for optimizing a traffic control plan. The system may include at least one storage device configured to store instructions and at least one processor configured to execute the instructions to perform operations. The operations may include receiving traffic system log data and parsing the traffic system log data to obtain a first set of traffic performance parameters. The operations may also include receiving trajectory data relating to a plurality of vehicle movements and parsing the trajectory data to obtain a second set of traffic performance parameters. The operations may further include determining relationships between vehicle delays and degrees of saturation based on the first and second sets of traffic performance parameters. In addition, the operations may include optimizing the traffic control plan based on the relationships.
US10755562B2
A system for increasing awareness of a traffic sign is provided. The traffic sign has a visual sign having an image representing a traffic instruction. The system includes a signal transmitter and at least one receiving device. The signal transmitter is associated with the visual sign and is configured for transmitting an encoded electromagnetic wave with encoding indicative of the traffic instruction. The receiving device is associated with a user or a vehicle of the user and is configured to detect the electromagnetic wave when the signal receiver is in line of sight of and within a predetermined distance from the visual sign, decode the detected electromagnetic wave to extract information indicative of the traffic instruction, and emit an output indicative of the traffic instruction.
US10755558B2
An approach is provided for detecting venue trips and related road traffic. The approach involves, for example, processing probe data to identify a trip related to the venue. The trip is traveled by a probe vehicle generating the probe data within a timeframe associated with an event occurring at the venue. The approach also involves generating an influence graph comprising one or more roads used by the probe vehicle during the trip. The approach further involves determining a traffic parameter for the one or more roads of the influence graph. The approach further involves computing a traffic impact score for the venue, the event, or a combination thereof based on the traffic parameter.
US10755554B2
A magnetometer sensor that detects tampering is described. The sensor samples magnetometer data and computes a set of vectors based on the magnetometer data. The sensor detects a tampering of the magnetic sensor based on determining that the set of vectors is outside the reference plane for the magnetometer sensor. The sensor generates a notification to a security system coupled to the magnetometer sensor. The notification indicating the tampering of the magnetometer sensor.
US10755553B2
A collaborative alarm monitoring system (100) includes a security system host server (106) and a chat session server (116). The security host server is in signal communication with at least one security panel (102A, 102B) to receive an alert signal in response to a detected alarm event. The chat session server is in signal communication with the security system host server and is configured to store a chat session protocol and software that when executed by a hardware processor executes a chat session. A monitoring device (110A, 110B, 110C) alerts an operator of the alarm event in response to receiving the alert signal. The monitoring device includes a chat session client that generates a chat session interface to display an alarm event thread indicative of the alarm event. The chat session server generates a communication stream for each alarm event, and the communication stream is individually displayed on the chat session interface of the monitoring device.
US10755552B2
An improved system on a transit vehicle is described for coordinated mediation action in response to an identified environmental anomaly on a shipping container transported by the vehicle. The system has wirelessly broadcasting ID nodes at different locations within the container, and a fire suppression system on the vehicle having a wireless transceiver-based controller operating as a master node that can cause the suppression system to deliver fire suppressant material to the container using a delivery nozzle and pump. The controller, as master node, is configured to operate as a primary monitor for the anomaly by being operative to monitor ID node signals; identify the anomaly based on the signals; generate a layered alert notification related to the anomaly (identifying a targeted mediation action and establishes a mediation response priority); and initiate a mediation response by the suppression system related to the targeted mediation action and the mediation response priority.
US10755542B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a surveillance system operable to generate surveillance data based on a sensor input to at least one sensor device. A plurality of electromagnetic waves is generated for transmission to an administrator system of the surveillance system via a guided wave transceiver, where the plurality of electromagnetic waves includes a surveillance data signal generated based on the surveillance data. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10755540B1
A video alert and secondary confirmation system and method for detecting and verifying a person of interest is disclosed. The system and method include selecting an access way for detecting persons of interest. Independent video cameras are placed along the access way and have varying thresholds for identifying persons on a wanted list. Video alert modules operate in tandem with overlapping fields of view at a high threshold matching level. Each video camera is linked to a video alert module. Faces that are above a set threshold are displayed on a video alert module. A determination of match or no match is made. If a match appears to be made, a security team will be alerted to approach the individual who is an apparent match and take a closeup photograph that is analyzed to verify the match through a secondary confirmation.
