US09931373B2
Disclosed are pharmaceutical and synergistic compositions human recombinant alpha-fetoprotein expressed in eukaryotic cells for preparation of therapeutic agents for use in oncology, immunotherapy, stem cell therapy, and cosmetology and also for the diagnosis of cancer and embryogenic pathologies.
US09931356B2
Compositions and methods to improve the pharmacokinetic profile of S-Adenosylmethionine (SAMe) are provided, as are methods of treating various disorders using SAMe formulations with improved pharmacokinetic profiles. More specifically, the invention is directed to methods of treating a disease or disorder in a subject and/or improving the nutritional status of a subject by administering formulations exhibiting improved pharmacokinetic profiles of exogenous SAMe. The method also includes the step of orally administering compositions of the invention to the subject once per day after overnight fast; that is prior to food intake in the morning.
US09931351B2
The present invention provides a compound of formula (I) which improves leptin resistance, a pharmaceutical composition comprising the compound, a method for manufacturing a pharmaceutical for improving leptin resistance comprising using the compound, use of the compound for manufacturing a pharmaceutical for improving leptin resistance, and a method for improving leptin resistance comprising administering the compound or the pharmaceutical composition. The improvement of leptin resistance can lead treatment and/or prevention of a disorder associated with leptin resistance, including, particularly, metabolic disorder, obesity, hyperphagia, steatosis, diabetes, and dyslipidemia.
US09931348B2
A method for repairing an injury of cartilage in a patient by local administration of an organovanadium agent or use of an implantable device for delivery of an organovanadium agent. Implantable devices containing an organovanadium agent and methods of making these implantable devices are also disclosed.
US09931347B2
Provided is a tryptophan-2,3-dioxygenase (TDO) and/or indoleamine-2,3-dioxygenase (IDO) inhibitor compound for use in medicine, which compound comprises the following formula: wherein X2, X4, X10, and X11 may be the same or different and each is independently selected from C and N; X1, X3, X5, X6, X7, X8, and X9 may be the same or different and each is independently selected from C, N and O; each bond having a dotted line may independently be a double bond or a single bond, provided that valencies at each atom are maintained; the dotted lines joining X4 with the carbon atoms either side of X2 are single bonds, and are only present when X2 is absent, X3 is absent and X4 is C, and when these bonds are present the ring carbons on each side of X2 are not directly bonded to each other; each R1 may be present or absent and may be the same or different and is selected from H and a substituted or unsubstituted organic group, provided that the number of R1 groups present is such that the valency of X1 is maintained; each R12, R13, R13′, R14, R15 and R15′ may be present or absent and may be the same or different and each is independently selected from H and a substituted or unsubstituted organic group, provided that the number of such R groups present is such that the valency of the ring carbon atoms is maintained; R16 may be present or absent and is selected from H and a substituted or unsubstituted organic group, provided that the number of R16 groups present is such that the valency of X2 is maintained; each R17 may be present or absent and may be the same or different and is independently selected from H and a substituted or unsubstituted organic group, provided that the number of R17 groups present is such that the valency of X3 is maintained; each R2, R3, R4, and R5 may be present or absent and may be the same or different and is selected from H and a substituted or unsubstituted organic group, provided that the number of such R groups present is such that the valencies of X6, X7, X8, and X9 are maintained; each R7, R8 and R9 may be present or absent and may be the same or different and is selected from H and a substituted or unsubstituted organic group, provided that the number of such R groups present is such that the valencies of X10, X11, and X5 are maintained; and R6 is selected from H and a substituted or unsubstituted organic group, preferably H and a substituted or unsubstituted C1-C6 alkyl group; and wherein any R group may form a ring with any other R group on an adjacent and/or proximal atom.
US09931342B2
The present disclosure provides compositions and methods for the treatment of cancer, relating to the specific inhibition of Abelson (ABL) kinases.
US09931341B2
The present invention relates to the treatment or prevention of skeletal disorders, in particular skeletal diseases, developed by patients that display abnormal increased activation of the fibroblast growth factor receptor 3 (FGFR3), in particular by expression of a constitutively activated mutant of FGFR3.
US09931334B2
The present invention relates to solid state forms of N-[2,4-bis(1,1-dimethylethyl)-5-hydroxyphenyl]-1,4-dihydro-4-oxoquinoline-3-carboxamide (Compound 1), pharmaceutical compositions thereof and methods therewith.
US09931333B2
The present invention provides compositions and methods for treating or preventing atrial fibrillation (AF). In particular, the present invention provides administration of muscarinic receptor antagonists (e.g., M2-selective muscarinic receptor blockers), administered alone or in combination with other therapeutic agents (e.g., beta-adrenergic receptor blockers) to treat and/or prevent atrial fibrillation.
US09931332B2
Methods for treating primary effusion lymphoma (PEL) are provided. The methods include administering to a patient in need thereof an effective amount of an immunomodulatory compound. Suitable immunomodulatory compounds include compounds having the formula: wherein X in Formula IV may be independently selected from the group that includes hydrogen, a halide, an aliphatic group and an amine group.
US09931319B2
The present invention provides a compound of formula (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof; a method for manufacturing the compounds of the invention, and its therapeutic uses. The present invention further provides a combination of pharmacologically active agents and a pharmaceutical composition.
US09931317B2
The present invention relates to compounds of formula I: in which n, m, X, Y1, R1, R2, R3, R4 and R5 are defined in the Summary of the Invention; capable of being both potent antagonists and degraders of estrogen receptors. The invention further provides a process for the preparation of compounds of the invention, pharmaceutical preparations comprising such compounds and methods of using such compounds and compositions in the management of diseases or disorders associated with aberrant estrogen receptor activity.
US09931312B2
The invention relates to a novel lipid composition. Further, the invention relates to the use of a lipid composition for the treatment, alleviation and prevention of skin problems.
US09931306B2
A nanostructured biocompatible wafer for placement in the conjunctival cul-de-sac. The wafer contains a tissue-reactive mucoadhesive polymer and a mesh formed of a plurality of hydrophobic polymer fibers. Also provided is a method for treating glaucoma, an ocular surface disorder, or an ocular surface infection using the nanostructured biocompatible wafer. Additionally, an injectable sustained-release formulation for treating an ocular disorder is disclosed. The formulation includes a drug contained within a plurality of microparticles formed of a biodegradable polymer and are coated with a tissue-reactive compound. Further provided is a method for treating an ocular disorder by injecting the microparticulate sustained release formulation.
US09931297B1
An edible animal medicine container for delivering medicine or other ingestible material, contained therein, to an animal, includes first and second edible housing shells. The first shell includes a first peripheral ledge, surrounding a first central hollow, and a first interlocking feature extending therefrom. The second shell includes a second peripheral ledge, surrounding a second central hollow, and a second interlocking feature extending into, and at least partially defined by, the second peripheral ledge. The second shell is positionable relative to, and connectable to, the first shell to define an interior in which the ingestible material may be disposed. In such connected state the first interlocking feature is seated and frictionally held within the second interlocking feature of the second edible housing shell so as to retain the first and second shells together and thereby retain the ingestible material within the interior until ingested by an animal.
US09931296B2
The present invention recognizes that medical devices, such as but not limited to contact lenses, can be made having a coating made at least in part using printing technologies to provide drug storage and drug release structures. The coating preferably includes at least one drug reservoir layer and a least one barrier layer, and can include structures, such as but not limited to capillary structures, that alone or in combination modulate the release of the drug from the coating. One aspect of the present invention is a medical device that incorporates a drug in at least one coating. A second aspect of the present invention is a method of making a medical device that incorporates a drug in at least one coating. A third aspect of the present invention is a method of using a medical device of the present invention to treat or prevent a disease, disorder or condition.
US09931292B2
Described herein are whitening compositions comprised of a peroxide component, and an adhesion system, which effectively provide whitening using a remarkably low level of peroxide. Methods of making and using these compositions are also described herein.
US09931290B2
Disclosed are surfactant compositions containing at least one crosslinked acrylic copolymer. The crosslinked acrylic copolymer is polymerized in the presence of at least two different classes of crosslinking monomers. The crosslinked acrylic copolymers provide desirable rheological, clarity, and aesthetic properties in aqueous surfactant containing compositions.
US09931273B2
A package includes a container having an open end and a closed end, and a slider slidably mounted within the container. The slider has sidewalls a facing panel and an end wall. The slider has a first end that is closest to the end wall of the container and opposite second end defined by the end wall of the slider. The end wall of the slider is connected to the facing panel of the slider at a first edge thereof, and is connected to a panel of a blister pack carrier at an opposite second edge thereof, the first and second edges of the end wall being connected by side edges of the end wall. The sidewalls of the slider terminate at a position spaced from the end wall of the slider, and a pair of flaps are connected to respective side edges of the end wall of the slider along respective foldlines, each flap being folded toward an end of the sidewall on its respective side of the slider and extending over at least a portion of the distance between the end of the sidewall and the end wall of the slider.
US09931270B2
An electromagnetic valve system for carrying out a compressed air supply to and evacuation from a plurality of air chambers of massage instruments of a pneumatic massage device includes a plurality of first electromagnetic valves each to be connected to a corresponding one of the air chambers; a second electromagnetic valve including a first aperture which communicates with external air; and a plurality of first check valves each within a header in an intermediate location between the second electromagnetic valve and a corresponding one of the air chambers with a connection tube therebetween, the first check valves allowing air to pass from the air chambers toward the second electromagnetic valve only when air pressure on a second electromagnetic valve side is lower than air pressure on an air chamber side.
US09931263B2
Disclosed is a therapeutic stretching apparatus, which in particular provides a user with a system for providing an assist to increase knee extension as well as for maintaining stability of the knee after surgery. This device can not only act as a therapeutic stretching apparatus but also can act as a primary post-op knee brace with locks/limits on hinge to prevent user from further injuring the joint.
US09931259B2
A bariatric patient management system includes a single-wheel drive system having bi-directional variable speed control through use of a variable control joystick. The single-wheel drive system is disposed on an underside of the bariatric patient management system and engages a floor surface when the bariatric bed is in a lowermost position. The bariatric patient management system further includes a removable headboard having a disconnect feature for disconnecting the variable control joystick from the single-wheel drive system when the headboard is removed. A plurality of three-setting casters is used in conjunction with the single-wheel drive to allow the bariatric patient management system to be manually turned when transported from one location to another. The bariatric patient management system further includes an improved trapeze boom that allows for additional access to a patient adjacent the headboard of the bariatric patient management system.
US09931254B2
A powered wheelchair 100 with a tilt mechanism having multiple pivots that allows the wheelchair 100 to be driven and steered with or without the use of hands. The wheelchair 100 has two spaced apart drive wheels 101, each mounted to a separate shaft 104 that is independent of the other drive wheel. A drive controller drivingly coupled to the shafts 104 and the drive controller is housed within a base 102 that is pivotally situated on the shafts 104. A seat 103 mounted on a tilt mechanism enables the seat to tilt in a forward, backward, left and right direction as a result of the user displacing their body weight in either of those directions. The tilt mechanism includes three pivots, a primary pivot P1, secondary pivot P2 and tertiary pivot P3. The primary pivot P1 pivotally connects the base 102 to the shafts 104. The secondary pivot P2 is situated above and adjacent the base 102 so that the respective ends of the rod 105 are pivotally connected to the base 102.
US09931251B2
An aspect of the invention is a liquid sensor having a galvanically energizable power source capable of activating a remotely detectable signal in response to liquid. In a preferred embodiment, a liquid sensor includes a plurality of electrodes, a circuit, and a transmitter thereon. The electrodes are coupled to generate electrical power when in contact with liquid. The circuit is electrically connected to the electrodes so as to be activated by the electrical power, detect an electrical parameter of the electrical power, and generate a plurality of data packets indicating a degree of wetness corresponding to the detected electrical parameter. The transmitter is electrically coupled to the circuit to receive the plurality of data packets and transmit representations of the plurality of data packets as electromagnetic signals. Other aspects include a liquid absorbent wetness sensor and a computer-based wetness monitoring system, and method of detecting liquid.
US09931246B2
A steerable laser probe may include a handle, an actuation structure having an actuation structure distal end and an actuation structure proximal end, a flexible housing tube, and an optic fiber disposed within an inner bore of the handle and the flexible housing tube. An extension of the actuation structure distal end relative to the actuation structure proximal end may be configured to gradually curve the flexible housing tube and the optic fiber. A retraction of the actuation structure distal end relative to the actuation structure proximal end may be configured to gradually straighten the flexible housing tube and the optic fiber.
US09931245B2
A device for treatment of an ocular pathology characterized in that it comprises at least one eye ring (1) wherein the proximal end of said eye ring (1) is suitable to be applied onto the glove and means (2,17) to generate ultrasound beam fixed on the distal end of the eye ring (1), said means to generate ultrasound beam presenting a concave segment shape conformed along a single curvature corresponding to a single direction wherein the concavity is designed to be tuned towards the eyeglobe.
US09931239B2
An asymmetric multilayer film for an ostomy pouch includes a barrier layer including a first side and a second side. At least one layer is arranged on the first side of the barrier layer, and at least one layer arranged on the second side of the barrier layer, in which the combined thickness of the at least one layer arranged on the first side of the barrier layer is at least two times greater than the combined thickness of the at least one layer arranged on the second side of the barrier layer. The asymmetric multilayer film has a thickness of about 25 μm to about 50 μm.
US09931238B2
Described herein are systems and apparatuses for enhanced comfort through contact pressure reduction. In particular, the systems and apparatuses disclosed herein prevent or otherwise mitigate pressure by actively orienting a patient over an anatomy-specific pressure-mitigating contact surface on which the patient rests. A pressure-mitigating contact portion of the contact surface includes a plurality of independently pressurized chambers configured in a specific geometric pattern that is designed to mitigate contact pressure between a support surface (e.g., bed or chair) and a specific anatomic region of a patient's body when the specific anatomic region of the patient's body is oriented over an epicenter of the geometric pattern. In one embodiment, the geometric pattern includes a first independently pressurized relief chamber that intersects the epicenter of the geographic pattern, and second and third independently pressurized relief chambers that collectively encompass the first independently pressurized relief chamber.
US09931237B2
The portable resetting device (100) has a portable pedestal (126) with telescoping sections (172/170). An underarm support (102) of adjustable height is mounted to a lower support (114) that is mounted to the pedestal (126). A traction structure (112) for transmitting forces to an injured arm is mounted to the lower support (114). A computer controllable motor (124) is operatively connected between the lower support (114) and the pedestal (108) so that an angle of tilt (116) may be placed thereon. An arm-holding plate (136) is attached to the lower support (114) and moves in a longitudinal direction by means of another computer controllable motor (118) operatively connected therebetween. An auxiliary arm support (122) is operatively connected by a computer controllable motor (120) on the lower support (114) and provides an additional force to the humerus head. A computer (302) controls the resetting device (100) and may communicate to a support computer (210) for treatment advice.
US09931229B2
The present invention is a switchable gripping terminal device that can be switched from a voluntary open prehension mode to a voluntary closed prehension mode, at will by the user. In an embodiment of the present invention, the terminal device may comprise a movable digit attached to a fixed digit, whereby the user can actuate the movable digit, such that the movable digit rotates relative to the fixed digit. The terminal device may comprise a lever, which enables the user to switch from a first mode, voluntary open (VO), to a second mode, voluntary closed (VC). This switchable biasing means, allows the user to decide the prehension mode, and easily switch the mode at will, according to the circumstances.
US09931228B2
An orthopedic implant system includes a set of provisional orthopedic implants having different implant sizes, in which each provisional implant facilitates an intraoperative selection of the next-smallest implant size without removing the provisional implant from the bone. All of the implant sizes share a common sagittal configuration of distal and anterior bone contacting surfaces, but have variable sagittal configurations only in the posterior bone contacting surfaces. Thus, where a relatively larger femoral provisional component is mounted to a femur, changing to a smaller provisional component (i.e., “downsizing”) can be accomplished by recutting only two of five original femoral cuts. Cut slots provided in each provisional implant are sized and positioned to correspond to the posterior bone contacting surface geometry of the next-smallest provisional implant size. Thus, the cut slots in a mounted, relatively larger implant can be used to further resect posterior femoral surfaces to accept the next smallest implant component size.
US09931226B2
An intervertebral spacer inserter includes a sleeve having a longitudinal axis, a hollow sleeve bore extending through the sleeve along the longitudinal axis, a sleeve tip end and an opening of a passage disposed in the sleeve tip end. The passage extends into the sleeve to the sleeve shaft along a passage axis that intersects the longitudinal axis at an angle less than about 90°. A sliding tip with an elongated slot is in contact with the sleeve tip end and is moveable with respect to the sleeve tip end between a first position with the opening accessible through the elongated slot and disposed adjacent a first end of the elongated slot and a second position with the opening accessible through the elongated slot and disposed adjacent a second end of the elongated slot opposite the first end.
US09931222B2
A spinal implant which is configured to be deployed between adjacent vertebral bodies. The implant has at least one fixation element with a retracted configuration to facilitate deployment of the implant and an extended configuration so as to engage a surface of an adjacent vertebral body and secure the implant between two vertebral bodies. Preferably, the implant is expandable and has a minimal dimension in its unexpanded state that is smaller than the dimensions of the neuroforamen through which it must pass to be deployed within the intervertebral space. Once within the space between vertebral bodies, the implant can be expanded so as to engage the endplates of the adjacent vertebrae to effectively distract the anterior disc space, stabilize the motion segments and eliminate pathologic spine motion. Angular deformities can be corrected, and natural curvatures restored and maintained.
US09931221B2
A cannulated screw having a resilient balloon structure capable of supporting compressive and cyclic loads. The balloon provides an artificial disc prosthesis by use of the balloon that mimics the porperties of the natural disc by maintaining the intervertebral disc space through a full range of natural motion, absorbing shocks and permitting a natural range of motion.
US09931219B2
An implant assembly comprising an implant having a load bearing surface with a contour corresponding to a patient's articular surface, and a bone facing surface including a fixation element, an anchor configured to be secured to bone beneath said patient's articular surface, said anchor including a second fixation element, and wherein said first fixation element is configured to be secured to said second fixation element.
US09931214B2
A method of reinforcing a femoral neck comprises creating a bore proximate to at least one of a Ward's triangle and a greater trochanter, creating at least one cavity in a cancellous bone region of the femoral neck, inserting a substantially collapsed support structure through the bore and into the at least one cavity, expanding the support structure, and allowing at least a portion of the load from the femoral neck bone to be transferred to the support structure. The support structure compresses at least a portion of the cancellous bone upon expansion. A cavity created by the expansion is adapted to receive a filler material such as, but not limited to, bone cement.
US09931210B2
A variable angle blade augment including an augment component and a blade component. The blade component includes a buttress portion and a neck portion, with the neck portion having a body segment and a face segment that is contoured for mating engagement with an outer surface of the acetabular shell. The augment component has a first opening sized and shaped to receive insertion of the body segment, and which is also sized to accommodate selective adjustment of, when the body segment is positioned in the first opening, linear and angular orientations of the blade component relative to the augment component. Additionally, the body segment has a length that is sized to facilitate direct contact of the face segment with the acetabular shell when the variable angle blade augment is in an assembled configuration. Further, cement can be injected into the internal cavity to unitize the connection between the acetabular shell and the blade component.
US09931206B2
A transcatheter atrio-ventricular valve prosthesis for functional replacement of an atrio-ventricular valve in a connection channel, having a circumferential connection channel wall structure, between atrial and ventricular chambers of a heart, including an inner device to be disposed in the interior of the connection channel, the inner device having a circumferential support structure which is radially expandable and having a valve attached to the circumferential support structure, and an outer device to be disposed on the exterior of the connection channel, wherein the outer device at least partly extends around the inner device at a radial distance to the inner device, wherein the inner and outer devices form a securing mechanism for securing the circumferential connection channel wall structure therebetween.
US09931204B2
A transcatheter heart valve prosthesis configured in accordance herewith includes an expandable frame having a plurality of commissure posts extending therefrom, a radially expandable inflow member attached to the plurality of commissure posts, and a locking mechanism operably coupled to a wire. The wire is at least partially slideably disposed within a channel formed in a wall of the inflow member and the locking mechanism is configured to permit the wire to be advanced within the channel to thereby transition the inflow member into a deployed configuration that at least partially engages tissue at the native heart valve.
US09931196B2
A connector for attaching a connective tissue to bone includes a sling for supporting and holding the connective tissue. A trap generally cooperates with the sling. The trap includes an anchor end and a sling end and a generally tubular section configured to decrease in diameter upon application of a longitudinal tensile force. The trap is dimensioned to fit within a tunnel through bone so that the connective tissue emerges from one end of the tunnel and so that an interference screw can be inserted into the tubular section at the anchor end of the trap at the other end of the tunnel whereby a pulling force exerted on the sling causes the generally tubular section of the trap to constrict more tightly about the interference screw to prevent slippage and to deter withdrawal of the trap from the tunnel.
US09931193B2
A stent graft including (1) a stent having a wall having at least one opening, an outer surface, and an inner surface and (2) a covering of a composite material having a least one expanded fluoropolymer membrane and an elastomer is provided. The cover can be used to cover the outer and/or the inner surface of the stent. The expanded fluoropolymer membrane contains serpentine fibrils. In exemplary embodiments, the fluoropolymer is polytetrafluoroethylene. The composite material may be axially and/or circumferentially wrapped around the stent. The composite material is fold-free throughout its operating diameter range and exhibits a sharp increase in stiffness at a predetermined diameter. The stent graft can be designed to have a stop point in either a radial or axial direction. The stent graft can advantageously be implanted undersized with respect to a nominal diameter without having material infolding.
US09931191B2
The invention relates to a device (1), especially a tube or a catheter, for at least partially introducing into a body passage, said device comprising a long outer envelope body (10), a long inner body (11) that is partially peripherally surrounded by the envelope body (10), and a device (12) by which means the possibility of a relative movement between the envelope body (10) and the inner body (11) is enabled or impeded in a targeted, controllable manner. According to the invention, the control device (12) is formed by the arrangement and embodiment of the envelope body (10) and the inner body (11) and comprises no additional mechanical means in the annular intermediate region (13) between said two bodies (10, 11). Preferably, the control device is embodied in such a way that it acts on the friction between the envelope body and the inner body (10, 11).
US09931189B2
Veterinary devices with a light source and antimicrobial solution includes a solution retainer adapted to retain an antimicrobial solution against an animal; a fiber optic cable; a light termination on the fiber optic cable that provides light from the fiber optic cable to the antimicrobial solution in the solution retainer; and a light source that provides a light of a predetermined wavelength to the fiber optic cable.
US09931181B2
A frictionally-retained detachable dental attachment assembly or anchor device is designed to attach a dental appliance with a tooth root or implant. The assembly includes a denture attachment housing for securing in the dental appliance, an abutment attached with a tooth root or implant, and a compressible retention member with a first end in fixed attachment with the cap and a second end in snap engagement with the abutment via a frictionally-retained ball secured within a cavity of the abutment. The retention member is formed using a compressible material to allow the ball to compress and the retention member to flex while inserting the ball into the cavity. Additional friction-retained and fixed attachment configurations of the dental anchor device are provided, along with methods of securing a dental appliance in a subject's mouth by means of the friction-retained and fixed attachment dental anchor devices.
US09931175B2
A container includes a base, and a jacket adjoining the base and having a peripheral flange which defines an opening cross section which can be closed by a cover. The cover includes first snap-fit hooks distributed about a periphery of the cover for engagement in complementing first latching openings in the peripheral flange to thereby establish a form fit that prevents a movement away from the base and parallel to a vertical axis of the container in perpendicular relation to the base. The peripheral flange has four corner regions, each provided with a second latching opening for engagement of a second snap-fit hook of the cover. The second latching opening has at least one portion configured curved or inclined in relation to both a transverse axis and a longitudinal axis of the container, or has at least two straight portions extending at an inclination in relation to one another.
US09931173B2
A method may include coupling a proximal end of a first cannula to a first manipulator of a surgical system, the first manipulator being configured to remotely actuate movement of the first cannula, wherein the first cannula comprises a rigid portion disposed between the proximal end and a distal end of the first cannula, the rigid portion having a curved longitudinal axis, and coupling a proximal end of a second cannula to a second manipulator of a surgical system, the second manipulator being configured to remotely actuate movement of the second cannula, wherein the second cannula comprises a rigid portion disposed between the proximal end and a distal end of the second cannula, the rigid portion having a curved longitudinal axis. The coupling of the first and second cannulas to the respective first and second manipulators can further include positioning respective first and second centers of motion of the first and second cannulas proximate to each other, and positioning respective longitudinal axes of the first and second cannulas at the first and second centers of motion across one another.
US09931171B1
An integral laser imaging and treatment apparatus, and associated systems and methods that allow a physician (e.g., a surgeon) to perform laser surgical procedures on an eye structure or a body surface with an integral laser imaging and treatment apparatus disposed at a first (i.e. local) location from a control system disposed at a second (i.e. remote) location, e.g., a physician's office. In some embodiments, communication between the integral laser imaging and treatment apparatus and control system is achieved via the Internet®. Also, in some embodiments, the laser imaging and treatment apparatus is further configured to provide photodynamic therapy to a patient.
US09931169B2
One of the many factors that contribute to the successful outcome of a procedure, such as hair transplantation procedure, is the natural-looking appearance of hair throughout the patient's head. Methods and systems for generating a proposed procedure sites are provided, for example, based on desired density. Various methods for generating a hair transplantation treatment plan are also provided. Various techniques and methods described in the application provide for improved planning for natural looking hair.
US09931167B2
A surgical instrument is provided that includes a first input mechanism having axial slots formed in a periphery and a second input mechanism having helical slots formed in a surface. The instrument also includes an insert having pins extending from a surface thereof, the insert coupled to the second input mechanism such that the one or more pins extend into the helical slots, and a surgical device coupled to an end. The surgical device is moved in a first degree of freedom in response to a mechanical driving force applied to both the first input mechanism and the second input mechanism, respectively, and the surgical device is moved in a second degree of freedom in response to a mechanical driving force applied to the second input mechanism while the first input mechanism is held stationary.
US09931165B2
A light diffuser, which is particularly suitable for introducing diffuse light into a tissue, is produced by interpenetration of a diffuser material in a liquid state into a boundary layer of a porous shaping material, by which process a diffuser surface is formed having a surface structure which represents essentially a negative of the pore structure of the shaping material and includes undercut structures induced by a surface tension. The light diffuser is e.g. produced by introducing a diffuser blank including material that is liquefiable through mechanical vibration into the shaping material and simultaneously stimulating it with mechanical vibrations, such that the liquefiable material liquefies at least there where it is in contact with the shaping material and is pressed into the shaping material. An in situ production of the diffuser is particularly advantageous for photodynamic therapy in bone tissue.
US09931162B2
Systems, delivery devices, and methods to treat to ablate, damage, or otherwise affect tissue. The treatment systems are capable of delivering a coolable ablation assembly that ablates targeted tissue without damaging non-targeted tissue. The coolable ablation assembly damages nerve tissue to temporarily or permanently decrease nervous system input.
US09931157B2
Surgical instruments and methods for controlling temperature are described herein and can have particular utility when sealing tissue. In one embodiment, an end effector can include first and second jaw members configured to clamp tissue therebetween, and an electrode having a single continuous conductive surface that is coupled to the first jaw member. The end effector can also include a plurality of electrical insulators of varying thermal conductivity disposed between the electrode and the first jaw member coupled thereto. The electrode can be divided into a plurality of thermal zones by at least one opening formed therein and the plurality of electrical insulators can be arranged such that at least a first thermal zone contacts an electrical insulator having a first thermal conductivity and at least a second thermal zone contacts an electrical insulator having a second thermal conductivity that is higher than the first thermal conductivity.
US09931151B2
An impactor having a housing including an upper portion and a lower portion at least a part of which extends perpendicularly from the upper portion, a ram having a first end positioned in the upper portion and positioned in axial alignment with the lower portion, an opposite end of the ram extending from the lower portion of the housing, at least one drive assembly including a first drive shaft operably coupled to a cam shaft, a cam operably coupled to the cam shaft, a cam operably coupled to the cam shaft, the drive shaft operably connectable to motor, wherein the cam is operable to rotate and positioned to contact the proximal end of the ram upon rotation of the cam, a circuit board comprising circuitry operable to receive instructions from a plurality of switches electrically coupled to the circuit board to operate the impactor, wherein the impactor is operable to deliver low amplitude pulsed strikes to a workpiece at variable frequencies.
US09931150B2
An anchor delivery tool is described. The tool includes a shaft and a handle coupled to a proximal portion of the shaft. The handle includes a hub, with a knob and a nose cone coupled to the hub. The knob and nose cone may be spring loaded so as to selectively retain a length of suture disposed therebetween. The tool further includes an anchor, such as a suture anchor, coupled to a distal portion of the shaft.
US09931147B2
Provided herein is an osteosynthesis device for articular fracture fixation, more particularly for fixation of shoulder, knee, elbow, ankle and wrist fractures. The osteosynthesis device comprises an articular supportive plate for supporting the articular surface of a long bone, said articular supportive plate comprising (i) at least one pin receiving feature for receiving a pin or a screw; and (ii) at least one fin projecting from a first side of said articular supportive plate, said fin being provided with one or more pin receiving features for receiving a pin or screw. Further provided herein are systems for articular fracture fixation, and methods of fixating an articular fracture in a long bone using such systems.
US09931142B2
Devices and methods are provided for immobilizing facet joints of the vertebral column. Embodiments of the invention provide an implant that is inserted in a facet joint from which cartilage has been removed, and which retains the approximate original spacing of the facets in the joint. A retaining arrangement, such as an adhesive, a threaded fastener, or a screw is then used to secure the implant in the joint.
US09931137B2
A fixation device comprises a first body having a threaded end, a longitudinal axis, and a bore perpendicular to the longitudinal axis. A second body is received in the bore. The second body has an exterior thread and an interior passage for receiving a pin or wire. The second body has a wire locking device for retaining the pin or wire. An advance nut engages the exterior thread. The advance nut abuts the first body for moving the wire locking device away from the first body when the advance nut is turned, for tensioning the pin or wire.
US09931132B2
Methods and devices described herein facilitate improved access of locations within the body by providing a variety of dissection modes on a single access device.
US09931112B2
Endoscopic devices and methods used for fastening multiple tissue layers, such as, for example, an endoscopic fundoplication procedure, are disclosed. The endoluminal device includes a tissue fastener, a flexible needle having means for grasping and releasing a portion of the tissue fastener, and a deflector for deflecting and guiding the needle toward the multiple tissue layers.
US09931109B2
A retractor for implanting a paddle lead of an electrical stimulation system includes a shaft defining a length, an interior lumen, a first end for receiving tools or paddle lead, and a second end opposite the first end and configured and arranged for insertion into tissue of a patient; a handle coupled to the shaft; and at least one divider disposed within the interior lumen and dividing a portion of the interior lumen into at least two compartments, wherein the at least one divider extends from at or near the first end of the shaft and no more than 70% of the length of the shaft. At least one of the compartments is sized for implantation of a paddle lead of an electrical stimulation system therethrough.
US09931103B1
A urinary funnel has proximal and distal openings and is preferably made from a resilient web scored to define two side panels foldable at a lower fold line that attach mutually together at a top flap. The funnel is collapsible so as to be carried in a wallet or purse. At least one biological indicator is fixed with the inner surface of the funnel structure proximate the distal opening for detecting the use of illicit drugs, pregnancy, or other biological conditions. The web may further includes a transverse slot proximate the lower fold line that is adapted to receive a biological indicator test strip therethrough. The biological indicator is applied to the biological indicator test strip that is in turn positioned through the transverse slot to rest against the inner surface of the funnel structure within the stream of urine flowing from the proximal opening to the distal opening.
