US10080118B2
According to one aspect, the subject matter described herein includes a method for managing associations between users in multiple over-the-top (OTT) service platforms. The method includes receiving a first message indicating an action associated with a first user in a first OTT service platform. The method also includes generating, based on the first message, a second message for performing a related action in a second OTT service platform. The method further includes communicating the second message to the second OTT service platform.
US10080113B1
The present invention is directed to methods of and systems for converting data that is in a format unsupported by a recipient device into images that are supported and can thus be accurately rendered by the recipient device. Thus, recipient devices, such as mobile phones and text messengers, all of which are able to display images, are all able to render characters in languages not supported by the recipient device. A method of the present invention converts data for display on a receiving device configured to accurately render data in one or more supported formats. The method includes determining whether a first format of the data is a supported format, and automatically converting the data into a second format supported by the second device if the first format is not a supported format. Preferably, the first format is defined by a character set and the second format is a binary image format.
US10080106B2
There is provided means for identifying whether or not users of mobile information terminals (mobile information terminals) in a network service are the same as or different from one another. Location information 151, 152 is obtained by the mobile information terminals 121 each comprising a GPS function, and location information 151 representing a resident state at a home, a workplace or a school is obtained when the mobile information terminal users 123 carry their respective mobile information terminals 121. The location information 151 is specific to each user, and therefore, is used as identification information to differentiate the users to thereby allow identification of the users of the mobile information terminals by a management server 110.
US10080104B2
In one embodiment, a method includes: obtaining location information and motion information of a wireless communication apparatus, and a data set from one or more information sources external to the wireless communication apparatus; and organizing data of the data set for display, where the organizing is based on the location and motion information of the wireless communication apparatus. Methods of other embodiments may also include defining a search radius based on the location information and motion information of the wireless communication apparatus, and the organizing may also include filtering the data set from the one or more information sources to exclude data from information sources outside the defined search radius.
US10080100B2
Techniques and systems are disclosed for enhancing the flexibility and resiliency of mobile social networking platforms. Techniques enable dynamic, user-defined check-in points with mobile devices so that users may define ad hoc, location-based communities. Techniques may also selectively determine an appropriate location-sensing mechanism to improve location accuracy or privacy, or to compensate for unavailable location-sensing capabilities. The techniques may assist social networking platforms to have a greater range of check-in options and to enable communication that may not rely on traditional network connectivity. In some cases, devices belonging to participators outside the member group may be used to locate a member who has moved outside the detection zone of a check-in point. In some cases, the participators' devices might not be directly connected to the lost member device but instead are connected via one or more “hops” of indirect communication with other participator devices.
US10080096B2
A method and system for transmitting information which is obtained from a peripheral object when an interactive service between devices is performed, and a device, are provided. The information transmission method includes: obtaining first information which is stored in a peripheral object of an electronic device via short distance communication with the peripheral object when an interactive service is performed between the electronic device and the at least one external device; generating second information that is to be transmitted to the at least one external device based on the obtained first information; and transmitting the second information to the at least one external device via the interactive service.
US10080094B2
An apparatus comprising: a spatial audio analyzer configured to determine, using at least one audio signal, at least one acoustic source; a location determiner configured to determining at least one point of interest location associated with the at least one acoustic source; a trajectory determiner configured to determine a trajectory of the at least one point of interest location associated with the at least one acoustic source; and a processor configured to reproduce the at least one audio signal from at least one sound playback transducer based on the determined trajectory.
US10080089B2
An audio system includes a base station, an interface that enables transmission of audio content from a handheld media device to the base station via a cable, and one or more remote speakers configured to receive the audio content from the base station. The base station includes a housing, a speaker integrated within the housing to produce an audible signal from the audio content provided by the handheld media device, and a transceiver integrated within the housing for wirelessly transmitting the audio content to the one or more remote speakers. The one or more remote speakers are configured to wirelessly relay the audio content, thereby to supply the audio content beyond the transmission range of the transceiver.
US10080075B2
Disclosed is a portable sound equipment. The present invention includes a body, first and second holders formed at the body, and a pair of earbuds, each earbud of the pair of earbuds detachably coupled with the first and second holders. And each earbud of the pair of the earbuds comprises a sound output unit, a wireless communication unit, a detecting unit configured to detect whether the earbud is coupled with the first holder or the second holder, and a controller configured to control the wireless communication unit and the sound output unit in first mode in response to detection of coupling of the earbud with the first holder, and control the wireless communication unit and the sound output unit in a second mode in response to detection of coupling of the earbud with the second holder.
US10080070B2
Implementing a laser into a system that uses a remote powered combiner or an aggregating combiner (AC) with one or more in-range contributing combiners may provide power to the downstream contributing combiners (CC). The power may be provided on the same fiber that downstream signals and the upstream signals traverse.
US10080064B2
A distributed computing system is configured to compute operational data for a video advertisement delivery system. Cloud-based resource are used to calculate operational parameters such as geographical data, unique advertisement delivery instances and segments of consumers that received the video advertisements.
US10080060B2
A device for enabling content selection is configured to display one or more sub-categories of content included within a category of content. The one or more sub-categories of content may be displayed using stack structures. The stack structures may include a plurality of icons representing available content. The stack structures may enable thumbnail browsing of content available from a plurality of diverse sources. The device may enable a user to cycle through sub-category types.
US10080051B1
An information presentation method includes steps of providing a plurality of displays comprising a main screen and at least one picture-in-picture (PiP) window, the main screen having a first displaying region for displaying a first content in the first displaying region, and the at least one PiP window displaying a second content in at least a portion of the first displaying region; providing a surrounding display circumambiently located around the plurality of displays for displaying a third content; determining an immersive impact region and a non-immersive impact region in the plurality of displays; calculating an immersive effect (IE) of the plurality of displays; and displaying the first content or the second content on the immersive impact region and the non-immersive impact region with different intensities based on the IE.
US10080050B2
There is provided a method for clock reference insertion during packetization of an encoded data stream, wherein said packetization is performed before buffering of the data stream. The method comprises storing the value of each bit rate applied during encoding, and the duration of time for which each bit rate is applied. A clock reference time interval is converted into a clock reference data interval using the value of each bit rate applied and the duration of time for which each bit rate is applied. The clock reference data interval is used to determine where to insert a clock reference into the data stream during packetization.
US10080047B1
Methods and systems for automatically monitoring, identifying, documenting, recording, interrupting, disrupting, educating, redirecting and infiltrating and/or monetizing the illegal and unauthorized sharing and viewing of video streaming content by using a keyword and an internet address and automatically retrieving data relating to the keyword and video streaming services or password sharing, automatically retrieving information relating to the retrieved data, automatically retrieving information relating with a combination of the first two retrievals, enhancing the data sets, and sending a message to the individual who shared the illegal share link or password and to all the viewers of the illegal video stream.
US10080045B2
A method and apparatus for transmitting a plurality of elementary data streams to a plurality of receivers is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises the steps of generating M data streams comprising K multiplexed elementary data streams in a first entity, transmitting the M data streams to a second entity, generating N transmitter streams from the M data streams in the second entity; and transmitting each of the N transmitter streams to the plurality of receivers using an associated one of N broadcast sub-transmitters.
US10080040B2
A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, includes a broadband signal access point, which may be located internally or externally to the premises, in combination with the existing cabling is used with radiation device(s) to provide distribution of services, including broadband services, within the premises. Additional embodiments are disclosed.
US10080037B2
A method for decoding a video including a plurality of views, according to one embodiment of the present invention, comprises the steps of: configuring a base merge motion candidate list by using motion information of neighboring blocks and a time correspondence block of a current block; configuring an extended merge motion information list by using motion information of a depth information map and a video view different from the current block; and determining whether neighboring block motion information contained in the base merge motion candidate list is derived through view synthesis prediction.
US10080034B2
A method and apparatus are provided for predictive frame selection supporting enhanced efficiency and subjective quality. The apparatus includes an encoder for encoding a picture using a selection scheme that selects between encoding the picture as a single direction inter predictive picture type and a bi-directional inter predictive picture type based on coding efficiency and a determination of a flickering artifact resulting from coding the picture as the bi-directional inter predictive picture type.
US10080032B2
Blurriness in a video image transmitted over a lossy network can be reduced by filtering the decoder output to determine whether updating of the reference frame based on the current video data is indicated. An update may be appropriate if the decoder output is sharper than the contents of the display buffer after the last update. Additionally, an update may be appropriate if there was a significant change to the underlying image, and thus to the encoder's input. Whether such a change has occurred can be determined by analyzing the prediction mode, motion vectors, and pixel data of the output image.
US10080031B1
A motion vector predictor candidate generating unit makes a prediction based on a motion vector of one of coded neighboring blocks that are neighboring to a coding target block in space or time and generates a plurality of motion vector predictor candidates. A motion vector predictor redundant candidate removing unit removes the motion vector predictor candidates having identity among the motion vector predictor candidates predicted based on a coded neighboring block that is neighboring in space from a motion vector predictor candidate list with at least one being left. A motion vector predictor selecting unit selects a motion vector predictor from the plurality of motion vector predictor candidates. A first bitstream generating unit codes information representing the selected motion vector predictor.
US10080028B2
A method of compensating for image compression errors is presented. The method comprises: receiving an image frame Fn during a frame period n, where n is a natural number; adding a compensation frame Cn to the image frame Fn to generate a compensated frame En; compressing the compensated frame En to generate a compressed frame CEn; decompressing the compressed frame CEn to generate a decompressed frame Dn; and subtracting the decompressed frame Dn from the compensated frame En to generate a next compensation frame Cn+1.
US10080026B2
Statistical values are computed based on received source images. An adaptive reshaping function is selected for one or more source images based on the one or more statistical values. A portion of source video content is adaptively reshaped, based on the selected adaptive reshaping function to generate a portion of reshaped video content. The portion of source video content is represented by the one or more source images. An approximation of an inverse of the selected adaptive reshaping function is generated. The reshaped video content and a set of adaptive reshaping parameters defining the approximation of the inverse of the selected adaptive reshaping function are encoded into a reshaped video signal. The reshaped video signal may be processed by a downstream recipient device to generate a version of reconstructed source images, for example, for rendering with a display device.
US10080015B2
Provided is an image processing device including a decoding section that decodes an encoded stream to generate an image, a line determining section that determines whether to apply a deblocking filter to each of lines perpendicular to a boundary in neighboring blocks neighboring across the boundary in the image generated by the decoding section, and a filtering section that applies the deblocking filter to each line to which the line determining section determines to apply the deblocking filter.
US10080014B2
An image display apparatus, a driving method thereof, and an image display method are provided. The image display apparatus includes an image input unit configured to allow an image signal to be input, an image processor configured to process the input image signal, and a display unit configured to display the processed image signal. The image processor acquires at least one image from the input image and outputs the acquired image in a generation duration time period of an image of which an image output method is changed in response to a change of the image output method of the input image signal.
US10080013B2
A stereoscopic image is generated by applying three-dimensional processing to two or more images, which are obtained through photographing from different positions. The stereoscopic image is stereoscopically displayed, and an instruction to start changing a parallax level of the stereoscopic image is received. In response to the instruction to start changing the parallax level, stereoscopic display of the stereoscopic image is switched into two-dimensional display of the two or more images overlapped with each other. An instruction to change the parallax level is received. In response to the instruction to change the parallax level, the two or more images are two-dimensionally displayed with the parallax level of the images being changed.
US10080005B2
One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for correcting color values. The technique includes downsampling first color space values to generate downsampled color space values and upsampling the downsampled color space values to generate second color space values. The technique further includes modifying at least one component value included in the downsampled color space values based on a first component value included in the first color space values, a second component value included in the second color space values, and an approximation of a nonlinear transfer function.
US10080004B2
The present disclosure relates to a method for calibrating a projector. The method includes projecting a test pattern onto a scene or an object within the scene and capturing the test pattern using a camera. Once the test pattern image has been captured by the camera, the method further includes estimating by a processing element a perspective projection matrix, warping the estimated projection matrix based on a non-linear distortion function, and modifying the projector to project light based on the distortion function. The present disclosure also relates to a presentation or projection system including two types of projectors for projecting an output presentation having a second image overlaid on a first image.
US10079999B2
A magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) location surveillance system (10) for determining access to a room (12) containing an MRI device (14) which includes a superconducting magnet and images subjects includes at least one video camera (26) positioned to view an entrance (26) to the room containing the MRI device (14), a recognize unit (36) in communication with the at least one video camera, a classify unit (37), and an authorize unit (38). The at least one video camera (26) images objects and persons approaching the entrance (16). The recognize unit (36) receives the imaged objects and persons, and recognizes each imaged object and each imaged person. The classify unit (37) classifies each recognized object (24) and each recognized person (22) according to MRI safety. The authorize unit (38) determines access to the room (14) containing the MRI device (14) based on each classified object and each classified person.
US10079998B2
A commodity promotion system includes output unit that presents a customer with information, commodity presence/absence determination unit that determines presence or absence of the target article on the basis of signal strength information of the RF tag, commodity information storage unit that stores commodity information list in which the tag information of the RF tag, commodity presence/absence information indicating presence or absence of the target article, output unit ID information of the output unit, and output information indicating information to be presented are associated with one another, and commodity pickup determination unit that detects that the target article has changed from a presence state to an absence state, on the basis of a determination result of the presence or absence of the target article and the commodity presence/absence information in the commodity information list and outputs the output information associated with the tag information to the output unit.
US10079993B2
An Internet-based application allows a user to sign in to a web site to record a performance thus creating a take of a scene between two actors (actor A and actor B) with the actors alternately speaking their respective lines. The system delivers the actors lines in a teleprompter format. The user can choose which actor to emulate (A or B). If the user decides to perform as actor A, the system will present each line to be spoken by actor A with a time progress bar indicating the speed/timing for that line. The take is recorded by the user's computer using a computer operated camera and microphone. The teleprompter timer ensures that the user's performance is in sync with the Actor B even though the various takes are actually recorded at different times. This allows the takes to be played in tandem, side by side, seemingly performing together.
US10079990B2
Apparatuses and method for an image sensor with increased analog to digital conversion range and reduced noise are described herein. An example method may include disabling a first auto-zero switch of a comparator, the first auto-zero switch coupled to auto-zero a reference voltage input of the comparator, adjusting an auto-zero offset voltage of a ramp voltage provided to the reference voltage input of the comparator, and disabling a second auto-zero switch of the comparator, the second auto-zero switch coupled to auto-zero a bitline input of the comparator.
US10079984B2
When imaging bright objects, a conventional detector array can saturate, making it difficult to produce an image with a dynamic range that equals the scene's dynamic range. Conversely, a digital focal plane array (DFPA) with one or more m-bit counters can produce an image whose dynamic range is greater than the native dynamic range. In one example, the DFPA acquires a first image over a relatively brief integration period at a relatively low gain setting. The DFPA then acquires a second image over longer integration period and/or a higher gain setting. During this second integration period, counters may roll over, possibly several times, to capture a residue modulus 2m of the number of counts (as opposed to the actual number of counts). A processor in or coupled to the DFPA generates a high-dynamic range image based on the first image and the residues modulus 2m.
US10079971B2
The present disclosure relates to a method and a device for setting a shooting parameter. The method includes displaying a digital color temperature adjusting key and at least one scenario color temperature adjusting key in a menu bar on the touch screen, receiving a tapping signal on a digital color temperature adjusting key displayed on a touch screen, displaying a scrolling list according to the tapping signal. A first set of n color temperature values are displayed in the scrolling list and one color temperature value in the n color temperature values is in an active state. The method further includes receiving a scrolling signal associated with the scrolling list, scrolling the first set of n color temperature values to display a second set of n color temperature values in the scrolling list in response to the scrolling signal, and selecting as the shooting parameter a color temperature value which is in an active state. The present disclosure may solve the problem that the number of scenario adjusting modes is limited and a user is not able to adjust the color temperature values of all the scenarios.
US10079970B2
A method of controlling image focus in a digital imaging system is provided that includes receiving a depth-scene image pair generated by a depth-scene image sensor pair comprised in the digital imaging system, aligning the depth image with the scene image wherein each pixel in the scene image has a corresponding depth in the aligned depth image, detecting a user gesture associated with a focus effect, and blurring, responsive to the user gesture, at least a portion of the scene image according to the focus effect, wherein the blurring is based on depths in the depth image.
US10079959B2
A data structure includes entries corresponding to a plurality of tiles that form part of an image, where a given entry of the entries includes color information for a given tile of the plurality of tiles. Image data in the given tile is created using the color information of the given entry, where creating the image data in the given tile using the color information of the given entry is performed without using input image data for the given tile.
US10079953B2
An image forming apparatus for executing an application for performing an image forming operation is provided. The apparatus includes an interface library. The interface library includes information about an image forming operation performable by the image forming apparatus, a user interface (UI) configured to provide a UI screen for receiving a request to perform the image forming operation, by referring to the interface library, at least one operation processor configured to call an application programming interface (API) corresponding to the image forming operation, based on the received request to perform the image forming operation, and an operation performer configured to perform the image forming operation requested to be performed, according to the call.
US10079948B2
According to detection results of a plurality of original document detectors, an image reading apparatus determines whether or not correcting skew of an original document is possible, controls a pair of a plurality of transport rollers in a case where it is determined that correcting the skew of the original document is possible, and corrects the skew of the original document by making transporting speeds of the pair of the plurality of transport rollers different from each other.
US10079947B1
An image alignment adjustment mechanism of a scanner and an adjustment tool for adjusting a scanning module (4) are provided. The image alignment adjustment mechanism includes a housing (10) and an adjustment device (2) arranged in the housing (10). The housing (10) has a guiding structure (13) for moving the scanning module (4). The adjustment device (2) includes a base (20), a connection portion (21) extending from the base (20), and an adjustment portion (22). An adjustment area (102) is defined on the housing (10) corresponding to the adjustment device (2), an adjustment hole (103) is defined on the housing (10) corresponding to the adjustment area (103), and the base (20) is arranged in the housing (10) adjacent to the adjustment area (102). The connection portion (21) is coupled to the guiding structure (13), and the adjustment portion (22) protrudes from the adjustment hole (103).
US10079946B2
A printing apparatus capable of conveying sheets to a sheet processing apparatus and to control the type of a sheet to be used as a cover sheet in a case where a book bound product is generated by switching back sheets each having an image printed, inverting the sheets and folding the inverted sheets, and to notify an error to a user based on the type of a sheet to be used as the cover sheet in a case where printing an image on the cover sheet is designated.
US10079943B2
System and method for detecting anomalies in the recorded consumption of data volume and charging of data services in a communication network is described. Data records for each session may be captured from multiple sources. The data records may comprise parameters indicating usage volume pertaining to services being consumed for each session. Further, the data records may be aggregated and reconciled to detect volume gap in each session. Each session may be categorized into a session category based upon the detection of the volume gap. The data records may further be enriched by tagging each data record with the session category. The data records enriched may then be aggregated across the parameters. Finally, a root-cause parameter for the volume gap pertaining to each session may be identified by computing a total volume, a total volume gap and a probability of gap root-cause for each parameter using the aggregated data records.
US10079940B2
A broadcasting system provides a telephone number as identity information during a registration process of a user equipment intended to be used as a user broadcasting equipment. The telephone number is one of many telephone numbers associated with the broadcasting system. During the registration process in which the user equipment is identified as a user broadcasting equipment, various information associated with the user equipment are obtained and stored. The identity information, i.e., the telephone number, maps to the stored information such that when the user equipment is used to dial the provided telephone number, the broadcasting system automatically recognizes the user equipment is making a dial to broadcast request. Upon checking the stored information associated with the user equipment, the broadcasting system allows the user equipment to broadcast to one or more other user equipment registered as listeners to a scheduled broadcast.
US10079938B2
A system that supports multiple contact centers includes a communications network that is coupled between a private network (e.g. MPLS network) and a remote computing environment (e.g. cloud environment). A server system in the remote computing environment monitors health of different network segments (e.g. bandwidth of the connection between the communications network and the remote computing environment, bandwidth of a link used by a tenant to access the private network, etc.). When it is determined that quality of service for voice conversations for one or more contact centers is at risk due to a health status parameter of a network segment reaching a threshold, an appropriate system reaction is triggered. The system reaction may be to offload future calls to a peer remote computing environment to service future calls. The system reaction may also be to cancel outbound campaigns, provide pre-determined “sorry” messages, and the like.
US10079937B2
A call manager for providing agent assistance in a contact center is disclosed. The call manager includes a monitoring module configured to monitor at least one conversation between a customer and an agent and to monitor one or more attributes of the agent. The call manager further includes a selection module configured to select one or more data items based on the at least one monitored conversation and the one or more monitored attributes of the agent. The call manager further includes a display module configured to display the one or more selected data items to the agent.
US10079931B2
Information throttle that modifies a device's access to applications, features, or information to enforce workplace use policies. May be used with “bring your own devices” that belong to a user but are also used at work. For example, the system may disable games, media players, or social media when it determines that a device is used at work. A usage context monitor determines the context in which the device is currently used. The monitor may determine that a device is used for work when the time matches working hours, the device location matches a work site location, or the network connected to a device matches a workplace network. In addition to blocking access to inappropriate features, the information throttle may allow access to sensitive information only when the device is at work. Access may also depend on factors such as user credentials and the identity and configuration of the device.
US10079925B2
The mobile telephone disclosed in the present specification has a mobile telephone upper edge unit including a right-ear cartilage conduction unit, a left-ear cartilage conduction unit, and a linking unit linking the right-ear cartilage conduction unit and the left-ear cartilage conduction unit, the units being exposed at the mobile telephone surface; and a cartilage-conduction vibration source for transmitting vibration to the mobile telephone upper edge unit.
US10079922B2
In an embodiment, conductive structural members of a device acting as NFC antenna are described. According to an embodiment, a device comprises: two conductive structural members, each comprising a first electrical end and a second electrical end, a dielectric isolation being configured between the first electrical end of the first structural member and the first electrical end of the second structural member; two NFC antenna feeds, the first feed being electrically coupled with the first electrical end of the first member, the second feed being electrically coupled with the first electrical end of the second member; two grounding components, one each grounding the second electrical end of the conductive structural members; at least one additional antenna feed configured for a frequency other than that of NFC, coupled to either of the two members.
US10079919B2
Data is received at a buffer used by a protocol processing stack which protocol processes the received data. The received data is made available to, for example, an application, before the protocol processing of the data is complete. If the protocol processing is successful the data made available to the application is committed.
US10079918B2
A communication device receives a plurality of information bits and determines a maximum number of information bits that can be encoded such that, after the plurality of information bits have been encoded using i) a forward error correction scheme, and ii) a block coding scheme, the block coded bits fit within a single orthogonal frequency division multiplex (OFDM) symbol. The maximum number of information bits is based on a number of repetitions of coded information bits by the block coding scheme, and a number of block coded bits for the maximum number of information bits is less than a number of data tones of the single OFDM symbol. The communication device encodes the plurality of information bits using the forward error correction scheme and the block coding scheme to generate block coded bits, and generates a physical layer data unit to include the block coded bits in the single OFDM symbol.
US10079912B2
Apparatus and methods for wireless systems provide a mechanism to enhance the communication capabilities of wireless users. In an embodiment, data is stored on a wireless mobile device, where the data is correlated to information to install a wireless server on an electronic system. At least a portion of the data from the wireless mobile device may be downloaded to initiate installation of the wireless server on the electronic system.
US10079903B1
Aspects of the present invention provide an approach for processing a notification on a mobile device. In an embodiment, a set of classifications is assigned to a notification received by a user on a mobile device. An expected response action and an expected response time specific to the user is derived based on a comparison of the set of classifications assigned to the notification with a set of prior response profiles in a notification tracking repository. If the user does not perform a response action within the expected response time, the notification is reissued to the user.
US10079899B2
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a content posting from a device associated with a first user, the content posting including data representative of a content instance and a geographic location associated with the content instance; determining that a second user is associated with the geographic location associated with the content instance, wherein the determination is based on a first client device associated with the second user being or having been within a predefined proximity of the geographic location associated with the content instance; and authorizing, based on the second user being associated with the geographic location associated with the content instance, a second client device associated with the second user to submit an annotation to the content instance.
US10079897B2
A service control entity is configured to control chains of services provided in a service network having a plurality of service providing modules. A data packet flow from a source address to a destination address is transmitted through the service network applying a chain of services. A chain control unit determines possible chains of services to be applied, identifies the predefined sequence of services applied to the data packet flow, and identifies in which order the identified service providing modules have to be passed in order to apply the predefined sequence of services. A module control unit assigns, to each of the service providing modules in the chain of services, an ingress network address of an underlying layer of the end-to-end layer. The module control unit assigns ingress network addresses so that they have a predefined relationship to the ingress network address of a neighboring service providing module.
US10079893B2
A method, system and a Common Service Entity (CSE) for sending a Machine-to-Machine (M2M) application request are provided. The method includes that: after receiving a request sent by an M2M application, a local CSE sends the request of the M2M application to a target CSE according to a value of a request type or according to a value of delay time for request sending and a value of a request type in the request, wherein the request sent by the M2M application includes one or more of the following parameters: an application identifier, the delay time for request sending and the request type.
US10079891B2
Clusterhead device that functions as a gateway between vehicular ad-hoc network and cellular network
A clusterhead device is capable of relaying group messages from a cellular network to an ad-hoc network, and vice versa. However, not every device that comprises a clusterhead device is activated as a clusterhead. Rather, only devices that do not receive enough beacon signals emitted by each motor vehicle are activated as a clusterhead. It is thus achieved that not too many motor vehicles function as a gateway.
US10079883B2
In an approach for establishing metadata for one or more primary devices in a mirroring relationship, one or more computers systems generate a device validity token and establish a mirroring relationship, wherein the mirroring relationship includes identifying one or more primary devices of a plurality of devices in the mirroring relationship. The approach includes the computer systems sending the device validity token to each of a plurality of operating systems in the mirroring relationship for storage in a token store and retrieving a logical device identifier for each of the devices in the mirroring relationship. Furthermore, the approach includes the computer systems generating metadata for each of the primary devices, wherein metadata for each of the one or more primary devices includes at least the device validity token and the logical device identifier for each primary device of the one or more primary devices that generates the metadata.
US10079878B2
A file system that balances the loading of filers and the capacity of drives that are associated with the filers is described. The file system includes a first disk drive that includes a first unused capacity and a second disk drive that includes a second unused capacity, wherein the second unused capacity is smaller than the first unused capacity. The file system further includes a first filer that is configured to fill requests from clients through access to at least the first disk drive. The file system further includes a second filer that is configured to fill requests from clients through access to at least the second disk drive. The second filer is configured to select an infrequently accessed file from the second disk drive and to push the infrequently accessed files to the first disk drive, thereby improving a balance of unused capacity between the first and second disk drives without substantially affecting a loading for each of the first and second filers.
US10079877B2
The present disclosure is directed towards systems and methods of managing cloud-based services via a network. A controller intermediary to clients and servers of a cloud environment can receive account information related to each of a plurality of instances of one or more services provided by the servers of the cloud environment. The controller can determine a weight for each of the instances based on the account information. The weight can indicate a performance of the instance of the service provided via the cloud environment. The controller can select an instance of the plurality of instances to direct network traffic from a client. The controller can select the instance based on the weight for each of the instances.
US10079872B1
An internet-based content platform for providing subscription levels to channels are described. The internet-based content platform presents to an end user, a channel that includes a plurality of media items, a list of types of access to the plurality of media items, and a plurality of subscription levels associated with different subscription fees for different types of access. The channel is one of a plurality of channels of an internet-based content platform. The internet-based content platform receives a selection of one of the plurality of subscription levels for the channel. The internet-based content platform records the selected subscription level of the end user for the channel. The internet-based content platform provides a type of access to the plurality of media items of the channel for the end user according to the recorded subscription level of the end user for the channel.
US10079871B2
A user device receives a first media item that is associated with a second media item. The device determines that a playback state for the device indicates that the device is paired with an alternative playback device. The device sends the playback state in a request for the second media item, receives the second media item in a first format for playback on the user device and in a second format for playback on the alternative playback device. The device determines whether the playback state of the device is the same. The device displays a first graphical representation of the second media item in the first format on the user device if the user device is no longer paired with the alternative playback device and displays a second graphical representation of the second media item in the second format on the user device if the user device is still paired with the alternative playback device.
US10079857B2
Method of forestalling attacks in a network, by slowing down a communication in a network including at least one computer including malware aimed at establishing a communication with a control server. The method includes: reception of a request to transfer data originating from the computer, indicating that the IP address of the security server has been provided to the computer in response to a domain name resolution request including a domain name associated with the IP address of the control server, the domain name being included in a black list; waiting for a smaller duration than an expiry period for a transport protocol transporting packets of the communication, a session being maintained during this expiry period in the event of inactivity; and dispatching a packet including a byte generated pseudo-randomly so as to maintain the session active.
US10079855B2
A password breach registry is utilized to secure a service provided by a service provider. The password breach registry is a publicly accessible registry and includes password tokens written by breached service providers. The password tokens indicate passwords used to access breached service providers that may have been breached. A service provider can subscribe to the password breach registry and periodically query the password breach registry to determine if a password token corresponding to a user of a service provided by the service provider has been written to the password breach registry. This may indicate that the user of the service utilizes the same password on other services that have been breached. Upon determining that the password token has been written to the password breach registry, the user can be locked out from the service to prevent a malicious actor from gaining access to the account of the user.
US10079852B2
Techniques for sinkholing bad network domains by registering the bad network domains on the Internet are provided. In some embodiments, sinkholing bad network domains by registering the bad network domains on the Internet includes determining a network domain is a bad network domain, in which the bad network domain is determined to be associated with an identified malware (e.g., malware that has been identified and has been determined to be associated with the bad domain), and the bad network domain is sinkholed by registering the bad network domain with a sinkholed IP address; and identifying a host that is infected with the identified malware based on an attempt by the host to connect to the sinkholed IP address.
US10079848B2
A configuration for a security analysis tool is received from a user. The configuration includes two or more configuration items. Each configuration item is a parameter in the configuration of the security analysis tool that has a plurality of possible values. A correlation between the two or more configuration items is determined. The correlation is based on one or more pre-determined empirical correlations.
US10079846B2
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving at an analytics module operating at a network device, network traffic data collected from a plurality of sensors distributed throughout a network and installed in network components to obtain the network traffic data, identifying at the analytics module, Domain Name System (DNS) exchanges within the network, associating at the analytics module, the DNS exchanges with process, user, and host information, and identifying at the analytics module, anomalies in the DNS exchanges. An apparatus and logic are also disclosed herein.
US10079843B2
A method and system for processing network metadata is described. Network metadata may be processed by dynamically instantiated executable software modules which make policy-based decisions about the character of the network metadata and about presentation of the network metadata to consumers of the information carried by the network metadata. The network metadata may be type classified and each subclass within a type may be mapped to a definition by a unique fingerprint value. The fingerprint value may be used for matching the network metadata subclasses against relevant policies and transformation rules. For template-based network metadata such as NetFlow v9, an embodiment of the invention can constantly monitor network traffic for unknown templates, capture template definitions, and informs administrators about templates for which custom policies and conversion rules do not exist. Conversion modules can efficiently convert selected types and/or subclasses of network metadata into alternative metadata formats.
US10079840B2
A protection method, which releases an attack of a malware to a network interface controller (NIC) system, includes processing a microbatching operation in a plurality of session channels at at least an operational period according to at least one input information, to generate a plurality of session-specific NIC patterns of the plurality of session channels; and merging the plurality of session-specific NIC patterns to generate an application-specific NIC pattern at an application layer, so as to dispose a script information corresponding to the application-specific NIC pattern in the NICs for releasing the attack of the malware, wherein the microbatching operation is processed to generate a plurality of independent subset-specific NIC pattern in each session channel, so as to generate the session-specific NIC pattern corresponding to each session channel.
US10079837B2
Provided are techniques for combining existing identity management information from multiple Identity Manager (IM) nodes. The combined information from the multiple IM nodes is presented. A provisioning request to change the identity management information is received. The provisioning request is decomposed to form multiple, separate sub-requests. One or more IM nodes are identified to process the sub-requests. The sub-requests are issued to the one or more IM nodes in parallel. A status of each of the sub-requests is received from each of the one or more IM nodes that is processing that sub-request. The received statuses are combined. The combined statuses are returned as a status of the provisioning request.
