US10790788B2
Solder bumps are placed in direct contact with the silicon substrate of an amplifier integrated circuit having a flip chip configuration. A plurality of amplifier transistor arrays generate waste heat that promotes thermal run away of the amplifier if not directed out of the integrated circuit. The waste heat flows through the thermally conductive silicon substrate and out the solder bump to a heat-sinking plane of an interposer connected to the amplifier integrated circuit via the solder bumps.
US10790782B2
A digital isolator comprising a set of bipolar transistors and an inductor capacitor (LC) oscillator coupled to the set of bipolar transistors in series, wherein the LC oscillator is configured to be turned on and off based on the current applied to the set of bipolar transistors or the LC oscillator and generate a set of differential signals based on the current flowing through the set of bipolar transistors and mimicking the operational characteristics of an optocoupler.
US10790770B2
A method for operating an electrical power system includes detecting a bridge current magnitude in a rotor-side converter or line-side converter of a power converter, the power converter electrically coupled between a generator rotor and a transformer. The method further includes comparing the bridge current magnitude in the one of the rotor-side converter or line-side converter to a primary predetermined threshold. The method further includes disabling bridge switching of one of the rotor-side converter or line-side converter when the bridge current magnitude exceeds the primary predetermined threshold.
US10790766B2
A dynamic energy harvesting and variable harvesting force system is disclosed. A boost converter increases a motor voltage as a motor current associated with the motor voltage propagates through the boost converter thereby generating a boost voltage associated with the changing motor current. A power storage device stores energy harvested by the boost converter when the boost voltage exceeds an energy storage threshold. A controller dynamically adjusts a harvesting force applied by the motor so that the harvesting force is relative to the force applied to the motor. The controller also dynamically adjusts the harvested energy stored by the power storage device by adjusting the charging of the power storage device, ensuring that the boost voltage threshold is maintained. The boost voltage when maintained within the boost voltage threshold enables the power storage device to store the harvested energy without impacting the harvesting force applied by the motor.
US10790745B2
The invention relates to a control system for a DC-to-DC converter. Variations in the input voltage of the DC-to-DC converter are compensated by an estimated value being calculated for the variations, and a control variable being determined for the DC-to-DC converter based on the estimated values of the input voltage. The estimated values for the input voltage can, for example, be determined on the basis of a polynomial, for example using a Lagrange expansion.
US10790736B2
A yoke of a voice coil motor includes an outer yoke as a magnet holding portion and an inner yoke as a coil insertion portion. A magnet is fixed to the surface of the outer yoke facing the inner yoke. The inner yoke is inserted into a coil. The coil is formed in a trapezoidal shape where an outer wire length as a wire length of an outer long side is shorter than an inner wire length as a wire length of an inner long side. Since the outer long side is made shorter than the inner long side, an opposite thrust caused by current flowing in the outer long side can be reduced. Accordingly, a reduction in the thrust of the coil is suppressed by as much as the reduced opposite thrust.
US10790728B2
A system for cooling the teeth of an electric machine stator. The stator includes a stator core that may be formed of a plurality of laminations. Each lamination has a plurality of back iron apertures, a plurality of tooth tip apertures, and a plurality of elongated apertures. When the laminations are assembled to form the stator core, the back iron apertures align to form back iron inlet channels and back iron outlet channels, and the tooth tip apertures align to form tooth tip cooling channels. The elongated apertures are L-shaped and connect the back iron inlet channels and back iron outlet channels to the tooth tip channels. Cooling fluid may flow, for example, axially through a back iron inlet channel, azimuthally and radially inward through an elongated aperture to a tooth tip, axially along a tooth tip channel, and to a back iron outlet channel through another elongated aperture.
US10790723B2
A system and method in at least one embodiment for separating fluids including liquids and gases into subcomponents by passing the fluid through a vortex chamber into an expansion chamber and then through at least a portion of a waveform pattern present between at least two rotors and/or disks. In further embodiments, a system and method is offered for harnessing fields created by a system having rotating rotors and/or disks having waveform patterns on at least one side to produce current within a plurality of coils. In at least one embodiment, the waveform patterns include a plurality of hyperbolic waveforms axially aligned around a horizontal center of the system.
US10790722B2
A braking mechanism for an electric motor includes an electromagnet configured to be selectively energized in response to a control signal. The braking mechanism also includes a first braking member coupled for co-rotation with a motor shaft of the electric motor, the first braking member being configured to selectively translate axially relative to the motor shaft between a first position and a second position. The braking mechanism also includes a second braking member located between the first braking member and the electromagnet and rotationally fixed relative to the first braking member. When the electromagnet is energized, the electromagnet causes the first braking member to translate from the first position to the second position at which the first braking member engages the second braking member to brake the electric motor.
US10790702B2
A contactless power transmission device transmits power to a power reception device in a contactless manner, and includes a shield case which has an opening portion at one end portion thereof, and is partitioned into a plurality of shield rooms by partitioning plates; a power transmission circuit which is for transmitting power and is disposed to correspond to each of the plurality of shield rooms; a plurality of power transmission coils which are disposed on the inner side in the plurality of shield rooms and transmit AC power from the power transmission circuit to the power reception device; and a notch which is formed on side surfaces of the shield case or the partitioning plates, from the opening portion toward the inner side such that both sides of a rear end portion of the power reception device inserted into the plurality of shield rooms can be held.
US10790699B2
A wireless transmitter device is configurable and operable to transfer energy to multiple receiver devices at the same time. The transmitter device is configured to enable one or more sections of a charging surface to transfer energy by selectively choosing one or more conductive traces in the transmitter device based on the position of the receiver device on the charging surface. The size and shape of each section of the charging surface that is used to transfer energy to a receiver device can change dynamically based on each receiver device. Additionally, the process of transferring energy to each receiver device may be adjusted during energy transfer based on conditions specific to each receiver device.
US10790685B2
A measurement apparatus includes first and second sensors, first and second processors, a multiplexer, and an A/D converter. The first and second sensors are configured to detect an identical physical quantity, and respectively output analog signals according to the physical quantity. The first processor performs an offset process on an analog signal from the first sensor using a first offset value to output a first analog signal. The second processor performs an offset process on an analog signal from the second sensor using a second offset value, which is different from the first offset value, to output a second analog signal. The A/D converter converts the first analog signal to output a first digital signal when the multiplexer outputs the first analog signal, and converts the second analog signal to output a second digital signal when the multiplexer outputs the second analog signal.
US10790682B2
In some examples, a hybrid power boost peak power protection system includes an energy storage, a hybrid power boost charger to charge a battery, and a switch to couple a system load to the energy storage and to decouple the system load from the energy storage.
US10790675B2
There are provided an apparatus for transmitting power wirelessly. The apparatus for transmitting power wirelessly may include a boosting unit boosting an input voltage, and an inverter unit inverting the boosted voltage output from the boosting unit to transmit power wirelessly. The inverter unit and the boosting unit are controlled by the same switching element.
US10790668B1
A method for operating a wind turbine system, and associated system, provides real and reactive power to a grid. The wind turbine system includes a generator with a power converter and an integrated reactive power compensation device. A total reactive power demand (Qcmd) is made on the wind turbine system at a first grid state, and is allocated to generator reactive power (Qg) and compensation device reactive power (Qmvb). A first reactive power droop scheme is determined that includes a reactive power droop value applied to one or both of the control loops for (Qg) and (Qmvb) at the first grid state. Upon detection of a grid fault, the first reactive power droop scheme is changed to a second reactive power droop scheme by changing the reactive power droop values applied to one or both of the (Qg) and (Qmvb) control loops during recovery from the grid fault.
US10790662B2
An electrical power distribution system includes a number of alternating current (AC) power output ports to transmit electrical power at a first fixed AC voltage level to a corresponding number of AC power loads. An AC bus coupled to the AC power output ports, and to couple to an AC power grid, transmits electrical power at a second fixed AC voltage level. A DC bus transmits electrical power at a first fixed DC voltage level. A number of AC power input/output (I/O) adapters are coupled to the AC bus and the DC bus, each including a bidirectional AC-to-DC (AC/DC) converter to receive and convert the electrical power transmitted on the AC bus at the second fixed AC voltage level to the electrical power at the first fixed DC voltage level for transmission to the DC bus, and to receive and convert the electrical power transmitted on the DC bus at the first fixed DC voltage level to the electrical power at the second fixed AC voltage level for transmission to the AC bus. The system further includes logic coupled to the AC power I/O adapters, the AC power output ports, and the AC bus, to control an amount of the electrical power transmitted from the AC power grid to the DC bus and from the DC bus to the AC bus for transmission to the AC power grid and/or one or more of the AC power output ports.
US10790661B2
There is disclosed a controller (112) for a power electronic network element (110) of a power transmission network (100), wherein the controller (112) is configured to vary a control parameter of the network element (110) which at least partly determines a ripple profile in a transmission line of the network. The controller (112) is configured to vary the control parameter between at least a first value and second value to cause the ripple profile in the transmission line to change; and the controller is configured to vary the control parameter periodically or in response to a signal indicating a threshold temperature at a hotspot location along the transmission line. A method of optimising control parameters for a power transmission network (100) is also disclosed.
US10790659B1
A multi-phase VFD system with frequency compensated ground fault protection includes a variable frequency drive (VFD) power supply, a motor coupled to the VFD power supply by a plurality of power wires and a relay, an annular magnetic core provided with a sensor winding, where the plurality of power wires extend through the annular magnetic core, an analog signal conditioner, an analog-to-digital (A/D) converter, and a digital processor performing a Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) process on the received digital output of the A/D converter to provide frequency information which is used to develop a frequency equalized transfer function for calculating ground fault current.
US10790656B1
A bar connector comprises an elongate bar with a series of electrical attachment structures along a length of the elongate bar. Each wire electrical attachment structure is to secure at least one wire to the elongate bar. A flexible connector wire with two ends that connect to the elongate bar is used to establish an electrical connection between the at least one wire and a secondary distribution line by a crimp connector. A method of connecting an electrical wire with the bar connector is also claimed.
US10790652B2
An operation device includes a control board, a case, a base member, and a protective cover located inside the case and protecting the control board by separating, inside the case, a space defined by the base member and the case into a first space for the control board and a second space exposed to the base member. The base member has an annular rib surrounding an installation hole. The protective cover has, on a surface facing the base member, a recess in an area corresponding to the rib. The rib is fitted in the recess with a leading edge in contact with the bottom of the recess. A screw inserted in the hole has a head inside a third space defined by the rib and the bottom of the recess.
US10790638B2
An outer periphery of the tubular housing includes a parallel surface, a pressure contact surface and a connection surface. The parallel surface is formed parallel to an axial direction of the spark plug. The pressure contact surface is located closer to a tip of the spark plug and more radially inward than the parallel surface. The pressure contact surface has a tapered shape in that a diameter decreases toward the tip. The pressure contact surface is pressed against a cylinder head when installed in the internal combustion engine. The connection surface is located closer to a base of the spark plug than an extension line in a longitudinal cross-section of the spark plug parallel to the axial direction including a plug central axis. The connection surface connects an outer peripheral end of the pressure contact surface with a longitudinal end of the parallel surface.
US10790637B2
A QCL may include a substrate, an emitting facet, and semiconductor layers adjacent the substrate and defining an active region. The active region may have a longitudinal axis canted at an oblique angle to the emitting facet of the substrate. The QCL may include an optical grating being adjacent the active region and configured to emit one of a CW laser output or a pulsed laser output through the emitting facet of substrate.
US10790636B1
An H-bridge integrated laser driver optimizes power dissipation, impedance matching, low-swing and high-swing reliability for electro-absorption modulated laser (EML) and directly modulated laser diode (DML) applications. The laser driver includes a retimer for converting low-speed parallel data to a high-speed serial bit stream and to an inverted representation of the high-speed parallel bit stream, an M-bit PMOS DAC configured to receive a first buffered bit stream, an N-bit NMOS DAC configured to receive a second buffered bit stream substantially synchronized with the first buffered bit stream. A protective device is coupled between the M-bit DAC and the N-bit DAC. A first DC level-shifting predriver array is coupled between the retimer and the M-bit DAC to receive the high-speed parallel bit stream and the inverted high-speed parallel bit stream, and a second DC level-shifting predriver array is coupled between the retimer and the N-bit DAC to receive the high-speed parallel bit stream and the inverted high-speed parallel bit stream. An impedance matching module is coupled to an output of the protective device. The laser driver may be integrated on a CMOS communication chip.
US10790634B2
A laser system with optical feedback, includes an optical-feedback-sensitive laser which emits, via an output optical fibre, a continuous, frequency-adjustable, propagating, source optical wave, known as the source wave; a resonant optical cavity coupled by means of optical feedback to the laser and configured to generate an intra-cavity wave, one fraction of which returns to the laser in the form of a counter-propagating optical wave; an electro-optic fibre modulator placed on the optical path between the laser and the resonant optical cavity, the electro-optic modulator being configured to generate a phase-shifted source wave by phase-shifting the source wave and, by phase-shifting the counter-propagating optical wave, to generate a phase-shifted counter-propagating wave, known as the feedback wave, which reaches the laser; a phase-control device for generating a control signal for the electro-optic modulator from an error signal representative of the relative phase between the source wave and the feedback wave, such as to cancel the relative phase between the source wave and the feedback wave.
US10790625B2
A transmission line set includes male plug transmission lines, having a first protruding portion and a second protruding portion, a third groove in a ring-shape formed between the first protrusion potion and the second protruding portion, at least two upper conductive interfaces and at least two lower conductive interfaces being symmetrically conductive with each other at opposite angles; and female plug transmission lines, having a third protruding portion and a fourth protruding portion, a fourth protruding portion formed in a ring shape and a second recess formed between the fourth protruding portion and the third protrusion, at least two upper conductive elastic sheets and at least two lower conductive elastic sheets being symmetrically conductive with each other at opposite angles.
US10790623B2
An interconnection unit includes a first connector configured to be coupled to an electronic device. There is a second connector configured to be coupled to a power station and to provide a path to the electronic device via the first connector. There is a low pass filter coupled between the first connector and the second connector and configured to allow the electronic device to receive power from the power station while maintaining data security of the electronic device.
US10790622B2
A technique is provided for detecting decoupling of a first connector part, connected to a first device, of an electrical plug connector from a second connector part, connected to a second device, of the electrical plug connector. A corresponding method, a corresponding apparatus, a corresponding electrical plug connector as well as the first connector part and the second connector part of the plug connector, a corresponding device and a computer program product are stated.
US10790619B2
The cable attaches a first component and a second component using a quick disconnect connector pair. The cable includes a twisted pair of wires with a separate shield. A portion of the shielding near the connector is removed to expose the wires and assemble the wires to the connector. To reduce the EMI leakage, the inner shell encloses the exposed portions of the wires. In order to maintain the ground path for the shielding of the shielded twisted wire pairs, the shielding for the twisted wire pairs is connected to the shell. The outer shells facilitate the quick disconnect feature. The outer shell includes one or more slots. The slot allows a portion of the outer shell to become a cantilever beam. The beam deflects during disengagement and engagement with the outer shell.
US10790614B1
A plug connector has a movable unlocking structure, and a plug connector assembly includes the plug connector and two slidable locking portions to be engaged with the left and right surfaces of the plug connector respectively. The rear surface of the plug connector has two first locking units, at least one of the plug connector and the slidable locking portions has an inclined contact surface, and when the plug connector is connected to a socket connector and the slidable locking portions are engaged with the plug connector and move toward the top side of the plug connector, the rear surface of the plug connector is pushed outward with the assistance of the inclined contact surface, unlocking the first locking units from the engaging portions on the socket connector respectively.
US10790610B1
Disclosed is a connector for high data transfer rate, including a female element, a male element. The female element includes a housing, a plurality of sheets and a first shielding plate. The male element includes a base, a differential signal contact and a second shielding plate. At least two sheets are provided on the housing, and the first shielding plate is provided between adjacent sheets. The second shielding plate corresponding to the sheets is provided on the base. A signal pin is provided at a bottom of the sheets. The differential signal contact is provided in the base. The housing is matched with the base, and the signal pin is configured to contact the differential signal contact. The connector of the present invention improves space utilization rate in the longitudinal direction, assembly efficiency and fault tolerance rate thereof.
US10790609B2
A system includes a housing having multiple slots. The system also includes multiple adaptor modules each configured to be inserted into one of the slots and perform at least one function related to an associated input or output signal. For each slot-adaptor module pair, the slot includes one of a key and a receptacle configured to receive the key, and the adaptor module includes the other of the key and the receptacle. Each key fits into the receptacle associated with one type of adaptor module and cannot fit into the receptacles associated with other types of adaptor modules. Each receptacle accepts the key associated with one type of adaptor module and cannot accept the keys associated with other types of adaptor modules. Each of at least one of the keys and the receptacles is rotatable to achieve one of multiple different orientations. Different ones of the keys have different cross-sectional shapes.
US10790605B2
There is provided a female terminal and a continuity test device. The female terminal has a pair of continuity test contacts protruded so as to be brought into contact with a continuity test pin in a position closer to the entrance side of a cylindrical part where the connection portion is inserted, in the direction of insertion of a connection portion, than a contact, with the connection portion, of an elastic contact piece provided on an inner surface of the cylindrical part. The female terminal sandwiches the connection portion between the elastic contact piece and an inner surface facing another inner surface of the cylindrical part. The pair of continuity test contacts are protruded on inner surfaces of the cylindrical part facing in the direction orthogonal to the direction of sandwiching of the connection portion by the elastic contact piece.
US10790586B2
A feed network, steering apparatus and system for a steerable antenna array are described. The feed network includes a waveguide assembly including first and second radial transverse electromagnetic (TEM) waveguides, and first and second variable phase shifters positioned in the respective TEM waveguides. The variable phase shifters cause additional progressive electrical phase shifts in respective rings of radiating elements, directly proportional to the angular position of the radiating elements in the ring, from 0 to a controllable integer multiple of 2π radians. The feed network includes first and second phase-mode feed probes coupled to the respective radial TEM waveguides, which provide respective phase-mode feed ports. When the feed network is coupled to the antenna array, two consecutive-order phase modes are provided at the phase-mode feed ports. The orders of the phase modes are selectable using a phase shift control signal controlling the integer multiple of the variable phase shifters.
US10790584B2
The present invention relates to a directional antenna module comprising: at least one antenna array having at least two antenna elements connected to a 180-degree hybrid providing an inphase summation signal and an out-of-phase summation signal of the antenna signals received from the antenna elements and a switching element adapted to switch between the inphase summation signal and the out-of-phase summation signal output by said 180-degree hybrid in response to a direction finding mode control signal (DFM-CRTL) to provide an antenna output signal at an antenna module output of said directional antenna module. The present invention further relates to a method for direction finding of a signal source.
US10790583B2
A low-profile dual-band high-isolation antenna module is fixed on a substrate and includes two high-frequency antennas and two low-frequency antennas located on two opposite sides of the substrate respectively. The bottom ends of the low-frequency antennas are connected to a grounding of the substrate. A decoupling element is disposed between the high-frequency antennas and the low-frequency antennas. The top end of each high-frequency antenna forms a bent portion, and so does the top end of each low-frequency antenna. The decoupling element has two ends extending to positions corresponding respectively to the low-frequency antennas but is not in contact with the low-frequency antennas or the high-frequency antennas. The bottom end of the decoupling element is connected to the grounding through at least one metal strip. The bent portions effectively reduce the space occupied by the antennas while the decoupling element provides isolation between the antennas.
US10790579B2
An antenna system for an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) includes one or more antennas, a reflector, and a control system. The control system is configured to determine a density of antenna towers near the UAV, determine a position for an active antenna of the one or more antennas based on the density, and adjust the active antenna to the determined position. In some embodiments, the antenna system further includes one or more switches, each of the one or more antennas is a different distance from the reflector, and the switches are used to adjust the active antenna to the determined position by selecting a one of the one or more antennas closest to the determined position as the active antenna. In some embodiments, the antenna system further includes an actuator and the active antenna is moved to the determined position using the actuator.
US10790575B2
A mobile terminal comprises: a terminal body; and a first antenna device and a second antenna device disposed at one side of the terminal body in an adjacent manner, and formed to operate at different frequency bands, wherein the first antenna device and the second antenna device are provided with conductive members each having a slit at one side thereof, and wherein the conductive members form part of an appearance of the terminal body.
US10790572B1
In an embodiment, the present invention is a barcode and RFID tag reader that includes a head portion housing an imaging assembly, the imaging assembly configured to capture images of an environment appearing with a FOV extending through a window; a base portion housing an RFID tag reader assembly; and an intermediate portion extending between the head portion and the base portion. Preferably, the RFID tag reader assembly includes a chassis having a face directed towards the FOV and an antenna assembly at least partially contoured around the face of the chassis where the antenna assembly includes: a monopole flexible antenna having a first monopole antenna element having a first half and a second half, the first half and the second half being substantially symmetrical about a line of symmetry; and a dipole flexible antenna extending at least partially over at least a portion of the first monopole antenna element.
US10790569B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, receiving, by a waveguide system, a communication signal that conveys data; transmitting, via a coupler of the waveguide system, electromagnetic waves, where the electromagnetic waves propagate along a transmission medium without requiring an electrical return path, and where the electromagnetic waves convey the data; and mitigating, by the waveguide system, interference to the electromagnetic waves associated with residual electromagnetic waves propagating along the transmission medium. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10790567B2
Enhanced air core transmission lines and transformers are disclosed. A transmission line or transformer is disposed on a dielectric substrate, with a first planar conductor on the dielectric substrate and a second planar conductor suspended above the first planar conductor. A set of support posts suspends the second planar conductor above the first planar conductor. Thermal performance of the transmission line or transformer is improved by having each of the set of support posts include a width which exceeds any gap between support posts. In some examples, openings are formed in the second planar conductor and may facilitate etching or other processes of forming the transmission line or transformer.
US10790556B2
An ECU performs a process including the steps of: acquiring a lowest temperature TBmin and a temperature TC of cooling air; acquiring a fan airflow volume; setting a cooling coefficient; calculating a resistance value Rtmin; calculating a root-mean-square value of a current; setting TBoffset1; calculating a resistance value Rtmax; calculating a temperature index Ftmax; calculating a temperature index Ftmin; calculating an evaluation function ΔF; calculating a maximum current correction gain G; and calculating a maximum current value Imax.
US10790555B2
Disclosed is a temperature-raising system for a battery module, which includes a heater assembly including a heater and a heater cover. The temperature-raising system includes: a battery module that includes one or more batteries; two or more heater assemblies that are attached to the battery module using a fixing means; a temperature sensor that is connected to the battery module or to the heater assemblies and senses a temperature of the battery module; and a controller that receives a preset target temperature, senses the temperature of the battery module using the temperature sensor, and turns on or off the heater using a voltage of the battery module, based on the preset target temperature and the temperature of the battery module that is sensed by the temperature sensor, the preset target temperature being a temperature that the battery module is targeted to reach.
US10790547B2
A control module is arranged in alignment with a battery module in a longitudinal direction. The control module includes a busbar, a switch and a current sensor configured to detect electric current flowing through the busbar. The current sensor includes a magneto-electric transducer and a magnetic field suppressor. The magneto-electric transducer is configured to convert a magnetic field, which depends on the electric current flowing through the busbar and passes through the magneto-electric transducer along a plane perpendicular to a height direction, into an electrical signal. The magnetic field suppressor is configured to suppress external magnetic fields from passing through the magneto-electric transducer along the plane perpendicular to the height direction. The switch includes a pair of magnets that are magnetized and opposed to each other in a lateral direction perpendicular to both the longitudinal and height directions. The current sensor is aligned with the magnets in the longitudinal direction.
US10790540B2
The present invention relates to a lithium-ion-conductive sulfide-based solid electrolyte which contains lithium (Li), sulfur (S), phosphorus (P), indium (In) and selenium (Se) and has a crystal structure of InSe and a method for preparing the same.
US10790535B2
An electrode for a secondary cell includes a current collector and an electrode layer. The electrode layer has a gas flow passage disposed on the surface and/or in the interior of the electrode layer. The gas flow passage extends in the in-plane direction of the electrode layer. The electrode layer is made from an electrode layer forming material that contains an electrode active material and an ion conductive liquid and is a non-bonded body. A secondary cell comprises a power generation element having an electrolyte layer, a positive electrode disposed on a first surface side of the electrolyte layer, and a negative electrode disposed on a second surface side on the back of the first surface side of the electrolyte layer; and an outer casing that houses the power generation element. At least one of the positive electrode and the negative electrode is the electrode for a secondary cell.
US10790534B2
A thermal battery includes a negative electrode and a positive electrode separated from the negative electrode by an electrolyte where at least the positive electrode is in a fluid state at the operating temperature of the battery. A solid product isolation system decreases the concentration of solid products within the fluid positive electrode at least within the region near the electrolyte.
US10790533B2
A fuel cell stack (100) includes a first supporting substrate (5a), a first power generation element, a second power generation element, a second supporting substrate (5b) and a communicating member (3). The first supporting substrate (5a) includes a first substrate main portion, a first dense layer, and a first gas flow passage. The first dense layer covers the first substrate main portion. The second supporting substrate (5b) includes a second substrate main portion, a second dense layer, and a second gas flow passage. The second dense layer covers the second substrate main portion. The communicating member (3) extends between a distal end portion (502a) of the first supporting substrate (5a) and a distal end portion (502b) of the second supporting substrate (5b) and communicates between the first gas flow passage and the second gas flow passage.
US10790531B2
This collector plate includes a peripheral edge wall that surrounds a predetermined region, and is provided on at least one surface of the collector plate, in which a surface roughness (Ra) of a first surface which is an exposed surface of the peripheral edge wall on the side of one surface, which is measured along a direction perpendicular to an extension direction of the peripheral edge wall is greater than a surface roughness (Ra) of the first surface which is measured along the extension direction of the peripheral edge wall.
US10790527B2
A method of producing an electrochemical fuel cell device with one or more electrodes containing one or more electrocatalysts. The method involves the steps of, first, affixing a semi-permeable membrane with inhomogeneous conduction pathways to a conducting surface of a first electrode in a predetermined configuration to form a first electrode assembly. This assembly is then immersed in an electrolyte containing at least one electrochemical precursor with for forming an active electrocatalyst on the conducting surface of the first electrode when a potential is applied to the first electrode. The same process can occur with a second electrode assembly which can be joined to the first electrode assembly before or after the electrocatalyst deposition.
US10790522B2
A fuel cell module includes a fuel cell stack, a reformer, and an exhaust gas combustor. The fuel cell module further includes an exhaust gas combustion chamber equipped with the exhaust gas combustor and a preheating unit for heating a raw fuel by combustion exhaust gas produced in the exhaust gas combustor before the raw fuel is supplied to the reformer. The preheating unit forms one surface of the exhaust gas combustion chamber.
US10790521B2
A caulk composition includes at least one powder component and at least one binder component, such that the powder component has a particle size distribution in the range of 95% less than 25 μm and 90% greater than 1 μm. A molten carbonate fuel cell (MCFC) includes a fuel cell stack, a manifold, and the caulk composition disposed in between the fuel cell stack and the manifold.
US10790507B2
A method for preparing cathode material for a lithium primary battery includes an active cathode material and an active anode material. The active cathode material is manganese dioxide, and the active anode material is either one of lithium metal and lithium alloy. The method includes: a first kneading step in which a boron compound and a thickening agent are kneaded with a diluent to prepare a paste made by dissolving the boron compound in the diluent; a second kneading step in which the paste is kneaded with a conductive additive; and a third kneading step in which the paste obtained in the second kneading step is kneaded with the active cathode material and a binder to prepare the cathode material in slurry form.
US10790492B2
A polyolefin microporous membrane has a variation range of F25 value in a longitudinal direction of 1 MPa or less; a thickness of 3 μm or more and less than 7 μm; and a length of 1,000 m or more (wherein the F25 value is a value obtained by measuring a load value applied to a test specimen when the test specimen is stretched by 25% using a tensile tester; and dividing the load value by a value of a cross-sectional area of a test specimen).
US10790484B2
A secondary battery is disclosed. In one aspect, the secondary battery includes a battery cell including an electrode and a cap cover placed over the battery cell and having an opening that exposes the electrode. The secondary battery also includes a connection member placed over the cap cover and electrically connected to the electrode. The secondary battery further includes a coupling structure that couples the battery cell and the cap cover. The coupling structure includes a protrusion extending away from the cap cover toward the battery cell, an adhesive pocket formed around the protrusion, and a concave portion formed in the battery cell so as to receive the protrusion.
US10790479B2
A secondary battery including a pouch having recessed portions inwardly recessed at at least one of opposite sides of the pouch, an electrode assembly including first electrode plates, second electrode plates and separators, the separators being disposed between the first electrode plates and second electrode plates, the electrode assembly being inside the pouch, and a lead tab coupled to the electrode assembly and exposed to the outside of the pouch. The separators protrude from the first electrode plates or the second electrode plates by different protruding lengths at different regions corresponding to the recessed portions of the pouch in a thickness direction of the electrode assembly.
US10790476B2
A method for preparing an OLED display substrate of an embodiment of the present disclosure comprises: providing a substrate comprising pixel definition regions each for defining a pixel unit, and forming a first electrode in the pixel unit; forming a pixel definition structure and an auxiliary electrode in the pixel definition region, the pixel definition structure being configured to separate the first electrode from the auxiliary electrode; forming a phase transition structure; forming a light-emitting layer to cover the phase transition structure and the first electrode; exciting the phase transition structure to contract the phase transition structure, thereby causing the light-emitting layer to be broken at a position corresponding to the contraction of the phase transition structure to form an opening; and forming a second electrode, such that the second electrode covers the light-emitting layer and is electrically connected to the auxiliary electrode through the opening.
US10790475B2
A display device includes: a substrate; pixels on the substrate; and a polarization film on the pixels and stretched in a first direction and a second direction opposite to the first direction. The polarization film is cut at an end portion of the polarization film along a third direction, the third direction forming an acute angle with the first direction toward an outside of the polarization film.
US10790474B2
An organic light-emitting display device capable of improving luminance and light extraction efficiency thereof while preventing image blur, and a method for manufacturing the same is disclosed. In accordance with the device and the method, image blur is suppressed and luminance and light-emitting efficiency are improved by forming micro-lenses on an encapsulating layer for protecting organic light-emitting elements at precise positions corresponding to the elements in a self-aligned and self-assembled manner.
US10790466B2
An in-line system for mass production of an organic optoelectronic device is disclosed. The in-line system includes a patterned holder, a first chamber, and a second chamber. The patterned holder is for holding a substrate covered with a first electrode layer and a contact electrode layer, in which the first electrode layer and the contact electrode layer are partially shielded by the patterned holder. The first chamber is for forming an organic layer on portions of the first electrode layer and the contact electrode layer that are not shielded by the patterned holder. The second chamber is aligned with the first chamber and is for forming a second electrode layer on the organic layer.
US10790464B2
An organic light-emitting device and an electronic device, the organic light-emitting device including a first electrode; a second electrode facing the first electrode; and an organic layer between the first electrode and the second electrode, the organic layer including an emission layer, wherein the emission layer includes a first host, a second host, and a dopant, the first host includes a compound represented by Formula 1, and the second host includes a compound represented by Formula 2:
US10790457B2
Tridentate platinum, palladium, and gold complexes of Formulas A-I and A-II and tridentate iridium and rhodium compounds of Formulas B-I, B-II, and B-III suitable for delayed fluorescent and phosphorescent or phosphorescent emitters in display and lighting applications.
US10790452B2
An antiaromatic compound and an organic light-emitting device including the same. The antiaromatic compound is represented by Formula 1:
US10790448B2
A flexible electrode for a display device may include a conductive structure including a lower conductive pattern disposed on a substrate and an upper conductive pattern disposed on the lower conductive pattern, and an electrode layer disposed on the substrate, the electrode layer being adjacent to the conductive structure. A width of a top surface of the lower conductive pattern may be less than a width of a bottom surface of the upper conductive pattern.
US10790446B2
An electroluminescent display device includes: a substrate, a first pixel column on the substrate, the first pixel column including: a plurality of first pixels configured to emit light of a first color, and a first emission layer, a second pixel column on the substrate, the second pixel column including: a plurality of second pixels configured to emit light of a second color, and a second emission layer, a first bank extending between the first pixel column and the second pixel column, between each of the plurality of first pixels, and between each of the plurality of second pixels, and a second bank extending between the first pixel column and the second pixel column on each first bank.
