US10924333B2
One embodiment of the present invention provides a switch system. The switch includes a port that couples to a server hosting a number of virtual machines. The switch also includes a link tracking module. During operation, the link tracking module determines that reachability to at least one end host coupled to a virtual cluster switch of which the switch is a member is disrupted. The link tracking module then determines that at least one virtual machine coupled to the port is affected by the disrupted reachability, and communicates to the server hosting the affected virtual machine about the disrupted reachability.
US10924324B2
Systems and methods of managing a modular network element as a single entity and the modular network element includes a plurality of line modules and zero or more switch modules in a chassis. The plurality of line modules are located separate from the chassis and connected to the chassis and/or to one another via cabling. The method includes operating a management plane between the plurality of line modules and the zero or more switch modules via one or more dedicated links in the cabling; managing the plurality of line modules and the zero or more switch modules as a single network element utilizing a chassis management protocol over the management plane; and designating one of a controller in the chassis and a processor in one of the plurality of line modules operating as a virtual controller as primary for the chassis management protocol.
US10924323B1
The disclosed computer-implemented method may include (1) creating, at a network device, a relationship management information base that facilitates querying relationships of objects stored in at least one other management information base on the network device, (2) loading, into the relationship management information base, a partition that defines at least one relationship between a plurality of objects stored in the other management information base on the network device, (3) receiving, at the network device, a query directed to the relationship management information base from a network management system, and then in response to the query directed to the relationship management information base (4) obtaining the objects whose relationship is defined by the partition from the other management information base and (5) providing the objects obtained from the other management information base to the network management system to satisfy the query. Various other apparatuses, systems, and methods are also disclosed.
US10924321B2
A test instrument may include a transmitter configured to transmit signals to a unit under test, a receiver configured to receive signals from the unit under test, and a controller configured to generate a transmitter compensation filter by (i) transmitting, with the transmitter, complex multi-sine signals over a first plurality of observed frequencies within a predetermined baseband frequency range, (ii) estimating a first plurality of frequency responses that compensate for in-phase and quadrature (IQ) imbalance at the first plurality of observed frequencies within the predetermined baseband frequency range, and (iii) determining, using the first plurality of frequency responses, a transmitter polynomial surface, and to compensate, using the transmitter compensation filter, at least one of the signals to be transmitted by the transmitter to reduce IQ imbalance in the transmitted signals, including using the transmitter polynomial surface to calculate a frequency response that reduces the IQ imbalance in the transmitted signals.
US10924309B2
A receiver circuit includes a quadrature signal generator to generate an in-phase (I) signal and a quadrature (Q) signal from a local oscillator signal and an IQ phase sense and control circuit to generate a phase adjustment code responsive to a phase error between quadrature signals generated by a plurality of mixers. The receiver circuit also includes a phase corrector to adjust a phase difference between the I and Q signals from the quadrature signal generator to generate corrected I and Q signals to be provided to the plurality of mixers.
US10924307B1
A continuous time linear equalization (CTLE) circuit is disclosed. The CTLE circuit includes an input port, an output port, a first differential transistor pair coupled to the input port and the output port and a second differential transistor pair. The CTLE circuit further includes a first degenerative impedance circuit coupled between the first differential transistor pair and ground. The first degenerative impedance includes switchable components to vary impedance of the first degenerative impedance circuit. The CTLE circuit also includes a second degenerative impedance circuit coupled between the second differential transistor pair and ground. The second degenerative impedance includes switchable components to vary impedance of the second degenerative impedance circuit, wherein the resistive part of the impedance of the first degenerative impedance circuit is equal to the impedance of the second degenerative impedance circuit.
US10924304B2
A method for decoding a signal. The method comprises decoding a received signal according to a predetermined decoding scheme and obtaining an estimate of a transmission signal based on the decoding result; obtaining an estimate of channel noise by using the correlation of channel noise; generating a modified received signal by subtracting the obtained estimate of channel noise from the received signal; and decoding the modified received signal to obtain a decoded signal according to the predetermined decoding scheme.
US10924300B2
According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a virtual controller area network system includes first, second third controller area network (CAN) buses. A first CAN controller is coupled to the first and second CAN buses and is configured to route messages to and from the first and second CAN buses. A second CAN controller is coupled to the third CAN bus and is configured to route messages to and from the third CAN bus. A network bridging system is configured to route messages over a local area network between the first CAN controller and the second CAN controller.
US10924297B2
A device includes an identification unit that identifies at least one external device, a communication unit that communicates with the external device, an agent generation unit that generates, using hardware included in the external device as an interface, an agent that performs processing predetermined for each external device on behalf of the external device, and an agent execution unit that executes the agent.
US10924296B2
A device information acquirer acquires device information of each electrical device of a plurality of electrical devices from a control apparatus. A device information display associates and displays on a screen an identifier, an expected installation location, and a device state for each electrical device based on the device information of each electrical device acquired by the device information acquirer. The device information acquirer acquires from the control apparatus the device state information of an electrical device of interest newly collected by the control apparatus after the electrical device installed at the expected installation location of the electrical device of interest is operated by the user. The device information display explicitly shows on the screen whether the device state of the electrical device has changed due to the operation by the user based on the device state information of the electrical device of interest acquired by the device information acquirer.
US10924285B2
A method is provided for providing a notary service for a file, the method includes the steps in which: (a) when a notary service request for a specific file is obtained, a server generates, by using a hash function, or supports the generation of, a message digest of the specific file; and (b) if a predetermined condition is satisfied, the server registers, in a database, or supports the registration of, a representative hash value or a value obtained by processing the representative hash value, the representative hash value being generated by calculating at least one neighboring hash value that matches a specific hash value, wherein the specific hash value is a hash value of the result of encrypting the message digest with a private key of a first user, a private key of a second user and a private key of the server.
US10924279B2
System, methods, and computer program products are provided for interfacing between one of a plurality of service provider (SP) trusted service managers (TSM) and one of a plurality of secure elements (SE). A first request to renew a service is received from an SP system over a communications network. The first request includes a service qualifier associated with the service. A secure element corresponding to the service qualifier is determined. A second request to delete data associated with the service qualifier from the secure element is transmitted to the secure element. A third request to install an application on the secure element is transmitted to the secure element. A fourth request to activate the application on the secure element is transmitted to the secure element.
US10924278B2
Qwyit® Authentication and Encryption Service serves as a direct replacement of Transport Layer Security. Applications can place a small code segment within their communications protocol, resulting in authenticated and encrypted message traffic with the features of TLS while adding additional improvements as set forth herein. QAES provides a direct next generation replication and enhancement of the current, only global secure communications framework. QAES provides the same features, benefits, authentication (embedded) and data security (stream cipher) for communications traffic using the Qwyit® Directory Service key store. The combination of features and properties provide a simple, straightforward way for any application to incorporate secure communications. The unique, superior Qwyit® protocol delivers where TLS fails: embedded security without any need for additional bandwidth, processing power or cumbersome user requirements. QAES shows Qwyit® can provide secure communications within the network tolerances for insecure communications. QAES easily allows any client/server or cloud-based application to add TLS-like authentication and encryption. The present invention includes a Qwyit® Directory Server application that can be run on, or added to, any current communications server (web, file, comms, app, DB, etc.), as well as client code for easy insertion into the communications protocol/processing of a connected device/app.
US10924274B1
A network device may determine that network traffic for a communication session between a first peer device and a second peer device is to be protected using a security protocol suite. The network device may establish, using one or more tunnels, multiple security associations that are to be used to securely provide the network traffic of the communication session over an unsecured medium. The network device may determine a rekey scheduling time for each security association, of the multiple security associations, based on a combination of configuration information and dynamic network device information. The network device may perform, at each rekey scheduling time, a rekeying procedure to rekey each security association of the multiple security associations.
US10924265B2
Provided is a method for storing at least a portion of data registered in a blockchain in each of a plurality of node apparatuses, including selection of selecting whether to store data included in a block in one node apparatus among the plurality of node apparatuses, according to a characteristic of the one node apparatus; and data storage of storing at least a portion of the data included in the block in the one node apparatus, according to a result of the selection.
US10924262B2
The present disclosure provides a computer-implemented method for processing dynamic data by dynamic data processing device. The device comprises a homomorphic encryption module and a plurality of computing modules running in parallel. The method comprises carrying out, by the homomorphic encryption module, fully homomorphic encryption to dynamic data received from an object which generates the dynamic data; updating, by the computing module which is not in bootstrapping, the encrypted state variable; and carrying out, by the computing module which completes bootstrapping, the first update to the encrypted state variable. The first update to the encrypted state variable after completion of bootstrapping is carried out by x(t+Nboot)→ANbootx(t)+Σj=0Nboot−1ANboot−1−jB(r(t+j)−y(t+j)).
US10924257B2
Disclosed are a method and apparatus for canceling self-interference signals in a communication system. A first communication node includes a signal transmission unit configured to generate a first RF signal, an antenna module configured to transmit the first RF signal generated by the signal transmission unit and receive a second RF signal from a second communication node, a signal reception unit configured to process the second RF signal and a self-interference signal caused by the first RF signal, and an SIC circuit configured to cancel the self-interference signal. The SIC circuit includes a DSIC circuit for canceling the self-interference signal in a digital domain and an ASIC circuit and an HSIC circuit for canceling the self-interference signal in an analog domain. Accordingly, the performance of the communication system may be enhanced.
US10924243B2
A channel identification system and method are provided to automatically identify ports of a base station (e.g., an eNodeB) to route downlink signals to appropriate access points in a telecommunication system. Primary and secondary synchronization signals may be identified in the downlink signals transmitted by the base station. A broadcast channel may be decoded for a downlink signal including the primary and secondary synchronization signals. Signal information may be used to extract a first cell-specific reference signal and generate a second cell-specific reference signal corresponding to one or more ports of the base station. The first and second cell-specific reference signals may be correlated to verify the identity of the channel corresponding to the ports of the base station.
US10924242B2
A method for receiving downlink control information by a terminal in a wireless communication system according to an embodiment of the present invention may comprise the steps of: performing blind detection of a group-common physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) in a common search space (CSS) having a plurality of PDCCH candidates; and acquiring downlink control information (DCI) indicating a slot format from the group-common PDCCH acquired through the blind detection, wherein, in the blind detection of the group-common PDCCH, the terminal attempts to selectively detect the group-common PDCCH for only a PDCCH candidate at a predetermined position in the CSS having the plurality of PDCCH candidates.
US10924234B2
A repetition unit (212) performs a repetition for mapping a data signal and a demodulation reference signal (DMRS) repeatedly at a symbol level over a plurality of subframes. A signal allocation unit (213) maps, in the a plurality of subframes, the repeated DMRS to symbols other than symbols corresponding to an SRS resource candidate, which is a candidate for a resource to which a sounding reference signal (SRS) to be used to measure an uplink received signal quality is to be mapped. A transmission unit (216) transmits an uplink signal (PUSCH) including the DMRS and the data signal over the a plurality of subframes.
US10924233B2
A data transmission method and an apparatus in a network supporting coordinated multipoint transmission are provided. The method includes transmitting candidate sets of initial state information used to generate Demodulation Reference Signal (DMRS) scrambling sequences for the transmission points to the UE, and transmitting an indication corresponding to at least one candidate set of initial state information respectively associated with at least one transmission point to the UE, wherein the initial state information is used by the UE to generate DMRS scrambling sequences.
US10924229B2
Systems and methods related to increased spectrum efficiency for 5G communications, comprising combining time, frequency, spatial, and signal domains for multi-dimension modulation. In one embodiment, the ability of reconfigurable antenna to change their radiation pattern and/or polarization modes may be used to modulate additional information onto the conventional SM-MIMO transmitted signal. In further embodiments, various combinations of space shift keying, block coding, multi-carrier modulation, and the like may be used to introduce additional dimensions for data modulation and achieve diversity gain.
US10924224B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, user equipment, and a base station for transmitting data. The method for transmitting data includes: receiving, by user equipment UE, multiple hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) timings from a base station, where each of multiple data packets to be sent by the UE is corresponding to one of the multiple HARQ timings; receiving, by the UE, multiple HARQ offset parameters from the base station, where the HARQ offset parameters are in one-to-one correspondence with the multiple HARQ timings; obtaining, by the UE using calculation, multiple PHICH resource indexes respectively according to the multiple HARQ offset parameters, where the multiple PHICH resource indexes respectively point to different PHICH resources; and sending, by the UE, the multiple data packets to the base station, determining, and receiving the feedback response on the time domain resource by using the different PHICH resources.
US10924223B2
This document describes techniques for, and systems that enable, HARQ buffer management. These techniques include removing (314), based on a user device failing to transmit data during an uplink grant, data stored in a HARQ buffer. By removing the data stored in the HARQ buffer, the user device can avoid (322) transmitting, to the base station, the data stored in the HARQ buffer in response to a retransmission request from the base station.
US10924219B2
A transmitting node operating with a mobile communications system comprises transmitter circuitry configured to transmit signals representing protocol data units formed from one or more service data units via a wireless access interface of the mobile communications system to a receiving node of the mobile communications system according to an automatic repeat request process, receiver circuitry configured to receive signals from the receiving node via the wireless access interface, controller circuitry configured to control the transmitter circuitry to transmit the signals and to control the receiver circuitry to receive the signals, and a buffer configured to store data conveyed by or representing the protocol data units for transmission to the receiving node according to the automatic repeat request process, wherein each of the protocol data units has a sequence number defining their position in a predetermined order.
US10924217B2
For example, an EDMG STA may be configured to generate a plurality of spatial streams of an EDMG PPDU; map the plurality of spatial streams to a respective plurality of pairs of space-time streams according to an STBC scheme by mapping a first data sequence of a spatial stream to a first symbol in an odd numbered space-time stream, mapping a second data sequence of the spatial stream to a second symbol in the odd numbered space-time stream, mapping a sign inverted complex conjugate of the second data sequence to a first symbol in an even numbered space-time stream, and mapping a complex conjugate of the first data sequence to a second symbol in the even numbered space-time stream; and transmit a transmission comprising the plurality of pairs of space-time streams over a channel bandwidth in a frequency band above 45 Gigahertz (GHz).
US10924215B2
A 5th Generation (5G) or pre-5G communication system for supporting higher data transmission rates beyond 4th Generation (4G) communication systems such as long term evolution (LTE) systems. A method for transmitting download control information in a communication system is provided. The method includes configuring the control information indicating at least one control channel element (CCE) including at least one resource element group (REG) unit interleaved based on the interleaving information indicated by a higher layer signaling; and transmitting, to a user equipment (UE), the configured control information.
US10924208B2
An apparatus and method for generating a broadcast signal frame corresponding to a time interleaver supporting a plurality of operation modes are disclosed. An apparatus for generating broadcast signal frame according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a combiner configured to generate a multiplexed signal by combining a core layer signal and an enhanced layer signal; a power normalizer configured to reduce the power of the multiplexed signal to a power level corresponding to the core layer signal; a time interleaver configured to generate a time-interleaved signal by performing interleaving that is applied to both the core layer signal and the enhanced layer signal; and a frame builder configured to generate a broadcast signal frame including a preamble for signaling time interleaver information corresponding to the time interleaver, the preamble includes a field indicating a start position of a first complete FEC block corresponding to each of physical layer pipes.
US10924200B2
A reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexer includes N input ports, N output ports, M add ports and M drop ports. Each of the N input ports and each of the M add ports is respectively connected to one first polarizer. Each of the N output ports and each of the M drop ports is respectively connected to one second polarizer. A first end of the first polarizer is connected to a second end of the first polarizer, forming a loop including the first polarizer. A first end of the second polarizer is connected to a second end of the second polarizer, forming a loop including the second polarizer. An annular waveguide array is between a loop LIi and a loop LOj. A first polarizer included in the loop LIi is connected to an ith input port. A second polarizer included in the loop LOj is connected to a jth output port.
US10924191B2
A communications apparatus includes an entangled-photon generator for generating entangled pairs of photons including a plurality of idler photons and a corresponding plurality of signal photons. The communications apparatus includes a quantum memory for storing the plurality of idler photons. The communications apparatus includes a transmitter for transmitting the plurality of signal photons. The communications apparatus includes an optical element for selectively reflecting the plurality of signal photons to encode a reflected signal. The communications apparatus includes a receiver for detecting a plurality of incoming photons. The communications apparatus includes a correlator configured to determine the reflected signal from the plurality of incoming photons. The correlator determines an entanglement correlation between the plurality of incoming photons with the plurality of idler photons. A presence of entanglement correlation indicates that a detected incoming photon of the plurality of incoming photons is a reflected signal photon of the plurality of signal photons.
US10924184B2
Both a conventional receiver and an HDR-compatible receiver well perform electro-optical conversion processing on transmission video data obtained by using an HDR opto-electronic transfer characteristic. High dynamic range opto-electronic conversion is performed on high dynamic range video data to obtain the transmission video data. Encoding processing is performed on this transmission video data to obtain a video stream. A container of a predetermined format including this video stream is transmitted. Metadata information indicating a standard dynamic range opto-electronic transfer characteristic is inserted into a layer of the video stream, and metadata information indicating a high dynamic range opto-electronic transfer characteristic is inserted into at least one of the layer of the video stream and a layer of the container.
US10924180B2
Methods and systems for free space communication comprising one or more satellites that may provide a continuous communication link between two or more terminals are disclosed. A first satellite may be configured to send and/or receive data signals from a first terminal through a first link, and a second satellite may be configured to send and/or receive data from a second terminal through a second link. The first satellite and the second satellite may be coupled through a crosslink. The satellites and the terminals may be positioned at a minimum latitude threshold in order to take advantage of the decreasing circumference of the earth at increasing latitudes. The system and the method may comprise dividing the communication pathway between into a plurality of smaller segments, which when linked together approximate an optimal pathway for low latency and enable maintaining of higher bandwidth between the two terminals.
US10924177B2
Embodiments describe systems, apparatuses, and methods for transmitting/receiving signal data to/from a plurality of transceiver modules. Devices in accordance with some embodiments can include a plurality of wireless transceiver modules, each wireless transceiver module to be communicatively coupled to a corresponding external transceiver module, one or more antennas to exchange signal data with the plurality of external transceiver modules, a radio frequency (RF) circulator, and one or more amplifiers to amplify the signal data received by the one or more antennas and signal data to be transmitted by the one or more antennas. The use of the RF circulator prevents transmitting signals that may collide with each other and cause interference with the communications.
US10924174B2
A precoding matrix indication method relating to the field of wireless communications technologies, an apparatus, and a system that are in a wireless communications system are provided. A combination of a plurality of stages of codebooks and a corresponding PMI feedback method are further provided. User equipment receives indication information sent by a network device, where the indication information includes information about codebooks used to report precoding matrix indicators (PMI), the information about the codebooks indicates that the used codebooks are at least two of a first codebook to an Nth codebook, the PMIs include at least two of a first PMI to an Nth PMI, and the first PMI to the Nth PMI are respectively used to indicate a precoding matrix in the first codebook to a precoding matrix in the Nth codebook; and sends the PMIs based on the indication information.
US10924169B2
A base station antenna includes a first set of radiating elements that are configured to generate a first antenna beam that has a first peanut-shaped antenna pattern in an azimuth plane and a second set of radiating elements that are configured to generate a second antenna beam that has a second peanut-shaped antenna pattern in the azimuth plane. A longitudinal axis of the first peanut-shaped antenna pattern in the azimuth plane is rotated approximately ninety degrees from a longitudinal axis of the second peanut-shaped antenna pattern in the azimuth plane.
US10924131B1
An electronic device for compressing sampled data comprises a memory element and a processing element. The memory element is configured to store sampled data points and sampled times. The processing element is in electronic communication with the memory element and is configured to receive a plurality of sampled data points, a slope for each sampled data point in succession, the slope being a value of a change between the sampled data point and its successive sampled data point, and store the sampled data point in the memory element when the slope changes in value from a previous sampled data point.
US10924130B1
A real time digital trigger detection channel includes an event detector, a pulse former, a low pass filter, an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) and a Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) processor coupled in series. The event detector is responsive to an applied input signal and the presence of information requiring digital trigger generation. The pulse former generates a pre-determined, limited length, stable pulse signal which is applied to an anti-aliasing, pulse shaping low pass filter. The resultant shaped pulse signal is converted to a sequence of sample values by the ADC, which in turn are applied to the DFT processor, which in turn calculates a discrete Fourier transform of the output sequence of ADC samples, performing trigger position calculation based on values determined by the DFT processor.
US10924115B2
The present application provides a level shifter comprising a first P-type transistor; a second P-type transistor; a third P-type transistor, coupled to the second P-type transistor; a fourth P-type transistor, coupled to the first P-type transistor; a first N-type transistor, coupled to the third P-type transistor; a second N-type transistor, coupled to the fourth P-type transistor; a third N-type transistor, coupled to the first N-type transistor; a fourth N-type transistor, coupled to the second N-type transistor; and an inverter, coupled between the third N-type transistor and the fourth N-type transistor, wherein an input terminal of the inverter receives an input signal of the level shifter.
US10924113B2
A data storage device includes a controller and a memory. The controller includes a host interface and a memory interface. The controller receives inputs from the host, internal storage device inputs, device lifetime calculations, temperature readings and voltage readings. The controller then dynamically adjusts the frequency and voltage for the memory interface based upon the inputs received. As such, the memory interface operates are optimum conditions.
US10924106B2
Aspects of the present disclosure are directed toward designs and methods of improving driving of switching devices. One proposed solution to improving driving of switching devices is an auxiliary control circuit that selectively guides the switching device through at least one switching region, permitting an improved operation of the switching device.
US10924105B2
A waveform conversion circuit for converting a control signal of a control node ranging from a high voltage level to a low voltage level of a reference node into a driving signal of a first node is provided. The waveform conversion circuit includes a first resistor, a unidirectional conducting device, and a voltage clamp unit. The first resistor is coupled between the control node and the first node. The unidirectional conducting device unidirectionally discharges the first node to the control node. The voltage clamp unit is coupled between the first node and the reference node and is configured to clamp a driving signal.
US10924098B2
A sequential circuit with timing event detection is disclosed. The sequential circuit has an input that is asserted to the output during the second clock phase of a two phase clock signal. A timing event detector is coupled to the sequential element input to assert a timing event signal if a transition occurs at the sequential element input during the second clock phase but not to assert during the first clock phase.
US10924097B2
Examples described herein include command latency shifters which may include a plurality of registers arranged in a folded topology.
US10924095B1
Systems and techniques that facilitate multi-resonant couplers for preserving ZX interaction while reducing ZZ interaction are provided. In various embodiments, a first qubit can have a first operational frequency and a second qubit can have a second operational frequency, and a multi-resonant architecture can couple the first qubit to the second qubit. In various embodiments, the multi-resonant architecture can comprise a first resonator and a second resonator. In various cases, the first resonator can capacitively couple the first qubit to the second qubit, and a second resonator can capacitively couple the first qubit to the second qubit. In various aspects, the first resonator and the second resonator can be in parallel. In various instances, the first resonator can have a first resonant frequency less than the first operational frequency and the second operational frequency, and the second resonator can have a second resonant frequency greater than the first operational frequency and the second operational frequency. In various other embodiments, the multi-resonant architecture can comprise a resonator, a first end of which can be capacitively coupled to the first qubit and to the second qubit, and a second end of which can be coupled to ground. In various instances, the resonator can have a first harmonic less than the first operational frequency and the second operational frequency, and can have a second harmonic greater than the first operational frequency and the second operational frequency. In various other embodiments, the multi-resonant architecture can comprise a resonator and a direct coupler. In various embodiments, the resonator and the direct coupler can both capacitively couple the first qubit to the second qubit, and the resonator and the direct coupler can be in parallel. In various cases, the direct coupler can couple opposite pads of the first qubit and the second qubit. In various embodiments, a first end of the resonator can be capacitively coupled to the first qubit and the second qubit, a second end of the resonator can be coupled to ground, and the direct coupler can capacitively couple common pads of the first qubit and the second qubit.
US10924092B2
An improved ramp generator enables a very high degree of linearity in an output voltage ramp signal. Output ramps of the output voltage ramp signal are alternatingly produced from two preliminary ramp signals during alternating time periods. Preliminary ramps are produced at different preliminary ramp nodes that are alternatingly connected to an output node. The preliminary ramps continuously ramp during and in some cases beyond, e.g., before and/or after, the time periods. In some embodiments, switches alternatingly connect two capacitors to at least one current source, a reset voltage source, and the output node to alternatingly produce the preliminary ramps.
US10924087B2
A method for adaptive signal processing is provided. In the method, a second vector is obtained by initializing a first vector without regularization of a cost function. The cost function is regularized with the first vector and the second vector as variables. The first vector is updated based on an input signal, according to the regularized cost function. Then, an output signal is provided based on the updated first vector. The second vector is updated based on the update of the first vector. An apparatus for adaptive signal processing is provided accordingly. The method and the apparatus are well compatible with existing adaptive signal processing. The convergence coefficients of the adaptive filter system become more stable. Moreover, impact of an extra penalty added to the cost function on a bias can be minimized, and the increased complexity of the system is very limited.
US10924084B2
An acoustic wave device includes an antenna terminal, a signal terminal, and a plurality of resonators that are provided on a piezoelectric substrate. The plurality of resonators include a plurality of series arm resonators on a series arm, and the duty of an IDT electrode of the series arm resonator closest to the antenna terminal among the plurality of series arm resonators is smaller than the duty of an IDT electrode of at least one series arm resonator among the other series arm resonators.
US10924083B2
In a method of manufacturing a piezoelectric device in which a piezoelectric thin film on which functional conductors are formed is fixed to a support substrate by a fixing layer, an alignment mark is formed on one main surface of a light-transmitting piezoelectric substrate. A sacrificial layer is formed on a main surface of the piezoelectric substrate with reference to the alignment mark and the fixing layer is formed so as to cover the sacrificial layer and is bonded to the support substrate. The piezoelectric thin film is formed by being separated from the piezoelectric substrate and the functional conductors are formed on the surface of the piezoelectric thin film with reference to the alignment mark. The piezoelectric device is able to be manufactured while positions of formation regions of conductors are adjusted efficiently.
US10924073B2
A transmission/reception system 1 includes a transmission device 10 and a reception device 20 that is connected to each other through differential signal lines 30 and a signal line 40, and receives a differential signal that is sent out from the transmission device 10 using the reception device 20. The transmission device 10 includes a signal output unit 11, a request input unit 12, and a resistor 13. The signal output unit 11 sends out a differential signal from a pair of output terminals P111 and P112 that are connected to the differential signal lines 30. A common voltage of each of the pair of output terminals P111 and P112 is constant over a state where no electric power is supplied and an idle state.
US10924067B2
A power amplifier circuit includes an amplifier transistor, a bias circuit that supplies a bias current or voltage to the amplifier transistor, and a resistance element connected between a base of the amplifier transistor and the bias circuit. The bias circuit includes a voltage generation circuit, a first transistor having a base to which a first direct-current voltage is supplied and an emitter from which the bias current or voltage is supplied, a second transistor having a base to which a second direct-current voltage is supplied and an emitter connected to the emitter of the first transistor, a signal supply circuit that supplies an input signal to the base of the second transistor, and an impedance circuit disposed between the base of the first transistor and the base of the second transistor.
US10924066B2
An operational amplifier is disclosed. The operational amplifier activates/couples either a first or a second differential pair of transistors to an input based on the input voltage. The first and second pair of transistors are each biased with a current having a first portion that is constant with temperature and a second portion that is proportional to temperature. By adjusting the ratios of the first and second portions, the transconductance of each differential pair may be made relatively constant with temperature. Each differential pair is coupled to a trim current source that is adjusted to reduce the voltage offset at each output. The resulting voltage offset for the operational amplifier is relatively constant over a range of input voltages and has temperature coefficient unaffected by the trimming process.
US10924053B2
The invention relates to electric drive apparatuses used in different industries for different applications more particularly to a method for remote support of an electric drive apparatus. The method comprises: starting in a first apparatus a remote support tool application, said first apparatus having a connection with an at least one electric drive apparatus in a local site, forwarding by said first apparatus an indication of a configuration parameter data user interface of said first apparatus to a third apparatus in a remote site, and receiving by said first apparatus from said third apparatus at least one tagged version of a screen of the configuration parameter data user interface of said first apparatus.
US10924042B2
An apparatus including a pneumatic system; an energy harvesting unit configured to generate electrical energy from a compressed gas in the pneumatic system; a battery connected to the energy harvesting unit; a sensor disposed to detect a first parameter regarding operation of the energy harvesting unit; and a controller connected to the sensor and the energy harvesting unit. The sensor and the controller are powered by the energy harvesting unit. The controller is configured to control the energy harvesting unit and to process measurements for the first parameter detected by the sensor. The controller is further programmed with a learning system configured to diagnose an operational condition of the energy harvesting unit based on the measurements for the first parameter, and to issue a command to the controller based on the operational condition.
US10924038B2
A capacitive actuator motor according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a capacitive actuator having six actuator units and a motor output cam having a periodic shape portion. Each of the six actuator units includes a buckling displacement expansion mechanism configured to convert an output of a piezoelectric element and urge an output joint in a predetermined output direction and a preload adjustment spring configured to urge an output joint with a certain characteristic in a direction in which the periodic shape portion and the output joint come into contact with each other.
US10924035B2
A power conversion device includes a power converter connected to an electrical storage device that stores DC power, and having a function to convert the DC power stored in the electrical storage device into AC power, and also having a function to output the AC power to one or both of a customer load and a power system; a detection unit that detects voltage and current at a first point on a power line that connects the power converter with the power system; and a control unit that generates a drive command for controlling the power converter based on the voltage and the current detected by the detection unit. The customer load is connected to a second point, on the power line, between the power converter and the first point. The power converter operates on the basis of the drive command generated by the control unit.
US10924032B2
A method operates an inverter, wherein the inverter includes a number of bridge arms with respective bridge terminals, wherein a respective bridge arm is electrically connected on a first side to a first intermediate circuit pole of the inverter, and wherein a respective bridge arm is electrically connected on a second side to a second intermediate circuit pole of the inverter. A respective bridge arm has at least two switching elements, wherein a respective bridge terminal, depending upon a circuit state of the switching elements in the bridge arm, is electrically connected either to the first intermediate circuit pole or to the second intermediate circuit pole. A shunt resistor is arranged in a respective bridge arm. The method actuates the respective switching elements of the bridge arms via pulse width modulation with a temporally variable pulse duty factor, such that voltages between the bridge terminals show a temporally defined characteristic. The respective switching elements of the bridge arms are actuated with flat-top modulation for specific angular ranges of a respective fundamental wave, and a respective pulse duty factor for the switching elements of the bridge arms, immediately ahead of and/or immediately after the angular ranges, varies within a predefined time interval in an angularly-independent manner.
US10924027B2
The switching power supply device is provided with: a plurality of power supply circuits corresponding to phases of a multi-phase AC power supply; a switching circuit that is capable of switching a phase connected to a power supply circuit not corresponding to one discretionary phase of the multi-phase AC power supply between the one discretionary phase and a phase to which the power supply circuit corresponds; an inrush current prevention circuit for preventing inrush current that is provided on a negative-electrode-side power supply line of the multi-phase AC power supply and at a position further toward the multi-phase AC power supply than is a connection point to which each of the plurality of power supply circuits are connected; and a filter circuit that is provided between the multi-phase AC power supply and the inrush current prevention circuit and has all lines of the plurality of phases magnetically coupled thereto.
US10924026B2
For a power supply with a reduced number of semiconductor devices, a transformer receives a three-phase primary voltage and steps the three-phase primary voltage up or down to a secondary voltage with a plurality of secondary winding sets to a plurality of first phase voltages, a plurality of second phase voltages, and a plurality of third phase voltages. A plurality of power cell sets each include a plurality of power cells cascaded connected. Each power cell comprises a rectifier and an inverter. The rectifier includes two first active switches that are serially connected and receive a phase voltage at a first switch midpoint, two second active switches that are serially connected and receive another phase voltage at a second switch midpoint, and two capacitors that are serially connected and receive another phase voltage at a capacitor midpoint between the capacitors.
