US10219440B1
The present invention includes a landscaping apparatus for inhibiting plant growth on the ground, the apparatus containing a member including an elongated strip having a longitudinal axis and sides spaced apart from the longitudinal axis, wherein the longitudinal axis and the sides are substantially within a plane containing the member when the member is substantially flat. One or more projections extend from the member and are used to fix the member to the ground by inserting the projections into the ground. In one embodiment, the projections are integrally formed with the member and the member is made from a substantially flexible material.
US10219436B2
A picking unit of a cotton harvester row unit includes a drum rotatable about an axis and a plurality of spindles for harvesting cotton. The plurality of spindles is coupled to the drum. A first drive unit rotatably drives the plurality of spindles. A second drive unit produces electrical power to drive a drive shaft. An output gear is coupled to the drive shaft, and a drum drive gear is coupled to the output gear. The drum drive gear rotatably drives the drum such that the output gear operably transfers power from the drive shaft to the drum drive gear. The drum is operably controlled independently of the plurality of spindles.
US10219430B2
Agricultural seed planting systems include a processing unit, a frame, a furrow opener coupled to the frame for opening a furrow in soil, and a sensor in communication with the processing unit and adapted to sense a characteristic associated with seed planting. The sensor may generate a signal associated with the sensed characteristic and the processing unit may receive the signal. In some aspects, the sensed characteristic may be either a soil characteristic or a seed characteristic. Information associated with the sensed characteristic can be saved in memory for future use and to assist with more effective planting in the future.
US10219427B2
A furrow closing system for an agricultural seed planter provides soil closing and soil pressing that are controlled by independent adjustable down force or pressure systems that react to a common frame element or backbone. The adjustable down force systems may be manually controlled, electronically controlled and/or part of a closed loop system. A down stop, which may also be adjustable, may be used to limit the maximum force of the adjustable down pressure systems.
US10219425B2
An air seeder includes a header including an inlet connected to a first hose through which a mixture of air and particulate matter enters the header. The header also includes a plurality of exit ports through which the mixture of air and particulate matter exit the header. Additionally, the air seeder includes a valve associated with each one of the plurality of exit ports. The valve opens and closes to regulate the flow of the mixture of air and particulate matter out of an associated exit port while also regulating a flow of purging air through the associated exit port.
US10225969B2
An electronic component supply apparatus transports a component supply tape having accommodation sections in which electronic components are accommodated and that supplies each of the electronic components accommodated in each of the accommodation sections to a component mounting apparatus. The electronic component supply apparatus includes a component depletion determining unit that determines that the electronic components are depleted in the component supply tape when a determination result of a component presence/absence determining unit is “absence” or determination results of the component presence/absence determining unit are “absence” a plurality of consecutive times; and a tape discharge processing unit that causes a component supply tape transport unit to transport the depleted component supply tape to a discharge port after a final component is picked up at a component picking-up position after the component depletion determining unit determines component depletion.
US10225966B2
A composite metal surface that looks metallic, but permits effective transmission of an electromagnetic field. The composite metal surface can be integrated into various electronic equipment, such as telephones, remote controls, battery doors, keyboards, mice, game controllers, cameras, laptops, inductive power supplies, and essentially any other electronic equipment. The composite metal surface can also be integrated into non-electrically conductive heat sinks, high permeability shielding, and polished metal non-electrically conductive surfaces.
US10225962B2
A power converter includes: a refrigerant flow channel member in which a refrigerant cooling an electronic device flows; a flat refrigerant pipe portion stacked with a power module, provided for a refrigerant cooling the power module to flow therein, and including a contact surface portion contacting the power module to exchange heat; an inlet pipe portion that is disposed at one end of the refrigerant pipe portion and through which the refrigerant flows to the refrigerant pipe portion; an outlet pipe portion that is disposed at the other end of the refrigerant pipe portion and through which the refrigerant flows from the refrigerant pipe portion; an inlet connection portion connecting the inlet pipe portion to the refrigerant flow channel member and formed of a tubular elastic member; and an outlet connection portion connecting the outlet pipe portion to the refrigerant flow channel member and formed of a tubular elastic member.
US10225959B2
A thermosiphon system includes a condenser and an evaporator fluidly coupled to the condenser by a condensate line. The evaporator includes a housing having an opening to the condensate line, a wick located in the housing, and a flow restrictor located in the housing configured to restrict flow of a working fluid from the condensate line onto a portion of the wick.
US10225958B1
Embodiments are disclosed of a server rack including a rack adapted to accommodate one or more servers, each server including one or more components. An inlet manifold is positioned in or on the rack, the inlet manifold including an embedded supply pump having an inlet and an outlet, the inlet being coupled to a main supply line and the outlet being coupled to at least one sub-loop supply line. An outlet manifold is also positioned in or on the rack, the outlet manifold including an embedded return pump having an inlet and an outlet, the pump inlet being coupled to at least one sub-loop return line and the pump outlet being coupled to a main return line. A total liquid cooling architecture is proposed for liquid cooled electronic racks and data centers.
US10225957B2
A data center liquid cooling coolant distribution system design for multiple liquid cooled racks which are arranged in multiple rows. These rows of electronic racks are positioned spaced apart from each other to form an aisle. The data center system further includes a CDU to provide cooling liquid to the electronic racks to remove heat generated from the IT components of the electronic racks. The CDU includes a set of liquid supply and return lines coupled to room manifolds arranged within the aisle. The room manifolds are coupled to rack manifolds of each electronic rack. The rack manifolds of an electronic rack are adapted to receive a cooling liquid from the CDU via the room manifolds and to exchange the heat generated from the IT components of the electronic rack.
US10225947B2
A cable support apparatus includes a flexible spine and a plurality of support members disposed along a length of the flexible spine. Each support member includes an attachment portion and a body portion. The attachment portion is secured to the flexible spine in at least two locations and cooperates therewith to define a first slot oriented in a first direction and a second slot oriented in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The body portion depends from the attachment portion, defines an interior, and includes an opening providing access to the interior. The opening is configured to permit passage of at least one cable therethrough and into the interior. The interiors of the body portions of the plurality of support members cooperate to define a longitudinal passageway extending along the flexible spine in parallel orientation relative to the flexible spine.
US10225941B2
An electronic device with a seal member is provided. The electronic device includes a tray configured to slide in and out of the electronic device, an opening, (e.g., a hole) formed at one side of the tray, for communicating outside of the electronic device, a socket disposed in the electronic device, the tray slides into or from the socket, and a seal member, disposed between the opening and the socket, for performing a waterproof and dustproof function. Various types of the seal member may be implemented.
US10225939B2
Depending on the orientation by which a breathing filter is mounted in a vehicle, water can accumulate in the breathing filter, and prevent the pressure difference between the space inside a case and the outside air from being adjusted; therefore, the vehicular layout is limited. Also, because the filter is formed in the center of the case, electronic parts cannot be installed on substrates on the upper and lower surfaces of the filter, meaning that the substrate size and the case size will increase. In addition, the costs will increase. The structure of the present invention is characterized in that breathing paths are provided on the surfaces sandwiching a portion where a filter film is welded in the corner of a resin-side case of a vehicle-mounted electronic control device such as an engine control unit or an automatic transmission control unit, and in that the breathing paths are connected inside.
US10225937B1
A dual interlock system for electrical equipment enclosures having at least two isolated compartments. The interlock includes a dual function interlock mechanism that prevents a serviceable equipment compartment door from being opened while a local disconnect device located in an adjacent isolated compartment is in the ON state. The dual interlock system also prevents the local disconnect device from unintentionally being moved from an OFF state to the ON state while the serviceable equipment door is open.
US10225928B2
A flexible board includes a flexible body including a first principal surface and a second principal surface, and a linear conductor provided in the body and closer to the first principal surface than to the second principal surface. The body is bent inwardly with respect to the first principal surface along an inward bending line crossing the linear conductor and also outwardly with respect to the first principal surface along an outward bending line crossing the linear conductor. The inward bend of the body has a larger mean curvature radius than the outward bend of the body.
US10225927B2
A substrate provided in proximity to a case for improving heat radiation, and maintaining electrical insulation between the substrate and the case even when the substrate is warped, in the substrate having electronic parts mounted thereon and a case for housing the substrate. A case body of the case has a substrate placement surface for placing the substrate, the substrate placement surface is provided with a protruding portion protruding therefrom, and the substrate is fixed on the substrate placement surface, via a thermal interface material disposed on the substrate placement surface from a periphery of the protruding portion.
US10225925B2
A radio frequency transmission structure couples a RF signal between a first and a second radiating elements arranged at a first and a second sides of a first dielectric substrate, respectively. The RF coupling structure comprises first and second coupling structures. Each coupling structure has a hole arranged through the first dielectric substrate, a first electrically conductive layer arranged on a first wall of the hole to electrically connect a first and a second signal terminals, a second electrically conductive layer arranged on a second wall of the hole opposite to the first wall to electrically connect a first and a second reference terminals. The first electrically conductive layer is separated from the second electrically conductive layer. The first and second coupling structures are symmetrically arranged with the first electrically conductive layers closer to each other than the second electrically conductive layers are to each other.