US10079834B2
Techniques to provide secure mobile access to a cloud-based service are disclosed. In various embodiments, a request to access the cloud-based service is received from a mobile device. A security certificate associated with the request is used to synthesize a basic authentication header associated with the request. The synthesized basic authentication header is sent to the cloud-based service on behalf of the mobile device.
US10079826B2
User identities, password, etc. represent the barrier between a user's confidential data and any other third party seeking to access this data. As multiple software applications, web applications, web services, etc. embody this confidential data it is a tradeoff between easy recollection of said identities, passwords, etc. and data security. Generally for most users the balance is too far to convenience and ease of recollection such that the probability of third party illegally accessing the confidential data increases. Accordingly, it would be beneficial for users as well as organizations providing/controlling access to systems, resources, and data to be provided with an automatic means of entering password and/or security credential information without the user, for example, selecting the password, knowing the password, having access to the password, or entering the password.
US10079825B2
In an RFID system, a method and apparatus for linking an RFID tag to an associated object. The system includes a relatively simple tag, a reader, a linker, and a store. The reader interrogates the tag for an ID and selectively provides the ID to the linker. The linker, in turn, uses the ID to provide back to the reader an associated Uniform Resource Identifier (“URI”). The reader then forwards the URI to the store. In response, the store returns to the reader the object associated with the ID via the URI. The disclosed method and apparatus provide more efficient and secure tag authentication.
US10079811B2
Methods, apparatuses, computer program products, devices and systems are described that carry out accepting from a user identifier encryption entity at least one encrypted identifier corresponding to a user having at least one instance of data for encryption; encrypting the at least one instance of data to produce level-one-encrypted data; associating the at least one encrypted identifier with the level-one-encrypted data, wherein a level-one decryption key for the level-one-encrypted data is inaccessible to the user identifier encryption entity; and transmitting the level-one-encrypted data and associated encrypted identifier.
US10079808B2
A device may include a processor circuit configured to transmit, over a network medium, a request for transmission of a data communication to a first device of a network, and receive, over the network medium, a grant of the request. When the first device is associated with a first security profile, the processor circuit may be configured to encrypt the data communication based at least on a first password associated with the first security profile. When the first device is associated with a second security profile, the processor circuit may be configured to encrypt the data communication based at least on a second password associated with the second security profile. The second password may be associated with a higher password strength than the first password. The processor circuit may be configured to transmit, over the network medium, the encrypted data communication to the first device in response to the grant.
US10079785B2
Methods and apparatus related to determining reply content for a reply to an electronic communication. Some implementations are directed generally toward analyzing a corpus of electronic communications to determine relationships between one or more original message features of “original” messages of electronic communications and reply content that is included in “reply” messages of those electronic communications. Some implementations are directed generally toward providing reply text to include in a reply to a communication based on determined relationships between one or more message features of the communication and the reply text.
US10079778B2
A technique for allowing customers to control a video network. A network controller receives a request from an end user for a video connection between a first port and a second port. The request may specify at least a start time, an end time, the first port and the second port. A plurality of available routes between the first port and the second port may be analyzed to determine at least one selected route that will be used to connect the first port and the second port. A first command may be sent to automatically connect the first port and the second port via the at least one selected route at the start time. While in progress, the video connection may be modified according to system availability. Customers may have a view of all requests that have been made, completed or reserved for in the future.
US10079774B2
A method to determine a hierarchical fair share of resources among one or more scheduling peers. The method determines a greatest fairness difference between the usage percentage difference of a most-served competing peer and that of a least-served competing peer. The method determines a greatest accumulated fairness difference between the accumulated usage percentage difference of the most-served competing peer and that of the least-served competing peer. The method adjusts a resource allocation such that resources from the most-served competing peer are allocated to the least-served competing peer if an adjustment condition is met, wherein the adjustment condition is based on one or both of i) the greatest fairness difference, and ii) whether the greatest accumulated fairness difference exceeds at least one threshold.
US10079773B2
A method to determine a hierarchical fair share of resources among one or more scheduling peers. The method determines a greatest fairness difference between the usage percentage difference of a most-served competing peer and that of a least-served competing peer. The method determines a greatest accumulated fairness difference between the accumulated usage percentage difference of the most-served competing peer and that of the least-served competing peer. The method adjusts a resource allocation such that resources from the most-served competing peer are allocated to the least-served competing peer if an adjustment condition is met, wherein the adjustment condition is based on one or both of i) the greatest fairness difference, and ii) whether the greatest accumulated fairness difference exceeds at least one threshold.
US10079768B2
In one embodiment, a device in a network receives traffic data associated with a particular communication channel between two or more nodes in the network. The device generates a mean map by employing kernel embedding of distributions to the traffic data. The device forms a representation of the communication channel by identifying a set of lattice points that approximate the mean map. The device generates a traffic classifier using the representation of the communication channel. The device uses machine learning to jointly identify the set of lattice points and one or more parameters of the traffic classifier. The device causes the traffic classifier to analyze network traffic sent via the communication channel.
US10079764B2
A system for congestion control of traffic in a network that uses Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) includes a plurality of TCP congestion control programs having one or more parameters, a plurality of TCP congestion control units running the TCP congestion control programs, and a TCP mapper adapted to map incoming TCP traffic flow from a plurality of incoming TCP traffic flows to the TCP congestion control units based on at least one of (a) the type of application program from which the incoming TCP traffic flow originated (b) the type of network for which the incoming TCP traffic flow is destined, (c) parameters related to network performance (d) network constraints (e) source of the incoming TCP traffic flow, and (f) destination of the incoming TCP traffic flow.
US10079761B2
Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for performing hierarchical routing are disclosed. The method includes identifying routes in a computer network and arranging those routes in two separate routing tables. The first routing table is stored on a first module and the second routing table is stored on a second module.
US10079754B2
Adaptive message caches are disclosed for packet replay and/or flood protection in mesh network devices. The adaptive message cache includes a replay protection area (RPA) and a flood protection area (FPA). For each received packet, a packet security processor compares packet metadata to metadata entries stored for prior packets within the RPA to provide a replay protection check. If a replay protection check is not passed, the packet is dropped. If passed, the packet security processor compares the packet metadata to metadata entries stored for prior packets within the FPA to provide a flood protection check. If the flood protection check is not passed, the packet is dropped. If passed, the received packet is authenticated for the mesh network. Entries within the RPA/FPA are then updated using the packet metadata. Further, the sizes of the RPA and FPA can be adaptively adjusted based upon the packet metadata.
US10079752B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for detecting network loops. A system can identify, for each virtual tunnel endpoint (VTEP) from multiple VTEPs in a network, respective media access control address data including the respective local interface media access control addresses of the respective VTEP and respective media access control addresses learned by the respective VTEP. The system can determine whether the VTEPs are running spanning tree protocol (STP), and whether a media access control address learned by a first VTEP matches a respective local interface media access control address of a second VTEP. The system can detect a loop when the media access control address learned by the first VTEP matches the respective local interface media access control address of the second VTEP. The system can also detect a loop when the VTEPs are running STP and the first and second VTEPs see the same STP root bridge.
US10079746B2
A system and method for testing a data channel are provided. In one embodiment, the method includes: (1) transmitting groups of increasing numbers of probing packets of a uniform load over successive time periods over the data channel and (2) determining a bandwidth of the data channel based on receive times and loads of at least some of successfully received ones of the groups.
US10079741B2
A method and apparatus for receiving a reference signal (RS) in a wireless communication system are disclosed. The method for performing radio resource measurement (RRM) measurement for one or more sub-bands contained in an entire system band in a wireless communication system, wherein the method is performed by a terminal configured to operate in only one sub-band at a specific time includes: receiving a sub-band list or pattern for the RRM measurement and information regarding a measurement timing or section from a serving cell; and performing the RRM measurement in a radio resource defined by the sub-band list or pattern and information regarding the measurement timing or section within a report period of the RRM measurement, and reporting a result of the RRM measurement to the serving cell. The sub-band list or pattern includes sub-band candidates usable as a dedicated sub-band for the terminal from among sub-bands of the entire system band.
US10079732B2
Systems and methods for calculating trust scores (trustworthiness) based on social graph statistics are described herein. The trust scores (trustworthiness) may be determined within or between individuals, groups, and/or entities represented by nodes in a social graph or other network. Social graph analytics may be used to determine connectivity statistics for each node in the social graph or network. The trust score may then be calculated by analyzing a number of paths connecting nodes in the network and the connectivity statistics associated with the nodes of the network. This trust score may then be used to make prospective real-world decisions, such as a request for credit or initiating a transaction.
US10079728B2
A connection is established between a first device and a server. When the first device opens the connection, the server determines the remote IP address of the first device. Determining the remote IP address can be performed in a variety of different manners. The first device is then tasked to determine its local IP address. The same steps can be repeated with a second device. Thereafter, either of the first device or the second device are able to query the server to find out if there is another device on the network. If one of the devices is capable of accepting incoming connections, the devices can communicate directly using the local IP addresses. Otherwise, messages can be sent through the server. The communication between the first and second devices can allow enhanced media viewing capabilities. Other embodiments are also disclosed herein.
US10079727B2
Different data communication architectures deliver a wide variety of content, including audio and video content, to consumers. The architectures employ channel bonding to deliver more bandwidth than any single communication channel can carry. In some implementations, the communication architectures distribute data streams to bonded channels that are clocked independently. A system is provided for synchronizing the bonded channels.
US10079726B1
Displaying and operating computing resources by using information list for the computing resources has been practiced by operating system for very long time. For example, the file system in local Windows environment is displayed and operated through Windows Explore of Microsoft. This invention has disclosed a method and system of utilizing memory bound multi-layered item list to mirror an actual resource structure for more efficiently displaying and operating the computing resources in the World Wide Web environment that effectively reduces the usage of computing power and network bandwidth, thus provides a way for faster and easy accessing resource structures over the World Wide Web.
US10079725B1
In an example, there is disclosed a computing apparatus for providing an integrated service engine on a network switch, including: one or more logic elements including a protocol engine operable for providing routing policies, including: providing an ADD command, comprising a first ordinal list of operations; and providing a DELETE command, comprising a second ordinal list of operations, wherein the second ordinal list of operations is the ordinal inverse of the first ordinal list of operations.
US10079720B2
A management portal receives an input indicating that a management operation is to be performed on a service. The management portal dynamically hosts a management interface for performing the management operation on different versions of the service.
US10079714B2
In one example, a method for a conference bridge failover in a conference call system may include determining that a first conference bridge with a connection for a participant telephone has failed. The method may also include determining whether one or more conference bridge have resources to manage the connection for the participant telephone of the first conference bridge and assigning the connection for the participant telephone to the one or more conference bridge in response to the determination.
US10079713B2
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium may include instructions stored thereon for ranking multiple computer modules to reduce failure impacts. When executed by at least one processor, the instructions may be configured to cause a computing system implementing the multiple computer modules to at least associate the multiple computer modules with multiple services that rely on the multiple computer modules, at least one of the multiple services relying on more than one of the multiple computer modules, determine values of the multiple services, and rank the multiple computer modules based on the determined values of the multiple services with which the respective multiple computer modules are associated.
US10079712B2
A brokering device that manages multimedia information includes an interface device having access to a network and a multimedia service provider. The interface device enables selection of multimedia information from the network, and provides the selected multimedia information to a plurality of locations without requiring the user to specify a protocol associated with the multimedia information.
US10079711B1
A method for preserving a media access control (MAC) address of a virtual server is provided. The method includes assigning a physical computing resource to a virtual server, assigning a physical storage memory resource to the virtual server, and assigning a physical network resource to the virtual server. The method includes assigning a virtual MAC address to the virtual server, the virtual MAC address to remain with the virtual server despite reassignment of one or more of the physical computing resource, the physical storage memory resource or the physical network resource, wherein at least one method operation is performed by a processor. A computing and storage system is also provided.
US10079695B2
The present disclosure is directed to packet processing via reconfigurable packet processing system. A network device is configured to identify a processing order of multiple function units based on a first flow parameter of a first packet, execute a first function unit according to the processing order, update a processing status for the first packet to indicate processing by the first function unit is complete, and transmit the first packet responsive to determining from the processing status that the processing order has been completed. The network device is configured to receive a second packet including a second flow parameter, identify the second packet as a response packet of the first packet based on the first and second flow parameters, identify a reverse of the first processing order of the multiple function units, and execute a second function unit according to the reverse processing order.
US10079692B2
Methods and apparatus to achieve internetwork connectivity. Initiation is detected, by a first device on a first network, of an internet protocol (IP) connection with a second device on a second network, wherein the first network includes a plurality of client devices that are configured to send requests for inter-network connection information. A subset of the client devices are selected, wherein each of the subset of client devices are configured to query for connection information relating to the second network. The subset of devices are caused to query the at least one other network for the connection information relating to the second network. The connection information is received relating to the second network. The connection information is caused to be used in establishing the IP connection between the first device and the second device.
US10079680B2
A method for validating a set of payload data by means of said servers. The method includes validating information related to a set of payload data, based on which a check code has been calculated and encrypted by means of an asymmetric cryptographic key pair (A). The encrypted check code (1.11) has been stored at the archive server and associated with a time stamp, which can be used for validation of the set of payload data. The method may enable a selective revocation of certificates that have been used for signing the set of payload data.
US10079677B2
Techniques are disclosed relating to relating to a public key infrastructure (PKI). In one embodiment, an integrated circuit is disclosed that includes at least one processor and a secure circuit isolated from access by the processor except through a mailbox mechanism. The secure circuit is configured to generate a key pair having a public key and a private key, and to issue, to a certificate authority (CA), a certificate signing request (CSR) for a certificate corresponding to the key pair. In some embodiments, the secure circuit may be configured to receive, via the mailbox mechanism, a first request from an application executing on the processor to issue a certificate to the application. The secure circuit may also be configured to perform, in response to a second request, a cryptographic operation using a public key circuit included in the secure circuit.
US10079670B2
Systems and methods for signaling in an increased carrier monitoring wireless communication environment are disclosed herein. A user equipment (UE) may include control circuitry to configure the UE for increased carrier monitoring; determine, based on a first signal received from a network apparatus, whether a reduced performance group carrier is configured; determine, based on a second signal received from the network apparatus, whether a scaling factor is configured; and in response to a determination that no reduced performance group carrier is configured and a determination that no scaling factor is configured, allow the UE to monitor fewer carriers than required by increased carrier monitoring. Other embodiments may be disclosed and/or claimed.
US10079668B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure may relate to a transceiver to transmit and receive concurrently radio frequency (RF) signals via a dielectric waveguide. In embodiments, the transceiver may include a transmitter to transmit to a paired transceiver a channelized radio frequency (RF) transmit signal via the dielectric waveguide. A receiver may receive from the paired transceiver a channelized RF receive signal via the dielectric waveguide. In embodiments, the channelized RF receive signal may include an echo of the channelized RF transmit signal. The transceiver may further include an echo suppression circuit to suppress from the channelized RF receive signal the echo of the channelized RF transmit signal. In some embodiments, the channelized RF transmit signal and the channelized RF receive signal may be within a frequency range of approximately 30 gigahertz (GHz) to approximately 1 terahertz (THz), and the transceiver may provide full-duplex millimeter-wave communication.
US10079666B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide an apparatus for self-interference cancellation. The apparatus includes: a first splitter, configured to perform splitting processing on a local oscillator signal generated by a local oscillator to separately transmit the local oscillator signal to an up-converter and a delayer; the up-converter, configured to perform up-conversion processing on a baseband transmit signal according to the local oscillator signal to generate a transmit signal; the delayer, configured to perform delaying processing on the local oscillator signal according to a preset target delay; a first down-converter, configured to perform, based on the local oscillator signal obtained after the delaying processing, down-conversion processing on a receive signal to acquire a baseband receive signal, and transmit the baseband receive signal to a self-interference canceller; and the self-interference canceller, configured to perform self-interference cancellation processing on the baseband receive signal.
US10079665B2
Methods and apparatus are provided to perform link adaptation for transmissions from a base station to a user equipment (UE) capable of receiving only in a part of a system bandwidth. Mechanisms are provided for determining and mapping a range of channel quality information (CQI) values and for measuring, deriving, and providing channel state information (CSI) reports.
US10079663B2
A method and an apparatus for transmitting broadcast signals thereof are disclosed. The method for transmitting broadcast signals comprises encoding DP (data pipe) data carrying at least one service, mapping the encoded DP data onto constellations, time interleaving the mapped DP data, building at least one signal frame including the time interleaved DP data, modulating data in the built at least one signal frame by an OFDM scheme and transmitting the broadcast signals having the modulated data, wherein the at least one signal frame includes emergency alert information.
US10079648B2
Described is an apparatus which comprises: a power delivery distribution network (PDN) to provide a power supply to at least one circuit; and an on-die synchronous power supply noise injector to inject noise to the power supply on the PDN. Described is another apparatus which comprises: a PDN to provide power supply to various circuits; an on-die power supply noise (PSN) sampler to sample the power supply with an injected noise, wherein the PSN sampler to sample the power supply with at least two different clock signals; and a phase noise accumulator to randomize the periods of the at least two different clock signals.
US10079646B2
A system for testing and/or calibrating an antenna array. The system comprises a device under test comprising the antenna array and at least one active radio frequency device for transmitting a test signal being known and always the same on each of at least two signal paths, and a measurement device comprising at least one probe for receiving the test signal on each of the at least two signal paths. The test signal is a non-repeatable one.
US10079638B2
An optical system is provided comprising a first node and a channel drop add device. The first node is configured to transmit data onto an optical fiber in a first line direction. The channel drop add device (501) is adapted to receive and add channels onto the optical fiber thereby transmitting the data into the first and a second line direction. The network further comprises a second node configured to form a transmitter/receiver function. The second node is configured to receive data on said optical fiber from said first and second line directions. Further, the second node is adapted to synchronize received data from said first and second line directions by delaying the data signals seeing the shortest delay, by a delay device.
US10079632B2
In this application, a method for a terminal reporting to a base station a channel quality indicator (CQI) in a wireless communication system is disclosed. More specifically, the method comprises the steps of: calculating a precoding matrix index and a rank indicator; and selecting and reporting the CQI index from one of a first CQI index table and a second CQI index table under the assumption that the precoding matrix index and the rank indicator are applied, wherein the first CQI index table and the second CQI index table indicate a modulation order and a coding rate indicated by the CQI index, and the second CQI index table supports a higher modulation order than the first CQI index table.
US10079624B2
Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method and an apparatus for transmitting data, and the method includes: first setting at least two second resource groups in each first resource group of at least one first resource group, and setting at least two reference signals in each of the second resource groups; then encoding data to be transmitted and generating two data streams from the encoded data; then, mapping the two data streams onto an available resource element of two different antenna ports, in which the reference signals corresponding to the two different antenna ports are set on two different second resource groups; and finally, transmitting, on the available resource element of the two different antenna ports, data on the two antenna ports. The present invention is applicable to the field of communications systems.
US10079622B2
There is provided a first unit which constitutes a point-to-multipoint communication system and is connected to communicate with each of a plurality of second units. The first unit includes a control signal extraction unit, a signal switching unit and a controller. The control signal extraction unit extracts first control signals respectively transmitted from the plurality of second units. The signal switching unit includes a switching circuit, and selects any one of the first control signals respectively received through individual signal transmission lines. The controller receives the first control signal selected by the signal switching unit, determines an allocation ID to be allocated to a second unit corresponding to the selected first control signal based on the initial identification information of the selected first control signal, and controls the determined allocation ID to be transmitted to the corresponding second unit.
US10079616B2
Examples described herein include devices and methods that may facilitate interoperability between backscatter devices and wireless communication devices. For example, backscatter devices and methods for backscattering are described that provide a transmitted backscattered signal formatted in accordance with a wireless communication protocol (e.g. Bluetooth Low Energy, WiFi, IEEE 802.11, or IEEE 802.15.4). Such communication may reduce or eliminate any modifications required to wireless communication devices necessary to receive and decode backscattered signals.
US10079605B2
The present disclosure relates to semiconductor structures and, more particularly, to circuits with logical back-gate switching and methods of operation. The circuit includes at least one front-gate contact and digital back-gate potentials for logical function implementation on a back side of at least one device. The digital back-gate potentials are switchable between two logic levels.
US10079604B1
An apparatus comprises multiple impedances and multiple pairs of transistors. Each pair connects to an impedance. Each pair includes high and low side transistors. The high side transistors and the low side transistors are connected each other and to a first terminal of the corresponding impedance, wherein second terminals of the impedances are connected to each other. The apparatus also comprises a staggered signal transistor driver to assert separate delayed high side signals to control inputs of the high side transistors. The delayed high side signals are time delayed with respect to each other. The driver asserts separate delayed low side signals to control inputs of the low side transistors.
US10079599B2
A device is suggested comprising at least two transistors, each of the transistors comprising a current path and a control terminal, wherein the current paths of the at least two transistors are arranged in parallel, wherein the control terminals of the at least two transistors are connected to a control node via at least one voltage drop component. Also, a method to efficiently control at least two transistors is provided.
US10079596B2
A semiconductor device capable of preventing deterioration of a transistor caused by a flow of an overcurrent is provided. According to an embodiment, a semiconductor chip includes a first transistor provided between a high-potential side voltage terminal to which a constant voltage generated by reducing a power-supply voltage is supplied and an output terminal, a second transistor provided between a low-potential side voltage terminal to which a ground voltage is supplied and the output terminal, a control circuit controlling turning-on/off of the first and second transistors, a boosting circuit boosting the power-supply voltage by using a voltage of the output terminal to generate an output voltage, and an overvoltage detection circuit detecting an overvoltage of a power-supply line that couples the high-potential side voltage terminal and the first transistor to each other. The control circuit performs control to turn off the second transistor, when the overvoltage has been detected.
US10079594B2
In one example, a circuit includes an input, an output, and a control module. The input is configured to receive a control signal indicating whether to activate or deactivate a load. The output is configured to supply current to activate the load. The control module is configured to determine whether a state of the circuit is a low current consumption mode (LCCM). In response to determining that the state of the circuit is not the LCCM, the control module is configured to determine whether the control signal indicates to activate the load and output, at the output, the current to activate the load. In response to determining that the state of the circuit is the LCCM, the control module is configured to ignore the control signal indicating whether to activate or deactivate the load and output, at the output, the current to activate the load.
US10079591B2
The present invention discloses a resistance calibration circuit. An embodiment of the resistance calibration circuit includes: a reference voltage outputting circuit operable to output a reference voltage; an adjustable internal resistor including at least one positive temperature coefficient resistor and at least one negative temperature coefficient resistor; a reference current generating circuit operable to generate an internal resistor reference current according to the reference voltage and the internal resistor and generate an external resistor reference current according to the reference voltage and an external resistor; and a comparison and control circuit operable generate a comparison result according to the internal and external resistor reference currents, and adjust the internal resistor according to the comparison result till the comparison result indicates that the difference between the internal and external resistor reference currents is less than a predetermined threshold or unable to be further reduced.
US10079589B2
A thin film bulk acoustic resonator and a method of manufacturing the same is disclosed. The thin film bulk acoustic resonator includes an acoustic resonator including a first electrode, a second electrode, and a piezoelectric layer disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode; an air gap disposed below the acoustic resonator and above a substrate to reflect the acoustic wave; and an anchor disposed on each of both surfaces of the air gap and having the same thickness as the air gap.
US10079584B1
An optical network system comprising an optical line terminal (OLT) and an optical network unit (ONU) coupled to the OLT and configured to communicate with the OLT via an optical signal. At least one of the OLT or the ONU comprises a closed-loop gain controlled transimpedance amplifier (TIA) comprising a first amplifier configured to receive an input signal, generate a main output signal by amplifying the input signal according to a gain factor of the first amplifier, and generate an auxiliary output proportional to the input signal, an average detector coupled to the first amplifier and configured to receive the auxiliary output, and determine an average of the input signal according to the auxiliary output, and a feedback loop coupled to the first amplifier and the average detector and configured to control the gain factor of the first amplifier according to the average of the input signal.
US10079568B2
A rotary electric machine control device for a rotary electric machine having winding sets with coils includes: an inverter for each winding set; a power source relay for each inverter; a terminal voltage detector detecting a terminal voltage of each coil; and a controller including an inverter controller, a relay controller and an abnormality determination unit. Each winding set and a corresponding inverter provides a system. When the rotary electric machine is driven using a normal system: the relay controller controls the power source relay to cut off power supply from a power source to the inverter in an abnormal system; the abnormality determination unit specifies a short-circuited location based on the terminal voltage in the abnormal system; and the inverter controller corrects a command value related to control of the inverter in the normal system according to a specified short-circuited location.
US10079566B1
A system and method for estimating a position and a speed of a rotor of a Switched Reluctance (SR) machine is provided. The SR machine comprises the rotor, a stator and at least one winding. The method includes generating a diagnostic pulse having a trapezoidal shape. The method further includes injecting a diagnostic pulse into the at least one winding of the SR machine. The method further includes measuring an actual stator current flowing through the at least one winding of the SR machine. The method further includes computing an estimated stator current flowing through the at least one winding using observer-based estimation technique. The estimated stator current is compared with the actual stator current to compute an error signal. At least one of the position and the speed of the rotor is estimated based on the error signal.
US10079564B2
A non-transitory, computer readable medium stores instructions executable by a processor of an electronic device. The instructions include instructions to determine that a transient event is occurring in an electrical grid coupled to an EGR gas turbine system, wherein the transient event is an under-frequency or an under-voltage event. The instructions also include instructions to increase a flow rate of fuel to a combustor of the EGR gas turbine system in response to the transient event when the EGR gas turbine system is operating in a non-stoichiometric combustion mode. The instructions further include instructions to increase a flow rate of oxidant to the combustor before increasing the flow rate of fuel to the combustor, or to decrease a local consumption of the electrical power to increase a portion of the electrical power that is exported to the attached electrical grid, or both, in response to the transient event when the EGR gas turbine system is operating in a stoichiometric combustion mode.
US10079557B2
System and apparatus for power conversion. In one embodiment, the apparatus comprising a DC stage, comprising a resonant circuit, for generating a high-frequency resonant current; and an AC stage for converting a high-frequency current, generated from the high-frequency resonant current, to an AC output current, wherein the AC stage comprises: a pair of serially-connected switches for (i) passing, during a first half of a cycle of an AC line, a positive portion of the high-frequency current, and (ii) passing, during a second half of the cycle of the AC line, a negative portion of the high-frequency current; and an unfurling bridge for unfurling a current waveform, formed from the positive and the negative portions, to generate the AC output current, wherein the unfurling bridge is operated at a frequency on the order of three orders of magnitude lower than an operating frequency of the serially-connected switches.
US10079556B2
An inverter includes: a converter circuitry to convert an alternating-current voltage to a direct-current voltage; an inverter circuitry to convert a direct-current voltage obtained by conversion by the converter circuitry to an alternating-current voltage and to supply the alternating-current voltage obtained by conversion to a load; a current detector to detect an output current of the inverter circuitry; a calculator to calculate an output frequency based on the output current detected by the current detector, and a pulse-signal outputter to output a pulse signal based on the output frequency calculated by the calculator. The inverter circuitry converts the direct-current voltage obtained by conversion by the converter circuitry to the alternating-current voltage based on the pulse signal output from the pulse-signal outputter, so as to obtain a frequency corresponding to the magnitude of the load.
US10079555B2
A control method for a polyphase step-up converter that drives step-up circuits, the step-up circuits being connected in parallel between an input terminal and an output terminal from which an output voltage supplied to a load circuit is output. The control method includes, in changing the frequency of each of driving signals from a first frequency to a second frequency while N circuits are being driven, determining whether the second frequency is M times as high as a resonance frequency of a resonance circuit provided between the polyphase step-up converter and the load circuit; and when the second frequency is M times as high as the resonance frequency, setting a phase difference between driving signals to a phase difference determined in accordance with a value of M.
US10079551B2
A symmetry control circuit for a trailing edge phase control dimmer circuit for controlling alternating current (AC) power to a load, the symmetry control circuit including: a bias signal generator circuit configured to monitor non-conduction periods of each half cycle of said AC power for an elapsed duration of the non-conduction periods, and generate a bias signal voltage based on the elapsed duration, whereby an amplitude of the bias signal voltage is proportional to the elapsed duration of the non-conduction periods; and a bias signal converter circuit configured to convert the bias signal voltage to a bias signal current, wherein the bias signal current is added to a reference current of a conduction period timing circuit configured to determine said conduction periods, and wherein the conduction period timing circuit is configured to alter one of the conduction periods immediately following one of the non-conduction periods based on the bias signal current when added to the reference current to compensate for a phase shift of a zero-crossing of said one of the non-conduction periods corresponding to an elapsed duration of said one of the non-conduction periods so as to restore symmetry of the non-conduction periods of each half cycle of AC power.
US10079550B2
A system for extracting energy from an energy storage device configured to supply direct current (DC) energy at a nominal voltage rating comprises a first node dimensioned and arranged to receive direct current energy from the energy storage device. Embodiments include a self-oscillating circuit having primary and secondary windings wound around a ferrite core, wherein a positive terminal of the primary winding is tied to the negative terminal of the secondary winding at the first node, and wherein a positive terminal of the secondary winding is coupled to a second node, the second node being coupled to a load requiring power to be supplied at one of a voltage less than, equal to, or higher than the nominal voltage. Some embodiments further include a transistor having a base resistively coupled to a negative terminal of the primary winding and a collector coupled to the second node.
US10079548B2
A switching power converter may include a power switch coupled to a primary winding of a transformer, and a primary controller configured to turn on and off the power switch, a synchronous rectifier switch coupled to a secondary winding of a transformer, and a synchronous rectifier controller configured to turn on and off the synchronous rectifier switch. The synchronous rectifier controller may monitor a voltage across the synchronous rectifier switch. The synchronous rectifier controller may determine a period of a resonant oscillation of the voltage across the synchronous rectifier switch following at least one cycling off of the synchronous rectifier switch. The synchronous rectifier controller may adjust the minimum off-time period for the synchronous rectifier switch based on the period of the resonant oscillation. The synchronous rectifier controller may adaptively adjust a minimum off-time period for the synchronous rectifier switch.
US10079543B2
An integrated circuit package includes an electromagnetic communication link formed by a portion of a lead frame within an encapsulation. The lead frame includes a first conductor forming a first conductive loop a second conductor forming a second conductive loop galvanically isolated from the first conductive loop. The second conductive loop is magnetically coupled to the first conductive loop to provide a magnetic communication link between the first and second conductors. A first transceiver circuit includes a transmit circuit coupled to the first conductive loop. A second transceiver circuit includes a receive circuit coupled to the second conductive loop. A signal transmitted from the transmit circuit included in first transceiver circuit and coupled to the first conductor is coupled to be magnetically communicated through the magnetic communication link to the receive circuit included in second transceiver circuit and coupled to the second conductor.
US10079535B2
A voltage control apparatus includes a boost converter configured to convert an input voltage to a voltage equal to or higher than a first voltage in an operative state and directly output the input voltage in an inoperative state, a buck-boost converter coupled with the boost converter in parallel and configured to convert the input voltage to a second voltage lower than the first voltage, a memory, and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to keep the buck-boost converter in the operative state, set the boost converter to the inoperative state when the input voltage is equal to or higher than the first voltage, and change the boost converter to the operative state when the input voltage is lower than the first voltage.
US10079529B2
A method for manufacturing a core of a rotating electric machine includes arranging a permanent magnet in a receptacle of a core body and injecting an anchoring material into a gap between a wall surface of the receptacle and an outer surface of the permanent magnet. A liquid crystal polymer, more specifically, liquid crystal polyester is used as the anchoring material. The liquid crystal polymer is injected at a velocity of 100 to 300 millimeters per second.