US10924013B1
A voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) generates a clock signal in response to an input feedback signal by applying tuning to a control loop error signal related to the input feedback signal and generating the clock signal using a voltage ramp signal that is ground referenced. The VCO includes an input tuning circuit applying tuning to a difference signal to generate a tuned voltage signal, a comparator to compare the tuned voltage signal to the ground-based ramp signal, an one-shot circuit to generate an one-shot signal pulse in response to the ramp signal increasing to the tuned voltage signal. The one-shot signal pulse is the clock signal and is also used to reset the ramp signal. In some embodiments, the voltage-controlled oscillator of the present disclosure is incorporated in a current mode hysteretic modulator.
US10924006B1
A power converter includes a switched-capacitor circuit that forms different capacitor networks out of a set of capacitors. It does so in a way that avoids losses that can arise when capacitors are connected together.
US10923994B2
The invention relates to a method for producing lamellae for a lamellae package, wherein the lamellae are punched from a metal strip by at least one punching die. At least one part of the contour of the lamella is produced by stream cutting. The method is carried out such that the lamella is still held in the metal strip. The lamella is punched out of the metal strip by the punching die. The stream cutting results in clean cutting edges, which do not require reworking of the lamella. The device for carrying out the method according to the invention has a stream cutting unit upstream of the punching press which has at least one stream cutting head. A wide variety of lamella contours can be cut out of the metal strip with high accuracy using said stream cutting unit.
US10923991B2
A temperature sensor assembly for an electric machine includes an elongated housing including an anchor portion, a temperature sensor disposed in the anchor portion, and a retention body extending from the elongated housing opposite the anchor portion and including spaced apart retention arms. The temperature sensor assembly further includes a wire guide extending from the retention body and extending along a retention arm away from the elongated housing, and a lead wire extending from the temperature sensor and through the wire guide.
US10923990B2
In accordance with one aspect of the present disclosure, an external unit used by being mounted on a bottom part of a motor body having at least two motor terminals has a holder, a PTC thermistor arranged on the holder, a first terminal connected to the PTC thermistor, a part of the first terminal exposed to an outside of the holder, and a second terminal electrically connected to the first terminal through the PTC thermistor and electrically connected to one of the motor terminals. The PTC thermistor is flat-plate shaped, and a surface of the PTC thermistor is directed toward a rotary shaft direction of the motor.
US10923982B2
An electric compressor motor housing is provided with: a motor housing main body (8), the interior of which is a cylindrical space for internally equipping a motor, and in which a plurality of refrigerant passages are formed around the cylindrical space, in the direction of the motor axis; an inverter accommodating portion (17) provided in an upper portion of the outer periphery of the motor housing main body (8); compressor attachment feet (19) provided in a plurality of locations in upper and lower portions of the outer periphery of the motor housing main body (8); and a refrigerant intake port (16) provided on a side surface toward the rear end of the motor housing main body (8); wherein one or more lines of ribs (24) are provided on the outer peripheral side surface of the motor housing main body (8), protruding outward and extending in the vertical direction.
US10923969B2
Systems, methods and motor-generators with preform windings and a molded core are described. The preform windings include a first end, a second end, and a plurality of in-slot portions extending from the first end to the second end. The molded core includes a plurality of slots. Each of the plurality of slots including a respective in-slot portion disposed therein. Each of the plurality of slots includes a wall conforming to an outer profile of the respective in-slot portion.
US10923960B1
A resonant frequency power generator is disclosed. Specific implementations include a base, a magnet suspended within the base through one or more flexible connectors, and a coil disposed around the magnet. The magnet and one or more flexible connectors may be configured to vibrate at a resonant frequency emitted by a speaker, and the vibration of the magnet may generate electrical power with the coil.
US10923943B2
A battery powered device includes a battery pack, at least one switch, a power management chip, and a pre-powered circuit. The pre-powered circuit comprises a buck and current-limiting module. The buck and current-limiting module comprises at least one zener diode and at least one current-limiting resistor. When the switch is turned off, the battery pack will be powered to a system device by the pre-powered circuit. Thus, the battery pack can be powered to the system device by the pre-powered circuit even if the battery powered device is operated in a standby mode. Besides, the power management chip can be operated in the standby state when the battery powered device is powered by the pre-powered circuit, so as to reduce the consumption of the battery energy and therefore extend the powered time of the battery powered device.
US10923941B2
Systems and methods for universal serial bus (USB) power delivery with multiple charging ports or connectors to charge multiple electronic devices. The systems include a power supply having converter(s) that converts an input voltage to different output voltages and outputs; charging ports electrically coupled to the power supply outputs; and a controller electrically coupled to the power supply and the charging ports or connectors. Each of the charging ports is configured to connect to and provide an output voltage selected from the different output voltages to an electronic device. The controller communicates or publishes information regarding the different output voltage levels that can be provided by the power supply to the electronic devices; receives voltage levels selected by the electronic devices via the charging ports; and controls the power supply to provide the selected voltages to the first and second device, respectively.
US10923923B2
A battery pack includes an arrangement of battery cells organized in battery groups connected in series, with each group having one or more battery units connected in parallel, and each battery unit comprising one or more series-connected battery cells connected to a battery switch. Charging of the battery pack uses pulse charging. The charging pulses provided to the battery units can be determined based on one or more measured characteristics of battery cells comprising the battery unit so that charging of the battery units can be optimized according to those characteristics. The charging pulses provided to each battery group are timed so that there is an uninterrupted flow of charging current through all the battery groups at all times.
US10923906B2
A fault switch configuration and clearing method in a flexible DC converter station, the flexible DC converter station is configured with a grid side switch and a valve side phase-split switch in the converter station. When a fault occurs, a faulty phase and a non-faulty phase are detected and identified by means of differential protection or low voltage overcurrent. An alternating current zero crossing condition is created by means of firstly turn off the non-faulty phase valve side phase-split switch and the grid side switch, thereby cutting off the faulty phase, disconnecting the connection between a power supply and a fault point, and achieving the clearing for faults. The described fault-clearing method is simple and practical, highly reliable, and connection between the fault point and the power supply is quickly and effectively cut; converter station equipment is effectively protected, and further expansion of the fault is avoided.
US10923902B2
The invention relates to a fuse system for at least one load of a vehicle, the fuse system having a fuse apparatus that has at least one electronic fuse for the at least one load and an evaluation and control circuit that evaluates a load current through the at least one electronic fuse and compares the load current with at least one prescribed disconnection criterion of a first parameter set, wherein the evaluation and control circuit initiates a trip process that trips the at least one electronic fuse and disconnects the load current to the corresponding load if the at least one prescribed disconnection criterion is satisfied.
US10923900B2
An electronic protection device for a LV electric line, the protection device being provided with a control unit comprising a controller including digital data processing resources clocked by a first clock source adapted to provide a first flock signal with a first nominal clock frequency. The control unit comprises a clock testing arrangement adapted to check whether the first clock source is properly operating.
US10923899B2
A ground fault protection system is provided. A ground fault protection device includes a current transformer module, a detection coil module and a ground fault circuit interrupter, wherein the current transformer module includes a current transformer, the detection coil module includes a detection coil, a hot and neutral penetrate through the current transformer and the detection coil, the current transformer module outputs a mutual inductance current, when the current transformer and the detection coil form mutual inductance and form a current path with the ground fault circuit interrupter, the ground fault circuit interrupter outputs a disconnection control signal to disconnect connection of the hot and neutral with a load based on the mutual inductance current, and a detection circuit includes a signal generation module which outputs a test signal including at least one pulse signal in one cycle of an AC signal.
US10923898B2
An overvoltage protection circuit is for a power supply including a power converter, the overvoltage protection circuit having a comparator. The overvoltage protection circuit uses the comparator for comparing the power supply voltage with the reference voltage, and for producing a power supply shutdown signal on the shutdown output terminal when the power supply voltage exceeds the maximal power supply voltage, and for latching said power supply shutdown signal on the shutdown output terminal even if the power supply voltage subsequently drops to a level below the maximal power supply voltage. The overvoltage protection circuit has a reset circuit coupled to the first input of the comparator. The reset circuit is configured for pulling the signal level on the first input below said reference value such that the power supply shutdown signal is reset when a reset signal is given to the reset circuit.
US10923894B1
A push-in electrical connector for connecting one or more electrical cables at a knockout of an electrical junction box or panel. The electrical connector includes a substantially tubular connector body with a sidewall, a flange, an inner body portion extending from the flange to an inner end, and an outer body portion extending from the flange to an outer end. The inner body portion includes two flexible gripper jaws and an inner seat. The outer body portion includes two compressible arms and an outer seat. The electrical connector body may include a dividing wall for maintaining separation between electrical cables. The gripper jaws and compressible arms enable secure attachment of one or more cables to an electrical panel or box.
US10923893B2
A tubing structure includes a first unit, a second unit movably connected to the first unit, and a controller. The first unit includes a first body and at least one first magnetic component disposed inside the first body. The second unit includes a second body movably engaging with the first body and at least one second magnetic component disposed inside the second body and located at a position corresponding to the at least one first magnetic component. The controller is electrically connected to at least one of the at least one first magnetic component and the at least one second magnetic component. The controller selectively controls the at least one first magnetic component and the at least one second magnetic component to magnetically attract or repulse each other to drive the second body to move relative to the first body for inclining the second unit relative to the first unit.
US10923886B2
A spark plug includes: a central electrode extending from a front end side to a rear end side along an axis; an insulator including a front end section formed to be a bottomed tube surrounding a tip of the central electrode; a metal shell shaped to be tubular and structured to support the insulator such that the front end section of the insulator projects to the front end side from a front end section of the metal shell; and a plurality of ground electrodes each of which includes a first end forming a discharge gap with the front end section of the insulator and includes a second end connected to the front end section of the metal shell. The plurality of ground electrodes include a pair of ground electrodes different from each other in size of their discharge gaps.
US10923881B2
A monolithic integrated semiconductor random laser comprising substrate, lower confinement layer on the substrate, active layer on the lower confinement layer, upper confinement layer on the active layer, strip-shaped waveguide layer longitudinally made in middle of the upper confinement layer, P+ electrode layer divided into two segments and made on the waveguide layer and N+ electrode layer on a back face of the lower confinement layer, wherein the two segments correspond respectively to gain region and random feedback region. The random feedback region uses a doped waveguide to randomly feedback light emitted by the gain region and then generates random laser which is random in frequency and intensity. Further, the semiconductor laser is light, small, stable in performance and strong in integration.
US10923873B2
A laser processing apparatus includes: a chuck table that holds a workpiece; a laser beam applying unit that applies a pulsed laser beam having a predetermined line width to the workpiece held by the chuck table; and a processing feeding unit that performs relative processing feeding of the chuck table and the laser beam applying unit. The laser beam applying unit includes: a laser oscillator that oscillates the pulsed laser beam; a focusing device that focuses the pulsed laser beam oscillated by the laser oscillator; and a pulse width adjustment unit that is disposed between the laser oscillator and the focusing device and that generates a time difference in a wavelength region of the pulsed laser beam in the predetermined line width, thereby adjusting the pulse width.
US10923870B2
The care unit according the present disclosure includes a care apparatus that includes a storage battery and a charging stand that is electrically connected to the care apparatus, and the care unit includes a first terminal, a second terminal, a third terminal, a fourth terminal, a first cover, a second cover, a third cover, and a fourth cover. When the care apparatus is held in a predetermined position of the charging stand, the third cover is not in contact with the first cover in a radial direction orthogonal to an insertion direction of the first cover, and the fourth cover is not in contact with the second cover in a radial direction orthogonal to an insertion direction of the second cover.
US10923868B2
The low voltage power distribution bus system for a plurality of connected modules includes an intelligently managed power load. The system maintains a marginal reserve of power while monitoring the amount used of the total power. When a new module is connected, a base power setting for the new module is retrieved. The system calculates available power and compares the base power setting. If the available power is exceeded, the system redistributes a maximum allowed power of each connected module and assigns the new module an allowed maximum power. The allowed maximum power is the base power setting if the available power exceeds the base power setting of the new module and a fraction of the base power setting if the base power setting of the new module exceeds the available power.
US10923867B2
A plug assembly for a vehicle-trailer wiring connector assembly includes a plug housing, six connector cavities, and a first and second electrical connectors. The plug housing is positionable in a receptacle assembly. The six connector cavities are defined in and radially disposed around a connecting face of the plug housing in compliance with the Society of Automotive Engineers J2863 standard. The first electrical connector is positioned with respect to a first connector cavity of the cavities. A first contact surface of the first electrical connector is contactable within the first connector cavity. The second electrical connector is positioned with respect to the plug housing. A second contact surface of the second electrical connector is substantially aligned with an outer surface of the plug housing and externally contactable. The second electrical connector is positioned relative to the first electrical connector such that the second electrical connector is electrically insulated therefrom.
US10923866B2
A connection terminal includes: a tubular electric wire connection portion configured to be tightened and crimped to an end portion of an electric wire; a tubular intermediate portion which includes one end continuously formed at one open end of the electric wire connection portion and which has a cross-sectional shape larger than a cross-sectional shape of the electric wire connection portion; and a tubular terminal connection portion which is continuously formed at another end of the intermediate portion and which has a cross-sectional shape larger than the cross-sectional shape of the intermediate portion. The connection terminal further includes a terminal contact portion which protrudes inwardly from the terminal connection portion. A pair of terminals each formed in this manner and having basically the same shape may be joined to a pair of wires and connected to each other.
US10923863B2
A high voltage connector, connected to a device, that experiences a reduced electromagnetic interference (EMI), avoids galvanic corrosion of dissimilar metals within or without a fluid environment, and provides an effective electrical ground system. The connector includes an outer housing assembly, an inner housing mounted inside the outer housing, a set of cable reinforcement retainer assemblies secured inside the inner housing, a back cover through which the cables respectively slide along and covers a central opening of the outer housing, a braided shield covering the cables, and a clamp that connects the shield onto the outer housing. When assembling the high voltage connector, the outer housing is mounted onto the device; the inner housing is secured inside the outer housing; the set of cable reinforcement retainer assemblies with associated cables is secured in and extends in a substantially vertical direction from the inner housing; a back cover is slid along the cables, and enters and covers a central opening of the outer housing; and a braided shield is mounted and connected to the outer housing by a clamp.
US10923862B2
A connector includes a shell configured to protect the connector and to be plugged into a connecting port slot, a plurality of terminals electrically connected to the connecting port slot, a connecting portion connected to an electronic device, a circuit board, and a cover. The circuit board includes a first contact portion electrically connected to the plurality of terminals, and a second contact portion, electrically connected to the connecting portion. The cover is fixed to the shell. The shell is arranged between the circuit board and the shell to fix the circuit board in the shell.
US10923860B2
A connector assembly for connecting to a device which, when in operation, experiences reduced or suppressed EMI. The EMI flow path, generated by, e.g., at least a battery cable assembly or the like, housed within at least a male connector assembly or a female connector assembly, is conducted through at least an electrically conductive housing and an electrically conductive seal.
US10923856B2
A receptacle connector assembly includes a receptacle cage having first and second side walls extending from a top wall to form a module channel configured to receive a pluggable module. The top wall is non-planar and has a shroud extending therefrom forming a cage polarization feature. The shroud has a first shroud side wall, a second shroud side wall and a shroud top wall forming a polarization feature channel configured to receive a polarization feature of the pluggable module.
US10923854B2
A connector body includes mating guide parts formed on each longitudinal end and mating with counterpart mating guide parts formed on both longitudinal ends of a counterpart connector body of a counterpart connector. Each reinforcing bracket includes a pair of left/right slide guides disposed on the mating guide parts and being engageable with a pair of left/right slide engagement parts of a counterpart reinforcing bracket mounted to a counterpart mating guide part. One reinforcing bracket further includes a receiving member capable of emerging/submerging. When the counterpart mating guide part is mated with the mating guide part, the receiving member submerges. When the slide engagement part engages with the slide guide and the counterpart mating guide part slides on the mating guide part, the receiving member emerges and latches the counterpart mating guide part.
US10923850B2
Device for securing an object on a rail, having an elongated base body which may be placed transversely on the rail and which at one end comprises an integrated actuating element which, when actuated by a user, moves opposing latching hooks which are integrated in the actuating element and are suitable for engaging behind the rail, in opposite directions.
US10923849B2
A connector includes a housing including an accommodation passage and a retainer insertion space, and a retainer including an insertion wall extending along the connector mating direction and a locking claw protruding from a rear portion thereof toward an accommodation passage direction. In the housing, a locking protrusion is provided at a rear portion of the retainer insertion space. When the retainer is inserted into the retainer insertion space from a connector mating front side, the locking claw gets over the locking protrusion to be engaged therewith, and thus a pre-locked position at which detachment of the retainer to the front side is prevented is obtained. When the retainer is moved in a widthwise direction, a full-locked position at which the locking claw engages with a step in the rear portion of the connector terminal, and detachment of the connector terminal toward the rear side is prevented is obtained.
US10923847B2
A male terminal position assurance (TPA) device for a male connector assembly, preferably for a high voltage connector assembly. The male TPA has a substantially wing-like shaped upper member that respectively locks terminals inside a male inner housing, and further has a flexible arm member, in a lower member thereof, that locks the male TPA device in the male inner housing. The male TPA device does not lock inside the male inner housing if it detects that the corresponding terminal has not been fully inserted or installed into the male inner housing. The male inner housing includes a primarily lock for locking the terminal, while the male TPA device, when in full-lock position, provides for a secondary lock for locking the terminal inside the inner housing. When in the full-lock position inside the male inner housing, the male TPA device assures that the necessary retention forces are provided to ensure that the terminal remains fully locked within the male connector assembly.
US10923834B1
An intermediate product for crimping includes an electrical conductor extending along a longitudinal axis. The electrical conductor has a shielding braid and an insulation at least partially enclosing the shielding braid. The electrical conductor has a radially compressed core in a region along the longitudinal axis.
US10923826B2
A double helical coil antenna includes a low frequency helical coil configured to operate in axial mode emitting a beam of radio waves with circular polarization in a preselected direction, wherein one end of the low frequency helical coil terminating on a ground plate. It further includes a higher frequency helical coil configured to operate in axial mode emitting a beam of radio waves with circular polarization in a preselected direction, wherein the higher frequency helical coil concentrically mounted within the low frequency helical coil and with one end terminating onto the same ground plate, wherein the higher frequency helical coil selected to have opposite polarization to the low frequency coil. Preferably the antenna further includes a beam reflector cup mounted onto the ground plate having a cup bottom and a cup wall wherein the diameter is dimensioned to fit in between the low frequency helical coil and the higher frequency helical coil thereby increasing the gain of the higher frequency helical coil.
US10923825B2
A spiral antenna, comprising a first arm and a second arm. The first arm and second arm are interlaced with each other. Each arm has a plurality of turns comprising an inner subset of circular turns, and an outer subset of turns, electrically coupled to the inner subset, having a shape with only four lines of symmetry. An array of such spiral antennas disposed a substrate that extends in a direction of a longitudinal axis and having a round cross section in a plan transverse to the longitudinal axis.
US10923819B2
An antenna system is provided. The antenna system includes a first metal radiator, a second metal radiator, a first matching network, a second matching network, a first radio frequency path, and a second radio frequency path, wherein a tail end of the first metal radiator is connected with a first feed point of the antenna system and the first feed point is connected with the first radio frequency path through the first matching network; and a tail end of the second metal radiator is connected with a second feed point of the antenna system and the second feed point is connected with the second radio frequency path through the second matching network. A terminal including the antenna system is also provided.
US10923817B2
An antenna system and a mobile terminal are provided. The antenna system includes a front frame rib connecting a system ground with a first short-axis frame, a slit provided on a first long-axis frame, a radio frequency front end area provided in system ground, and first and second frame-joint points each connecting radio frequency front end area with a metal frame. The first and second frame-joint points are located between front frame rib and slit. The radio frequency front end area includes a feeding point, a matching circuit, an impedance tuning circuit and a switching circuit. The impedance tuning circuit and the switching circuit are adjusted to switch an operating state of antenna system in such a manner that the antenna system operates in different frequency bands. The antenna system includes one operating state in which the antenna system operates in a frequency band ranging from 1710 MHz to 2700 MHz.
US10923812B1
A telecommunications network comprises multiple nodes linked by line-of-sight (LOS) signals. Directional antennas are located outside concealment screens to avoid attenuation through multiple screening layers. Directional LOS aiming between nodes is accomplished by fully rotable radomes within which multiple antennas are contained or by rotation of gimbaled antennas within the radomes. Network architecture is configured for both azimuthal and elevational LOS antenna aiming, with redundancy to re-route around disabled nodes.
US10923782B2
A heat exchanger for use with at least two battery modules, each of the battery modules comprising at least one battery cell housed within a rigid container, the heat exchanger defining an internal fluid passage for a heat exchanger fluid and having at least one compliant region that is configured to be compressed to facilitate thermal contact between the heat exchanger and the two battery modules.
US10923781B2
A recovering device includes a charging chamber configured to overcharge a nickel-metal hydride battery. The charging chamber is provided with: a first water bath; a fixing device configured to fix the nickel-metal hydride battery with a portion of a container of the nickel-metal hydride battery being immersed in the water coolant in the first water bath; a pump; a dial gauge configured to detect a deformation amount of the container of the nickel-metal hydride battery; and a collection container configured to collect the gas exhausted from the exhaust valve of the nickel-metal hydride battery and exhaust the gas to outside the recovering device. The recovering device further includes a controller configured to perform the overcharging process for the nickel-metal hydride battery. The controller is configured to halt the overcharging process when the deformation amount of the container exceeds a threshold value.
US10923773B2
A contact unit for electrically contacting an electronic segment of an electronic module is provided. The contact unit generally includes a flexible substrate with a contact side. The contact side includes a module connector and a segment connector. The module connector includes a first unit terminal connected to a second unit terminal by a terminal conductor extending along a longitudinal axis thereof. The segment connector includes a first contact connected to the terminal conductor by a first contact conductor and a first fold of the flexible substrate.
US10923769B2
Provided is an electrolytic solution for a non-aqueous secondary battery containing an electrolyte, an organic solvent, and a compound represented by any of General Formulae (I) to (III) and a non-aqueous secondary battery in which the electrolytic solution for a non-aqueous secondary battery is used. In the formulae, M represents a transition metal. R1, R2, and R3 represent a specific substituent. a represents an integer of 0 to 5. b represents an integer of 0 or more. c represents an integer of 0 to 5. Ar1 represents an aromatic ring. In General Formula (II), a plurality of Ar1's may be linked together. Ar2 represents a nitrogen-containing aromatic hetero ring.
US10923767B2
An organic electrolyte solution and a lithium battery, the organic electrolyte solution including an organic solvent; a lithium salt; a first compound, the first compound being represented by Formula 1 or Formula 2; and a second compound, the second compound being a succinonitrile-based compound represented by Formula 3:
US10923760B2
Provided herein is an electrode assembly of lithium-ion battery, comprising at least one anode, at least one cathode and at least one separator interposed between the at least one anode and at least one cathode, wherein the water content of the electrode assembly is less than 20 ppm by weight, based on the total weight of the electrode assembly.
US10923757B2
A fuel cell module includes a plurality of fuel cell stacks; a manifold configured to provide process gases to and receive process gases from the plurality of fuel cell stacks; and a module housing enclosing the plurality of fuel cell stacks and the manifold. Each of the plurality of fuel cell stacks is individually installable onto the manifold by lowering the fuel cell stack onto the manifold, and is individually removable from the manifold by raising the fuel cell stack from the manifold.
US10923750B2
An illustrative example fuel cell power plant includes a cell stack assembly, a single stage convertor configured to couple the cell stack assembly to a power network, and a controller that is configured to determine whether the fuel cell power plant has a DC voltage brownout condition during an islanded mode of operation. The controller dynamically adjusts the frequency droop gain of the power plant using an offset while satisfying at least three criteria of a set of criteria consisting of (i) avoiding overloading other fuel cell power plants of the power network, (ii) avoiding exceeding a maximum load step-up capability of the power network, (iii) avoiding exceeding a maximum load step-up capability of the fuel cell power plant, (iv) maintaining a system frequency within an acceptable frequency range, and (v) avoiding repeating the DC voltage brownout condition.
US10923749B2
The disclosure relates to a method for operating a fuel cell that comprises at least one individual cell with a membrane and catalysts, wherein humidity within the fuel cell is actively influenced as a function of a voltage of the fuel cell, and the method further includes specifying an initial humidity at an initial operating-point-related voltage, and specifying a second humidity that is lower than the first humidity at a second operating-point-related voltage that is higher than the first operating-point-related voltage. Furthermore, the disclosure relates to a fuel cell system that is configured to perform the method according to the disclosure.
US10923745B2
A fuel cell system has a gas delivery-means that circulates the anode exhaust gas back to the anode compartment of the fuel cell for further reaction.
US10923742B2
A fuel cell includes a pair of separators for clamping a laminate including a membrane electrode assembly, an anode gas diffusion layer, and a cathode gas diffusion layer, and a frame formed from thermosetting resin and disposed between the separators to surround a periphery of the laminate. At least one of the anode and the cathode gas diffusion layers is formed from a composite of thermoplastic resin and conductive particles, and includes a protrusion protruding beyond a level of a surface of the frame which faces one of the separators in a state that the laminate is not clamped between the separators under a predetermined pressure. The one of the separators presses the protrusion and gets the one of the gas diffusion layers to be deformed and put into contact with the frame in a state that the laminate is clamped between the separators under the predetermined pressure.
US10923738B2
A coolant injection controller for a fuel cell system, the coolant injection controller configured to actively control the flow of a coolant to a fuel cell assembly for cooling and/or hydrating the fuel cell assembly in response to a measure of fuel cell assembly performance, wherein the coolant injection controller is configured to provide for a first mode of operation if the measure of fuel cell assembly performance is below a predetermined threshold and a second mode of operation if the measure of fuel cell assembly performance is above the predetermined threshold, the first and second modes having different coolant injection profiles and wherein, in the first mode of operation, the coolant injection profile provides for control of the flow of coolant by alternating between at least two different injection flow rates.
US10923735B1
A method of making a fuel cell stack includes applying an electrically conductive, compliant contact print ink containing an electrically conductive material, a plasticizer, a solvent, and a binder to at least one of a surface of an electrode of a fuel cell or a surface of an interconnect, and placing the fuel cell and the interconnect in the fuel cell stack such that the compliant contact print ink is located between the electrode of the fuel cell and the interconnect.
US10923733B2
The present disclosure relates to a nanocatalyst for an anode of a solid oxide fuel cell and a method for preparing the same. More particularly, the present disclosure relates to a nanocatalyst for an anode of a solid oxide fuel cell obtained by forming a ceramic nanocatalyst including a noble metal dispersed therein in an atomic unit and contained in an ionic state having an oxidation number other than 0 through an in situ infiltration process in the internal pores of a porous electrode, and to application of the nanocatalyst to a solid oxide fuel cell having significantly higher electrochemical characteristics as compared to the solid oxide fuel cells including the conventional nickel-based anode and oxide anode, and particularly showing excellent characteristics at an intermediate or low temperature of 600° C. or less.
US10923732B2
A method for producing a roll-type gas diffusion layer is disclosed. The method includes preparing a carbon paper from carbon fiber chops having a low modulus of 10 to 100 Gpa; impregnating the prepared carbon paper with a phenol resin, and then carbonizing the resin-impregnated carbon paper at 1,800 to 2,400° C.; forming a microporous polytetrafluoroethylene resin layer on one side of the carbonized carbon paper, to prepare a gas diffusion layer sheet; and winding the prepared gas diffusion layer sheet on a roll. Since the roll of gas diffusion layer is formed using the carbon fiber chops having a low modulus, the gas diffusion layer exhibits excellent and uniform spreading properties. Therefore, sealing between the gas diffusion layer and the fuel cell separation plate is reliably secured without using a separate binder.
US10923727B2
A battery with anti-corrosion protection is provided. The battery can include an electrolyte and a current collector. The electrolyte may be formed from one or more reactive salts capable of corroding the current collector. As such, the current collector may be interposed between a first anti-corrosion layer and a second anti-corrosion layer. The first anti-corrosion layer and/or the second anti-corrosion layer can be configured to prevent the current collector from being corroded by the reactive salts included in the electrolyte by preventing contact between the current collector and the electrolyte. Related methods for corrosion prevention are also provided.
US10923720B2
A graphene-enabled hybrid particulate for use as a cathode active material of an alkali metal-selenium battery, wherein the hybrid particulate is composed of a single or a plurality of graphene sheets and one or a plurality of fine selenium particles or coatings, having a diameter or thickness from 0.5 nm to 10 μm, and the graphene sheets and the selenium particles or coatings are mutually bonded or agglomerated into a hybrid particulate containing an exterior graphene sheet or multiple exterior graphene sheets embracing the selenium particles or coatings, and wherein the hybrid particulate has an electrical conductivity no less than 10−4 S/cm and the graphene amount is from 0.01% to 30% by weight based on the total weight of graphene and selenium combined. Typically and desirably, the hybrid particulate is substantially spherical or ellipsoidal in shape.
US10923712B2
Improved anodes and cells are provided, which enable fast charging rates with enhanced safety due to much reduced probability of metallization of lithium on the anode, preventing dendrite growth and related risks of fire or explosion. Anodes and/or electrolytes have buffering zones for partly reducing and gradually introducing lithium ions into the anode for lithiation, to prevent lithium ion accumulation at the anode electrolyte interface and consequent metallization and dendrite growth. Various anode active materials and combinations, modifications through nanoparticles and a range of coatings which implement the improved anodes are provided.
US10923711B2
A lithium secondary battery comprises an electrode group and a nonaqueous electrolyte having lithium-ion conductivity. A negative electrode current collector has a first surface facing outward of winding of the electrode group and a second surface facing inward of the winding of the electrode group. At least the first surface or the second surface includes a first region and a second region that is closer to an innermost circumference of the winding of the electrode group than the first region. Protrusions include outer-circumference-side protrusions disposed on the first region and inner-circumference-side protrusions disposed on the second region. In at least the first surface or the second surface, a first area rate is smaller than a second area rate.
US10923710B2
The present invention relates to an electrode material for an electrochemical energy accumulator, in particular for a lithium-ion cell, comprising particles (10, 10′, 10″) of an active material (12) which can be lithiated, wherein the particles (10, 10′, 10″) are partially coated with a lithium-ion-conducting solid electrolyte (14), the solid electrolyte layer (14) having recesses (16).
US10923709B2
The disclosure describes an exemplary binding layer formed on Aluminum (Al) substrate that binds the substrate with a coated material. Additionally, an extended form of the binding layer is described. By making a solution containing Al-transition metal elements-P—O, the solution can be used in slurry making (the slurry contains active materials) in certain embodiments. The slurry can be coated on Al substrate followed by heat treatment to form a novel electrode. Alternatively, in certain embodiments, the solution containing Al-transition metal elements-P—O can be mixed with active material powder, after heat treatment, to form new powder particles bound by the binder.
US10923706B2
In manufacturing a storage battery electrode, a method for manufacturing a storage battery electrode with high capacity and stability is provided. As a method for preventing a mixture for forming an active material layer from becoming strongly basic, a first aqueous solution is formed by mixing an active material exhibiting basicity with an aqueous solution exhibiting acidity and including an oxidized derivative of a first conductive additive; a first mixture is formed by reducing the oxidized derivative of the first conductive additive by drying the first aqueous solution; a second mixture is formed by mixing a second conductive additive and a binder; a third mixture is formed by mixing the first mixture and the second mixture; and a current collector is coated with the third mixture. The strong basicity of the mixture for forming an active material layer is lowered; thus, the binder can be prevented from becoming gelled.