US10755530B1
A blackjack game provides a side bet that the cards dealt to form the dealer's hand will match one of a predetermined set of winning poker hands. A blackjack hand is dealt to the player and a dealer, wherein each hand comprises a plurality of cards. The outcome of the blackjack hand is determined according to blackjack rules. The cards in the dealer's hand are then arranged to form a poker hand. Furthermore, the dealer's poker hand may be modified using cards selected from the player's hand into the dealer's hand to form the poker hand. Modification can be by substitution or addition of cards from the player's hand. The player wins the side bet if the dealer's poker hand matches one of a set of predetermined poker hands.
US10755527B2
A gaming machine with a hot mode is disclosed. A processor of the gaming machine can determine whether the gaming machine is in a hot mode state. After determining that the gaming machine is in the hot mode state, the gaming machine can determine a number of hot mode spins and perform each hot mode spin of the number of hot mode spins. Performing a hot mode spin can include receiving a wager, determining an outcome of a random event, generating a display related to the outcome of the random event, and determining a payout for the wager based on the outcome of the random event and a hot-mode return rate. The hot-mode return rate can be selected so that a sum of payouts during the number of hot mode spins is expected to exceed a sum of wagers made during the number of hot mode spins.
US10755525B2
An inspection system inspects gaming chips each having a color or a display indicating a value on an outer surface in a state where the gaming chips are stored in a case in which a maximum number of gaming chips to be stored is limited, and a radio tag storing gaming chip information is embedded in each of the gaming chips. The gaming chips are stored in the case capable of containing a row of gaming chips stacked in a thickness direction, and the inspection system includes a reading device that reads the radio tag of the gaming chip in the case and acquires gaming chip information of the gaming chip and a determining unit that compares the gaming chip information with a maximum number of gaming chips storable in the case and determines an abnormality of the gaming chip in the case when the number of gaming chips obtained from the gaming chip information is different from a maximum number of storable gaming chips.
US10755521B1
A method and system are provided for betting and redemption using a single draw game ticket for a plurality of discrete wagers made by an individual consumer for a given draw game, thereby allowing discrete wagers to be accepted, recorded, and documented for any number of wagers at one time.
US10755519B2
A gaming machine includes a cabinet defining a cabinet volume with a front access opening. A display assembly having one or more display devices is mounted on the gaming machine cabinet through a translation frame and a display assembly translation structure. The translation frame is mounted in the cabinet so as to be moveable relative to the cabinet between a frame home position and a frame raised position. The display assembly translation structure connects the display assembly to the translation frame, and is operable to move between a retracted position in which the display assembly registers with part of the cabinet access opening and an extended position in which the display assembly is separated forwardly from the front access opening by at least a cabinet access distance.
US10755506B2
The present invention provides a system, method, and apparatus for pairing a vehicle key or remote keyless entry device with a vehicle by a dongle connected to an OBD port of the vehicle. The OBD programming dongle operates without a connection to an external device and pairs one or more keys with a vehicle without user intervention after the pairing process has started. The OBD programming dongle may be linked to a specific vehicle by the VIN code of the specific vehicle.
US10755505B2
A locking and unlocking system includes: a server; a mobile terminal; and a key unit, wherein the server includes a server transmission unit configured to transmit cancel information, wherein the mobile terminal includes a terminal transmission unit configured to transmit first authentication information and a first request signal, wherein the key unit includes: a key-unit first reception unit configured to receive the cancel information; a key-unit second reception unit configured to receive the first authentication information and the first request signal; a first authentication unit configured to authenticate the mobile terminal; and a locking and unlocking processing unit configured to perform a process of unlocking or locking the door of the vehicle or facility, and wherein the locking and unlocking processing unit is configured to prohibit unlocking of the door of the vehicle or facility.