US10079524B1
A railroad powered energy recovery system and method comprising a plurality of air compressor units, a plurality of pipelines, at least one check valve, an air filter, a motor-generator set, at least one pressure regulator valve, a first storage means, a second storage means and a booster amplifier, wherein the plurality of pipelines is configured to connect each of the plurality of air compressor units attached to an inner side of each of the rails of an existing railroad system. The plurality of air compressor units produces compressed air when a train traverses over them. The at least one check valve is configured to assure consistent direction of air flow through the plurality of pipelines. The motor-generator set converts compressed air into electricity and the remaining compressed air is stored in the first storage means. The second storage means stores highly compressed air produced from the booster amplifier.
US10079502B2
A power management system for dispensers is described. The system includes a controller connected to a lower power zero net voltage (ZNV) power source. A power rectification circuit (PRC) converts ZNV power to higher voltage direct current (HVDC) power. An energy storage system connected to the HVDC power source receives and stores HVDC power within the energy storage system which is selectively provided to a dispenser motor load connected to the energy storage system. The system provides an effective solution to the problem of transferring power from a low power battery source on a disposable product to a dispenser as well as providing a system that minimizes corrosion at the electrical interface between the disposable product and the dispenser particularly in higher humidity environments.
US10079496B2
A charging device can include an input interface for receiving electrical power from a power source and an output interface for outputting electrical power to a mobile electronic device. The charging device can include a supplemental battery. A bypass electrical pathway can couple the input interface to the output interface to pass electrical charge from the power supply through the charging device to the mobile electronic device. A charging electrical pathway can couple the input interface to the supplemental battery. A discharge electrical pathway can couple the supplemental battery to the output interface. The bypass electrical pathway can include a voltage modifier configured to modify the voltage output by the output interface. The charging device can be configured to empirically determine the power capacity of the power supply. The charging device can monitor temperatures and/or battery health information, which can be used to reduce current or disable the charging device.
US10079489B2
An apparatus such as heterogeneous device includes at least a first die and a second die. The apparatus further includes a first inductive element, a second inductive element, and switch control circuitry. The switch control circuitry is disposed in the first die. The switch control circuitry controls current through the first inductive element to produce a first voltage. The first voltage powers the first die. The second inductive element is coupled to the first inductive element. The second inductive element produces a second voltage to power the second die. The first die and second die can be fabricated in accordance with different technologies and in which the first die and second die withstand different maximum voltages. A magnitude of the first voltage can be greater than a magnitude of the second voltage.
US10079487B2
An apparatus includes a device, a comparison circuit, and a switch. The device includes a first terminal coupled to a first power supply signal, and a second terminal coupled to a ground reference. The comparison circuit is configured to compare a first voltage level on the first power supply signal to a second voltage level of a second power supply signal, and enable the device in response to a determination that the first voltage level is greater than the second voltage level. The switch circuit is configured to couple a power supply terminal of the comparison circuit to the first power supply signal in response to determining that the first voltage level is greater than the second voltage level, and to couple the power supply terminal to the second power supply signal in response to determining that the first voltage level is less than the second voltage level.
US10079486B2
An example method for detecting and mitigating attacks on electric power substations comprises detecting a command to open or close a circuit breaker in the electric power substation. A modified extended substation model for the electric power substation is generated, based on the detected command and based on measurements in substation, where the modified extended substation model is a power flow model for the substation and for one or more directly connected neighboring substations. A power flow analysis is performed, using the modified extended substation model, to generate a predicted voltage for each of a plurality of nodes in the substation and in the one or more directly connected neighboring substations. Each predicted voltage is compared to a corresponding allowable voltage range, and execution of the command is blocked in response to determining that one or more of the voltages is outside the corresponding allowable voltage range.
US10079476B2
A spark plug has an insulator, a center electrode disposed in an axial hole, a resistor disposed in the axial hole and a seal member disposed between the resistor and the center electrode in the axial hole. The insulator includes an inner-diameter decreasing portion and a small inner-diameter portion. The center electrode includes a head portion supported on the inner-diameter decreasing portion of the insulator. The spark plug satisfies the following conditions: 1.8 mm≤L; and Cp≤11 mm where, assuming a region of the insulator from a boundary of the inner-diameter decreasing portion and the small inner-diameter portion to a rear end of the seal member as a specific region, L is a length of the specific region; D1 is an average inner diameter of the axial hole within the specific region; D2 is an average outer diameter of the specific region; and Cp is L/log(D2/D1).
US10079475B2
A plug connector capable of increasing the sealing between a rubber member and an outer circumferential surface of a spark plug insulator for improvement in current leakage resistance. The plug connector includes a conductive part that electrically connects a spark plug and a power supply member for power supply to the spark plug; and a rubber member that covers the conductive part. The spark plug has an insulator and a terminal electrode protruding toward the rear from a rear end of the insulator. The plug connector further includes a ring member arranged on an outer circumference of the rubber member.
US10079472B2
A tunable laser that includes an array of parallel optical amplifiers is described. The laser may also include an intracavity N×M coupler that couples power between a cavity mirror and the array of parallel optical amplifiers. Phase adjusters in optical paths between the N×M coupler and the optical amplifiers can be used to adjust an amount of power output from M−1 ports of the N×M coupler. A tunable wavelength filter is incorporated in the laser cavity to select a lasing wavelength.
US10079467B2
An optomechanical laser includes: a basal member; a mechanical transducer; a laser disposed on the mechanical transducer, the laser being displaced along the displacement axis in response to a displacement of the mechanical transducer relative to the basal member; a mirror disposed on the armature in optical communication with the laser and opposing the laser; the armature disposed on the basal member and rigidly connecting the mirror to the basal member such that the mirror and the armature move in synchrony with the basal member, and the armature provides a substantially constant distance between the basal member and the mirror; and a cavity comprising: the laser; the mirror; and a cavity length between the laser and the mirror that changes in response to displacement of the laser according to the displacement of the mechanical transducer relative to the basal member, the optomechanical laser providing laser light.
US10079466B2
The invention is optical configurations for constructing laser oscillators or laser amplifiers that comprise an extremely short fiber (typically tens of cm long or below, e.g. 5 cm to 30 cm). In order to overcome the absorption limitation due to the very short length of the fiber, the present invention employs a multi pump-pass scheme for pump light confinement. This scheme is based on the small angular overlap between the lasing and pump beams. The multi pump-pass method of the invention leads to efficient fiber laser oscillators and amplifiers having pulse duration of a few ns, with high average and peak power output that is comparable to the state-of-the-art solid state lasers.
US10079459B2
A shelving system having a detached power supply apparatus includes at least a hollow vertical shelf rail, at least a bus bar inserted into the vertical shelf rail, and at least a detached power supply apparatus inserted in the vertical shelf rail and electrically connected to the bus bar. Each of the vertical shelf rails includes at least a punched hole, and two locating protrudes. Each of the bus bar includes a slot, and two current conductors. The slot includes a carrier surface, and a track abutting surface. Each of the detached power supply apparatus passes through the punched hole and is inserted between the carrier surface and the track abutting surface. Each of the detached power supply apparatus includes two push-in resilient ball head plungers, a receiving surface, an abutting surface, and two reeds. The abutting surface is engaging with the track abutting surface.
US10079453B2
The present invention provides an electrical tool with battery pack ejection assist mechanism. The electrical tool includes a housing receiving a motor and a transmission mechanism, a tool accessory driven by the motor for the operation, a battery pack slidably mounted to the housing for providing power and a locking mechanism for locking the battery pack after being mounted. The electrical tool further includes an ejecting assembly for assisting in the ejection of the battery pack when the locking mechanism unlocks the battery pack, the ejecting assembly includes a contacting member for contacting and ejecting the battery pack and a driving member for driving the contacting member for ejecting the battery pack. The contacting member is movably connected to the housing, and the driving member is arranged in the housing and contacts the contacting member.
US10079452B1
A removal unit includes a latch and a tab separably connectable to the latch. The latch includes latch arms each including a connection hole and an opening extending from the connection hole and being smaller than the connection hole. The tab includes a body, tab arms extending from the body, and protrusions provided on the tab arms to protrude toward each other. The protrusions each include a connecting part and an engaging part extending from the connecting part and being larger than the connection hole. The connecting part is provided on the tab arm, and configured to be placed into the connection hole. The connecting part has a width in a first direction smaller than the width of the opening and a length in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction smaller than the diameter of the connection hole and greater than the width of the opening.
US10079451B2
A pluggable module includes a pluggable body extending between a cable end and a mating end opposite the cable end and a latch held by the pluggable body having an actuation end and a latching end. The actuation end has an actuator extending from the cable end and the latching end has a latching tooth configured to latchably secure the pluggable module to a component. A pull tab device is secured to the actuator. The pull tab device has a handle configured to be pulled away from the pluggable body to release the latch. The pull tab device has a connecting end opposite the handle having a first segment and a second segment. The first segment wraps around the actuator and is secured to the second segment such that the pull tab device is self-secured to the actuator.
US10079449B1
A multiple connector assembly includes a connector housing. A first connector and a second connector, adjacent the first connector, extend from a first surface of the connector housing. A securing member is coupled to the connector housing and is configured to engage a connector coupling member to secure the first connector in a first connector receptacle and the second connector in a second connector receptacle. A connector release actuator that is located on a second surface of the connector housing that is opposite the first surface of the connector housing. The connector release actuator is configured to actuate the securing member to cause the securing member to disengage with the connector coupling member such that the first connector is no longer secured in the first connector receptacle and the second connector is no longer secured in the second connector receptacle.
US10079446B1
An electrical connector includes a first-housing, a second-housing, a slideable-skirt, and a terminal-lock. The second-housing is configured to mate with the first-housing along a longitudinal-mating-axis. The second-housing defines a slot in a top-side of the second-housing extending along a lateral-axis orthogonal to the longitudinal-mating-axis. The slideable-skirt is mounted to the second-housing and is moveable from a pre-stage position to a seated-position along the longitudinal-mating-axis. The slideable-skirt overlays a portion of a perimeter of the second-housing and defines cam-slots on a first-side and a second-side of the slideable-skirt. The terminal-lock is disposed within the slot and is moveable from a terminal insertion position to a locking position. The terminal-lock includes cam-posts extending from a first-end and a second-end of the terminal-lock disposed within the cam-slots. The terminal-lock moves from the terminal insertion position to the locking position as the slideable-skirt is moved from the pre-stage position to the seated-position.
US10079441B2
A fixing structure of electronic components has a first substrate, at least one second substrate, at least one electronic component, and at least one fixing mechanism. Each second substrate has at least two first pins to electrically connect to the first substrate. Multiple second pins formed on a side surface of the electronic component are electrically connected to the second substrate. The at least one fixing mechanism covers the at least one electronic component and the at least one second substrate. A first mounting part and a second mounting part respectively extend downward from opposite sides of the at least one fixing mechanism for clamping the electronic component and the second substrate so that the at least one electronic component and the at least one second substrate are erectly mounted on the first substrate. Thus, more electronic components are allowed to be erectly mounted on the first substrate.
US10079440B1
An electrical terminal having a contact portion, a wire termination portion and a transition portion. The contact portion is configured to receive a mating terminal along a mating axis. The wire termination portion defines a wire termination axis that intersects the mating axis. The transition portion extends between the contact portion and the wire termination portion. The transition portion extends parallel to the mating axis and the wire termination axis. An engagement section extends at an angle from the transition portion. The engagement section has a push surface intersecting the mating axis. Wherein a force can be applied to the push surface to mate the contact portion with the mating terminal.
US10079430B2
Various embodiments are described that relate to an antenna mount. Multiple antennas can be mounted on the antenna mount. These antennas can work together or be independent of one another. In an example of working together, one antenna can be a transmission antenna while the second antenna can be a reception antenna. The transmission antenna and reception antenna can function with regard to the same communication signal.
US10079425B2
A portable terminal is provided. The portable terminal includes a flexible display element, a first antenna element disposed at a first region on the display element, a second antenna element disposed at a foldable second region on the display element to face the first region, and a switch element configured to selectively connect the second antenna element. When the display element is folded or rolled, the first and second antenna elements at least partially overlap each other, and the switch element disconnects the second antenna element. The portable terminal including the antenna device as described above may maintain a stable transmission/reception performance although it includes a flexible display element or a display assembly. When a plurality of antenna elements are provided, the portable terminal may implement a Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) antenna device in a state where the display element is extended.
US10079418B2
A flexible and twistable terahertz waveguide assembly has a flexible waveguide with waveguide flange connectors at its ends. The flexible waveguide comprises a segmented tube of a plurality of tube segments which are connected to each other. The tube encloses a dielectric waveguide which is held by means of threads (filaments) at the center of the tube. The individual segments are tiltable and/or pivotable against each other, allowing bending and twisting of the waveguide cable.
US10079411B2
A battery monitoring apparatus monitors a state of a nickel hydrogen battery. The apparatus includes a board having a high voltage part having a voltage detection section detecting a voltage of the nickel hydrogen battery, and a low voltage part operating at a voltage lower than a voltage of the high voltage part, a housing that accommodates the board, and an attachment member that is attached to an opposed portion of the housing, which is opposed to a board surface of the board to attach the housing to a predetermined position. A passage is formed between the opposed portion and the attachment member. The passage extends from an opening part provided at a circumference part of the housing and along the opposed portion. The passage is provided at a position that overlaps with the high voltage part, when viewed in a normal direction of the board surface.
US10079410B2
An electrical device is provided. The electrical device includes a pulse generator configured to generate a first pulse. The electrical device also includes a battery. The battery includes a first conductive electrode configured to receive the first pulse from the pulse generator, a second conductive electrode coupled to the first conductive electrode, and a dielectric separator element coupled to the first conductive electrode and the second conductive electrode and configured to provide a second pulse. The second pulse is based on the first pulse and based on the electrical properties of the dielectric separator element. The electrical device also includes a controller coupled to the pulse generator and the dielectric separator element. The controller is configured to compare the first pulse with the second pulse.
US10079396B2
A solid-oxide fuel cell system includes: a fuel cell unit including a solid-oxide fuel cell including an anode gas channel and a cathode gas channel and a mixer; an electric power generation raw material supplier; a combustible gas channel extending from the electric power generation raw material supplier to a downstream end of the anode gas channel; an oxidizing gas supplier; and a controller operative to, after electric power generation of the fuel cell unit is stopped, control the electric power generation raw material supplier to supply to the combustible gas channel the electric power generation raw material, the amount of which compensates for contraction of gas in the combustible gas channel due to temperature decrease of the fuel cell unit and also control the oxidizing gas supplier to supply the oxidizing gas to the cathode gas channel in accordance with the supply of the electric power generation raw material.
US10079392B2
A metal-doped graphene and a growth method of the same are provided. The metal-doped graphene includes graphene and metal elements, wherein the metal elements accounts for 1-30 at % based on the total content of the metal-doped graphene. The growth method includes performing a PECVD by using a carbon precursor, a metal precursor, and a group VI precursor in order to grow the metal-doped graphene.
US10079391B2
A microfluidic fuel cell with flow-through architecture is provided. The anode and the cathode are porous electrodes and comprise an interstitial pore network. A virtual insulator is located between the electrodes, in an electrolyte channel. The virtual insulator is comprised of a co-laminar flow of an electrolyte. An inlet directs substantially all the flow of liquid reactant through the porous electrode.
US10079383B2
An all-solid battery that includes a negative electrode layer, a positive electrode layer, a solid electrolyte layer disposed between the positive electrode layer and the negative electrode layer, a negative electrode current collector connected to the negative electrode layer, and a positive electrode current collector connected to the positive electrode layer, wherein the negative electrode layer contains a sulfide solid electrolyte, the negative electrode current collector contains a metal that reacts with the sulfide solid electrolyte, a sulfur compound layer that contains a sulfur compound generated by a reaction of the sulfide solid electrolyte and the metal is present between the negative electrode layer and the negative electrode current collector, charge capacity when constant current charge was conducted up to 3.6 V at 0.3 C or more and 3.6 C or less in an initial charge after preparation of the all-solid battery is 50 mAh/g or more and 90 mAh/g or less.
US10079379B2
The present invention relates to a layer disposed between a positive electrode and a negative electrode, which is a layer containing particles and a resin material, and having a porous structure with a heat capacity per unit area of 0.0001 J/Kcm2 or more and a heat capacity per unit volume of 3.0 J/Kcm3 or less.
US10079373B2
A pouch type secondary battery and a method of manufacturing the same are disclosed. The pouch type secondary battery includes a pouch type case formed by attaching an upper sheet and a lower sheet, and an electrode assembly received in the pouch type case. A polymer coating layer for improving sealability is further included at an outer side portion of the pouch type case, in which the upper sheet and the lower sheet are attached.
US10079370B2
The thickness of a terminal connection portion of a positive electrode current collector is greater than that of a terminal connection portion of a negative electrode current collector. The terminal connection portion of the positive electrode current collector has a through-hole, and a positive electrode terminal is inserted into the through-hole and is upset on the terminal connection portion. The terminal connection portion of the negative electrode current collector has a through-hole, and a negative electrode terminal is inserted into the through-hole and is upset on the terminal connection portion. A recessed portion is formed in a lower surface of the positive electrode terminal connection portion around the through-hole, and a lower end portion of the positive electrode terminal is disposed in the recessed portion.
US10079365B2
An organic light emitting diode display device is provided. The organic light emitting diode display device includes a first insulating layer disposed on a substrate and having a first refractive index, a refraction inducing layer disposed on the first insulating layer having a second refractive index, a second insulating layer disposed on the refraction inducing layer and having a third refractive index, a first electrode disposed on the second insulating layer and having a fourth refractive index, and an organic light emitting layer and a second electrode disposed on the first electrode. The second insulating layer, the first electrode, the organic light emitting layer, and the second electrode include a plurality of convex parts and a plurality of concave parts.
US10079361B2
A lighting apparatus using an organic light-emitting diode and a method of fabricating the same are characterized in that an organic emissive material and a conductive film used as a cathode are deposited on the entire surface of a substrate, and then an organic emissive layer in a lighting area and contact areas becomes separated (disconnected or cut) by laser ablation, simultaneously with the formation of a contact hole for contact with an anode. Next, cathode contact and encapsulation processes are performed using an adhesive containing conductive particles and a metal film. This simplifies the fabrication process of the lighting apparatus without using an open mask (metal mask), which is a complicated tool, thus making it useful especially in roll-to-roll manufacturing.
US10079360B2
An electronic-device-sealing resin composition and an organic EL element, having, as a crosslinkable organometallic desiccant, a metal complex compound having crosslinkable alkoxide represented by formula (1) as a ligand: M(ORx)n Formula (1) wherein, in formula (1), M designates Al, B, Ti or Zr; Rx in the ligand designates an alkyl group, an alkenyl group, an aryl group, a cycloalkyl group, a heterocyclic group, an acyl group, or a group represented by formula (a); at least one of Rx's has a crosslinkable group; and n designates a valence of M. wherein, in formula (a), O* designates O of ORx in formula (1); R1 designates an alkyl group, an alkenyl group or an acyl group; R2 designates a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group; and R3 designates an alkyl group or an alkoxy group.
US10079353B2
A flexible device is provided. The hardness of a bonding layer of the flexible device is set to be higher than Shore D of 70, or preferably higher than or equal to Shore D of 80. The coefficient of expansion of a flexible substrate of the flexible device is set to be less than 58 ppm/° C., or preferably less than or equal to 30 ppm/° C.
US10079344B2
Provided are an asymmetric monoanthracene derivative having a specific structure, a material for an organic EL device comprising the above asymmetric monoanthracene derivative and an organic EL device in which an organic thin film layer comprising a single layer or plural layers including a luminescent layer is interposed between a cathode and an anode, wherein at least one of the above organic thin film layers contains the asymmetric monoanthracene derivative described above in the form of a single component or a mixed component. Provided are an organic electroluminescent (EL) device having a high luminous efficiency and a long life, an asymmetric monoanthracene derivative which materializes the same and a material for an organic EL device.
US10079332B2
A method for manufacturing a package includes the steps of: preparing a lead frame having a frame, a first electrode, a second electrode, a first connecting portion connecting the frame and the first electrode, and a second connecting portion connecting the frame and the second electrode; placing the lead frame in a mold; injecting a first resin into the mold from an inlet of the mold located adjacent to the first electrode to mold a flange portion and a wall portion of the package; and cutting the lead frame and a part of the flange portion located adjacent to the first electrode. In the step of injecting the first resin, the mold and the lead frame together provide a hollow space into which the first resin is injected and in which a part of the flange portion is formed so as to have a thickness different from a thickness of the lead frame.
US10079330B2
An object is to provide a highly reliable light emitting device which is thin and is not damaged by external local pressure. Further, another object is to manufacture a light emitting device with a high yield by preventing defects of a shape and characteristics due to external stress in a manufacture process. A light emitting element is sealed between a first structure body in which a fibrous body is impregnated with an organic resin and a second structure body in which a fibrous body is impregnated with an organic resin, whereby a highly reliable light emitting device which is thin and has intensity can be provided. Further, a light emitting device can be manufactured with a high yield by preventing defects of a shape and characteristics in a manufacture process.
US10079319B2
Solar cell fabrication using laser patterning of ion-implanted etch-resistant layers, and the resulting solar cells, are described. In an example, a back contact solar cell includes a maximum concentration of the approximately Gaussian distribution of P-type dopants approximately in the center of each of segmented P-type emitter regions between first and second sides of each of the segmented P-type emitter regions.
US10079301B2
A semiconductor memory cell comprising an electrically floating body having two stable states is disclosed. A method of operating the memory cell is disclosed.
US10079298B2
A semiconductor device includes on an n-type semiconductor substrate of silicon carbide, an n-type semiconductor layer, a p-type base region, an n-type source region, a p-type contact region, a gate insulating film, a gate electrode, and a source electrode. The semiconductor device has a drain electrode on a back surface of the semiconductor substrate. On a surface of the gate electrode, an interlayer insulating film is disposed. The interlayer insulating film has plural layers among which, one layer is formed by a silicon nitride film. With such a structure, degradation of semiconductor device properties are suppressed. Further, increases in the number of processes at the time of manufacturing are suppressed.
US10079292B2
A method of forming a gate structure, including forming one or more vertical fins on a substrate; forming a bottom spacer on the substrate surface adjacent to the one or more vertical fins; forming a gate structure on at least a portion of the sidewalls of the one or more vertical fins; forming a gauge layer on at least a portion of the bottom spacer, wherein the gauge layer covers at least a portion of the gate structure on the sidewalls of the one or more vertical fins; and removing a portion of the gauge layer on the bottom spacer.
US10079290B2
A semiconductor device including a semiconductor substrate, agate on the semiconductor substrate, a drain doping region in the semiconductor substrate on a first side of the gate, a source doping region in the semiconductor substrate on a second side of the gate, a first spacer structure on a first sidewall of the gate between the gate and the drain doping region, and a second spacer structure on a second sidewall of the gate between the gate and the source doping region. The first spacer structure is composed of a low-k dielectric layer on the first sidewall of the gate and a first spacer material layer on the low-k dielectric layer. The second spacer structure is composed of a second spacer material layer on the second sidewall of the gate.
US10079282B2
A semiconductor device according to an embodiment includes an i-type or a p-type first diamond semiconductor layer, an n-type second diamond semiconductor layer provided on the first diamond semiconductor layer, a mesa structure and an n-type first diamond semiconductor region provided on the side surface. The mesa structure includes the first diamond semiconductor layer, the second diamond semiconductor layer, a top surface with a plane orientation of ±10 degrees or less from a {100} plane, and a side surface inclined by 20 to 90 degrees with respect to a direction of <011>±20 degrees from the {100} plane. The first diamond semiconductor region is in contact with the second diamond semiconductor layer and has an n-type impurity concentration lower than an n-type impurity concentration of the second diamond semiconductor layer.
US10079274B2
An organic light-emitting display apparatus, including a pixel electrode; a pixel definition layer covering at least a portion of an edge of the pixel electrode; an emission layer on the pixel electrode; and a first intermediate layer on the pixel electrode and the pixel definition layer, the first intermediate layer having a first through hole corresponding to at least a portion of an upper surface of the pixel definition layer.
US10079271B2
Provided are a mask assembly, an apparatus for manufacturing a display apparatus, and method of manufacturing a display apparatus. The mask assembly includes a mask frame and a mask sheet arranged on the mask frame. The mask sheet includes a pattern portion configured to allow a deposition material to pass through an opening of the pattern portion. The pattern portion is recessed from a surface of the mask sheet. In addition, an outermost edge of the pattern portion is uneven.
US10079270B2
A display device according to an exemplary embodiment includes a base portion, a first support plate slidably coupled to the base portion, and configured to support a display module, a second support plate below the first support plate and hinge-combined to the base portion to be vertically rotatable with movement of the first support plate, and configured to support the display module, and an elastic member between the base portion and the second support plate, and configured to provide an elastic force to rotate the second support plate upward with movement of the first support plate.
US10079266B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure describe techniques and configurations associated with modulation of magnetic properties through implantation. In one embodiment, a method includes providing a substrate having an integrated circuit (IC) structure disposed on the substrate, the IC structure including a magnetizable material, implanting at least a portion of the magnetizable material with a dopant and magnetizing the magnetizable material, wherein said magnetizing is inhibited in the implanted portion of the magnetizable material. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US10079265B1
A display panel including a backplane, a first bonding layer, a plurality of micro light-emitting diodes, a first insulation layer, and a second bonding layer is provided. The first bonding layer is disposed on the backplane. The micro light-emitting diodes are disposed on the first bonding layer and are electrically connected to the first bonding layer. The first insulation layer is located between any adjacent two of the micro light-emitting diodes. The first insulation layer has a concave-convex surface. The second bonding layer is disposed on the micro light-emitting diodes and the first insulation layer and is electrically connected to the micro light-emitting diodes. A micro light-emitting diode apparatus including a substrate, a plurality of micro light-emitting diodes, and a first insulation layer is provided. The first insulation layer is located between any adjacent two of the micro light-emitting diodes. The first insulation layer has a concave-convex surface.
US10079263B2
A method for manufacturing a multi-spectral photodiode array in a CdxHg1-xTe semiconductor layer constituted of pixels, the method including a step of producing a PN junction in each pixel and further includes producing a cadmium-rich structure on the semiconductor layer, structured so that all the pixels are not surmounted by a same quantity of cadmium atoms, this quantity being able to be zero; and inter-diffusion annealing, realizing the diffusion of cadmium atoms from the cadmium-rich structure to the semiconductor layer. Pixels that do not all have the same cutoff wavelength are thereby obtained.
US10079261B1
An image sensor includes a plurality of photodiodes and a floating diffusion disposed in a semiconductor material. The image sensor also includes a plurality of transfer gates coupled between the plurality of photodiodes and the floating diffusion to transfer the image charge generated in the plurality of photodiodes into the floating diffusion. Peripheral circuitry is disposed proximate to the plurality of photodiodes and coupled to receive the image charge from the plurality of photodiodes. A shallow trench isolation structure is laterally disposed, at least in part, between the plurality of photodiodes and the peripheral circuitry to prevent electrical crosstalk between the plurality of photodiodes and the peripheral circuitry. The peripheral circuitry includes one or more transistors including a source electrode and a drain electrode that are raised above a surface of the semiconductor material.
US10079259B2
An image sensor includes a semiconductor substrate, a plurality of photoelectric transducer devices, a dielectric isolating structure and a plurality of spacers. The semiconductor substrate has a backside surface and a front side surface opposite to the backside surface. The photoelectric transducer devices are disposed on the front side surface. The dielectric isolating structure extends downwards into the semiconductor substrate from the front side surface and penetrates through the backside surface, so as to from a grid structure and isolate the photoelectric transducer devices from each other. The spacers are disposed on a plurality of sidewalls of the grid structure.
US10079245B2
A semiconductor device includes a lower structure including a lower conductor, an upper structure having an opening exposing the lower conductor on the lower structure, and a connection structure filling the opening and connected to the lower conductor. The connection structure includes a first tungsten layer covering an inner surface of the opening and defining a recess region in the opening, and a second tungsten layer filling the recess region on the first tungsten layer. A grain size of the second tungsten layer in an upper portion of the connection structure is greater than a grain size of the second tungsten layer in a lower portion of the connection structure.
US10079235B2
Some embodiments include a memory cell having first, second and third transistors, with the second and third transistors being vertically displaced relative to one another. The memory cell has a semiconductor pillar extending along the second and third transistors, with the semiconductor pillar containing channel regions and source/drain regions of the second and third transistors. A capacitor may be electrically coupled between a source/drain region of the first transistor and a gate of the second transistor.
US10079234B1
A memory device including a plurality of memory unit cells arranged in a crossbar configuration for a neural network is provided. Each of the memory unit cells includes a readout transistor, a charging transistor, a discharging transistor, and a metal-insulator-metal (MIM) capacitor connected to one of source/drain regions of each of the charging transistor and the discharging transistor and a functional gate of the readout transistor for storing analog information.
US10079229B1
A technique relates to forming resistor fins on a substrate. A shallow trench isolation material is formed on dummy fins and the substrate, and the dummy fins are formed on the substrate. Predefined ones of the dummy fins are removed, thereby forming voids in the shallow trench isolation material corresponding to previous locations of the predefined ones of the dummy fins. A first material is deposited into the voids. The height of the first material is reduced, thereby forming trenches in the shallow trench isolation material. A second material is deposited into the trenches to be on top of the first material, thereby forming the resistor fins of a resistor device. A metal contact layer is formed so as to contact a top surface of the first material at predefined locations.
US10079219B2
A power semiconductor contact structure for power semiconductor modules, which has at least one substrate 1 and a metal molded body 2 as an electrode, which are sintered one on top of the other by means of a substantially uninterrupted sintering layer 3a with regions of varying thickness. The metal molded body 2 takes the form here of a flexible contacting film 5 of such a thickness that this contacting film is sintered with its side 4 facing the sintering layer 3a onto the regions of varying thickness of the sintering layer substantially over the full surface area. A description is also given of a method for forming a power semiconductor contact structure in a power semiconductor module that has a substrate and a metal molded body. The forming of the power semiconductor contact structure is performed firstly by applying a layer of sintering material of locally varying thickness to either the metal molded body 2 or the substrate, followed by sintering together the contacting film 5 with the substrate 1 by using the properties of the layer of sintering material that are conducive to connection, the contacting film 5 being made to develop its distinct form to correspond to the varying thickness of the layer of sintering material 3a.
US10079213B2
Packaging devices and methods of manufacture thereof for semiconductor devices are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method of manufacturing a packaging device includes forming an interconnect wiring over a substrate, and forming conductive balls over portions of the interconnect wiring. A molding material is deposited over the conductive balls and the substrate, and a portion of the molding material is removed from over scribe line regions of the substrate.
US10079212B2
In order to restrict cracking or the like in a connection member such as solder, provided is a semiconductor device including a first component; a second component that is arranged on a front surface of the first component; and a connection portion that is provided between the first component and the second component and connects the second component to the first component. A first groove and a second groove having different shapes are formed in the front surface of the first component at positions opposite a first corner and a second corner of the second component, and the connection portion is also formed within the first groove and the second groove.
US10079211B1
An integrated circuit device or devices is presented that include internal connection ports to transmit data to or receive data from a first portion of the integrated circuit device. The integrated circuit device(s) also include external connection ports to transmit data to or receive data from outside the integrated circuit device, such as between integrated circuit devices. The integrated circuit device also includes remapping circuitry that remaps from a first connection between a first internal connection port of the internal connection ports and a first external connection port of the external connection ports to a second connection between a second internal connection port of the internal connection ports and a second external connection port of the external connection ports.
US10079210B2
An integrated circuit device including a substrate having at least one fin-shaped active region, the at least one fin-shaped active region extending in a first direction, a gate line extending on the at least one fin-shaped active region in a second direction, the second direction intersecting with the first direction, a conductive region on a portion of the at least one fin-shaped active region at one side of the gate line, and a contact plug extending from the conductive region in a third direction, the third direction being perpendicular to a main plane of the substrate, may be provided. The contact plug may include a metal plug, a conductive barrier film on the conductive region, the conductive barrier film surrounding a sidewall and a bottom surface of the metal plug, the conductive barrier film including an N-rich metal nitride film, and a metal silicide film between the conductive region and the conductive barrier film.