US10923701B2
A sensing block having a block body and a first connecting member of conductive material. The block body includes a terminal seat section and a cell lead coupling section provided on one or both sides of the terminal seat section. The first connecting member is positioned to correspond to the terminal seat section.
US10923695B2
A battery pack includes a housing accommodating a battery cell and having a throughhole; and a pressure equalization device coupled to the throughhole and equalizing internal and external pressures of the housing, wherein the pressure equalization device includes a first pressure equalization member configured to equalize the internal and external pressures of the housing when a variation in the internal pressure of the housing is smaller than a reference pressure variation; and a second pressure equalization member configured to equalize the internal and external pressures of the housing when the variation in the internal pressure of the housing is greater than the reference pressure variation.
US10923694B1
A protective metal enclosure box for lithium batteries that includes batteries subject to fire and explosion comprising a rigid metal covered box that includes an aluminum honeycomb grid core mesh that can receive multiple individual batteries spaced apart from each other and protected from each other thermally and from explosion. The protective battery pack box includes a pair of printed circuit boards for interacting with the batteries for transmitting voltage and amperage outside of said battery pack.
US10923689B2
A method for making an OLED lighting panel is disclosed. A patterned inorganic insulating layer is used to enclose an area over a first electrode layer leaving portions of the first electrode layer and substrate adjacent to the outside of the enclosure exposed. After uniform deposition of the organic layer(s), the organic layer(s) are selectively removed over the inorganic insulating layer and an adjacent portion of the substrate to form a sealing region. After uniform deposition of the second electrode, the enclosed area is encapsulated and any overlying layers over the first and second electrodes outside the enclosed area are removed resulting in an OLED within the enclosed area with electrode contact pads outside the enclosed area. The OLED can be manufactured at low cost with no or limited use of shadow masking and is suitable for roll-to-roll processes.
US10923669B2
A display device includes: a display panel including a flat area and a bending area positioned adjacent to the flat area, a panel bottom sheet arranged under the display panel and overlapping with the flat area and the bending area, and a panel-sheet coupling layer between the display panel and the panel bottom sheet and including a first panel-sheet coupling part arranged across the flat area and the bending area, and a second panel-sheet coupling part overlapping with the bending area and extended continuously along a side of the first panel-sheet coupling part, a thickness of the panel-sheet coupling layer becoming smaller from a central portion of the bending area toward a side portion of the bending area, and the panel bottom sheet having a curved shape that is gentler than a curved shape of the display panel.
US10923665B2
The present invention relates to compounds suitable for use in electronic devices, and to electronic devices, especially organic electroluminescent devices, comprising these compounds.
US10923662B2
Compounds of the formula D-S1-A-S2—B1 wherein A comprises a 2,7-disubstituted 9,9-fluoroalkyl fluorene diradical of the formula wherein S1, S2, D and B1 have meanings given in the description that are useful as charge transport and emissive materials for the fabrication of electronic devices such as diodes, transistors, and photovoltaic devices.
US10923655B2
Disclosed are a variable resistance memory device and a method of manufacturing the same. The device comprises a first conductive line extending in a first direction, a second conductive line extending in a second direction intersecting the first direction, a memory cell at an intersection between the first conductive line and the second conductive line, a first electrode between the first conductive line and the memory cell, and a second electrode between the second conductive line and the memory cell. The memory cell comprises a switching pattern, an intermediate electrode, a first resistivity control pattern, and a variable resistance pattern that are connected in series between the first conductive line and the second conductive line. Resistivity of the first resistivity control pattern is less than resistivity of the second electrode.
US10923654B2
A variable resistance memory device includes a word line extending in a first direction, a bit line on the word line and extending in a second direction intersecting the first direction, a switching pattern between the bit line and the word line, a phase change pattern between the switching pattern and the word line, and a bottom electrode between the phase change pattern and the word line, wherein the phase change pattern has a bottom area greater than a top area of the bottom electrode, a thickness of the phase change pattern being greater than a thickness of the bottom electrode, and wherein the bottom and top areas are defined in the first and second directions, and the thicknesses are defined in a third direction intersecting the first and second directions.
US10923645B2
A light source device includes a package and a substrate. The package includes first and second electrodes. The first electrode has first and second parts separated from each other by a first separation region on a lower surface side of the first electrode while the first part is continuous with the second part on an upper surface side. The substrate includes a pair of wiring members. Lower surfaces of the first and second parts face and are mounted on an upper surface of one of the wiring members. A lower surface of the second electrode faces and is mounted on an upper surface of the other of the wiring members. A region of the substrate facing the first separation region has solder wettability lower than solder wettability of the upper surface of the one of the wiring members facing the first part and the second part of the first electrode.
US10923630B1
Disclosed herein are techniques for improving performance of micro light emitting diodes. According to certain embodiments, a semi-polar-oriented light emitting diode (LED) (e.g., grown on (2021) plane or (1122) plane) includes a buried p-GaN layer that is grown before the active region and the n-GaN layer of the LED are grown, such that the polarization-induced (including strain-induced piezoelectric polarization and spontaneous polarization) electrical field and the built-in depletion field in the active region are in opposite directions during normal operations, thereby reducing or minimizing the overall internal electric field that can contribute to Quantum-Confined Stark Effect. The buried p-GaN layer is grown on an n-i-n sacrificial etch junction, which can be laterally wet-etched to separate the semi-polar-oriented LED from the underlying substrate and expose the p-GaN layer for planar or vertical (rather than horizontal or lateral) activation.
US10923623B2
A device comprising a semiconductor layer including a plurality of compositional inhomogeneous regions is provided. The difference between an average band gap for the plurality of compositional inhomogeneous regions and an average band gap for a remaining portion of the semiconductor layer can be at least thermal energy. Additionally, a characteristic size of the plurality of compositional inhomogeneous regions can be smaller than an inverse of a dislocation density for the semiconductor layer.
US10923619B2
A semiconductor heterostructure for an optoelectronic device is disclosed. The semiconductor heterostructure includes at least one stress control layer within a plurality of semiconductor layers used in the optoelectronic device. Each stress control layer includes stress control regions separated from adjacent stress control regions by a predetermined spacing. The stress control layer induces one of a tensile stress and a compressive stress in an adjacent semiconductor layer.
US10923618B2
The present disclosure provides methodologies for manufacturing high efficiency silicon photovoltaic devices using hydrogen passivation to improve performance. The processing techniques disclosed use tailored thermal processes, sometimes coupled with exposure to radiation to enable the use of cheaper silicon material to manufacture high efficiency photovoltaic devices.
US10923615B2
A light sensing system includes a plurality of light-emitting devices arranged to have a first optical axis and a plurality of light-receiving devices arranged to have a second optical axis, the second optical axis being parallel with the first optical axis. The plurality of light-emitting devices and the plurality of light-receiving devices are formed to have a monolithically integrated structure, and the first optical axis and the second optical axis are substantially coaxial to each other, thus improving the efficiency of light reception.
US10923613B2
An energy harvesting apparatus including light collecting particles is provided. The energy harvesting apparatus includes a light collecting layer for collecting light incident thereon from the outside, a first charging member on a first surface of the light collecting layer, a second charging member on a surface of the light collecting layer opposite the first surface, and solar cells on opposite light exit surfaces between the first and second surfaces of the light collecting layer.
US10923605B2
An optoelectronic apparatus is provided, comprising a carrier device that has a longitudinal extent and a transverse extent, wherein the carrier device has a plurality of electrically conductive tracks aligned in parallel with the longitudinal extent, and wherein the carrier device has a plurality of contact chambers aligned in parallel with the transverse extent at an upper side. Each of the contact tracks is electrically contactable in each contact chamber to be able to install at least one optoelectronic transmitter and/or at least one optoelectronic receiver in a variable mounting in the respective chamber.
US10923604B2
A semiconductor device structure includes a region of semiconductor material having an active region and a termination region. An active structure is disposed in the active region and a termination structure is disposed in the termination region. In one embodiment, the termination structure includes a termination trench and a conductive structure within the termination trench and electrically isolated from the region of semiconductor material by a dielectric structure. A dielectric layer is disposed to overlap the termination trench to provide the termination structure as a floating structure. A Schottky contact region is disposed within the active region. A conductive layer is electrically connected to the Schottky contact region and the first conductive layer extends onto a surface of the dielectric layer and laterally overlaps at least a portion of the termination trench.
US10923602B2
A semiconductor device includes a first transistor having a first threshold voltage, and including first channels, first source/drain layers connected to opposite sidewalls of the first channels, and a first gate structure surrounding the first channels and including a first gate insulation pattern, a first threshold voltage control pattern, and a first workfunction metal pattern sequentially stacked. The semiconductor device includes a second transistor having a second threshold voltage greater than the first threshold voltage, and including second channels, second source/drain layers connected to opposite sidewalls of the second channels, and a second gate structure surrounding the second channels and including a second gate insulation pattern, a second threshold voltage control pattern, and a second workfunction metal pattern sequentially stacked. A thickness of the second threshold voltage control pattern is equal to or less than a thickness of the first threshold voltage control pattern.
US10923590B2
Embodiments of the present invention are directed to forming a wrap-around contact (WAC) for a vertical field effect transistor (VFET). In a non-limiting embodiment of the invention, a top spacer is formed on a surface of a gate. A sacrificial spacer is formed on the top spacer. A source/drain region is formed over the top spacer and between sidewalls of the sacrificial spacer. The sacrificial spacer can be replaced with a wrap-around contact. The source/drain region can include a first material, the sacrificial spacer can include a second material, and the second material can be selected such that the second material can be etched selective to the first material.
US10923588B2
A semiconductor power device includes a plurality of power transistor cells each having a trenched gate disposed in a gate trench opened in a semiconductor substrate wherein a plurality of the trenched gates further include a shielded bottom electrode disposed in a bottom portion of the gate trench electrically insulated from a top gate electrode disposed at a top portion of the gate trench by an inter-electrode insulation layer. At least one of the shielded bottom electrode is connected a source metal and at least one of the top electrodes in the gate trench is connected to a source metal of the power device.
US10923585B2
A high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) includes a substrate comprising a first surface and a second surface on opposing sides of the substrate, a channel layer on the first surface of the substrate opposite the substrate, a barrier layer on the channel layer, a source contact comprising a first ohmic contact on an upper surface of the barrier layer, and a via extending from the second surface of the substrate to the first ohmic contact.
US10923580B2
The on-state characteristics of a transistor are improved and thus, a semiconductor device capable of high-speed response and high-speed operation is provided. A highly reliable semiconductor device showing stable electric characteristics is made. The semiconductor device includes a transistor including a first oxide layer; an oxide semiconductor layer over the first oxide layer; a source electrode layer and a drain electrode layer in contact with the oxide semiconductor layer; a second oxide layer over the oxide semiconductor layer; a gate insulating layer over the second oxide layer; and a gate electrode layer over the gate insulating layer. An end portion of the second oxide layer and an end portion of the gate insulating layer overlap with the source electrode layer and the drain electrode layer.
US10923577B2
The present disclosure relates to semiconductor structures and, more particularly, to cavity structures under shallow trench isolation regions and methods of manufacture. The structure includes: one or more cavity structures provided in a substrate material and sealed with an epitaxial material; and a shallow trench isolation region directly above the one or more cavity structures in the substrate material.
US10923561B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate having a major surface and both an element-forming region and an outer peripheral voltage-withstanding region that are provided on the major surface side of the semiconductor substrate. The element-forming region includes both a cell region for forming a power element and a circuit element region for forming at least one circuit element. The circuit element region is interposed between the outer peripheral voltage-withstanding region and the cell region. The outer peripheral voltage-withstanding region includes a boundary region that adjoins the element-forming region. In the boundary region, there is provided one or more voltage-withstanding regions. At least one of the one or more voltage-withstanding regions has a withstand voltage lower than both the withstand voltages of the cell region and the circuit element region.
US10923560B2
A capacitor includes a first electrode; a second electrode facing the first electrode; and a dielectric layer which is disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode and which is in contact with the first electrode. The first electrode includes a first portion including an interface between the first electrode and the dielectric layer, the dielectric layer includes a second portion including the interface, and the first portion and the second portion each contain silicon. A concentration distribution of the silicon along a thickness direction of the first portion and the second portion includes a convex portion intersecting the interface.
US10923555B2
An organic light-emitting apparatus includes a substrate including an active area, a dead area, and a pad area, a display unit disposed in the active area and including thin-film transistors, pixel electrodes, and a portion of a common electrode, a first voltage supply unit disposed on the dead and pad areas and electrically contacting the common electrode, a second voltage supply unit overlapping the common electrode, and spaced apart and electrically insulated therefrom, and an insulating layer disposed between the common electrode and the second voltage supply unit, in which a portion of the common electrode that overlaps the first voltage supply unit is closer to the pad area than that of a portion of the common electrode that overlaps the second voltage supply unit, and an end portion of the insulating layer contacts an end portion of the first voltage supply unit adjacent to the active area.
US10923548B2
The present disclosure provides a display panel having a display area and a non-display area surrounding the display area, wherein a stress releasing structure is disposed in the non-display area for releasing stress, the stress releasing structure including a substrate; a first inorganic material layer disposed on the substrate; a first patterned conductor layer disposed on the first inorganic material layer; a second inorganic material layer disposed on the first inorganic material layer and the first patterned conductor layer; a third inorganic material layer disposed on the second inorganic material layer; and a second patterned conductor layer disposed on the third inorganic material layer, wherein the second patterned conductor layer is connected to the first patterned conductor layer via at least one first through-hole.
US10923538B2
A display device includes a first base member having a first light-emitting area, a second light-emitting area, and a non-light-emitting area between the first and second light-emitting areas; a second base member on the first base member; a first color filter on a first surface of the second base member that faces the first base member and overlapping with the first light-emitting area; a second color filter on the first surface of the second base member and overlapping with the second light-emitting area; a color pattern on the first surface of the second base member, between the first and second color filters, and overlapping with the non-light-emitting area; a light-shielding member on the color pattern and overlapping with the non-light-emitting area; and a first wavelength conversion pattern on the second color filter and including a first wavelength shifter.
US10923536B2
An organic EL display device according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a base material; a plurality of pixels located on the base material; a lower electrode included in each of the plurality of pixels; a bank defining the plurality of pixels; an organic material layer disposed on the lower electrode and on the bank and including a plurality of layers; and an upper electrode disposed on the organic material layer. In a first layer included in the organic material layer, a non-existent region where the first layer is cut off or has a thickness thinner than that of another region is formed, and the non-existent region is formed in at least a portion of an effective region of the pixel surrounded by the bank.
US10923527B2
A micro LED display panel includes a display area, a plurality of micro light-emitting elements and a plurality of micro control elements. The plurality of micro light-emitting elements is disposed in the display area and include a plurality of first color micro LEDs and a plurality of second color micro LEDs. A light wavelength of each of the first color micro LEDs is different from a light wavelength of each of the second color micro LEDs. The plurality of micro control elements is disposed in the display area, and include a plurality of first color micro circuit-chips and a plurality of second color micro circuit-chips. The plurality of first color micro circuit-chips control the plurality of first color micro LEDs, and the plurality of second color micro circuit-chips control the plurality of second color micro LEDs.
US10923526B2
First and second images of a semiconductor die or portion thereof are generated. Generating each image includes performing a respective instance of time-domain integration (TDI) along a plurality of pixel columns in an imaging sensor, while illuminating the imaging sensor with light scattered from the semiconductor die or portion thereof. The plurality of pixel columns comprises pairs of pixel columns in which the pixel columns are separated by respective channel stops. While performing a first instance of TDI to generate the first image, a first bias is applied to electrically conductive contacts of the channel stops. While performing a second instance of TDI to generate the second image, a second bias is applied to the electrically conductive contacts of the channel stops. Defects in the semiconductor die or portion thereof are identified using the first and second images.
US10923520B2
An event-based vision sensor is fabricated using an advanced stacking technique, known as Three-Dimensional Integrated Circuit, which stacks more wafers (or dies) and interconnects them vertically. The electronic integrated circuits of the sensor are then distributed between the two or more electrically connected dies.
US10923519B2
The present invention provides a pixel structure for a CMOS image sensor and a manufacturing method therefor, the pixel structure comprising: a substrate; a floating diffusion region formed in the substrate; an interlayer dielectric layer formed on an upper surface of the substrate and covering the pixel structure; and a light-shielding wall formed in the interlayer dielectric layer, wherein a projection of the light-shielding wall in the height direction of the substrate surrounds a projection of the floating diffusion region in the height direction of the substrate. The present invention further provides a manufacturing method for manufacturing the pixel structure. The pixel structure manufactured by means of the manufacturing method provided in the present invention can shield the irradiation of incident light on the floating diffusion region of the global CMOS image sensor, thereby reducing interference signals.
US10923518B2
An image sensor and a method of fabricating the same are provided. The image sensor includes a substrate including photoelectric elements, a first color filter disposed on the substrate, a second color filter disposed on the substrate to be adjacent to the first color filter, a covering film disposed between sidewalls of the first and second color filters, and an air gap formed in the covering film.
US10923516B2
There is provided an image capturing device including: an inputter configured to receive first image data and second image data; a pixel determiner configured to determine a second pixel included in the second image data and corresponding to a first pixel included in the first image data; and a corrector configured to correct a value of the first pixel with a value of the second pixel.
US10923510B2
A display device includes a substrate including a display area and a non-display area outside the display area, a plurality of pixels located in the display area, a driving circuit driving the pixels, and a pad portion located in the non-display area and electrically connected to the driving circuit through a plurality of outer wirings. The pad portion includes a plurality of pad wirings each electrically connected to corresponding ones of the outer wirings. The pad wirings includes a first pad wiring and a second pad wiring separated from each other. The first pad wiring includes a first electrode layer, an insulating layer on the first electrode, and a second electrode layer on the insulating layer in a stacking direction, the second electrode layer being connected to the first electrode layer. The second pad wiring includes the first electrode layer but not the second electrode layer.
US10923509B2
A thin film transistor (TFT) array substrate and a display panel are provided in the present application. The TFT array substrate includes a plurality of gate signal lines, a plurality of source signal lines, a plurality of gate traces, the gate traces including a plurality of first gate traces, a plurality of second gate traces, a plurality of first gate trace holes, and a plurality of second gate trace holes; a plurality of source traces, the source traces including a plurality of first source traces, a plurality of second source traces, a plurality of first source trace holes, and a plurality of second source trace holes connecting the source signal lines and the first source traces.
US10923508B2
The disclosure relates to an array substrate and a manufacturing method therefor, a display panel, and a display device. The array substrate comprises a base substrate, and a lead-out line and an inorganic insulating layer which are located on one side of the base substrate; the base substrate is provided with a plurality of connection vias penetrating the base substrate and filled with a first conductive material; the inorganic insulating layer is provided with a first via and a second via, the first via penetrating to the first conductive material, and the second via penetrating to the lead-out line; a second conductive layer is disposed on the side, away from the base substrate, of the first via, the second via and the inorganic insulating layer, such that the first conductive material and the lead-out line are electrically connected through the second conductive layer.
US10923505B2
The present disclosure provides a display substrate, a fabricating method thereof, and a display device. The method includes forming a light shielding layer on a surface of a base substrate, and forming a plurality of thin film transistors on a side of the light shielding layer away from the base substrate. Forming a plurality of thin film transistors on a side of the light shielding layer away from the base substrate includes forming a semiconductor layer at a position where an active layer is to be formed in each of the plurality of thin film transistors, generating heat using the light shielding layer, and utilizing the heat to crystallize the semiconductor layer.
US10923502B2
A ferroelectric memory device includes an alternating stack of insulator layers and electrically conductive layers and located over a top surface of a substrate, a memory stack structure vertically extending through the alternating stack and including a ferroelectric material layer, a front-side gate dielectric contacting the ferroelectric material layer, and a vertical semiconductor channel contacting the front-side gate dielectric, a backside gate dielectric contacting the vertical semiconductor channel, and a backside gate electrode contacting the backside gate dielectric. Portions of the ferroelectric material layer adjacent to the electrically material layers can be programmed with polarization states to store data.
US10923501B2
In an embodiment, a ferroelectric memory element includes a first electrode layer, a ferroelectric structure disposed on the first electrode layer, and a second electrode layer disposed on the ferroelectric structure. The ferroelectric structure includes a ferroelectric material layer having a concentration gradient of a dopant.
US10923492B2
A method that is part of a method of forming an elevationally-extending string of memory cells comprises forming an intervening structure that is elevationally between upper and lower stacks that respectively comprise alternating tiers comprising different composition materials. The intervening structure is formed to comprise an elevationally-extending-dopant-diffusion barrier and laterally-central material that is laterally inward of the dopant-diffusion barrier and has dopant therein. Some of the dopant is thermally diffused from the laterally-central material into upper-stack-channel material. The dopant-diffusion barrier during the thermally diffusing is used to cause more thermal diffusion of said dopant into the upper-stack-channel material than diffusion of said dopant, if any, into lower-stack-channel material. Other embodiments, including structure independent of method, are disclosed.
US10923480B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods related to capacitance reduction in a semiconductor device are described. An example method may include forming an oxide only spacer over a portion of a sense line, formed on a semiconductor substrate, to separate the sense line from a storage node contact region of a semiconductor device and to reduce a capacitance between the sense line and the storage node contact region. The method may further include forming the storage node contact region in an active area of the semiconductor device neighboring the sense line and conductively connecting the sense line to the storage node contact region to enable a storage node to be sensed by the sense line.
US10923479B2
A method for fabricating a memory device includes: forming a first dielectric layer disposed on a substrate, and a first opening in the first dielectric layer; filling a lower portion of the first opening with a first conductive material layer; conformally forming a lining layer over sidewalls of an upper portion of the first opening and a top surface of the first conductive material layer; filling the upper portion of the first opening with a second conductive material layer; etching back the second conductive material layer and the lining layer to form a recess; conformally forming a protection layer on sidewalls and a bottom portion of the recess and a top surface of the first dielectric layer; forming a second opening that penetrates through the protection layer, the second conductive material layer, the lining layer and the first conductive material layer; forming a pair of contacts in the first opening.
US10923478B2
Methods, apparatuses, and systems related to reduction of roughness on a sidewall of an opening are described. An example method includes forming a liner material on a first sidewall of an opening in a first silicate material and on a second sidewall of the opening in an overlying second silicate material, where the liner material is formed to a thickness that covers a roughness on the first sidewall extending into the opening. The example method further includes removing the liner material from the first sidewall of the opening and the second sidewall of the opening with a non-selective etch chemistry to reduce the roughness on the first sidewall.
US10923477B2
A semiconductor device including a first oxide including a first region and a second region adjacent to each other and a third region and a fourth region with the first region and the second region sandwiched between the third region and the fourth region, a second oxide over the first region, a first insulator over the second oxide, a first conductor over the first insulator, a second insulator over the second oxide and on side surfaces of the first insulator and the first conductor, a third insulator over the second region and on a side surface of the second insulator, a second conductor over the second region with the third insulator positioned between the second region and the second conductor and on the side surface of the second insulator with the third insulator positioned between the side surface of the second insulator and the second conductor, and a fourth insulator covering the first oxide, the second oxide, the first insulator, the first conductor, the second insulator, the third insulator, and the second conductor and in contact with the third region and the fourth region.
US10923476B2
A semiconductor device includes a first transistor in a first region and a second transistor in a second region. The first transistor includes: a first nanowire, a first gate electrode, a first gate dielectric layer, a first source/drain region, and an inner-insulating spacer. The first nanowire has a first channel region. The first gate electrode surrounds the first nanowire. The first gate dielectric layer is between the first nanowire and the first gate electrode. The first source/drain region is connected to an edge of the first nanowire. The inner-insulating spacer is between the first gate dielectric layer and the first source/drain region. The second transistor includes a second nanowire, a second gate electrode, a second gate dielectric layer, and a second source/drain region. The second nanowire has a second channel region. The second gate electrode surrounds the second nanowire. The second gate dielectric layer is between the second nanowire and the second gate electrode. The second source/drain region is connected to an edge of the second nanowire.
US10923471B2
The present invention relates generally to semiconductors, and more particularly, to a structure and method of minimizing shorting between epitaxial regions in small pitch fin field effect transistors (FinFETs). In an embodiment, a dielectric region may be formed in a middle portion of a gate structure. The gate structure be formed using a gate replacement process, and may cover a middle portion of a first fin group, a middle portion of a second fin group and an intermediate region of the substrate between the first fin group and the second fin group. The dielectric region may be surrounded by the gate structure in the intermediate region. The gate structure and the dielectric region may physically separate epitaxial regions formed on the first fin group and the second fin group from one another.
US10923470B2
A semiconductor device includes a plurality of unit transistors that are arranged on a surface of a substrate in a first direction. Input capacitive elements are arranged so as to correspond to the unit transistors. An emitter common wiring line is connected to emitter layers of the unit transistors. A via-hole extending from the emitter common wiring line to a back surface of the substrate is disposed at a position overlapping the emitter common wiring line. A collector common wiring line is connected to collector layers of the unit transistors. The input capacitive elements, the emitter common wiring line, the unit transistors, and the collector common wiring line are arranged in this order in a second direction. Base wiring lines that connect the input capacitive elements to base layers of the corresponding unit transistors intersect the emitter common wiring line without physical contact.
US10923468B2
The present disclosure provides an electrostatic protection circuit, an array substrate, and a display device. The electrostatic protection circuit includes: a first voltage line, to which a high level voltage is applied; a second voltage line, to which a low level voltage is applied; and a switch assembly, including a plurality of first switch units and a plurality of second switch units arranged along a straight line and sharing an active layer. The first switch units are respectively coupled between the signal lines and the first voltage line, and are turned on in response to negative static electricity on the signal lines. The second switch units are respectively coupled between the signal lines and the second voltage line, and are turned on in response to positive static electricity on the signal lines. The signal lines are arranged in a peripheral region of the array substrate.
US10923463B2
A method is described for configuring a custom server processor including a base die and related components. For example, one embodiment includes: providing a secure website to a user for configuring a custom server processor, the secure website including a graphical user interface (GUI); providing a first graphical element from which a user is to select a base die and an associated package; providing a second graphical element including a plurality of building block options selectable by the user to populate landing slots in the selected base die; providing a third graphical element including a visual representation of a user configuration that includes one or more building blocks selected by the user in the second graphical element and arranged on the base die selected by the user in the first graphical element; and performing a verification of the user configuration.
US10923460B2
A device for the transfer of chips from a source substrate onto a destination substrate, including: a source substrate having a lower surface and an upper surface; and a plurality of elementary chips arranged on the upper surface of the source substrate, wherein each elementary chip is suspended above the source substrate by at least one breakable mechanical fastener, said at least one breakable mechanical fastener having a lower surface fastened to the upper surface of the source substrate and an upper surface fastened to the lower surface of the chip.
US10923450B2
An integrated circuit memory includes a logic circuitry bonded to a memory array. For example, the logic circuitry is formed separately from the memory array, and then the logic circuitry and the memory array are bonded. The logic circuitry facilitates operations of the memory array and includes complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) logic components, such as word line drivers, bit line drivers, sense amplifiers for the memory array. In an example, instead of being bonded to a single memory array, the logic circuitry is bonded to and shared by two memory arrays. For example, the logic circuitry is between two memory arrays. Due to the bonding process, a bonding interface layer is formed. Thus, in such an example, a first bonding interface layer is between the logic circuitry and a first memory array, and a second bonding interface layer is between the logic circuitry and a second memory array.
US10923446B1
A metallic etching process includes applying an anti-reflection coating over a metallic superstrate, applying a dry film photoresist over the anti-reflection coating, removing exposed portions of the dry film photoresist exposing a portion of the anti-reflection coating, etching the exposed portions of the anti-reflection coating exposing portions of the metal superstrate, etching portions of the metallic superstrate not covered by the dry film photoresist, and removing the dry film photoresist and the anti-reflection coating leaving portions of the metallic superstrate. An indium bump liftoff process includes applying a positive photoresist, forming a liftoff mask by applying a dry film photoresist over the positive photoresist, removing exposed portions of the liftoff mask to expose a portion of a substrate, depositing an indium film over the exposed portion of the substrate and remaining portions of the liftoff mask, and removing remaining portions of the liftoff mask.
US10923442B2
A key based technique that targets obfuscation of critical circuit parameters of an analog circuit block by masking physical characteristics of a transistor (width and length) and the circuit parameters reliant upon these physical characteristics (i.e. circuit biasing conditions, phase noise profile, bandwidth, gain, noise figure, operating frequency, etc.). The proposed key based obfuscation technique targets the physical dimensions of the transistors used to set the optimal biasing conditions. The widths and/or lengths of a transistor are obfuscated and, based on an applied key sequence, provides a range of potential biasing points. Only when the correct key sequence is applied and certain transistor(s) are active, are the correct biasing conditions at the target node set.
US10923435B2
A semiconductor package includes a substrate having at least one semiconductor chip on a top surface of the substrate; a ground ring, on the top surface of the substrate, surrounding the at least one semiconductor chip; a metal-post reinforced glue wall disposed on the ground ring, surrounding the at least one semiconductor chip; a molding compound surrounding the at least one semiconductor chip, wherein a rear surface of the at least one semiconductor chip is flush with an upper surface of the molding compound; a conductive layer disposed on the molding compound and in direct contact with the rear surface of the semiconductor chip and the metal-post reinforced glue wall; a solder layer disposed on the conductive layer; and a heat sink disposed on the solder layer.
US10923434B2
A semiconductor package may include a chip disposed on a substrate, a conductive structure disposed on the substrate to include a conductive structure frame including a side surface facing at least one side surface of the chip and to include conductive structure fingers extending from the conductive structure frame toward an edge of the substrate, and an electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding layer covering the chip and the conductive structure and contacting a side surface of an end of one or more of the conductive structure fingers.
US10923429B2
A multi-chip package includes a substrate (110) having a first side (111), an opposing second side (112), and a third side (213) that extends from the first side to the second side, a first die (120) attached to the first side of the substrate and a second die (130) attached to the first side of the substrate, and a bridge (140) adjacent to the third side of the substrate and attached to the first die and to the second die. No portion of the substrate is underneath the bridge. The bridge creates a connection between the first die and the second die. Alternatively, the bridge may be disposed in a cavity (615, 915) in the substrate or between the substrate and a die layer (750). The bridge may constitute an active die and may be attached to the substrate using wirebonds (241, 841, 1141, 1541).
US10923424B2
The present disclosure, in some embodiments, relates to an integrated chip. The integrated chip includes a first metal wire arranged within an inter-level dielectric (ILD) layer over a substrate. A second metal wire is arranged within the ILD layer and is laterally separated from the first metal wire by an air-gap. A dielectric layer is arranged over the first metal wire and the second metal wire. The dielectric layer has a curved surface along a top of the air-gap. The curved surface of the dielectric layer is a smooth curved surface that continuously extends between opposing sides of the air-gap. A via is disposed on and over the second metal wire.
US10923422B2
The semiconductor device SD1a includes a first wiring M2 and a second wiring M3. The semiconductor device includes a first conductor pattern DM, a first via V2 in contact with the first wiring M2 and the second wiring M3, and a second via DV1,DV2,DV3,DV4 in contact with the first conductor pattern DM and the second wiring M3. In plan view, the distance between the second via DV1 closest to the corner portion CI of the second wire M3 and the corner portion CI is shorter than the distance between the first via V2 and the corner portion CI, and the distance between the second vias adjacent to each other is shorter than the distance between the second via DV3 closest to the first via V2 and the first via V2.
US10923405B2
Embodiments include devices and methods for detecting particles, monitoring etch or deposition rates, or controlling an operation of a wafer fabrication process. In an embodiment, a particle monitoring device for particle detection includes several capacitive micro sensors mounted on a wafer substrate to detect particles under all pressure regimes, e.g., under vacuum conditions. In an embodiment, one or more capacitive micro sensors is mounted on a wafer processing tool to measure material deposition and removal rates in real-time during the wafer fabrication process. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.