US10790432B2
Techniques for implementing multiple microwave attenuators on a high thermal conductivity substrate for cryogenic applications to reduce heat and thermal noise during quantum computing are provided. In one embodiment, a device for using in cryogenic environment is provided that comprises a substrate having a thermal conductivity above a defined threshold, a plurality of transmission lines fabricated on the substrate and arranged with a separation gap between the plurality of transmission lines to maintain crosstalk below −50 decibels, and one or more microwave attenuators embedded on the plurality of transmission lines.
US10790426B2
A method of manufacturing a light emitting element mounting base member includes: arranging a plurality of core members each including an electrical conductor core and a light-reflecting insulating member provided on a surface of the electrical conductor core; integrally holding the core members with a light blocking resin; and partially removing the insulating members such that at least one surface of the electrical conductor cores is exposed from the light blocking resin.
US10790423B2
A light-emitting disclosure (LED) and an LED array are disclosed. The LED includes a semiconductor junction for emitting light and an optical surface coupled to the semiconductor junction for outputting at least a portion of the light. The optical surface can include a grating structure configured to increase the portion of the light outputted by the optical surface, and/or a redirecting structure configured to redirect the portion of the light to form an output optical beam.
US10790418B2
A fabrication method for a light emitting diode (LED), including: 1) mounting a LED chip on a substrate; 2) mounting a screen printing template on the LED chip; 3) coating a silicone gel layer over the surface of the screen printing template; 4) printing the phosphor: printing the phosphor over the chip surface via silk screen printing process and recycling the excess phosphor; and 5) removing the screen printing template and baking the phosphor for curing, and coating the cured phosphor over the chip surface. In the packaging method of the present disclosure, the unused phosphor can be recycled because it is not polluted by the screen printing template material.
US10790415B2
A semiconductor light-emitting device includes a light-emitting structure including a first semiconductor layer, an active layer, and a second semiconductor layer which are sequentially stacked, a first insulating layer on the second semiconductor layer with a plurality of first openings having first widths and a plurality of second openings having second widths different from the first widths, a first electrode electrically connected to the first semiconductor layer through the first openings, a first sub-electrode layer between the second semiconductor layer and the first insulating layer, the first sub-electrode layer being exposed through the second openings, and a second sub-electrode layer on the first insulating layer, the second sub-electrode layer being connected to the first sub-electrode layer through the second openings, wherein a first distance between the first openings closest to each other is different from a second distance between the second openings closest to each other.
US10790412B2
A manufacturing method of a light-emitting device includes steps of: providing a substrate with a top surface, wherein the top surface comprises a plurality of concavo-convex structures; forming a semiconductor stack on the top surface; forming a trench in the semiconductor stack to define a plurality of second semiconductor stacks and expose a first upper surface; forming a scribing region which extends from the first upper surface into the semiconductor stack and exposes a side surface of the semiconductor stack to define a plurality of first semiconductor stacks; removing a portion of the plurality of first semiconductor stacks and a portion of the concavo-convex structures trough the region to form a first side wall of each of the first semiconductor stack; and dividing the substrate along the region; wherein the first side wall and the top surface form an acute angle α between thereof, 30°≤α≤80°.
US10790405B2
An electro-optically triggered power switch is disclosed utilizing a wide bandgap, high purity III-nitride semiconductor material such as BN, AlN, GaN, InN and their compounds. The device is electro-optically triggered using a laser diode operating at a wavelength of 10 to 50 nanometers off the material's bandgap, and at a power level of 10 to 100 times less than that required in a conventionally triggered device. The disclosed device may be configured as a high power RF MOSFET, IGBT, FET, or HEMT that can be electro-optically controlled using photons rather than an electrical signal. Electro-optic control lowers the power losses in the semiconductor device, decreases the turn-on time, and simplifies the drive signal requirements. It also allows the power devices to be operated from the millisecond to the sub-picosecond timeframe, thus allowing the power device to be operated at RF frequencies (i.e., kilohertz to terahertz range) and at high temperatures where the bandgap changes with temperature.
US10790391B2
The present disclosure describes a method that mitigates the formation of facets in source/drain silicon germanium (SiGe) epitaxial layers. The method includes forming an isolation region around a semiconductor layer and a gate structure partially over the semiconductor layer and the isolation region. Disposing first photoresist structures over the gate structure, a portion of the isolation region, and a portion of the semiconductor layer and doping, with germanium (Ge), exposed portions of the semiconductor layer and exposed portions of the isolation region to form Ge-doped regions that extend from the semiconductor layer to the isolation region. The method further includes disposing second photoresist structures over the isolation region and etching exposed Ge-doped regions in the semiconductor layer to form openings, where the openings include at least one common sidewall with the Ge-doped regions in the isolation region. Finally the method includes growing a SiGe epitaxial stack in the openings.
US10790383B2
It is an object to provide a highly reliable semiconductor device which includes a thin film transistor having stable electric characteristics. It is another object to manufacture a highly reliable semiconductor device at lower cost with high productivity. In a method for manufacturing a semiconductor device which includes a thin film transistor where a semiconductor layer having a channel formation region, a source region, and a drain region are formed using an oxide semiconductor layer, heat treatment (heat treatment for dehydration or dehydrogenation) is performed so as to improve the purity of the oxide semiconductor layer and reduce impurities such as moisture. Moreover, the oxide semiconductor layer subjected to the heat treatment is slowly cooled under an oxygen atmosphere.
US10790381B2
In a method for manufacturing a semiconductor device by using a gate replacement technology, a gate space constituted by dielectric material portions, in which a semiconductor fin channel layer is exposed, is formed. The surfaces of the dielectric material portions are made hydrophobic. A first dielectric layer is formed on the semiconductor fin channel layer, while maintaining the surfaces of the dielectric material portions hydrophobic. A surface of the formed first dielectric layer is hydrophilic. A first conductive layer is formed over the first dielectric layer, while maintaining the surfaces of the dielectric material portions hydrophobic. A second conductive layer is formed over the first conductive layer and on the hydrophobic surfaces of the dielectric material portions, thereby filling the gate space.
US10790375B2
A high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) includes a first compound layer. A second III-V compound layer is disposed on the first III-V compound layer and is different from the first III-V compound layer in composition. A salicide source feature and a salicide drain feature are in contact with the first III-V compound layer through the second III-V compound layer. A gate electrode is disposed over a portion of the second compound layer between the salicide source feature and the salicide drain feature.
US10790368B2
VFET devices are provided. A VFET device includes a substrate including first and second protruding portions. The VFET device includes an isolation region between the first and second protruding portions. The VFET device includes first and second silicide regions on the first and second protruding portions, respectively. Moreover, the VFET device includes a contact on the first and second silicide regions. Related methods of forming a VFET device are also provided.
US10790365B2
An LDMOS includes a body region disposed in the substrate and having a first conductivity type; a drift region disposed in the substrate and having a second conductivity type; a source region disposed in the body region and having the second conductivity type; a drain region disposed in the drift region and having the second conductivity type; an isolation region disposed in the drift region between the source region and the drain region; a gate disposed on the body region and the drift region; a source field plate electrically connected to the source region; a drain field plate electrically connected to the drain region; and a first gate plate electrically connected to the gate. The first gate plate is correspondingly disposed above the gate. The shapes of the first gate plate and the gate are substantially the same when viewed from a top view.
US10790357B2
Vertical field effect transistors (VFETs) having a gradient threshold voltage and an engineered channel are provided. The engineered channel includes a vertical dog-bone shaped channel structure that is composed of silicon having a germanium content that is 1 atomic percent or less and having a lower portion having a first channel width, a middle portion having a second channel width that is less than the first channel width, and an upper portion having the first channel width. Due to the quantum confinement effect, the middle portion of the vertical dog-bone shaped channel structure has a higher threshold voltage than the lower portion and the upper portion of the vertical dog-bone shaped channel structure. Hence, the at least one vertical dog-bone shaped channel structure has an asymmetric threshold voltage profile. Also, the VFET containing the vertical dog-bone shaped channel structure has improved electrical characteristics and device performance.
US10790352B2
A first and a second gate structure each extend in a first direction. A first and a second conductive contact extend in the first direction and are separated from the first and second gate structures in a second direction. A first isolation structure extends in the second direction and separates the first gate structure from the second gate structure. A second isolation structure extends in the second direction and separates the first conductive contact from the second conductive contact. The first gate structure is electrically coupled to a first electrical node. The second gate structure is electrically coupled to a second electrical node different from the first electrical node. The first conductive contact is electrically coupled to the second electrical node. The second conductive contact is electrically coupled to the first electrical node.
US10790348B2
A display device includes a display region and a non-display region. First lines are between the substrate and the first insulating layer in the non-display region. Second lines are on a first insulating layer in the non-display region and are alternately disposed with the first lines. A second insulating layer is over the second lines and has a surface unevenness formed by the first and second lines. Third lines are over the second insulating layer and intersect the first lines and the second line. First insulating patterns are on the second insulating layer and serve to planarize the surface unevenness. The first insulating patterns are between at least adjacent third lines in a plan view.
US10790342B2
A display device includes a display panel that includes a substrate, a pixel disposed on the substrate, and an encapsulation layer that covers the pixel, and a touch sensor disposed on the display panel. The touch sensor includes sensing electrodes disposed on the encapsulation layer, and sensing lines respectively connected to the sensing electrodes. Each of the sensing lines includes a first sensing line pattern that extends onto the substrate, a second sensing line pattern connected to the first sensing line pattern outside of the encapsulation region, the second sensing line pattern including a first connection part and a second connection part, and a third sensing line pattern connected to the second connection part of the second sensing line pattern at a lower side of the encapsulation layer.
US10790291B2
A non-volatile memory device includes an upper semiconductor layer vertically stacked on a lower semiconductor layer. The upper semiconductor layer includes a first memory group spaced apart from a second memory group in a first horizontal direction by a separation region, and the lower semiconductor layer includes a bypass circuit underlying at least a portion of the separation region and configured to selectively connect a first bit line of the first memory group with a second bit line of the second memory group.
US10790290B2
A 3D NAND storage device includes a plurality of layers containing doped semiconductor material interleaved with a plurality of layers of dielectric material. Each of the pillars forming the 3D NAND storage device includes a plurality of memory cells and a drain-end select gate (SGD). The pillars are separated by a hollow channel in which a plurality of film layers, including at least a lower film layer and an upper film layer have been deposited. The systems and methods described herein remove at least the upper film layer proximate the SGD while maintaining the film layers proximate the memory cells. Such an arrangement beneficially permits tailoring the film layers proximate the SGD prior to depositing the channel film layer in the hollow channel. The systems and methods described herein permit the deposition of a continuous channel film layer proximate both the memory cells and the SGD.
US10790285B2
Disclosed is a method for forming a staircase structure of 3D memory. The method includes providing a substrate, forming an alternating layer stack over the substrate, forming a plurality of block regions over a surface of the alternating layer stack, forming a first plurality of staircase structures to expose a portion of a first number of top-most layer stacks at each of the block regions and removing the first number of the layer stacks at a second plurality of staircase structures at each of the block regions.
US10790276B2
Methods, apparatus, and systems relating to a MOSFET with ESD resistance, specifically, to a semiconductor device comprising a field-effect transistor (FET) comprising a gate, a source, and a drain, all extending parallel to each other in a first direction; at least one source electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection circuit; a source terminal disposed above and in electrical contact with the at least one source ESD protection circuit, wherein the source terminal extends in the first direction; at least one drain ESD protection circuit; and a drain terminal disposed above and in electrical contact with the at least one drain ESD protection circuit, wherein the drain terminal extends in the first direction.
US10790268B2
A semiconductor device has a first substrate and a semiconductor die disposed over the first substrate. A conductive pillar is formed on the first substrate. A first encapsulant is deposited over the first substrate and semiconductor die after forming the conductive pillar. A groove is formed in the first encapsulant around the conductive pillar. A first passive device is disposed over a second substrate. A second encapsulant is deposited over the first passive device and second substrate. The first substrate is mounted over the second substrate. A shielding layer is formed over the second encapsulant. A second passive device can be mounted over the second substrate opposite the first passive device and outside a footprint of the first substrate.
US10790264B2
A semiconductor package including a first device layer including first semiconductor devices, a first cover insulating layer, and first through-electrodes passing through at least a portion of the first device layer, a second device layer second semiconductor devices, a second cover insulating layer, and second through-electrodes passing through at least a portion of the second device layer, the second semiconductor devices vertically overlapping the first semiconductor devices, respectively, the second cover insulating layer in contact with the first cover insulating layer a third device layer including an upper semiconductor chip, the upper semiconductor chip vertically overlapping both at least two of first semiconductor devices and at least two of the second semiconductor devices, and device bonded pads passing through the first and second cover insulating layers, the device bonded pads electrically connecting the first and second through-electrodes to the upper semiconductor chip may be provided.
US10790259B2
The present invention provides a Cu alloy bonding wire for a semiconductor device, where the bonding wire can satisfy requirements of high-density LSI applications. In the Cu alloy bonding wire for a semiconductor device, the abundance ratio of a crystal orientation <110> having an angular difference of 15 degrees or less from a direction perpendicular to one plane including a wire center axis to crystal orientations on a wire surface is 25% or more and 70% or less in average area percentage.
US10790248B2
Provided are a three-dimensional integrated circuit (3DIC) and a method of manufacturing the same. The 3DIC includes a first wafer, a second wafer, and a hybrid bonding structure. The second wafer is bonded to the first wafer by the hybrid bonding structure. The hybrid bonding structure includes a blocking layer between a hybrid bonding dielectric layer and a hybrid bonding metal layer.
US10790244B2
In an embodiment, a device includes: a conductive shield on a first dielectric layer; a second dielectric layer on the first dielectric layer and the conductive shield, the first and second dielectric layers surrounding the conductive shield, the second dielectric layer including: a first portion disposed along an outer periphery of the conductive shield; a second portion extending through a center region of the conductive shield; and a third portion extending through a channel region of the conductive shield, the third portion connecting the first portion to the second portion; a coil on the second dielectric layer, the coil disposed over the conductive shield; an integrated circuit die on the second dielectric layer, the integrated circuit die disposed outside of the coil; and an encapsulant surrounding the coil and the integrated circuit die, top surfaces of the encapsulant, the integrated circuit die, and the coil being level.
US10790242B2
According to the present invention, a semiconductor device includes a substrate having a metallic pattern formed on a top surface of the substrate, a semiconductor chip provided on the metallic pattern, a back surface electrode terminal in flat plate form connected to the metallic pattern with a wire, a front surface electrode terminal in flat plate form, the front surface electrode terminal being in parallel to the back surface electrode terminal above the back surface electrode terminal, extending immediately above the semiconductor chip, and being directly joined to a top surface of the semiconductor chip, a case surrounding the substrate and a seal material for sealing an inside of the case.
US10790240B2
A hybrid-bonding structure and a method for forming a hybrid-bonding structure are provided. The hybrid-bonding structure includes a first semiconductor substrate, a first conductive line and a first dielectric dummy pattern. The first conductive line is formed over the first semiconductor substrate. A surface of the first conductive line is configured to hybrid-bond with a second conductive line over a second semiconductor substrate. The first dielectric dummy pattern is formed over the first semiconductor substrate and embedded in the first conductive line.
US10790235B2
An integrated fan-out package including a die attach film, an integrated circuit component, an insulating encapsulation, and a redistribution circuit structure is provided. The integrated circuit component is disposed on the die attach film and includes a plurality of conductive terminals. The die attach film includes an uplifted edge which raises toward sidewalls of the integrated circuit component. The insulating encapsulation encapsulates the uplifted edge and the integrated circuit component. The redistribution circuit structure is disposed on the integrated circuit component and the insulating encapsulation, and the redistribution circuit structure is electrically connected to the conductive terminals of the integrated circuit component. A method of fabricating the integrated fan-out package are also provided.
US10790230B2
Example embodiments relate to a layer structure having a diffusion barrier layer, and a method of manufacturing the same. The layer structure includes first and second material layers and a diffusion barrier layer therebetween. The diffusion barrier layer includes a nanocrystalline graphene (nc-G) layer. In the layer structure, the diffusion barrier layer may further include a non-graphene metal compound layer or a graphene layer together with the nc-G layer. One of the first and second material layers is an insulating layer, a metal layer, or a semiconductor layer, and the remaining layer may be a metal layer.
US10790229B2
A semiconductor memory device according to an embodiment includes a substrate; a plate-like first conductivity layer provided above the substrate and extending parallel to a substrate plane to bestride first and second regions; a plate-like second conductivity layer provided above the first conductivity layer to be separated from the first conductivity layer, an end portion of the first conductivity layer has a protruding staircase shape in the first region, the second conductivity layer extending parallel to the first conductivity layer to bestride the first and second regions; a first contact connected to the first conductivity layer at a side surface or a bottom surface of the first conductivity layer and extending from the first conductivity layer toward the substrate, the first contact being connected at a position where the end portion of the first conductivity layer in the first region protrudes, and a diameter size of a portion of the first contact connected at a side surface or a bottom surface of the first conductivity layer having a maximum diameter size; a second contact connected to the second conductivity layer at a side surface or a bottom surface of the second conductivity layer in the first region and extending from the second conductivity layer toward the substrate to penetrate the first conductivity layer, a diameter size of a portion of the second contact connected at a side surface or a bottom surface of the second conductivity layer having a maximum diameter size; a channel body penetrating the first and second conductivity layers in the second region; and a memory film including a charge accumulation portion provided between the first and second conductivity layers and the channel body in the second region.
US10790227B2
Semiconductor structures and fabrication methods are provided. An exemplary fabrication method includes providing a semiconductor substrate; forming a first dielectric layer having a first region and a second regions at each of two sides of the first region on the semiconductor substrate; forming a first opening in the first region of the first dielectric layer and a second opening in each of the second regions of the first dielectric layer; forming a first interconnect member in the first opening; forming a second interconnect member with a top surface lower than a top surface of the first dielectric layer in each of the second openings; forming a second dielectric layer having a third opening with a bottom exposing a top surface of the first interconnect member on surfaces of the first interconnect member, second interconnect members and the first dielectric layer; and forming an interconnect structure in the third opening.
US10790225B1
Chip package structure and chip package method are provided. The chip package structure includes an encapsulating layer, a first metal layer, a second metal layer, and bare chips. The bare chips include first bare chips and second bare chips. First-connecting-posts are formed on a side of the first bare chips and on a side of the second bare chips. The encapsulating layer covers the bare chips and the first-connecting-posts. The first metal layer is disposed on the side of the first-connecting-posts away from the bare chips and includes first capacitor polar plates and conductive parts. The first capacitor polar plates are electrically connected to the first-connecting-posts on the first bare chips, and the conductive parts are electrically connected to the first-connecting-posts on the second bare chips. The second metal layer is disposed on a side of the first metal layer away from the encapsulating layer and includes second capacitor polar plates electrically connected to the conductive parts.
US10790223B2
An integrated circuit package element provided includes a chip element and a package module coupled to the chip element. The chip element includes two driving units that are electrically connected to each other. The package module includes a grounding area, two individual power distributed networks and a grounded shielding structure which is completely disposed between the individual power distributed networks, electrically connected to the chip element, and configured to block power noise coupling between the first electric power distribution network and the second electric power distribution network. The grounding area is electrically connected to the individual electric power distribution networks and the grounded shielding structure.
US10790220B2
A press-fit semiconductor device includes a lead frame having a die pad, leads with inner and outer lead ends, and a press-fit lead. The press-fit lead has a circular section between an outer lead end and an inner lead end, and the circular section has a central hole that is sized and shaped to receive a press-fit connection pin. A die is attached to the die pad and electrically connected to the inner lead ends of the leads and the inner lead end of the press-fit lead. The die, electrical connections and inner lead ends are covered with an encapsulant that forms a housing. The outer lead ends of the leads extend beyond the housing. The housing has a hole extending therethrough that is aligned with the center hole of the press-fit lead, so that a press-fit connection pin can be pushed through the hole to connect the device to a circuit board.
US10790219B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor package includes a die pad, a semiconductor chip, a lead frame, and an insulating part. The semiconductor chip is provided on the die pad. The lead frame is separated from the die pad. The lead frame is electrically connected to a terminal of the semiconductor chip. The lead frame includes a first part and a second part disposed between the first part and the die pad. An upper surface of the first part is located below an upper surface of the second part. The insulating part is provided on the die pad, the semiconductor chip, and the second part. The insulating part seals the semiconductor chip.
US10790218B2
A semiconductor device according to the present invention includes a relay substrate provided on a plurality of semiconductor chips. The relay substrate includes an insulating plate in which a through hole is formed, a lower conductor provided on a lower surface of the insulating plate and having a first lower conductor and a second lower conductor, an upper conductor provided on an upper surface of the insulating plate, a connection part provided in the through hole and connecting the second lower conductor and the upper conductor together, and a protruding part which is a part of one of the first lower conductor and the upper conductor and protrudes outward from the insulating plate, the protruding part is connected to a first external electrode, and another of the first lower conductor and the upper conductor is connected to a second external electrode and is positioned inside the insulating plate.
US10790213B2
A heat radiation device includes a semiconductor substrate. A first electrode is disposed on the semiconductor substrate. A second electrode is disposed on the semiconductor substrate and is spaced apart from the first electrode. A first through electrode is disposed in the semiconductor substrate. The first through electrode is electrically connected to the first electrode.
US10790209B2
A wiring circuit substrate includes a glass base, insulating resin layers, wire groups, a first inorganic adhesive layer, a through electrode, and second conductive layers. The glass base has a through-hole. The insulating resin layers are laminated to the glass base and each have a conductive via formed therein. The wire groups are laminated to the insulating resin layers. The first inorganic adhesive layer is laminated to the inner surface of the through-hole. The through electrode is formed of a first conductive layer laminated to the first inorganic adhesive layer. The second conductive layers are formed on the through electrode and the glass base and electrically connected to the upper and lower ends of the through electrode. The glass base has a surface roughness Ra of 100 nm or less, and the second conductive layers each have an amount of dishing of 5 μm or less above the through electrode.
US10790207B2
The invention relates to a power semiconductor device comprising a pin element which passes through a housing opening, comprising a support device, further comprising an elastic sealing device which is arranged on the support device, comprising a pressure device which is arranged on the sealing device, and comprising an electrically conductive sleeve. A first pressure element of the pressure device presses a first sealing element of the sealing device against a first support element of the support device in the axial direction of the pin element causes deformation of the first sealing element so that the first sealing element presses against the housing opening wall and against the sleeve in a perpendicular direction in relation to the axial direction of the pin element. A second pressure element of the pressure device is designed to press a second sealing element of the sealing device against a second support element of the support device in the axial direction of the pin element and in this way to cause deformation of the second sealing element in such a way that the second sealing element presses against the sleeve and against the pin element in a perpendicular direction in relation to the axial direction of the pin element.
US10790204B2
Structures for testing a field effect-transistor or Kelvin field-effect transistor, and methods of forming a structure for testing a field-effect transistor or Kelvin field-effect transistor. The structure includes a test pad, a device-under-testing having one or more source/drain regions, and a metallization level arranged over the device-under-testing. The metallization level includes one or more interconnect lines that are connected with the test pad. One or more contacts, which are arranged between the metallization level and the device-under-testing, directly connect the one or more interconnect lines with the one or more source/drain regions.
US10790199B2
A method of forming fin structures that includes providing at least one silicon germanium containing fin structure, and forming a fin liner on the at least one silicon germanium containing fin structure. The fin liner includes a silicon germanium and oxygen containing layer. The method continues with annealing the at least on silicon germanium containing fin structure having the fin liner present thereon. During the annealing, the silicon germanium oxygen containing layer reacts with the silicon germanium containing fin structure to provide surface formation of a silicon rich layer on the silicon germanium containing fin structure.
US10790191B2
Apparatuses and methods to provide a fully self-aligned via are described. Some embodiments of the disclosure utilize a cap layer to protect an insulating layer in order to minimize bowing of the side walls during metal recess in a fully self-aligned via. The cap layer can be selectively removed, thus increasing the aspect ratio, by exposing the substrate to a hot phosphoric acid solution.
US10790188B2
Methods for filling a substrate feature with a seamless ruthenium gap fill are described. The methods include depositing a ruthenium film, oxidizing the ruthenium film to form an oxidized ruthenium film, reducing the oxidized ruthenium film to a reduced ruthenium film and repeating the oxidation and reduction processes to form a seamless ruthenium gap fill.
US10790184B2
A semiconductor device structure is provided. The semiconductor device structure includes a semiconductor substrate including a first well region and a second well region that have different conductivity types and are adjacent to each other. A first fin structure protrudes from the semiconductor substrate and is formed in the first well region. A second fin structure protrudes from the semiconductor substrate and is formed in the second well region and adjacent to the first fin structure. A first multi-step isolation structure that includes a first isolation portion is formed between the first fin structure and the second fin structure. A second isolation portion extends from the bottom surface of the first isolation portion. The second isolation portion has a top width that is narrower than the bottom width of the first isolation portion.
US10790176B2
A substrate carrier may include a carrier body and a first sensor unit. The carrier body may include an internal space, an inlet port and an outlet port. The internal space may be configured to receive a substrate. A purge gas may be introduced into the internal space through the inlet port. A gas in the internal space may be exhausted through the outlet port. The first sensor unit may be at the outlet port and configured to detect environmental properties of the internal space in real time. Thus, a generation or cause of a contaminant in the carrier body may be accurately identified.
US10790175B2
Embodiments include a real time etch rate sensor and methods of for using a real time etch rate sensor. In an embodiment, the real time etch rate sensor includes a resonant system and a conductive housing. The resonant system may include a resonating body, a first electrode formed over a first surface of the resonating body, a second electrode formed over a second surface of the resonating body, and a sacrificial layer formed over the first electrode. In an embodiment, at least a portion of the first electrode is not covered by the sacrificial layer. In an embodiment, the conductive housing may secure the resonant system. Additionally, the conductive housing contacts the first electrode, and at least a portion of an interior edge of the conductive housing may be spaced away from the sacrificial layer.
US10790173B2
A device structure comprises a patterned substrate comprising a substrate surface and a substrate post protruding from the substrate surface. The substrate post comprises a substrate post material. A component has a component top side and a component bottom side opposite the component top side. The component bottom side is disposed on the substrate post and extends over at least one edge of the substrate post. The component comprises a component material different from the substrate post material and the component comprises a broken (e.g., fractured) or separated component tether.
US10790170B2
The invention relates to a device and a method for continuous production of porous silicon layers (single or multiple layers) on workpieces made of silicon or workpieces with a silicon coating. The method according to the invention is thereby based on a one-sided etching method, the workpiece being guided horizontally, by means of a transport device, with the front side of the workpiece to be etched, past at least one etching chamber, comprising an electrolyte and a cathode. This method can be used in particular for the production of PV cells.
US10790169B2
A discharge port 31 is arranged inside a chamber 9. A circulation flow passage 50 circulates a processing liquid, while maintaining the processing liquid at a predetermined temperature. A discharge flow passage 32 is branched from a circulation flow passage 50 to guide the processing liquid to the discharge port 31. A return flow passage 33 is connected to the discharge flow passage 32 inside the chamber 9 and allows the processing liquid running through the discharge flowpassage 32 to flow back to the circulation flow passage 50.
US10790163B2
In a method for manufacturing a semiconductor sensor, an upper mold has a pair of projections on a wall surface opposing to side surfaces of a semiconductor chip in a first cavity and at positions closest to a second cavity. The projections project so as to reduce the space between the side surfaces of the semiconductor chip and the upper mold, so that a flow of a resin material from a first cavity to a second cavity is delayed. The resin material is filled in the first cavity prior to the second cavity. After a portion of a film corresponding to the first cavity is entirely brought into close contact with the upper mold, the resin material is filled in the second cavity.
US10790162B2
In an embodiment, a package includes: a first redistribution structure; a first integrated circuit die connected to the first redistribution structure; a ring-shaped substrate surrounding the first integrated circuit die, the ring-shaped substrate connected to the first redistribution structure, the ring-shaped substrate including a core and conductive vias extending through the core; a encapsulant surrounding the ring-shaped substrate and the first integrated circuit die, the encapsulant extending through the ring-shaped substrate; and a second redistribution structure on the encapsulant, the second redistribution structure connected to the first redistribution structure through the conductive vias of the ring-shaped substrate.
US10790160B2
This invention relates generally to ID frequency identification (RFID) transponders and receivers. More specifically to the methods, apparatus and systems of the fabrication of the transponders and receivers. In one example embodiment, to methods, apparatus, and systems to form effective barriers for devices having a layer structure, including encapsulating at least a portion of the side of the devices from being degraded due to impurity penetration into a laminate structure of the devices, which can cause corrosion or malfunction of the devices.
US10790155B2
In a method of forming a groove pattern extending in a first axis in an underlying layer over a semiconductor substrate, a first opening is formed in the underlying layer, and the first opening is extended in the first axis by directional etching to form the groove pattern.
US10790150B2
A method for fabricating a semiconductor device includes: preparing a substrate; forming an isolation layer defining an active region in the substrate; forming a first insulation structure over the substrate, the first insulation structure defining a line-type opening that exposes the isolation layer and the active region; forming a plug pad through a Selective Epitaxial Growth (SEG) process over the exposed active regions; forming a second insulation structure inside the line-type opening, the second insulation structure defining a contact hole landing on the plug pad; and filling the contact hole with a contact plug.
US10790132B2
The present invention provides a time-of-flight mass spectrometer (TOFMS) taken measures for preventing a deterioration in accuracy caused at the time of transportation to an installation site. A time-of-flight mass spectrometer (TOFMS) for performing mass separation based on the time of flight of an ion flying in a flight space includes an ion transportation unit (12, 14, 15) configured to transport an ion, an acceleration unit (expulsion electrode (161) and the like) configured to receive the ion transported by the ion transportation unit and accelerate the ion to introduce the ion into the flight space, a flight unit incorporating the flight space, a first vacuum vessel (18A) enclosing the ion transportation unit, the acceleration unit, and at least a part of the flight unit, a chassis (19) on which the first vacuum vessel (18A) is placed, and a reflector unit (20) to which a reflector (reflection (164)) and a second vacuum vessel (28) are fixed, the reflection (164) being configured to reverse the flight trajectory of the ion accelerated by the acceleration unit and introduced into the flight space, and the second vacuum vessel (28) being attachable to an end of the first vacuum vessel (18A) and enclosing the reflector. Since the reflector unit (20) is separated from other parts during transportation, the other parts are easily moved by, for example, casters (191) disposed on the chassis (19), and the reflector unit (20) is moved without being affected by the vibrations caused by the movement on the casters (191).
US10790131B2
Method for producing ions for mass spectrometry analysis, including introducing vaporized sample compounds behind a supersonic nozzle and expanding the sample compounds with a carrier gas from the supersonic nozzle into a supersonic nozzle vacuum chamber proximate thereto for vibrationally cooling the sample compounds prior to their ionization. Sample compounds are ionized by either illumination with vacuum ultra-violet photons produced by a continuously operated vacuum ultra-violet photon source or by electrons produced in a fly-through electron ionization ion source; and the ions are transferred to a mass analyzer mounted in a mass analyzer vacuum chamber to obtain mass spectra from vibrationally cold molecules. A quadrupole mass analyzer mounted may be used to obtain mass spectra with dominant molecular ions and fragment ion intensities below 3% of the molecular ion for hydrocarbons. Carrier gas flow rate may exceed 20 ml/min for vibrationally cooling the sample compounds prior to their ionization.
US10790126B2
Methods and systems for RF pulse reflection reduction are provided herein. In some embodiments, a method includes (a) receiving a process recipe for processing the substrate that includes a plurality of pulsed RF power waveforms from a plurality of RF generators during a first duty cycle, (b) dividing the first duty cycle into a plurality of equal time intervals, (c) for each RF generator, determining a frequency command set for all intervals and send the frequency command set to the RF generator, wherein the frequency command set includes a frequency set point for each of the intervals in the plurality of equal time intervals, and (d) providing a plurality of RF power waveforms from a plurality of RF generators to a process chamber during a first duty cycle according to the frequency command set sent to each RF generator.
US10790121B2
Implementations of the present disclosure generally relate to an apparatus for reducing particle contamination on substrates in a plasma processing chamber. The apparatus for reduced particle contamination includes a chamber body, a lid coupled to the chamber body. The chamber body and the lid define a processing volume therebetween. The apparatus also includes a substrate support disposed in the processing volume and an edge ring. The edge ring includes an inner lip disposed over a substrate, a top surface connected to the inner lip, a bottom surface opposite the top surface and extending radially outward from the substrate support, and an inner step between the bottom surface and the inner lip. To avoid depositing the particles on the substrate being processed when the plasma is de-energized, the edge ring shifts the high plasma density zone away from the edge area of the substrate.