US10079208B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure may provide a method of forming an integrated circuit (IC) structure, the method including: providing a structure with: a conductive region, and an inter-level dielectric (ILD) material positioned on the conductive region, wherein the ILD material includes a contact opening to the conductive region; forming a doped metal layer within the contact opening such that the doped metal layer overlies the conductive region, wherein the doped metal layer includes a first metal doped with a second metal; and forming a contact to the conductive region within the contact opening of the ILD material by annealing the doped metal layer such that the second metal diffuses into the ILD material to form an interface liner directly between the annealed doped metal layer and the ILD material.
US10079205B2
An interconnection structure includes a non-insulator structure, a liner layer, a dielectric structure and a conductive structure. The liner layer is present on the non-insulator structure and has an opening therein. The dielectric structure is present on the liner layer. The dielectric structure includes a via opening therein. The conductive structure is present in the via opening of the dielectric structure and electrically connected to the non-insulator structure through the opening of the liner layer. At least a portion of the conductive structure tapers along a direction from the non-insulator structure to the dielectric structure.
US10079195B2
A semiconductor chip package is disclosed. The package includes a carrier, a plurality of semiconductor chips disposed on the carrier, a first encapsulation layer disposed above the semiconductor chips. A metallization layer is disposed above the first encapsulation layer, the metallization layer including a plurality of first metallic areas forming electrical connections between selected ones of the semiconductor chips. A second encapsulation layer is disposed above the solder resist layer. A plurality of external connectors are provided, each one of the external connectors being connected with one of the first metallic areas and extending outwardly through a surface of the second encapsulation layer.
US10079194B1
A chip on film package includes a base film, a patterned circuit layer, a solder resist layer, a chip and a graphite sheet. The base film includes a first surface and a mounting region located on the first surface. The patterned circuit layer is disposed on the first surface. The solder resist layer partially covers the patterned circuit layer. The chip is disposed on the mounting region and electrically connected to the patterned circuit layer. The graphite sheet covers at least a part of the solder resist layer, wherein an outer edge of the graphite sheet is substantially aligned with an outer edge of the solder resist layer.
US10079191B2
In embodiments described herein, an integrated circuit (IC) package is provided. The IC package may include a substrate, an IC die, and a heat spreader. The IC die may have opposing first and second surfaces, where the first surface of the IC die is coupled to a surface of the substrate. The heat spreader may have a surface coupled to the second surface of the IC die by a thermal interface (TI) material. The surface of the heat spreader may have a micro-recess which may include a micro-channel or a micro-dent to direct a flow of TI material towards or away from a predetermined area of the second surface of the IC die based on temperatures of the substrate, the IC die, and/or the heat spreader.
US10079188B2
Provided is a resin composition for encapsulating which is used for forming an encapsulating resin of an on-vehicle electronic control unit including a wiring substrate, a plurality of electronic components mounted on the wiring substrate, and the encapsulating resin encapsulating the electronic component, the resin composition including: a thermosetting resin; and one or more imidazole compounds, in which when a torque value is measured over time under conditions of the number of rotations of 30 rpm and a measurement temperature of 175° C. by using Labo Plastomill, a time T1 at which the torque value is less than or equal to 2 times a minimum torque value is longer than or equal to 15 seconds and shorter than or equal to 100 seconds, and the minimum torque value is greater than or equal to 0.5 N·m and less than or equal to 2.5 N·m.
US10079184B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor manufacturing apparatus includes a manufacturing processor, a signal acquisition unit, a frequency characteristic acquisition unit, and an end-point acquisition unit. The signal acquisition unit acquires a first processing signal which shows a different behavior during processing of a stacked body and after the processing of the stacked body. The frequency characteristic acquisition unit acquires a frequency characteristic of a noise caused by a periodic structure of the stacked body from the first processing signal during the processing of the stacked body. The end-point acquisition unit detects an end point of the processing using the acquired frequency characteristic. The manufacturing processor ends the processing when the end point is detected.
US10079182B2
A method for fabricating a gate stack of a semiconductor device comprises forming a first dielectric layer over a channel region of the device, depositing a first nitride layer on exposed portions of the first dielectric layer, depositing a scavenging layer on the first nitride layer, forming a capping layer over the scavenging layer, removing portions of the capping layer, the scavenging layer, and the first nitride layer to expose a portion of the first dielectric layer in an n-type field effect transistor (nFET) region of the gate stack, forming a barrier layer over the first dielectric layer and the capping layer, forming a first gate metal layer over the barrier layer, depositing a second nitride layer on the first gate metal layer, and depositing a gate electrode material on the second nitride layer.
US10079175B2
Insulating a via in a semiconductor substrate, including: depositing, in the via, a dielectric layer; depositing, in the via, a barrier layer; allowing the barrier layer to oxidize; and depositing, in the via, a conducting layer.
US10079170B2
A high resistivity single crystal semiconductor handle structure for use in the manufacture of SOI structure is provided. The handle structure comprises an intermediate semiconductor layer between the handle substrate and the buried oxide layer. The intermediate semiconductor layer comprises a polycrystalline, amorphous, nanocrystalline, or monocrystalline structure and comprises a material selected from the group consisting of Si1-xGex, Si1-xCx, Si1-x-yGexSny, Si1-x-y-zGexSnyCz, Ge1-xSnx, group IIIA- nitrides, semiconductor oxides, and any combination thereof.
US10079169B1
A method of forming a plurality of semiconductor devices includes applying a tape material to a back side of a semiconductor device having a silicon layer on the back side and a circuitry layer on the front side, lasing with an infrared laser the silicon layer through the tape material, lasing with a second laser the circuitry layer, and expanding the tape material for form a plurality of semiconductor devices. The second layer may be an ultraviolet laser. The lasers may be irradiated in a pattern on the bottom side and the top side. The second layer may form a groove in the circuitry layer that does not penetrate the silicon layer. The infrared laser may cleave a portion of the silicon lattice of the silicon layer. A coating may be applied to the circuitry layer prior to being irradiated with the second laser.
US10079168B2
A ceramic assembly is attached to a lower support structure having a bowl shape. The ceramic assembly has a top surface configured to support a substrate. At least one clamp electrode is positioned within an upper region of the ceramic assembly. A primary radiofrequency (RF) power delivery electrode is positioned within the ceramic assembly at a location vertically below the at least one clamp electrode such that a region of the ceramic assembly between the primary RF power delivery electrode and the at least one clamp electrode is substantially free of other electrically conductive material. A plurality of RF power delivery connection modules is distributed in a substantially uniform manner about a perimeter of the ceramic assembly. Each of the RF power delivery connection modules is configured to form an electrical connection from the lower support structure to the primary RF power delivery electrode at its respective location.
US10079164B2
A system, apparatus, and method for processing substrates using acoustic energy. In one aspect, the invention can be a system for processing flat articles including a support for supporting the flat article and an acoustic energy treatment apparatus. The acoustic energy treatment apparatus may include a support arm and a plurality of transducer assemblies coupled thereto. The transducer assemblies may include a housing with a transducer coupled thereto, and the housings of the transducer assemblies may be arranged in an end-to-end manner. A trough may also be included that extends along at least a portion of a length of the transducer assemblies. The trough may serve as a reservoir that upon being filled and overflowed with a liquid allows the liquid to fluidly couple the transducer assemblies to the flat article.
US10079154B1
A method for selectively etching SiN with respect to SiO or SiGe or Si of a structure is provided comprising providing a plurality of cycles of atomic layer etching. Each cycle comprises a fluorinated polymer deposition phase comprising flowing a fluorinated polymer deposition gas comprising a hydrofluorocarbon gas into the plasma processing chamber, forming the fluorinated polymer deposition gas into a plasma, which deposits a hydrofluorocarbon polymer layer on the structure, and stopping the flow of the fluorinated polymer deposition gas into the plasma processing chamber and an activation phase comprising flowing an activation gas comprising at least one of NH3 or H2 into the plasma processing chamber, forming the activation gas into a plasma, wherein plasma components from NH3 or H2 cause SiN to be selectively etched with respect to SiO or SiGe or Si, and stopping the flow of the activation gas into the plasma processing chamber.
US10079143B2
A semiconductor device and a method of forming the same, the semiconductor device includes fin shaped structures and a recessed insulating layer. The fin shaped structures are disposed on a substrate. The recessed insulating layer covers a bottom portion of each of the fin shaped structures to expose a top portion of each of the fin shaped structures. The recessed insulating layer has a curve surface and a wicking structure is defined between a peak and a bottom of the curve surface. The wicking structure is disposed between the fin shaped structures and has a height being about 1/12 to 1/10 of a height of the top portion of the fin shaped structures.
US10079137B2
A sample is ionized using an ion source and the ion beam is received using a tandem mass spectrometer. An m/z range is divided into two or more precursor ion isolation windows. Two or more values for a fragmentation parameter are selected. A first value of the two or more values for the fragmentation parameter has a level that fragments a minimal amount of ions of the ion beam. The one or more additional values have increasingly aggressive levels that produce increasingly more fragmentation of the ions of the ion beam. For each precursor ion isolation window, the tandem mass spectrometer is instructed to perform a selection and fragmentation of the ion beam using the precursor ion isolation window and the first value and is instructed to perform one or more additional selections and fragmentations of the ion beam using the precursor ion isolation window and using the one or more additional values.
US10079132B1
Embodiments provide systems, apparatus, and methods for circuit breaker tripping. Embodiments include providing a circuit breaker with a thermoelectric tripping mechanism, the thermoelectric tripping mechanism including a thermoelectric plate disposed between a current path and a bimetal lever of the circuit breaker; applying a DC current to the thermoelectric plate to heat the bimetal lever; and deflecting the bimetal lever to press upon a trip bar in response to a current overload occurring on the current path. Numerous additional aspects are disclosed.
US10079129B2
The invention relates to an electric switching device (10) for an energy accumulator in an electric vehicle, comprising a housing (20) inside which at least one switching section (30) that includes two input contacts (32a, 32b) and at least one output contact (34) is arranged, and a rotary component (40) which is mounted in such a way as to be rotatable relative to the housing (20) about a switching axis (42) between at least one OFF position (I), a series-connecting position (II), and an ON position (III); said rotary component (40) includes at least one conductor (44) which has at least two conductor contacts (44a, 44b) and which connects the first input contact (32a) in an electrically conducting manner to the output contact (34) in the series-connecting position (II) and connects the second input contact (32b) in an electrically conducting manner to the output contact (34) of the at least one switching section (30) in the ON position (III).
US10079127B1
An arc shield apparatus for an electrical switching device. Arc shield apparatus includes a body having an abutting portion including a first side configured to abut against a lateral side of a contact arm of an electrical switching device, and a second side opposite from the first side, an aperture passing between the first and second side, the aperture configured to receive a spring tab of the contact arm therein, and an arc shield including a first shield portion extending from the first abutting portion, the first shield portion including a first contact surface configured to abut against a contact arm edge, and a second shield portion configured to shield at least some of the spring tab and spring hook. Shielded contact arm assemblies and methods of protecting a contact arm of an electrical switching device during an arcing event, are disclosed, as are other aspects.
US10079122B2
A multi-pole circuit interrupter configured to be coupled between an AC source and an electric load electronically detects a hazardous condition associated with energizing of poles and responds to overcome the hazardous condition using a solenoid. The multi-pole circuit interrupter comprises a first switch to energize a first pole on a phase A conductor of the multi-pole circuit interrupter and a second switch to energize a second pole on a phase B conductor of the multi-pole circuit interrupter. The multi-pole circuit interrupter further comprises an electronic solid-state circuit coupled to the phase A conductor and the phase B conductor to detect a line voltage variation and control a current to a device in response to trip an energized pole among the first pole and the second pole if only one of the first pole and the second pole is energized when a user controls a tie bar to turn ON or turn OFF the multi-pole circuit interrupter or when a trip bar fails to trip one of the first pole and the second pole.
US10079121B2
A system for switching gases appearing after a short-circuit switching procedure in electrical service devices, particularly in low-voltage power switches, includes a switching gas cooling assembly and particle capture arrangement. Downstream of the flow path of switching gases issuing from at least one switching chamber outlet window, the switching gas cooling assembly is arranged in a blow-out chamber. In the space behind the at least one switching chamber outlet window and prior to entry of the switching gases into the switching gas cooling assembly, there is arranged a flow element around which the switching gases can flow and which has a cross section which corresponds to or is greater than the cross section of the switching chamber outlet window. The flow elements act as the particle capture arrangement and thus as a protection device for the switching gas cooling arrangement.
US10079113B2
An improved capacitor is provided wherein the capacitor has improved volumetric efficiency. The capacitor comprises a capacitive element comprising an anode, a dielectric on the anode and a cathode on the dielectric. An encapsulant at least partially encases the capacitive element wherein the encapsulant comprises at least one membrane between the capacitive element and an external surface of the encapsulant.
US10079111B2
The present invention provides a production method that enables easy production of an electrode material for aluminum electrolytic capacitor having a high capacitance, and that enables, in particular, easy production of an electrode material for aluminum electrolytic capacitor having a high capacitance regardless of the average particle diameter (D50) of aluminum powder to be used. Specifically, the present invention provides a method for producing an electrode material for aluminum electrolytic capacitor, comprising the steps of: (1) a first step of forming a film of a paste composition containing powder of at least one of aluminum and an aluminum alloy, a binder resin, and a solvent on at least one surface of a substrate, (2) a second step of sintering the film, and (3) a third step of applying an etching treatment on the sintered film.
US10079103B2
A multilayer electronic component includes outer electrodes each including an outer electrode main body electrically conducted to an internal electrode and entering portions that project from the outer electrode main body as a base end and enter into the electronic component element through an end surface of the electronic component element. The entering portions each include a slope relative to a principal surface in a flat region including a major portion of the internal electrode.
US10079094B2
A capacitor (1) wherein the first voltage layer (11) and the second voltage layer (21) form an overlap region (4) in which the first voltage layer (11) and the second voltage layer (21) are arranged parallel to one another, separated by a gap (5), on a base side (6) of the capacitor (1), directly above one another, and wherein the at least one first pole terminal (12) extends in lateral continuation of the first voltage layer (11) and, in parallel with this, the at least one second pole terminal (22) extends in lateral continuation of the second voltage layer (21) over and beyond the overlap region (4), and in this way form at least one contact lug pair (7) protruding from the base side (6) of the capacitor (1).
US10079084B1
Magnets and methods of making the magnets are disclosed. The magnets may have high coercivity and may be suitable for high temperature applications. The magnet may include a plurality of grains of a Nd—Fe—B alloy having a mean grain size of 100 to 500 nm. The magnet may also comprise a non-magnetic low melting point (LMP) alloy, which may include a rare earth element and one or more of Cu, Ga, and Al. The magnets may be formed from a Nd—Fe—B alloy powder produced using HDDR and jet milling, or other pulverization process. The powder may have a refined grain size and a small particle size and particle size distribution. The LMP alloy may be mixed with a powder of the Nd—Fe—B alloy or it may be diffused into a consolidated Nd—Fe—B bulk magnet. The LMP alloy may be concentrated at the grain boundaries of the bulk magnet.
US10079082B2
A data transmission cable includes a first wire and a second wire adjacent to each other, each of the first wire and the second wire has a central conductor and a cover layer enclosing the conductor. The conductor has an outer diameter in the range of 28 to 31 AWG, and when the outer diameter of the conductor is 28 AWG, the center distance between the first and second wires is defined between 0.51 mm to 0.75 mm; when the outer diameter of the conductor is 29 AWG, the center distance between the first and second wires is set between 0.38 mm to 0.75 mm; when the outer diameter of the conductor is 30 to 31 AWG, the center distance between the first and second wires is set between 0.38 mm to 0.62 mm.
US10079080B2
A coated wire suitable for aerospace applications includes a metallic conductor elongated along an axis and having an outer surface extending along the axis, and three coating layers surrounding the conductor. A first coating layer is connected to the outer surface of the conductor and extends along the axis to surround the conductor, and the first coating layer is formed of ethene-tetrafluoroethene. A second coating layer is connected to the first coating layer and extends along the axis to surround the first coating layer, and the second coating layer is formed of polyaryletherketone. A third coating layer is connected to the second coating layer and extends along the axis to surround the third coating layer, wherein the third coating layer is formed of ethene-tetrafluoroethene. The three coating layers may each be continuous and seamless extruded layers in one configuration.
US10079076B2
An emergency core cooling system removes decay heat generated by a reactor core of a reactor system. A reactor vessel uses water as a coolant. A containment structure surrounds the reactor system. A reactor cavity surrounds the reactor vessel. A first cavity pipe extends into the reactor vessel and provides a recirculation loop of cooling water by discharging vapor generated in the reactor vessel and supplying condensed water collected in the reactor cavity in an opposite direction.
US10079075B2
A nuclear fusion system comprises a nuclear fusion device for providing heat energy, a capacitor for storing electrical energy for use by the nuclear fusion device in providing the heat energy, and an electrical conductor for carrying electrical energy from the capacitor to the nuclear fusion device, each of the nuclear fusion device, the capacitor and the conductor being located within a first chamber. The first chamber is located within a second chamber. A fluid is located between the first and second chambers, surrounds the nuclear fusion device, the capacitor and the conductor, and receives heat energy from each of the nuclear fusion device, the capacitor and the conductor, resulting in the fluid being heated. A thermal energy converter receives heated fluid from the second chamber. A super insulating material encloses the second chamber to reduce heat loss from the heated fluid to the cooler ambient.
US10079074B1
Personal communication devices and computer-implemented systems for monitoring of ALS disease state of a patient are presented. The computer-implemented system comprises assignment selection module configured to access a library comprising predefined activity(ies), and enable selection of at least one predefined activity to be monitored by sensor(s) associated with the patient; assignment execution module configured to identify sensing signal(s) from the sensor(s) and generate corresponding output signal(s) indicative of the predefined activity, the sensing signal(s) comprising at least one of the following: reading, drawing, finger tapping, speaking, breathing, walking; and assignment reporting module configured to communicate with a data analyzer for communicating the output signal(s) indicative of the predefined activity to the data analyzer, thereby enabling storing the output data in a memory for use in monitoring and analyzing the ALS disease state of the patient.
US10079068B2
A system, a non-transitory computer readable medium and a method for wear estimation of a flash memory device, the method may include: programming information to a first portion of the flash memory device during a test programming process; measuring a duration of the test programming process; and estimating a wear characteristic of the first portion of the flash memory device thereby providing an estimated wear characteristic, wherein the estimating is responsive to the duration of the test programming process.
US10079058B1
The invention is notably directed to a device for performing a matrix-vector multiplication of a matrix with a vector. The device comprises a memory crossbar array comprising of row lines, of columns lines and of junctions arranged between the row lines and the column lines. Each junction comprises a programmable resistive memory element. The device comprises a signal generator and a readout circuit. The device is configured to perform a calibration procedure to compensate for conductance variations of the resistive memory elements. The calibration procedure is configured to program a calibration subset of the plurality of resistive memory elements to initial conductance values and to apply a constant calibration voltage to the row lines of the calibration subset. The device is configured to read calibration current values of the column lines of the calibration subset and to derive an estimation of a conductance variation parameter from the calibration current values.
US10079056B2
A SRAM memory bit cell is provided that includes a n-TFET and a p-TFET; a storage node formed by the connection of a first electrode of the n-TFET to a first electrode of the p-TFET (drains or sources); and a control circuit able to apply supply voltages on second electrodes of the n-TFET and p-TFET (sources or drains). The control circuit is configured to provide, during a retention mode, supply and bias voltages reverse biasing the n-TFET and p-TFET in a state wherein a conduction current is obtained by band-to-band tunneling in the n-TFET and p TFET. The control circuit is further configured to provide, during a writing of a bit, supply and bias voltages forward biasing the n-TFET and p-TFET and such that one of the n-TFET and p-TFET is in OFF state and that the other of the n-TFET and p-TFET is in ON state.
US10079049B2
Apparatuses and methods including an interface die that interfaces with dice through memory channels are described. An example apparatus includes a first die. The first die receives a first command including first command information and second command information provided after the first command information. The first die changes an order of providing the first command information and the second command information and provides a second command to a second die, the second command including the second command information and the first command information provided after the second command information in the changed order. The first command information is related to a command function and the second command information is related to a destination of the command function.
US10079046B2
An apparatus is provided that compensates for misalignment on a synchronous data bus. The apparatus includes a replica radial distribution element, a bit lag control element, and a synchronous lag receiver. The replica radial distribution element is configured to receive a first signal, and is configured to generate a second signal, where the replica radial distribution element comprises replicated propagation path lengths, loads, and buffering of a radial distribution network for a strobe. The bit lag control element is configured to measure a propagation time beginning with assertion of the first signal and ending with assertion of the second signal, and is configured to generate a value on a lag bus that indicates the propagation time. The bit lag control element has delay lock control and a gray encoder. The delay lock control is configured to select one of a plurality of successively delayed versions of the first signal that coincides with the assertion of the second signal, where the delay lock control selects the one of a plurality of successively delayed versions of the first signal by incrementing and decrementing bus states of select inputs on a first mux, and where the plurality of successively delayed versions of the first signal comprises inputs to the first mux, and where the plurality of successively delayed versions comprises outputs of a first plurality of series-coupled matched inverter pairs. The gray encoder is configured to gray encode the propagation time to generate the value on the lag bus. The synchronous lag receiver is configured to receive one of a plurality of radially distributed strobes and a data bit, and is configured to delay registering of the data bit by the propagation time. The synchronous lag receiver includes a second plurality of series-coupled matched inverter pairs, a second mux, and a bit receiver. The second plurality of series-coupled matched inverter pairs is configured to generate successively delayed versions of the data bit. The second mux is coupled to the second plurality of series-coupled matched inverter pairs, is configured to receive the value on the lag bus, and is configured to select one of the successively delayed versions of the data bit that corresponds to the value. The bit receiver is configured to receive the one of the successively delayed versions of the data bit and one of a plurality of radially distributed strobe signals, and is configured to register the state of the one of the successively delayed versions of the data bit upon assertion of the one of a plurality of radially distributed strobe signals.
US10079044B2
A system, method, and computer program product are provided for a memory device system. One or more memory dies and at least one logic die are disposed in a package and communicatively coupled. The logic die comprises a processing device configurable to manage virtual memory and operate in an operating mode. The operating mode is selected from a set of operating modes comprising a slave operating mode and a host operating mode.
US10079043B2
Cover seals for sealing of a re-workable hard disk drive comprise: a metallic substrate; an outwardly exposed adhesive layer on at least a portion of a major surface of the metallic substrate; and an adhesive-free border comprising a fusible metal alloy layer surrounding the adhesive layer. The cover seals can be used to form sealed hard disk drives, wherein a cover seal is attached to an exterior surface of the cover of an enclosed hard disk drive housing so that an adhesive layer of the cover seal covers the entire junction where the base and cover components of the enclosed housing meet and a metallic joint adheres a perimeter of the cover seal to the base of the enclosed housing.
US10079038B2
An optical disc device includes: an optical disc drive that reads data from a plurality of optical discs in which user data is recorded while distributed in the plurality of optical discs; a memory unit in which data read from an optical disc of a first group that is a part of the plurality of optical discs is recorded through the optical disc drive; and a controller that reproduces the user data from data of a remaining optical disc except for the first group, the data of the remaining optical disc being read through the optical disc drive, and the data recorded in the memory unit.
US10079035B1
A linear actuator for linearly positioning a recording head in a data storage mechanism. The disclosed linear actuator includes an electrically conductive coil having first and second parts that are both wound in the same rotary direction about an axis, and a magnet spaced from the electrically conductive coil by an air gap. Transmission of an electric current through the first part of the electrically conductive coil in a first current flow direction about the axis and through the second part of the electrically conductive coil in an opposite second current flow direction about the axis induces linear movement of one of the electrically conductive coil and magnet relative to the other of the electrically conductive coil and magnet.
US10079031B2
A method includes determining a preprocessed audio signal by removing some noise from an input audio signal. Here, portions of the preprocessed audio signal that include speech are separated by portions of the preprocessed audio signal that include residual noise. Additionally, the method includes determining an amplified signal by suppressing the preprocessed audio signal over the portions that include residual noise, and maintaining the preprocessed audio signal over the portions that include speech.
US10079028B2
Embodiments of the present invention relate to enhancing sound through reverberation matching. In sonic implementations, a first sound recording recorded in a first environment is received. The first sound recording is decomposed to a first clean signal and a first reverb kernel. A second reverb kernel corresponding with a second sound recording recorded in a second environment is accessed, for example, based on a user indication to enhance the first sound recording to sound as though recorded in the second environment. An enhanced sound recording is generated based on the first clean signal and the second reverb kernel. The enhanced sound recording is a modification of the first sound recording to sound as though recorded in the second environment.
US10079023B2
A comfort noise generation apparatus constituted of: near and far end speech detectors arranged to detect speech activity in near-end and far-end signals and a comfort noise generator, wherein responsive to an indication from the near-end speech detector that speech activity is absent on the near-end signal and an indication from the far-end silence detector that speech activity is absent on the far-end signal, the comfort noise generator is arranged to initiate a determination of an estimation of near-end background noise, wherein responsive to an indication from the near-end speech detector that speech activity is present on the near-end signal or an indication from the far-end silence detector that speech activity is present on the far-end signal, the comfort noise generator is arranged to terminate the estimation determination of near-end background noise, and wherein the comfort noise generator is arranged to output a function of the near-end background noise estimation.
US10079022B2
A voice recognition terminal, a voice recognition server, and a voice recognition method for performing personalized voice recognition. The voice recognition terminal includes a feature extraction unit for extracting feature data from an input voice signal, an acoustic score calculation unit for calculating acoustic model scores using the feature data, and a communication unit for transmitting the acoustic model scores and state information to a voice recognition server in units of one or more frames, and receiving transcription data from the voice recognition server, wherein the transcription data is recognized using a calculated path of a language network when the voice recognition server calculates the path of the language network using the acoustic model scores.
US10079014B2
A speech recognition system uses, in one embodiment, an extended phonetic dictionary that is obtained by processing words in a user's set of databases, such as a user's contacts database, with a set of pronunciation guessers. The speech recognition system can use a conventional phonetic dictionary and the extended phonetic dictionary to recognize speech inputs that are user requests to use the contacts database, for example, to make a phone call, etc. The extended phonetic dictionary can be updated in response to changes in the contacts database, and the set of pronunciation guessers can include pronunciation guessers for a plurality of locales, each locale having its own pronunciation guesser.
US10079013B2
A computing system is operable as virtual personal assistant (VPA) to understand relationships between different instances of natural language dialog expressed by different people in a multi-person conversational dialog session. The VPA can develop a common resource, a shared intent, which represents the VPA's semantic understanding of at least a portion of the multi-person dialog experience. The VPA can store and manipulate multiple shared intents, and can alternate between different shared intents as the multi-person conversation unfolds. With the shared intents, the computing system can generate useful action items and present the action items to one or more of the participants in the dialog session.
US10079012B2
A method for customizing speech-recognition dictionaries for different smart-home environments may include generating, at a smart-home device mounted in an enclosure, an acoustic impulse response for the enclosure. The method may also include receiving, by the smart-home device, an audio signal captured in the enclosure. The method may additionally include performing, by the smart-home device, a speech-recognition process on the audio signal using a second speech dictionary generated by convolving the acoustic impulse response with a first speech dictionary.
US10079002B2
This disclosure relates to systems and methods for modifying graphical element according to an environment. In one example, a method includes receiving inputs from one or more environmental detectors that indicate an environment, receiving identification of one or more graphical elements at a graphical user interface, and modifying the identified graphical elements to adjust member effort interacting with the identified graphical elements and according to the environment of the system.
US10078996B2
A processing device for an industrial vehicle includes a field-replaceable user interface. The processing device includes a service module and a main module. The service module, which is field replaceable, includes a display having a touch screen, at least one user input control and a service module circuit board. The main module comprises a main module circuit board. The service module circuit board and the main module circuit board include complementary rigid couplers that connect independently of a cable there between when the service module is mated with the main module.
US10078993B2
A GOA substrate includes N shift register units. The first stage shift register unit outputs a scan signal pulse based on a first clock signal and a start signal. The last stage shift register unit outputs a scan signal pulse based on Mth clock signal and the start signal. The start signal has a pulse width starting from a falling edge of the Mth clock signal of the last stage shift register unit when scanning a first frame, and ending at a rising edge of the first clock signal of the first stage shift register unit when scanning a second frame. Since the first and last shift register units are used to drive a scan signal pulse based on the start signal, the present invention reduces the number of wires needed to transmit start signals and simplifies the complexity of the layout design.
US10078988B2
A display apparatus, a display control apparatus, and a display method are disclosed. The display apparatus includes data receiving unit receiving data; driving mode unit receiving dyschromatopsia information and determining a general driving mode or a dyschromatopsia correction driving mode; data converting unit generating corrected data by converting the data based on the dyschromatopsia information; memory storing a reference grayscale for general driving mode and at least one correction grayscales for dyschromatopsia correction driving mode; data signal output unit selecting a grayscale based on the dyschromatopsia information from among the reference grayscale or the at least one correction grayscales; and outputting a data signal corresponding to the data or the corrected data based on the selected grayscale, and a light emissive device receiving the data signal to emit light with a corresponding brightness.
US10078982B2
An apparatus to determine a driving voltage includes: a color coordinate value comparator to measure a color coordinate value of an organic light-emitting display apparatus, to calculate a difference value between the measured color coordinate value and a fiducial color coordinate value, and to compare the calculated difference value with a first critical value; a voltage level changer to increase an absolute value of a driving voltage applied to each pixel of the organic light-emitting display apparatus when the difference value is greater than or equal to the first critical value; and a voltage level determiner to determine a level of the driving voltage at a point of time when the difference value is calculated as a final level of a driving voltage, when the difference value is less than the first critical value.
US10078978B2
A display device includes: a display panel including a plurality of pixels; a data compressor compressing first line data received from the outside to generate first compressed data, compressing differential data between the first line data and second line data, which are the previous line data of the first line data, to generate second compressed data, and selectively outputting any one of the first and second compressed data; and a source driver decompressing the compressed data output from the data compressor to reconstruct the first line data and supplying data signals corresponding to the reconstructed first line data to the plurality of pixels.
US10078973B2
Surgical simulators and methods associated with the same are provided. In one aspect, a surgical simulator includes a rib cage including a plurality of ribs, internal tissue positionable within the rib cage, and external tissue adapted to cover at least a portion of the rib cage. In another aspect, a method of manufacturing a surgical simulator includes forming a rib cage including a plurality of ribs, positioning internal tissue within the rib cage, and at least partially covering the rib cage with external tissue. In a further aspect, a method of modifying biologic tissue for use with a surgical simulator is provided.
US10078972B2
A twelve-piece tangram puzzle set is disclosed. The twelve-piece tangram puzzle set includes twelve pieces, the twelve pieces being formed in such a manner that an equilateral triangle is formed as a basic frame and is bisected into right-angled triangles by a first cutting line, second cutting lines, horizontal cutting lines and vertical cutting lines, and equiangular cutting lines so as to be divided into respective pieces 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, such that triangles (pieces 1, 3, 7, 9, 11) are symmetrical to triangles (pieces 2, 4, 8, 10, 12), and a trapezoidal quadrangle (piece 5) is symmetrical to a trapezoidal quadrangle (piece 6) based on the first cutting line.
US10078966B2
A driver assistance apparatus in a vehicle, the driving assistance apparatus including a sensor unit configured to sense a surrounding of the vehicle; an alarm unit on the vehicle configured to output an alarm outside of the vehicle; a transceiver configured to provide wireless communication; and a processor configured to detect a person included in the sensed surrounding of the vehicle is in an alarm situation, control the transceiver to transmit an alarm signal to a mobile terminal of the person to inform the person he or she is in the alarm situation in response to a successful attempt to communicate with the mobile terminal of the person, and output an alarm via the alarm unit towards the person to inform the person he or she is in the alarm situation in response to an unsuccessful attempt to communicate with the mobile terminal of the person.