US10755502B2
A trunk-sharing system that controls an user's authority to use a predetermined area of a vehicle by issuing a predetermined authentication information to a user terminal, the trunk-sharing system including a server configured to: acquire a first information on a permission of using the predetermined area of the vehicle from a first user who owns the vehicle; provide the first information such that the first information acquired from the first user of each of a plurality of vehicles is able to be detected by a second user other than the first user; acquire a second information on a request for a use of the predetermined area which is an information from the second user who has accessed the provided first information; and issue an authentication information for locking and unlocking the predetermined area to a terminal of the second user based on the first information and the second information.
US10755501B2
The solution is directed to access control systems and verifying proximity of a user to an access point that the user is wirelessly requesting access to. The proximity verification is based on placing proximity hubs adjacent to the different access points. Each proximity hub advertises a different unique identifier that changes periodically over a short-range wireless network and can be detected with a mobile device if the mobile device is physically within a short distance from the proximity hub. The unique identifier changes based on a rolling code. A user is permitted access to a restricted access point in response to the mobile device sending over a different long-range wireless network, the unique identifier advertised from a proximity hub adjacent to a desired access point and user access credentials authenticating access privileges of the user to the desired access point.
US10755489B2
An interactive camera system with virtual reality technology is provided. The system includes an augmented reality module, an accessory database, a voice database, and an integration module. The augmented reality module generates a virtual environment, and a user can combine a three-dimensional avatar substrate with a character image to form a three-dimensional avatar that displayed in the virtual environment. The accessory database and the voice database allow the user to select different accessory patterns and different voice modules for different types of three-dimensional avatar substrates. The integration module allows professional personnel to provide technical presentations, thesis introductions, or background introductions in the virtual environment, so that the presentations or the introductions can be performed with three-dimensional augmented reality effect.
US10755488B2
The described implementations relate to systems, methods, and apparatuses for providing segmented models of objects that have been rendered in three-dimensional space. Furthermore, the segmented models can be automatically assigned connectors for allowing the models to be assembled and disassembled. The models can be generated based on object data generated from scans of an object, such as an anatomical body. A selected area of interest can be selected from the object data, and the object data can be cropped in order to provide a more concise volume from which to generate a model, such as at a 3D printer. The structure characterized by the object data can be processed to determine suitable locations for connectors that can allow the model to be disassembled while also providing an unobstructed view of the selected area of interest.
US10755484B1
In one embodiment, techniques are provided for capturing accurate information describing the location of subsurface features (e.g., subsurface utilities such as water pipes, sewer pipes, electrical conduits, etc.) usable in providing an augmented reality view. A set of images is captured with a camera rig coupled to a mobile portion (e.g., the boom) of a piece of heavy construction equipment (e.g., an excavator) being used by workers to conduct an excavation that exposes the subsurface features. The set of images is provided to a structure-from-motion (SfM) photogrammetry that generates a 3D reality mesh. Relative and/or absolute locations of the subsurface features are calculated based on the 3D reality mesh and provided to an augmented reality application executing on an augmented reality device for use in providing an augmented reality view.
US10755481B2
A virtual image generation system comprises a planar optical waveguide having opposing first and second faces, an in-coupling (IC) element configured for optically coupling a collimated light beam from an image projection assembly into the planar optical waveguide as an in-coupled light beam, a first orthogonal pupil expansion (OPE) element associated with the first face of the planar optical waveguide for splitting the in-coupled light beam into a first set of orthogonal light beamlets, a second orthogonal pupil expansion (OPE) element associated with the second face of the planar optical waveguide for splitting the in-coupled light beam into a second set of orthogonal light beamlets, and an exit pupil expansion (EPE) element associated with the planar optical waveguide for splitting the first and second sets of orthogonal light beamlets into an array of out-coupled light beamlets that exit the planar optical waveguide.
US10755474B1
A method of processing a volumetric dataset for imaging includes receiving a volumetric dataset comprising data for imaging and determining an irradiance value at a given point in the volumetric dataset. In an embodiment, the method includes performing a selection process to select one or more of a plurality of irradiance data structures and storing the irradiance value in the or each selected irradiance data structure.