US09931102B1
A urine collection method and apparatus, the apparatus including a storage container for holding urine; a first closeable opening in the storage container for allowing urine to enter and exit the storage container, the shape of the opening configured for contacting a patient to allow the patient to urinate into the storage container; a second opening for allowing fluid transfer from the interior of the storage container to the exterior of the storage container; vacuum a seal for the second opening, the seal maintaining the urine within the storage container being sealed until an analysis vial is connected to the urine collection apparatus, the connection of the analysis vial opening the seal to allow urine to leave the storage container when the analysis vial is connected.
US09931094B2
A method is for generating X-ray image data of an examination object with reduced calcium blooming. The X-ray image data is based on X-ray projection data acquired with an energy-selective X-ray detector and in respect of at least two energy windows. An embodiment of the method includes determining a calcium content in the X-ray projection data by way of a base material analysis, the calcium content describing the calcium-determined part of the X-ray attenuation caused by the examination object; generating a mixed X-ray projection data record with calcium content suppressed by way of a weighting factor of less than one; and reconstructing the X-ray image data from the mixed projection data record by applying a reconstruction algorithm.
US09931091B2
According to one embodiment, a dose distribution display apparatus includes storage circuitry, processing circuitry, and display circuitry. The storage circuitry stores position information of a support frame which supports an X-ray tube, and X-ray information concerning X-rays generated by the X-ray tube. The processing circuitry edits at least one of the X-ray information and the position information in accordance with an operator instruction, and generates a plurality of simulated dose distributions in time series based on the X-ray information and the position information, at least one of which has been edited, The display circuitry sequentially superimposes and displays the simulated dose distributions on an object model.
US09931086B2
This application discusses, among other things, curved plates for immobilizing a breast of a subject for medical imaging. In an example, an immobilization assembly Can include a curved compression plate assembly, a curved support plate assembly, an assembly coupling configured to position a first concave major surface of the curved compression plate assembly opposite a second concave major surface of the curved support plate assembly, wherein a cross section view through the curved compression assembly and the curved support plate assembly includes two portions of a single ellipse separated by a distance, and wherein the curved compression plate assembly and the curved support plate assembly are configured to immobilize the biological specimen between the first concave major surface and the second concave major surface.
US09931082B2
A system and method for cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is disclosed that facilitates the phase sensitive reconstruction of inversion recovery magnetization prepared data with minimal scan time penalty by acquiring the phase reference data with low spatial resolution. The technique can be applied for the investigation of myocardial tissue characterization by acquiring 2D and/or 3D late Gadolinium enhancement (LGE) scans after the injection of a Gadolinium contrast agent. Regional areas of contrast accumulation in scarred myocardial tissue appear bright on these T1-weighted images. As disclosed here the proposed technique for phase sensitive inversion recovery acquisition with low resolution phase reference is robust against changes in inversion time, change in T1 due to Gadolinium contrast washout, high signal-to-noise ratio, and low scan time penalty compared to magnitude LGE.
US09931069B2
Systems and methods are provided to measure reaction times and/or responses for head, eye, eyelid movements, and/or changes in pupil geometry. The system includes eyewear or headwear including one or more eye-tracking cameras for monitoring the position and geometry of at least one eye and its components of the user, one or more scene cameras for monitoring the user's surroundings, and one or more processors to determine reaction times. Optionally, the system may include one or more of a multi-axis accelerometer to monitor head movements, light sources to trigger visual evoked responses, and/or electronic inputs that may be used to indicate the time of occurrence of external reference events. Measured reaction times and other measurements may be monitored for use in a range of applications. Responses and reaction times may be measured continuously over extended periods, even over a lifetime to measure consequences of the aging process.
US09931064B2
A measurement system and method for operating a measurement system is disclosed for an analyte determination. The system includes an analysis unit, which is configured to determine a measured analyte value for a body fluid specimen that is applied, a fingerprint sensor, which is configured to detect fingerprint sensor signals for one or various users, and a control unit, which is connected to the analysis unit and the fingerprint sensor unit for data transmission. The control unit is configured to perform a user identification using the detected fingerprint sensor signals and after successful user identification to enable a determination of a measured analyte value with the analysis unit for an identified user. The control unit is additionally configured to analyze the detected fingerprint sensor signals and optionally additional detected fingerprint sensor signals in addition to the user identification in order to provide control signals for performing additional measurement system functions.
US09931059B2
Orthopedic systems and methods are provided for use in preparing joints for implants. Specifically, hip preparation systems and methods are disclosed which can include a surgical orientation device. The hip preparation systems and methods can be used, for example, to orient the hip during the procedure, determine the orientation of an anatomical plane or planes, and orient a prosthetic component or components.
US09931040B2
Systems and methods are provided for detecting the flow of blood or other fluids in biological tissue by illuminating the biological tissue with two or more beams of coherent light and detecting responsively emitted light. A difference in wavelength, coherence length, beam divergence, or some other property of the beams of illumination causes the beams to preferentially scatter from, be absorbed by, or otherwise interact with respective elements of the biological tissue. Flow properties in one or more regions of the biological tissue (e.g., a region with which both beams of light preferentially interact, a region with which only one of the beams preferentially interacts) could be determined based on detected responsively emitted light from the biological tissue. Variations in speckle patterns over time and/or space, Doppler shifts, or some other properties of the detected light could be used to determine the flow properties.
US09931037B2
Systems and methods for processing, transmitting and displaying data received from an analyte sensor, such as a glucose sensor, are disclosed. In an embodiment, a method for transmitting data between a first communication device associated with an analyte sensor and a second communication device configured to provide user access to sensor-related information comprises: activating a transceiver of a first communication device associated with an analyte sensor at a first time; and establishing a two-way communication channel with the second communication device; wherein the activating comprises waking the transceiver from a low power sleep mode using a forced wakeup from the second communication device.
US09931032B2
A device providing an indication of eye disease in a patient comprises a light emitter; an optical assembly arranged so that light emitted from the light emitter reaches an eye of the patient; a camera arranged to image the eye of the patient; and a controller. The controller measures the eye's pupil area using images received from the camera and adjusts the luminance of the light emitted from the light emitter as a non-constant function of the eye's pupil area so as to create a plurality of stimulus intervals. At least two of the stimulus intervals differ in their average retinal illuminance. The controller analyzes the pupil measurements and/or an electrical response in at least two of the stimulus intervals to provide an indication of eye disease based. In some embodiments, the patient's age is also used in the analysis. Methods of using said device are also contemplated.
US09931028B2
A light assembly for a hand-held medical diagnostic instrument. The light assembly includes a substrate having a top surface and a bottom surface, a light source mounted to the top surface, and the bottom surface having first and second electrical terminals. The light assembly further includes a circuit board disposed inclined to the substrate, the circuit board having first and second electrical terminals, a first connector mounting and electrically connecting the first electrical terminal of the substrate to the first electrical terminal of the circuit board, a second connector mounting and electrically connecting the second electrical terminal of the substrate to the second electrical terminal of the circuit board, a heat sink, and a thermal conductor thermally connecting at least one of the first and second electrical terminals of the substrate to the heat sink.
US09931022B2
A capsule medical device guidance system includes: an imaging unit arranged inside a capsule medical device; a guidance unit configured to guide the capsule medical device inside a subject; a display unit including a screen is displayed; a first operation input unit configured to input first instruction information for changing at least one of a position and a posture of the capsule medical device; a second operation input unit configured to input second instruction information for rotating within the screen, the image displayed on the screen, around a center of the image; a guidance controller configured to control the guidance unit so as to change at least one of the position and the posture of the capsule medical device, based on the first instruction information; and a display controller configured to control a direction of the image displayed on the screen based on the second instruction information.
US09931021B2
A method of identifying objects in a subject's ear, comprising the following steps: introducing an optical electronic imaging unit and a light source into an ear canal of a subject's outer ear, wherein the electronic imaging unit exhibits an optical axis directed in a distal direction, especially directed at the eardrum of the subject's ear; using the electronic imaging unit to capture an image from an eccentric observation point positioned on the optical axis and positioned eccentrically within the ear canal; and determining brightness or color information to identify objects shown in the image by electronic means, in order to automatically identify the objects, especially the eardrum.
US09931005B2
A reconfigurable upright vacuum cleaner has a portable surface cleaning unit removably mounted to an upper portion and is securable thereto by a portable surface cleaning unit lock. The portable surface cleaning unit has the operable members of the portable surface cleaning unit lock provided on the portable surface cleaning unit and removable with the portable surface cleaning unit from the upper portion.
US09931000B1
The toothbrush and toothpaste holder is a storage device intended for use with toothbrushes and toothpaste. The toothbrush and toothpaste holder comprise a plurality of toothbrush storage compartments and a toothpaste storage compartment. Each of the toothbrush storage compartments is fitted with an ultraviolet light for sanitation.
US09930999B1
The disposable sink cover is a hygienic cover that is adapted for use with a sink. The disposable sink cover is adapted for personal grooming use. The disposable sink cover is a water-impermeable sheeting that is placed over the sink. The disposable sink cover further comprises drain aperture. The drain aperture is an aperture that allows water to drain through the water impermeable sheeting into the sink. The drain aperture is lined with a mesh filter that removes the detritus resulting from the personal grooming activities. The disposable sink cover attaches to the sink with an adhesive. The disposable sink cover comprises a sheeting, a mesh, a mesh collar, and a plurality of adhesives. The mesh collar secures the mesh to the sheeting. The plurality of adhesives attaches the sheeting to the sink.
US09930995B2
A cooking utensil handling device is provided. The device comprises a covering body that defines a receiving space, an opening to the receiving space adapted for insertion of a hand of a user, a first aperture in communication with the receiving space and adapted for extension of a first portion of a utensil therethrough, and a second aperture in communication with the receiving space and adapted for extension of a second portion of the utensil therethrough. The receiving space is adapted to receive a handling portion of the cooking utensil such that the handling portion of the cooking utensil can be grasped by the hand of the user within the receiving space. The covering body comprises a flexible intermediate portion disposed between the first aperture and the second aperture.
US09930994B1
The electrically powered butter storage device is adapted for use in storing butter. The electrically powered butter storage device is designed to cool and warm butter while it is being stored within the electrically powered butter storage device. The electrically powered butter storage device is adapted to use one or more commonly available butter dishes that may or may not have a lid. Each of the one or more butter dishes are placed upon one or more electrically controlled heating and cooling elements which can be used to chill or warm the individual butter dishes as desired. The electrically powered butter storage device comprises a housing, one or more temperature elements, a control system, a fan, and a power connection.
US09930984B1
The present invention relates to a garment hanger that is especially suited for life vests. The hanger may include a hanger body having a central portion with angled left and right legs that meet at an apex, generally flat left and right shoulders, and left and right ends that extend from the left and right shoulders, respectively, toward the apex. The hanger may also include a hook located adjacent to the apex of the hanger body. Hangers with an aperture at the top of the hanger and a cable to secure the hanger to an object are also described.
US09930983B2
Described is a hat holding device having a pair of arms pivotally secured to a housing such that the arms can pivot towards or apart from one another. The opposing ends of the arms attach to gripping members adapted to support the brims of one or more hats arranged in a stacked configuration. A rectangular loop is disposed around the arms of the hat holding device and is used to maintain the holding device in a closed or open configuration. The arms include exterior ridges therealong and are curved such that they are further apart from one another at the gripping member ends. By sliding the loop along the arms and towards the gripping members, the gripping members are forced together in a closed configuration and the ridges resist movement of the loop once positioned. Further provided is a hook pivotally secured to the housing for hanging the device.
US09930959B2
Embodiments of the present invention generally relate to furniture, housing and office accessories, and interior design. More specifically, embodiments of the invention relate to modular furniture, modular structures, a modular furniture system, and a modular unit for use in the modular furniture, the modular structures, the modular furniture system, and an interior design system. In some embodiments, the modular furniture system comprises a plurality of modular units that can be interconnected to one another to form furniture and other structures. Each modular unit comprises a plurality of side members interconnected to one another using connectors. The connectors can also be used to interconnect one modular unit to another modular unit.
US09930956B2
A radio retention device designed to provide a secure attachment into the back of the majority of portable radios. A clip strap attaches through a belt loop that locks with a clip strap male buckle and a clip strap female buckle. The clip strap is attached to a radio strap which is then attached to a radio male buckle. The radio male buckle snaps into a radio clip which is secured to the back of a radio. A user of the radio retention device can attach the device to the radio and holster providing a secure attachment that will not interfere with the use of the radio. The device can also be embedded into a new holster (FIG. 4) by securing the radio strap directly to the inside of the holster. The security of the device will ensure that the lifeline of communication will not be removed from the professionals that use portable radio systems.
US09930946B2
A sterile case for an electronic device used during medical procedures includes a rigid housing with at least one transparent face. An opening in the housing permits movement of the device into and out of the housing in, for example, a direction parallel to the length or width of the housing. A door attached to the housing moves between open and closed positions to seal the opening. A sleeve is configured to be received, when the door is in the open position, partially within the housing and to extend outward from the housing through the opening. The sleeve defines a bore aligned with the opening and configured to receive the device and to permit insertion of the device through the sleeve into the housing without contact between the device and a rim of the housing surrounding the opening.
US09930936B2
The present invention relates to a quick release buckle belt, comprising a strap and a buckle. The buckle includes a connecting piece and a buckle body. The connecting piece is firmly secured to one end of the strap, and the connecting piece is substantially made of non-metal materials. One end of the buckle body is configured to fasten or unfasten another end of the strap. Another end of the buckle body is configured to quickly attach to or detach from the connecting piece. The buckle body is made of metal materials unacceptable for metal detectors at security checkpoints. Therefore, a user who wears such belt needs to do before walking through the metal detectors is to remove the buckle body, without taking off the strap and the non-metallic connecting piece which is acceptable for the metal detector at security checkpoint.
US09930932B2
A stopper for securing an end of a lace in an article having at least one eyelet, such as a shoe, without having to form an exposed knot. A thin, rigid body includes a series of openings arranged in a row, including a first, middle opening through which the lace is routed from the eyelet, a second opening proximate one end through which the lace is routed from the middle opening, and a third opening proximate an opposite through which the lace is routed from the second opening via the first end of the body, the third opening having a slot-shaped configuration. When tension is applied to the lace, as by a foot being inserted into a shoe, a locking engagement is formed between the lace and stopper and the stopper reacts against the eyelet. The stopper may be hidden from view behind the eyelet stay of a shoe.
US09930922B2
A branched braid member has a central braid portion and one or more tensile strands or small braids at either end of the central braid portion. The branched braid member may be incorporated into a shoe upper.
US09930914B2
An oral pouch product has no seams or fewer seams than conventional pouch products. The pouch includes a seamless or single seam tube of a hosiery web material. An elastomeric thread is placed inside the tubular enclosure. One end of the tube is sealed and connected to one end of the elastomeric thread. A filling material, in one example including tobacco products or other plant materials, is also placed inside the tubular enclosure. The second end of the tubular enclosure is then fixed and connected to a stretched end of the elastomeric thread. The thread and attached ends of the enclosure are then sheared away and simultaneously released so that the ends of the tube are drawn inside the tubular space of the tubular enclosure.
US09930910B2
A rod for use in a smoking article is provided, the rod including a gathered sheet of homogenized tobacco material circumscribed by a wrapper. The sheet may include one or more aerosol-formers and have an aerosol-former content of greater than 5% on a dry weight basis or of between 5% and 30% by weight on a dry weight basis. The rod may include a continuous element to which one or more additives have been applied, which is incorporated into the gathered continuous sheet of homogenized tobacco material. A method of forming the rod includes providing a continuous sheet of homogenized tobacco material; gathering the continuous sheet transversely relative to the longitudinal axis thereof; circumscribing the gathered continuous sheet with a wrapper to form a continuous rod; and severing the continuous rod into a plurality of discrete rods. The sheet is preferably crimped or otherwise textured.
US09930895B2
A twisting apparatus comprising a loading device intended to load a food product into a casing, and a braking device, is described. The loading device comprises two tubular filling bodies, or filling tubes, intended to support the casing and a twisting device intended to rotate each filling tube about its axis, and a movable frame or carriage able to support the loading device. The twisting apparatus includes a rotation unit intended to cause rotation of the loading device and angularly displace the two tubular filling bodies with respect to the braking device. Also provided is a displacement drive member connected to said movable frame or carriage so as to move with an approaching and separating displacement, or to-and-fro movement, the two tubular filling bodies away from and towards the braking device. The rotation unit includes a rotation drive member fixed to said movable frame or carriage and is able to be moved by said displacement drive member together with the loading device. The displacement drive member is also configured to move the loading device with respect to an entry member for supplying the product.
US09930894B2
A method and template for preparing small, tender cakes is provided. The method includes preparing sheet cakes and slicing them into sleeves of cake. Frosting is template and frozen, and then rolled around the narrow cake leaf. Fillings may be added inside the cake leaf before rolling. The cake is then rolled similarly to maki-style sushi, sliced into shorter segments, and presented vertically on a serving dish. Decorations and additional frosting may be used.
US09930891B2
A synergistic mixture of penoxsulam and pyroxsulam controls weeds in rice, cereal and grain crops, tree and vine crops, pome, stone and citrus crops, pastures, rangelands, industrial vegetation management (IVM), and turf.
US09930872B2
A fishing pole including a handle, a lighting unit, a switch and a power storage unit. The lighting unit is located at least partially internal to the handle. The switch is configured to regulate operation of the lighting unit and the power storage unit is configured to energize the lighting unit.
US09930870B2
According to an example, artificial ovulation and spawning of freshwater eels may be induced to promote artificial ovulation without employing intraperitoneal injection, by feeding a feminization-inducing material (e.g., 17β-estradiol) for inducing feminization during a predetermined period into a raising bath in which broodfish are raised and, when an ovulation induction period arrives, adding pituitary extracts of catadromous fish as an artificial ovulation-promoting substance to the bath. Raising water of the raising bath may be prepared by selectively setting fresh water, brackish water and seawater conditions, a feminization-inducing material for inducing complete feminization of broodfish of the freshwater eels is fed to the raising bath, including the raising water under a fresh water condition, and pre-treatment for feminization is performed. Subsequently, the raising water is set to a seawater condition and the ovulation-inducing substance is fed to the raising water, thereby inducing ovulation and spawning of the broodfish.
US09930865B1
A height adjustable pet food bowl is capable of being secured to a flat surface by means of a suction cup contained within a base portion. The pet food bowl is positioned at a tilted orientation for easier feeding by the pet. The bowl utilizes volumetric graduations displayed on an inner surface. In an exemplary embodiment, measurements are denoted in increments of cups.
US09930863B2
A system for cleaning a dairy animal milker unit and applying dip to a dairy animal, the system includes a main control, an air supply, a water supply, a backflush fluid supply, a dip supply, a stall control for receiving the air, water, backflush fluid and dip supplies, and a safety valve that is adjacent to a downstream portion of the milker unit to control backflush and dip fluids being fed to the milker unit.
US09930860B2
A lettuce cultivar, designated Pasadera, is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds, plants and plant parts of lettuce cultivar Pasadera and to methods for producing a lettuce plant by crossing the cultivar Pasadera with itself or another lettuce cultivar. The invention further relates to methods for producing a lettuce plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic lettuce plants and plant parts produced by those methods. This invention also relates to lettuce cultivars or breeding cultivars and plant parts derived from lettuce cultivar Pasadera, to methods for producing other lettuce cultivars, lines or plant parts derived from lettuce cultivar Pasadera and to the lettuce plants, varieties, and their parts derived from the use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid lettuce seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar Pasadera with another lettuce cultivar.
US09930854B1
The present invention is in the field of soybean variety CL1563238 breeding and development. The present invention particularly relates to the soybean variety CL1563238 and its seed, cells, germplasm, plant parts, and progeny, and methods of using CL1563238 in a breeding program.
US09930851B1
The present invention is in the field of soybean variety CL1462947 breeding and development. The present invention particularly relates to the soybean variety CL1462947 and its seed, cells, germplasm, plant parts, and progeny, and methods of using CL1462947 in a breeding program.
US09930846B1
The present invention is in the field of soybean variety CL1462706 breeding and development. The present invention particularly relates to the soybean variety CL1462706 and its seed, cells, germplasm, plant parts, and progeny, and methods of using CL1462706 in a breeding program.
US09930845B1
The present invention is in the field of soybean variety CL1463057 breeding and development. The present invention particularly relates to the soybean variety CL1463057 and its seed, cells, germplasm, plant parts, and progeny, and methods of using CL1463057 in a breeding program.
US09930835B2
A wrapping device to wrap an object in foil material including a frame, a wrapping table mounted on the frame and configured to support the object during wrapping, one or more roll support devices to support one or more rolls of foil material to be rotated about the object during wrapping, a carrying structure mounted on the frame and configured to carry the one or more roll support devices, and a clamping and cutting device to clamp the foil material after wrapping of an object, and to cut the clamped foil material, wherein the clamping and cutting device is mounted on the carrying structure, and wherein the carrying structure is pivotable about a substantially horizontal pivot axis with respect to the frame.
US09930829B2
A self-cleaning, energy efficient blade assembly for use on lawn maintenance equipment and devices is provided. The blade assembly includes a shell and plurality of blades releasably attachable to the shell, wherein the shell is generally bowl-shaped. The blade assembly may also include a stabilizer ring that is positioned immediately adjacent to the shell for added structural rigidity and strength.
US09936615B2
A power pole inverter is provided. The power pole inverter includes a housing assembly, a capacitor assembly, a number of arm assemblies, a number of heat sinks, and a support assembly. The housing assembly includes a number of sidewalls. The housing assembly sidewalls defining an enclosed space. The capacitor assembly is coupled to the housing assembly. Each arm assembly includes a plurality of electrical components and a number of electrical buses. Each the electrical bus includes a body with terminals, each the terminal structured to be coupled to, and in electrical communication with, the capacitor assembly, each arm assembly including a neutral terminal. Each arm assembly is coupled to, and in electrical communication with, the capacitor assembly. The support assembly includes a non-conductive frame assembly. The support assembly is structured to support each the heat sink in isolation.
US09936604B2
An option device for an electrical appliance of the invention is provided with a filter for purifying exhaust air from the electrical appliance, and an electric fan, wherein the air flow resistance in an external air inlet port formed independently of a suction port for sucking exhaust air from the electrical appliance is adjustable. According to this configuration, it is easy to secure balance between the exhaust air flow rate of the electrical appliance and the suction force by the electric fan without variably controlling the rotational speed of the electric fan.
US09936602B2
Various embodiments of the present technology provide systems and methods for configuring a power supply unit (PSU) of a rack system. The rack system contains one or more nodes, each of which can has a first housing and a second housing. The first housing stores a power supply unit (PSU) that can be easily accessed by a technician or a user from a front of the rack system. The second housing stores a plurality of computer-readable memory devices and has a first portion and a second portion. The first housing is positioned in the front of the rack system and in a central portion of the rack system between the first portion and the second portion of the second housing.
US09936601B2
A cable management assembly for managing cabling of equipment is provided. The cable management assembly may be utilized to manage the movement of cables attached to the enclosures when the enclosures are pulled into and out of the front of a structure during servicing. The cable management assembly may comprise one or more detachable cable support members that form a helix having a first attachment end and a second attachment end. The first attachment end may be attached to an enclosure and the second attachment end may be attached to a rear back plate assembly. The detachable cable support members include a plurality of flat segments having a generally elongated planar configuration or a curved configuration. A combination of planar and curved segments may be secured together forming a loop. A plurality of loops may be secured together forming the assembly.
US09936598B2
A device for open-loop control or closed-loop control of a technical installation has a first backplane module, a second backplane module and a third backplane module which are configured to be positioned side by side on a mounting rail in a longitudinal direction. The first backplane module has a first main body and a first contact part. The second backplane module has a second main body and a second contact part. The third backplane module has a third main body and a third contact part. The main bodies each have an upper side comprising insertion openings which are configured to receive electrical contacts of separate electronic modules. The contact parts form a bus line in the longitudinal direction such that plugged-in electronic modules can be electrically coupled to one another by means of the contact parts. The second main body further has a receptacle, in which the second contact part is arranged in one of at least two defined variants. In a first variant, the second contact part has an electrically conductive connection to the first contact part and to the third contact part. In a second variant, the second contact part has an electrically conductive connection to the third contact part, but not to the first contact part.
US09936595B2
A wire retention cover for an antenna mounting arrangement within an electronic device is configured to be positioned over an edge of a printed circuit board and protect the antenna wires and connectors on the connector side thereof. A non-connector side portion or leg of the cover includes one or more slots for receiving antenna wires. A connector side portion or leg of the cover includes raised and lowered portions. The raised portions are configured to cover and protect antenna wire connections to the PCB.
US09936592B2
A rear housing of a display apparatus and the display apparatus are disclosed. The rear housing for the display apparatus includes a first case, a third case and a second case sequentially arranged in a lateral direction; a bottom of the first case includes a first retainer portion extending toward the second case, a bottom of the second case includes a second retainer portion extending toward the first case, and the first and second retainer portions are connected by means of a first connecting member; both sides of the third case are connected to the first case and the second case by means of second connecting members respectively.
US09936591B2
A display device includes a printed circuit board (PCB), two sides of the PCB extending in first and second directions, respectively, the first and second directions crossing each other, pad group areas being defined in the PCB and arranged along the first direction; and a display panel electrically connected to the PCB through the pad group areas, the PCB including: first pads in each of the pad group areas and arranged along a third direction crossing the first and second directions; and second pads in each of the pad group areas, arranged along the third direction, and spaced apart from the first pads, wherein a portion of the first pads is in the first pad area, an other portion of the first pads and a portion of the second pads are in the second pad area, and an other portion of the second pad is in the third pad area.
US09936590B2
A method for fabricating a biocompatible hermetic housing including electrical feedthroughs, the method comprises providing a ceramic sheet having an upper surface and a lower surface, forming at least one via hole in said ceramic sheet extending from said upper surface to said lower surface, inserting a conductive thick film paste into said via hole, laminating the ceramic sheet with paste filled via hole between an upper ceramic sheet and a lower ceramic sheet to form a laminated ceramic substrate, firing the laminated ceramic substrate to a temperature to sinter the laminated ceramic substrate and cause the paste filled via hole to form metalized via and cause the laminated ceramic substrate to form a hermetic seal around said metalized via, and removing the upper ceramic sheet and the lower ceramic sheet material from the fired laminated ceramic substrate to expose an upper and a lower surface of the metalized via.
US09936582B2
Embodiments of integrated circuit (IC) assemblies and related techniques are disclosed herein. For example, in some embodiments, an IC assembly may include a first printed circuit board (PCB) having a first face and an opposing second face; a die electrically coupled to the first face of the first PCB; a second PCB having a first face and an opposing second face, wherein the second face of the second PCB is coupled to the first face of the first PCB via one or more solder joints; and a molding compound. The molding compound may be in contact with the first face of the first PCB and the second face of the second PCB. Other embodiments may be disclosed and/or claimed.
US09936578B2
A shielded electronic module is formed on a substrate. The substrate has a component area and one or more electronic components attached to the component area. One set of conductive pads may be attached to the component area and another set of conductive pads may be provided on the electronic component. The conductive pads on the component area are electrically coupled to the conductive pads of the electronic component by a conductive layer. A first insulating layer is provided over the component area and underneath the conductive layer that may insulate the electronic component and the substrate from the conductive layer. A second insulating layer is provided over the first insulating layer that covers at least the conductive layer. In this manner, the conductive layer is isolated from an electromagnetic shield formed over the component area.
US09936575B2
A resin multilayer substrate includes a first resin layer, a conductive pattern that covers a portion of the first resin layer, a conductive via connected to the conductive pattern, and a second resin layer that is overlaid on the first resin layer. The second resin layer includes an opening through which the conductive pattern is partially exposed. As seen in plan view, the opening includes an inner peripheral edge including a first portion that is spaced from the conductive via by a first distance, and a second portion that is spaced from the conductive via by a second distance. The conductive pattern has a length that starts from the inner peripheral edge of the opening to outside and extends under the second resin layer. The length of the conductive pattern at the second portion is greater than the length of the conductive pattern at the first portion.
US09936574B2
Described herein are flexible and stretchable LED arrays and methods utilizing flexible and stretchable LED arrays. Assembly of flexible LED arrays alongside flexible plasmonic crystals is useful for construction of fluid monitors, permitting sensitive detection of fluid refractive index and composition. Co-integration of flexible LED arrays with flexible photodetector arrays is useful for construction of flexible proximity sensors. Application of stretchable LED arrays onto flexible threads as light emitting sutures provides novel means for performing radiation therapy on wounds.
US09936567B2
An LED illumination system includes a plurality of LED lamps. Each of the LED lamps includes: an LED array including one or more LED elements that interoperate with input power and emit light; a power management unit that controls supplied power so that power is input to the LED array; a control unit that controls the power management unit to control an operation of the LED array in response to a signal input set by a user through a user terminal; and a wireless communication module that transmits a received wireless communication signal to the control unit and transmits information received from the control unit in the form of a wireless communication signal.
US09936565B2
A mechanism for control and configuration of a lighting system from a user interface. For instance, a wall module designed as a user interface for a tenant to control the system may be implemented so as to be used not only to control the lighting system but also to configure it. The lighting system may involve a controller, circuits of lights, relays, motion and ambient detectors, scenes, schedules, and more. An additional user interface such as a wall module may be connected to the lighting system for control and configuration of the system.
US09936561B2
A flexible LED screen includes a flexible printed circuit board having a front surface and a rear surface, a plurality of SMT-LEDs mounted on the front surface of the flexible printed circuit board, and a plurality of integrated circuits mounted on the rear surface of the flexible printed circuit board.
US09936549B2
Lighting and/or display device with low-voltage individual lighting components such as a light-emitting diode, characterized in that it comprises a plurality of individual modules (1) electrically connected together so as to be able to be arranged in series, at least one module comprising a lower terminal (2) and a upper terminal (3), between which are arranged at least two individual lighting components and a plurality of switches (5, 7, 8), so as to be able to arrange two individual lighting components in series or in parallel between the two lower (2) and upper (3) terminals.
US09936548B2
A LED driver adopts one power stage to provide a constant drive current to drive a load, and to provide different power supply voltages to power a smart module according to a dimming signal input by users through the smart module. The LED driver provides high performance with simple circuit structure.
US09936547B2
A multi-mode control scheme for an LED lamp system uses the detected firing angle of an AC input voltage waveform to select from multiple regulation modes. In operation, a current controller compares the detected firing angle to one or more specified thresholds and selects the appropriate regulation scheme based on the comparison result. When the detected firing angle is less than a first firing angle threshold, the controller employs a current shaping regulation mode. When the detected firing angle is greater than a second firing angle threshold, the controller employs a switching cycle-I Peak modulation regulation mode. And when the detected firing angle is greater than the first firing angle threshold and less than the second firing angle threshold, the controller employs a hybrid regulation mode.
US09936542B2
A microwave energy interactive structure comprises a layer of microwave energy interactive material supported on a polymer film. A plurality of microapertures extend through the layer of microwave energy interactive material and the polymer film. The microapertures have a major linear dimension of from about 0.05 mm to about 2 mm.
US09936535B2
In a case where wireless connection to a device fails because the number of terminals in wireless connection with the device has reached a maximum number, a communication apparatus instructs the device to stop operating in a direct wireless communication mode.