US10923402B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device may include forming a hardmask layer on a substrate, forming a first mold pattern on the hardmask layer using a first photolithography process, conformally forming a spacer layer on the first mold pattern and on portions of the hardmask layer exposed by the first mold pattern, forming a first mold layer using a second photolithography process. The first mold layer may have a first opening that exposes a portion of the spacer layer. The method may include forming a spacer pattern by anisotropically etching the portion of the spacer layer exposed by the first opening until a portion of a top surface of the hardmask layer is exposed, and using the spacer pattern as an etching mask to pattern the hardmask layer.
US10923400B2
The invention relates to a method for producing a plurality of components (100), wherein a carrier composite (10) is provided with a coherent base body (13) and a wafer composite (200) is provided with a coherent semiconductor body composite (20) and a substrate (9). The wafer composite is connected to the carrier composite to form a common composite. In a subsequent method step, a plurality of separation channels (60) are generated at least through the base body (13) to form a grid structure (6), which determines the dimensions of the components (100) to be produced. A passivation layer (61) is shaped in such a way that it covers the side surfaces of the separation channels (60). Finally, the common composite is separated, wherein the substrate (9) is removed from the semiconductor body composite (20) and the common composite is separated along the separation channels (60) to form a plurality of components (100).
US10923398B2
A wafer processing method of dividing a wafer into a plurality of chips along a plurality of division lines includes: a shield tunnel forming step of causing a focusing point of a pulsed laser beam of a wavelength having a transmitting property with respect to the wafer to be positioned inside the wafer and applying the pulsed laser beam, and then forming a plurality of shield tunnels each including a fine hole and an amorphous region shielding the fine hole along the division lines; and a wafer dividing step of applying an external force to the wafer and then dividing the wafer in which the shield tunnels are formed along the division lines, in which the pulsed laser beam is split to have two or more of the focusing points which are along a direction parallel to the division lines.
US10923397B2
A semiconductor device is provided that includes a substrate, an integrated circuit with a conductive member and a through-substrate-via (TSV) structure. The substrate includes a front surface and a back surface that is opposite the front surface. The integrated circuit with the conductive member is formed over the front surface of the substrate. The TSV structure having vertical sidewalls is formed in the back surface of the substrate connecting with the conductive member. The TSV structure includes a tapered first insulation layer, a conformal conductive layer and a second insulation layer, with the conformal conductive layer positioned between the first and second insulation layers. The conformal conductive layer is electrically connected to the conductive member.
US10923390B2
A method for fabricating a semiconductor device includes: forming a plurality of bit line structures over a semiconductor substrate; forming a line-type opening between the bit line structures; forming a sacrificial spacer on both sidewalls of the line-type opening; forming a line-type plug filling the line-type opening over the sacrificial spacer; forming a plurality of plug isolation openings that expose the sacrificial spacer by etching a portion of the line-type plug in a direction crossing the bit line structures; forming a plurality of air gaps by removing the exposed sacrificial spacer; removing a remaining line-type plug below the plug isolation openings to form a plurality of island-type plugs; and forming a plug isolation layer inside the plug isolation openings to isolate neighboring island-type plugs from each other.
US10923384B2
An apparatus for transferring a substrate includes a hand on which the substrate is placed, and the hand includes an outer support member that supports a first region of the substrate and has a pair of outer fingers, an inner support member that supports a second region of the substrate that is closer to the center of the substrate than the first region, the inner support member having a pair of inner fingers located inward of the pair of outer fingers, and a central recess formed in a region between the pair of inner fingers of the inner support member, the region corresponding to the center of the substrate placed on the hand and the central recess being open toward a front side.
US10923383B2
According to the embodiment, an electrostatic chuck includes a ceramic dielectric substrate having a first major surface placing a suction object, a second major surface on an opposite side to the first major surface, a base plate supporting the ceramic dielectric substrate and including a gas introduction path, and a first porous part provided at a position between the base plate and the first major surface of the ceramic dielectric substrate and being opposite to the gas introduction path. The first porous part includes a first region positioned on the ceramic dielectric substrate side. The ceramic dielectric substrate includes a first substrate region positioned on the first region side. The first region and the first substrate region are provided in contact with each other, and an average particle diameter in the first region is different from an average particle diameter in the first substrate region.
US10923377B2
There is provided a load port provided to a loading/unloading port of a semiconductor-processing apparatus to transfer a semiconductor wafer, including: a FOUP support configured to support a FOUP that includes a FOUP lid and move the FOUP in a front-rear direction with respect to the loading/unloading port; a lid configured to open and close the loading/unloading port; a FOUP lid sensor provided to perform a detection operation between a position of the lid in a closed state and a position of the FOUP lid when unloading is normally completed by retreating the FOUP by a predetermined distance with respect to the loading/unloading port; and an observer configured to observe that the FOUP lid sensor has performed the detection operation after the unloading is completed.
US10923372B2
There is provided a gas injection device configured to prevent entry of atmospheric air when charging gas into a FOUP. In order to realize such a gas injection device, the gas injection device is structured so as to include: a gas supply port 72 through which inert gas is supplied; a nozzle main body 71 including a gas passage 77 communicating with the gas supply port 72; an opening/closing mechanism 92 configured to close the gas supply port 72; and an opener 96 configured to cause the opening/closing mechanism 92 to open the gas supply port 72 closed by the opening/closing mechanism 92.
US10923359B2
Processes for the localized etching of films on the sidewalls of non-planar 3D features such as a trench or a FinFET array. The etch process has a first step of an angle-directed ion implant beam, with the beam being self-aligned onto a localized region on a sidewall feature, that functionalizes the region for a second step that etches the ion implanted region.
US10923355B2
A semiconductor structure includes a substrate, a source/drain (S/D) junction, and an S/D contact. The S/D junction is associated with the substrate and includes a trench-defining wall, a semiconductor layer, and a semiconductor material. The trench-defining wall defines a trench. The semiconductor layer is formed over the trench-defining wall, partially fills the trench, substantially covers the trench-defining wall, and includes germanium. The semiconductor material is formed over the semiconductor layer and includes germanium, a percentage composition of which is greater than a percentage composition of the germanium of the semiconductor layer. The S/D contact is formed over the S/D junction.
US10923353B2
A method for forming a fin field effect transistor (FinFET) device structure is provided. The FinFET device structure includes a substrate and a first fin structure and a second fin structure extending above the substrate. The FinFET device structure also includes a first transistor formed on the first fin structure and a second transistor formed on the second fin structure. The FinFET device structure further includes an inter-layer dielectric (ILD) structure formed in an end-to-end gap between the first transistor and the second transistor, and the end-to-end gap has a width in a range from about 20 nm to about 40 nm.
US10923351B2
A coating method of coating a substrate with a chemical includes a solvent supplying step and a chemical supplying step. In the solvent supplying step, a solvent is supplied to the substrate. After the solvent supplying step, the chemical is supplied to the substrate in the chemical supplying step. The solvent supplying step includes a first step. The first step causes the substrate to rotate at a first rotation speed, causes a solvent nozzle to move between a central position above a center portion of the substrate and a peripheral position above a peripheral portion of the substrate, and causes the solvent nozzle to dispense the solvent.
US10923348B2
A method for forming a semiconductor device comprises receiving a substrate with a silicon oxide layer formed over the substrate and a nano-wire based semiconductor device formed using template-assisted-selective epitaxy (TASE) over the silicon oxide layer. The semiconductor device serves as a seed layer to form at least one i) silicon nanowire which extends laterally in the semiconductor device and over the silicon oxide layer, ii) tunnel which extends laterally in the semiconductor device and over the silicon oxide layer, and iii) nuclei on the silicon oxide layer. A film is deposited over the semiconductor device and the silicon oxide layer. The film is removed over silicon oxide layer outside the semiconductor device. Next the nuclei on the silicon oxide layer are removed. Finally, the silicon oxide layer over the semiconductor device is removed.
US10923345B2
Systems and methods are described herein for growing epitaxial metal oxide as buffer for epitaxial III-V layers. A layer structure includes a base layer and a first rare earth oxide layer epitaxially grown over the base layer. The first rare earth oxide layer includes a first rare earth element and oxygen, and has a bixbyite crystal structure. The layer structure also includes a metal oxide layer epitaxially grown directly over the first rare earth oxide layer. The metal oxide layer includes a first cation element selected from Group III and oxygen, and has a bixbyite crystal structure.
US10923344B2
A method for forming a forming a semiconductor structure is disclosed. The method may include: forming a silicon oxide layer on a surface of a substrate, depositing a silicon germanium (Si1-xGex) seed layer directly on the silicon oxide layer, and depositing a germanium (Ge) layer directly on the silicon germanium (Si1-xGex) seed layer. Semiconductor structures including a germanium (Ge) layer deposited on silicon oxide utilizing an intermediate silicon germanium (Si1-xGex) seed layer are also disclosed.
US10923341B2
A method of forming an oxide layer, the method including forming a first material layer on a semiconductor substrate, the first material layer including a polysiloxane material, wherein, from among Si—H1, Si—H2, and Si—H3 bonds included in the polysiloxane material, a percentage of Si—H2 bonds ranges from about 40% to about 90%, performing a first annealing process on the first material layer in an inert atmosphere, and performing a second annealing process on the first material layer in an oxidative atmosphere.
US10923336B2
The invention generally relates to systems and methods for collision induced dissociation of ions in an ion trap. In certain aspects, the invention provides a system that includes a mass spectrometer having an ion trap, and a central processing unit (CPU). The CPU includes storage coupled to the CPU for storing instructions that when executed by the CPU cause the system to generate one or more signals, and apply the one or more signals to the ion trap in a manner that all ions within the ion trap are fragmented at a same Mathieu q value.
US10923329B2
An apparatus for processing reaction products that are deposited when an etching target film contained in a target object to be processed is etched is provided with: a processing chamber; a partition plate; a plasma source; a mounting table; a first processing gas supply unit; a second processing gas supply unit. The processing chamber defines a space, and the partition plate is arranged within the processing chamber and divides the space into a plasma generating space and a substrate processing space, while suppressing permeation of ions and vacuum ultraviolet rays. The plasma source generates a plasma in the plasma forming space. The mounting table is arranged in the substrate processing space to mount the target object thereon.
US10923322B2
A coil portion is formed. A first articulation portion extends from the coil portion. A first mounting structure extends from the first articulation portion. The first mounting structure includes a first mounting region configured to mount in contact with a terminal of a first electrical component. The first articulation portion and the first mounting structure are configured to position the first mounting region at a location outside of a strong electromagnetic field emanating from the coil portion. A second articulation portion extends from the coil portion. A second mounting structure extends from the second articulation portion. The second mounting structure includes a second mounting region configured to mount in contact with a terminal of a second electrical component. The second articulation portion and the second mounting structure are configured to position the second mounting region at a location outside of the strong electromagnetic field emanating from the coil portion.
US10923321B2
Embodiments of this disclosure describe a feedback loop that can be used to maintain a nearly constant sheath voltage and thus creating a mono-energetic IEDF at the surface of the substrate. The system described herein consequently enables a precise control over the shape of IEDF and the profile of the features formed in the surface of the substrate.
US10923310B2
Process for treatment of a sapphire part with a beam of a mixture of mono- and multicharged ions of a gas which are produced by an electron cyclotron resonance (ECR) source, where: the voltage for acceleration of the ions is between 10 kV and 100 kV; the implanted dose, expressed in ions/cm2, is between (5×1016)×(M/14)−1/2 and 1017×(M/14)−1/2, where M is the atomic mass of the ion; the rate of displacement VD, expressed in cm/s, is between 0.025×(P/D) and 0.1×(P/D), where P is the power of the beam, expressed in W (watts), and D is the diameter of the beam, expressed in cm (centimetres). A part made of sapphire having a high transmittance and which is resistant to scratching is thus advantageously obtained.
US10923309B2
A method for improving the beam current for certain ion beams, and particularly germanium and argon, is disclosed. The use of argon as a second gas has been shown to improve the ionization of germane, allowing the formation of a germanium ion beam of sufficient beam current without the use of a halogen. Additionally, the use of germane as a second gas has been shown to improve the beam current of an argon ion beam.
US10923308B1
Various methods and systems are provided for generating an energy resolved chroma image of a sample. Upon irradiated by a charged particle beam, scattered charged particles from the sample are directed to form a first image before entering a spectrometer. The scattered charged particles are then dispersed based on their energy when passing through the spectrometer. The dispersed particles form a second image on a detector. The scattered particles at each location of the first image is spread along a corresponding energy spread vector in the second image.
US10923305B2
A no-voltage output and voltage output switching circuit includes an actuator connection terminal block including a plurality of ports each including a first pin, a second pin, and a third pin to which an actuator is connected, a power connection terminal block including a voltage terminal and a common terminal to which a power supply is connected, first relays, and second relays. The common terminal is connected to the second pin of each of the plurality of ports. The first relay enables connection between the first pin of a corresponding port among the plurality of ports and the third pin of the corresponding port. The second relay corresponding to the port corresponding to the first relay enables connection between the first pin of the port and the voltage terminal.
US10923296B2
A method for manufacturing a positive electrode for a power storage device includes the steps of: preparing a current collector that includes a first region and a second region on a surface of the current collector, the first region having a carbon layer formed on the surface, the second region having the surface exposed; and forming a conductive polymer layer selectively on a surface of the carbon layer by immersing the current collector in an electrolytic solution containing a raw material monomer and then conducting electrolytic polymerization of the raw material monomer.
US10923287B1
A vascular cooled capacitor assembly includes a plurality of capacitors having respective first and second leads, first and second busbars disposed in electrical contact with the first and second leads, an encapsulant enveloping the capacitors and a respective major portion of each of the first and second busbars, and a network of channels enveloped within the encapsulant and formed by deflagration of a sacrificial material. The network has at least one network inlet and at least one network outlet, each of which is configured for sealable engagement with a cooling fluid system. A branch of each channel is positioned inside a central axial passage of a capacitor, around an outer periphery of a capacitor, and/or between two capacitors. A housing may enclose the capacitors, the channels and major portions of the first and second busbars.
US10923286B2
A device that incorporates teachings of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a multilayer initial oxide on a silicon substrate, where the multilayer initial oxide comprises amorphous polysilicates and a group one metal or a group two metal; a first electrode layer on the multilayer initial oxide; a dielectric layer on the first electrode layer; a second electrode layer on the dielectric layer, where an edge alignment spacing between at least one pair of corresponding electrode edges of two electrode layers of the capacitor is two microns or less; and connections for the first and second electrode layers. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10923285B2
A multilayer ceramic electronic component includes a ceramic body having at least one rounded corner, and including dielectric layers and first and second internal electrodes laminated with respective dielectric layers interposed therebetween, and first and second external electrodes, electrically connected to corresponding internal electrodes, respectively. The first and second external electrodes include first and second base electrode layers, each having at least a portion in contact with first and second external surfaces of the ceramic body, first and second conductive resin layers disposed to cover the first and second base electrode layers, respectively, and first and second plating layers disposed to cover the first and second conductive resin layers, respectively.
US10923280B2
A film capacitor includes a main body portion and external electrodes. The main body portion includes a dielectric film and a metal film that is disposed on one surface of the dielectric film. The metal film has surface roughnesses of S1 and S2 where S1 denotes a surface roughness of the metal film in a first direction, and S2 denotes a surface roughness of the metal film in a second direction. The first direction is perpendicular to the second direction. S1 is greater than S2. The main body portion includes a pair of ends in the first direction thereof. The external electrodes are disposed on the pair of ends in the first direction of the main body portion, respectively. An average value of fractal dimensions of irregularity boundary lines due to wrinkles of the metal film is 1.08 or more.
US10923270B2
A common-mode choke coil comprises a ferrite core including a winding core portion and first and second flange portions. The common-mode choke coil also comprises first and second wires, each of which is helically wound around the winding core portion. The common-mode choke coil further comprises first and second terminal electrodes to which a first end of the first wire and a second end of the first wire, that is opposite the first end, are electrically connected, respectively. In addition, the common-mode choke coil comprises third and fourth terminal electrodes to which a first end of the second wire and a second end of the second wire, that is opposite the first end, are electrically connected, respectively. A common-mode inductance value at 150° C. and 100 kHz is 160 μH or more, and a return loss at 20° C. and 10 MHz is −27.1 dB or less.
US10923263B2
An aligned state of core sections is reliably maintained. A fixing structure for a cylindrical magnetic core including an insertion hole into which an electric wire is inserted with a plurality of core sections, which are divided in a circumferential direction, being coaxially aligned with each other, includes a clamping band to be wound around outer circumferential faces of the core sections to tighten the core sections. The magnetic core is accommodated in a holder, and the holder has a holder-side locking-receiving portion at which a remaining portion of the clamping band is locked. Meanwhile, an electric wire fixing portion that is fixed to the electric wire, which passes through the magnetic core, is formed in the holder.
US10923262B2
An inductor includes: a body having a stack of a plurality of insulating layers, each of which has a coil pattern disposed thereon; and first and second external electrodes disposed on an external surface of the body, wherein the plurality of coil patterns are connected to each other by a coil connection portion and form a coil having both end portions connected to the first and second external electrodes through a coil lead portion, and the plurality of coil patterns are composed of coil patterns disposed in outermost positions and coil patterns disposed inwardly of the coil patterns disposed in the outermost positions of the body, a thickness of at least one of the coil patterns disposed inwardly being thicker than that of the coil patterns disposed in the outermost positions.
US10923256B2
To provide an R-T-B based sintered magnet including R: 27.5 to 34.0% by mass, RH: 2 to 10% by mass, B: 0.89 to 0.95% by mass, Ti: 0.1 to 0.2% by mass, Ga: 0.3 to 0.7% by mass, Cu: 0.07 to 0.50% by mass, Al: 0.05 to 0.50% by mass, M (M is Nb and/or Zr): 0 to 0.3% by mass, balance T, and inevitable impurities, the following inequality expressions (1), (2), and (3) being satisfied: [T]−72.3([B]−0.45[Ti])>0 (1) ([T]−72.3([B]−0.45[Ti]))/55.85<13[Ga]/69.72 (2) [Ga]≥[Cu] (3).
US10923254B2
A permanent magnet expressed by a composition formula: RpFeqMrCutCo100-p-q-r-t. The magnet comprises a metallic structure including crystal grains which constitutes a main phase having a Th2Zn17 crystal phase. An average value of Fe concentrations in the crystal grains of 20 or more is 28 atomic percent or more and an average value of R element concentrations in the crystal grains of 20 or more is 10 atomic percent or more.
US10923253B1
A resistor component includes a support substrate, a resistive layer disposed on one surface of the support substrate, and a plurality of slits disposed in the resistive layer, each extending from one end or another end of the resistive layer opposing each other in a first direction, and spaced apart from each other in a second direction traversing the first direction. First and second internal electrodes are disposed on the support substrate and are respectively disposed on one end and another end of the resistive layer opposing each other in the second direction to be spaced apart from each other. A first protective layer is disposed on the resistive layer. The plurality of slits include a primary slit covered by the first protective layer, and a secondary slit extending in the first protective layer.
US10923252B2
A resistor includes materials including copper, nickel, and lanthanum boride. A content of the materials is 40% by mass or more with respect to a total material content of the resistor. The copper includes copper particles having a particle diameter of 2.5 μm or more. In addition, a circuit board includes a substrate, the resistor on the substrate, a metal layer on the resistor and a glass layer on the resistor. Further, an electronic device includes the circuit board and an electronic component on the metal layer.
US10923246B2
A flame-retardant electric cable has a core including an electric conductor and an electrically insulating layer. The electrically insulating layer includes a flame-retardant polyolefin-based composition which includes, as base polymer, a mixture of at least two polyolefin homopolymers and/or copolymer wherein at least one is a low-density polyethylene copolymer having a density lower than 0.915 g/cm3. The flame-retardant polyolefin-based composition also includes calcinated kaolin in an amount greater than 3 phr, a metal hydroxide in an amount greater than 10 phr, and an alkyl or alkenyl alkoxy siloxane. The alkyl or alkenyl alkoxy siloxane is in an amount ratio of from 1:25 to 1:50 with respect to the sum of the amounts of calcinated kaolin and of the metal hydroxide.
US10923241B2
A concrete cask enabling suppression of occurrence of stress corrosion cracking (SCC) in a lid welded part of a canister. The concrete cask includes: a metal canister accommodating spent fuel; a concrete container body for accommodating the canister inside the container body; a cooling passage provided between the external peripheral surface of the canister and the internal peripheral surface of the container body, and allowing air for cooling the external peripheral surface of the canister to pass; and a top space provided between the top surface part of the canister, and the inside of a lid of the container body. A baffle plate for suppressing introduction of air rising through the cooling passage to the top space is provided.
US10923238B2
This disclosure describes various configurations and components of a molten fuel fast or thermal nuclear reactor for managing the operating temperature in the reactor core. The disclosure includes various configurations of direct reactor auxiliary cooling system (DRACS) heat exchangers and primary heat exchangers as well as descriptions of improved flow paths for nuclear fuel, primary coolant and DRACS coolant through the reactor components.
US10923236B2
According to some embodiments, a system for widening and densifying a scrape-off layer (SOL) in a field reversed configuration (FRC) fusion reactor is disclosed. The system includes a gas box at one end of the reactor including a gas inlet system and walls of suitable heat bearing materials. The system further includes an exit orifice adjoining the gas box, wherein the exit orifice has a controllable radius and length to allow plasma to flow out from the gas box to populate the SOL with the plasma. The system may also include fusion products, which decrease in speed in the plasma in the SOL, allowing energy to be extracted and converted into thrust or electrical power and further allowing ash to be extracted to reduce neutron emissions and maintain high, steady-state fusion power.
US10923227B2
Computer systems and methods are provided for tracking a user. Data for a first user, including a first identifier associated with the first user, is received. A first tracking program for the first user that includes a first identifier associated with the first user, a first indicated area for a first user device, associated with the first user and a first time period when the first user is scheduled to be located within the first indicated area is generated and stored. At a first time that corresponds to the first time period, a position detection system determines a first determined position of the first user device. The first determined position of the first user device is compared with the first indicated area. In accordance with a determination that the first determined position of the first user device does not correspond to the first indicated area a first tracking alert is transmitted.
US10923221B1
A computer readable medium storing a computer program for providing a medication administration workflow in a user-interface (UI). The computer program executable by at least one processor, the computer program comprising sets of instructions for receiving one or more scanned medications for administration to a selected patient, determining a status of each of the one or more scanned medications, displaying a medication list including at least the one or more scanned medications and the respective status of the scanned medication, selecting one of the one or more medications in the medication list, and addressing any outstanding items associated with the selected medication.
US10923220B2
A non-transitory computer-readable medium stores a program designed to be used for a patient attempting to quit smoking. The program causes a computer to execute: receiving report information input by the patient and indicative of the presence or absence of smoking by the patient; receiving a biomarker concentration measurement value measured from a biological sample of the patient by a biomarker concentration meter for measuring a biomarker concentration indicative of a smoking state; based on the received biomarker concentration measurement value and a biomarker concentration reference value, determining consistency between the biomarker concentration measurement value and the report information; based on a result of the consistency determination, generating smoking cessation therapy information for smoking cessation therapy to be performed for the patient; and transmitting the generated smoking cessation therapy information to a patient-side device.
US10923219B2
An assignment device (1) assigns word class information (WKI) to one or more words of text information (ETI). Based on word-class sequence information (WK-AI) formed from this assigned word class information (WKI), actions (A) are executed in order to notify the user of conflicts or to provide the user with background information (HI) relating to words in the text information (TT).
US10923218B2
An analyte measurement system includes one or more handheld analyte meters and/or measurement devices and a means for collecting data, preserving data integrity, and uniquely identifying patient data received from multiple sources. For example, provided herein is a means to uniquely identify patients and their data when the data is collected from one or more measurement devices. By providing a way to allow the patients to use multiple sources to collect data, the system described herein provides patients with more flexibility, which should encourage better compliance to protocols. Further, by having a way to uniquely identify patients' data without requiring a patient to only use one analyte meter, for example, data can be centralized and analysis can be done with more assurance that all of the patient's data is being considered in the analyses.
US10923208B2
The present disclosure relates to the field of display technologies and, more particularly, to a shift register unit, a shift register circuit, and a display device. The shift register unit includes a detection input circuit, a display input circuit, an inverter circuit, a pull-down circuit, a reset circuit, and a first output circuit. In a working process of the shift register unit, the display input circuit and the detection input circuit share the inverter circuit, the pull-down circuit, the reset circuit, and the first output circuit.
US10923205B2
A method of forming a memory device having magnetic tracks individually comprising a plurality of magnetic domains having domain walls, includes forming an elevationally outer substrate material of uniform chemical composition. The uniform composition material is partially etched into to form alternating regions of elevational depressions and elevational protrusions in the uniform composition material. A plurality of magnetic tracks is formed over and which angle relative to the alternating regions. Interfaces of immediately adjacent of the regions individually form a domain wall pinning site in individual of the magnetic tracks. Other methods, including memory devices independent of method, are disclosed.
US10923201B2
Provided herein may be a memory device and a method of operating the memory device. The memory device may include: a memory block including a plurality of normal memory cells and a plurality of dummy memory cells; a peripheral circuit configured to perform an erase operation and a soft program operation on the memory block; and control logic configured to control the peripheral circuit to control the erase operation and the soft program operation, wherein during the soft program operation, threshold voltages of first dummy memory cells of the plurality of dummy memory cells are controlled to be higher than threshold voltages of second dummy memory cells of the plurality of dummy memory cells.
US10923199B2
An electronic device comprises a multi-chip package including multiple memory dice that include a memory array, charging circuitry, polling circuitry and a control unit. The charging circuitry is configured to perform one or more memory events in a high current mode using a high current level or in a low current mode using a lower current level. The polling circuitry is configured to poll a power status node common to the multiple memory dice to determine availability of the high current mode. The control unit is configured to operate the charging circuitry in the high current mode to perform the one or more memory events when the polling circuitry indicates that the high current mode is available, and operate the charging circuitry in the low current mode to perform the one or more memory events when the polling circuitry indicates that the high current mode is unavailable.
US10923197B2
Techniques are provided for optimizing an erase operation in a memory device to compensate for erase speed variations due to blocking oxide thinning In an erase operation for a block, the channels of NAND strings in different sub-blocks can be charged up by different amounts. One approach adjusts the control gate voltage of a first select gate transistor in a NAND string. This adjusts the amount of holes generated in the channel due to gate-induced drain leakage. Another approach adjusts the control gate voltage of additional select gate transistors in the NAND string to adjust the conductivity of the adjacent channel regions. Another approach applies different bit line voltages to different rows of NAND strings in each sub-block.
US10923195B2
An operating method of a nonvolatile memory device which includes a cell string including a plurality of cell transistors connected in series between a bit line and a common source line and stacked in a direction perpendicular to a substrate, the method including: programming an erase control transistor of the plurality of cell transistors; and after the erase control transistor is programmed, applying an erase voltage to the common source line or the bit line and applying an erase control voltage to an erase control line connected to the erase control transistor, wherein the erase control voltage is less than the erase voltage and greater than a ground voltage, and wherein the erase control transistor is between a ground selection transistor of the plurality of cell transistors and the common source line or between a string selection transistor of the plurality of cell transistors and the bit line.
US10923194B2
A memory device of the non-volatile type including a memory array having a plurality of memory cells organized as sectors, each sector having a main word line associated with a plurality of local word lines, each local word line coupled to the main word line by a respective local word line driver circuit, each of the local word line driver circuits consisting of a first MOS transistor coupled between the respective main word line and a respective local word line and a second MOS transistor coupled between the respective local word line and a first biasing terminal.
US10923186B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor memory device includes: a memory cell configured to hold 5-bit data; a word line coupled to the memory cell; and a row decoder configured to apply first to 31st voltages to the word line. A first bit of the 5-bit data is established by reading operations using first to sixth voltages. A second bit of the 5-bit data is established by reading operations using seventh to twelfth voltages. A third bit of the 5-bit data is established by reading operations using thirteenth to eighteenth voltages. A fourth bit of the 5-bit data is established by reading operations using nineteenth to 25th voltages. A fifth bit of the 5-bit data is established by reading operations using 26th to 31st voltages.
US10923185B2
A memory is provided that is configured to practice both a conventional normal read operation and also a burst mode read operation. During the normal read operation, the memory pre-charges the bit lines in a group of multiplexed columns. Each column has a sense amplifier that latches a bit decision for the column during the normal read operation. If a subsequent read operation addresses the same group of multiplexed columns, the memory invokes the burst-mode read operation during which the bit lines are not pre-charged.
US10923184B2
An SRAM device has a voltage input terminal configured to receive a first signal at a first voltage level. A level shifter is connected to the voltage input terminal to receive the first signal, and the level shifter is configured to output a second signal at a second voltage level higher than the first voltage level. A memory cell has a word line and a bit line. The word line is connected to the output terminal of the level shifter to selectively receive the second signal at the second voltage level, and the bit line is connected to the voltage input terminal to selectively receive the first signal at the first voltage level. A sense amplifier is connected to the bit line and is configured to provide an output of the memory cell. The sense amplifier has a sense amplifier input connected to the output terminal of the level shifter to selectively receive the second signal at the second voltage level.
US10923180B2
Techniques are provided for sensing a signal associated with a memory cell capable of storing three or more logic states. To sense the memory cell (e.g., a signal associated with the memory cell), a charge may be transferred between a digit line and a node coupled with a plurality of sense components using a charge transfer device. Once the charge is transferred, at least some if not each of the plurality of sense components may sense the charge using one of a variety of sensing schemes. For example, the charge may be sensed by each sense component at a same time using a single fixed reference value, or at different times using different fixed reference values. Based on the charge being transferred or transferred with the node (e.g., using the charge transfer device) and each sense component sensing the charge, a logic state associated with the memory cell may be determined.
US10923175B2
A memory device includes a clock receiver configured to receive, from a memory controller, a write clock that is used to receive write data during a data write operation, a duty monitor configured to generate first monitoring information by monitoring a duty of the write clock, and a duty adjuster configured to adjust the duty of the write clock in response to a duty control signal and output an adjusted write clock. The memory device provides the first monitoring information to the memory controller, and receives the duty control signal, generated using the first monitoring information, from the memory controller.
US10923170B2
Techniques and circuits for testing and configuring bias voltage or bias current for write operations in memory devices are presented. Registers and nonvolatile storage is included on the memory devices for storing values used to control testing of the memory devices as well as for configuring parameters related to both testing and normal operation.
US10923169B2
A magnetic recording array includes: a plurality of domain wall moving elements; a first wiring which is electrically connected to a reference potential and is electrically connected to at least one domain wall moving element of the plurality of domain wall moving elements; a second wiring which is electrically connected to at least two or more domain wall moving elements of the plurality of domain wall moving elements; a first switching element which is connected between each of the domain wall moving elements and the first wiring; and a second switching element which is connected between each of the domain wall moving elements and the second wiring, wherein an OFF resistance of the first switching element is smaller than an OFF resistance of the second switching element.
US10923167B2
A semiconductor device includes an address latch circuit and a column address generation circuit. The address latch circuit latches an address based on an input control signal generated according to a column control pulse and outputs the latched address as a pre-column address based on an output control signal generated according to an internal column control pulse. The column address generation circuit generates a column address from the pre-column address based on a delayed column control pulse and a delayed internal column control pulse.
US10923166B2
A method includes performing a first write leveling training operation and performing a second write leveling training operation. The first write leveling training operation is performed to generate transmission data based on a data strobe signal and an internal command pulse and to generate a latency code. The second write leveling training operation is performed to generate the transmission data based on the data strobe signal and the internal command pulse.