US10225923B2
Disclosed herein is an electronic circuit module that includes a substrate having a power supply pattern, an electronic component mounted on a front surface of the substrate, a molding resin that covers the front surface of the substrate so as to embed the electronic component therein, a metal shield covering the molding resin, and a through conductor formed so as to penetrate through the molding resin to connect the metal shield to the power supply pattern.
US10225912B2
A new system and apparatus for selectively interrupting the power supply of lighting elements is described by example herein. The system may include a power interruption apparatus in electrical communication with a lighting element such as a motion activated security light. In preferred embodiments, the apparatus may include a power interruption module configured to selectively interrupt the power supply to the lighting element to change the status mode of the lighting element. In some embodiments, the apparatus may be controlled by a wireless remote control while in other embodiments the apparatus may be controlled by a wall switch. In yet further embodiments, the apparatus may be configured to partner with a home automation system through a home automation remote thereby allowing a user to selectively change the status mode of a lighting element using an interface specific to their home automation system.
US10225910B2
Techniques are disclosed to operate a luminaire so as to reduce glare experience by an occupant within an area illuminated by a luminaire. The luminaire includes individually operated light sources. An image capture device is deployed for capturing an image of an area. Operatively coupled to the luminaire and the image capture device is a computing system. The computing is configured to reduce glare by adjusting a light intensity of a light source of the luminaire. These adjustments are based on, for example, a position of an occupant within the area and a direction in which the occupant is facing relative to the luminaire, and/or a position of an indirect glare source.
US10225904B2
Method and control apparatus for controlling a lighting module based on a constant current level from a power source are disclosed. The control apparatus may be operable: to determine an indication of a constant current level of the power source; to determine an activation ratio in which to activate first and second groups of LEDs each cycle period based upon the indication of the constant current level; and to selectively couple the first and second groups of LEDs to the power source each cycle period based upon the first activation ratio. The first and second groups of LEDs may comprise LEDs of first and second color temperatures respectively. The control apparatus can be adapted to operate as a dim-to-warm module within a lighting apparatus.
US10225899B2
A lighting system for plant cultivation comprises a light source, a light source driving unit that drives the light source, and a control unit that transmits a pulse signal to the light source driving unit. The control unit comprises a first pulse generating unit that generates a first pulse signal (S1) of a predetermined frequency, a second pulse generating unit that generates a second pulse signal (S2) of a frequency different from the predetermined frequency, and a pulse signal selecting unit that selects any one of the first pulse signal (S1) and the second pulse signal (S2) to transmit the selected one to the light source driving unit. The light source driving unit includes a frequency determining unit that determines whether the frequency of the pulse signal received from the control unit is the frequency of the first pulse signal (S1) or the frequency of the second pulse signal (S2), a first driving unit that, when receiving the first pulse signal (S1) from the control unit, converts the first pulse signal (S1) to a constant current, output to drive the light source, and a second driving unit that, when receiving the second pulse signal (S2) from the control unit, outputs a pulse with an original pulse waveform of the second pulse signal (S2) to drive the light source.
US10225895B2
Devices (1) for driving light sources (5) comprise drivers (2) operable in different modes and controllers (3) for, in response to detections of values of input voltages supplied to the devices (1), bringing the drivers (2) in one of the different modes. Such devices (1) can be used solely and in series and parallel combinations. In case the value of the input voltage is smaller/larger than a threshold value, a first/second mode is selected. The first mode is a preset-mode, the second mode is a feedback-mode. A combination of the light source (5) and the driver (2) may show a constant-resistor-load-behavior in the preset-mode. The device (2) may comprise a switch (25) that in the preset-mode is operated at a constant conducting time and that in the feedback-mode is operated in response to feedback-information derived from the light source (5). At start-up, the driver (2) may be kept deactivated during a time-interval.
US10225891B2
A method for manufacturing a radius filler. The radius filler having a desired cross-sectional shape is formed. The radius filler has a composite material and a number of heating elements located within the composite material. The radius filler is positioned in a channel formed by a plurality of composite structures. The radius filler is inductively heated by inducing a current within the number of heating elements.
US10225885B2
A wax warmer includes a body, a top plate disposed adjacent a top end of the body, a base plate disposed adjacent a bottom end of the body, an electrical assembly positioned within an interior space of the body, the electrical assembly in electrical communication with an electrical cord, and a sleeve. The sleeve forms an electrical barrier positioned within the interior space and surrounding the electrical assembly, and the sleeve defines a slot configured to provide passage for the electrical cord.
US10225882B2
A method in an access point (AP) for setting an inactivity timer in a radio communication network comprising the AP, a mobile management entity (MME) and a session management entity (SME). The method includes obtaining an inactivity timer value for one or more user equipments (UEs) served by the AP and transmitting the inactivity timer value to the MME for notifying the SME of the inactivity timer value for the one or more UEs. For each of the one or more UEs, the AP and the SME respectively maintain an inactivity timer associated with the UE based on the inactivity timer value and remove resources locally used for the UE when the inactivity timer expires.
US10225881B2
A user equipment uses extended discontinuous reception (DRX) when the user equipment is in connected mode with a communication network. The extended DRX comprises extended DRX cycles and offsets, which are based on a value of a specific DRX cycle. The user equipment receives (S31) signaling from the communication network, the signaling comprising an extended DRX cycle indication and offset value, calculates (S32) an extended DRX cycle from the extended DRX cycle indication and an offset from the offset value, using the value of the specific DRX cycle, and executes (S33) the DRX when the user equipment is in the connected mode with the extended DRX cycle calculated and the offset calculated.
US10225874B2
The present disclosure provides a resource allocation method and a resource allocation equipment for D2D signal transmission. The resource allocation method includes steps of: determining, by a base station, a resource allocation mode to be adopted by a UE, the resource allocation mode including a network scheduling mode and a UE autonomous selection mode; and transmitting, by the base station, configuration information to the UE, the configuration information including at least one of: indication information indicating whether or not the UE is permitted to determine a resource in accordance with the network scheduling mode and/or UE autonomous selection mode, QoS information of a D2D service corresponding to each resource allocation mode, and resource allocation information for determining the resource in the case that the UE adopts the UE autonomous selection mode.
US10225873B2
A system and method is disclosed for establishing authenticated Bluetooth Low Energy communication session between a slave device and a master device. The slave device lacks ability to control which mater device can connect to it; however, the after connection authentication process enables a slave device to terminate connection with unauthenticated master device.
US10225860B2
Disclosed are a channel access method and device in a wireless LAN system. The channel access control method comprises the steps of: receiving, from a main-access point, a main-beacon frame including information on an limited access section in which a channel access of an end terminal connected to a relay device is limited; generating a relay-beacon frame including the information on the limited access section; and transmitting the relay-beacon frame. Thus, the efficiency of using a wireless channel can be improved.
US10225857B2
Provided is a device, including: a control unit configured to control transmission of downlink data in a manner that the transmission of the downlink data is performed using a first frequency band shared by a plurality of wireless communication systems including a cellular system. The control unit controls retransmission of the downlink data in a manner that the retransmission of the downlink data is performed using a second frequency band for the cellular system.
US10225842B2
Method, device and storage medium for communications using a modulated signal and a reference signal
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a wireless communication node that receives instructions in a control channel directing it to utilize a spectral segment at a first carrier frequency to communicate with a mobile communication device. Responsive to the instructions, the wireless communication node receives a modulated signal in the spectral segment at a second carrier frequency from the base station, the modulated signal including communications data provided by the base station. The wireless communication node down-shifts the modulated signal at the second carrier frequency to the first carrier frequency, and wirelessly transmits the modulated signal at the first carrier frequency to the mobile communication device. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10225836B2
There is disclosed a User Equipment for a MulteFire wireless communication network. The User Equipment comprises processing circuitry and a transmitter, the User Equipment being adapted for utilizing the processing circuitry and the transmitter for performing a Listen-Before-Talk (LBT) procedure for one or more transmission bandwidths; transmitting Physical Uplink Shared CHannel (PUSCH) signaling in a PUSCH subframe on one or more interlaces within the one or more transmission bandwidths; and transmitting Sounding Reference Signaling on the one or more interlaces in the PUSCH subframe.
US10225834B2
Methods and apparatuses are provided for receiving system information by a user equipment (UE). System information including first partial bits of a system frame number (SFN) and bandwidth information are received at a first subframe of a radio frame. The system information is identical during a broadcast channel transmission period. Second partial bits of the SFN are acquired having a different value in each of radio frames within the broadcast channel transmission period.
US10225813B2
A receiving device, user equipment, communication system and a method for processing synchronization information are provided. The receiving device comprises a synchronization information processing apparatus configured to combine synchronization information of a plurality of frequency channels based on time and frequency.
US10225803B1
This disclosure relates to energy budgeted cellular service recovery techniques. A wireless device may determine one or more energy budgets for service recovery. It may be determined that cellular service loss is currently occurring. Cellular service recovery may be attempted, where service recovery scan timing for the attempt to recover cellular service is determined based at least in part on the one or more energy budgets for service recovery.
