US09331453B2
A laser diode device has a housing with a mounting part and a laser diode chip, which is based on a nitride compound semi-conductor material, in the housing on the mounting part. The laser diode chip is mounted directly on the mounting part by means of a solder layer and the solder layer has a thickness of greater than or equal to 3 μm.
US09331450B2
A laser apparatus according to embodiments may include a laser chamber including a laser gain medium; a power source; a first electrode to which a voltage is applied from the power source and a second electrode that is grounded, the first and second electrodes being disposed in the laser chamber; and a connector connected to the power source, and supporting the first electrode in a way that allows the first electrode to move toward a side where the second electrode is disposed.
US09331445B1
An epidermal friendly twist-on wire connector and a method of applying an epidermal twist-on wire connector having a resilient gripping region including a set of low profile, resilient ribs that are circumferentially spaced so that a users thumb and fingers can compressively and sequentially engage and compress at least a portion of a plurality of ribs as well as the valley between the ribs during application of a wire securement torque to the twist-on wire connector while at the same time inhibiting or preventing epidermal trauma in a users thumb and fingers.
US09331439B2
An electrical connector assembly includes an receptacle connector, the receptacle connector includes a first insulative housing defining a mating surface and a first side surface extending along a first direction. A plurality of first terminals are retained in the first insulative housing and each defines a contacting plate fixed to the first insulative housing and a welding portion extending outside of the first insulative housing. The first insulative housing defines a plurality of mating holes running through the mating surface, a part of the contacting plate is exposed in the mating hole to form a contacting portion.
US09331435B2
A connector includes a holder (20) and an electronic component (60) with a cylindrical main body (61). Lead wires (62) project axially from one axial end (61A) of the main body (61). An electronic component holding portion (35) is in the holder (20) and includes an insertion opening (39) into which the electronic component (60) is inserted. Projecting portions (64) are formed on the lead wires (62) and project radially out beyond an outer peripheral surface of the main body (61). The electronic component holding portion (35) includes a main body accommodating portion (36) for accommodating the main body (61) and guides (37) that communicate with the main body accommodating portion (36). The guides (37) are located radially outward of the main body (61) and guide the projecting portions (64) toward back sides in an inserting direction while suppressing circumferential movements of the projecting portions (64).
US09331431B2
An RJ45 Communication jack has a housing with a top, bottom, front, and back. A foil is immediately adhered to and partially covers the housing. A top or bottom of the housing is covered by a first portion and a second portion of the foil wherein the first portion and the second portion are separated by a nonconductive gap. The gap extends from the front of the housing to the rear of the housing.
US09331426B2
A modular connector is provided having a connector plug, which may be inserted into an associated socket in a first longitudinal direction, a resilient leg, depending at a first end thereof from the connector plug, and having a depressible part, distal therefrom, depressible towards the connector plug, and a guard cover, configured to prevent access to the depressible part of the resilient leg in its direction of depression, but to permit access to the resilient leg in the longitudinal direction through an access aperture, the access aperture being aligned with the depressible part of the resilient leg on an axis parallel with the longitudinal direction, to allow depression of the resilient leg through the access aperture directly. Corresponding extraction tool and methods, loopback connector, blanking plug, keyed protrusions and notches, security gasket, and blanking plate and patch panel also are disclosed.
US09331421B2
A waterproof electric connector module includes an insulated housing, an electric connector, a blocking plate, and a sealed structure. The insulated housing is formed in an elongated shape. A front entry and a rear entry are individually formed on two end sides of the insulated housing and disposed aligned with each other. A side opening is formed on a side of the insulated housing and communicates with the rear entry. The electric connector is disposed in the insulated housing and has a plurality of terminals which extend and protrude from the side opening. The blocking plate blocks the rear entry. The sealed structure fills and seals the side opening. The terminals individually penetrate through the sealed structure. The waterproof housing can be sealed through the blocking plate and the sealed structure.
US09331409B2
An electrical connection device is to be attached to a wiring board for holding a plate conductive member so that the wiring board is electrically connected to the plate conductive member. The electrical connection device includes a contact piece including an arm portion, a leg portion, and a base portion disposed between the arm portion and the leg portion; and a base member to be attached to the wiring board for supporting the contact piece at the base portion thereof. The base member is to be attached to the wiring board so that the base member is movable in parallel to the wiring board. The contact piece is arranged so that the plate conductive member pushes the arm portion to urge the leg portion against the wiring board with the base portion as a pivot when the plate conductive member contacts with the arm portion.
US09331400B1
A male contact assembly includes a contact body having a mating end and a wire end opposite the mating end. The wire end has a wire barrel configured to receive and be terminated to a wire conductor. The male contact assembly includes a spring body having a front end and a rear end. The rear end is coupled to the mating end of the contact body such that the rear end of the spring body and the mating end of the contact body are coaxially aligned for a mating length. The front end of the spring body includes a male connector comprising at least one compliant beam. The at least one compliant beam of the male connector is resiliently deflected when connected to an external female connector.
US09331397B2
Electronic devices may be provided that contain wireless communications circuitry. The wireless communications circuitry may include radio-frequency transceiver circuitry and antenna structures. The antenna structures may form a dual arm inverted-F antenna. The antenna may have a resonating element formed from portions of a peripheral conductive electronic device housing member and may have an antenna ground that is separated from the antenna resonating element by a gap. A short circuit path may bridge the gap. An antenna feed may be coupled across the gap in parallel with the short circuit path. Low band tuning may be provided using an adjustable inductor that bridges the gap. The antenna may have a slot-based parasitic antenna resonating element with a slot formed between portions of the peripheral conductive electronic device housing member and the antenna ground. An adjustable capacitor may bridge the slot to provide high band tuning.
US09331395B2
Provided is an antenna, including: a dielectric support portion mounted to a tip of a waveguide; and a reflector bonded and fixed to the dielectric support portion. The dielectric support portion includes: an accommodating portion accommodating the reflector therein; and a fall-off preventing arrangement preventing the reflector from falling off under a state in which the reflector is accommodated in the accommodating portion.
US09331394B2
Reflector systems (10) comprising a reflector (11) formed from rigid panels (14) mounted on a centrally-located hub (12) are provided. The panels (14) can be stowed in a relatively compact manner in which the panels (14) overlap. The panels (14) can translate with a combination of rotational and linear motion so that the panels (14) become disposed in a side by side relationship, thereby deploying the reflector (11) so that the reflector (11) can focus electromagnetic energy incident thereupon.
US09331390B2
According to various aspects, exemplary embodiments are disclosed of antenna assemblies. In an exemplary embodiment, an antenna assembly generally includes a feed network and a ground plane. Radiating dipoles or dipole radiating elements are along or on opposite sides of the feed network and the ground plane. The radiating dipoles or dipole radiating elements may be operable simultaneously and co-locate radio frequency currents for a first frequency band and a second frequency band.
US09331389B2
A radiating system for transmitting and receiving signals in first and second frequency regions includes a radiating structure, a radiofrequency system, and an external port. The radiating structure has first and second isolated radiation boosters coupled to a ground plane layer. A first internal port of the radiating structure is between the first radiation booster and the ground plane layer, and a second internal port is between the second radiation booster and the ground plane layer. A distance between the two internal ports is less than 0.06 times a wavelength of the lowest frequency. The maximum size of the first and second radiation boosters is smaller than 1/30 times the wavelength of the lowest frequency. The radiofrequency system includes two ports connected respectively to the first and the second internal ports of the radiating structure, and a port connected to the external port of the radiating system.
US09331384B2
A combination battery and antenna includes a battery having a positive contact and a negative contact, at least one of the positive contact and the negative contact comprising an antenna coupled to a matching circuit and to a radio frequency choke, whereby direct current (DC) is supplied to a battery circuit and a radio frequency (RF) signal is supplied to an RF circuit, and at least one secondary radiator parasitically coupled to the at least one of the positive contact and the negative contact of the battery.
US09331382B2
A novel geometry, the geometry of Space-Filling Curves (SFC) is defined in the present invention and it is used to shape a part of an antenna. By means of this novel technique, the size of the antenna can be reduced with respect to prior art, or alternatively, given a fixed size the antenna can operate at a lower frequency with respect to a conventional antenna of the same size.
US09331381B2
An embodiment is directed to a device comprising an antenna, a chassis configured to be electrically coupled to the antenna and comprising a slot loaded with at least one tunable component, wherein: the slot is aligned along a longitudinal edge of the chassis, the slot is formed in an area of the chassis based on an identification of currents in the area, and the antenna and chassis are electrically connected at a location based on the area.
US09331372B2
A directional coupler includes a first conductive track, a second conductive track, and a conductive structure. The conductive structure includes a first partial region that is arranged nearer to the first conductive track than the first conductive track is to the second conductive track. The conductive structure also includes a second partial region that is arranged nearer to the second conductive track than the first conductive track is to the second conductive track.
US09331366B2
A battery arrangement has a battery (10, 100, 200) having battery cells (11, 111, 211) with in each case two terminals (12, 112, 212) and a terminal plate (15, 115, 215), on which a terminal (12, 112, 212) of each battery cell (11, 111, 211) is arranged to connect the battery cells (11, 111, 211). A perforated plate (16, 216) is arranged above the terminal plate (15, 115, 215). A cooling medium is sprayed through the holes (17, 217) of the perforated plate (16, 216).
US09331364B2
Provided are methods and apparatus for charging a lithium sulfur (Li—S) battery. The Li—S battery has at least one unit cell comprising a lithium-containing anode and a sulfur-containing cathode with an electrolyte layer there between. One method provides controlled application of voltage pulses at the beginning of the charging process. An application period is initiated after a discharge cycle of the Li—S battery is complete. During the application period, voltage pulses are provided to the Li—S battery. The voltage pulses are less than a constant current charging voltage. Constant current charging is initiated after the application period has elapsed.
US09331361B2
According to the embodiment, there is provided a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery comprising a positive electrode; a negative electrode including a negative electrode active material layer; and a nonaqueous electrolyte. The negative electrode active material layer contains carbon dioxide and releases the carbon dioxide in the range of 0.01 ml to 3 ml per 1 g when heated at 400° C. for 1 minute. The nonaqueous electrolyte contains carbon dioxide of 50 ml/L to 1000 ml/L.
US09331360B2
A fluoride ion battery includes a substantially lithium-free anode and cathode. At least one of the anode or cathode contains fluorine, and a substantially lithium-free liquid electrolyte is used for charge transport. The electrolyte is liquid at temperatures below about 200 degrees Celsius, and can be formed from an organic-soluble fluoride salt dissolved in selected classes of solvents.
US09331359B2
The invention relates to an electrochemical lithium accumulator comprising at least one first electrochemical cell and at least one second electrochemical cell separated from each other by a current-collecting substrate, which substrate supports on a first face, an electrode of said first electrochemical cell, and on its second face opposite to said first face, an electrode of opposite sign of said second electrochemical cell, each cell comprising a positive electrode and a negative electrode separated by an electrolyte, characterized inter alia in that said current-collecting substrate is in copper or in copper alloy.
US09331357B2
The present invention relates to in situ formation of a single-layered electrochemical cell comprising a full tri-layer battery structure containing a discrete positive electrode, solid state electrolyte, and negative electrode from self-assembled nanocomposites. The single layered cell makes it possible to fabricate cells in three dimensions resulting in a very high energy density power source within very small and/or complex dimensions.
US09331353B2
The present invention relates to a membrane that includes a porous polymer material made of a polyimide with interconnected macropores and impregnated with protic ionic liquid conductors (CLIP), as well as to the method for manufacturing same and to the uses thereof. The membranes of the invention fulfill the need for membranes including CLIPs, which have good proton-conducting properties as well as good physical properties, in particular high thermal and mechanical stability, in addition to a wide range of electrochemical stability.
US09331352B2
An aspect of the invention is directed to a polymer comprising a sulfonated perfluorocyclopentyl compound. Another aspect of the invention is directed to a sulfonated copolymer comprising one or more sulfonated polymers. A further aspect of the invention is directed to membranes prepared from the polymers of the claimed invention.
US09331351B2
To provide a solid oxide fuel cell device capable of smooth transition from a startup state to an electrical generating state. The present invention is a solid oxide fuel cell device (1) for generating electricity, having a fuel cell module (2); a reformer (20), a fuel supply device (38); a water supply device (28), a generating oxidant gas supply device (45), and a controller (110) for controlling the fuel supply device and water supply device at the time of startup when the fuel cell module solid oxide fuel cell unit is raised to a temperature at which electrical generation is possible; whereby the controller controls the fuel supply device during the SR operation such that electrical generation is started after reducing the fuel supply flow rate prior to starting electrical generation.
US09331346B2
A resin frame equipped membrane electrode assembly includes a membrane electrode assembly and a resin frame member. The membrane electrode assembly includes an anode, a cathode, and a solid polymer electrolyte membrane interposed between the anode and the cathode. The resin frame member is provided around the solid polymer electrolyte membrane. The resin frame member includes an inner extension protruding toward the outer periphery of the cathode to contact the outer end of the solid polymer electrolyte membrane. The inner extension of the resin frame member includes a plurality of columnar projections formed integrally with an adhesive surface where an adhesive layer is provided.
US09331343B2
A stainless steel separator for fuel cells and a method of manufacturing the same are disclosed. The method includes preparing a stainless steel sheet as a matrix, performing surface modification on a surface of the stainless steel sheet to form a Cr-rich passive film having a comparatively increased amount of Cr in a superficial layer of the stainless steel sheet by decreasing an amount of Fe in the superficial layer of the stainless steel sheet, and forming a coating layer on the surface of the surface-modified stainless steel sheet. The coating layer is one selected from a metal nitride layer (MNx), a metal/metal nitride layer (M/MNx), a metal carbide layer (MCy), and a metal boride layer (MBz) (where 0.5≦x≦1, 0.42≦y≦1, 0.5≦z≦2).
US09331325B2
A battery pack including: a plurality of battery modules, each including a plurality of battery cells arranged in a direction; at least one first fuse between battery modules of the plurality of battery modules; a battery control unit connected to the at least one first fuse; and at least one sensing unit connected to the battery control unit, the battery control unit being configured to transfer a signal received from the at least one sensing unit to the at least one first fuse, and the at least one first fuse including a power cutoff unit at a region of a connection member connecting the battery modules to each other, and a case surrounding the power cutoff unit.
US09331320B2
An assembly includes non-load bearing housings, each housing including several cavities. Each cavity includes a stack of freely stacked electrochemical storage cells in the housings. Each electrochemical storage cell includes an anode electrode, a cathode electrode, and a separator located between the anode electrode and the cathode electrode. The assembly is configured such that pressure applied to the assembly is born by the freely stacked electrochemical storage cells.
US09331315B1
Described in this disclosure are battery contacts for use in electronic devices usable without soldering to a circuit board. The battery contact includes one or more contact features supported by leaf springs. The contact features touch a corresponding pad on the circuit board at time of assembly, providing an electrically conductive pathway. One or more of the battery contacts may include a spring-biased member configured to apply pressure to one or more batteries.
US09331307B2
Provided is a method for manufacturing an organic EL device which suppresses a deterioration in the light emission properties. In this method, while first and second electrode layers are prevented from being in contact with each other, an organic layer is allowed to protrude from the first electrode layer toward at least both outer sides in the longitudinal direction of a substrate. Further, the second electrode layer is allowed to protrude from the organic layer toward at least both outer sides in the longitudinal direction. Thereby, the first electrode layer, the organic layer, and the second electrode layer are formed so that both end edges of the organic layer in a longitudinal direction of the substrate are covered by both end sides of the second electrode layer in the longitudinal direction, on at least both outer sides of the light emitting part in the longitudinal direction.
US09331304B2
An organic light-emitting display device and a method of manufacturing the same are disclosed. The organic light-emitting display device (OLED) may include a first substrate with an element region and an encapsulation region surrounding the element region, a second substrate facing the first substrate, an organic light-emitting element interposed between the first substrate and the second substrate and formed in the element region, and an encapsulant interposed between the first substrate and the second substrate and formed in the encapsulation region. The encapsulant may include both a first encapsulant and a second encapsulant. The second encapsulant formed within the first encapsulant and is adjacent to at least one of the first substrate and the second substrate.
US09331301B2
An AMOLED comprises a plurality of pixel structures arranged in a matrix and one layer of power supply signal electrode configured to provide a power supply voltage signal for the pixel structures, and the power supply signal electrode has a planar structure. The planar power supply signal electrode can greatly reduce its resistance and hence can reduce the IR drop of power supply voltage signals that are transmitted over the power supply signal electrode, effectively reduce the impact of the IR drop on the display effect, and remarkably reduce the power consumption of a panel.
US09331298B2
A luminescent device including an emission layer having luminescent nanoclusters is provided. The luminescent nanoclusters can be phosphorescent metal halides. The luminescent device can emit IR, NIR, colored, or white light and be pumped electrically or optically. A method for manufacturing a luminescent device including an emission layer having luminescent nanoclusters is also provided.
US09331296B2
Aspects of the present invention provide a blue organic light-emitting device having a continuous operation lifetime.An organic light-emitting device includes a light-emitting layer containing a dopant having the ability to trap electrons or holes, and a hole-blocking layer or electron-blocking layer, in which the difference between the LUMO of the dopant and the LUMO of a host material, the size relationship between the HOMO of the host material and the HOMO of the dopant, and the difference between the T1 of the host material and the T1 of the hole-blocking layer or between the T1 of the host material and the T1 of the electron-blocking layer, are specified.
US09331289B2
Disclosed are: an organic EL material which emits light having a short wavelength and has high luminous efficiency and long light emission life; an organic EL element which contains the organic EL material; and a lighting device and a display device, each of which comprises the organic EL element. The organic EL material is a compound represented by Formula (1):
US09331265B2
A linear hot-electron injection technique is provided for a non-volatile memory arrangement. The non-volatile memory is comprised of: a floating gate transistor; a capacitor with a first terminal electrically coupled to the gate node of the floating gate transistor; a current reference circuit electrically coupled to the source node of the floating gate transistor; and a feedback circuit electrically coupled between the source node of the floating gate transistor and a second terminal of the capacitor. The feedback circuit operates to adjust a voltage at the gate node of the floating gate transistor in accordance with a source-to-drain voltage across the floating gate transistor.
US09331264B1
A microelectromechanical resonator includes a resonator body having a semiconductor region therein that may be degenerately doped with boron. This high level of doping facilitates the formation of a eutectic alloy within the resonator body in response to resistive heating. The formation of a lattice-strained eutectic alloy within the resonator body supports reductions in the temperature coefficient of frequency (TCF) of the resonator over a relatively large temperature range.
US09331263B2
A piezoelectric motor includes a piezoelectric element, an oscillating plate including the piezoelectric element, a driving projection provided at an end of the oscillating plate, and a driven member driven by the driving projection coming into abutment therewith and is characterized in that Young's modulus E1 of the driving projection and Young's modulus E2 of the driven member are different.
US09331262B2
A thin film piezoelectric element according to the present invention includes a potassium sodium niobate thin film having a structure in which a plurality of crystal grains are present in a film thickness direction; and a pair of electrode films sandwiching the potassium sodium niobate thin film. When the potassium sodium niobate thin film is divided into three regions of the same thickness in the film thickness direction and average crystal grain sizes A1, A2, and A3 of the respective regions are determined, a ratio m/M of the smallest average crystal grain size m among A1, A2, and A3 to the largest average crystal grain size M among A1, A2, and A3 is 10% to 80%. The region having the smallest average crystal grain size m lies next to one of the pair of electrode films.
US09331260B2
A piezoelectric actuator is formed by forming first and second electrodes on a substrate, and depositing a material on the substrate and between side surfaces of adjacent first and second electrodes to form a thin film sheet within which the first and the second electrodes extend from a first surface of the thin film sheet towards a second surface of the thin film sheet opposite the first surface. The second electrode is interdigitated in relation to the first electrode. The side surfaces of the first and the second electrodes are at least substantially perpendicular to the substrate. The thin film sheet is to physically deform in response to an electric field induced within the thin film sheet via application of a voltage across the first and the second electrodes.
US09331256B2
A manufacturing method of a semiconductor structure includes the following steps. A patterned photoresist layer is formed on a wafer of the wafer structure. The wafer is etched, such that channels are formed in the wafer, and a protection layer of the wafer structure is exposed through the channels. The protection layer is etched, such that openings aligned with the channels are formed in the protection layer. Landing pads in the protection layer are respectively exposed through the openings and the channels, and the caliber of each of the openings is gradually increased toward the corresponding channel. Side surfaces of the wafer surrounding the channels are etched, such that the channels are expanded to respectively form hollow regions. The caliber of the hollow region is gradually decreased toward the opening, and the caliber of the opening is smaller than that of the hollow region.
US09331247B2
A light-emitting element includes a reflective layer; a first transparent layer on the reflective layer; a light-emitting stack having an active layer on the first transparent layer; and a cavity formed in the first transparent layer.
US09331245B2
Disclosed is a nitride semiconductor light-emitting element comprising a p-type nitride semiconductor layer 1, a p-type nitride semiconductor layer 2, and a p-type nitride semiconductor layer 3 placed in order above a nitride semiconductor active layer, wherein the p-type nitride semiconductor layer 1 and p-type nitride semiconductor layer 2 each contain A1, the average A1 composition of the p-type nitride semiconductor layer 1 is equivalent to the average A1 composition of the p-type nitride semiconductor layer 2, the p-type nitride semiconductor layer 3 has a smaller band gap than the p-type nitride semiconductor layer 2, the p-type impurity concentration of the p-type nitride semiconductor layer 2 and the p-type impurity concentration of the p-type nitride semiconductor layer 3 are both lower than the p-type impurity concentration of the p-type nitride semiconductor layer 1, and a method for producing same.
US09331244B2
A semiconductor layer including a plurality of inhomogeneous regions is provided. Each inhomogeneous region has one or more attributes that differ from a material forming the semiconductor layer. The inhomogeneous regions can include one or more regions configured based on radiation having a target wavelength. These regions can include transparent and/or reflective regions. The inhomogeneous regions also can include one or more regions having a higher conductivity than a conductivity of the radiation-based regions, e.g., at least ten percent higher.
US09331238B2
In at least one embodiment, the semiconductor layer sequence (1) is provided for an optoelectronic semiconductor chip (10). The semiconductor layer sequence (1) contains at least three quantum wells (2) which are arranged to generate electromagnetic radiation. Furthermore, the semiconductor layer sequence (1) includes a plurality of barrier layers (3), of which at least one barrier layer is arranged between two adjacent quantum wells (2) in each case. The quantum wells (2) have a first average indium content and the barrier layers (3) have a second, smaller, average indium content. A second average lattice constant of the barrier layers (3) is thereby smaller than a first average lattice constant of the quantum wells (2).
US09331237B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor light emitting device includes first and second semiconductor layers, and a light emitting unit. The light emitting unit is provided between the first and second semiconductor layers and includes well layers and barrier layers. The barrier layers include p-side and n-side barrier layers, and a first intermediate barrier layer. The n-side barrier layer is provided between the p-side barrier layer and the first semiconductor layer. The first intermediate barrier layer is provided between the barrier layers. The well layers include p-side and n-side well layers, and a first intermediate well layer. The p-side well layer is provided between the p-side barrier layer and the second semiconductor layer. The n-side well layer is provided between the n-side barrier layer and the first intermediate barrier layer. The first intermediate well layer is provided between the first intermediate barrier layer and the p-side barrier layer.
US09331234B2
Semiconductor light emitting device and method for manufacturing semiconductor light emitting device
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor light emitting device includes an n-type semiconductor layer, a p-type semiconductor layer, and a light emitting layer. The p-type semiconductor layer includes a first p-side layer, a second p-side layer, and a third p-side layer. A concentration profile of Mg of a p-side region includes a first portion, a second portion, a third portion, a fourth portion, a fifth portion, a sixth portion and a seventh portion. The p-side region includes the light emitting layer, the second p-side layer, and the third p-side layer. A Mg concentration of the sixth portion is not less than 1×1020 cm−3 and not more than 3×1020 cm−3. The Al concentration is 1/100 of the maximum value at a second position. A Mg concentration at the second position is not less than 2×1018 cm−3.
US09331233B2
A method of manufacturing at least one semiconducting micro- or nano-wire used for formation of an optoelectric structure, optoelectronic structures including the micro- or nano-wires, and a method enabling manufacture of the photoelectronic structures. The method includes providing a semiconducting substrate, forming a crystalline buffer layer on the substrate, the buffer layer having a first zone over at least part of its thickness composed mainly of magnesium nitride in a form MgxNy, and forming at least one semiconducting micro- or nano-wire on the buffer layer.
US09331230B2
A method of dispersing semiconductor chips from a wafer of semiconductor chips onto a substrate while preserving the neighboring relationship of each chip to each adjacent chip is disclosed. The method includes dispersing the wafer into sequential columns of semiconductor chips with a first pitch between columns while preserving the neighboring relationship and sequentially dispersing the columns of semiconductor chips into rows of individual chips with a second pitch between rows onto a substrate while preserving the neighboring relationship.
US09331225B2
The present invention improves the reliability of back contact solar cell modules that are electrically connected by means of wiring material. A solar cell module (1) is provided with a plurality of solar cells (10), and wiring material (11). Each solar cell (10) has a p-side electrode (15) and an n-side electrode (14) arranged on a single main surface (20a). Among adjacent solar cells (10), the wiring material (11) electrically connects the p-side electrode (15) of one solar cell (10) to the n-side electrode (14) of another solar cell (10). The surface layers of the p-side electrode (15) and the n-side electrode (14) include plating layers (16c, 17c) which have at least one power supply point (18, 19). The wiring material (11) is bonded to the plating layers such that the wiring material overlaps a portion of the power supply points (18, 19) of each solar cell (10), and does not overlap another portion of the power supply points (18, 19).
US09331210B2
A structure with which the zero current of a field effect transistor using a conductor-semiconductor junction can be reduced is provided. A floating electrode (102) including a conductor or a semiconductor and being enclosed by an insulator (104) is formed between a semiconductor layer (101) and a gate (105) so as to cross the semiconductor layer (101) and the floating electrode (102) is charged, whereby carriers are prevented from flowing from a source electrode (103a) or a drain electrode (103b). Accordingly, a sufficiently low carrier concentration can be kept in the semiconductor layer (101) and thus the zero current can be reduced.
US09331206B2
Stable electrical characteristics are given to a transistor and a highly reliable semiconductor device is provided. In addition, an oxide material which enables manufacture of such a semiconductor device is provided. An oxide film is used in which two or more kinds of crystalline portions which are different from each other in a direction of an a-axis or a direction of a b-axis in an a-b plane (or the top surface, or the formation surface) are included, and each of the crystalline portions is c-axis aligned, has at least one of triangular atomic arrangement and hexagonal atomic arrangement when seen from a direction perpendicular to the a-b plane, a top surface, or a formation surface, includes metal atoms arranged in a layered manner, or metal atoms and oxygen atoms arranged in a layered manner along the c-axis, and is expressed as In2SnZn2O7(ZnO)m (m is 0 or a natural number).
US09331195B2
Source tip optimization for high voltage transistor devices which includes a P-body extension region
The present disclosure provides a method for fabricating a high-voltage semiconductor device. The method includes designating first, second, and third regions in a substrate. The first and second regions are regions where a source and a drain of the semiconductor device will be formed, respectively. The third region separates the first and second regions. The method further includes forming a slotted implant mask layer at least partially over the third region. The method also includes implanting dopants into the first, second, and third regions. The slotted implant mask layer protects portions of the third region therebelow during the implanting. The method further includes annealing the substrate in a manner to cause diffusion of the dopants in the third region.
US09331189B2
An electronic device including a first conducting layer, a second conducting layer, and an insulating layer provided between the conducting layers. At least one side wall extends from the first conducting layer to the second conducting layer and includes at least a portion of the first conducting layer, the second conducting layer and the insulating layer. A bias voltage is applied between the first and second conducting layers, wherein responsive to the bias voltage, a two dimensional electron system is induced at least in one of the first conducting layer and the second conducting layer, and wherein electrons from the two dimensional electron system are emitted from the side wall side wall as a result of Coulombic repulsion and travel in air from the one of the first conducting layer and the second conducting layer to the other of the first conducting layer and the second conducting layer.
US09331180B2
A silicon nitride film, which is a second hard mask, is dry etched to be removed completely. The silicon nitride film, which is formed on a sidewall of a silicon nitride film used as a first hard mask, has a relatively low etching rate. Therefore, if the silicon nitride film is continued etching until the corresponding portion thereof is removed, polysilicon is etched in a direction of depth in trench shape. Then, floating gates in adjacent cells are separated and a step portion of the polysilicon is formed. Consequently, a remaining portion of the silicon nitride film used as the first hard mask is removed, an ONO film is laminated on a whole surface of the poly silicon having the step portion on an edge that has been etched, and then, a polysilicon for a control gate is laminated on the ONO film.
US09331178B2
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming two isolation structures in a substrate to define a fin structure between the two isolation structures in the substrate. A dummy gate and spacers are formed bridging the two isolation structures and over the fin structure. The two isolation structures are etched with the dummy gate and the spacers as a mask to form a plurality of slopes under the spacers in the two isolation structures. A gate etch stop layer is formed overlying the plurality of slopes. The dummy gate and the two isolation structures beneath the dummy gate are removed to create a cavity confined by the spacers and the gate etch stop layer. A gate is then formed in the cavity.
US09331175B2
The disclosure concerns a method of stressing a semiconductor layer comprising: depositing, over a semiconductor on insulator (SOI) structure having a semiconductor layer in contact with an insulating layer, a stress layer; locally stressing said semiconductor layer by forming one or more openings in said stress layer, said openings being aligned with first regions of said semiconductor layer in which transistor channels are to be formed; and deforming second regions of said insulating layer adjacent to said first regions by temporally decreasing, by annealing, the viscosity of said insulator layer.
US09331173B2
A semiconductor arrangement and method of formation are provided herein. A semiconductor arrangement includes a metal connect in contact with a first active region and a second active region, and over a shallow trench isolation region located between the first active region and a second active region. A method of forming the semiconductor arrangement includes recessing the metal connect over the STI region to form a recessed portion of the metal connect. Forming the recessed portion of the metal connect in contact with the first active region and the second active region mitigates RC coupling, such that a first gate is formed closer to a second gate, thus reducing a size of a chip on which the recessed portion is located.
US09331167B2
According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a nonvolatile semiconductor storage device including: a semiconductor substrate; a source region and a drain region that are formed in the semiconductor substrate so as to be separated from each other and so as to define a channel region therebetween; a tunnel insulating film that is formed on the channel region; an insulative charge storage film that is formed on the tunnel insulating film; a conductive charge storage film that is formed on the insulative charge storage film so as to be shorter than the insulative charge storage film in a channel direction; an interlayer insulating film that is formed on the conductive charge storage film; and a gate electrode that is formed on the interlayer insulating film.