US10755470B1
Techniques are provided to estimate of location or position of objects that are depicted in an image of a scene. Some implementations include obtaining an image of a scene; identifying an object within the image of the scene; obtaining a three-dimensional model that corresponds to the object that was identified within the image of the scene, the three-dimensional model being obtained from the database of three-dimensional models; determining, based on data from the three-dimensional model, an estimated depth of the object within the scene; generating or updating a three-dimensional representation of the scene based at least on the estimated depth of the object within the scene; and providing the three-dimensional representation of the scene, including at least a portion of the three-dimensional representation of the scene that was generated or updated based on the three-dimensional model of the object, to the scene analyzer.
US10755468B2
Methods and apparatus provide, for each partial area into which a display area is divided, determining multiple pixel groups including pixels overlapping a two-dimensional area; allocating the pixels belonging to the multiple pixel groups to any one of multiple processing groups that are each capable of including pixels whose number is smaller than or equal to a predetermined parallel number; calculating in parallel each color of pixels belonging to the processing group on the basis of the color calculation information stored in the memory; and outputting image data on the basis of the calculated color.
US10755466B2
Techniques for showing comparisons between motions performed by a user and a chosen instructor are described. According to one aspect of the technique, an avatar is rendered in a computing device from attributes derived from the motions. A representation of similar motions performed by a chosen instructor is retrieved from a database. A display of the avatar next to the representation is then provided to show possible differences in poses or motions by the user and the instructor. The differences may be highlighted. The display is adjusted in a perspective view to help the user see clearly where to start or improve his moves in view of what the instructor is doing.
US10755465B2
The present invention relates to a computer implemented system for animating a virtual object or digital entity. It has particular relevance to animation using biologically based models, or behavioural models particularly neurobehavioural models. There is provided a plurality of modules having a computational element and a graphical element. The modules are arranged in a required structure and have at least one variable and being associated with at least one connector. The connectors link variables between modules across the structure, and the modules together provide a neurobehavioural model. There is also provided a method of controlling a digital entity in response to an external stimulus.
US10755459B2
Techniques and systems are described herein that support improved object painting in digital images through use of perspectives and transfers in a digital medium environment. In one example, a user interacts with a two-dimensional digital image in a user interface output by a computing device to apply digital paint. The computing device fits a three-dimensional model to an object within the image, e.g., the face. The object, as fit to the three-dimensional model, is used to support output of a plurality of perspectives of a view of the object with which a user may interact to digitally paint the object. As part of this, digital paint as specified through the user inputs is applied directly by the computing device to a two-dimensional texture map of the object. This may support transfer of digital paint by a computing device between objects by transferring the digital paint using respective two-dimensional texture maps.
US10755458B1
A network access device is configured to display a first vertical line of a height proportionate to a range between a first high price and first low price from a first intratime period of OHLC data and display a second vertical line adjacent to the first vertical line, the second vertical line having a height proportionate to a range between a second high price and second low price from a second intratime period of OHLC data and generate a body from an open price of the time period and a close price of the second intratime period and determine a highest intratime period having a highest price from each high price of each intratime period and a lowest intratime period having a lowest price from each low price of each intratime period and generate and display an enhanced candlestick by the display of the body overlayed upon the first vertical line and the second vertical line and then generate at least one of an upper wick and lower wick by a removal of all portions of all vertical lines outside of the body from all intratime periods other than above the body of the highest intratime period and below the body of the lowest intratime period.
US10755456B2
A method and an apparatus for displaying information of multiple objects are provided. The method includes following steps: capturing an image within a sight of a user viewing a transparent display; identifying multiple objects in the image to generate multiple identification frames capable of covering the objects, respectively; generating an auxiliary bonding box capable of covering the identification frames; defining an information display area according to non-overlapping areas of the auxiliary bonding box and the identification frames; and group displaying object information of the objects in the information display area on the transparent display.