US09936533B2
The present invention relates to a method and a device for controlling a relay of relay user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system. Specifically, the method comprises the steps of: announcing information on whether the relay UE can be relayed; and controlling the relay by comparing updated information with reference information according to a new relay request, wherein the reference information is set to be changed on the basis of state information of the relay UE and/or a packet data network (PDN) connection related to the relay.
US09936530B2
A user equipment (UE) is configured to receive a request from a first peer UE to communicate with a target user corresponding to a second peer UE. The UE is configured to determine that the second peer UE is within a communication range of the UE. The UE is configured to, in response to receiving the request, relay internet protocol (IP) packets from the first peer UE to the second peer UE and relay IP packets from the second peer UE to the first peer UE.
US09936521B2
A signal structure for use in D2D communications is described. In one embodiment, a preamble for automatic gain control at the receiver end is included in the transmitted signal. Techniques for scheduling of D2D transmissions using carrier sensing multiple access (CSMA) and a power control schemes for interference management are also described.
US09936520B2
A method for controlling a plurality of Wi-Fi clients and a plurality of Wi-Fi Access Points (APs) is provided. The method receives M1 and M2 for the Wi-Fi clients and M3 for the Wi-Fi APs. For a respective Wi-Fi client configured to operate on a channel, M1 is a Received Signal Strength Indication (RSSI) from a serving Wi-Fi AP and M2 is an aggregated level of interference from other than the serving Wi-Fi AP. For a respective Wi-Fi AP, M3 is a level of interference received from other of the Wi-Fi APs operating on the channel. The method generates distributions of M1, M2 and M3, sets a Clear Channel Assessment-Energy Detection (CCA-ED) threshold and a Clear Channel Assessment-Carrier Sense (CCA-CS) threshold based on the distributions of M1, M2 and M3, and transmits the thresholds to the Wi-Fi clients and Wi-Fi APs.
US09936512B2
A method includes receiving information associated with a first data request from a base station at a server of a wireless communication network. The first data request is received at the first base station from a first mobile device. The method includes selecting a second base station to transmit data responsive to the first data request to the first mobile device based on a data type of the data and based on a location of the first mobile device. The method further includes transmitting the data from the server to the second base station.
US09936500B2
A downlink communication is transmitted/received in at least one downlink time slot. In response to the received downlink communication, an acknowledgement message is received/transmitted in an uplink time slot a fixed integer number of uplink time slots after transmission/reception of the received downlink communication. The uplink and downlink time slots are staggered by substantially a half of a time slot.
US09936499B2
A process for allowing a Concurrent Multi-Netting (CMN-4) equipped Link 16 terminal to enter an active network. After an initial entry command is entered at the terminal at a given current time at the terminal, a number of time slots are identified in which multiple receivers at the terminal have an opportunity to detect an initial entry message (IEM) after the given current time. Each of the receivers is set to detect an IEM during a different one of the identified time slots. When an IEM is first detected by one of the receivers, the current time at the terminal is reset based on the time slot in which the IEM was detected.
US09936496B2
A base station for wireless network uses one or more MIMO channels having subchannels, to communicate with multiple user equipments, and allocates the sub channels to the user equipments. Different subchannels of a given one of the channels can be allocated to different user equipments. The ability to allocate sub channels individually rather than only allocating entire channels can enable higher data rates to be achieved. This is particularly useful for improving data rates at cell boundaries or sector boundaries, where the coverage is traditionally weakest. A user equipment can use subchannels from different MIMO channels from different sectors or from different base stations.
US09936495B2
Technology for an enhanced Node B (eNB) operable to map an enhanced physical downlink control channel (ePDCCH) to physical resource blocks in a radio frame is disclosed. The eNB can map modulated symbols in the ePDCCH to at least one control channel element (CCE). The eNB can map the at least one CCE to resource elements located in a plurality of physical resource blocks that are distributed in a subframe. The eNB can apply the mapping to control data for scheduling to form an ePDCCH. The eNB can process the ePDCCH for communication to a user equipment (UE).
US09936479B2
A method includes monitoring, at a first electronic device of a data link, a first wireless network during a first paging window corresponding to an active operating mode of electronic devices of the data link. The method also includes receiving, at the first electronic device, a traffic announcement message from a second electronic device of the data link during the first paging window.
US09936473B2
In accordance with an example embodiment, there is provided an apparatus, comprising a receiver configured to receive from a second apparatus over a first radio interface a first message comprising a registration request, a transmitter configured to transmit a second message to the second apparatus over the first radio interface, the second message comprising an acknowledgement of the registration request, and a processor configured to reserve an interface identifier for the second apparatus, wherein the processor is configured to not allow the reserved interface identifier to be used by further nodes over at least one further radio interface.
US09936468B2
Embodiments provide a method for controlling an uplink transmit power in inter-base station carrier aggregation. The method includes acquiring, by a first base station, a maximum uplink transmit power that is allocated by user equipment (UE) to the first base station, and configuring, by the first base station, an uplink transmit power for the UE according to the maximum uplink transmit power. In the method, because the maximum transmit power allocated to the first base station is allocated according to status information of an uplink resource of a second base station, a power that is allocated by the UE to each base station can be coordinated.
US09936463B2
The application discloses a method implemented by a first base station, including: obtaining, first receive power information, where the first receive power information is receive power information of receiving a signal transmitted by user equipment served by a second base station; determining, according to the first receive power information, a relationship between the user equipment and a coverage area of the first base station; and notifying the second base station of the relationship. Thus, when user equipment approaches a network covered by a first base station, a second base station may know a relationship between the user equipment and the coverage area of the first base station, so as to perform a network handover for the user equipment or establish a wireless connection between the user equipment and the first base station. The embodiments of the present invention further provide a corresponding base station.
US09936462B2
In a semi-open loop rate adaptation scheme for a multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system, a transmitter can advantageously use one or more quality metrics of an uplink as well as knowledge of device characteristics of both ends to perform fast and accurate rate adaptation.
US09936458B2
Techniques for managing battery power of a mobile device are described. In an aspect, battery power may be reserved for an application prior to execution of the application on the mobile device. The reservation may ensure that the application has sufficient battery power for execution. In another aspect, battery power may be allocated to applications based on their priorities. The applications may be ordered based on their priorities, and the available battery power for the mobile device may be allocated to one application at a time, starting with the highest priority application. In yet another aspect, battery power may be allocated to applications based on a battery discharge curve for the mobile device. An operating point on the battery discharge curve may be selected based on at least one objective. The available battery power may be determined based on the selected operating point and allocated to the applications.
US09936457B2
A usage history for a mobile device is determined. The usage history is based upon historical analytics for a user. A battery reserve in the mobile device is monitored. Whether a threshold battery reserve for a battery in the mobile device, based upon the monitored battery reserve, is determined. In response to determining that a threshold battery reserve for the battery in the mobile device has been met, a power save mode is implemented for the mobile device to reduce battery consumption by the mobile device based on the determined usage history. The power save mode includes utilizing at least one of a battery partition and a second battery.
US09936454B2
In various embodiments, a method of controlling a station may be provided. The method may include receiving a first signal from an access point, the first signal including information indicating a time period. The method may further include deactivating the station after receiving the first signal and before expiry of the time period. The method may also include activating the station upon expiry of the time period.
US09936445B2
The invention relates to a telecommunications system comprising at least a plurality of SA-cells. The invention provides a method for a terminal to facilitate establishment of a data connection between the terminal and at least one of the SA-cells. The method includes steps of, while the terminal is in an idle mode, the terminal transmitting an information request message (IRM) for the plurality of SA-cells and receiving, from each SA-cell of one or more SA-cells of the plurality of SA-cells, a message comprising at least information indicative of a strength with which the each SA-cell received the IRM. The method further includes the step of, at least partially based on the messages received from the one or more SA-cells, the terminal selecting an SA-cell of the plurality of SA-cells for establishing the data connection between the terminal and the selected SA-cell.
US09936439B2
There is provided a sensor network information collection mechanism in which, after a UE has decided to become part of an information collecting operation for collecting information from a local sensor network, a signaling transmitted from a managing node of a local sensor network is received and processed. A communication network control element is informed about the willingness to become an information collector by sending a report message comprising measurement results derived from the signaling received from the managing node of the local sensor network. When receiving a gateway allocation message indicating that the UE is determined to be a gateway element to the local sensor network, the information collecting operation is started wherein sensor nodes of the local sensor network are woke up, and a traffic flow direction in the local sensor network is set in accordance with the managing node identity to which the UE is accessed.
US09936438B2
An example method is provided in one example embodiment and may include receiving a session request for a user equipment (UE) at a node, wherein the session request includes a timestamp for the UE and a retry count; determining if the session request is a stray session request; and maintaining session information for an existing session for the UE at the node if the session request is a stray session request. The method can include identifying the received session request as a stray request if the timestamp received in the request is less than a timestamp stored for an existing session for the UE. The method can also include identifying the received request as a stray request if the timestamp received is equal to the timestamp stored for the existing session and if the retry count received is less than or equal to a retry count stored for the session.
US09936428B2
Methods, systems, and devices are described for Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) offloading through radio access network rules. In one embodiment of a method of wireless communication, a mobile device may determine that Radio Access Network (RAN) assistance information is unavailable, the RAN assistance information including a first set of thresholds for switching a Packet Data Network (PDN) connection of the mobile device from a WLAN to a Wireless Wide Area Network (WWAN). The mobile device may further access a second set of thresholds based at least in part on the determining, and the mobile device may determine to switch the PDN connection from the WLAN to the WWAN based at least in part on the second set of thresholds.
US09936427B2
Systems and methods provide a joint handover process wherein a user equipment (UE) and at least one secondary node remain connected to each other and are handed over together from a first master node to a second master node. Thus, a re-establishment procedure with the at least one secondary node is avoided.
US09936421B2
The system and method of utilizing frequency waterfilling and implicit coordination to mitigate signal jamming in Link 16 systems. The system and method of utilizing frequency waterfilling for Link 16 includes updates to both software and firmware. The frequency waterfilling approach for Link 16 modifies the process by which data bits are allocated to hops based on an assessment of hops affected by jamming, thus avoiding portions of the spectrum occupied by a jammer.
US09936420B2
The present invention concerns a method for optimizing ROHC RTP (Robust Header Compression Real Time Protocol) compression applied to IP header of data packets stream so as to use more compact formats enable to remain in a steady state, to never discard received packet, and to serve radio resources without requiring to modify ROHC specification. In the method, when handover or mobility procedure is started, new reference values are normally added to a sliding compression window, but no reference value is removed from the window as long as the handover or mobility procedure is on going. After the handover or mobility procedure is complete, when the number of values transmitted on the new radio link are appropriate to cope against the error properties on the new link, all older values can be removed at once from the compression window, thereby reverting to normal window operation.
US09936414B2
Systems and methods for improving Long Term Evolution (LTE)-WiFi coexistence in a network, including configuring one or more LTE nodes for asynchronous access and synchronous transmission to bridge LTE and WiFi access modes. A channel is reserved for LTE transmission in the one or more LTE nodes, and a supplementary WiFi module is provided in the one or more LTE nodes for sensing the channel for occupancy and for broadcasting a reservation signal on the channel prior to the LTE transmission. Contention window sizes are scaled linearly by increasing the contention window sizes proportionally to a subframe collision rate to maintain throughput fairness to the WiFi, and synchronous transmission from the one or more LTE nodes to one or more User Devices (UEs) is performed by activating the unlicensed carrier for a reserved time period.
US09936410B2
A method and a device for reporting channel quality information are provided by the present invention, the method comprising that: measuring, by a user equipment (UE), Channel State Information-Reference Signal (CSI-RS) according to the configuration information of the CSI-RS, to acquire a downlink channel transport matrix (101); determining, by the UE, Channel Quality Indicator (CQI) of a frequency domain reporting unit according to the number of CSI-RS ports and the corresponding transmission scheme of the Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH) used when determining the CQI, and the downlink channel transport matrix acquired by measurement (102); reporting, by the UE, the determined CQI to network side (103). The present invention can realize measurement and reporting of CSI-RS-based channel quality information on the basis of non-Precoding Matrix Indicator (PMI) feedback transmissions.
US09936408B2
The present invention relates to a wireless communication system. In particular, the present invention relates to a method for a terminal to receive a downlink signal in a wireless communication system and to an apparatus for same, the method comprising the steps of: receiving, from a base station, a first piece of information indicating the start point of a multicast broadcast single frequency network (MBSFN) signal, receiving an MBSFN subframe having a plurality of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols, and receiving the MBSFN signal from an OFDM symbol indicated by the first piece of information in the MBSFN subframe.
US09936407B2
Method of positioning blind coverage regions in an indoor wireless network. The method comprises the following steps: constructing an indoor and outdoor combined three-dimensional spatial structural model of a target scene; recording and storing information of wireless access equipment which can be received by the target scene, both from the indoor wireless network and from an outdoor (e.g., cellular) network with overlapping coverage; establishing a wireless fingerprint database of the target building covering both the indoor and the outdoor wireless networks; when loss of coverage is detected, the UE handing over to the outdoor network to transmit a measurement report from which the outdoor network can derive the UE's position (e.g., through triangulation); deriving the UE's position in the indoor area by superimposing the obtained information on the fingerprinting database (by analyzing only those cell-Id's that appear on the MR) and interpolating the result (mean square error); if the obtained position is covered by the fingerprinting database (i.e., it is in the indoor area), determining that the position corresponds to a blind coverage area inside the indoor wireless area; otherwise, assuming that the UE has left the building and a normal handover has taken place.
US09936406B2
There is provided a network information system for determining transport conditions in a communications network. Monitoring data is acquired from a plurality of data transport nodes in a communications network. Transport conditions are determined from network information related to transport flows for network transmission of real time media flows. The network information is determined from a subset of the acquired monitoring data. The determined transport conditions are provided to at least one of a network connected device running an application involving the network transmission of real time media flows and a data transport node involved in the network transmission of real time media flows.
US09936405B2
A method for performing measurement by a terminal in a wireless communications system according to an embodiment of the present invention includes the steps of: receiving from a first transmission point the uplink-downlink structures associated respectively with a second transmission point and a third transmission point; and determining at least one measurement set based on the received uplink-downlink structures, wherein each measurement set consists of the sub-frames that: the duplex direction combination during a particular time interval in the case of following the uplink-downlink structure associated with the second transmission point is the same as the duplex direction combination during the particular time interval in the case of following the uplink-downlink structure associated with the third transmission point.
US09936403B2
The embodiments of the present invention provide a method and a device for detecting a traffic hot spot of a cell. The method includes: acquiring load information of a cell in which a wireless access point AP is located, the load information includes at least two types of the following information: a data rate of user traffic requirement, the number of users associated with an AP, an average length of data packets and an average duration of successful transmissions; determining whether an operating state of the AP is abnormal according to the at least two types of information; determining a satisfaction degree of user according to the actual traffic rate of user, if the operating state of the AP is abnormal; and determining that a traffic hot spot exists in the cell, if the satisfaction degree of user is lower than a first preset threshold.
US09936402B2
Methods and systems for managing relays in LTE based communication networks. Embodiments herein use of a packet handler node and an additional radio interface in the UE, enabling the creation of an overlay network on top of an existing LTE network. The overlay network helps in the transfer of data between the UE and the AS even when the UE is not directly connected to the LTE network by encapsulating the data from the out-of-coverage UE within the IP packet of at least one nearby relay UE connected to the LTE network and is then forwarded to the LTE core network. The out-of-coverage UE uses the additional radio interface to send packets to the relay UE.
US09936396B2
Provided herein are apparatus and methods for radio frequency (RF) signal boosters. In certain implementations, a multi-band signal booster is provided for boosting the uplink and downlink channels of at least a first frequency band and a second frequency band. In certain configurations, the downlink channels of the first and second channels are adjacent, and the signal booster includes a first amplification path for boosting the uplink channel of the first frequency band, a second amplification path for boosting the uplink channel of the second frequency band, and a third amplification path for boosting both downlink channels of the first and second frequency bands.
US09936394B2
A method for processing data after an unlicensed spectrum is released, and user equipment are disclosed. The method includes: when user equipment determines that a base station has released an unlicensed spectrum, monitoring, by the user equipment, release time for which the unlicensed spectrum is released a release time for which the unlicensed spectrum is released; when the release time does not exceed a time threshold, pausing, by the user equipment, a data processing process attached to the unlicensed spectrum, and resuming the data processing process after the base station re-acquires the unlicensed spectrum; and when the release time exceeds the time threshold, terminating, by the user equipment, the data processing process attached to the unlicensed spectrum, and selecting a licensed spectrum to start a new data processing process, or after the base station re-acquires the unlicensed spectrum, starting a new data processing process.
US09936383B2
Disclosed are exemplary embodiments of apparatus and methods for provisioning a wireless-capable climate control system device for a wireless network. In an exemplary embodiment, a method of provisioning a wireless-capable target device for a wireless network includes providing, to the target device, wireless network authentication data for joining the wireless network. The providing is performed using a user-interface-equipped device. The target device attempts to join the wireless network using the wireless network authentication data. In some embodiments the user-interface-equipped device receives a signal from the target device indicating whether the attempt to join the wireless network was successful.
US09936376B2
First and second level discovery messages for device-to-device discovery are determined to be going to be transmitted, resource(s) are requested for transmission of at least the second level discovery message, and allocated resource(s) of a second type are received. The first level discovery message is transmitted on either a selected resource of the first type or a selected one of the allocated resource(s). The second level discovery message is transmitted on a selected one of the more allocated resource(s) of the second type, A first level discovery message is received on a resource of either a first type or a second type. It is determined whether the received message is of interest or not and if the message is of interest, then it is determined whether a second level discovery message is available and if so, the second level discovery message is received on a resource of the second type.
US09936375B2
Technologies are generally described for suppressing discovery of mobile devices in a wireless ubiquitous computing (ubicomp) network, reducing the number of network transmissions by devices in the network and reducing network congestion and prolonging battery life. A mobile device may add supplementary information to introductory beacons transmitted by the device that indicate no response is necessary from other devices participating in the network except for a coordinator of the network. The mobile device may transmit a malformed introductory beacon that will be ignored by other devices in the network except for the coordinator. The coordinator of the wireless network may detect the mobile device moving through the network and transmit a suppression signal to other devices in the network causing the devices to ignore the introductory beacons transmitted by the mobile device.
US09936373B2
In a heterogeneous network deployment that includes a macro base station and one or more low power nodes, a discovery signal is transmitted to facilitate the identification of low power nodes. The discovery signal is transmitted on a selected subset of resource elements, previously unused, to maintain backward compatibility with legacy user equipment. The transmission sequence and/or the locations of resource elements used for transmitting the discovery signal can identify the low power node to a user equipment.
US09936360B1
An evidentiary electronic processor receives identifying data associated with respective ones of a plurality of communication devices associated with an incident. The evidentiary electronic processor determines an assignment status of each communication device using the respective identifying data. The assignment status indicates that a communication device is one of assigned to the incident, unassigned to the incident and associated with a first profile that is relevant to the incident, or unassigned to the incident and associated with a second profile that is irrelevant to the incident. The evidentiary electronic processor receives sensor data associated with the incident from a sending communication device out of the plurality of communication devices. The evidentiary electronic processor processes the sensor data based on a respective assignment status associated with the sending communication device.
US09936358B2
A method for determining the position in a vehicle of a first device in communication with a microprocessor may include receiving, at the microprocessor, a first set of inertial data from at least one sensor of the first device; receiving, at the microprocessor, a second set of inertial data from at least one sensor of a reference device disposed within the vehicle; and determining, using the microprocessor, the position of the first device in the vehicle by comparing the first set of inertial data with the second set of inertial data.
US09936357B2
Disclosed is a technique for passively monitoring the number of guests in a rental property. Mobile device broadcasts intended for connecting the device to a wireless network contain information about that device. This information includes unique identifiers such as MAC addresses. Detecting these broadcasts and filtering out those devices that are expected enables a property owner to have a semi-accurate number of guests within their property without actually being at the property, or visibly observing the guests in an obtrusive fashion. Guests are able to enjoy themselves in privacy and the property owner is able to monitor the safety of their property.
US09936354B2
A processor may be configured to access mapping data for a route to a destination, as well as information associated with a mobile device that may include usage data of the mobile device, a user profile associated with the mobile device, or demographic data associated with a user of the mobile device. The route to the destination may be displayed along with an indicator of the predicted coverage for the mobile device along the route.
US09936351B2
Methods and systems are provided that facilitate sharing or a hand-off of program content or a user session (e.g., running within a computer application) of a user device such that a user can easily select and then switch devices on which program content is being viewed or on which a user session is being run without having to sift through a myriad of other devices such as remote discoverable devices on the same network that are not in close proximity to the user device. A user device determines which of a plurality of discovered devices from which a short range wireless signal including a defined key was received and provides a list of discovered devices with which a session may be shared over the computer network with the user device based on this determination.
US09936335B2
Technologies pertaining to sharing an application installed on a mobile computing device with another computing device are described herein. An indication is received that the application is desirably shared with the another computing device. Responsive to receiving such indication, a communications channel is automatically established between the mobile computing device and the another computing device, and display data generated at the mobile computing device is transmitted to the another computing device by way of the communications channel. The display data is displayed on the another computing device.
US09936328B2
An apparatus for estimating an overall mixing time, where the apparatus comprises a processing element configured to determine differences between energy profiles of a first room impulse response of the first pair of room impulse responses and a second room impulse response of the first pair of room impulse responses at a plurality of different sample times of the first pair of room impulse responses, set a sample time of the plurality of sample times as a mixing time for the first pair of room impulse responses at which the difference between the energy profiles of the first room impulse response and the second room impulse response of the first pair of room impulse responses is equal to or below a threshold value, and determine the overall mixing time based on the mixing time for the first pair of room impulse responses.
US09936327B2
A method for mapping a plurality of input channels of an input channel configuration to output channels of an output channel configuration includes providing a set of rules associated with each input channel of the plurality of input channels, wherein the rules define different mappings between the associated input channel and a set of output channels. For each input channel of the plurality of input channels, a rule associated with the input channel is accessed, determination is made whether the set of output channels defined in the accessed rule is present in the output channel configuration, and the accessed rule is selected if the set of output channels defined in the accessed rule is present in the output channel configuration. The input channels are mapped to the output channels according to the selected rule.
US09936322B2
The present inventive concept relates to a method for implementing surround sound system using a plurality of vehicles, which implements the surround sound by outputting a sound source corresponding to a surround sound node of itself according to a synchronization signal after each vehicle located in a local area (AVN system: Audio, Video, Navigation system) identifies the surround sound node of itself based on its position.
US09936321B2
Dynamic Range Control (DRC) cannot be simply applied to Higher Order Ambisonics (HOA) based signals. A method for performing DRC on a HOA signal comprises transforming the HOA signal to the spatial domain, analyzing the transformed HOA signal, and obtaining, from results of said analyzing, gain factors that are usable for dynamic compression. The gain factors can be transmitted together with the HOA signal. When applying the DRC, the HOA signal is transformed to the spatial domain, the gain factors are extracted and multiplied with the transformed HOA signal in the spatial domain, wherein a gain compensated transformed HOA signal is obtained. The gain compensated transformed HOA signal is transformed back into the HOA domain, wherein a gain compensated HOA signal is obtained.
US09936317B2
Methods and apparatus for calibrating an audio system including headset coupled to an electronic device via an audio dongle. In an example, a circuit configured to couple a Universal Serial Bus (USB) audio dongle with an audio circuit of an electronic device can include a first impedance configured to couple with a first audio channel of the audio circuit, a second impedance coupled in series with the first impedance and configured to couple with a second audio channel of the audio circuit, a third impedance coupled to a ground sense channel and to a node common to the first impedance and the second impedance, and a controller configured to initiate a first signal on the first channel, to monitor crosstalk of the first signal on the second audio channel and to adjust a setting of the third impedance to reduce the crosstalk.
US09936315B2
The application relates to a method of fitting a hearing device to a user, the method comprising a) Defining a user as a first time user; b) Selecting a processing algorithm to have special first time user settings; c) Defining prescribed settings for the user; d) Defining special first time user settings for said processing algorithm; e) Defining a scheme for adapting said special first time user settings to said prescribed settings over time. The application further relates to a method of a fitting system and to a hearing device. The object of the present application is to provide an alternative fitting scheme for a first time user of a hearing device. The method further provides that the processing algorithm to have special first time user settings is selected from the group comprising noise reduction algorithms, directionality algorithms, binaural compression algorithms, and a combination thereof. The method provides an alternative way of customizing a first time user of a hearing device to the usage of the hearing device. The invention may e.g. be used in hearing devices that need to be customized to a particular user's wishes.
US09936311B2
A method for generating a control signal from an inaudible acoustic signal comprising modulating the inaudible acoustic signal, wherein the inaudible signal is converted to a modulated inaudible acoustic signal comprising a first frequency comprising 17 kHz over a time duration of 50 ms, a first null over a time duration of 50 ms, a second frequency comprising 18 kHz over a time duration of 100 ms followed by a second null over a time duration of 50 ms, transmitting the modulated inaudible acoustic signal and an audio signal to a signal receiving device, sampling the modulated inaudible acoustic signal at a frequency of 16 kHz, wherein the modulated inaudible acoustic signal is converted to a digitally modulated inaudible acoustic signal, filtering the digitally modulated inaudible acoustic signal to provide an acoustic filter response signal comprising an acoustic null component and an acoustic down-converted component, demodulating the acoustic filter response signal, wherein the acoustic down-converted component is isolated from the acoustic null component, the isolated acoustic down-converted component representing a control signal.
US09936304B2
In some embodiments, a microphone system includes a multi-bit delta-sigma modulator configured to be coupled to a microphone and configured to covert an output of the microphone into a first digital signal with a multi-bit resolution at a first output of the multi-bit delta-sigma modulator. The microphone system also includes a digital noise shaper coupled to the first output of the multi-bit delta-sigma modulator, and configured to convert a multi-bit digital input of the digital noise shaper into a one-bit digital signal.
US09936298B2
For a MEMS component, in the layer structure of which at least one sound-pressure-sensitive diaphragm element is formed, which spans an opening or cavity in the layer structure and the deflections of which are detected with the aid of at least one piezosensitive circuit element in the attachment area of the diaphragm element, design measures are provided, by which the stress distribution over the diaphragm surface may be influenced intentionally in the event of deflection of the diaphragm element. In particular, measures are provided, by which the mechanical stresses are intentionally introduced into predefined areas of the diaphragm element, to thus amplify the measuring signal. For this purpose, the diaphragm element includes at least one designated bending area, which is defined by the structuring of the diaphragm element and is more strongly deformed in the event of sound action than the adjoining diaphragm sections.
US09936296B1
A device for multimedia communications is disclosed herein. The device for multimedia communications includes a power supply, a stereo communication link, a left headset earpiece, and a right headset earpiece. The stereo communication link is configured to communicate at least one of audio signals and video signals over a left channel to the left headset earpiece and over a right channel to the right headset earpiece. The left and the right headset earpieces feature speakers and displays for playing audio and video signals together or independently.
US09936289B2
Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) acoustic sensors are implemented with dedicated preamplifiers. Provided implementations can comprise an array of MEMS acoustic sensor elements each having a dedicated preamplifier. A summation node can add outputs of each preamplifier and an analog to digital converter (ADC) can receive the summed outputs. Other implementations can comprise an array of MEMS acoustic sensors each having dedicated preamplifiers. Some of the preamplifiers receive an invert signal and an ADC can subtract inverted signals from non-inverted signals.
US09936287B2
Described is a device for creating a sound source comprising integrated measuring means (50) for measuring a property representative of the strength of the sound source, the device comprising a sound generator (40a, 40b) for generating sound within an annular space defined around a central axis, the device comprising a pair of guiding surfaces (113, 123) for guiding sound away from the annular space in opposite directions along the central axis. With sound being guided as described, sound in addition being allowed to propagate outside the device in a radial direction with respect to the central axis, a high degree of omnidirectionality of the created sound source is attained.
US09936282B2
Over-sampling digital processing path that emulates Nyquist rate (non-oversampling) audio conversion
The behavior of a NOS DAC and an analog filter may be emulated by electronic components of an integrated circuit (IC) by upsampling data and applying a digital filter to the upsampled data. For example, the IC may include a zero-order-hold circuit that upsamples data from a first input sample rate to a second, higher input rate. The upsampled data may be passed to an Asynchronous Sample Rate Converter (ASRC) that performs further upsampling (e.g., from 8*Fs-64*Fs). The upsampled data may be passed to a digital low pass filter. The digital low pass filter may emulate, for example, a response of a fifth order Butterworth analog filter to mimic the effect of analog processing. The IC may integrate the upsampling circuit, the low pass digital filter, a digital-to-analog converter (DAC) and an amplifier to provide an audio solution for playing high-fidelity music in a mobile device.
US09936281B2
A headphone includes a speaker casing and a headband. The speaker casing has a main speaker unit and a support member that supports the main speaker unit. The speaker casing is connected to the headband, and the headband is to be placed on a head of a user. The support member supports the main speaker unit with a main plane of the main speaker unit being positioned at an angle ranging from 10° to 30° inclusive with respect to a main plane of the support member, so that the main plane of the main speaker unit faces a side of an ear lobe of the user.
US09936267B2
System and methods for selecting one of the alternative streams of encoded media from a group of alternative streams of encoded media for use during start-up of playback of the encoded media in accordance with embodiments of this invention are disclosed. The systems and methods begin by determining an estimated stability period for a current bandwidth of a communicative connection between the playback device and a remote system providing the alternative streams of encoded. A test process is then performed on the streams of encoded media to select one of streams of encoded media that provides portions of said encoded media such that an underflow condition does not occur during the estimated stability period. The streaming of encoded media is then commenced by requesting the portions of encoded media be transmitted from the remote server using the selected stream.
US09936253B2
Presented herein is a method of blocking user-selected media content, such as, for example, audio and/or video content. In the method, at least one media content stream is presented to a user, wherein the at least one media content stream includes multiple showings of an identifiable contiguous segment of media content. One example of such a segment may be a commercial or advertisement. While presenting a current showing of the segment of media content to the user, a command is received from a user to block the segment of media content from presentation to the user. In response to receiving the command, information identifying the segment of media content is generated. The at least one media content stream is analyzed using the information to detect subsequent showings of the segment of media content. Presentation of at least one of the subsequent showings of the segment of media content is prevented when detected in the at least one media content stream.
US09936249B1
Methods and apparatus to measure audience composition and recruit audience measurement panelists are disclosed. An example media device includes a memory including machine readable instructions, and a processor to execute the instructions to implement an analyzer to detect and decode a first code embedded in a video stream of media being presented by the media device. The first code contains first audience measurement data associated with the media. The instructions further implement a media output modifier to provide a second code for display in response to detecting the first code. The second code includes information that, when the second code is scanned with a portable device other than the media device, is to direct the portable device to a website to provide additional audience measurement data.
US09936246B2
Systems and methods are operable to manage timers that control recording of media content. An exemplary embodiment compares a retrieved stale timer criteria with a retrieved timer attribute; determines whether the timer is stale based on the comparison of the retrieved timer attribute and the stale timer criteria, wherein the timer is determined to be stale when the media content event identified by the timer will not be recorded because the media content event identified by the timer is not scheduled to be broadcast at a future date; and then automatically deletes the timer in response to determining that the timer is stale.
US09936240B2
Items of video content offered for viewing on a video-on-demand (VOD) platform of a digital TV service provider are each assigned a respective title and hierarchical address corresponding to hierarchically-arranged categories and subcategories within which the title for the video content is to be categorized. The title is listed in a location of an electronic program guide (EPG) using the same categories and subcategories as its hierarchical address. Any TV subscriber can access the EPG and navigate through its categories and subcategories to find a title for viewing on the TV. The EPG dynamically adjust its display listings of each level of categories, subcategories, and titles in order to minimize the number of remote control keypresses needed for a viewer to navigate to a title of interest. In one basic form, the EPG display is reordered by listing more frequently visited categories or subcategories first, and other less frequently visited categories or subcategories lower on the listing or out-of-sight on another page of the display.