US09331163B2
A field effect transistor having a diamond gate electrode and a process for forming the same. In some embodiments, the device is an AlGaN/GaN high-electron-mobility transistor (HEMT). The diamond gate electrode is formed so that it directly contacts the barrier layer. In some embodiments, the diamond gate electrode is formed from boron-doped nanocrystalline diamond (NCD), while in other embodiments, the diamond gate electrode is formed from single crystal diamond.
US09331150B2
A semiconductor device of an embodiment includes a p-type first diamond semiconductor layer, a p-type second diamond semiconductor layer disposed on the first diamond semiconductor layer, a plurality of n-type third diamond semiconductor layers disposed on the second diamond semiconductor layer, and a first electrode disposed on the second diamond semiconductor and the third diamond semiconductor layers. The p-type second diamond semiconductor layer has a p-type impurity concentration lower than a p-type impurity concentration of the first diamond semiconductor layer and has oxygen-terminated surfaces. Each of the third diamond semiconductor layers has an oxygen-terminated surface. The first electrode forms first junctions between the first electrode and the second diamond semiconductor. The first electrode forms second junctions between the first electrode and the third diamond semiconductor layers. The first junctions and the second junctions are Schottky junctions.
US09331149B2
A method for bonding at low or room temperature includes steps of surface cleaning and activation by cleaning or etching. The method may also include removing by-products of interface polymerization to prevent a reverse polymerization reaction to allow room temperature chemical bonding of materials such as silicon, silicon nitride and SiO2. The surfaces to be bonded are polished to a high degree of smoothness and planarity. VSE may use reactive ion etching or wet etching to slightly etch the surfaces being bonded. The surface roughness and planarity are not degraded and may be enhanced by the VSE process. The etched surfaces may be rinsed in solutions such as ammonium hydroxide or ammonium fluoride to promote the formation of desired bonding species on the surfaces.
US09331131B2
An organic light emitting diode display includes a substrate including a thin film transistor, a plurality of pixels on a pixel area of the substrate, a plurality of auxiliary electrodes between the pixels, an opposite electrode on the pixels and on the auxiliary electrodes, the opposite electrode being electrically connected to the auxiliary electrodes, and including a same material as the auxiliary electrodes, and a power supply electrode on the substrate, the power supply electrode being in a periphery of the pixel area and being configured to supply power to the pixels.
US09331130B2
There is provided an EL light-emitting device with less uneven brightness. When a drain current of a plurality of current controlling TFTs is Id, a mobility is μ, a gate capacitance per unit area is Co, a maximum gate voltage is Vgs(max), a channel width is W, a channel length is L, an average value of a threshold voltage is Vth, a deviation from the average value of the threshold voltage is ΔVth, and a difference in emission brightness of a plurality of EL elements is within a range of ±n %, a semiconductor display device is characterized in that A = 2 I d μ * C 0 A ( Vgs ( max ) - Vth ) 2 ≦ W L ≦ ( 1 + n 100 - 1 ) 2 * A Δ Vth 2 Δ Vth ≦ ( 1 + n 100 - 1 ) * A * L / W .
US09331127B2
A organic light-emitting display apparatus includes a substrate, a thin film transistor disposed on the substrate and including an active layer, a gate electrode, a source electrode and a drain electrode, a pixel electrode electrically connected to the source electrode and the drain electrode, a counter electrode corresponding to the pixel electrode, a light-emitting layer disposed in a plurality of light-emitting regions between the pixel electrode and the counter electrode, a common layer disposed in the light-emitting regions and in a plurality of non-light-emitting regions around the light-emitting regions between the pixel electrode and the counter electrode, and a plurality of partition walls including an insulating material disposed in the common layer.
US09331122B2
According to one embodiment of the present invention, a solid-state imaging device is provided. The solid-state imaging device includes a first-conductivity-type semiconductor region and a second-conductivity-type semiconductor region. The first-conductivity-type semiconductor region is disposed for each pixel of a captured image. The second-conductivity-type semiconductor region constitutes a photoelectric conversion element by a PN junction with the first-conductivity-type semiconductor region, and has second-conductivity-type impurity concentration that decreases from the center of the photoelectric conversion element toward a transfer gate side for transferring signal charge.
US09331121B2
A method of manufacturing a photoelectric conversion apparatus which includes a pixel circuit section having a well where a photoelectric conversion element and an amplification element configured to generate a signal based on an amount of charge generated in the photoelectric conversion element are arranged, and a peripheral circuit section having a MOS transistor. The method includes forming a dielectric film for covering the photoelectric conversion element, the amplification element, and a gate electrode of the MOS transistor and forming, by etching the dielectric film, a side spacer by remaining a portion of the dielectric film on a side surface of the gate electrode while protecting by a resist, wherein an opening is formed in the dielectric film of the pixel circuit section with the etching, and a contact for defining a potential of the well is formed through the opening.
US09331116B2
A single photon avalanche diode (SPAD) includes an n doped epitaxial layer disposed in a first semiconductor layer. A p doped epitaxial layer is above the n doped epitaxial layer on a back side of the first semiconductor layer. A multiplication junction is defined at an interface between the n doped epitaxial layer and the p doped epitaxial layer. A multiplication junction is reversed biased above a breakdown voltage such that a photon received through the back side of the first semiconductor layer triggers an avalanche multiplication process in the multiplication junction. A p− doped guard ring region is implanted in the n doped epitaxial layer surrounding the multiplication junction.
US09331102B2
A liquid crystal display includes: a first substrate; a gate line on the first substrate; a gate insulating layer on the gate line; a semiconductor layer on the gate insulating layer; a data line and a drain electrode on the semiconductor layer; a passivation layer covering the data line and the drain electrode; a common electrode on the passivation layer; an interlayer insulating layer on the common electrode; a pixel electrode on the interlayer insulating layer; an additional insulating layer on the pixel electrode; a second substrate opposite to the first substrate; and a black matrix on the second substrate, and including a vertical portion covering the data line and a horizontal portion covering the gate line and the drain electrode, where an empty portion is defined through the additional insulating layer in a portion corresponding to the black matrix.
US09331101B2
The present invention relates to an organic light emitting display panel and a method of manufacturing the same. In accordance with an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a display panel. The display panel in one example includes a light shielding layer electrically connected to a driving power line on a substrate, and storage capacitors formed on an oxide semiconductor in parallel, insulated from the oxide semiconductor, and overlapped a gate.
US09331095B2
Nonvolatile memory devices utilize vertically-stacked strings of nonvolatile memory cells (e.g., NAND-type strings) that can be selectively coupled to common source lines within a substrate. This selective coupling may be provided by lateral ground select transistors having different threshold voltages that account for different lateral spacings between the vertically-stacked strings of nonvolatile memory cells and the common source lines.
US09331092B2
Methods and related structures are disclosed for forming contact landing regions in split-gate NVM (non-volatile memory) systems. A dummy select gate structure is formed while also forming select gates for split-gate NVM cells. A control gate layer is formed over the select gates and the dummy select gate structure, as well as an intervening charge storage layer. The control gate material will fill in gaps between the select gate material and the dummy select gate material. A non-patterned spacer etch is then used to etch the control gate layer to form a contact landing region associated with the dummy select gate structure while also forming spacer control gates for the split-gate NVM cells. The disclosed embodiments provide improved (e.g., more planar) contact landing regions without requiring additional processing steps and without increasing the pitch of the resulting NVM cell array.
US09331091B1
A 3D NAND memory has vertical NAND strings across multiple memory layers above a substrate, with each memory cell of a NAND string residing in a different memory layer. Word lines in each memory layer each has a series of socket components aligned to embed respective floating gates of a group memory cells. In this way, the word line to floating gate capacitive coupling is enhanced thereby allowing a 4 to 8 times reduction in cell dimension as well as reducing floating-gate perturbations between neighboring cells. At the same time floating-gate to floating-gate crosstalk is reduced. The memory is fabricated by using odd and even subarrays of vertical shafts on a multi-layer slab to create at different times odd and even socket components that overlap to form continuous word lines with socket components. A self-aligned 4-masks process is employed on the multi-layer slab.
US09331090B2
A NAND device has at least a 3×3 array of vertical NAND strings in which the control gate electrodes are continuous in the array and do not have an air gap or a dielectric filled trench in the array. The NAND device is formed by first forming a lower select gate level having separated lower select gates, then forming plural memory device levels containing a plurality of NAND string portions, and then forming an upper select gate level over the memory device levels having separated upper select gates.
US09331084B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device is provided. The method includes forming a fin structure on a semiconductor substrate and forming a well region in the semiconductor substrate by ion implantation so as to form transistors. The transistors include a pull-up transistor, a transfer gate transistor, and a pull-down transistor of a SRAM cell. The ion implantation is used to adjust threshold voltages of the transistors. Standard threshold voltage (SVt) ion implantation conditions are used to adjust a threshold voltage of the pull-up transistor and a threshold voltage of the transfer gate transistor, and low threshold voltage (LVt) ion implantation conditions are used to adjust a threshold voltage of the pull-down transistor.
US09331083B2
Techniques for providing a semiconductor memory device are disclosed. In one particular exemplary embodiment, the techniques may be realized as an apparatus including a first region and a second region. The apparatus may also include a body region disposed between the first region and the second region and capacitively coupled to a plurality of word lines, wherein each of the plurality of word lines is capacitively coupled to different portions of the body region.
US09331072B2
Integrated circuit devices having a cavity and methods of manufacturing the integrated circuit devices are provided. The integrated circuit devices may include a pair of spacers, which define a recess. The integrated circuit device may also include a lower conductive pattern in the recess and an upper conductive pattern on the lower conductive pattern. The upper conductive pattern may have an etch selectivity with respect to the lower conductive pattern and may expose an upper surface of the lower conductive pattern adjacent a sidewall of the upper conductive pattern. An inner sidewall of one of the pair of spacers, the upper surface of the lower conductive pattern and the sidewall of the upper conductive pattern may define a space and a capping pattern may be formed on the upper conductive pattern to seal a top portion of the space, such that a cavity is disposed under the capping pattern.
US09331070B2
There are provided a variable capacitor and an integrated circuit (IC) including the variable capacitor. The variable capacitor includes: a plurality of capacitance forming portions that are connected to each other in parallel between a first port and a second port and provide previously set capacitance according to a control signal, wherein each of the plurality of capacitance forming portions includes: a first capacitance forming portion including a first switch portion including a plurality of switches, and a first capacitor portion including first and second capacitors; and at least one capacitance forming group including a unit switch portion including a plurality of switches, and at least one unit capacitance forming portion including at least one unit capacitor portion including a unit capacitor.
US09331060B2
A device includes a first power semiconductor chip with a first contact pad and a second contact pad on a first face and a third contact pad on the second face. The device further includes a second power semiconductor chip with a first contact pad and a second contact pad on a first face and a third contact pad on the second face. The first and second power semiconductor chips are arranged one above another, and the first face of the first power semiconductor chip faces in the direction of the first face of the second power semiconductor chip. In addition, the first power semiconductor chip is located laterally at least partially outside of the outline of the second power semiconductor chip.
US09331057B2
A semiconductor device is disclosed. One embodiment provides a semiconductor chip. The semiconductor chip includes a first electrode of a capacitor. An insulating layer is arranged on top of the first electrode. A second electrode of the capacitor is applied over the insulating layer, wherein the second electrode is made of a conductive layer arranged over the semiconductor chip.
US09331055B2
A semiconductor package includes a package substrate on which a substrate pad is disposed, a structure disposed over the package substrate, a semiconductor chip disposed over the structure using an adhesive member having a magnetic material layer disposed therein, a chip pad disposed on a top surface of the semiconductor chip, and a bonding wire coupling the substrate pad and the chip pad.
US09331051B2
A method and device for interconnecting stacked die surfaces with electrically conductive traces is provided that includes bonding, using a first layer of a photoresist compound, a second die (2) on top of a first die (1), heating the first layer above a pyrolyzation point of the photoresist compound, where the photoresist compound transitions to a stable layer, depositing a second layer of the photoresist compound (PR), using lithography, from a top surface of the first die (1) to a top surface of the second die (2), heating the second photoresist compound layer to a liquid state, where the liquid photoresist compound forms a smooth convex bridge between the first die (1) top surface and the second die (2) top surface, and depositing an electrically conductive layer on the smooth convex bridge, where an electrically conductive trace is formed between the first die (1) top surface and the second die (2) top surface.
US09331038B2
A conductive interconnect structure includes a contact pad; a conductive body connected to the contact pad at a first end; and a conductive layer positioned on a second end of the conductive body. The conductive body has a longitudinal direction perpendicular to a surface of the contact pad. The conductive body has an average grain size (a) on a cross sectional plane (Plane A) whose normal is perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the conductive body. The conductive layer has an average grain size (b) on Plane A. The conductive body and the conductive layer are composed of same material, and the average grain size (a) is greater than the average grain size (b).
US09331029B2
Methods for fabricating microelectronic packages, such as Fan-Out Wafer Level Packages, and microelectronic packages are provided. In one embodiment, the method includes placing a first semiconductor die on a temporary substrate, forming an electrically-conducive trace in contact with at least one of the first semiconductor die and the temporary substrate, and encapsulating the first semiconductor die and the electrically-conductive trace within a molded panel. The temporary substrate is removed to reveal a frontside of the molded panel through which the electrically-conducive trace is at least partially exposed. At least one redistribution layer is formed over the frontside of the molded panel, the at least one redistribution layer comprises an interconnect line in ohmic contact with the electrically-conducive trace.
US09331024B2
An IC wafer and the method of making the IC wafer, the IC wafer includes an integrated circuit layer having a plurality of solder pads and an insulated layer arranged thereon, a plurality of through holes cut through the insulated layer corresponding to the solder pads respectively for the implantation of a package layer, and an electromagnetic shielding layer formed on the top surface of the insulated layer and electrically isolated from the solder pads of the integrated circuit layer for electromagnetic shielding. Thus, the integrated circuit does not require any further shielding mask, simplifying the fabrication. Further, the design of the through holes facilitates further packaging process.
US09331008B2
The semiconductor device of the present invention includes a semiconductor substrate provided with semiconductor elements, a lower layer wiring pattern which includes first wiring and second wiring, the first wiring and the second wiring disposed separately so as to be flush with each other, and the first wiring and the second wiring being fixed at a mutually different potential, an uppermost interlayer film disposed on the lower layer wiring pattern, a titanium nitride layer disposed on the uppermost interlayer film so as to cover the first wiring and the second wiring, and the titanium nitride having the thickness of 800 Å or more, and a pad metal disposed on the titanium nitride layer.
US09330992B2
A semiconductor device is provided with improved resistance to noise. Conductive planes are respectively formed over wiring layers. One wiring layer is provided with a through hole land integrally formed with a through hole wiring. In other wiring layers located over the wiring layer with the through hole land, openings are respectively formed in the conductive planes. The area of each of the openings is larger than the plane area of the through hole land.
US09330984B1
A method for complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) fin integration includes forming fin structures from a semiconductor layer of a silicon-on-insulator substrate and filling between the fin structures with a dielectric fill. The fin structures are masked in a first area while leaving top portions of the fin structures in a second area exposed. The fin structures are recessed in the second area to form trenches, and each trench has a fin portion remaining at a bottom thereof. A new fin is epitaxially grown in the trench from the fin portion. The new fin includes SiGe.
US09330980B2
A semiconductor structure includes a first gate and a second gate, a first spacer and a second spacer, two first epitaxial structures and two second epitaxial structures. The first gate and the second gate are located on a substrate. The first spacer and the second spacer are respectively located on the substrate beside the first gate and the second gate. The first epitaxial structures and the second epitaxial structures are respectively located in the substrate beside the first spacer and the second spacer, wherein the first spacer and the second spacer have different thicknesses, and the spacing between the first epitaxial structures is different from the spacing between the second epitaxial structures. Moreover, the present invention also provides a semiconductor process forming said semiconductor structure.
US09330977B1
Methods of dicing semiconductor wafers, each wafer having a plurality of integrated circuits, are described. In an example, a method of dicing a semiconductor wafer having a plurality of integrated circuits involves forming a mask above the semiconductor wafer, the mask composed of a layer covering and protecting the plurality of integrated circuits. The mask is then patterned with a galvo scanner and linear stage hybrid motion laser scribing process to provide a patterned mask with gaps, exposing regions of the semiconductor wafer between the plurality of integrated circuits. The semiconductor wafer is then plasma etched through the gaps in the patterned mask to singulate the plurality of integrated circuits.
US09330976B2
A wafer processing method includes forming a resist film on the front side of a wafer in an area except division lines, plasma etching the wafer to form a groove on the front side of the wafer along each division line, the groove having a depth greater than a finished thickness, removing the resist film from the front side of the wafer by cleaning, and grinding the back side of the wafer to reduce the thickness of the wafer to the finished thickness, so that the groove is exposed to the back side of the wafer to thereby divide the wafer into individual device chips. In the resist film removing step, a chemical fluid is sprayed to the resist film formed on the front side of the wafer, thereby removing the resist film.
US09330945B2
An integrated circuit package system with multi-chip module is provided including: providing an upper substrate having an upper chip thereon; positioning a lower chip under the upper chip, the lower chip having bottom interconnects thereon; encapsulating the upper chip and the lower chip with a chip encapsulant on the upper substrate with the bottom interconnects exposed; mounting the lower chip over a lower substrate with a gap between the chip encapsulant and the lower substrate; and filling the gap with a package encapsulant or chip attach adhesive.
US09330934B2
Methods of forming a pattern on a substrate include forming carbon-comprising material over a base material, and spaced first features over the carbon-comprising material. Etching is conducted only partially into the carbon-comprising material and spaced second features are formed within the carbon-comprising material which comprise the partially etched carbon-comprising material. Spacers can be formed along sidewalls of the spaced second features. The carbon-comprising material can be etched through to the base material using the spacers as a mask. Spaced third features can be formed which comprise the anisotropically etched spacers and the carbon-comprising material.
US09330930B2
A plasma etching method for etching a substrate includes an adjustment step adjusting a concentration distribution of active species contained in plasma. The adjustment step adjusts a supply rate of an etching gas according to whether a supply region on a substrate to which the etching gas is supplied corresponds to a region where an effect of diffusion of the supplied etching gas is greater than an effect of flow of the supplied etching gas or a region where the effect of flow of the supplied etching gas is greater than the effect of diffusion of the supplied etching gas.
US09330929B1
Embodiments relate to integrated circuit sensors, and more particularly to sensors integrated in an integrated circuit structure and methods for producing the sensors. In an embodiment, a sensor device comprises a substrate; a first trench in the substrate; a first moveable element suspended in the first trench by a first plurality of support elements spaced apart from one another and arranged at a perimeter of the first moveable element; and a first layer arranged on the substrate to seal the first trench, thereby providing a first cavity containing the first moveable element and the first plurality of support elements.
US09330926B2
A method of etching features into a silicon layer with a steady-state gas flow is provided. An etch gas comprising an oxygen containing gas and a fluorine containing gas is provided. A plasma is provided from the etch gas. Then, the flow of the etch gas is stopped.
US09330921B2
A semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate, and a memory cell disposed on the semiconductor substrate. The memory cell includes a selection transistor and a memory transistor. The selection transistor includes a selection gate, a first source, and a first drain. The memory transistor includes a floating gate, a control gate, a second source, a second drain, and a first insulating layer disposed between the floating gate and the control gate. The semiconductor device further includes a selection gate sidewall spacer disposed near an edge of a bit line of the selection gate of the selection transistor. The selection gate sidewall spacer is separated from the selection gate by a second insulating layer. The selection gate sidewall spacer and the control gate are formed of a first material.
US09330919B1
A method for manufacturing a substrate is provided. The method includes irradiating a single crystal substrate with a beam of laser or charged particles while moving an irradiation point of the beam with respect to the single crystal substrate so that a trajectory of the irradiation point on a surface of the single crystal substrate describes a striped pattern of straight lines. Non-crystalline regions are formed in the single crystal substrate along the trajectory. The irradiation is repeated multiple times so that directions of the striped patterns are different from each other among the multiple times of irradiation. The repetition of the irradiation changes warpage of the single crystal substrate. All of directions of the straight lines described in the multiple times of irradiation are not parallel to any of directions of crystal axes of the single crystal substrate in a plane parallel to the surface.
US09330917B2
Methods of forming a passivation layer on a workpiece are disclosed. These methods utilize a SiC forming polymer to form the passivation layer. In addition, while the polymer is being heated to form SiC, a second result, such as annealing of the underlying workpiece, or firing of the metal contacts is achieved. For example, the workpiece may be implanted prior to coating it with the polymer. When the workpiece is heated, SiC is formed and the workpiece is annealed. In another embodiment, a workpiece is coating with the SiC forming polymer and metal pattern is applied to the polymer. The firing of workpiece causes the metal contacts to form and also forms SiC on the workpiece.
US09330913B2
A semiconductor device includes first, second, and third conductive lines, each with a respective line portion formed over a substrate and extending in a first direction and with a respective branch portion extending from an end of the respective line portion in a direction different from the first direction. The branch portion of a middle conductive line is disposed between and shorter than the respective branch portions of the outer conductive lines such that contact pads may be formed integral with such branch portions of the conductive lines.
US09330911B2
A light-emitting device, such as a light-emitting diode (LED), has a group III-nitride current spreading layer which is either doped with transition metal, or comprises alternating transition metal nitride layer and group III-nitride layer. Also provided is a light-emitting device, such as a light-emitting diode (LED), having a quantum well doped with transition metal. Also provided is a method of forming transition-metal containing AlInGaN electrical conductive material.
US09330908B2
A semiconductor structure includes a first semiconductor region. The first semiconductor region includes a first semiconductor layer composed of a group IV semiconductor material having a top surface and a back surface. The first semiconductor layer has an opening in the top surface to at least a depth greater than an aspect ratio trapping (ART) distance. The first semiconductor region also has a second semiconductor layer composed of a group III/V semiconductor compound deposited within the opening and on the top surface of the first semiconductor layer. The second semiconductor layer forms an ART region from the bottom of the opening to the ART distance.
US09330898B2
The present invention is used for separating a superposed substrate in which a processing target substrate and a supporting substrate are joined together with an adhesive into the processing target substrate and the supporting substrate, and includes: a separation processing station performing predetermined processing on the processing target substrate, the supporting substrate, and the superposed substrate; a transfer-in/out station transferring the substrates into/from the separation processing station; and a transfer unit transferring the substrates between the separation processing station and the transfer-in/out station, wherein the separation processing station includes: a separation unit separating the superposed substrate into the processing target substrate and the supporting substrate; a first cleaning unit cleaning the processing target substrate separated in the separation unit; and a second cleaning unit cleaning the supporting substrate separated in the separation unit.
US09330882B2
A particle beam detector is disclosed. The particle beam detector can include a particle beam receiving portion configured to convert particle beam energy to heat, and a plurality of temperature measuring devices disposed about the particle beam receiving portion. A location of a particle beam on the particle beam receiving portion can be determined by a temperature difference between at least two of the plurality of temperature measuring devices.
US09330879B2
Direct write electron-beam-to-x-ray converters are described, which may be programmed to focus x-rays into an arbitrary shape to provide spatial and intensity modulation to irradiate a malady such as a tumor. An integrated structure of the electron beam to x-ray converter comprises a collimating grid containing a target fluid. The collimating grid comprises a plurality of individual cells enclosed in a housing assembly. An electron beam aimed at a selected individual cell of the collimating grid may be converted to an x-ray beam within the target fluid.
US09330876B2
A system for regulating a pressure of a filled-in gas is presented. The system includes a reservoir that stores a reservoir gas adsorbed in a sorbent material at a storage temperature, a gas-filled tube containing the filled-in gas, a controller configured to determine a pressure change required in the filled-in gas based upon signals representative of a pressure of the filled-in gas inside the gas-filled tube and a required pressure threshold, determine an updated temperature of the sorbent material based upon the pressure change required in the filled-in gas, and regulate the pressure of the filled-in gas by controlling the reservoir to change the storage temperature of the sorbent material to reach the updated temperature of the sorbent material.
US09330875B2
A method for determining a circuit element parameter in a ground fault circuit interrupter circuit. An electrical signal provided to a first node is used to generate another electrical signal at a second node. The electrical signal at the second node is multiplexed with a modulation signal to generate a modulated signal that is then filtered and converted into a digital representation of a portion of the circuit element parameter. The electrical signal at the second node is multiplexed with the modulation signal after it has been phase shifted to produce a modulated signal that is filter and converted into a digital representation of another portion of the circuit element parameter. In another aspect, a slope based solenoid self-test method is used for self-testing in a GFCI circuit. Alternatively, a method for determining a wiring fault is provided using a digital filter.
US09330871B2
A relay includes: a fixed terminal on which a fixed contact is provided; a movable terminal on which a movable contact is provided; a cam that has an elliptical circumference shape, and is rotatable while a portion of the circumference shape is contacting a surface of the movable terminal; and a driving unit that rotates the cam so that respective portions located at one ends of a major axis and a minor axis of the elliptical circumference shape alternately contact the surface of the movable terminal; wherein when the portion located at one end of the major axis of the elliptical circumference shape of the cam contacts the surface of the movable terminal, the movable terminal is deformed elastically so that the movable contact contacts the fixed contact.
US09330863B2
The aspects of the present disclosure provide an apparatus for and method of reducing rotary knob produced by a plurality of detents. In particular, a rotary retainer within a rotary knob assembly. The rotary retainer has a generally cylindrical body and an angular flange protruding outwardly from and around the generally cylindrical body and a plurality of detents disposed on the angular flange. The angular flange is made of a first material capable of sustaining a torque exceeding a first predetermined threshold and wherein the plurality of detents are made from a second material different from the first material, the second material being capable of sustaining a torque exceeding a second predetermined threshold, and the first material and the second material are configured to dampen noise generated by the plurality of detents when the rotary knob is operated.
US09330861B2
An arc chute assembly for use in an automatic transfer switch includes a housing including a pair of opposing sidewalls and a primary deionization plate coupled between the pair of opposing sidewalls. The primary deionization plate includes a tongue portion oriented substantially midway between the opposing sidewalls and extending toward a contact assembly. The tongue portion is configured to facilitate suppressing an electric arc originating from the contact assembly.
US09330847B2
A multilayer ceramic electronic component may include: a ceramic body including a plurality of dielectric layers and a plurality of internal electrodes; electrode layers disposed on outer surfaces of the ceramic body to be electrically connected to the internal electrodes and containing a conducive metal and glass; and a conductive resin layer disposed on the electrode layer and containing first copper particles, second copper particles smaller than the first copper particles, copper oxide particles smaller than the second copper particles, and a base resin. The copper oxide particles have a particle size of 20 nm or less.
US09330846B2
A capacitor structure of capacitive touch panel including a first electrode layer, a first material layer, a second material layer and a second electrode layer is provided. The first material layer is disposed on the first electrode layer, and the material of the first material layer is selected from one of a semiconductor material and an insulating material. The second material layer is disposed on the first material layer, and the material of the second material layer is selected from another one of the semiconductor material and the insulating material. The second electrode layer is disposed on the second material layer.
US09330843B2
A multilayer ceramic electronic component includes a multilayer ceramic element, a center outer electrode at a center portion of a surface of the multilayer ceramic element, side outer electrodes interposing the center outer electrode therebetween, first inner electrodes inside the multilayer ceramic element and electrically connected to the outer electrode via center extending portions, and second inner electrodes electrically connected to the side outer electrodes via first and second-side extending portions. Exposed ends of the first-side extending portions of the second inner electrodes near a center layer of the multilayer ceramic element are spaced from an end surface of the multilayer ceramic element by a distance C. Exposed ends of the first-side extending portions of the second inner electrodes disposed near an outermost layer of the multilayer portion are spaced from the end surface of the multilayer ceramic element by a distance D greater than the distance C.
US09330838B2
A coil unit in which impact resistance is ensured and that has a magnetic body for heating prevention. The coil unit (the power receiving coil unit) includes a winding wire (the winding wire portion) and a magnetic body, wherein in the magnetic body, a plurality of individual pieces with two principle surfaces opposing in a thickness direction are disposed in rows and columns in a direction substantially orthogonal to the thickness direction, and the two principle surfaces are in a polygonal shape and all interior angles forming a polygon are obtuse angles (except for a right angle).
US09330836B2
Provided is a self-resonant apparatus in relation to electric and radio technologies, and more particularly, to a wireless power transmission system, the self-resonant apparatus including ring resonators. Here, the ring resonators may be represented by a combination having metamaterial features, the combination may include split-ring resonators (SRRs) connected in parallel to capacitors, a front surface and a rear surface of each of the SRRs may be connected to be twisted in an alternating pattern, and each SRR may be executed as a metal strip mounted on a dielectric layer and connected to a neighboring SRR by a series capacitor.
US09330827B2
A process of making inductors for integrated circuit packages may involve forming an inductor upon a magnetic film on a package substrate. Conductors coupled either to a die or a voltage converter extend perpendicularly through the film to conductive plates, defining current paths through and across the film.
US09330825B2
A field system includes a first component having at least one first field source having opposite polarities and a second component having at least one second field source having opposite polarities. At least one of the first and second components has a movement relative to the other of the components to produce a field interaction therebetween. The at least one first and the at least one second field sources are oriented relative to each other such that in the field interaction the resulting repelling forces and attractive forces substantially cancel each other out and there is an increase and a decrease in the field strength of at least some of the field sources. Therefore, the field system, which can be a magnetic configuration system, provides a field strength change with a minimum energy input which can increase the efficiency of many machines such as MRI or electricity generators.
US09330822B2
A reactor includes a coil and a core unit having partial cores butted against one another to form a closed magnetic path. The partial cores include a first partial core forming and a second partial core. The first partial core is inserted in the hollow of the coil. A pressed face of the first partial core is oriented orthogonal to the winding axis direction of the coil. The second partial core is butted against the first partial core. A pressed face of the second partial core is oriented orthogonal to a direction different from the winding axis direction. The pressed face of the second partial core is a substantially flat plane.
US09330820B2
Methods are provided for fabricating three-dimensional electrically conductive structures. Three-dimensional electrically conductive microstructures are also provided. The method may include providing a mold having at least one microdepression which defines a three-dimensional structure; filling the microdepression of the mold with at least one substrate material; molding the at least one substrate material to form a substrate; and depositing and patterning of at least one electrically conductive layer either during the molding process or subsequent to the molding process to form an electrically conductive structure. In one embodiment, the three-dimensional electrically conductive microstructure comprises an electrically functional microneedle array comprising two or more microneedles, each including a high aspect ratio, polymeric three dimensional substrate structure which is at least substantially coated by an electrically conductive layer.