US10755455B1
A method for digital subtraction angiography of a recording region of a patient is provided herein. The method includes recording at least one mask image of a recording region without using a contrast medium; recording a plurality of ill images after administration of a contrast medium; and determining result images by subtraction of one of the at least one mask image from respective fill images. As a function of automatically determined or user-provided image quality information describing a suitability of the at least one mask image in respect of different movement states in the recording region during recording of the at least one mask image and in the case of at least some of the fill images, in the case of non-suitability of the at least one mask image for at least one fill image of a non-suitability group, at least one further mask image is recorded and the suitability of the further mask image for the at least one fill image of the non-suitability group is checked automatically by a comparison algorithm in respect of the movement state. Additionally, following the existence of suitable mask images for each fill image of the non-suitability group, the recording of further mask images is terminated.
US10755454B2
An imaging system, such as a DBT system, is provided that is capable of providing processing of an image from initial generation/reconstruction of the image through the review of the image by a radiologist or other practitioner that produces images optimized for the particular task/process performed using the images. The task/review that the radiologist is performing on the processed or reconstructed image can be modeled with regard to the initial generation of the processed or reconstructed images from the raw images or the model considerations can be retroactively applied and back propagated through the image processing performed by the system. These modeling considerations that can take the form of an indicator of clinical performance is/are used by the system to optimize and produce an image(s) that best represents the items in the image necessary for an accurate diagnosis of the patient when reviewed by the radiologist.
US10755440B2
Systems and methods to monitor and interact with users viewing screens are disclosed. An example system includes a sensor to gather gaze data from a user viewing images on a display. The display has spatial coordinates. The system includes a processor communicatively coupled to the display and the sensor. The processor determines a first gaze location having first spatial coordinates based on the gaze data and calibration settings associated with determining gaze locations. The processor alters a portion of the display at or near the first gaze location. After the portion of the display has been altered, the processor determines a second gaze location having second spatial coordinates based on the gaze data and the calibration settings. The processor performs a comparison of the first gaze location to the second gaze location. If the comparison does not meet a threshold, the processor updates the calibration settings based on the comparison and determines a third gaze location having third spatial coordinates based on the gaze data and the updated calibration settings.
US10755424B2
Described is a system for predicting multi-agent movements. A Radon Cumulative Distribution Transform (Radon-CDT) is applied to pairs of signature-formations representing agent movements. Canonical correlation analysis (CCA) components are identified for the pairs of signature-formations. Then, a relationship between the pairs of signature formations is learned using the CCA components. A counter signature-formation for a new dataset is predicted using the learned relationship and a new signature-formation. Control parameters of a device can be adjusted based on the predicted counter signature-formation.
US10755420B2
An object tracking method and apparatus are provided. The object tracking method includes detecting a target object in a first-type input image that is based on light in a first wavelength band, tracking the target object in the first-type input image based on detection information of the target object, measuring a reliability of the first-type input image by comparing the first-type image to an image in a database, comparing the reliability of the first-type input image to a threshold, and tracking the target object in a second-type input image that is based on light in a second wavelength band.
US10755414B2
A method for analyzing a physical condition based on at least two images. The method selects a plurality of images based on a time lapse interval associated with the plurality of images and a specific physical characteristic being monitored. The method further detects a degree of change in the specific physical characteristic being monitored, wherein the degree of change comprises a change in one or more pixel patterns of at least one image within the plurality of images correlated with the specific physical characteristic being monitored, based on the time lapse interval associated with the plurality of images. The method further displays an alert in response to the degree of change exceeding a prescribed threshold for the specific physical characteristic being monitored.
US10755413B1
This disclosure generally pertains to methods and systems for processing electronic data obtained from imaging or other diagnostic and evaluative medical procedures. Certain embodiments relate to methods for the development of deep learning algorithms that perform machine recognition of specific features and conditions in imaging and other medical data. Another embodiment provides systems configured to detect and localize medical abnormalities on medical imaging scans by a deep learning algorithm.