US10225795B2
Resource-sensitive token-based access point selection is disclosed. A user equipment (UE) can generate a request for resources that can be shared with an selection component remote from the UE. The request for resources can be generated independent of the UE receiving information about an access point (AP) in range of the UE. The selection component can pair the UE with an AP resource based on AP data and UE data. The selection component can generate a token comprising information related to the pairing. The UE can receive the token via a device other than the AP or via the AP. The token can be employed by the UE to initiate a link to the AP to enable use of the AP resource by the UE. The link can be resource sensitive in view of the request for resources and available AP resources.
US10225794B2
[Object] To enable prompt switching of communication.[Solution] A terminal device includes a mobile communication unit configured to perform mobile communication of a mobile communication network, an acquisition unit configured to acquire information regarding one or more wireless networks for wireless communication that is different from the mobile communication, and a providing unit configured to provide the information regarding the one or more wireless networks to another terminal device that performs the wireless communication. The information regarding the one or more wireless networks is at least partial information of information provided to the terminal device by an information providing device that provides information regarding a wireless network that is different from the mobile communication network to a device that performs the mobile communication. Each of the one or more wireless networks is a wireless network for the wireless communication to which the other terminal device is connectable through an authentication procedure.
US10225789B2
In one embodiment, a supervisory device in a network receives from a plurality of access points (APs) in the network data regarding a network availability request broadcast by a node seeking to access the network and received by the APs in the plurality. The supervisory device uniquely associates the node with a virtual access point (VAP) for the node and forms a VAP mapping between the VAP for the node and a set of the APs in the plurality selected based on the received data regarding the network availability request. One of the APs in the mapping is designated as a primary access point for the node. The supervisory device instructs the primary AP to send a network availability response to the node that includes information for the VAP. The node uses the information for the VAP to access the network via the set of APs in the VAP mapping.
US10225778B2
The embodiments of the present invention relate to a method, an apparatus, and a system for selecting a public land mobile network. In an embodiment method an eNodeB acquires PLMN information about a CSFB. The eNodeB then determines a target cell of a packet switching handover according to the PLMN information about the CSFB.
US10225773B2
The present invention discloses a cellular-network-assisted wireless local area network (WLAN) channel switch announcement method, including the following steps: before a wireless network access point (AP) performs channel switching, delivering channel switch announcement signaling to correlated user equipment in a broadcast manner, and sending channel switch announcement request signaling to a cellular network base station that also serves the user equipment; after the cellular network base station receives the channel switch announcement request signaling, sending the channel switch announcement signaling to user equipment in an idle mode by using a cellular link air interface; and performing, by the WLAN AP, channel switching within a predetermined time, and following, by user equipment that directly acquires channel switch information by receiving the channel switch announcement signaling and user equipment that acquires channel switch information by using the cellular network base station, the WLAN AP and performing channel switching.
US10225771B2
A method of controlling a wireless communication device to dynamically adapt and update roaming parameters stored in the device when operating in a wireless network. The method includes: determining a first roaming metric (M1) for a first wireless access point (AP) of the network when the device is in communication with the first AP; determining a second roaming metric (M2) for a second wireless AP of the network when the device has roamed to the second AP; and determining an adaptation value by subtracting M2 from M1. When the adaptation value is not zero, first roaming parameters associated with the first wireless AP are updated, based on the adaptation value and stored first roaming parameters associated with the first wireless AP and second roaming parameters associated with the second wireless AP are updated based on the adaptation value and stored second roaming parameters associated with the second wireless AP.
US10225770B2
A control element identifies the possibility that a station will transfer to a destination AP, and prepares that destination for a handoff. The control element repurposes messages from the station which indicate a possible near-term handoff, to prepare access points to receive that handoff. The control element treats a neighbor list request as a trigger to select which AP's to identify, to restrict the neighbor list to selected AP's, and to prepare each selected AP for a handoff. In selecting a destination AP, the control element also selects a particular set of related features for the combination of that AP and BSS. When an AP receives a repurposed message, it informs the control element, which selects destination AP's for transfer. The control element treats the repurposed message like a probe request. The control element prepares more than one AP for transfer if handoff is possible to more than one AP.
US10225755B2
A method for monitoring utilization of a first connection in a mobile network includes: establishing an independent second connection, wherein the second connection is assigned a lower priority than the first connection and competes with the first connection for resources in the mobile network; sending test data having a low data volume via the second connection; and detecting reception of the test data. Complete reception of the test data indicates that the first connection is not fully utilized.
US10225746B2
Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing wireless communications, and, more particularly, to methods, systems, and apparatuses for implementing ad hoc wireless capacity modification. In various embodiments, a computing system might identify at least one geographic area having at least one of weak wireless communications coverage or non-existent wireless communications coverage, might deploy one or more vehicles to the identified at least one geographic area, each of the one or more vehicles comprising a mobile wireless base station, and might establish wireless network communications between the mobile wireless base station of at least one vehicle of the one or more vehicles and at least one wireless network node of a telecommunications network that is one of proximate to or within the at least one geographic area. The one or more vehicles might comprise manned and/or unmanned vehicles, including drones.
US10225731B2
Provided are a system and method for linking cardholders with communication service subscribers. In one example, a method includes generating anonymized cardholder information representing a group of cardholders that reside within a predetermined geographic location, receiving anonymized communication service subscriber information representing a group of communication service subscribers that reside within the predetermined geographic location, and linking the anonymized cardholder information to the anonymized communication service subscriber information based on the predetermined geographic location.
US10225727B2
Measures (for example methods, systems and non-transitory computer-readable storage media) to process data in an IMS network, including an HSS, an I-CSCF and an S-CSCF. The I-CSCF transmits a request message identifying a user of the IMS network to the HSS. The I-CSCF receives an answer message from the HSS. The answer message comprises an indication either that the user is assigned and not registered to the S-CSCF, or that the user is registered with the S-CSCF. The I-CSCF performs a predetermined action in response to the answer message indicating that the user is assigned to the S-CSCF.
US10225725B2
There has been a problem that, when performing transmission of an SR or transmission of an RACH signal in a PUCCH in order for a terminal apparatus to request resource allocation for uplink use, the terminal apparatus transmits these signals to a pico base station apparatus in an Off-state. A base station apparatus which transmits a signal to the terminal apparatus by switching a first state in which a data signal is transmitted and a second state in which the data signal is not transmitted, includes a transmission state management unit for managing a state of the base station apparatus and a discovery signal generation unit for generating a discovery signal, in which the discovery signal is transmitted by changing a sequence generation method of a signal of the discovery signal generation unit based on information of the first state or the second state held in the transmission state management unit.
US10225722B1
A wireless emergency system that includes a mobile switching center, a short message service center that receives an emergency text message of a caller from the mobile switching center, and gateway in communication with the short message service center to route the emergency text message to a responsive public safety answering point as a tone message.
US10225720B2
Methods and apparatus are provided that relate to receiving a bit pattern that is representative of a binary data sequence; generating a multi-bit data byte sequence that is representative of the bit pattern by, for at least one bit in the bit pattern: outputting a larger-valued multi-bit data byte that is larger than a byte-sequencer reference data byte according to a first criteria, outputting a smaller-valued multi-bit data byte that is smaller than the byte-sequencer reference data byte according to a second criteria; and encoding the generated multi-bit data byte sequence by, for each generated multi-bit data byte: outputting a single bit whose value is indicative of whether the generated multi-bit data byte is larger or smaller than a current reference multi-bit data byte and updating the current reference multi-bit data byte based on the generated multi-bit data byte.
US10225719B2
A method and apparatus for establishing communication between an image photographing apparatus and a user device is provided. In one implementation, the image photographing apparatus includes a communication module; a short-distance wireless communication module; and a controller. When tagging between the image photographing apparatus and a user device occurs, the short-distance wireless communication module provides connection information to the user device via short-distance wireless communication, the controller activates the communication module, and the communication module establishes communication with the user device using the connection information.
US10225715B2
The present image forming apparatus selects an appropriate connection method in accordance with circumstances from a plurality of connection methods when communication with an information processing apparatus is established by short-range wireless communication, and notifies information necessary for performing communication by the selected connection method to the information processing apparatus via short-range wireless communication.
US10225707B1
A guidance system for helping users locate specific affordance configurations for use within an enterprise space, the system comprising a stationary display field located within the enterprise space, the display field controlled to present guidance information to a system user, a database storing affordance configuration schedules and user schedules, a processor programmed to automatically perform the steps of obtaining location information for a set of users within the enterprise space, for at least a first user proximate the display field, examining the first user's schedule information to identify locations of activities scheduled for the first user within a threshold period of time, identifying at least one affordance configuration within the enterprise space that is proximate the locations of the activities scheduled for the first user within the threshold period of time and automatically presenting the identified at least one affordance configuration via the display field as a suggestion to the first user while the first user is proximate the display field.