US09330819B2
A semi-finished wire (1) for a Nb3Sn superconducting wire (45) has a multiplicity of elements containing Nb packed against each other (6). The elements containing Nb (6) each have a rod containing Nb (7) and an enclosure containing Cu (8) surrounding the latter. The semi-finished wire also has a structure containing Sn (5) and a matrix containing Cu (4) in which the structure containing Sn (5) is disposed and on and/or in which the elements containing Nb (6) are disposed. The enclosures containing Cu (8) of the elements containing Nb (6), contain Sn. The semi-finished wire is suitable for manufacturing an Nb3Sn superconducting wire with which further improved superconducting current-carrying capacity is achieved.
US09330816B2
An umbilical for use in the offshore production of hydrocarbons comprising an assembly of functional elements wherein at least one of the functional elements comprises an electrical cable, and wherein said electrical cable is enclosed within a tube, said tube being adapted to apply a radial compressive force on the cable whereby the tube is capable of supporting the weight of the electrical cable in an axial direction.
US09330812B2
A method and apparatus for communicating between the cab interior and exterior chassis of a truck comprises a custom-designed multi-conductor cable having a plurality of circuits. Each multi-conductor cable is terminated at each end with non-proprietary connectors and fabricated into a harness of a length that is truck brand and model specific determined by the truck manufacturer and carry various communication functions between the cab interior and the distal exterior truck cab.
US09330807B2
The present invention relates to a conductive paste in which fine metal particles are dispersed into a chemical adsorption liquid produced from a mixture of at least an alkoxysilane compound, a silanol condensation catalyst, and a nonaqueous organic solvent to form an organic thin film comprising molecules covalently bound to the surface of the fine metal particle by having the surface of the fine metal particle react with the alkoxysilane compound, so that fine metal particles that are given a reactive function to the surface are produced while almost maintaining the original conductivity of the fine metal particles, and further the particles are pasted with an organic solvent.
US09330804B2
The present invention provides a metallic material for electronic components having a low degree of whisker formation and a high durability, and connector terminals, connectors and electronic components using the metallic material. The metallic material for electronic components includes: a base material; on the base material, an lower layer constituted with one or two or more selected from the group consisting of Ni, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co and Cu; on the lower layer, an upper layer constituted with an alloy composed of one or both of Sn and In (constituent elements A) and one or two or more of Ag, Au, Pt, Pd, Ru, Rh, Os and Ir (constituent elements B), wherein the thickness of the lower layer is 0.05 μm or more; the thickness of the upper layer is 0.005 μm or more and 0.6 μm or less; and in the upper layer, the relation between the ratio, the constituent elements A/(the constituent elements A+the constituent elements B) [mass %] (hereinafter, referred to as the proportion of Sn+In) and the plating thickness [μm] is given by plating thickness≦8.2×(proportion of Sn+In)−0.66 [herein, (the proportion of Sn+In)≧10 mass %].
US09330803B2
A radiation therapy apparatus includes a housing, a radiation source carried by the housing, and at least one aperture assembly carried by the housing. The aperture assembly includes a radiation aperture body having a shaped opening therein to control a radiation dosing profile, and an aperture holder with an aperture-receiving passageway therein receiving the radiation aperture body, and having a recessed end. A cover is received within the recessed end of the aperture holder and retains the radiation aperture body within the aperture holder. The cover has an opening aligned with the shaped opening in the radiation aperture body. The radiation aperture body, the aperture receiving passageway of the aperture holder and the opening of the cover have angled interfaces therebetween. A radiation filter is carried by the housing.
US09330797B2
A lock plate for a locking device of a jet pump beam, the locking device including a locking sleeve including a lower portion, may include a beam bolt opening sized to receive the locking sleeve, and a spring arm including plurality of spring a ratchet teeth sized to mesh with locking sleeve ratchet teeth included in the lower portion of the locking sleeve, the spring arm being structured such that the spring arm has both i) an engaged position where the locking sleeve is in the beam bolt opening and at least a portion of the capture feature overlaps vertically with an upper surface of the lower portion of the locking sleeve, and ii) a disengaged position where the locking sleeve is in the beam bolt opening and the capture feature does not overlap vertically with the upper surface.
US09330795B2
The invention relates to a method for preparing a fuel based on oxide, carbide, and/or oxycarbide comprising uranium and at least one actinide and/or lanthanide component, comprising the following steps: a step for preparing a load solution consisting in a nitric solution comprising said actinide and/or lanthanide in the form of actinide and/or lanthanide nitrates and uranium as a hydroxylated uranyl nitrate complex; a step for passing said solution over a cation exchange resin comprising carboxylic groups, with which the actinide and/or the lanthanide in cationic form and the uranium as uranyl remain bound to the resin; a heat treatment step of said resin so as to obtain said fuel.
US09330791B2
A memory system includes a memory controller configured to replace a memory block including a failed memory cell with a unit cache block of a cache memory in response to detection of the failed memory cell in the memory block. The unit cache block is smaller than a minimum size of a memory cell array capable of being blocked by an operating system, and the unit cache block has substantially the same storage capacity as the memory block.
US09330790B2
Method and apparatus for managing data in a memory, such as a flash memory array. In accordance with various embodiments, a first data access operation is conducted on a memory cell and a first temperature associated with the memory cell and associated with the first data access operation is measured. A second temperature associated with the memory cell is measured. At least one operational parameter is adjusted responsive to the first and second temperatures associated with the memory cell. A second data access operation is conducted on the memory cell using the adjusted operational parameter.
US09330778B2
An erase operation for a 3D stacked memory device assigns storage elements to groups according to an expected erase speed. The storage elements are then erased according to their group to provide a more uniform erase depth and a tighter erase distribution. In one approach, the control gate voltages are set differently for the different groups to slow down the storage elements which are expected to have a faster programming speed. An erase or inhibit status can be set for all groups together. In another approach, the control gate voltages are common for the different groups but an erase or inhibit status is set for each group separately.
US09330777B2
Some embodiments include a memory device and a method of programming memory cells of the memory device. One such method can include applying, during a first pass of programming, a first bias voltage value to a source select gate to isolate memory cells from a source, applying a programming voltage to an access line of a page of the memory cells during the first pass of programming, and applying a second bias voltage value to the source select gate to isolate the memory cells from the source during a second pass of programming. Further devices, systems, and methods are disclosed.
US09330771B2
A semiconductor device includes memory strings each including a drain select transistor, memory cells and a source select transistor, which are connected between a bit line and a common source line and suitable for operating based on voltages applied to a drain select line, word lines and a source select line, respectively, and an operation circuit suitable for performing a pre-program operation, an erase operation and a post-program operation on the memory strings. The operation circuit sequentially performs erase operations on the drain select transistors included in the memory strings.
US09330769B2
Nonvolatile memory device, operating methods thereof, and memory systems including the same. In the operating method, a ground select line of a first string connected to a bit line may be floated. An erase prohibition voltage may be applied to a ground select line of a second string connected to the bit line. An erase operation voltage may be applied to the first and second strings.
US09330760B2
The present invention discloses a method and an apparatus for setting a TCAM entry and relates to the field of communications, which are used to achieve an objective of improving utilization of a TCAM. The method for setting a TCAM entry includes: acquiring a number set formed by values of same fields in preset packets, where the packets are packets on which a same action needs to be performed, and the number set includes at least two numbers; acquiring a longest continuous mask of the number set; obtaining an acquisition result according to the longest continuous mask of the number set; and storing the acquisition result in a ternary content-addressable memory TCAM entry corresponding to the action. The solutions disclosed in the present invention are applicable to a scenario of setting a TCAM entry.
US09330754B2
A semiconductor memory includes a substrate configured to include a plurality of active regions which are defined by isolation layers extending in a first direction and word lines extending in a second direction intersecting the first direction; source line contacts configured to be alternately disposed over the active regions arranged in the first and second directions and disposed over each of the active regions arranged in a third direction intersecting the first and second directions; source lines configured to extend in the third direction while being coupled to the source line contacts; contacts configured to be disposed over each of the active regions over which the source line contacts are not disposed; variable resistance elements configured to be disposed over each of the contacts; bit line contacts configured to be disposed over each of the variable resistance elements; and bit lines configured to extend in a fourth direction intersecting the first to third directions while being coupled to the bit line contacts.
US09330751B2
A wordline driver supply block supporting multiple operation modes of a memory of a microprocessor in a device for reducing power consumption thereof.
US09330745B2
A magnetic memory device includes first and second magnetic memory cells coupled to first and second bit lines, respectively. The first and second magnetic memory cells respectively include a pinned magnetic layer, a free magnetic layer, and a tunnel insulating layer therebetween. Respective stacking orders of the pinned magnetic layer, the tunnel insulating layer, and the free magnetic layer are different in the first and second magnetic memory cells. The magnetic memory device further includes at least one transistor that is configured to couple the first and second magnetic memory cells to a common source line. Related methods of operation are also discussed.
US09330741B2
A semiconductor device including a data aligner that aligns input data in response to internal strobe signals obtained by dividing a data strobe signal to generate a first alignment data and a second alignment data. The semiconductor device may also include a phase sensor that generates a control clock signal in response to a clock signal and senses phases of the internal strobe signals with the control clock signal to generate a selection signal, and a data selector that selectively outputs the first and second alignment data as a first selection alignment data and a second selection alignment data in response to the selection signal.
US09330725B2
An apparatus, method, and computer readable medium for writing data on a highly indestructible material is disclosed. A laser may write data on a first side of a highly indestructible material. The data may then be marked as non-rewriteable. The data may also be written on a second side of the highly indestructible material, with the second side being opposite the first side. The highly indestructible material may comprise a stainless steel storage medium.
US09330716B2
An apparatus for recording a sequence of video data signals on a record carrier has been proposed. The apparatus comprises input means (1) for receiving video data signals, generating means (100) for generating characteristic point information signals, processing means (100) for processing the characteristic point information signals for a plurality of characteristic points into a sequence of characteristic points information signals (CPI) and writing means (102) for writing the sequence of video data signals and the sequence of characteristic points information signals on the record carrier. The characteristic point information signals identify a characteristic point in the sequence of video data signals. Various measures are proposed in relation to the CPI aiming at improving quality of trickplay and random access playback operations.
US09330712B2
In a data conversion auxiliary module which is at a higher level than a file system in a disk management hierarchy, data stored in a storage medium, which becomes an object, is successively accessed. Then, a data conversion module captures a sector-unit access request to a device driver from the file system, converts data of a sector which is returned from the device driver, and writes the conversion data in the sector. Thereby, data conversion can be executed on a specific region of the storage medium, which is associated with the data in the storage medium.
US09330710B2
Systems and methods for determining the location of a mobile robot within a data storage library and to a library including such systems and utilizing such methods.
US09330709B2
Systems and methods that dynamically distribute status, cartridge movement and other types of requests and communications from a library manager to one or more libraries of a library string based on target or subject libraries in the requests. Upon receiving and/or generating a request, the library manager determines whether active connections (e.g., control paths) are available from the library manager substantially directly to the subject libraries and then distributes the requests over such active connections when available. When such active connections are unavailable, the library manager may distribute such requests over active connections to non-subject libraries which may forward such requests to the subject libraries via an inter-library communication interconnect.
US09330704B2
The optical information recording and reproducing method realizes an increased number of multiplexing in recording and favorably stabilized signal recording in a manner of uniforming media consumption in angle-multiplexed recording by changing a phase of signal light on a pixel basis in a manner in which the speed of a phase change on a pixel basis is constant or is greater than or equal to a certain speed in a page and between pages when the driving speed of a phase mask changes at the time of recording. The optical information recording and reproducing method, while moving an optical element that adds phase information to a light flux which includes two-dimensional page data information in a direction that is perpendicular to an optical axis of the light flux, records the page data on the recording medium by adding the phase information to the light flux.
US09330700B2
A magnetic tape storage medium includes at least one servo band with at least two sub-bands along a longitudinal extension of the medium. Servo bursts are written to the sub-bands to determine positional information of the medium. A first of the sub-bands includes a first burst with at least one servo stripe inclined at a first non-zero angle with respect to a direction orthogonal to the longitudinal extension of the medium followed by a second burst comprising at least one servo stripe inclined at a second non-zero angle with respect to the direction orthogonal to the longitudinal extension of the medium, which second angle is different from the first angle. A second of the sub-bands includes a first burst having at least one servo stripe followed by a second burst having at least one servo stripe, the first and the second bursts parallel to each other.
US09330698B1
A PZT microactuator such as for a hard disk drive has a restraining layer bonded on its side that is opposite the side on which the PZT is mounted. The restraining layer comprises a stiff and resilient material such as stainless steel. The restraining layer can cover most or all of the top of the PZT, with an electrical connection being made to the PZT where it is not covered by the restraining layer. The restraining layer reduces bending of the PZT as mounted and hence increases effective stroke length, or reverses the sign of the bending which increases the effective stroke length of the PZT even further. The restraining layer can be one or more active layers of PZT material that act in the opposite direction as the main PZT layer. The restraining layer(s) may be thinner than the main PZT layer.
US09330696B1
A PZT microactuator such as for a hard disk drive has a restraining layer bonded on its side that is opposite the side on which the PZT is mounted. The restraining layer comprises a stiff and resilient material such as stainless steel. The restraining layer can cover most or all of the top of the PZT, with an electrical connection being made to the PZT where it is not covered by the restraining layer. The restraining layer reduces bending of the PZT as mounted and hence increases effective stroke length, or reverses the sign of the bending which increases the effective stroke length of the PZT even further. The restraining layer may extend beyond the edge of the PZT to define an overhang, with the electrical connection being made by bonding to the underside of the overhang thus reducing and controlling the height of the assembly.
US09330693B1
An electrical circuit for a disk drive suspension has a first signal trace above a grounded support layer which is typically stainless steel, and a second signal trace below the support layer, the two signal traces typically being opposite polarities of a differential signal pair. The support layer between the two signal traces is windowed, and the two traces are physically separated by a distance that equals the nominal thickness of the support layer plus the thicknesses of the top and bottom dielectric layers that separate the signal traces from the support layer. The physical separation combined with the windowing reduces the impedance and increases the bandwidth of the differential pair. The impedance can be controlled by the percentage of windowing in the support layer.
US09330689B1
An apparatus, according to one embodiment, includes: a controller having: a first circuit having a reference resistance, a second circuit having an adjustable resistance, and logic integrated with and/or executable by the controller, the logic being configured to cause the controller to perform the following process: apply a voltage to the first and second circuits, compare output voltages of the first and second circuits, alter the resistance of the second circuit until the output voltage of the first circuit is less than or equal to the output voltage of the second circuit, extract setting information in response to determining that the first voltage of the first circuit is less than or equal to the second voltage of the second circuit, and apply the extracted setting information to a component of a write driver circuit for setting a resistance value of the component.
US09330688B1
A recording head writes data to a recording medium for one or more iterations. Each iteration involves adjusting a linear data density, a track pitch, and a laser power. From the iterations, a selected linear data density, a selected track pitch, and a selected laser power are determined that together achieve a target areal density and are used to write user data to the recording medium during operation of a hard disk drive.
US09330686B2
In one general embodiment, an apparatus includes a magnetic head. The magnetic head has a first portion and a second portion, the first portion and the second portion together providing a tape bearing surface. The first portion has two pieces defining an opening at least partially encircling the second portion. The second portion has at least one array of transducers. A longitudinal axis of each of the at least one array is defined between opposite ends thereof, and is oriented at an angle relative to a line oriented orthogonally to the intended direction of tape travel thereacross, the angle being between 0.2° and about 10°. A closest distance between tape bearing surfaces of the two pieces of the first portion in the intended direction of tape travel is less than a widest width of the tape bearing surface of the second portion in the intended direction of tape travel.
US09330683B2
According to one embodiment, an apparatus for discriminating speech/non-speech of a first acoustic signal includes a weight assignment unit, a feature extraction unit, and a speech/non-speech discrimination unit. The weight assignment unit is configured to assign a weight to each frequency band, based on a frequency spectrum of the first acoustic signal including a user's speech and a frequency spectrum of a second acoustic signal including a disturbance sound. The feature extraction unit is configured to extract a feature from the frequency spectrum of the first acoustic signal, based on the weight of each frequency band. The speech/non-speech discrimination unit is configured to discriminate speech/non-speech of the first acoustic signal, based on the feature.
US09330682B2
According to one embodiment, an apparatus for discriminating speech/non-speech of a first acoustic signal includes a weight assignment unit, a feature extraction unit, and a speech/non-speech discrimination unit. The first acoustic signal includes a user's speech and a reproduced sound. The reproduced sound is a system sound having a plurality of channels reproduced from a plurality of speakers. The weight assignment unit is configured to assign a weight to each frequency band based on the system sound. The feature extraction unit is configured to extract a feature from a second acoustic signal based on the weight of each frequency band. The second acoustic signal is the first acoustic signal in which the reproduced sound is suppressed. The speech/non-speech discrimination unit is configured to discriminate speech/non-speech of the first acoustic signal based on the feature.
US09330673B2
A method and apparatus for performing microphone beamforming. The method includes recognizing a speech of a speaker, searching for a previously stored image associated with the speaker, searching for the speaker through a camera based on the image, recognizing a position of the speaker, and performing microphone beamforming according to the position of the speaker.
US09330662B2
According to an embodiment, a pattern classifier device includes a decision unit, an execution unit, a calculator, and a determination unit. The decision unit is configured to decide a subclass to which the input pattern is to belong, based on attribute information of the input pattern. The execution unit is configured to determine whether the input pattern belongs to a class that is divided into subclasses, using a weak classifier allocated to the decided subclass, and output a result of the determination and a reliability of the weak classifier. The calculator is configured to calculate an integrated value obtained by integrating an evaluation value based on the determination result and the reliability. The determination unit is configured to repeat the determination processing when a termination condition of the determination processing is not satisfied, and terminate the determination processing and output the integrated value when the termination condition, has been satisfied.
US09330656B2
A speech dialogue system generates a response sentence in a way to improve the efficiency of the dialogue with the user, based on a result of estimation on an attribute of a proper name in an utterance of a user. The system includes a database attribute estimation unit to estimate the attribute of the input proper name by utilizing a database, and a web attribute estimation unit to estimate an attribute of an input proper name by utilizing information on the web. A reliability integration unit calculates integrated reliability of estimation for each of possible attributes obtained from the estimation by the units, by integrating first reliability of the estimation. A response generation unit generates a response sentence to an input utterance based on the integrated reliabilities of the possible attributes.
US09330655B2
A device to generate an engine noise and a method to generate the engine noise at a time period between two directly successive ignition events of an internal combustion engine wherein the engine noise increases the number of cylinders of the internal combustion engine in a virtual fashion.
US09330650B2
A sound masking device includes: a sound pick-up unit which picks up a sound, and which produces a picked-up sound signal based on the sound, a masking sound signal producing unit which produces a masking sound signal from the picked-up sound signal a sound emitting unit which emits a masking sound based on the masking sound signal, and an echo cancelling unit which performs an echo cancelling process on the picked-up sound signal by performing an adaptive filtering process on the masking sound signal, and by subtracting the filtered masking sound signal from the picked-up sound signal. The masking sound signal producing unit produces a masking sound signal having a level corresponding to an amplitude level of the picked-up sound signal which has subjected to the echo cancelling process.
US09330645B2
Described is a multi-legged instrument stand that is specifically designed to increase stability and resistance to tipping. The stand can be used with any suitable instrument, such as guitars (via a guitar hanger), microphones, etc. The stand includes a base with a body pole. A leg connector is slidably attached with the body pole, with three legs and two stabilizers being pivotally connected with the leg connector. Thus, the legs and stabilizers can collapse for storage or rotate outward to allow the stand to be positioned upon a ground surface with increased stability.
US09330642B2
The disclosure provides a drum pillow for percussion instruments. In one embodiment, the drum pillow includes: (1) a top side, (2) a bottom gripping side connected to the top side and (3) a weighted core fully enclosed within the connected top side and bottom side, wherein the weighted core includes a weighted roll of a weighted substance within a flexible container that is rolled in a fabric.
US09330633B2
A method including causing a projection apparatus that outputs projection light to a predetermined display area to project and display a first image including plural figures such that the plural figures are respectively displayed in plural positions of a projection area that is projected by the projection light, specifying a figure of which brightness value is a maximum among the displayed plural figures so as to specify a brightness center point at which the brightness value is a maximum in the projection area, and causing the projection apparatus to project and display a second image indicating the specified brightness center point.
US09330629B2
Exemplary embodiments involve a viewer application dynamically adjusting the color balance of electronic content displayed on a display device. A viewer application can determine color information for a display device and generate a color correction filter based on color information for the display device and color information used by electronic content to specify the test color. The viewer application can receive display data representing at least a portion of the electronic content and apply the color correction filter to the display data to provide a color-corrected version of the display data for display by the display device. The viewer application can obtain the color information from a device driver application for the display device or from a separate data file.
US09330622B2
A display includes a plurality of pixels, a plurality of scan lines and a plurality of data lines. Each pixel includes a first color sub-pixel, a second color sub-pixel and a third color sub-pixel. The scan lines and the data lines are coupled to the pixels. Two color sub-pixels in the same row coupled to the same data line are coupled to different scan lines, and all of the second color sub-pixels in the same row are coupled to the same scan line.
US09330620B2
A driving method of a field sequential display apparatus is provided. First, a plurality of scan lines of the field sequential display apparatus are sequentially driven according to a scanning sequence in a first period of a first field, wherein the first field is in a first frame. Next, the scan lines are sequentially driven according to an opposite sequence in a second period of the first field, wherein the opposite sequence is in the reverse order of the scanning sequence. Finally, the scan lines are simultaneously driven or not driven in a third period of the first field. Consequently, the disclosed driving method can promote the uniformity of the image brightness.
US09330610B2
The present invention relates to a liquid crystal display device in which the light sources of a backlight unit are independently driven as a plurality of separate regions, and to a drive method for the same. In situations where there is a substantial variation in the brightness (luminance) of regions being displayed on the liquid crystal display device, the present invention can improve the visibility of boundaries due to differences in luminance in images displayed within the regions of the backlight unit emitting light at different levels of luminance as a result.
US09330609B2
A luminance adjusting method for a display screen of an electronic device includes the following steps. Firstly, a current brightness value and a current imaging color value of the display screen are recorded. In response to the user's operation, the light output of the display screen is adjusted. Consequently, the adjusted brightness value is equal to a default brightness value and the adjusted imaging color value is equal to a default imaging color value. Meanwhile, the display screen is operated in the healthy display mode. In response to the user's additional operation, the light output of the display screen is adjusted. Consequently, the adjusted brightness value is equal to the recorded current brightness value and the adjusted imaging color value is equal to the recorded current imaging color value. Meanwhile, the display screen is restored to the normal display mode.
US09330604B2
The present invention belongs to the field of display technology, and provides an OLED pixel circuit, a drive method thereof and a display device, which may solve the problem of relatively complicated control circuit and manufacturing process of an existing in-cell touch screen. In the OLED pixel circuit of the present invention, the data writing unit is for writing power supply voltage signal and data line voltage signal into the storage unit; the storage unit is for supplying voltage to the drive unit; the touch detecting unit is for sensing touch and generating a detecting signal; the drive unit is for converting the detecting signal into a touch output signal and for providing drive current for the OLED; and the light-emitting control unit is for turning on the drive unit and the OLED. The present invention may allow the touch display device to be thinner and lighter.
US09330601B2
A method of driving a display device includes: applying a first voltage at the first transistor to turn on the first transistor; maintaining the first voltage at the first transistor; applying a second voltage lower than the first voltage at the first transistor; wherein the applying of the first voltage comprises switching the fourth transistor according to the second scan signal to couple the gate electrode of the first transistor to the third power source, and switching the fifth transistor according to the light emission control signal to couple the first electrode of the first transistor to the first power source, and the applying of the second voltage comprises switching the second transistor according to the first scan signal to couple the first electrode of the first transistor to the data line, and switching the third transistor according to the first scan signal to diode-couple the first transistor.
US09330588B2
A pixel circuit includes a driving transistor, a switching transistor, and a light emitting element, and the light emitting elements are formed on a semiconductor substrate. A first substrate potential is supplied to the switching transistor, and a second substrate potential, different from the first substrate potential, is supplied to the driving transistor.
US09330585B2
The element, in particular for a building, comprises two panes facing each other and forming double glazing; and an electronic circuit including diodes and suitable for displaying at least a portion of a video image by means of the diodes, the circuit extending between the two panes, facing a visible zone of the panes.The element may be used to form a video display device on a building facade.
US09330581B2
A device configured to retain an informational tag, near a plant in a positioning step and an attaching step. The device includes a display bed that defines a plane. A shoulder is defined on one side of the frame such that the shoulder extends away from the display bed and defines a stop. A retaining finger extends over the plane and defines a surface that faces and is spaced-away from the plane, A cover is positioned near the retaining finger and is movable from a first position to a second position. A prong is positioned on the cover and extends toward the plane when the cover is in the first position and extends through the plane when the cover is in the second position. The retaining finger surface and the display bed are configured to act cooperatively to retain a tag therebetween by friction.
US09330579B2
A form having a printable nylon taffeta face ply and a liner ply where the face ply is die cut to form one or more blank detachable wristbands having first and second ends. The face ply is adhered to the liner ply by a pressure sensitive adhesive included on at least a portion of its bottom surface and the pressure sensitive adhesive is included on the face ply around the periphery of the one or more wristbands and on a bottom surface of the first and second ends of each of the wristbands. Each of the first and second ends of the wristbands is provided with tamper evident indicia.
US09330576B2
A computer based simulation system for virtual training for vehicle crews is disclosed. The vehicle crew training system (VCTS) simulates crew positions for different military vehicles. Two or more crewman modules are networked together to support a partial or full vehicle crew. The crewman modules are self-contained devices that are modular in hardware and software design, easily reconfigurable, and that require minimal facility space, allowing use in restricted environments such as trailers. The VCTS is modular at the crew position level; crewman modules are added or deleted as required to meet a particular training need. One of the crewman modules can be a gunner module, which provides an unrestricted view of the simulated environment to the gunner by means of a display and a simulated vehicle-mounted weapon.
US09330563B2
Phasor Measurement Units (PMUs) tend to be specialized and expensive—relegated to only key points in power distribution networks, and are generally reliant on GPS technology. The present disclosure details how any smart meter—using wireless communication—can perform sub-microsecond-grade synchrophasor measurements. Other aspects concern smart meter-based determination of A, B or C phase of the tri-phase power network. This can involve count-stamp enabling message packets sent to and/or from a smart meter, and then associating such count-stamps to local measurements of power phase by a metrology unit. Once a network of such enabled smart meters and other devices is formed, sub-microsecond metropolitan-wide and entire region-wide synchronizing time standard can calibrate local measurements of power phase, where simple A, B and C phase determination is one low hanging fruit application of such. Low cost aggregate monitoring of metropolitan-wide synchrophasors promises a next chapter of importance for that relatively recent art.
US09330560B2
A method for reconfiguring an equipment monitoring system may include (a) providing a monitoring device including sensor(s) configured to monitor a particular device; and a processor configured to analyze the sensor data collected by the sensor(s) to determine a status of the particular device, and control one or more status indicators to display the determined status; (b) connecting a removable memory module to the monitoring device, which memory module receives and stores sensor data from the monitoring device sensor(s); (c) connecting a removable wireless transmitter module to the monitoring device or the removable memory module, (d) connecting the removable wireless transmitter module to additional source(s) of sensor data; (e) receiving at the removable wireless transmitter module sensor data from the monitoring device sensor(s), and additional sensor data from the additional sensor data source(s); and (f) wirelessly transmitting both the sensor data and the additional sensor data to a wireless receiver.
US09330551B2
An early electrical fire sensing system for a high voltage panel, a low voltage panel, a motor control panel, a distribution board, or a power distribution panel comprises the first laser that emits the frequency beam absorbed by benzyl alcohol gas and the first detecting device which detects the first beam intensity; the second laser which emits the frequency beam absorbed by BHT gas and the second detecting device which detects the second laser beam intensity; and a main control unit which consists of a microprocessor. The main control unit gives a fire alarm event when the first laser beam intensity of the first detecting device is decreased more than a reference value, while a fire emergent alarm event when the second laser beam intensity of the second detecting device is decreased more than a reference value.
US09330549B2
A barrier and system for the protection of a crowd from terrorists, by evaluating each individual for any concealed prohibited items. Each individual is exposed to one or more screening mechanisms, controlled by a monitoring unit, while passing in an organized fashion through an enclosed walkway containing the screening mechanism, and exiting on the other side. When a prohibited object is detected, response is provided and the smart door device is locked to detain and isolate the suspected individual in the device structure's interior. The structure of the invention is also configured to deflect the blast created by a potential explosion and prevent harm to other individuals and structures nearby.
US09330548B2
A wireless perimeter intrusion detection system includes a controller and at least one perimeter generation unit having a weatherproof housing, at least one movement detection sensor, an alarm, an input unit and a communication unit.
US09330547B2
A haptic authoring tool is provided that recommends one or more haptic effects provides a haptification model generated by learning a human haptic designer style. The haptic authoring tool receives an input comprising at least one of audio and video and a plurality of events. The haptic authoring tool then recommends a type of haptic effect to be associated with a corresponding event from the input based on the learned haptification model.
US09330545B2
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium may include instructions stored thereon. When executed by at least one processor, the instructions may be configured to cause a computing system including a tactile input device to at least detect a depression of the tactile input device, detect a number of contacts at the tactile input device, each of the detected contacts being associated with a duration and a distance moved, and determine, based on the number of detected contacts on the tactile input device, the durations of the detected contacts, and the distances moved of the detected contacts, a type of input to process.
US09330538B2
A computer-implemented method that includes programming a computer machine to perform the steps of: providing game slips to game players, where each games slip has game options and one of the game options is a first game option that includes a non-verified outcome of an event; receiving the game slips that include selected game options where one selected game option includes the first game option; determining odds of the first game option based on: 1-P, where P is the probability of a verified outcome of the event, a financial criterion of the game provider, and the selected game options; providing and receiving acceptance of the odds; determining whether the event has resulted in the verified outcome or the non-verified outcome; and determining, for each game player that selected the first game option, a prize based on the accepted odds when the event results in a non-verified outcome.
US09330524B2
A gaming system includes a display mounted to a cabinet and configured to display an outcome of a wagering game, the outcome being randomly selected from a plurality of outcomes in response to receiving a wager. The gaming system further includes an armrest panel mounted to the cabinet and including a support padding having a wall thickness defined by an exterior surface and an interior surface. The wall thickness varies along a cross-section of the support padding. The armrest panel further includes a plurality of buttons integrated in the support padding for receiving inputs from a player, the plurality of buttons including a first button mounted on a first elevation of the support padding and a second button mounted on a second elevation of the support padding. The first elevation is higher than the second elevation relative to the interior surface.
US09330522B2
A gaming system is disclosed which comprises a symbol selector arranged to select a plurality of symbols for display at a corresponding plurality of display positions, an outcome evaluator arranged to determine whether the selected symbols correspond to a winning symbol combination by evaluating symbols disposed in defined win lines, and a prize allocator arranged to allocate a prize to a player when a winning symbol combination exists in a defined win line. At least one display position is of different size to at least one other display position and the defined win lines are dependent on the respective sizes of and locations of the display positions. A corresponding method is also disclosed.