US10923165B2
A stacked memory device includes: a logic semiconductor die; a plurality of memory semiconductor dies stacked with the logic semiconductor die, wherein each of the memory semiconductor dies includes a memory integrated circuit and one or more of the memory semiconductor dies is a calculation semiconductor die including a calculation unit; and through-silicon vias electrically connecting the logic semiconductor die and the plurality of memory semiconductor dies, wherein each of the calculation units is configured to perform calculations based on broadcast data and internal data and to generate calculation result data, wherein the broadcast data is commonly provided to the calculation semiconductor dies through the through-silicon vias, and the internal data is respectively read from the memory integrated circuits of the calculation semiconductor dies.
US10923164B2
An apparatus is provided which comprises: a first power supply rail to provide a first power supply; second and third power supply rails to provide second and third power supplies, respectively, wherein a voltage level of the first power supply is higher than a voltage level of each of the second and third power supplies; a first driver circuitry coupled to the first power supply rail and the second power supply rail; a second driver circuitry coupled to the third power supply rail, and coupled to the first driver circuitry; and a stack of transistors of N conductivity type coupled to the first power supply rail, and to the second driver circuitry.
US10923160B2
A hard disk drive includes a base deck, a cover coupled to the base deck to create an internal cavity, and a testing assembly coupled to the cover. The testing assembly includes a housing and is arranged to expose an organic material, for example grease or oil, to the internal cavity.
US10923159B1
Methods and systems including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for event detection through variable bitrate of a video. A method includes obtaining bitrate information that describes bitrates for portions of a video, determining bitrate criteria that corresponds to a likely occurrence of an event being shown in the video, determining that the bitrate indicated by the bitrate information for a particular portion of the video satisfies the bitrate criteria, in response to determining that the bitrate indicated by the bitrate information for the particular portion of the video satisfies the bitrate criteria, determining that an instance of the event is likely to be shown in the particular portion of the video, and providing a user device an indication that the event is likely to be shown in the particular portion of the video.
US10923158B1
A method includes obtaining a first set of parameters corresponding to a first video, such parameters including a first skip number and a first segment length. The method includes obtaining a first set of image feature values corresponding to the first video and storing the first set of parameters and the first set of image feature values as reference data. The method includes calculating a second set of image feature values corresponding to a second video and comparing the second set of image feature values to the reference data, and determining, based on the comparing, that the second set of image feature values exceeds a threshold. The method includes calculating, in response to the determining, a variance. The method includes generating, based on the variance, a second set of parameters corresponding to the second video, the second set of parameters including a second skip number and a second segment length.
US10923153B2
The non-linear program planner, preparation, and delivery system performs multiplatform planning and scheduling across multiple content delivery platforms. The system coordinates planning to deliver high-quality video content in a very efficient and scalable manner. The system includes automated avails and other processes that increases the accuracy of the information provided to distribution partners. The system checks on content rights and incorporates metadata structures that facilitate delivery of content to a wide range of distribution channels. The invention increases accuracy, timeliness, and efficiency of content delivered to partners and allows providers to generate revenue from online (non-linear) platforms and over the top (OTT) video services.
US10923152B2
Technologies are provided for partially updating shingled magnetic recording (SMR) zones in SMR storage devices. An SMR storage device can receive and process a command to update a write pointer for an SMR zone to point to an arbitrary write position within the SMR zone. A partial SMR zone update command can be received and processed to modify part of the data stored in the SMR zone. A write position within the SMR zone where data to be modified is stored can be identified. Data stored in the SMR zone following the identified write position can be read to a temporary location and modified. A write pointer for the SMR zone can be updated to point to the identified write position. The modified data can then be written to the SMR zone, starting at the write position identified by the write pointer, or to another SMR zone of the storage device.
US10923149B2
This aluminum alloy substrate for a magnetic recording medium has a metal structure made of an Al alloy having a composition including Si in a range of 18.0% by mass to 22.0% by mass, Ni in a range of 5.0% by mass to 8.5% by mass, Cu in a range of 2.5% by mass to 4.0% by mass, and Mg in a range of 0.8% by mass to 1.5% by mass with a remainder being Al, a primary-crystal Si precipitate having a maximum diameter of 0.5 μm or more and an average particle diameter of 2 μm or less is dispersed in the metal structure, a diameter is in a range of 53 mm to 97 mm, and a thickness is in a range of 0.2 mm to 0.9 mm.
US10923141B2
A system, method and computer product for training a neural network system. The method comprises applying an audio signal to the neural network system, the audio signal including a vocal component and a non-vocal component. The method also comprises comparing an output of the neural network system to a target signal, and adjusting at least one parameter of the neural network system to reduce a result of the comparing, for training the neural network system to estimate one of the vocal component and the non-vocal component. In one example embodiment, the system comprises a U-Net architecture. After training, the system can estimate vocal or instrumental components of an audio signal, depending on which type of component the system is trained to estimate.
US10923138B2
A sound collection apparatus for far-field voice includes a multi-channel analog sound receiver configured to convert an obtained sound signal into an electrical signal; a first analog-to-digital converter coupled to the multi-channel analog sound receiver and configured to convert the electrical signal into a digital signal; and an interface controller coupled to the analog-to-digital converter and configured to transmit the digital signal to a control device via a preset interface. Using the above solutions, the technical problems of high hardware cost and unguaranteed performance of existing sound collection devices can be solved, and the technical effects of effectively reducing the hardware cost and the difficulties of development are achieved.
US10923135B2
This patent specification discloses a system for selecting an optimal audio codec algorithm to compress audio files that are wrapped within a Material eXchange Format (MXF) file. This patent specification melds the Material eXchange Format (MXF) for files together with matched-filter technology to provide a standards-compatible implementation for the selection and utilization of an optimal audio compression technology for a specific audio file included within an MXF file.
US10923133B2
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed for signal identification using a low power watermark. Example apparatus for media identification based on watermarks includes a first processor to determine, in response to receiving a signal, if a first watermark is present in the signal using a first processing technique. The example first processor is further to provoke, in response to the first watermark being present in the signal, a second processing technique on a signal processor. The signal processor is to extract a second watermark in the signal using the second processing technique.
US10923131B2
An error-concealing audio decoding method comprises: receiving a packet comprising a set of MDCT coefficients encoding a frame of time-domain samples of an audio signal; identifying the received packet as erroneous; generating estimated MDCT coefficients to replace the set of MDCT coefficients of the erroneous packet, based on corresponding MDCT coefficients associated with a received packet directly preceding the erroneous packet; assigning signs of a first subset of MDCT coefficients of the estimated MDCT coefficients, wherein the first subset comprises such MDCT coefficients that are associated with tonal-like spectral bins, to coincide with signs of corresponding MDCT coefficients of said preceding packet; randomly assigning signs of a second subset of MDCT coefficients of the estimated MDCT coefficients, wherein the second subset comprises MDCT coefficients associated with noise-like spectral bins; replacing the erroneous packet by a concealment packet containing the estimated MDCT coefficients and the signs assigned.
US10923128B2
A method of performing speech recognition, comprises, at a first device: receiving an audio signal representing speech; performing a first data integrity check operation on the received audio signal; performing a speaker recognition process on the received audio signal; forwarding the received audio signal to a second device, wherein the second device comprises a speech recognition function; and forwarding an output of the first data integrity check operation to the second device. The method further comprises, at the second device: receiving the audio signal forwarded from the first device; receiving the output of the first data integrity check operation forwarded from the first device; performing a second data integrity check operation on the audio signal forwarded from the first device; and using a result of performing the speech recognition function on the audio signal forwarded from the first device only if an output of the second data integrity check operation matches the output of the first data integrity check operation forwarded from the first device.
US10923127B2
Disclosed embodiments relate generally to systems and methods for automatically analyzing and categorizing phone calls for subsequent processing by telecommunications systems. Waveform and/or data analysis may automatically be performed on incoming call records in real or near real time.
US10923126B2
Provided is a method of detecting a voice section, including detecting from at least one image an area where lips exist, obtaining a feature value of movement of the lips in the detected area based on a difference between pixel values of pixels included in the detected area, and detecting the voice section from the at least one image based on the feature value.
US10923125B2
Methods, apparatuses, and computing systems are provided for integrating logic services with a group communication service. In an implementation, a method may include receiving a spoken message from a communication node in a communication group and determining that the spoken message relates to a logic service. The method further includes translating the spoken message into an input message and transferring the input message to the logic service. The method also includes receiving status information from the logic service indicative of a status of a networked device associated with the logic service. The method includes sending an audible announcement to the communication nodes in the commutation group expressive of the status of the networked device.
US10923117B2
A method for selecting an optimal language model weight (LMW) used to perform automatic speech recognition, including decoding test audio into a lattice using a language model; analyzing the lattice using a first LMW of a plurality of LMWs to determine a first plurality of best paths; analyzing the lattice using a second LMW of the plurality of LMWs to determine a second plurality of best paths; determining a first best path change rate (BCPR) corresponding to the first LMW based on a number of best path changes between the first plurality of best paths and the second plurality of best paths; and determining the first LMW to be the optimal LMW based on the first BCPR being a lowest BCPR from among a plurality of BCPRs corresponding to the plurality of LMWs.
US10923104B2
Systems and methods for customizing and providing automated voice prompts for text displayed on a security system keypad are provided. Some methods can include receiving a security system message from a security system control panel, identifying a customized message that corresponds to the security system message, and transmitting the customized message to a user device for audible transmission of the customized message.
US10923100B2
In some implementations, a language proficiency of a user of a client device is determined by one or more computers. The one or more computers then determines a text segment for output by a text-to-speech module based on the determined language proficiency of the user. After determining the text segment for output, the one or more computers generates audio data including a synthesized utterance of the text segment. The audio data including the synthesized utterance of the text segment is then provided to the client device for output.
US10923094B2
There is provided a laminated soundproof structure formed by laminating a single layer soundproof structure having one or more soundproof cells which are arranged in a two-dimensional plane and each of which includes a frame, a film, and an opening portion including a hole or includes a frame and a film. The single layer soundproof structure has a shielding peak frequency, which is determined by the opening portion of each of the soundproof cells and at which a transmission loss is maximized, on a lower frequency side than a first natural vibration frequency of the film of each of the soundproof cells. The conditions of at least one of the frame, the film, or the opening portion in the laminated one and other soundproof cells are different.
US10923093B1
A universal pickup transducer mounting system for a string instrument having a neck and bridge between which a plurality of strings extend includes a receiving cavity formed in the string instrument's body and a multiplicity of exchangeable body blocks disposed in the receiving cavity and configured for releasable mounting therein. The multiplicity of exchangeable body blocks includes at least one transducer receiving block that has an opening formed therein configured for receiving at least one pickup transducer therein. The at least one transducer receiving block is mountable within the receiving cavity to locate the at least one pickup transducer at a user selected longitudinal position relative to the neck and the bridge.
US10923082B2
A processing unit includes a processor core that implements a physical function that supports multiple virtual functions. The processing unit includes a bus interface that supports communication between an external bus and the physical and virtual functions implemented using the processor core. During a reset of the processing unit, power is interrupted to the processor core power to the bus interface is maintained. The bus interface responds to requests for the physical and virtual functions received over the external bus concurrently with the power interruption. The bus interface responds based on state information associated with the virtual function. Power is restored to the processor core in response to the reinitialization of the GPU. The bus interface stops responding to requests for the physical and virtual functions received over the bus interface in response to restoring the power to the processor core and forwards requests received over the external bus from the bus interface to the processor core.
US10923076B2
A display device, a display system, a mobile object, a display-brightness control method, and a recording medium storing program code. The display device and the display-brightness control method include obtaining brightness data indicating brightness in a peripheral area at prescribed time intervals, the peripheral area including at least some of a display area that serves as a background of display data, detecting a change in brightness in the peripheral area based on the brightness data obtained in the obtaining, determining display-brightness data that indicates display brightness when the change in brightness is detected, such that length of delay time before display brightness of the display data is made to correspond to the brightness of the peripheral area is equal to or shorter than a permissible delay time, and displaying the display data using the display-brightness data determined in the determining.
US10923065B2
A data signal delay circuit and delay method and a display device are disclosed. The data signal delay circuit includes a feedback signal generation sub-circuit, a compensation signal generation sub-circuit, and a control sub-circuit. The feedback signal generation sub-circuit is configured to generate a feedback signal based on a first level signal from the first level signal terminal and a second level signal from the second level signal terminal under the control of a gate drive signal from a scan signal line currently being scanned. The compensation signal generation sub-circuit is configured to generate a compensation signal based on the feedback signal and a data enable signal from the data enable signal line. The control sub-circuit is configured to delay a data enable signal of the data enable signal line in a next cycle based on the compensation signal.
US10923063B2
A gate driving circuit includes 4n stages of shift register units, and n stages of inversion units. One of the inversion units is disposed between every two groups of four adjacent stages of shift register units. A (n+1)th stage of the inversion units is disposed between two of the shift register units, and configured to output in inverted phases gate driving signals outputted by the two shift register units in a heavy-load screen stage, and output in positive phases gate driving signals outputted by the two shift register units in a normal screen stage.
US10923058B2
The present invention provides a pixel driving circuit, a display panel, and a display device. The pixel driving circuit includes: an upper plate of a liquid crystal capacitor and an upper plate of a storage capacitor both connected to a drain of a driving thin film transistor, and a lower plate of the liquid crystal capacitor and a lower plate of the storage capacitor both connected to a voltage regulator module. When the display panel is powered off, the voltage regulator module keeps a voltage difference between the upper and lower plates of the liquid crystal capacitor and the upper and lower plates of the storage capacitor constant.
US10923056B2
An array board includes a display area having a non-rectangular shape, TFTs disposed in the display area, a plurality of gate lines disposed in the display area and connected to the TFTs, a non-display area surrounding the display area, unit circuits disposed in the non-display area and connected to the gate lines, and a block connection line. The unit circuits are linearly arranged in the non-display area to form circuit blocks. The circuit blocks in the non-display area form a gate circuit portion in which at least two of the circuit blocks are away from each other in an oblique direction with respect to an arrangement direction of the unit circuits. The block connection line extends across the circuit blocks in the non-display area. The block connection line is connected to the circuit blocks.
US10923052B2
A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal panel including a plurality of liquid crystal pixels, wherein the liquid crystal panel is configured to display a same picture in two adjacent frames; a driving module disposed on the non-display area, wherein the driving module is used to respectively provide each liquid crystal pixel with a same polarity pixel voltage of different levels in the two adjacent frames so as to deflect liquid crystal molecules of each liquid crystal pixel, and in each frame of the two adjacent frames, the level of the pixel voltage of each liquid crystal pixel is different from the level of the pixel voltage of the adjacent liquid crystal pixels in front, back, left or right.
US10923049B2
A display device is a display device having a display that displays an image based on a received image signal. This display device includes: a memory that stores maximum luminance information regarding maximum luminance that the display can display; a determiner that determines whether the image signal is an HDR image signal specified by relative luminance; a first converter that, when the determiner determines that the image signal is the HDR image signal specified by the relative luminance, subjects luminance information obtained from the image signal to nonlinear conversion based on a luminance characteristic of the display; and a second converter that converts the luminance information that has been subjected to the nonlinear conversion by the first converter such that the display displays an image at increased luminance within a luminance range determined in accordance with the maximum luminance information.
US10923047B2
Backlight constant current driver board comprises boost circuit, constant current control circuit, switchover switch circuit, and light strip socket, connects to backlight light strip via light strip socket. Boost circuit boosts input voltage before outputting output voltage and transmits via light strip socket as power supply to backlight light strip. Switchover switch circuit controls, according to PWM signal and power supply voltage, connection or disconnection of current loop between backlight light strip and ground. Constant current control circuit monitors and keeps constant current magnitude of backlight light strip in switchover switch circuit. By switchover switch circuit, during system standby, formation of current loop between backlight light strip and ground is prevented so backlight light strip does not emit light, thus solving problems of screen emitting dim lights when existing LCD television standby or constant current drive control chip not working.
US10923045B1
A backlight control device and method are provided. The backlight control device includes an event detection circuit and a backlight controller. The event detection circuit receives an image frame. The event detection circuit determines whether there is a user face in the image frame to generate a first determining result. The backlight controller is coupled to the event detection circuit to receive the determining result. When the first determining result indicates that there is no user face in the image frame, the backlight controller dims the backlight of a display panel.
US10923044B2
A method of adjusting luminance of a backlight unit included in a liquid crystal display device that performs inversion driving is provided. The method derives a positive polarity histogram and a negative polarity histogram of an image frame based on image frame data, corresponding to the image frame, and a data polarity pattern for implementing the image frame, derives a luminance compensation value according to data polarity dominance of the image frame by analyzing the positive polarity histogram and the negative polarity histogram, and applies the luminance compensation value to the luminance of the backlight unit during a portion of a time period of the image frame.
US10923014B2
A liquid crystal display device comprises: a first display panel displaying a color image; a second display panel displaying a monochrome image; and an image processor generating first image data corresponding to the color image and second image data corresponding to the monochrome image based on an input video signal. The image processor generates the first image data and the second image data such that a graph representing transmittance of the first display panel for input gradation corresponding to the input video signal and a graph representing transmittance of the second display panel for the input gradation corresponding to the input video signal intersect each other at predetermined input gradation.
US10923010B2
A display device includes a display panel including a first display region in which a plurality of first data lines are positioned and a second display region adjacent to the first display region in which a plurality of second data lines are positioned, a first data driver and a second data driver in a non-display region of the display panel, a plurality of first fan-out lines connected to the first data driver and including a plurality of 1_1-th fan-out lines connected to the plurality of first data lines and a plurality of 1_2-th fan-out lines connected to the plurality of second data lines, and a plurality of second fan-out lines connected to the second data driver and including a plurality of 2_1-th fan-out lines connected to the plurality of second data lines and a plurality of 2_2-th fan-out lines connected to the plurality of first data lines.
US10923007B2
The present disclosure relates to the field of display technologies and provides a shift register unit. The shift register unit includes an input circuit, a pull-up circuit, an output circuit, an auxiliary circuit, a pull-down circuit, a first storage capacitor, and a second storage capacitor. The auxiliary circuit is coupled to a first clock signal terminal, a second clock signal terminal, an input terminal and a first output terminal. The second storage capacitor is coupled between a first node and a pull-up node.
US10922993B2
In one aspect, provided herein is a device for notating a musical composition. The device, in various implementations, is structured so as to be less laborious to notate, easier to read, and more simple to employ in notating, reading, and/or playing the music of a given composition to be composed and/or played. Accordingly, in its most basic form, the device herein disclosed includes a template, upon which template one or more symbols may be notated, where such notation is configured in a manner that more closely relates the note to be played with the mechanical action needed to be performed so as to play that note, such as on an instrument to be or being played.
US10922987B2
Devices, systems and methods wherein sequential signals are emitted from a plurality of signaling modules positioned in an array which demarcates a route or boundaries to be followed by a pedestrian or vehicle.
US10922977B2
A display control device includes: an acquisition section that acquires captured image data items from imaging sections that image a surrounding region of a vehicle; a display control section that displays first bird's-eye view image data representing surroundings of the vehicle from a bird's eye viewpoint above the vehicle, which has been generated on the basis of the captured image data items; and a specification section that specifies a candidate region where the vehicle is to be parked in the surrounding region that is present in a side direction of the vehicle, the surrounding region having been imaged as the captured image data items, wherein the display control section displays second bird's-eye view image data with a wider display range in the side direction in which the candidate region is present as compared with the first bird's-eye view image data.
US10922975B2
An apparatus for activating a pedestrian detection and collision mitigation system (PDCMS) of a vehicle includes: a front detection sensor detecting a presence of a pedestrian on a driving lane of the vehicle, gaze information of the pedestrian, and a distance and a relative speed between the pedestrian and the vehicle; a vehicle sensor detecting at least any one of a speed, an acceleration, a steering angle, a steering angular velocity, and a pressure of a master cylinder of the vehicle; an electronic control unit activating a PDCMS function based on information detected by the front detection sensor and the vehicle sensor; and a warning unit operated to inform a driver of a collision of the pedestrian with the vehicle by a control of the electronic control unit.
US10922970B2
Methods and systems for assisting a driver of a vehicle traversing on a route are provided. Sensor and image data are received from each vehicle associated with the route. The sensor and image data are processed to generate driving-assisting features. Environmental and fleet data associated with the route are further retrieved from data sources. The environmental and fleet data are further processed to generate driving-assisting features. A warning message is generated based on the driving-assisting features. The warning message is communicated to each driver for facilitating driving-assistance in real-time.
US10922962B2
A congestion management apparatus includes a memory configured to store, on a per-action-option basis, upper limits on numbers of users allowed to be guided to action options, and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to: generate the action options by time slot for a user; calculate for each of the generated action options, choice probabilities of the action options with respect to the user, and store the calculated choice probabilities in the memory; and calculate for each of the action options, estimated numbers of previous users assumed to have selected the action options, based on choice probabilities of each of the action options with respect to the previous users, the choice probabilities being obtained from the memory, wherein the processor is configured to extract, based on the upper limits and the estimated numbers for the action options, action options to be presented to the user.
US10922960B2
A radio communication device comprising a radio frequency circuit and a microcontroller arranged to control the radio frequency circuit. The radio communication device further comprises: a radio frequency reference connected to the radio frequency circuit and arranged to be the frequency reference of at least the symbol frequency; a MCU and a time frequency reference connected to the microcontroller. The microcontroller is arranged to determine a frequency error of the time frequency reference relative to the radio frequency reference by performing the steps of: transmitting a radio signal, and signal a timing signal on a control interface, comprising information on start of transmission and end of transmission of the radio signal; receive the timing signal from the radio frequency circuit and measure a transmission duration of the radio signal with reference to the MCU frequency reference and calculate a frequency error of the MCU frequency reference relative to the radio frequency reference based on the measured transmission duration of the radio signal and the number of symbols and the symbol frequency. Further, the microcontroller measures a time period of the time frequency reference with reference to the MCU frequency reference; and calculate the frequency error of the time frequency reference relative to the radio frequency reference.
US10922957B2
Mobile phones and other portable devices are equipped with a variety of technologies by which existing functionality can be improved, and new functionality can be provided. Some aspects relate to visual search capabilities, and determining appropriate actions responsive to different image inputs. Others relate to processing of image data. Still others concern metadata generation, processing, and representation. Yet others concern user interface improvements. Other aspects relate to imaging architectures, in which a mobile phone's image sensor is one in a chain of stages that successively act on packetized instructions/data, to capture and later process imagery. Still other aspects relate to distribution of processing tasks between the mobile device and remote resources (“the cloud”). Elemental image processing (e.g., simple filtering and edge detection) can be performed on the mobile phone, while other operations can be referred out to remote service providers. The remote service providers can be selected using techniques such as reverse auctions, through which they compete for processing tasks. A great number of other features and arrangements are also detailed.
US10922956B2
A control device and method for controlling a plurality of targeted devices. The control device includes orientation and direction sensors for measuring orientation and direction of the control device relative to the environment, a device location tracking system for determining the location of the control device relative to at least one reference device, a database for storing location data of spatial targets for the target devices, a processor for determining if the control device is pointed at the spatial target based on the location data of the spatial target and the orientation, direction, and location of the control device, and an input mechanism for receiving control instructions for controlling the targeted device.
US10922953B2
A smart home security system is described having multipurpose sensor devices in communication with one more hub devices in further communication with the Internet and wireless carriers. The system is fully autonomous and does not require user interaction to arm and disarm the system, because the system senses and tracks when the user occupants leave their residence and when they arrive. The system also detects if the occupants are sleeping at night and will induce certain settings, such as a universal arming of the system (e.g., ARM STAY), which secures all protected entrances (doors, windows), and disables the motion sensors.
US10922949B2
A mobile transceiver having an asset-based alarm profile and a method of operation are provided. In accordance with one embodiment, there is provided a method of operating a mobile transceiver: wirelessly receiving by a wireless transceiver of a mobile transceiver from a remote server of an asset tracking service an alarm profile, wherein the alarm profile is assigned to a device identifier (ID) of the mobile transceiver, wherein the alarm profile defines at least one alarm, the at least one alarm defining a trigger condition and one or more actions to be taken by the mobile transceiver in response to detection of the trigger condition, wherein the one or more actions comprise acquiring sensor data, reporting sensor data to the asset tracking service or a combination thereof; and applying by the processor of the mobile transceiver the alarm profile to configure the operation of the mobile transceiver.
US10922942B2
Implementations of systems and methods to facilitate interactions associated with the health of a child with a caretaker of the child are described. One implementation of a system comprises a seating receptacle removably connectable to a base, a battery configured to independently power the receptacle when separated from the base, and one or more processors. The one or more processors may be operably connected to one or more of a piezoelectric sensor configured to sense respiration, a weight sensor configured to sense posture, a camera, a storage device, and/or a network interface.
US10922931B2
An information processing apparatus is configured which includes an acquisition unit that acquires print data from a receipt printer that prints a printed matter based on the print data, a determination unit that determines a type of the printed matter based on text data included in the print data, and an application unit that selects a script corresponding to the type from a plurality of scripts and applies the selected script to the text data.
US10922930B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a system for managing and/or operating a nodal grid network in which resources are received, dispensed, and transferred throughout the nodal grid network. The nodal network may comprise automated teller machines, merchant stores, delivery vehicles, processing centers, and the like. The system scans resource notes for important and sometimes unique information as the resource notes are received and/or dispensed at each of the nodes. This information about the resource notes and the nodes of the network can be recorded and stored in real-time, such that the system can make real-time decisions regarding how to address any necessary adjustments of resource quantities at each node. Furthermore, historical nodal data can be analyzed to identify trends at each node, and this historical data can be extrapolated to provide insight into an expected health of each node at future points in time.
US10922926B2
A method for wagering on a skills-based digital gaming competition, the method executing on a computing device including storage storing a peer-wagering module that is external and distinct from at least one game stored on the storage device or another storage device, the method including: receiving potential game and competitor player data; receiving game competition selection information from the player that includes at least one selected game instance and at least one wager amount; receiving game instance match ID data generated by the transactional server, wherein the game instance match ID data includes at least one of: credential data associated with the player, player wager amount or a board, level, or difficulty setting associated with the selected game instance; and transmitting the game instance match ID data and game initiation data to the game, thereby activating the at least one selected game instance on the computing device.
US10922924B2
A selectable intermediate result interleaved wagering system is disclosed. The system includes an interactive controller operatively connected to an application controller, and constructed to: communicate application telemetry; receive an intermediate offer; communicate an indication to accept the intermediate offer; receive an application resource associated with the intermediate offer; and receive a wager outcome. The system also includes a wager controller operatively connected to the application controller, the wager controller constructed to: receive the wager request; generate a wager outcome; and communicate the wager outcome. The system also includes the application controller operatively connecting the interactive controller to the wager controller by a network, the application controller constructed to: receive the application telemetry; generate the intermediate offer; communicate the intermediate offer; receive the indication to accept the intermediate offer; communicate the application resource associated with the intermediate offer; communicate the wager request; receive the wager outcome; and communicate the wager outcome.
US10922922B2
A game controller for a gaming system configured to receive an input to initiate a play of a game, in response to a trigger event, display a plurality of selectable games from one of a first table of feature games and a second table of feature games, the displayed plurality of selectable games is the first table of feature games when the input is a first input, the displayed plurality of selectable games is the second table of feature games when the input is the second input, each of the first table and second table includes a plurality of games, each game of the plurality of games includes a corresponding set of prize modifiers, receive a selection indicative of a selected game selected from the displayed plurality of selectable games, and conduct play of the selected game using the corresponding set of prize modifiers.
US10922916B2
An electronic gaming machine includes a display device, a processor, and a memory storing instructions which when executed by the processor, cause the processor to control the display device to display an initial array of symbol positions, where the initial array of symbol positions include a plurality of rows of symbol positions. The instructions also cause the processor to populate each symbol position with a first plurality of symbols, and evaluate the first plurality of symbols to determine whether to provide a first game award. The instructions also cause the processor to add a new row of symbol positions to the initial array of symbol positions, and populate each symbol position of the new row of symbol positions with a second plurality of symbols.
US10922913B2
A method is described for detecting a security thread in a value document, in which magnetic data are employed for sites on the value document, said magnetic data representing a magnetic property of the value document at the site, check sites on the value document are determined employing the sites, and from the check sites, a straight line is specified, along or on which at least some of the check sites lie and which represents a location of the security thread.
US10922909B2
A secure lockable enclosure having a compartment therein, includes an electronically-actuated latching mechanism coupled to a door; a network interface; a sensor for sensing a characteristic related to a user attempting to gain access to the compartment; an environmental controller for heating and/or cooling the compartment; and a processor. The processor being adapted to (i) cause the network interface to transmit information indicative of a sensed characteristic of a user attempting to gain access to the compartment and capable of processing an unlock signal, and (ii) control the environmental controller based on a characteristic of an item placed in the compartment. An exemplary method controlling access by a user to the enclosure includes the steps of receiving identification information of the user from sensors associated with the enclosure; receiving identification information of an account holder; verifying the received identification information of the user against the account holder information and providing an unlock code to the lock device if the identification information of the user and account holder matches.
US10922907B2
An apparatus is provided including a processor, a memory, and a vehicle tracking portal. The vehicle tracking portal is configured to obtain vehicle identification information regarding a vehicle. Then diagnostic information regarding the vehicle can be obtained. Then, based on the vehicle identification and the diagnostic information, a recommended service for the vehicle can be determined. A user can then be alerted to the recommended service.
US10922900B2
In the disclosed systems and methods for competitive scene completion, a user selects a first scene completion challenge that comprises an image of an initial scene and a plurality of markers. Each marker has a designated set of coordinates within the initial scene and corresponds to a furnishing unit type. For each user marker selection, virtual furnishing units corresponding to the unit type are displayed. User unit selection results in display of a three-dimensional graphic of the selected virtual furnishing unit at the corresponding coordinates within the scene, thereby creating an augmented scene that comprises the initial scene with three-dimensional graphics of selected virtual furnishing units. The augmented scene or user selections of virtual furnishing units is submitted to a remote server. The user is provided with a reward.
US10922899B2
A method of interactive quantification of digitized 3D objects includes a determination of coordinates of observed screen space using a camera that senses the position of pupils of the operator gazing on the screen. Dimensions of studied sub-volume of VOI block of dimensions of Sx, Sy, Sz or VOI cylinder of dimensions of Sx=Sy=Sxy are defined. An analyzed particle and VOI position is selected. A VOI is visualized. Observed space is corrected by VOI visualization. The last level is selected by gaze of the operator from the sequence of probe levels and the gaze is focused on the last level on which the particle is still visible. The property of the marked particle in 3D space is verified, and marked with a color mark. The mark position is determined by interpolation or by finding a representative point.
US10922893B2
An example augmented reality system includes: obtaining information about an instance of a device; recognizing the instance of the device based on the information; selecting a digital twin for the instance of the device, with the digital twin being unique to the instance of the device; and generating augmented reality content based on the digital twin and an actual graphic of the instance of the device.
US10922891B2
The disclosure relates to a method for generating an augmented representation of a real environment, called an augmented reality representation. Such a method includes obtaining, as a function of said real environment, a virtual boundary dividing the real environment into two spaces, respectively called an activity space and a mixed space. The augmented reality representation is generated by obtaining a first part of the augmented reality representation, called an activity part, corresponding to a representation of at least one part of the activity space. Thereafter, obtaining a second part of the augmented reality representation, called a mixed part, corresponding to an augmented representation of at least one part of the mixed space, in which at least one virtual content is combined with the representation of at least one part of the mixed space.
US10922890B1
Systems and methods are described for virtual and augmented reality. A position of a first user and a position of a second user in a physical space are received, wherein the positions are derived from detected infrared light from a plurality of cameras. An image corresponding to the first user is rendered at a first virtual position in a display device associated with the second user, wherein the first virtual position is determined based at least in part on a position of the first user in the physical space and on a determined viewpoint of the second user. An image corresponding to the second user is rendered at a second virtual position in a display device associated with the first user, wherein the second virtual position is determined based at least in part on a position of the second user in the physical space and on a determined viewpoint of the first user.