US10225706B2
A telecommunication system that carries out telecommunication functions between multiple parties as initiated by the user interaction with a social network application, while maintaining privacy of the device identifiers (phone numbers or static IP addresses assigned to devices) of the participating parties.
US10225705B2
Social networks provisioned to allow content to be posted for future access. In some embodiments, methods and systems for creating and defining access to future accessible posts (e.g., containing multimedia content). In certain preferred embodiments, social networks which unlock content for access or viewing by users upon the occurrence of future, but initially temporally undefined, special events (e.g., weddings of unknown dates, birthdays of unborn persons, etc.) In other preferred embodiments, network content access may be defined or granted based, in part, on future proximity to geo-tagged locations.
US10225700B2
Techniques for enhancing group communication on a device are described. A method may include presenting a message in a message portion of a user interface (UI) for a group communication application executing on a first device, where the group communication application communicates messages among multiple devices. The method may further include monitoring an input component for the first device and detecting a first control directive from the input component. The first control directive may select a message displayed in the message portion of the user interface. The method may further include performing a pin operation on the selected message; and presenting the pinned message in a banner portion of the UI. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US10225695B2
This disclosure is generally directed to a smart playable device and charging systems and methods. The playable device can include any device that is suitable for sports, games, or play, such as balls, discs, staffs, clubs, and the like. The playable device can include rapid charging circuits to receive power from a remote charger. The playable device may transmit sensor data including motion data to a computing device. Sensor data may be interpreted by the computing device as gestures of the playable device for interacting with the computing device. Sensor data can also be interpreted as motion data during gameplay and notifications can be provided to a user based on the gameplay. In some instances, the computing device can capture image data of the playable device and identify the playable device and annotate image data based on the sensor data from the playable device.
US10225691B2
In an example implementation, a method of tracking a mobile device includes determining by a tracked device, that a pairing status between the tracked device and a command device has changed from a paired status to an unpaired status. A timer is started on the tracked device in response to determining the unpaired status, and in response to the timer reaching a threshold time, a distress packet is transmitted from the tracked device that indicates the tracked device is lost.
US10225687B2
The present disclosure relates to a user terminal capable of recognizing each of location signals output from a plurality of location signal output devices that have different coverages and output location signals, and a technology capable of detecting a location of a user terminal according to a location signal which the user terminal recognizes and providing various contents to a user through a service server providing content information suitable for the corresponding location.
US10225685B2
A method for assisting positioning and a movable electronic device thereof are provided. The method is adapted to the movable electronic device moving within a region. In the method, the region is divided into multiple sub-regions. When the movable electronic device enters a first sub-region among the sub-regions, at least one wireless signal emitted by at least one signal emitting source is received by the movable electronic device, so as to calculate first location information associated with the first sub-region according to the at least one wireless signal. Then, a reliability of the first sub-region is generated and recorded according to a signal reception condition of the at least one wireless signal.
US10225683B1
Examples are generally described that include methods and systems for providing a reminder and/or identifying availability of a good or service, or both. In many examples, a reminder may be provided when a computing device satisfies one or more criteria associated with a reminder request. For instance, a reminder may be provided when the location associated with a computing device is proximate a destination and when the direction of travel associated with a computing device indicates that the proximity of the computing device is increasing or decreasing relative to a predetermined location. In other examples, a computing device may be utilized to identify an entity that associated with a requested good or a requested service, or both. In some examples, a location associated with the computing device may be determined and servers associated with an entity within a range of the location may be searched to identify the request good or the requested service, or both.
US10225682B1
The present disclosure relates to a system and a processing method in association with the system for customizing audio experience. Customization of audio experience can be based on derivation of at least one customized audio response characteristic which can be applied to an audio device used by a person. The customized audio response characteristic(s) can be unique to the person.
US10225681B1
A method processes binaural sound to externally localize to a first user at a first location. This location is shared such that an electronic device processes the binaural sound to externally localize to a second user at a second location. The first and second locations occur at a same or similar location such that the first and second users hear the binaural sound as originating from the same or similar location.
US10225678B2
The invention relates to a calibration unit (20) for an audio system (2) having a generator (4) for generating a pilot tone (6), and a detector (16a-c) for the pilot tone (6), wherein at least one parameter (P1, 2) determining the pilot tone (6) is changeable, which calibration unit comprises an input unit (22) for optionally setting the parameter (P1, 2), wherein for at least one value (W1, 2) of the parameter (P1, 2), all detectors indicate a detection of the pilot tone (6). An audio system (2) comprises said calibration unit (20). In a method for operating the calibration unit (20), the parameters (p1, 2) is regulated in such a way that all detectors (16a-c) indicate a detection of the pilot tone (6). A computer program carries out all steps of the method, when the program is performed on a computer and/or the calibration unit (20) or the audio system (2).
US10225677B2
The present technology relates to a sound processing apparatus and method, and a program for enabling more stable localization of a sound image.A virtual speaker is assumed to exist on the lower side among the sides of a tetragon having its corners formed with four speakers surrounding a target sound image position on a spherical plane. Three-dimensional VBAP is performed with respect to the virtual speaker and the two speakers located at the upper right and the upper left, to calculate gains of the two speakers at the upper right and the upper left and the virtual speaker, the gains being to be used for fixing a sound image at the target sound image position. Further, two-dimensional VBAP is performed with respect to the lower right and lower left speakers, to calculate gains of the lower right and lower left speakers, the gains being to be used for fixing a sound image at the position of the virtual speaker. The values obtained by multiplying these gains by the gain of the virtual speaker are set as the gains of the lower right and lower left speakers for fixing a sound image at the target sound image position. The present technology can be applied to sound processing apparatuses.
US10225671B2
Presented herein are techniques for providing tinnitus relief to recipients of a hearing prosthesis. In accordance with embodiments presented herein, a hearing prosthesis comprises a tinnitus relief system that is configured to generate a tinnitus masker signal that comprises a plurality of discrete (separate) components. The tinnitus relief system is configured to inject the components of the tinnitus masker signal directly into a sound processing path so that the masker components are combined with different processed portions of a channelized sound signal. The channelized sound signal and the components of the tinnitus masker signal are used to generate one or more output signals for use in compensation of a hearing loss of a recipient of the hearing prosthesis.
US10225669B2
The application relates to a binaural hearing system comprising left and right hearing devices, e.g. hearing aids, each comprising a) a multitude of input units, each providing a time-variant electric input signal xi(t) representing sound received at an ith input unit, t representing time, the electric input signal xi(t) comprising a target signal component si(t) and a noise signal component vi(t), the target signal component originating from a target signal source; b) a configurable signal processing unit for processing the electric input signals and providing a processed signal y(t); c) an output unit for creating output stimuli to the user, d) transceiver circuitry allowing information to be exchanged between the hearing devices, and e) a binaural speech intelligibility (SI) prediction unit for providing a binaural SI-measure of the predicted speech intelligibility of the user when exposed to said output stimuli, based on processed signals yl(t), yr(t) from the signal processing units of the respective left and right hearing devices. This allows the hearing devices to control the processing of the respective electric input signals based on said binaural SI-measure.
US10225667B2
A method performs frequency-dependent reduction of noise in an input signal, wherein the input signal is allocated to a main signal path and to an auxiliary signal path. A filter bank separates the input signal into a plurality of frequency bands each having a certain bandwidth and center frequency. In the auxiliary signal path, the bandwidth of the signal component is reduced in each frequency band thus forming a reduced frequency band in each case. Wherein in each reduced frequency band, a reduction parameter is determined from the signal component of the input signal, and wherein in the main signal path in each frequency band, noise in the input signal is reduced by use of the reduction parameter in that frequency band.
US10225665B2
A hearing aid system includes an electronic device that may be manipulated. A hearing aid is provided and the hearing aid is selectively worn in an ear thereby facilitating the hearing aid to amplify ambient sounds. A noise generator is coupled to the hearing aid and the noise generator is in electrical communication with the electronic device. The electronic device controls operational parameters of the noise generator and the noise generator selectively emits white noise. The noise generator is in electrical communication with the hearing aid such that the hearing aid emits the white noise in conjunction with the ambient sounds. In this way the noise generator enhances a sensitivity threshold of the ear.
US10225664B2
Disclosed is an electrical-acoustic transformation device, including: a vibration system and a magnetic circuit system with a magnetic gap; wherein the vibration system includes: a diaphragm, a voice coil provided below the diaphragm and suspending in the magnetic gap, and a piezoelectric plate provided on one side of the diaphragm; and conductive lines are formed on the diaphragm, the conductive lines include a first conductive line connected to the piezoelectric plate to input an externally input first audio signal to the piezoelectric plate via the first conductive line. The electrical-acoustic transformation device in the present invention has a moving coil sound generating structure and a piezoelectric sound generating structure. The piezoelectric plate compensates the high-frequency response of the vibration system, realizing an electrical-acoustic transformation device with good performance and super wideband.