US09330513B2
The techniques and systems disclosed herein pertain to preventing unauthorized access to computing resources by unauthorized persons by deploying biometric security. To implement biometric security, the computing device, possibly by the OS, may obtain samples of one or more biometric factors unique to the owner. The computing device may construct pattern-matching templates corresponding to the biometric samples, which may be stored for later use when a protected resource is requested. Computing resources may be selected for protection by a biometric security mechanism by an authorized user or by other techniques or default settings. Before allowing certain restricted actions, the OS may request that the user provide one of the previously registered biometric samples. If the biometric sample matches the user's stored pattern-matching template, the OS may grant access to the computing resource, otherwise, the OS may deny access to the computing resource.
US09330508B2
A method and system for presenting vehicle information. A functional part of a vehicle is selected to be examined and information related to the selected function part is received. A vehicle model corresponding to the vehicle is retrieved. Based on the selected functional part and the vehicle model, a mode of operation is determined and used in presenting the vehicle model and the information so that a portion of the model corresponding to the functional part is visible and the information is presented with respect to the visible functional part of the presented model.
US09330504B2
A method for correcting 3D building objects is provided. Construction tools available within the visualization tool provide edge squaring and edge snapping of the 3D building objects, correcting incoherent angles and planes resulting from errors formed during the construction of the building model. Specified angular thresholds for perpendicular axis and parallel planes are provided in the construction tools to identify inaccuracies within selected buildings and new buildings are redrawn.
US09330499B2
A system and method to present a user wearing a head mounted display with supplemental information when viewing a live event. A user wearing an at least partially see-through, head mounted display views the live event while simultaneously receiving information on objects, including people, within the user's field of view, while wearing the head mounted display. The information is presented in a position in the head mounted display which does not interfere with the user's enjoyment of the live event.
US09330486B1
A computer can identify discrete objects within a 3D geometry in a vector-based format. The computer can compare a spatial property of each of the discrete objects against an established spatial range. From the comparing, the computer can determining that a set of the discrete objects have a spatial property within the spatial range. The computer can omit the discrete objects from the 3D geometry as a group to create an altered 3D geometry. The computer can submit the altered 3D geometry to a render engine for display. The number of polygons in the altered 3D geometry is less than the number of polygon faces in the 3D geometry.
US09330479B2
A display system for displaying one image on a display surface by combining a first image displayed by a first display apparatus and a second image displayed by a second display apparatus, wherein: the first display apparatus displays a first index image at a position which is close to the image displayed by the second display apparatus and which is included in a display range of the first display apparatus, the first index image having a predetermined color and the image having luminances which are changed in a direction parallel to a side adjacent to the image displayed by the second display apparatus; and the first display apparatus corrects the image displayed by the first display apparatus on the basis of a designated position of the first index image.
US09330477B2
Surgical stereo vision systems and methods for microsurgery are described that enable hand-eye collocation, high resolution, and a large field of view. A digital stereo microscope apparatus, an operating system with a digital stereo microscope, and a method are described using a display unit located over an area of interest such that a human operator places hands, tools, or a combination thereof in the area of interest and views a magnified and augmented live stereo view of the area interest with eyes of the human operator substantially collocated with the hands of the human operator.
US09330475B2
In an example, a method of coding graphics data comprising a plurality of pixels includes performing, by a graphics processing unit (GPU), multi-sample anti-aliasing to generate one or more sample values for each pixel of the plurality of pixels. The method may also include determining whether pixels comprise edge pixels, where the determination comprises identifying, for each pixel, differing sample values. The method may also include encoding the pixels based on the edge pixel determination.
US09330468B2
Techniques are provided for tracking different types of subjects and labeling the tracks according to subject type. In an implementation, the tracking includes tracking first and second subject types using video, and also tracking subjects of the first type using Wi-Fi tags provided to the subjects of the first type. The video and Wi-Fi tracks can be compared in order to identify and label which video tracks are associated with subjects of the first type and which video tracks are associated with subjects of the second type. Upon the tracks having been labeled, interactions between the different subject types can be identified and analyzed.
US09330456B2
A method of regularization of x-ray phase contrast imaging (XPCi) system measurement data includes obtaining air scan data of the XPCi system prior to the presence of an object undergoing imaging, performing Fourier analysis of the air scan data, computing air coefficients from the result of the performing step, obtaining object scan data of an object undergoing imaging on the XPCi system, regularizing the object scan data, and calculating at least one of absorption image data, differential phase image data, and dark field image data by using object coefficients. A system configured to implement the method and a non-transitory computer-readable medium are disclosed.
US09330453B2
The invention relates to an apparatus and to a method for determining a skin inflammation value. The apparatus comprises an optoelectronic measuring device, preferably a 3D scanner, for recording a three-dimensional image of an inflammation region on human or animal skin, wherein area-related, spatial, and color values of the three-dimensional image can be detected by the optoelectronic measuring device, a computing unit for calculating the skin inflammation value from the area-related, spatial, and color values detected by the measuring device, and a display unit for displaying the calculated skin inflammation value.
US09330450B2
According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method of detecting a repetitive pattern. The method includes: clustering a plurality of pixels that form an input image according to color and obtaining one or more color layers composed of pixels included in each cluster; selecting one or more effective layers from the color layers, wherein each of the effective layers includes a predetermined number or more of pixel components, each composed of a plurality of pixels and having a predetermined shape or a predetermined size of area; selecting a unit pattern repeatedly disposed at different locations in each effective layer from the pixel components included in each effective layer; calculating distances between the unit patterns in each effective layer; and calculating a repetition cycle of the unit pattern of the input image based on the calculated distances in each effective layer.
US09330437B2
A computer-implemented method for intelligently generating presentations, the method comprising the steps of: analysing the variation in colours of pixels in the digital image; and, if the variation is below a predetermined threshold, applying one or more rules to increase visibility of the digital image in the presentation.
US09330434B1
Techniques are provided for content-aware video retargeting. An interactive framework combines key frame-based constraint editing with numerous automatic algorithms for video analysis. This combination gives content producers a high level of control of the retargeting process. One component of the framework is a non-uniform, pixel-accurate warp to the target resolution that considers automatic as well as interactively-defined features. Automatic features comprise video saliency, edge preservation at the pixel resolution, and scene cut detection to enforce bilateral temporal coherence. Additional high level constraints can be added by the producer to achieve a consistent scene composition across arbitrary output formats. Advantageously, embodiments of the invention provide a better visual result for retargeted video when compared to using conventional techniques.
US09330431B2
Systems and methods for synchronizing, merging, and utilizing multiple data sets for augmented reality application are disclosed. In one example, an electronic system receives and processes live recorded video information, GPS information, map data information, and points of interest information to produce a data set comprising merged graphical and/or audio information and non-graphical and non-audio information metadata that are referenced to the same clock and timestamp information. This data set can be stored in a cloud network storage. By retaining numerical and textual values of non-graphical and non-audio information (e.g. camera viewing angle information, GPS coordinates, accelerometer values, and compass coordinates) as metadata that are referenced to the same clock and timestamp information within the data set, an augmented reality application that replays information or augments information in real time can dynamically select or change how the data set is presented in augmented reality based on dynamically-changeable user preferences.
US09330421B2
A social networking system user is prompted to take an action or is provided with additional information associated with a location where the user has checked-in or has associated with content using a tag. When an input including the check-in or tagged location is received, the social networking system selects one or more actions based on the location, the user, and/or contextual information included in the input. A prompt identifying the one or more of the selected actions is generated and presented to the user.
US09330419B2
A social network system provides a social network that receives from an application a business object and an associated system of record and generates a social object that corresponds to the business object and that comprises the system of record. The social network assigns one or more members to the social object and associates a wall to the social object. The wall displays changes to the system of record, as well as other activity related to the social object.
US09330418B2
A tree building system that accesses data from a social networking site and, in some embodiments, other data sites having information that may pertain to the relationships between users of the social networking site. A rules engine within the system implements logic for analyzing the data from the social networking site. The system provides a candidate list of possible relatives for selection by a user and solicits information from the user through the use of guided questions.
US09330416B1
An improved technique involves identifying other transactions for investigation from entries in a database that involve a particular actor involved in a known fraudulent transaction. From a transaction log listing transactions, a server generates a database of transaction entries which identify transactions from the transaction log, each transaction entry (i) describing an activity and (ii) identifying a set of actors involved in that activity. Based on a known fraudulent transaction involving a particular actor, the server finds a set of transaction entries from the database which involve the particular actor. From the found set of transaction entries, the server identifies other transactions for investigation.
US09330411B2
One embodiment of the present invention provides a system for generating a product recommendation. During operation, the system receives graph data indicating vertices and edges of the graph. The vertices represent customers and products and the edges represent purchases. The system then receives a query of the graph to determine a product recommendation. Next, the system generates a finite-state machine (FSM) based on the query, executes the query, and determines whether a current state of the FSM is a traversal state. In response to the current state being a traversal state, the system generates a traversal FSM. The system then searches the traversal FSM for a nearest future traversal state, generates a bitmask for the future traversal state, and utilizes the generated bitmask when executing the future traversal state to generate the product recommendation.
US09330410B2
A color selection and coordination system including a database of predetermined color relationships implementing a data-driven color model. A starting color is associated with a first color in the color database. One or more predefined color palettes associated with the first color may be retrieved, each palette including one or more coordinating colors, the coordinating colors being predetermined based on the first color and a color coordination algorithm.
US09330409B2
It is made possible that a user easily find a part which the user wants to see from contents of information of an item for sale purchased by the user. An information processing apparatus determines whether or not a user who requests contents including information of an item for sale has purchased the item for sale. Further, the information processing apparatus identifies a part that has been seen in the contents on the basis of a history indicating at least a displayed part of the contents after purchase of the item for sale. Then, the information processing apparatus causes the contents to be displayed in a state in which the identified part is seen more preferentially when it is determined that the user has purchased the item for sale than when it is determined that the user has not purchased the item for sale.
US09330406B2
Methods and systems for selecting and fabricating individualized golf clubs or golf club components. Using a website, for example, a golfer can input relevant information about his or her golf game, receive recommendations for golf club components, select from the recommendations, and have the desired golf club components manufactured and delivered. In some embodiments, the golf club components include custom golf club heads fabricated using layer by layer processing, such as direct metal laser sintering.
US09330402B2
Method and system for providing a payroll preparation platform with user contribution-based plug-ins
Customizations and regional optimizations made to a payroll preparation and management system by one or more contributing users are transformed into payroll optimization plug-ins. The payroll optimization plug-ins are then aggregated into payroll optimization plug-in sets that, when implemented, optimize the payroll configurations used by the payroll preparation and management system for a given region and/or type of business within the region. The payroll optimization plug-in sets for a given region and/or activity are then requested and/or selected by other individuals using the payroll preparation and management system and imported to the requestor's implementation of the payroll preparation and management system to optimize the requestor's implementation of the payroll preparation and management system for the requested region, and/or type of business within the requested region.
US09330399B2
A method for verifying a location of a user of a mobile device is disclosed. The method involves: receiving an indicia of a location of the mobile device based on an at-location element proximate to the mobile device; receiving a global positioning system (GPS) position associated with the mobile device; determining whether at least one security condition is satisfied based on the indicia of the location and the GPS position; and causing a next action to occur when the at least one security condition is satisfied, or not causing the next action to occur when the at least one security condition is not satisfied.
US09330396B2
An approach is provided for providing information collection using template-based user tasks. The collection platform processes and/or facilitates a processing of partial information for insertion into one or more task templates to cause, at least in part, creation of one or more user tasks to verify, to extend, or a combination thereof the partial information according to one or more system requirements for information. Next, the collection platform causes, at least in part, a distribution of the one or more user tasks based, at least in part, on the one or more system requirements, history information relating to participation of one or more users, or a combination thereof.
US09330393B2
A result for a task may be provided in response to receiving a request from, for example, a user for the result. The request specifies a desired accuracy level for the result. The accuracy of the result is determined using the individual accuracies of one or more persons that have selected the result. Each person's individual accuracy is determined based on results for prior tasks previously performed by that person. The person's individual accuracy is proportional to the number of that person's prior results that are with a consensus of other persons that have performed the same prior task. The result is provided if the accuracy of the result is equal to or greater than the desired accuracy level.
US09330382B2
Techniques for allowing a store security associate to complete a purchase audit for a customer leaving a brick and mortar store are disclosed. The techniques include preparing an electronic receipt for completed purchase transaction and transmitting a copy of the electronic receipt to a store audit electronic device at the brick and mortar store. The techniques also include receiving customer information into the store audit electronic device to identify the copy of the electronic receipt associated with a customer, displaying the copy of the electronic receipt on the store audit electronic device, and reviewing the copy of the electronic receipt on the store audit electronic device to verify that the customer has purchased items which are in the customer's possession as the customer exits the store.
US09330380B2
The present disclosure discloses methods and systems for managing one or more recurrencies. The method includes defining one or more recurrency tasks, each task having associated recurrency parameters. The method further includes identifying a recurrency period wherein the one or more recurrency tasks are disaggregated into individual scheduled events over the span of the recurrency period. Thereafter, a user-defined exclusionary schedule is applied to the disaggregated set of events. Subsequently, the edited recurrent tasks are output in a pre-defined file format.
US09330362B2
Technologies pertaining to tuning a hyper-parameter configuration of a learning algorithm are described. The learning algorithm learns parameters of a predictive model based upon the hyper-parameter configuration. Candidate hyper-parameter configurations are identified, and statistical hypothesis tests are undertaken over respective pairs of candidate hyper-parameter configurations to identify, for each pair of candidate hyper-parameter configurations, which of the two configurations is associated with better predictive performance. The technologies described herein take into consideration the stochastic nature of training data, validation data, and evaluation functions.
US09330361B1
Embodiments of the invention build models to predict the likelihood of entities that operate in a given identifier space also operating in a disjoined identifier space based on a source panel of entities that operate in one or both of the identifier spaces. In operation, a model building engine builds a model based on features associated with the source panel and features associated with standard populations in the given identifier space. The model is used to determine whether the target entity is more similar to those entities in the source panel that operate only in the given identifier space or those entities in the source panel that operate in both identifier spaces.
US09330355B2
Methods and apparatus are provided for determining synapses in an artificial nervous system based on connectivity patterns. One example method generally includes determining, for an artificial neuron, an event has occurred; based on the event, determining one or more synapses with other artificial neurons based on a connectivity pattern associated with the artificial neuron; and applying a spike from the artificial neuron to the other artificial neurons based on the determined synapses. In this manner, the connectivity patterns (or parameters for determining such patterns) for particular neuron types, rather than the connectivity itself, may be stored. Using the stored information, synapses may be computed on the fly, thereby reducing memory consumption and increasing memory bandwidth. This also saves time during artificial nervous system updates.
US09330352B2
Plastic asset identification tags are described. The tags define an attachment feature by which the tag is attached to the asset. The tag also defines a cavity or slot in which an RFID transceiver is placed. Epoxy fills the remainder of the slot or cavity. The RFID transceiver is programmed to respond to interrogation by transmitting a unique identifier that is associated with the object to which the tag is attached. Additional information about the object may also be responsively transmitted, and in some embodiments that additional information is also written on the outside of the tag. Other tags seal the RFID transceiver within a pocket of flexible fabric-supported PVC.
US09330350B2
An image erasing apparatus includes an erasing unit, a reading unit, and a control unit. The erasing unit erases an image formed in a recording medium. The reading unit reads control information included in the image. The control unit determines whether or not to erase the image using the erasing unit on the basis of date information included in the control information.
US09330349B2
Apparatus and methods for providing downgraded fonts for VDP printing application are described. A server system may be configured to generate and/or select a set of downgraded rasterized fonts for delivery to a client system in order to provide limited client-side WYSIWIG display functionality using the downgraded fonts. A client side application may use the downgraded fonts to provide a display-only or draft print only rendering of a VDP print job.
US09330344B2
Apparatus (100) is provided which is arranged to accept an input data stream. In some embodiments, the apparatus (100) comprises a sampler arranged to sample the input data stream to provide k samples thereof, wherein each of the samples is n bits long and a string selector arranged to select m binary strings n bits long from at least a chosen subset of all random binary strings of a predetermined length. The apparatus (100) may further comprise a logical operator arranged to perform a logical function for each of the k samples with each of the selected binary strings to provide a vector, a memory arranged to store a matrix of the vectors generated from k samples, and an address generator arranged to generate RAM address segments from the matrix. In embodiments, the apparatus (100) may comprise a processor for, for example, pattern matching; feature detection, image recognition.
US09330343B2
An image analysis apparatus picks up an image of a region ahead of a vehicle using a camera, and allows a control unit to analyze picked-up image data generated by the camera to learn a focus-of-expansion position. The control unit controls the learning performance as follows. Specifically, the control unit does not start the learning performance for the focus-of-expansion position until a state where a detection value of a vehicle speed exceeds a reference speed exceeds a specified duration of time. When the state where a detection value of a vehicle speed exceeds a reference speed exceeds the specified duration of time, the learning performance for the focus-of-expansion position is started from this time point. The specified duration of time may be determined on the basis of statistics on the durations of simulated runs of the vehicle performed on a chassis dynamometer in a vehicle inspection.
US09330338B2
An image analysis method includes acquiring fluorescent images of frames in time-series. Each fluorescent image comprises pixels in which pixel data are acquired in the time-series. The method further includes setting analysis areas to the fluorescent images, selecting the fluorescent images of two or more frames to be used in analysis, extracting data pairs each comprising two pixels in which acquisition time intervals are the same in the analysis area of each of the selected fluorescent images, and performing product sum calculation of each of the data pairs for all of the selected images to calculate a correlation value.
US09330337B2
An automated, computerized method is provided for processing an image. The method includes the steps of providing an image file depicting an image, in a computer memory, determining intrinsic component information as a function of spatio-spectral information for the image, and calculating analytical information, as a function of the intrinsic component information.
US09330332B2
An approach to computation of kernel descriptors is accelerated using precomputed tables. In one aspect, a fast algorithm for kernel descriptor computation that takes O(1) operations per pixel in each patch, based on pre-computed kernel values. This speeds up the kernel descriptor features under consideration, to levels that are comparable with D-SIFT and color SIFT, and two orders of magnitude faster than STIP and HoG3D. In some examples, kernel descriptors are applied to extract gradient, flow and texture based features for video analysis. In tests of the approach on a large database of internet videos used in the TRECVID MED 2011 evaluations, the flow based kernel descriptors are up to two orders of magnitude faster than STIP and HoG3D, and also produce significant performance improvements. Further, using features from multiple color planes produces small but consistent gains.
US09330322B2
Various embodiments of the invention may be used to verify that a person being authorized by biometric techniques to use a device is a living person and not some form of recording intended to spoof the system. Some embodiments may try to cause a change in a measured biometric feature, and compare images taken before and after the change to verify the change occurred. In some embodiments, multiple stages of verification may be used, either to increase the difficulty of spoofing the security system, or to provide different levels of security for different levels of access to the device's functionality.
US09330317B2
People are counted in a segment of video with a video processing system that is configured with a first set of parameters. This produces a first output. Based on this first output, a second set of parameters is chosen. People are then counted in the segment of video using the second set of parameters. This produces a second output. People are counted with a video played forward. People are counted with a video played backwards. The results of these two counts are reconciled to produce a more accurate people count.
US09330311B1
Systems and methods for analyzing letters in an image of text are described. For each letter, a number of properties are determined and the letters are classified into letterform classes. The properties may include independent letter properties based on only the letter itself, such as a slanted bounding box encompassing the letter. The properties may also include dependent letter properties that are based, in part, on other letters, such as adjacent letters or letters in the same word or line.
US09330303B2
Tracking use of a destination location is disclosed. A unique identifier of a first vehicle based on a sensor located within the first vehicle is received. Next, based on a first location of the first vehicle received based on a sensor located within the first vehicle, it is determined that the first vehicle is occupying the destination location at a second time. Next, based on a second location of the first vehicle received based on the sensor located within the first vehicle, it is determined that the first vehicle has left the destination location at a third time. Finally, it is indicated that the first vehicle began use of the destination location at the second time and that the first vehicle completed use of the destination location at the third time.
US09330300B1
Apparatuses, systems, and methods in which pixel data associated with grid sections of a gridded image can be used to analyze an attractiveness of a person represented in the image are provided. The information obtained from the analysis can be used to provide a recommendation, for example, to improve the attractiveness, and/or modify the image such that the modified image corresponds to an improved attractiveness.
US09330299B2
Provided is a fundus image acquiring apparatus in which eyeball tracking can be performed by template matching even if sufficient luminance of a characteristic image of blood vessels or the like is not secured in a case where eye movement is detected accurately from a fundus image. The fundus image acquiring apparatus includes a fundus imaging unit for obtaining a fundus image, an extraction unit for extracting a characteristic image from an initial fundus image taken by the fundus image acquiring apparatus, an evaluation unit for evaluating luminance information of a characteristic point obtained through the extraction, and a setting unit for setting a frame rate for imaging by the fundus image acquiring apparatus. The frame rate is determined based on a result of the evaluation by the evaluation unit.
US09330295B2
Methods, articles and systems that provide imagewise mapping or display of gene expression of a biosample, by contacting the biosample, such as a tissue slice or metacommunity, to a detector which captures material from the biosample and processes the captured material. In one embodiment the detector has an array of one or more capture sites at defined positions on the detector, each site carrying an immobilized capture oligonucleotide and a site-indexing oligonucleotide. The array captures mRNA from the biosample contacted thereto, and the captured mRNA is processed to form a sequenceable amount of amplified captured material which includes the site-indexing oligonucleotide, so that when sequenced, detection of the site-indexing oligonucleotide indicates the original capture location on the array, thereby mapping the sequenced material to its capture location and imaging display of gene expression distribution in the original biosample. In some embodiments the site-encoding sequence is integrated with the capture oligonucleotide. In other embodiments, the detector is a modified sequencing flow cell, which is opened to allow the biospecimen to be contacted to a capture surface; processing is performed while the material remains on the capture surface and locations of the resulting sequences correspond to the location of origin of the templates of the biomolecules in the sample. The spatially resolved sequencing, gene expression camera and technology in various embodiments are applied to genome sequences and DNA fragments present in the biosample, for example to study or diagnose developmental, disease, and tumor conditions.
US09330270B2
An encryption processing device includes a memory configured to store a common key, and a processor configured to generate a random number which is an integer, to perform a bit transposition on the common key, the bit transposition being determined at least by the random number, to transmit the random number to another encryption processing device and to receive a response from the other encryption processing device, the response obtained by encryption using a common key stored in the other encryption processing device and a second randomized key generated by performing the bit transposition determined by the random number; and to authenticate the other encryption processing device either by comparing the response with the random number by decrypting the response with the common key, or by comparing the random number with the response by encrypting the random number with the common key.
US09330267B2
Confidential information included in image and voice data is filtered in an apparatus that includes an extraction unit for extracting a character string from an image frame, and a conversion unit for converting audio data to a character string. The apparatus also includes a determination unit for determining, in response to contents of a database, whether at least one of the image frame and the audio data include confidential information. The apparatus also includes a masking unit for concealing contents of the image frame by masking the image frame in response to determining that the image frame includes confidential information, and for making the audio data inaudible by masking the audio data in response to determining that the audio data includes confidential information. The playback unit included in the apparatus is for playing back the image frame and the audio data.
US09330264B1
A system and method for calculating a risk assessment for an electronic file is described. A database of checks, organized into categories, can be used to scan electronic files. The categories of checks can include weights assigned to them. An analyzer can analyze electronic files using the checks. Issues identified by the analyzer can be weighted using the weights to determine a risk assessment for the electronic file.
US09330260B1
Program behaviors concerning load points are monitored, and a specific program attempting to actively maintain a previously set value of a specific load point is detected. In response, the specific program is adjudicated to be malware, and one or more actions are performed to protect the computer. The monitored behavior can be write operations targeting load points. In this scenario, the behavior indicating that a program is malware can comprise performing a requisite number of write operations to a load point within a requisite time period. The monitored behavior can also be altering load point values, and monitoring the results. The altering of load points can comprise removing values specifying programs to run, and/or changing names of programs. Detecting that a specific altered load point value has been automatically reset within a requisite time period to run the specific program upon start-up indicates that the program is malware.
US09330255B2
In one embodiment, a method for monitoring a computer system that includes activating and controlling a target processor by way of an electromagnetic signal. The method also includes generating a key for a computer security method via processor readable instructions stored on a first memory device; transmitting the key to the target processor via an electromagnetic signal; and requesting the target processor to perform the computer security method on a target memory device via an electromagnetic signal, where the computer security method uses the key as a seed.
US09330248B2
A user authentication apparatus safely uses resources by forming a communication channel between a plurality of execution environments through user authentication in a portable terminal providing the plurality of execution environments based on a virtualization solution, and prevents private information from being illegally leaked by hacking by not directly exposing a PIN number or a password a user inputs using a virtual keyboard and a keyboard coordinate when authenticating the user.
US09330232B2
Display and navigation for multiple computer-aided detection (CAD) detections is described. A medical image is displayed to a viewer, and a request is received to instantiate CAD-assisted viewing. A timewise presentation sequence for the CAD detections is automatically computed according to a predetermined sequencing criterion. For each CAD detection, an expanded presentation window is displayed for its associated location in the medical image, the expanded presentation windows being displayed according to the timewise presentation sequence. Also described is a navigational tool comprising a plot of an operating curve onto which a computed feature associated with the CAD algorithm can be mapped, the operating curve characterizing an application of the CAD algorithm to a reference database of mammographic cases having known diagnoses. The navigational tool further comprises a plurality of CAD pointer icons spatially distributed therealong according to mappings of the computed feature for the CAD detections onto the operating curve.
US09330225B2
Design errors generated employing a mask rule check (MRC) program are indexed and examined one by one by an automated computer program connected to a false error pattern database that contains previously known waivered patterns, a real error pattern database that contains previously known pairs of an error-containing pattern and a corresponding error-free pattern, and optionally a mask house rule database. A waiver is applied to each design error for which a matching pattern is found in the false error pattern database. Each design error for which a match is found in the real error pattern database is modified to substitute an error-free pattern for an error-containing pattern therein. The output of the automated program includes a list of design errors for which no solution is found by the automated program.
US09330221B2
Methods for routing a metal routing layer based on mask design rules and the resulting devices are disclosed. Embodiments may include laying-out continuous metal lines in a semiconductor design layout, and routing, by a processor, a metal routing layer using the continuous metal lines according to placement of cut or block masks based on cut or block mask design rules.
US09330219B2
An integrated circuit design method includes extracting a custom IC design parameter from a configuration file using a design customization module (DCM) and creating an IC design file with a module in a processor design kit (PDK) using the custom IC design parameter.
US09330217B2
Various techniques are provided to correct for hold time violations using input/output (I/O) block hardware of a programmable logic device (PLD) without requiring additional mapping, placement, or routing operations. In one example, a computer-implemented method includes receiving a design identifying operations to be performed by a PLD. The method also includes assigning components of the PLD to perform the operations. The method also includes routing a signal path among the components. The method also includes detecting a hold time violation for the signal path at an I/O block of the PLD. The method also includes selectively adjusting a variable delay cell of the I/O block to correct the hold time violation.
US09330216B2
An updated integrated circuit (IC) design is generated by applying a histogram-based algorithm to an invalid, current IC design. The histogram-based algorithm includes worst negative slack (WNS) optimization followed by total negative slack (TNS) optimization. WNS optimization uses the slack histogram for the current IC design to generate an invalid, but improved, intermediate IC design. TNS optimization uses the slack histogram of the intermediate IC design to generate the updated IC design.
US09330212B2
An eye pattern is generated by: simulating a rising step response to a rising step signal input into the circuit and a falling step response to a falling step signal input into the circuit; analyzing a result of the simulating of the rising step response and the falling step response; generating, on the basis of a result of the analyzing, an upper-part test pattern that defines a shape of an upper part of an eye of an eye pattern and a lower-part test pattern that defines a shape of a lower part of the eye of the eye pattern; and simulating a response to the upper-part test pattern and the lower-part test pattern both input into the circuit. This procedure rapidly generates a precise eye pattern.
US09330209B1
Models are built based on existing histories in one identifier space to infer features of entities in a different identifier space. A source model is built using features of an archetypical population in a given identifier space and the standard population. A join panel, i.e., a set of entities operating across both the given identifier space and a second disjoined identifier space, is scored using the source model. Based on the scores and features associated with the entities in the join panel within the second identifier space, a target model specific to the second identifier space is built. An audience of entities within the second identifier space can then be scored using the target model to identify entities that are similar to the archetypical population.
US09330202B2
An exercise detection apparatus determines body movements based on data detected by a detection unit, judges movement states for each body movement based on data detected by the detection unit, corrects the movement states based on a predetermined rule, calculates an exercise state of a user based on a result of the judgment, and stores the calculated exercise state in a storage unit. Accordingly, it is possible to provide an exercise detection apparatus capable of reducing erroneous judgments of the exercise states of the user.
US09330197B2
A method of and system for monitoring and providing notification of changes to a data environment. Parameters of interest for monitoring changes made to a metadata data store are stored. Instructions are stored related to notifying a recipient of a communication about the changes. The metadata is monitored for changes related to the parameters of interest, and a change notification communication is generated with transmission initiated to the recipient. The instructions related to notification of the changes may include the identity of a recipient, mechanism for notification, and format and content of notification. A computer readable memory system and a computer program product may be provided that is encoded with a data structure for notifying data consumers of changes to a data environment that includes metadata.
US09330196B2
Wireless traffic management system cache optimization using HTTP headers is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method can include, for example: storing the web content from a web server as cached elements in a local cache on the mobile device and retrieving the cached elements from the local cache to respond to a request made at the mobile device, regardless of expiration indicated in headers of the web content that is cached. The cached elements can be retrieved from the local cache and used to respond to the request at the mobile device even if the expiration in the headers has exceeded, using a tag is used by a proxy server remote from the mobile device to determine if the cached elements for the web content on the local proxy are still valid.
US09330194B2
According to one embodiment, a communication device includes a reception unit, a display unit, and a control unit. The reception unit receives, based on a connection request for a first web page, information of the first web page that includes specific information for instructing a connection to a second web page and information representing a communication status of the second web page. The control unit controls a display form of the specific information based on the information representing the communication status of the second web page when displaying the first web page on the display unit.
US09330193B1
This disclosure relates to a method, article of manufacture, and apparatus for backing up data. In some embodiments, this includes obtaining a root component, wherein the root component is associated with a first GUID, a first display name, and a first type, obtaining components associated with the root component, identifying qualifying components from the components, storing the qualifying components in a structure, at each invocation of a procedure processing each of the qualifying components, obtaining subcomponents associated with a qualifying component, identifying qualifying subcomponents from the subcomponents, storing the qualifying subcomponents in the structure, and determining whether the subcomponents have been processed, and if the subcomponents have not been processed, recursively invoking the procedure.