US10078964B2
In at least some examples, a control center, which provides remote driving assistance service, may be configured to receive traffic data from sensors and to identify an area of congested traffic, based on the received traffic data, within a predetermined range of the sensors. When the control center receives a request for the remote driving assistance service, from a vehicle within the predetermined range of the sensor, the control center may generate and transmit remote driving commands to the vehicle.
US10078961B2
A traffic-infrastructure unit and a method for operating a traffic-infrastructure unit encompassing a signal source, the method having a step of detecting at least one vehicle, a step of detecting at least one further road user, a step of determining a danger potential for the at least one further road user due to the at least one vehicle, and a step of operating the traffic-infrastructure unit as a function of the determined danger potential.
US10078957B2
A portable device including a gesture recognizer module for automatically detecting a specific sequence of gestures is described. The portable device may be used to detect a health, safety, or security related event. The portable device may further include an emergency event module for automatically determining whether the sequence of gestures corresponds to an emergency event. The portable device may further include a proximity detection module for automatically determining whether a mobile device corresponding to a user listed as an emergency contact is in a state of proximity to the portable device. The portable device may further include a notification module for automatically transmitting a message, indicating the emergency event, to the user of the mobile device determined to be in the state of proximity.
US10078952B2
A bed check device having a force sensing resistor; a resistor divider; a microprocessor; an analog to digital converter; a power supply; a wireless transmitter; and an antenna wherein the force sensing resistor is in mechanical contact with a bed, such that a change in force to the bed corresponds to a change in its resistance and voltage, which is analyzed and acted upon by the resistor divider, microprocessor, analog to digital converter, power supply, wireless transmitter, and antenna.
US10078943B2
Method for synchronizing a non-symmetrical tonal pattern in a wireless alerting system involves receiving at a plurality of alerting devices a beacon message. The beacon message is used at the alerting devices to synchronously generate a synchronization pulse signal comprised of a plurality of synchronization pulses which are periodic in accordance with a predetermined synchronization pulse interval. A cadence section indicator (CSI) in the beacon message is used in combination with the synchronization pulse signal to determine a portion of an alarm cadence to sound at each of the alerting device so that the alarm cadence is synchronized among the plurality of the alerting devices.
US10078941B2
A casino gaming system includes gaming machines which are configured to accept and read tickets. The ticket may comprise cash-value tickets or non-cash value/promotional tickets. The tickets may also include secondary feature triggering indicia. The player may present the cash-value ticket having a feature triggering indicia or a non-cash value/promotional ticket to a gaming machine, such as by inserting it into a media reader such as a bill acceptor. Associated monetary value or non-monetary credits may be credited to the machine. In addition, if the ticket includes a feature triggering indicia, when such an indicia is detected, the gaming machine preferably triggers or initiates the feature.
US10078929B1
A wireless transmission system used for a self-locking lock box has a first transmission unit received in a first insert hole of a door frame, and a self-locking lock box secured at a door plank. The self-locking lock box is provided therein with a square bolt able to eject out of the lock box, and the square bolt is connected with a control pin and has its front end fixed with a second transmission unit. By so designing, when a user closes the door plank, the control pin will be pressed by the door frame and release the square bolt to make the square bolt eject out of the self-locking lock box and get into the first insert hole of the door frame, thus enabling the first transmission unit to approach the second transmission unit for elevating transmission efficiency.
US10078924B2
A system to manage the routine maintenance of a vehicle incorporated in a vehicle-share system is presented herein. The maintenance management system includes a vehicle having a vehicle sensor, vehicle communication platform (VCP), and remote entity. The VCP is located within the vehicle and communicates with the vehicle sensor. The VCP is configured to generate and communicate a data transmission. The remote entity has at least one database and is configured to receive the VCP data transmission. Moreover, the VCP collaborates with the vehicle sensor to generate at least one routine maintenance notice and subsequently transmits the routine maintenance notice to the remote entity. Upon review and analysis of the routine maintenance notice, the remote entity will predict future maintenance of the vehicle and modify the vehicle registration status in the database to allow for a maintenance event.
US10078920B2
In current systems, augmented reality graphics is generated at a central broadcast facility or studio where it is combined with the video that is transmitted to subscribers. By contrast, in the described system, the studio does not generate the graphics, but transmits video together with real-time metadata to the end-user set-top device. The end-user device generates the augmented reality graphics, using the metadata to determine positional and other parameters for displaying the graphics. Shifting the generation of augmented reality graphics to the consumer level facilitates end-user customization and individualized targeting of information by a broadcaster or advertiser.
US10078918B2
An information processing apparatus configured to generate an image to be displayed on a display device including an image capturing unit includes, an image acquisition unit configured to acquire a captured image obtained by the image capturing unit, an estimation unit configured to estimate a position and an orientation of the image capturing unit based on the captured image, a first generation unit configured to generate an image of a virtual object based on the estimated position and orientation of the image capturing unit, a moving velocity acquisition unit configured to acquire a moving velocity of the image capturing unit, a second generation unit configured to generate an image representing the moving velocity, and a display control unit configured to cause the display device to display a composite image obtained by combining the image of the virtual object and the image generated by the second generation unit.
US10078907B2
Even in a case where an amount-of-reflected-light distribution of a surface is locally different, in order to measure a distance with high accuracy, at least one embodiment of a distance measurement apparatus includes an image acquisition unit configured to acquire a first captured image obtained by capturing a measurement target object onto which a measurement pattern is projected, and a second captured image obtained by capturing the measurement target object irradiated with approximately uniform illumination, a smoothing filter determination unit configured to, based on the second captured image, determine a smoothing filter to be applied to the first captured image, a smoothing filter application unit configured to apply the smoothing filter determined by the smoothing filter determination unit to the first captured image, and a measurement unit configured to measure a distance from the measurement target object based on the first captured image to which the smoothing filter is applied.
US10078905B2
A method for processing of motion images based on a first set of motion image frames for a first eye view and at least one image frame for a second eye view. One embodiment of the method can include: identifying an object in a first image frame from the first eye view at a given time t; using a planar tracker, generating a homography relating to apparent movement of the object between the first image frame from the first eye view at the given time to a first image frame from the second eye view at a similar time t′; and using the homography to enhance processing of image(s) in the first and/or the second eye view. Thus, the homography can be used to define the relationship between two views taken at a similar time from two different locations.
US10078900B2
A method of providing display articulation support to a main processor of a computing device is disclosed. The method may include receiving display articulation data from a sensor at a sensor controller. The method may also include formatting, via the sensor controller, the display articulation data. The method may also include providing, via a single channel interface between the sensor controller and the main processor, the display articulation data to an operating system executed by the main processor. The method may also include communicating, via a driver executed by the operating system, the display articulation data to an application executed by the operating system.
US10078891B1
A quality assurance system for radiation therapy equipment includes an image capturing unit installed on radiation therapy equipment and capturing an image of an indicating part indicating an operational state of the radiation therapy equipment, an image processing unit extracting an edge of the indicating part in image captured by the image capturing unit, a center point extraction unit extracting a center point with respect to the edge, and a quality evaluation unit evaluating quality of the radiation therapy equipment by tracking movement of the center point.
US10078889B2
The disclosure relates to a system and method for generating an image by the following steps: obtaining a first image and a second image relating to a subject; obtaining a third image of the subject by a radiology imaging technique; registering the first image and the second image to obtain a first element; calibrating the third image to obtain a second element based on the first element; calibrating the second image based on the second element.
US10078885B2
During an analysis technique, a three-dimensional (3D) image of a portion of an individual is transformed to facilitate accurate determination of detailed annotation of an anatomical structure (such as: specifying the size of the anatomical structure based on annotation markers, an orientation of the anatomical structure, a direction of the anatomical structure and/or a location of the anatomical structure). In particular, in response to receiving information specifying a two-dimensional (2D) plane having an angular position in the 3D image, the 3D image is translated and rotated from an initial position and orientation so that the 2D plane is presented in an orientation parallel to a reference 2D plane of a display. Then, after information specifying the detailed annotation in the 2D plane is received, the 3D image is translated and rotated back to the initial position and orientation.
US10078884B2
Processing geographical information includes storing geographical information including a map dataset and associated context dataset in a memory. A central window subset based on the map data set and the associated context dataset is extracted from the memory. A frame window subset based on an associated context dataset that is adjacent to the central window subset is extracted from the memory. The central window subset and the frame window subset are transferred to a graphics memory.
US10078880B2
The present invention provides CPU load reduction and a method of efficient image data transfer. An image processing device, which comprises an image generating unit (203) which further comprises a plurality of processing units which process a plurality of instances of image information and in where the image generating unit (203) transfers accumulated data for each interrupt factor, comprises: data transfer units for each factor (208-212) which accept the interrupts from the image generating unit (203) for each interrupt factor and transfer the data for each interrupt factor, and notifies a CPU (207) of the interrupt when the transfer of the data to be transferred for each interrupt factor is completed; and a communication line (1) which is connected to the image generating unit (203) and the data transfer units for each factor (208-212).
US10078872B2
A system is disclosed that provides functionality for users to manage and use chat channels. This system enables admin users of the chat channel to manage channel lines, and options for channel line members to manage chat line presentity status such as hold and resume and apply controls such as transfer and forward or bridge the chat with the PSTN network. The chat channels provide a range of chat communications modes including intercom, inbound, shout-down, open, conference, and direct messaging. The intercom mode provides secure group chat for the channel line members, and the inbound mode allows non channel members to initiate secure group chat with the channel line members.
US10078871B2
A method for assessing risk associated with a driver of a vehicle includes receiving a plurality of risk variables associated with a driver, the plurality of risk variables being gathered when the driver operates the vehicle. A driver is then identified based on the plurality of risk variables, and a risk profile is developed for the driver. The development of the risk profile involves determining the risk associated with at least some of the risk variables and generating a risk index, the risk index being a collective measure of risk associated with the driver.
US10078868B1
Embodiments of the present invention assist in the development, management, and deployment of aggregated data attributes for multiple data sources. One embodiment provides a development interface that allows for elements of attributes, including filters, to be moved into a coding area in which an attribute or an attribute element is being edited. In another embodiment, the user interface presents data fields to assist in the development of filters for multiple data sources with divergent formats. The application further provides a validation interface through which users can validate attributes and trace the results returned by various elements referenced by the attributes under validation. Another embodiment provides a system for managing attributes and deploying them to various systems by creating a deployment file that is used by an attribute calculation system. In one embodiment, the attribute calculation system is a scalable system that dynamically calculates attributes for multiple data sources.
US10078867B1
A method implemented on an augmented reality electronic device includes viewing at least a portion of a financial document with the augmented reality electronic device. One or more words or phrases in a section of the financial document are identified using the augmented reality electronic device. A customer associated with the financial document is identified. An indication of the one or more words or phrases and an identification of the customer are sent to a server computer. Customized content is received from the server computer based on the one or more words or phrases and the identification of the customer. The customized content is displayed on the augmented reality electronic device.
US10078865B2
An interface mechanism in a system receives a service request for a service associated with an environment from an electronic device of an entity. In response to the service request, a control mechanism in the system identifies an environmental monitoring device within the environment, where the environmental monitoring device provides sensor data that represents an environmental condition in the environment, and the environmental monitoring device is associated with a second entity that is different from the entity and a third entity associated with the system. Moreover, the control mechanism provides, via the interface mechanism, a data request for the sensor data to the environmental monitoring device. Furthermore, in response to the data request, the interface mechanism receives the sensor data from the environmental monitoring device. Then, the control mechanism provides the service to the entity based on the environmental condition.
US10078864B2
The present disclosure is directed toward systems and methods for identifying sold indicators within for-sale groups hosted by a social networking system. For example, systems and methods described herein identify information and social networking activities associated with a sale listing to determine whether an item advertised by the sale listing has been sold. Furthermore, systems and methods can prompt a seller associated with the sale listing to take action with regard to the sale listing in response to a determination that the item advertised by the sale listing has been sold.
US10078863B2
Systems and methods are provided for augmented reality payments. An augmented reality display may include product information and/or payment information images displayed over an image of one or more real world background objects. The augmented reality display may be displayed on a display of a mobile user device such as a smartphone or tablet or on a structure of a vehicle such as a vehicle windshield. The real world background objects may include a merchant store. The product information and/or the payment information may be overlaid on the merchant store as viewed through a vehicle windshield or as viewed in an image of the merchant store captured by a camera of the user device. The user may be provided with the ability to select one or more items for purchase, make one or more payments, or execute other transactions by interacting with the augmented reality display.
US10078849B2
Merchants create ecommerce-enabled ad units advertising items offered by the merchants. The ad units contain functionality enabling customers to purchase the items by interacting with the ad units. The ad units have associated bid prices that the merchants agree to pay for sales through the ad units. The merchants provide the ad units to a broker. The broker publishes the ad units on web pages provided by publishers as comparison shop ad units that contain multiple ad units and functionality for navigating among them. A customer receiving a web page interacts with an ad unit to purchase the item. During the interactions, the broker dynamically updates the ad unit to conduct the transaction.
US10078848B2
An electronic device and a method of operating a nearby function of the electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a low-power short-range communication module configured to perform a scanning operation and to collect advertising information as a result of the scanning operation, a display module configured to display an item for performing at least one of a short range communication connection and a remote communication connection with at least one reception-side device corresponding to the collected advertising information, and a control module configured to control the scanning operation of the low-power short-range communication module and the displaying of the item for performing the at least one of the short range communication connection and the remote communication connection with the at least one reception-side device corresponding to the collected advertising information.
US10078845B2
A marketing application includes provisions (e.g., graphical user interface) for a user to create one or more surveys in connection with a marketing campaign or event, while permitting the user to access data and information maintained for such campaign or event.
US10078836B2
Systems and methods are provided for authorizing third-party access to a specific service from a service provider. In an example embodiment, a server system identifies a shared service from multiple services provided by the server system. The shared service is specified by an authorizing entity. The server system provides a credential associated with the shared service and the authorizing entity. The server system receives a request to access the shared service from a requesting entity that is separate from the authorizing entity. The server system verifies that the request includes the credential and that the credential is associated with the shared service and the authorizing entity. The server system provides access to the shared service to the requesting entity based on verifying that the request includes the credential. The requesting entity is restricted to accessing the shared service identified by the credential as authorized by the authorizing entity.
US10078825B2
An ordering system for a business includes an ordering terminal, a queue module, an order execution module, and an agent. The ordering terminal receives a first order from a first person. The queue module stores data representing the first order. The order execution module conveys the first order to the point of sale terminal. The agent is installed on a point of sale terminal and selectively sends user interface events to a point of sale application executing on the point of sale terminal. The order execution module conveys the first order to the point of sale terminal by (i) retrieving the data representing the first order from the queue module and (ii) instructing the agent to send user interface events according to the retrieved data.
US10078808B1
Delivery area guidance may be provided to an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) delivering a package to a customer. For example, a UAV may be programmed to fly to a delivery area. When the UAV approaches the delivery area, the UAV may send a signal that it has a package for the customer. A delivery area guidance (DAG) device associated with the customer may receive the signal and project a visible landing marker to guide the UAV to a designated delivery location. The DAG device may monitor motion near the designated delivery location, indicate existence of obstacles, and/or notify inhabitance of the approach of the UAV and/or receipt of the package.
US10078804B2
Customer management for an establishment involves operating a server that hosts system software and interacts with various computing devices over internet and wireless network gateway connections. The server communicates with devices at the establishment and customer computing devices in real-time, providing system performance updates, text messaging communications to the customer regarding table availability and marketing information and synchronizing the information communicated within the system. A computer user interface at the establishment communicates with the server and allows an establishment host to capture and transmit customer information to the server and make of the server processing requests that can include sending text message alert notifications to a customer mobile device informing of an available table and providing marketing messages. A secondary device, operated by a waiter of the establishment, communicates with the computing devices of the system and can receive communications, such as customer attention requests, from the customer mobile device.
US10078797B1
A stem ejectable component assembly for electronic devices does not use a pin or needle to eject the tray holder. The assembly includes a receiving housing coupled to a SIM/MMC tray, a front plate, and a stem. The front plate incorporates slider pins that slide out to engage with recesses in the support frame of the electronic device to lock the assembly. The slider pins have inner ends that abut the stem and hold the stem in a pushed-in position. The slider pins also incorporate profiled protrusions that engage with ball pins fixed to the receiving housing. When the front plate is pushed inward, the profiled protrusions cause the slider pins to move outwards and release the stem to project out of the front plate. Pulling the stem causes the slider pins to slide in and disengage from the recesses in the support frame to enable withdrawal of the assembly.
US10078785B2
A sound source separation method comprising the steps of determining at least one location of at least one sound source based on video data, determining initial estimates of at least two parameters characterizing an audio signal emitted by said sound source, said initial estimates being determined based on said at least one location, performing an expectation-maximization method for determining final estimates of said parameters, and separating the audio signal from a combination of audio signals based on said final estimates of said parameters.
US10078768B2
A card validator or, more generally, a combined reader includes a plurality of readers for validating a corresponding plurality of card and document types. The validator or combined reader includes the housing containing the plurality of readers wherein the readers are independent from each other and spaced at different locations within the housing and disposed therein to read cards presented to the card validator or combined reader at a single target area. The housing is configured to direct a user presentation for the provided card at the signal target area. Each of the individual readers is modular within the housing and is disposed within a modular reception location therein for facilitating performance certification of the modular readers therein separately from certification of the entire multi-card validator system.
US10078767B2
An RFID system for selectively communicating with a targeted transponder from among a group of multiple adjacent transponders is provided. The RFID system may include a transponder conveyance system adapted to transport at least one targeted transponder from a group of multiple adjacent transponders through a transponder encoding area along a feeding direction and an antenna having a resonant inductor and a ferrite material, wherein the ferrite material at least partially covers the resonant inductor and defines an exposed portion of the resonant inductor. In one antenna-transponder alignment, the exposed portion extends substantially parallel to the feeding direction.
US10078765B2
The invention provides multiple methods and devices for processing a stolen terminal. Therein, a method for processing a stolen terminal comprises: receiving a state modification message from a sending party, wherein the state modification message carries the current state of the terminal; and in a case where the state modification message is legal, forwarding the state modification message to a server, so that the server modifies the state information of the terminal stored in the server to be the current state according to the state modification message. By employing embodiments of the invention, the state information of a terminal can be modified, which solves the problem in the prior art that other identification cannot be provided to indicate whether the terminal is stolen or not, and can achieve the beneficial effects of increasing the probability of recovering a stolen terminal and effectively curbing the stealing acts.
US10078762B1
The disclosed computer-implemented method for digitally enforcing computer parental controls may include (i) identifying a parental-control policy that controls a user's computer usage in some way, (ii) determining that the user is using a primary device, which is configured to restrict its usage according to the terms of the parental-control policy, to access a secondary device, which is not configured to restrict its usage according to the terms of the parental-control policy, and (iii) restricting, in response to the determination, the user's access to the secondary device according to the terms of the parental-control policy. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US10078759B1
In certain embodiments, a data structure including first and second data structure portions may be obtained, where the first data structure portion is generated based on a first cryptographic scheme, and the second data structure portion is generated based on a second cryptographic scheme. The data structure may be processed to determine the first cryptographic scheme for extracting data from the first data structure portion and the second cryptographic scheme for extracting data from the second data structure portion. In some embodiments, a computer program may use the first cryptographic scheme to decrypt the first data structure portion to extract the first information from the first data structure portion, and the same computer program may use the second cryptographic scheme to decrypt the second data structure portion to extract the second information from the second data structure portion.
US10078754B1
Techniques for providing cryptographic keys for encrypted system volumes on machine instances in virtualized and/or distributed systems are described herein. At a time after detecting the requirement for a cryptographic key by a virtual machine instance, one or more computer system entities within a computer system invoke one or more computer system capabilities at least to create one or more virtual hardware devices capable of representing or providing appropriate cryptographic keys. The virtual hardware devices are connected to the machine instance under the control of the computer system so that the encrypted system volumes may be used. After the cryptographic key is no longer needed, it is detached from the machine instance.
US10078751B2
A computer device includes hardware with a connected peripheral device such as a camera or a microphone. An operating system is configured to operate the peripheral device using a device driver and a representative device object. An agent is configured to apply security attributes to the device object which permit access from a primary user account while preventing direct access to the device object by a secondary user account in a sandbox. The agent may intercept requests made toward the device object, examine each request, and then satisfy the request, when the request is allowed, by selectively arranging access to the device object from the sandboxed secondary user account.
US10078743B1
A method for using a user device. The method includes obtaining, during a fingerprint learning phase, a historical portion of user activity data associated with user activity of a user using the user device, analyzing, by a computer processor of the user device, the historical portion to generate a fingerprint of the user, wherein the fingerprint represents characteristics of the user activity, obtaining, during a fingerprint matching phase subsequent to the fingerprint learning phase, an ongoing portion of the user activity data, analyzing, by the computer processor and based on the fingerprint, the ongoing portion to determine a match, wherein the match is determined at a time point within the fingerprint matching phase, and unlocking, by the computer processor and in response to determining the match, a locked data item for access, therein the locked data item is stored on the user device. The locked data item is associated to the user owning, assigned to, or normally and legitimately using the user device. In one embodiment, once unlocked the data item can be used to authenticate the user associated to it, i.e., the user owning, assigned to, or normally and legitimately using the user device on which the data item is stored.
US10078739B1
A controlled environment facility resident may initiate submission of data to a controlled-environment facility management system using a resident media device, and some time thereafter, access to the resident media device may be restricted by the controlled-environment facility management system to submission of data, until the resident completes submission of all data required for the submission. A controlled-environment facility management system may present a controlled-environment facility resident a data collection task to be completed by the resident and may restrict access to the resident media device in an escalating manner, until the resident completes the data collection task. The controlled-environment facility management system may also request further data from the resident, in response to the resident submitting initial data and may again restrict access to the resident media device in an escalating manner, unßtil the resident completes submission of further data.
US10078736B2
Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between computers in content communicating, rendering, generating, hosting and/or providing systems supported by or configured with personal computing devices, servers and/or platforms. The systems interact to identify and retrieve data within or across platforms, which can be used to improve the quality of data used in processing interactions between or among processors in such systems. The disclosed systems and methods The disclosed systems and methods enable the seamless, and adaptable implementation of digital rights management technology on a client device despite variations in the version, languages, programs executing on differing linked devices. The disclosed systems and methods enable the rendering of content via encryption and decryption of the content, which protects the digital media content on the client end.
US10078733B2
An apparatus comprising a natural language processor, a mapper, a string comparator, a nutrient calculator, and a diet planning module, the diet planning module configured to generate a diet action control, the diet action control comprising instructions to operate the client device to perform a diet change recommendation on the client device, and apply the diet action control to the client device.
US10078732B2
The disclosure relates generally to methods and devices for taking care of elderly, disabled, or other dependents. The devices and methods may be useful for dependents that are not willing or able to live in an environment which has a caretaker physically present. Example devices and methods can facilitate communication between a caretaker and a dependent. Devices and methods can optionally facilitate disbursing medications remotely.
US10078728B2
An electronic device for aggregating electronic medical records, in which electronic medical records are aggregated from multiple electronic repositories and displayed as a single set of records. The multiple electronic repositories may store records for a particular patient using varying identifying/access information to facilitate anonymous access to the electronic medical records. Emergency medical services providers may be able to access medical records for a patient using the electronic device after being authenticated as a valid/licensed medical services provider.
US10078726B2
A method, image processing system and computer program product are provided for detecting an anatomical marker within an image study. In the context of a method, data elements associated with image slices of the image study of a patient are accessed. The data elements are representative of one or more characteristics of the image slices, but do not include picture elements that comprise the image slices. The method also includes reviewing the data elements associated with at least some image slices of the image study of the patient. The method further includes detecting the anatomical marker within the image study based upon a review of the data elements and identifying a subset of the image slices of the image study based upon the anatomical marker or a distance from the anatomical marker.
US10078725B2
Provided is a method of collecting and managing information relating to medical diagnostic procedures which includes collecting objective information about a plurality of procedures and subjective information about the results of those procedures. The objective information provides information about the parameters of the procedure and the patient who underwent the procedure while the subjective information includes an assessment of the quality of the results of the procedure. This information can be stored in a database. The database can be accessed and the information therein used in connection with understanding the results of past procedures and planning for future procedures.
US10078712B2
A computer-implemented method, computer program product, and computing system is provided for a digital proxy simulation of robotic hardware. In an implementation, a method may include creating a digital proxy simulation for a robotic hardware wherein the digital simulation and the robotic hardware may share a network interface. a user may be provided with an option to switch between the robotic hardware and the digital proxy simulation. The switch may be executed, upon receiving a user selection, between the robotic hardware and the digital proxy simulation, wherein executing the switch includes transferring input and output signals between the digital proxy simulation and the robotic hardware.
US10078706B2
Provided are an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, an information processing program, and a recording medium storing thereon the information processing program, which are capable of dividing and displaying a number of elements on a plurality of pages while maintaining the property that it is easy to compare elements with each other. A plurality of element groups is determined based on a classification criterion corresponding to an attribute of an element that constitutes a list, and the respective element groups are allocated to any one of a plurality of pages so that all elements included in each of the determined plurality of element groups are displayed on the same page.
US10078703B2
Various embodiments relating to searching, identifying, and sharing music being played at entities is disclosed. In one embodiment, audio samples are received from a client computing system, and one or more songs are identified as corresponding to the audio samples. For one or more identified songs, song metadata is sent to the client computing system, and a geolocation of the client computing system is identified based on the location data. Further, a list of one or more candidate entities is sent to the client computing system, wherein the one or more candidate entities are located within a selected distance from the geolocation of the client computing system. A confirmation that the one or more songs are being played at an entity selected from the plurality of candidate entities is received from the client computing system, and the one or more songs are associated with the entity in a database.
US10078701B2
A computer detects a question from a participant and determines whether the question is marked to be directed to a particular participant. If marked, the question is directed towards the particular participant, otherwise the question is transmitted to all participants of the web conference. If the computer does not detect an answer to the question from a participant, the participants are reminded of the unanswered question. If the computer detects an answer from a participant, the computer determines whether the answer has been marked by the answering participant as related to another question and answer thread. The computer moves the question and answer to the related thread if marked as related, otherwise the question and answer are saved as a new thread. The entirety of the web conference threads are then saved by the computer in an organized database.
US10078700B2
There are provided systems and method for a web address determination based on a geo-position of a user. A user may utilize a communication device at a location of an entity to be redirected to an online contact address of the entity. A server may receive a request from the communication device including a request for an online contact address for an entity at the location of the user. The server may then access the location of the user by either receiving the location of the user from the communication device or determining the location of the user by the server. Once the location of the user is accessed, the server may determine the online contact address for the entity at the location of the user. The online contact address may be transmitted to the user for display by the communication device, including display of a website for the entity.
US10078694B2
In embodiments, the present invention provides a method and system for mobile media event mediation, normalizing mobile media event information from a plurality of sources, wherein at least some of the information is represented differently in each of the plurality of sources, producing a mobile media data record from the normalized information, analyzing the mobile media data record to determine a settlement arrangement, providing at least some of the participants represented in the mobile media record with relevant information from the settlement agreement.
US10078690B2
It is provided a method for triggering an action on a second device. It comprises the steps of obtaining audio of a multimedia content presented on a first device; comparing the obtained audio with reference audio data in a database; if finding the obtained audio exists in the database containing reference audio, determining an action corresponding to the matched reference audio; and triggering the action in the second device.
US10078688B2
Systems and methods for evaluating text classifier parameters based on semantic features. An example method comprises: performing a semantico-syntactic analysis of a natural language text of a corpus of natural language texts to produce a semantic structure representing a set of semantic classes; identifying a natural language text feature to be extracted using a set of values of a plurality of feature extraction parameters; partitioning the corpus of natural language texts into a training data set comprising a first plurality of natural language texts and a validation data set comprising a second plurality of natural language texts; determining, in view of the category of the training data set, the set of values of the feature extraction parameters; validating the set of values of the feature extraction parameters using the validation data set.
US10078685B1
Data gathering and re-presentation tools provided by a service to a client organization enable data to be acquired in an automated manner from a multiplicity of systems (e.g., proprietary databases and other data storage, handling, and management systems) and then re-present the acquired data in any layout and in format in accordance with specifications provided by the client and/or third party. The tools execute routines to validate the acquired data to ensure its completeness and logical accuracy as well as enrich the data with data from other sources or data that is derived from the acquired data. The processed data is organized and transformed into specified end states and routed to appropriate recipients in the client organization.
US10078681B2
There are provided a method for operating multi-node data stores. The method performs storing a data table in a first computing node and stores an index table in a second computing node. The index table provides keys used for accessing data in the first computing node and other multi-node data stores. The method performs operations that update or read the data table accessed from the first computing node and the index table accessed from the second computing node. The operations optimizes between latency in updating or reading the data table and the index table and data consistency maintained between data entries in the data table and data entries pointed by indices in the index table.
US10078678B2
A parallel track/sector switching device and associated method is provided. The method includes identifying data replication sources and locating data replication targets associated with the data replication sources. Data replication instances associated with moving data from the data replication sources to the data replication targets are determined. A first data replication instance for moving first data from a first data replication source to a first data replication target is determined and an antenna capacity associated with the first data replication source and the first data replication target is identified. A memory to track ID map associated with a storage device of the first data replication target is identified and it is determined if a last replication slot has been allotted to the first data replication target based on the memory to track ID map.
US10078670B2
A file receiver receives an electronic structure file that includes structure-file data associated with a spatial arrangement and detects a content object for processing that includes content-object data. A file transformation engine transforms the structure-file data from the structure file into an electronic record. A rendering engine renders an image of the transformed structure-file data arranged in the spatial arrangement. An interface engine detects an input corresponding to specification of a position of a data segment. A parsing engine defines a segment-position specification indicative of the position. A template engine generates an electronic template that associates an identifier of the data segment with the segment-position specification and associates the electronic template with a template identifier. A record classifier determines that the content object corresponds to the template identifier. The parsing engine further extracts, using the segment-position specification, a portion of the content-object data that corresponds to the data segment.
US10078665B2
A new method of customized retrieval and presentation of information from a relational database is disclosed. The customization is achieved by modifying a first application for retrieval and presentation of information from a database in accordance with input provided by the user, at the time when the execution of the first application is requested by the user. The user input is solicited and gathered by a second application associated with the first application. After the user input is completed, the second application generates a script which modifies the first application. The modified first application is then executed and the requested information is retrieved and presented to the user in the form customized by the user input.
US10078664B2
A system and method for searching for and finding data across industrial time-series data is disclosed. A computer system receives a search query from a client system. The computer system accesses a database including a plurality of stored time-series data sets. For each stored time-series data set, the computer system determines whether the stored time-series data set includes one or more sections that match the received search query. In accordance with a determination that two or more of stored time-series data sets include at least one section that matches the received search query, the computer system determines whether the matching sections in each stored time-series data set have overlapping time periods. In accordance with a determination that the matching sections in each time-series data set have overlapping time periods, the computer system identifies a particular event that occurred during the overlapping time periods.
US10078660B2
Methods and systems for presenting online content elements based on information known to a service provider. One of the methods is a method for presenting online content at a communication apparatus, the communication apparatus being assigned an identifier. The method comprises: obtaining information that pertains to a profile associated with the identifier and provided by a service provider involved in assigning the identifier to the communication apparatus; determining an online content element to be presented at the communication apparatus based on the information; and causing the communication apparatus to present the online content element. Another one of the methods is a method for facilitating determination of online content to be presented at a communication apparatus. Servers for implementing the methods are also provided.
US10078648B1
In general, in one aspect, a method for managing data in a data storage system includes receiving identifiers corresponding to different respective entries of a map stored in the data storage system, with a particular identifier corresponding to a particular entry of the map, the particular entry including a computed value corresponding to a particular portion of data stored in the data storage system and metadata indicating a location where the particular portion of data is stored in the data storage system, selecting, according to a first selection criterion, at least some of the identifiers for storage in a first portion of an index, and selecting, according to a second selection criterion, at least some of the identifiers for storage in a second portion of the index.
US10078647B2
Allocating free space in a database table. Statistics associated with records in a database are received, including an average record byte size for records stored in the database table. A primary free space byte size for record updates is determined, including comparing a preliminary free space byte size to the average record byte size and a byte size of a record subjected to a database operation. Based on the primary free space byte size, free space at the page level of the database table is allocated.