US10225652B2
In accordance with methods and systems of the present disclosure, a mobile device may include an enclosure adapted such that the enclosure is readily transported by a user of the mobile device, a speaker associated with the enclosure for generating sound, and a controller within the enclosure, communicatively coupled to the speaker. The controller may be configured to receive a signal from the speaker, the signal induced at least in part by sound incident on the speaker other than sound generated by the speaker and process the signal.
US10225650B2
By registering a set range and a sound type which are not subject to detection of an abnormal sound in advance, a PC performs an alert notification in a case of detecting a sound which is regarded as an abnormal sound, and does not perform an alert notification in a case of detecting a sound which is not regarded as an abnormal sound. That is, in a target area such as a hotel lobby, a sound output from a television provided therein, a water sound emitted by a fountain, and the like are no longer erroneously detected as an abnormal sound. Further, the PC forms the directivity of sound data in a direction toward an actual position corresponding to a designated position on an image of a sound pickup area displayed on a display.
US10225649B2
Techniques for noise suppression systems coupled to one or more microphone arrays are described, including a housing, a first microphone, a second microphone, and a third microphone, where the third microphone functions as a common rear vent for the first and the second microphones.
US10225647B2
An acoustic device that has a neck loop that is constructed and arranged to be worn around the neck. The neck loop includes a housing with a first acoustic waveguide having a first sound outlet opening, and a second acoustic waveguide having a second sound outlet opening. There is a first open-backed acoustic driver acoustically coupled to the first waveguide and a second open-backed acoustic driver acoustically coupled to the second waveguide.
US10225646B2
A speaker box includes a housing with an accommodating space and a housing wall; a propping wall extending from the housing wall toward the accommodating space; and a speaker unit located between the housing wall and the propping wall for dividing the accommodating space into a front cavity and a back cavity. The speaker unit includes a diaphragm located in the front cavity for forming a front sound cavity cooperatively with the housing, a sound guiding channel communicating the front sound cavity with outside, and a through hole penetrating the propping wall and communicating the sound guiding channel with the back cavity. The speaker box further includes an elastic cover plate covering the through hole completely for absorbing vibration energy at a specific frequency. The Young's modulus or strength of the elastic cover plate is smaller than that of the propping wall.
US10225636B2
This invention relates to microphone accessories, particularly microphone flags, for use with a hand-held microphone having a bulbous head and elongate stalk extending therefrom. The accessory has at least one body having at least one display face for displaying at least a first communication; at least one attachment formation for attaching the body to the microphone; and at least one display member for displaying at least a second communication, wherein the at least one display member is permanently or removably attachable to the body and/or the microphone, and wherein the at least one display member is configured to extend and/or supplement the at least one display face of the body, in use. The invention also relates to a method of using a microphone and to a microphone accessory apparatus.
US10225632B1
Techniques for using planar photonic switch fabrics with reduced waveguide crossings are described. In one embodiment, a system is provided that comprises a memory that stores computer-executable components and a processor that executes computer-executable components stored in the memory. In one implementation, the computer-executable components comprise an arrangement component that arranges a first planar switch fabric topology. The computer-executable components further comprise a transformation component that interleaves a plurality of inputs of the first planar switch fabric topology and a plurality of outputs of the first planar switch fabric topology to form a second planar switch fabric topology, the second planar switch fabric topology having a lower number of waveguide crossings than the first planar switch fabric topology.
US10225625B2
Methods and systems are disclosed for real-time metatagging and captioning of an event and caption extraction and analysis for such event. The method for the real-time metatagging and captioning and caption extraction and analysis of an event may include embedding metatag information in a caption file provided by a captioner. The embedded and/or extracted metatag information may allow a user to access additional information via the text of the captioned event. Data, words, or phrases can be provided by the captioner during captioning or, post-captioning, extracted from the one or more segments of the caption transcript. Metadata based on said providing and/or extracting is provided. The metadata is stored in a metadata archive, where the metadata is associated with the caption transcript.
US10225608B2
[Object] To provide a client apparatus, control method, system and program capable of presenting emotion expression data showing viewing reactions of other users or a user himself or herself.[Solution] There is provided a client apparatus including: an acquisition unit that acquires a reaction of a viewing user to a content; an emotion estimation unit which estimates an emotion of a viewing user based on reaction information of the viewing user acquired by the acquisition unit; a determination unit that determines emotion expression data representing an emotion estimated by the emotion estimation unit; and an output unit that outputs emotion expression data determined by the determination unit.
US10225604B2
A network addressable appliance with digital multimedia recording capabilities has limited access including playback of stored multimedia content upon faulty connection with a service provider network. Upon a connectivity event, the network addressable appliance compares a retrieved hardware address for a connected residential gateway to a stored hardware address for an assigned residential gateway. If the two hardware addresses correspond, the network addressable appliance provides playback to stored multimedia content. The system helps prevent violations of digital rights management rules by restricting access to stored multimedia content while the network addressable appliance is connected to an unauthorized residential gateway. The system provides a user with limited access (i.e. playback) to multimedia content during service provider network outages.
US10225600B2
Subtitle display during variable speed reproduction processing is made to be able to be satisfactorily performed.A video stream is generated configured by a video packet having encoded image data in a payload. A subtitle stream is generated configured by a subtitle packet that has subtitle information in a payload and in which subtitle display priority information according to the subtitle information is inserted. A multiplexed stream including the video stream and the subtitle stream is generated and transmitted. In a case where an overlap period occurs in display periods of a plurality of subtitles in a variable speed reproduction mode (in a case of N times speed (N>1)), selection of which subtitle to be displayed is facilitated by referring to the priority information, and satisfactory subtitle display reflecting an intention of the production side becomes possible.
US10225595B2
A non-climactic period is forecasted during a live streaming of a main content, where a likelihood of an occurrence of any climactic event in the non-climactic period is below a threshold likelihood, and where a second content is inserted during the non-climactic period. A validation is requested from a first user of the live streaming, of the forecasted non-climactic period and a first response to the request is received from the first user. Based on the first response, a first rank of the first user is computed relative to another user in a group of responding users. A first dynamic delay period that has an inverse relationship with the first rank is computed for the first user. A first transmission of a future portion of the live streaming to the first user is delayed by at least the first dynamic delay period.
US10225593B2
Certain exemplary embodiments relate to entertainment systems and, more particularly, certain exemplary embodiments relate to jukebox systems that incorporate digital downloading jukebox features along with karaoke jukebox and/or photo booth features. A combined karaoke/photo booth/jukebox may enable more integrated performance-like experiences in an in-home or out-of-home location or venue. By leveraging vast audio media libraries, trusted rights-respecting network infrastructure, and on-site image/video capturing from integrated recorders and/or remote portable devices, a more sociable experience may be created for karaoke jukebox patrons, e.g., where custom content can be generated and shared in a safe and legally appropriate manner.
US10225591B2
Provided are methods and systems whereby a user device can monitor the attributes of content presented to a plurality of users. The user device can monitor interaction between each of the plurality of users and one or more of the content and the user device. The user device can generate a plurality of profile clusters based on one or more of the monitored attributes and the monitored interactions over a time period. The user device can generate a plurality of user profiles based on the plurality of profile clusters.
US10225577B2
The present invention presents fully noncausal predictive encoding and decoding methods for image, video and other signal coding. The presented noncausal predictive image coding methods largely reduce the prohibitive computational cost of the prior invention. The presented noncausal signal encoding method comprises: (1) splitting the source signal into a plurality of noncausal coding units; (2) extending each noncausal coding unit with the selected extension type; and (3) encoding each noncausal coding unit with the selected intra-unit noncausal predictor and intra-unit noncausal predictive encoding method.
US10225574B2
Coding techniques for a video image compression system involve improving an image quality of a sequence of two or more bi-directionally predicted intermediate frames, where each of the frames includes multiple pixels. One method involves determining a brightness value of at least one pixel of each bi-directionally predicted intermediate frame in the sequence as an equal average of brightness values of pixels in non-bidirectionally predicted frames bracketing the sequence of bi-directionally predicted intermediate frames. The brightness values of the pixels in at least one of the non-bidirectionally predicted frames is converted from a non-linear representation.
US10225573B1
A current block of a video frame can be encoded or decoded using parameterized motion models. First and second parameterized motion models are identified. The first parameterized motion model corresponds to a first motion model type, and the second parameterized motion model corresponds to a second motion model type. The first and second parameterized motion models are associated with one or more reference frames. One of the first or second parameterized motion models is selected along with an associated reference frame, such as based on a lowest prediction error. A motion vector is generated between the current block and the selected reference frame by warping pixels of the current block to a warped patch of the selected reference frame according to the selected parameterized motion model. A prediction block is generated using the motion vector, and the current block is encoded or decoded using the prediction block.
US10225569B2
A compressed data generator compresses, by using a lossless compressor and a lossy compressor, image data in units of first blocks to generate a plurality of types of compressed data. A selector performs selection processing in units of second blocks each including a predetermined number N of first blocks, where N is an integer of 1 or more. The selection processing involves determining whether each of the plurality of types of compressed data satisfies a selection condition and selecting one piece of compressed data that satisfies the selection condition. The selection condition includes a data size condition that a data size of all the first blocks included in the second block is less than or equal to a predetermined value, and a data accuracy condition that information maintaining accuracy is highest among compressed data that satisfy the data size condition.