US10755411B2
An embodiment of the present disclosure discloses a method and apparatus for annotating a medical image. An embodiment of the method comprises: acquiring a to-be-annotated medical image; annotating classification information for the to-be-annotated medical image, wherein the classification information comprises a category of a diagnosis result and a grade of the diagnosis result corresponding to the medical image; processing the to-be-annotated medical image using a pre-trained lesion area detection model, framing a lesion area in the to-be-annotated medical image, and annotating a lesion type of the lesion area, to enable the to-be-annotated medical image to be annotated with the lesion area and the lesion type of the lesion area; and splitting the framed lesion area from the to-be-annotated medical image with the framed lesion area to form a split image of the to-be-annotated medical image, to enable the to-be-annotated medical image to be annotated with the split image.
US10755410B2
The present disclosure discloses a method and apparatus for acquiring information. An implementation of the method comprises: acquiring a fundus image; introducing the fundus image into a pre-trained pathological classification model to obtain pathological classification information, wherein the pathological classification model is used for characterizing correspondence between a pathological area image contained from the fundus image and the pathological classification information, and the pathological classification information comprises at least one of diabetic retinopathy classification information and diabetic macular edema classification information; and establishing output information based on the pathological classification information. This implementation concurrently acquires diabetic retinopathy classification information and diabetic macular edema classification information from the fundus image, and may make full use of the correlation between diabetic retinopathy and diabetic macular edema in diagnosis to effectively improve the accuracy of diabetic retinopathy classification and diabetic macular edema classification in the process of computer aided diagnosis.
US10755401B2
An inspection system includes one or more imaging devices and one or more processors. The imaging devices generate a first set of images of a work piece at a first position relative to the work piece and a second set of images of the work piece at a second position relative to the work piece. At least some of the images in the first and second sets are acquired using different light settings. The processors analyze the first set of images to generate a first prediction image associated with the first position, and analyze the second set of images to generate a second prediction image associated with the second position. The first and second prediction images include respective candidate regions. The processors merge the first and second prediction images to detect at least one predicted defect in the work piece depicted in at least one of the candidate regions.
US10755396B2
An image forming apparatus includes an observation image input section in which a plurality of observation images is input, an emphasis information input section that inputs information to be emphasized, a storage section that defines a plurality of conversion functions that converts the plurality of observation images into a converted image on the basis of a function for conversion and takes, as a parameter, a gradation value of each pixel in the plurality of observation images and a plurality of emphasis functions that takes, as a parameter, a gradation value of each pixel in the conversion functions, an image calculation section that calculates an image in which information to be emphasized is emphasized on the basis of the plurality of input observation images, the input information of the information to be emphasized, the conversion functions, and the emphasis functions, and an emphasized image output section that outputs the emphasized image.
US10755391B2
Digital image completion by learning generation and patch matching jointly is described. Initially, a digital image having at least one hole is received. This holey digital image is provided as input to an image completer formed with a dual-stage framework that combines a coarse image neural network and an image refinement network. The coarse image neural network generates a coarse prediction of imagery for filling the holes of the holey digital image. The image refinement network receives the coarse prediction as input, refines the coarse prediction, and outputs a filled digital image having refined imagery that fills these holes. The image refinement network generates refined imagery using a patch matching technique, which includes leveraging information corresponding to patches of known pixels for filtering patches generated based on the coarse prediction. Based on this, the image completer outputs the filled digital image with the refined imagery.
US10755378B2
During an analysis technique, a three-dimensional (3D) image of a portion of an individual is iteratively transformed to facilitate accurate determination of detailed multi-point annotation of an anatomical structure. In particular, for a given marker point, in response to receiving information specifying a two-dimensional (2D) plane having an angular position in the 3D image, the 3D image is translated and rotated from an initial position and orientation so that the 2D plane is presented in an orientation parallel to a reference 2D plane of a display. Then, after annotation information specifying the detailed annotation in the 2D plane of the given marker point is received, the 3D image is translated and rotated back to the initial position and orientation. These operations may be repeated for one or more other marker points.