US09936231B2
A method, non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, and reception apparatus for processing one or more triggers associated with audio/video (A/V) content, and an information providing apparatus for providing the one or more triggers. The method includes receiving by the reception apparatus the A/V content and a first trigger associated with the received A/V content. Further, the reception apparatus retrieves a trigger parameters table (TPT), associated with the A/V content, from a TPT server identified in the received first trigger. The TPT defines at least one event associated with the A/V content and defines, for each of the at least one event, a parameter used to perform a process and corresponding to the respective event.
US09936227B2
An entropy decoder is configured to, for horizontal and vertical components of motion vector differences, derive a truncated unary code from the data stream using context-adaptive binary entropy decoding with exactly one context per bin position of the truncated unary code, which is common for horizontal and vertical components of the motion vector differences, and an Exp-Golomb code using a constant equi-probability bypass mode to obtain the binarizations of the motion vector differences. A desymbolizer is configured to debinarize the binarizations of the motion vector difference syntax elements to obtain integer values of the horizontal and vertical components of the motion vector differences. A reconstructor is configured to reconstruct a video based on the integer values of the horizontal and vertical components of the motion vector differences.
US09936219B2
According to the present invention, a method for processing video signals can determine an interview motion vector of a current block using an interview motion vector of a temporal neighboring block in consideration of a global motion vector. The present invention can obtain an accurate interview motion vector according to obtaining the temporal neighboring block of the current block in consideration of a motion change according to output sequence information and accordingly, can increase the accuracy of inter-prediction.
US09936216B2
Provided are a method and apparatus for encoding a video and a method and apparatus for decoding a video. The encoding method includes: splitting a picture of the video into one or more maximum coding units; encoding the picture based on coding units according to depths which are obtained based on a partition type determined according to the depths of the coding units according to depths, determining coding units according to coded depths with respect to each of the coding units according to depths, and thus determining coding units having a tree structure; and outputting data that is encoded based on the partition type and the coding units having the tree structure, information about the coded depths and an encoding mode, and coding unit structure information indicating a size and a variable depth of a coding unit.
US09936201B2
In an example, a method of coding video data may include selecting, as part of an entropy coding process, a context for a syntax element associated with a current coding unit (CU) based on information relating to CU depth of one or more neighboring CUs relative to the current CU. The syntax element may represent whether the current CU is split into sub-CUs. The method may include entropy coding the syntax element based on the selected context.
US09936200B2
Techniques are described for updating a value of a Rice parameter used to define Golomb codes for coefficient level coding. The Golomb codes defined by the Rice parameter may be used to code a remaining absolute value of a coefficient level for at least one coefficient in a coefficient group (CG). According to the techniques, the value of the Rice parameter is updated based on a selection of a minimum of either a maximum value of the Rice parameter or a variable increment of the value of the Rice parameter. The variable increment is determined based on the value of the Rice parameter and an absolute value of the coefficient level for the current coefficient being coded. Techniques are also described for adjusting the value of the Rice parameter used to define Golomb codes for coefficient level coding based on whether a transform is applied to a transform block.
US09936185B2
Disclosed herein are systems and methods for packaging, distributing, and utilizing digital cinema packages (“DCPs”) with multiple screens or projectors. A merged DCP generation system is disclosed that includes a DCP ingestor module configured to receive and decode a main screen DCP and a peripheral screen DCP, the main screen DCP and the peripheral screen DCP each comprising digital files that include audiovisual information and metadata to enable the presentation of audiovisual content. The system includes a DCP editor module configured to combine the digital files of the main screen DCP and the digital files of the peripheral screen DCP to generate a merged composition playlist (“CPL”) comprising reels designating audiovisual content shown on the main screen and the peripheral screen. The system includes a DCP mastering and packaging module configured to generate a merged DCP from the combined digital files and the merged CPL.
US09936182B2
An image generation apparatus includes an image-data generation unit, an image-data output unit, and a retaining unit. The image-data generation unit generates image data of an evaluation image having a first reference color, a second reference color, a first evaluation color, and a second evaluation color, the first and second reference colors being paired in a predetermined color space, the first and second evaluation colors being different colors between the first and second reference colors in the predetermined color space. The image-data output unit outputs the image data to a display device. The retaining unit retains image data of the first and second evaluation colors obtained when an image having the first evaluation color looks the same as an image having the second evaluation color in terms of brightness or tint in a case where the evaluation image is displayed on the display device.
US09936175B2
A free-form lens (for example a phase modulator, lens or deformable mirror) may be made to reproduce a light pattern specified by image data. Source regions on the free-form lens are mapped to target regions areas on an image. Areas of the source regions are adjusted to vary the amount of light delivered to each of the target regions. Adjustment of the source areas may be achieved using a L-BFGS optimization which preferably incorporates smoothness and curl regularizers. Embodiments apply parallel processing to obtain control values for a free form lens in real time or near real time. Apparatus may process image data and display an image by controlling a dynamically variable free form lens using the processed image data.
US09936173B2
The present disclosure discloses a method for processing an image and an apparatus thereof, applicable to an electronic device including an image acquisition unit corresponding to an image acquisition area, wherein the method includes: generating a first image and a second image according to an object to be acquired in the image acquisition area at a first instance of time, wherein both the first image and the second image are images corresponding to the object to be acquired, and the amount of data of the first image is larger than the amount of data of the second image; and storing the first image and the second image and setting the second image as an associated image of the first image, to thereby improve the convenience and efficiency of processing the generated image in the electronic device.
US09936167B2
An imaging device, an imaging method, and a recording medium storing an imaging program are provided. Each of the imaging device, imaging device, and the recording medium storing the imaging program outputs image data of an object on an image output unit, stores multiple levels of luminosity of the object in a memory in association with a plurality of set values that are referred to when image processing is performed on image data, specifies the level of luminosity of the object, selects one of the set values stored in the memory based on the level of luminosity specified by the specifying, and performs image processing on the image data output from the image output unit, based on the set value selected by the selecting.
US09936157B2
The present disclosure relates to a an electronic device such as a digital camera 300 that includes a deletion mode whereby a camera/electronic device user can delete captured images or data files that have already been transferred in order to make room in the electronic device or digital camera memory for capturing further images. In one embodiment a digital camera keep track of which images have already been transferred to an external storage device and presents those to the user as potential images to be deleted. In another embodiment, the user is presented with a “delete all transferred images” which when selected deletes all the captured images that have already been transferred. In still another embodiment, a deletion criteria is used to prioritize which images are deleted first.
US09936151B2
A method and device for capturing a mixed structured-light image and regular image using an integrated image sensor are disclosed, where the structured-light image is captured using a shorter frame period than the regular image. In order to achieve a shorter frame period for the structured-light image, the structured-light image may correspond to an image captured with reduced dynamic range, reduced spatial resolution, or a combination of them. The capturing process comprises applying reset signals to a pixel array to reset rows of pixels of the pixel array, reading-out analog signals from the rows of pixels of the pixel array and converting the analog signals from the rows of pixels of the pixel array into digital outputs for the image using one or more analog-to-digital converters.
US09936146B2
An imaging system includes: plural imaging devices which are mounted on the same moving body, and configured to capture subjects to acquire images; and a controller configured to calculate a target white balance value common to the images acquired by the imaging devices. Each imaging device includes: a white balance calculator configured to calculate an individual white balance value of the image acquired by the imaging device; and a white balance corrector configured to correct the individual white value of the image of the subject taken by the imaging device to the target white balance value. The controller includes a weighting unit configured to individually weight the individual white balance value given from each imaging device.
US09936139B2
An image pickup control apparatus according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes an instruction unit configured to instruct an image pickup unit to shoot an image in accordance with an operation of a photographer, a first display processing unit configured to display the image shot by the image pickup unit in accordance with an instruction by the instruction unit, an obtaining unit configured to obtain position information input by the photographer with respect to the image displayed by the first display processing unit, a second display processing unit configured to display options based on the position information obtained by the obtaining unit, and an assistance unit configured to perform an assistance for next shooting based on an option selected by the photographer from among the options displayed by the second display processing unit.
US09936138B2
A user terminal apparatus and a control method thereof are provided. The user terminal apparatus includes a display including a main display area which is disposed on a front surface of the user terminal apparatus, and a sub display area which extends from one side of the main display area and is disposed on at least one area of a rear surface of the user terminal apparatus, a camera configured to photograph an image, and a processor configured to display a live view acquired through the camera on one of the main display area or the sub display area, and control the display to display, in response to an orientation of the user terminal apparatus being changed, the live view on another one of the main display area or the sub display area.
US09936121B2
A first image generating unit configured to generate a first image having a predetermined depth of field from each of a plurality of light-field data each of which a focus state is changeable; a searching unit configured to search the light-field data that includes a predetermined object by analyzing the first image generated by the first image generating unit; and a second image generating unit configured to generate a second image that has a shallower depth of field than the first image and focused on the predetermined object, based on the light-field data detected by the searching unit are included.
US09936119B2
An optical device (1) including a fixed focus camera having a predetermined depth of field with an optical axis (55), wherein the optical device (1) comprises a diaphragm (5) positioned in the optical axis (55) of the camera and comprising a light passing aperture (53) for increasing the predetermined depth of field of said camera to provide an increased depth of field, wherein the diaphragm is attached to the camera, wherein the light passing aperture (53) of the diaphragm (5) is circular shaped within an opaque screen and positioned to have its centre point coincide with the optical axis (55) of the camera and wherein the optical device (1) further comprises illumination means evenly positioned around the optical axis (55) for evenly illuminating an object positioned within the increased depth of field of the camera.
US09936118B2
An image capture apparatus capable of communicating with an external apparatus via a network has a change unit configured to change an image capture position of image capturing means for capturing an image of an object. In response to a request received from an external apparatus, the image capture apparatus generates a response including a first field in which the operation state of the change unit is described, and sends the generated response to the external apparatus. Here, if the change unit is in initialization, the image capture apparatus generates a response that specifies that the change unit is in initialization using a combination of descriptions in multiple fields, including the first field.
US09936104B2
Certain methods and systems are described to provide color modelling. This color modelling applies to halftone images. In one example, a correction parameter for a color model is determined by minimizing a distance metric between a set of estimated spectral reflectance values and a set of measured spectral reflectance values to generate a multi-dimensional correction parameter. This enables a color model to be used to map at least one Neugebauer Primary area coverage value to at least one spectral reflectance value.
US09936095B2
Provided is an image forming apparatus enabling more appropriate data deletion. The image forming apparatus includes an output setting circuit for performing output setting for adjusting an output of image data to a target output result by selection operation, an output operation circuit for performing output of image data by instruction operation so that a process corresponding to the output setting is performed, an association circuit for storing association information in which the output image data is associated with the output setting, a state determination circuit for determining whether or not the target output result can be obtained based on a current state of the apparatus, and a data deletion circuit for automatically deleting or selecting the deletion of the image data associated with the output setting based on the association information when it is determined that the target output result cannot be obtained.
US09936092B2
In an electronic apparatus of this invention, after a security function is canceled, it is determined whether the elapsed time from cancellation of the security function to detection of attachment of a device having a security function of security level higher than that of the canceled security function or the elapsed time until the operation of the attached device is enabled has exceeded a predetermined time. Upon determining that the elapsed time has exceeded the predetermined time, the electronic apparatus enables the canceled security function again.
US09936088B2
An image processing apparatus for executing a plurality of applications associated with specific functions to perform image processing includes a first registration unit that, when executing any one of the plurality of applications, automatically registers first setting data set for the application in a storage unit in association with the application, a second registration unit that, according to a registration instruction from a user, registers second setting data set for any one of the plurality of applications in association with the application, and a display control unit that displays a calling-up and setting screen including a first button group for calling up the first setting data automatically registered in the storage unit and a second button group for calling up the second setting data registered in the storage unit.
US09936081B2
Information associated with a communication is gathered at a switching point during the routing process to determine subscriber metric information associated with an active service identifier. The information relates to the originator of the communication and the target. The information is compared to a provider database to determine a carrier originally associated with the active service identifier. The information is then compared to a porting database to determine if the active service identifier was ported, and if so, to which carrier the active service identifier was ported. A determination can then be made regarding which carrier is associated with the active service identifier. Various systems and methods may be used to determine a number of subscribers, a number of new subscribers, and a number of disconnected subscribers for a given carrier in a given market.
US09936068B2
Embodiments relate to extracting contact information from streaming voice data. An aspect includes a speech recognition module configured to transcribe a stream of voice data representing at least a portion of a telephone conversation into text data; a contact information extraction module configured to extract contact information from the text data; and a transceiver configured to send at least a portion of the contact information to a recipient calling device.
US09936065B2
A method and device for selectively limiting a non-vehicle user input source of a non-OEM handheld mobile device are disclosed. Upon sensing a docking of the non-OEM handheld mobile device with a vehicle network, and determines a vehicle state level based on vehicle sensor data. When the vehicle state level indicates an increase in the likelihood of operator distraction, a touch block command for the non-OEM handheld mobile device is retrieved and transmitted via the vehicle network. The touch block command operates to block a non-vehicle user input source of the non-OEM handheld mobile device.
US09936062B2
One embodiment provides a method for responding to an incoming communication based upon a dynamic state and a situational context related to a device of a user, the method including receiving an incoming communication at a mobile communication device; identifying at least one user-determined control level based upon an incoming communication, wherein the user-determined control level is based upon a physical orientation and a situational context of the mobile communication device; selecting a preferred mode of the user-determined control level based upon the incoming communication; and implementing at the mobile communication device, in response to the incoming communication, the preferred mode of the user-determined control level stored in the mobile communication device. Other variants and embodiments are broadly contemplated herein.
US09936056B2
A display panel and display device having the same are disclosed. In one aspect, the display panel includes a first substrate including a display region configured to display images and a non-display region surrounding the display region. The display panel further includes a metal pattern disposed in the non-display region, a second substrate opposing the first substrate, and a sealant disposed between and substantially sealing the first and second substrates, wherein the sealant at least partially overlaps the metal pattern. The metal pattern includes a body portion surrounding the display region and a plurality of protrusions extending from the body portion in a direction from the display region to the non-display region.
US09936055B2
An update can be multicast to a number of client devices. By multicasting an update, the update can be concurrently distributed to a large number of client devices using a single network transmission. This greatly reduces the amount of time required to update the client devices as well as the amount of bandwidth that is required to transfer the update over the network. As part of this multicasting process, the client device, which may have missed a segment of the multicast, can request the missed segment. The missed segment can then also be multicast to eliminate or minimize the redundant transmission of the missed segment.
US09936049B2
In certain information handling system environments, physical devices connected to a client are redirected to a server or other information handling system. Each of these physical devices will use and occupy network bandwidth, for example, during transmission of a data packet. Dynamically selecting a compression method for the data packet based, at least in part on, the type of data or payload in the data packet may reduce the amount of network bandwidth required by a particular device, for example a USB device that has been redirected.
US09936048B2
In an approach for connecting an access point in a client region to an access point within a cluster of server regions for a transaction process, a processor receives a connect request to a cluster of server regions sharing a network end point from a client region. A processor reroutes the connect request by a connection balancing mechanism to a network end point corresponding to a server region within the cluster of server regions. A processor transmits connection information to the client region, wherein the connection information allows the client region to connect to the server region within the cluster of server regions. A processor connects the server region within the cluster of server regions to the client region.
US09936047B2
A method and apparatus facilitates an enterprise to lease virtual appliances from network services provider. The method operates by deploying a converged networking and computing device at a service location, downloading a virtual network function to the converged networking and computing device, activating the virtual network function by a service in the wide area network, and connecting the virtual network function to a provisioned network path over the wide area network. Different virtual network functions can be deployed to different locations. The same virtual network function scan be deployed to different locations. Moreover, more than one virtual network function may be deployed to more than one service location. The virtual network functions can be realized through virtual machines, software containers, etc.
US09936039B2
A routing device capable of performing application layer data caching is described. Application data caching at a routing device can alleviate the bottleneck that an application data host may experience during high demands for application data. Requests for the application data can also be fulfilled faster by eliminating the network delays for communicating with the application data host. The techniques described can also be used to perform analysis of the underlying application data in the network traffic transiting though a routing device.
US09936038B2
A method of caching a content in a node in a content-centric network, includes receiving, from a content requester, a content request packet requesting a first chunk of the content, and setting a mark bit indicating whether the node is to cache the first chunk when the first chunk is received. The method further includes receiving, from a content provider, a data packet including the first chunk in response to transmitting the content request packet to the content provider, and caching the first chunk.
US09936020B2
A method begins by a dispersed storage (DS) processing module receiving, from a user device, a data access request and accessing hierarchical data access control information. The method continues with the DS processing module obtaining a logical memory access control file from the hierarchical data access control information and determining a data access request type of the request is within access rights of the user device. When the data access request type is within the access rights of the user device, the method continues with the DS processing module obtaining a data object access control file from the hierarchical data access control information. The method continues with the DS processing module determining, from the data object access control file, whether the data access request type is restricted. When the data access request type is not restricted, the method continues with the DS processing module processing the data access request.
US09936017B2
A method and system for logical mirroring between nodes includes maintaining a log of a state modifying operation received at a memory-based file system of an initiator node; writing attributes of the state modifying operation from the memory-based file system to a target node memory, and using the written attributes to process the state modifying operation at the target node according to the order represented by the log, to obtain logical mirroring between the initiator node and the target node.
US09936016B2
A cloud based collaborative work environment enables users to work collaboratively within a shared workspace. An application server on a host device is accessible to client devices via a communication network and maintains the shared workspace for collaboration between users. Client applications hosted on client devices enable users of the workspace to access and make changes in the shared workspace, such as adding or deleting items to or from the workspace, editing or annotating existing items, viewing items in the workspace, or downloading items in the workspace. Local copies of the shared workspace are maintained by the client devices and are synchronized with the shared workspace maintained by the application server so that any changes made to by a user to its local copy of the shared workspace are propagated to other users. Thus, synchronization is maintained between master workspace and the local workspaces on the client devices.
US09936012B2
A user terminal is provided. The user terminal includes a communicator configured to perform communication with a Social Network Service (SNS) providing server, an application driver configured to drive an SNS providing application to perform communication with another user, and a controller configured to, when a predetermined event occurs while the SNS providing application is operated, control to transmit information regarding reproduction of contents which are reproduced through a content play application so as to share information regarding reproduction of the contents with the other user.
US09936004B2
A network interface is disclosed for redundant coupling of a substation communication network and a packet-switched WAN of a power network. The interface device can include: a first redundancy module having: two LAN ports connectable with the Substation communication network, and a first interface port; a second redundancy module having: two WAN ports connectable with the WAN, and a second interface port; and a first interworking module connecting the first with the second redundancy module via the first and the second interface port, and adapted to forward protection data between the first and the second redundancy module.
US09935998B2
A wireless apparatus and system automatically processes digital “messages” to a remote system at a predefined destination address. Initial transmission occurs via a wireless network, and the apparatus process allows the simultaneous capture of new messages while transmissions are occurring. The destination address may correspond to an e-mail account, or may correspond to a remote server from which the message can be efficiently processed and/or further distributed. In the latter case, data packaged with the digital message is used to control processing of the message at the server, based on a combination of pre-defined system and user options. Secured Internet access to the server allows flexible user access to system parameters for configuration of message handling and distribution options, including the option to build named distribution lists that are downloaded to the wireless apparatus.
US09935995B2
A technique allows a client computer with a web browser to receive a web page having active content in response to transmitting a request for content. The active content includes a signature and a set of attributes associated with a web domain. The web browser can interpret the signature and the set of attributes as formatted in the active content. Validation of the signature and the set of attributes can be in a secure mode through a secure enclave module.
US09935993B2
Systems and methods to deliver streaming video over a hybrid network are provided herein. An adjusted bitrate to transmit video from a server to a client is determined in response to a fast-forward or rewind request. Frames from a video are selectively transmitted to accommodate for the adjusted bitrate based and a bitrate of a connection between the server and the client.
US09935992B2
The present disclosure discloses a method and a system for generating personalized views of live video feeds of an event. The method comprises determining one or more personalized inputs associated with each user. Further, the method comprises receiving a live video feed of an event from each of a plurality of imaging units. Then, the method generates a map of an area within which the event occurs. The method further comprises, receiving real-time location of at least one subject participating in the event from a tracking unit, correlating the real-time location of the subject with the mapped area, selecting, for each user, at least one video feed among the live video feeds for generating personalized views of the live video feeds and transmitting the at least one selected video feed to respective users through a web server for providing personalized views of the live video feeds of the event.
US09935991B2
In one embodiment, a client device includes a processor to send a first GET request to a server for a first data chunk of a data item, a communication interface to receive packets of the first data chunk, a buffer to buffer the packets, wherein the processor is operative to obtain a first measure of round trip time (RTT), the processor is operative to estimate a time t1 when receipt of the last packet of the packets of the first data chunk in the buffer will be completed, the processor is operative to determine a next fetch time, t2, to send a second GET request to the server for a second data chunk of the data item, based on the time t1 adjusted by a portion of the first measure of RTT, the processor is operative to send the second GET request to the server at about time t2.
US09935970B2
A system, method, and computer program product for implementing a phishing assessment that includes a phishing server that implements one or more phishing assessments; the phishing server: identifies legitimate target domain names to be used in the phishing assessment, generates one or more pseudo domain names and pseudo web pages, where the pseudo domain name are visually similar to an identified target domain name and the pseudo web page includes one or more characteristics and attributes of a legitimate web page.
US09935962B2
Various embodiments provide systems and methods for connecting wireless-enabled products to wireless networks. Customer network credentials may be stored in a server along with a customer identifier (“customer ID”) during one-time registration. When a wireless-enabled product is purchased, a product identifier (“product ID”) and the customer's ID are forwarded to the server, which correlates the two identifiers, linking the purchased product to the customer. When the wireless-enabled product is powered on, the product accesses the server via a public network connection, and sends the product ID and a security token to the server. The server uses the product ID and the security token to authenticate the product. Once authenticated, the server uses the correlated customer ID to look up the network credentials for the customer's private network, and provides the network credentials to the wireless-enabled product. The wireless-enabled product then uses the downloaded credentials to access the customer's private network.
US09935960B2
Example systems, methods and storage media to provide a cross-enterprise workflow among clinical systems are disclosed. An example cross-enterprise enabled clinical information system includes a workflow manager to coordinate user workflows with respect to the system and associated content. The system includes an image services manager configured to manage images and associated services for the system and associated content. The workflow manager and image services manager are configured for cross-enterprise content sharing such that the system is to locally authenticate a user at the system and the system is to locally authorize a remote request for access to content at the system from a remote user that has been authenticated remotely. The system is arranged to provide content in response to the remote request after the remote authentication has been received and the system has verified the remote user's authorization for access.
US09935955B2
Systems and methods implemented by a unified agent application executed on a mobile device, for unified service discovery and secure availability include authenticating a user into a plurality of cloud services including a proxy service and a Virtual Private Network (VPN) service, wherein the proxy service is utilized for Internet traffic and the VPN service is for Intranet traffic; creating and operating a link local network at the mobile device with a virtual network interface and multiple listening sockets; and intercepting traffic at the virtual network interface from one or more client applications on the mobile device and splitting the traffic between the proxy service, the VPN service, and the Internet based on a type of the traffic, a destination, and the one or more client applications.
US09935948B2
A fingerprint identification system comprising a smart device, a fingerprint scanner, a processor coupled to a transceiver and to the fingerprint scanner, and a digital storage element coupled to the processor. The digital storage element stores logic that causes the processor to: activate the fingerprint scanner to scan a user's finger, identify a feature and multiple minutia of the user's fingerprint, and generate a digital fingerprint string(s) indicative of a position of each minutia relative to the feature. The processor is then caused to combine the digital fingerprint string(s) with a first cryptographic salt to generate a first hash. The first hash is compared to a first hash signature to determine if the first hash represents an authentic fingerprint. If authentic, the processor combines the digital fingerprint string(s) with a second cryptographic salt to generate a second hash. This second hash is transmitted to one or more servers.
US09935941B2
A method for gathering and verifying customer information via SMS and in-person representatives are provided. The method may include a business correspondent receiving and verifying customer information in-person; sending the customer information to a data center, via a business correspondent application (BC app), to create a customer account; sending the account information to the customer and the BC app; verifying the account information with the customer; and syncing the BC app with the data center.
US09935937B1
A method for implementing network security policies in a multi-tenant network environment may include receiving a request for implementation of at least one network security policy on one or more computing devices of a service provider cloud environment. The network security policy identified by the request may be retrieved. The network security policy may be encrypted using encrypting credentials of the one or more computing devices. Decrypting credentials corresponding to the encrypting credentials are stored in a Trusted Platform Module (TPM) within the one or more computing devices. The encrypted network security policy may be pushed to the one or more computing devices, for decryption and implementation at the one or more computing devices.
US09935933B2
A method of securing an industrial control system includes operating the industrial control system in an open mode, wherein communications between a plurality of devices of the industrial control system are unencrypted when the industrial control system is in the open mode. The method includes exchanging security tokens between the plurality of devices of the industrial control system. The method further includes ceasing operating the industrial control system in the open mode and instead operating the industrial control system in a secure mode, wherein the communications between the plurality of devices of the industrial control system are encrypted using the security tokens when the industrial control system is operating in the secure mode.
US09935924B1
A secure chat client is described that allows users to exchange encrypted communications via secure chat rooms, as well as one-to-one communications. In particular, the secure chat client allows users to create, configure, and manage secure chat rooms. Furthermore, the secure chat client provides users with the ability to recover secure messages when they obtain a new device or otherwise lose communications.
US09935923B2
A secure data parser is provided that may be integrated into any suitable system for securely storing and communicating data. The secure data parser parses data and then splits the data into multiple portions that are stored or communicated distinctly. Encryption of the original data, the portions of data, or both may be employed for additional security. The secure data parser may be used to protect data in motion by splitting original data into portions of data, that may be communicated using multiple communications paths.
US09935922B2
According to one aspect, the subject matter described herein includes a method for screening Diameter messages within a Diameter signaling router (DSR) having a distributed message processor architecture. The method includes steps occurring at a DSR comprising a plurality of Diameter message processors, each configured to perform at least one Diameter function. The steps include receiving, at an ingress Diameter message processor of the Diameter message processors, a Diameter message from a Diameter peer node. The steps also include identifying, at a Diameter application message processor of the Diameter message processors, a Diameter message screening rule associated with the received Diameter message. The steps further include performing, at the Diameter application message processor of the Diameter message processors, a screening function associated with the identified Diameter message screening rule on the received Diameter message.
US09935920B2
Methods and apparatus are provided for controlling communication between a virtualized network and non-virtualized entities using a virtualization gateway. A packet is sent by a virtual machine in the virtualized network to a non-virtualized entity. The packet is routed by the host of the virtual machine to a provider address of the virtualization gateway. The gateway translates the provider address of the gateway to a destination address of the non-virtualized entity and sends the packet to the non-virtualized entity. The non-virtualized entity may be a physical resource, such as a physical server or a storage device. The physical resource may be dedicated to one customer or may be shared among customers.
US09935908B2
In general, this disclosure describes techniques of enabling devices to download only current portions of email messages without downloading historical portions of the email messages. For instance, when an email client generates a reply email message to an original email message, the reply email message includes a current portion and a historical portion. The current portion of the reply email message includes new information and the historical portion of the reply email message includes the original email message. The techniques of this disclosure enable devices to download the current portions of email messages without downloading the historical portions of the email messages.
US09935905B2
A method of restricting the distribution of an image attachment to an electronic message via an electronic communications network comprises receiving, via the electronic communications network, the electronic message at a server; removing the image attachment from the electronic message; fragmenting the image into at least two image parts; and creating a set of rendering instructions as to how the at least two the image parts should be reconstituted to represent the original image.
US09935896B2
According to one aspect, a method includes an Intercloud Fabric Switch (ICS) included in a public cloud and an ICS cluster obtaining a packet, and determining if the packet is obtained from a site-to-site link that links the ICS to an enterprise datacenter. If the packet is obtained from the site-to-site link, it is determined whether the packet is an unknown unicast packet. If the packet is an unknown unicast packet, the packet is dropped, and if not, the packet is provided to an access link that links the ICS to a virtual machine. If the packet is not obtained from the site-to-site link, it is determined whether the packet is obtained from an inter-ICS link that allows the ICS to communicate with the ICS cluster. If the packet is obtained from the inter-ICS link, the packet is dropped if it is an unknown unicast packet.
US09935895B2
Some embodiments of the present application relate to the field of gateways for internet access, associated video service decoders and the methods for broadcasting video content by an operator through such a gateway intended for such a decoder. A virtual MAC address is dedicated to VOD on the decoder. This address is then recognized by the gateway. The gateway implements a direct circuit directly directing the traffic related to this virtual address between the interface for accessing the communications network and the gateway physical port to which the decoder is connected. Advantageously, the circuit is dynamically configured by intercepting the DHCP request used to configure this virtual address.
US09935894B2
The subject disclosure relates to a method for scheduling logical resources in cloud platforms. A cloud platform system identifies resource candidates for hosting a logical resource of a cloud service. The system filters the resource candidates by running them through a filter chain, a collection of serially connected filters. The filter chain may contain one or more reference filters that reference other filter chains. When the resource candidates encounter one of the reference filters, the other filter chains can be triggered and processed. The system selects one or more resources for hosting the logical resource from the filtered resource candidates.
US09935892B2
A method implemented in a computer infrastructure having computer executable code, including consolidating collected capacity architecture information, which includes data for installed resources, allocated resources and reserved resources and determining available resources based on the collected capacity architecture information. Additionally, the method includes displaying an indication the available resources and performing capacity planning based on the collected capacity architecture information and the available resources.
US09935890B2
A convolutional interleaver included in a time interleaver, which performs convolutional interleaving includes: a first switch that switches a first connection destination of an input terminal of the convolutional interleaver to one end of one of a plurality of branches; a plurality of FIFO memories provided in some of the plurality of branches except one branch, wherein a number of FIFO memories is different among the plurality of branches; and a second switch that switches a second connection destination of an output terminal of the convolutional interleaver to the other end of one of the plurality of branches. The first and second switches switch the first and second connection destinations, respectively, when the plurality of cells as many as the codewords per frame have passed, by switching a corresponding branch of the first and second connection destinations sequentially and repeatedly among the plurality of branches.
US09935889B2
A communication apparatus includes a storing unit, a setting unit, a transmitting unit. The storing unit stores the number of transmissions of data to a destination of the data in association with an identifier that identifies the data. The setting unit sets, when the number of transmissions of target data that is data of a target of transmission to the destination reaches a threshold, as alternative data, a combination of the target data and a retaining request for requesting retaining of the target data. The alternative data is data to be transmitted to the destination as an alternative of the target data. The setting unit sets, after transmission of the retaining request, the identifier of the target data as the alternative data. The transmitting unit transmits the alternative data to the destination.
US09935878B2
A PVLAN switch for connecting a PVLAN to a non-PVLAN device is configured as a primary VLAN with secondary VLANs, the primary VLAN includes promiscuous ports, each of the secondary VLANs includes a smart PVLAN trunk port, and the smart PVLAN trunk port is included in at least two secondary VLANs where the smart PVLAN trunk port and the promiscuous port connect to non-PVLAN devices. A frame is received on a smart PVLAN trunk port sent from a non-PVLAN device, and includes a destination address and a secondary VLAN ID. The PVLAN switch port ID for the first frame, and a primary VLAN ID for the secondary VLAN ID are identified. If the frame is a non-isolated port, the secondary VLAN ID is modified to be the primary VLAN ID, and the modified frame is sent to another non-PVLAN device connected to the PVLAN switch port.