US10078641B1
A method for optimizing lock detection in a change block tracker (CBT). A volume subject to the backup constantly receives writes. Therefore, it is important to divide writes that occurred before the lock and the write that occurred after the lock. The CBT is installed into kernel at the installation of the backup agent (application). The detection of changes is started at the completion of a previous snapshot. Snapshot creation request (SCR) is generated. Lock request is received by the CBT. Once the lock request is intercepted, the current changes are moved to frozen changes. The CBT processes the SCR and creates a collection of changes—i.e., snapshot with a Name. The CBT moves the current changes to the snapshot Name.
US10078639B1
A cluster file system comprises a front-end file system, a back-end file system, data mover modules arranged between the front-end and back-end file systems, and a quota manager associated with at least a given one of data mover modules. The data mover modules are configured to control archiving of data between the front-end file system and the back-end file system for respective users based at least in part on respective user quotas established by the quota manager and identifying corresponding portions of the back-end file system available to the users. The front-end file system may comprise archive directories configured for respective ones of the users, with the data mover modules being configured to archive a given file from the front-end file system in the back-end file system responsive to a link to that file being stored in a corresponding one of the archive directories of the front-end file system.
US10078632B2
An approach is provided in which an information handling system detects a multi-entity co-occurrence anomaly within a set of documents that corresponds to an amount of times that a first entity and a second entity co-occur in the set of documents. The information handling system then determines that at least one of the documents includes a title having a verb that grammatically connects the first entity to the second entity. As such, the information handling system collects document segments from the set of documents that have the first entity, the second entity, and the connecting verb. In turn, the information handling system uses the collected document segments to train a relation-based classifier.
US10078629B2
One or more table content documents (TCDs) can be constructed for a set of tabular data or portion thereof. A set of query features corresponding to a question can be matched to one or more TCDs. A respective candidate answer can be generated for each of the one or more TCDs having a set of features matching the set of query features above a threshold. Zero or more candidate answers can be output to a user consumable data object.
US10078621B2
Embodiments of the present application relate to a method and system for displaying images in a background display area of a target page. The method includes receiving a request to display a target page, wherein the target page includes a background display area and a foreground display area, determining a target image, wherein the target image includes image information associated with a product object in at least part of the order history records of the current user, and causing the target image to be displayed in the background display area.
US10078620B2
A processor includes a plurality of processing tiles, wherein each tile is configured at runtime to perforin a configurable operation. A first subset of tiles are configured to perform in a pipeline a first plurality of configurable operations in parallel. A second subset of tiles are configured to perform a second plurality of configurable operations in parallel with the first plurality of configurable operations. The process also includes a multi-port memory access module operably connected to the plurality of tiles via a data bus configured to control access to a memory and to provide data to two or more processing tiles simultaneously. The processor also includes a controller operably connected to the plurality of tiles and the multi-port memory access module via a runtime bus. The processor configures the tiles and the multi-port memory access module to execute a computation.
US10078602B2
An information processing apparatus includes: a memory device configured to store data; an arithmetic processor configured to issue a request to be transmitted to the memory device; and a memory controller including: a buffer configured to store one or more unselected requests that are issued by the arithmetic processing processor and are not selected; a history register configured to hold one or more addresses for one or more transmitted requests that have been transmitted to the memory device; and a selection unit configured to select, from the one or more unselected requests stored in the buffer, a target request to be transmitted to the memory device based on the one or more addresses stored in the history register and transmit the target request to the memory device.
US10078601B2
In an embodiment, interfacing a pipeline with two or more interfaces in a hardware processor includes providing a single pipeline in a hardware processor. The single pipeline presents at least two visible units. The single pipeline includes replicated architecturally visible structures, shared logic resources, and shared architecturally hidden structures. The method further includes receiving a request from one of a plurality of interfaces at one of the visible units. The method also includes tagging the request with an identifier based on the one of the at least two visible units that received the request. The method further includes processing the request in the single pipeline by propagating the request through the single pipeline through the replicated architecturally visible structures that correspond with the identifier.
US10078598B1
A plurality of linked lists of elements is maintained corresponding to a plurality of threads accessing a plurality of cache entries, including a first linked list corresponding to a first thread and a second linked list corresponding to a second thread. Each element of each linked list corresponds to one of the plurality of cache entries. In response to the first thread accessing a cache entry corresponding to an element of the second linked list of elements, the element corresponding to the accessed cache entry is inserted to a head of the first linked list of elements. The element corresponding to the accessed cache entry is removed from the second linked list. One or more neighboring elements that were adjacent to the removed elements are re-linked on the second linked list.
US10078581B2
A method of retiring cache lines from a response buffer array to an icache array of a processor including providing sequential addresses to the icache array and to a response buffer array during successive clock cycles, detecting a first address hitting the response buffer array during a first clock cycle, during a second clock cycle that follows the first clock cycle, performing a first zero clock retire to write a first cache line from the response buffer array to the icache array, and during the second clock cycle, bypassing a second address which is one of the sequential addresses. The second address is bypassed given the assumption that it will likely hit the response buffer array in a subsequent cycle. If the second address missed the response buffer array, the bypassed address is replayed with a slight time penalty, which is outweighed by the time savings of zero clock retires.
US10078572B1
Embodiments of the present invention provide a system, method, and program product for an abnormal timing breakpoints. A computer determines a code section, wherein the code section is part of computer code edited by a user. The computer determines an expected timeframe and an expected count for the code section, wherein the expected timeframe represents a predicted time to execute the code section, and wherein the expected execution count represent a predicted number of executions of the code section. The computer determines that an execution of the code section is abnormal based on one or more of: determining a current execution time is greater than the expected timeframe, and determining a current execution count is greater than the expected count. The computer halting the execution of the code section based on determining that the execution of the code section is abnormal and displays the abnormal code section.
US10078570B2
A method for dynamically updating database statistics and a plurality of access paths associated with at least one database table is provided. The method may include identifying at least one dynamically changing column associated with the at least one database table. The method may further include determining at least one predicate pattern associated with the identified at least one dynamically changing column. Additionally, the method may include dynamically detecting at least one range change associated with the determined at least one predicate pattern based on at least one record insert. The method may also include updating the plurality of database statistics associated with the identified at least one dynamically changing column based on the dynamically detected at least one range change. The method may further include determining at least one filter factor based on the updated plurality of database statistics associated with the identified at least one dynamically changing column.
US10078567B2
A method of implementing fault tolerance in computer memory includes translating a logical address to a first physical address for a first memory location in the computer memory. The computer memory includes redundant memory locations. A second memory location selected from the redundant memory locations is used instead of the first memory location in response to information characterizing the first memory location as faulty. Also, error correction coding (ECC) is performed at least two times on data written to the computer memory and read from the computer memory; the ECC is performed in the computer memory and outside the computer memory. Furthermore, in response to identifying a defective first pin on a memory module, an input from the defective pin is routed to a redundant second pin on the module, and an output from the second pin is routed to a destination on the memory module.
US10078549B2
Exemplary methods, apparatuses, and systems maintain hole boundary information by calculating a block attribute parity value. For example, a request is received to write to a first block of a stripe of data. A block attribute of a second block is determined. The block attribute of the second block indicates whether the second block includes written data or is a hole. A block attribute parity value is calculated based upon both the block attribute of the first block and the block attribute of the second block. The block attribute of the first block indicates the first block includes written data based upon the received request. The block attribute parity value and the data parity value are stored on one of the physical storage devices in response to the received write request. As a result, if a disk is lost, holes can be recovered using the block attribute parity value.
US10078540B2
A device receives signals over a communication medium and uses a low density parity check decoder to decode data in the signals. A number of unsatisfied parity checks are counted prior to a first decoding iteration of the low density parity check decoder on a basis of log likelihood ratios computed from the signals. An operational characteristic of the low density parity check decoder is computed based on an accumulated number of unsatisfied parity checks.
US10078539B1
A system and method according to which history events, such as airline flight or crew history events, are logged and searched. In one embodiment, sequenced information is obtained from one or more applications. In one embodiment, a user can input a single query and obtain sequenced information from new and legacy applications using the single query. In some embodiments, audit trail-like tracking of changes made to airline information is provided. In one embodiment, the system includes: a message handling system adapted to transform an event message; a message processor adapted to receive the event message and parse the event message; a database to which history data of the event message is persisted; and a query processor adapted to read airline flight or crew history event data in response to a query request, the airline flight or crew history event data comprising the history data.
US10078536B2
Building binary packages for software products, particularly large-scale software products, is a highly computation intensive process. Thus, it is desirable to distribute the workload over a large number of computing nodes so as to have the build process complete in an optimal period of time. One environment providing compute resources that can be utilized for a highly available and dynamically scalable distributed build process is an elastic compute cloud. In such an environment, virtual machines can be instantiated and destroyed as the resource requirements of the build process dictate. This has the advantage that dedicated hardware is unneeded, and excess capacity on the hardware employed can be employed for other computation tasks when the build process is idle. Presented herein are systems, methods and computer storage media for distributing a highly available and scalable build service, suitable for use in an elastic compute environment or other distributed environment.
US10078534B2
Embodiments include determining computing resources within one or more data centers onto which a virtual workload can be deployed. Network state data is determined for a plurality of network resources within a network fabric of a data center. For each of the plurality of computing resources, embodiments determine a respective suitability value describing a fitness of the respective physical server for deploying at least a portion of the virtual workload. Such a determination includes determining a respective at least one of the plurality of network resources within the at least one network fabric corresponding to the respective computing resource and determining a current workload of the at least one network resource, based on the network state data. Upon selecting one or more computing resources of the plurality of computing resources based on the determined suitability values, embodiments deploy the virtual workload onto the selected one or more computing resources.
US10078531B2
Methods, computer program products, and systems are presented. The methods include, for instance: predictively provisioning, by one or more processor, cloud computing resources of a cloud computing environment for at least one virtual machine; and initializing, by the one or more processor, the at least one virtual machine with the provisioned cloud computing resources of the cloud computing environment. In one embodiment, the predictively provisioning may include: receiving historical utilization information of multiple virtual machines of the cloud computing environment, the multiple virtual machines having similar characteristics to the at least one virtual machine; and determining the cloud computing resources for the at least one virtual machine using the historical utilization information of the multiple virtual machines. In another embodiment, the predictively may include updating a provisioning database with the historical utilization information of the multiple virtual machines of the cloud computing environment.
US10078528B2
Novel tools and techniques might provide for implementing communications between two or more virtual machines (“VMs”) and client devices coupled to one or more ports. In some embodiments, an orchestration agent running on a host computing system might configure, using a VM-to-Port driver, a physical port of the host device to establish two or more virtual ports associated with the physical port, and might map, using the VM-to-Port driver, each of two or more VMs running on the host computing system with corresponding each of the two or more virtual ports. When a client device is communicatively coupled to the physical port, the orchestration agent might map, using the VM-to-Port driver, each of the two or more VMs with one or more functions of the client device via corresponding each of the two or more virtual ports associated with the physical port to which the client device is communicatively coupled.
US10078525B2
Exposing a proprietary image backup to a hypervisor as a disk file that is bootable by the hypervisor. In one example embodiment, a method of exposing a proprietary image backup to a hypervisor as a disk file that is bootable by the hypervisor may include identifying the proprietary image backup having a proprietary format and storing an operating system, identifying a plugin file corresponding to the proprietary image backup, reconfiguring the operating system to cause the operating system to be bootable when using hardware emulated by the hypervisor, gathering operating system data from the proprietary image backup, reformatting the operating system data into a native format of the hypervisor, and booting the operating system in a virtual machine of the hypervisor.
US10078521B2
Techniques are described herein for storing and processing codes included in dictionary-encoded data. In an embodiment, for each respective code of a plurality of codes in the dictionary-encoded data: a plurality of bits from a first portion of the respective code is contiguously stored. One or more bits from a second portion of the respective code is stored in one or more slices. Each respective slice of the one or more slices stores a bit from the one or more bits with a corresponding bit position in the respective code. In another embodiment, a bit-vector is generated based on at least one slice by loading each respective bit of the plurality of bits into different respective partitions in a register at a bit position corresponding to the at least one slice. A plurality of codes may be reconstructed by combining the bit-vector with one or more other bit-vectors.
US10078520B1
Computer programs and computer-implemented techniques are described here for predicting when jobs in the queue of a batch scheduler will be completed. More specifically, various embodiments are described herein that relate to mechanisms for predicting the wait time and/or the estimated time to completion for jobs that are to be executed by a software asset management platform. For example, heuristics and algorithms could be used to discover when execution of a job is likely to begin and/or end. The estimated time to completion for a given job can be estimated by summing the expected execution time of the given job and the expected execution times of any jobs to be executed prior to the given job, while the wait time for a given job can be estimated by summing the expected execution times of any jobs to be executed prior to the given job.
US10078510B1
In general, the techniques of this disclosure describe a method that includes receiving, by a computing device, a user interaction for identifying one or more undesired features of a software program to be removed. The software program is provisioned on the computing device as a software binary. The method further including identifying, by the computing device, one or more execution paths of the software binary that implement the one or more undesired features. Identifying the one or more execution paths includes outputting an indication directing the user to interact with the one or more undesired features, generating undesired feature information of an execution log, and determining the one or more execution paths using the execution log. The method further includes removing, by the computing device, the one or more execution paths to generate a modified software binary.
US10078505B2
A method and system for partial connection of iterations during loop unrolling during compilation of a program by a compiler. Unrolled loop iterations of a loop in the program are selectively connected, including redirecting, to the head of the loop, undesirable edges of a control flow from one iteration to a next iteration of the loop. Merges on a path of hot code are removed to increase a scope for optimization of the program. The head of the loop and a start of a replicated loop body of the loop are equivalent points of the control flow. A sequence of blocks on the path of hot code, unpolluted by a control flow of a path of cold code, is extended during the compilation. Information computed by an optimizer about the hot code in a first iteration is used to further optimize a second iteration, and the loop is further unrolled.
US10078503B2
Disclosed are methods and programs for creating a prototype, the methods includes at least: receiving a selection of a first trigger, which is a condition for outputting a specific response, in a prototype execution terminal through a prototype creation interface, receiving a selection of a 1-1st response of the first trigger through the prototype creation interface, wherein the 1-1st response is an output driven by the prototype execution terminal when a trigger is generated, receiving an input of a timeline of the 1-1st response through the prototype creation interface, and firstly displaying the first trigger, the 1-1st response, and the timeline of the 1-1st response adjacent to each other through the prototype creation interface.
US10078500B2
A method for generating production code from a block diagram on a host computer is provided. A block in the block diagram has a number of input ports for receiving signals and a number of output ports for sending signals. The processor identifies a first block in the block diagram. The input signal is traced back to a second block upstream of the first block. Compliance with a optimization condition is checked, the optimization condition being fulfilled when a group of adjacent blocks has an assignment operation that affects one or more elements of the input signal while leaving at least one element of the composite variable unchanged. A combined production code is generated for the group of adjacent blocks when the optimization condition is fulfilled so that the combined production code includes write instructions for those elements of the composite variable that are affected by the assignment operation.
US10078499B2
The various implementations of the present invention are provided as a computer-based system for manipulating and displaying data. The system can be deployed as a keyword research tool configured pull keywords into the system from a variety of sources such as through various application programming interfaces (“API”), allow the user to copy and paste, import via a file format such as CSV, etc. or enter seed keywords that our system uses to find related keyword phrases from an internal database or external database via an application programming interface (“API”). The keywords are displayed to the user in groups with associated grouping blocks that will most often include blocks in the shape of an “inverted L” configuration to provide maximum utility. In the most preferred embodiments of the present invention, each keyword also comprises a plurality of associated metrics such as search volume, cost per click, competition level, etc. The grouping block is a general purpose invention that can be utilized in a variety of areas where grouping hierarchical information is required.
US10078498B2
Provided is a method, apparatus, system, and non-transitory computer readable medium for extending at least one function of a package file. A function addition method executed at a computer may include storing a package file for an application; extracting, from the package file, a file in which information about a class most initially called in response to execution of the application is set as configuration information of the application; and setting a class name of a new class to an item to which information about the most initially called class is set in the extracted file.
US10078496B2
An apparatus is presented for generating a true random number generator (TRNG). The apparatus includes a magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) device including a first layer, a second layer, and third layer, as well as a bias circuit to bias the MTJ device along with a pulse height discriminator and a time-to-amplitude convertor to generate random bit-streams. The second layer is a barrier layer with an energy barrier height in the order of 20 kT, where k is the Boltzmann constant and T is the absolute temperature. Random flipping of an orientation of magnetization of the third layer is induced by thermal fluctuations in the MTJ device.
US10078490B2
The present invention relates to a mobile device and a method for controlling the same. In particular, the present invention relates to a mobile device and a method for controlling the same, which provides response date to a voice command by variously setting a feedback scheme for providing the response data depending on the way that a user uses the mobile device.
US10078486B2
A display device is provided that includes: a display panel having data lines and gate lines on a substrate and pixels on the substrate; a data driver for driving the display panel; and a gate driver. The substrate may have a triangular shape, and the pixels of the display panel may be arranged in the shape of a triangle on the triangular substrate. The display device may be used to manufacture a multi-display device, and the multi-display device may display a continuous 3D image.
US10078470B2
A signal transfer device includes an interface and a read and write circuit. The interface has a posted write data protocol and transfers data to a memory control device that controls access to a shared memory. If a write request for writing data to the shared memory via the interface is issued, the read and write circuit acquires a write address from the write request, and puts a read request for reading data from the write address on standby until a transfer amount of write data exceeds a total size of buffers on a signal transfer path to the shared memory.
US10078467B2
A group generation unit 111 regards, as an invalid area, an area of a first storage medium in which data to be updated is stored and stores updated data in the first storage medium. A reorganization processing unit executes a process of selecting some first groups, calculating, for each of the selected first groups, the number of second storage media to be secured to store data that is stored in an area other than the invalid area of the first storage medium, securing the second storage media according to the levels of priority that are determined according to the calculated number, and transferring the data that is stored in the area other than the invalid area of the first storage medium to the second storage media. A volume management unit moves, to a second group, the first medium on which the transfer performed by the reorganization processing unit completes.
US10078458B1
A method for adaptively migrating data in solid state memory. The method includes making a first determination that a write limit of a first region of the solid state memory has been reached, and based on the first determination, allocating a second region of the solid state memory, writing a pre-migration marker to each memory location of the second region and receiving a first request to read a data fragment from a first logical address. The method further includes identifying a first memory location in the second region based on the first logical address, making a second determination that a first data fragment at the first memory location comprises a pre-migration marker, and based on the second determination, identifying a second memory location in the first region, based on the first logical address, and writing a second data fragment, retrieved from the second memory location, to the first memory location.
US10078454B2
Methods and systems for improved access to storage resources include installing a virtual storage appliance as a virtual machine on a hypervisor. The virtual storage appliance installs itself as a virtual PCI-E device and communicates with guest operating systems of the hypervisor using direct memory access via a PCI-E non-transparent bridge. The storage virtual appliance provides access to local and external storage resources with very high performance to applications running under the guest operating system, thereby overcoming performance barriers associated with native hypervisor driver models.
US10078442B2
An electronic device with a display, a touch-sensitive surface and one or more intensity sensors displays content. While a focus selector is over the content, the device detects a gesture on the touch-sensitive surface, the gesture including a first contact on the touch-sensitive surface and movement of the first contact across the touch-sensitive surface that corresponds to movement of the focus selector on the display. In response to detecting the gesture, when the contact has an intensity below a selection intensity threshold, the device scrolls the content on the display in accordance with the movement of the focus selector on the display without selecting the content. In response to detecting the gesture, when the contact has an intensity above the selection intensity threshold, the device selects at least a portion of the content in accordance with the movement of the focus selector over the content.
US10078441B2
An electronic apparatus and a method for controlling a display that displays content is provided. The method includes displaying content, detecting an input corresponding to the displayed content, determining an emotional level based on the detected input, and applying an emotional effect corresponding to the determined emotional level to the displayed content, and displaying the emotional effect on the displayed content.
US10078437B2
Methods and apparatuses are provided for multitasking with an electronic device. After operating the device in a first operational context, information is received providing the user the option to switch to operation in a second context. Responsive to user input indicating a control switch to the second context, the device may be operated in the second context. Additionally, the device can be reverted back to the first operational context after operation in the second context.
US10078434B2
The present invention relates to the field of mobile terminals and discloses a method and an apparatus for taking a screenshot of a screen of an application. An instruction is received for closing a screen of a designated application. A designated area of the screen of the designated application is captured to obtain a screenshot of the designated area. The screenshot of the designated area is saved and the screen of the designated application is closed.
US10078425B2
In various embodiments, authentication stations are distributed within a facility, particularly in spaces where mobile devices are predominantly used—e.g., a hospital's emergency department. Each such station includes a series of authentication devices. Mobile device may run applications for locating the nearest such station and, in some embodiments, pair wirelessly with the station so that authentication thereon will accord a user access to the desired resource via a mobile device.
US10078419B2
The method relates to a Universal Plug and Play AV system, which comprises a media server included in a server device having a digital interface, to which a removable storage device is coupled, a media renderer included in a display device and a control point included in a control device for controlling the server device and the display device via Universal Plug and Play AV actions. The method comprises the steps of arranging an unmount icon in the display of the control device, unmounting the storage device in case said unmount icon is operated, and providing a feedback on the display device and/or the control device after said unmount action was performed on the server device.
US10078414B2
In a graphical user interface, when a cursor is positioned over an icon or link associated with a target, the appearance of the cursor changes to present information describing or related to the target. Such information can include, for example, an excerpt of the contents of the target, and/or meta-data for the target, and/or an indication of what application or applications may be used to open the target. The information presented in the cursor can be shown in graphical form or in text form, or in a combination of both.
US10078404B2
A touch screen panel includes a first touch electrode part, a second touch electrode part, a first touch router, a second touch router and plural third touch routers. The first touch electrode part includes plural first touch units. The second touch electrode part is substantially parallel to the first touch electrode part. The second touch electrode part includes plural second touch units. The first touch router is disposed adjacent to the first touch electrode part and is connected to one of an even-numbered first touch unit and an odd-numbered first touch unit of the first touch units. The second touch router is disposed adjacent to the first touch electrode part and is connected to the other of the even-numbered first touch unit and the odd-numbered first touch unit of the first touch units. The third touch routers are connected to each of the second touch units, respectively.
US10078393B2
A touch detection device includes a substrate, a plurality of drive electrodes arranged on a plane parallel to the substrate and in a first region in which an image is displayed, and a plurality of touch detection electrodes configured to generate a capacitance between the touch detection electrodes and the drive electrodes. At least one touch detection electrode among the touch detection electrodes includes a first part arranged in the first region and a second part arranged in a second region adjacent to the first region. The drive electrodes are sequentially supplied with the first drive signal to detect a conducting body in contact with or close to the first region in a first touch detection mode, and the touch detection electrodes are supplied with a second drive signal to detect a conducting body in contact with or close to the second region in a second touch detection mode.
US10078389B2
The present disclosure provides a display device that includes a first lower film, a second lower film extended toward one side of the first lower film, and a third lower film extended toward another side of the first lower film; a first upper film, a second upper film extended toward one side of the first upper film, and a third upper film extended toward another side of the first upper film; subpixels formed between the first lower film and the first upper film; and a sealing layer formed between the first to third lower films and the first to third upper films.
US10078387B2
A system for presenting an electronic device on a display table is disclosed. The system includes a table, a processor, an electronic device, and a cable. The table includes a display screen, and the display screen is operably connected to the processor. The electronic device is disposed on the table and includes a touch screen. The cable connects the electronic device to the processor. The touch screen of the electronic device is configured to display an image that changes in response to an input to the touch screen. The display screen of the table is configured to display an image that changes in response to the input to the touch screen of the electronic device. A change in the display screen image comprises a graphical continuation of a change in the touch screen image.
US10078385B2
A method for manufacturing a laminate (60) according to the present invention includes: preparing a glass substrate (610) having a main surface (611); and forming a functional layer (660) by gravure offset printing so as to cover the main surface (611) of the glass substrate (610). The functional layer (660) includes at least one of a shatterproof layer, an anti-fingerprint layer, an antireflection layer, and an anti-glare layer, for example.
US10078364B2
Disclosed are systems and methods for optimizing power consumption of devices. The system includes monitoring module, generating module, matching module, determining module, and identifying module. The monitoring module monitors a device including program code which further includes power consuming functions. The generating module generates plurality of power patterns corresponding to the power consuming functions. The matching module matches the plurality of power patterns with pre-stored plurality of power patterns to identify one or more power patterns having maximum peak value. The determining module determines occurrence of the one or more power patterns for predefined time interval. The identifying module identifies a power consuming function corresponding to a power pattern based on the occurrence. The generating module generates recommendation for the power consuming function by suggesting changes in a code section of the power consuming function.
US10078361B2
Methods and apparatus for an inter-processor communication (IPC) link between two (or more) independently operable processors. In one aspect, the IPC protocol is based on a “shared” memory interface for run-time processing (i.e., the independently operable processors each share (either virtually or physically) a common memory interface). In another aspect, the IPC communication link is configured to support a host driven boot protocol used during a boot sequence to establish a basic communication path between the peripheral and the host processors. Various other embodiments described herein include sleep procedures (as defined separately for the host and peripheral processors), and error handling.
US10078360B2
The present invention presents an information processing apparatus capable of having a plurality of power saving states, and a method of controlling the same. The apparatus times a specific packet reception time interval, and select, based on the timed reception time interval, one of the plurality of power saving states into which to transition. If the apparatus satisfies a condition for transitioning into a power saving state, the information processing apparatus transitions to the selected power saving state.
US10078358B2
A power delivery network (PDN) including a battery, a set of regulators for generating supply voltages, and an integrated circuit (IC) including power rails configured to receive the supply voltages. The IC further includes an IC chip having a set of cores. The power rails includes a larger rail configured to provide a full range of currents, and the other smaller power rails each configured to provide lower range of currents. The IC includes multiplexers having first inputs coupled respectively to the smaller rails, second inputs coupled to the larger rail, and outputs coupled to the cores. When the smaller rail is able to supply the current needed by a core, the multiplexer is configured to couple the smaller rail to the core. When the smaller rail cannot supply the current needed by the core, the multiplexer is configured to couple the larger rail to the core.
US10078356B2
Described is an apparatus which comprises: an Intellectual Property (IP) block; control logic operable to send a first command to the IP block to cause the first IP block to enter a first power state from a second power state; and a communicating fabric coupled to the IP block and to the control logic, the communicating fabric to send multiple packets with a first header from the IP block to the control logic after the first command is processed by the IP block, wherein the multiple packets are associated with multiple registers which are identified as registers whose contents are to be saved.
US10078355B2
The invention relates to a cooling system for a computer system, said computer system comprising at least one unit such as a central processing unit (CPU) generating thermal energy and said cooling system intended for cooling the at least one processing unit and comprising a reservoir having an amount of cooling liquid, said cooling liquid intended for accumulating and transferring of thermal energy dissipated from the processing unit to the cooling liquid. The cooling system has a heat exchanging interface for providing thermal contact between the processing unit and the cooling liquid for dissipating heat from the processing unit to the cooling liquid. Different embodiments of the heat exchanging system as well as means for establishing and controlling a flow of cooling liquid and a cooling strategy constitutes the invention of the cooling system.
US10078350B2
A sealed physical button for use with a portable electronic device that effectively presents ingress of liquids. Embodiments include a button cap having flange portions that interlock with complementary flanges from a button retainer. The button cap may also include a downward oriented central post, proportioned and oriented to interface with the top surface of a button attached to a bracket. The button retainer may include an aperture sized and positioned to receive the central post of the button cap. The button retainer may rest on a shelf within the electronic device housing such that the shelf interposes the bracket and the retainer to form a rigid seal.
US10078348B1
A mobile device with display screen of more than one size includes a first portion and a second portion. The first portion includes a main screen and a first gyroscope sensor. The main screen is located on a front surface of the first portion. The second portion includes an auxiliary screen and a second gyroscope sensor. The auxiliary screen is located on a front surface of the second portion. The first and second portions are pivotally connected to each other and can be folded or unfolded. The first and second gyroscope sensors can determine the folded and unfolded states of the first and second portions so as to switch the mobile device into a single screen mode of the main screen or a dual screen mode of the main and auxiliary screens.
US10078336B2
A robotic work tool system (200) comprising a robotic work tool (100), said robotic work tool (100) comprising a position determining device (190) for determining a current position, such as through receiving satellite signals, and a navigation device (195) arranged to at least provide a compass heading, the robotic work tool (100) being configured to: determine a compass heading (CH) obtained through the navigation device (195); compare the compass heading to a true heading (TH) obtained through the position determining device (190); determine an error (e) between the true heading (TH) and the compass heading (CH); determine a robot position (XR; YR); and store the error (e) for said robot position (XR; YR) thereby generating a magnetic correction matrix.
US10078328B1
Devices and method for obtaining or providing listening or detection of audio frequency modulated optical energy including, involving, utilizing, facilitating and/or providing an interface (including electronics) configured such that when operatively connected to individual or groups of elements of one or more solar arrays (or cells, photodetectors, or other optical sensor device), respectively, the interface and the solar array(s) together function, responsive to sensed audio-frequency light intensity fluctuations of an optical signal received by said solar array(s), as a remote acoustic sensor (RAS)-based device.
US10078317B2
A method is for monitoring an industrial control system. The method comprises collecting data from one or more sources external to the industrial control system; collecting data from one or more internal sources on the industrial control system; aggregating data collected from said internal sources or from said external sources; correlating said collected data by analyzing and interpreting said collected data in view of previously collected data so as to monitor the security of the industrial control system. An apparatus is for performing the method.
US10078316B2
A method of configuring actual Intelligent Electronic Devices (IEDs) into a substation automation system (SAS) of a power system that runs a substation process. An IED data repository stores IED information including a plurality of logical node classes (LNs), where each LN includes a plurality of data objects as LN type definitions that represent at least bay level functions including control and monitoring outputs from the primary devices or protecting the primary devices. Using an LN type generator, selection of LNs is performed from the plurality of LNs based on functions for implementing at least one single line diagram (selected LNs) that represents the SAS. From the selected LNs a pre-configured IED strategy is generated to represent at a first actual IED to control and automate the substation process in a format understood by the SAS. The pre-configured IED strategy is saved into the IED data repository.
US10078315B2
A system and method perform electricity and heat load balancing within a community of energy nodes. The system includes a central control device to solve an optimization problem over a planning horizon and to run an allocation algorithm. Local agent devices communicate with the central control device. Each local agent device receives input parameters from an energy node. Each energy node includes electricity generation equipment, electrical heat-generating equipment, and power transmission equipment, electricity storage equipment and thermal storage equipment. The local agent devices operate the electrical heat-generating equipment based on an allocation instruction received from the central control device. The central control device receives status information from the local agent devices to determine an amount of energy to be converted from electricity to heat by the electrical heat-generating equipment of the energy nodes, to provide the allocation instruction to the energy nodes.
US10078314B2
Method of providing functions within an industrial automation system and an industrial automation system thereof. Functions of the automation system are made available by web applications that are combined by the client during control program execution to form interlinked web applications. The functions are provided on a user interface of the client. The web applications are provided by a standard application programming interface that comprises a cross-component application programming interface for initializing and unloading application components and a component-specific application programming interface for event handling and providing component functions. Component instances are linked by an application programming interface for stipulating interactions between application components.
US10078312B2
The present invention relates to a fault-tolerant control system for a wind power plant comprising a plurality of power units, the control system comprising control means for generating a replica of essentially concurrent power unit set-point values, a data communication network for transmitting the essentially concurrent power unit set-point values to the plurality of power units and a plurality of decentralised voting means being arranged so that a decentralised voting means is assigned to each power unit, each decentralised voting means being adapted to select one power unit set-point value out of the replica of power unit set-points. The present invention further relates to an associated method.