US09330191B2
Techniques and systems are disclosed for providing changed content identification for an online document that is accessed by a user or user agent. A reference point for an online document that a user or user agent is interested in accessing is identified, comprising a stored prior version of the document. The prior version of the document is retrieved, when the user or user agent accesses the online document, such as by using the reference point. Elements of the prior version are compared with elements of a current version of the document, to determine whether there are differences between the versions. If changes are identified between the prior version and the current version, the current version is automatically updated with visual or auditory representations that identify those changes of content.
US09330183B2
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving from a first user of an online social network a search query, searching data stores to identify objects that match the search query, where identifying the objects is also based in part on the privacy setting for each object, determining for each identified object a visibility of the object with respect to the first user, and generating one or more search results corresponding to the search query.
US09330178B2
A search engine for generating an improved search query, the engine comprising: input means for receiving a search request, the search request comprising N search terms; processing means arranged to formulate a search query from the received search request; output means arranged to output the search query wherein the processing means is arranged to formulate the search query by generating a plurality of search strings, each search string comprising a different combination of a subset of the N search terms.
US09330177B2
A system, method and device for the internet search based on the peer-to-peer network are provided. A search terminal is set up in each search peer to form a peer-to-peer network. The search request is sent from an original search peer to other search peers progressively via the broadcast/back-propagation mechanism of the peer-to-peer network. Each search peer responds the search request separately, and searches its local index library. The search results of all search peers are gathered in the original search peer, and the original search peer aggregates and sorts the search results. Such search system structure and method have made a complete breakthrough from the architecture of existing search systems, and have provided novelty architecture of the search system, which thoroughly solves the high workload of the search engine server in existing technologies.
US09330170B2
Metadata associated with a first multimedia object in a first medium is used to find a second multimedia object in a second medium. The metadata includes category data.
US09330169B2
A method for managing presets in an audio system is provided. The method includes syncing preset assignments on a plurality of audio playback devices such that preset assignments on any one of the audio playback devices correspond to respective preset assignments on each of the other audio playback devices, and, such that, if one of the preset assignments is changed on one of the audio playback devices, each of the other audio playback devices is automatically updated such that a corresponding change is made to a corresponding preset assignment on each of the other audio playback devices. Each of the preset assignments is an assignment of an entity associated with one of a plurality of digital audio sources to one of a plurality of preset indicators on the corresponding one of the audio playback devices.
US09330161B2
Embodiments are directed to creating global, aggregated namespaces for storage management and to providing consistent namespaces in a distributed storage system. In one scenario, a computer system defines data storage objects for each data storage node. The data storage objects uniquely identify storage elements of the data storage nodes, where each data storage object includes various associated attributes. The computer system replicates the defined data storage objects and any associated attributes from a first data storage node to a second, different data storage node among the data storage nodes. As such, the defined data storage objects are visible from any node in the data storage nodes. The computer system also aggregates the defined data storage objects for each of the data storage nodes and creates a global, aggregated namespace that includes the aggregated data storage objects for each of the data storage nodes.
US09330152B2
A datagrid loading system contains a device including a processor and a memory with a management application installed thereon. The instructions of the management application when executed by the processor cause the processor to accumulate data from a first database, the data configured to be and include an identifier that is particular to the first database, and distribute the data into buckets by an integrated heuristic of the management application, the integrated heuristic and the buckets configured according to database characteristics particular to a second database that is different from the first database, the integrated heuristic further configured to distribute the data based on the identifier.
US09330148B2
During application of data quality rules to a data set obtained from a data source, data is retrieved from the data source along with a common set of rules configured to format the retrieved data in a manner in accordance with one or more predefined data quality rules of the common set of rules. At least one predefined data quality rule is adjusted utilizing at least one editable widget to form a modified set of data quality rules adapted for use with a specified application. The modified set of data quality rules is applied to the retrieved data.
US09330140B1
A data processing method comprising using an application server computer, establishing a shared multi-tenant system in which tenant data that is associated with tenants is stored together in a real shared data store system; providing to a tenant computing device identifiers that identify virtual objects, wherein each of the virtual objects represents a data entity that is stored in the real shared data store system; receiving a SQL query from the tenant computing device that specifies a data operation on a first virtual object of the virtual objects; rewriting the SQL query by dynamically replacing the first virtual object with an identifier of a function; executing the function and the rewritten query without explicit metadata to generate a result set; sending the result set to the tenant computing device.
US09330136B2
The disclosure includes a system and method for providing zone information to a user. The system includes a processor and a memory storing instructions that when executed cause the system to: receive data describing a current location and a travel speed associated with a user; determine a travel status associated with the user based on the current location and the travel speed; create a zone of relevance for the user based on the travel status, the zone of relevance including one or more regions with each region being mapped to one or more regional circles; generate one or more queries for the zone of relevance; retrieve one or more query results that match the zone of relevance using the one or more queries; process the one or more query results to generate zone information relevant to the user; and provide the zone information to the user.
US09330135B2
Disclosed herein are a method, an apparatus, and a computer readable recording medium for a search using extension keyword. According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for a search using extension keyword, the method including mapping search keywords transmitted from a user terminal to at least one concept keyword, extending the concept keyword to plurality of concept keywords having association with each other so that a concept keyword extension data-set is generated, and generating extension keywords corresponding to the concept keyword extension data-set.
US09330133B2
Electronic records are formatted according to recipient addresses. When an electronic database record is received by a server or other device, the electronic database record has any formatting, herein termed a legacy format. The electronic database record is destined for delivery to device identified by a recipient address. The recipient address is associated with a software agent that reformats the legacy format into a different format. The electronic database record is thus reformatted according to software agent associated with the recipient address. A reformatted database record is thus sent to the recipient address, and the reformatted database record has the different format.
US09330128B2
Embodiments of methods, apparatuses, devices and/or systems for manipulating hierarchical sets of data are disclosed. In particular, methods, apparatus devices and or/or systems for enumerating rooted partial subtrees are disclosed.
US09330123B2
Usage patterns of structure model are utilized to determine a personalized structure model associated with a user. The personalized structure model is constructed such that retrieval of data associated with the personalized structure model is expected to improve performance of retrieving data from the data provider. The personalized structure model may be arranged based on an order of retrieval, based on groups of structure objects that may be retrieved together or the like. The personalized structure model may be a flat structure model to further improve performance of retrieving data from the data provider.
US09330122B2
A method, article of manufacture, and apparatus for managing a cloud computing environment. In some embodiments, this includes modifying an object or a component of an object at runtime and storing the modified object or modified component of an object in a storage device. In some embodiments, components of an object such as data structures are modified. In some embodiments, objects may have more than one version.
US09330114B2
A non-transitory, computer-readable recording medium having stored therein a program for causing a computer to execute a process, the process comprising: detecting whether second data, stored in a second storage device, updated from first data stored in a first storage device has been updated, upon detecting that the second data has been updated, obtaining the second data before update from the second storage device, and storing the second data into the first storage device, and when the second data is contained in the first storage device, obtaining the second data from the first storage device, and generating third data using the second data, and the first data.
US09330111B2
In response to a query of discernable facial attributes, the locations of distinct and different facial regions are estimated from face image data, each relevant to different attributes. Different features are extracted from the estimated facial regions from database facial images, which are ranked in base layer rankings as a function of relevance of extracted features to attributes relevant to the estimated regions, and in second-layer rankings as a function of combinations of the base layer rankings and relevance of the extracted features to common ones of the attributes relevant to the estimated regions. The images are ranked in relevance to the query as a function of the second-layer rankings.
US09330104B2
A method of performing a search of heterogeneous data based on an input query includes: generating an index including at least two hash tables, where each hash table corresponds to a different data domain of the heterogeneous data and includes hash code sets, where at least one of the hash code sets is mapped to a hash code set of another one of the tables. The method further includes performing a hash on the input query to generate a hash code, by referring to the index, determining a first hash code set that the generated hash code belongs to, and determining a second hash code set that the determined first hash code set is mapped to, and providing at least one result based on the determined second hash code set.
US09330103B1
A technique for managing access to files by different data storage systems includes a data storage system generating an E-FSID (export FSID) for a file system in addition to a conventional FSID and providing the E-FSID in file handles that the data storage system generates for providing clients with access to the file system. The E-FSID is shared between/among different data storage systems, with each data storage system including data for cross-referencing the E-FSID to a respective local FSID for the file system. Because the E-FSID for a file is the same across different data storage systems, file handles continue to work after failover, migration, and other transitions.
US09330100B2
A method and apparatus including a mirror module to reviewing a data request, check a local data archive for the requested data, and send a request to a remote archive in response to a failed check for the requested data in the local data archive, the local data archive having a matching structure to the request data archive. The mirror module checks whether requested data available in the local data archive is valid. The local data archive is update with data received from the remote data archive in response to the data request. Data requests can be received and serviced for a plurality of protocols by a plurality of mirror modules using the local data archive.
US09330099B2
A multimedia apparatus and a method for providing content by generating at least one flag on a screen; designating categories with respect to the at least one flag; and if one of the at least one flags is moved to a particular content displayed on the screen, setting the particular content to the category corresponding to the one flag. Therefore, content is classified and managed according to categories by using a flag, and thus a user further intuitively manages and accesses content.
US09330096B1
Examples described herein involve expanding playback of a media item from a first playback device to a second playback device. In one example, a first playback device, while playing a media item as part of a first zone, identifies a second playback device within a proximity of the first playback device, determines that the second playback device is in a second zone, and responsively, causes the second playback device to join the first zone and begin playing the media item in synchrony with the first playback device. In another example, a first playback device of a first zone determines that a second playback device playing a media item as part of a second zone has entered a proximity of the first playback device, and based on the determination, joins the second zone and begins playing the media item in synchrony with the second playback device.
US09330094B2
Different advantageous embodiments provide for data separation and data integration. A customizable toolset is implemented on an enterprise resource planning system to selectively purge or mask data in a replicated database.
US09330087B2
Automatically creating word breakers which segment words into morphemes is described, for example, to improve information retrieval, machine translation or speech systems. In embodiments a cross-lingual phrase table, comprising source language (such as Turkish) phrases and potential translations in a target language (such as English) with associated probabilities, is available. In various examples, blocks of source language phrases from the phrase table are created which have similar target language translations. In various examples, inference using the target language translations in a block enables stem and affix combinations to be found for source language words without the need for input from human-judges or prior knowledge of source language linguistic rules or a source language lexicon.
US09330086B2
A method and apparatus for identifying a language used in a document based on a number of strokes per character is provided herein. Once identified, character recognition may take place based on the language identified. In one embodiment, a character recognition engine is utilized for character recognition, wherein the character recognition engine is specifically tailored to the identified language.
US09330078B2
A method and apparatus for representing and controlling documents including rich text for Web based applications and browsers is provided so that editing of rich text can be facilitated within the browsers. The rich text is represented in a memory structure so that various formats may be flexible maintained. Text, images, tables, links and the like are represented in the memory structure, which may be maintained in databases for eventual editing. A controller class and subsidiary classes represent the rich text and provide methods to convert html to the memory structure and back, representing the rich text in a relational database, retrieving the rich text from a relational database, and presenting the rich text for editing. A spell checking facility for the rich text is included.
US09330076B2
A virtual storage system and file conversion method where at least one processor is configured to retrieve data of a first format corresponding to specific electronic data transmitted from an external system and stored within the virtual storage system, converting the data into a second format, retrieve a first style sheet to be associated with the data, convert the data using the first style sheet, retrieve a second style sheet for the data, and display the data at the user computing device using the second style sheet. The virtual storage system includes a plurality of redundant physical storage devices in data communication with the at least one processor and each configured to store the data retrieved from the external system, the first style sheet and the second style sheet, and the data to be displayed at the user computing device.
US09330067B2
A nonwoven web having printed thereon a colorant and/or a composition providing a skin health benefit. The nonwoven web can be a three-dimensional, fluid pervious, polymeric web. The nonwoven web can comprise apertures. The apertures are defined in a first surface of the nonwoven web in a first plane of the nonwoven web, and extend in sidewall portions to a second surface in a second plane of the nonwoven web. A colorant or lotion composition can be deposited on at least a portion of the second surface of the nonwoven web.
US09330053B1
A method of true push for internet protocol notification to a mobile communication device implemented by at least one server computer. The method comprises determining the size of physically addressable random access memory (RAM) and the number of central processing unit (CPU) cores of the server computer at boot time and setting the resource limit, rlimit, in the kernel of the server computer that comprises setting the limit for the total number of file handles in the entire system automatically based on the determined size of the random access memory and the determined number of the central processing unit cores at boot time. The method further comprises tying the memory page allocation into the setting of the kernel parameters, whereby the input/output (I/O) maintenance of the server computer is maximized for concurrent web sockets so that the server computer is optimized for implementing the true push for internet protocol notification.
US09330047B2
In one example, a method includes receiving, from a user application and with a wireless docking service of a wireless docking communications stack executing on a computing device, a request to discover one or more peripheral functions within wireless communication range of the computing device. The method also includes, responsive to receiving the request, discovering, with the wireless docking service, the one or more peripheral functions without communicating with a wireless docking center. The method further includes consolidating the peripheral functions into a docking session for the user application. The method also includes, responsive to receiving the request, sending a docking session identifier and one or more respective references corresponding to the one or more peripheral functions to the user application.
US09330042B2
A computer program product includes a tangible storage storing instructions for performing a method. The method includes: sending a request from a processing unit in a host computer system to a channel subsystem to provide a channel path description for a channel path, the channel subsystem including a channel configured to be coupled to a control unit via the channel path and configured to control information transfer between the channel subsystem and the I/O device; and receiving channel path capability information by the processing unit, the capability information specified by a channel path description block including channel path identification and description information, the channel path description block specifying whether the channel path supports a Fiber Channel protocol for commanding an I/O operation, the channel path description block specifying whether the channel path supports an extension to the Fiber Channel protocol based on the channel path supporting the Fiber Channel protocol.
US09330032B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, apparatus and system for controlling a peripheral device in communication with a content playout device. In various embodiments of the present invention, high definition multimedia interface (HDMI) applications are provided for communication between a control device and a content playout device for controlling the operational functionality of a peripheral device via the content playout device using HDMI communication means and, in one embodiment, vendor specific commands. That is, associated control signals are provided for controlling and communicating with peripheral devices connected to a playout device, such as a display, for, in various embodiments, affecting the presentation of specific or requested content.
US09330029B1
An apparatus and system for processing I/O from a data storage chassis, the apparatus and system comprising a first I/O printed circuit board (PCB) including I/O wafers; wherein the I/O wafers of the first I/O PCB are enabled to receive I/O from the data storage chassis; a second I/O PCB including I/O wafers; wherein the I/O wafers of the second I/O PCB are enabled to receive I/O from the data storage chassis; wherein the I/O wafers of the first I/O PCB is constructed and configured to receive the I/O wafers of the second I/O PCB.
US09330028B2
A processor includes a front end, an execution pipeline, and a binary translator. The front end includes logic to receive an instruction and to dispatch the instruction to a binary translator. The binary translator includes logic to determine whether the instruction includes a control-flow instruction, identify a source address of the instruction, identify a target address of the instruction, determine whether the target address is a known destination based upon the source address, and determine whether to route the instruction to the execution pipeline based upon the determination whether the target address is a known destination based upon the source address. The target address includes an address to which execution would indirectly branch upon execution of the instruction.
US09330026B2
A security apparatus and method are provided for performing a security algorithm that prevents unauthorized access to contents of a physical address (PA) that have been loaded into a storage element of the computer system as a result of performing a prediction algorithm during a hardware table walk that uses a predictor to predict a PA based on a virtual address (VA). When the predictor is enabled, it might be possible for a person with knowledge of the system to configure the predictor to cause contents stored at a PA of a secure portion of the main memory to be loaded into a register in the TLB. In this way, a person who should not have access to contents stored in secure portions of the main memory could indirectly gain unauthorized access to those contents. The apparatus and method prevent such unauthorized access to the contents by masking the contents under certain conditions.
US09330025B2
A memory control circuit is configured to take a priority for each transfer instruction into account but not the priority in a memory access unit, and thus processing of a high-priority transfer instruction received during a memory access needs to wait for a long time. The memory control apparatus divides the received transfer instruction into a memory access unit and, when the transfer instruction having a higher priority is received during the memory access, the memory access based on a low-priority transfer instruction is interrupted and starts the memory access based on the high-priority transfer instruction.
US09330008B2
An information processing device detects a sequential access for reading first data by sequentially accessing consecutive areas or inconsecutive areas within a specified range of a first storage unit when the sequential access consecutively occurs by a specified number, calculates, based on a size of the first data, a size of second data read by a prefetch for prereading the data stored consecutively in the first storage unit and for storing the read data in a second storage unit, and performs the prefetch based on the calculated size of the second data.
US09330004B2
The present invention provides a data processing method based on a cache node group for data caching, where each cache node in the group includes a local replacement-allowable data storage space for storing data accessed by a local client and a collaborative replacement-allowable data storage space for storing data content accessed by a non-local client. By using the data processing method to process data content stored in the local replacement-allowable data storage space and the collaborative replacement-allowable data storage space of the cache node, the clients can obtain data more accurately and directly during access to the cache node, thereby meeting different requirements for local optimization of the cache node.
US09330002B2
A network processor includes multiple processor cores for processing packet data. In order to provide the processor cores with access to a memory subsystem, an interconnect circuit directs communications between the processor cores and the L2 Cache and other memory devices. The processor cores are divided into several groups, each group sharing an individual bus, and the L2 Cache is divided into a number of banks, each bank having access to a separate bus. The interconnect circuit processes requests to store and retrieve data from the processor cores across multiple buses, and processes responses to return data from the cache banks. As a result, the network processor provides high-bandwidth memory access for multiple processor cores.
US09330001B2
In one embodiment, a computer cache is extended with structures that can (1) establish the frequency by which distinct values occur in the cache and use that information to (2) compress values in caches into dense codes using a plurality of statistical-based compression techniques and (3) decompress densely coded values to realize caches that can store information densely that can be retrieved with low overhead.
US09330000B2
Cache optimization. Cache access rates for tenants sharing the same cache are monitored to determine an expected cache usage. Factors related to cache efficiency or performance dictate occupancy constraints. A request to increase cache space allocated to a first tenant is received. If there is a second cache tenant for which reducing its cache size by the requested amount will not violate the occupancy constraints for the second cache tenant, its cache is decreased by the requested amount and allocated to satisfy the request. Otherwise, the first cache size is increased by allocating the amount of data storage space to the first cache tenant without deallocating the same amount of data storage space allocated to another cache tenant from among the plurality of cache tenants.
US09329995B2
The invention provides a memory device. The memory device includes a flash memory, a memory, and a controller. The flash memory includes a plurality of blocks for data storage. The memory stores an address mapping table recording relationships between logical addresses and physical addresses of the blocks therein. The controller divides the address mapping table stored in the memory to a plurality of mapping table units, updates relationships between the logical addresses and the physical addresses stored in the mapping table units, determines whether data access performed to the flash memory fulfills the conditions of a specific requirement, and when the data access fulfills the conditions of the specific requirement, the controller selects a target mapping table unit from the mapping table units, and stores the target mapping table unit and a corresponding time stamp as a mapping table unit data to the flash memory.
US09329992B2
A data storage device using a FLASH memory with replay-protected blocks. The storage space of the FLASH memory is divided into blocks and each block is further divided into pages. A controller is provided in the data storage device to couple to the FLASH memory. The controller manages at least one replay-protected memory block of the FLASH memory. The controller programs two pages into the at least one replay-protected memory block and each page is programmed with a write count of the at least one replay-protected memory block.
US09329991B2
A method for using a partitioned flash transition layer is disclosed. Step (A) receives, at an apparatus from a host, a write command having first write data. Step (B) generates second write data by compressing the first write data in the apparatus. The second write data generally has a variable size. Step (C) stores the second write data at a physical location in a nonvolatile memory. The physical location is a next unwritten location. Step (D) returns, from the apparatus to the host in response to the write command, an indication of the physical location.
US09329988B2
One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for dynamically allocating memory using a nested hierarchical heap. A lock-free mechanism is used to access to a hierarchical heap data structure for allocating and deallocating memory from the heap. The heap is organized as a series of levels of fixed-size blocks, where all blocks at given level are the same size. At each lower level of the hierarchy, a collection of N blocks in the lower level equals the size of a single block at the level above. When a thread requests an allocation, one or more blocks at only one level are allocated to the thread. When threads are finished using an allocation, each thread deallocates the respective allocated blocks. When all of the blocks for a level have been deallocated, defragmentation is performed at that level.
US09329985B1
Techniques for using emulation to disassociate verification from stimulus in functional test are described. In one approach, a computer stores first data representing an initial state of an application and second data representing the same initial state of a model application, wherein the model application models expected behavior of the application. The computer selects actions for the application to perform and causes both the application and the model application to perform the actions. The computer updates the first and second data to represent the state of both the application and the model application after performing the actions. The computer then compares the first and second data to determine whether both refer to the same state. In response to a determination that the first data and the second data do not refer to the same state, the computer stores data indicating a test failure.
US09329968B2
A virtual benchmarking module generates a first virtual machine and a second virtual machine from a preconfigured image of a computing system. The virtual benchmarking module runs the first virtual machine on a first hardware platform and causes a benchmark program to be executed on the first virtual machine to measure a performance level of a first computer application program. The virtual benchmarking module runs the second virtual machine on a second hardware platform and causes the benchmark program to be executed on the second virtual machine to measure a performance level of a second computer application program. The virtual benchmarking module compares the performance levels of the first and second computer application programs, where the virtual machines counteract an effect of a difference between the first and second hardware platforms on the performance levels.
US09329954B2
Various embodiments of the present invention that include receive a signal indicating a loss of power, start a timer, the timer configured to expire after a specific time period, copy write cache data from the volatile memory to a solid state device (SSD), upon receiving the signal indicating the loss of power to the storage system, configure the SSD as both a read cache and the write cache, perform a health test on the storage system, determine the loss of power as a false alarm if the timer expires and the storage system passes a health test on the storage system upon receiving the signal indicating the loss of power, and upon the timer expiring and the storage system passing the health test, copy the write cache data from the SSD back to the volatile memory.
US09329940B2
A directory file includes a plurality of entries, wherein an entry of the plurality of entries includes a file or directory name field, and a snapshot list field that includes a snapshot list in accordance with one of a plurality of snapshot paths of a snapshot tree. A new snapshot identifier (ID) is determined for a data file. The directory file is updated to produce an updated directory file, wherein the updating includes updating the snapshot list field associated with the data file to include the new snapshot ID in the snapshot list in accordance with the one of a plurality of snapshot paths of the snapshot tree.
US09329933B2
Methods and systems are disclosed for imminent read failure detection based upon changes in error voltage windows for non-volatile memory (NVM) cells. In certain embodiments, data stored within an array of NVM cells is checked at a first time using a diagnostic mode and high/low read voltage sweeps to determine a first error voltage window where high/low uncorrectable errors are detected. Stored data is then checked at a second time using the diagnostic mode and high/low read voltage sweeps to determine a second error voltage window where high/low uncorrectable errors are detected. The difference between the error voltage windows are then compared against a voltage difference threshold value to determine whether or not to indicate an imminent read failure condition. An address sequencer, error correction code (ECC) logic, and a bias generator can be used to implement the imminent failure detection.
US09329932B2
Methods and systems are disclosed for imminent read failure detection based upon unacceptable wear for non-volatile memory (NVM) cells. In certain embodiments, a first failure time is recorded when a first diagnostic mode detects an uncorrectable error within the NVM cell array using a first set of read voltage levels below and above a normal read voltage level. A second failure time is recorded when a second diagnostic mode detects an uncorrectable error within the NVM cell array using a second set of read voltage levels below and above a normal read voltage level. The first and second failure times are then compared against a threshold wear time value to determine whether or not an imminent read failure is indicated. The diagnostic modes can be run separately for erased NVM cell distributions and programmed NVM cell distributions to provide separate wear rate determinations.
US09329927B2
A semiconductor device comprising: a first processor; a second processor; a first delay circuit delaying a signal input into the first processor by a predefined number of cycles and inputting the signal into the second processor; a first compression circuit compressing a signal of n-bit width from the first processor into a signal of m-bit width (m
US09329922B1
Technologies are described herein for performing a defect analysis on a software component based upon collected data that describes the operational state of hardware devices in an execution environment utilized to execute the software component at different points in time. The hardware state data is collected from the hardware devices in the execution environment at different points in time and stored in a version control system. A defect analysis may then be performed for an issue identified in the software component utilizing the hardware state data stored in the version control system. Based upon the results of the defect analysis, one or more actions may be taken such as, but not limited to, rolling the hardware or software configuration of one or more of the hardware devices in the execution environment back to a previous point in time.
US09329913B2
A Web service description can be extended to cross reference a front-side port associated with a client using a Web service and a back-side port associated with a server providing the Web service. The extending of the Web service description can occur in a standards compliant manner for a programming language within which the Web service description is specified and for a repository in which the Web service description is maintained.
US09329910B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for distributed power delivery. In certain embodiments, an apparatus may comprise a device configured to control power to one or more power-consuming components via managing power usage among the one or more power-consuming components based on a priority of a task associated with the one or more power-consuming components. In certain embodiments, a device may comprise a processor configured to: receive a request to allow a component to expend an amount of power, determine if the request can be satisfied with an unallocated power budget managed by the processor, the unallocated power budget being an unallocated portion of a total power budget managed by the first processor, and allow the component to expend the amount of power when the request can be satisfied with the unallocated power budget.
US09329908B2
The present invention proactively identifies hotspots in a cloud computing environment through cloud resource usage models that use workload parameters as inputs. In some embodiments the cloud resource usage models are based upon performance data from cloud resources and time series based workload trend models. Hotspots may occur and can be detected at any layer of the cloud computing environment, including the server, storage, and network level. In a typical embodiment, parameters for a workload are identified in the cloud computing environment and inputted into a cloud resource usage model. The model is run with the inputted workload parameters to identify potential hotspots, and resources are then provisioned for the workload so as to avoid these hotspots.
US09329903B2
The present invention provides an Internet based detailed service notification system to inform the contractor of a customer in need of HVAC servicing. The thermostat has Internet connectivity provided to it. Whenever the customers need servicing or repair of their HVAC devices, they have a special menu/interface at their disposal in their thermostat which assists the customer's service request to be registered on the thermostat company's web server. The company's web server having all the details of the thermostat owner, then automatically forwards these details to the preferred contractor through SMS, through email or an automatically generated call. The details include the address details, phone numbers, type of service needed e.g. servicing, repairing, new device installation, replacement and the like.
US09329899B2
Systems and method for a task scheduler with dynamic adjustment of concurrency levels and task granularity are disclosed for improved execution of highly concurrent analytical and transactional systems. The task scheduler can avoid both over commitment and underutilization of computing resources by monitoring and controlling the number of active worker threads. The number of active worker threads can be adapted to avoid underutilization of computing resources by giving the OS control of additional worker threads processing blocked application tasks. The task scheduler can dynamically determine a number of parallel operations for a particular task based on the number of available threads. The number of available worker threads can be determined based on the average availability of worker threads in the recent history of the application. Based on the number of available worker threads, the partitionable operation can be partitioned into a number of sub operations and executed in parallel.
US09329898B1
A computer sequentially selects, when receiving a job execution request specifying the requested number of nodes, an axis from the n axes of n-dimensional space (n is an integer of two or greater) forming a network where nodes are connected by mesh or torus interconnect. The computer gradually extends the width of a temporary range of coordinates of the selected axis from a prescribed value, and determines, as a range for the selected axis, the temporary range where the number of available nodes whose coordinates on each defined axis having a determined range fall within the range and whose coordinates on the selected axis fall within the temporary range is greater than or equal to the requested number of nodes. After determining ranges for all the axes, the computer determines which nodes to assign to the job from available nodes whose coordinates on each axis fall within its range.
US09329896B2
Exemplary methods, apparatuses, and systems receive a first request for a storage address at a first access time. Entries are added to first and second data structures. Each entry includes the storage address and the first access time. The first data structure is sorted in an order of storage addresses. The second data structure is sorted in an order of access times. A second request for the storage address is received at a second access time. The first access time is determined by looking up the entry in first data structure using the storage address received in the second request. The entry in the second data structure is looked up using the determined first access time. A number of entries in second data structure that were subsequent to the second entry is determined. A hit count for a reuse distance corresponding to the determined number of entries is incremented.
US09329892B1
Multiple scheduler verticals can allocate tasks to resources that are shared by the scheduler verticals. Information regarding a state of each resource may be stored in memory accessible by the multiple scheduler verticals, and a processor updates the information. The scheduler verticals schedule events to be performed by any of the resources, and submit updates to reflect the scheduled events in the information. In the event of conflicting events, an update corresponding to only one of the conflicting events is committed. Moreover, disruptions may be preplanned and scheduled so as to minimize impact on scheduled tasks.
US09329887B2
A method for controlling a peripheral hardware device connected to a computer system is disclosed, the computer system includes a first operating system, acting as the host operating system, running on a first processor platform, and a generic device driver operating on the combination of the first operating system and first processor platform. The method includes delivering the peripheral hardware device with an original peripheral hardware device driver file written for a second operating system or a second processor platform, handling, by the generic device driver, interfaces between the first operating system, the peripheral hardware device and a software application, all configured to interact with the original peripheral device driver file, and emulating, by the generic device driver, at least a part of the second operating system and the second processor that are required for the peripheral hardware device to operate on the first operating system and the first processor.
US09329875B2
Embodiments relate to a global entry point and a local entry point for a callee function. An aspect includes executing, by a processor, a function call from a calling function to the callee function. Another aspect includes, based on the function call being a direct and external function call, entering the callee function at the global entry point and executing prologue code in the callee function that calculates and stores a table of contents (TOC) value for the callee function in a TOC register. Another aspect includes, based on the function call being a direct and local function call, entering the callee function at the local entry point, wherein entering the callee function at the local entry point skips the prologue code. Another aspect includes, based on the function call being an indirect function call, entering the callee function at the global entry point and executing the prologue code.
US09329857B1
A system, method, and computer program product are provided for generating a configuration data tree associated with a plurality of source files. In use, a load of a configuration data tree associated with a plurality of source files is initiated. Further, different versions of the plurality of source files are identified. Additionally, the different versions of the plurality of source files are merged to produce a single configuration data tree, wherein one node in the single configuration data tree is capable of representing a plurality of nodes associated with the different versions of the plurality of source files. Moreover, displayable data associated with the single configuration data tree is generated.
US09329853B2
A system that enables the customer to keep applications that have been consumed or expired or representations of them and yet to delete the applications from the memory element of his/her NFC mobile communication device.