US10790117B2
An ion implantation apparatus includes a first angle measuring instrument configured to measure angle information on an ion beam in a first direction, a second angle measuring instrument configured to measure angle information on the ion beam in a second direction, a relative movement mechanism configured to change relative positions of the first angle measuring instrument and the second angle measuring instrument with respect to the ion beam in a predetermined relative movement direction, and a control device configured to calculate angle information on the ion beam in a third direction perpendicular to both a beam traveling direction and the relative movement direction based on the angle information on the ion beam in the first direction measured by the first angle measuring instrument and the angle information on the ion beam in the second direction measured by the second angle measuring instrument.
US10790105B1
A direct current (DC) switching apparatus is provided. The DC switch apparatus includes an auxiliary contact device includes at least one pair of stationary contacts; one or more coils, a movable iron core that is driven by the one or more coils; a movable contact table operating in engagement with the movable iron core, and an auxiliary contact device arranged below the movable iron core. The auxiliary contact device includes a microswitch.
US10790102B2
A holding adapter for fixing control and signaling devices, including pushbuttons, on a front plate, includes: a housing having a first recess; and a mounting plate mounted in the housing and having a second recess. The second recess is arranged flush with the first recess so that a control or signaling device is guidable in an axial direction through the two recesses. The mounting plate is displaceable in the axial direction relative to the housing between a first end position and a second end position so as to provide a vertical compensation when the control or signaling device is fixed to the front plate, depending upon a thickness of the front plate.
US10790101B2
A knob with a display function includes a chassis with a knob ring and a rotary sensor. A display screen, a control circuit board, a reset device and a functional connection board are sequentially installed onto the chassis. A circuit board bracket is installed between the display screen and the control circuit board. The functional connection board has a confirm button, a connection terminal disposed on the back of the functional connection board. The reset device has a through hole for extending the confirm button to the outside, an end abutting and connecting the control circuit board and the other end abutting and connecting the functional connection board. This invention has the features of simple structure and reasonable design and selects a function by turning the knob ring. With the reset device, the application of the invention has high reliability and provides easy identification.
US10790099B2
A switch button module is provided. The switch button module is adapted to be disposed in an electronic device. The electronic device includes a housing, a circuit board, and a switch element. The circuit board is disposed in the housing. The switch element is disposed on the circuit board. The switch button module includes a mounting base, a connection rod, and a button unit. The mounting base is affixed to the housing, wherein the mounting base is located between an edge of the circuit board and the housing. The connection rod pivots on the mounting base. The connection rod rotates between a first orientation and a second orientation.
US10790096B2
A method of forming a Pb-free perovskite film is provided, the method based on vacuum evaporation and comprising: first depositing a first material comprising Sn halide on a substrate to form a first layer; second depositing a second material comprising organic halide to form a second layer on the first layer to obtain a sequentially-deposited two-layer film on the substrate; and annealing the sequentially-deposited two-layer film on the substrate. During the annealing, the first and second materials inter-diffuse and react to form the Pb-free perovskite film. The second layer is formed to cover the first layer so as to prevent the first layer from air exposure. The solar cell device including the Pb-free perovskite film formed by using the present method exhibits good stability.
US10790095B2
An electrolytic capacitor includes a capacitor element and an electrolyte solution. The capacitor element includes an anode foil, a cathode foil that is opposite to the anode foil, and a conductive polymer layer that is disposed between the anode foil and the cathode foil. An inorganic layer including at least one selected from the group consisting of conductive carbon, titanium, and nickel is disposed on the cathode foil. The conductive polymer layer includes a conductive polymer. A proportion of water in the electrolyte solution ranges from 0.1% by mass to 6.0% by mass, inclusive.
US10790089B2
A stacked capacitor includes a laminate; first to fourth external electrodes; a first capacitor portion, a second capacitor portion, and a third capacitor portion which are arrayed in the laminate from a first surface toward a second surface along a laminating direction. The first capacitor portion and the third capacitor portion each have a capacitance larger than that of the second capacitor portion. Inductor components of the first capacitor portion and the third capacitor portion are different in physical length from each other and are connected in parallel between the first external electrode disposed on a first end surface and the third external electrode disposed on a first side surface and between the first external electrode and the fourth external electrode disposed on a second side surface.
US10790088B2
An electronic device includes a chip component and a metal terminal. The chip component includes a terminal electrode formed on an element body. The metal terminal is connectable with the terminal electrode of the chip component. The metal terminal includes a terminal body and a pair of holding pieces. The terminal body faces an end surface of the terminal electrode of the chip component. The pair of holding pieces is formed on the terminal body. One of the pair of holding pieces is formed at one end of the terminal body. An adjustment portion is formed in a boundary region between the holding piece and the end of the terminal body.
US10790084B2
A multi-phase iron-core reactor has an iron core and windings. The iron core includes an outer iron core and an inner iron core. The outer iron core has teeth on which the N-phase windings are wound. The inner iron core faces the teeth through gaps, and has a shape so as to be able to provide at least two gap sizes in a selective manner.
US10790081B2
Three-phase interleaved LLC and CLLC resonant converters, with integrated magnetics, are described. In various examples, the primary sides of the phases in the converters rely upon a half-bridge configuration and include resonant networks coupled to each other in delta-connected or common Y-node configurations. The secondary sides of the phases can rely upon a full-bridge configurations and are coupled in parallel. In one example, the transformers of the phases in the converters are integrated into one magnetic core. By changing the interleaving structure between the primary and secondary windings in the transformers, resonant inductors of the phases can also be integrated into the same magnetic core. A multi-layer PCB can be used as the windings for the integrated magnetics.
US10790073B2
The purpose of the present invention is to allow a water stop performance between electric wires to be maintained as much as possible even when the electric wires are bent. A water stop structure for an electric wire bundle includes an electric wire bundle in which a plurality of electric wires are bundled together, a filler with which gaps between the plurality of electric wires are filled while maintaining fluidity and viscosity in at least a portion of an extension direction of the electric wire bundle, and a covering body covering a circumference of the portion of the electric wire bundle filled with the filler.
US10790072B2
Provided is a conductive polymer composite material including an intrinsically conductive polymer, a cellulose nanofiber, and a polyol, wherein the surface of the cellulose nanofiber contains a carboxylic group. In one embodiment, based on 100 parts by weight of the intrinsically conductive polymer, the content of the cellulose nanofiber is 1 to 100 parts by weight, and the content of the polyol is 10 to 3,000 parts by weight. A capacitor including the conductive polymer composite material is also provided.
US10790055B2
Improving appetite through positive memory association. Information is received including text content related to a user. A positive user sentiment is defined using sentiment analysis. Text analysis is applied on the text content to identify a factor in the information that correlates with the positive user sentiment. The factor is ranked based on a strength of the correlation. Responsive to determining that the strength of the correlation is above a predefined threshold, the factor is stored as a positive token. A list of food recipes is accessed to identify a food recipe that incorporates the positive token. The food recipe is displayed to the user.
US10790048B2
Mechanisms are provided for implementing a patient health management system. The mechanisms analyze a patient electronic medical record (EMR) for an identified patient to identify a medical condition associated with the patient and identify, based on the results of the analysis, one or more exogenous data parameters associated with the medical condition. The exogenous data parameters are parameters specifying conditions outside the patient's body that affect the health of the patient with regard to the medical condition. The mechanisms retrieve exogenous data, corresponding to the exogenous data parameters, from one or more exogenous data sources and generate a health management plan for the patient based on the exogenous data. The health management plan comprises actions to be performed or not performed by the patient to thereby minimize effects of exogenous conditions, corresponding to the exogenous data parameters, on the health of the patient with regard to the medical condition.
US10790042B2
A method for at least one of characterizing, diagnosing, and treating an endocrine system condition in at least a subject, the method comprising: receiving an aggregate set of biological samples from a population of subjects; generating at least one of a microbiome composition dataset and a microbiome functional diversity dataset for the population of subjects; generating a characterization of the endocrine system condition based upon features extracted from at least one of the microbiome composition dataset and the microbiome functional diversity dataset; based upon the characterization, generating a therapy model configured to correct the endocrine system condition; and at an output device associated with the subject, promoting a therapy to the subject based upon the characterization and the therapy model.
US10790041B2
A technique of using collaborative family medical history (CFMH) to estimate disease risk includes establishing CFMH information of a user and a plurality of relatives of the user, the CFMH information including genetic information of at least some of the family members, genetic information of the user, or both. It further includes analyzing the CFMH information, including the genetic information. It further includes determining a potential risk condition of the user and a potential risk condition of at least a family member based on the CFMH information. It also includes outputting the potential risk condition of the user and the potential risk condition of the at least one family member.
US10790030B1
A non-volatile memory device and a method thereof that are capable of improving programming speed are introduced. The non-volatile memory device includes a memory array, a charge-pump circuit, a bias detection circuit and a memory controller is introduced. The memory array includes a plurality of memory cells; and a charge-pump circuit is configured to generate a charge-pump voltage. The bias detection circuit is coupled to the charge-pump circuit and is configured to determine whether a level of the charge-pump voltage is less than a first pre-determined threshold value. The memory controller is coupled to the bias detection circuit and is configured to pause a programming operation being performed on at least one of the plurality of memory cells when the bias detection circuit determines that the level of the charge-pump voltage is less than the first pre-determined threshold value.
US10790029B2
Apparatus and methods to vary, in response to temperature, a precharge voltage level of a sense node during a sense operation, a sense node develop time during the sense operation, and/or a ratio of a deboost voltage level capacitively decoupled from the sense node to a boost voltage level capacitively coupled to the sense node during the sense operation.
US10790025B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor memory includes: a memory cell array provided in a first layer above a semiconductor substrate and including a plurality of memory cells; a first word line coupled to a first memory cell of the plurality of memory cells; a driver generating a voltage applied to the first word line; a first transistor including one end coupled to the first word line and the other end coupled to the driver; a first transfer gate line coupled to a gate of the first transistor and including a portion passing through the first layer, a second layer between the semiconductor substrate and the first layer, and a third layer above the first layer; and a first level shifter applying a voltage to the first transfer gate line.
US10790023B2
A memory structure, includes (a) active columns of polysilicon formed above a semiconductor substrate, each active column extending vertically from the substrate and including a first heavily doped region, a second heavily doped region, and one or more lightly doped regions each adjacent both the first and second heavily doped region, wherein the active columns are arranged in a two-dimensional array extending in second and third directions parallel to the planar surface of the semiconductor substrate; (b) charge-trapping material provided over one or more surfaces of each active column; and (c) conductors each extending lengthwise along the third direction. The active columns, the charge-trapping material and the conductors together form a plurality of thin film transistors, with each thin film transistor formed by one of the conductors, a portion of the lightly doped region of an active column, the charge-trapping material between the portion of the lightly doped region and the conductor, and the first and second heavily doped regions. The thin film transistors associated with each active column are organized into one or more vertical NOR strings.
US10790021B2
An EEPROM and methods for erasing, programming and reading it, the EEPROM includes a plurality of split-gate storage arrays, each of the plurality of split-gate storage cells including a source connected with a first bit line, a drain connected with a second bit line, a first control gate connected with a first store position, a word line gate connected with a word line and a second control gate connected with a second store position; and the first control gate is connected with a first control gate line, and the second control gate is connected with a second control gate line, wherein every N columns of the split-gate storage cells are formed on a first well structure, adjacent first well structures are separated by a second well structures having a different doping type with that of the first well structures, and N is a positive integer.
US10790020B2
Embodiments disclosed include memory cell operating methods, memory cell programming methods, memory cell reading methods, memory cells, and memory devices. In one embodiment, a memory cell includes a wordline, a first bitline, a second bitline, and a memory element. The memory element is electrically connected to the wordline and selectively electrically connected to the first bitline and the second bitline. The memory element stores information via a resistive state of the memory element. The memory cell is configured to convey the resistive state of the memory element via either a first current flowing from the first bitline through the memory element to the wordline or a second current flowing from the wordline through the memory element to the second bitline.
US10790019B2
To provide a novel and improved semiconductor storage device which is capable of implementing a large capacity by enabling normal reading of a value from a storage element.A semiconductor storage device is provided, the semiconductor storage device including: a memory element; a reference element in a first resistance state for generating a reference potential for identifying a value held in the memory element; and a reference element in a second resistance state in which a resistance value of the reference element is higher than that in the first resistance state for generating the reference potential, in which when generating the reference potential, the number of reference elements in the first resistance state is larger than the number of reference elements in the second resistance state.
US10790018B1
Disclosed is a molecularly imprinted polymer for storing a defined value of a numerical code, more particularly a binary code, in the molecular imprints of said polymer, and a method for the production of said polymer. The molecular imprinting process uses suitable templates comprising a defined sequence of at least two different structural units, each having a different chemical functionality.
US10790016B2
Neuron circuit structures are presented which employ magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) elements that change state probabilistically in response to application of electrical source currents that emulate synaptic activity. Some implementations form probabilistic neuron circuits using homogeneous perpendicular spin-transfer torque (STT) MTJ elements. These neuron circuits include a perpendicular STT reference MTJ element coupled via an electrical node with a perpendicular STT neuron MTJ element that can change state. The electrical node for each neuron circuit couples a neuron MTJ element or “perturbation” element to a reference element, and also to an electrical current employed to influence probabilistic magnetization state changes in the perturbation MTJ element. A read current can be applied to the perturbation element to produce an output voltage at the electrical node indicative of a magnetization state of the perturbation element.
US10790012B2
Memory devices and systems in which array data lines of a local data bus are shared between two or more memory bank groups in a memory array. In one embodiment, a memory device is provided, comprising a memory array, I/O gating circuitry, and a local data bus. The local data bus can include a plurality of array data lines shared between two or more memory bank groups of the memory array. The local data bus can electrically couple and transfer data between the two or more memory bank groups and the I/O gating circuitry. In some embodiments, one or more data latches can be electrically coupled to the local data bus to (i) transfer data off the local data bus to free the plurality of data lines for subsequent data transfers and/or (ii) match varying data propagation timings on the local data with column generations of the memory bank groups.
US10790011B2
An address and command generation circuit, and a semiconductor system are disclosed. The address and command generation circuit may include a column address generator configured to correct an error of a column address, generate an internal column address based on an uncorrected column address when the column address corresponds to a read command, and generate the internal column address based on the corrected column address when the column address corresponds to a write command.
US10790007B1
A memory device and a method of assisting a read operation in the memory device are introduced. The memory device may include a logic circuit, a charge pump, a switch and a sense amplifier. The logic circuit is configured to receive at least one input signal and perform a logic operation on the at least one input signal to output an enable signal. The charge pump is coupled to the logic circuit and is configured to generate a boost voltage according to the enable signal. The switch is coupled between the charge pump and a sensing power supply line, and is configured to control an electrical connection between the charge pump and the sensing power supply line according to the enable signal to supply the boost voltage to the sensing power supply line. The sense amplifier is configured to perform a read operation using the boost voltage from the sensing power supply line.
US10790003B1
Techniques are described for maintaining a pre-charge voltage in a NAND string in a program operation. After a pre-charge voltage is applied to the channel of a NAND string, the word line voltages are controlled to avoid a large channel gradient which generates electron-hole pairs, where the electrons can pull down the channel boosting level on the drain side of the selected word line. In one approach, the word line voltages of a group of one or more source side word lines adjacent to the selected word line are increased directly from the level used during pre-charge to a pass voltage. The word line voltages of other source side word lines, and of drain side word lines, can be decreased and then increased to the pass voltage to provide a large voltage swing which couples up the channel.
US10789996B2
The present disclosure includes apparatuses and methods related to shifting data. An example apparatus comprises sensing circuitry including a sense amplifier and a compute component having a first storage location and a second storage location associated therewith. A controller is coupled to the sensing circuitry. The controller is configured to control an amount of power associated with shifting a data value stored in the first storage location to the second storage location by applying a charge sharing operation.
US10789995B2
A preheating procedure for a non-volatile memory that can be used in a wide range of ambient temperatures is shown. The controller of the non-volatile memory operates the non-volatile memory to preheat the non-volatile to a temperature target. The controller avoids writing valid data to the non-volatile memory until preheating the non-volatile memory to the temperature target. The controller may write or read dummy data to or from the non-volatile memory until preheating the non-volatile memory to the temperature target.
US10789992B2
A non-volatile storage apparatus comprises a non-volatile memory structure and a plurality of I/O pads in communication with the non-volatile memory structure. The I/O pads include a power I/O pad, a ground I/O pad and data/control I/O pads. The non-volatile storage apparatus further comprises one or more capacitors connected to the power I/O pad. The one or more capacitors are positioned in one or more metal interconnect layers below the I/O pads.
US10789990B2
A computer-implemented method for locating content corresponding to a recap segment includes determining whether a recap segment is present in video data corresponding to a video series. In response to determining that the recap segment is present, the method includes dividing the recap segment into clips corresponding to individual scenes in one or more previous episodes of the video series and, for each clip, comparing the clip to one or more of the episodes in the video series for determining a location of the clip in one of the episodes. The method also includes determining whether the clip is part of a larger scene in the episode corresponding thereto and determining a starting and ending time of the larger scene within the episode. The method includes storing the starting and ending time of the larger scene in correlation with the clip.
US10789988B2
At least one video stream that is encoded video information, and a management information file indicating attributes relating to the entire recording medium, are recorded in a recording medium. The management information file includes attribute information indicating whether the dynamic range of luminance of an initial video stream, which is played first out of the at least one video stream when the recording medium is inserted into a playback device, is a first dynamic range, or a second dynamic range that is broader than the first dynamic range.
US10789983B2
One variation of a method for serving interactive content to a user includes, at a visual element inserted into a document accessed by a computing device: loading a first frame from a digital video; in response to a scroll-down event that moves the visual element upward from a bottom of a window rendered on the computing device toward a top of the window, seeking from the first frame through a subset of frames in the digital video in a first direction at a rate corresponding to a scroll rate of the scroll-down event, the subset of frames spanning a duration of the digital video corresponding to a length of the scroll-down event; and, in response to termination of the scroll-down event with the visual element remaining in view within the window, playing the digital video forward from a last frame in the subset of frames in the digital video.
US10789980B2
An apparatus, according to one embodiment, includes: a support plate, a stator, a rotor sub-assembly, and at least one isolation mount coupled between the support plate and the stator. The isolation mount is for reducing transfer of vibration from the stator to the support plate. Moreover, the stator is coplanar with the support plate. The rotor sub-assembly includes a magnet, and a hub rotatably fixed relative to the magnet. The rotor sub-assembly is also configured to rotate relative to the support plate and the stator. Other systems, methods, and computer program products are described in additional embodiments.
US10789976B2
According to one embodiment, a magnetic head includes a magnetic pole, a first shield, a second shield, a first stacked body and a second stacked body. At least a portion of the magnetic pole is provided between the first and second shields. The first stacked body is provided between the magnetic pole and the first shield. The second stacked body is provided between the magnetic pole and the second shield. The first stacked body includes a first magnetic layer including, a first conductive layer provided between the magnetic pole and the first magnetic layer, and a second conductive layer provided between the first magnetic layer and the first shield. The second stacked body includes a second magnetic layer including, a third conductive layer provided between the magnetic pole and the second magnetic layer, and a fourth conductive layer provided between the second magnetic layer and the second shield.
US10789975B1
A perpendicular magnetic recording write head includes a heater on one side of the pole tip of the main pole and a heat sink on the opposite side of the pole tip. The heater is formed of high resistivity material and is connected to a power source. During writing, power is applied to the heater, which causes a relatively large temperature gradient across the pole tip from the heater to the heat sink. The temperature gradient increases the damping of the ferromagnetic material of the main pole during writing, which increases the switching speed of the main pole.
US10789972B2
An apparatus for generating relations between feature amounts of audio and scene types includes at least one processor and a memory. Upon execution of the instructions the processor is caused to set one of the scene types in accordance with an instruction from a user to indicate one of clusters classifying the feature amounts of audio in one or more pieces of content. The processor is also caused to generate a plurality of pieces of learning data, each representative of a feature amount, from among the feature amounts, that belongs to the cluster and the scene type set for the cluster. The processor is also caused to generate an identification model representative of relations between the feature amounts of audio and the scene types by performing machine learning using the plurality of pieces of learning data.
US10789971B2
A method, device, system and kit for preventing the intelligible voice recording Is provided. The voice of a subject or Interlocutor Is recorded for a given time Interval thereby providing a voice recording. The voice recording Is cut Into shorter time interval segments thereby providing a set of voice recording segments. The set of voice recording segments is mixed in a randomly rearranged order, The mixed set of voice recording segments is spliced into a single randomly mixed voice recording. Emitting the randomly mixed voice recording during speaking of the subject or interlocutor prevents the Intelligible recording of the voice of the subject or interlocutor.
US10789970B2
A receiving device includes: a receiver which receives a broadcast signal including an audio signal and obtains a baseband signal of a received signal; a demodulator which obtains the audio signal by demodulating the baseband signal; a middle frequency range detector which detects a signal level of a middle frequency component in a frequency range of the baseband signal; a high frequency range detector which detects a signal level of a high frequency component in the frequency range of the baseband signal; and a processing circuit which sets an effect amount of high-cut processing based on a level difference between the signal level of the middle frequency component and the signal level of the high frequency component. The receiving device further includes a high-cut filtering device which performs the high-cut processing on the audio signal in accordance with a set value of the effect amount.
US10789960B2
Disclosed is a method including a prior phase for referencing an authorized user, during which this user pronounces a reference phrase at least once, the phrase being converted into a series of reference symbols by a statistical conversion mutual to all of the users to be referenced, and an authentication test phase, including a first step during which a candidate user pronounces the reference phrase at least once, and this pronounced phrase is converted in the same manner as the reference phrase during the prior phase, by using the same conversion, into a sequence of candidate symbols, and a second step during which the series of candidate symbols is compared to the series of reference symbols to determine a comparison result, which is compared to at least one predetermined threshold, determining whether the candidate user who pronounced the phrase during the test phase is indeed the authorized user, providing authentication.
US10789954B2
According to one or more aspects of the present disclosure, operations related to providing transcriptions may include obtaining a first transcription of first audio obtained by a first device during a communication session conducted between the first device and a second device. The operations may further include providing the first transcription for presentation of the first transcription by a display device during the communication session. In addition, the operations may include providing, in response to a transcription quality indication, a second transcription of second audio obtained by the second device during the communication session for presentation of the second transcription by the display device during the communication session.
US10789941B2
Techniques are provided for efficient acoustic event detection with reduced resource consumption. A methodology implementing the techniques according to an embodiment includes calculating frames of power spectra based on segments of received acoustic signals. The method further includes two processes, one for detecting impulsive acoustic events and another for detecting continuous acoustic events. The first process includes generating impulsive acoustic event features associated with first and second power spectrum frames, applying a neural network classifier to the impulsive acoustic event features to generate event scores, and detecting an impulsive acoustic event based on those event scores. The second process includes generating reduced-dimension continuous acoustic event features associated with the first and second power spectrum frames, applying a neural network classifier to the reduced-dimension continuous acoustic event features to generate a second set of event scores, and detecting a continuous acoustic event based on the second set of event scores.
US10789938B2
A speech synthesis method and device. The method comprises: determining language types of a statement to be synthesized; determining base models corresponding to the language types; determining a target timbre, performing adaptive transformation on the spectrum parameter models based on the target timbre, and training the statement to be synthesized based on the spectrum parameter models subjected to adaptive transformation to generate spectrum parameters; training the statement to be synthesized based on the fundamental frequency parameters to generate fundamental frequency parameters, and adjusting the fundamental frequency parameters based on the target timbre; and synthesizing the statement to be synthesized into a target speech based on the spectrum parameters, and the fundamental frequency parameters after adjusting.
US10789929B2
A soundproof structure has two or more soundproof units. Each of the soundproof units has an outer shell having a cylindrical shape, has a hollow inner space inside the outer shell, and has a first opening portion opened to outside on a surface that is one end portion of the outer shell in an axis direction of the cylindrical shape. The two soundproof units adjacent to each other are disposed in the axis direction such that the first opening portions face each other. The first opening portions facing each other are spaced apart from each other in the axis direction. An average distance in the axis direction between the first opening portions facing each other is less than 20 mm. Accordingly, there are provided a soundproof structure and a soundproof system which can insulate sounds on the low frequency side with a simple configuration, are small and lightweight, and can easily change the frequency characteristics.
US10789926B2
A supporting apparatus (40) for a kick pad (1) includes a supporting frame (41˜44) that supports a kick pad (1) including a piezoelectric element that converts a vibration generated by beating with a beater into an electric signal and outputs the electric signal, and a fixation frame (51, 52) that fixes the supporting apparatus (40) to an inner surface of a shell of a bass drum while a striking surface (2a) of the kick pad (1) is arranged in a position beaten by the beater.
US10789918B2
A pedal assembly for a drum or other foot-actuated device may comprise a curved pedal and an adjustable pedal return spring tensioner mechanism. An actuatable region disposed at a top surface of the pedal preferably comprises a first concavity disposed more or less centrally in a pedal length direction between a first convexity and a second convexity. The tensioner mechanism preferably comprises a vertical lead screw parallel to the pedal return spring and coupled by way of a nut to a lower end of the pedal return spring. The lead screw may be slidingly coupled to a vertical post. By causing the lead screw to be adjustable from above and have an efficiency low enough to prevent backdriving, a drummer or other such operator can conveniently adjust tension without the need for disassembly and without the need to loosen a locknut or other such locking means.
US10789915B2
An acoustic string instrument includes a top plate, a back plate, and a body disposed between the top plate and the back plate. The body has a plurality of first positioning portions. At least one of the top plate or the back plate, or both has a plurality of second positioning portions. The first positioning portions are fixed to the second positioning portions corresponding to the first positioning portions.
US10789911B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described herein for phase locked multi-display synchronization. In a slave display device, a first tearing effect signal is received that indicates rendering of a first image frame portion of a first image frame by a master display device has at least been initiated. In response to receiving the first tearing effect signal, a second image frame portion of a first image frame is retrieved from a frame buffer and is rendered to a display screen of a slave display device. In response to rendering the retrieved second image frame portion, a second tearing effect signal is generated for receipt by a host device to trigger the host device to transmit a second image frame portion of a second image frame to the slave display device.
US10789909B2
A picture adjusting method includes steps of measuring a plurality of first original parameters in a first picture and measuring a plurality of second original parameters in a second picture for a plurality of color patterns; calculating a first gain factor according to the first original parameters and the second original parameters of at least one of the color patterns except a black pattern; subtracting a product of the first original parameters of the black pattern and the first gain factor from the second original parameters of the black pattern to obtain a plurality of first offset values; adding the first offset values to the first original parameters of each color pattern to obtain a plurality of first updated parameters in the first picture; and multiplying the first updated parameters by a second gain factor to obtain a plurality of first adjusted parameters in the first picture.
US10789907B2
A gamma reference voltage generating circuit including a first resistor string disposed between a first reference voltage node and a second reference voltage node, a first multiplexer connected to the first resistor string and determining a level of a first gamma reference voltage, a first amplifier connected to the first multiplexer and outputting the first gamma reference voltage, a first resistor connected between an output terminal of the first amplifier and a first previous gamma voltage output node, a second resistor connected between the output terminal of the first amplifier and a first next gamma voltage output node, a first compensating resistor connected between a second previous gamma voltage output node and the present gamma voltage output node, and a second compensating resistor connected between a second next gamma voltage output node and the present gamma voltage output node.
US10789904B2
A method and a device for driving a display panel, and a display device are provided. The method includes: dividing the display panel into at least two display regions, where each display region corresponds to a timing controller, and the timing controller is configured to control the corresponding display region to display; dividing each display region into multiple detection blocks; detecting whether a defect block exists in each display region; and enabling, when the defect block exists in only one display region, by the timing controller corresponding to the only one display region, a pattern detection function, and enabling, when the defect block exists in each of more than one display region, by the timing controllers corresponding to the more than one display region simultaneously, the pattern detection function.
US10789903B2
A driving method, a driving device and a display device are provided. The driving method includes the following steps: defining a plurality of pixel groups, each pixel group including two columns of adjacent pixel units, each pixel unit including a number of sub-pixels; in the same column of pixel units, applying opposite polarities of the driving voltage to two adjacent columns of sub-pixels; applying opposite polarities of the driving voltage to the corresponding sub-pixels of two adjacent pixel groups; applying driving voltage of different voltage level to the sub-pixels of the two adjacent pixel groups.
US10789899B2
According to an aspect, a display device includes an image display panel including: sub-pixel rows, in each of which sub-pixels for displaying different colors are periodically arrayed in a first direction, are regularly arranged in a second direction different from the first direction; signal lines in parallel to sub-pixel columns in which the sub-pixels are successively arranged in the second direction; and scan lines that sequentially select each sub-pixel row. Each of m (integer ≥2) selector signals selects n (integer ≥1) pairs of the signal lines each supplied with two signals each having a mutually reverse polarity, within a period during which each sub-pixel row is selected by a corresponding scan line, and a sum of potential changes of the n pairs of the signal lines selected by each selector signal is substantially zero when each sub-pixel row is sequentially selected by the corresponding scan line.
US10789896B2
A method for adjusting a backlight and a device for adjusting a backlight are provided. A parameter may be set as one of detectable physical quantities of the backlight. The physical quantity, for example, may be a current through a light emitting device, brightness of the light emitting device, or the like. An average value of the parameter is obtained according to values of the parameter which are detected in real time. When the average value is beyond a preset parameter range, a value of the voltage which is input to the light emitting device is adjusted, so that the current through the light emitting device is adjusted, and brightness of the backlight is adjusted. Thereby, brightness of the backlight can be adjusted in different ways, so that brightness of the backlight can be stable in different environments.
US10789891B2
The present disclosure provides a pixel circuit. The pixel circuit may compensate the threshold voltage of the driving unit, such that the driving current provided by the driving unit to the light emitting device is only relevant to the difference between the voltage acting on the signal input terminal acting of the driving unit and the voltage of the data signal, which thereby eliminates the influence caused by the variation of the threshold voltage of the driving unit and improves the uniformity of an displayed image. In addition, the present disclosure also relates to a driving method of the pixel circuit, as well as a display substrate and a display apparatus both including the pixel circuit.
US10789884B2
An organic electrogenerated light-emitting diode device, manufacturing method, and display device thereof are provided. The method comprises: a first organic common layer and a first light-emitting layer are formed in a pixel region of the array substrate. A opening area of different organic light-emitting material layers are set by adjusting a distance between the fine metal mask and the array substrate, the opening area is proportional to the distance between the fine metal mask and the array substrate. At least a second light-emitting layer is formed on the first light-emitting layer.
US10789880B2
A pixel arrangement structure of an organic light emitting diode (OLED) display is provided. The pixel arrangement structure includes: a first pixel having a center coinciding with a center of a virtual square; a second pixel separated from the first pixel and having a center at a first vertex of the virtual square; and a third pixel separated from the first pixel and the second pixel, and having a center at a second vertex neighboring the first vertex of the virtual square. The first pixel, the second pixel, and the third pixel have polygonal shapes.
US10789876B2
A display system includes a display apparatus and a pivot performing part. The display apparatus includes a display panel configured to display an image and including a gate line and a data line, a gate driving part configured to output a gate signal to the gate line, and a data driving part configured to output a data signal to the data line. The pivot performing part is configured to receive, from the display apparatus, a pivot request data for performing a pivot function which rotates the image, and is to perform the pivot function on image data of the image in response to the pivot request data. A manufacturing cost of a display apparatus may be decreased, and a delay time of an image display may be decreased.
US10789874B2
A display device having a display panel including a plurality of pixels connected to scan lines extending in a first direction and data lines extending in a second direction different from the first direction and a panel moving unit for reciprocating the display panel in a third direction with respect to the first direction and the second direction. Each of the plurality of pixels my include a plurality of sub-pixels arranged in a sub-sampled structure.
US10789870B2
A display device including a display panel includes a plurality of pixels corresponding to a plurality of regions, an image compensator configured to obtain compensation data for the pixels by performing respective sampling compensation operations for the regions, and to generate compensated image data by compensating input image data based on the compensation data, the compensation data being generated by performing at least two of the sampling compensation operations based on respective sampling matrices having different sizes, and a display panel driver configured to drive the display panel to display an image corresponding to the compensated image data on the display panel.