US10078308B2
Timepiece wheel with play take-up, including a toothing, each tooth of which includes first and second half-teeth each including a part of the tooth profile, and movable with respect to each other against elastic return means, the wheel including, axially stacked, a first and a second half-wheel respectively carrying the first and second half-teeth and having limited rotational mobility with respect to each other, about the axis of this toothing, and against the elastic return means, the toothing of each half-wheel overhanging the other half-wheel, each half-wheel including hollows inside each of which is movable an opposite half-tooth, between two successive half-teeth.
US10078307B2
In a crown for a timepiece including a crown body having a recess formed therein and a decorative jewel fixed into the recess, a bonding agent is disposed between the inner side surface of the recess and the decorative jewel, and the depth dimension of the inner side surface is at least 0.5 mm.
US10078305B2
A method for retrieving phase information in a coherent diffraction imaging process includes acquiring a plurality of 3D data sets, each 3D data set corresponding to one of a plurality of time states, and reconstructing a 3D image of the object at a given time state using the 3D data set from all of the time states. Each 3D data set is acquired by: illuminating an object positioned in a first position with a coherent beam; measuring a first 2D diffraction pattern using an area detector; rotating the object around a tilt axis thereof to a second position that is different from the first position; re-illuminating the object positioned in the second position with the coherent beam; re-measuring a second 2D diffraction pattern using the area detector; and repeating the rotating, re-illuminating and re-measuring steps such that each 3D data set includes a predetermined number of diffraction patterns.
US10078302B2
An image formation apparatus includes a printer configured to perform a printing process including transporting a recording medium and printing an image on the transported recording medium, and a hardware processor which determines whether the recording medium is only one sheet to be printed, and, depending on a result thereof, changes a time at which the printing process is started. Changing the time includes causing the printer to start the printing process when a first start print time is reached in a case in which the hardware processor determines that there is only one sheet to be printed, and causing the printer to start the printing process when a second start print time later than the first start print time is reached in a case in which the hardware processor determines that there is not only one sheet to be printed.
US10078292B2
A toner cartridge including a carrier container in which one surface needed for discharge of carriers faces a toner discharge outlet, an image forming apparatus, and a method for controlling the image forming apparatus are provided. The toner cartridge includes a case, a toner container in the case so as to contain the toners; a toner outlet disposed over the case so as to discharge the container toner to the outside; and a carrier container including carriers therein such that one surface of the carrier container, through which the included carriers are discharged, is arranged to face the toner outlet.
US10078281B2
A toner having a toner particle containing a resin component, wherein the resin component contains an olefin copolymer having ester group and the like, which has a unit (1), and a unit Y2 that is at least one selected from (2) and (3), the content of the copolymer in the resin component is at least 50 mass % with respect to the total mass of the resin component, and the content of the monomer unit Y2 is 3 to 35 mass % with respect to the total mass of the copolymer; in formulas (1) to (3), R1, R2 and R4 each independently represent H or CH3, and R3 and R5 each independently represent CH3 or C2H5.
US10078277B2
An electrophotographic photosensitive member includes a conductive substrate and a photosensitive layer containing a charge generating material, a hole transport material, a quinone derivative, and a binder resin. The quinone derivative is represented by general formula (1) or (2), where R1, R2, R3, R4, and R5 each represent, independently of one another, a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group having a carbon number of at least 1 and no greater than 12, an aryl group that has a carbon number of at least 6 and no greater than 14 and that may have an alkyl group having a carbon number of at least 1 and no greater than 6, an aralkyl group having a carbon number of at least 7 and no greater than 12, or a cycloalkyl group having a carbon number of at least 3 and no greater than 10. Z represents an oxygen atom or a sulfur atom.
US10078261B2
Disclosed herein is a graft block copolymer comprising a first block polymer; the first block polymer comprising a backbone polymer and a first graft polymer; where the first graft polymer comprises a surface energy reducing moiety that comprises a halocarbon moiety, a silicon containing moiety, or a combination of a halocarbon moiety and a silicon containing moiety; a second block polymer; the second block polymer being covalently bonded to the first block; wherein the second block comprises the backbone polymer and a second graft polymer; where the second graft polymer comprises a functional group that is operative to undergo acid-catalyzed deprotection causing a change of solubility of the graft block copolymer in a developer solvent.
US10078260B2
In a phase shift mask blank comprising a transparent substrate and a phase shift film deposited thereon and having a phase shift of 150-200° with respect to sub-200 nm light, the phase shift film is composed of a silicon base material consisting of silicon, nitrogen and optionally oxygen, has a thickness of up to 70 nm, and provides a warpage change of up to 0.2 μm in a central region of a surface of the substrate before and after the deposition of the phase shift film on the substrate.
US10078257B2
The invention discloses an oscillating lens module and a projector. The oscillating lens module includes a frame, a first coil, a lens, and a second coil. The first coil and the second coil are connected to the frame and located in a magnetic field, wherein the first coil and the second coil are adapted to be electrified and to oscillate about a first axis and a second axis respectively via the magnetic field. The lens is connected to the first coil, wherein the lens is adapted to oscillate along with the first coil. An oscillation phase of the second coil is opposite to an oscillation phase of the first coil, such that forces applied on the frame by the first coil and the second coil are counterbalanced, so as to prevent the oscillating lens module from over vibrating which makes projection images shake and makes noise.
US10078250B2
A driving method for pixel is configured to drive a first pixel and a second pixel. The driving method includes that a first output gray value of the first pixel and a second output gray value of the second pixel are set according to saturation. The saturation is decided according to an input gray value. The first pixel and second pixel are driven according to the first output gray value and the second output gray value. When the saturation is within a first value range or a third value range, the difference between the first output gray value and the second output gray value is less than the difference between the first output gray value and the second output gray value, when the saturation is within a second value range. The second value range is between the first value range and the third value range.
US10078249B2
An exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure provides a liquid crystal display including: a first substrate; a first polarizer disposed above or below the first substrate and having a first polarization axis; a passivation layer disposed on a data line; a unit pixel electrode that is disposed on the data line and includes a horizontal stem and a vertical stem crossing each other and a plurality of minute branch electrodes extending from the stems; a protrusion portion disposed on the passivation layer, surrounding an edge of the unit pixel electrode, and extending in a direction that forms an acute angle with the first polarization axis; and a liquid crystal layer formed on the first substrate and including liquid crystal molecules.
US10078247B2
The present invention relates to a liquid crystal display that incorporates a particular liquid crystal composition and a sealant in which a cured form of a particular curable resin composition is used. The present invention provides a liquid crystal display that prevents reduced voltage holding ratio (VHR) and increased ionic density (ID) in the liquid crystal layer and solves the problems of display defects such as voids, alignment irregularities, and image-sticking. Liquid crystal displays according to the present invention, featuring the ability to prevent reduced voltage holding ratio (VHR) in the liquid crystal layer and reduce the occurrence of display defects such as alignment irregularities and image-sticking, are useful particularly to liquid crystal displays in the IPS and FFS modes for active matrix drive and applicable to liquid crystal displays of equipment such as liquid crystal TVs, monitors, mobile phones, and smartphones.
US10078233B2
An example device in accordance with an aspect of the present disclosure includes a first semiconductor layer disposed on a substrate, a dielectric layer disposed between the first semiconductor layer and a second semiconductor layer dissimilar from the first semiconductor layer. A capacitor is formed of at least a portion of the first semiconductor layer, the dielectric layer, and the second semiconductor layer, and is to be included in an optical waveguide resonator.
US10078229B2
A speckle reduction apparatus (300) based on Mie scattering and perturbation drive is disclosed. The speckle reduction apparatus (300) comprises an optical reflective chamber (302) having an incident-light coupling device (301) and an exiting face (303) disposed thereon, and an optical device (308) which faces the incident-light coupling device (301) of the optical reflective chamber (302). The inner walls of the optical reflective chamber (302), except for the wall of light transparent exiting face (303), are mirror surfaces. The optical reflective chamber (302) is fully filled with transparent material (401) having medium particles (402) dispersed therein, which are able to induce Mie scattering of the incident laser. Either or both of the optical reflective chamber (302) and the optical device (308) are provided with a perturbation-sensitive device. The present invention may be implemented with reasonable and compact structure, achieving the following effects: low cost, effective speckle reduction, high laser efficiency, stability, safety, and uniform light intensity.
US10078228B2
A three-dimensional imaging system relies on effective native image resolution reduction in order to provide an array of pixel clusters, or voxels, with each pixel of the voxel representing a pixel of the image from a unique viewing angle. A 16-megapixel screen having 16-pixel voxels results in a screen having an image capacity downgraded to a 1-megapixel screen capable of showing sixteen different viewing angles. The system can be set up as a rear-projection screen or as a reflective screen illuminated by a front projector. The invention is best implemented with projectors and screens that represent all colors at a single physical location, such as a 3-panel LCD color-combinant projector or a DLP projector, either single or triple chip type. When the RGB sub-pixels are non-coincident, the viewers will see color artifacts that detract from the viewing experience.
US10078223B2
A head mounted display device includes a structural frame arranged generally along a X-axis and a Y-axis for viewing along a Z-axis, the X, Y, and Z axes being mutually perpendicular. A micro-display is coupled to the structural frame, and configured to project visual content in a substantially forward direction along the Z-axis away from a user. A group of one or more optical elements with reflective optical surfaces is coupled to the structural frame and respectively positioned on a front side of the micro-display to reflectively guide a light ray bundle in a non-pupil forming optical path from the micro-display to a user's eye to provide an image to the user's eye such that the light rays of the light ray bundle entering the user's eye are essentially parallel to make the image visible to the user with varied positions of the user's pupil.
US10078219B2
Systems, devices, and methods that integrate eye tracking capability into scanning laser projector (“SLP”)-based wearable heads-up displays are described. An infrared laser diode is added to an RGB SLP and an infrared photodetector is aligned to detect reflections of the infrared light from features of the eye. A holographic optical element (“HOE”) may be used to combine visible light, infrared light, and environmental light into the user's “field of view.” The HOE may be heterogeneous and multiplexed to apply positive optical power to the visible light and zero or negative optical power to the infrared light.
US10078214B2
The invention discloses a light source module, a projection device and driving methods thereof, wherein a wavelength conversion device of the light source module has at least one wavelength conversion area for converting a blue beam provided by a blue light source into a converted beam, and the converted beam is transmitted to a wavelength selection element so that a first green beam is obtained by the wavelength selection element from at least a portion of the converted beam. According to the blue light source, a red light source, the wavelength conversion device and the wavelength selection element, the light source module provides an illumination beam corresponding to a first display mode or a second display mode.
US10078212B1
A display device, such as an electrowetting display device, includes a first support plate and an opposing second support plate. A thin film transistor (TFT) structure on the first support plate is communicatively coupled with a pixel within a pixel region between the first support plate and the second support plate. The TFT structure includes an organic layer disposed over a silicon semiconductor layer and a reflective layer disposed on the organic layer. The reflective layer extends over the organic layer to overlie the silicon semiconductor layer.
US10078211B2
An endoscope system according to the present disclosure includes an apparatus for transferring image data configured to include an image sensor which generates image data and which includes a first image terminal and a second image terminal for transferring at least a portion of the image data, and to include a first optical fiber module and a second optical fiber module which are connected with the first image terminal and the second image terminal respectively; an image data input unit configured to be connected with the apparatus for transferring image data and to transfer the image data output through the apparatus for transferring image data via a set path; and an image processing unit configured to perform an image processing for the image data transferred from the image data input unit under control of CPU.
US10078210B2
A light source apparatus includes a main unit, light source modules attachable to and detachable from the main unit, and storage mediums storing characteristic information of the light source modules. Each light source module includes at least one light source and a light connection part to be optically connected to the main unit. The main unit includes entrance parts to be optically connected to the light connection parts of the connected light source modules, a light combining unit to combine light entering the entrance parts, at least one exit part to cause light combined by the light combining unit to exit, and an exit light characteristic deriving unit to derive characteristic information of achievable exit light based on characteristic information of the light source modules stored in the storage mediums.
US10078209B1
Disclosed is an optical assembly including: a case provided with a first optical path, which passes light from a first light source, and a second optical path, which communicates with a side of the first optical path and introduces the light from a second light source into the first optical path; and a beam splitter that divides the first optical path into an irradiation area in a front side and an incident area in a rear side, maintains a traveling direction with respect to the light irradiated from the first light source, and changes the traveling direction of the light from the second light source so that the light from the second light source can travel parallel to the light irradiated from the first light source. The centerline of the irradiation area and a centerline of the incidence area are not parallel to each other.
US10078208B2
A portable telescope that takes advantage of an offset optical pathway between the objective tube and eyepiece tube that allows adjustment of the eyepiece height independent of the objective tube elevation. A user-friendly, motorized, interactive, self-calibrating portable telescope with an offset optical path.
US10078207B2
The present specification describes a novel system for dynamically modifying the magnification power of optical devices used in high performance and critical applications such as medical procedures. The present specification describes an optical imaging system having a magnification control system connected to a sensor device for enabling movement of sensor device with respect to a lens assembly of the imaging system, wherein distance between the sensor device and the lens assembly is altered to enable different levels of magnification capability.
US10078204B2
Embodiments include devices, systems and processes for using a combined confocal Raman microscope for inspecting a photo resist film material layer formed on the top surface of a layer of a substrate package, to detect border defects between regions of light exposed (e.g., cured) and unexposed (e.g., uncured) resist film material. Use of the confocal Raman microscope may provide a 3D photo-resist chemical imaging and characterization technique based on combining (1) Raman spectroscopy to identify the borders between regions of light exposed and unexposed resist along XY planes, with (2) Confocal imaging to select a Z-height of the XY planes scanned. Such detection provides fast, high resolution, non-destructive in-line inspection, and improves technical development of polymerization profiles of the resist film material.
US10078194B2
[Objective] To detect abnormalities in optical fibers by using a phenomenon specific to optical fiber tapes including plural optical fibers arranged parallel to each other and connected together intermittently. [Solution] This optical fiber tape manufacturing method involves: a step of forming connecting parts that connect together adjacent optical fibers among a plurality of optical fibers arranged parallel to each other while applying tension to the optical fibers, and thus forming an optical fiber tape in which the connecting parts are intermittently disposed; a step of reducing the tension applied to the optical fiber tape; and a step of measuring a thickness of the optical fiber tape with reduced tension from a direction parallel to a tape plane on a path of the optical fiber tape.
US10078193B2
A fiber optic enclosure assembly is disclosed herein. The assembly includes a fiber optic enclosure defining connection locations, a fiber optic cable extending from the connection locations of the fiber optic enclosure, and a covering defining a first axial end and a second axial end, the covering defining a throughhole extending from the first axial end to the second axial end, the throughhole extending along a central longitudinal axis of the covering, the covering defining a first cavity for receiving the fiber optic enclosure. A port extends from the first cavity to an outer surface of the covering, wherein the fiber optic cable extending from the connection locations can extend from the first cavity to the outer surface of the covering for wrapping around the outer surface of the covering.
US10078190B2
An optical device includes an array of optical grating couplers and a plurality of single-core fiber couplers located over a planar substrate. The optical grating couplers of the array are located to optically couple in a one-to-one manner to optical cores of a multi-core fiber or optical cable having an end located adjacent to the surface. Each single-core fiber coupler includes a planar optical waveguide connecting a corresponding one of the optical couplers of the array to an edge of the substrate.
US10078187B2
Devices and methods for connecting optical fibers are provided. In some embodiments, connectors and adaptors for two-fiber mechanical transfer type ferrules are disclosed. In some embodiments, MT connectors, such as simplex, duplex, and quad micro-MT adaptors are disclosed. In some embodiments, MT adaptors, such as simplex, duplex, and quad adaptors are disclosed. In some embodiments, optical fiber cables that modularly coupled with at least one optical fiber connector, adaptor, and other optical fiber cable using a remote release are disclosed.
US10078184B2
An imprinting method for forming an integrated optical coupling device on wafer level may include: providing a substrate, with a reflection coating disposed thereon; providing an imprinting mold, with void regions shaped according to a designed lens profile; forming a molding material on the substrate; pressing the imprinting mold on the molding material on the substrate; curing the molding material into a cured molding material; removing the imprinting mold; depositing an anti-reflection film on the cured molding material; and dicing to form an integrated optical coupling device.
US10078180B1
Linear lighting using light-emitting diode (LED) light engines is disclosed. The linear lighting includes a printed circuit board (PCB) with a number of LED light engines disposed on it. A light guide is disposed on the PCB adjacent to the LED light engines. The light guide accepts the light from the LED light engines in a first location and is arranged to emit the light at a desired position that is spaced from the first location. By lengthening the optical path, the light guide may spread the emitted light and provide a more uniform appearance for the linear lighting.
US10078169B2
A quantum tube includes a tube body, a plurality of first fluorescent particles and a plurality of second fluorescent particles. The tube body has a light incident surface, a light emitting surface, a top surface and a bottom surface. The top surface is connected between the light incident surface and the light emitting surface. The bottom surface is connected between the light incident surface and the light emitting surface. The top surface is opposite to the bottom surface. The top surface has an inclined portion. The inclined portion inclines with respect to the bottom surface by an angle. The first fluorescent particles are disposed in the tube body. The second fluorescent particles are disposed in the tube body.
US10078160B2
A variable liquid lens system is provided. The variable liquid lens system includes a lens barrel comprising a wall and first and second ends, wherein the first and second ends are substantially transparent, at least one liquid lens disposed in the lens barrel and contacting the wall, the at least one liquid lens comprising a droplet, and a plurality of spaces containing fluid positioned on opposite sides of the at least one liquid lens inside the lens barrel. A plurality of first holes are provided in the wall at a position corresponding to the plurality of spaces. The at least one liquid lens is configured so that a position of the at least one liquid lens within the lens barrel is adjustable by adjusting amounts of the fluid contained in the plurality of spaces via the plurality of first holes.
US10078149B2
Systems for locating hidden utilities including a portable locator with a dodecahedral antenna node are disclosed.
US10078144B2
The present disclosure relates to increasing the spatial resolution of a clinical positron emission tomography (PET) scanner. The spatial resolution of the clinical PET scanner can be increased by placing a collimator, including a plurality of pinholes, inside the clinical PET scanner. Coincidence data of the annihilation photons are acquired by the PET scanner. A computer associates a pinhole location with the two detected locations of the coincident photons. All three locations are then used in the reconstruction of a high-resolution PET image.
US10078143B2
A solid state photomultiplier includes at least one microcell configured to generate an initial analog signal when exposed to optical photons. The solid state photomultiplier further includes a quench circuit electrically coupled with the at least one microcell. The quench circuit includes at least one quench resistor configured to exhibit a substantially constant temperature coefficient of resistance over a selected temperature range.
US10078140B2
The invention relates to generating regional tropospheric correction information for correcting observations useful for estimating phase ambiguities and/or a position of global or regional navigation satellite systems (NSS) receiver(s). For each of a plurality of reference stations, at least one troposphere correction parameter is estimated by evaluating NSS observation equations using i) precise satellite information or the information derived from the precise satellite information, and ii) received multiple-frequency-signals-based raw observations or a linear combination thereof. The regional tropospheric correction information is then generated based on the estimated troposphere correction parameter(s) per reference station, the tropospheric correction information comprising a regional tropospheric delay function(s) and coefficients representing a tropospheric delay affecting a NSS signal passing through the troposphere in a region of interest. The generated tropospheric correction information may then be sent to NSS receiver(s) and used by the receiver(s) for example to facilitate position determination.
US10078134B2
The disclosure provides a circuit. The circuit includes a first analog to digital converter (ADC) that generates a coarse output in response to a first input and a second input. The first ADC generates the coarse output in a differential phase. A pipeline ADC generates a differential signal in response to the coarse output, the first input and the second input. The pipeline ADC generates the differential signal in a common-mode phase. The first ADC generates a common mode signal in the common-mode phase.
US10078129B2
A signal processing device (2) includes an amplifier (3), an A/D converter (4) and a signal processor (5). The amplifier (3) amplifies a sensor signal that is supplied from a radio wave sensor (1) and depends on a motion of an object. The A/D converter (4) converts the sensor signal amplified by the amplifier (3) into a digital sensor signal. The signal processor (5) converts the sensor signal output from the A/D converter (4) into a frequency-domain sensor signal by Discrete Cosine Transform processing, estimates a background signal contained in the frequency-domain sensor signal, based on an error signal obtained from the sensor signal and a reference signal which is white noise, and determines a filter coefficient according to the estimated background signal, thereby operating as an adaptive filter for removing the background signal from the sensor signal in the frequency domain.
US10078128B2
A method and apparatus are provided for detecting a RADAR signal. RADAR channel data in a frequency range is received, where the frequency range is divided into a plurality of equally wide channels. The received RADAR channel data is digitally processed and analyzed to identify a signal in the RADAR channel data in the frequency range. The frequency range is advanced to a next channel of the plurality of channels, where the frequency range of the next channel of the plurality of channels is non-sequential with the frequency range of the first channel. The steps of receiving, processing, and analyzing are repeated for the next channel of the plurality of channels.
US10078117B2
A magnetic field sensor and an associated method use one or more magnetoresistance elements driven with an AC mixing current and experiencing an AC mixing magnetic field to generate a DC voltage signal or a DC voltage signal component related to a slope of a transfer curve of the one or more magnetoresistance elements.
US10078113B1
Various example implementations are directed to circuits and methods for debugging logic circuits utilizing a data bus for communication. According to an example implementation, an apparatus includes a logic circuit configured to communicate data over a data bus according to a communication protocol. The apparatus also includes a logic analyzer circuit coupled to the data bus. The logic analyzer circuit is configured to capture, in response to a control signal, samples of data signals communicated on the data bus. The logic analyzer circuit determines respective pairs of start and end positions of the data transactions in the captured samples. The logic analyzer circuit outputs the samples of the data signals and a set of metadata including the determined pairs of start and end positions of data transactions in the samples.
US10078109B2
The enhanced dynamic range RF pulse measurement system accepts an RF source for spectral analysis. The system includes an RF splitter accepting the RF source under analysis as input. The split output connects to identical precision timing insertion units (TIU) 1 and 2, each time tagging its respective RF signal stream. TIU 1 feeds a first real-time spectrum analyzer (RSA 1) set for strong signals at an exemplary −3.00 dBm reference level. TIU 2 feeds a second real-time spectrum analyzer (RSA 2) set for weak signals at an exemplary −15.00 dBm reference level. Outputs of RSA 1 and RSA 2 are then fed to a multi-channel recorder which records the respective time tagged RF signal streams. For each signal stream real-time PDW processing is performed. Output of the recorder feeds a workstation that for any given time tag selects and processes the channel having the highest quality signal.
US10078108B2
The present disclosure provides test structures, fabrication methods thereof and test methods thereof. An exemplary test structure includes a substrate having a to-be-tested region having at least one fin and a peripheral region having at least one fin surrounding the to-be-tested region; an insulation layer covering portions of side surfaces of the fins; at least one first gate structure covering side and top surfaces of the fin in the to-be-tested region; second gate structures covering side and top surfaces of the fins in the peripheral region; source/drain regions formed in portions of the fins between adjacent second gate structures and portions of the fins between the first gate structure and adjacent second gate structures; and a plurality of first conductive structures formed between adjacent second gate structures in the peripheral region. The plurality of first conductive structures cross over and are on source/drain regions of at least two fins.
US10078107B2
Three reference resistors of the same resistance and a test structure are connected in a circuit having a Wheatstone Bride design. The circuit is electrically coupled between an input and ground. A voltage applied at the input resulting in an electrical characteristic difference between two midpoints of the circuit indicates the need for corrective action with respect to a design of the test structure for either OPC or etch bias.
US10078087B2
This invention relates to electrophysiological assays that measure sodium conductance activity of a delta human epithelial sodium channel (ENaC) in the presence and absence of delta hENaC enhancers. Also, the invention generally relates to assays for identifying compounds that enhance the activity of delta hENaC, especially in an oocyte expression system. These compounds have potential application in modulating (enhancing) salty taste perception.
US10078084B2
Methods are provided for detecting and quantifying the Mesothelin protein (MSLN) in biological samples that have been fixed in formalin using Selected Reaction Monitoring (SRM)/Multiple Reaction Monitoring (MRM) mass spectrometry. The biological sample may be, for example, tissues and cells treated with formaldehyde containing agents/fixatives including formalin-fixed tissue/cells, formalin-fixed/paraffin embedded (FFPE) tissue/cells, FFPE tissue blocks and cells from those blocks, and tissue culture cells that have been formalin fixed and or paraffin embedded. A protein sample is prepared from the biological sample and the MSLN protein is quantitated by SRM/MRM mass spectrometry by quantitating one or more MSLN fragment peptides in the protein sample.
US10078077B2
An apparatus for automated determining of at least two different process parameters of a process liquid of a process, especially a bioprocess, comprising: a first measuring cell, which is embodied to provide a first measurement signal dependent on a first process parameter of a first sample of the process liquid; a second measuring cell, which is embodied to provide a second measurement signal dependent on a second process parameter of a second sample of the process liquid; and a control and evaluation system, which serves for monitoring and/or controlling the process, and which is embodied to receive and to process the first and second measurement signals, especially based on the first measurement signal to determine a measured value of the first process parameter and based on the second measurement signal to determine a measured value of the second process parameter; wherein the first measurement signal and the second measurement signal serve different functions in the context of the monitoring and/or controlling of the process. The first process parameter can be a control parameter (critical process parameter, CPP), and the second process parameter can be a product quality parameter (critical quality attribute, CQA) of the process.
US10078076B2
Methods of evaluating the risk of infection after transplantation or immunosuppression in a subject are provided. Methods of determining whether a subject should be treated prophylactically with an anti-microbial agent are also provided herein. Kits for performing the methods described herein are also provided.
US10078073B2
A package comprising a body comprising a first compartment containing a first substance and a second compartment containing a second substance. The package includes a first state in which the first compartment is isolated from the second compartment such that the first substance is separated from the second substance, and a second state in which the first compartment communicates with the second compartment such that the first substance and the second substance combine.
US10078071B2
Herein is described an apparatus for adaptation to existing GC/MS systems, utilizing a splitless injector as the desorption oven with a liquid CO2 cooled low thermal mass cryo trap that eliminates the need for flash heating of volatile compounds.
US10078070B2
An analyzer, and a method and an apparatus for detecting liquid overflowing from a container that the analyzer comprises, are provided. The method according to the present invention for detecting liquid overflowing from a container in the analyzer, includes a step of judging that liquid is overflowing from at least one container if the difference between a standard deviation of absorbance of the liquid measured at a plurality of points of a container at time T1 and a standard deviation of absorbance of the liquid measured at a plurality of points in said container at time T2 is greater than a predetermined threshold value.
US10078060B2
A handheld instrument and a mobile device for x-ray fluorescence analysis has a housing and a handle, having an x-ray fluorescence measurement device by which a primary beam is directed onto a measurement surface of a measurement object through an outlet window, a detector which detects the secondary radiation emitted by the measurement surface, and a data processing device which controls a display. The outlet window on a front-side end of a first housing section and a positioning element is on the first housing section. A support element is on a further housing section, at a distance to the outlet window. The handheld instrument is aligned with respect to the measurement surface after the positioning on the measurement surface by the positioning element. The support element is positioned autonomously with respect to the measurement surface in a measurement position.
US10078049B2
Described herein is an apparatus for non-destructive testing that includes a cavity. The apparatus also includes an input element coupled with the cavity and configured to receive a laser beam and to direct the laser beam into the cavity. The apparatus additionally includes multiple output elements formed in the cavity and spaced apart along the cavity. Each output element of the multiple output elements is configured to direct a portion of the laser beam out of the cavity such that each portion of the laser beam directed out of a respective one of the multiple output elements has a substantially similar intensity.
US10078047B2
A measuring vessel in which a gas to be analyzed by spectrometry is intended to flow, the vessel being in the form of a hollow tube provided with a reflective material forming an optical-reflection layer, including a hollow tube is produced from a non-metallic material, and a removable supple optical article is applied against the internal surface of the hollow tube, the article including a supple flexible support, one face of the support being covered with a reflective metal material, the article being inserted in the tube so that the reflective metal material forms the optical-reflection layer.
US10078039B2
A filtering and ventilating mechanism is driven by motors. The filtering mechanism rotates and presses downwards so its pressing surface is against a sample container. A ventilation needle is inserted into the sample container for ventilation. A mixing mechanism is arranged below the filtering mechanism and is driven by a mixing motor. The sample container is accommodated in a seat and is driven by the mixing motor. A test tube carrying mechanism is arranged below the mixing mechanism, and has an accommodating hole for a test tube. A jacking mechanism is arranged below the mixing mechanism, and is driven by a jacking motor. When the jacking mechanism moves upwards, a jacking platform is pressed against the bottom of the test tube, so that the test tube is butted against the bottom of the sample container, and a sample preparation in the sample container is dripped into the test tube.
US10078034B2
A field device commissioning system, may include, a commissioning tool configured to communicate with a field device and a repository. The commissioning tool is configured to: determine, from a control system loop information file in the repository, if the field device is configured as an input or output device; determine, from a protocol device registration file in the repository, if the field device is a pressure transmitter; determine, from a control system loop information file in the repository, if the field device is configured in the control system to measure flow; determine, from the control system loop information file, a linearization type in the control system associated to the field device; retrieve a linearization type of the field device from the field device; and determine, using the retrieved linearization type of the field device and the determined linearization type in the control system associated to the field device, a linearization check result.
US10078033B2
The present description relates generally to methods and systems for detecting thermal aging and blackening in oxygen sensors. Thermal aging and blackening effects may be differentiated based on a monitored change in impedance in each of a pump cell and a Nernst cell of the oxygen sensor following application of an alternating voltage. In response to detection of thermal aging and/or blackening in the oxygen sensor corrective measures may be taken to ensure accurate oxygen estimation using the sensor.
US10078031B2
Compliant leak detection system. The system includes structure adapted to support at least two rows of leak detection leaves, each leak detection leaf supported by an arm pivotally attached to the structure and urged outwardly by a torsion spring into contact with a pipe wall so as to adjust for changes in pipe diameter. The leak detection leaf includes a rigid support and a flexible member such that suction from a leak will cause the flexible member to contact the pipe wall and put a drag force on the structure. An axial force transmitting drum measures the drag force to indicate presence of a leak.
US10078030B2
Embodiments of the described system are related to detecting and locating liquids. The system comprises at least one sensor tile, wherein each sensor tile includes a first plurality of conductive lines attached to a first side of a substrate and a second plurality of lines attached to a second side of a substrate. In a preferred embodiment, the first plurality of conductive lines is arranged to be offset 90 degrees with respect to the second plurality of conductive lines. The system also contains at least one processor operably connected to the first and second plurality of conductive lines by at least two multiplexer pieces. The sensor tiles, multiplexer pieces, and processor are interconnected by conductive connectors.
US10078011B2
A light sensitive circuit includes a light sensing capacitor and a driving transistor. The light sensing capacitor is configured to sense light of a predetermined one or more wavelengths. The driving transistor includes a gate electrode electrically connected to the light sensing capacitor and is configured to generate a light sensing current according to a voltage of the gate electrode in the driving transistor. A light sensing accuracy and a light sensing signal to noise ratio (SNR) of the display apparatus including a plurality of such light sensing capacitors may be improved relative to ones that do not include such light sensing capacitors.
US10078008B2
A light assembly, comprising: a base; at least one electromagnetic radiation source mounted on the base; a cover located over the base, the cover being transparent to the electromagnetic radiation produced by the electromagnetic radiation source; and at least one photo detector, optically Isolated from the at least one electromagnetic radiation source, the at least one photo detector being configured to receive electromagnetic radiation conveyed by the cover.
US10078002B2
A gas phase and a liquid phase with a specified volumetric ratio of phases in a flow and with specified flow rates are injected into a multiphase separator. During the injection gas and liquid phase volumes in the separator are determined and accumulation rates of each phase in the separator are calculated. A thermodynamic equilibrium is estimated based on a discrepancy between the phase injection rates and the calculated phase accumulation rates.