US09935877B2
A method for transmitting routing information between first and second nodes of a plurality of nodes capable of exchanging data relative to the management of subscribers to electronic communication services. The first node and the second node are connected and have exchanged the respective management capabilities thereof. The method includes, when the management capabilities supported by both the first node and the second node include a discovery capability: triggered by a predefined event, transmission, by the first node to the second node, of a discovery message including at least one item of routing information included in a routing table of the first node and relative to at least a third node.
US09935875B2
A method for relaying a data packet containing at least positional data, the data packet being carried in a transmission signal and received via a vehicular ad hoc network. The method includes the following steps: filtering the received data packet based on a predetermined filter condition; and relaying the filtered data packet to an additional receiver based on an identification of whether the filtered data packet should be relayed to the additional receiver.
US09935861B2
A system including a metrics server and a messaging server is provided. The metrics server receives traffic data describing instant messages sent via the messaging server, and from the traffic data generates and updates suspicion indices corresponding to the computing devices that sent the messages. The suspicion indices are passed to the messaging server, which can modify its handling of subsequent messages based on the suspicion indices of the senders.
US09935860B2
An activity stream based interaction model is disclosed. To cause a desired application level action to be performed at a remote system, such as automatically retrieving and displaying a document in a viewer or other portion of a user interface at the remote system, a text-based tag, such as a hash tag, is inserted into an activity stream. The activity stream is sent to the remote system, which is configured to respond to the text-based tag by performing, at least in part automatically, the corresponding application level action.
US09935859B2
Loading estimation of 3GPP networks. One or more metrics relating to a cell of a 3GPP network may be measured. Loading of the cell may be estimated based on the one or more metrics. The metrics may include metrics measured, estimated, or derived at multiple layers, possibly including one or more of physical layer, radio link control layer, radio resource control layer, or application layer metrics.
US09935854B2
A method and apparatus for infrastructure performance monitoring are described. In one embodiment, the method comprises monitoring virtual application performance, identifying degradation in the application performance, and correlating the degradation to one or more of virtual and physical infrastructure components.
US09935852B2
Methods and system for network monitoring is provided. The system includes a communication circuit configured to receive network information from one or more components of a medical network for a select time period, and a controller circuit having one or more processors coupled to the communication circuit. The controller circuit is configured to determine a configuration and data usage of the medical network based on the network information at reference points along the time period of interest. The controller circuit is configured to generate a graphical representation of a topology of the medical network on a display based on the configuration of the medical network at one of the reference points. The graphical representation includes a plurality of component markers, representing the one or more components, interconnected with each other, and a visual status indicator for the one or more components based on the data usage.
US09935850B1
Systems and methods are provided for a computer-implemented method of implementing an on-demand computing network environment. A network specification is received from a user. Resources from one or more resource providers are provisioned. The on-demand computing network is configured, where configuring comprises assigning a first provisioned resource as a hub device and assigning one or more second provisioned resources as rim devices, where rim devices are configured to communicate with one another only via the hub device.
US09935847B2
A particular method includes generating, at a server configured to access inventory data associated with one or more managed devices, a graphical user interface (GUI) that is operable to define grouping criteria for one or more dynamic groups of managed devices. The method also includes receiving, at the server via the GUI, first grouping criteria and data identifying an action to be performed with respect to managed devices that satisfy the first grouping criteria. The first grouping criteria is based on at least second grouping criteria and a logical operator. The method further includes determining, at the server based on the inventory data, a group of managed devices that satisfy the first grouping criteria. The method includes initiating, by the server, transmission of a push notification regarding the action to each managed device in the group of managed devices.
US09935846B2
Methods and systems are provided related to synchronized networks. A synchronized network can include a node and additional nodes. The node can receive a packet including information. The node can determine whether the packet is from the synchronized network. After determining that the packet is from the synchronized network, the node can: send the packet to at least one of the additional nodes, determine whether a synchronized network interface (SNI) is on the node and is associated with the packet, where the SNI includes software executable on the node. After determining that the SNI is on the node and is associated with the packet, the node can generate a view of data in the synchronized network by: determining a user interface (UI) layout associated with the SNI, generating the view based on the UI layout and on the information using the SNI, and provide the view.
US09935845B2
Improved cloud migration tools are provided. In some embodiments, improved cloud migration tools may provide complex cloud migration analysis techniques for automated monitoring of aggregate compliance with cloud migration protocols, including user- and/or organizational defined architectural guidelines. In some embodiments, improved cloud migration tools may provide automated detective cloud controls, particularly in the management across multiple cloud computing platform accounts, virtual private clouds (VPCs), and/or a large numbers of numbers of resources.
US09935836B2
Network resource monitoring systems and methods are presented. In one embodiment, a network resource monitoring method comprises: gathering network resource pre-monitoring information, including information indicating whether a network resource is associated with a zone, and if associated with a zone also gathering information indicating zone type; performing a network resource monitoring process on the network resource based on results of the gathered network resource pre-monitoring information; including performing a network resource monitoring process when the network resource is in a local zone that does not otherwise make available or share information with a global zone; and analyzing the results of the network resource monitoring process. In one embodiment, if the network resource is included in an exclusive IP zone. In one exemplary implementation, the network resource monitoring process comprises: ascertaining if a monitoring type trigger condition exists; performing a corresponding type of monitoring if the monitoring type trigger condition exists.
US09935830B1
A cloud management system includes a computer executed application that generates an interface for management of the resources of a computing node by a cloud portal. The application receives an interface definition associated with the resource in which the interface definition includes information associated with one or more configuration operations to be performed on the resource. Using the interface definition, the application generates a cloud portal interface component that communicates with a cloud portal to translate the one or more configuration operations to a specified protocol, and generates a resource endpoint component that receives the configuration operations from the cloud portal interface component, translates the configuration operations to a format suitable for use by the resource, and transmits the configuration operations to the resource for configuring the resource.
US09935829B1
A control-plane component of a virtualization-based packet processing service determines (a) a performance goal for a first category of packet processing operations to be implemented using compute instances of a virtual computing service and (b) one or more packet processing rules. The control-plane component assigns one or more compute instances as nodes of a packet processing cluster designated to perform the requested operations. The control-plane component provides metadata to the client, to be used to establish connectivity between the cluster and one or more sources of the traffic whose packets are to be processed.
US09935826B2
A centralized network administrator may automatically provision an Ethernet circuit between network elements by storing and managing circuit data (managed objects) in one of the network elements (master node) and synchronizing the circuit data among the network nodes in the Ethernet circuit path. In addition, multiple network administrators may provision multiple Ethernet circuits using the overlapping network elements by managing access to the circuit data in the Master node.
US09935815B2
A data administration unit for updating a first data structure in a first memory may comprise a second memory, a data structure generator for setting up a second data structure in the second memory, a pointer generator for setting at least one of a dynamic change indicator and a pointer in the first data structure, a waiting unit for waiting for a finalization of a data access of a data access unit, and a data structure over-writer for overwriting the first data structure using data of the second data structure. An data access unit for accessing a first data structure in a first memory may comprise a data access driver, a first synchronization signal evaluator for reception and evaluation of a first synchronization signal, and a synchronization approval signal generator for generation and submission of a first synchronization signal.
US09935811B2
The present invention relates to remote control technologies, and provides a method, web server and system for remote control. The method comprises: receiving remote control information sent by a remote-controlling terminal; executing a control instruction on a corresponding webpage in accordance with the remote control information, or sending information on the corresponding webpage back to the remote-controlling terminal and executing a control instruction selected or entered by a user at the remote-controlling terminal based on information on the corresponding webpage; and returning execution result to the remote-controlling terminal in a webpage format so that the remote-controlling terminal can obtain information on current execution result at a remote-controlled terminal based on the returned webpage. The present invention can effectively address the issues of poor usability caused by the need to develop different remote control software for different platforms, and that remote-controlling terminal cannot receive and display execution result of the remote control instruction.
US09935810B1
A model identification system includes an analog to digital converter (ADC). The ADC includes a conversion circuit configured to receive a first analog signal and generate a first digital signal including samples having a first rate by sampling the first analog signal at the first rate. The ADC further includes a first digital signal processing (DSP) circuit configured to generate a second digital signal including samples having a second rate less than the first rate based on the second digital signal and a first sampling matrix. The first sampling matrix is a block diagonal matrix including a plurality of diagonal blocks, each diagonal block is a row vector including a plurality of elements.
US09935800B1
Techniques for reducing the complexity and power requirements of precompensation units, as well as equalizers, devices, and systems employing such techniques. In an illustrative method for providing high speed equalization, the method comprises: obtaining a channel response that presents trailing intersymbol interference in a signal having a sequence of symbols from a symbol set; determining a distribution of threshold values for a precompensation unit corresponding to said channel response with said symbol set; deriving a reduced set of threshold values from said distribution; and implementing a decision feedback equalizer with a reduced-complexity precompensation unit employing the reduced set of threshold values. In a related illustrative method for providing high speed equalization, the method comprises: obtaining a channel response that presents trailing intersymbol interference in a signal having a sequence of symbols from a symbol set, the channel response and symbol set corresponding to an initial distribution of threshold values for a precompensation unit; deriving a filter that converts the channel response into a modified channel response, the modified channel response and symbol set corresponding to an improved distribution of threshold values in that the improved distribution includes fewer distinct threshold values or reduced spacing between at least some adjacent threshold values; and implementing a decision feedback equalizer with a reduced-complexity precompensation unit employing the threshold values in the improved distribution.
US09935793B2
Embodiments are directed to identifying entities in content, highlighting the identified entities, and displaying an interactive chat session based on a selected entity. The interactive chat session and the content may be displayed in the same browser window. The interactive chat session may be overlaid on top of the content, inserted inline into the content, or otherwise embedded within the content. The content and the interactive chat session may both remain active in the browser window, enabling a user to conveniently read and chat about the content. The topic of the interactive chat session may be automatically selected from a hierarchical taxonomy of chat session topics, or the user may select the topic from one or more provided taxonomies.
US09935792B2
A system and method are provided for switching between conversations in instant messaging applications. The instant messaging application is configured for displaying a list of conversations upon detecting selection of the option within a menu or link within the conversation screen and permit navigation to another conversation. The conversations may be prioritized based first on whether the conversation has any unread messages and within the grouping of those conversations having unread messages, may be prioritized based on when the last activity occurred. In this way, the user has easiest access to conversations with the most recent activity with the ability to scroll down the list of conversations to continue an older conversation if desired.
US09935790B2
A system and method of implementing a virtual channel virtual private network is disclosed. In one embodiment, a remote desktop protocol (RDP) client is connected to a RDP server. The RDP client requests a virtual connection to a first computing device. A virtual channel for the RDP connection is created. A client application or client gateway is bound to the first virtual channel at the RDP client. The RDP server establishes a connection to a server application or a server gateway, and binds the connection to the first virtual channel.
US09935788B2
In particular embodiments, a client device may established a first connection to a ticket server of a gateway, wherein the gateway couples the client device to a first computing device, retrieve a permission vector from the ticket server though the first connection, wherein the retrieved permission vector contains at least one or more tickets to authenticate and authorize the client device access to at least the gateway and the first computing device, and establish a second connection to the first computing device based at least on the retrieved tickets
US09935780B2
Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and software for facilitating collaboration within message environments. In an implementation, a message system receives a request to send on behalf of a sender a message having an attachment. In response to the request, the message system generates a collaborative version of the attachment within a location associated with the sender. The collaborative version of the attachment may be modified to reflect updates initiated on behalf of recipients of the message.
US09935778B2
The invention relates to a method to route a diameter message of a data packet session in a mobile communications network. A diameter routing unit receives a diameter message and checks whether an indicator is set, the indicator indicating that the message relates to a data packet session for which a policy and charging control unit has already been selected. When the indicator is set the policy and charging control unit is identified and the message is transmitted to the identified policy and charging control unit.
US09935766B2
A processor includes a CPU core and an encryption processor which includes an address registration region, wherein, after power is supplied, a startup program which is stored into a memory after encryption and executed at startup registers an address range of the memory in which encrypted concealment data is stored into the address registration region, and wherein the encryption processor decrypts the startup program and the concealment data and transfers to the CPU core when an execution address of the CPU core is within the address range registered in the address registration region, and transfers the startup program and the concealment data to the CPU core without decryption when the execution address of the CPU core is not within the address range registered in the address registration region.
US09935765B2
The present disclosure presents methods, systems, and devices for encrypting and comparing genomic data. The comparison of genomic data allows the owner of the data to ensure security of the data even when the party conducting the comparison is beyond the control of the owner of the data. The encryption of the genomic data enables the transmission, storage, and use of the genomic data in a secure media.
US09935757B2
Techniques are disclosed relating to channel quality reporting for full-duplex (FD) wireless communications. In some embodiments an apparatus (e.g., a mobile device) is configured to receive a reference signal in a wireless communication and determine an effective signal to interference plus noise ratio (SINR) for FD communications based on a measured SINR of the reference signal and one or more self-interference cancelation levels. The apparatus may determine the one or more self-interference cancelation levels based on the transmit power of signals transmitted by the apparatus and residual power after SIC. The SIC levels may include both analog and digital SIC levels, which may be separately determined. One or more modulation and coding schemes may be determined based on the effective SINR. In some embodiments, multiple effective SINRs are determined for multiple different transmission modulation orders used by the apparatus.
US09935755B2
A method of transmitting data by a transmitter in a broadcast system, a transmission device for transmitting at least one data stream in a broadcast system, a method of receiving data by a receiver in a broadcast system, and a receiving device for receiving data in a broadcast system are provided. The method of transmitting data by a transmission device includes generating a first frame comprising a preamble and a payload, wherein the preamble comprises first information related to the payload of the first frame, and wherein the payload comprises the data; and transmitting the first frame, wherein the preamble includes at least one parity bit for third information related to a payload of a second frame, and wherein the second frame is a next frame of the first frame.
US09935746B2
A method may be provided to operate a first base station in a Radio Access Network including the first base station and a second base station. According to this method, a Reference Signal Received Power (RSRP) measurement list, a Coordinated Multipoint (CoMP) hypothesis, and a Benefit Metric may be communicated between the first and second base stations.
US09935744B2
A method and an apparatus for transmitting broadcast signals thereof are disclosed. The apparatus for receiving broadcast signals, the apparatus comprises a receiver to receive the broadcast signals, a demodulator to demodulate the received broadcast signals by an OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex) scheme, a frame parser to parse a signal frame from the demodulated broadcast signals, wherein the signal frame includes at least one service data, a time deinterleaver to time deinterleave each the service data, wherein the time deinterleaving is performed depending on a number of physical paths for each the service data, a demapper to demap the time deinterleaved data and a decoder to decode the demapped service data.
US09935740B2
Methods, apparatuses, and systems for improving utilization of a communications system (e.g., a satellite communications system) are provided, using delayed reliability techniques as part of a multicast transport protocol. Embodiments may operate in a client-server context, in which the server-side of the communication link multicasts data to requesting users and to users where the data is being speculatively prepositioned. Requesting users may implement reliability checks to verify receipt of complete data in response to the request while user systems where data is being speculatively prepositioned may receive multicast reliability information in response to reliability requests from other users, but may not request replacement of missing or corrupted data themselves until a request is made for the data by that system.
US09935737B2
Embodiments of an access point (AP), user station (STA), and method for spatial modulation orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (SM-OFDM) communication in a wireless network are generally described herein. The AP may transmit an SM-OFDM signal that comprises multiple OFDM signals. The SM-OFDM signal may be transmitted in channel resources that comprise multiple sub-carriers and the OFDM signals may be based at least partly on data symbols for used data portions of the sub-carriers. The used data portions may be based on a first portion of encoded bits and the data symbols for the used data portions may be based on a second portion of the encoded bits. In some examples, the used data portions of the sub-carriers may be different for at least some of the OFDM signals.
US09935733B1
A method of enabling a communication channel between a first communication circuit and a second communication circuit is described. The method comprises establishing a communication link according to a communication protocol between the first communication circuit and the second communication circuit, wherein the communication protocol enables the transmission of data between the first communication circuit and the second communication circuit at a standardized data rate; determining a standardized data rate for which the communication link between the first communication circuit and the second communication circuit fails to meet a predetermined quality threshold; and establishing a communication link according to the communication protocol at a non-standardized data rate below the determined standardized data rate.
US09935732B2
A node (100) of a cellular network selects a first modulation scheme setting for a first radio link to a first device (10′). The first modulation scheme setting is selected from a set of modulation scheme settings, each identified by at least one corresponding index. On the basis of a mapping of each of the indices to a corresponding set of transmission parameters, the node (100) identifies a first set of link parameters mapped to the index corresponding to the selected first modulation scheme setting. The node (100) then configures the first radio link according to the identified first set of link parameters. Further, the node (100) selects a second modulation scheme setting for a second radio link to a second device (10).
US09935725B2
According to one embodiment, a social information distribution apparatus apportions and accumulates, for items classified, basic information including a position of each of a plurality of information sources and social information transmitted in time series from each of the plurality of information sources, analyzes the accumulated social information, modifies and processes the social information, updates the social information as some of the items, selects social information to be broadcast, determines a broadcast format including at least classification of broadcast ranges, a broadcasting time, and a repetition count within the broadcasting time when broadcasting the selected social information, and transmits the selected social information to a designated broadcast range by a broadcast wave.
US09935716B2
An optical modulator includes an optical splitter splitting input optical signals into a first optical signal and a second optical signal and transmitting the first optical signal and the second optical signal to a first optical waveguide and a second optical waveguide, respectively, an optical combiner generating an output optical signal by combining the first and second optical signals transmitted from the first and second optical waveguides respectively, and including three output ports including a main output port, a first auxiliary output port, and a second auxiliary output port, three output optical waveguides connected to the three output ports, respectively, and transmitting the output optical signal, and an optical detector connected to at least one of the three output optical waveguides.
US09935714B2
An apparatus, system and method for facilitating higher bandwidth communication in a data center using existing multi-mode fibers. A first transceiver within a first device transmits Ethernet traffic to a second device over first and second optical fibers and receives return optical signals over the same first and second optical devices. By varying the wavelengths between the transmitted and received optical signals, the same optical fibers can be used to both transmit and receive optical signals. A second transceiver within the same housing as the first transceiver performs the same function. In this fashion, one device can be coupled to four bidirectional optical fibers, each transmitting and receiving optical signals at 20 Gbps.
US09935713B2
A first and a second interconnection unit comprising a respective first and a second communication interface, a first and a second electro-optical converter, and a multiplexing unit, is disclosed. The first interconnection unit is adapted to receive electrically transmitted analog and digital information, convert said information into electrically transmitted information, and to multiplex the information so as to enable transmission over a bidirectional link. The second interconnection unit is adapted to receive and de-multiplex the transmitted analog and digital information, to convert it back into electrically transmitted analog and digital information, and to output said information. A system comprising the first and second interconnection units is also disclosed. The system is adapted for supplying both analog services and digital services with communication information over the bidirectional link.
US09935707B2
A method for transmitting and coherently detecting data transmitted over electrical lanes that experience different amounts of skew includes, at a traffic generation or forwarding device, self calibrating transmit and receive-side components of the traffic generation or forwarding device to account for skew between electrical lanes and setting per-electrical lane delays based on the calibration. Data to be transmitted to a network device is generated. The data to be transmitted is spread, using one of the transmit-side components, over a first number of electrical lanes. The data is multiplexed from the electrical lanes onto a second number of optical lanes, the second number being different from the first number. Data is transmitted to and received from the network device over the optical lanes. Transmitted data is reconstructed from the received data using the receive-side components.
US09935706B2
In an example, the present invention includes an integrated system-on-chip device. The device is configured on a single silicon substrate member. The device has a data input/output interface provided on the substrate member. The device has an input/output block provided on the substrate member and coupled to the data input/output interface. The device has a signal processing block provided on the substrate member and coupled to the input/output block. The device has a driver module provided on the substrate member and coupled to the signal processing block. In an example, the device has a driver interface provided on the substrate member and coupled to the driver module and configured to be coupled to a silicon photonics device. In an example, a control block is configured to receive and send instruction(s) in a digital format to the communication block and is configured to receive and send signals in an analog format to communicate with the silicon photonics device.
US09935703B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a host node device having a terminal interface that receives downstream channel signals from a communication network and send upstream channel signals to the communication network. An access point repeater launches the downstream channel signals as guided electromagnetic waves on a guided wave communication system and to extract a first subset of the upstream channel signals from the guided wave communication system. A radio wirelessly transmits the downstream channel signals to at least one client node device and to wirelessly receive a second subset of the upstream channel signals from the at least one client node device. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US09935701B2
A method of receiving a reference signal by a user equipment. A first channel state information-reference signal (CSI-RS) configuration related to a discovery of a transmission point is received. A second CSI-RS configuration related to a CSI measurement is received. A CSI-RS according to the first CSI-RS configuration or the second CSI-RS configuration is received. Feedback information is transmitted to a base station. If the CSI-RS has been received according to the first CSI-RS configuration, the feedback information includes information on a CSI-RS received strength. If the CSI-RS has been received according to the second CSI-RS configuration, the feedback information includes a result of the CSI measurement.
US09935700B2
A method for, at a transmitter, transmitting a signal to a receiver in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The method includes transmitting a first reference signal for omni-directionally providing a uniform reference beam to the receiver, transmitting a second reference signal for providing beams respectively corresponding to a predetermined number of sectors to the receiver, receiving, from the receiver, sector information selected based on the second reference signal and information about a beam gain difference between a beam corresponding to the selected sector and the reference beam, and performing beamforming for transmitting a signal to the receiver based on the sector information and the information about the beam gain difference.
US09935699B2
A communication method and an apparatus using beamforming in a wireless communication system are provided. The communication method includes determining a candidate user set including one or more Mobile Stations (MSs), for Multiple User-Multiple Input Multiple Output (MU-MIMO) transmission, transmitting beam information indicating best Base Station (BS) transmission beams of the MSs of the candidate user set to the MSs of the candidate user set, receiving Precoding Matrix Index (PMI) information indicating a PMI to be used for baseband precoding from each of the MSs of the candidate user set, the PMI information being determined based on the beam information, and transmitting a signal precoded based on the PMI information to at least one MS.
US09935696B2
A system and method for system and method for multiplexing control and data channels in a multiple input, multiple output (MIMO) communications system are provided. A method for transmitting control symbols and data symbols on multiple MIMO layers includes selecting a first set of codewords from Ncw codewords, distributing control symbols onto the first set of layers, placing data symbols of the first set of codewords onto the first set of layers, placing data symbols of the (Ncw−Ncw1) remaining codewords to remaining layers if Ncw>Ncw1, and transmitting the multiple MIMO layers. The first set of codewords is associated with a first set of layers from the multiple MIMO layers, and the Ncw codewords are to be transmitted simultaneously and the first set of codewords comprises Ncw1 MIMO codewords, where Ncw and Ncw1 are integers greater than or equal to 1. The remaining layers are MIMO layers from the multiple MIMO layers not in the first set of layers.
US09935695B2
A transmitting radio node (10) precodes a transmission from an antenna array, which includes antenna elements arranged along at least two axes, using a main codebook which is representable as a Kronecker product of a first codebook and a second codebook, where the first codebook comprises predetermined sub-precoders and the second codebook comprises configurable sub-precoders. A receiving radio node (20) may benefit from adaptive beamforming made possible by the configurability of the main codebook, while still using a stable format, which remains valid also after reconfiguration, for the exchange of reference signals and corresponding feedback information.
US09935694B2
Technology for reducing user plane congestion is disclosed. An inquiry request message can be received at a mobility management entity (MME) from a congestion information collection function (CICF). The inquiry request message can request an international mobile subscriber identity (IMSI) and a packet data network (PDN) connection identifier (ID) associated with user equipments (UEs) that are impacted by radio access network (RAN) user plane congestion. The IMSI and the PDN connection ID that are associated with the UEs can be identified based in part on the inquiry request message. An inquiry response message that includes the IMSI and the PDN connection ID can be sent to the CICF to enable the CICF to discover an assigned policy and charging rules function (PCRF) for the UEs that are impacted by the RAN user plane congestion, wherein the PCRF is configured to implement network policies to reduce the RAN user plane congestion.
US09935693B2
The present invention relates to a method for communicating in a network, said network comprising a primary station and at least a first secondary station, wherein the first secondary station transmits to the primary station an indication of a first plurality of precoding vectors, wherein the number of first precoding vectors is greater than a preferred rank of transmission from the primary station to the first secondary station.
US09935687B2
A method of monitoring an enclosed environment includes disposing a sensor assembly in an environment enclosed by an enclosure, where the sensor assembly includes a transmitter configured to communicate using near-field magnetic induction. A receiver is disposed outside the enclosure and configured to communicate with the transmitter using near-field magnetic induction. The receiver is to a communications device. The sensor assembly detects a sensed condition of the environment enclosed by the enclosure. The transmitter communicates the sensed condition to the receiver using near-field magnetic induction. After receiving the sensed condition from the receiver, the communications device communicates the sensed condition to a user.
US09935685B2
A network such as an in-vehicle powerline communication (PLC) network may allow PLC nodes to communicate over existing powerlines. Provided in the present disclosure are exemplary techniques for synchronizing network nodes (e.g., PLC nodes) with a network clock for the network so that data generated at each node may share a common time reference. For example, a synchronization (sync) signal may be generated by a master node and broadcast to other PLC nodes over a PLC channel, which may also carry data frames to and from other PLC nodes. The network clock may be autonomously generated by the master node or may be tied to an external clock.
US09935672B2
A mm wave circuit includes a multiplexer plate having first and second faces, and an output port in the first face. The mm wave circuit also includes a receiver having a receiver input port, the receiver being arranged on the first face and electrically earthed thereto, and an electrically insulating layer covering at least a portion of the first face, the electrically insulating layer having a top face spaced apart from the first face. The electrically insulating layer includes a via extending from the top face to the output port, the via having a via mouth arranged in the top face. The mm wave circuit also includes a receiving antenna at least partly covering the via mouth, the receiving antenna being connected to the receiver input port by a receive line.
US09935670B2
RF front-end circuitry, which includes RF switching and duplexing circuitry, a first RF diplexer, and a second RF diplexer, is disclosed. The RF switching and duplexing circuitry operates in one of a group of RF transmit modes, such that the group of RF transmit modes includes at least one transmit uplink carrier aggregation mode. The RF switching and duplexing circuitry provides at least one RF transmit signal based on the one of the group of RF transmit modes. The first RF diplexer is coupled between the RF switching and duplexing circuitry and a primary RF antenna. The second RF diplexer is coupled between the RF switching and duplexing circuitry and an auxiliary RF antenna.
US09935669B1
A protection enclosure of an portable electronic device includes a protective frame including a protective frame main body in which the portable electronic device is received and held and multiple protective frame magnetic members, which are arranged in the protective frame main body at intervals and grouped as at least one lateral protective frame magnetic attraction row and at least one longitudinal protective frame magnetic attraction row perpendicular to the lateral protective frame magnetic attraction row; and a protective cover including a protective cover main body having a bottom board, an end board, and a connection board connected between the bottom board and the end board and multiple protective cover magnetic members arranged, at intervals, on the end board to form at least one protective cover magnetic attraction row. Foldability is available between the bottom board and the connection board and also between the connection board and the end board.
US09935659B2
Systems for performing turbo product code decoding includes an error intersection identifier determining a set of one or more error intersections using a set of error-containing codewords, and updating, based at least in part on Chase decoding performed on the set of error-containing codewords, the set of error intersections to obtain an updated set of one or more error intersections, a bit location selector suitable for selecting, from the set of error intersections, a set of one or more least reliable bit locations using soft information associated with the set of error-containing codewords, and a Chase decoder performing Chase decoding on the set of error-containing codewords based on a first value being a number of least reliable bit locations and a second value being a maximum number of allowable flips allowed out of the number of least reliable bit locations.
US09935653B2
Methods and apparatus related to enhanced Cyclical Redundancy Check (CRC) circuit based on Galois-Field arithmetic are described. In one embodiment, a plurality of exclusive OR logic include first exclusive OR logic and second exclusive OR logic. First Galois Field multiplier logic multiplies a first output from the first exclusive OR logic and a first portion of a plurality of portions of the input data. Second Galois Field multiplier logic multiplies a second output from the second exclusive OR logic and a second portion of the plurality of portions of the input data. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed.
US09935627B2
Radio-frequency (RF) switch circuits having switchable transistor coupling for improved switching performance. An RF switch system includes at least one field-effect transistor (FET) disposed between first and second nodes, each FET having a gate and body. A switchable resistive coupling circuit is connected to each of the respective gates. A switchable resistive grounding circuit is connected to each of the respective bodies. The RF switch system also includes a compensation circuit to compensate a non-linearity effect generated by at least one of the field-effect transistors.
US09935620B2
The present invention provides a technique for further improving the processing efficiency in accordance with the setting of the number of waits in a semiconductor device that arbitrates data transfer through a bus between a plurality of bus masters and a plurality of bus slaves. A semiconductor device includes a clock supplying unit that independently supplies clocks to a plurality of bus slaves and a plurality of bus masters. The number of waits in accordance with an operating frequency can be set for each bus slave such as a memory. As the setting of the number of waits becomes smaller, the clock supplying unit improves the operating frequency by controlling a phase difference between the clocks supplied to the bus masters and the bus slaves in accordance with the number of waits set for each bus slave.
US09935618B1
A Schmitt trigger's hysteresis is established by standard and non-standard MOSFETs having different (lower/higher) threshold voltages. For example, a standard n-channel transistor having a relatively low threshold voltage (e.g., 1V) sets the lower trigger switching voltage, and a non-standard n-channel transistor (e.g., an n-channel source/drain and a polysilicon gate doped with a p-type dopant) exhibits a relatively high threshold voltage (e.g., 2V) that sets the higher trigger switching voltage. An output control circuit generates the Schmitt trigger's digital output signal based on the on/off states of the two (non-standard and standard) MOSFETs, whereby the changes digital output signal between two values when the analog input signal falls below the lower threshold voltage (i.e., when both MOSFETs are turned on/off) and rises above the higher threshold voltage (i.e., when both MOSFETs are turned off/on). Self-resetting and other circuits utilize the Schmitt trigger to facilitate, e.g., high dynamic range image sensor pixels.
US09935614B2
Multi-state radio frequency (RF) attenuator configurations that include bridged-T type, pi-type, and T-type structures each having a programmable throughput section and a coupled programmable shunt section. The throughput sections and shunt sections may be configured in various combinations of parallel and serial fixed or selectable resistance elements such that multiple resistance states and impedance matching states can be programmatically selected, and may include stacked switch elements to withstand applied voltages to a specified design level.
US09935612B2
A ladder-type filter includes: one or more series resonators connected in series between an input terminal and an output terminal; two or more parallel resonators connected in parallel between the input terminal and the output terminal; and a path that electrically connects ground terminals of the two or more parallel resonators to each other, electrically connects to ground through only a ground terminal of a parallel resonator located closest to the input terminal or to the output terminal, and includes at least two inductors connected in series in at least two positions of positions between the ground terminals of the two or more parallel resonators and a position between the ground terminal of the parallel resonator located closest to the input terminal or to the output terminal and the ground.