US10225555B2
A method and apparatus of entropy coding for a video encoder or decoder using multiple-table based Context-Based Adaptive Binary Arithmetic Coder (CABAC) are disclosed. In one embodiment, a current bin of a binary data of a current coding symbol is encoded or decoded according to a probability of a binary value of the current bin and the probability of the binary value is updated according to the binary value of the current bin for a next bin by using multiple-parameter probability models. Each multiple-parameter probability model is updated using at least one lookup table with the individual set of probability state as a table index to access contents of said at least one lookup table. In another embodiment, the range update is calculated for a range interval based on middle value of the range interval.
US10225554B2
An image processing device including an acquiring section configured to acquire quantization matrix parameters from an encoded stream in which the quantization matrix parameters defining a quantization matrix are set within a parameter set which is different from a sequence parameter set and a picture parameter set, a setting section configured to set, based on the quantization matrix parameters acquired by the acquiring section, a quantization matrix which is used when inversely quantizing data decoded from the encoded stream, and an inverse quantization section configured to inversely quantize the data decoded from the encoded stream using the quantization matrix set by the setting section.
US10225546B2
In one example, a device for retrieving video data includes a display interface coupled to a display, a memory configured to store video data, and one or more processors configured to determine a plurality of regions of video data to be displayed via the display, retrieve video data having a first quality for a first subset of the plurality of regions at which a visual focus of a user is directed, retrieve video data having a second quality for a second subset of the plurality of regions that neighbor the first subset of the plurality of regions, wherein the second quality is lower than the first quality, and retrieve video data having a third quality for a third subset of the plurality of regions that is outside the first subset and the second subset, wherein the third quality is lower than the second quality.
US10225542B2
A three dimensional system including rendering with angular compensation.
US10225538B2
Transmission of HDR image data is satisfactorily performed between apparatuses. A transmission apparatus (source apparatus) transmits the HDR image data to a reception apparatus (sink apparatus) over a transmission path. At that time, the transmission apparatus transmits information on a transmission method for and/or information on gamma correction for the HDR image data to the reception apparatus over the transmission path. The reception apparatus performs processing (decoding processing, gamma correction processing, and the like) on the received HDR image data, based on the information on the transmission method and/or the information on the gamma correction that are received. For example, the transmission apparatus receives from the reception apparatus the pieces of information on the transmission method and/or the gamma correction that the reception apparatus can support, selects the method that the reception apparatus can support, and thus uses the selected method.
US10225536B2
Sink devices are provided that increase quality of displayed images by dynamically integrating higher fidelity update frames into a base stream encoded using an encoding technique (e.g., chroma-subsampling and/or another lossless encoding technique). Use of base image frames enables backward compatibility with existing technology and serves as a baseline for bandwidth scaling. The fidelity update frames may include raw image data, lossy, or losslessly compressed image data, and/or additional subsampled image data. The image data included in the fidelity update frames may apply to the entire base image frame or a portion thereof. The fidelity update frames may include incremental data or complete, high fidelity image data for a portion of an entire image. The sink devices may store and implement fidelity management policies that control operation of the devices to balance resource consumption against fidelity to meet the needs of specific operational environments.
US10225531B2
An image display unit includes a first unit fixed to a receiving frame, a second unit, movably supported by the first unit, including an image generator to generate an image when light enters the image generator, and a first link unit to supportingly fix the first unit to the receiving frame, and a space between the first unit and the receiving frame adjustable by the first link unit.
US10225528B2
Apparatuses and methods for reproducing an image in a plurality of displays are provided. The method includes obtaining a display identifier that identifies a position of a display among the plurality of displays, based on information on an arrangement of the plurality of displays transmitted by the image reproduction control apparatus; obtaining an image segment to be reproduced in a display corresponding to the display identifier among the plurality of displays, from the image; determining the importance factor of the image segment based on at least one of the image and the viewing environment of the plurality of displays; generating an encoded image segment by encoding the image segment according to an encoding method corresponding to the importance factor; and transmitting a bitstream including the display identifier, the importance factor and the encoded image segment to the image reproduction control apparatus.
US10225521B2
Systems and methods are presented for acquisition of receipt information using portable scanning devices such as a cellphone camera running suitable software. A smartphone having associated software is used to capture image from a receipt, by holding the smartphone camera over the receipt such that the latter is within the field of view of the cellphone camera. The software may be adapted to automatically identify receipts when such appear in the camera's field of view, and to automatically capture images. Compositing multiple images, image stitching, and OCR are all employed as necessary by the system to extract textual information from receipts.
US10225515B1
A portable information handling system selectively slides a display integrated in a housing relative to the housing to expose and cover a camera integrated in the housing behind the display. For example, upon execution of a videoconferencing application, an actuator slides the display to expose the camera to support a videoconference, and after the videoconference application completes, the display slides to cover the camera, thus providing security against unauthorized viewing through the camera, which is physically blocked from receiving light.
US10225511B1
The present disclosure provides an image capture, curation, and editing system that includes a resource-efficient mobile image capture device that continuously captures images. In particular, the present disclosure provides low power frameworks for controlling image sensor mode in a mobile image capture device. On example low power frame work includes a scene analyzer that analyzes a scene depicted by a first image and, based at least in part on such analysis, causes an image sensor control signal to be provided to an image sensor to adjust at least one of the frame rate and the resolution of the image sensor.
US10225508B2
Provided are a display device and a control method therefor, which uses, as an antenna, a support unit for supporting a display panel, so as to enable a user of the display device to view a terrestrial broadcast without having a separate antenna, and matches the signal reception characteristic of the support unit to each broadcast channel, so as to allow the support unit to function as an antenna having an improved reception rate. A display device according to an embodiment comprises: a support unit which supports a body and receives a broadcast signal transmitted from the outside; a matching unit which is disposed in the body so as to match the signal reception characteristic of the support unit to a frequency band allocated to a broadcast channel; a tuning unit which selects a signal of the frequency band allocated to the broadcast channel among broadcast signals output from the matching unit; and a display unit which displays an image signal included in the selected signal of the frequency band.
US10225506B2
The present disclosure is intended to display registration information on a real-world registration information setting point and update the display with detection of an event in accordance with a change in the context as a trigger. A control for displaying a virtual object including registration information on a real-world registration information setting point is performed. The data processing unit performs a process for displaying registration information described in control data and a process for updating the display in accordance with a change in predefined context. Further, the data processing unit displays the virtual object indicative of the registration information setting point in conjunction with the display of the registration information. The data processing unit calculates the positional relationship between an information processing apparatus and the registration information setting point on the basis of the position, direction, and the like of a reference image (anchor) detected from the shot image in a virtual three-dimensional space, and displays the virtual object indicative of the registration information setting point on the basis of the calculated positional relationship and a change in the context.
US10225503B2
An image sensor includes: first pixels, each of which receives a pair of light fluxes and outputs a pair of first analog signals; an A/D conversion unit that converts each of pairs of first analog signals to a pair of first digital signals; a digital adder unit that generates digital sum signals each by adding together the pair of first digital signals among pairs of first digital signals; a first output unit that outputs pairs of first digital signals to an external recipient; and a second output unit that outputs the digital sum signals to an external recipient.
US10225502B2
The invention relates to a sensor for the recognition of images on surfaces of objects in relative motion with regard to the sensor, especially for reading optical codes and/or characters and/or symbols on a surface of an object, comprising a plurality of sensor lines, each adapted to render line images in a temporal sequence, wherein the sensor is arranged to combine a plurality of line images of said sensor lines to yield a line image of the sensor, wherein each of said plurality of line images was captured by a different one of said sensor lines and at least some of said plurality of line images were captured at different points in time. The invention also relates to a corresponding method for the recognition of an image on a surface of an object and to a system for the acquisition of images on a surface of a moving target, comprising a conveyor for carrying target objects and a sensor as described above.
US10225500B2
An imaging device includes: pixel cells arranged in a matrix having rows and columns and including first and second pixel cells in one of the columns, each pixel cell comprising a photoelectric converter and a signal detection circuit detecting an electrical signal in the photoelectric converter and outputting an output signal; first and second output signal lines through which the output signals are output from each of the first and second pixel cells, respectively; and first and second feedback circuits that form, for each of the first and second pixel cells, first and second feedback paths negatively feeding back the electrical signals, respectively. The first and second pixel cells are arranged every n rows in the one of the columns where that n is an integer equal to or greater than two, the rows respectively having the first pixel cells being different from those respectively having the second pixel cells.
US10225495B2
A crosstalk processing module configured to process a crosstalk of an image signal includes a correction element generation unit, a storage, and a crosstalk correction check unit. The correction element generation unit receives the image signal and input information associated with at least a size of the image signal and generates seed values and correction parameters which are used to correct the crosstalk, based on the input information and a representative channel image signal obtained by separating the image signal with respect to color. The storage stores the seed values and the correction parameters. The crosstalk correction check unit receives the image signal, receives the seed values and the correction parameters from the storage, corrects the crosstalk, and outputs a final image signal and pass/fail information indicating a pass or fail of the correction of the crosstalk based on a plurality of reference values.