US10789869B2
Disclosed herein is a chip-on-film including: a base film; a driver mounted on one of upper and lower surfaces of the base film; and at least one pad group, which includes signal wiring lines disposed on the upper and lower surfaces of the base film and transmitting signals via two paths, a first pad and a second pad disposed on one of the upper and lower surfaces of the base film, and a plurality of through-holes disposed between the first pad and the second pad and electrically connecting the signal wiring lines to each other, wherein the first pad and the second pad are separated a predetermined distance from each other in a width direction of the base film, and each of the first pad and the second pad is obliquely arranged in plural in a longitudinal direction of the base film.
US10789863B2
A high-resolution rollable display device is disclosed. The display device includes a rollable display panel having a first side and a second side that is longer than the first side. A printed circuit board is disposed along the first side of the rollable display panel. A plurality of flexible films are connected to the printed circuit board. In one embodiment, a first end of each of the plurality of flexible films is connected to the printed circuit board at the first side of the rollable display panel and a second end of each of the plurality of flexible films is connected to the second side of the rollable display panel.
US10789859B1
A device has a die-cut formed acetate main body that accommodates a standard size greeting card and affixes to a bottle container by an elastic band or, alternatively, by a rear-mounted adhesive strip. The platform body has rolled formed ends which secure the edges of the card. The card optionally being designed with specific dimensions, thereby allowing the front page of the card to swing freely open while secured.
US10789858B2
The present invention provides a method for creating a computer model of a patient specific joint for treatment planning. The method includes identifying a ligament of a joint of a patient under a load at a predefined position of the joint. The method further includes constructing, with the use of a computer, a computer model of the joint of the patient having: a first bone model, a second bone model, and a ligament model connecting the first and second bone models corresponding to the identified ligament, wherein the ligament model is constructed as at least one fiber based on a predefined slack length.
US10789856B2
A context-aware adaptive data processing application is described. One or more computing servers establish connections with multiple user terminals to provide an application to the user terminals. The provided application is executable at the user terminals via web browser or a dedication application installed at a user terminal, for example. The provided application is context-aware to dynamically adapt to a user's changing circumstances.
US10789831B1
Active shooters are becoming a common threat in public areas. Detection and analysis of a gunshot in a public area can aid administrative and first responder personnel in determining that a gun has been fired and in stopping the threat quickly. Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to solutions for detecting and analyzing gunshots and fires, and transmitting that information to administrative personnel and first responders.
US10789828B2
An Opening/Closing door reminding device and an Opening/Closing door reminding method are provided, the Opening/Closing door reminding device includes: a light guiding element, a photosensitive element and a processing element, wherein the light guiding element is secured on a door frame, the photosensitive element and the processing element are both secured on a door panel, and the light guiding element and the photosensitive element are kept in contact with each other, wherein the light guiding element is configured to guide light emitted by a light source to the photosensitive element; the photosensitive element is configured to generate an electrical signal according to the light guided by the light guiding element, and provide the generated electrical signal to the processing element; the processing element is configured to determine an Opening/Closing state of the door according to the received electrical signal, and send out a corresponding reminding signal according to the Opening/Closing state of the door.
US10789827B2
A remote temperature monitoring system includes a first unit operatively connected to one or more temperature sensors for sensing the temperature of one or more materials or food items being cooked or heated. The first unit transmits the sensed temperature to a second unit that is located remotely from the first unit during heating. The second unit is programmable with the desired temperature and/or heating parameters of the item. By monitoring the temperature status of the item over time, the system determines when the food has reached the desired temperature or degree of cooking, and notifies the user.
US10789819B1
Techniques for voice announcements over communications paths in siren systems are provided. In one aspect, a siren activation sequence including an audio identification sequence may be received at a siren alert site controller over a data communications channel of a first communications path. The audio identification sequence may be extracted from the siren activation sequence. A first combined audio signal may be received at the siren alert site controller over a voice communications channel of the first communication path. It may be determined that the first combined audio signal includes the audio identification sequence. The audio identification sequence may be extracted from the first combined audio signal to create a first audio signal. The first audio signal may be played over a siren controlled by the siren alert site controller.
US10789817B2
A method, apparatus, and computer readable storage to implement a slot machine (or other game) which allows the player to activate the game (spin the reels) without having to place a wager (entry). Only after the reels have stopped spinning can the player decide to place the wager (entry) or the player can choose to walk away from the game. If the player places the wager (entry) then the player is presented with a skill game which converted a result from the slot reels into an actual award amount which is then awarded to the player.
US10789815B2
A computer-implemented method of operating a regulated gaming machine may comprise providing a game configured to interact with a player and to generate a skill-influenced random outcome comprising a generated random pattern, skewed by received skillful player interactions, within an arrangement of a predetermined plurality of elements, each random pattern being associated with an equally random probability of being generated. The player may be provided with an opportunity to select the winning pattern. To do so, an opportunity may be provided, and the player may select, a desired pattern of the predetermined plurality of elements as the pattern on which the player wishes to place a wager. The skill-influenced random outcome may then be generated and displayed, the skill-influenced random outcome comprising the skewed random pattern, skewed by the received player interactions, within the arrangement of the predetermined plurality of elements. The selection by the player of the desired pattern may then be compared with the skewed random pattern of the skill-influenced random outcome. The player may be rewarded when the selection by the player of the desired pattern matches the skewed random pattern of the skill-influenced random outcome and the established player credits may be correspondingly credited.
US10789813B2
A functional transformation interleaved wagering system including an interactive controller configured to: provide an interactive application; communicate, to an application controller, a wager request; receive a wager outcome; receive an indication to provide entrance to a lottery for a period of time; provide the lottery; and communicate, to the application controller, application telemetry; a wager controller constructed to: receive the wager request; communicate the wager outcome; receive an indication; and the application controller operatively connecting the interactive controller and the wager controller and constructed to: receive the wager request; communicate, to the wager controller, the wager request; receive the wager outcome; communicate, to the interactive controller, the wager outcome; communicate the indication to provide the lottery for a period of time; and receive the application telemetry.
US10789808B1
Near Field Communication (NFC) chips or tags are securely activated where at least one validation or redemption number is assigned to the chip or tag at the time of activation. Subsequent to activation, the NFC chip or tag enables secure data access via an Ancillary Device. Validation or redemption of the NFC chip or tag is also provided for.
US10789807B2
A cooperative disease outbreak interleaved wagering system is disclosed, including an interactive processing device constructed to: provide an interactive application display; communicate session initiation data; receive role assignment data; automatically configure the display; communicate application telemetry data; receive wagering telemetry and application resource data; a wager controller constructed to: receive wager request data; communicate wager outcome data; the process controller operatively connecting the interactive processing device and the wager controller, and constructed to: receive session initiation data; determine number of users and roles available; assign a role to each of the users; associate each of the users with an ability; communicate role assignment data; receive application telemetry data; communicate wager request data; receive wager outcome data; determine and communicate wagering telemetry and application resource data.
US10789800B1
Systems and methods are provided that can include a doorbell device receiving a request signal to enter a region associated with the doorbell device from a remote control device and, responsive thereto, accessing a list identifying which of a plurality of authorized users are located within the region, identifying one of the plurality of authorized users associated with the remote control device, determining whether the list indicates that the one of the plurality of authorized users is located within the region, and determining whether to transmit a disarm command signal to a control panel device or an activation signal to an access control device based on whether the list indicates that the one of the plurality of authorized users is located within the region, wherein entries on the list can correspond to historical use of the doorbell device or the control panel device to enter and exit the region.
US10789798B1
An industrial locking switch includes an inductive sensing circuit that uses a non-contact technique to detect when the switch's locking bolt has transitioned to the lock position. The inductive sensing circuit can comprise an inductive coil, a capacitor, and a converter that converts a frequency of a current signal through the inductive coil to a digital frequency value. A controller detects when the locking bolt has advanced to the lock position by monitoring the digital frequency value for frequency shifts indicative of a disturbance of the induction coil's magnetic field by the locking bolt. To validate operation of the inductive sensing system without requiring actuation of the locking bolt, a diagnostic switch connects a diagnostic capacitor to the inductive circuit to simulate the frequency shift caused by the locking bolt, and the inductive sensing system is validated if the expected frequency shift is detected.
US10789796B1
A system and a method perform a priority-based determination of attendance in a target area with minimized processing and computational requirements. The system dynamically generates seat preference information of each attendee of the target area for generating a prioritized attendee scan data set (PASDS) including one or more priority pairs of attendees frequently identified at each seat. The system generates a reduced feature scan data set including one or more distinct features of each attendee in each priority pair and dynamically configures a seat scan order. For each seat in the seat scan order, the system performs rapid facial recognition of the distinct features of each attendee in each priority pair; and based on the recognition, locks occupancy of the current seat by a recognized attendee and dynamically reduces the PASDS for the subsequent seat, or proceeds to scan the subsequent seat, or determines an absentee in the target area.
US10789790B1
A micromobility electric vehicle comprising an electronic device holder and an integrated display to improve a user experience with the electric vehicle. The electric vehicle comprises handlebars coupled to an upper portion of a stem and configured to steer the vehicle, an electronic device holder having spring-loaded arms that retract at least partially into the handlebars, wherein the spring-loaded arms are configured to apply a force against edges of an electronic device when arranged between the spring-loaded arms, wherein the electronic device has a mobile display, and an integrated display arranged on a top surface of the upper portion of the stem and positioned between the spring-loaded arms of the electronic device holder, wherein the integrated display is configured to display information about the micromobility electric vehicle.
US10789787B2
A system and method for demand-activated remote monitoring and/or control of motor vehicles via a radio data communication link with a coordination unit. The coordination unit is configured for conveying requests for remote monitoring and/or remote control of a motor vehicle and offers for performing the remote control from control terminals located remotely from the coordination unit. After acceptance of an offer by the vehicle, the coordination unit provides a data communication link between the motor vehicle and the control terminal over which the remote control and/or monitoring is performed.
US10789780B1
A method for processing an augmented reality (AR) image includes: obtaining an AR workspace image of an AR workspace that includes a document in a first region of the AR workspace and an AR output projection in a second region of the AR workspace; obtaining an internal representation of the AR output projection; masking the AR workspace image of the AR workspace with the internal representation to eliminate the AR output projection in the AR workspace image; and generating, in response to masking the AR workspace image of the AR workspace, a clean version of the AR workspace image in which the AR output projection is eliminated.
US10789779B2
Examples disclosed herein relate to providing a location-based holographic experience. One example provides a head-mounted display device comprising a see-through display, one or more position sensors, a logic subsystem, and a storage subsystem comprising instructions executable by the logic subsystem to obtain data representing a plurality of holographic objects, acquire sensor data via the one or more position sensors to monitor a position of the head-mounted display device along a path of a holographic experience, detect that the position of the head-mounted display device meets a first position-based condition regarding a first holographic object, and display the first holographic object at a corresponding location for the first holographic object.
US10789778B1
A computer-implemented method for displaying augmented-reality objects may include matching, by one or more cameras of an augmented-reality system, a user's hand with a predefined silhouette model with weighted features. The method may also include identifying a location on the user's hand to place an augmented-reality object. In addition, the method may include tracking, by the augmented-reality system, an orientation of the location on the user's hand using the weighted features. Furthermore, the method may include displaying, by the augmented-reality system, the augmented-reality object on the user's hand based on the orientation of the location on the user's hand. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US10789776B2
Techniques are presented for constructing a digital representation of a physical environment. In some embodiments, a method includes obtaining image data indicative of the physical environment; receiving gesture input data from a user corresponding to at least one location in the physical environment, based on the obtained image data; detecting at least one discontinuity in the physical environment near the at least one location corresponding to the received gesture input data; and generating a digital surface corresponding to a surface in the physical environment, based on the received gesture input data and the at least one discontinuity.
US10789772B2
In a first aspect, the present invention relates to a method for patient-specific virtual percutaneous implantation, comprising estimating a patient-specific anatomical model of a patient-specific aorta based on cardiovascular 2D or 3D medical image data and virtually deploying an implant model representing an implant into said patient-specific anatomical model. In a second aspect, the present invention provides a method for patient-specific virtual percutaneous implantation. In a third aspect, the present invention provides an implant for virtual percutaneous implantation. In a fourth aspect, the present invention provides a system for virtual percutaneous implantation.
US10789769B2
A computing device obtains target multimedia and obtains a style digital image depicting a style pattern to be incorporated into the target multimedia. The computing device extracts an image mask from the style digital image, the image mask depicting the style pattern. The computing device generates a modified image mask from the image mask and blends the modified image mask with the target multimedia to generate a modified target digital multimedia. The computing device generates, by an artificial intelligence processor, a final target digital multimedia based on the modified target digital multimedia and the style digital image.
US10789768B2
A graphics processing apparatus comprises fragment generating circuitry to generate graphics fragments corresponding to graphics primitives, thread processing circuitry to perform threads of processing corresponding to the fragments, and forward kill circuitry to trigger a forward kill operation to prevent further processing of a target thread of processing corresponding to an earlier graphics fragment when the forward kill operation is enabled for the target thread and the earlier graphics fragment is determined to be obscured by one or more later graphics fragments. The thread processing circuitry supports enabling of the forward kill operation for a thread including at least one forward kill blocking instruction having a property indicative that the forward kill operation should be disabled for the given thread, when the thread processing circuitry has not yet reached a portion of the thread including the at least one forward kill blocking instruction.
US10789757B2
There is provided a method for ray-mediated illumination control. The method includes identifying a first activation region corresponding to one of an origin and a destination of a ray, where the ray is described by a ray data associated with the ray. The method further includes identifying a second activation region corresponding to the other one of the origin and the destination of the ray, interpreting an illumination rule for the ray based on at least one of the first activation region and the second activation region, and modifying an illumination in one of the first activation region and the second activation region based on the illumination rule and the ray data.
US10789755B2
This disclosure describes techniques that include generating, based on a description of a scene, a movie or animation that represents at least one possible version of a story corresponding to the description of the scene. This disclosure also describes techniques for training a machine learning model to generate predefined data structures from textual information, visual information, and/or other information about a story, an event, a scene, or a sequence of events or scenes within a story. This disclosure also describes techniques for using GANs to generate, from input, an animation of motion (e.g., an animation or a video clip). This disclosure also describes techniques for implementing an explainable artificial intelligence system that may provide end users with information (e.g., through a user interface) that enables an understanding of at least some of the decisions made by the AI system.
US10789738B2
An apparatus and method are provided for computed tomography (CT) imaging to reduce artifacts due to objects outside the field of view (FOV) of a reconstructed image. The artifacts are suppressed by using an iterative reconstruction method to minimize a cost function that includes a de-emphasis operator. The de-emphasis operator operates in the data domain, and minimizes the contributions of data inconsistencies arising from attenuation due to objects outside the FOV. This can be achieved by penalizing images that manifest indicia of artifacts due to outside objects especially those outside objects have high-attenuation densities and minimizing components of the data inconsistency likely attributable to the outside object.
US10789735B2
Inventive systems and methods for selecting color design elements. More specifically, the invention is directed to analyzing color-palette data elements for producing a color combination in a design output by mapping color-palette elements to objects or components in a design output or final artifact. Methods and systems for selecting and generating color-palette data elements for a software program such as for example visual representations, and producing executable software based at least in part on the color palette data selected and generated.
US10789732B2
In an apparatus for monitoring surroundings of a vehicle carrying the apparatus, a corresponding-point displacement calculator sets a search region for corresponding points in a plurality of images of an object captured simultaneously from different positions and calculate a displacement value between the corresponding points. A search region modifier modifies the search region if a number of corresponding-point displacement values acquired by the corresponding-point displacement calculator within a predetermined period of time is less than a predetermined threshold. An image displacement calculator calculates an image displacement value that is an amount of displacement between the plurality of images based on the corresponding-point displacement values acquired within the predetermined period of time if the number of corresponding-point displacement values acquired by the corresponding-point displacement calculator within the predetermined period of time is equal to or greater than the predetermined threshold. A displacement corrector corrects for an image displacement based on the image displacement value.
US10789730B2
A method for determining the position of an object includes: using a projector to project a marker pattern to a projection zone such that a first marker feature of the marker pattern is projected on a first surface portion, using a camera to capture an image of a viewing zone which at least partly overlaps the projection zone, and determining the position of said first surface portion by analyzing the captured image, wherein the viewing zone surrounds the camera, and the image of the viewing zone is captured by forming an annular image of the viewing zone on an image sensor.
US10789725B2
Apparatus for determining height, width, weight or body mass index (BMI) of a subject or distance along an object. For BMI, the apparatus includes a digital camera; an application; a processing unit for storing the vertical and horizontal dimensions of known substantially rectangular reference objects. A user interface prompts and receives the type of reference object held by the user or its dimensions. For each of the vertical and horizontal dimensions, a magnitude in pixels and in distance of the reference object to form a ratio and a pixel magnitude of the vertical and horizontal dimensions of the subject in the image(s), is used to derive an estimated height and width of the subject from the pixel magnitude of the vertical and horizontal dimensions of the subject in the image(s). In some embodiments, the number of pixels occupied by the subject in the image(s) is used with a look-up table.
US10789723B1
In one embodiment, a method includes generating depth map for a reference image and generating a three-dimensional (3D) model for a plurality of objects in the reference image based on the depth map. The method additionally includes determining, out of the objects in the 3D model, a background object having a boundary adjacent to a foreground object. The method also includes determining that at least a portion of a surface of the background object is hidden by the foreground object and extending, in the 3D model, the surface of the background object to include the portion hidden by the foreground object. The method further includes in-paint pixels of the extended surface of the background object with pixels that approximate the portion of the surface of the background object hidden by the foreground object.
US10789722B2
Methods and systems for obtaining texture information and environmental information are provided. Texture information and/or environmental information may be obtained from various portions of captured images and may be utilized to improve operability of movable objects, such as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).
US10789714B2
A method and apparatus for detecting a reflection are provided. The method includes acquiring an input image of an object, based on an activation of an infrared light source, acquiring a reference image of the object, based on a deactivation of the infrared light source, and extracting a reflection region from the input image, based on the input image and the reference image.
US10789708B1
Methods and apparatuses for athletic performance and technique monitoring are disclosed. In one example, a sensor output is received associated with a movement of a user torso during a running motion. The sensor output is analyzed to identify an undesirable torso motion.
US10789701B2
One variation of a method for predicting manufacturing defects includes: accessing a set of inspection images of a set of assembly units recorded by an optical inspection station; for each inspection image in the set of inspection images, detecting a set of features in the inspection image and generating a vector representing the set of features in a multi-dimensional feature space; grouping neighboring vectors in the multi-dimensional feature space into a set of vector groups; and, in response to receipt of a first inspection result indicting a defect in a first assembly unit, in the set of assembly units, associated with a first vector in a first vector group, in the set of vector groups, labeling the first vector group with the defect and flagging a second assembly unit associated with a second vector, in the first vector group, as exhibiting characteristics of the defect.
US10789697B2
Devices, systems, and methods obtain respective corresponding feature-detection scores for a plurality of areas in an image; calculate respective corresponding sorting scores for at least some areas of the plurality of areas; for the at least some areas of the plurality of areas, arrange the corresponding feature-detection scores in order of the corresponding sorting scores, thereby generating an order of sorted feature-detection scores; and assign respective detection scores to the at least some areas based on the order of sorted feature-detection scores and on three or more of the following: the respective corresponding feature-detection scores of the areas, a spectral threshold, a spatial threshold, and a neighborhood kernel.
US10789696B2
The present disclosure relates to a method for image patch selection for training a neural network for image quality assessment. The method includes receiving an input image and extracting one or more image patches from the input image. The moment of the extracted image patches is measured. There is a decision to accept or decline the extracted image patches according to the measured moment. Additional image patches are extracted until a minimum number, Nmin, of extracted image patches are accepted. Alternatively, selection criteria are adjusted until the minimum number of extracted image patches are accepted. The selected image patches are input into a neural network with a corresponding image quality value of the input image, and the neural network is trained with the image patches and image quality value. Also provided is a method for image quality assessment using a neural network trained as set forth above.
US10789690B2
Systems and techniques for masking non-public content in screen images are provided. An example system includes a screen capture tool, a region-based object detection system, a classifier, and an image masking engine. The screen capture tool may be configured to generate a screen image representing a screen being displayed by the system. The region-based object detection system may be configured to identify multiple regions within the screen image as potential non-public content regions. The classifier may be configured to selectively classify the identified regions as non-public content regions. The image masking engine may be configured to generate a masked image by masking the regions classified as non-public content regions in the screen image.
US10789688B2
There is provided a method, a device (104), and a system (100) for enhancing changes in an image (103a) of an image sequence (103) captured by a thermal camera (102). An image (103a) which is part of the image sequence (103) is received (S02) and pixels (408) in the image that have changed in relation to another image (103b) in the sequence are identified (S04). Based on the intensity values of the identified pixels, a function (212, 212a, 212b, 212c, 212d, 212e) which is used to redistribute intensity values of changed as well as non-changed pixels in the image is determined (S06). The function has a maximum (601) for a first intensity value (602) in a range (514) of the intensity values of the identified pixels, and decays with increasing distance from the first intensity value.
US10789679B2
A plurality of captured images is first acquired by capturing images of an object while changing a focal position along an optical axis. Then, variations in magnification among the captured images are acquired. On the basis of the variations in magnification, corresponding pixels in the captured images are specified, and definition is compared among the corresponding pixels. Then, an image reference value indicating the number of a captured image that is to be referenced as the luminance value of each coordinates in an omnifocal image is determined on the basis of the result of comparison of the definition. The omnifocal image is thereafter generated by referencing the luminance value in the captured image indicated by the image reference value for each coordinates. In this way, the omnifocal image that reflects the position and size of the object accurately can be generated.
US10789678B2
A superpixel sampling network utilizes a neural network coupled to a differentiable simple linear iterative clustering component to determine pixel-superpixel associations from a set of pixel features output by the neural network. The superpixel sampling network computes updated superpixel centers and final pixel-superpixel associations over a number of iterations.
US10789673B2
A post capture imagery processing system is provided. The system is for use with aerial imagery and includes a server having a processor and a memory and a software application providing instruction to the server to process the captured aerial imagery, such as spherical imagery. The server further includes instructions to geo-rectify the spherical imagery. The geo rectifying of the spherical imagery may include one of use of a third party GIS map to associate corresponding data with the spherical imagery in order to produce a geo-referenced spherical image, or calculate the geo-references by a software application performing particular operations on the server.
US10789667B2
In one embodiment, a method for 3D digital watermarking for a triangular mesh using one or more key parameters is disclosed including forming a Hamiltonian path of a desired length around a selected vertex in a selected direction of a spiral; marking the selected vertex a dead end if there is a deadlock and continuing the spiral; and applying a watermark by introducing points in a path order on edges of the spiral, wherein information is encoded at a partition of adjacent triangles at one or more of the points.
US10789661B2
A computer system and computer implemented method for performing web-based drug interaction screening utilizing access a patient's prescription history stored in the pharmacy's prescription history or in the health plan's claim history.
US10789660B1
Systems and methods are provided that utilize GPS mapping and a web-based data management as a platform for defining, measuring and tracking aspects of a building or grounds. Trackable objects can be captured on location utilizing GIS positioning and a mobile device.
US10789646B2
Methods, systems and computer-readable storage media disclosed herein provide visual depictions of warnings and errors. An example method includes detecting, using a computing device, a change in a design of a trading algorithm. The trading algorithm is defined by a user-specified arrangement of blocks representing trading functionality. The example method includes determining, using the computing device, whether the trading algorithm complies with a trading algorithm rule. The example method includes facilitating, using the computing device, at least one of warning handling or error handling when the trading algorithm does not comply with the trading algorithm rule. Facilitating warning handling or error handling includes displaying a warning or an error to the user in connection with the trading algorithm before the trading algorithm is available for execution.
US10789641B2
The present invention provides, in alternative embodiments, a computer architecture and/or computer implemented methods for account opening. In some embodiments, an integrated, component-based technology platform, globally standardized, business configurable account opening processes are separate and decoupled from the user interface screens and are directly manageable by business functionality and/or personnel. In various embodiments, the invention provides pause and resume, save and retrieve, cross-channel, metrics, audit tracking, data logging, and/or straight-through processing capabilities for account opening.
US10789640B1
Systems and methods provide for integrating a wallet client with federated directory services are disclosed herein. By integrating merchant services, such as directory services with a wallet service provider, wallet clients on mobile devices can have access to all merchant listings without having to manually add each directory service. The system disclosed herein integrates Chamber of Commerce directory service listings with the wallet client, such that when a request for a merchant directory service is received from a device associated with the wallet client, the request is forwarded to a federated directory service wallet system interface operated by a Chamber of Commerce site. Supply chain data that matches the request, and location information that is included in the request, is then fetched from the federated directory service wallet system interface and forwarded to the device that sent the request.
US10789636B2
A computer-implemented method for providing a list of frequently purchased items by a user from a retailer to a computing device corresponding to the user includes receiving a request to generate the list of frequently purchased items. A purchase history of the user is obtained in response to the request, the purchase history including a plurality of previously purchased items. A number of purchases for each of the purchased items within a predetermined time period is monitored. The list of frequently purchased items is generated based on the monitored number of purchases for each of the purchased items. The generated list of frequently purchased items is transmitted to the computing device.
US10789632B2
Systems and methods to facilitate programmatic access to a network-based commerce facility via a network are described. A request is received from a third-party application via a programmatic access application, the request identifying a call function that performs, at least in part, an indirect transaction between a network-based commerce facility and a user via a third-party application. Each call function specifies an allowable amount of information to be transferred from the network-based commerce facility. An action corresponding to the call function is performed in response to the request.
US10789630B2
There are provided systems and methods for a predictive engine for online distribution of sensitive transaction processing information. A first user may utilize a communication device to perform transaction processing, which may cause generation of a transaction history, such as a receipt, that documents the transaction. The first user may utilize a service that may post or distribute the transaction history for other users to view, including a second user. In order to preserve the first user's privacy, the service provider may perform predictive analysis of whether the transaction history should be distributed, for example, by hiding the transaction history from the second user if the first user owes the second user money. In further embodiments, the transaction history may be distributed to the second user that would not normally receive the transaction history if it would be of interest to the second user.
US10789618B2
An electronic commerce (e-commerce) system may send advertisement emails to customers that are registered with the e-commerce system. The advertisement emails may include mailto hyperlinks. Each mailto hyperlink may be associated with a product that is being offered for sale, and each mailto hyperlink describes an email message that may be generated when that hyperlink is selected. When a mailto hyperlink is selected, the generated email message may include one or more parameters related to the product associated with the hyperlink, such as an identifier of the product. The generated email message may then be transmitted to the e-commerce system. The e-commerce system may receive the message and, based on the parameters in the received message, execute a transaction to purchase the identified product on behalf of the customer.
US10789614B2
A server with processor(s) and memory receives an initial request for a logo picture hosted by the server from a client. In response to receiving the initial request, the server: generates an identifier for the client; provides the logo picture and the identifier to the client; obtains identification information for a social network corresponding to a user based on a current active login state of the user on the social network through the client, which is linked to characteristics of the user; and stores the identification information in association with the identifier. The server receives a subsequent request for the logo picture from the client that includes the identifier. In response to receiving the subsequent request, the server: identifies the characteristics of the user according to the stored association between the identifier and the identification information; and provides advertisement(s) to the client based on the characteristics of the user.
US10789610B2
Methods, systems, and computer readable storage media for improving predictive analytics for performance of digital design assets. In particular, one or more embodiments train a machine-learning model based on previously used digital design assets. One or more embodiments use the machine-learning model to analyze attributes of a user-generated digital design asset to generate an asset score that predicts the performance of the user-generated digital design asset for a target audience segment. One or more embodiments also use the machine-learning model to generate attribute scores for the attributes, and then generate the asset score based on the attribute scores. Additionally, one or more embodiments then provide the asset score to a user (e.g., a content creator) within an asset creation application to allow the user to improve the digital design asset for use in one or more digital content campaigns directed to the target audience segment.
US10789603B2
A system and method may include processing questionnaire data and answer data by an at-shelf display device located in a business wherein the answer data includes multiple answer selections to the questionnaire data. Questionnaire data and answer data is displayed on the at-shelf display device and answer data is selected by the consumer and received by the at-shelf display device in response to the questionnaire data. The received selected answer data selected by the consumer is aggregated.
US10789596B2
One or more embodiments of the disclosure include systems and methods that generate and utilize digital visual codes in electronic payment transactions. In particular, in one or more embodiments, the disclosed systems and methods generate digital visual codes that embed information regarding a user account of a payor (i.e., a user account of the payor within a social networking system). In one or more embodiments, the disclosed systems and methods display the digital visual codes via a payor computing device, scan the digital visual codes via a payee computing device, and send an identifier of the payor to the social networking system based on scanning the digital visual codes. The social networking system then utilizes the identifier to identify the payor, send and receive confirmation from the payor, and finalize the payment transaction between the payor and the payee.
US10789592B2
Techniques for providing a risk control method and device for resolving the issue of low application software security are described. A transaction request is received from a first user, and the transaction request comprises transaction data, data identifying the first user, and data identifying a second user. An attribute of the first user is determined from the data identifying the first user. An attribute of the second user is identified using the data identifying the second user. In response to the attribute of the first user being determined and the attribute of the second user being identified, an attribute similarity between the first user and the second user is determined. The attribute similarity is compared to a threshold. In response to determining the attribute similarity is less than the threshold, a notification is transmitted to the first user requesting a confirmation of the identified attribute of the second user.
US10789589B2
A dispute resolution cryptocurrency sidechain system includes a system provider that determines that a transaction amount for a transaction has been received at a first public ledger address on a public ledger from a second public ledger address and, in response, allocates a sidechain address on a dispute resolution sidechain ledger. The system provider then sends, through a network to a payer and a payee involved in the transaction, the sidechain address, and monitors the sidechain address for dispute communications. Based on detecting a first dispute communication that is received at the sidechain address and that is signed using a private key that identifies the payer, the system provider device causes a portion of the transaction amount that was received at the first public ledger address to be sent to the second public ledger address.
US10789577B2
All equipment will fail if not properly maintained so it is imperative to check the state of the equipment, periodically. Accordingly, an assessment system including an equipment analyzer is provided for analyzing the state of equipment. The analyzer includes an interactive interface for arranging a plurality of selectable assessment elements. Each element represents an assessment procedure for evaluating a state of equipment and is linked to a respective process pipeline. A controller activates a tool in the process pipeline for carrying out an assessing task. The controller verifies whether the task is complete based on feedback provided by the user and stores the feedback for generating reports. Whether a tool is activated or a task can be completed is limited to when the user is at the point of evaluation. Accordingly, the assessment system can ensure that evaluations are accurately completed at the time of evaluation.
US10789564B1
Timely quality improvement of an inventory of elements is provided. An event submission that includes at least one element of the inventory of elements is received at about the same time as the event is encountered. The event submission is prioritized based on factors related to the submitter, the event, historical information, or combinations thereof. A risk level or rating is assigned to the event submission and others are invited to comment on the event submission. Based on the comments, real-time information is presented so that the event submission may be tracked during the process. The submitter of the event submission is assigned a credibility rating and is given an incentive for providing the event submission.
US10789552B2
Generating distractors for text-based MCT items. An MCT item stem is received. The stem is transmitted to a QA system and a plurality of candidate answers related to the stem is received from the QA system. Incorrect answers in the plurality of candidate answers are identified. Textual features are extracted from the stem. A set of semantic criteria associated with the extracted textual features is generated. Based on the generated semantic criteria, a subset of the incorrect candidate answers is selected.
US10789546B2
A computer-implemented method includes creating a classifier by: training a machine learning model using two or more tasks, wherein the tasks lie in two or more domains; including in the machine learning model at least one attribute common to at least two of said two or more domains; including in the machine learning model at least one latent feature that affects at least two of the two or more tasks that fall within one of the at least two domains; and constructing the classifier based on said machine learning model. The computer-implemented method further includes applying the classifier to at least one operational task.
US10789528B2
An analog neuromorphic circuit is disclosed having resistive memories that provide a resistance to each corresponding input voltage signal. Input voltages are applied to the analog neuromorphic circuit. Each input voltage represents a vector value that is a non-binary value included in a vector that is incorporated into a dot-product operation with weighted matrix values included in a weighted matrix. A controller pairs each resistive memory with another resistive memory. The controller converts each pair of resistance values to a single non-binary value. Each single non-binary value is mapped to a weighted matrix value included in the weighted matrix that is incorporated into the dot-product operation with the vector values included in the vector. The controller generates dot-product operation values from the dot-product operation with the vector and the weighted matrix where each dot-product operation is a non-binary value.