US10922881B2
A smart management integrated mapping system (SMIMS) having the capability of displaying real-time properties and controlling network-based devices in a geographical area is disclosed which comprises: generating a 3D/360° map of the geographical area using at least one imaging devices; generating and storing real-time properties associated with the plurality of objects into a storage via a network; selecting and matching the real-time properties to each of the first plurality of objects; embedding the real-time properties into a plurality of objects; rendering the real-time properties into displayable images; and displaying the real-time properties at a particular observation point when a user selects that particular object.
US10922873B2
During tracing of a primary ray in a 3-D space (e.g., a 3-D scene in graphics rendering), a ray is found to intersect a primitive (e.g., a triangle) located in the 3-D space. Secondary ray(s) may be generated for a variety of purposes. For example, occlusion rays may be generated to test occlusion of a point of intersection between the primary ray and primitive is illuminated by any of the light(s). An origin for each secondary ray can be modified from the intersection point based on characteristics of the primitive intersected. For example, an offset from the intersection point can be calculated using barycentric coordinates of the intersection point and interpolation of one or more parameters associated with vertices defining the primitive. These parameters may include a size of the primitive and differences between a geometric normal for the primitive and a respective additional vector supplied with each vertex.
US10922867B2
There are provided systems and methods for rendering of an animated avatar. An embodiment of the method includes: determining a first rendering time of a first clip as approximately equivalent to a predetermined acceptable rendering latency, a first playing time of the first clip determined as approximately the first rendering time multiplied by a multiplicative factor; rendering the first clip; determining a subsequent rendering time for each of one or more subsequent clips, each subsequent rendering time is determined to be approximately equivalent to the predetermined acceptable rendering latency plus the total playing time of the preceding clips, each subsequent playing time is determined to be approximately the rendering time of the respective subsequent clip multiplied by the multiplicative factor; and rendering the one or more subsequent clips.
US10922865B2
There is provided an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and a program capable of performing synthesis that is desirable for users as described above, the information processing apparatus including: a control unit configured to generate a synthesized object model by synthesizing a first object model and a second object model, and cause the generated synthesized object model to be displayed in association with an image corresponding to the first object model or the second object model. The control unit controls a mode of the synthesis on the basis of input information.
US10922861B2
The invention relates to a method and an apparatus for correcting dynamic models (4) of moving structures (2), said dynamic models being obtained by tracking methods. The method comprises the following steps: (a) providing a time series of images (B) of the moving structure (2) recorded successively in time; (b) providing a dynamic model (4) of the structure (2), said dynamic model being obtained by a tracking method; (c) determining a position time section (h) in the images (B); (d) providing a position-time representation (6) over time of the optionally interpolated image values of the position time section (h) in the images, combined with a representation of the dynamic model (4) as at least one computer graphical object (10); (e) comparing the computer graphical object (10) with the surrounding image content (8), in particular by a user, and (f) correcting the dynamic model (4) by editing the at least one computer graphical object (10), in particular by a user.
US10922853B2
The invention relates to a method for imaging a three-dimensional object to be examined. According to said method, a three-dimensional parameterized area is determined which is in conformity with an anatomic structure of the three-dimensional object to be examined. The three-dimensional parameterized area is imaged onto a two-dimensional parameterized area. The three-dimensional object to be examined is represented by imaging pixels that are associated with the three-dimensional parameterized area onto the two-dimensional parameterized area. The invention further relates to a method for determining a camera position in a three-dimensional image recording of an object to be examined. The invention also relates to a method for representing a section of an object to be examined. The invention finally relates to a device for imaging a three-dimensional object to be examined.
US10922840B2
Methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer program products are provided that are configured to perform localization of position data, specifically using a trained localization neural network. In the context of an apparatus, the apparatus is caused to receive observed feature representation data. The apparatus is further configured to transform the observed feature representation data into standardized feature representation data utilizing a trained localization neural network. The apparatus is further configured to compare the standardized feature representation data and the map feature representation data and identify local position data based on the comparison.
US10922834B2
A method for determining volume of an object includes: obtaining a target depth image containing a target object which is captured by a depth image capturing device (S101); performing segmentation based on depth data in the target depth image to obtain a target image region corresponding to the target object (S102); determining a target circumscribed rectangle that corresponds to the target image region and meets a predetermined condition (S103); determining volume of the target object based on the target circumscribed rectangle and the depth data of the target depth image (S104). Compared to the laser-based determination method in the prior art, this method employs a depth image capturing device without a laser measurement device, and thus the economic cost is lower. Further, compared to the manual scale-based determination method in the prior art, the method employs a software program to automatically determine volume without manual cooperation, and has a higher accuracy and efficiency. It can be seen that the present scheme achieves a high accuracy, a high efficiency and a lower economic cost in determining volume of the object. An apparatus for determining volume of an object is further provided.
US10922827B2
A method for determining the distance to a vehicle for use in an AHC-System includes capturing a raw image by using a camera of an AHC-System at nighttime; determining by the AHC-System that the raw image includes a headlight of a vehicle; extracting by the AHC-System an image segment of the raw image including the headlight of a vehicle; refining the image segment by applying a classifier, such as to generate a refined image including the headlight of a vehicle; building a feature vector based on the refined image; and estimating the distance to the vehicle based on the feature vector. The present invention also relates to an image processing system adapted to perform the above method.
US10922825B2
An image data processing method is provided for a mobile terminal. The method includes receiving by a first electronic device first image data of an environment collected by a second electronic device; determining one or more motion parameters of the second electronic device based on the first image data; determining a latency between a moment the first image data being transmitted by the second electronic device and a moment the first image data being received by the first electronic device; compensating the first image data based on the one or more motion parameters of the second electronic device and the latency as determined, to generate second image data; and displaying the second image data through the first electronic device.
US10922822B2
An image analysis method applicable to an electronic system is provided. The electronic system includes an image capture device. The image analysis method includes: obtaining a plurality of images captured by the image capture device; performing a motion detection on the plurality of images to determine whether the images include a motion; and determining whether a target enters the preset scenery or leaves the preset scenery in response to a determination that the plurality of images include the motion according to the motion detection.
US10922820B2
A system and method for tracking a plurality of objects. Unlabeled measurement data identifying a plurality of targets corresponding to the plurality of objects is received. A multi-target likelihood function is generated using a persistent target density, a birth target density, and a clutter density. The multi-target likelihood function is used to associate persistent targets with the unlabeled measurement data to update persistent tracks and to initiate a new track for each target in the plurality of targets in the measurement data that is not associated with a persistent target.
US10922819B2
A current motion grid comprising a plurality of elements is generated by storing in each element of the current motion grid an indication of whether there is a change between corresponding elements of at least two images captured from a video sequence. A current motion pattern grid comprising a plurality of elements is generated by firstly searching for a segment consisting of grid elements in which a change has been indicated in the current motion grid and which are neighbouring to one another and, secondly, storing in each element of the segment a value corresponding to a size of the segment. A value of an element of the current motion pattern grid is compared with a threshold value. It is then determined, based on the result of the comparison, whether there is deviation from the motion pattern.
US10922818B1
A method and a computer system for object tracking are provided. The method includes the following steps. An image sequence including multiple images with a target object is obtained. A labelling operation corresponding to the target object in first two images and last two images in the image sequence is received to respectively generate four ground truth labels of the target object. A forward tracking of the target object is performed on the image sequence in time series according to the ground truth labels of the first two images to obtain a forward tracking result. A backward tracking of the target object is performed on the image sequence in time series according to the ground truth labels of the last two images to obtain a backward tracking result. The forward and the backward tracking results are compared to accordingly generate a final tracking result of the target object.
US10922795B2
A method measuring a distortion parameter of a visual reality device includes: obtaining an anti-distortion grid image according to a first distortion coefficient; obtaining a grid image of the anti-distortion grid image at a preset viewpoint after the anti-distortion grid image passes through a to-be-measured optical component of the visual reality device; determining a distortion type of the grid image after passing through the to-be-measured optical component; adjusting the first distortion coefficient according to the distortion type of the grid image, thereby obtaining an adjusted first distortion coefficient and then reducing distortion of the grid image; repeating the above steps until the distortion of the grid image is less than or equal to a distortion threshold. The adjusted first distortion coefficient when the distortion of the grid image is less than or equal to the distortion threshold, is taken as a distortion coefficient of the to-be-measured optical component.
US10922791B2
An image processing method includes: receiving a currently-input image frame and a previously-output image frame; comparing multiple first pixels corresponding to coordinates of the currently-input image frame with multiple second pixels corresponding to coordinates of the previously-output image frame, and obtaining multiple corresponding differences; obtaining multiple dynamic parameter values based on the differences and a dynamic parameter table; obtaining multiple boundary retention values based on the dynamic parameter values and a boundary operator; and obtaining multiple currently-output pixels based on the first pixels, the second pixels, and the boundary retention values. An image processing apparatus performs the image processing method, to increase accuracy of identifying a boundary adjoining a motion region and a non-motion region, and to remove an artifact of the boundary.
US10922789B2
A super-resolution lattice light field microscopic imaging system includes: a microscope configured to magnify a sample and image the sample onto a first image plane of the microscope; a first relay lens configured to match a numerical aperture of an objective with that of a microlens array; a 2D scanning galvo configured to rotate an angle of a light path in the frequency domain plane; an illuminating system configured to provide uniform illumination on the microlens array to generate SIM pattern illumination; the microlens array, configured to modulate a light beam with a preset angle to a target spatial position at a back focal plane of the microlens array to obtain a modulated image; an image sensor configured to record the modulated image; and a reconstruction module configured to reconstruct a 3D structure of the sample based on the modulated image.
US10922786B2
An interpolation unit generates an interpolation image from an original image. An index value calculation unit calculates an index value indicating the feature of a pixel position in a region of interest of the original image based on pixel values of corresponding pixel positions, which are a plurality of pixel positions of the interpolation image, corresponding to the pixel position included in the region of interest in the original image. A reflection unit reflects the index value calculated by the index value calculation unit at the pixel position of a bleeding region of the original image.
US10922782B2
Systems and methods for mapping vertices from one coordinate system in an earth model to another coordinate system in a two-dimensional (2D) array without disrupting the topology of the vertices.
US10922776B2
Implementations are directed to receiving a first set of event data from a first data source, the first set of event data including data representative of an occurrence of a real-world event, providing an event ticket, the event ticket including at least a portion of data of the first set of event data, transmitting presentation data to one or more computing devices, the presentation data being based on the event ticket and being processable by the computing device to display a real-time view including one or more graphical representations representative of the real-world event, receiving a second set of event data from a second data source, the second set of event data including data associated with the real-world event, revising the event ticket to include at least a portion of data of the second set of event data to provide a revised event ticket, and transmitting revised presentation data to one or more computing devices, the revised presentation data being based on the revised event ticket and being processable by the computing device to display a revised real-time view.
US10922775B2
Implementations are directed to providing a user of a mobile device access to patient information and patient physiological data. Actions can include receiving user input, the user input indicating a user command to display a task screen, in response to the user input, processing user-specific data to determine one or more patient icons, each patient icon representing a time-sensitive, patient-associated task, and displaying the task screen on the mobile device, the task screen displaying one or more patient icon groups, each patient icon group including a patient icon of the one or more patient icons.
US10922765B2
A gratuity analytics computing device for generating gratuity analytics for one or more restaurants is provided. The gratuity analytics computing device includes a memory in communication with a processor. The processor programmed to receive a date range from a client computing device. The processor is further configured to receive transaction data for transactions occurring within the date range at a restaurant. The transaction data including a manager identifier, a time stamp, and an employee identifier associated with the transactions, the transaction data including authorization messages and clearing messages. The processor is further configured to match a plurality of authorization messages with a respective plurality of clearing messages. The processor is further configured to calculate tip data for the restaurant based on the plurality of matched messages, generate gratuity analytics for the restaurant over the date range based on the tip data, and display on a user interface of the client computing device the gratuity analytics.
US10922757B2
Appearance data associated with a target commodity is collected by a blockchain node device, where original appearance data associated with the target commodity is registered with a distributed database associated with a blockchain in advance. Whether a damage event occurs on the target commodity is determined by the blockchain node device based on the appearance data and the original appearance data. In response to a determination that the damage event occurs on the target commodity, a smart contract corresponding to the target commodity is invoked by the blockchain node device. Commodity damage claim logic stated in the smart contract is executed by the blockchain node device to complete a commodity damage claim for the target commodity.
US10922756B1
Methods and systems for processing insurance policies associated with properties may be provided. A property may be populated with a plurality of smart devices or devices that are connected to a central controller, such as via wired or wireless communication. The plurality of devices may be covered by an insurance policy, such as a homeowners, renters, or personal articles insurance policy. The central controller may detect an insurance-related event and may retrieve sensor data and pricing information from one or more of the devices. The central controller may assess damage to the devices and may generate a proposed insurance claim based upon damage to the identified devices. Additionally, the central controller may facilitate a processing of the proposed insurance claim with a customer and an insurance provider. The smart devices may be, or be attached to, appliances, electronics, computers, televisions, jewelry, vehicles, furniture, or other equipment or personal belongings.
US10922749B1
A real-time payment card transaction routing bidding platform is disclosed that identifies a payment card transaction routing offer that satisfies a set of transaction routing criteria including at least one of a low transaction cost, a high transaction volume, a high network throughput, and a particular data security level. The real-time payment card transaction routing bidding platform is utilized by merchants using Internet-based systems to allow universal access to transaction bidding and to free small merchants from long and inflexible acquirer pricing contracts. In this way, the platform reduces cost by allow pricing to be dictated dynamically in the marketplace.
US10922742B2
A device may detect location information. The location information may indicate a location of the device. The device may receive product search information that identifies one or more criteria for searching inventory information. The inventory information may be associated with the location, and may include information regarding products. The device may cause a search of the inventory information to be performed, based on the product search information, to determine compatible products. The device may determine one or more selected products of the compatible products. The one or more selected products may be selected for purchasing. The device may locate tag devices associated with the one or more selected products to guide a user to a physical location of the tag devices. The device may provide purchase information associated with the one or more selected products.
US10922739B2
Disclosed embodiments provide techniques for presenting a list of items from an ecommerce site sorted or ranked based on the availability of online contacts having product association designation for one or more of the items. A client device issues a query to an ecommerce site and retrieves a list of items. A social media system is queried to find online contacts belonging to the network of a user. The profile and/or metadata for each online contact is examined to determine if the contact has a product association designation for one or more of the items. The list of items is sorted and/or ranked based on the current availability of online friends having a product association, such that items that have at least one online product designation contact available are presented in the list first, before listing items that are not associated with an available online product association contact.
US10922734B2
A computerized method is provided for automatically identifying a set of historical issues derived from historical customer interactions with an enterprise. The method includes collecting text-based data corresponding to the historical customer interactions, extracting customer queries from the text-based data, and normalizing and filtering the customer queries to generate the set of historical issues of the customer queries. The method also includes assigning the historical issues to one or more clusters that capture variances among the historical issues. The method further includes generating a legitimacy score for each historical issue and ranking the set of historical issues in accordance with their corresponding legitimacy scores. The method can further include identifying one or more issues in a transcript of unstructured text using the set of historical issues.
US10922725B2
The system and methods of the disclosed subject matter provide a hybrid machine learning approach for recommending items that a consumer should be shown as a next best offer. The recommendation may be based on the consumer's previous behavior, other consumers' previous behavior, and the consumer's profile. The system and methods may cluster an input dataset using an unsupervised clustering engine. The dataset output from the unsupervised clustering engine may be subsequently provided to the input of a supervised machine learning engine to generate a rules-based model. The system and methods may use the rules-based model to subsequently cluster new user data and generate recommendations based on the user's assigned cluster.
US10922723B1
A system includes a content provider serving a first user webpage that displays an external posting link associated with a computer store and a second user webpage of a social networking service. The computer store contains posts each associated with a post select control. A computer server at the content provider is coupled to the computer store and for each of the posts is programmed to receive from a web browser of a computer user a signal indicating activation of the post select control of a selected one of the posts displayed by the first user webpage, automatically link the selected one of the posts to the external posting link, receive from the web browser of the computer user a signal indicating activation of the external posting link, and automatically issue the selected one of the posts to the second user webpage for posting thereon.
US10922717B2
The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for operating an online on-demand service platform. The systems may perform the methods to: determine one or more recommendation rules for one or more activities for recommending to one or more candidate users; determine, for each of the one or more activities, one or more preset objects for the activity to achieve on the one or more candidate users; determine, for each of the one or more activities, a completion probability that each of the one or more candidate users will complete the one or more preset objects of the activity; and determine, for each of the one or more activities, at least one target user from the one or more candidate users to send a notice of the activity based on the one or more completion probabilities and the one or more recommendation rules.
US10922716B2
This disclosure generally covers systems and methods that identify objects within an augmented reality (“AR”) scene (received from a user) to gather information concerning the user's physical environment or physical features and to recommend products. In particular, the disclosed systems and methods detect characteristics of multiple objects shown within an AR scene received from a user and, based on the detected characteristics, select products to recommend to the user. When analyzing characteristics, in some embodiments, the disclosed systems and methods determine visual characteristics associated with the real object or virtual object, such as color or location of an object. The disclosed systems and methods, in some embodiments, then select an endorsed product to recommend for use with the real object—based on the determined visual characteristics—and create a product recommendation that recommends the endorsed product.
US10922710B2
A computer-implemented method, a system and a computer program product for processing third party online coupons. According to one embodiment, a third-party online coupon is received. Text is parsed to determine a merchant's website. The third-party online coupon description is parsed to determine a product term. The product term is searched for. The third-party online coupon is tested with a product associated with the product term. The third-party online coupon is determined if valid with the product.
US10922698B1
A method for detecting fraudulent communications receives gift card data associated with a gift card offered for sale by a customer. The method receives customer information about the customer associated with an identity document of the customer and associates the gift card data with the customer information. The method determines a balance of the gift card at an initial point in time based on the gift card data. The method determines the balance of the gift card at a subsequent point in time. The method compares the balance of the gift card at the initial point in time to the balance of the gift card at the subsequent point in time. The method associates a fraud alert with the customer information if the balance of the gift card at the initial point in time is different than the balance of the gift card at the subsequent point in time.
US10922681B2
A workaround for smartphone manufacturers locking out certain uses of NFC technology is presented as a system for the completion of wireless credit card transactions using an auxiliary electronics module affixed to a personal digital assistant or smart phone wherein the electronics module is enabled with 2 types of wireless credit card transaction technologies. One of the technologies is NFC and the other is MST. The auxiliary electronics module is enabled to perform an NFC or an MST transactions based on the phones locked status and or the POS capability. The affixed electronics module communicating with the device to which it is affixed with BLE wireless technology.
US10922670B2
A system for fulfilling orders under non-persistent network conditions includes point-of-sale terminals and a server. Each of the terminals generates state changes corresponding to one or more orders, queues the state changes in one or more durable order queues that correspond to the one or more orders, and transmits the state changes in the one or more durable order queues, from oldest to youngest, when operably connected to a network. The server is operably coupled to the terminals via the network, and receives the state changes, and transmits the state changes to the terminals. The server includes a queue processor that queues the state changes in a plurality of durable terminal queues that correspond to the terminals, where the state changes are transmitted to a first one of the of terminals, from oldest to youngest, when the first one of the terminals is operably connected to the network, and where the state changes are maintained in durable terminal queues corresponding to other ones of the terminals while the other ones of the terminals remain operably disconnected from the network.
US10922669B2
System and method for facilitating a combined purchase of online products and in-store products. The system comprising a payment processor module that is configured to: (i) receive data corresponding to: (a) a total price of one or more in-store products to be purchased at a physical store; (b) a total price of one or more online products to be purchased using an e-commerce platform; and (c) a combined payment amount for the in-store and the online products made by a purchaser of the in-store and the online products during a check-out procedure; and (ii) generate a product release message on a condition that the combined payment amount corresponds with the total price of the in-store products and the total price of the online products.
US10922660B2
Embodiments for intelligent sending of an automatic event invite based on identified candidate content by a processor. Data from one or more data sources may be cognitively analyzed to identify data content having a possible impact to one or more entities. An automatic event invite for an event may be sent to one or more participants to provide one or more actions relating to the possible impact to the one or more entities.
US10922658B2
A talent recruitment system and method. The system and method stores a first vacancy profile that includes a track-able link. This first vacancy profile may be from a first opportunity provider. An electronic campaign directed at opportunity seekers that are interested in being potential matches for the single vacancy profile is initiated. A candidate profile for a potential candidate is generated and a matching algorithm to determine if the candidate profile and the first vacancy profile are correlated is executed. If no correlation exists, it is determined whether to seek correlation between the candidate profile and a second vacancy profile from a second opportunity provider. If correlation between the candidate profile and the second vacancy profile is authorized, the matching algorithm is executed to determine correlation between the candidate profile and the second vacancy profile. If a correlation is found, the candidate is notified that a match exists. An award may also be provided to the first opportunity provider on behalf of the second opportunity provider.
US10922654B2
A device may receive information regarding a software environment and/or one or more modules associated with the software environment; receive information regarding one or more compliance requirements; determine one or more smart contracts based on the information regarding the one or more compliance requirements and the information regarding the software environment and/or the one or more modules associated with the software environment; obtain data regarding the software environment and/or the one or more modules; determine, using the one or more smart contracts, whether the data satisfies the one or more compliance requirements; and add at least part of a block, to a blockchain, to indicate whether the data satisfies the one or more compliance requirements, for realization of a reward or penalty associated with the one or more compliance requirements.
US10922652B2
The specification provides a blockchain-based application review system, method, and storage medium. The blockchain-based application review system comprises: a requesting client, a transaction end, and a blockchain node. The requesting client sends a program purchasing application to the transaction end; the transaction end receives the program purchasing application, determines product information of the target program according to identification information of the target program, and sends a program admission review application to the blockchain node based on identification information of the user and the product information of the target program; the blockchain node receives the program admission review application, executes a program admission review task when an execution condition of a first smart contract is satisfied, generates a corresponding review result, and sends the review result to the transaction end; and the transaction end receives the review result and sends the review result to the requesting client.
US10922651B2
By arranging the input screen of a computerized medical order entry system to display pre-defined order-set possibilities for several categories (for example, labs, diagnostic, staff, medications) where the displayed order-set is directly related to a selected one of a plurality of medical emergency conditions, the physician can easily select orders from a single screen while conducting a patient interview or examination. The system allows the physician to concurrently select orders from order-sets associated with medical conditions different from the initially selected medical condition. In one embodiment, an elapsed time for an order is displayed for overall monitoring of patients.
US10922638B2
In some embodiments, methods and systems of prioritizing retrieval of products from a plurality of bins at a retail sales facility are described. The methods include receiving an identification of a product being binned at a retail sales facility, then determining the size of the product, and then ranking the products in the bins based on the time stamp of a time of binning of the product. The physical size of the product and the ranking of the product are correlated to a size of the bins to determine the relative physical locations of the products in the bins. A pick of a product from a bin is generated based on a determination that the location of the product to be picked in one of the bins is higher than a location of at least one identical product in at least another one of the bins.
US10922635B2
A system (100) may include a computer-readable storage medium (220) configured to store a first set of instructions for determining one or more candidate driver terminals (140) to accept a service request; and a processor (210) in communication with the computer-readable storage medium (220), wherein when executing the first set of instructions, the processor (210) is directed to: establish a communication with a passenger terminal (130); obtain a service request including a position of the passenger terminal (130) from the passenger terminal (410); determine a wireless fidelity (WiFi) station based on the position of the passenger terminal (420); determine one or more driver terminals (140) that access the WiFi station (430); determine an access instance of each of the one or more driver terminals (440); and determine one or more candidate driver terminals (140) among the one or more driver terminals (140) based on the one or more access instances of the one or more driver terminals (450).
US10922634B2
Distribution network response capability monitoring and compliance determination is provided herein. A method can comprise generating, by a system comprising a processor, a model of a target asset based on operation data measured at the target asset during a defined event. The model is configured to simulate a transient response capability of the target asset. The method can also comprise determining, by the system, a compliance of the target asset to at least one defined parameter based on the transient response capability of the target asset during a simulated event and as a function of the operation data measured during the defined event.
US10922624B2
An online system receives a request from a third-party application for a content item to be delivered to a user of a user device, the request including a device identifier corresponding to the user device used to access the third-party application. In order to deliver a targeted content item, the online system accesses inference model to infer an identity of the user, based upon device usage parameters based upon the received request, historical data associated with the device identifier, or an indication of activity associated with the device identifier on the online system or one or more first-party applications.
US10922623B2
Systems and methods provide capacity planning, management, and engineering automation in networks including virtualization.
US10922622B2
An automated dynamic message categorization system is provided and includes first, second and third processing units. The first processing unit is configured to generate a user interface (UI) and to present the UI to a user. The second processing unit is configured to pull information from a first textual element which has been entered into the UI, to identify second textual elements that are relevant to the first textual element based on the pulled information and to extract textual element identifiers from the second textual elements. The third processing unit is configured to generate, for each extracted textual element identifier, a confidence score describing a degree of correlation between each extracted textual element identifier and the first textual element. The first processing unit is further configured to present to the user each extracted textual element identifier with a corresponding confidence score as a selectable option via the UI.
US10922616B1
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for determining recommended sizes of products using a machine learning model. In one embodiment, an example method may include determining, by one or more computer processors coupled to at least one memory, first user information for a first user, the first user information comprising a height and a weight of the first user, identifying a first body model based at least in part on the first user information, the first body model comprising a first algorithm, determining first estimated body measurement data for the first user using the first body model, the first estimated body measurement data comprising one or more physical dimensions of the first user, generating a first size recommendation of a first product for the first user using the first estimated body measurement data and a first size recommendation model, the first size recommendation comprising a first recommended size of the first product for the first user, determining that the first user purchased the first recommended size of the first product, and updating the first size recommendation model using the first estimated body measurement data and the first size recommendation.
US10922613B2
A method, system and computer program product for generating a solution to an optimization problem. A received structured set of data is analyzed with the prescriptive domains to identify one or more prescriptive domains that match the received structure set of data in data structure and/or semantic terms. A user selection of one of the presented possible prescriptive intentions from the intention templates in the identified one or more prescriptive domains that match the received structure set of data in data structure and/or semantic terms is received. A prescriptive model is then generated from the prescriptive domain containing the selected prescriptive intention. The prescriptive model is translated into a technical prescriptive model using a set of mapping rules. Furthermore, the technical prescriptive model is translated into an optimization model. The optimization model is solved and an output defining a solution from the solved optimization model is presented.
US10922611B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for determining update rules for training neural networks. One of the methods includes generating, using a controller neural network, a batch of output sequences, each output sequence in the batch defining a respective update rule; for each output sequence in the batch: training a respective instance of a child neural network using the update rule defined by the output sequence; evaluating a performance of the trained instance of the child neural network on the particular neural network task to determine a performance metric for the trained instance of the child neural network on the particular neural network task; and using the performance metrics for the trained instances of the child neural network to adjust the current values of the controller parameters of the controller neural network.
US10922601B2
Cards made in accordance with the invention include a specially treated thin decorative layer attached to a thick core layer of metal or ceramic material, where the thin decorative layer is designed to provide selected color(s) and/or selected texture(s) to a surface of the metal cards. Decorative layers for use in practicing the invention include: (a) an anodized metal layer; or (b) a layer of material derived from plant or animal matter (e.g., wood, leather); or (c) an assortment of aggregate binder material (e.g., cement, mortar, epoxies) mixed with laser reactive materials (e.g., finely divided carbon); or (d) a ceramic layer; and (e) a layer of crystal fabric material. The cards may be dual interface smart cards which can be read in a contactless manner and/or via contacts.
US10922600B2
The embodiments disclose an apparatus including a card grab tab for adhering to an object including a credit card to facilitate gripping by a thumb and fingers, an adhesive area for adhering the card grab tab to an object including a credit card, and an embossed feature applied to the card grab tab shape for identification and a tactile grip and identification.
US10922598B2
A fingerprint authorisable smartcard may include a fingerprint sensor for obtaining fingerprint data from a user's finger or thumb, and a control system for controlling the smartcard. The control system may be arranged to provide access to one or more functions of the smartcard in response to identification of an authorised fingerprint and the control system further may include a fingerprint failure feature in which a non-fingerprint authorisation can act to at least partially replace the fingerprint authorisation such that the control system may be arranged to provide access to at least some of the one or more functions of the smartcard when a user is identified via the non-fingerprint authorisation. The non-fingerprint authorisation may require an interaction with the fingerprint authorisable smartcard by the user, the interaction including one or more action(s) detected via the fingerprint sensor.
US10922588B2
Image data is run through a neural network, and the neural network produces a vector representation of the image data. Random sparse sampling masks are created. The vector representation of the image data is masked with each of the random sparse sampling masks, the masking generating corresponding sparsely sampled vectors. The sparsely sampled vectors are transmitted to nodes of a consensus network, wherein a sparsely sampled vector of the sparsely sampled vectors is transmitted to a node of the consensus network. Votes from the nodes of the consensus network are received. Whether a consensus is achieved in the votes is determined. Responsive to determining that the consensus is achieved, at least one of identification and verification of the image data may be provided.
US10922586B2
An apparatus for automatic target recognition with reinforcement learning is provided. The apparatus receives an image of a scene and performs an automatic target recognition on the image to detect objects in the image as candidate targets. The apparatus divides the candidate targets into subsets of candidate targets and performs a verification of the automatic target recognition to identify true targets in the image. In the verification, the apparatus solicits user input to manually identify some true targets in the image. The verification is performed according to a reinforcement learning process to minimize a total verification time.
US10922584B2
Systems and methods including one or more processing modules and one or more non-transitory storage modules storing computing instructions configured to run on the one or more processing modules and perform acts of: generating a training dataset comprising synthetic training images for training a neural network detection model to identify non-compliant content in images; executing a training procedure that utilizes the synthetic training images to train the neural network detection model to identify the non-compliant content; receiving, at the neural network detection model, at least one image; and utilizing the neural network detection model to determine whether the at least one image includes the non-compliant content. Other embodiments are disclosed herein.
US10922582B2
Different aspects of the invention enable localizing planar repetitive patterns in a time and resource efficient manner by a method and device which computes a homography between the model of the planar object and the query image even in cases of high repeatability and uses multiple views of the same object in order to deal with descriptors variability when the orientation of the object changes.
US10922579B2
The disclosed embodiments provide an improved method for enabling consumers to identify and purchase a desired frame that is captured in an image. For example, in one embodiment, the disclosed embodiments include a frame recognition system that includes at least one processor for executing computer executable instructions for receiving an image; identifying a frame image from the image; performing image recognition using the frame image to identify a plurality of frames; retrieving merchant information corresponding to the plurality of frames; receiving merchant information associated with the plurality of frames; presenting the plurality of frames and the merchant information associated with the plurality of frames; receiving order information in response to a user ordering a frame from the plurality of frames; and processing the order information.
US10922577B2
A technique and system for counting the number of repetitions of approximately the same action in an input video sequence using 3D convolutional neural networks is disclosed. The proposed system runs online and not on the complete video. It analyzes sequentially blocks of 20 non-consecutive frames. The cycle length within each block is evaluated using a deep network architecture and the information is then integrated over time. A unique property of the disclosed method is that it is shown to successfully train on entirely synthetic data, created by synthesizing moving random patches. It therefore effectively exploits the high generalization capability of deep neural networks. Coupled with a region of interest detection mechanism and a suitable mechanism to identify the time scale of the video, the system is robust enough to handle real world videos collected from youtube and elsewhere, as well as non-video signals such as sensor data revealing repetitious physical movement.
US10922576B2
A method of measuring indications of hair type of a user, the method comprising the steps of: providing a mobile device; providing a reference card, the reference card including one or more reference markers; providing one or more of the user's hairs at the 5 surface of the reference card; acquiring one or more images of said one or more hairs using the mobile device; identifying the path of each of the one or more hairs along the reference card; and calculating the curve of each hair from its identified path.