US10225490B2
A mobile studio and a method for using the mobile studio are disclosed. The mobile studio is provided with lower and upper frameworks. A lower framework includes a planar upper-tier frame and a planar lower-tier frame, the planar upper-tier frame has a connecting tab to secure the mobile studio to a vehicle. An upper framework is secured to the lower framework. The upper framework supports at least a production area. Preferably, the upper framework supports a storage area including a rack assembly. Preferably, the rack assembly faces a rear door, at least part of the rack assembly having a sound insulating material. The method for using the mobile studio is provided with securing a bracket onto the chassis of the vehicle, loading the mobile studio onto the bracket, and securing the mobile studio to the vehicle using the connecting tab.
US10225488B2
A terminal having a camera and a method of processing an image in the camera are disclosed. The method includes collecting, using a camera, a user image captured at a user focal length and a link image captured at a selective focal length, and storing the user image and the link image by linking the link image with the user image. Using this method, a user can capture a subject and circumstances around the subject when the image is captured.
US10225487B2
An apparatus comprising an interface to a lens iris and a processor. The processor may be configured to present to the interface a signal configured to adjust the lens iris in response to a luma value received from an image sensor. The processor may be configured to adjust coefficient values for the signal. The coefficient values may be adjusted to converge a luma difference value to a set point. The processor may implement rules to determine the coefficient values. The rules may determine the coefficient values based on flexible relationships between input values based on the luma difference value and adjustment values for the coefficient values.
US10225476B2
An imaging-displaying apparatus includes an imaging unit outputting an imaging signal; an image processing unit generating an image signal based on the imaging signal, and writing the signal in a VRAM; an image signal output unit outputting the image signal from the VRAM, and outputting the signal to the display unit; and a timing control unit generating an imaging vertical synchronizing signal for driving the imaging unit, generating a display vertical synchronizing signal obtained by delaying the imaging vertical synchronizing signal at least by a predetermined time which is necessary for a generation of an image signal, and supplying the signal to the display unit, and controlling an image signal output unit so that the image signal is read from the VRAM by being delayed by a phase difference between the imaging vertical synchronizing signal and the display vertical synchronizing signal, after outputting the imaging signal from the imaging unit.
US10225470B2
An imaging apparatus according to the present invention, includes: an imaging unit; a display unit; and a control unit configured, in a period of performing a repeated recording process to perform imaging by the imaging unit at every set interval time and record a captured image in a recording medium, to perform control such that a live-view display on the display unit is turned OFF and driving of the imaging unit is stopped in a case where the interval time is a specific time or longer, and such that the live-view display on the display unit is turned OFF, but the driving of the imaging unit is not stopped in a case where the interval time is less than the specific time.
US10225463B2
A mobile terminal including a wireless communication processor configured to wireless communicate with a video upload service; a camera; a touchscreen configured to display a preview image received from the camera; and a controller configured to when the image received from the camera starts to be recorded into a video, control the video to be recorded to meet a video upload requirement of the video upload service, and upload the recorded video to the video upload service via the wireless communication processor.
US10225461B2
Systems and methods are presented for modifying image parameters of an image to be captured by an image capturing device based on input from a wearable computing device. In some embodiments, the system receives image data, determines an image parameter based on the image data, and receives data from a wearable computing device positioned proximate to a subject of the image. The system modifies the image parameter based on the data received from the wearable computing device and captures the image data using the modified image parameter.
US10225460B2
An electronic device includes a first operation member for changing a set value of an allocated function item, and a second operation member for changing a function item allocated to the first operation member, and registers a set of function items to be allocated to the first operation member. The set includes a standard function that is allocated to the first operation member before the second operation member is operated, and the electronic device controls switching among function items to be allocated to the first operation member based on whether the standard function is an invalid function and on the number of function items included in the registered set, the switching being performed in response to an operation performed on the second operation member, the invalid function disabling changing of the set value by the first operation member.
US10225454B2
[Object] To provide an information processing apparatus, information processing method, program, and information processing system that are capable of preventing image capturing instructions transmitted from a plurality of information processing terminals from contending with each other in a communication mode where the plurality of information processing terminals are connected to an image capturing apparatus.[Solution] An information processing apparatus includes: a receiver configured to receive an instruction to capture an image from at least one of a plurality of external devices via a wireless communication channel, each of the external devices having priority set previously; and a controller configured to control an operation of an imaging unit based on the instruction depending on the priority set in the external device serving as a source for transmission of the instruction, the imaging unit being configured to capture the image.
US10225449B2
According to one embodiment, the present invention relates to (1) a sensor system configuration to record multi-level spatial and spectral information for creating high spatial resolution, large coverage, and high spectral resolution (hyperspectral) images, and (2) a multi-level spatial and spectral resolution sharpening method to create high spatial resolution, large coverage hyperspectral images.
US10225446B2
An image pickup system includes an optical sensor configured to pick up an optical image of an object illuminated with light of a plurality of colors emitted from a plurality of semiconductor light emitting elements with an image pickup device and detect each of light amounts of the light emitted from the plurality of semiconductor light emitting elements, and a controller including hardware. The controller adjusts color balance based on the light amounts of the plurality of colors detected at the optical sensor and sets an exposure timing of a light amount detecting unit according to image pickup operation of the image pickup device.
US10225444B2
The multi-lens optical apparatus includes multiple imaging optical systems configured to respectively form optical images of an object in mutually different areas on an image plane. The multiple imaging optical systems include imaging optical systems having mutually different focal lengths, and adjacent lenses included in the multiple imaging optical systems are integrally held, the adjacent lenses being mutually adjacent in a direction orthogonal to optical axes of the multiple imaging optical systems. Of the multiple imaging optical systems, a most wide-angle imaging optical system whose focal length is shortest includes a most object-side lens that is a meniscus lens having a negative optical power and having a convex surface toward an object side, and the convex surface is disposed at a most object-side position in the multiple imaging optical systems.
US10225439B2
An image printing apparatus can print an image in which graininess is suppressed while using a color material of light blue. To achieve this, the color material of light blue satisfies the following condition. ΔLB≥(ΔLC−ΔLB)>0 and ΔLB≥(ΔLM−ΔLB)>0 Here, ΔLC represents a difference in lightness between cyan ink and a blank area, ΔLM represents a difference in lightness between magenta ink and the blank area, and ΔLB represents a difference in lightness between light blue ink and the blank area. Further, the color material of light blue satisfies the following condition. hC+(h(C+M)−hC)/2≤hB≤hM−(hM−h(C+M))/2 Here, hC represents a hue of the cyan ink, hM represents a hue of the magenta ink, h(C+M) represents a hue of the image printed with the cyan ink and the magenta ink in the same amount, and hB represents a hue of the light blue ink.
US10225419B2
An information processing terminal acquires a plurality of object IDs identifying respective ones of a plurality of display objects. Each of the plurality of display objects is previously with a corresponding standard operation. The terminal acquires a plurality of operation IDs identifying respective ones of the plurality of operations, and displays a first screen to prompt a user to select an operation ID to be correlated to one of the plurality of object IDs. The terminal receives a first input to select an operation ID to be correlated to an object ID via the user interface after the first screen is displayed on the terminal display. The terminal generates instruction data and custom operation data defining a custom operation concerning an operation identified by the selected operation ID. The instruction data is information used for execution of the custom operation defined.
US10225408B2
A system, method and apparatus for managing voicemail in a communication session between a sending communication device and a receiving communication device are provided. It is determined at the receiving communication device that a voicemail is to be created. The voicemail based on content received via the sending communication device. The voicemail is recorded. The voicemail is caused to be stored at resources associated with the sending communication device.
US10225396B2
The present disclosure describes a monitoring environment that monitors an activity for activity that may be indicative of being prohibited by the local, the state, and/or the national governing authorities, namely suspicious activity, or activity that is prohibited by the local, the state, and/or the national governing authorities, namely prohibited activity. The monitoring environment verifies the activity is actually being monitored within the monitoring environment. The verification can require one or more monitoring persons monitoring the activity to perform one or more tasks to verify their attentiveness in monitoring the activity. The one or more tasks can be as simple as activating a checkbox or providing a code or an electronic signature to provide some examples, although more complicated tasks, such as a biometric verification such as a retinal, a facial, and/or a voice verification to provide some examples, are possible as will be recognized by those skilled in the relevant art(s) without departing from the spirit and scope of the present disclosure.
US10225392B2
A portable device is configured to provide geographic information to a head unit of a vehicle equipped with a display device. One or more processors determine a user context related to a geographic location and detect that the portable device has been communicatively coupled to the head unit of a vehicle. The one or more processors transmit to the head unit, without an express user command, a request that the head unit accept data from the portable device for output via the display device. In response to receiving an indication that that the request has been granted, the one or more processors cause information related to the geographic location to be displayed via the display device, without an express user input at the portable device.