US09935597B2
A circuit for receiving an input signal is described. The receiver comprises a first receiver input configured to receive a first input of a differential input signal; a second receiver input configured to receive a second input of a differential input signal; a differential pair having an inverting input and a non-inverting input; a first impedance matching element coupled to the differential pair, wherein the first impedance matching element provides DC impedance matching from the inverting input and non-inverting input of the differential pair; and a second impedance matching element coupled to the differential pair, wherein the second impedance matching element provides AC impedance matching from the inverting input and non-inverting input of the differential pair.
US09935593B2
Power amplifier bias circuit. A power amplifier bias circuit can include an emitter follower device and an emitter follower mirror device coupled to form a mirror configuration. The emitter follower device can be configured to provide a bias signal for a power amplifier at an output port. The power amplifier bias circuit can include a reference device configured to mirror an amplifying device of the power amplifier. The emitter follower mirror device can be configured to provide a mirror bias signal to the reference device.
US09935591B2
The present invention relates to a linear, high sensitivity, high speed trans-impedance amplifier (TIA) which allows a large dynamic range of input current up to very large values, maintains high linearity and keeps constant output voltage, maintains the same frequency response across the full gain control range, provides very high input sensitivity and large bandwidth, and allows input current monitoring without affecting input sensitivity. In other words, the novel circuit disclosed herein provides for the feedback path to maintain the same level of feedback even while the output signal is varied. This allows a wide and stable bandwidth, as well as a monitor to be placed in the TIA.
US09935589B2
A linearizer includes: a branch circuit having an input transmission line connected between an input terminal and a branch point, a first output transmission line connected between the branch point and a first output terminal, and a second output transmission line connected between the branch point and a second output terminal; a diode having an anode connected to the branch point and a cathode; and a bias circuit biasing the diode.
US09935588B2
Circuits, devices and methods related to multi-mode power amplifiers. A power amplifier (PA) assembly can include a radio-frequency (RF) amplification path having a first stage and a second stage, with each stage including a transistor. The PA assembly can further include a biasing circuit having a first bias path between a supply node and the base of a corresponding transistor. The PA assembly can further include a linearizing circuit implemented as either or both of a second bias path and a coupling path relative to the first bias path. The second bias path can be configured to provide an additional base bias current to the base under a selected condition. The coupling path can be configured to improve linearity of the corresponding transistor operating in a first mode while allowing a ballast resistance to be sufficiently robust for the corresponding transistor operating in a second mode.
US09935581B2
According to one embodiment, a high-frequency semiconductor amplifier includes an input terminal, an input matching circuit, a high-frequency semiconductor amplifying element, an output matching circuit and an output terminal. The input terminal is inputted with a fundamental signal. The fundamental signal has a first frequency band and a first center frequency in the first frequency band. The input matching circuit includes an input end and an output end. The input end of the input matching circuit is connected to the input terminal. The high-frequency semiconductor amplifying element includes an input end and an output end. The input end of the high-frequency semiconductor amplifying element is connected to the output end of the input matching circuit. The high-frequency semiconductor amplifying element is configured to amplify the fundamental signal.
US09935579B2
A master voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) produces an output signal at an operating frequency of at least 100 gigaHertz (GHz). A buffer VCO injection-locked to an output of the master VCO produces an output signal at the operating frequency with a voltage swing greater than 50% of an output voltage swing of the master VCO output signal. The buffer VCO operates without pulling, and can drive a load of at least three times greater than a nominal load. Phase noise in the output of the buffer VCO is as much as −96 decibels (dB) relative to the carrier (dBc) per Hertz (Hz) at 125 GHz with a 1 megaHertz (MHz) offset.
US09935577B2
A method of detecting a fault of a semiconductor device including a power device mounted on a metal base and a drive circuit for driving the power device, the method detecting a fault of the semiconductor device beforehand based on an increase in thermal resistance between the metal base and the power device. A state of the power device is measured immediately before and after the power device is driven by the drive circuit. A temperature difference of the power device before and after driving is calculated according to the result of measurement. An increase in thermal resistance between the metal base and the power device is detected based on the temperature difference and an amount of electricity inputted to the power device in the driving period, and a fault of the semiconductor device is detected beforehand according to the increase.
US09935575B2
Provided are a power conversion device, relating to control of detecting a bus current in operation, and capable of acquiring an average current through a small amount of calculation and being implemented by an inexpensive microcomputer. A variation in a winding current flowing through a multi-phase winding of an AC rotating machine, namely, a phase current, is small at a timing at which voltage vectors on both sides of an axis having a larger inductance out of d and q axes of the AC rotating machine are output. Thus, switching signals are generated at timings at which the voltage vectors on both sides of the axis having the larger inductance out of the d and q axes are output, and the bus current is detected in accordance with the switching signals, thereby acquiring a value close to an average of the winding current.
US09935570B2
Electronic device (1), capable of operating a DC motor, including an H bridge with an upper left-hand switch (R1), an upper right-hand switch (R2), a lower left-hand switch (R3) and a lower right-hand switch (R4), the second terminal (R1b) of the upper left-hand switch being connected to the second terminal (R3b) of the lower left-hand switch, and the second terminal (R2b) of the upper right-hand switch being connected to the second terminal of the lower right-hand switch, wherein the device is modified by cutting the link between the second terminal of the upper left-hand switch and the second terminal of the lower left-hand switch, and by cutting the link between the second terminal of the upper right-hand switch and the second terminal of the lower right-hand switch.
US09935555B2
A power supply apparatus and a method for controlling the power supply apparatus are provided. The power supply apparatus drives an electronic apparatus which may operate in a first mode or a second mode. The power supply includes an input voltage generator that generates an input voltage; an output voltage generator that generates a first output voltage by using the input voltage, and supplies the output voltage to the electronic apparatus; and a detector that determines the mode of the electronic apparatus by detecting a load of the electronic apparatus, and outputs a control signal to the output voltage generator in response to the mode of the electronic apparatus changing from the first mode to the second mode. In response to receiving the control signal, the output voltage generator generates a second output voltage that corresponds to the second mode.
US09935549B2
In accordance with presently disclosed embodiments, a 5-switch power conversion circuit that improves the power conversion efficiency (PCE) of a DC-DC converter with a double chopper topology is provided. The power conversion circuit adds minimal complexity through an additional switch, while preserving the benefits of a 3-level boost converter topology. The disclosed power conversion circuit uses four switches that are arranged in a 3-level boost converter arrangement, and a fifth switch that is connected in parallel with two of the other switches. The fifth switch helps to reduce the conduction power losses through the DC-DC converter by providing a one-switch ON-state conduction path instead of a two-switch path during part of the DC-DC power conversion cycle.
US09935548B2
A power supply system includes first and second DC power supplies and a power converter having first to fifth semiconductor elements and first and second reactors. The first and fourth semiconductor elements are electrically connected between a first node and a second node, and a first power line, respectively. Second and third switching elements are electrically connected between the first node and the second node, and a second power line, respectively. A fifth switching element is electrically connected between the first node and the second node. The first reactor is electrically connected in series with the first DC power supply, between the first node and the second power line. The second reactor is electrically connected in series with the second DC power supply, between the first power line and the second node.
US09935546B2
Power supplies combining a switching-mode power supply in parallel with a current source can improve maximum load current capability. The current source can be turned on, or the amount of current supplied by the current source increased, when there is a heavy load current demand, for example, when the load current demand is more than the current rating of the switching-mode power supply. The duty cycle of the output stage of the switching-mode power supply can be used to determine the load current demand. The current source may increase the maximum output current of the power supply beyond the maximum output current of the switching-mode power supply. For example, the current source may add 0.5 A to the current capability of a 2.5 A switching-mode power supply.
US09935544B2
A method for transferring power between two DC circuits, each circuit being bipolar or connected at the midpoint thereof, involves: coupling the high voltage bus across a pair of inductors, arranged in parallel; coupling the low voltage bus across the pair of inductors; coupling the high voltage bus, the low voltage bus and the inductors by active switches and diodes, to provide for: (i) a storage configuration, wherein energy is transferred from one of the buses and stored in the inductors; and (ii) a release configuration, wherein energy is released from the inductors and transferred to the other of the buses.
US09935538B2
A power factor correction circuit corrects a filter current flowing through a filter capacitor asymmetrically based on a peak of an input voltage by controlling a switching operation of a power switch, thereby correcting distortion of an input current.
US09935528B2
A base portion of a spindle motor includes a base portion through hole passing therethrough from an upper surface to a lower surface thereof. Coils include a lead wire drawn out from above the upper surface downwardly from the lower surface through the base portion through hole. A circuit board includes a land portion to which the lead wire is connected. The spindle motor includes an insulation sheet portion configured to cover at least a portion of the base portion through hole and with which the lead wire is arranged to be in contact. A thickness of the insulation sheet portion is greater than a thickness of the land portion.
US09935519B2
A cooling jacket for cooling using a fluid includes an inner part, an outer jacket that extends in an axial direction and surrounds the inner part in a cross-sectional plane perpendicular to the axial direction, and a duct for holding the fluid. A first boundary of the duct an outer surface of the inner part, while a second boundary of the duct includes an inner surface of the outer jacket. The inner part is arranged inside the outer jacket, and a material property of the outer jacket is different from the material property of the inner part.
US09935517B2
A first end contact portion of a first frame end contacts one end surface of a stator core. A second end contact portion of a second frame end contacts the other end surface of the stator core and includes an inner tubular part, which contacts the other end surface of the stator core, and a fixing part, which projects radially outward from the inner tubular part and contacts the other end surface. A through-bolt is threaded into the fixing part. An outer diameter of the one end surface is smaller than an outer diameter of an opposing surface of the first end contact portion. An outer diameter of an opposing surface of the inner tubular part is smaller than an outer diameter of the other end surface. A yoke of the stator core includes a relief groove, into which a portion of the through-bolt is fitted.
US09935509B2
A rotor core has a rotational axis. A permanent magnet has a polygonal shape viewed along the rotational axis. The rotor core includes a magnet insertion hole defined by an inner wall. The polygonal shape includes first to third sides. The magnet insertion hole includes: a first space provided between the first side and the inner wall; a second space provided between the second side and the inner wall; and an injection portion, a first communication portion, and a second communication portion provided between the third side and the inner wall; viewed along the rotational axis. The first communication portion and the second communication portion connect the injection portion to the first space and the second space, respectively. The first communication portion has a first length along the third side. The second communication portion has a second length along the third side which is equal to the first length.
US09935499B2
A power transmitting apparatus (1) is provided with: a power feeder (13, 14, 15); a power receiver (23) disposed with a space from the power feeder; a power storing device (26) electrically connected to the power feeder and configured to supply power to a load (27); a distance changing device (16) configured to change a distance between the power feeder and the power receiver; a detecting device (25) configured to detect a power storage state associated with the power storing device; and a controlling device (11) configured to control the power feeder to change output power according to the detected power storage state, and configured to control the distance changing device to change the distance.
US09935498B2
A device includes a primary antenna configured to communicate a signal to an antenna of an implantable medical device (IMD). A circulator is coupled to the primary antenna. The circulator enables the signal to pass from a transmitter to the primary antenna. The circulator also enables a backscatter signal from the IMD to pass from the primary antenna to a receiver. A processor coupled to the receiver. The processor configured to determine, based on the backscatter signal, an improved impedance value for a component of the IMD and/or an improved frequency for the signal communicated to the IMD, to improve communication efficiency of the signal to the IMD.
US09935495B2
Automatic transfer switch for switching an electrical load between two power sources. In one example, the automatic transfer switch includes four latching relays and an electronic controller. A first power source line connection is connected to an electrical load line connection via a first latching relay. A first power source neutral connection is connected to an electrical load neutral connection via a second latching relay. A second power source line connection is connected to the electrical load line connection via a third latching relay. A second power source neutral connection is connected to the electrical load neutral connection via a fourth latching relay. The electronic controller connects the second power source to the electrical load when a voltage of the first power source is less than a first threshold, and connects the first power source to the electrical load when the voltage is greater than a second threshold.
US09935491B2
A polyphase power dispatching system and a polyphase power dispatching method are provided. The polyphase power dispatching system includes an electric meter, a single-phase electricity storage module, a switch and a control circuit. The electric meter can measure transmission statuses of power transmission lines of a polyphase power line group. The common terminal of the switch is connected to the single-phase electricity storage module. The selection terminals of the switch are connected to the power transmission lines in a one-to-one manner. The control circuit is connected to the electric meter and the switch. The control circuit can correspondingly control the switch based on the transmission status of each power transmission line, so that the switch selectively connects the single-phase electricity storage module to one of the power transmission lines.
US09935488B2
A charging coil of a portable terminal charging apparatus is provided with a first detection coil, and a second detection coil disposed inward of the first detection coil and having a smaller diameter than a diameter of the first detection coil. The first and second detection coils are connected to a controller. If the ratio (V2/V1) of a second voltage (V2) detected by the second detection coil to a first voltage (V1) detected by the first detection coil is less than a first set value held in a memory between starting of conduction of the charging coil and connection of a charging load of the portable terminal, the controller performs a safety operation.
US09935487B2
A power receiving apparatus to which power is transmitted from a power transmission apparatus through electric field coupling includes a parallel resonance circuit in which an active electrode and a passive electrode are connected, a capacitor and a first switch that change a resonance condition of the parallel resonance circuit, and a second switch that supplies or cuts off an AC voltage, outputted from the parallel resonance circuit, to or from a load. The power receiving apparatus also includes a communication unit that notifies of the start of communication with the power transmission apparatus and receives a response to the notification, a first switching unit that generates a signal to be sent to the power transmission apparatus, and a second switching unit that connects or disconnects the second switch based on the response received by the communication unit.
US09935480B2
A power switch device provides and cuts off power supply to a load in which a MOSFET for causing a direct current power source to be connected and disconnected is provided between power supply lines and the direct current power source, located upstream of the power supply lines, the power supply lines including a ripple capacitor for stabilizing the supply voltage against fluctuations in the load current in the load, powered by the direct current power source. The power switch device is operated to transition power supply from opening to closing by gradually increasing the output voltage of the MOSFET to minimize the value of current charging the ripple capacitor.
US09935479B2
The present disclosure provides a quick charging method and a quick charging system. A second controller sends a quick-charging request to a first controller. The first controller feeds back a quick-charging permission command. The second controller sends a notification request for obtaining a voltage value of a cell. The first controller obtains the voltage value by a cell connector, and sends the voltage value to the second controller. The second controller finds a current regulation instruction matching a threshold section that the voltage value falls within from a threshold section table, and send a current regulation instruction to a regulation circuit. The regulation circuit adjusts a current and outputs a power supply signal of which the current is regulated.
US09935473B2
A storage battery system connected to a power system and operative based on a charge/discharge request from an EMS includes: a battery management unit configured to monitor a state of the storage battery; a power conditioning system; a control device configured to receive the charge/discharge request and storage battery information supplied from the battery management unit and to control the power conditioning system based thereon; an on-site monitoring and operating device directly connected to the control device, the on-site monitoring and operating device including a display unit configured to display the storage battery information and an operation unit configured to enable an on-site charge/discharge request to the AC-DC converter to be input. The control device includes an on-site request adjustment unit configured to receive the on-site charge/discharge request and the storage battery information and to determine a charge/discharge command to the power conditioning system based thereon.
US09935465B2
In the case of performing self-sustained operation, when power conversion devices supply power to loads, all DC/AC conversion circuits of the power conversion devices are operated in a voltage control mode, and effective voltage (amplitude) of reference AC voltage as a control target for AC power outputted from each DC/AC conversion circuit under voltage control is adjusted in accordance with the power generation amount of a solar panel as a DC power supply, and the state of charge of a storage battery, thereby the amount of power supplied to the loads is controlled.
US09935463B2
A microgrid connecting at least one distributed electricity generator includes a first switch configured for, in a closed position, connecting the microgrid to a first network line at a first point of common coupling (PCC) and for, in an open position, disconnecting the microgrid from the first network line at the first PCC; a second switch configured for, in a closed position, connecting the microgrid to a second network line at a second PCC, and for, in an open position, disconnecting the microgrid from the second network line at the second PCC; and a control unit configured for, when an islanding event has been detected when the second switch is in its closed position and the first switch is in its open position, acting to close the first switch, bringing it to its closed position.
US09935461B2
A consumer apparatus operation management system that prepares an operation plan of a consumer control apparatus in a power distribution system includes: an evaluation unit configured to acquire system information including a system topology and impedances in the power distribution system, to predict load amounts and power generation amounts for respective prescribed nodes, to generate a voltage distribution profile indicative of a correlation between a power transmission distance and a voltage transition based on the system information, the load amounts, and the power generation amounts, and to figure out an evaluation value based on a variation width of the voltage distribution profile and a specified voltage width; and a preparation unit configured to prepare an operation plan related to heat quantity control and/or electric-energy control in the consumer control apparatus based on the evaluation value.
US09935460B2
A system and method of confirming trades of financial instruments such as OTC derivatives is disclosed. The system includes a data interface which accepts data relating to a trade from both the trader and counter party. The data includes different data fields of differing importance. The system includes a matching engine which compares the submitted data and assigns the trade a status depending on which of the data fields match. The system allows a user to filter trades on their status and display the details relating to that trade. The system also allows a user to display the data fields and change the data fields in order to change the status of the trades. The system thus allows a user to electronically confirm a trade and also identify unmatched trades and the information necessary to reconcile such unmatched trades.
US09935453B2
A ground fault immune power and data delivery system for downhole sensors is connected to a downhole motor via a three-phase power cable. An AC power supply and sensor data module are electrically connected to one of two conductors (phases) at a time selected from the three conductors (phases) to provide power and data signals to the downhole sensors. If a ground fault is detected on one of the two connected phases, an isolation module isolates the grounded phase and switches to the ungrounded connected phase to continue transmitting power and data signals. A frequency of AC power supply, data communication frequencies and a switching frequency of a drive controlling the downhole motor are orthogonal to each other in order to mitigate interference. Surface-to-downhole communication can occur by adjusting voltage, frequency and/or phase of AC power supply controlled by a processor.
US09935450B2
A cable transition device includes a support sleeve and a sealing member. The support sleeve is configured to be inserted between a structural overwrap and a compliant outer jacket of a coaxial cable, wherein the compliant outer jacket surrounds signal-carrying conductors and extends beyond a terminal end of a stepped transition. The sealing member is configured to be disposed over the stepped transition of the coaxial cable so as to seal the stepped transition portion of the coaxial cable during operation of the cable transition device.
US09935445B2
The disclosure concerns a compression unit, in the form of wedge, of a transition for cables, pipes or wires. The wedge is to be placed inside a frame together with a number of compressible modules, which modules are to receive cables etc. The wedge comprises a number of wedge elements. The wedge is moved between non activated and activated positions by means of a screw, received in a through opening of a first wedge element, and a sleeve, received in an opening of a second wedge element. The wedge further comprises at least one clip, of an electrically conductive material, placed inside the wedge. The at least one clip is placed to connect the screw with the frame to connect the screw to earth.
US09935444B1
Electrical panel structures for a modular building system, such as a modular data center. The electrical panel structures provide a standardized structure for attachment of high voltage power, low voltage power, and/or data lines between rooms or components of the modular building system. The panel structures can include multiple conduits that extend between rooms or other components of a modular building structure. The panel structures can include, for example, conduits having couplers for the attachment of high voltage cables and/or pass-throughs for the passage of low voltage lines and/or data lines.
US09935437B2
An electrical connection box includes: a casing that has an opening portion open upwardly, a recessed portion recessed downwardly from an upper edge portion of a side wall; and a slidable cover configured to close the recessed portion. A first thin portion is formed at a side edge portion of the recessed portion of the casing. A second thin portion is formed on the slidable cover. The first thin portion and the second thin portion overlap each other when the slidable cover is fitted into the recessed portion. The first thin portion is includes a chamfered portion where a boundary between an opening edge portion of the first thin portion and the side edge portion is chamfered. A contact portion is configured to be brought into contact with the chamfered portion.
US09935429B2
In the spark plug, at least one of the center chip and the ground chip is bonded with a center electrode or a ground electrode. The selected chip has a first part formed so as to linearly extend along a first center axis of an electrode bonded with the first part and a second part formed so as to extend linearly from a tip end of the first part along a second central axis inclined with respect to the first central axis.
US09935418B1
An active optical planar waveguide apparatus includes a planar core layer comprising an active laser ion; one or more cladding layers in optical contact with at least one surface of the planar core layer; a metallic binder layer chemically bonded to an outermost cladding layer of the one or more cladding layers; a metallic adhesion layers disposed on the metallic binder layer; a heatsink for dissipating heat from the planar waveguide; and a metallic thermal interface material (TIM) layer providing a metallurgical bond between the metallic adhesion layer and the heatsink.
US09935408B1
An electronic connector includes a first connecting unit. The first connecting unit includes a housing having a ring hole disposed through the housing large enough for a finger to be inserted through the ring hole to grab the first connecting unit, a first electrical connector shaped for forming a first detachable electrical connection, the first electrical connector disposed at a first distal end of the first connecting unit, and an illuminator disposed within the housing proximate to the ring hole to illuminate an inside perimeter of the ring hole.
US09935390B2
A connector assembly is disclosed for making a connection between a tubular adapter component and a port connector which, once connected to each other, are not able to be disassembled. At least one of the tubular adapter component or the port component may have at least one cutout section and the other may have a projecting tab. A tubular sleeve is positioned on the port component and is non-rotatable and non-removable from the port component. The tubular sleeve has at least one flexible cam locking post. When the adapter component is slidably engaged with the port component the cutout section and the projecting tab engage to prevent sliding withdrawal of the adapter component from the port component. The flexible cam locking post also engages with the cutout section and prevents the adapter component from rotating.
US09935388B2
Circuits, methods, and apparatus that may provide audio jacks capable of providing a sufficient retention force to avoid some inadvertent extractions of an audio plug. Examples may also provide audio jacks that may be readily assembled. Other examples may provide other types of connectors. These audio jacks or other connectors may provide contact structures having one or more contacts, each having a contact support to increase contact retention force. Different materials may be used to form the contacts and the contact supports. In this way, contacts may be formed using a highly conductive material, while the contact supports may be formed of a material having good spring characteristics. While such a contact may not be able to provide an adequate retention force on its own, the use of a contact support may sufficiently increase the retention force to prevent accidental extractions of an audio plug or other connector.
US09935386B2
A coupling device, in particular a multiple coupling (1), connects a first line portion to a second line portion by a first coupling body (3) and second coupling body (5). A connection unit (23, 25) can be inserted into an accommodating opening (41, 42) in each coupling body (3, 5). A plug-in connection between line portions having electric conductors has an electrical connector (63) with plug-shaped and/or socket-shaped contact elements (67, 69). The connection unit (23, 25) is a cartridge with a single-part, sleeve-shaped housing (37) having a through-passage (39) accommodating the connector (63).
US09935382B2
A connector includes a contact connected to a member to be connected and brought into contact with a wire so as to electrically connect the member to be connected and the wire. The contact includes contact portions coming into contact with the wire when the wire moves in a perpendicular direction perpendicular to a wire extending direction in which the wire extends, and movement restriction members for restricting a movement of the wire on the contact in a state where the wire is in contact with the contact portions. The contact further includes a movement regulation member for regulating a movement of the wire in the perpendicular direction in the state where the wire is in contact with the contact portions.
US09935381B2
A connector includes a plug and a receptacle which are fitted to each other and is used to connect a wireless communication module to an electronic apparatus. The plug includes a plurality of contacts. When the plug is connected to the receptacle in any of the first and second directions which are symmetric with respect to the center of a junction surface with the receptacle, the plurality of contacts are connected to contacts of the receptacle.
US09935376B2
A scan range of a steerable antenna is extended using a reflecting surface or surfaces within the scan range. Various implementations may also include lenses, and the reflecting surface, lenses, or both may include meta-materials. The antenna may be steered to interact with the reflecting surface, lenses, or both to reflect the beam in a direction not possible using the antenna alone. The scan range may be extended in azimuth, elevation, or both, and beam pattern, and antenna freespace impedance may be controlled.
US09935372B2
An integrated antenna (1) includes: a first loop antenna (11) having a first annular antenna element (11a); and a second loop antenna (13) having a second annular antenna element (13). The second annular antenna element (13) is arranged, on a surface identical to that where the first annular antenna element (13a) is arranged, so as to surround the first annular antenna element (13a).
US09935371B2
An example method of designing a multi-band antenna includes specifying a first portion of the multi-band antenna in a tangible medium, where the first portion corresponds to an existing design of a single-band monopole antenna for operating in a first frequency band, and specifying in the tangible medium a second portion of the multi-band antenna that is added to the first portion, where the second portion includes a dipole parasitic resonator that is resonant in a second frequency band.
US09935369B1
A method and apparatus which enables a facility or entity that transmits and receives radar signals to receive any incoming radar signal, while blocking reception of any signals generated by the facility or entity itself. The method comprises transmitting a primary signal from an rf generator; providing a second signal which is synchronized with the primary signal matching in both phase and amplitude, but with a phase difference of 180 degrees so that the two signals sum to zero. The second signal travels through a voltage controlled attenuator and thru a voltage controlled phase shifter. Combining in a combiner the second signal with a signal radiated by a transmitting antenna and received by a receiving antenna that connects into a transmission enabling mechanism, and then transmitting the combined signal to a detector apparatus.
US09935361B2
A mirrored antenna system for beam steering in an information handling system is disclosed. The mirrored antenna system includes a first antenna and a second antenna configured to operate alternatively as a radiator and as a reflector. The first and the second antenna are arranged in mirror symmetry to one another and separated by a dielectric medium. The mirrored antenna system further includes a switch coupled to the first antenna and the second antenna configured to switch the feed in response to a trigger.
US09935359B2
An electronic device including a plurality of antennas is provided. The electronic device includes a first radiator including at least one matching block that is connected with a ground area and at least one side of the first radiator. The first radiator is configured to transmit and receive a first frequency signal through a first antenna resonance length corresponding to a first area of the first radiator, and to transmit and receive a second frequency signal through a second antenna resonance length corresponding to a second area opposite to the first area. A second radiator is connected with the ground area and is configured to transmit and receive a third frequency signal through a third antenna resonance length corresponding to a third area adjacent to the first radiator.
US09935354B2
Systems and method are provided for making a balun's operational bandwidth tunable around multiple distinct center frequencies by using switches to vary the balun's dimensions. An embodiment of the present disclosure uses a pass gate structure for the switches, and the switches connect additional lengths of line in or out of the balun to change its frequency response. A balun in accordance with an embodiment of the present disclosure is able to switch its response between 2 or more adjacent bands by switching additional length of lines in and out of the balun's core windings.
US09935350B2
A device for damping a standing wave on a waveguide carrying a signal is provided. The device includes at least one pair of an impedance-up-transforming and an impedance-down-transforming Boucherot bridge is connected into the waveguide. The two Boucherot bridges bring about locally increased impedances and inductance values, with the result that a significantly improved standing wave suppression or damping is obtained. The down-transforming Boucherot bridge is connected directly behind the up-transforming bridge, with the result that down-transformation to the original impedance of the waveguide again can be carried out and a signal reflection can thus be avoided.
US09935346B2
The present invention relates to a battery module, which includes one or more battery cell units, and the battery cell unit includes a battery cell, a fixing member located surrounding an outer circumference surface of the battery cell, and a heat absorbing material located between the battery cell and the fixing member, and as a result, heat generation inside the battery module is suppressed, and ignition between the series-connected battery cell units may be suppressed. Accordingly, excellent charge and discharge efficiency, an excellent cycle property and a lifespan property of the battery may be exhibited without concern for explosion or ignition of the battery module.
US09935344B2
The present invention provides a test battery case which is capable of conducting an internal short-circuit test with accuracy. The test battery case according to the present invention includes a container for housing a power generating element, and a closing member detachably secured to the container, wherein the container has an opening for the internal short-circuit test, the opening being closed by the closing member.
US09935342B2
An electrochemical battery system in one embodiment includes a first electrochemical cell including an anode with a form of lithium, a first plurality of pressure sensors positioned and configured to sense localized variations in pressure along the anode, a memory in which command instructions are stored, and a processor configured to execute the command instructions to (i) identify an indication of a variation in localized pressure along the anode, and (ii) selectively control the first electrochemical cell based upon the identified indication.
US09935327B2
Composite members, a fuel cell and manufacturing method, where the composite members are mounted on a base and comprise a first insulator and a second insulator layered on either side of an interconnector, exposed in a chamfered portion on opposite corners. Between a pair of the composite members is formed an electrolyte film. An anode is formed so as to cover the anode surface of the electrolyte film and an anode-side protrusion. The anode formed at the top of anode-side protrusion is stripped, forming a flat exposed surface on the top of the anode-side protrusion. A cathode is formed so as to cover the cathode surface of the electrolyte film and a cathode-side protrusion. The cathode formed on the top of the cathode-side protrusion is stripped using a spatula, a blade, etc., forming a flat exposed surface on the top of the cathode-side protrusion.
US09935326B2
A fuel cell system for generating electric power by supplying an anode gas and a cathode gas to a fuel cell includes: an idle stop unit adapted to stop extraction of a current from the fuel cell in accordance with an operation state of the fuel cell system; and an idle stop recovery unit adapted to restart the extraction of the current from the fuel cell in accordance with the operation state of the fuel cell system. The idle stop recovery unit limits, on the basis of an output voltage of the fuel cell before recovery from idle stop, the current to be extracted from the fuel cell after the recovery from the idle stop.
US09935325B2
A control method of an operation pressure of a fuel cell system maintains a differential pressure between a hydrogen side and an air side of a fuel cell stack to minimize a crossover amount of hydrogen while allowing hydrogen purge and reduces an exhausted hydrogen amount when a purge valve is opened at the time of purging hydrogen using a differential pressure of an anode outlet and a cathode outlet to improve a hydrogen utilization rate and system efficiency. According to the control method, pressures of a cathode inlet and a cathode outlet of the fuel cell stack and a pressure of an anode outlet are controlled such that the pressure of the anode outlet of the fuel cell stack is lower than the pressure of the cathode inlet and higher than the pressure of the cathode outlet.
US09935320B2
A composite body includes a substrate containing Cr; and a first composite oxide layer disposed on at least a part of a surface of the substrate, the first composite oxide layer having a spinel type crystal structure, a first largest content and a second largest content among constituent elements excluding oxygen of the first composite oxide layer being Zn and Al in random order. Accordingly, the composite body can suppress diffusion of Cr from the substrate containing Cr to the first composite oxide layer, and has improved long-term reliability. A collector member and a gas tank, each of which is formed of the composite body, can have improved long-term reliability. A fuel cell device having excellent long-term reliability can be obtained using the collector member and the gas tank.
US09935308B2
There is provided molybdenum oxide for an active material of an electricity storage device having excellent rate characteristics and structural stability. A turbostratic material 1 has a turbostratic structure composed of a plurality of nanosheets 2, where the nanosheets have the composition MoO2.
US09935307B2
A positive electrode lead of the present invention comprises: a strip-shaped first lead half body electrically connected to a sealing body of a nickel-hydrogen secondary battery; a strip-shaped second lead half body electrically connected to a positive electrode of an electrode group of the nickel-hydrogen secondary battery; a PTC thermistor joined between the first lead half body and the second lead half body; and a protective member covering a portion of the positive electrode lead where the PTC thermistor is joined. The second lead half body includes a portion to be bent on the outer side of the portion covered with the protective member. A recessed groove is formed in the portion covered with the protective member and has a shape elongated in a direction intersecting with a bend line of the portion to be bent.