US09329852B2
A mechanism is provided in a data processing system for installing a software product in a data processing system using a debug mode of an installation wizard. The mechanism separates an installation wizard for installing a software product in a data processing system into a plurality of installation code portions. Each of the plurality of installation code portions corresponds to a state. The mechanism associates each of the plurality of installation code portions with a display panel. The mechanism initializes execution of the installation wizard. For a given installation code portion within the plurality of code portions, the mechanism presents a display panel associated with the given installation code portion to a user, receives user input associated with the given installation code portion, and proceeds to the next installation code portion. The mechanism then completes the installation wizard to install the software product in the data processing system.
US09329844B2
In one embodiment, an improved programming system and language for application development is provided that combines elements of the C and Objective-C languages without the constraints imposed by a requirement to maintain compatibility with the C language. The language provides the functionality of the C language compatibility in certain areas to improve the inherent safety of software written in the language. The new language includes default safety considerations such as bounds and overflow checking.
US09329839B2
Methods, computer systems and computer readable media for receiving designing and displaying device and platform-specific forms are provided. In embodiments, base forms are utilized and modified to create custom forms that are platform and device specific, without breaking the parent-child relationship between the base form and the custom form for any non-modified characteristics of the base form. Custom forms enhance the performance and appearance. In embodiments, interrogators are executed at runtime to specify a set of instructions that will be executed, further enhancing the performance and appearance associated with the form and the particular device displaying the form. In various embodiments of the present invention, user interfaces provide the designer visual representations of the forms as they appear on selected platforms and/or devices.
US09329828B2
An information processing apparatus displays, in cooperation with a display unit of another apparatus adjacent to the information processing apparatus, adjacent partial images out of a plurality of partial images that constitute one image. The information processing apparatus includes a detection unit configured to detect information about movement of the information processing apparatus, an identification unit configured to identify a site of the information processing apparatus that adjoins the another apparatus based on the information about movement which has been detected by the detection unit, and a display control unit to cause a display unit of the information processing apparatus to display a partial image that is identified based on the site identified by the identification unit out of the plurality of partial images that constitute the one image.
US09329820B2
A print control device, printing system, and print control method can reliably execute desired operations according to the status of the printer. A print data receiving unit 81 receives print data including mode information from a host 20; a status acquisition unit 82 gets the status of a printer 32; a decision unit 83 determines if the mode information and the status of the printer 32 meet an execution condition; and a printer control unit 84 changes the printer 32 to a specific mode and sends commands generated from the print data to the printer 32 when the decision unit 83 determines the execution condition is met.
US09329801B1
Embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for adjusting synchronization rates of volumes. Volumes and their copies (i.e., mirrored volumes) provide physical or virtual storage on a data storage medium. Depending on the function (i.e., the purpose) of mirrored volumes, a certain synchronization rate is recommended. Embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for an automatic dynamic adjustment of individual synchronization rates by adapting to changes in system workloads in order to avoid degradation of user-driven input/output (IO) and to efficiently achieve nearly 100% synchronization for all mirrored volumes.
US09329800B2
A data storage system and associated method are provided wherein a policy engine continuously collects qualitative information about a network load to the data storage system in order to dynamically characterize the load and continuously correlates the load characterization to the content of a command queue of transfer requests for writeback commands and host read commands, selectively limiting the content with respect to writeback commands to only those transfer requests for writeback data that are selected on a physical zone basis of a plurality of predefined physical zones of a storage media.
US09329796B2
In a method for managing memory pages, responsive to determining that a server is experiencing memory pressure, one or more processors identifying a first memory page in a listing of memory pages in the server. The method further includes determining whether the first memory page corresponds to a logical partition (LPAR) of the server that is scheduled to undergo an operation to migrate data stored on memory pages of the LPAR to another server. The method further includes, responsive to determining that the first memory page does correspond to a LPAR of the server that is scheduled to undergo an operation to migrate data, determining whether to evict the first memory page based on a memory page state associated with the first memory page. The method further includes, responsive to determining to evict the first memory page, evicting data stored in the first memory page to a paging space.
US09329794B1
Method and system for migrating information from a source storage to a destination storage is provided. The method includes (a) receiving a migration request to migrate information from the source storage to the destination storage; wherein a router receives the migration request; (b) placing a reservation on the source storage such that no other system can write to the source storage, once the migration of information from the source storage to the destination storage is initiated; wherein the router sends a reservation request to a system that manages the source storage and the system grants the reservation request to the router; (c) migrating information from the source storage to the destination storage, while the reservation is placed on the source storage; and (d) releasing the reservation after migration is completed in step (c).
US09329791B2
A file system converting method converts a first file system to a second file system. The first file system manages a storages apparatus via a file allocation table (FAT). The file system converting method includes formatting the FAT to divide the storage apparatus into a plurality of storage units, and establishing a storage unit index table to record information of the plurality of storage units.
US09329787B2
In one embodiment, a method is provided for adapting a host transfer rate between a host and a tape drive to a medium transfer rate between the tape drive and a tape. A data compression rate of untransferred data in a buffer of a tape drive is measured. A change in a future host transfer rate is predicated based on the measured compression rate. A host transfer rate between a host and the tape drive is adapted to a medium transfer rate between the tape drive and a tape, based on the predicted change.
US09329783B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a data processing system and a data processing method. An MMIO address of a data request is obtained, where data stored in a PCIe storage device can be directly obtained from the MMIO address, and according to the MMIO address, a network adapter can directly read the data from the PCIe storage device of the data processing system, and transmit the data to a second data processing system, or directly write the data received from the second data processing system into the PCIe storage device. Therefore, the processing system can implement transmitting data directly from the PCIe storage device to the network adapter without using memory. During data transmission between the two data processing systems, a usage ratio of a resource, such as memory and a CPU, is reduced, and efficiency of data transmission is improved.
US09329774B2
This document describes techniques and apparatuses for switching back to a previously-interacted-with application. In some embodiments, these techniques and apparatuses enable selection of a user interface not currently exposed on a display through a simple gesture that is both easy-to-use and remember.
US09329772B1
The method includes identifying, by one or more computer processors, a first location and a second location of input on a touch-sensitive surface. The method further includes calculating, by one or more computer processors, a distance between the first location and the second location. The method further includes identifying, by one or more computer processors, a first elapsed time between creation of the identified first location of input and the identified second location of input. The method further includes calculating, by one or more computer processors, a first size of an eraser based upon the identified first elapsed time. The method further includes generating, by one or more computer processors, an eraser path based upon the identified first location and the identified second location of input on a touch-sensitive surface, and the calculated first size of an eraser.
US09329771B2
An electronic device with a display and a fingerprint sensor may authenticate a user for a respective function. While a respective function of the device is in a locked state, the device displays a graphical element on the display, the graphical element indicating a first direction of finger movement that enables unlocking of the respective function. While displaying the graphical element, the device detects an input that includes movement of a finger in the first direction over the fingerprint sensor and determines whether the input meets unlock criteria based at least in part on fingerprint information of the finger detected by the fingerprint sensor during the input. In accordance with a determination that the input meets the unlock criteria, the device unlocks the respective function; and in accordance with a determination that the input does not meet the unlock criteria, the device maintains the respective function in the locked state.
US09329770B2
Described herein are devices, method and computer readable media that allow a device to display a portion of a web page on the touch screen display with concurrently displaying a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) entry area for inputting URLs of web pages, wherein the web page has a web page length, and the displayed portion of the web page has a displayed portion length that is less than the web page length. In response to detecting a gesture on the touch screen display, the device translates the web page in accordance with the gesture to display a different portion of the web page; and ceases to display the URL entry area for inputting URLs of web pages.
US09329756B2
Techniques are disclosed for navigation in a hierarchical node structure. A first graphical element representing a parent node in a hierarchical node structure is displayed via a graphical user interface (GUI). One or more second graphical elements, each representing a first child node of the parent node, are further displayed via the GUI on a first imaginary curve adjacent to or at least partially surrounding the parent node. In response to a user selection of one of the first child nodes, one or more third graphical elements each representing a second child node of the first child node are displayed via the GUI on a second imaginary curve adjacent to or at least partially surrounding the selected child node.
US09329753B2
A method of enabling the selection of a language to be employed as a method input language by a disambiguation routine of a handheld electronic device having stored therein a plurality of method input languages and disambiguation routine number, includes detecting as an ambiguous input an actuation of one or more input members, outputting at least a plurality of the language objects that corresponds to the ambiguous input, outputting an indicator which one of the method input languages is currently employed by the disambiguation function, and outputting a menu of input method languages in response to detecting a selection of the indicator.
US09329752B2
A method displaying information is performed at a map display device. The method includes displaying the map on a graphical user interface of the device, the displayed map including a plurality of building icons each representing a respective building; detecting a pointing input at a respective position in the displayed map; identifying a first building icon associated with the respective position in the displayed map; selectively obtaining a respective type of detailed information on the respective building represented by the first building icon for display on the map; and displaying a transparent layer over the displayed map, the transparent layer displaying the selected type of detailed information. The selectively obtaining is in accordance with a respective distance between a current location of the device and a respective location associated with the respective building represented by the first building icon.
US09329751B2
Embodiments relate to a method to dynamically generate a user interface for computing a prediction on analytical models. The analytical models received from a computing device are parsed by a processor of a server to extract a plurality of analytical metadata and the extracted plurality of analytical metadata is stored in a set of metadata tables. Analytical relationship information from the one or more analytical models is extracted for scoring using the stored plurality of analytical metadata and is stored in a set of relationship tables created by the processor. The user interface is generated using the stored plurality of analytical metadata and displayed on computing device for receiving one or more inputs for each of the data entry fields from a user. The prediction is computed by applying the stored analytical relationship information on the received one or more inputs and displaying the computed prediction on the user interface.
US09329750B2
Systems and methods for providing tilt and pan navigation within a three-dimensional environment in response to a single gesture are provided. An exemplary computer-implemented method includes receiving, by one or more computing devices, data describing a drag performed by a user. The computer-implemented method includes, in response to the drag, incrementally adjusting, by the one or more computing devices, a tilt angle of a virtual camera until the tilt angle equals one of a maximum tilt angle or a minimum tilt angle, and panning, by the one or more computing devices, the virtual camera with respect to a rendering of a three-dimensional model. An exemplary system includes a client device and a server in operative communication over a network.
US09329749B2
The present disclosure shows creating a first layer and a second layer, in computer memory and substantially overlapping at least a segment of line from said first layer with at least a segment of another line from said second layer. A first non-dimensional attribute is different from said second non-dimensional attribute of the two lines. A user length field enabling a client with said interactive file to override at least one of said length numeric values, where said area operator may automatically recalculate area based on said length field override is shown. Also, providing a visual marker that is moveable on said computer monitor around said aerial imagery region, which may be moved, to more precisely identify the location of the building roof structure is shown.
US09329740B2
The disclosure relates to a method for recognizing touch. A first value T1 and a second value T2 are set. A maximum sensing value Cpeak is obtained. A position of the Cpeak is defined as a sensing position A. Sensing values C1, C2, C3, and C4 of four neighboring sensing positions are obtained. Cpeak is compared with T1 and T2. When Cpeak is greater than or equal to T1, a touch with finger is recognized. When Cpeak is smaller than T2, no touch is recognized. When Cpeak is greater than or equal to T and smaller than T1, following steps are taken. A third value T3 is set. A first total sensing value Ct of C1, C2, C3, and C4 is compared with T3. When Ct is greater than or equal to T3, a touch with glove is recognized. When Ct is less than T3, no touch is recognized.
US09329739B2
A touch sensing system and a method of controlling power consumption thereof, and a display device using the same are disclosed. The touch sensing system includes a plurality of sensing units, which sample a voltage received from a touch screen and accumulate the sampled voltage, and a plurality of analog-to-digital converters converting an output of the sensing units into digital data. The sensing units and the analog-to-digital converters are divided into a plurality of groups in an idle state. Each of the plurality of groups includes at least two sensing units and one analog-to-digital converter. At least one sensing unit included in at least one group is powered down in the idle state. An analog-to-digital converter is powered on during the group it belongs to is powered on.
US09329732B2
A driving signal is simultaneously provided to all first conductive strips arranged in parallel in a first direction in a touch screen, and mutual capacitive signals are detected from all second conductive strips arranged in parallel in a second direction. The mutual capacitive signals can be used for determining whether an external conductive object coupled to the ground is touching or approaching the touch screen or not even if water or other conductive object not coupled to ground is on the touch screen.
US09329728B2
A first electronic device is operated in the presence of a second electronic device. Both are configured to transmit acoustic signals, the first being configured to transmit signals with a first characteristic. The first device determines the presence of the second device and thereafter transmits acoustic signals having a second, signal characteristic, different from the first characteristic, and giving a reduced interference between signals transmitted from the first and second devices respectively than the first signal characteristic. Acoustic signals comprising reflections of the transmitted signals from an object are received at the first device, and are used to characterise the motion of the object and thereby control a function of the first device.
US09329718B2
A display device with an input system and a method of driving the same are provided. The method for driving a display device with an input system includes: receiving touch information, including electromagnetic touch information or capacitive touch information, by alternately performing electromagnetic touch sensing and capacitive touch sensing, if the touch information is the electromagnetic touch information: performing the electromagnetic touch sensing for a first period, and performing the capacitive touch sensing after the first period, and if the touch information is the capacitive touch information, performing the capacitive touch sensing for the first period.
US09329715B2
Some embodiments of the present invention include a method of differentiating touch screen users based on characterization of features derived from the touch event acoustics and mechanical impact and includes detecting a touch event on a touch sensitive surface, generating a vibro-acoustic waveform signal using at least one sensor detecting such touch event, converting the waveform signal into at least a domain signal, extracting distinguishing features from said domain signal, and classifying said features to associate the features of the domain signal with a particular user.
US09329714B2
The present invention includes a display section displaying data in a screen, a touch panel detecting proximity of a finger, a proximity coordinate extracting section extracting proximity coordinates of the finger in the proximity, a pointer coordinate calculating section calculating, when proximity of a plurality of fingers is simultaneously detected, a position Pc2 in the screen corresponding to a middle point Pc of positions of the plurality of fingers as pointer coordinates, a display controlling section causing visual information PT to be displayed in the position corresponding to the pointer coordinates in the screen, and an event detecting section detecting an event for executing prescribed processing when a distance between the plurality of fingers has become equal to or smaller than a prescribed distance.
US09329712B2
An electronic device (1) prevents unintended operations when a contact position shifts, by having a display unit (20) that displays an object, a contact detection unit (10) that detects contact by a contacting body, a pressure detection unit (30) that detects pressure on the detection unit (10), and a control unit (60) that performs processing associated with the object displayed on the display unit (20) in accordance with a contact position of the contacting body in a region of the detection unit (10) corresponding to an receiving region of the object and with data based on pressure on the detection unit (10) acquired from the pressure detection unit (30), such that when the contact position of the contacting body changes as the data based on pressure increases, the control unit (60) changes the receiving region of the object in a direction of change of the contact position.
US09329705B2
In one embodiment, a first device includes an electrically conductive element that is configured to capacitively couple to an electrode of a second device emitting a first electrical signal. The electrically conductive element is further configured to communicate to a circuit of the first device a second electrical signal induced in the electrically conductive element by the first electrical signal and through the capacitive coupling. The circuit of the first device is coupled to the electrically conductive element and is configured to receive the second electrical signal. The circuit is further configured to produce an electrical response to the second electrical signal, where the electrical response of the circuit is based at least in part on one or more characteristics of the first electrical signal.
US09329701B2
A method, device, system, or article of manufacture is provided for low-power management of multiple sensor chip architecture. In one embodiment, a method comprises, at a computing device that includes a first processor, a second processor and a third processor, receiving, at the first processor, first sensor data from a first sensor; determining, at the first processor, a motion state of the computing device using the first sensor data; in response to determining that the motion state corresponds to a predetermined motion state, activating the second processor; receiving, at the second processor, second sensor data from a second sensor; determining, by the second processor, that the motion state corresponds to the predetermined motion state using the second sensor data; and, in response to determining that the motion state corresponds to the predetermined motion state using the second sensor data, sending the motion state to the third processor.
US09329693B2
Disclosed are a display device and a method of setting group information by displaying additional information to be added to base information via first and second gesture inputs. The display device includes a display unit configured to display visual information, a sensor unit configured to detect an input signal and transmit a detected result to a processor, and the processor configured to control the display unit and the sensor unit. The processor is configured to display base information, detect a first gesture input to the displayed base information, determine an interval of additional information based on a position of the detected first gesture input, detect a second gesture input, determine the number of additional information based on a position of the detected second gesture input, and display at least one additional information according to the determined interval and the determined number of the additional information.
US09329691B2
A motion input is appropriately identified. A display is disposed in front of an operator, and a motion, performed by the operator within ranges set in predetermined right and left positions between the operator and the display, is identified. In certain circumstances, the shape of a finger of the operator may be handled as an object of an operational determination.
US09329685B1
Systems and methods for controlling electronic devices using force sensors include a plurality of force sensors configured such that they are operable to support one or more housings on one or more surfaces. When force is exerted on the housing, this force is measured by the force sensors as force data. This force data is interpreted as at least one input for an electronic device. In some implementations, the electronic device may include various different statuses. In such implementations, the status of the electronic device may be determined and the input that the force data is interpreted as may depend on the determined status of the electronic device. In various cases, the status of the electronic device may be a combination of one or more different statuses.
US09329677B2
The present invention is related to a social system and process used for bringing virtual social network into real life, which is allowed for gathering and analyzing a social message of at least one interlocutor from virtual social network so as to generate at least one recommended topic, allowing a user to talk with the interlocutor through the utilization of the recommended topic, and then capturing and analyzing at least one speech and behavior and/or physiological response of the interlocutor during talking so as to generate an emotion state of the interlocutor. The user is allowed to determine whether the interlocutor is interested in the recommended topic through the emotion state of interlocutor. Thus, it is possible to bring the social message on virtual network into real life, so as to increase communication topics between persons in real life.
US09329675B2
Disclosed is a system comprising a handheld device and at least one display. The handheld device is adapted for performing at least one action in a physical 3D environment; wherein the at least one display is adapted for visually representing the physical 3D environment; and where the handheld device is adapted for remotely controlling the view with which the 3D environment is represented on the display.
US09329673B2
An inputter inputs a captured image of a hand captured by a camera. An acquirer acquires information indicating the distance between the camera and the hand. A storer stores reference data for specifying a hand gesture and a command corresponding to the gesture, for each distance between the camera and the hand. A selector selects, from among the reference data stored in the storer, reference data corresponding to the distance indicated by the information acquired by the acquirer. A specifier refers to the reference data selected by the selector, specifies a hand gesture in the captured image input by the inputter, and specifies a command corresponding to the specified gesture.
US09329671B2
Computer system, method and computer program product for scheduling IPC activities are disclosed. In one embodiment, the computer system includes first processor and second processors that communicate with each other via IPC activities. The second processor may operate in a first mode in which the second processor is able to process IPC activities, or a second mode in which the second processor does not process IPC activities. Processing apparatus associated with the first processor identifies which of the pending IPC activities for communicating from the first processor to the second processor are not real-time sensitive, and schedules the identified IPC activities for communicating from the first processor to the second processor by delaying some of the identified IPC activities to thereby group them together. The grouped IPC activities are scheduled for communicating to the second processor during a period in which the second processor is continuously in the first mode.
US09329667B2
A power management technique at a mobile station is disclosed that features a dedicated processor for continuously processing sensor data, in addition to a main processor for the conventional processing in the mobile station. The dedicated processor executes a set of data-processing primitives. The data-processing primitives operate on received sensor signals that are based on the monitoring of one or more physical conditions. The processing primitives process the received sensor signals, in which the processing of the signals results in a transitioning of the dedicated processor from one data-processing state to another data-processing state. The transitioning is based on one or more predetermined patterns being detected in the data. The processing performed by the primitives results in the generating of a power management signal based on the transition between states and also results in the transitioning of the main processor to an active mode of processing.
US09329660B2
A hard disk drive enters a low power mode to reduce power consumption. To maintain communication with a host device, a communication interface remains energized along with a circuit portion storing configuration data for the communication interface. To energize the communication interface and the circuit portion, low power voltage regulators provide suitable reference voltages. One low power voltage regulator is dedicated to this purpose. Another voltage regulator is converted from an active, switching mode to a low power, linear mode to provide the necessary reference voltage. Also, unique handshaking signals are used to control entry and exit from the low power mode by the hard disk drive.
US09329655B2
According to some embodiments, a communication interface 110 may include a biasing circuit 140 and a logic unit 130. The biasing circuit 140 may be configured to provide a bias voltage to a port of the communication interface 110. The logic unit 130 may be configured to enable and disable the biasing circuit 140 based on a first signal received from a controller of the communication interface 110. The logic unit 130 may also be configured to enable and disable the biasing circuit 140 based on a suspend signal received from the controller of the communication interface 110.
US09329649B2
A dual input single output (DISO) regulator, includes a comparator configured to receive a first and second power supply signal and to provide a first compared signal; a first switch configured to couple the first power supply source to an intermediate node, and a second switch configured to couple the second power supply source to the intermediate node; a control logic circuit, coupled to the first comparator, to the first switch, and to the second switch, and configured to receive the compared signal to control the first and the second switch in a first and second operating condition based on the compared signal. The intermediate node being biased by an intermediate power supply signal correlated to the first or second power supply signal. The DISO regulator includes a low-dropout regulator, configured to provide a regulated power supply signal based on the intermediate power supply signal.
US09329646B2
Some implementations provide a multi-layer heat dissipating device that includes a first heat spreader layer, a first support structure, and a second heat spreader layer. The first heat spreader layer includes a first spreader surface and a second spreader surface. The first support structure includes a first support surface and a second support surface. The first support surface of the first support structure is coupled to the second spreader surface of the first heat spreader. The second heat spreader layer includes a third spreader surface and a fourth spreader surface. The third spreader surface of the second heat spreader layer is coupled to the second support surface of the first support structure. In some implementations, the first support structure is a thermally conductive adhesive layer. In some implementations, the first heat spreader layer has a first thermal conductivity, and the first support structure has a second thermal conductivity.
US09329642B2
A mobile terminal device includes: a display; a display control module which displays an execution screen for an application program on the display; and a detection module which detects a posture of the mobile terminal device based on a gravity acceleration applied to the mobile terminal device. In this arrangement, the display control module controls a display direction of the execution screen with respect to the mobile terminal device according to the posture of the mobile terminal device, and performs suppression control so as to, even if the posture of the mobile terminal device is changed, suppress switching of the display direction corresponding to the changed posture, provided that a suppression condition for suppressing switching of the display direction is satisfied while the execution screen is displayed on the display.
US09329638B2
A configurable keyboard. The configurable keyboard includes a base with a top face, and a top edge. A position adjustable panel containing keyboard keys. The position adjustable panel is attached to the base by a position adjustment device. The position adjustment device includes a shaft and a first connector. The shaft is attached, towards a bottom end, to the base. The first connector connects the position adjustable panel to the shaft.
US09329636B2
The present disclosure provides an information processing method and an electronic device. The electronic device comprises a first body, a second body and a rotatable connection member. The first body is connected with the second body by the rotatable connection member. The rotatable connection member has a first using state corresponding to a first rotation damping, and a second using state corresponding to a second rotation damping. In the case the rotatable connection member is in the first using state, the first body can be rotated with respect to the second body at the first rotation damping. The rotatable connection member is changed from the first using state to the second using state to keep a fixed angle between the first body and the second body in the case that a first instruction is received. The second rotation damping is greater than the first rotation damping.
US09329635B2
A panel device including a first panel, a second panel, a frame, and a binder is provided. The frame has a wrenchable structure. The first panel is between the second panel and the frame. The binder adheres the second panel to the frame. The second panel can be detached from the frame through the wrenchable structure.
US09329626B2
A high-density server includes a plurality of server enclosures, each of which includes an enclosure frame with a pair of front decks and a rear opening, an enclosure element having a power supply unit, and a pair of server modules having module connectors. The enclosure element is positioned in the rear side of the enclosure frame. The module connector of the server module is detachably connected to the front connector of the power supply unit when the server module moves along the front deck in an insertable/removable manner inside the enclosure frame. A cooling fan is positioned in the front side of the server module relative to the rear opening of the enclosure frame. An external interface is attached to the rear end of the server module or installed in the enclosure element, thus preventing a mess in the front face of the server enclosure due to external wires.
US09329621B2
A serial array processor may have an execution unit, which is comprised of a multiplicity of single bit arithmetic logic units (ALUs), and which may perform parallel operations on a subset of all the words in memory by serially accessing and processing them, one bit at a time, while an instruction unit of the processor is pre-fetching the next instruction, a word at a time, in a manner orthogonal to the execution unit.
US09329619B1
A card with power management circuitry is provided. A card may have circuitry contained therein (e.g., a processor) that may have a maximum operating voltage. The card may include a power source (e.g., a battery) that provides power ranging in voltage from a maximum power source voltage to a minimum power source voltage. The maximum power source voltage is greater than the maximum operating voltage. Power management circuitry is provided to manage the power received from the power source such that the voltage provided to the circuitry (e.g., processor) does not exceed the maximum operating voltage.
US09329612B2
Methods and systems for mitigation of intermittent generation impact on electrical power system may be provided. A voltage of the power line may be monitored. A change in the voltage of the power line may be determined. A power output of an energy generation source connected to the power line may be altered based on the determined change in the voltage on the power line to compensate for the change in the voltage.
US09329606B2
A temperature control system for controlling the rate of flow of a flammable fluid at generally constant pressure is disclosed. The system may include a flow control apparatus that is free of a regulator mechanism, for affecting the flow of the fluid. The flow control apparatus may be operable between at least a first flow rate and a second flow rate, and may have at least one upstream opening and at least one downstream opening. The system may also include a first burner in fluid communication with the downstream opening of the flow control apparatus and a conduit in fluid communication at one end thereof with the upstream opening of the flow control apparatus, and configured at the other end thereof for connection to a fuel supply. A thermocouple may be located in the vicinity of the burner, for converting a sensed thermal state into an electrical signal. An electronic controller, in communication with the flow control apparatus, for activating the flow control apparatus to one of said first and second flow rates, and being in communication with the thermocouple for receiving the electrical signal from the thermocouple is also provided. An interface connected to the controller for manually inputting a desired temperature may be included, wherein the controller is operable to automatically cycle the flow control apparatus between the first and second flow rates until the temperature sensed by the thermocouple is similar to the desired temperature.
US09329605B2
Example embodiments disclosed herein relate to network device heating based on power classification and temperature. The network device may be configured to receive power via a network connector. The received power can be associated with a power classification. Temperature associated with the network device can be determined. Heat can be produced based on the power classification and the determined temperature.
US09329585B2
An assembling device which does not use a positioning device for articles to be assembled, nor a feeder mechanism and a pneumatic mechanism for a bolt for assembling. The article assembling device includes a first robot which takes out and aligns a bolt by using a detection result of a first camera; a second robot which grips a first article by using a detection result of a second camera and conveys the first article to a position where the first article can be attached to a second article; and a bolt holding and fastening section which fastens the articles by using the aligned bolt.
US09329576B1
A timer assembly housing is configured to include a number of features, including but not limited to a tortuous sealing lip, adjustable hinge assembly, removable backing plate, removable pin hinge, toggle switch, and a wiring lid. The timer assembly includes a weatherproof housing having a base with a series of sidewalls and a rear wall, the base sidewalls extending forward from the rear wall to an open front, a lid having a series of sidewalls and a front wall, the lid sidewalls extending forward from the front wall, and a timer assembly positioned within the base. The lid is selectively pivotably secured to the base along one of the base sidewalls.
US09329574B2
An electronic timepiece has a dial; a dial ring disposed around the outside circumference of the dial; and an index marker affixed to the dial ring. The dial ring has a protruding part that protrudes to the inside in the radial direction of the dial ring; and the index marker is disposed to the protruding part. The annular member is made of plastic, and the index marker is made of metal.
US09329571B2
A mainspring including a metallic strip wound on itself. The mainspring includes an excess thickness forming a bridle in one-piece with the strip.
US09329570B1
In an image forming apparatus, a dust collecting unit is disposed in the front side of image forming units. The dust collecting unit includes a dust collecting box and a fan. The dust collecting box is communicated with developer cases. The fan sucks air in the dust collecting box and discharges the air. The fan sucks air that has passed through a filter in the dust collecting box and discharges the air to an exhaust duct. The exhaust duct is disposed between a toner container and a fixing device and forms an air passage that extends in a front-rear direction to reach an opening portion provided in the rear side. The air is discharged to an outside of the apparatus from the opening portion.
US09329568B1
A developing device includes a developing roller and a transfer mechanism configured to transfer the developing roller between a contact position where the developing roller is in contact with a photosensitive drum and a separate position where the developing roller is away from the photosensitive drum. The transfer mechanism includes a bearing unit supporting a rotary shaft of the developing roller to allow rotation of the rotary shaft, a pressing member pressing the bearing unit, a shaft member, an urging member, and a wire member. The wire member connects the bearing unit and the shaft member and is configured to experience an urging force of the urging member to urge the bearing unit toward moving away from the photosensitive drum and, upon release of the urging force of the urging member, move the bearing unit close to the photosensitive drum under a pressing force of the pressing member.
US09329563B2
A cleaning member for removing a developer from a surface of a member to be cleaned includes a blade member configured to make contact with the member to be cleaned in a direction counter to a moving direction of the member to be cleaned, and a flexible plate-like supporting member configured to support the blade member, which includes one end with the blade member, the other end with a fixed portion fixed to a frame member, and a bent portion between the ends which is located outwardly away from the surface of the member to be cleaned relative to a segment connecting the fixed portion and a contact portion between the blade member and the member to be cleaned. The fixed portion arranged downstream of the moving direction of the member to be cleaned relative to the contact portion has a folded-back shape to nip part of the frame member.
US09329562B2
Example embodiments of the present invention include a power source; a load circuit; a relay provided between the power source and the load circuit; a rectifying circuit connected between an output terminal and an input terminal of the relay; a discharge circuit connected to the power source line on an input side of the relay and to perform, when turned on, discharging operation to discharge an electric charge that remains on each of the input side and an output side of the relay; and a discharge control circuit to turn on the discharge circuit to perform discharging operation when the relay is turned off to stop the power supply input to the load circuit.
US09329558B2
An image forming apparatus includes a main casing, a plurality of photosensitive drums, a retaining unit, and an endless belt. The retaining unit retains the plurality of photosensitive drums, and is movable between an internal position within the main casing and an external position outside of the main casing. The endless belt is configured to contact the plurality of the photosensitive drums, when the retaining unit is in the internal position and retains the plurality of the photosensitive drums therein. The retaining unit includes a plurality of pressing portions configured to exert pressure on the plurality of photosensitive drums toward the endless belt, when the retaining unit is in the internal position and retains the plurality of the photosensitive drums therein.