US10789526B2
In selected embodiments a recommendation generator builds a network of interrelationships between venues, reviewers and users based on attributes and reviewer and user reviews of the venues. Each interrelationship or link may be positive or negative and may accumulate with other links (or anti-links) to provide nodal links the strength of which are based on commonality of attributes among the linked nodes and/or common preferences that one node, such as a reviewer, expresses for other nodes, such as venues. The links may be first order (based on a direct relationship between, for instance, a reviewer and a venue) or higher order (based on, for instance, the fact that two venue are both liked by a given reviewer). The recommendation engine in certain embodiments determines recommended venues based on user attributes and venue preferences by aggregating the link matrices and determining the venues which are most strongly coupled to the user.
US10789522B2
A near-field communication tag includes a logic section that responds to a radio-frequency identification interrogation signal. An elongated, printed, interconnect has a first end coupled to the integrated circuit. An antenna is on a second end of the interconnect. The antenna is electrically coupled to the conductive lines of the interconnect and operable to send and receive wireless signals of the radio-frequency identification interrogation and communicate the wireless signals with the integrated circuit via the interconnect.
US10789516B2
A raster image processing system including a computer readable media storing digital information that includes information corresponding to an image, and instructions for performing raster image processing (RIP) using an over scan RIP technique on the image to generate a bitmap. Also included is a processor configured to RIP the image using the over scan RIP technique at a multiple of the desired output pixel resolution to produce a plurality of sub-pixels per output pixel. The processor is further configured to determine each image output pixel value based on the values set for the plurality of sub-pixels of each image pixel, by firstly comparing the values of the plurality of sub-pixels to each other and, and then secondly comparing the values of the plurality of sub-pixels to a set background value if needed. The processor then sets the output pixel value based upon that second comparison, and generates a bitmap.
US10789511B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for training a neural network system used to control an agent interacting with an environment to perform a specified task. One of the methods includes causing the agent to perform a task episode in which the agent attempts to perform the specified task; for each of one or more particular time steps in the sequence: generating a modified reward for the particular time step from (i) the actual reward at the time step and (ii) value predictions at one or more time steps that are more than a threshold number of time steps after the particular time step in the sequence; and training, through reinforcement learning, the neural network system using at least the modified rewards for the particular time steps.
US10789506B2
A three-dimensional (3D) sensor device achieves high intrusion detection probability while keeping the probability of a false intrusion detection low by capturing a set of multiple spatial or temporal samples of a measured parameter for an object detected in the sensor's field of view. When an object is detected in the field of view, the TOF sensor device defines a window of N pixels comprising a subset of the pixels corresponding to the object, and obtains N distance measurements corresponding to the N pixels of the window. If the number of the N distance values that are less than a defined threshold distance is equal to or greater than a selected threshold value M (an integer less than N), the TOF sensor device determines that the object is intruding within a protective field and generates a suitable output.
US10789499B2
A method for recognizing an image, a computer product and a readable storage medium are provided. The method includes: determining categories of a plurality of objects in an image to be detected, and a plurality of object regions where the objects are located; determining positions of the object regions in the image to be detected, and sizes of the object regions; determining a relative positional relationship between the objects according to the positions and the sizes of the object regions; and obtaining a semantic interpretation of the relative positional relationship between the objects according to the relative positional relationship between the objects.
US10789494B2
The image processing system acquires a first image by causing a first photographing device to photograph a vehicle illuminated by a first light source and a second light source, wherein the second source illuminates the vehicle from a direction different from that of the first light source. The system acquires a second image by causing a second photographing device to photograph a photographing range same as that of the first photographing device through a first filter. The system acquires a third image by causing a third photographing device to photograph a photographing range same as that of the first photographing device through a second filter type of which is different from that of the first filter. The system generates a fourth image by processing on the first image, the second image and the third image.
US10789492B2
Provided is a specific object detection apparatus capable of detecting a specific object even when a self-vehicle is positioned at a distance from the specific object during bad weather. A specific object detection apparatus 20 includes: imaging means (an imaging unit) 21 which captures a specific object V1 including a light source 11 driven based on a PWM signal with a frequency f and a duty ratio D, the specific object V1 being captured at a frame rate of f/D fps or higher; detecting means (a detecting unit) 22a which detects a relatively bright area in an image captured by the imaging means (imaging unit) 21; calculating means (a calculating unit) 22b which calculates a lighting frequency of the relatively bright area detected by the detecting means (detecting unit) 22a; and determining means (a determining unit) 22c which determines that, when the lighting frequency calculated by the calculating means (calculating unit) 22b is a frequency set in advance, the relatively bright area detected by the detecting means (detecting unit) 22a is a specific object.
US10789484B2
A crowd type classification system of an aspect of the present invention includes: a staying crowd detection unit that detects a local region indicating a crowd in staying from a plurality of local regions determined in an image acquired by an image acquisition device; a crowd direction estimation unit that estimates a direction of the crowd for an image of a part corresponding to the detected local region, and appends the direction of the crowd to the local region; and a crowd type classification unit that classifies a type of the crowd including a plurality of staying persons for the local region to which the direction is appended by using a relative vector indicating a relative positional relationship between two local regions and directions of crowds in the two local regions, and outputs the type and positions of the crowds.
US10789483B1
Described is a system for counting stacked items using image analysis. In one implementation, an image of an inventory location with stacked items is obtained and processed to determine the number of items stacked at the inventory location. In some instances, the item closest to the camera that obtains the image may be the only item viewable in the image. Using image analysis, such as depth mapping or Histogram of Oriented Gradients (HOG) algorithms, the distance of the item from the camera and the shelf of the inventory location can be determined. Using this information, and known dimension information for the item, a count of the number of items stacked at an inventory location may be determined.
US10789481B2
A method of processing video data representative of a video. A feature of a first frame of the video is identified by performing a feature detection operation in a first and second portion of the first frame. Subsequently, a feature of a second frame of the video is identified by processing the second frame to identify a first portion of the second frame which changed with respect to the first portion of the first frame, a second portion of the second frame which is substantially unchanged with respect to the second portion of the first frame, and a third portion of the second frame which is substantially unchanged with respect to a third portion of the first frame. The feature detection operation is performed in the first and third portions of the second frame and omitted in the second portion of the second frame.
US10789479B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for processing video data. An example system receives video data and generates optical flow data. An image sequence from the video data is provided to a first 3D spatio-temporal convolutional neural network to process the image data in at least three space-time dimensions and to provide a first convolutional neural network output. A corresponding sequence of optical flow image frames is provided to a second 3D spatio-temporal convolutional neural network to process the optical flow data in at least three space-time dimensions and to provide a second convolutional neural network output. The first and second convolutional neural network outputs are combined to provide a system output.
US10789469B2
A system for vector extraction comprising a vector extraction engine stored and operating on a network-connected computing device that loads raster images from a database stored and operating on a network-connected computing device, identifies features in the raster images, and computes a vector based on the features, and methods for feature and vector extraction.
US10789458B2
Disclosed herein are a human behavior recognition apparatus and method. The human behavior recognition apparatus includes a multimodal sensor unit for generating at least one of image information, sound information, location information, and Internet-of-Things (IoT) information of a person using a multimodal sensor, a contextual information extraction unit for extracting contextual information for recognizing actions of the person from the at least one piece of generated information, a human behavior recognition unit for generating behavior recognition information by recognizing the actions of the person using the contextual information and recognizing a final action of the person using the behavior recognition information and behavior intention information, and a behavior intention inference unit for generating the behavior intention information based on context of action occurrence related to each of the actions of the person included in the behavior recognition information.
US10789457B2
A system for sensor-based tracking of participants of a sporting activity is provided. In some implementations, the system performs operations comprising determining, based on sensor data (e.g., information indicative of at least a location of a plurality of tracked participants and a location of a tracked object), a first probability of a team successfully scoring. The operations further comprise determining, in response to detecting an action which at least changes the location of the tracked object, a second probability of the team (or an opposing team (successfully scoring, and assigning, based on a difference between the first probability and the second probability, at least a portion of the difference among one or more of the plurality of participants. Related systems, methods, and articles of manufacture are also described.
US10789443B2
A recognition device, a fingerprint recognition device and a fingerprint recognition apparatus are provided, and the fingerprint recognition device includes: a detection substrate provided with fingerprint detector units; a light barrier which is provided at a side, provided with the fingerprint detector units, of the detection substrate, and provided with light through holes corresponding to the fingerprint detector units; a cover plate which is provided at a side, facing away from the detection substrate, of the light barrier, and includes a light exit surface facing the light barrier and a touch surface facing away from the light barrier; and a light source for emitting light to the cover plate. Each fingerprint detector unit is configured to output an electrical signal according to an intensity of light incident on the fingerprint detector unit, after the light passes through the light through hole corresponding to the fingerprint detector unit.
US10789430B2
Methods, systems, and computer program product for automatically performing sentiment analysis on texts, such as telephone call transcripts and electronic written communications. Disclosed techniques include, inter alia, lexicon training, handling of negations and shifters, pruning of lexicons, confidence calculation for token orientation, supervised customization, lexicon mixing, and adaptive segmentation.
US10789426B2
Aspects of the disclosure are directed to natural language processing. An input interface of a computing device receives input (e.g., speech input) and generates a digital signal corresponding to that input. Text corresponding to the digital signal is obtained, and the text is processed using each of a context-free and a context-specific linguistic model to generate linguistic processing results for that text. The text and linguistic processing results may be processed using a NLU model to generate an NLU recognition result corresponding to the input received at the input interface. The text and the linguistic processing results may also be annotated and used to train a NLU model. The linguistic processing results may relate to, e.g., the tokenization of portions of the text, the normalization of portions of the text, sequences of normalizations for portions of the text, and rankings and prioritization of the linguistic processing results.
US10789418B2
Batch generating of links to documents in which named content is automatically discovered within documents is disclosed. A selection of a plurality of documents is received from a user. Then, a list of search terms each correlated to a hyperlink destination is generated from the received selection of the electronic documents. Each of the plurality of electronic documents is scanned for text strings that match search terms stored in a list. Without user intervention, activatable hyperlinks from the matched text strings in the plurality of electronic documents are generated. Activatable hyperlinks to the respective matched text strings in each of the plurality of electronic documents are appended.
US10789416B2
A method compares text strings having Unicode encoding. The method receives a first string S=s1s2 . . . sn and a second string T=t1t2 . . . tm, where s1, s2, . . . , sn and t1, t2, . . . , tm are Unicode characters. The method computes a first string weight for the first string S according to a weight function ƒ. When S consists of ASCII characters, ƒ(S)=S. When S consists of ASCII characters and some accented ASCII characters that are replaceable by ASCII characters, ƒ(S)=g(s1)g(s2) . . . g(sn), where g(si)=si when si is an ASCII character and g(si)=s′i when si is an accented ASCII character that is replaceable by the corresponding ASCII character s′i. The method also computes a second string weight for the second text string T. Equality of the strings is tested using the string weights.
US10789411B2
The present disclosure includes systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media that utilize a genetic framework to generate enhanced digital layouts from digital content fragments. In particular, in one or more embodiments, the disclosed systems iteratively generate a layout chromosome of digital content fragments, determine a fitness level of the layout chromosome, and mutate the layout chromosome until converging to an improved fitness level. The disclosed systems can efficiently utilize computing resources to generate a digital layout from a layout chromosome that is optimized to specified platforms, distribution audiences, and target optimization goals.
US10789410B1
To prevent typos in electronic documents, quality checks are performed to identify portions of the document that have been misspelled. Major sources of false positives are words that have been transliterated from other languages into English. The quality control system described herein identifies transliterated words in electronic documents. The system may be trained to evaluate a set of words, and determine likelihoods that individual words in the set of words are transliterated (i.e., they are not native to the language and/or alphabet of the electronic document). In some embodiments, the model may be further configured to identify a language and/or alphabet that the individual word was transliterated from.
US10789404B1
The present disclosure relates to a method for use in a formal verification of an electronic design. Embodiments may include receiving, using a processor, a specification model associated with an electronic design and generating, using a parser, an intermediate representation based upon, at least in part, the specification model. Embodiments may also include applying a machine generated semantic preserving program transformation to the intermediate representation to create a semantically transformed specification model and synthesizing the semantically transformed specification model to generate a formal verification model.
US10789375B2
Techniques for managing data files spread across different remote storage systems are described. A remote storage management system can provide a unified file system that interacts with different remote storage services to allow a user to manage, from one interface, the user's data stored in different source systems. The remote storage management system may allow a user to create sharable cloud drives with combination of files from the unified file system irrespective of which service provider is storing the files. The generated cloud drive can be shared with a recipient to give the recipient access to the user's files. The recipient is not required to have an account with any of the remote storage service providers or with the remote storage management system.
US10789373B2
The present application generally relates to systems, devices, and methods to conduct the secure exchange of encrypted data using a three-element-core mechanism consisting of the key masters, the registries and the cloud lockboxes with application programming interfaces providing interaction with a wide variety of user-facing software applications. Together the mechanism provides full lifecycle encryption enabling cross-platform sharing of encrypted data within and between organizations, individuals, applications and devices. Further the mechanism generates chains of encrypted blocks to provide a distributed indelible ledger and support external validation. Triangulation among users, applications and the mechanism deliver both enterprise and business ecosystem cyber security features. Crowdsourcing of anomaly detection extends to users and to subjects of the data. Robust identity masking offers the benefits of anonymization while retaining accountability and enabling two-way communications. The mechanism may also provide high availability through multi-level fail over or operations to multiple instances of the core mechanism.
US10789370B2
In accordance with embodiments disclosed herein, there is provided systems and methods for extending a root complex to encompass an external component. A processor includes a processor core and root complex circuitry coupled to the processor core. The processor core is to execute a basic input/output system (BIOS) and an operating system (OS). The root complex circuitry includes a coherent interface port and a downstream port. The root complex circuitry is to couple to an external component via the downstream port and the coherent interface port. The BIOS, to extend a root complex beyond the root complex circuitry to encompass the external component, is to obfuscate the downstream port from the OS, define a virtual root bridge for the external component, and enable a security check at the external component to provide protection for the coherent interface port and the downstream port.
US10789368B2
Systems, computer-implemented methods and/or computer program products that facilitate compliance-aware runtime generation of containers are provided. In one embodiment, a computer-implemented method comprises: identifying, by a system operatively coupled to a processor, information used by a target application to containerize; determining whether one or more risk violations exist for the information within one or more defined thresholds; determining whether a compliance or a security violation exists in the information, wherein the determining whether the compliance or security violation exists is performed based on a determination by the risk assessment component that one or more risk violations do not exist; and generating a new container of components corresponding to defined components of the target application that allow the target application to execute without an underlying operating system, wherein the generating is based on a determination that no compliance or security violation exists in the information.
US10789362B2
A method that involves generating, for source code, a set of nodes for a set of statements comprising a first statement and a second statement, wherein each node of the set of nodes comprises a dataflow fact and a statement of the set of statements; identifying a source node and a sink node of the set of nodes; determining that the source node is backward reachable from the sink node by analyzing an incoming access path; and, in response to the determination, identifying a potential taint flow from the source node to the sink node.
US10789358B2
Embodiments herein facilitate resisting side channel attacks through various implementations and combinations of implementations. In embodiments, this is accomplished by preventing sensitive data from consecutively following other data through potentially vulnerable resources which otherwise may cause data to leak. Where such vulnerabilities to attacks are known, suspected, or as a proactive precaution, a cleaner can be used to inhibit the sensitive data from passing through the vulnerable areas consecutively and thus inhibit the leakage. Embodiments also envision utilizing certain types of circuits to assist in preventing leakage. By using such circuits one can reduce or even potentially eliminate the requirement for cleaners as mentioned previously.
US10789350B2
A computerized system for associating RF signals, the system including at least one sensor configured to sense a plurality of RF signals at at least a plurality of points in time and a computerized associator receiving outputs from the at least one sensor and providing an output which associates at least some of the plurality of RF signals with at least one unique multiple RF signal-based identifier.
US10789349B2
A system for storing an object includes a card reader configured to receive a card from a user and to determine an identity of the user based on information on the card. The system also includes a secure storage area configured to store a plurality of physical boxes. The plurality of physical boxes includes a first physical box that is assigned to the user. The first physical box is configured to be dispensed from the secure storage area to the user outside of the secure storage area in response to the user requesting to physically receive the first physical box. Dispensing the first physical box includes moving the first physical box along a predetermined path in the secure storage area and presenting the first physical box for removal from the secure storage area.
US10789331B2
The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for detecting and identifying anomalies within a discrete wavelet database. In one implementation, the system may include one or more memories storing instructions and one or more processors configured to execute the instructions. The instructions may include instructions to receive a new wavelet, convert the net transaction to a wavelet, convert the wavelet to a tensor using an exponential smoothing average, calculate a difference field between the tensor and a field having one or more previous transactions represented as tensors, perform a weighted summation of the difference field to produce a difference vector, apply one or more models to the difference vector to determine a likelihood of the new wavelet representing an anomaly, and add the new wavelet to the field when the likelihood is below a threshold.
US10789320B2
A system and method for producing a new globally-unique identifier (GUID) format that may be used, for instance, to uniquely identify a number of different items in a distributed computer system, such as transactions in an e-commerce system, sessions in a cloud-based computing system, and identifiers for unique customers in an ecommerce system, among others. The unique ID may have one of a number of different formats that may be generated upon receiving a request for an ID. For instance, the GUID may be generated in a plain hex format, a GUID format, ESS, and B64B (Base64Binaty) format. The new format may be generated based on information relating to a site ID, an absolute time, and a sequential counter, that ensures that no two GUIDs are the same. Further, the system may be capable of issuing multiple GUIDs within a single command, such as may be required to generate an array of GUIDs.
US10789315B1
Systems, methods, and products described herein include a server, which receives a request from a user's electronic client device. The server may query web pages and determine if the web pages comply with the compliance rules. When the web pages do not comply with the compliance rules, the server may generate an analysis report on the web pages and send the analysis report to the user. After the user reviews the report and chooses the trouble web pages, the server sends review alerts to the points of contact, such as the product owners and other stakeholders. The product owner may more easily be able to take proper actions and better manage the websites by refreshing noncompliant or incorrect content. In this way, the systems and methods allow product owners and users to manage and/or curate the content of web pages more systematically and automatically.
US10789310B2
A fact machine receives a comment string from a webpage and segments the comments into sub-conversations. The fact machine also identifies entities within comments or draft comments as well as a sentiment and/or attributes associated with the entity. The fact machine then queries a knowledge base for facts relating to the entity, the attributes, and/or the sentiment. The fact machine then provides the facts to a user prior to the user posting a draft comment.
US10789305B2
Systems and method for searching a network, including, via a server in communication with at least one data storage and a network, receiving search criteria via the network, retrieving sub search criteria related to the search criteria from the data storage, retrieving search results from the at least one data storage using the search criteria, retrieving sub search results from the at least one data storage, using the sub search criteria, organizing the search results and sub search results according to the sub search criteria, and causing display, via the network, of the organized search results and sub search results, grouped by sub search criteria.
US10789297B2
An apparatus is provided for implementation of a system for visualization and diagnostic analysis of a complex system such as an aircraft composed of a plurality of elements. The apparatus may receive and process data for a physical instance of the complex system to identify a maintenance message for the complex system. A diagnostic procedure defined for and associated with the maintenance message, may involve or implicate one or more interested elements of the plurality of elements. The apparatus may generate a visual presentation of at least a portion of the complex system. The visual presentation may be digital media and depict the interested element(s) and one or more other elements of the plurality of elements. And the apparatus may apply a visual effect to the interested element(s) depicted by the visual presentation to distinguish the interested element(s) from the other element(s) depicted by the visual presentation.
US10789291B1
Described herein are systems and methods that search videos and other media content to identify items, objects, faces, or other entities within the media content. Detectors identify objects within media content by, for instance, detecting a predetermined set of visual features corresponding to the objects. Detectors configured to identify an object can be trained using a machine learned model (e.g., a convolutional neural network) as applied to a set of example media content items that include the object. The systems provide user interfaces that allow users to review search results, pinpoint relevant portions of media content items where the identified objects are determined to be present, review detector performance and retrain detectors, providing search result feedback, and/or reviewing video monitoring results and analytics.
US10789289B2
Disclosed are a scenario-based sound effect control method and an electronic device. The method comprises: after being turned on, an electronic device enables a service having an interception function; the electronic device intercepts, by using the service having the interception function, whether there is a newly created audio decoder and/or video decoder in the electronic device; if determining that there is the newly created audio decoder and the video decoder in the electronic device, the electronic device determines that a current scenario is a video playing application scenario; the electronic device obtains a scenario-based sound effect corresponding to the video playing application scenario, and sets a current sound effect of the electronic device as the scenario-based sound effect.
US10789286B2
Playlists having media items from more than one source are described. Media items in a first library are mapped to media items from an online media item store. Media items within the playlist that can be found in the first library will be played from the first library, while media items not within the first library will be played from the online media store. By identifying media items present in both libraries and playing them only from the first library, the described method can reduce the royalties needing to be paid by the online media store. Further methods are disclosed for setting limits on the number of media items that can be shared by a second library.
US10789282B1
Methods, apparatus, and processor-readable storage media for document indexing with cluster computing are provided herein. An example computer-implemented method includes obtaining and monitoring a list of document identifiers corresponding to documents to be indexed as part of an indexing process across at least a portion of a computing cluster; initiating the indexing processing based on one or more inputs; iteratively requesting at least one of the document identifiers; obtaining, from across at least a portion of the computing cluster, a document corresponding to a document identifier provided in response to the request; and carrying out one or more functions related to the indexing process on the obtained document.
US10789281B2
A method for encoding documents includes building or otherwise providing a condensed dictionary including identifiers for block headers identified in text blocks extracted from a collection of training documents. For at least one test document a set of text content blocks is identified. For each of the text content blocks in the set, a block header is identified. Each block header in the training and test documents includes a sequence includes no more than a predetermined maximum number of characters. An encoding of the test document is generated, based on the identifiers of the block headers identified in the test document that are in the condensed dictionary.
US10789275B2
Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can determine a first set of content items to be sent to a computing device of a user. A token is generated based at least in part on the first set of content items, the token being encoded with information for tracking content items sent to the computing device of the user. Data corresponding to the set of content items and the token is sent to the computing device of the user.
US10789272B2
Provided are techniques for using containers to store objects. One data store from a set of data stores is assigned as a primary data store, wherein the remaining data stores comprise secondary data stores. A container for a group is created on the primary data store. A unique identifier for the container is generated on the primary data store. Metadata for the container is stored on the primary data store. Zero or more objects are stored in the container on the primary data store. For each of the secondary data stores that have objects belonging to the group, a container is created in that secondary data store having the unique identifier, wherein the container spans the primary data store and the secondary data stores, and wherein the objects in the container do not span the primary data store and the secondary data stores.
US10789269B2
A client can resynchronize tree data structures representing a server, local, and sync state of content items in an account. In some aspects, the client crawls a storage to identify content items at the client. Based on the crawling, the client identifies a local set of content items on the storage and metadata associated with the local set of content items identified on the storage. Based on the metadata, the client constructs a local tree data structure representing the local set of content items on the storage at the client, the local tree data structure including a respective local node representing each of the local set of content items. The client then stores the local tree data structure on the client.
US10789268B2
The present technology pertains to a organization directory hosted by a synchronized content management system. The corporate directory can provide access to user accounts for all members of the organization to all content items in the organization directory on the respective file systems of the members' client devices. Members can reach any content item at the same path as other members relative to the organization directory root on their respective client device. In some embodiments novel access permissions are granted to maintain path consistency.
US10789266B2
A system and method for training a computerized data model for the algorithmic detection of non-linearity in a data set includes providing two master data sets corresponding to two discrete time periods, respectively, and a third data set for a third discrete time period. The two master data sets are mapped to at least one code model. A stacking average model is trained with the at least two master data sets corresponding to two discrete time periods by using a stacked regression algorithm. A box-cox transformation function is applied to the models to provide a predicted value for the third data set of the third discrete time period. An ensemble is created using the predicted value for the third data set and the first, second, and third models of the trained stacking average model to identify a non-linearity in the third data set.
US10789261B1
A system represents data as visual distributed data frames (VDDFs) that comprise a dataset, metadata describing the data, and metadata describing visualization of the dataset. A VDDF may be extracted from charts displayed in markup language documents. A VDDF may be generated from different data sources including big data analysis systems. A VDDF workspace allows interaction with multiple VDDF objects extracted from multiple data sources and stored locally within the storage of the device. The VDDF workspace allows the user to interact with the VDDF objects, for example, by inspecting the metadata, modifying the data, adding new columns, changing the visualization, joining data from multiple charts, and sharing the VDDF objects with other documents. The processing of data of a VDDF is performed locally within a computing device, for example, in a client device.
US10789259B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer-readable storage medium, for evaluating a creative. Methods can include identifying one or more selection keywords that are associated with a creative. Matching criteria can be identified for comparing the selection keywords and the request keywords. The matching criteria can be defined by a range from an exact match to a broad match and include a matching threshold in the range. A bid modifier associated with the matching criteria can be established. The bid modifier can modify a bid associated with the creative based on an extent of a match determined between the selection keywords and the request keywords for a given content request. The creative responsive to received content requests can be evaluated based on the matching criteria and the bid modifier.
US10789257B2
An industrial process analysis system is disclosed The system comprises a process data connection device for the acquisition of process data from process data source, an input system for receiving at least one search instruction, an indexing system for indexing the process data to create a set of indexed process data a data processing device for processing the at least one search instruction to create a search parameter set and comparing distances of members of the search parameter set with corresponding members of the indexed process data to obtain a similarity value; and an output device to display results based on the similarity value.
US10789250B2
An event processing system for processing events in an event stream is disclosed. The system can execute instructions to receive a continuous query, apply a transformation to the continuous query to generate a query plan for the continuous query, monitor the continuous query using a monitoring transformation process, receive a micro-batch stream of input events related to an application, and process the input events of the micro-batch stream based at least in part on the monitoring transformation process to generate a set of output events related to the application.
US10789246B2
In a processing time, a dense graph is received, nodes of the dense graph are clustered using the first parameter to generate a sparse graph, a weight for each edge of the sparse graph is assigned; and the weights are stored in computer memory for use in a run time. In the run time after the processing time, a request for a weight of an edge between two first nodes of the dense graph is received, using a weight stored in computer memory, an approximated weight for the request is found and returned.
US10789243B2
A state transition operation performed on a target database is determined. Based on the state transition operation and a state value of the target database that exists before the state transition operation is performed, a state value of the target database that exists after the state transition operation is performed is determined, where the state value is used to represent a state of the target database.
US10789237B2
Techniques are described for providing a storage service that stores information about large numbers of transactions in a persistent manner, such as with a high degree of reliability, availability and scalability based at least in part on use of a distributed computing and storage system. In some situations, the transaction information storage service stores various information about transactions that each include at least one monetary payment (e.g., a micro-payment) between financial accounts of two or more of numerous users having accounts with one or more entities. The transaction information storage service may be provided by or otherwise affiliated with a merchant, and customers of the merchant may purchase usage of the storage service for programs executed by or otherwise affiliated with the customers, with the storage service available to remote executing programs via a defined API of the storage service, such as a Web services-based API.
US10789229B2
A table corpus processing server identifies concepts within enterprise domain data. The table corpus processing server is configured to iteratively group values in a table corpus based on co-occurrence statistics to produce a candidate hierarchical tree. The candidate hierarchical tree is then summarized by selecting nodes that can best “describe” the original corpus, which leads to a small tree that often corresponds to desired concept hierarchies. The table corpus processing server employs a parallel dynamic programming approach that allows the disclosed embodiments to scale with amount of enterprise domain data being analyzed.
US10789228B2
A storing unit stores a data set including a plurality of data elements and a first Bloom filter used to determine whether a query-target data element is present in the data set. A calculating unit deletes, when some data elements are deleted, a first bit array from the first Bloom filter. The first bit array has the number of bits corresponding to the number of deleted data elements. When a query-target first data element is entered, the calculating unit adds a second bit array temporarily to a second Bloom filter obtained by deleting the first bit array. The second bit array has the same number of bits as the first bit array, with all bits set to a specific value. Using the second Bloom filter, the calculating unit determines whether the first data element is present in the data set, from which some data elements have been deleted.
US10789224B1
At least part of an analytic process is executed on one or more data sets. Execution of the analytic process is performed within an analytic computing environment. During the course of execution of the analytic process, a data structure is generated comprising data structure elements. The data structure elements represent attributes associated with execution of the analytic process. Value is assigned to at least a portion of the data structure elements. The data structure generated during execution of the analytic process may be stored in an accessible catalog of other data structures generated during execution of other analytic processes.
US10789216B1
Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for communicating and sharing blockchain data. One of the methods includes determining historic state data associated with one or more blocks created prior to a current block on a blockchain; performing error correction coding of the historic state data to generate encoded historic state data; dividing, based on one or more predetermined rules, the encoded historic state data into a plurality of data sets; selecting one or more data sets from the plurality of data sets based on the one or more predetermined rules; hashing the one or more data sets to generate one or more hash values corresponding to the one or more data sets; storing the one or more hash values; and deleting, by the blockchain node, the one or more data sets.
US10789214B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a computer program product, a system and a method for providing access to storage resources by receiving a user selection of one or more of a plurality of source storage resources; establishing corresponding backup storage resources for the selected one or more source storage resources.
US10789207B2
An apparatus includes a processor component to: transmit node device identifiers to multiple node devices to define an ordering thereamong; following block exchanges redistributing the subsets among a reduced number of node devices, receive sizes of blocks or sub-blocks of data within each subset from the reduced number of node devices; based on the received sizes, generate map data organized to define an ordering among the blocks stemming from the ordering among the multiple node devices; determine whether the total size of the map data and metadata, together, exceeds a minimum size for data transmissions to storage device(s); and in response to the total size exceeding the minimum size, form the map data and metadata into segment(s) that each fit the minimum size and a maximum size, and transmit the segment(s) at least partially in parallel with other segments of the blocks transmitted by the reduced number of node devices.
US10789190B2
An application processor includes a system bus, as well as a host processor, a voice trigger system, and an audio subsystem that are electrically connected to the system bus. The voice trigger system performs a voice trigger operation and issues a trigger event based on a trigger input signal that is provided through a trigger interface. The audio subsystem processes audio streams that are replayed or recorded through an audio interface, and receives an interrupt signal through the audio interface while an audio replay operation is performed through the audio interface.
US10789183B2
A method receives an inbound request to be processed based on multiple outbound service invocations of multiple outbound services. The method accesses expected response times for the inbound request for each of the multiple outbound services. The method determines which one or more of the multiple outbound services to invoke asynchronously and which one or more of the multiple outbound services to invoke synchronously based on the expected response times for the inbound request for each of the multiple outbound services. The method invokes asynchronously the one or more of the multiple outbound services determined to be invoked asynchronously, invokes synchronously the one or more of the multiple outbound services determined to be invoked synchronously.
US10789181B2
In some embodiments a transceiver is configured to wirelessly transfer data between a host computing device and one or more peripheral devices over a communication path using a communication data construct comprising a packet structure arranged in a repetitive communication structure. The repetitive communication structure can include a transmit time window within which the host transmits data to the one or more connected peripheral devices and a receive time window within which the host receives data from the one or more connected peripheral devices. A duration of the receive time window is set based on a predetermined communication report rate between the host computing device and the one or more connected peripheral devices. A new peripheral device is added as a connected peripheral device when the new peripheral device transmits a request to the host to be added as a connected peripheral device and the receive time window has time available to add the new peripheral device.
US10789165B2
The present technique relates to a data processing apparatus, and a data processing method each of which enables a valid address to be more reliably produced in interleave. In a data processing apparatus, a frequency interleaver for carrying out frequency interleave calculates a first bit stream produced by a first pseudo random number generating portion configured to produce a random bit stream, a second bit stream produced by a second pseudo random number generating portion configured to produce a random bit stream, and an additional bit produced by a bit producing portion configured to alternately produce a bit as 0 and a bit as 1. As a result, in producing a write address or a read address including a random bit stream, the bit as 0 and the bit as 1 are alternately repeated as the most, significant bit in the random bit stream. The present technique, for example, can be applied to a frequency interleaver for carrying out frequency interleave.