US09935305B2
There is provided a secondary battery including a battery device that has a thickness of 3 to 20 mm, and a battery discharge capacity of 3 to 50 Ah, and an exterior material that packages the battery device. The battery device includes a positive electrode that has a positive electrode current collector and a positive electrode active material layer, a negative electrode that has a negative electrode current collector and a negative electrode active material layer, a separator that is interposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode that are alternately laminated, a positive electrode tab that is electrically connected to a positive electrode current collector exposed portion and is led-out to the outside of the exterior material, and a negative electrode tab that is electrically connected to a negative electrode current collector exposed portion and is led-out to the outside of the exterior material.
US09935304B2
A lead acid battery has a housing having a plurality of adjacently positioned battery plate receiving compartments. A cell of battery plates is positioned in each battery plate receiving compartment. Each cell has a plurality of positive plates, each having a positive lug, and a plurality of negative plates interleaved with the positive plates, each having a negative lug. A mold positioned on a top edge of each group of battery plates, and has two strap molding wells, each having a lead receiving space, a well base, and a plurality of lug receiving openings positioned in the well base. The positive lugs of the cell extend through the lug receiving openings in one of the strap molding wells, and the negative lugs of the cell extend through the lug receiving openings in the other strap molding well.
US09935302B2
A separator for a lead acid battery is a porous membrane having a positive electrode face and a negative electrode face. A plurality of longitudinally extending ribs, a plurality of protrusions or a nonwoven material may be disposed upon the positive electrode face. A plurality of transversely extending ribs are disposed upon the negative electrode face. The transverse ribs disposed upon the negative electrode face are preferably juxtaposed to a negative electrode of the lead acid battery, when the separator is placed within that battery.
US09935290B2
Embodiments of the disclosure disclose an electroluminescence display device and a fabrication method thereof. The device comprises a color filter substrate. The color filter substrate comprises: a first substrate, and a first electrode, an organic electroluminescence layer and a second electrode sequentially provided on the first substrate. The color filter substrate further comprises: a first protective layer, provided on the second electrode and covering the second electrode and the organic electroluminescence layer below the second electrode; and a first connection electrode, provided on the first protective layer and connected to the second electrode.
US09935289B2
A package of environmental sensitive element including a first substrate, a second substrate, a barrier structure between the first substrate and the second substrate, an environmental sensitive element and an adhesive is provided. The second substrate is disposed above the first substrate. The environmental sensitive element is disposed on the first substrate and located between the first substrate and the second substrate. The barrier structure is distributed outside the environmental sensitive element. The adhesive is disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate and encapsulates the environmental sensitive element and the barrier structure, wherein an outgassing of the adhesive under 120 degrees Celsius is less than or equal to 5×10−7 gram/cm2.
US09935288B2
An embodiment of the present specification provides an organic light emitting device including: a first electrode; a second electrode provided opposite to the first electrode; one or more organic material layers provided between the first electrode and the second electrode; an auxiliary electrode provided in the first electrode; and a short circuit prevention layer provided between the first electrode and the auxiliary electrode, wherein the short circuit prevention layer has a resistance value which is greater at 50 or more ° C. than 25° C. The organic light emitting device controls the amount of leakage current when a short circuit defect occurs, thereby solving a problem where a device does not overall operate. The organic light emitting device stably operates without an increase in the amount of leakage current.
US09935277B2
A luminescent compound that is a metal complex with ligands containing pyrrole or indole in the structure, where the pyrrole or indole has an aromatic substituent that has at least one ortho substitution is disclosed.
US09935270B2
A light-emitting electrochemical cell 10 includes an emitting layer 12 and electrodes 13 and 14, one on each side of the emitting layer 12. The emitting layer 12 contains a light-emitting material and an ionic compound. The ionic compound has general formula (1), wherein M is N or P; R1, R2, R3, and R4 each independently represent a C1-C20 saturated aliphatic group; and X is preferably an anion having a phosphoric ester bond or a sulfuric ester bond. The light-emitting material is preferably an organic light-emitting polymer, a metal complex, an organic low molecular compound, or a quantum dot.
US09935267B2
A variable resistance memory device and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. The variable resistance memory device may include a multi-layered insulating layer formed on a semiconductor substrate, on which a lower electrode is formed. The multi-layered insulating layer may include a first hole and a second hole, concentrically formed therein, to expose the lower electrode, wherein a diameter of the first hole is larger than a diameter of the second hole. A variable resistance material layer may be formed in the second hole to contact the lower electrode, and an upper electrode may be formed in the first hole to contact the variable resistance material layer.
US09935257B2
A production method for a composite substrate according to the present invention comprises (a) a step of mirror-polishing a piezoelectric-substrate side of a laminated substrate formed by bonding a piezoelectric substrate and a support substrate; (b) a step of performing machining using an ion beam or a neutral atom beam so that a thickness of an outer peripheral portion of the piezoelectric substrate is larger than a thickness of an inner peripheral portion and a difference between a largest thickness and a smallest thickness of the inner peripheral portion of the piezoelectric substrate is 100 nm or less over an entire surface; and (c) a step of flattening the entire surface of the piezoelectric substrate to remove at least a part of an altered layer formed by the machining using the ion beam or the neutral atom beam in the step (b).
US09935253B2
A piezoelectric device is a fired body including a body part 10 and external electrodes 21 and 22. A surface of the side electrode 22 is comprised only of a material for the side electrode 22. On a surface of the surface electrode 21 or a surface of a connection portion where the surface electrode 21 and the side electrode 22 are connected to each other, a protrusion h extending along a direction along which the connection portion extends and sticking out in a thickness direction of the surface electrode 21 is provided. A region, on the surface of the surface electrode 21, farther from the connection portion than the protrusion h is interspersed with a plurality of exposed portions in each of which a surface of a ceramic material having lower solder wettability than a material for the surface electrode 21 is exposed.
US09935246B2
LEDs comprising polysilazane/polysiloxane copolymers and curable compositions containing same are disclosed. Methods of providing thermal and UV degradation resistance to said LED's, as well as increased luminous flux, is provided.
US09935245B2
A semiconductor light-emitting device is provided. The semiconductor light-emitting device may include a light-emitting structure, an electrode, an ohmic layer, an electrode layer, an adhesion layer, and a channel layer. The light-emitting structure include a compound semiconductor layer. The electrode may be disposed on the light-emitting structure. The ohmic layer may be disposed under the light-emitting structure. The electrode layer may include a reflective metal under the ohmic layer. The adhesion layer may be disposed under the electrode layer. The channel layer may be disposed along a bottom edge of the light-emitting structure.
US09935244B2
A method according to embodiments of the invention includes providing a plurality of LEDs attached to a mount. A filter is attached to at least one of the plurality of LEDs. A protective layer is formed over the filter. A reflective layer is formed over the mount. A portion of the reflective layer disposed over the protective layer is removed.
US09935242B2
Structures are incorporated into a semiconductor light emitting device which may increase the extraction of light emitted at glancing incidence angles. In some embodiments, the device includes a low index material that directs light away from the metal contacts by total internal reflection. In some embodiments, the device includes extraction features such as cavities in the semiconductor structure which may extract glancing angle light directly, or direct the glancing angle light into smaller incidence angles which are more easily extracted from the device.
US09935231B2
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor element comprising a single photon avalanche diode having a multiplication zone (AR) a guard ring structure with a second type of electrical conductivity comprises providing a semiconductor wafer with a first region (R) comprising a semiconductor material with the first type of conductivity. The method further comprises generating by a first doping process a first well (W1) of the guard ring structure having a first vertical depth, the first well (W1) laterally surrounding the multiplication zone (AR) and having a lateral distance (A) from the multiplication zone (AR). The method further comprises generating by a second doping process a second well (W2) of the guard ring structure having a second vertical depth, the second well (W2) laterally surrounding and adjoining a part of the first region for laterally defining the multiplication zone (AR).
US09935224B2
The present invention provides for a multi-layered structure adapted to be applied to the surface of a back-contact back-sheet for a photovoltaic module comprising back-contact solar cells. The multi-layered structure comprises a non-extendible intermediate layer (240) comprised of a dielectric material. The multi-layered structure further comprises an upper layer (280) of an encapsulating material coupled to the upper surface (242) of the intermediate layer, as well as a lower layer (270) of a thermo-adhesive material coupled to the lower surface (244) of the intermediate layer (240). The multi-layered structure also has a plurality of through-holes pierced at predetermined positions.
US09935222B1
A solar cell is provided including a substrate having a front and back side, a metallization pattern deposited on the front side, the metallization pattern including a plurality of front side bus bars each including fingers extending therefrom, and a plurality of back side bus bars deposited on the back side. On the front side, one front side bus bar is formed along an edge of the front side of the substrate, and a remainder of the front side bus bars are unequally spaced across the substrate. On the back side of the substrate, only one back side bus bar is formed along an edge of the back side of the substrate, and a remainder of the back side bus bars are unequally spaced across the substrate.
US09935218B2
A method for generating high power pulsed RF waveforms comprises the steps of charging a transmission line in a pulse forming network with a high-voltage and discharging the voltage on the transmission line to ground utilizing a gallium nitride photoconductive switch.
US09935211B2
A back contact configuration for a CIGS-type photovoltaic device is provided. According to certain examples, the back contact configuration includes an optical matching layer and/or portion of or including MoSe2 having a thickness substantially corresponding to maxima of absorption of reflected light in CIGS-type absorbers used in certain photovoltaic devices. Certain example methods for making the back contact configuration wherein a thickness of the MoSe2 layer and/or portion can be controlled to be within thickness ranges that correspond to maxima of CIGS light absorption for reflected solar light are also provided.
US09935197B2
Semiconductor devices with low junction capacitances and methods of fabrication thereof are described. In one embodiment, a method of forming a semiconductor device includes forming isolation regions in a substrate to form active areas. The sidewalls of the active areas are enclosed by the isolation regions. The isolation regions are recessed to expose first parts of the sidewalls of the active areas. The first parts of the sidewalls of the active areas are covered with spacers. The isolation regions are etched to expose second parts of the sidewalls of the active area, the second parts being disposed below the first parts. The active areas are etched through the exposed second parts of the sidewalls to form lateral openings. The lateral openings are filled with a spin on dielectric.
US09935196B2
The present invention provides a semiconductor device, which includes a substrate, a first gate electrode, a second gate electrode, a source region and a drain region, wherein the first gate electrode and the second gate electrode are embedded in the substrate respectively; the source region is formed in the substrate, and at least a portion of the source region is disposed between the first gate electrode and the second gate electrode; and the drain region is formed in the substrate, and at least a portion of the drain region is disposed between the first gate electrode and the second gate electrode.
US09935191B2
A method including forming a barrier layer on a polar compound semiconductor layer on a sacrificial substrate; coupling the sacrificial substrate to a carrier substrate to form a composite structure wherein the barrier layer is disposed between the polar compound semiconductor layer and the carrier substrate; separating the sacrificial substrate from the composite structure to expose the polar compound semiconductor layer; and forming at least one circuit device. An apparatus including a barrier layer on a substrate; a transistor device on the barrier layer; and a polar compound semiconductor layer disposed between the barrier layer and the transistor device, the polar compound semiconductor layer including a two-dimensional electron gas therein.
US09935190B2
A method of fabricating a III-N device includes forming a III-N channel layer on a substrate, a III-N barrier layer on the channel layer, an insulator layer on the barrier layer, and a trench in a first portion of the device. Forming the trench comprises removing the insulator layer and a part of the barrier layer in the first portion of the device, such that a remaining portion of the barrier layer in the first portion of the device has a thickness away from a top surface of the channel layer, the thickness being within a predetermined thickness range, annealing the III-N device in a gas ambient including oxygen at an elevated temperature to oxidize the remaining portion of the barrier layer in the first portion of the device, and removing the oxidized remaining portion of the barrier layer in the first portion of the device.
US09935186B1
A SOI lateral heterojunction Si-emitter SiGe-base bipolar transistor is provided that contains an intrinsic base region that includes a small band gap region (i.e., a silicon germanium alloy base of a first conductivity type) and a large band gap region (i.e., a silicon region of the first conductivity type) A silicon emitter of a second conductivity type that is opposite the first conductivity type is formed on the large-band gap side of the intrinsic base region and a silicon collector of the second conductivity type is formed on the small-band gap side of the intrinsic base region.
US09935185B2
A bipolar junction transistor includes an intrinsic base formed on a substrate. The intrinsic base includes a superlattice stack including a plurality of alternating layers of semiconductor material. A collector and emitter are formed adjacent to the intrinsic base on opposite sides of the base. An extrinsic base structure is formed on the intrinsic base.
US09935183B2
The present invention generally relates to TFTs and methods for fabricating TFTs. For either back channel etch TFTs or for etch stop TFTs, multiple layers for the passivation layer or the etch stop layers permits a very dense capping layer to be formed over a less dense back channel protection layer. The capping layer can be sufficiently dense so that few pin holes are present and thus, hydrogen may not pass through to the semiconductor layer. As such, hydrogen containing precursors may be used for the capping layer deposition.
US09935177B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a thin film transistor and a manufacturing method thereof, an array substrate including the thin film transistor, and a manufacturing method of the array substrate. The thin film transistor comprises an active layer, a gate insulation layer, a gate, an interlayer insulation layer, a source and a drain formed on a base substrate, the interlayer insulation layer and the gate insulation layer are provided therein with through holes corresponding to the source and the drain; the active layer comprises a source ohmic contact region connected with the source, a drain ohmic contact region connected with the drain, a channel region serving as a channel located below the gate, and a lightly doped region between the drain ohmic contact region and the channel region.
US09935172B2
Some embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a contact formed to a source or drain region of a “finned” field-effect transistor (FinFET). An epitaxial material is formed over the source or drain region, which includes a diamond-shaped cross-section with top and bottom surfaces. A capping layer is formed over the top and bottom surfaces. The source or drain region is subjected to a first etch to remove the capping layer surrounding the top surfaces of the diamond-shaped cross-section. A protective layer is formed within the top surfaces. A second etch of the capping layer is performed to remove the capping layer surrounding the bottom surfaces of the diamond-shaped cross-section, while using the protective layer to prevent etching of the top surfaces by the second etch. A contact is formed to the source or drain region, which surrounds the source or drain region on the top and bottom surfaces.
US09935171B2
Some embodiments include a memory cell string having a body having a channel extending therein and in contact with a source/drain, a select gate adjacent to the body, a plurality of access lines adjacent to the body, and a dielectric in a portion of the body between the source/drain and a level corresponding to an end of the plurality of access lines most adjacent to the select gate. The dielectric in the portion of the body does not extend along an entire length of the body. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US09935160B2
The present invention provides an OLED display device, which includes: a substrate (1), a plurality of pixel zones arranged in an array on the substrate (1), each of the pixel zones comprising a pixel electrode (2), an organic light-emitting layer (3), and a common electrode (4) that are sequentially stacked on the substrate (1), and a pixel separation layer (5) including a plurality of openings, the openings being each delimited and circumferentially surrounded by a pixel separation layer sidewall (51), each of the openings corresponding to one of the pixel zones. The pixel separation layer (5) is formed of an inorganic material. The pixel separation layer sidewall (51) includes, arranged from top to bottom, a first curved section (511), a linear section (512), and a second curved section (513), so as to overcome a deterioration issue of the organic light-emitting layer (3) caused by the pixel separation layer sidewall (51), prevent the organic light-emitting layer (3) and the common electrode (4) from breaking at a site corresponding to the pixel separation layer sidewall (51), prevent shorting between the common electrode (4) and the pixel electrode (2), which are the cathode and anode of the OLED display device, and improve displaying performance.
US09935159B2
Disclosed herein are a display panel capable of reducing the amount of reflected light in a non-display area where an alignment key is disposed, and a display device employing the same. The display panel includes a substrate having a display area and a non-display area, an alignment key disposed on a first surface of the substrate, and a planarization layer disposed on the first surface of the substrate and having a via hole above the alignment key. The display panel also includes a first shielding layer disposed on a second surface of the substrate opposite the first surface and having a first opening hole overlapping with the alignment key in plan view, and a second shielding layer disposed on the planarization layer.
US09935112B1
A static random access memory (SRAM) cell includes 1st and 2nd fins disposed on a substrate. A 1st pass gate transistor (1st PG) is embedded in the 1st fin. The 1st PG has a source region and a drain region disposed over the 1st and 2nd fins. A 1st gate structure (1st PG-G) is disposed over the 1st fin and between the source and drain regions. The 1st PG-G is electrically connected to a 1st word line. A 2nd pass gate transistor (2nd PG) is embedded in the 2nd fin. The 2nd PG has the same source and drain regions. A 2nd gate structure (2nd PG-G) is disposed over the 2nd fin and between the source and drain regions. The 2nd PG-G is electrically connected to a 2nd word line. A 1st CT pillar is disposed between the 1st PG-G and 2nd PG-G.
US09935111B2
A method of forming a semiconductor device includes forming a molding layer and a supporter layer on a substrate including an etch stop layer, forming a mask layer on the supporter layer, forming a first edge blocking layer on the mask layer, forming a mask pattern by etching the mask layer, forming a hole, forming a lower electrode in the hole, forming a supporter mask layer on the supporter layer, forming a second edge blocking layer on the supporter mask layer, forming a supporter mask pattern by patterning the supporter mask layer, forming a supporter opening passing through the supporter layer, removing the molding layer, forming a capacitor dielectric layer and an upper electrode on the lower electrode, forming an interlayer insulating layer on the upper electrode, and planarizing the interlayer insulating layer. The hole passes through the supporter layer, the molding layer and the etch stop layer.
US09935110B2
A high capacitance embedded capacitor and associated fabrication processes are disclosed for fabricating a capacitor stack in a multi-layer stack to include a first capacitor plate conductor formed with a cylinder-shaped storage node electrode formed in the multi-layer stack, a capacitor dielectric layer surrounding the cylinder-shaped storage node electrode, and a second capacitor plate conductor formed from a conductive layer in the multi-layer stack that is sandwiched between a bottom and top dielectric layer, where the cylinder-shaped storage node electrode is surrounded by and extends through the conductive layer.
US09935104B1
Disclosed is a semiconductor structure, including at least one fin-type field effect transistor and at least one single-diffusion break (SDB) type isolation region, and a method of forming the semiconductor structure. In the method, an isolation bump is formed above an isolation region within a semiconductor fin and sidewall spacers are formed on the bump. During an etch process to reduce the height of the bump and to remove isolation material from the sidewalls of the fin, the sidewall spacers prevent lateral etching of the bump. During an etch process to form source/drain recesses in the fin, the sidewalls spacers protect the semiconductor material adjacent to the isolation region. Consequently, the sides and bottom of each recess include semiconductor surfaces and the angle of the top surfaces of the epitaxial source/drain regions formed therein is minimized, thereby minimizing the risk of unlanded source/drain contacts.
US09935095B2
A display device may include a substrate, a display area, a peripheral region, a driving circuit and a dummy wire. A display area formed on a side of the substrate and in which a plurality of pixels are provided. A peripheral region surrounds the display area. A driving circuit provided in the peripheral region, which provides a driving voltage to the plurality of pixels and includes a driving voltage terminal for receiving the driving voltage. A dummy wire portion provided in the peripheral region, separated from the display area with the driving circuit therebetween, and includes a plurality of dummy wires. The driving voltage terminal of the driving circuit is connected to at least one of the plurality of dummy wires.
US09935089B2
Package structures and methods are provided to integrate optoelectronic and CMOS devices using SOI semiconductor substrates for photonics applications. For example, a package structure includes an integrated circuit (IC) chip, and an optoelectronics device and interposer mounted to the IC chip. The IC chip includes a SOI substrate having a buried oxide layer, an active silicon layer disposed adjacent to the buried oxide layer, and a BEOL structure formed over the active silicon layer. An optical waveguide structure is patterned from the active silicon layer of the IC chip. The optoelectronics device is mounted on the buried oxide layer in alignment with a portion of the optical waveguide structure to enable direct or adiabatic coupling between the optoelectronics device and the optical waveguide structure. The interposer is bonded to the BEOL structure, and includes at least one substrate having conductive vias and wiring to provide electrical connections to the BEOL structure.
US09935087B2
Vertically stacked system in package structures are described. In an embodiment, a package includes a first level molding and fan out structure, a third level molding and fan out structure, and a second level molding and fan out structure between the first and third levels. The second level molding and fan out structure includes back-to-back facing die, with a front surface of each die bonded to a redistribution layer.
US09935084B2
Devices and methods of packaging semiconductor devices are disclosed. In some embodiments, a device includes a first semiconductor device and a second semiconductor device coupled to the first semiconductor device. An underfill material is disposed between the first semiconductor device and the second semiconductor device. The underfill material is also disposed on sidewalls of the first semiconductor device and the second semiconductor device. The underfill material has a first thickness on sidewalls of the first semiconductor device and a second thickness on sidewalls of the second semiconductor device. The second thickness is different than the first thickness.
US09935080B2
A method includes forming a first plurality of redistribution lines, forming a first metal post over and electrically connected to the first plurality of redistribution lines, and bonding a first device die to the first plurality of redistribution lines. The first metal post and the first device die are encapsulated in a first encapsulating material. The first encapsulating material is then planarized. The method further includes forming a second metal post over and electrically connected to the first metal post, attaching a second device die to the first encapsulating material through an adhesive film, encapsulating the second metal post and the second device die in a second encapsulating material, planarizing the second encapsulating material, and forming a second plurality of redistributions over and electrically coupling to the second metal post and the second device die.
US09935074B2
A lead frame has a first sink, an island, and a control terminal. The lead frame is bent, and at a rear surface, the island is positioned closer to one surface of a resin molded body than the first sink and a passive component mounting portion of the control terminal. A passive component is mounted on the passive component mounting portion of the control terminal through a bonding material, the passive component mounting portion being a part of one surface.
US09935065B1
A semiconductor device package includes an integrated circuit chip comprising a radio frequency device. The radio frequency device includes active circuitry at a first surface of the integrate circuit chip. An antenna substrate is disposed over the first surface of the integrated circuit. The antenna substrate includes a first conductive layer disposed over the first surface of the integrated circuit chip. The first conductive layer includes a first transmission line electrically coupled to the integrated circuit chip. A first laminate layer is disposed over the first conductive layer. The first laminate layer overlaps a first part of the first transmission line. A second conductive layer is disposed over the first laminate layer. The second conductive layer includes a first opening overlapping a second part of the first transmission line. A second laminate layer is disposed over the second conductive layer. A first antenna is disposed over the second laminate layer and overlaps the first opening, the second part of the first transmission line, and the integrated circuit chip.
US09935064B2
The present disclosure relates to a microelectronics package with an inductive element and a magnetically enhanced mold compound component, and a process for making the same. The disclosed microelectronics package includes a module substrate, a thinned flip-chip die with an upper surface that includes a first surface portion and a second surface portion surrounding the first surface portion, the magnetically enhanced mold compound component, and a mold compound component. The thinned flip-chip die is attached to the module substrate and includes a device layer with an inductive element embedded therein. Herein, the inductive element is underlying the first surface portion and not underlying the second surface portion. The magnetically enhanced mold compound component is formed over the first surface portion. The mold compound component is formed over the second surface portion, not over the first surface portion, and surrounding the magnetically enhanced mold compound component.
US09935061B2
A resin interposer having a semiconductor chip mounted thereon to couple the semiconductor chip to a printed circuit board, the resin interposer includes a wiring layer having a front surface to which the semiconductor chip is coupled and formed by alternately laminating an insulating resin and a metal wiring, and a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer formed on a rear surface of the wiring layer and having a through via formed therein to couple the wiring layer and the printed circuit board to each other.
US09935060B2
A method for processing a wafer in accordance with various embodiments may include: removing wafer material from an inner portion of the wafer to form a structure at an edge region of the wafer to at least partially surround the inner portion of the wafer, and printing material into the inner portion of the wafer using the structure as a printing mask. A method for processing a wafer in accordance with various embodiments may include: providing a carrier and a wafer, the wafer having a first side and a second side opposite the first side, the first side of the wafer being attached to the carrier, the second side having a structure at an edge region of the wafer, the structure at least partially surrounding an inner portion of the wafer; and printing material onto at least a portion of the second side of the wafer.
US09935059B2
A wafer structure and a method for fabricating the wafer structure, and a spray apparatus are provided. An exemplary method for forming the wafer structure includes providing a wafer having a central region and a peripheral region surrounding the central region; forming an interlayer dielectric layer on a surface of the wafer in the central region not in the peripheral region; forming a buffer layer on the surface of the wafer in the peripheral region not in the central region; and forming a glue layer on the interlayer dielectric layer and the buffer layer. The buffer layer is used to reduce the lattice mismatch between the wafer and the glue layer; and reduce the stress between the wafer and the glue layer.
US09935052B1
Circuitry having power lines with comparable path resistances may include input-output blocks in an integrated circuit (IC) that are coupled to respective sets of bumps on the IC. The circuitry may have a core region and a periphery region. Groups of input-output blocks may be formed in the periphery region. A first set of power lines in the circuitry extends from the core region to the first group of input-output blocks whereas a second set of power lines in the circuitry extends from the core region to the second group of input-output blocks. The first and second sets of power lines are physically separate from each other.
US09935050B2
A multi-tier memory device includes a first tier structure overlying a substrate and containing a first alternating stack of first insulating layers and first electrically conductive layers, and first memory stack structures each including a first memory film and a first vertical semiconductor channel, a source line overlying the first tier structure, and a second tier structure overlying the source line and containing a second alternating stack of second insulating layers and second electrically conductive layers, and second memory stack structures each including a second memory film and a second vertical semiconductor channel.
US09935045B2
A semiconductor device has a first semiconductor die with a base material. A covering layer is formed over a surface of the base material. The covering layer can be made of an insulating material or metal. A trench is formed in the surface of the base material. The covering layer extends into the trench to provide the cantilevered protrusion of the covering layer. A portion of the base material is removed by plasma etching to form a cantilevered protrusion extending beyond an edge of the base material. The cantilevered protrusion can be formed by removing the base material to the covering layer, or the cantilevered protrusion can be formed within the base material under the covering layer. A second semiconductor die is disposed partially under the cantilevered protrusion. An interconnect structure is formed between the cantilevered protrusion and second semiconductor die.
US09935043B1
An interconnection substrate includes a first insulating layer, and an interconnection structure formed on the first insulating layer, wherein the interconnection structure includes an interconnection pattern having a first metal layer, a second metal layer formed on the first metal layer, and a third metal layer formed on the second metal layer, and a fourth metal layer covering an upper surface and side surface of the interconnection pattern, wherein an outer perimeter of the second metal layer protrudes at the side surface of the interconnection pattern to form a first protrusion, and the fourth metal layer has a second protrusion that protrudes at a side surface of the interconnection structure at a position corresponding to the first protrusion.
US09935042B2
A semiconductor package includes a chip, a layer which is thermally coupled to the chip and which is formed from a material having a triggering temperature of greater than or equal to 200° C., starting from which an exothermic reaction takes place, and encapsulating material which at least partly covers the chip and the layer. The layer is configured in such a way and is arranged relative to the chip in such a way that, in the case of a triggered exothermic reaction of the material of the layer, at least one component of the chip is damaged on account of the temperature increase caused by the exothermic reaction.
US09935041B1
A clip tape includes connected clip sets; each includes a first clip and a second clip oriented in a same direction, connected by a connector bar. A first multi-chip module and a second multi-chip module are formed by providing a lead frame array containing lead frame units, and providing a clip tape containing connected clip sets. A connected clip set is separated from the clip tape as a unit and placed on the lead frame array; the first clip in the first multi-chip module, and the second clip in the second multi-chip module. The connector bar remains attached during a heating operation, and is severed by a singulation process. A multi-chip module includes a lead frame unit, a semiconductor device, and a clip of a connected clip set attached to the semiconductor device. A connector bar extends from the clip to an external surface of the multi-chip module.
US09935034B2
A semiconductor module having a plurality of cooling fins and a fixing cooling fin longer than the plurality of cooling fins, the fixing cooling fin having a threaded hole provided in distal end portion thereof, a cooling jacket having a cooling medium passage in which the plurality of cooling fins and the fixing cooling fin are housed, and an opening formed so as to enable a screw to be inserted in the threaded hole, and a screw passed through the opening to be inserted in the threaded hole, the cooling jacket being fixed to the semiconductor module with the screw are provided.
US09935030B2
A first resin encapsulated body and a second resin encapsulated body are stacked to form a resin-encapsulated semiconductor device. The first resin encapsulated body includes: a first semiconductor element; an external terminal; inner wiring; and a first resin for covering those components, at least a rear surface of the external terminal, a rear surface of the semiconductor element, and a surface of the inner wiring are exposed from the first resin. The second resin encapsulated body includes: a second semiconductor element having an electrode pad formed on a surface thereof; a second resin for covering the second semiconductor element; and a metal body connected to the electrode pad, and is partly exposed from the second resin. The inner wiring and the metal body are electrically connected to each other.
US09935027B2
An electronic device having a substrate including a metal layer, an electrically insulating layer disposed above the substrate, a semiconductor module disposed above the electrically insulating layer and a lamination layer disposed above the electrically insulating layer. The lamination layer at least partially embeds the semiconductor module.
US09935021B2
A method for evaluating a semiconductor wafer including preparing a reference wafer in which contamination element and amount of contamination are known, forming a plurality of cells including p-n junctions on the reference wafer, measuring junction leakage currents in the plurality of cells on the reference wafer to acquire a distribution of the junction leakage currents of the reference wafer, associating the distribution of the junction leakage currents of the reference wafer with a contamination element, forming a plurality of cells including p-n junctions on a wafer to be measured, measuring junction leakage currents in the plurality of cells on the wafer to be measured to acquire a distribution of the junction leakage currents of the wafer to be measured, and identifying a contamination element of the wafer to be measured based on the association.
US09935017B2
Spaced apart first and second fins are formed on a substrate. An isolation layer is formed on the substrate between the first and second fins. A gate electrode is formed on the isolation layer and crossing the first and second fins. Source/drain regions are formed on the first and second fins adjacent the gate electrode. After forming the source/drain regions, a portion of the gate electrode between the first and second fins is removed to expose the isolation layer. The source/drain regions may be formed by epitaxial growth.
US09935016B2
Among other things, one or semiconductor arrangements, and techniques for forming such semiconductor arrangements are provided. For example, one or more silicon and silicon germanium stacks are utilized to form PMOS transistors comprising germanium nanowire channels and NMOS transistors comprising silicon nanowire channels. In an example, a first silicon and silicon germanium stack is oxidized to transform silicon to silicon oxide regions, which are removed to form germanium nanowire channels for PMOS transistors. In another example, silicon and germanium layers within a second silicon and silicon germanium stack are removed to form silicon nanowire channels for NMOS transistors. PMOS transistors having germanium nanowire channels and NMOS transistors having silicon nanowire channels are formed as part of a single fabrication process.
US09935008B2
Disclosed herein is a semiconductor device chip manufacturing method including a chipping prevention layer forming step of forming a chipping prevention layer at each intersection of a plurality of crossing division lines formed on the front side of a wafer, a modified layer forming step of applying a laser beam having a transmission wavelength to the wafer to the back side thereof along each division line in the condition where the focal point of the laser beam is set inside the wafer, thereby forming a modified layer inside the wafer along each division line, and a dividing step of grinding the back side of the wafer after performing the modified layer forming step, thereby reducing the thickness of the wafer and also dividing the wafer into individual semiconductor device chips along each division line where the modified layer is formed as a break start point.
US09934995B2
This process includes steps: a) providing a carrier substrate including a receiving face; b) depositing a nonstick coating on the receiving face, the nonstick coating including a central region and a peripheral region; and c) trimming the carrier substrate so as to remove the peripheral region of the nonstick coating and to form a recess on the periphery of the carrier substrate, in order to obtain the handle wafer. Also relates to a process for temporarily bonding a substrate to a handle wafer fabricated using the process described above. Furthermore relates to a handle wafer fabricated using the process described above.