US09329555B2
There are provided a sheet processing apparatus which can perform a punching process while suppressing decrease in productivity, and an image forming apparatus including the sheet processing apparatus. In a third carry-in route R3 branching from a first carry-in route, a discharge roller and a buffer roller convey a sheet for which the punching process has been performed by a punching unit, so that an upstream end in a sheet conveyance direction of the sheet for which the punching process has been performed precedes an upstream end in the sheet conveyance direction of a succeeding sheet following the sheet for which the punching process has been performed.
US09329552B2
A medium transportation apparatus includes a fixed member fixed to an apparatus main body, and a switching guide for guiding a medium. The switching guide is disposed to be freely rotatable relative to the apparatus main body, and to be freely switched between a first guiding position and a second guiding position. The switching guide includes a medium guiding portion and a first engaging portion integrally formed with the medium guiding portion. The fixed member includes a second engaging portion for engaging with the first engaging portion. When the switching guide is situated at the first guiding position, the first engaging portion engages with the second engaging portion.
US09329543B2
A fixing device includes a fixing belt, a pressuring member, a heating member, a pressing member and a supporting member. The heating member is arranged rotatably around a rotation axis and configured such that the fixing belt is sandwiched between the heating member and the pressuring member. The pressing member is configured to press the fixing belt to a side of the pressuring member and configured such that the fixing belt is sandwiched between the pressing member and the pressuring member. The supporting member has a supporting face configured to come into contact with the inner circumference face of the fixing belt. The supporting face is inclined toward inside in a radial direction of the fixing belt from both end sides to a center side of the fixing belt in the rotation axis direction.
US09329540B2
A fixing device includes a first rotatory body, a heater, a pressure receiving member, a supporting member, a second rotatory body, a position detection section, and a determination section. The position detection section detects a position of an outer circumferential surface of the first rotatory body in terms of a radial direction. The determination section determines a rotation state of the first rotatory body based on a result of detection by the position detection section. The position detection section includes a first position detection member and a second position detection member. The first position detection member is located upstream of a fixing nip in terms of a rotation direction of the first rotatory body. The second position detection member is located downstream of the fixing nip in terms of the rotation direction.
US09329532B2
In an image forming apparatus including a power source for forming a secondary-transfer electric field at a secondary-transfer position and for forming a primary-transfer electric field at a primary-transfer position by applying a voltage to a transfer member to pass a current through a constant-voltage element, a potential of an image portion is controlled depending on a detection result of a detecting member.
US09329530B1
A developing device includes a developer-thickness-regulating member having a substantially circular sectional shape and that regulates a thickness of a developer layer on a developer carrier at a regulating gap between the developer carrier and the developer-thickness-regulating member, and sealing members that seal a gap between the developer-thickness-regulating member and a developing-device housing and include first sealing members provided at two ends of the developer-thickness-regulating member and on outer sides of an effective developer-transporting area, the first sealing members preventing rotation of the developer-thickness-regulating member by being in contact with the developer-thickness-regulating member at first portions excluding a portion opposite the regulating gap; and a second sealing member extending over the effective developer-transporting area and provided at a second portion excluding the portion opposite the regulating gap, the second sealing member being in contact with the developer-thickness-regulating member at a pressure lower than a pressure from the first sealing members.
US09329514B2
A carrier core particle for an electrophotographic developer includes a composition expressed by a general formula: MnxFe3−xO4+y (0
US09329511B2
An electrostatic charge image developing toner includes toner particles containing an amorphous resin and a crystalline resin, wherein when a softening temperature is measured at 30 points in surface layer parts of the toner particles, a difference (TH(° C.)−TL(° C.)) between a maximum value (TH(° C.)) and a minimum value (TL(° C.)) out of the softening temperatures at the 30 points is from 25° C. to 100° C.
US09329509B2
An electrostatic latent image developing toner contains toner particles each including a toner core containing a binder resin, and a shell layer coating the surface of the tore core. The shell layer contains a unit derived from a monomer of a thermosetting resin, and a unit derived from a thermoplastic resin. The resin contained in the shell layer has a unit derived from one or more monomers of thermosetting resins selected from the group of amino resins consisting of a melamine resin, a urea resin, and a glyoxal resin.
US09329497B2
A substrate table comprising a base and a plurality of burls that project from the base, wherein an upper surface of the burls is provided with a multilayer coating.
US09329490B2
According to one embodiment, a pattern formation method includes preparing a mask pattern for interference, producing Talbot interference, and forming a pattern by blocking a part of interference light. The mask pattern for interference is arranged periodically a plurality of light transmissive portions. The Talbot interference is based on a transmitted light. The transmitted light is transmitted through the light transmissive portions by applying a light to the mask pattern for interference. The part of interference light is produced by the Talbot interference by means of a mask pattern for light blocking and applying another part of the interference light transmitted through the mask pattern for light blocking to an exposure object member.
US09329478B2
A polysiloxane composition includes a polysiloxane, and a first compound. The first compound includes a nitrogen-containing heterocyclic ring structure, and a polar group, an ester group or a combination thereof. A pattern-forming method includes coating the polysiloxane composition on a substrate to be processed to provide a silicon-containing film. A resist composition is coated on the silicon-containing film to provide a resist coating film. The resist coating film is selectively irradiated with a radioactive ray through a photomask to expose the resist coating film. The exposed resist coating film is developed to form a resist pattern. The silicon-containing film and the substrate to be processed are sequentially dry etched using the resist pattern as a mask.
US09329475B2
Disclosed are a positive photosensitive resin composition including (A) a polybenzoxazole precursor including a functional group at a terminal end thereof, wherein the functional group is dissociated by light of about 400 nm to about 550 nm wavelength region and is acidified; (B) a photosensitive diazoquinone compound; and (C) a solvent, and a photosensitive resin film and a display device using the same.
US09329472B2
In the production of extreme ultraviolet photolithography masks, to produce a set of masks: mask blanks possibly containing defects are provided; an individual map of positions of defects in each mask blank is produced; a concatenated map of defects in a number of masks is produced by transposing, to a given useful zone common to all masks, positions of defects detected during mapping of various mask blanks; individual defect zones each associated with a respective defect and encircling said defect are defined; depending on design rules and on structure to be produced, an electronic version of layouts of the masks is produced, taking account locally, in the design rules, of the existence of each defect in the concatenated map to prevent critical elements from being placed in defect zones; and each mask is produced from any one of the mask blanks and with a respective layout thus obtained.
US09329471B1
Achieving a critical dimension target for a feature based on characteristics of a resist is facilitated. Mask data is established for fabricating a lithographic mask to expose different regions of a resist to high, low, and intermediate exposure levels. The resist is configured to exhibit high solubility when exposed to the high or low exposure level, and low solubility when exposed to the intermediate exposure level. A critical dimension for a region of the resist to be exposed to the intermediate exposure level is determined, and the mask data is established to indicate opaque regions for forming on the lithographic mask. The opaque regions are arrayed to facilitate exposing the region of the resist to the intermediate exposure level, to achieve the determined critical dimension. Further, a method is provided for forming in-situ a patterned mask from a mask layer above a substrate material.
US09329461B2
A projector includes a light source, a filter unit, an auxiliary light source and a combiner. The light source produces a first beam of light having light in a plurality of ranges of wavelengths, corresponding to a plurality of colors. The filter unit is positioned in the optical path of the first light beam. The filter unit is configured in a first configuration during a first time interval and in a second configuration during a second time interval. When the filter unit is configured in the second configuration, the auxiliary light source produces a second beam of light. The combiner combines the first beam of light and the second beam of light. The combined beams of light are directed to a spatial light modulator.
US09329450B2
A display device includes a first bitable display, a second display, and a bitable electrochromic member sandwiched between the first bitable display and the second display. The first bitable display is switchable between a transparent status and a displaying status. The electrochromic member is switchable between a transparent status and a color status under predetermined voltage, with a response time of the second display being less than 30 milliseconds.
US09329449B2
A display panel comprising a first array substrate and a second array substrate assembled with each other, wherein the first array substrate comprises a plurality of first pixel units arranged in an array of rows and columns, and a gap zone is defined between two adjacent first pixel units in the same row of the array; and the second array substrate comprises a plurality of second pixel units corresponding to gap zones of the first array substrate, respectively. The present invention also discloses a display apparatus and a method for manufacturing the display panel.
US09329448B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide an array substrate, a manufacturing method thereof and a display device. The array substrate comprises a plurality of pixel units, a plurality of gate lines and positive temperature coefficient (PTC) thermistors. The pixel units are arranged in a matrix and include a plurality of pixel rows and a plurality of pixel columns. Each pixel unit includes a common electrode and a thin-film transistor (TFT). The gate lines are arranged corresponding to each pixel row respectively and connected to the TFT of each pixel unit of a corresponding pixel row respectively. The PTC thermistors are configured to respectively connect the common electrode of each pixel unit to any one of gate lines arranged corresponding to any pixel row except the pixel row in which the pixel unit is disposed.
US09329447B2
A display panel includes an array substrate, an opposite substrate facing the array substrate, and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the array substrate and the opposite substrate. The array substrate includes a display area and a non-display area surrounding the display area, and the non-display area includes a first non-display area disposed adjacent to a side portion of the display area and a second non-display area other than the first non-display area. The first non-display area overlaps the opposite substrate. The array substrate and the opposite substrate have the same or substantially the same area and a wire member is disposed under the array substrate to be connected to an external circuit module. Accordingly, the display panel does not need an extra space for the wire member, and thus the non-display area is reduced.
US09329444B2
A liquid crystal display device includes a TFT substrate, an opposite substrate, and a liquid crystal between the TFT substrate and the opposite substrate. In the TFT substrate, there are formed in the following order, a first pixel electrode and a second pixel electrode, a first scan line and a second scan line which extend in a first direction and are arranged in a second direction, a first insulating film, a first video signal line and a second video signal line which extend in the second direction and are arranged in the first direction, a second insulating film, and a common electrode. The first pixel electrode and the second pixel electrode are formed in an area surrounded by the first scan line, the second scan line, the first video signal line and the second video signal line.
US09329438B2
The present invention relates to a liquid crystal display. The liquid crystal display includes a first substrate and a second substrate, the second substrate apposite the first substrate, a liquid crystal layer positioned between the first substrate and the second substrate, a spacer formed between the first substrate and the second substrate, the spacer contacting a first region of the first substrate and a second region of the second substrate. The first substrate has a groove including a first groove surrounding an outer boundary of the first region and a second groove surrounding the first groove.
US09329407B2
Apparatus and methods to increase the depth of field in human vision in order to correct for loss in refocusing ability. Optics variations, such as changes in thickness, shape, or index of refraction of contact lenses, intraocular implants, or the shape of the cornea or eye lens, affect the phase, or wavefront, of the light perceived by the eye. The optics variations are chosen such that the resulting optical transfer function remains relatively constant over a desired range of object distances and pupil diameters.
US09329400B2
A stereoscopic image display and method is provided. The stereoscopic image display device includes: a thin film transistor array substrate, a color filter substrate facing the thin film transistor array substrate, the color filter substrate including a plurality of black matrices, a plurality of black stripes on the color filter substrate, each of the plurality of black stripes corresponding to the black matrices, and a patterned retarder film on the color filter array substrate over the black stripes, wherein at least one of the plurality of black stripes includes a first black pattern and a second black pattern that are spaced apart from each other, such that gaps are disposed therebetween.
US09329389B2
A projection type display device configured to display an image on a window while also providing a view through the window. The projection type display device has a plurality of reflection portions arranged on a windshield for reflecting an image light that is projected from an image projection device and displaying a superposed display image onto the windshield. Further, since (i) the plurality of reflection portions are arranged on the window along a lateral direction with a lateral interval interposed at positions between two reflection portions, (ii) a lateral width of each of the plurality of reflection portions is less than the minimum human pupil diameter, and (iii) the lateral interval between the two reflection portions is equal to or greater than the lateral width of the reflection portion, the view of the vehicle occupant through the windshield is also sufficiently ensured.
US09329387B2
Aspects of the present invention relate to providing see-through computer display optics.
US09329384B2
An optical reflecting device includes a movable plate having a reflecting surface, a first support portion, a first drive part, a first frame, and a monitor part for detecting the rotation of the movable plate. The first support portion is connected to the movable plate. The first drive part is formed in the first support portion and rotates the movable plate about a first axis. The first frame contains the movable plate and the first support portion, and is connected to the first support portion. The monitor part extends from that portion of the outer periphery of the movable plate which is most distant from the first axis.
US09329380B2
Embodiments of the present invention relate to a display board including a plurality of display devices or tiles that include a casing and a plurality of light manipulating elements disposed within and along a side of the casing, such that the one or more light manipulating elements are adapted to form at least one pixel. The display device or tile further includes at least one or more rods coupled to the plurality of one or more light manipulating elements, and a liquid disposed within the casing, wherein the liquid is adapted to flow within the casing for imparting motion onto the one or more rods for changing the pigment of the at least one pixel.
US09329374B2
A projection lens includes a rear face through which light emitted from a light source enters, and a front face from which the light is emitted in front of a vehicle in a predetermined light distribution pattern. The projection lens is configured such that, upon entering the projection lens, an incoming wavefront emitted from the light source is internally reflected by a first reflection region of the front face, a first intermediate wavefront generated by the internal reflection by the first reflection region is internally reflected by a second reflection region of the rear face, a second intermediate wavefront generated by the internal reflection by the second reflection region is refracted by a refraction region of the front face, and the refracted wavefront is emitted as an outgoing wavefront. The second reflection region is an optical surface determined based on the first intermediate wavefront and the second intermediate wavefront.
US09329365B2
A wide field of view monocentric lens system for an infrared aerial reconnaissance camera includes front and rear lens shell elements and a core lens element, with the number of front and rear shell lens elements depending on the IR band of interest (LWIR, MWIR or SWIR). Infrared radiation entering the monocentric lens passes sequentially through the front shell lens element(s), the core lens element, and the rear shell lens element(s) and is focused onto a curved focal surface. The front shell lens element(s) and the rear shell lens element(s) are made of material having a relatively higher refractive index or a relatively higher optical dispersion, or both, in the band of interest, as compared to the core lens element.
US09329363B2
An imaging lens is substantially constituted by five lenses, including: a first lens having a positive refractive power and a convex surface toward the object side; a second lens having a biconcave shape; a third lens having a positive refractive power and is of a meniscus shape having a concave surface toward the object side; a fourth lens having a concave surface toward the object side; and a fifth lens having a negative refractive power and is of a meniscus shape having a convex surface toward the object side, provided in this order from the object side. The imaging lens satisfies a predetermined conditional formula.
US09329360B2
The present invention relates to an actuator for moving a rigid element, e.g. an optical element such as mirror, the element being mechanically coupled to a frame with a bendable coupling, wherein actuator elements are mounted on said coupling between the frame and element, the coupling and actuator elements being adapted to provide a movement to the element when subject to signal from a signal generator.
US09329356B2
A structure for a voice coil motor providing controllable lens tilt capability. The voice coil motor structure comprises a lens mount for fixedly mounting a lens (12), a focusing coil (6), a tilting coil (5, 7) and magnets (8-11), wherein the focusing coil (6) and the tilting coil (5, 7) are respectively and fixedly sleeved on the outer side of the lens mount (12). The magnets (8-11) are distributed around the focusing coil (6) and the tilting coil (5, 7) to allow the focusing coil (6) to interact with the magnets (8-11), so that the focusing coil (6) drives the lens mount (12) to move front and back to realize lens focusing. The tilting coil (5, 7) is interacted with the magnets (8-11) to allow the tilting coil (5, 7) to drive the lens mount (12) to tilt and realize lens shift. By virtue of the structure, the focusing and controllable tilting angle of the lens can be realized at the same time. The three-coil structure enables the camera to keep small size and easy to be produced at large scale; impedances of coils are easy to be matched with conventional motor driving circuits; the structure can be widely applied to the current smart cell phones to provide a shooting function same to the medium-end or high-end digital camera.
US09329353B2
A fiber optic telecommunications device includes a frame and a fiber optic module including a rack mount portion, a center portion, and a main housing portion. The rack mount portion is stationarily coupled to the frame, the center portion is slidably coupled to the rack mount portion along a sliding direction, and the main housing portion is slidably coupled to the center portion along the sliding direction. The main housing portion of the fiber optic module includes fiber optic connection locations for connecting cables to be routed through the frame. The center portion of the fiber optic module includes a radius limiter for guiding cables between the main housing portion and the frame, the center portion also including a latch for unlatching the center portion for slidable movement. Slidable movement of the center portion with respect to the rack mount portion moves the main housing portion with respect to the frame along the sliding direction.
US09329350B2
In one embodiment, an apparatus includes an optical fiber made of a silica-based material. A proximal end portion of the optical fiber has an outer-layer portion. The proximal end portion can be included in at least a portion of a launch connector configured to receive electromagnetic radiation. The apparatus also includes a component that has a bore therethrough and can be made of a doped silica material. The bore can have an inner-layer portion heat-fused to the outer-layer portion of the optical fiber. The component can also have an index of refraction lower than an index of refraction associated with the outer-layer portion of the optical fiber.
US09329346B2
A method of manufacture of an integrated circuit coupling system includes: forming a waveguide assembly, having a top clad over an open end of an optical core; forming a first photoresist having a base photoresist pattern shape with sloped photoresist sidewalls tapered down to expose a portion of the top clad; forming a recess having clad sidewalls from the portion of the top clad exposed by the base photoresist pattern shape, the clad sidewalls having a shape replicating a shape of the base photo resist pattern shape; and forming an optical vertical insertion area, from the clad sidewalls forming the recess, having a pocket trench, a horizontal step, and a mirror with a reflective material selectively applied to a section of the clad sidewalls and exposing the open end opposite to the mirror, the horizontal step between the mirror and the pocket trench.
US09329338B2
The present invention discloses a full-polarization-state power distributor with integer ratio of power distribution based on photonic crystal waveguide which comprises a photonic crystal waveguide formed in a photonic crystal with a complete photonic band-gap, and the photonic crystal consists of background dielectric rod array; the photonic crystal waveguide consists of a transverse waveguide and a perpendicular waveguide perpendicularly connected with the transverse waveguide; one end of the transverse waveguide is an input end, and the other end is an output end; the perpendicular waveguide is another output end; and the middle part of the transverse waveguide is provided with waveguide defect dielectric rods. The structure of the present invention has a small volume, high light transmission efficiency, it is convenient for optical integration and highly efficient and it is suitable for large-scale optical integrated circuits and can realize the function of full-polarization-state power distribution with integer ratio for different wavelengths.
US09329329B2
An information processing apparatus, a calculation method, a program, and a storage medium for generating a uniformly distributed discrete pattern. To calculate a spatial arrangement of a plurality of elements of a discrete pattern, the plurality of elements being arranged in a spatially discrete manner, an information processing apparatus according to the present invention determines, for each of the elements, a density in an initial position given to the element from a density distribution of the elements in a region where the elements are arranged in the discrete pattern and places, for the initial position of each of the elements, a figure having a size corresponding to the density and representing a region where the element repels other elements and a movement range of the figure. The information processing apparatus minimizes an objective function, computes an optimal solution, and outputs the optimal solutions.
US09329319B2
A vehicular display apparatus includes a light source and a light guide member. The light guide member includes (i) an interior portion that receives light from the light source and (ii) outer faces that reflect the light repeatedly to permit the light to propagate in the interior portion. The light guide member further includes a viewable portion and a light absorption member serving as a light attenuation portion. The viewable portion reflects a part of the light propagating in the interior portion towards a viewer side so as to appear to be luminous. The light absorption member absorbs a part of light reflected by the outer face.
US09329316B2
A wire grid polarizer includes: a substrate; a wire grid layer disposed on the substrate and including a plurality of wire patterns arranged at regular intervals; and a passivation layer disposed on the substrate to cover the wire grid layer and including a material having a refractive index less than 1.4.
US09329312B2
A brightness enhancement film includes a plurality of linear prisms disposed on a birefringent substrate. A light ray that enters the film from the substrate side and exits the film from the linear prisms side undergoes substantially a same phase retardation for mutually orthogonal polarization states while travelling within the film. The light ray exits the film at an angle from a normal to the substrate that is greater than 20 degrees.
US09329308B2
An Axially Graded Index LEns (AGILE) is provided. Such optical elements can provide optical concentration in excess of the free-space brightness theorem limit, because of the increased refractive index at the output of the concentrator compared to the input. Optical contact (i.e., no intervening low index material) between the AGILE and the absorbing element (or an optical source) can be employed to ensure no loss of brightness at the interface between the AGILE and the absorbing element (or source). Although solar cell concentration is a significant application of this technology, there are various other applications, such as increasing the efficiency of optical emission, and providing transmissive optical windows that include optically cloaked regions.
US09329306B2
The invention provides a carbosiloxane vinylic monomer which comprises one sole ethylenically unsaturated group, one sole terminal butyl group; and one oligo(carbosiloxane)-containing linkage between the ethylenically unsaturated terminal group and the terminal butyl group. The present invention is also related to a polymer, an actinically-crosslinkable silicone-containing prepolymer, a silicone hydrogel polymeric material, or a silicone hydrogel contact lens, which comprises monomeric units derived from a carbosiloxane vinylic monomer of the invention.
US09329301B2
A radiation detection device 80 according to an embodiment of the present invention is a radiation detection device for a foreign substance inspection using a subtraction method, and includes a first radiation detector 32 that detects radiation in the first energy range transmitted through a specimen; and a second radiation detector that detects radiation in the second energy range higher than the radiation in the first energy range, and the thickness of a first scintillator layer 322 of the first radiation detector 32 is smaller than the thickness of a second scintillator layer 422 of the second radiation detector 42, and a first area S1 of each pixel 326 in a first pixel section 324 of the first radiation detector 32 is smaller than a second area S2 of each pixel 426 in a second pixel section 424 of the second radiation detector 42.
US09329295B1
A device for locating a ferromagnetic object has a non-magnetic housing with a front end, a rear end, and a perimeter wall defining a chamber within the housing. A ferromagnetic member is housed within the chamber in a substantially fixed position. A magnet element is housed within the chamber between the front end and the ferromagnetic member, wherein the magnet element is reversibly movable between a first position in which the magnet element is proximate the ferromagnetic member, and a second position in which the magnet element is proximate the front end.
US09329284B2
A high pixel density intraoral x-ray imaging sensor includes a direct conversion, fully depleted silicon detector bump bonded to a readout CMOS substrate by cu-pillar bump bonds.
US09329280B2
A radiation image pickup apparatus includes a pixel array having pixels each including a conversion element and a switch element, a drive circuit for controlling the switch element between a conducting state and a non-conducting state, a detection unit for outputting a detection signal varying with the intensity of irradiation of the pixel array, and an arithmetic unit for calculating a start threshold value used to detect start of irradiation based on the signal output from the detection unit during a period when radiation is not emitted onto the pixel array in which the switch elements are sequentially set in a conducting state on a row-by-row basis by the drive circuit and the signal output from the detection unit during a period when radiation is emitted onto the pixel array in which the switch elements are sequentially set in a conducting state on a row-by-row basis by the drive circuit.
US09329274B2
A method comprises generating a respective code-carrier difference for each of a plurality of satellite vehicle and signal frequency combinations, wherein the code-carrier difference is based on a code range and a carrier range. The method also comprises filtering the respective code-carrier difference for an unknown bias and random noise; determining whether multipath is present for each of the plurality of satellite vehicle and signal frequency combinations based on the respective filtered code-carrier difference; and computing a position solution based on trust placed in respective measurements from each of the plurality of satellite vehicle and signal frequency combinations, the trust based on whether multipath is present for the respective satellite vehicle and signal frequency combination.
US09329268B2
A parking sensor and observation system for a vehicle, including: an elongated housing, wherein the housing has a front side with first to third openings and a back side with an elongated opening, the first and third openings are adjacent to opposite ends of the housing, the second opening is located at a center portion of the housing; a first parking sensor disposed within the housing and having its proximity detector disposed in the first opening; a second parking sensor disposed within the housing and having its proximity detector disposed in the third opening; a camera disposed within the housing and having its lens disposed in the second opening; and a backing plate disposed at the back side of the housing to seal the elongated opening.
US09329262B2
A situational awareness personal service (SAPS) receives data records from a wide variety of data sources and provides real-time, tailored, situational awareness (SA) information to subscribers. The SA information, which can include course of action recommendations and threat assessments, can be made available and affordable to the general public. Subscribers may view the SA information using commercial off the shelf (COTS) devices, such as laptop computers, smartphones, and existing onboard integrated displays. In one aspect, transportation platforms can provide local observation data, such as radar tracking data, to the SA personal service in exchange for tailored SA information.
US09329258B2
Method for locating, in a fixed frame of reference (RG), a moving craft from the craft, comprising two characteristic points, the rolling and pitching of the craft in the fixed frame of reference having been determined, so as to determine the yawing and/or the coordinates of the craft in the fixed frame of reference: a/ a local frame of reference (Rn) comprising an axis deviating from the yaw axis of the fixed frame of reference by a known angle resulting from a rotation about a first axis of the first local frame of reference dependent on the roll (R) and a rotation dependent on the pitch (P) is defined; b/ the coordinates of each characteristic point (P1, P2) in said local frame of reference being equal, to within an unknown common factor, to the multiplying of a matrix defining said succession of rotations by a matrix of intrinsic image capture parameters and by the coordinates of a pixel corresponding to the characteristic point in an image captured from the craft, the values adopted by the quotients relating said coordinates are determined; c/ said coordinates of the characteristic points are expressed in said local frame of reference as a function of the distance between these characteristic points and of the quotients determined.
US09329247B2
A shim coil arrangement for at least one extremity of a patient such as a forearm and/or a hand for use in a magnetic resonance device is provided. The shim coil arrangement is arranged surrounding a receptacle for the at least one extremity. At least two planar shim coils having a common coil plane that lies at right angles to a direction of a basic magnetic field of the magnetic resonance device in a usage state and/or to a longitudinal direction of the receptacle are arranged around a circumference of the receptacle. A plurality of coil planes succeeding one another in the direction of the basic magnetic field of the magnetic resonance device in the usage state and/or the longitudinal direction of the receptacle and at right angles to the direction of the basic magnetic field and/or the longitudinal direction are provided with at least two planar shim coils.
US09329244B2
A measurement head (1) for a magnetoelastic sensor having a ferrite core (3). The core (3) has a first end (5), on which a field coil (9) which generates a magnetic field is fitted, and at least a second end (7), on which a magnetic field sensor (11, 41) is fitted.
US09329240B2
A battery SoC estimation device includes a discharge-and charge current detection means 1, a terminal-voltage detection means 2, a current-integration SoC estimation means 3, an open-circuit-voltage SoC estimation means 4, an error estimation means 6, and an SoC calculating means 7. The estimation means 3 estimates a current-integration-method SoC (SoCi), calculating variance of current-integration-method SoC based on information on detection accuracy of the detection means 1. The estimation means 4 estimates an open-circuit-voltage-method SoC (SoCv) corresponding to an open circuit voltage value estimated based on a discharge-and-charge current value and a terminal voltage value, using a battery equivalent circuit model. The estimation means 6 estimates an estimate error ni of the current-integration-method SoC based on a difference between the SoCv and the SoCi, variance of the SoCi, and variance of the SoCv. The calculating means 7 calculates SoC of a battery based on the SoCi and the ni.
US09329238B1
A contact wear detector includes an electrical contact 100 having a base layer 110 composed of a first material and a contacting layer 120 composed of a second material, to electrically contact an opposing contact in the circuit. The base layer is capable of having portions exposed through worn areas 125 of the contacting layer. The first material of the base layer is configured to form an arc 210 between the portions of the base layer exposed through the worn areas and the opposing contact when the contacts separate. The arc thus formed emits light 212 having a characteristic optical spectrum of the first material. An optical detector 220 is proximate to the electrical contacts, to detect the characteristic optical spectrum of the light emitted by the arc between the portions of the base layer exposed through the worn areas and the opposing contact.
US09329237B2
A method of switch detection is disclosed that comprises, enabling a low power mode on a switch detection device, activating a first detection circuit for detecting, at a first expiration of a first polling time interval, a first switch state of a first switch having a first priority level, the first switch state including one of a first open state and a first closed state, comparing the detected first switch state with a prior first switch state, and activating a second detection circuit for detecting, at a second expiration of a second polling time interval, a second switch state of a second switch having a second priority level, the second switch including one of a second open state and a second closed state, and the second polling time interval being greater than the first polling time interval, and the second priority level being different from the first priority level.
US09329234B2
This disclosure describes die test architectures that can be implemented in a first, middle and last die of a die stack. The die test architectures are mainly the same, but for the exceptions mentioned in this disclosure.
US09329230B2
An integrated circuit includes combinational logic with flip-flops, parallel scan paths with a scan input for receiving test stimulus data to be applied to the combinational logic, combinational connections with the combinational logic for applying stimulus data to the combinational logic and receiving response data from the combinational logic, a scan output for transmitting test response data obtained from the combinational logic, and control inputs having an enable input and a select input for operating the parallel scan paths, each scan path includes flip-flops of the combinational logic that, in a test mode, are connected in series, compare circuitry indicates the result of a comparison of the received test response data and the expected data at a fail flag output, and one of the scan paths includes a scan cell having an input coupled to the fail flag output.
US09329226B2
A method and a sensor for ascertaining at least one malfunction of a conductive conductivity sensor having at least two electrodes applying a first electrical variable to the electrodes measuring at least a second electrical variable on the electrodes and deciding whether a malfunction is present based on measuring the second electrical variable. The second electrical variable is located in a first range when measuring the medium when no malfunction is present, and the second electrical variable is located in a second range in the case of a first malfunction, especially when the conductivity sensor is located at least partially outside of the medium, and the second electrical variable is located in a third range when a second malfunction is present, especially an electrode break or a break in a line to the electrodes.
US09329219B2
A control module includes an input module configured to operate in a normal operating state and a fault diagnosis state. The input module receives an input signal from a circuit module and generates a voltage based on the input signal. In the normal operating state, a fault diagnostic module determines whether the voltage is in a first range or a second range. The first range and the second range indicate that a fault is detected in the circuit module. The fault diagnostic module determines that the detected fault is a first fault type if the voltage is in the first range, transitions the input module from the normal operating state to the fault diagnosis state if the voltage is in the second range, and determines whether the detected fault is a second fault type or a third fault type based on the voltage in the fault diagnosis state.
US09329217B2
A sensor assembly and method for producing a sensor assembly for detecting an approaching and/or contacting object. The sensor assembly includes at least one sensor support surface having a first flat side and a second flat side, a proximity and/or contact sensor, which is connected to the first flat side and/or to the second flat side of the sensor support surface, a decoration support medium having a first support flat side and a second support flat side, and a decoration layer, which is connected to the first support flat side and/or to the second support flat side of the decoration support medium and/or is an integral part of the decoration support medium. The decoration support medium includes a glass or plastic film or panel which is back-molded on the first support flat side thereof and/or on the second support flat side, directly or indirectly, using an injection molding material.