US10789163B2
A power recovery technique for a data storage device having a non-volatile memory and a control unit is shown. The non-volatile memory is programmed using one-shot programming, wherein N pages are programmed in one round of one-shot programming and N is a number greater than one. A control unit corrects the final page indicator of an active block of the non-volatile memory in a power recovery procedure to cope with a sudden power-off event, to point the final page indicator to a final page among N pages of one round of one-shot programming.
US10789161B2
A data storage device includes: a non-volatile memory device, a random access memory and a processor. The non-volatile memory device stores a plurality of L2P entries related to a plurality of logical addresses. The random access memory stores a sequential flag table including sequential flags for a plurality of sequential segments. Each of the sequential flags are flags representing whether physical addresses corresponding to the logical addresses of the sequential segments are sequential or not. The processor identifies a sequential flag of a sequential segment related to read logical address information based on the sequential flag table. The processor reads at least one of the L2P entries, which are correspond to the read logical address information based on the sequential flag and loads the read L2P entry into the random access memory.
US10789160B2
A method of operating a storage device which includes a non-volatile memory including a normal unit configured to store normal data and a swap unit configured to store swap data and a controller configured to control the non-volatile memory is provided. The method includes receiving the swap data and a unit selection signal for selecting the swap unit from a host; and processing the swap data according to a data processing policy of the swap unit and writing the processed swap data to the swap unit. The data processing policy of the swap unit may be different from a data processing policy of the normal unit.
US10789159B2
Systems and methods, as well as computing architecture for implementing the same, for decoy injection into an application. The systems and methods include splitting a standard test phase operation into two complementary phases, and add new unit tests to the process, dedicated to testing the proper coverage of the decoys and avoiding non-regression of the original code.
US10789150B2
Various embodiments of systems, computer program products, and methods to provide a static analysis rules repository and a training data repository are described herein. In an aspect, a list of commit metadata associated with historical source code are retrieved from one or more repositories. Commits associated with the list of commit metadata are filtered based on commit types. Further, the filtered commits are analyzed to score the commits based on usage of the commits. Based on scoring, the static analysis rules repository including one or more new rules for the static code analysis and the training data repository including source code examples for the software source coding are provided.
US10789145B2
The invention relates to a server configuration drift monitoring tool that allows for active monitoring of server configurations. The Monitoring Tool has little overhead and may be quickly and easily integrated with a current or new environment. With simple configuration files available, an administrator may customize necessary settings. The Monitoring Tool may run on various platforms, including Platform as a Service (PaaS) offerings, and may be compiled into a program component. The Monitoring Tool allows users and administrators to access a dashboard (via any web browser or mobile device), showing current connections and the ability to select components/devices to do a side by side comparison.
US10789142B2
Disclosed are hardware and techniques for testing computer processes in a network system by simulating computer process faults and identifying risk associated with correcting the simulated fault and identifying computer processes that may depend on the corrected computer process. The interdependent computer processes in a network may be determined by evaluating a risk matrix having a risk score and non-functional requirement score. An analysis of the risk score and non-functional requirement score accounts for interdependencies between computer processes and identified corrective actions that may be used to determine an optimal network environment. The optimal network environment may be updated dynamically based on changing computer process interdependencies and the determined risk and robustness scores.
US10789140B2
Elastic Cloud Storage (ECS) uses a specific method for disk capacity management, where disk space is partitioned into a set of blocks of fixed size called chunks. Chunk data can comprise user data and all kinds of metadata. The replication mechanism implemented in ECS works at the chunk level. However, object level data can be used to provide visibility for client applications. Thus, object arrival can be determined to track replication progress at the object level for systems with a replication mechanism that works at the chunk level.
US10789113B2
Methods, apparatuses, systems, and devices are described for improving data durability in a data storage system. In one example method of improving data durability, a hardware failure risk indicator may be determined for each of a plurality of data storage elements in the data storage system. The method may also include storing one or more replicas of a first data object on one or more of the plurality of data storage elements, with a quantity of the one or more replicas and a distribution of the one or more replicas among the plurality of data storage elements being a function of the hardware failure risk indicators for each of the plurality of data storage elements. In some examples, the hardware failure risk indicators may be dynamically updated based on monitored conditions, which may result in dynamic adjustments to the quantity and distribution of the data object replicas.
US10789109B2
The present disclosure provides technical solutions for managing different types of workflow, including preconfiguring a dispatcher, a waiting queue, an event handler, a delivery queue, and a submitter for each type of workflow; receiving a workflow request including workflow information based on user's activities; determining a type of the received workflow request; in accordance with a determination that the received workflow request is not a type of manual workflow request: generating key information including one or more parameters; writing the key information into a first waiting queue using a first dispatcher; reading the key information from the first waiting queue in sequence using a first event handler; generating a workflow instance based on the key information; writing the workflow instance into a first delivery queue; reading the workflow instance from the first delivery queue using a first submitter; and sending the workflow instance to a corresponding execution node to execute the workflow instance.
US10789103B1
Described herein is a system for identifying controls not aligned with updated compliance data. The system may scrub external data sources for updated compliance data. The system may detect and extract the updated compliance data from the external data sources. The system may identify and correlate controls of compliance applications currently using compliance data which has now been updated. The system determines whether a control exists to cover the updated compliance data. In the event, a control does not exist or an existing control does not cover the updated compliance data, a requirement may be generated for generating a new control or modifying an existing control for the updated compliance data.
US10789101B2
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program that causes a computer to execute a process, the process includes calculating, when a request for a processing for a plurality of apparatuses is received, an estimated processing time period that is an estimated value of a time period taken to perform the processing based on a processing time period in a past execution history of the processing; referring to a time schedule that records a schedule of processing including replication for each of the plurality of apparatuses; and selecting one of the plurality of apparatuses as a target apparatus for performing the requested processing based on a sum total of overlapping times between the calculated estimated processing time period and the recorded schedule.
US10789100B2
A method of resource provisioning including obtaining component metric information of one or more processing nodes, where the one or more processing nodes form a pool of processing nodes managed by the provisioning apparatus. The method also includes obtaining task characteristics of a target task executing on one or more processing nodes of a first set, where the one or more processing nodes of the first set are selected from the pool of processing nodes. The method further includes determining one or more processing nodes of a second set from the pool of processing nodes based on the task characteristics and the component metric information and the step of deploying the target task to the one or more processing nodes in the second set.
US10789078B2
Inputting information is disclosed including receiving a user input comprising a first string, presenting a plurality of candidates corresponding to the first string, receiving a first trigger instruction directed at a target candidate among the plurality of candidates, the target candidate conforming to a preset rule, and in response to the first trigger instruction, automatically providing expansion content corresponding to the target candidate, the expansion content being content acquired from an application other than an input program.
US10789076B2
Example methods, apparatus and articles of manufacture to update virtual machine templates are disclosed. A disclosed example method to update a virtual machine template (105) includes updating a management policy (110), starting a virtual machine (116) based on the virtual machine template (105) in a network cordoned sandbox (170), triggering the virtual machine (116) to update per the updated management policy (110), and saving the virtual machine (116) as an updated virtual machine template (106).
US10789074B2
Systems and methods for providing pre-boot services in an Information Handling System (IHS) having Operating System (OS)-specific hardware and/or firmware components. In some embodiments, an IHS may include an Embedded Controller (EC), a first Operating System (OS)-specific chip coupled to the EC, and a second OS-specific chip coupled to the EC, where the EC is configured to cause the IHS to: in a first mode of operation, perform a first boot procedure using the first OS-specific chip; and in a second mode of operation, perform a second boot procedure using the second OS-specific chip.
US10789071B2
Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide for associating a first instruction pointer with an IF block of a primary IF-ELSE conditional construct associated with a thread and activating a second instruction pointer in response to a dependency associated with the IF block. Additionally, the second instruction pointer may be associated with an ELSE block of the primary IF-ELSE conditional construct. In one example, the IF block and the ELSE block are executed, via the first instruction pointer and the second instruction pointer, one or more of independently from or parallel to one another.
US10789065B2
Techniques for analyzing, understanding, and remediating differences in configurations among many software resources are described herein. Machine learning processes are applied to determine a small feature set of parameters from among the complete set of parameters configured for each software resource. The feature set of parameters is selected to optimally cluster configuration instances for each of the software resources. Once clustered based on the values of the feature set of parameters, a graph is generated for each cluster of configuration instances that depicts the differences among the configuration instances within the cluster. An interactive visualization tool renders the graph in a user interface, and a management tool allows changes to the graph and changes to the configuration of one or more software resources.
US10789059B2
A method and apparatus of a device that updates a software image for a network element is described. In an exemplary embodiment, a device receives a signal to update the network element with the new software image, where the network element includes a plurality of hardware forwarding engines and a control plane. The device further boots the control plane with the new software image, where the booting is accomplished without restarting the control plane. In one embodiment, the device boots the control plane by chain booting from a current software image to the new software image. The device additionally restarts and reconfigures the plurality of hardware forwarding engines. In a further embodiment, the device additionally prefills one or more queues in the hardware forwarding engines with keep-alive messages. These keep-alive messages are transmitted during the time that the control plane is being restarted. In a further embodiment, the hardware forwarding engines are reconfigured without restarting them.
US10789055B2
A system for compiling programs for execution thereof using a hierarchical processing system having two or more levels of memory hierarchy can perform memory-level-specific optimizations, without exceeding a specified maximum compilation time. To this end, the compiler system employs a polyhedral model and limits the dimensions of a polyhedral program representation that is processed by the compiler at each level using a focalization operator that temporarily reduces one or more dimensions of the polyhedral representation. Semantic correctness is provided via a defocalization operator that can restore all polyhedral dimensions that had been temporarily removed.
US10789049B2
The invention relates to the technical field of cooking, in particular to a recipe program code generation method and a recipe compiling cloud platform system. The recipe program code generation method comprises the following steps: firstly, establishing equipment attribute and control description terms which are associated with corresponding attributes or cooking motions of equipment and also associated with a description keyword term bank; then, selecting corresponding cooking equipment and inputting a literal description recipe; finally, analyzing description keywords in the literal recipe by compiling software and associating the description keywords with the equipment attribute and control description terms of the cooking equipment of the corresponding type, so that recipe program codes are generated. According to the recipe compiling method and the cloud platform system of the invention, the recipe program codes can be generated through automatic conversion as long as the corresponding cooking equipment is selected and the literal recipe is input, recipe editors do not need to be familiar with computer programming languages, the technical problems of recipe program code generation in the prior art are solved, the recipe program generation efficiency and effect are improved, and it is ensured that the recipe program codes can be executed on the cooking equipment safely and reliably.
US10789039B2
Merchant/consumer calls may be recorded and evaluated according to a variety of criteria. The call recordings and analyses thereof, as well as consumer tracking information, may be displayed in a user interface of a web-based online portal for convenience in evaluating the use and efficacy of marketing channels as well as the quality of merchant/consumer interactions. In an aspect, the user interface provides a representation of a variety of telephone calls as an interactive keyword cloud that presents business-value-specific keywords targeted for detection during such telephone calls. The keyword cloud may depict keywords in a range of colors, sizes, and relative positioning to connote varied degrees of significance, such as a relative rate of occurrence of keywords in the represented telephone calls. Each keyword in the keyword cloud may contain a hyperlink to related content such as a listing of telephone calls containing the keyword.
US10789038B2
Embodiments of the disclosure include an improved content streaming system that is configured to simplify and streamline the process of streaming media content from one or more content providers to one or more electronic devices. In some embodiments, the interaction of a user with one or more components in a content distribution system is used to initiate the streaming of media content to one or more content players from either a first content server or a second content server.
US10789035B2
A communication terminal for communicative connection to at least one other communication terminal via a network includes a receiving part configured to receive stroke data transmitted from the other communication terminal, an obtaining part configured to obtain name information that is associated with a transmission source of the stroke data under management by a management system on the network, and a display control part configured to perform control that displays an image based on the stroke data and an image based on the obtained name information in association with each other.
US10789024B2
A printing apparatus includes a power supply that supplies power to hardware components in the printing apparatus, a print engine that prints an image, a first controller that controls the print engine to print the image and controls the power supply, and a second controller that instructs the first controller to print, and receives an instruction related to power supply control of the printing apparatus from an external terminal. Upon receiving a turn-off instruction for turning off the printing apparatus from the external terminal, the second controller notifies the first controller of the turn-off instruction, and the first controller controls, in accordance with the turn-off instruction received from the second controller, the power supply to stop supply of the power to both the first controller and the second controller, which has notified the turn-off instruction.
US10789009B2
A system and method for extending the path length of an electromagnetic wave signal traveling between apertures is disclosed. One such system may comprise N arrays having M1 through MN apertures, respectively, wherein N≥2, M1≥2, and each of M2 through MN≥1, a substantial number of the M1 apertures in a first array is configured to send the electromagnetic wave signal to a substantial number of the M2 apertures in a second array through the MN apertures in a N-th array, the substantial number of the M2 apertures in the second array through the MN apertures in the N-th array receiving the electromagnetic wave signal from the substantial number of the M1 apertures in the first array is configured to redirect the received electromagnetic wave signal back to the substantial number of the M1 apertures in the first array, and the substantial number of the M1 apertures in the first array is further configured to send the electromagnetic wave signal to another one of the M1 apertures in the first array after receiving the redirected electromagnetic wave signal from a MN-th aperture in the N-th array.
US10789002B1
Facilitating data deduplication in an elastic cloud storage environment is provided herein. A system can comprise a processor and a memory that stores executable instructions that, when executed by the processor, facilitate performance of operations. The operations can comprise facilitating a first deduplication of first data at a first storage device based on a determination that the first storage device comprises duplicated data. The operations can also comprise sending, by the system, a request for a second deduplication at a second storage device after completion of the first deduplication at the first storage device. In addition, the operations can comprise facilitating, by the system, the second deduplication of second data at the second storage device, wherein the second data comprises a copy of the duplicated data.
US10788991B2
Providing access to a data storage resource. A storage subsystem comprising one or more storage address units and is associated with one or more access interfaces is identified. An address-interface correlation guideline is identified that defines a combination of rules that govern which access interfaces are used to access storage address units. A target address unit identification is received from a requesting system. A processor determines which storage address units a requesting system requests to access to based on the received target address unit identification. The target address unit identification is associated with at least one of the storage address units. The requesting system is provided with access to the storage address units using access interfaces that are determined based on a target interface conclusion.
US10788987B2
A data storage system includes interface circuitry receiving data storage requests and sending corresponding responses to data storage clients, and data storage devices providing non-volatile storing and retrieval of client data in response to the data storage requests. Processing circuitry executes software-implemented datapath modules that realize datapath functions to process the data storage requests and responses, as well as service infrastructure modules to realize a service infrastructure to provide for regularized communications among the datapath modules, including Notify, Monitor, and StartIO communications. Each datapath module registers with the service infrastructure to establish links into corresponding sub-modules that handle the Notify, Monitor, and Start IO communications, and each datapath module invokes a respective sub-module of another datapath module by performing regularized Notify, Monitor, and Start IO functions of the service infrastructure with an identification of the target datapath module which is to receive the corresponding regularized communication.
US10788985B2
Apparatuses and methods for configurable memory array bank architectures are described. An example apparatus includes a mode register configured to store information related to bank architecture and a memory array including a plurality of memory banks. The plurality of memory banks are configured to be arranged in a bank architecture based at least in part on the information related to bank architecture stored in the mode register.
US10788984B2
Systems and methods for displaying a user interface are disclosed herein. The method includes starting a trusted application in a trusted execution environment, the trusted application having a trusted user interface, and displaying the trusted user interface upon detecting an input operation for a hardware device, where the hardware device is integrated into the trusted execution environment and configured to acquire external identification information. The hardware device is configured to acquire the external identification information that is preconfigured on a smart terminal device, for example, including a fingerprint sensor or a photographic device. The hardware device is used to verify that the user interface is true and trustworthy. Embodiments of the present invention are implemented without increasing the hardware costs thereof and without increasing the implementation complexity of the software.
US10788981B2
The present invention discloses a method including: applied to a portable electronic device including a display and multiple application programs, where the display includes a touch-sensitive surface and a display screen. The method includes: displaying a first application interface element in a first area of the display screen, where the first application interface element is corresponding to a first application program; displaying a second application interface element in a second area of the display screen, where the second application interface element indicates that a new message corresponding to the first application program is generated, and the second area and the first area at least partially overlap; detecting a first gesture; and displaying the second application interface element in a third area of the display screen to respond to the first gesture, where the third area and the first area do not overlap.
US10788978B2
The present disclosure relates to a method and an apparatus for displaying an interface. The method includes receiving a touch operation event on a screen; displaying a return animation when the touch operation event is a sliding operation event satisfying a preset condition, the return animation being configured to indicate that a first user interface currently displayed on the screen has been triggered to return to an upper-level user interface; and displaying a second user interface when the sliding operation event is completed, the second user interface being the upper-level user interface of the first user interface.
US10788976B2
A device displays a plurality of selectable user interface objects that includes one or more folder icons on a display. The device detects a first input requesting to select a folder icon for a folder that includes selectable icons divided between a plurality of distinct separately displayed pages of a folder view. In response to detecting the first input, the device displays a first page of the folder view. While displaying the first page of the folder view, the device detects a second input that corresponds to a request to display a second page of the folder view. In response to detecting the second input, the device ceases to display the first page and displays the second page of the folder view.
US10788962B2
A webpage display method performed by a terminal device includes displaying a webpage on a screen, receiving a selection by a user with respect to an image included in the webpage displayed on the screen, and displaying, on the screen, a dynamic object responsive to the user selection of the image. The method further includes performing a predetermined function corresponding to the image while displaying the dynamic object on the screen. The dynamic object floats on the screen independently from the movement of the webpage on the screen, and is not displayed on the screen while the webpage is displayed on the screen, until the selection of the image. The dynamic object is removed from the screen while the webpage is still displayed on the screen when the predetermined function corresponding to the image is completed.
US10788955B2
An electronic device is configured to support a multitasking environment, the electronic device comprises a communication circuit configured to communicate with at least one external device; a microphone configured to receive voice input; a memory storing a plurality of application programs; a display configured to output a plurality of virtual windows as the plurality of application programs are executed and at least one processor electrically connected with the communication circuit, the microphone, the memory, and the display, wherein the processor is configured to execute the plurality of application programs, determine whether at least one condition is satisfied for controlling a background state of a first window, when a first voice input is generated for controlling a function of a first application program in the first window that is in the background state, and maintain the first window in the background state and a second window, which is associated with a second application program, to be in a foreground state, while processing the first user input, when the at least one condition is satisfied.
US10788949B2
A system and method for facilitating automatic execution of user interaction in a virtual space are disclosed. For such facilitations, interactions initiated by users may be monitored and examined. The examination of the user interactions may be made based on various parameters that depend on user interaction levels in the virtual space. Based on results of such examinations, user interactions to be automatically executed in the virtual space while the users are not participating in the virtual space may be determined. In some examples, such determinations may be based on the user interaction levels in the virtual space and/or one or more virtual items and/or real-world currencies spent by the users for the automatic execution of the user interactions.
US10788936B1
Fabric touch-sensitive layers provided for electronic devices can absorb moisture, liquids or chemicals, which can cause drift in measurements of touch nodes formed in the fabric layer. In some examples, reference nodes formed in a fabric layer can be used to account for drift due to the absorption of moisture, liquids or chemicals. The reference nodes can be isolated from the effects of proximate or touching objects and from absorption of moisture, liquids or chemicals. The reference nodes can also be formed in a fabric layer having the same or similar properties as the fabric touch-sensitive layers. When measurements of touch nodes drift due to changes in absorption, the measurements can be adjusted based on measurements of reference nodes.
US10788933B2
A tactile presentation panel includes a support substrate, a drive electrode located on the support substrate, a first insulating film located on the support substrate and covering the drive electrode, a plurality of floating electrodes electrically independent from one another disposed on the first insulating film, and a second insulating film covering the plurality of floating electrodes.
US10788928B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a touch module, a method for operating the same, and a display device. The touch module includes: a touch substrate; a frequency determining circuit configured to detect a frequency value of a vibration generated by the touch substrate; and an instruction transmitting circuit, having a signal input terminal electrically connected to a signal output terminal of the frequency determining circuit, and configured to determine a target instruction corresponding to the frequency value and output the target instruction.
US10788926B2
The present disclosure provides a touch control panel including a first insulating layer, a touch control pattern layer, a second insulating layer and a pattern matching layer. The touch control pattern layer is provided on the first insulating layer, and the touch control pattern layer includes a plurality of driving electrodes laterally arranged, a plurality of detection electrodes longitudinally arranged and a plurality of spacer regions provided therebetween. A second insulating layer is provided on the touch control pattern layer and the second insulating layer forms recessed regions at a position of the spacer regions. A pattern matching layer is provided on the second insulating layer. A material and thickness of the pattern matching layer are the same as those of the touch control pattern layer. An orthographic projection of the pattern matching layer on the second insulating layer coincides with the recessed regions.
US10788922B2
Provided are fingerprint/touch sensors and electronic devices including the same. A fingerprint/touch sensor includes: a touch pad; a touch sensing element including a plurality of first touch sensing lines extending in a row direction and a plurality of second touch sensing lines extending in a column direction, different from the row direction, and intersecting the first touch sensing lines, the touch sensing element forming a touch region on the touch pad; a fingerprint sensing element including a plurality of first fingerprint sensing lines extending in the row direction and a plurality of second fingerprint sensing lines extending in the column direction and intersecting the first fingerprint sensing lines, the fingerprint sensing element forming a fingerprint sensing region on the touch pad; a routing unit configured to route signals generated from the touch sensing element and the fingerprint sensing element; and an integrated circuit configured to sense a touch or a fingerprint by processing the signals transmitted from the routing unit.
US10788916B2
A display device includes a display panel and a force sensor. The force sensor is disposed adjacent to a first edge of the display panel and extends along the first edge. The force sensor includes a first sensing region, a second sensing region, a first force concentration bump, and a second force concentration bump. The second sensing region is located on a side of the first sensing region and has a larger area than the first sensing region. The first force concentration bump overlaps the first sensing region. The second force concentration bump overlaps the second sensing region and is spaced apart from the first force concentration bump.
US10788910B2
The present disclosure provides a touch substrate, a method for manufacturing the same, and a touch display device. The touch substrate includes: a substrate, a first base layer arranged on the substrate, and a plurality of first touch electrodes arranged on a side of the first base layer away from the substrate, wherein the first base layer includes a plurality of first grooves, and the first touch electrodes are located in the first grooves.
US10788909B2
The present disclosure provides a display panel and display device. Display panel includes: a plurality of first sub-pixel groups and a plurality of second sub-pixel groups, the first sub-pixel group each including a plurality of first sub-pixels, the second sub-pixel groups each including a plurality of second sub-pixels, a contribution value of the first sub-pixels to the illumination brightness of the display panel being greater than that of the second sub-pixels to the illumination brightness of the display panel; a first data line connected to the first sub-pixels in the first sub-pixel group; a second data line connected to the second sub-pixels in the second sub-pixel group; a plurality of touch electrodes and a plurality of touch signal lines, a distance from the touch signal line to its closest second data line being smaller than a distance from the touch signal line to its closest first data line.
US10788904B2
Provided is an in-vehicle information processing system that can be operated intuitively. An in-vehicle information processing system (10) includes a display (11), a touch operation interface (12), an imaging unit (13), and a controller (14). The display (11) includes at least one screen. The touch operation interface (12) detects contact by an operation hand of an operator. The imaging unit (13) captures an image of the touch operation interface (12) and at least a portion of the operation hand. The controller (14) associates position coordinates in an operation region (R2) on the screen with position coordinates in a predetermined region (R1) of the touch operation interface (12) and causes at least a portion of the operation hand to be displayed in overlap on the screen on the basis of the image captured by the imaging unit (13).
US10788901B2
User interface devices using magnetic sensing to provide output signals associated with motion and/or deformation of an actuator element of the interface devices are described. The output signals may be provided to an electronic computing system to provide commands, controls, and/or other data or information. In one embodiment, a user interface device may include a plurality of permanent magnets and a plurality of multi-axis magnetic sensors to generate motion and/or deformation signals to be provided to a processing element to generate the output signals.
US10788897B1
A system for vibration-driven sensing may include a wearable dimensioned to be donned by a user of an artificial reality system. The system may also include a vibration sensor that is incorporated into the wearable and generates an electrical response that corresponds to a vibration detected at the wearable. The system may further include at least one processing device communicatively coupled to the vibration sensor. The processing device may determine, based at least in part on the electrical response generated by the vibration sensor, that the user has made a specific gesture with at least one body part. In response to this determination, the processing device may generate an input command for the artificial reality system based at least in part on the specific gesture made by the user. Various other systems and methods are also disclosed.
US10788892B2
Disclosed herein are techniques for eye tracking in near-eye display devices. In some embodiments, an illuminator for eye tracking is provided. The illuminator includes a light source configured to be positioned within a field of view of an eye of a user; a first reflector configured to shadow the light source from a field of view of a camera; and a second reflector configured to receive light from the light source that is reflected by the eye of the user, and to direct the light toward the camera.
US10788888B2
A method of facilitating capturing visual information at a first location (1) for display at a second location (2) is disclosed. At the first location, a virtual reality device (11) can be configured to render visual information representing a virtual environment, and at least one capturing device (12) can be configured to capture information representing a real environment comprising the virtual reality device (11). At the second location, at least one monitor (21) can be configured to render the information captured by the at least one capturing device (12). The method comprises determining an orientation of at least one capturing device (12) relative to the virtual reality device (11), and providing in the virtual environment a visual indication of said orientation.
US10788883B2
A communications system and method provides power-saving while maintaining required protocol timing resolution. In a communication system that requires a high-frequency, high-precision, but high-power, clock source to meet timing requirements, selective disablement and re-enablement of the high-frequency clock provides for both timing precision and power reduction in the system.
US10788879B2
A wireless mobile device (“UE”) operating in a battery-conserving low-power state processes incoming signaling or data in a received message to determine whether to act further on information in the message by enabling additional processing capability in the UE. A server may generate awaken information derived from a stored secret value that only the UE device and a server that manages the UE can obtain. The awaken information may also be based on a shared value shared between the server and the UE. The UE may separately derive the awaken information and may exit a low power state when awaken information received from the server in an awaken message in a first protocol matches the separately derived awaken information. The server may transmit a fall-back second awaken message in a different protocol than the first protocol if no confirmation is received that the UE received the first awaken message.
US10788876B2
A system for controlling power to a complex system, comprising a plurality of processors, one or more power supply unit, each power supply unit including an overcurrent warning system and a baseboard management controller coupled to the plurality of processors and the one or more power supply unit, wherein the baseboard management controller is configured to determine whether a power cap control has been enabled and to adjust an overcurrent warning threshold of the overcurrent warning system.
US10788875B2
A device and method that include a power control analog subsystem of a universal serial bus (USB) compatible power supply device is disclosed. The power control analog subsystem includes a programmable reference generator to generate first reference voltages. The power control analog subsystem also includes multiplexers, where each of a plurality of multiplexers are coupled to a first terminal and a second terminal of a producer field-effect transistor (FET) to receive a first voltage (Vbus_in) and a second voltage (Vbus_c) and to output second reference voltages. The power control analog subsystem further includes comparators, wherein each of the comparators is coupled to receive a corresponding reference voltage of the first reference voltages from the programmable reference generator and to receive a corresponding selected voltage from a corresponding multiplexer of the multiplexers. Each of the comparators is configured to output a corresponding system interrupt based on a corresponding voltage condition.
US10788873B2
A power control circuit includes a first power supply circuit configured to supply power to a universal serial bus upon a motherboard is turned on. When the motherboard is turned on, a first power source outputs a first voltage to a first input terminal of a double diode of the first power supply circuit, a second power source outputs a second voltage to a second input terminal of the double diode, an output terminal of the double diode outputs a first voltage, the first voltage controls the first electronic switch to switch on, and a third power supply outputs a second voltage through a first electronic switch of the first power supply circuit to provide power to the universal serial bus.
US10788869B2
A heat-conducting case unit for handheld electronic device includes a ceramic back cover having an outer surface and an inner surface. The inner surface faces a receiving space of the handheld electronic device and has a heat conducting element provided thereon to contact with at least one heat source in the receiving space, and the heat conducting element has a thermal conductivity higher than that of the ceramic back cover. The outer surface is exposed to an external environment. Heat produced by the heat source is transferred via the heat conducting element to the ceramic back cover, from where the produced heat is dissipated into the external environment.
US10788857B2
A dock for a portable electronic device includes a base and an arm movably supported on the base. The arm has a ratchet gear set and a distal end configured to engage the portable electronic device to secure the portable electronic device to the base. The dock further includes a ratchet pawl positioned within the base. The ratchet pawl is movable between a first position, in which the ratchet pawl engages the ratchet gear set to inhibit movement of the arm relative to the base, and a second position, in which the ratchet pawl disengages the ratchet gear set to allow movement of the arm relative to the base. The dock further includes an electronic actuator operable to actuate the ratchet pawl from the first position to the second position.
US10788854B1
A clamshell electronic device is provided. The clamshell electronic device includes a device body, a cover, an auxiliary display unit and an orientation adjustment mechanism. The cover pivots on the device body, and the cover includes a cover notch. The auxiliary display unit is disposed on the device body, wherein the auxiliary display unit is adapted to be rotated between a first unit orientation and a second unit orientation. The orientation adjustment mechanism is connected to the cover and the auxiliary display unit, wherein when the cover is in a first cover orientation relative to the device body, the cover covers the device body, and the auxiliary display unit is in the first unit orientation and corresponds to the cover notch.The user can obtain information such as time, weather or messages directly via the auxiliary display unit in the the cover notch.
US10788852B2
Disclosed is a power supply switching circuit comprising: a first switch pair for selectively connecting a first power supply node to an output node, a second switch pair for selectively connecting a second power supply node to the output node; and a switch control circuit. The switch control circuit is operable such that a first switch of each of the first switch pair and the second switch pair is controlled by a respective first control signal and a second switch of each of the first switch pair and the second switch pair is controlled by a respective second control signal, so as to connect no more than one of the first power supply node or the second power supply node to the output node at any one time.
US10788847B2
Embodiments of apparatuses and methods are provided herein for characterizing a heat pipe, and for controlling an operating parameter of at least one heat generating component thermally coupled to the heat pipe based on a temperature difference measured across a first section and a second section of the heat pipe. For example, a characterization method is provided for determining at least one threshold value, which can be used to predict heat pipe dry-out within the heat pipe, and a thermal time constant (time lag) between the onset of heat pipe dry-out and a heat pipe dry-out limit. During subsequent system operation, the predetermined threshold value and thermal time constant may be used to extend the performance of the heat pipe to the edge of its cooling capacity.
US10788831B2
Method and device for identifying center of a path for navigation of an autonomous vehicle is disclosed. The method includes receiving a navigation map for a path connecting a destination point and an autonomous vehicle location point. The method further includes identifying a plurality of obstruction points along boundaries of the path based on the navigation map. The method includes determining a plurality of halfway points on the path based on the plurality of obstruction points. A halfway point is located between a straight line joining two consecutively identified obstruction points. The method further includes discarding at least one of the plurality of halfway points to extract a final set of halfway points on the path. The method includes arranging halfway points in the final set in a sequential order starting from the destination point to the autonomous vehicle location point.
US10788829B2
A computer-implemented method controls a self-driving vehicle. One or more processors, based on a set of sensor readings from one or more passenger sensors within a self-driving vehicle (SDV), determine an identity of a current passenger in the SDV. The processor(s) establish a destination for the current passenger in the SDV based on the identity of the current passenger in the SDV, and receive computer executable instructions directing the SDV to travel to the destination for the current passenger in the SDV. The processor(s) then execute the computer executable instructions to cause the SDV to travel to the destination.
US10788826B2
Provided is a vehicle control device capable of reducing a control gap that occurs when a system is restored to a normal state after a malfunction is corrected, thereby achieving smooth driving performance for a user. A vehicle control device according to the present invention has a first travel control mode and a second travel control mode. When in a transitional state from the second travel control mode to the first travel control mode, the vehicle control device calculates and checks a first control parameter used in the first travel control mode, calculates a second control parameter used in the second travel control mode, and uses the second control parameter for traveling control.
US10788822B2
A system for selecting driving maneuvers of a vehicle for automated driving comprises a display device for displaying a route of the vehicle in different presentation types, a selection device for selecting one of the presentation types for the route, and a control device for controlling the display device. The control device is designed to present different possible driving maneuvers for selection on the display device on the basis of the presentation type selected for the route. The selection device is designed to select one of the different possible driving maneuvers for performance during automated driving.