US09934979B2
A two piece ceramic showerhead includes upper and lower plates which deliver process gas to an inductively coupled plasma processing chamber. The upper plate overlies the lower plate and includes radially extending gas passages which extend inwardly from an outer periphery of the upper plate, axially extending gas passages in fluid communication with the radially extending gas passages and an annular recess forming a plenum between the upper and lower plates. The lower plate includes axially extending gas holes in fluid communication with the plenum. The upper plate can include eight radially extending gas passages evenly spaced around the periphery of the upper plate and the lower plate can include inner and outer rows of gas holes. The two piece ceramic showerhead forms a dielectric window of the chamber through which radiofrequency energy generated by an antenna is coupled into the chamber. A gas delivery system delivers process gas to a plenum between the upper and lower plates having a gas volume of no greater than 500 cm3. The gas holes in the lower plate extend between the plenum and a plasma exposed yttria coated surface of the lower plate. The gas delivery system is operable to supply an etching gas and a deposition gas into the processing chamber such that the etching gas in the plenum can be replaced with the deposition gas within about 200 milliseconds and vice versa.
US09934966B2
In various embodiments, a method for processing a carrier is provided. The method for processing a carrier may include: forming a first catalytic metal layer over a carrier; forming a source layer over the first catalytic metal layer; forming a second catalytic metal layer over the source layer, wherein the thickness of the second catalytic metal layer is larger than the thickness of the first catalytic metal layer; and subsequently performing an anneal to enable diffusion of the material of the source layer forming an interface layer adjacent to the surface of the carrier from the diffused material of the source layer.
US09934964B2
Dislocation pile-ups in compositionally graded semiconductor layers are reduced or eliminated, thereby leading to increased semiconductor device yield and manufacturability. This is accomplished by introducing a semiconductor layer having a plurality of threading dislocations distributed substantially uniformly across its surface as a starting layer and/or at least one intermediate layer during growth and relaxation of the compositionally graded layer. The semiconductor layer may include a seed layer disposed proximal to the surface of the semiconductor layer and having the threading dislocations uniformly distributed therein.
US09934959B2
A method of purifying a cleaning agent is provided. The method includes heating a first mixed solution including an etching agent, a first cleaning agent, and a second cleaning agent at or below a first temperature and distilling the etching agent and the first cleaning agent and removing the second cleaning agent. The method includes condensing or compressing the etching agent and the first cleaning agent forming a second mixed solution including the etching agent and the first cleaning agent. The method includes heating the second mixed solution at a temperature lower than a second temperature, redistilling the etching agent and extracting the first cleaning agent. The second temperature is lower than the first temperature.
US09934942B1
Described processing chambers may include a chamber housing at least partially defining an interior region of a semiconductor processing chamber. The chamber may include a showerhead positioned within the chamber housing, and the showerhead may at least partially divide the interior region into a remote region and a processing region in which a substrate can be contained. The chamber may also include an inductively coupled plasma source positioned between the showerhead and the processing region. The inductively coupled plasma source may include a conductive material within a dielectric material.
US09934940B2
There is provided a control device for controlling a charged particle beam apparatus, wherein the beam apparatus comprises a workpiece stage having at least two turning axes which are not parallel to each other and an irradiation unit, and the control device comprises an angle calculation unit that based on a direction of a first processing in which a processed surface having a normal line not parallel to any of the turning axes is generated in the workpiece by the irradiation unit and a direction of a second processing to be processed by the irradiation unit from a direction different from the direction of the first processing with respect to the processed surface to be generated by the first processing, calculates turning angles about the turning axes that changes the direction of the stage from the direction of the first processing to the direction of the second processing.
US09934936B2
A Charged Particle Microscope includes A specimen holder, for holding a specimen; A source, for producing a beam of charged particles; An illuminator, for directing said beam so as to irradiate the specimen; and A detector, for detecting a flux of radiation emanating from the specimen in response to said irradiation. The illuminator includes: An aperture plate comprising an aperture region in a path of said beam, for defining a geometry of the beam prior to its impingement upon said specimen. The aperture region includes a distribution of multiple holes, each of which is smaller than a diameter of the beam incident on the aperture plate.
US09934927B1
A system for generating infrared light includes a sealed housing and a noble gas filling the housing. A window disposed in a wall of the housing is transparent to infrared radiation. Two electrodes, disposed in the housing, are aligned along a common longitudinal axis adapted to be approximately perpendicular to a local force of gravity. A gap is defined between the electrodes along the longitudinal axis. Obstruction(s), disposed in the housing adjacent to the gap between the electrodes, extend along the length of the gap. The obstruction(s) define a convection space between the electrodes. The convection space has a dimension, measured perpendicular to the longitudinal axis, in the range of 2 to 10 times the length of the gap. An electric current source is coupled to the electrodes.
US09934915B2
Disclosed herein is a stack-up for an input device. The stack-up may include a flexible substrate having a switch and a light source. The switch has at least two contacts that are bridged in response to actuation of a dome that is positioned above the switch. The flexible substrate includes a signal trace for detecting the actuation of the dome and a power trace for providing power to the light source.
US09934906B2
An electrical ceramic capacitor, in particular a multilayer ceramic capacitor, comprising a ceramic body including a stack of parallel metallic layers of opposing polarity separated by a dielectric material arranged in an active zone of the ceramic body enclosed between outer surfaces, wherein at one or more surfaces a shock-absorbing region is arranged.
US09934898B2
A tunable inductor arrangement arrangable on a chip or substrate is disclosed. The tunable inductor comprises a first winding part connected at one end to a first input of the tunable inductor arrangement, a second winding part connected at one end to the other end of the first winding part, a third winding part connected at one end to a second input of the tunable inductor arrangement, a fourth winding part connected at one end to the other end of the third winding part, and a switch arrangement arranged to tune the tunable inductor arrangement. Tuning is performed by selectively provide any of a circuit comprising the first and third winding parts in series between the first and second inputs, or a circuit comprising the first, second, fourth and third winding parts in series between the first and second inputs. The first and third winding parts are arranged on the chip or substrate such that magnetic fields of the first and third windings are essentially common, and the second and fourth winding parts are arranged to cancel electro-magnetic coupling with the first and third winding parts. A receiver, transceiver, communication device, method and computer program are also disclosed.
US09934897B1
A polarity-switching magnetic diode provides a method of gating or “rectifying” N and S polarized flux contained within the closed-loop flux circuit of a magnetic flux element. Gaps separate the opposing magnetic polarities, and strategically placed control coils are disposed to break the magnetic circuit in at least two places upon electrical activation of the device—forming high density flux zones of opposite polarity. Switching the control coil's magnetic flux flow allows for the high density flux zones to alternate N and S polarity.
US09934881B2
The present invention relates to a non-metallic light conductive wire, a composite conductive wire, a special cable, a motor and the like application products made of the conductive wire, and a method of making the composite conductive wire.
US09934877B2
A nuclear fuel cladding tube for a liquid-metal or molten-salt cooled reactor includes a tubular body of metal material and a protective coating applied on an outer surface of the tubular body, to contact the coolant. The coating includes at least one layer of coating material selected from the group consisting of ceramic materials, refractory metals, and FeCrAlY alloys, and includes a matrix composed of the coating material in amorphous phase, inside which nanodomains composed of the coating material in crystalline phase are dispersed.
US09934876B2
In one embodiment, a fusion reactor includes two internal magnetic coils suspended within an enclosure, a center magnetic coil coaxial with the two internal magnetic coils and located proximate to a midpoint of the enclosure, a plurality of encapsulating magnetic coils coaxial with the internal magnetic coils, and two mirror magnetic coil coaxial with the internal magnetic coils. The encapsulating magnetic coils preserve the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) stability of the fusion reactor by maintaining a magnetic wall that prevents plasma within the enclosure from expanding.
US09934871B2
Described here in are systems, methods and, software to verify storage media and storage subsystems upon deployment. In one example, a computer apparatus to test storage media in a storage subsystem includes processing instructions that direct a computing system to identify initiation of a storage subsystem, initiate a testing process of the storage media, and identify a partition availability event for the storage media. The processing instructions also direct the computing system to, in response to the partition availability event, make a partition of the storage media available to a host processing system, wherein the partition comprises storage locations in the storage media tested via the testing process, and continue the testing process on the storage media. The computer apparatus also includes one or more non-transitory computer readable media that store the processing instructions.
US09934869B1
Apparatuses and methods for transmitting fuse data from fuse arrays to latches are described. An example apparatus includes: a plurality of fuse arrays, each fuse array of the plurality of fuse arrays being configured to store input data; a fuse circuit that receives the input data and provides the input data on a bus; and a plurality of redundancy latch circuits coupled to the bus, including a plurality of pointers and a plurality of latches associated with the plurality of corresponding pointers that load data on the bus. The fuse circuit may control loading of the input data by controlling a location of a pointer among the plurality of corresponding pointers responsive to the input data.
US09934866B2
This disclosure provides a method of accurately determining expected transaction times associated with flash memory subdivisions, such as devices, blocks or pages. By performing a test transaction to program each bit of each such unit, the maximum expected programming time of each unit may be determined in advance and used for scheduling purposes. For example, in a straightforward implementation, a relatively accurate, empirically measured time limit may be identified and used to efficiently manage and schedule flash memory transactions without awaiting ultimate resolution of attempts to write to a non-responsive page. This disclosure also provides other uses of empirically-measured maximum flash memory transaction times, including via multiple memory modes and prioritized memory; for example, if a high performance mode is desired, low variation in flash memory transaction times may be tolerated, and units not satisfying these principles may be marked relatively quickly.
US09934859B1
In response to a write operation on a storage element in a non-volatile memory device, a count provided by a global counter is stored to indicate a time at which the write operation occurs on the storage element. In response to receiving a request perform a read operation on the storage element, a determination is made of a demarcation voltage to apply for performing the read operation on the storage element, based on a progress of the global counter since the write operation on the storage element.
US09934852B2
A method of sensing an output signal in a crossbar array is described. In the method, a selecting voltage is applied to a target memory element of the crossbar array. Also in the method, a non-selecting voltage is applied to non-target memory elements of the crossbar array. Further in the method, a target output that is associated with the target memory element is isolated, with sensing circuitry, from a sneak output based on a time delay between arrival of the target output and the sneak output and the target output is sensed.
US09934850B2
Methods and structures for accessing memory cells in parallel in a cross-point array include accessing in parallel a first memory cell disposed between a first selected column and a first selected row and a second memory cell disposed between a second selected column different from the first selected column and a second selected row different from the first selected row. Accessing in parallel includes simultaneously applying access biases between the first selected column and the first selected row and between the second selected column and the second selected row. The accessing in parallel is conducted while the cells are in a thresholded condition or while the cells are in a post-threshold recovery period.
US09934844B2
Described is an apparatus comprising a plurality of memory arrays, local write assist logic units, and read/write local column multiplexers coupled together in a group such that area occupied by the local write assist logic units and the read/write local column multiplexers in the group is smaller than it would be when global write assist logic units and the read/write global column multiplexers are used. Described is a dual input level-shifter with integrated latch. Described is an apparatus which comprises: a write assist pulse generator operating on a first power supply; one or more pull-up devices coupled to the write assist pulse generator, the one or more pull-up devices operating on a second power supply different from the first power supply; and an output node to provide power supply to a memory cell.
US09934837B2
Methods, systems, and devices for operating a ferroelectric memory cell or cells are described. A ground reference scheme may be employed in a digit line voltage sensing operation. A positive voltage may be applied to a memory cell; and after a voltage of the digit line of the cell has reached a threshold, a negative voltage may be applied to cause the digit line voltages to center around ground before a read operation. In another example, a first voltage may be applied to a memory cell and then a second voltage that is equal to an inverse of the first voltage may be applied to a reference capacitor that is in electronic communication with a digit line of the memory cell to cause the digit line voltages to center around ground before a read operation.
US09934832B2
Apparatuses for monitoring a signal on a conductive via are described. An example apparatus includes: a controller, a first conductive via, a second conductive via and an evaluation circuit. The controller provides a clock signal as a first signal. The first conductive via provides a second signal responsive to the first signal. The second conductive via provides a third signal responsive to the second signal. Responsive to the third signal, the evaluation circuit provides an evaluation result signal. The evaluation result signal is indicative of a frequency of the clock signal, based on a delay of the third signal relative to the clock signal. The first conductive via, the second conductive via and the evaluation circuit may be included in an interface die. The evaluation circuit may detect whether a frequency of the first signal is below a first threshold frequency and may further provide the evaluation result signal.
US09934822B2
Online video can now be supplied with hyperlinks that are associated with and move with objects in the video. However, online video players tend not to report an accurate frame number, and this results in poor synchronisation of the movement of the hyperlink and the object. We propose that a subset of the pixels in the frame be used to encode a numeric frame identifier.
US09934821B2
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a playback control program that causes a computer to perform a process, the process including specifying a plurality of partial videos extracted from a sport video, each of the plurality of partial videos being associated with information indicating a playback start positions and information on a content of sports play indicated by each of the plurality of partial videos, determining a plurality of playback times from the playback start position for each of the plurality of partial videos based on the information on the content corresponding to each of the plurality of partial videos and based on relation information that associates each of a plurality of contents of sports play with playback times, and playing back the plurality of partial videos based on the plurality of determined playback times.
US09934812B2
A tension feedback signal is generated to reduce tension variation on a tape occurring at a reel frequency. Tension variation information may be obtained and used to generate the tension feedback signal. The tension feedback signal may be combined with a constant tension preset signal. The combined signal may be used to drive a tape reel at a tape reel speed adjusted according to the combined signal.
US09934811B1
Systems and methods for controlling stray fields of a magnetic feature are provided. One such method can involve selecting a plurality of materials for a magnetic feature, selecting a plurality of additives, combining the plurality of materials for the magnetic feature and the plurality of additives in an electrolyte solution to form a combined solution, adding nitrogen to the combined solution, degassing the combined solution, depositing the combined solution as a thin film on a wafer using pulse plating, and lapping the thin film to form an edge of the magnetic feature. In several embodiments, the magnetic feature is a component of a magnetic transducer such as a writer pole, a reader shield, or a writer shield.
US09934802B2
Systems and methods for compensating for hysteresis in a disc drive are described. In one embodiment, a method may use an inverse hysteresis model to linearize effects of hysteresis of a microactuator in the disc drive. The hysteresis model may be a Coleman-Hodgdon hysteresis model. The hysteresis of the microactuator may be characterized, and the inverse hysteresis model may be based at least in part on the characterization. The inverse hysteresis model may be used to implement a digital filter. The digital filter may be employed in series with the microactuator to linearize the effects of hysteresis.
US09934791B1
Provided is a method, non-transitory computer program product and system for an improved noise suppression technique for speech enhancement. It operates on speech signals from a single source such as either the output from a single microphone or the reconstructed speech signal at the receiving end of a communication application. The system performs background noise monitoring of an in-coming speech signal and determines its level, and performs a time domain gain calculation. The noise suppressed output signal is the gain shaped original speech signal.
US09934780B2
Sound related vehicle information representing one or more sounds may be received in the processor. The sound related vehicle information may or may not include an audio signal. Spoken dialog of a spoken dialog system associated with the vehicle based on the sound related vehicle information may be modified. The said modification comprises of modifying pitch, pace and timing of audio prompts associated with the said spoken dialog based on the sound related vehicle information.
US09934775B2
Systems and processes for performing unit-selection text-to-speech synthesis are provided. In an example process, text to be converted to speech is received. The text is represented as a sequence of target units. A plurality of candidate speech segments corresponding to the sequence of target units are selected. Predicted statistical parameters of acoustic features associated with the sequence of target units are determined. The predicted statistical parameters of acoustic features are used to determine target costs and concatenation costs associated with the plurality of candidate speech segments. Based on a combined cost determined from the target costs and concatenation costs, a subset of candidate speech segments is selected from the plurality of candidate speech segments. Speech corresponding to the received text is generated using the subset of candidate speech segments.
US09934772B1
An application for operating on a smart phone that records a musician's performance, either voice or instrumental, in combination with pre-recorded music. The combination allows for the auto tuning of the recording, the compression of the recording, the equalization of the recording, adding in reverb, and the audio quantization of the rhythm. Once combined, the song is transmitted to social media and/or to an online store for sale. The user can also make a video with the song. Additional marketing such as song competitions or music reviews and ratings are also provided.
US09934771B1
A computer implemented method is provided for generating a prediction of a next musical note by a computer having at least a processor and a memory. A computer processor system is also provided for generating a prediction of a next musical note. The method includes storing sequential musical notes in the memory. The method further includes dividing, by the processor, the sequential musical notes into sections of a given length based on a Generative Theory of Tonal Music. The method also includes generating, by the processor, the prediction of the next musical note based upon a music model, the sections, and the sequential musical notes stored in the memory. The given length is determined based on one or more conditions.
US09934768B2
A musical score display device and method employing a controller that is configured to control a display to display a musical score and, with the musical score, a first time axis corresponding to a performance of the musical score in which at least one repeat part of the musical score is played during the performance, or a second time axis corresponding to the musical score including at least one repeat sign.
US09934765B2
A side plate configured for use on a percussion instrument includes a base plate having a first surface and a second surface. A receiving portion is configured to removably connect to the base plate. The receiving portion extends beyond the second surface of the base plate when connected thereto. The receiving portion includes a hole extending parallel to the first and second surface of the base plate. A tuning rode is receivable within the hole and is configured to restrict movement of the receiving portion relative to the base plate.
US09934763B1
A resonating system includes a woodwind instrument that has a mouthpiece. Air is blown through the mouthpiece to play the woodwind instrument. A ligature is positioned around the mouthpiece and a reed is removably inserted into the mouthpiece. The reed vibrates when air is blown through the woodwind instrument. A resonator is provided and the resonator is removably positioned around the mouthpiece. The resonator is positioned between the ligature and the reed and the resonator is comprised of a rigid material. In this way the resonator enhances the vibration of the reed thereby enhancing a volume and clarity of an audible sound produced by the woodwind instrument.
US09934759B1
Disclosed are embodiments of flexible display modules and systems of flexible display modules. Display modules have a plurality of light emitting elements arranged in a predetermined pattern and providing a highly uniform visual effect. Alignment and complementary alignment features enable the alignment of adjacent display modules and the creation of large displays from a plurality of aligned display modules. Features to couple to and retain a support frame are provided. Flexible and durable weather resistance features are provided. Modules and systems have features that permit installation and removal from the front side or the back side of the display. A system of modular support frames works cooperatively with the display modules, adapting to different mounting environments, and thereby providing large modular displays with desirable properties.
US09934754B2
A system and method for generating a dynamic sensor array for an augmented reality system is described. A head mounted device includes one or more sensors, an augmented reality (AR) application, and a sensor array module. The sensor array module identifies available sensors from other head mounted devices that are geographically located within a predefined area. A dynamic sensor array is formed based on the available sensors and the one or more sensors. The dynamic sensor array is updated based on an operational status of the available sensors and the one or more sensors. The AR application generates AR content based on data from the dynamic sensor array. A display of the head mounted device displays the AR content.
US09934751B2
A display device includes a display panel, a gate driving circuit, and an image determination unit. The gate driving circuit includes a double gate transistor. The image determination unit outputs an image determination signal to a second control electrode of the double gate transistor. When the display panel displays a still image, the double gate transistor is turned on by the image determination signal so that each of gate signals outputted from stages connected in cascade to a stage including the double gate transistor among stages included in the gate driving circuit has a gate-off voltage.
US09934748B2
Disclosed herein is a display device including: a display section configured to have a plurality of scanning signal lines to which respective scanning signals are applied, the display section performing line-sequential scanning by repeating interruption and resumption of the line-sequential scanning on a basis of the plurality of scanning signals, and displaying an image; and a scanning section configured to generate the plurality of scanning signals such that transition times on a pulse termination side of the respective scanning signals are equal to each other.
US09934747B2
The amplitude voltage of a signal input to a level shifter can be increased and then output by the level shifter circuit. Specifically, the amplitude voltage of the signal input to the level shifter can be increased to be output. This decreases the amplitude voltage of a circuit (a shift register circuit, a decoder circuit, or the like) which outputs the signal input to the level shifter. Consequently, power consumption of the circuit can be reduced. Alternatively, a voltage applied to a transistor included in the circuit can be reduced. This can suppress degradation of the transistor or damage to the transistor.
US09934746B2
A gate driving circuit is provided. A gate driving circuit comprises a pull-up control unit including a control transistor, a pull-up unit, a carry unit which outputs a clock signal into a kth carry signal and a pull-down unit which pulls down a control node to an off voltage, wherein the control transistor includes one electrode and the other electrode connected to the control node, the one electrode and the other electrode being disposed on a gate electrode such that the one electrode and the other electrode being insulated from the gate electrode, wherein the gate electrode and the other electrode are disposed not to be overlapped with each other, and a distance between an upper surface of the gate electrode and a lower surface of the one electrode is longer than that of the upper surface of the gate electrode and a lower surface of the other electrode.
US09934745B2
The present invention provides a GOA circuit applied for the In Cell type touch display panel. The third transmission gate (TG3) comprising the second P-type thin film transistor (T2) and the third N-type thin film transistor (T3), the first P-type thin film transistor (T1) and the fourth N-type thin film transistor (T4) are added in the output buffer module (600), and the touch control signal (TCK) and the inverted touch control signal (XTCK) are introduced to control the working status of the output buffer module (600). Thus, in the touch scan stage, the third transmission gate (TG3) is deactivated, and the first, the fourth thin film transistors (T1, T4) are activated, and the gate scan driving signal output end (Gate(N)) is floating, and similarly jumps between high, low voltage levels along with that the touch scan driving signal jumps between high, low voltage levels.
US09934742B2
Provided is a display panel that reduces occurrence of display irregularities in a display region even in a case where driving circuits that switch gate lines between selected and non-selected states are provided in the display region. A display panel of the present invention includes an active matrix substrate and a counter substrate, the active matrix substrate being provided with a plurality of gate lines and a plurality of source lines. The active matrix substrate includes, in a display region, a driving circuit provided with respect to each of the gate lines, for switching the gate line between a selected state and a non-selected state. The display panel further includes, in a non-installation region where the driving circuit is not provided, an aperture ratio adjustment member that changes an aperture ratio in the non-installation region stepwise, in order to decrease a difference between a luminance in an installation region where the driving circuit is provided and a luminance in the non-installation region.
US09934735B2
A display control method and an electronic device are described. The electronic device includes a first body and a second body. Two sides of the first body include a first display area and a second display area respectively. The method includes: acquiring space position information of the first body and the second body, determining whether the space position information satisfies a first space predetermined condition, and obtaining a first determining result; detecting a first included angle between the first body and the second body if the first determining result indicates that the space position information satisfies the first space predetermined condition; determining whether the first included angle satisfies a first included angle predetermined condition, and switching an operating state of the electronic device to the triangle supporting state if the first included angle satisfies the first included angle predetermined condition.
US09934728B2
An AMOLED pixel driving circuit has a 5T1C structure, which includes a first, a second, a third, a fourth, and a fifth thin film transistors, a capacitor, and an organic light emitting diode (OLED). The first thin film transistor is a drive thin film transistor. A first global signal, a second global signal, and a scan signal are fed, with various combinations thereof, for various operations of the circuit in an initialization stage, a data writing stage, a threshold voltage compensation stage, and a drive stage. The data writing stage and the threshold voltage compensation stage are carried out simultaneously for effectively compensating threshold voltage variation of the drive thin film transistor and the organic light emitting diode to make the display brightness of the AMOLED uniform and to promote the display quality.
US09934724B2
A display module including a substrate having a plurality of pixels, a data line that supplies a data signal to a pixel, a current supply line that supplies electric current to the pixel, a data driving circuit that supplies a data signal to the data line, and a gate driving circuit thereon. The plurality of pixels are arranged in a display area of the substrate, and each of the plurality of pixels includes a light emitting device, a first thin film transistor connected to the data line that supplies the data signal, a second thin film transistor connected to the current supply line, and a capacitor. The light emitting device includes a first electrode layer connected to the second thin film transistor, an organic layer formed on the first electrode layer, and a second electrode layer formed on the organic layer.
US09934723B2
An electronic display panel comprising a plastic substrate; a bottom shield metal (BSM) on the plastic substrate; a thin-film transistor (TFT) on the BSM, the TFT and the BSM at least partially overlapping each other; and an active buffer layer between the TFT and the BSM, wherein the BSM is connected to one of a gate electrode, a source electrode, and a drain electrode of the TFT. A bottom shield metal (BSM) on the plastic substrate, the BSM located to minimize formation of a back channel in a pixel circuit by trapped charges of the plastic substrate, the pixel circuit in a pixel area defined by a gate line and a data line on the plastic substrate, the pixel circuit on the active buffer layer including a plurality of TFTs and a plurality of component interconnecting nodes.
US09934722B2
A light emitting element display device is disclosed. In one aspect, the display includes a first pixel column including a plurality of pixels, a second pixel column including a plurality of pixels disposed substantially parallel to the first pixel column, a first transmission line between the first and second pixel columns, a second transmission line disposed substantially parallel to the first transmission line, and a power supply connected to any one of the first and second transmission lines so as to supply driving power. The first and second transmission lines may be connected to each other, at least one of the pixels of the first pixel column may be connected to the second transmission line, and at least one of the pixels of the second pixel column may be connected to the first transmission line.
US09934715B2
Disclosed is a timing controller including: a receiving unit configured to receive image data; a buffer memory configured to temporarily store and output the received image data; a timing controller circuit configured to generate a transmission clock signal; and a transmitter configured to receive the transmission clock signal and a transmission data signal, wherein the transmission data signal includes the image data output by the buffer memory, wherein the transmitter is configured to transmit a transmission signal, wherein the transmission clock signal is embedded in the transmission data signal, and wherein the transmission clock signal has a magnitude different from the transmission data signal.
US09934714B2
System and method of displaying images in temporal superresolution by multiplicative superposition of cascaded display layers integrated in a display device. Using an original video with a target temporal resolution as a priori, a factorization process is performed to derive respective image data for presentation on each display layer. The multiple layers are refreshed in staggered intervals to synthesize a video with an effective refresh rate exceeding that of each individual display layer, e.g., by a factor equal to the number of layers. Further optically averaging neighboring pixels can minimize artifacts.
US09934709B2
Various embodiments of the present invention relate to systems and methods for displaying information in a real-time updateable form. In one embodiment, the present invention can comprise a system comprising a vehicle, a video display attached to the vehicle, a wireless data transfer device capable of receiving data transmissions, an operational sensor device capable of detecting changes in the operation of the vehicle, a controller that receives signals from at least one source and transmits signals to video display, and a plurality of power sources where at least one of the power sources is independent of the power supply of the vehicle.
US09934708B2
A display apparatus and a display device including the display apparatus are disclosed. The display apparatus includes a display panel, an elastic supporting backplate and at least one actuating structure; the display panel is attached to the supporting backplate; the actuating structure is arranged on one side of the supporting backplate away from the display panel and are in contact with the supporting backplate; and the supporting backplate is capable of being driven by the actuating structure, so that bending degrees of the supporting backplate and the display panel can be changed.
US09934706B2
Disclosed herein is a flexible display apparatus including: a fixing body of which a hinge is applied to one or two edges; flexible display means whose one end portion is fixed to the fixing body and whose the other end portion which is not fixed is capable of being folded and unfolded in a state where the unfixed portion is supported at the outer circumferential surface of the hinge; and a cover plate which is assembled to a hinge shape of the fixing body in a rotatable state and has a sliding space part and a sliding guide jaw for allowing sliding of the unfixed portion of the flexible display means and supporting the unfixed portion of the flexible display means. A sliding plate which surrounds the unfixed end portion of the flexible display means and slides on the cover plate is additionally provided.
US09934702B2
A magnetic cardette for removably holding a card or sign. The cardette includes a stem insertable into a floral arrangement container. The top of the stem includes a plate of material that is attractable to the card, in turn, having a magnet thereon removably holding the card to the stem.
US09934701B2
A sphygmomanometer simulator for live training includes an upper arm cuff for a simulated patient; a rigid walled pressure vessel within the cuff; a manual inflator and manual release valve coupled to the rigid walled vessel to selectively increase and release the pressure within the pressure vessel; a pressure sensor coupled to the pressure vessel; a cuff controller receiving the pressure sensor measurements and controlling a speaker within the cuff to emit designated simulated Korotkoff sounds associated with a simulated blood pressure and with the pressure of the pressure vessel; a visual gauge controlled by the cuff controller and displaying a pressure associated with the pressure in the pressure vessel and simulated Korotkoff gauge bumps associated with the simulated blood pressure for the simulated patient; and a user controller coupled to the cuff controller for inputting the simulated blood pressure for the simulated patient.
US09934693B2
Methods, devices, and systems for generating an aircraft turnaround and airport terminal status analysis are described herein. One device includes a memory, and a processor configured to execute executable instructions stored in the memory to receive flight information and airport terminal information associated with an airport, generate an aircraft turnaround analysis based on the flight information and the airport terminal information, and a user interface to display the aircraft turnaround analysis in a single integrated display. One device includes a memory, and a processor configured to execute executable instructions stored in the memory to receive airport terminal information associated with an airport, generate an airport terminal status analysis based on the airport terminal information, and a user interface to display the airport terminal status analysis in a single integrated display.
US09934691B2
The present application provides a system and method for enabling a driver to locate a passenger. In one or more implementations, a graphical user interface is provided that is operable to send and receive information associated with passengers and vehicles. A location of a first vehicle, a location of a first passenger and a location of a second passenger are received. Information associated with the locations of the first and second passenger is transmitted and a representation of at least one of the first passenger and the second passenger and the respective location thereof is provided.
US09934690B2
The present invention provides an object recognition apparatus which, in a vehicle that detects an object present behind (including obliquely behind) the vehicle using a radio wave radar, is able to precisely recognize the position of the object present behind (including obliquely behind) the vehicle during traveling on a curve and a lane change, and a vehicle travel controller using the same. An object recognition apparatus is provided with: an image capturing unit which captures an image of an environment in front of a vehicle; a lane detection unit which detects a lane in front of the vehicle on the basis of the image captured by the image capturing unit; a lane position estimation unit which estimates the position of a lane behind the vehicle on the basis of the lane detected by the lane detection unit and the travel history of the vehicle; a rear object detection unit which detects an object present behind the vehicle; and a relative position calculation unit which calculates the relative position of the object detected by the rear object detection unit with respect to the position of the lane estimated by the lane position estimation unit.
US09934688B2
A system includes a computer programmed to identify, from a first vehicle, one or more second vehicles within a specified distance to the first vehicle. The computer is further programmed to receive data about operations of each of the second vehicles, including trajectory data. Based on the data, the computer is programmed to identify, for each of the second vehicles, a distribution of probabilities of each of a set of potential planned trajectories. The computer is further programmed to determine a planned trajectory for the first vehicle, based on the respective distributions of probabilities of each of the set of potential planned trajectories for each of the second vehicles. The computer is further programmed to provide an instruction to at least one controller associated with the first vehicle based on the determined planned trajectory.
US09934687B2
A method for providing sound tracking information includes detecting a sound occurred adjacent to a subject vehicle and generating a sound tracking result based at least on sound data regarding detected sound, determining a detect on category as one of a non-vehicle detection, an error detection or a vehicle detection, based at least on the sound tracking result, and determining an error detection index adjusted based at least on the detection category as well as whether a notification based at least on the detection category is generated. Herein, the sound tracking result includes a probability of whether there is at least one other vehicle at each of a plurality of angles in each of a plurality of frames continued according to time.