US09329211B2
A system and method of measuring real-time current is disclosed. The method includes calibrating a voltage measurement device. Calibrating includes measuring a real-time voltage difference between a first measurement node located proximate a first connector on a motherboard and a second measurement node located proximate a second connector on a power supply unit (PSU), the first and the second connectors coupled to provide power to the motherboard. Calibrating further includes averaging the real-time voltage difference for a plurality of measurements; computing a resistance of the coupling based at least on a long-duration averaged current from the PSU and the averaged real-time voltage difference, the resistance varying over time; and reporting the resistance of the coupling to the voltage measurement device. The method also includes measuring a real-time current of the PSU at the voltage measurement device based at least on the resistance of the coupling and the real-time voltage difference.
US09329205B2
A high precision semiconductor probing system includes a probe head, a circuit board positioned above the probe head, and an optical microscope, wherein the probe head has a plurality of vertical probes and at least one cantilever probe having a vertical body positioned therein. The cantilever probe is disposed close to an edge of the probe head and extends laterally out from the probe head, in order to facilitate the visual alignment viewing from top of the probing apparatus. The optical microscope is positioned on top of the probing apparatus and is configured to have a line of sight directed to the tip of the cantilever probe.
US09329202B2
A method is presented for calibrating a cantilever, such as a scanning probe microscope cantilever (SPM cantilever). The cantilever to be calibrated comprises at least a first and a second layer having a mutually different thermal expansion coefficient, the method comprising the steps of: controllably causing a temperature distribution along the cantilever, measuring a spatial state of the cantilever, computing a mechanical property from the observed spatial state caused by controllably changing the temperature. Also a calibration arrangement and a scanning probe microscope provided with the calibration arrangement are presented.
US09329191B2
Carbon monoxide (CO) is a member of the gasotransmitter family that includes NO and H2S and is implicated in a variety of pathological and physiological conditions. Whereas exogenous therapeutic additions of CO to tissues and whole animals have been well studied, the real-time spatial and temporal tracking of CO at the cellular level remains an open challenge. We now report a new type of turn-on fluorescent probe for selective CO detection by exploiting palladium-mediated carbonylation reactivity. The compounds of the invention are capable of detecting CO both in aqueous buffer and in live cells with high selectivity over a range of biologically relevant reactive small molecules, providing a potentially powerful approach for interrogating its chemistry in biological systems.
US09329186B2
The present invention relates to a method of separating or extracting phosphorylated amino acids, peptides or proteins with a molecularly imprinted polymer and to the preparation of said molecularly imprinted polymer as well as use of a molecularly imprinted polymer for separating or extracting phosphorylated amino acids, peptides or proteins.
US09329183B2
The invention relates to an in vitro immunoassay for quantifying thrombin in a sample comprising anti-thrombin III (AT-III) and thrombin. The method comprises the following steps: contacting the sample with a small molecule that recognizes the substrate binding site of thrombin; contacting the thrombin with a thrombin specific antibody raised against a thrombin blocked in the active site; and measuring the level of bound antibody.
US09329181B2
Method for detecting and quantifying an analyte in a liquid sample, using a test strip and magnetic particles as a detectable label and based on the detection of an amount of magnetic particles which become bound to a reading zone of a test strip as a result of performing the method, said amount being linked through a function to the analyte content of the sample, wherein the magnetic particles exhibit a nonlinear magnetization characteristic, which test strip is made of porous material and is arranged inside a case, cartridge or the like to form an assay device, wherein in its part surrounding the reading zone, the case is made of a material that is permeable to magnetic field, wherein for the reading of the reaction, the assay device is positioned in a measure cell of a magnetic reading device which detects the amount of magnetic particles in the reading zone by submitting it to at least one excitation magnetic field having about 90% of its power within one frequency band or a plurality of frequency bands, and the reading device measures the induced magnetic response field outside said frequency band or said plurality of frequency bands.
US09329176B2
A surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopic (SERS) system for detecting a biomolecule. The system includes a substrate, an array of nanoparticles disposed on the substrate, each being partially embedded in the substrate and having a non-embedded surface, and a linking agent disposed on the non-embedded surface of each of the nanoparticles. The array of nanoparticles has a uniform interparticle gap of 1-50 nm and the linking agent is capable of binding to the biomolecule.
US09329170B2
Methods are provided for diagnosis and prognosis of disease by analyzing expression of a set of genes obtained from single cell analysis. Classification allows optimization of treatment, and determination of whether on whether to proceed with a specific therapy, and how to optimize dose, choice of treatment, and the like. Single cell analysis also provides for the identification and development of therapies which target mutations and/or pathways in disease-state cells.
US09329164B2
The present invention concerns storage containers for storing diagnostic elements having a hydrophilic or hydrophilically coated surface. Furthermore, the invention concerns analytical measuring devices which comprise storage containers of this type, and the use of an absorption material for selectively absorbing hydrophobic, volatile substances in such storage containers.
US09329161B2
A device for the gas analysis of a gas mixture includes a converter configured to convert a first gas component into a target gas component, a sensor system configured to detect the target gas component or another component of the gas mixture after the conversion by the converter, and an evaluating apparatus. The converter is further configured to change the concentration of a second gas component or to cause a conversion to a second target gas component. The sensor system is configured to determine the concentration of the second gas component or of the second target gas component. The evaluating apparatus is configured to determine a value for the aging of the converter on the basis of the concentration of the second gas component or of the second target gas component.
US09329152B2
Measurement of a precessional rate of a gas, such as an alkali gas, in a magnetic field is made by promoting a non-uniform precession of the gas in which substantially no net magnetic field affects the gas during a majority of the precession cycle. This allows sensitive gases that would be subject to spin-exchange collision de-phasing to be effectively used for extremely sensitive measurements in the presence of an environmental magnetic field such as the Earth's magnetic field.
US09329132B2
The present invention relates a method to determine the presence of a photon producing biological marker in a cell, tissue or organism of interest. The method is based on Fluorescence by Unbound Excitation from Luminescence (FUEL) and comprises the steps of a) providing conditions suitable for the biological marker to produce at least one first photon by luminescence; b) providing a FUEL probe pair-upper (FPP-U) disposed in proximity to the cell, tissue or organism, wherein the at least one first photon of step a) excites the FPP-U, which emits at least one second photon. The FPP-U may be selected from the group of quantum dots, carbon nanotubes, fluorescent proteins, diamond nanocrystals and metalloporphyrins. This method is characterized in that said biological marker and said FPP-U are not bound and in that each of the at least one second photon(s) are of a longer wavelength than each of the at least one first photon(s).
US09329129B2
Provided is a method for imaging a blood sample and a kit and system for executing the method. The method includes introducing a cell suspension including red blood cells onto a base surface of a carrier having a vertical height (H) being greater than or equal to a vertical depth (h) of the cell suspension when on the base carrier, the cell suspension including a cell concentration (C) being determined by a defined function; allowing the cells in the cell suspension to settle on the base surface of the carrier to form a monolayer of cells thereon; and acquiring at least one microscope image of at least a portion of the monolayer of cells; wherein the at least one microscope image is obtained by a microscope set to Depth Of Field that is not more than 20% of the vertical height of the cell suspension settled on the base surface.
US09329118B2
An environmental chamber includes a testing tub in which a testing space is formed. The testing tub has a front wall, a left sidewall, a right sidewall, a rear wall, and a ceiling part, and is divided into a lower tub part and an upper tub part by a dividing surface extended in a direction inclined downwardly and frontwardly. The left and right sidewalls are respectively divided into two portions by the dividing surface. An inner surface of the upper tub part includes at least a part of an inner surface of each of the ceiling part, the front wall, the left sidewall, and the right sidewall. The upper tub part is supported by the lower tub part to be able to open the testing space.
US09329108B1
Liquid sample basins for use in assemblies for handling samples for analysis in an analytical stream. The sample basins have a body defining a basin for receiving a liquid sample. The basin has a cylindrical opening at an upper surface of the body through which the sample may be introduced. A drain is provided at the lower end of the basin, and the basin is adapted to direct flow of the sample from the basin into and downward through the drain. A wash ring is mounted on top of the body around the basin opening. The assembly of the wash ring and the body defines a manifold extending around the basin opening and provides a conduit for flow of wash solvent around the opening. The wash ring and body assembly also has one or more ports adapted to direct wash solvent from the manifold into the basin.
US09329106B2
Methods, apparatuses, and kits for collecting chemical samples are provided. In one embodiment, a method for collecting a sample of a chemical from a vessel includes connecting a sampling chamber and a removal chamber in fluid communication with the vessel and flowing a liquid phase of the chemical from the vessel through the sampling chamber and the removal chamber. The method isolates a first volume of the liquid phase in the sampling chamber and removes a second volume of the liquid phase from the removal chamber. Further, the method includes establishing fluid communication between the sampling chamber and the removal chamber and filling the removal chamber with a portion of the first volume to form a vapor phase of the chemical in the sampling chamber. Also, the method includes isolating the sample including the vapor phase and a remaining portion of the liquid phase in the sampling chamber.
US09329105B2
Provided is a sampling method of recycled raw material, the method including: a process (S3) of primarily crushing recycled raw material; a process (S4 to S7) of separating primarily crushed raw material into three components, “scrap iron”, “scrap aluminum”, and “recycled raw material component other than scrap iron and scrap aluminum” and performing primary sample reductions of the three components; a process (S8 to S10) of secondarily crushing “the recycled raw material component other than scrap iron and scrap aluminum”, which is subjected to the primary sample reduction, and performing a secondary sample reduction of “recycled raw material component other than scrap iron and scrap aluminum” which is secondarily crushed; and a mixing process (S12) of mixing “scrap iron” and “scrap aluminum” with “the recycled raw material component other than scrap iron and scrap aluminum” which is subjected to the secondary sample reduction.
US09329103B2
A system for characterizing a vehicle tire is provided. The system includes a testing assembly configured to support the vehicle tire. The assembly includes a force-moment transducer configured to gather force information from the vehicle tire in response to a stimulus on the vehicle tire. The system further includes an accelerometer coupled to the vehicle tire and configured to gather vibration information from the vehicle tire in response to the stimulus on the vehicle tire. The system further includes a post-processing system configured to receive the vibration information from the accelerometer and the force information from the force-moment transducer. The post-processing system is further configured to extract resonant frequencies from the vibration information and the force information.
US09329100B2
A lifetime estimation device to estimate a lifetime of a rolling bearing assembly comprising inner and outer rings includes a buildup height estimation unit to estimate in accordance with a predetermined rule a buildup height of the indentation based on the inputted depth of the indentation or the inputted indentation size; and a lifetime estimation unit to estimate the lifetime of the rolling bearing assembly, the lifetime estimation unit being configured to determine a preliminary estimate of the lifetime of the rolling bearing assembly based on a dynamic equivalent load, determine a rate of reduction in a rolling fatigue life based on the buildup height of the indentation, and apply the determined rate of reduction in a rolling fatigue life to the preliminary estimate of the lifetime of the rolling bearing assembly to determine an estimate of the lifetime of the rolling bearing assembly.
US09329099B2
A fault diagnostic method for an automatic transmission may include monitoring an operating state of a trim system configured to selectively supply clutch engagement pressure and exhaust to at least one clutch control valve, determining an expected operating state of the trim system based on current operating conditions of the transmission, and generating a fault signal if the monitored operating state of the trim system is different from the expected operating state of the trim system.
US09329098B2
A method includes conforming an arrangement of an optical fiber to an object to detect tampering with the object when the optical fiber arrangement is changed, measuring an optical signature of the optical fiber arrangement in a first measurement, measuring the optical signature of the optical fiber arrangement at a time after the first measurement in a second measurement, and comparing the first and second measurements to detect tampering with the object from a change in the optical fiber arrangement. In another embodiment, an optical shield includes an optical fiber arranged to detect tampering with an object resulting from a change in the optical fiber arrangement and an optical fiber carrier coupled to the optical fiber for conforming the optical fiber arrangement to the object.
US09329096B1
A system may include a tether coupled to a ground station. The system may also include an aerial vehicle coupled to the tether and configured to fly in a given path relative to the ground station based on a length of the tether. The system may also include one or more load cells coupled to the tether and configured to provide information indicative of a tether force between the tether and the aerial vehicle. The one or more load cells may be arranged in a given arrangement indicative of a direction of the tether force. The system may also include a controller configured to determine an angle between a direction of wind incident on the aerial vehicle and a plane defined by a longitudinal axis and a lateral axis of the aerial vehicle based on the tether force.
US09329091B2
A technique is provided to model a heat penetration profile for various targets which are non-planar or three-dimensionally shaped targets for use in a heating system. The relative volume of material that is irradiated at various depths may have an impact on the absorbed heat profile through the target. For example, a hollow cylindrical product has substantially more material per micro-meter near the outside diameter than it does near the inside diameter. Accordingly, the thickness of the wall or the diameter of the hollow inside the cylinder, as well as the outer diameter of the cylinder, have a substantial impact on the ultimate heat profile through the wall.
US09329090B2
In an electronic device, a heat generation part pattern is connected to a heat generating element to heat from the heat generating element. A temperature detecting element is disposed adjacent to a first surface of a substrate. A direct under layer pattern is disposed on a second surface of the substrate opposite to the temperature detecting element in an area including a portion corresponding to the temperature detecting element. An interlayer connection pillar connects between the heat generation part pattern and the direct under layer pattern to conduct heat. The heat generated from the heat generating element is effectively conducted to the temperature detecting element through the heat generation part pattern, the interlayer connection pillar, and the direct under layer pattern, and thus the temperature detecting element accurately detects the temperature of the heat generating element.
US09329088B2
A thermoelectric conversion element includes a pair of electrodes and a pyroelectric material, which is a ferroelectric layer, sandwiched between the pair of electrodes. The pyroelectric material includes at least Bi (bismuth), La (lanthanum), and Fe (iron). The molar fraction of La in a Bi/La site in the crystal structure of the pyroelectric material is 0.15 or more and 0.20 or less. Such a thermoelectric conversion element, and a light detection device and electronic apparatus which include the thermoelectric conversion element have a good pyroelectric function without including Pb (lead).
US09329086B2
A portable system and method for analyzing biological tissue samples and detecting analytes associated with tissue oxygenation using a conformal filter. A conformal filter, which may comprise a tunable filter, is configured to filter interacted photons conforming to a spectral shape correlated with an analyte of interest. Conformal filter configurations may be selected by consulting a modified look-up table associated with an analyte. An iterative methodology may be used to calibrate a conformal design for an analyte of interest, refine a previous conformal filter design for an analyte of interest, and/or generate a new conformal filter design for an analyte of interest.
US09329081B1
An Integrated Laser Phase Compensation System (ILPCS) for end-to-end compensation of high-energy laser for propagation through turbulence with non-cooperative target. ILPCS using interferometric slaving technique and stand-alone adaptive optical systems to effect pre-compensation of phase aberrations in turbulent medium, providing pre-compensation for aberrations in a laser amplifier with a minimal number of phase correction devices is presented. ILPCS enables integration with a short pulse mode locked laser for use in Target Feature Adaptive Optics (TFAO) or with a mode locked ultra short pulse laser with carrier envelope phase stabilization for use in Broadband Coherent Adaptive Optics (BCAO).
US09329080B2
An optoelectronic module includes a beam transmitter, which emits at least one beam of light along a beam axis, and a receiver, which senses the light received by the module along a collection axis of the receiver, which is parallel to the beam axis within the module. Beam-combining optics direct the beam and the received light so that the beam axis is aligned with the collection axis outside the module. The beam-combining optics include multiple faces, including at least a first face configured for internal reflection and a second face comprising a beamsplitter, which is intercepted by both the beam axis and the collection axis.
US09329076B2
A patient support system includes a patient support apparatus and a support surface mounted on the patient support apparatus. The patient support apparatus is reconfigurable among a plurality of different configurations for supporting a patient on the support surface in a plurality of positions. The support surface is mounted on the patient support apparatus to move in response to reconfiguration of the patient support apparatus.
US09329074B2
A multi-mode pulsed radar method for sensing or measuring a product material in a storage tank includes providing a measure of radar signal attenuation for pulsed radar signals transmitted to the product material. Automatic adjustment of one or more transmitted radar pulse parameters is implemented by selecting a pulse width and a pulse amplitude based on the measure of radar signal attenuation. In signal mode 2 higher amplitude and/or wider pulses are selected when the measure of radar signal attenuation is relatively high and in signal mode 1 lower amplitude and/or narrower pulses are selected when the measure of radar signal attenuation is relatively low. The radar pulse is transmitted to the product material using the selected pulse width and the pulse amplitude. The target signal reflected or scattered from the product material is processed to determine at least one parameter, such as product level.
US09329070B2
An apparatus for reducing or minimizing disturbance signals in the case of a field device of process automation, wherein the field device has a control/evaluation unit and a sensor, with, respectively, at least one main electronics and at least one sensor electronics. At least one data line is provided, via which the main electronics and the sensor electronics communicate. At least one galvanic isolating component is provided, which is integrated into the at least one data line, and which prevents transmission of disturbance signals via the one or more data lines. Power supply lines are provided, via which a power supply voltage sufficient for operation of the sensor is made available to the sensor; and wherein, in the power supply lines, filter means are provided, which are designed in such a manner that predetermined requirements for disturbance resistance of the power supply lines are fulfilled.
US09329066B2
A flow regulating system for maintaining a stable air flow comprising at least one pump, a mass flow sensor, an ambient temperature sensor, an ambient pressure sensor, a temperature compensation sensor measuring the temperature of said mass flow sensor, and a control system is disclosed, as well as a method for measuring a flow using said flow regulating system, a device for the monitoring of air-borne compounds present in air in both a gas phase and a particle phase, wherein it comprises a sampling device, an enrichment trap 1, a calibration and tuning module, a blank module, said flow regulating system, a chromatography unit, and a detection unit, and a method for the detection of air-born compounds in an air flow by using said monitoring device.
US09329063B2
Electronic modules with small and flexible interfaces are disclosed. One example electronic module includes a power supply terminal configured to receive power for the electronic module and circuitry configured to carry out various functions. The functions carried out by the electronic module circuitry include simultaneously receiving both of the following via the power supply terminal: a power signal for carrying out a mission mode operation of the electronic module, and a data signal.
US09329052B2
A mobile computing device includes a housing, a camera, a display, a memory, and a processing circuit. The housing is configured to be carried by a user while in use. The camera is configured to output image data. The memory is configured to store geographic element data representing one or more geographic elements. The processing circuit is configured to receive the geographic element data for the plurality of geographic elements. The processing circuit is configured to determine a camera orientation. The processing circuit is configured to concurrently display the image data and geographic element data for the plurality of geographic elements on the display.
US09329051B1
A navigation system has at least one processor. A memory is coupled to the processor. The memory stores program instructions that when executed by the processor, causes the processor to: display a map; display a cursor showing a present location of a vehicle on the map; display a menu screen to enter user selected point of interest (POI) search criteria; display markings on the map, wherein each marking corresponds to a POI matching the user selected POI search criteria; move the map to a user selected marking; and center the map on the user selected marking.
US09329048B2
A method of providing a logging function in a portable navigation device and a portable device adapted to provide such a function are described. The method includes the step of storing location information relating to current position and time-specific information relating to a current position in a non-volatile memory of the device to create a log. The storage of such information only occurs when one of a specified set of events occurs, the set of events being specific to either a navigation mode or a free-driving mode of operation of the device.
US09329047B2
A latency analysis system determines a latency period, such as a wait time, at a user destination. To determine the latency period, the latency analysis system receives location history from multiple user devices. With the location histories, the latency analysis system identifies points-of-interest that users have visited and determines the amount of time the user devices were at a point-of-interest. For example, the latency analysis system determines when a user device entered and exited a point-of-interest. Based on the elapsed time between entry and exit, the latency analysis system determines how long the user device was inside the point-of-interest. By averaging elapsed times for multiple user devices, the latency analysis system determines a latency period for the point-of-interest. The latency analysis system then uses the latency period to provide latency-based recommendations to a user. For example, the latency analysis system may determine a shopping route for a user.
US09329044B2
A guidance system (SG) for an individual (IND) moving in an unknown environment establishes a guidance loop (B) between a measurement module (MM) placed on the individual and a remote guidance platform (PG). In the measurement module, a means (CP) collects measurement data (DM) that are transmitted by another means (UC1) of transmission to the guidance platform via a first communication channel. Then, at the guidance platform, a means (UT2) determines the tactical position data (DST) from the transmitted measurement data (DM), and another means (UC2) transmits determined guidance data (DG) from the tactical position data to a communication device of the individual by means of a second communication channel (R2), thus closing the guidance loop.
US09329041B2
An angular velocity sensor includes a vibrator located along x-y plane specified by x direction and y direction that are orthogonal to each other; a substrate that is separated away from the vibrator along z direction perpendicular to the x-y plane; an anchor device extended from the substrate to the x-y plane in which the vibrator is located; a linkage beam device that links the anchor device to the vibrator, the linkage beam being able to twist about the y direction; an excitation portion that vibrates the vibrator along the z direction; and a detection portion that detects an angular velocity based on a displacement along the x direction of the vibrator. The vibrator includes a linkage region to link with the linkage beam device, and the linkage region becomes a wave node when the vibrator vibrates along the z direction.
US09329040B2
A sensor element has drive vibrating arms drive-vibrating by energization, adjustment vibrating arms vibrating with the drive vibrations of the drive vibrating arms, detection electrodes outputting charge in response to physical quantities applied to the drive vibrating arms, first electrodes provided on the adjustment vibrating arms, electrically connected to the detection electrodes, and outputting charge with the vibrations of the adjustment vibrating arms, and a pair of second electrodes provided on the adjustment vibrating arms, electrically connected to a pair of detection electrodes, and outputting charge having an opposite polarity to that of the first electrodes with the vibrations of the adjustment vibrating arms.
US09329038B2
Electronic devices may be provided with compasses for detecting the Earth's magnetic field. Electronic devices may be provided with other electronic components. A compass may include a magnetic sensor and control circuitry configured to apply offsets or other compass calibration data to compass data to compensate for magnetic interference from the other electronic components. Other electronic components may include components such as cameras, auto-focus lens mechanisms, light sources, and displays. The control circuitry may be configured to apply compass calibration data that is specific to an electronic component and that is specific to an operational status of the component. The control circuitry may be configured to recognize a replacement electronic component and revert to an average compass calibration correction. The control circuitry may be configured to output interference-corrected compass data to applications running on the electronic device.
US09329037B2
The present invention relates to a system and method for photographing a moving subject by means of a fixed camera, and acquiring a projection image of the actual movement trajectory of the subject on the basis of the photographed image. One embodiment of the present invention provides a method for acquiring a projection image of the actual movement trajectory of a subject, the method comprising: a step for photographing a moving subject by means of a fixed camera; and a step for converting the coordinates of the photographed image of the subject on the camera image frame to coordinates of the image on an actual background portion, the conversion being implemented on the basis of information on mapping between coordinates on an actual background portion having a specific pattern, acquired by pre-photographing, with a fixed camera, the specific pattern of the actual background portion, and the coordinates on the camera image frame of the photographed image thereof.
US09329032B2
A method for measuring the tread thickness from the radially outermost belt surface within a tire to the tread surface accurately by ultrasonic measurement whatever the type of belt material is. The method includes the steps of measuring a profile of the tread surface, identifying the bottom positions of circumferentially extending grooves from the profile measured, estimating the depths from the groove bottoms to the belt surface from the identified groove bottoms and pre-created tire design data, predicting thicknesses by calculating predicted thicknesses from the tread surface to the belt surface from the relationship between the thicknesses from the identified groove bottoms to the tread surface in the profile and the estimated depths from the groove bottoms to the belt surface, and setting amplification factors for received reflected waves according to a reflection factor-thickness data map prepared beforehand in correspondence to the predicated thicknesses.
US09329023B2
A rotation control apparatus includes: a controller configured to supply test currents to a plurality of different paths of a motor when the motor is stopped; and a stop position detector configured to detect a rotational position of the motor based on an order of current values of the test currents. The controller causes one of the test currents to flow through one of the plurality of different paths, measure time taken until the corresponding detection voltage reaches a reference voltage, and set electrical conduction time of the test currents based on a result of the measurement.
US09329020B1
A system including a plurality of actuation devices with each actuation device configured to have a magnetized part which moves to a designated position representative of a designated manipulation, when at least one actuation device is manipulated, a magnetic sensor array configured to measure a composite magnetic field produced by the magnetized parts of the plurality of actuation devices, an acquisition device configured to acquire magnetic field data from the sensor array indicative of the measured composite magnetic field, a converter configured to convert the acquired composite magnetic field data into analog values, and a processor configured to evaluate to the analog values to determine which of the at least one activation device is manipulated, how the manipulation reflects collective operation of the plurality of actuation devices, and/or to provide a response indicative of the manipulation. A method and a computer program product are also disclosed.
US09329018B1
A flatness inspection spider with a head assembly with a fixed base and a bearing assembly secured to the fixed base. A rotating inspection head is disposed over the bearing assembly. A load displacement shaft extends through an alignment head, fixed base, bearing assembly, and the rotating inspection head. At least one adjustable foot can extend from the fixed base to contact an inspection surface, wherein the at least one adjustable foot has a foot longitudinal axis, and wherein the at least one adjustable foot can extend or retract in length by rotating without the need for any additional tools. An inspection tubular is mounted through the rotating inspection head having a tubular longitudinal axis and an indicator mounted to the inspection tubular.
US09329011B1
An apparatus and method for initiating the ignition of a pyrotechnic material in a controlled manner. The invention is suitable for use with less sensitive pyrotechnic material or charges, such as, but not limited to, boron potassium nitrate (B/KNO3) and nitrocellulose (NC). The invention is particularly suitable for incorporation with an ignition system for the ignition of pyrotechnic materials used in solid propellant missile and rocket motors. The invention is particularly resistant to spurious radio frequency interference and/or other electromagnetic interference and is readily capable of operating on a minimum fire or triggering voltage in excess of 500 volts.
US09329003B2
Muzzleloader systems include a pre-packaged propellant charge and primer for providing efficient loading and unloading of the muzzleloader. The breech end accepts the propellant and means are provided to prevent breech loading of the projectile. A propellant cartridge conforms to a constriction portion to minimize ullage. A projectile is inserted in the muzzle end seats on the constriction portion. The propellant cartridge may be received in a removable breech plug. The constriction portion may be part of the breech plug or a separate component secured in the barrel by way of the breech plug. The cartridge may have a primer mechanism integrated into a proximal end. Projectiles have sliding components that have an axial elongate position and an axial shortened position and may be loaded with a ramrod having an engagement portion for each of the two pieces whereby the projectile doesn't prematurely collapse.
US09329001B2
A small unmanned aerial system (sUAS) is used for remotely detecting concealed explosive devices—such as buried or otherwise hidden improvised explosive devices (IED)—and exploding or disarming the device while an operator of the sUAS, or other personnel, remain at a safe distance. The sUAS system can be operated at an extended, e.g., greater than 100 meters, standoff from the detection apparatus, explosive, and potential harm and may be operated by a single member of an explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) team. The sUAS may be implemented as an easy-to-operate, small vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft with a set of optical, thermal, and chemical detection modules for detecting an IED by aerial surveillance, confirming the existence of explosives, and providing options for detonating the IED electrically or by delivery of a payload (e.g., object or device) to neutralize the IED while maintaining the sUAS itself safe from harm.
US09328999B1
An improved system for protecting vehicles or other objects from rocket propelled grenade (RPG) attacks. A net panel of the improved system weighs and costs substantially less than a conventional protective system panel, and requires minimal manual work to manufacture, install, replace or repair. When assembled, the hard points, as well as the panels, are symmetrical meaning that a panel does not have a left, right, inward or outward face and may be used on either side of a vehicle. The net may be manufactured as a continuous web or roll and does not require any edging for securing it to a frame. In addition, a damaged net may be replaced easily and rapidly using a simple hand tool.
US09328993B1
A gun sight is provided having a rear sight including at least two apertures which are offset vertically and horizontally to correctly sight the gun relative to two perpendicular axes. A forward sight is also provided which corresponds to the at least first and second apertures of the rear sight. These features also offset vertically and horizontally to aid in fast acquisition and targeting. The user or shooter may learn to accurately fire the weapon and more easily acquire a target with less extensive training.
US09328989B2
A paintball assembly capable of retaining a paintball in a loading chamber using a paintball catcher is disclosed. The paintball assembly includes a loading chamber, a detent, and a bolt. The loading chamber is coupled to a loading port to receive paintballs. In one embodiment, the detent includes a paintball catcher capable of catching the paintball as it is loaded into the loading chamber. In one example, the paintball catcher is a flexible paintball catcher extending into the loading chamber and is able to catch the paintball and hold it in a predefined position. When a trigger is pulled, the bolt pushes the paintball into a firing chamber while the paintball catcher releases the paintball.
US09328984B2
A noise suppressor system for attachment to a firearm including a barrel having a longitudinal axis. The noise suppressor system including the combination of: a flash suppressor adapted to be attached to the muzzle of the barrel coaxially therewith, a noise suppressor including a proximal mount assembly having a bore for coaxially receiving the flash suppressor, and a means for selectively coupling the noise suppressor system to the firearm.
US09328982B2
The present invention relates to systems and methods for reliably limiting the cartridge loading capacity of firearm magazines. In one embodiment, a magazine capacity limiting assembly includes a limiter body and a limiter base. The magazine capacity limiter body reliably operates with a cartridge follower of a firearm magazine. The limiter body is installed substantially within coils of the magazine's spring, thereby limiting the travel of the follower within the magazine body to limit the magazine's cartridge capacity. The limiter base is coupled to both the limiter body and the magazine's floor plate.
US09328980B1
A receiver link separator is configured to separate an upper receiver from a lower receiver in a rifle. The receiver link separator has a first separation bracket upper post joined to a separation bracket lower post. A second separation bracket upper post can be joined to the separation bracket lower post. A locking pin can be inserted through the lower receiver and the separation bracket lower post. A clevis pin can be inserted through the upper receiver, the first separation bracket upper post and the second separation bracket upper post. The first separation bracket upper post and the second separation bracket upper post prevent the upper receiver from twisting away from the lower receiver.
US09328979B2
A tool for cleaning a heat exchanger that includes a lance, and an articulated arm fixedly attached to the heat exchanger at a first end, and associated with the lance at a second end. The articulated arm has at least two joints so that the articulated arm can move the lance along two axes in a plane substantially parallel to the tube face of the heat exchanger. The tool further includes a lance transport mechanism attached to the second end of the articulated arm that moves toward and away from the tube face of the heat exchanger in a direction substantially perpendicular to the tube face, the lance transport mechanism attached to the lance so that the lance moves toward and away from the tube face along with the lance transport mechanism.