US10788808B2
A method analyzing a machine having a rotating shaft includes generating an electric measurement signal dependent on mechanical vibrations from the shaft rotation; sampling the measurement signal to generate a digital measurement data signal; performing a decimation of the digital measurement data signal to achieve a digital signal having a reduced sampling frequency, where the decimation includes controlling the reduced sampling frequency such that the number of sample values per revolution of the shaft is kept at a substantially constant value, and receiving the digital signal at an enhancer input performing a correlation in the enhancer so as to produce an output signal sequence where repetitive signals amplitude components are amplified in relation to stochastic signal components, and performing a condition analysis for analyzing the condition of the machine dependent on the digital signal having a reduced sampling frequency.
US10788803B2
A system and method for maintaining a system configuration to provide desired system performance is disclosed. The system comprises a processing unit receiving sensor data associated with environmental conditions within an area, generating a map of the area based on the received sensor data, determining a change in the map of the area and determining at least one system commissioning parameter associated with the determined change in the map to compensate for or correct the change in the map. In one aspect of the invention, the sensor data is provided through a plurality of mobile devices.
US10788795B2
An elapsed time indicator comprises a reservoir of a fluid, a porous sheet element and a fluid port located between the reservoir and the porous sheet element. The porous sheet element defines a predetermined area which is separated from the fluid port by a predetermined lateral distance. The fluid is selectively provided from the reservoir to the porous sheet element through the fluid port whereupon the porous sheet element transmits the fluid laterally through the porous sheet element at a predetermined rate away from the fluid port until the fluid impregnates the predetermined area of the porous sheet element so as to cause the predetermined area of the porous sheet element to become transparent or more transparent after expiry of a predetermined time period.
US10788794B2
A digital to time converter (DTC) system is disclosed. The DTC system comprises a DTC circuit configured to generate a DTC output clock signal at a DTC output frequency, based on a DTC code. In some embodiments, the DTC system further comprises a calibration circuit comprising a period error determination circuit configured to determine a plurality of period errors respectively associated with a plurality consecutive edges of the DTC output clock signal. In some embodiments, each period error of the plurality of period errors comprises a difference in a measured time period between two consecutive edges of the DTC output clock signal from a predefined time period. In some embodiments, the calibration circuit further comprises an integral non-linearity (INL) correction circuit configured to determine a correction to be applied to the DTC code based on a subset of the determined period errors.
US10788790B2
A developing device usable with an electrophotographic image forming apparatus, the apparatus including a driving shaft rotatable by a motor and having a rotating force applying portion, and a movable member, the developing device being mountable to the movable member, and the developing device being movable in a direction substantially perpendicular to an axial direction of the driving shaft in response to movement of the movable member in one direction with the developing device mounted to the movable member, the developing device includes i) a developing roller for developing an electrostatic latent image formed on an electrophotographic photosensitive drum, the developing roller being rotatable about an axis; and ii) a coupling member for transmitting a rotating force to the developing roller, the coupling member including, a rotating force receiving portion engageable with the rotating force applying portion to receive a rotating force from the driving shaft, and a rotating force transmitting portion for transmitting the rotating force received through the rotating force receiving portion to the developing roller, the coupling member being capable of taking a rotational force transmitting angular position for transmitting the rotational force for rotating the developing roller to the developing roller, a pre-engagement angular position which is taken before the coupling member is engaged with the rotating force applying portion and in which the coupling member is inclined away from the rotational force transmitting angular position, and a disengaging angular position which is taken for the coupling member to disengage from the driving shaft and in which the coupling member is inclined away from the rotational force transmitting angular position in a direction opposite to the pre-engagement angular position; wherein in response to a movement of the developing device when the movable member moves in the one direction, the coupling member moves from the pre-engagement angular position to the rotational force transmitting angular position to be opposed to the driving shaft, and wherein when the movable member makes a further movement in the one direction from a position where the coupling member is opposed to the driving shaft, in response to the further movement, the coupling member is disengaged from the driving shaft by moving from the rotational force transmitting angular position to the disengaging angular position.
US10788781B2
The present invention provides an image forming method for forming a decorated image having a resin layer and a powder contacted with each other, the method including: forming a resin layer on a recording medium; and supplying a powder onto the recording medium, in which, in viscoelasticity measurement of the resin layer, storage modulus G′(1) at 90° C. is 1.0×103 Pa or more and 1.0×106 Pa or less upon carrying out the measurement from 30° C. to 100° C. under conditions of a frequency of 1 Hz and a temperature increasing rate of 3° C./min.
US10788778B2
Image forming apparatus with control circuitry to execute a refresh operation on latent image bearer
An image foil ling apparatus includes a latent image bearer, a charger, an exposure device, a developing device, a toner adhesion amount detector, and control circuitry. The control circuitry controls the charger, the exposure device, and the developing device to form a detection toner pattern shorter than a circumferential length of the latent image bearer in a circumferential direction of the latent image bearer at an area of the latent image bearer including at least a part of an opposite portion of the latent image bearer opposite the charger when the latent image bearer stops rotation, controls the toner adhesion amount detector to detect a toner adhesion amount of the detection toner pattern, and executes a refreshing operation to recover the surface of the latent image bearer from a deteriorated state due to a discharge product based on a result of the detection toner pattern detected by the toner adhesion amount detector.
US10788777B2
An image inspection system including: an image forming apparatus that forms an image on a sheet; an image reading apparatus that reads the image formed on the sheet through the image forming apparatus; and an image inspector that inspects the image read by the image reading apparatus. The image inspector includes a hardware processor that sets an edge portion of the sheet as an image inspection excluded area that is excluded from targets for inspection of the image.
US10788773B2
A transfer belt according to one or more embodiments may include a surface to which a developer image is to be transferred and from which the transferred developer image is to be transferred from to a medium. The transfer belt may be configured having characteristics in which a dipole component of the surface of the transfer belt is not less than 0.3 dyn/cm and not larger than 1.9 dyn/cm.
US10788769B2
Let V1 be a potential difference between a photosensitive member charged by a charging member to which a second charging voltage is applied in a preparation process and a developing member to which a developing voltage is applied. Let V2 be a potential difference between the photosensitive member charged by the charging member to which a first charging voltage is applied in an image forming process and the developing member. Given this definition, a relation of |V1|<|V2| is satisfied.
US10788763B2
A lithographic apparatus has a support structure configured to support a patterning device, the patterning device serving to pattern a radiation beam according to a desired pattern and having a planar main surface through which the radiation beam passes; an outlet opening configured to direct a flow of a gas onto the patterning device; and an inlet opening configured to extract the gas which has exited the outlet opening, wherein the outlet opening and inlet opening are in a facing surface facing the planar main surface of the patterning device.
US10788756B2
The present invention provides a method for detecting a size of a pattern made by photolithography, which being applied for detecting a size of a pattern formed on an array substrate of a liquid crystal display including: deriving function layer parameters and position parameters of a detection-pattern; deriving a thickness-profile of the detection-pattern according to the function layer parameters and the position parameters of the detection-pattern; deriving a plane-profile of the detection-pattern according to the thickness-profile of the detection-pattern; proceeding a size-detection to the plane-profile of the detection-pattern.
US10788746B2
A relief image is prepared by: A) imaging an imageable material to form a mask element; B) exposing a relief-forming precursor through the mask element; C) removing the mask element; and D) developing the imaged relief-forming precursor. The imageable material has, in order: (a) a transparent polymeric carrier sheet; (b) a non-ablatable light-to-heat converting having an average dry thickness of 1-5 μm and comprising: (i) an infrared radiation absorbing material at 0.1-5 weight %; (ii) a thermally crosslinked organic polymeric binder material; and (iii) non-thermally ablatable particles having an average particle size of 0.1-20 μm in an amount of 0.2-10 weight %; and (c) a non-silver halide thermally-ablatable imaging layer (IL) disposed on the LTHC layer, the IL comprising a second infrared radiation absorbing material and a UV-light absorbing material dispersed within one or more thermally-ablatable polymeric binder materials. The imageable material can be included in a relief image-forming assembly.
US10788742B2
To display easily-seen display information on any display area regardless of an installation location, a display system (1) includes: a projection device (10) that switches and projects emitted light from a spatial light modulator element onto a plurality of display areas; and a control device (20) that controls the projection device to switch a projection direction of projected light from the projection device (10), based on a display condition of display information to be displayed on the display areas. The projection device (10) has: a reflecting mirror that is put in and out of a light path of emitted light from the spatial light modulator element; and a light path switching means that switches the projection direction of projected light by putting the reflecting mirror in and out of the light path of emitted light from the spatial light modulator element in response to control of the control device.
US10788735B2
A scanner, specifically for scanning antique books, comprising a beam to which is attached a slide bearing guide and a stepper motor connected to a transmission, wherein to the opposite end of the beam a similar bearing-supported freely rotating gear is attached, wherein between the said gears runs a toothed belt two ends of which are attached to slide bearing, to which guide and motor are attached with a connector in-between, wherein motor is linked to a screw by means of a toothed belt. A method of scanning antique books consists in moving a linear camera over the scanned book in three axes, travelling over the scanned object (a), travelling along the vertical axis (b) and rotating around its axis (c).
US10788729B2
A laser beam phase-modulation device, a laser beam steering device, and a laser beam steering system including the same are provided. The laser beam phase-modulation device includes a refractive index conversion layer having a refractive index that is changed according to an electrical signal applied thereto, the refractive index conversion layer including an upper surface on which the laser beam is incident and a lower surface opposite the upper surface, at least one antenna pattern embedded in the upper surface of the refractive index conversion layer, and a metal mirror layer provided under the lower surface of the refractive index conversion layer and configured to reflect the laser beam.
US10788703B2
A frame includes a resin frame which surrounds at least a part of the side faces of a light guide plate; a reflection diffusion material which is added in the resin frame and reflects and diffuses light; and an absorption material which is added in the resin frame and absorbs light. The reflectance of the resin frame is equal to or greater than 30% and equal to or smaller than 80%.
US10788701B2
A light emitting device package is disclosed. The light emitting device package includes a body, first and second reflection cups spaced apart from each other in a top surface of the body, a first connection pad disposed in the top surface of the body, spaced apart from the first and second reflection cups, a first light emitting diode mounted in the first reflection cup, a second light emitting diode mounted in the second reflection cup, and a partition wall disposed between the first reflection cup and the second reflection cup, the partition wall extended from the top surface of the body upwardly.
US10788698B2
A portable device and method of manufacturing a display device includes a display panel having a glass substrate and a polarizer adhered to the glass substrate, a touch panel which is made of resin material and adhered to the polarizer of the display panel by a first adhesive material, and a front window which is made of glass And adhered to the touch panel by a second adhesive material. One of the first adhesive material and the second adhesive material is an adhesive sheet, and an other of the first adhesive material and the second adhesive material is an ultraviolet-curing adhesive material.
US10788694B2
A display panel includes: a display area in which an image is to be displayed; a non-display area in which no image is to be displayed; a first mark that is arranged in the non-display area; a second mark that is arranged in the non-display area on a layer different from a layer on which the first mark is arranged and is adjacent to or superimposed on the first mark in a plan view; a light-transmitting portion that is arranged in the non-display area in such a manner as to overlap at least the first mark in a plan view; and a light-shielding portion that is arranged in the non-display area on a side opposite to the light-transmitting portion with respect to the first mark and the second mark and overlaps the light-transmitting portion in a plan view.
US10788692B2
An LCD device includes a transmissive LCD panel assembly, a backlight assembly for supplying light to the LCD panel assembly, and a selective reflection film provided between the backlight assembly and the LCD panel assembly. A display region of the LCD has a low-resolution area and a high-resolution area, and a pixel formed in the low-resolution area that is larger than a pixel formed in the high-resolution area.
US10788690B2
This present disclosure is generally directed to an optical isolator array with a magnetic base that allows for mounting and alignment of N number of optical isolators modules within an optical subassembly module. In an embodiment, the magnetic base provides at least one mounting surface for coupling to N number of optical isolators, with N being equal to an optical channel count for the optical subassembly (e.g., 4-channels, 8-channels, and so on). The magnetic base includes an overall width that allows for a desired number of optical isolators to get mounted thereon. Each optical isolator can be uniformly disposed along the same axis on the magnetic base and at a distance D from adjacent optical isolators. An adhesive such as ultraviolet-curing (UV-curing) optical adhesives may be used to secure each optical isolator at a predefined position and increase overall structural integrity.
US10788684B2
Methods for adapting the optical function of an adaptive ophthalmic lenses system are provided. Said methods comprise an adaptive ophthalmic lenses system providing step during which an adaptive ophthalmic lenses system is provided. An acquisition step during which the scene in front of the wearer is acquired may be provided. A gazing zone determining step during which a gazing zone is determined may be included, the gazing zone being a zone of images of the scene acquired comprising the gazing direction of the wearer. A parameter determining step during which the value of at least one parameter of the images of the scene is determined may be provided. An adaptation step may be included during which the optical function of active ophthalmic lenses are adapted according to the value of the at least one parameter determined during the parameter determining step.
US10788683B2
A method of creating an optimized lens for an eye including positioning a fitting lens onto the eye. The fitting lens may have one or a plurality of indicia. The eye and fitting lens using a computing device. A data set may then be produced, the data set defined by a three-dimensional relationship between the fitting lens and the eye. The computing device or a remotely connected computing device may then analyze the data set to generate one or more modifications to the fitting lens. The computing device or remotely connected computing device may then transmit the data set and the one or more modifications to a printing device to create the optimized lens for the eye.
US10788682B2
A mobile hologram apparatus is disclosed. An example apparatus includes a sheet folded along preformed creases into a pyramid structure configured to be actuated between a compressed state and an uncompressed state. The pyramid structure has a base section and a top section connected by four side sections. The pyramid structure in the compressed state has a height that is less than 1/10th the height of the pyramid structure in the uncompressed state. The apparatus also includes an elastic band connected to a perimeter of the base section of the pyramid structure and configured to cause the pyramid structure to self-actuate from the compressed state to the uncompressed state.
US10788681B2
A backlight unit for a three-dimensional (3D) image display includes a light guiding plate configured to guide light; a light source configured to emit the light to the light guiding plate; and a diffraction grating structure provided on a surface of the light guiding plate, the diffraction grating structure configured to diffract the light emitted from the surface of the light guiding plate, and including diffracting gratings having different heights.
US10788674B2
A waveguide assembly integrated with sensing functions and an intelligent display wearable device are provided. The waveguide assembly includes: an exit pupil expansion waveguide structure and a plurality of reflective sheets. The reflective sheets are arranged at intervals in the exit pupil expansion waveguide structure and arranged obliquely with respect to a light-exiting surface of the exit pupil expansion waveguide structure. A first reflective film and a second reflective film are respectively arranged on two sides of each of the reflective sheets. The second reflective film is an infrared reflective film or an ultraviolet reflective film, and arranged on a side of the reflective sheet away from the light-exiting surface of the exit pupil expansion waveguide structure. The first reflective film is arranged on a side of the reflective sheet close to the light-exiting surface of the exit pupil expansion waveguide structure.
US10788661B2
A projector configured to be embedded into a portable device and to project an image towards a surface reflecting light towards an eye of a user, the projector including: a linear array of light sources emitting a light beam, the linear array of light sources emitting at least a first wavelength and extending in a first direction; a scanner configured to move the light beam on a second direction transverse to the first direction to display the image; a controller controlling the scanner and the light sources of the linear array.
US10788654B2
An imaging optical system consists of, in order from a magnification side: a first imaging optical system that forms an intermediate image on a position conjugate to a magnification side imaging surface; and a second imaging optical system that re-forms the intermediate image on a reduction side imaging surface. The second imaging optical system consists of a plurality of lens groups including at least two movable lens groups which move during zooming. The imaging optical system satisfies predetermined conditional expressions.
US10788653B2
The imaging lens consists of, in order from the object side, a positive first lens group that has a positive refractive power and remains stationary during focusing, and a second lens group that moves toward an image side during focusing from a distant object to a close-range object. The first lens group has, successively in order from a position closest to the image side, a first-b sub-lens group having a positive refractive power, and an aperture stop. The imaging lens satisfies predetermined conditional expressions relating to the first-b sub-lens group, the second lens group, and the like.
US10788646B2
A lens driving apparatus is for driving a lens assembly and includes a base, a metal cover, a carrier, a first coil, at least one first magnet, at least one second magnet, a frame and a spring set. At least one lower leaf spring of the spring set includes a frame connecting section, a carrier connecting section and a resilient section. The carrier connecting section and the second magnet are arranged along the first direction. The carrier connecting section includes an opening portion and a shielding portion, and the opening portion and the shielding portion both corresponding to the second magnet along the first direction are respectively for a part of the second magnet to be exposed through the opening portion and another part of the second magnet to be shielded by the shielding portion.
US10788644B2
Provided are a lens device capable of preventing a focus shift of an imaging optical system due to heat without reducing a degree of freedom of design, an imaging device comprising the same, and a focus shift correction method of a lens device. A lens device 100 includes an imaging optical system 20 that includes a plurality of lenses, a lens barrel 10 that accommodates the imaging optical system 20, a temperature sensor 30 that is provided outside the lens barrel 10 to detect a temperature of the lens barrel 10, a temperature sensor 50 that is provided outside the lens barrel 10 to detect a temperature of a member 40 of which a temperature characteristic indicating a temperature change with a time change is different from a temperature characteristic of the lens barrel 10, and a focus correction unit 60 that corrects a focus shift of the imaging optical system 20 by controlling a relay lens 25 as a correction lens included in the imaging optical system 20 based on temperature information items respectively detected by the temperature sensor 30 and the temperature sensor 50.
US10788636B2
An optical module includes a base, an upper housing, an unlocker and a handle. The unlocker is rotatably connected to the base. The unlocker has a lock catch for locking the optical module. The handle is rotatably connected with the base by way of a first rotating portion. The unlocker is configured to be driven by the handle to rotate and cause the optical module to be in a locked state or an unlocked state. When the optical module is in the locked state, a first end of the handheld portion is further from a top surface of the upper housing than a second end of the handheld portion. A distance from the second end to a rotation axis of the first rotating portion is less than or equal to a distance from the first end to the rotation axis of the first rotating portion.
US10788629B2
The present disclosure relates to systems and method for deploying a fiber optic network. Distribution devices are used to index fibers within the system to ensure that live fibers are provided at output locations throughout the system. In an example, fibers can be indexed in multiple directions within the system. In an example, fibers can be stored and deployed form storage spools.
US10788627B2
A fiber bulge (“bulge”) formed in an end of an optical fiber for positioning the optical fiber in a ferrule bore is disclosed. An energy source is controlled to direct focused energy to the end of the optical fiber extended from the front end face of the ferrule to expose and melt the end of the optical fiber into a bulge of desired geometry and size. The bulge comprises a cross-sectional region having an outer surface having a minimum outer diameter larger than the inner diameter of the ferrule bore. Thus, the optical fiber may be pulled back in the ferrule bore such that at least a portion of the outer surface of the interface region of the bulge interferes with and engages the front opening of the ferrule bore to position the fiber core within the ferrule bore.
US10788621B2
An optical fiber having at least two polymer coatings, the optical fiber comprising: an optical fiber comprising a glass optical core and a glass cladding; a first polymer coating comprising a silicone polymer covering the optical fiber; and a second polymer coating covering the first polymer coating is provided.
US10788619B2
Dual light guide, grating-based backlighting redirects light guided in a first light guide in a first direction into a second light guide in a second direction of a grating-based backlight. A dual light guide, grating-based backlight includes the first light guide, the second light guide and a redirection coupler configured to redirect the guided light beam from the first light guide into the second light guide in the second direction. The dual light guide, grating-based backlight further includes a diffraction grating configured to diffractively couple out a portion of the redirected light beam from the second light guide as a coupled-out light beam directed away from a surface of the second light guide at a predetermined principal angular direction.
US10788611B2
A spotlight (1) is described for illuminating a film, studio, stage, event, and/or theatre environment. The spotlight comprises: a reflector arrangement (11) having a reflective inner surface (113), which delimits a reflector interior (114); a number of passive light guides (12) having feed points (121), which are arranged outside the reflector interior (114), and having light output points (122), which are arranged inside the reflector interior (114).
US10788592B2
A radiographic imaging apparatus includes a base, a signal line, a reader and a hardware processor. On the base board, pixels comprising respective radiation detecting elements and respective switching elements are arranged in a matrix. The signal line is connected through the switching elements. The reader reads the charges accumulated in the pixels at every predetermined lines as signal values of image data. The hardware processor measures a leak current flowing through the signal line and corrects the signal values based on leak current values including a leak current value obtained at a timing when (i) the number of lines which have been already read is greater than a predetermined number of lines and (ii) the number of lines which has not been read yet is greater than a predetermined remaining number of lines.
US10788578B2
Provided is an antenna pattern synthesizing apparatus that synthesizes an antenna pattern by applying quantum-behaved particle swarm optimization (QPSO) algorithm of a satellite synthetic aperture radar (SAR), the antenna pattern synthesizing apparatus including a designer configured to design a mask template based on a performance of an SAR system including an antenna array in which a plurality of antennas are arranged in a multidimensional structure, and a generator configured to calculate a signal amplitude and a signal phase for the antenna array to generate a first antenna pattern using QPSO, and generate the first antenna pattern in the designed mask template based on the calculated signal amplitude and the calculated signal phase.
US10788572B2
The invention relates to an optical separating means 21 for a deflection mirror arrangement 1 of a laser scanner 2. The invention also relates to a deflection mirror arrangement comprising a separating means of this kind, and also to a laser scanner comprising a deflection mirror arrangement of this kind comprising optical separating means.The optical separating means 21 comprises a substantially rigid separating wall 17 for separating a receiving mirror region 19 of a deflection mirror 15, 16 from a transmitting mirror region 18, wherein the separating wall 17 has a rectilinear edge section. The separating means 21 has fastening webs 23, which are arranged on both sides of the rectilinear edge section 22 of the separating wall 17, for fastening to a mirror support 14. In order to enable fault-free assembly of a deflection mirror arrangement for a laser scanner, an elastically deformable seal element 25 is arranged along the rectilinear edge section 22 of the separating wall according to the invention.
US10788570B2
A radar system for a mobile platform and methods of operating the radar system are provided. The radar system includes a radar sensor configured to collect data associated with an environment through which the mobile platform moves, and a motion sensor configured to detect motion of the mobile platform. The radar system also includes a processor configured to generate a base clutter map based on a first data collection by the radar sensor, and update the base clutter map based on a second data collection and the motion of the mobile platform detected by the motion sensor.
US10788559B2
The invention provides for an instrument (100, 300) comprising: a radio-frequency antenna (102) comprising multiple antenna elements (104); a radio-frequency system (106) comprising independent receive channels for receiving a radio-frequency signal (140) from each of the multiple antenna elements; a memory (130) containing machine executable instructions (160, 162); and a processor (124) for controlling the instrument. Execution of the machine executable instructions causes the processor to: control (200) the radio-frequency system to receive the radio frequency signal from each of the multiple antenna elements; extract (202) a noise signal (142) from the radio frequency signal from each of the multiple antenna elements; calculate (204) a normed signal (144) for each noise signal by applying a mathematical norm to each noise signal; calculate (206) a covariance (146) of the normed signal between each of the multiple antenna elements; calculate (208) a motion signal (148) by summing each covariance of the normed signal; and detect (210) motion of a subject by detecting a motion event (150) in the motion signal.
US10788546B2
A magnetic sensor device comprises a substrate having a surface and a magnetic sensor. A plurality of magnetic cores is disposed on, over, below or in direct contact with a substrate surface, at least one of the magnetic cores having an electrical conductor helically wound around the core forming a coil having a coil length. Each magnetic core is separated from any other magnetic core by a gap length. A current passing through the one or more coils generates a magnetic field. The plurality of cores and gaps form at least one closed magnetic circuit along which the generated magnetic field flux passes, and the total length of the at least one closed magnetic circuit is at least twice the total length of the plurality of gaps of the at least one closed magnetic circuit through which the at least a portion of the magnetic field flux passes.
US10788544B2
A magnetic sensor includes a sensor chip 30 including an element-forming surface 31 provided with a magnetism detection elements MR1-MR4, a magnetic member 40 including a first side surface 41 facing the element-forming surface 31, and a circuit board 20 including a mounting surface 21 on which the sensor chip 30 and the magnetic member 40 are mounted. The sensor chip 30 and the magnetic member 40 are mounted on the circuit board such that the element-forming surface 31 and the first side surface 41 are substantially orthogonal to the mounting surface 21 of the circuit board 20. Because the sensor chip 30 and the magnetic member 40 are mounted on the circuit board 20 in a horizontal state, the magnetic member 40 can be supported in a stable manner even when the length of the magnetic member 40 is large.
US10788541B2
A method is proved for pinpointing a short-circuit in a wide-range air/fuel sensor having one or more sensor-terminals that include a reference-terminal, a pump-terminal, a return-terminal, and a tag-terminal. The method includes controlling a connection of a source of electric current to the one or more sensor-terminals; determining one or more status-values based on signals present at the sensor-terminals; and determining a sensor-status of the wide-range air/fuel sensor based on the connection of source of electric current and the one or more status-values.
US10788533B2
Technology for bypass testing of an integrated circuit using a testing device. The testing device comprising a port configured to connect to an integrated circuit before the integrated circuit is packaged into an end product. The testing device further comprising a controller with architecture configured to bypass a training process designed to be initiated when the integrated circuit is first connected to the port and the port is powered on, confirm a connection between the integrated circuit and the testing device, send a test pattern to the integrated circuit to execute; and receive results from the integrated circuit executing the test pattern.
US10788532B2
Embedded processor-based self-test and diagnosis using the compressed test data is described for ICs having on-chip memory. Techniques for compressing the test data before the compressed test data is transferred to a device under test (DUT) are also described. A modified LZ77 algorithm can be used to compress strings of test data in which don't care bits are handled by assigning a value to the don't care bits according to a longest match in the window as the data is being encoded. The compressed test data can be decompressed at the DUT using a software program transferred by the automated test equipment (ATE) to the DUT with the compressed test data. Decompression and diagnostics can be carried out at the DUT using an embedded processor and the on-chip memory. Results from the diagnostics can be read by the ATE.
US10788528B2
A crack detection chip includes a chip which includes an internal region and an external region surrounding the internal region, a guard ring formed inside the chip along an edge of the chip to define the internal region and the external region, an edge wiring disposed along an edge of the internal region in the form of a closed curve and a pad which is exposed on a surface of the chip and is connected to the edge wiring. The edge wiring is connected to a Time Domain Reflectometry (TDR) module which applies an incident wave to the edge wiring through the pad, and detects a reflected wave formed in the edge wiring to detect a position of a crack.
US10788527B2
A method for detecting an error in a generator unit which has an electric machine (100) with a rotor winding (110) and a stator winding (120) and a rectifier (130) connected thereto, via which rectifier the electric machine (100) is connected to an electrical system (150) of a motor vehicle, the excitation current (IE) flowing through the rotor winding (110) of the electric machine (100) being plotted and it being concluded that there is an error in the generator unit depending on whether a frequency component (A) of a frequency spectrum of the plot of the excitation current (IE) in a frequency range above a lower speed limit (SW) is larger than a threshold value (S).
US10788513B2
A test device and a test method are provided. The test device can comprise a movable probe platform, a plurality of signal access points, and a plurality of test probes fixed on the movable probe platform. Each of the plurality of signal access points is correspondingly coupled to one test probe for accessing a corresponding test signal. The plurality of the test probes are configured to contact with test pads on a panel to be tested, and to transmit test signals accessed from the plurality of the signal access points to the test pads, so as to perform an electrical test to the panel to be tested.
US10788510B2
A physical quantity sensor includes a substrate; a movable body that is displaceable about a support axis according to a physical quantity and includes an opening; a support that is provided on the substrate and is located in the opening, and the support includes a first fixed plate and a second fixed plate that are fixed to the substrate and provided so as to sandwich the support axis in plan view; a first beam and a second beam that each connect the first fixed plate with the second fixed plate and are spaced apart from each other; a third beam extending in a direction of the support axis and connecting the first beam with the movable body; and a fourth beam extending in a direction of the support axis and connecting the second beam with the movable body.
US10788506B2
A method is provided for detecting one or more analytes in a sample. The method relies, in part, on the ability of functionalized particles added to the sample to partially or completely inhibit the transmission of electromagnetic radiation into and out of the sample through a detection surface in a reaction vessel containing the sample. In a microarray format, the invention can be used to screen millions, billions or more biological elements, such as an organism, cell, protein, nucleic acid, lipid, saccharide, metabolite, or small molecules. Methods, apparatuses and kits are described.
US10788502B2
The present invention addresses a problem in which, when examining blood properties in measurements of thrombus formation capacity and platelet function or the like, measurement data is changed as a result of sedimentation of blood in reservoirs during measurement. An erythrocyte membrane ion transport inhibitor, such as disodium 4,4′-dinitrostilbene-2,2′-disulfonate (DNDS) or 4,4′-diisothiocyanatostilbene-2,2′-disulfonic acid (DIDS), is used to inhibit erythrocyte sedimentation, and accurate measurement data is obtained.
US10788501B2
The instant invention relates to a qualitative predictive method, to a method, use and kit applied to the early differential diagnosis of the most prevalent forms of bacterial and viral meningitis, enabling to detect and distinguish the different forms of meningitis. The invention uses a qualitative predictive method based on combined detection and sequential analysis of the presence/absence of at least three out of four specific biomarkers.
US10788500B2
This invention pertains to methods and compositions for the diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular conditions. More specifically, the invention relates to isolated molecules that can be used to diagnose and/or treat cardiovascular conditions including cardiac hypertrophy, myocardial infarction, stroke, arteriosclerosis, and heart failure.
US10788497B2
A method which can be used to analyse oxidising species in a sample, including: placing the sample in contact with a first photoluminescent agent, and a second optically active agent, at least the first photoluminescent agent including nanoparticles doped with rare earth elements and being oxidisable, the luminescence of the first photoluminescent agent varying, at least at one first wavelength, with the amount of oxidising species, and the signal emitted by the second optically active agent being constant or varying, at least at one second wavelength other than the first wavelength, with the amount of oxidising species in a direction opposite to the luminescence of the first photoluminescent agent; energising the first and second agents in the sample; measuring the light intensity of the sample at least at the first and second wavelengths; and assessing the presence and/or the amount of oxidising species by interpreting the measured light intensities.
US10788492B2
The present application demonstrates that sirtuin 4 (SIRT4) acts as a cellular lipoamidase that negatively regulates pyruvate dehydrogenase complex (PDHC) activity through hydrolysis of its lipoamide cofactors.
US10788482B2
A point of care immunization system based upon microfluidics and microtitration technologies to rapidly test a patient in order to ascertain an immunization profile so that vaccinations can be administered to address identified gaps. A point of care system comprised of uniquely shaped and color distinguishing sample and test cartridges, with said test cartridges configured to meet healthcare requirements of national governing bodies. A point of care system including an easy access vaccine storage device with indicators to provide data on viability of stored vaccines.
US10788472B2
The present invention provides a method for evaluating the quality of steam-treated products, allowing easy, quick and precise evaluation of the quality of oxide films in steam-treated products such as black coated steel sheets. Specifically, the present invention provides a method for evaluating the quality of steam-treated products with a surface oxide film formed during steam treatment, wherein test pieces (100) are cut out from said steam-treated products to measure the amount of oxygen in said test pieces (100) as a basis for evaluating the brightness of the surface(s) of said test pieces and/or the thickness of the oxide film of said test pieces.
US10788470B2
A microelectromechanical gas sensor including a fixed part, at least one suspended part in relation to fixed part, at least one sensitive zone carried on the suspended part, the sensitive zone being able to adsorb/absorb and desorb gaseous species or families of gaseous species, a heater for heating at least the sensitive zone, a detector for detecting the adsorption/absorption and desorption of gaseous species or families of gaseous species on the sensitive zone, a controller of controlling the heater so that the heating is applied to at least the sensitive zone with one or more temperature profiles ensuring the adsorption/absorption and desorption of the gaseous species in a controlled manner so as to obtain an individual desorption of each species or families of gaseous species.
US10788469B2
A mass spectrometry data processor (2) having a database (21) for storing respective pieces of mass spectrum data of various compounds together with names and mass spectrometry conditions of the compounds includes a mass spectrum data receiver (22) configured to receive input of mass spectrum data associated with a compound name and a mass spectrometry condition, a determination unit (25) configured to determine whether the mass spectrum data includes a mass peak satisfying a predetermined criterion, and a database registration unit (31) that registers, on the database, mass spectrum data determined to include the mass peak satisfying the predetermined criterion or mass spectrum data based on the mass spectrum data determined to include the mass peak satisfying the predetermined criterion together with a compound name and a mass spectrometry condition.