US10755374B2
The present disclosure relates to a vehicle management method, system and server, and a vehicle. The vehicle management method comprises: acquiring by a client device a vehicle identification; receiving by a vehicle management server an authentication request from the client device, the authentication request including the vehicle identification and a user identification of the client device; authenticating by the vehicle management server the vehicle identification and the user identification to permit a continuously available state of the vehicle; sending by the vehicle management server a use permission of the continuously available state to a vehicle; and receiving by the vehicle the use permission to continue its available state. According to one embodiment of the present disclosure, the user experience can be improved.
US10755373B2
Implementations of the disclosure describe searching and routing geographically-positioning entities via a graphical user interface (GUI). A method includes transmitting, via the communication session, a first packet comprising first data indicative of a geographic location of the client computing device, receiving a second packet comprising second data indicative of a locations of geographically-positioned entities, rendering, via a display device, a GUI comprising a map of a geographical area inclusive of the geographic location of the client computing device, transforming the first data into a first coordinate representative of the geographic location of the client computing device on the map, transforming the second data into other coordinates representative of the geographic locations of the geographically-positioned entities on the map, presenting, via the GUI, a first icon at the first coordinate on the map, and presenting, via the GUI, additional icons at the other coordinates on the map.
US10755371B1
A system for facilitating the execution of law enforcement duties is disclosed. More particularly, according to one aspect of the invention, an electronic system is configured to facilitate the performance of law enforcement duties by quasi-instantaneously providing actionable intelligence to its users, such as front-line law enforcement officers, in response to a real-time query (e.g., accessing warrant, probation, and parolee information). According to another aspect of the invention, a system implements a set of automated status classifications for subjects with suspected or confirmed involvement in criminal and/or terrorist activities. The status classifications specifically and concisely establish the subject's involvement in criminal and/or terrorist activities. According to yet another aspect of the invention, a system is configured to execute an automated query of a database of subject packets that include license plate data from a license plate reader system.
US10755364B2
A method for providing a social network system includes providing a plurality of engagable mobility profile options for a user for continuous engagement of one or more of the mobility profiles in real-time; receiving a current mobility profile option selection of a user, wherein use of the system by a user is conditional upon the user having one or more concurrent mobility profile option selection(s); and allowing a user to create content. The content may be created with a user selected restriction upon the ability of other users to access the content based upon the current mobility profile option selection or selections of the other users.
US10755352B2
A system and method are provided for trading multiple tradeable objects. One example method includes displaying at least one combined quantity indicator representing a combined quantity associated with at least two tradeable objects, detecting an input associated with an order for a predetermined order quantity in relation to one of the combined quantity indicators, and allocating the order quantity between the at least two tradeable objects using at least one quantity allocation rule. In one example embodiment, a plurality of quantity allocation rules can be user-configurable, and different rules can be defined and applied in relation to different order types.
US10755351B2
Methods, systems and computer-readable storage media are provided for controlling operation of a trading algorithm based on operating condition rules. Certain embodiments provide a method including determining, using a computing device, an approval of use of a trading algorithm by monitoring for an occurrence of an operating condition defined in an operating condition rule. The example method includes determining if the trading algorithm complies with the operating condition rule during the occurrence of the operating condition. The example method includes sending, using the computing device, a notification to a trading instrument to approve or not approve the use of the trading algorithm. The trading algorithm is to be used to implement a trading strategy.
US10755348B2
A method of obtaining psychometric information about a user is disclosed. A psychometric graphical object is provided to the user by a personalized user management module. User interaction with the psychometric graphical object is measured by a psychological traits evaluation module. At least a first wider portion of the psychometric graphical object is labeled with a first keyword related to a psychological trait. At least a second wider portion of the psychometric graphical object is labeled with a second keyword related to the psychological trait.
US10755346B1
A system and method are provided for electronically logging and controlling access to a safe deposit box at a financial institution. The system and method allow for detailed logs of an attempt, denial, or grant of access to a safe deposit box. The system and method also allow for notifications to be sent to all authorized users of any attempt, denial, or grant of access to a safe deposit box.