US10077991B2
A device for measuring the relative displacement between two members comprises a scale grating, an illumination source, a detector portion, and an imaging portion. The illumination source outputs diffracted light components (DLC) to the scale grating. The DLC comprises desired interfering light components comprising +1 and −1 order DLC and undesired interfering light components comprising diffraction orders that are not the +1 and −1 order DLC. The detector portion comprises at least a first array of periodically arranged optical detector sensing areas. The illumination source light diffraction grating is positioned proximate to the scale grating and oriented relative to the scale grating such that respective sets of interference fringes formed by different respective sets of interfering light components are differently rotated about the optical axis. The detector portion is oriented such that the optical detector sensing areas are aligned with interference fringes formed by the desired interfering light components.
US10077990B2
A knock pin (50) is inserted into a knock hole (54) of an electric motor case (18) to which a resolver stator (30) is fixed. The resolver stator (30) is positioned by engaging the knock pin (50) with an engagement groove (56). The resolver stator (30) includes a stop portion (58) at a position opposed to a rear end of the knock pin (50) in its insertion direction. When the knock pin (50) is about to fall off from the knock hole (54), the stop portion (58) prevents its movement, thereby preventing the falling off.
US10077987B2
A request for navigation directions for travelling from a source location to a destination location is received. Using data that was stored in a memory of a computing device prior to the request, first navigation directions for travelling from the source location to the destination location are generated, and a request for navigation directions for travelling from the source location to the destination location is transmitted to an online server. After second navigation directions for travelling from the source to the destination are received, it is determined whether a difference between the first navigation directions and the second navigation directions exceeds a threshold level. When the difference between the first navigation directions and the second directions route does not exceed the threshold level, the second navigation directions are merged into the first navigation directions.
US10077986B2
An embodiment of the present invention provides a method for storing trajectory. The method includes: mapping, based on a plurality of positions on a trajectory of an entity, the trajectory to at least one road segment in a road network; identifying an entry point and an exit point of one of the road segments, wherein the entry point is a point where the entity starts traveling along the road segment, and the exit point is a point where the entity ends traveling along the road segment; and storing data related to at least one of the entry point and the exit point, to store the road segment as a part of information of the trajectory.
US10077978B2
A sensor comprising a light component in support of a light source operable to direct a beam of light onto an imaging device having an image sensor, such as a CCD or CMOS or N-type metal-oxide-semiconductor (NMOS or Live MOS) sensor. The sensor can also comprise an imaging device positioned proximate to the light component and operable to receive the beam of light, and to convert this into an electric signal, wherein the light component and the imaging device are movable relative to one another, and wherein relative movement of the light component and the imaging device is determinable in multiple degrees of freedom. The sensor can also comprise a light deflecting module designed to deflect light from a light component onto the imaging device. The light sources and the resulting beams of light therefrom can comprise a number of different types, orientations, configurations to facilitate different measurable and determinable degrees of freedom by the sensor.
US10077977B2
This angle measurement method is a method of measuring an angle of a variable vane of an axial flow fluid machine including a vane main body which is disposed inside of a casing, and an arm which is disposed outside of the casing and rotates integrally with the vane main body, and includes: a jig mounting step of mounting a measurement jig configured to measure an angle of the vane main body on the arm in a fixed posture in a rotation direction of the arm; and a measurement step of measuring a relative angle between a predetermined angle reference surface intersecting the rotation direction of the arm and at least a portion of the measurement jig.
US10077967B1
A tactile reference attachment for releasable attachment to a sports equipment handle to provides a user with tactile biofeedback. includes a tactile reference feature that extends longitudinally along an exterior body surface and is formed with dimensions specifically tailored to harness the user's natural attributes of sensibility, proprioception, and neuromuscular memory to improve a user's accuracy. The tactile reference attachment includes a flexible primary substrate having a plurality of attachment perimeter edges, an exterior surface, an interior surface having an adhesive, a thickness of no more than 4 mm, and at least a first tactile reference indentation having a plurality of perimeter edges, an indentation width of at least 2.0 millimeters and no greater than 5.0 millimeters, an indentation depth of at least 0.5 millimeters and no greater than the indentation width, and an indentation length that is at least five times the indentation width.
US10077964B2
An archery accessory coupler and method for coupling a bow accessory to an archery bow is described. The archery accessory coupler, in one embodiment, includes an accessory support configured to support an accessory, and the coupler includes a body coupled to the accessory support. The archery accessory coupler facilitates vertical adjustment of the bow accessory relative to the bow.
US10077958B2
A firearm includes a receiver for housing a trigger mechanism. The receiver is attached to a firearm barrel, and the receiver includes a bolt carrier that is configured to reciprocate therein. The firearm includes a recoil spring that has a first end and a second end, and the first end interfaces with the bolt carrier. The recoil spring further includes a dampened portion positioned between the first and second ends. The dampened portion has a plurality of dead spring coils. The firearm also includes a spring retainer that is configured to retain the recoil spring within the firearm.
US10077955B2
A superconducting electrical machine includes at least one re-entrant end including at least two segments. The at least two segments are continuous. At least one re-entrant end may be included in a stator of the superconducting electrical machine, the stator being disposed substantially coannular with a longitudinal axis. At least one re-entrant end may also be included in a rotor of the superconducting electrical machine, the rotor being configured to rotate about a longitudinal axis. A first segment is substantially perpendicular to a plane parallel to the longitudinal axis, and a second segment is coannular with the longitudinal axis. Heat distal from rotor windings and/or stator windings encounters a thermal resistance provided by the at least two segments as the heat travels towards the rotor windings and/or stator windings.
US10077954B2
The present disclosure relates to an assembly forming a heat exchanger or part of a heat exchanger. The assembly comprises a core with at least one insert in the form of a side plate, and a header plate attached to the or each insert by at least one snap fit connection. Accordingly, the assembling process of the assembly can be facilitated, and cost of the assembly can be reduced.
US10077944B2
An apparatus having a wall configured to serve as at least part of a chamber for containing a charge fluid is provided. The wall includes a heat exchanger portion integrally formed with the wall. The heat exchanger portion includes an array of conduits passing therethrough and providing fluid communication with outside of the heat exchange portion. The heat exchange portion is configured to contribute strength to the wall to provide containment of the charge fluid.
US10077942B2
The invention relates to a device for controlling and/or regulating an annealing or heat treatment furnace (2) of a production line (1) processing metal material, which comprises the annealing or heat treatment furnace (2) and at least one measuring instrument (7, 8, 17), which detects at least one material property of a strip material (6) located in the production line (1), wherein the annealing or heat treatment furnace (2) and the at least one measuring instrument (7, 8) interact in a regulating and/or control circuit of an automated process control, which regulates and/or controls the annealing or heat treatment furnace (2) in connection with a furnace control, wherein according to the invention, a solution is created wherein an improvement of the process control over the previously known prior art can be achieved. This is achieved in that the at least one measuring instrument (7, 8) is arranged behind the annealing or heat treatment furnace (2) in the strap material processing direction (5) and detects online a measured value reproducing and/or depicting a mechanical material property of the strap material (6) and transmits said measured value to a regulating and/or control unit (18) as a data transfer signal.
US10077930B2
An air-conditioning apparatus and an air-conditioning system including a first unit including a compressor and a first heat exchanger, and a plurality of second units that each include a second heat exchanger. Each of the plurality of second units connect to the first unit via a plurality of branched pipes and a plurality of valves. The air-conditioning apparatus and air-conditioning system also include a storage unit that stores connection information indicating a relationship of connection between the plurality of second units and the plurality of branched pipes, and a control unit that detects whether the connection information includes a closed path pipe.
US10077924B2
A two-stage refrigeration apparatus includes a high-stage refrigeration cycle including a high-stage-side refrigerant circuit including a high-stage-side compressor, high-stage-side condenser, high-stage-side expansion valve, and high-stage-side evaporator connected by pipes, a low-stage refrigeration cycle including a low-stage-side refrigerant circuit including a low-stage-side compressor, low-stage-side condenser, low-stage-side receiver, low-stage-side expansion valve, and low-stage-side evaporator connected by pipes, a cascade condenser including the high-stage-side evaporator and low-stage-side condenser, a receiver heat exchanging portion configured to cool the low-stage-side receiver, and a high-stage refrigeration cycle controller configured to perform controlling so as to activate the high-stage-side compressor when estimating a low-stage-side refrigerant will reach a supercritical state while the low-stage-side compressor is defrosted on the basis of the pressure of the low-stage-side refrigerant.
US10077920B2
A fixed target solar thermal tower design is provided that utilizes a low number of collector modules (32, 172, 191), e.g. 5 to 30, mounted on solar-tracking mechanisms. The collector modules may be rotatable so as to reflect incident sunlight onto a target receiver (1200, 192) mounted on a tower (31, 171), and substantially all of the collector modules for a given tower may be located in a rectangular area that extends polewards from the tower by a distance of approximately three times the height h of the target receiver and that is approximately h wide. Each collector module may have a plurality of reflectors (42, 43, 194, 201, 202, 203) that are angled so as to reflect incident light generally towards a common point on the target receiver. Multiple such solar thermal tower plants may be collocated and ganged together to provide higher overall power output.
US10077906B2
A home cooking appliance with a side swing door is provided. The home cooking appliance includes a housing having a cooking cavity and a side swing door movable about at least one hinge between a closed position and an open position to provide access to the cooking cavity, wherein the at least one hinge includes a friction hinge configured to impede rotational motion of the side swing door, wherein the friction hinge is a variable torque friction hinge configured to provide a variable torque throughout at least a part of a range of motion in at least one of an opening direction and a closing direction of the of the side swing door.
US10077900B2
A candle holder with internal chamber includes a generally hollow main body having a candle holder along the top end, and a storage vessel positioned within the main body. The storage vessel including an opening that is removably connected to a cap. The main body is constructed from a translucent material, and the cap includes a plurality of lights, an audio unit for playing music, a lock for securing the cap onto the vessel, and an air evacuation unit for removing air from the inside of the storage vessel.
US10077897B2
A two-piece toilet with a seam and a channel at an intersection of the two toilet pieces is disclosed. An LED strip and diffuser strip are used to fill in the channel and hide seam of the intersection of the two toilet pieces. The LED strip transmits light into the channel and the light is refracted off of the channel and through the diffuser strip on the back side of the LED strip. An exterior and interior of a toilet may be lighted by the LED strip.
US10077894B2
A directionally adjustable pool light includes a lamp assembly having a body encircled by a collar. The collar includes a conical portion and the body partially defines a spherical space. The body has posts along an axis running centrally through the spherical space and is held against the conical portion by the posts. Rotating an adjusting screw accessible through the collar causes the body to rotate. A pivoting frame and adjustment nut couple the adjusting screw to the body, with the frame sliding relative to the body. LEDs are located substantially centrally in the spherical space, a trim cover is located over the collar, and a removable diffuser over the LEDs is surrounded by the collar.
US10077893B1
In various implementations, an anchoring system may include one or more anchors. An anchor may include a first coupling member, a second coupling member, and a plate. The anchor may be coupleable to other anchors and/or objects. The anchoring system may be used to secure an object to a location.
US10077890B2
A light-emitting device includes a surface-light-emitting unit, a substrate, a holding sheet, and a sealing sheet. The surface-light-emitting unit has a light-emitting surface and a non-light-emitting surface, and emits light from the light-emitting surface. The substrate has a mounting surface and a non-mounting surface provided to be flush with the light-emitting surface, and has a power source mounted on the mounting surface. The holding sheet is provided to face the non-mounting surface and the light-emitting surface provided to be flush with the non-mounting surface. The sealing sheet is disposed on the side opposite to the holding sheet with respect to the surface-light-emitting unit and the substrate, and provided to cover the surface-light-emitting unit and the power source. The light-emitting device is disposed so that the holding sheet comes to the installation surface side. With such a structure, the light-emitting device that can be stably disposed on the installation surface is provided.
US10077882B2
A light emitting device includes a light emitting element emitting light from a top surface and a side surface, and a light flux controlling member controlling distribution of light emitted therefrom. The light flux controlling member includes a rear surface, an incidence surface, and an emission surface. When opening diameter of recess is φ, maximum length of the light emitting element in plan view is L, and thickness of the light emitting element is t, diameter φ is equal to or more than twice a distance from a point where illuminance of light emitted from the side surface thereof to reach the substrate is maximum in illuminance distribution on the substrate to central axis of the light flux controlling member, and is less than “L+12t.”
US10077875B2
A light-emitting diode lamp includes an optically-transparent lens and an assembly. The lens includes a parabolic section defined about an axis and having a focus. The section includes a surface extending from the axis to a periphery of the section at a first end of the section, and a channel extending along the axis partially inside the section at a second end of the section. The assembly includes a chip and a dome. The chip is disposed in the channel at the focus of the section. The dome is disposed in the channel forming an interior space between the dome and the lens. The space is filled with an optically-transparent material having an index of refraction approximately equal to an index of refraction of the lens that eliminates or reduces effect of an optical interface between the material and the lens on direction of light emitted by the chip.
US10077871B2
The present disclosure is directed to a compressed fuel dispensing station having a compressor configured to compress a fuel source, a plurality of fuel dispensing units, at least one low pressure compressed fuel reservoir fluidly connected to the fuel compressor and the plurality of fuel dispensing units, and a plurality of high pressure compressed fuel reservoirs, wherein each high pressure compressed fuel reservoir is fluidly connected to the fuel compressor and at least one fuel dispensing unit.
US10077868B2
Devices for mounting objects on space frame truss or other structural members are provided.
US10077864B2
The present invention relates to an organic composite for thermal and/or acoustic insulation comprising an expanded polymer (A) protected against fire by a high strength polymeric flame retardant layer (B), the process for manufacturing of such composite, and the use of such composite.
US10077860B2
A fire protection sprinkler system and method of inerting a fire protection sprinkler system includes connecting an inerting system to the piping network of a fire protection sprinkler system having a piping network and at least one sprinkler head connected with the piping network. The inerting system includes an inert gas source that is adapted to supply inert gas to the piping network and an inerting gas vent assembly. The gas vent assembly has a gas vent adapted to discharge gas, a solenoid and a control. The solenoid is adapted to selectively open the gas vent and to close the gas vent. The gas vent discharges gas when the solenoid opens the gas vent and does not discharge gas when the solenoid closes the gas vent. The control is adapted to operate the solenoid in a manner that allows the gas vent to discharge gas for a limited amount of time.
US10077855B2
A liner tube for lining a pipe and pipe lining method. Liner material that includes a strength layer and felt backing layer forms the liner tube. The strength layer includes chopped strands of fiber oriented generally parallel to one another and distributed along the strength layer. The felt backing layer can be needle punched to the strength layer. Joining structure can connect opposite longitudinal edge margins of the liner material to form a tube shape. The liner tube is impregnated with a curable polymer, positioned in the pipe, and cured to form the liner. The liner stretches radially when it is positioned in the pipe. As the liner stretches, the strength layer remains fixed to the felt backing and the width of the overlapping edge margins does not decrease.
US10077854B1
Ducts manufactured by depositing one or more runs of material in a helix, a plurality of conjoined planar spirals, and a conjoined plurality of conical spirals.
US10077852B2
A guide system for securing a torpedo pre-set power cable to move within a torpedo tube is provided. The guide system includes a longitudinal keeper and a guide assembly. The longitudinal keeper secures the power cable and includes a protrusion. A channel of the guide assembly connects to a Torpedo Mount Dispenser such that the channel receives the protrusion with the keeper sliding within and along a length of the channel. An alternate channel connects to a torpedo tube land and is configured to pivot to a stowed position and a deployed position where the channel is configured to receive the protrusion of the keeper such that the keeper slides within and along a length of the channel. When using each of the channels, the power cable can move within the torpedo tube when the protrusion of the keeper with the secured power cable slides within each channel.
US10077850B2
A product may include a canister and a diaphragm may separate a control chamber within the canister. A piston may be movable in the canister between a first position and a second position in response to a pressure change in the control chamber. The piston may have a body and a skirt may extend from the body. The skirt may taper inward relative to the body as the skirt extends away from the body.
US10077845B2
A double-plate gate valve 10 is proposed which is provided for fittings of industrial plants, in particular chemical and petrochemical plants, wherein the double-plate gate valve 10 comprises a housing 11 having two shut-off plates 20a, 20b inside the housing 11 which are displaceable between an open and a closed position, wherein spring elements 25 such as disc spring packs are arranged between the shut-off plates 20a, 20b pressing the shut-off plates 20a, 20b in the closed position against sealing surfaces arranged on the housing 11 such that the entire sealing force required for sealing is provided by the spring elements 25. Furthermore are proposed a shut-off plate 20 for use in an inventive double-plate gate valve 10 as well as a method for sealing the inventive double-plate gate valve using the inventive shut-off plates.
US10077844B2
A gate valve and a seat insert for a gate valve having a valve body, which may be used for hydrocarbon well fracturing operations with a fracturing fluid, or “frac fluid”, includes a seat pocket for receipt of the seat insert and a seat, which seat insert may include a tubular member having a first and a second seat insert end face, the first and second seat insert end faces each include at least one annular seal, and the seat insert is disposed in the seat pocket with the first seat insert end face sealed against the valve body and the second seat insert end face sealed against the seat.
US10077842B2
The invention relates to a sealing ring (1) for sealing a piston rod comprising a retaining ring (2) having a circular inside diameter (M1) and a center axis (M) and comprising a plurality of sealing segments (3), which are supported in the retaining ring (2) in such a way that the sealing segments can be moved in a direction radial to the center axis (M), wherein each sealing segment (3) has a sealing surface (3a) that is oriented toward the center axis (M) and that extends in a curved manner in a circumferential direction (U) with respect to the center axis (M), and wherein each sealing segment (3) has two lateral sealing-segment guiding surfaces (3b) extending parallel to each other, wherein the sealing surface (3a) ends at one of the two sealing-segment guiding surfaces (3b) at both ends, and wherein the retaining ring (2) comprises a plurality of guiding segments (2a) arranged at a distance from each other in the circumferential direction (U), wherein each two guiding segments (2a) following each other in the circumferential direction (U) have guiding surfaces (2b, 2c) that face each other and that extend parallel to each other, said guiding surfaces being arranged at a distance from each other in such a way and being designed in such a way that, by means of the sealing-segment guiding surfaces (3b) of the sealing segment, the sealing segment (3) is guided on the two lateral guiding surfaces (2b, 2c) and is supported on the two lateral guiding surfaces in such a way that the sealing segment can be moved in the radial direction (R), wherein guiding segments (2a) and sealing segments (3) are arranged in succession in the circumferential direction (U).
US10077829B2
A strain wave gear system (10) includes first and second sets of ball bearings (80, 82) located intermediate a flange (84) and a retainer plate (88) rotatable with an output (54) and a radially oriented flat disc (74) of the input including strain relief (76). Strain relief (76) is a helical slot in a coupling (70) located radially within the wave generator (94) and the ring gear (22). The ring gear (22) is sealed by a sealing system including sealant (42) forced by a protrusion (34) of the cap (24) entering into a cavity (36) through a channel (40) into a relief volume (38) of the housing (12). The bearing (48) rotatably mounting the housing (12) to the output (54) is lubricated by a lubricating system including plungers (110) threadably received in axial bores (102) intersecting with radial bores (104) in communication with radial holes (47) of the bearing (48).
US10077827B2
A lockup apparatus for a torque converter, which has a drive plate, a driven plate and damper springs connecting the drive plate and the driven plate in a rotating direction, is provided. Each damper spring has a pair of divided parts. An equalizer plate as an intermediate member is arranged so as to slide rotatably on bearing parts of the drive plate, and supporting parts fixed to the equalizer plate are arranged between the divided parts of the damper springs. A bearing part of the drive plate has an outer peripheral surface having an arc shape with a center or a curvature which is offset from a center of an arc shape of an inner peripheral surface of the equalizer plate.
US10077823B2
The current invention discloses a multi-mode electro-mechanical variable speed transmission. The transmission includes an input shaft, an output system, planetary gear set having at least three braches each represents a co-axial rotating member, two electric machines along with the associated controllers for the electric machines, and a clutch. The first branch couples to the first electric machine with a constant speed ratio; the second branch couples to the output system with a constant speed ratio; and the third branch couples to the input shaft with a constant speed ratio; the second electric machine selectively couples to two different the branches of the planetary gear set with two different constant speed ratios, respectively. The multi-mode electro-mechanical variable speed transmission is capable of providing multiple operation modes including two electric drive modes and two power split operation modes. Different operation modes cover different speed ratio regimes and are suitable for different power requirements. At the mode switching point, the corresponding clutch or clutches is automatically synchronized. This avoids shock loads during operation mode switching. The transmission is capable of providing operations with at least a fixed output to input speed ratio.
US10077820B2
A semi-active mount structure may include a nozzle plate mounted between an insulator and a diaphragm, to divide an interior of a main case into an upper fluid chamber and a lower fluid chamber, the nozzle plate being formed with first and second fluid passages, a plunger mounted in a housing coupled to a lower surface of the diaphragm such that the plunger is vertically movable, the plunger opening or closing the second fluid passage in accordance with application of electric power to a coil, a valve spring disposed between the plunger and the housing, to apply elastic force to the plunger, the valve spring dividing a space defined between the diaphragm and the coil into an upper space and a lower space, and a valve mounted at a vent hole drilled at one side of the housing for air to be introduced into or discharged from the lower space.
US10077815B2
A one-way clutch structure includes: a pair of clutch members disposed between an output shaft and a drive shaft so as to oppose each other in an axial direction; and an engagement element interposed between these clutch members. When a rotation speed of the output shaft exceeds a rotation speed of the drive shaft, the engagement element engages with the clutch portion to connect the output shaft and the drive shaft so as to be integrally rotatable. When the rotation speed of the output shaft becomes lower than the rotation speed of the drive shaft, the engagement of the engagement elements is released to cut off connection between the output shaft and the drive shaft.
US10077814B2
A hydrodynamic machine contains a bladed primary wheel driven by a rotary shaft and a bladed secondary wheel, which together form a work chamber filled with a working medium. The machine has a pressure pump for delivering a working medium from the work chamber. The pressure pump has a first inlet, which projects into the work chamber, and has a first inlet opening which is aligned with the rotary shaft in the circumferential direction. The pressure pump has a second inlet which projects into the work chamber and has a second inlet opening which is aligned to the rotary shaft in the circumferential direction opposite to the first inlet opening. The first and second inlets are joined to a common working medium channel behind the two inlet openings. The first and second inlets extend adjacent to each other in the same flow direction separated by a separation wall.
US10077801B2
A connecting system for connecting a tensioning member to a free-space shaft may comprise an inner element having an element spherical outer surface truncated at opposite truncated ends and may include an element bore extending through the inner element and coaxial with the element spherical outer surface. The element bore may have a bore axis and a bore cross section sized and configured complementary to a shaft cross section of the free-space shaft. A retaining collar may include a collar spherical inner surface complementary to and configured to receive the element spherical outer surface, and may have opposing collar ends. The collar spherical inner surface may define a collar axis. The retaining collar may allow universal motion of the bore axis relative to the collar axis. The retaining collar may include an arching portion for connecting the tensioning member to the shaft.
US10077795B2
A nut member 10 facilitates an adjustment of the optical axis of a light, has excellent handleability, and includes a flange portion 11 to be supported by an attachment portion 6 disposed on the back side of a vehicle lamp member 1, and a leg portion 15 protruding to the front from the flange portion 11 and to be elastically deformed and fastened to the attachment portion 6, the lamp member 1 having an optical axis 100 to be adjusted by handling a screw 8 inserted into an insertion hole 22 formed over from an inside of the flange portion 11 to the leg portion 15. Before an insertion of the screw 8, a screw thread 14 of a female screw portion 13 has been formed on an inner surface of a flange insertion pass (insertion hole 22) to extend one round in a circumferential direction.
US10077794B2
A stud for mounting an enclosure having a body with a first diameter, a length, a top, and a bottom. A head is connected to the top of the cylindrical body and extends beyond an outer surface of the cylindrical body. A cylindrical extension is connected to the bottom of the cylindrical body having a second diameter less than the first diameter, and an outer surface of the cylindrical extension is threaded. The cylindrical body includes a threaded cylindrical bore having an opening in the top of the cylindrical body, and the threaded cylindrical bore extends into the cylindrical body.
US10077787B2
The invention provides an accumulator which can reduce the number of the parts of the pressure fluctuation absorption mechanism at the liquid expanding time, can simplify assembling and can reduce a cost of the parts. The accumulator has a seal holder which is provided in a bellows cap, and a plate-like seal which is retained by the seal holder. The seal holder is provided with an inward flange-like outer peripheral side engagement portion, and the seal is provided with an outward projection-like inner peripheral side engagement portion which is arranged in an outer peripheral surface of a seal main body and is made of a rubber-like elastic body engaging with the outer peripheral side engagement portion. The bellows cap moves to a position where liquid pressure and gas pressure are balanced with the seal seating on a seat surface due to difference in pressure receiving area.
US10077786B2
An inlet sieve for a self-priming floating pump features a bottom wall that is carried in a position that underlies the inlet of the self-priming floating pump at a distance therebelow with the inlet of the pump aligned with an axis that passes through the bottom wall of the sieve. A perforated outer wall of the sieve stands upward from a top side of the bottom wall and extends about the axis. The bottom wall features an outer area that spans inwardly from the perforated outer wall toward the axis, and a protuberance that bulges upwardly from the outer area to an apex of the protuberance that is situated at the axis. Water flowing inwardly toward the protuberance from different radial directions is directed smoothly upward into the inlet of the pump with minimal turbulence in order to optimize the performance of the pump.
US10077783B2
A rotation mechanism includes a casing with an upper half portion and a lower half portion; and an internal unit disposed in the casing with a rotor rotating around an axis thereof. Additionally, a bearing portion rotatably supports the rotor, and an annular seal portion seals a gap surrounding a circumferential surface of the rotor. An axial movement restricting portion includes a fitting concave portion on one of the casing and the internal unit, and a fitting convex portion to be fitted into the fitting concave portion as a pair, which restricts relative movement between the casing and the internal unit in a direction of axis. A tapered surface is formed on the fitting concave portion and the fitting convex portion and a width thereof in the direction of axis increases toward an inner circumferential side in a radial direction.
US10077782B2
A high-efficiency compressor section (10) for a gas turbine engine is disclosed. The compressor section includes a vane carrier (12) adapted to hold ring segment assemblies (16) that provide optimized blade tip gaps (28,29) during a variety of operating conditions. The ring segment assemblies include backing elements (30) and tip-facing, elements (32) urged into a preferred orientation by biasing elements (40) that maintain contact along engagement surfaces (44,46). The backing and tip-facing, elements have thermal properties sufficiently different to allow relative growth and geometric properties strategically selected to strategically form an interface gap therebetween (42) resulting in blade tip gaps that are dynamically adjusted operation.
US10077774B2
A system and method for a compressor includes a compressor connected to a condenser, a discharge line temperature sensor that outputs a discharge line temperature signal corresponding to a discharge line temperature of refrigerant leaving the compressor, and a control module connected to the discharge line temperature sensor. The control module determines a saturated condenser temperature, calculates a discharge superheat temperature based on the saturated condenser temperature and the discharge line temperature, and monitors a flood back condition of the compressor by comparing the discharge superheat temperature with a predetermined threshold. The control module increases a speed of the compressor when the discharge superheat temperature is less than or equal to the predetermined threshold.
US10077770B2
A portable air compressor includes a box and a compressor unit accommodated in the box. The compressor unit includes a main frame, a cylinder fitted with a piston body, a motor, and a transmission mechanism. The motor drives the transmission mechanism to have the piston body conduct reciprocating motion in the cylinder to produce compressed air, which is transferred to an air storage container. The cylinder and the main frame are integrally formed of plastic. The cylinder defines an exit hole communicating with an inner space thereof. A metal seat is integrally formed at the cylinder. The central hole of the metal seat communicates with the exit hole of the cylinder. A plug is urged by a compression spring to seal the central hole of the metal seat. The metal seat can endure high temperature within the cylinder to ensure air-tightness between the plug and the metal seat.
US10077766B2
A pumping cassette including a housing having at least two inlet fluid lines and at least two outlet fluid lines. At least one balancing pod within the housing and in fluid connection with the fluid paths. The balancing pod balances the flow of a first fluid and the flow of a second fluid such that the volume of the first fluid equals the volume of the second fluid. The balancing pod also includes a membrane that forms two balancing chambers. Also included in the cassette is at least two reciprocating pressure displacement membrane pumps. The pumps are within the housing and they pump the fluid from a fluid inlet to a fluid outlet line and pump the second fluid from a fluid inlet to a fluid outlet.
US10077763B2
An air-driven pump includes a source of compressed air, a vacuum source including a venturi and two pump units with structurally independent pumping elements dividing pump chambers from air chambers. A directional control valve is in communication with the source of compressed air, the vacuum source, the pump unit air chambers. The directional control valve includes two valve positions alternating communication of the source of compressed air and the vacuum source with the air chambers. A pilot valve system shifts the directional control valve between the two valve positions at end of stroke positions of the pump and includes actuators extending into the air chambers to engage the pumping elements with the air chambers contracted.
US10077757B2
A rotor blade of a wind power installation for fixing to a rotor hub and having a rotor blade longitudinal axis, including a rotor blade inner part towards the rotor hub, and a rotor blade outer part away from the rotor hub, wherein the rotor blade inner part and the rotor blade outer part are connected together by means of at least one connecting device and the connecting device includes at least one anchoring element anchored in the rotor blade outer part, at least one counterpart element anchored in the rotor blade inner part, and at least one connecting bolt which extends through the counterpart element and is fixed in the anchoring element.
US10077751B2
The invention relates to a device for determining the mass of fluid (2) discharged by an injector (13), the device comprising a housing (1) which is impermeable to fluid and which serves for storing fluid, said housing having an injector port (11) for the connection, in particular of an inlet (12), of the injector (13) and having a fluid port (8) for the infeed of fluid (2), wherein at least one pressure sensor (3) for pressure measurement is provided in the housing (1) in order, by way of an evaluation unit (17), to determine the mass of the fluid (2) in the housing (1) in a manner dependent on the determined pressure.
US10077747B2
A fuel control system includes a high pressure relief valve fluidly connected to a fuel pump outlet. The high pressure relief valve includes a closure and a nozzle. The closure has an opening and a locking notch defined by a circumferential wall. The nozzle has a base portion that is received within the opening and has a rim extending between a first surface and a second surface. The nozzle has a tab extending from the rim that is received within the locking notch.
US10077741B2
An example turbomachine assembly includes a plurality of fuel spraybars spaced about a turbine exhaust inner case of the turbomachine. At least one fuel injector assembly is associated with each of the fuel spraybars. The at least one fuel injector assembly may include a fuel nozzle having a fuel delivery conduit. The at least one fuel injector assembly includes a seal member that is biased away from the fuel nozzle in a direction. The fuel nozzle is configured to limit movement of the seal member in the direction.
US10077738B2
A method for producing a piston for an internal combustion engine may include the steps of: producing a piston main body from a first blank via a deformation process; producing a piston ring part from a second blank via at least one of a deformation process and a casting process; pre-machining the first blank and the second blank, and finish machining a welding surface of the first blank and a welding surface of the second blank; connecting the pre-machined first blank and the pre-machined second blank via a welding process to form a piston body; and performing at least one of a secondary machining and a finish machining of the piston body to produce the piston.
US10077736B2
A cylinder bore wall insulating member has a contact surface that comes in contact with a wall surface of a cylinder bore wall that forms a cylinder block of an internal combustion engine and defines a groove-like coolant passage. An internal combustion engine in which the cylinder bore wall has a uniform temperature may be obtained using the insulating member.
US10077720B2
An apparatus for controlling a gas-turbine aeroengine is configured to calculate a fuel command to supply fuel based on a calculated desired rotational speed of a low-pressure turbine calculated from an operation angle of a thrust lever installed at an aircraft cockpit pilot's seat, determines whether it is a time point for outputting a command to open/close a bleed-off valve equipped at a high-pressure compressor connected to a high-pressure turbine and to supply the fuel command based on the time point when it is determined to be the time point for outputting the command to open/close the bleed-off valve.
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The present disclosure relates generally a system for preventing relative rotation between three components. The three components include tabs and slots such that at least one first tab and at least one second tab on one component is disposed within at least one slot formed in the other two components to prevent relative rotation between any two of the three components.