US10788467B2
Provided are two-dimensional chromatography systems and methods for separating and/or analyzing complex mixtures of organic compounds. In particularly, a two-dimensional reversed-phase liquid chromatography (RPLC)—supercritical fluid chromatography (SFC) system is described including a trapping column at the interface which collects the analytes eluted from the first dimension chromatography while letting the RPLC mobile phase pass through. The peaks of interest from the RPLC dimension column are effectively focused as sharp concentration pulses on the trapping column, which is subsequently injected onto the second dimension SFC column. The system can be used for simultaneous achiral and chiral analysis of pharmaceutical compounds. The first dimension RPLC separation provides the achiral purity result, and the second dimension SFC separation provides the chiral purity result (enantiomeric excess).
US10788463B2
The present invention relates to a device and a method for dynamic fractionation of a dispersed phase in a fluid. The device comprises a fractionation channel and from a first to a third injection ports. A first and a second confining fluids are injectable through the first and second injection ports, respectively. An elution fluid for transporting the dispersed phase is injectable into the channel through a third injection port which is arranged between the first and second injection ports. An end portion of the channel comprises from a first to a third terminal portion respectively arranged in correspondence to the first to the third injection ports and having a geometry such that the first and second confining fluids respectively have a first and second predefined flow rate and the elution fluid have a third predefined flow rate which is larger than the first and second predefined flow rates.
US10788462B2
A dual function non-destructive inspection apparatus comprises a frame structure, a thermographic inspection system, a displacement system, and an ultrasonic inspection system. The frame structure has a channel, a first end, and a second end. The channel extends through the frame structure from the first end to the second end. The thermographic inspection system is associated with the first end of the frame structure. The displacement system is connected to the second end of the frame structure. The ultrasonic inspection system is connected to the displacement system such that the displacement system moves the ultrasonic inspection system relative to the channel of the frame structure.
US10788460B2
Resonant Ultrasound Spectroscopy (RUS) is applied to diamonds (both cut/polished gemstones and rough diamonds) to yield a digital fingerprint from which the stone may be authenticated and sorted according to the structural quality. Diamonds are mined as rough stones from which they undergo examination to determine their value as being gem, or of two different industrial qualities. Fewer than 25% of mined diamonds are worthy of cutting and polishing to yield gems for jewelry. About 40% of the remaining population still have value as industrial diamonds for machine tools, and the rest is ground into dust to provide coatings for grinding applications. Rough stones exist in two conditions being coated and uncoated. The coated stones have a layer of polycrystalline diamond, different from the predominant crystal structure, rendering them opaque. This interferes with optical inspection, as any cracks, or inclusions can't be seen. RUS provides a reliable sorting and fingerprinting system for both cut/polished stones as well as rough diamonds of sufficient structural quality to yield a spectral signature. As high value items, diamonds are shipped around the world, and but sometimes thefts occur. RUS yields a digital fingerprint allowing the identity of an individual stone to be verified upon recovery.
US10788455B2
An extended reach inspection apparatus may include a scanner device and a robotic manipulator arm. The robotic manipulator arm may include a plurality of arm segments including a distal end arm segment and a proximal end arm segment. A movable joint may couple the distal end arm segment to the robotic manipulator arm. A telescoping extension mechanism may be coupled to the distal end arm segment. The scanner device is mounted to the telescoping extension mechanism for moving the scanner device between a retracted position proximate the robotic manipulator arm and an extended position at a distance from the robotic manipulator arm. A control handle may be coupled to the proximal end arm segment of the plurality of arm segments for manipulating the robotic manipulator arm.
US10788453B2
An ion mobility spectrometer includes a drift tube responsive to application of at least a first voltage to establish a first electric field therein configured to cause ions within the drift tube to move along and about the drift tube while separating from one another as a function of ion mobility, and a transition region coupled to opposed ends of the first drift tube such that the drift tube and the transition region together define a closed path. The transition region is responsive to application of at least a second voltage to cause the ions to move along and about the closed path, to application of at least a third voltage to selectively pass ions into the drift tube and to application of at least a fourth voltage to selectively pass ions out of the drift tube.
US10788452B2
A method is provided for analyzing a sample including a population of biological entities using at least one microfabricated device. A plurality of the microwells on the microfabricated device are each uniquely indexed, and loaded with a sample such that at least some microwells each include more than one cell of a biological entity. The microfabricated device was incubated at predetermined conditions, and a selected genetic material of the cells of the biological entities obtained from the incubation is amplified to obtaining amplicons. An aggregate of the amplicons are sequenced obtain sequencing data, based on which and the indexing of the microwells, an identification of the biological entities present in each of the plurality of microwells is obtained. Such identification can then be used to determine a relationship between different types of biological entities in the sample.
US10788451B2
An analysis instrument comprises plural modules connected together over a data network, each module comprising an analysis apparatus operable to perform biochemical analysis of a sample. Each module comprises a control unit that controls the operation of the analysis apparatus. The control units are addressable to select an arbitrary number of modules to operate as a cluster for performing a common biochemical analysis. The control units communicate over the data network, repeatedly during the performance of the common biochemical analysis, to determine the operation of the analysis apparatus of each module required to meet the global performance targets, on the basis of measures of performance derived from the output data produced by the modules. The arrangement of the instrument as modules interacting in this manner provides a scalable analysis instrument.
US10788446B1
A semiconductor device includes a first passivation layer disposed on a semiconductor base. The semiconductor device further includes a dielectric layer disposed on the first passivation layer. The semiconductor device further includes a plurality of pillars disposed in an opening in the dielectric layer and the first passivation layer and from a top surface of the semiconductor base. The semiconductor device further includes a metal layer disposed on the exterior surfaces of the plurality of pillars and sidewalls of the dielectric layer and the first passivation layer and on the exposed top surface of the semiconductor base. The semiconductor device further includes a second passivation layer disposed on the metal layer and a top surface of the semiconductor device; wherein the second passivation layer has an electrical charge.
US10788439B2
A sensor comprises: an electrically comprises a switchable polymeric element. The polymeric element has at least a first electrical state and a second electrical state and is switchable between the first and second electrical states as a function of predefined environmental changes. The sensor comprises a polymeric matrix and a plurality of conductive particles embedded in the polymeric matrix.
US10788434B2
A method of assisting the optical inspection of an object includes the steps of: determining a first three-dimensional image of the object; determining a first color or grey level two-dimensional image of the object; determining at least one first window (F1) on the first two-dimensional image surrounding a possible defect of the object from the first three-dimensional image and/or from the first two-dimensional image; determining a second two-dimensional image corresponding to the first two-dimensional image outside of the first window and corresponding to a first depth map of the object in the first window; and determining a second three-dimensional image (I3D′) corresponding to the first three-dimensional image having the second two-dimensional image applied thereon.
US10788426B2
A method of monitoring for the presence of a hydroperoxide in an aqueous or non-polar environment includes steps of exposing a structured compound semiconductor material with peroxidase activity to the hydroperoxide in the environment and detecting electromagnetic radiation emitted by the structured compound semiconductor material with peroxidase activity upon exposure to the hydroperoxide. The luminescence emitting semiconductor material with peroxidase activity consists of a primary semiconductor material with a dopant prepared on a phytate scaffold.
US10788425B2
Methods, systems, and devices are disclosed for imaging particles and/or cells using flow cytometry. In one aspect, a method includes transmitting a light beam at a fluidic channel carrying a fluid sample containing particles; optically encoding scattered or fluorescently-emitted light at a spatial optical filter, the spatial optical filter including a surface having a plurality of apertures arranged in a pattern along a transverse direction opposite to particle flow and a longitudinal direction parallel to particle flow, such that different portions of a particle flowing over the pattern of the apertures pass different apertures at different times and scatter the light beam or emit fluorescent light at locations associated with the apertures; and producing image data associated with the particle flowing through the fluidic channel based on the encoded optical signal, in which the produced image data includes information of a physical characteristic of the particle.
US10788421B2
The present invention related to an electronic assay apparatus and a testing method thereof. The electronic assay apparatus for determining a result of an assay performed using a test strip comprises three light sources, only one detector and a microprocessor. The three light sources respectively illuminate light incident upon three different zones of the test strip. The detector detects light from the three zones alternately and the distances between the only one detector and the three light sources respectively are almost the same. Further, multiple openings corresponding to the three light sources respectively have the same size and/or shape. The microprocessor compares a calculating result value to only one threshold for showing a result.
US10788416B2
A colorimetric wet chemistry analyzer for determining a concentration of an analyte of interest in a sample is provided. The analyzer comprising includes a reaction chamber configured to receive the sample and facilitate a reaction that changes a color of the sample based on the concentration of the analyte of interest. A photometric cell is operably coupled to the reaction chamber to receive the sample and direct illumination therethrough. The photometric cell has a first illumination source configured to provide illumination at a first wavelength through the photometric cell and a second illumination source configured to provide illumination at a second wavelength through the photometric cell. The second wavelength is different than the first wavelength. A photo detector is configured to detect illumination passing through the photometric cell. A controller is coupled to the first illumination source, the second illumination source and the photo detector and is configured to provide an indication of concentration relative to the analyte of interest based on a signal from the photo detector.
US10788414B2
A cover film for testing which can be well fixed to a substrate having a groove and with which a material that constitutes an adhesive layer does not invade into the groove and a specimen can be easily stored in the groove, providing a testing member including the cover film for testing, and providing a method of manufacturing the cover film for testing.The cover film for testing comprises a base material, a hydrophilic coating layer laminated on a surface of the base material, and an adhesive layer partially laminated on a surface of the hydrophilic coating layer opposite to the base material, whereby the cover film for testing has a region in which the adhesive layer is absent and the hydrophilic coating layer is exposed.
US10788405B2
Systems and methods for inline and automatic dilution of chemicals of interest for speciation and subsequent analysis by ICP spectrometry are described. A system embodiment includes a first valve to receive a sample into a holding loop; a plurality of syringe pumps coupled to the first valve to deliver an inline diluted sample from the first valve; and a second valve coupled to the first valve to receive the inline diluted sample from the first valve into a sample holding loop coupled to the second valve, the second valve configured to couple to at least one of an eluent source or a carrier fluid source to receive at least one of an eluent fluid or a carrier fluid to transfer the inline diluted sample from the sample holding loop to a speciation column to separate one or more species from the inline diluted sample.
US10788401B2
A method, system, and computer-readable medium for sharing measurement data with a remote device includes establishing, by a mobile computing device at an equipment site, a first communication connection with a measurement device that is configured to measure data with respect to equipment at the equipment site. The mobile computing device receives measurement data by way of the first communication connection. While remaining at the equipment site, the mobile computing device receives a request to share the measurement data with a selected contact via a remote device. In response, a second communication connection is established with the remote device, the measurement data to be shared is identified, and the identified measurement data is communicated to the remote device for review by the selected contact. Prior to establishing a communication connection with the remote device, permission to communicate the measurement data to the selected contact may be obtained from a gatekeeper.
US10788396B2
A calibration system and method for a spark ignition engine of a vehicle involve artificially weighting engine dynamometer data in high engine load regions and using it to generate training data for an artificial neutral network (ANN). A plurality of ANNs are trained using the training data and the plurality of ANNs are then filtered based on their maximum error to obtain a filtered set of trained ANNs. A statistical analysis is performed on each of the filtered set of trained ANNs including determining a set of statistical metrics for each of the filtered set of trained ANNs and then one of the filtered set of trained ANNs having a best combination of error at high engine loads and the set of statistical error metrics is then selected. Finally, an ANN calibration is generated using the selected one of the filtered set of trained ANNs.
US10788391B2
A water drip testing device includes a frame member, a water tank, a drip member, a first carrying member and a second carrying member. The frame member includes an upper portion, a lower portion, and a frame body between the upper and lower portions. The water tank includes a lower plate provided at the top portion. The drip member is connected to the lower plate and communicates with the water tank. The first carrying member is detachably connected to the frame body, and includes a first carrying surface facing the drip member. The second carrying member is detachably connected to the frame body, and includes a second carrying surface facing the drip member. When the water drip testing device is in a first or second test mode, the first or second carrying member is installed on the frame body.
US10788387B2
A sensor carrier having a main plane of extension, a first side parallel to the main plane of extension, a second side parallel to the main plane of extension, which is situated opposite the first side, and at least one electrical contact surface situated on the second side. At least one stress-measuring structure is embedded in the sensor carrier. A sensor module having such a sensor carrier as well as to a component having a sensor module having such a sensor carrier, are also described. A method for calibrating a sensor module and a method for operating a sensor module are also described.
US10788381B2
The invention relates to a load measuring device including a deformable component configured to be deformed under a load to be measured and a sensor assembly attached to a first portion of the deformable component and to a method for determining load using such a sensor assembly. It is proposed that the sensor assembly includes at least one acceleration sensor configured to detect a change in an orientation of the first portion with regard to the direction of gravity and that the deformable component is formed as a seal configured to be in sliding contact with a component configured to rotate in relation to the seal.
US10788371B2
The invention relates to a heat pattern sensor including a matrix of pyroelectric capacitances. The sensor further includes an electromagnetic shielding stage, electrically conducting, situated between a stage including a pyroelectric material and a contact surface of the sensor. The electromagnetic shielding stage includes a shielding layer which comprises nanowires and/or nanotubes lying in a surrounding medium. The nanowires and/or nanotubes have a thermal conductivity greater than that of the surrounding medium. A ratio between a distribution pitch of the pixels of the matrix of pixels and a thickness of the shielding layer is greater than or equal to 20. The invention makes it possible to obtain at the same time rapid heat transfers through the electromagnetic shielding stage and low lateral heat transfers, from one pixel to the other of the sensor.
US10788367B2
On an integrated circuit (IC) die, sensors are configured to receive electromagnetic energy and to generate signals in response to the electromagnetic energy. An encapsulation material encapsulates the IC die and the sensors. A filter structure includes a diffusion of particles within the encapsulation material. The filter structure includes: a first region configured to pass a first band of the electromagnetic energy to the sensors or to block the first band of the electromagnetic energy from passing to the sensors; and a second region configured to pass a second band of the electromagnetic energy to the sensors or to block the second band of the electromagnetic energy from passing to the sensors. The encapsulation material has a first intrinsic property, and the particles have a second intrinsic property that is different from the first intrinsic property.
US10788366B2
Systems and methods for determining one or more properties of a sample are disclosed. The systems and methods disclosed can be capable of measuring along multiple locations and can reimage and resolve multiple optical paths within the sample. The system can be configured with one-layer or two-layers of optics suitable for a compact system. The optics can be simplified to reduce the number and complexity of the coated optical surfaces, etalon effects, manufacturing tolerance stack-up problems, and interference-based spectroscopic errors. The size, number, and placement of the optics can enable multiple simultaneous or non-simultanous measurements at various locations across and within the sample. Moreover, the systems can be configured with an optical spacer window located between the sample and the optics, and methods to account for changes in optical paths due to inclusion of the optical spacer window are disclosed.
US10788363B2
A SPAD control circuit for detecting a photon is provided. The SPAD control circuit includes a single photon avalanche diode (SPAD), a switch, a combinational circuit, and a sequential circuit. The SPAD has two terminals. The switch applies a voltage to one of the two terminals of the SPAD. The combinational circuit detects whether the SPAD is in an active state or a standby state. The sequential circuit includes a terminal that receives input of a pulse signal used to set the SPAD to the active state, a terminal that receives input of a reset-related signal, and an output terminal. The switch is controlled by an output signal output from the output terminal of the sequential circuit. An output signal of the combinational circuit is input to the terminal of the sequential circuit that receives input of the reset-related signal.
US10788359B2
A distributed fiber optic cable including an elongate body and optical fibers longitudinally housed in the elongate body. The optical fibers lie in in sinusoidal paths along longitudinal surfaces of a prism. The distributed fiber optic cable can be used for sensing an acoustic wave by measuring backscattered light from a laser pulse input into the optical fibers in the fiber optic cable.
US10788345B2
A thermal flowmeter includes a casing, a ferrule, a measuring tube penetrating through the ferrule, a sensor for flow rate detection, a joint shaft movably supported by end portions of the casing, one end portion of the joint shaft being connected to the measuring tube and the ferrule with a through hole of the joint shaft and a hollow portion of the measuring tube communicating with each other, the other end portion of the joint shaft sticking out of the casing, and a screw thread-fitted to each of the end portions of the casing, and including a pressing portion pressing the joint shaft into an inside of the casing. A seal structure includes a first tapered surface formed on the ferrule and a second tapered surface formed on the joint shaft and fitting the first tapered surface, and is provided between the ferrule and the joint shaft.
US10788342B2
The present disclosure relates to a magnetic field sensor including at least one magnetic field sensor element configured to generate a first sensor signal in response to a magnetic field, at least one Hall sensor element configured to generate a second sensor signal in response to the magnetic field and a compensation logic configured to compensate one of the first and the second sensor signal using a respective other one of the first and the second sensor signal. In some embodiments, the at least one Hall sensor element can be vertical Hall sensor and can be arranged in a predetermined orientation.
US10788327B2
An apparatus includes input circuitry and processor circuitry. The input circuitry is configured to receive, from a camera attached to a vehicle, a plurality of images as the vehicle travels along the track. The processor circuitry is configured to, for at least one of the plurality of captured images, perform feature recognition on the image, to assign an indicator to at least one recognised feature in the image indicative of a suitability of the at least one recognised feature for adjusting the position of the vehicle on the map. The processor circuitry is configured to, for each recognised feature in the image with the indicator, adjust the position of the vehicle on the map when the recognised feature is represented in the map of the track, and add a representation of the recognised feature to the map when the recognised feature is not represented in the map of the track.
US10788322B2
Assigning measuring points to fixed points includes calculating fixed point distances between fixed points in a fixed point coordinate system; determining coordinates of measuring points in a measuring point coordinate system; calculating measuring point distances between the measuring points; comparing at least two measuring point distances with the fixed point distances and identifying at least two pairs each consisting of a measuring point distance and a fixed point distance; determining a reference point in the measuring point coordinate system or in the fixed point coordinate system; determining first and second reference point parameters of the measuring points or fixed points corresponding to the pairs; determining second reference point parameters of the fixed points corresponding to the pairs in the fixed point coordinate system; identifying correspondences between the first reference point parameters and the second reference point parameters and assigning the corresponding measuring points to the corresponding fixed points.
US10788318B2
A three-dimensional shape measurement apparatus includes main pattern illumination parts, main image-capturing parts and a control part. The main pattern illumination parts obliquely illuminate grating pattern light in different directions toward a measurement target. The main image-capturing parts obtain a grating pattern image of the measurement target by receiving reflection light of the grating pattern light illuminated from the main pattern illumination parts and obliquely reflected by the measurement target. The control part produces height data of the measurement target using grating pattern images of the measurement target, or produces height data of the measurement target using image positions of plane images for the measurement target and texture information of the measurement target. The control part employs a grating pattern illuminated on the measurement target as the texture information to produce height data of the measurement target. Thus, a three-dimensional shape may be measured more easily and accurately.
US10788316B1
Methods and systems for multi-sensor real-time alignment and calibration are disclosed herein. A vehicle includes a projector configured to project a pattern on a target location. The vehicle also includes one or more sensors. The one or more sensors are configured to capture sensor data from the target location and detect the pattern at the target location. The vehicle further includes a calibration system configured to determine whether a particular sensor of the one or more sensors is out of alignment based on a relative position of the pattern as detected by the one or more sensors. The calibration system is also configured to, based on a determination that the particular sensor is out of alignment, adjust an alignment of the particular sensor based on the sensor data and the diffractive pattern.
US10788312B2
A coordinate measuring unit includes a measuring probe and a processing device configured to compute the shape coordinates of an object to be measured on the basis of an output of the measuring probe. The measuring probe has a first identification code. The processing device includes a first determination portion configured to determine whether the first identification code outputted from the measuring probe is matched with a matching code, and a downstream determination portion configured to identify a second identification code outputted from the measuring probe to thereby recognize the measuring probe when the first identification code is matched with the matching code in the first determination portion and the measuring probe further has the second identification code. The coordinate measuring unit with the aforementioned configuration can efficiently recognize a number of measuring probes.
US10788306B2
In order to improve a method for positioning a centre point of a second machine tool unit of a machine tool on a geometric axis of a first machine tool unit of the machine tool, wherein the second machine tool unit has a circular path concentric with the centre point, and wherein the first machine tool unit has a component that is rotatable about the geometric axis, in such a way that said method can be performed by an operator easily, reliably and within a short timeframe, it is proposed that a measuring unit is arranged in a defined manner relative to the geometric axis and the position of the circular path relative to the geometric axis is established using the measuring unit, that the position of the centre point of the circular path in the geometric plane relative to the geometric axis is calculated, and that adjustment paths in the geometric plane, which are associated with the adjustment directions, for positioning the centre point on the geometric axis are calculated, and that the machine tool units are moved relative to one another in accordance with these adjustment paths.
US10788301B2
A geometric tool for capturing the relative positions of points on a geometric profile, thus creating a template for use in geometric representation and replication. The geometric tool comprises three or more pointers, and a means for constraining motion of the pointers. The pointers each comprise a rigid longitudinal member with a definitive a tip. The means for constraining motion of the pointers is such that the pointers can only pivot and radially translate with respect to a shared axis of rotation. In addition, the means for constraining motion of the pointers also contains a mechanism for the user to fully constrain the pointers with respect to the shared axis of rotation. This construction provides a simple and convenient geometric tool which offers an errorless method for capturing the relative positions of points on a geometric profile for use in further representation and replication.
US10788300B2
A tape measure apparatus including a housing having a base-wall, a retractable measuring tape disposed within, and a first-set of indicia markings beginning at a second-end of the base-wall and terminating at a second-tape-end of the retractable measuring tape. The first-set of indicia markings comprise of graduated measurements for measuring a distance between two surfaces or objects. The tape measure apparatus, having the first-set of indicia markings and a lock-mechanism, is useful for enabling a user to accurately measure the distance without bending or distorting the retractable measuring tape and for convenient reading of the measurement result.
US10788298B2
The present invention relates to a bullet with an increased effective range. The bullet includes a front end portion (10) having a hemispherical shape, a recess portion (20) connected to a rear end of the front end portion (10) and having a curved surface that is recessed inward, an inclined portion (30) connected to a rear end of the recess portion (20) and inclined at a predetermined angle (A) with respect to a horizontal line, a stepped portion (40) connected to a rear end of the inclined portion (30) and inclined at a predetermined angle (A′) with respect to the horizontal line, and fluid inducing grooves formed from the rear to a rear end surface of the bullet (1). Thus, when the bullet passes through underwater, super cavitation may be more effectively generated and maintained for even longer to significantly increase the effective range of the bullet.
US10788296B2
A real-life target is hit with a virtual bullet or projectile using GPS-enabled or otherwise location aware devices which report their location. Real world information is taken into account, such as the terrain, elevation, weather, and line of sight, to determine if the virtual bullet hits the real-life target. Virtual information is also taken into account, such as which weapon is selected and what its distance and accuracy are. Further, information about the shooter is taken into account, such as his/her accuracy, how tired he/she is (based on recent travel distance and velocity), and how steady the GPS-enabled device is being held.
US10788293B2
Implementations described and claimed herein provide a ballistic filler for a flexible soft body armor and methods of manufacturing the same. In one implementation, a first portion having a first subpanel is stitched directly to a second subpanel with a stitching pattern. The first subpanel has one or more layers of woven fabric, and the second subpanel has one or more layers of unidirectional fabric. A second portion backs the first portion. The second portion has one or more layers of unstitched unidirectional fabric.
US10788284B1
A counter momentum generator is employed on a weapon system to manage horizontal recoil momentum of the weapon system. The counter momentum generator generates a counter momentum which that is not parallel to the recoil momentum. A horizontal component of the counter momentum negates a portion of the horizontal recoil momentum. A vertical component of the counter momentum combines with the vertical recoil momentum to aid in compression between the base of the weapon system and the ground.
US10788276B2
A rifle platform with semi-automatic, select fire, and/or fully automatic shooting options uses a pistol cartridge. The rifle barrel includes an extension having a ramp for loading the cartridges and having a key way for the shell extractor. The magazine of the rifle is mounted to the lower receiver so as to load the cartridges in a direction perpendicular to the rifle barrel. The magazine follower automatically locks the bolt after the last cartridge is fired. The bolt and bolt carrier are integrally machined, and fully enclose the cartridge to preclude out of battery firing.
US10788275B2
An aluminum alloy clad material includes a core material, one side being clad with cladding material 1, the other side being clad with cladding material 2, the core material including an aluminum alloy that includes 0.5 to 1.8% of Mn, and limited to 0.05% or less of Cu, with the balance being Al and unavoidable impurities, the cladding material 1 including an aluminum alloy that includes 3 to 10% of Si, and 1 to 10% of Zn, with the balance being Al and unavoidable impurities, and the cladding material 2 including an aluminum alloy that includes 3 to 13% of Si, and limited to 0.05% or less of Cu, with the balance being Al and unavoidable impurities, wherein the Si content X (%) in the cladding material 1 and the Si content Y (%) in the cladding material 2 satisfy the value (Y−X) is −1.5 to 9%.
US10788273B2
Shell-and-tube equipment includes baffles supporting the tubes, each baffle having seats for receiving the tubes shaped so as to receive one or more tubes in at least one free play condition and in a locking condition; each baffle is displaceable with respect to the tube bundle between an assembly position and a working position; in the assembly position the tubes can be received by the baffles in the free play condition while in the working position the tubes are locked.
US10788272B1
Systems according to the present disclosure provide one or more surfaces that function as heat or power radiating surfaces for which at least a portion of the radiating surface includes or is composed of “fractal cells” placed sufficiently closed close together to one another so that a surface (plasmonic) wave causes near replication of current present in one fractal cell in an adjacent fractal cell. A fractal of such a fractal cell can be of any suitable fractal shape and may have two or more iterations. The fractal cells may lie on a flat or curved sheet or layer and be composed in layers for wide bandwidth or multibandwidth transmission. The area of a surface and its number of fractals determines the gain relative to a single fractal cell. The boundary edges of the surface may be terminated resistively so as to not degrade the cell performance at the edges.
US10788269B2
A cooling system for a mobile bulk tank that includes a heat exchanger disposed to remove heat from a top wall of the mobile bulk tank. A flow system that is configured to move coolant through the heat exchanger to cool the bulk tank.
US10788247B2
A climate-control system includes a variable-capacity compressor. An outdoor ambient temperature sensor indicates a temperature of the outdoor ambient air. A return air temperature sensor indicates a temperature of the return air in the system. A controller commands a startup compressor stage based on the temperature from the outdoor ambient temperature sensor and commands a running compressor stage based on a time-based slope of the temperature from the return air temperature sensor and the startup compressor stage.
US10788246B2
The inventions disclosed and taught herein relate generally to frozen beverage machines; and more specifically relate to improved methods of and apparatuses for controlling the consistency and quality of the dispensed beverage product.
US10788242B2
An apparatus for cleaning a surface of solar collectors or photovoltaic installations includes at least one cleaning head that comprises at least one cleaning member. The cleaning member can be set into rotation. The apparatus also includes a movement device for moving the cleaning head over at least a part of the surface to be cleaned. The movement device has a first movement unit movable in a first direction and a second movement unit. The cleaning head is movable transversely or obliquely to the first movement direction by the second movement unit along a guide that is connected to the first movement unit. A drive device that is arranged at the first and/or second movement units makes it possible to automatically move the first movement unit in dependence on a position of the second movement unit.
US10788237B2
A wind direction adjusting apparatus of an air-conditioning blowout port is equipped with: a face plate portion which is disposed in the front of the air-conditioning blowout port from which the air conditioned by an air conditioner is blown out, and receives the air blown from the air-conditioning blowout port; a mounting portion which mounts the face plate portion forward of the air-conditioning blowout port; and an antibacterial member which is mounted to the face plate portion. The antibacterial member has: an antibacterial agent which is a material having bactericidal properties; a bag body which contains the antibacterial agent in a bag material with pores on the entire surface; and a housing which contains the bag body and has a vent hole that limits the ventilation volume of air blown out from the air-conditioning blowout port and passing through the bag body.
US10788217B2
A lighting control switch harness includes a plurality of elements each including a body for a respective gas tap, one or more light sources, and a printed circuit. A first switch includes a first member couplable to a mobile stem of the gas tap for integrally rotating therewith and taking contacts of the first switch towards one another. A second switch includes a second member couplable to the stem of the tap for translating parallelly thereto and taking contacts of the second switch towards one another. The elements are connected to one another only by a first wire connected to a first contact of the second switch of each element, a second wire connected to a second contact of the first switch of each element, and a third wire connected to a second contact of the second switch of each element and to the printed circuit.
US10788205B2
An atomizing system is provided to connect a liquid supply zone and a gas supply zone. In the atomizing system, a first pipeline is connected between the liquid supply zone and a first treatment tank, a second pipeline is connected between the first treatment tank and a second treatment tank, a third pipeline is connected between the gas supply zone and the second treatment tank. The end of each of the nozzles is connected to the other end of the third pipeline. The liquid supplied from the liquid supply zone is flowed into the second treatment tank through the second pipeline, the gas supplied from the gas supply zone is flowed into the second treatment tank through the nozzles, so that the liquid contacts the gas in the second treatment tank to produce the atomized liquid.
US10788201B2
A solar powered boiler assembly for producing steam with solar energy includes a bowl that is positioned in the ground. A boiler is positioned in the bowl and the boiler has a fluid therein. A dome is removably positioned on the bowl. A plurality of lenses each extends through the dome such that each of the lenses is exposed to sunlight. Each of the lenses focuses the sunlight onto the boiler to heat the boiler. In this way the boiler produces steam by heating the fluid therein. A reflector is coupled to the dome and the reflector is comprised of a light reflecting material for reflecting sunlight onto the lenses.
US10788192B2
A housing, which is provided for incorporating a surface lighting element in a wall, includes a base intended to be fixed in the wall and a flap for receiving the surface lighting element. The flap receives the surface lighting element on its face directed toward the outside of the housing and is mounted to pivot on the base by at least one removable link axis making it possible to dismantle and reassemble the flap relative to the base.
US10788186B2
An approach for providing illumination with a blue UV light source, which can be used in combination with a visible light source is disclosed. In operation, the visible light source emits visible light at a first intensity. The blue UV light source emits blue UV light at a second intensity. The blue UV light stimulates fluorescence from a surface of an object illuminated by the blue UV light. A sensor can detect the intensity of the fluorescence from the surface illuminated by the blue UV light source. A control module can be operatively coupled to the visible light source, the blue UV light source, and the at least one sensor, and be configured to change the intensity of the visible light and/or the intensity of the blue UV light as a function of the fluorescent intensity detected by the sensor.
US10788184B2
A lighting device for a vehicle includes a light source that illuminates light, a reflecting surface, a shading member, and a projecting lens. The reflecting surface reflects the light illuminated from the light source and causes the light to converge. The shading member includes an aperture portion at which the light reflected and caused to converge by the reflecting surface is incident. Light that has passed through the aperture portion of the shading member is incident on the projecting lens, and the projecting lens emits the light toward a target.
US10788180B2
An optical device and systems using an optical device are provided, where the optical device may be configured for collimating incoming light rays. The optical device may include a host medium substantially comprised of a transparent material and an array of substantially transparent structures embedded within the host medium. The structures of the array each include a convex side presented to the incoming light rays and a concave side that passes light rays through toward the output face of the host medium, collimating the rays. Multiple stages of arrays may be provided in the optical device, typically with lengthening aspect ratios and increasing indexes of refraction in a direction from the input face toward the output face. The systems may use the optical device for using an exterior light to illuminate an interior space in a building or to generate power.
US10788175B2
An LED lamp box and a display device. The LED lamp box includes a lamp box support, a canvas, a controller and multiple LED light source modules. The multiple LED light source modules are fixed on the lamp box support, and the canvas covers the multiple LED light source modules and is fixed to the lamp box support. The LED light source modules are electrically connected with each other. Each LED light source module comprises multiple LED lamp strips arranged in parallel and lamp-strip PCB connectors for connecting the LED lamp strips. The LED lamp strip is provided with an input port and an output port, and each LED lamp strip comprises multiple LED lamps connected in series. The controller is electrically connected with the LED light source modules to control the LED lamps by scanning the LED light source modules line by line.