US10922574B1
Techniques are disclosed for implementing a neural network that outputs embeddings. Furthermore, techniques are disclosed for using sensor data to train a neural network to learn such embeddings. In some examples, the neural network may be trained to learn embeddings for instance segmentation of an object based on an embedding for a bounding box associated with the object being trained to match pixel embeddings for pixels associated with the object. The embeddings may be used for object identification, object matching, object classification, and/or object tracking in various examples.
US10922572B2
An adaptive automobile meter detection method based on character segmentation cascade classifier which processes threshold segmentation, morphology and connected components analysis on the original image; extracts the pointer based on the contour analysis method, establishes a pointer information list; constructs a character segmentation cascade classifier by combining a HOG/SVM character segmentation classifier, a character filter and a CNN digit classifier. The character segmentation cascade classifiers is used to identify the digit character area of the automobile meter. Region analysis is performed to extract tick marks based on the center of the digit character area. The angular position corresponding to the tick mark is determined. The response value corresponding to the pointer is determined by establishing the Newton interpolation linear description relationship between the pointer angle and the response value and then the meter is classified as pass or fail. The invention is suitable for the field of visual inspection of automobile meter pointers.
US10922564B2
Embodiments of the disclosure provide a system for detecting a conflict in a vehicle. The system includes at least one camera, which is configured to capture a plurality of images in the vehicle. The system further includes a controller in communication with the at least one camera. The controller is configured to detect human objects from the plurality of images, estimate depth information of the respective human objects, and detect the conflict based on the depth information.
US10922559B2
An imaging system adjusts a display of images obtained of an area to compensate for one or more relationships of cameras on a vehicle relative to a peripheral area. The system comprises a processor, an image obtaining unit, a non-transient memory, a situational compensation unit, and a display unit. The image obtaining unit receives first image data representative of a first image, and the memory stores intrinsic image coordinate transformation data representative of an intrinsic mapping between the first image data and first display data representative of an uncompensated bird's eye view image of the peripheral area of the associated vehicle. The situational compensation selectively modifies the intrinsic mapping as an adjusted intrinsic mapping between the first image data and the first display data in accordance with a signal representative of the one or more relationships of the associated vehicle relative to the peripheral area.
US10922547B1
A method for monitoring an active fire is provided. The method receives a request from an authorized party for live audio/video (A/V) data from a geographical area of the fire. The method identifies a plurality of A/V recording and communication devices in the geographical area of the fire. The method sends an authorization request to a plurality of client devices that each is associated with at least one of the A/V recording and communication devices, the authorization request for accessing live A/V data generated by the A/V recording and communication devices. The method receives authorization from at least one of the client devices for accessing the live A/V data generated by at least one A/V recording and communication device associated with the at least one client device. The method provides the live A/V data generated by the at least one A/V recording and communication device to the authorized party.
US10922545B2
An information processing device of the present invention includes a first determiner and a recognizer. The first determiner is configured to determine a shutter speed and an ISO speed meeting a condition that an exposure value corresponding to a default F-number, a luminance of a subject, the shutter speed, and the ISO speed becomes a predetermined exposure value. The recognizer is configured to recognize a target object from a photographed image. The photographed image is photographed using the default F-number, and the shutter speed and the ISO speed determined by the first determiner.
US10922535B2
The present disclosure provides a method and a device for identifying a wrist, a method for identifying a gesture, electronic equipment and a computer-readable storage medium. The method includes: obtaining a first image, the first image including a hand and the wrist; binarizing the first image to obtain a binary image; extracting a partial image from the binary image, where the partial image is obtained by removing at least of finger information from the binary image; identifying a principal direction of the binary image based on the partial image, and determining a target direction perpendicular to the principal direction; and determining a target position in the binary image where the binary image matches a first wrist feature as a wrist position in the binary image according to the target direction.
US10922533B2
The disclosure provides method for face-to-unlock, authentication device, and non-volatile storage medium. The method for face-to-unlock includes: obtaining to-be-verified expression data of a to-be-verified expression of a to-be-verified object; comparing the to-be-verified expression data with pre-stored expression data to obtain a comparison result; and in the case where the comparison result indicates that the to-be-verified expression data matches the pre-stored expression data, releasing the lock.
US10922524B2
An optical path modulator, applied to a fingerprint identification apparatus, is configured to direct reflected light reflected back from a surface of a finger to an optical detection unit disposed below the optical path modulator, and the optical detection unit is configured to detect the received reflected light, where an array of through holes is arranged between an upper surface and a lower surface of the optical path modulator, and the array of through holes includes a plurality of tilt through holes, where each tilt through hole has a tilt angle greater than 0°, and the tilt angle is an angle between an axial direction of the tilt through hole and a normal direction perpendicular to a surface of the optical path modulator. In a case of the same hole depth, a thinner optical path modulator can be obtained.
US10922518B2
Embodiments of the present application provide a chip package structure, a chip package method and a terminal device. The chip package structure includes: an optical sensing chip, including a first surface and a second surface, where the first surface is provided with a first pad, the second surface is provided with a connecting end, the first pad is electrically connected to the connecting end, and the connecting end is configured to implement an electrical connection between the chip package structure and the exterior; and an optical path modulating structure, disposed above the first surface, and configured to perform an optical path modulation on an optical signal reflected from a human finger and make the signal incident on the first surface, or perform the optical path modulation on an optical signal emitted from the first surface and make the signal exit to the human finger.
US10922516B2
A display device has a display area with a first area in which a fingerprint is recognized and a second area in which a fingerprint is not recognized, and a non-display area. A fingerprint sensing unit is disposed to overlap with the first area. A first pixel set is disposed to overlap with the first area, and a second pixel set is disposed to overlap with the second area, each set including a plurality of pixels. A first voltage signal is provided to the first pixel set as a variable frequency signal, and includes a first period during which the first voltage signal is a first frequency signal, a second period during which the first voltage signal is a second frequency signal having a lower frequency than the first frequency signal, and a third period during which the first voltage signal is the first frequency signal.
US10922511B2
An embedded fingerprint recognition device based on a mobile terminal includes a touch screen module, the touch screen module including a touch panel, the touch panel including a groove defined therein; and a fingerprint recognition module embedded and disposed in the groove.
US10922504B2
A device is provided for storing elements, each element including a first wireless communication unit. The device includes at least two drawer units each including: a drawer including a bottom defining at least one location for receiving an element; for each location, at least one second wireless communication unit including an antenna having a radiation-zone field, each antenna having a first state in which the antenna is activated and a second state in which the antenna is deactivated; and a data-processing unit able to control the activation and deactivation of the antenna of each second communication unit according to a control law.
US10922503B2
The present invention provides a series of structures that provide a unique electromagnetic signature that can be used as a standalone device or as part of a larger security system. This structure's design method of manufacturing ensures that is resilient to commonly used techniques for reverse engineering electronic components and counterfeiting and is able to be applied to devices or any product before or after fabrication is completed.
US10922492B2
Techniques are disclosed to assist an author in creating content variations of a given input text to better suit the mood or the affect preferences of the target audience. Affect distribution in the content is utilized to capture these psycholinguistic preferences. According to one embodiment, in a first phase the optimal/idea psycholinguistic preference for text content aimed at a particular audience segment is determined. In a second phase, a given text content is modified to align to a target language distribution, which was determined in the first phase. In one example case, word level replacement, insertions and deletions are executed to generate a modified and coherent version of the input text. The output text thus reflects the psycholinguistic requirements of the audience.
US10922483B1
In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for artificial intelligence communication assistance for providing advice in drafting an electronic communication to a target recipient utilizing user communication profiles.
US10922477B2
An electronic data interchange (EDI) management system may comprise a memory for storing EDI document data and a machine learning prediction model representing element information of EDI documents of a first type and a corresponding status. A processor can be configured to extract elements from an EDI document, create a document record for the EDI document, the document record comprising elements extracted from the EDI document; determine a first delivery status for the EDI document of the first type by processing the extracted elements using a machine learning delivery model, the machine learning delivery model trained on a training set of elements to classify documents according to a plurality of delivery statuses, and add the first status to the document record for the EDI document of the first type, the first status accessible to a client computer via a presentation layer.
US10922470B2
A method of forming a semiconductor device includes: providing a first circuit having a plurality of circuit cells; analyzing a loading capacitance on a first pin cell connecting a first circuit cell and a second circuit cell in the plurality of circuit cells to determine if the loading capacitance of the first pin cell is larger than a first predetermined capacitance; replacing the first pin cell by a second pin cell for generating a second circuit when the loading capacitance is larger than the first predetermined capacitance, wherein the second pin cell is different from the first pin cell; and generating the semiconductor device according to the second circuit.
US10922459B2
A method for converting a circuit in a format of a first circuit simulation program to format of a second circuit simulation program includes identifying components in the circuit that are recognized by the second simulation program. Characteristics for components that are not recognized by the second simulation program are created. Connections in the circuit are formatted to a format that is recognized by the second simulation program. The components, characteristics, and connections are stored in a single computer-readable file.
US10922456B1
The present embodiments relate to electrostatic discharge (ESD) simulation of integrated circuit designs. A netlist of the circuit design can be modified to include ESD protection devices and only essential non-ESD devices. The essential non-ESD devices can be determined based on whether a non-ESD device satisfies one or more of two conditions: (i) a least resistance path (LRP) value of at least one terminal of the non-ESD device from any port of the set of ports is less than a first threshold value or (ii) an effective resistance value between at least one terminal of the non-ESD device from any port of the set of ports is less than a second threshold value. The essential non-ESD devices are included in a reduced netlist in addition to the ESD protection devices. The ESD simulation is carried out on the reduced netlist, thereby reducing simulation time.
US10922452B2
A digital simulation system of a power distribution network, comprising: a client and a server end. The server end is a simulation server cluster composed of several simulation servers; the simulation server cluster and the client are mutually connected through a communication bus, wherein the client is configured to use a DCOM component to invoke a simulation service provided by the server end, and the server end is configured to distribute a task to be processed to each cluster node. Constructing the above-mentioned digital simulation system facilitates an optimal planning and operation of a smart power distribution network, thereby improving the utilization efficiency and reliability of the smart power distribution network and reducing the loss of a power outage.
US10922449B2
A computer-aided design system enables physical articles to be customized via printing or embroidering and enables digital content to be customized and electronically shared. A user interface may be generated that includes an image of a model of an article of manufacture and user customizable design areas. Customization permissions associated with a selected design area are accessed. User provided content to be used in customizing a design area may be analyzed in real time or in batch mode using a trained engine to determine if it complies with one or more rules. If the user provided content satisfies a corresponding rule, manufacturing instructions and a design file may be transmitted to a printing system.
US10922448B2
A system and method for pre-operatively optimizing a fit of an orthopaedic implant relative to a particular individuals anatomy is provided. The method includes: receiving information including a three-dimensional anatomic model of the individuals anatomy; computing a periphery of a simulated resection portion of the anatomic model without reference to any abnormal morphology; identifying a preliminary size for an orthopaedic implant component for use on the simulated resection surface; initially positioning the orthopaedic implant model relative to the simulated resection portion; generating random point sets around the peripheries of the simulated resection portion and the orthopaedic implant model; utilizing a position optimizer to determine whether the position of the orthopaedic implant periphery relative to the simulated resection portion periphery is optimal; determining whether the selected orthopaedic implant model results in overhang; and verifying the position of the orthopaedic implant and/or the size of the orthopaedic implant.
US10922446B2
A computational accelerator for determination of linkages across disparate works in a model-based system engineering (MBSE) regime accesses textual content of MBSE works and performs preprocessing of each MBSE work to produce a preprocessed data structures representing the MBSE works. The preprocessing gatherings significant terms from each MBSE work, and delineates the textual content of each MBSE work into segments corresponding to separately identifiable textual statements. Segment-wise comparison between segment pairings of the preprocessed data structures corresponding to different MBSE works is performed to produce a set of segment-wise comparison results based on terms common to each segment pairing, and statement-wise linkages between statements of the MBSE works are determined based on the set of segment-wise comparison results.
US10922442B2
The electronic circuit comprises a logic module performing a first function. A number generator generates a series of first numbers. A voltage generator supplies the logic module with a first minimum operating voltage of the logic module and a variable additional second voltage having electrical characteristics that are functions at least of the first series of first numbers. The variable additional second voltage comprises at least a fixed voltage defined by an offset voltage value and a first periodic voltage defined at least by a first frequency and a first amplitude. The voltage generator is configured so that the value of the offset voltage, of the first frequency and/or of the first amplitude are defined at least from the series of first numbers.
US10922431B2
Systems and methods for dynamically masking video or images captured by a drone device camera are provided. Such systems and methods include flying the drone device proximate to a potential surveillance area while in a learning mode, capturing first video or images of the potential surveillance area, identifying first privacy masking areas in the first video or images, flying the drone device proximate to an active surveillance area while in a standard mode, capturing second video or images of the active surveillance area, identifying second privacy masking areas in the second video or images, and dynamically masking a portion of the second video or images that contains any of the first privacy masking areas or the second privacy masking areas.
US10922430B2
Systems and methods are provided for data security grading. An exemplary method for data security grading, implementable by a computer, may comprise receiving a request to access a query data field, searching for the query data field from a security level table, in response to finding the query data field from the security level table, obtaining from the security level table a security level corresponding to the query data field, and in response to not finding the query data field from the security level table, determining a security level corresponding to the query data field based at least on a lineage tree and the security level table. The lineage tree may trace the query data field to one or more source data fields, and the security data level table may comprise one or more security levels corresponding to the one or more source data fields.
US10922429B2
A data access method in a cloud computing environment is disclosed. The method may comprise, in a service object space of the cloud computing environment, receiving a request of a user for accessing a data package, the request including a user identification, determining a service object space of the data package corresponding to the request, and providing the data package to the user according to the service object space of the data package and the user identification.
US10922423B1
A security policy analyzer service of a computing resource service provider performs evaluations of security policies provided by the service provider's users, to determine whether the security policies are valid, satisfiable, accurate, and/or sufficiently secure. The service may compare the user-provided policy to a stored or best-practices policy to begin the evaluation, translating encoded security permissions into propositional logic formulae that can be compared to determine which policy is more permissive. The service determines values of the parameters in a request for access to a computing resource based on the policy comparison, and generates request contexts using the values. The service uses the request contexts to generate one or more comparative policies that are then used iteratively as the second policy in the comparison to the user-provided policy, in order to produce additional request contexts that represent allow/deny “edge cases” along the borders of policy permission statements.
US10922420B2
Implementations and methods herein provide a networked storage system including a plurality of physical storage devices configured to store data on a plurality of virtualized volumes, a key store configured to store a plurality of encryption keys, and a security manager configured to encrypt data stored on each of the plurality of virtualized volumes using a different key.
US10922396B2
Arrangements for automatically authenticating a user based on a signals-based footprint of the user are provided. In some examples, an authentication device may continuously scan a predefined area surrounding the authentication device. Upon detecting a user device, a determination may be made as to whether the device is detected for at least a threshold amount of time. If so, user data may be requested. In some examples, the user data may be requested from, for example, a mobile device of a user and may include biometric signature data, such as heart rate, respiratory rate, and the like. User response data may be received and compared to pre-stored data and, if the user response data meets or exceeds a threshold confidence level, the user may be automatically authenticated. If not, additional user authentication information, such as a username and password, personal identification number (PIN), or the like, may be requested to authenticate the user.
US10922384B2
A platform and method for content management is disclosed. A content right management method includes receiving contents from a user, and generating a create key for a right for the contents by encrypting the contents using encryption information, in which the create key includes a copyright of the contents and a creation right of the contents.
US10922368B2
The present invention relates to a novel system and method for social play. The novel system and method includes a non-transitory machine readable storage medium containing instructions to cause a machine to send a request to a plurality of subscribers who fit a first profile to play a physical sport at a first venue and during a first time period. The first profile comprises at least one criteria and is partially set by a sender of the request and in part configured by default settings.
US10922358B2
The invention relates to a computer-implemented system and method for analyzing unstructured data from a plurality of input files, and standardizing the data to a format that can be consumed by downstream systems. The method may comprise the steps of: receiving at least one input file to be analyzed, wherein the at least one input file includes the structured and unstructured data, splitting the at least one input file into a plurality of documents, classifying each page of the plurality of documents as one of structured or unstructured data, parsing the pages of the plurality of documents classified as unstructured data, extracting relevant data from the parsed pages, mapping each of the extracted relevant data to standardized output; and generating canonical data sets based on the standardized outputs.
US10922342B2
Schemaless systems and methods for automatically building and utilizing a chatbot knowledge base or the like. Textual analytics tools, such as natural language processing (NLP) and/or deep learning engines, are used to analyze the knowledge base and uncover and highlight gaps, which are turned into topics. Predetermined answers to these queries can then be prepared manually, or by an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm with alternative database visibility. In this manner, new question-and-answer (Q&A) pairs are generated by the systems and methods in an automated manner, for later use by a chatbot, coaching system, or the like. These processes are iterative. Advantageously, transferring the processes from manual control to automated control greatly conserves resources.
US10922331B2
Embodiments create a clone of a PDB while the PDB accepts write operations. While the PDB remains in read-write mode, the DBMS copies the data of the PDB and sends the data to a destination location. The DBMS performs data recovery on the PDB clone based on redo entries that record changes made to the source PDB while the DBMS copied the source PDB files. This data recovery makes all changes, to the PDB clone, that occurred to the source PDB during the copy operation. The redo information, on which the data recovery is based, is foreign to the PDB clone since the redo entries were recorded for a different PDB. In order to apply foreign redo information to perform recovery on the PDB clone, a DBMS managing the PDB clone maintains mapping information that maps PDB source reference information to corresponding information for the PDB clone.
US10922328B2
Disclosed are methods and apparatuses for reducing the number of database calls when transferring data from a database to a server. One embodiment provides an approach for utilizing staging tables to collate and transform core data and related data in the database before transferring the data to the server, so that the number of database calls used may be reduced.
US10922323B2
Disclosed is a service processing method, a server and a computer storage medium. In the method, for each of a plurality of services, a reservation amount of the service and a usage amount of the service are determined according to service usage information of a client; the reservation amount of the service and a usage-reservation ratio parameter of the service are processed on the basis of a characteristic value strategy to obtain a characteristic value of each service, the usage-reservation ratio parameter of the service is determined on the basis of the reservation amount of the service and the usage amount of the service; and a graphical interface of the client is called to present a ranking result of characteristic values of the plurality of services.
US10922318B2
Embodiments of a proxy operating for an endpoint to cache queries and query results are disclosed.
US10922317B2
Systems and methods for determining whether a user is part of a defined segment of all users makes use of a database of user information that includes rapidly searchable field values. Predetermined segment definitions can be evaluated using information from a user's record in the database to rapidly determine if the user is a member of the segment.
US10922316B2
Database queries may be performed using resources based on a determined size of the database query. Database query size may be dynamically determined for a database query when the query is received. The database query may be assigned to resources used for database queries of the determined size. In some embodiments, timeouts may be applied to reassign database queries to different resources if the performance of the database query exceeds a timeout threshold.
US10922305B2
A task list can list tasks to be performed on a target host machine. Certain tasks in the task list can be revised to produce a revised task list. Tasks directed to storage devices can be revised depending on whether or not the storage devices are shared by both the target host machine and a reference host machine.
US10922302B2
A first device gathers data samples, transmits a timing table for the device, and also transmits the gathered data sample, using at least one short range wireless connectivity standard protocol. A second device receives the timing table and the data sample from the first device, and determines a real-time clock time stamp for the data sample based on the device timing table.
US10922300B2
In a computer-implemented method for updating schema of a database, execution of an application in a computing environment is initiated, where the application persists data in a database, and where the schema of the database is updatable responsive to an update of the application. Responsive to determining that the schema is updated, a first instance of the schema executing in the database is received, a second instance of the schema maintained in the application is received, the first instance of the schema is compared to the second instance of the schema, a difference between the first instance of the schema and the second instance of the schema is determined, and the first instance of the schema is updated to incorporate the difference between the first instance of the schema and the second instance of the schema.
US10922298B2
A system can include one or more processors and non-transitory computer-readable media storing computing instructions configured to run on the one or more processors and perform a method for indexing time-series-based event records in one or more event databases for speedy retrieval of event records of interest. In an embodiment, the method can comprise: receiving, at the system from a computing device, an inquiry from a user, the inquiry comprising an event having a time period and a changed attribute; retrieving, by the system from a computer database, at least one result event indicator, based on the time period and the changed attribute, from a hash table stored in the computer database; and retrieving, by the system, a search result based on inquiry and the one or more matched event records associated with the at least one result event indicator. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10922291B2
A workbook management system provides a master branch of a data pipeline comprising a pointer(s) to a snapshot(s) of an initial dataset(s), a first logic, and a pointer(s) to a snapshot(s) of a first derived dataset(s) resulting from applying the first logic to the initial dataset(s). Responsive to user input requesting a test branch corresponding to the master branch, the system creates the test branch comprising the pointer(s) to the snapshot(s) of the initial dataset(s) and a copy of the first logic. The system receives a request to modify the test branch comprising at least one change to the copy of the first logic, and modifies the test branch independently of the master branch to include second logic reflecting the at least one change to the copy of the first logic, the pointer(s) to the snapshot(s) of the initial dataset(s), and a pointer(s) to snapshot(s) of a second derived dataset(s) resulting from applying the second logic to the initial dataset(s). Responsive to user input requesting a merge of the modified test branch into the master branch, the system updates the master branch to replace the first logic with the second logic and to replace the pointer(s) to the snapshot(s) of the first derived dataset(s) with the pointer(s) to the snapshot(s) of the second derived dataset(s).
US10922283B2
Apparatuses, methods, systems, and program products are disclosed for file synchronization. An apparatus includes an origin tracking module that tracks data change information for each of at least one data change in an origin file stored on an origin device. The data change information includes a location of the data change in the origin file and a length of the data change. An apparatus includes a synchronization detecting module that detects a synchronization event associated with the origin file. An apparatus includes a synchronizing module that copies the data of the origin file for each of the at least one data change in the origin file at the tracked location and length to a target file stored on a target device.
US10922281B2
Deduplication of files or other data or objects in a manner that is aware of a format of the file and the application. A file may be chunked based on the format. The chunks are more consistent and lead to higher deduplication ratios. The file may be presented as a single file. However, the file is stored in chunks or subfiles and deduplication is performed with respect to the chunks. When the file is read, the file is rebuilt from its respective chunks. The files may also be compressed using differential compression, which leverages the content of similar files to compress a current file.
US10922278B2
Systems and methods for increasing computing efficiency include a compiler configured to compress a variant table into a variant decomposition diagram (VDD). VDDs are compact representations of one or more variant tables and comprise a series of nodes and links that can be used to evaluate (e.g., filter, iterate, access) the variant table.
US10922274B2
A method of performing auto-naming of content includes: receiving an auto-naming command for the content; performing auto-naming of the content by using different parameters according to different content types to obtain at least one auto-naming result for the content; and displaying the auto-naming result.
US10922271B2
A method of clustering files, comprises, by a processing unit: obtaining a clustering structure comprising a plurality of nodes arranged in hierarchical levels Li, with i from 1 to N, obtaining at least one data (Dsignal) representative of a file (Dfile) to be assigned to a category; (O1) comparing said data to each centroid of each node of the first level, (O2) if said comparison matches an acceptance threshold of one or more nodes, selecting a node among these nodes, (O3) comparing Dsignal to each centroid of each node of a next level which is linked to said selected node, (O4) if said comparison matches an acceptance threshold of one or more nodes, selecting a node among these nodes, repeating O3 and O4 until a stopping condition is met, thereby indicating that Dsignal or Draw belongs to a category of files represented by said selected node.
US10922261B2
A memory clock frequency adjusting method suitable for a computer device is provided. The computer device includes a basic input output system (BIOS) and a memory. The memory clock frequency adjusting method includes following steps. A boot process of the computer device is executed, and the memory is operated at a memory clock frequency set by the BIOS. Whether the computer device is successfully booted is determined by the BIOS to decide whether the boot process of the computer device is to be re-executed. A setting of the memory clock frequency is adjusted by the BIOS when the computer device re-executes the boot process to lower the memory clock frequency, so that the memory is operated at the lowered memory clock frequency. In addition, a mainboard and a computer operating system applying the memory clock frequency adjusting method are also provided.
US10922259B2
An exemplary embodiment extended peripheral component interconnect express (PCIe) device includes a host PCIe fabric comprising a host root complex. The host PCIe fabric has a first set of bus numbers and a first memory mapped input/output (MMIO) space on a host CPU. An extended PCIe fabric includes a root complex endpoint (RCEP) as part of an endpoint of the host PCIe fabric. The extended PCIe fabric has a second set of bus numbers and a second MMIO space separate from the first set of bus numbers and the first MMIO space, respectively.
US10922256B2
A display apparatus is provided. The display apparatus includes a display panel and a display controller. The display controller is electrically connected to a USB Type-C interface of a host via a USB Type-C interface of the display apparatus. In response to the USB Type-C interface of the display apparatus being in a USB Type-C default pin-assignment mode, the display controller receives an image signal from the host via two USB SuperSpeed channels of the USB Type-C interface of display apparatus. In response to a display mode of the display apparatus satisfying a specific condition, the display controller controls the USB Type-C interface of the display apparatus to enter a USB Type-C first pin assignment mode, so that the host utilizes the four USB SuperSpeed channels of the USB Type-C interface of the display apparatus to transmit the image signal to the display controller.
US10922249B2
Systems and methods are described for verifying functionality of a computing device. A plurality of I/O control codes usable to configure specified actions for a device under test is received. The I/O control codes that were completed without generating an error are determined. The I/O control codes that completed without generating an error and associated binding information are recorded. The I/O control codes that completed without generating an error and associated binding information are stored in a format usable for subsequent replay of the stored I/O control codes.
US10922247B2
In an example, an apparatus may have a controller to be coupled to a host, an interface component coupled to the controller, and a plurality of memory devices coupled to the interface component. The interface component may be to cause a memory device of the plurality of memory devices to perform an operation in response to a command from the controller.
US10922240B2
According to one embodiment, a memory system includes a cache configured to cache a part of a multi-level mapping table for logical-to-physical address translation, and a controller. The multi-level mapping table includes a plurality of hierarchical tables corresponding to a plurality of hierarchical levels. The table of each hierarchical level includes a plurality of address translation data portions. The controller sets a priority for each of the hierarchical level based on a degree of bias of reference for each of the hierarchical level, and preferentially caches each of the address translation data portions of a hierarchical level with a high priority into the cache, over each of the address translation data portions of a hierarchical level with low priority.
US10922235B2
A system and method are disclosed for handling logical-to-physical mapping and increasing the amount of mapping table information that may be stored in a cache in volatile memory. The system includes a storage device having non-volatile memory, an input/output interface, a cache manager, a cache utilization manager, a cache swap manager, and a storage controller configured to service a storage command using a physical address provided by the cache manager. The method includes receiving a storage command comprising a logical address, the logical address comprising a partition identifier, implementing a cache eviction policy in response to determining that a mapping table cache does not have a cache entry that matches the logical address. The method also includes evicting the cache entry with a ranking, or score, that satisfies a cache eviction threshold and loading a replacement cache entry from an address mapping table stores on non-volatile memory.
US10922230B2
A processing system indicates the pendency of a memory access request for data at the cache entry that is assigned to store the data in response to the memory access request. While executing instructions, the processor issues requests for data to the cache most proximal to the processor. In response to a cache miss, the cache controller identifies an entry of the cache to store the data in response to the memory access request, and stores an indication that the memory access request is pending at the identified cache entry. If the cache controller receives a subsequent memory access request for the data while the memory access request is pending at the higher level of the memory hierarchy, the cache controller identifies that the memory access request is pending based on the indicator stored at the entry.
US10922212B2
Systems, methods, and media for analyzing service catalog items include determining information about a service catalog item, such as whether the service catalog item functions as intended, has macros associated therewith that have changed due to a platform change of a platform running the service catalog, and determining a change has occurred to variables and the source of the change when variables associated with the service catalog item have changed.
US10922210B2
The automatic identification of execution behavior(s) of software. This automatic identification is based on a historical analysis of execution records to identify a particular pattern that represents an execution behavior. In order to automatically identify an execution behavior present within particular software, an execution record (or perhaps multiple execution records) representing the execution of that particular software may be accessed. Based on finding the particular pattern within the execution record (or one, some, or all of the multiple execution records) representing the execution of that particular software, the computing system may automatically identify that the execution behavior is present within the software. This may dramatically assist in modifying that execution behavior.
US10922209B2
A device for automatically repairing memory deallocation errors is disclosed. The device includes: a static analysis unit configured to generate status information for each one of the objects included in the source code of a program by way of a static analysis of the source code, where the status information includes position information, pointer information, and patch information, the position information associated with allocation sites of the objects, the pointer information associated with pointers pointing to the objects, the patch information associated with deallocation statements capable of deallocating the objects; a decision unit configured to choose patch candidates from the patch information and decide on a combination of the patch candidates capable of deallocating each of the objects only once; and a repair unit configured to repair the source code according to the combination of patch candidates.
US10922203B1
Unavoidable physical phenomena, such as an alpha particle strikes, can cause soft errors in integrated circuits. Materials that emit alpha particles are ubiquitous, and higher energy cosmic particles penetrate the atmosphere and also cause soft errors. Some soft errors have no consequence, but others can cause an integrated circuit to malfunction. In some applications (e.g. driverless cars), proper operation of integrated circuits is critical to human life and safety. To minimize or eliminate the likelihood of a soft error becoming a serious malfunction, detailed assessment of individual potential soft errors and subsequent processor behavior is necessary. Embodiments of the present disclosure facilitate emulating a plurality of different, specific soft errors. Resilience may be assessed over the plurality of soft errors and application code may be advantageously engineered to improve resilience. Normal processor execution is halted to inject a given state error through a scan chain, and execution is subsequently resumed.
US10922199B2
In one example, a distributed cluster may include compute nodes having a master node and a replica node, an in-memory data grid formed from memory associated with the compute nodes, a first high availability agent running on the replica node, and a second high availability agent running on the master node. The first high availability agent may determine a failure of the master node by accessing data in the in-memory data grid and designate a role of the replica node as a new master node to perform cluster management tasks of the master node. The second high availability agent may determine that the new master node is available in the distributed cluster by accessing the data in the in-memory data grid when the master node is restored after the failure and demote a role of the master node to a new replica node.
US10922193B2
A data backup method is disclosed, the method including the following steps: acquiring remaining storage capacity of a cloud space (S101); collecting usage characteristic information of an application when the remaining storage capacity is less than a preset value (S102); grading the application based on the usage characteristic information so as to obtain a grade of the application (S103); and when the grade of the application is consistent with a preset grade and the data in the corresponding application is updated, backing up updated data to the cloud space (S104).
US10922190B1
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for updating database records while maintaining accessible temporal history. One example method generally includes receiving a request, at a database, to select an instance of a record from the database at a specific point in time and reading the instance of the record from a snapshot of the database. The method further includes loading one or more deltas associated with the record from the database and chronologically applying the one or more deltas to the instance of the record to create the instance of the record. The method further includes returning the instance of the record, determining that the request has made a percentage of recent requests exceed a threshold for requests for most-current data and creating a new snapshot of the database.
US10922182B2
A motor driving device includes: a rectifier circuit for rectifying an AC input voltage supplied from an AC power supply to a DC voltage; a smoothing capacitor for smoothing the rectified DC voltage; a relay that outputs a contact signal when the input voltage is input to the rectifier circuit from the AC power supply; an input voltage detector for detecting the input voltage; a capacitor voltage detector for detecting the capacitor voltage; a volatile first storage; a nonvolatile second storage; and a backup start determiner for determining whether or not to start a backup operation of transferring the information stored in the first storage to the second storage, based on at least one of the contact signal, the input voltage and the capacitor voltage.
US10922181B2
A method comprises encoding, by a DS processing unit of a dispersed storage network (DSN), a data segment using an information dispersal algorithm with a first pillar width number to produce a set of encoded data slices. The method continues by generating a set of DSN addresses for the set of encoded data slices based on the first pillar width number, a second pillar width number and a DSN address mapping function. The method continues by identifying, based on the DSN addresses, a first group of storage units of a set of storage units that includes the second width pillar number of storage units and where the first group of storage units includes the first pillar width number of storage units. The method continues by sending the set of encoded data slices to the first group of storage units in accordance with the set of DSN addresses.
US10922179B2
A method for execution by a dispersed storage network (DSN), the method begins by determining a slice name of an encoded data slice to verify, obtaining the encoded data slice and optionally compressing the encoded data slice, determining a dispersed storage (DS) unit of the stored set of DS units to produce a selected DS unit, sending the compressed encoded data slice request message to the selected DS unit, receiving a compressed encoded data slice response message to produce a selected compressed encoded data slice, determining a compressed encoded data slice partial of the encoded data slice, determining whether a sum of compressed encoded data slice partials compares favorably to the selected compressed encoded data slice, indicating a failed test when the processing module determines that the comparison is not favorable and indicating a passed test when the processing module determines that the comparison is favorable.
US10922178B2
A system includes byte-addressable non-volatile memory (NVM) modules. The system includes media controllers communicatively connected to one another over a memory semantic fabric. Each media controller is responsible for a corresponding NVM module to which the media controller is attached. The media controllers cooperatively provide redundant array of independent disks (RAID) functionality at a granularity at which the NVM modules are byte-addressable without employing a master RAID controller.
US10922176B2
Systems and methods for recovery of parity based storage systems are described. In one embodiment, a group of nodes includes one or more storage nodes, and the one or more storage nodes include one or more storage containers. In one embodiment, the one or more storage containers include one or more data storage containers, one or more parity storage containers, or one or more spare storage containers, or any combination thereof. The system and methods include a hardware controller configured to identify a first failed storage container on a first storage node from the group of storage nodes, identify data associated with the first failed storage container on at least a second storage container on a second storage node from the plurality of storage nodes, and recover the data associated with the first failed storage container from at least the second storage container on the second storage node.
US10922171B2
An error correction code (ECC) circuit of a semiconductor memory device includes a syndrome generation circuit and a correction circuit. The syndrome generation circuit generates syndrome based on a message and first parity bits in a codeword read from a memory cell array by using one of a first parity check matrix and a second parity check matrix, in response to a decoding mode signal. The correction circuit receives the codeword, corrects at least a portion of (t1+t2) error bits in the codeword based on the syndrome and outputs a corrected message. Here, t1 and t2 are natural numbers, respectively.
US10922170B2
A memory system includes a memory device having a plurality of volatile memory modules therein, and a memory controller, which is electrically coupled to the plurality of volatile memory modules. The memory controller is configured to correct an error in a first of the plurality of volatile memory modules in response to generation of an alert signal by the first of the plurality of volatile memory modules, concurrently with an operation to refresh at least a portion of a second of the plurality of volatile memory modules upon the generation of the alert signal.
US10922167B2
A memory controller for controlling a memory device including a register for storing a plurality of parameters includes: a register information storage configured to store the plurality of parameters as a plurality of setting parameters, a register controller configured to provide the memory device with a parameter change command for requesting a selected parameter to be changed to a set value, and acquire, from the memory device, Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) calculation information on the plurality of parameters including the selected parameter, a CRC reference information generator configured to generate CRC reference information on the plurality of setting parameters including at least one setting parameter changed to the set value, and a CRC information comparator configured to determine whether an error is included in the plurality of parameters according to a comparison result between the CRC calculation information and the CRC reference information.
US10922163B2
A device obtains a plurality of server logs from a plurality of servers, where each server log includes a plurality of log entries, and generates, based on the plurality of log entries, a plurality of data structures, where each data structure includes one or more log entries that concern a server request. The device identifies a set of data structures associated with one or more server errors and processes the set of data structures using an artificial intelligence technique to determine a respective classification score of each data structure. The device determines, based on the respective classification score of each data structure, a respective server error type of each data structure, and causes display of information concerning at least one server error type associated with the set of data structures.
US10922158B2
A system and method for processing an input data stream. An input connector module receives an input data streams. A job thread is operatively connected to the received input data stream and produces an output data stream. An output connector module supplies an output data stream.
US10922134B2
Techniques process data. The techniques involve determining priority of a plurality of cores of a processor based on metadata stored in a plurality of queues associated with the plurality cores, respectively, the metadata being related to data blocks to be processed that are associated with the respective cores, and the metadata in each of the queues being sorted by arrival times of the respective data blocks to be processed. The techniques further involve storing core identifiers of the plurality of cores into a cache by an order of the priorities. By means of at least some of the above techniques, quick insertion of metadata can be realized through multiple queues and the efficiency of determining data blocks to be processed is improved based on sorting of the cores.
US10922118B2
Methods, computer program products, and systems are presented. The method computer program products, and systems can include, for instance: obtaining, by a container host node, container image configuration data that defines a specified container image configuration, wherein the container host node includes an associated container image repository for storing container images; multicasting, by the container host node, a request for one or more image of first through Nth specified container images to a set of container host nodes; receiving, by the container host node, at least one container image from at least one container host node of the set of container host nodes in response to the multicasting; building, by the container host node, a specified container image according to the specified container image configuration using the at least one container image received by the receiving; and running, by the container host node, the specified container image built by the building to define a runtime container.
US10922110B2
The invention relates to a method for storing data of an application running on a virtual machine, in a virtualized storage system corresponding to the emulation of at least one magnetic tape and at least one associated magnetic tape drive, via a data exchange protocol which is TCP/IP.
US10922104B2
Systems and methods for determining and presenting a graphical user interface including template metrics are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: manage templates for work unit records that define units of work managed, created, and/or assigned within a collaboration environment; create one or more first work unit records based on the first template; monitor the units of work created using the templates to determine template information; determine template metric values for template metrics associated with the templates based on the template information such that first template metric values for the template metrics associated with the first template are determined based on the first template information; and effectuate presentation of a graphical user interface including the templates and the template metric values for the template metrics associated with the templates.
US10922100B2
An electronic device for processing a touch input is provided. The electronic device includes a touch screen display having a first aspect ratio; a memory that stores at least one application; and a processor electrically connected to the touch screen display and the memory, wherein the processor is configured to compare a second aspect ratio of a user interface of one of the at least one application with the first aspect ratio, display the user interface in a first area having the second aspect ratio of the touch screen display when the second aspect ratio is smaller than the first aspect ratio, display at least one function button, which is not a part of the application, in a second area of the touch screen display that does not overlap the first area, display the user interface in an entire area of the touch screen display when the second aspect ratio is equal to the first aspect ratio, and display the at least one function button on the touch screen display such that the function button overlaps the user interface.
US10922086B2
To perform a reduction operation to combine data values for threads in a thread group using a data processor, the data processor performs combining steps that each combine the stored combined data value result of a previous combining operation for a thread with the combined data value result of the previous combining operation for a selected another execution lane that has not yet contributed to the stored combined data value result for the thread. The data processor selects as the another execution lane of the execution processing circuitry that has not yet contributed to the combined data value result for the thread, an execution lane from a group of execution lanes whose values have been combined in the previous combining step and that have not yet contributed to the combined data value result for the thread, and having a particular relative position in the group of execution lanes.
US10922085B2
An apparatus to facilitate thread scheduling is disclosed. The apparatus includes logic to store barrier usage data based on a magnitude of barrier messages in an application kernel and a scheduler to schedule execution of threads across a plurality of multiprocessors based on the barrier usage data.
US10922080B2
Disclosed embodiments relate to systems and methods for performing instructions structured to compute a min/max value of a vector. In one example, a processor executes a decoded single instruction to determine on a per data element position of the identified first and second operands a maximum or minimum, store the determined maximum or minimums in corresponding data element positions of the identified first operand, and determine and store, in each data element position of the identified third operand, an indication of where the maximum or minimum came from.
US10922074B2
An embodiment provides deferred state mutation. Information defining action chains implementing part of a client application is received. The received information includes an explicit computer executable instruction to modify a global state associated with each action chain. Computer executable instructions are automatically generated for each of the action chains to create respective private views of the global state for each of the action chains. A separate implicit computer executable instruction is automatically associated with each of the explicit computer executable instructions. The implicit computer executable instructions are executed during runtime of the client application instead of the respective explicit computer executable instructions.
US10922069B2
Flexible, multidimensional infrastructure scaling for cloud-based over-the-air (OTA) systems is disclosed. The method comprises: obtaining requirements for OTA updates; obtaining infrastructure scaling data indicative of at least one of information technology (IT) infrastructure or communications resources provided by at least one mobile network operator (MNO); determining, using the infrastructure scaling data, a plurality of infrastructure scaling options that satisfies the requirements; determining a cost associated with each of the infrastructure scaling options; determining a cost-optimal infrastructure option from the plurality of infrastructure scaling options that satisfies the requirements for OTA updates and has the lowest associated cost; procuring and allocating a number or type of infrastructure components according to the cost-optimal infrastructure option; communicating an update time and update channel for delivering the OTA updates to the mobility clients; and initiating delivery of the OTA updates to the mobility clients using the procured and allocated infrastructure components.
US10922068B1
Updating firmware in an programmable integrated circuit (IC) includes determining, using a processor of a computer, a base address register (BAR) of an accelerator card from a device data file, wherein the accelerator card includes a programmable IC and is connected to the computer via a communication bus, mapping, using the processor, a feature PROM and a flash programmer circuit of the programmable IC to local memory of the computer using the BAR, and reading, over the communication bus, the feature PROM on the programmable IC to determine a programming mode for programming an external flash memory coupled to the flash programmer circuit. Based on the programming mode and using the processor, firmware is provided to the flash programmer circuit on the programmable IC via the communication bus. The flash programmer circuit is configured to program the firmware into the external flash memory.
US10922063B2
A computer system comprises a work accelerator, a gateway the transfer of data to the accelerator from external storage, the accelerator executes a first compiled code sequence to perform computations on data transferred to the accelerator from the gateway. The first compiled code sequence comprises a synchronisation instruction indicating a barrier between a compute phase in which the compute instructions are executed and an exchange phase, wherein execution of the synchronisation instruction causes an indication of a pre-compiled data exchange synchronisation point to be transferred to the gateway. The gateway comprises a streaming engine storing a second compiled code sequence in the form of a set of data transfer instructions executable by the streaming engine to perform data transfer operations to stream data through the gateway in the exchange phase, wherein the first and second compiled code sequences are generated as a related set at compile time.
US10922061B2
An information processing apparatus according to one of exemplary aspects of the present disclosure includes: an alternate pattern identifier 862 that identifies first instruction sequences in a program in a first language, each of the first instruction sequences leading to a result individually achieved by second instruction sequences in a second language different from the first language, the second instruction sequences including operators being common to the first instruction sequences; a pattern selector 865 that determines ratios for the operators of the second instruction sequences; and an instruction scheduler 870 that selects a second instruction sequence based on the ratios from the second instruction sequences for each of the first instruction sequences.
US10922059B2
Techniques for configuring and generating an integrated application interface are disclosed. An interface for generating application metadata associating application components and component behaviors may be displayed to a user. The metadata generation interface accepts user input associating an action with an application component. The system generates application metadata, defining application behavior corresponding to the application component, based on the user input. The system may generate a platform interface that integrates the application behavior into a platform interface, based on the application metadata. The system determines behaviors of components of the application by analyzing the application metadata. Based on the application component behaviors, the system renders platform components of the platform interface to integrate the application behaviors into the platform interface. Upon receiving user input via the platform components of the platform interface, the system may construct and transmit a request to the application.
US10922057B2
A circuit for transposing a matrix comprising reversal circuitry configured, for each of one or more diagonals of the matrix, to receive elements of the matrix in a first vector and generate a second vector that includes the elements of the matrix in an order that is a reverse of an order of the elements of the matrix in the first vector, and rotation circuitry configured, for each of the one or more diagonals of the matrix, to determine a number of positions by which to rotate the elements of the matrix in the second vector, receive the second vector of elements of the matrix, and generate a third vector that includes the elements of the matrix in the second vector in an order that is a rotation of the elements of the matrix in the second vector by the determined number of positions.
US10922054B2
According to one embodiment, an apparatus is capable of exchanging a frame with an external apparatus in a packet mode of a serial attached small computer system interface (SAS). The external apparatus includes a scrambler. The apparatus includes a descrambler and a controller. The descrambler is configured to descramble frame data scrambled by the scrambler. The controller is configured to, in a case where first frame data is received from the external apparatus, synchronize the descrambler with the scrambler using the first frame data and a first value that is to be scrambled by the scrambler to obtain the first frame data.
US10922051B2
A computing device may include a processor, a plurality of input devices communicatively coupled to the processor of the computing device, a voice recognition device to detect audible input from a user, and a profile manager to manage application specific profiles for the plurality of input devices and, when executed by the processor, establish an application specific profile based on the audible input received by the voice recognition device.
US10922043B2
The present disclosure relates to an information processing device and an information processing method, which are capable of acquiring accurate information associated with a desired target which is pointed by a user. The information processing device includes an indication target detection unit that detects an indication target that is pointed by an indicating object. An information generation unit generates explanatory information that includes content information indicating visually recognizable content of the indication target and additive information indicating visually recognizable characteristics associated with the indication target. An output control unit controls output of a voice of the explanatory information.
US10922042B2
A method for displaying virtual content and a system for sharing virtual content are disclosed. The method includes obtaining, by a first electronic device, a first spatial location information of the first electronic device with respect to at least one marker; receiving, by the first electronic device, data of a first virtual object generated in a second electronic device and a second spatial location information of the first virtual object with respect to the at least one marker; generating, by the first electronic device, a second virtual object based on the data of the first virtual object, the first spatial location information, and the second spatial location information, to obtain a display content, wherein the second virtual object is same to the first virtual object in content while the second virtual object is different from the first virtual object with a different display angle; and displaying the display content.
US10922041B2
A wireless screen transmission method, an extension device, and a wireless screen transmission system are disclosed. The wireless screen transmission method includes: receiving screen display data and audio data captured by a source end device; transmitting the screen display data and the audio data to a touch screen display end over a wireless network, so that the screen display data and the audio data are presented by the touch screen display end; receiving touch data generated by the touch screen display end over the wireless network; and transmitting the touch data to the source end device, so that an operation corresponding to the touch data is performed by the source end device. The present invention further implements returning of touch data from a display end in a wireless manner based on wireless screen transmission, thereby improving flexibility and convenience of operations.
US10922037B2
A management apparatus includes a storage unit that, if plural individual processing targets are grouped in accordance with predetermined conditions, stores the predetermined conditions and processing target groups generated by grouping the plural individual processing targets in accordance with the predetermined conditions while associating the predetermined conditions and the processing target groups with each other and a display control unit that, if one of the processing target groups stored in the storage unit is selected, displays another processing target group that shares at least one of the predetermined conditions with the selected processing target group.
US10922030B2
There is provided an image forming apparatus. A reception unit receives a change of a printing setting for each page in a case where, in a printing setting is designated for printing data that is made up of a plurality of pages, a page on which printing processing is impossible to perform is included in the printing data. An output unit outputs the printing data according to the printing setting that is received by the reception unit.
US10922029B2
An information processing device includes a controller that changes, depending on a position of a user, display of a conversation partner who is responding in an interface for the user to make a conversation with the conversation partner. In a further modification of the invention, depending on a positional relationship between the user and a partner, the controller may change the display of the conversation partner who is responding, to display of the partner.
US10922025B2
A memory system including a nonvolatile memory (NVM) device and a controller is provided. The NVM device includes a main region and a spare region. The controller writes write data to a selected row of the main region, determines whether the written row is bad, and writes the write data to a spare address in the spare region and writes the spare address to the bad row, when the written row is determined to be bad.
US10922016B2
A data processing system may include a plurality of memory systems and a host configured to provide commands for the memory systems. A first memory system among the memory systems may receive the commands from the host, check each of the memory systems where a plurality of command operations corresponding to the commands are to be performed, transmit respective commands among the commands to respective remaining memory systems except for the first memory system among the memory systems through a plurality of dedicated channels, and perform a first command operation corresponding to the first memory system in at least one of the remaining memory systems.
US10922015B2
A processing system includes a processing unit; a non-volatile memory storing configuration data; and a configuration data client including a register, wherein the configuration data client is configured to receive the configuration data and store the configuration data in the register. The processing system further includes a hardware configuration circuit configured to read the configuration data from the non-volatile memory and transmit the configuration data, read from the non-volatile memory, to the configuration data client. The hardware configuration circuit may be configured to receive a command, including an access request, from the processing unit and selectively execute the access request.
US10922011B2
Provided are a controller configured to perform secure deletion, a key-value storage device including the controller, and a method of operating the key-value storage device. The key-value storage device includes a non-volatile memory including a plurality of blocks, and a controller configured to control a memory operation on the non-volatile memory, receive a write command including a first key and a first value corresponding to the first key from a host, write data of a file corresponding to the first value to at least one block of the plurality of blocks of the non-volatile memory in response to the write command, receive a secure deletion command for the first value from the host, and erase the at least one block to which the first value is written, in response to the secure deletion command.
US10922010B2
Apparatus and methods are disclosed, including receiving an indication to selectively overwrite first data stored on a first page of a first subset of a group of multi-level memory cells of a storage system, determining a second subset of memory cells from the first subset that, in response to programming from a first level to a second level, will alter a read output of the first data on the first page and maintain a read output of remaining pages, and programming the second subset of memory cells from the first level to the second level to securely remove the first data stored on the first page while maintaining data on the remaining pages.
US10921998B2
A memory system may include: a nonvolatile memory device including a plurality of memory blocks each including a plurality of pages; and a controller suitable for: managing mapping information for mapping logical addresses to physical addresses; classifying, as a specific physical address, a physical address that becomes a target physical address of a remap command by exceeding a first threshold count; and classifying, as cold data, data stored in a specific page corresponding to the specific physical address among the pages, wherein, in response to the remap command, the controller further: detects the target physical address corresponding to a first logical address through the mapping information; and remaps the target physical address to a second logical address, and wherein the first threshold count is a natural number of 2 or more.
US10921995B2
A memory device includes a memory component that stores data and a processor. The processor may receive requests from a requesting component to perform a plurality of data operations, generate a plurality of packets associated with the plurality of data operations, and continuously transmit each of the plurality of packets until each of the plurality of packets are transmitted. Each of the plurality of packets after the first packet of the plurality of packets is transmitted on a subsequent clock cycle immediately after a previous packet is transmitted.
US10921979B2
A method includes obtaining, by a head mounted display, a trigger instruction and determining coordinates of a line of sight focus of a user on a screen of a portable electronic device, where the trigger instruction is used to instruct the head mounted display to perform a display operation, sending the coordinates to the portable electronic device, when the coordinates trigger the portable electronic device to determine that an object corresponding to the coordinates can be processed by the portable electronic device, obtaining, by the portable electronic device, related content of the object, obtaining the related content of the object of the portable electronic device, and displaying the related content of the object on a virtual screen.
US10921977B2
An information processing apparatus includes a memory and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor is configured to perform a first operation for a first object that is displayed on a screen. The processor is configured to display a third object on the screen in association with the first object after performing the first operation for the first object, wherein the third object represents the first operation. The processor is configured to superimpose the third object on one of at least one second object that is displayed on the screen. The processor is configured to apply the first operation to the one of at least one second object after superimposing the third object on the one of at least one second object.
US10921973B2
A building energy management includes building equipment, one or more data platform services, a timeseries database, and an energy management application. The building equipment operate to monitor and control a variable and provide raw data samples of a data point associated with the variable. The timeseries database stores a plurality of timeseries associated with the data point. The plurality of timeseries include a timeseries of the raw data samples and the one or more optimized data timeseries generated by the data platform services based on the raw data timeseries. The energy management application generates an ad hoc dashboard including a widget and associates the widget with the data point. The widget displays a graphical visualization of the plurality of timeseries associated with the data point and includes interactive user interface options for switching between the plurality of timeseries associated with the data point.
US10921960B2
Methods, computer readable medium, and systems for mapping geologic features are described. In one example, a selection of a template describing a theoretical geologic depositional profile is received. In addition, paleo-elevations and/or paleo-depths of actual geologic facies in an actual geologic depositional profile are received. A graphical map that represents the actual geologic depositional profile is generated by mapping the received paleo-elevations and/or paleo-depths onto the theoretical depositional profile.
US10921958B2
An electronic device and method are disclosed. The electronic device includes: an input circuitry, a display, a camera, a communication circuitry, a processor operatively connected to the input circuitry, the display, the camera, and the communication circuitry, and a memory operatively connected to the processor. The processor implements the method, including display, on the display, one or more images depicting characters selectable as avatars, detect via the input circuitry a selection of a character as an avatar, set the selected character as the avatar, replacing an object included in an image captured by the camera, and display, on the display, one or more icons representing one or more packages including a first package associated with the selected character, based on identification information for the selected character.
US10921954B2
A method of sharing content performed by a device includes: receiving a capture image of a screen of another device and reproduction information for reproducing content corresponding to an object displayed on the capture image from the other device; displaying the capture image; and reproducing the content corresponding to the object by using the reproduction information in response to a user input with respect to a region that displays the object in the capture image.
US10921948B1
Techniques are described for optimizing the use of computing resources in connection with providing online services. A user interface (UI) executes in the cloud and is streamed as video to a client device. When the user navigates away from the UI, the connection between the client and the computing resource is terminated and the resource is placed back in the pool. The most recent state of the UI is retained so that when the user navigates back to the UI, a new resource is allocated and the UI begins executing at or near the point where the user last interacted with the UI.
US10921943B2
A compliant material, such as a conductive foam, is positioned in the dielectric or capacitive gap between drive and sense electrodes and/or other conductive elements of a capacitive and/or other force sensor, such as a TFT or other display element and a sensor assembly. The compliant material prevents damage by preventing and/or cushioning contact. The compliant material may be conductive. By being conductive and being positioned between the electrodes while still being separated from one or more of the electrodes, the compliant material also shortens the effective electrical distance between the electrodes. As a result, the force sensor may be more sensitive than would otherwise be possible while being less vulnerable to damage.
US10921930B2
Display apparatus including plurality of input sections, communication section, connection detector that detects connection between information terminal apparatus and communication section via cable, position information generator that generates position information on position on a display surface at which pointing element points, display section that displays an image on display surface, controller that executes first mode that causes display section to display image based on image information and position information and second mode that causes display section to display image based on image information and operates information terminal apparatus based on position information wherein two modes are switchable from one to the other, and storage that stores source information on use result representing input section used in execution of second mode, and when connection detector detects connection, controller selects one of the plurality of input sections based on source information and executes second mode.
US10921922B2
A mobile terminal including a glass panel having a first and a second touch region. The second touch region is, at least in part, located within the first touch region and configured to obtain fingerprint information. The mobile terminal further includes a first and a second touch sensor respectively corresponding to the first and second touch regions, a light guide plate provided at a backside of the first and second touch sensors, and a light source provided on at least one side of the light guide plate, wherein the light guide plate includes a light guide plate body to propagate light from the light source, and windows such that brightness of the second touch region is substantially the same as brightness of a portion of the first touch region that is outside of the second touch region, the windows having different properties including at least one of size and density.
US10921920B1
A force-sensitive touch sensor detects location and force of touches applied to the sensor. Movement of an object touching the force-sensitive touch sensor correlates to movement of a pointer on a display device. Varying levels of force applied to the force-sensitive touch sensor are interpreted as different commands. Objects displayed on the display device can be manipulated by a combination of gestures across a surface of the force-sensitive touch sensor and changes in force applied to the force-sensitive touch sensor.
US10921915B2
A touch panel, a display device and a driving method thereof are provided. The touch panel includes: an array substrate, an opposing substrate and touch pressure-sensitive electrodes. The opposing substrate is arranged opposite to the array substrate; and the touch pressure-sensitive electrodes are disposed on a bottom layer on a side of the array substrate facing the opposing substrate and configured to form a capacitor structure together with a metal layer disposed on a side of the array substrate away from the opposing substrate, so as to sense pressure touch.
US10921914B2
The present application discloses a touch sensing apparatus. The touch sensing apparatus includes a plurality of magnetic sensor units spaced apart from each other, each of which configured to detect a change in magnetic field caused by a first touch input and connected to a first touch integrated circuit. Each of the plurality of magnetic sensor units includes a reference conductor and a plurality of conductors surrounding the reference conductor, the reference conductor and each of the plurality of conductors independently connected to the first touch integrated circuit. The first touch integrated circuit is configured to determine a touch position of based on changes in capacitances between the magnetic sensor and each of the plurality of conductors.
US10921911B2
A smart watch is disclosed which may be controlled remotely using any of a variety of communications control links and control modules that are not part of the watch itself. The control links include RF, Bluetooth, Optical, Hardwired and Artificial Intelligence (Al) control links; operating in combination with tactile, audio and/or visual/motion sensing control mechanisms (modules). The disclosed smart watch optionally includes an expandable speaker extending from the wrist band of the watch to allow for the speaker to easily be placed next to the user's ear while in use. The Bluetooth speaker may be removable and may be used with other wireless devices. Methods, apparatus and systems incorporating the disclosed teachings are particularly well suited to support use of a smart watch by the disabled; and allows for both “hands free” and/or remote smart watch operation and control.
US10921898B2
A machine implemented method includes sensing entities in first and second domains. If a first stimulus is present and an entity is in the first domain, the entity is transferred from first to second domain via a bridge. If a second stimulus is present and an entity is in the second domain, the entity is transferred from second first domain via the bridge. At least some of the first domain is outputted. An apparatus includes a processor that defines first and second domains and a bridge that enables transfer of entities between domains, an entity identifier that identifies entities in the domains, a stimulus identifier that identifies stimuli, and a display that outputs at least some of the first domain. The processor transfers entities from first to second domain responsive to a first stimulus, and transfers entities from second to first domain responsive to a second stimulus.
US10921890B2
The present disclosure concerns a method and apparatus for the creation of an acoustic field for providing tactile sensations. More particularly, but not exclusively, this disclosure concerns a method and apparatus for the creation of an acoustic field providing tactile sensations for use with an interactive device. The disclosure provides a method of generating a tactile sensation. The method comprises the steps of providing a plurality of acoustic transducers arranged to generate a predetermined distribution of pressure patterns, wherein the pressure patterns comprise a first region providing a first tactile sensation and a second region providing a second, different, tactile sensation.
US10921888B2
The system and methods described herein determine a subject's indication of attention to a first and a second sensory stimuli. The system determines a sensory evoked response of the subject by calculating the statistical relationship between the subject's neural response to the stimuli and a signal feature of the first and the second sensory stimuli. A magnitude value of the sensory evoked response is extracted to determine whether the subject attended-to or ignored the sensory stimuli. The system will select the stimuli that elicited the greater indication of attention, and then trigger further processing by a computer. Such processing can include selecting future content for improving safety warnings, educational materials, or advertisements or further processing can include controlling and navigating a brain computer user interface.
US10921883B2
A mobile device includes an eye sensor and an eye track control system. The eye detection sensor detects movements of a human eye generates an eye detection signal indicative of detected eye movements of a user. The eye tracking control system determines a concentrated state of the user and a distracted state of the user based on the detected eye movements. The eye tracking control system is further configured to selectively operate the mobile device in different modes based on the concentrated state and the distracted state. The eye tracking control system operates the mobile device in a first mode that provides a plurality of device capabilities to the user in response to determining the concentrated state, and operates the mobile device in a second mode that applies at least one limitation to the plurality of device capabilities in response to determining the distracted state.
US10921877B2
A silhouette-based limb finder may be used to detect limbs from a camera image. This limb determination may be used to control an application, such as a game, or a combination with other image processing. A first distance field indicating a distance from the edge of a silhouette in an image and a second distance field indicating distance from a location in the silhouette may be used to generate a path from an extremity point on the silhouette to the location. This path then may be used to determine a limb in the silhouette. This allows tracking of limbs even for hard to detect player poses.
US10921871B2
Architectures or techniques are presented that can facilitate automatic recovery from a component failure exhibited by a building automation system (BAS) control device and/or a heating, ventilation, and air conditioning (HVAC) control device. A failure or fault condition with a software or firmware component can be automatically repaired. A failure or fault condition with a hardware component can be identified, potentially more quickly, and hardware component replacement can be streamlined or simplified.
US10921865B2
A touchpad module includes a touch member, a base plate, a switch, a supporting structure and a sheet-like elastic element. The base plate includes a triggering part. The switch is disposed on the touch member and aligned with the triggering part. The supporting structure is arranged between the base plate and the touch member. The sheet-like elastic element is located under the touch member and extended along an extension direction. The sheet-like elastic element includes plural vacant spaces. The plural vacant spaces are discretely arranged along the extension direction. The sheet-like elastic element is divided into a swinging structure and plural fixing structures by the plural vacant spaces. In response to an external force, the touch member is swung toward the base plate by using the supporting structure as a fulcrum, and the swinging structure is swung toward the base plate.
US10921864B2
A display device includes a panel support portion including a plurality of support portions rotatably connected to each other, a flexible display panel on a first surface of the panel support portion, and a first protection portion rotatably connected to a side of the panel support portion.
US10921860B2
An article includes a substrate; a first layer disposed on the first major surface of the substrate, wherein the first layer has an adherence to the substrate of greater than or equal to 4B according to a cross hatch adhesion test set forth in ASTM D3359-17; and at least one ink layer disposed on the first layer having a surface roughness Ra greater than or equal 50 nm to provide a textured surface. Also disclosed is an article a substrate a coating disposed on the first major surface, wherein the coating has an adherence to the substrate of greater than or equal to 4B according to a cross hatch adhesion test set, a gauge hardness greater than or equal to 4H according to a pencil test, and a scratch hardness greater than or equal to 3H according to a pencil test set.
US10921858B2
An apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes a case forming at least one portion of a surface of the apparatus, the at least one portion of the surface including a first metal portion, a second metal portion, and a non-metal portion disposed between the first and second metal portions; and a touchscreen display at least partially housed in the case.
US10921857B2
In a flexible display device including a non-bending area and a bending area, the flexible display device may include a circuit structure, a display structure on the circuit structure, and an organic layer under or over the circuit structure, the organic layer including a groove corresponding to the bending area.
US10921853B2
A display device and a method for fabricating the same are provided. The display device includes a display panel, a first circuit board which has a first end attached onto the display panel, a driver integrated circuit which is disposed on the first circuit board, a sealing member disposed on the first circuit board and which surrounds an outer surface of the driver integrated circuit, and an insulating tape which is disposed on the sealing member and the driver integrated circuit.
US10921846B1
A clock generation circuit includes: a preliminary clock generation circuit suitable for generating a first preliminary clock signal with a half of a target cycle, and generating a second preliminary clock signal by inverting the first preliminary clock signal; a clock doubler circuit suitable for generating first and second intermediate clock signals by respectively doubling the cycles of the first and second preliminary clock signals; and an edge trigger circuit suitable for triggering the first and second intermediate clock signals to output first and second output clock signals with the target cycle, respectively, according to the first and second preliminary clock signals.
US10921845B2
A real time clock and power management integrated circuit consists of a) an RTC block comprising an internal clock generator for generating a system clock signal that controls a device and b) a power management block. The power management block comprises primary and backup power source connections, a Feed Power Downconverter Component, a backup power source charger power booster/regulator component to increase or regulate voltage from the primary power source to a predetermined charger input voltage, a charge control logic component, a backup power source cut-off logic component, and a mode control logic component to enable operation of the charge control logic component and the battery cut-off logic component under predetermined conditions.