US10225389B2
A method includes providing at least one entity icon on a screen of a device, providing at least one visual indicator corresponding to a communication channel associated with the at least one entity, where the visual indicator that corresponds to an active communication channel is different from the visual indicator that corresponds to an inactive communication channel, opening a entity application by selecting an entity icon, moving the entity icon and releasing the entity icon, and opening a communication link with the selected entity by selecting the visual indicator corresponding to an active communication channel.
US10225372B2
A device management apparatus includes circuitry configured to: acquire an updating program for updating a device; transmit the updating program to the device; receive introduction success/failure information indicating whether the updating program is successfully introduced, from the device; acquire, if the introduction success/failure information indicates success in introduction, a verification program for verifying an operation of the device updated with the updating program; and verify whether the operation of the updated device can be guaranteed based on the verification program.
US10225367B2
The present application discloses a method and device for generating forwarding information. The method includes generating first forwarding information including first matching information and first operating information for a first forwarding device, the first operating information is used for instructing the first forwarding device to encapsulate a first label for a first data message; generating second forwarding information including second matching information and second operating information for the second forwarding device, wherein the second operating information is used for instructing the second forwarding device to receive the first encapsulation message encapsulated with the first label; and generating third forwarding information including the second matching information and third operating information for the third forwarding device, wherein the third operating information is used for instructing the third forwarding device to obtain the first data message encapsulated in the first encapsulation message and carrying the first content by de-encapsulation.
US10225353B2
A system includes a first control node, the first control node configured to establish communication sessions between endpoints. The system further includes a second control node, the second control node configured to establish communication sessions between endpoints. The system further includes a first bearer node comprising a first media gateway having a first virtual media gateway and a second virtual media gateway, the first virtual media gateway configured to provide access to media resources of the first bearer node to the first control node and the second virtual media gateway configured to provide access to media resources of the first bearer node to the second control node.
US10225339B2
Disclosed is a method of operating a peer-to-peer (P2P) network management system, the method including generating a peer list in response to a request for the peer list from a request peer and sending a request for piece information corresponding to the peer list to a peer activity management server, the peer activity management server being configured to manage peer status information, receiving the piece information generated based on the peer status information from the peer operation server, generating a response message including the piece information and the peer list, and sending the response message to the request peer.
US10225334B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for estimating distributed consumption of a quota. One of the methods includes receiving, by a first request processing server, a request having one or more specified characteristics; identifying a quota; determining, by the first request processing server, an actual number of requests having the one or more characteristics received by the first request processing server since a most recent synchronization with a parent server; generating, by the first request processing server, a current estimated total number of requests having the one or more characteristics that have been received; determining, by the first request processing server, that the quota has not been reached; and approving, by the first request processing server, the received request.
US10225333B2
Each time an information processing apparatus has executed a requested process, a compiling unit compiles, in a memory unit, a concurrent process count indicating the number of processes being executed by the apparatus at the start of the process in association with a processing time of the process. For each concurrent process count, a calculating unit calculates a representative value based on a subset out of a set of processing times associated with the concurrent process count. The subset is composed of processing times more than a representative value calculated based on a subset of processing times associated with a concurrent process count less than the concurrent process count. A determining unit determines need for an addition to resources based on a newly compiled processing time and a representative value of a concurrent process count associated with the newly compiled processing time.
US10225329B2
A method for sending and receiving alerts in an instant messaging environment are disclosed. The method includes receiving a request for alerts from a service provider, the request including an alert template and a rule to retrieve the alert template. The method also includes receiving a trigger from the service provider, the trigger including an identification of an alert receiver, the rule to retrieve the alert template, and changeable contents for the alert template. The method further includes obtaining the alert template from the request for alerts based on the rule to retrieve the alert template in the trigger; composing an alert using the alert template and the changeable contents; and sending the alert to the alert receiver identified in the trigger. The method and system consistent with the present disclosure may enrich the user experience in instant messaging applications.
US10225323B2
A system and method for providing Java cloud services for use with a cloud computing environment. In accordance with an embodiment, a cloud environment, such as Oracle Public Cloud (OPC), can include a Java cloud services (JCS) infrastructure, which allows a suite of software applications, middleware, and database offerings to be delivered to customers in a self-service, elastically scalable manner. In accordance with an embodiment, the JCS infrastructure can orchestrate, in combination with other cloud environment components, the creating and/or updating of a platform instance of a Java cloud service, including provisioning and deployment of the platform instance and/or deployment of software applications, and one or more personality injection or application deployment processing. Additional resources and/or services, such as a database service, can be wired to or otherwise associated with the Java cloud service, for use by customer applications that are deployed to the cloud.
US10225311B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a signal processing method, an apparatus, and a system. The signal processing method includes acquiring a phase of each of transmit antennas when the lth OFDM data symbol is sent, and acquiring a phase of each of receive antennas when the lth OFDM data symbol is received. The method further includes compensating received signals of each of the receive antennas according to the phase of each of the transmit antennas when the lth OFDM data symbol is sent and the phase of each of the receive antennas when the lth OFDM data symbol is received, to obtain compensated signals of each receive antenna.
US10225299B2
Methods, systems, and computer readable media for controlling delivery of content are provided. In some embodiments, a system for controlling delivery of content is provided. The system includes processing circuitry configured to: transmit, to a server, a plurality of requests for blocks of the content; while at least some of the plurality of requests are still outstanding: detect a change of a service characteristic of a connection between the system and the server; determine a preferred number of outstanding requests; and cancel at least some of the requests from the plurality that are still outstanding based on the preferred number and a count of the requests from the plurality that are still outstanding.
US10225293B1
Decorating embedded graphic representations on social shares with metadata is performed. A request is received by a content sharing platform from a social network for a representation of a content item. The representation of the content item is to be included in a social share on the social network. Current statistical information associated with the content item is identified. The representation of the content item and data indicative of the current statistical information associated with the content item is provided to the social network.
US10225286B2
Threat detection instrumentation is simplified by providing and updating labels for computing objects in a context-sensitive manner. This may include simple labeling schemes to distinguish between objects, e.g., trusted/untrusted processes or corporate/private data. This may also include more granular labeling schemes such as a three-tiered scheme that identifies a category (e.g., financial, e-mail, game), static threat detection attributes (e.g., signatures, hashes, API calls), and explicit identification (e.g., what a file or process calls itself). By tracking such data for various computing objects and correlating these labels to malware occurrences, rules can be written for distribution to endpoints to facilitate threat detection based on, e.g., interactions of labeled objects, changes to object labels, and so forth. In this manner, threat detection based on complex interactions of computing objects can be characterized in a platform independent manner and pre-processed on endpoints without requiring significant communications overhead with a remote threat management facility.
US10225278B1
A method of assessing the security of a user's connection to a Sequenced Packet Exchange (SPX) network and the user's consumption of services via the SPX network. The invention includes digitally accessing a plurality of network nodes and obtaining data transmissions through said plurality of network nodes. Each transmission corresponds to a security implementation of a current state of the user's connection or consumption of SPX services. A coefficient is determined for each security implementation, wherein the coefficient corresponds to a weight given to each security implementation in determining a level of security of the user's connection or consumption. A security score representative of the level of security of the user's connection is calculated as a function of the security implementation and their corresponding coefficients. The security score is output to the user.
US10225272B2
For each event detected during execution of a monitored application comprising a plurality of application components, a determination is made of which of the plurality of application components corresponds to the detected event. Also, a dependency subgroup that includes the application component that corresponds to the detected event is identified, wherein a dependency subgroup indicates dependencies among a subgroup of the plurality of application components. A location within the dependency subgroup of the application component corresponding to the detected event is determined. An order of correction for the application components determined to correspond to detected events are determined based, at least in part, on the determined location. Correction of the application components determined to correspond to detected events are initiated according to the determined order of correction.
US10225271B2
A method includes receiving a data access request from a requesting device regarding one or more encoded data slices. A data object is dispersed storage error encoded into a plurality of sets of encoded data slices that are stored in storage units of a dispersed storage network (DSN). The method further includes determining whether one or more of the data access request, the requesting device, and the data object is affiliated with a DSN entity flagged for enhanced security monitoring. When the one or more of the data access request, the requesting device, and the data object is affiliated with the DSN entity flagged for enhanced security monitoring, the method further includes determining enhanced security monitoring parameters; generating security monitoring information in accordance with the enhanced security monitoring parameters; determining a DSN security threat level; and implementing a security protocol based on the DSN security threat level.
US10225269B2
There are provided a method and an apparatus for detecting attacks and automatically generating attack signatures based on signature merging. A method for detecting attacks and automatically generating attack signatures based on signature merging includes detecting a character string matched to at least one previously stored compressed attack signature in an input packet received from a network, determining whether the character string detected in the primary attack detection is matched to at least one previously stored individual attack signature, and, if the detected character string is matched to the at least one previously stored individual attack signature, determining the input packet as an attack packet, and, if the detected character string is not matched, determining the input packet as a new attack signature.
US10225263B2
Aspects described herein relate to controlling incoming data processing requests or messages and whether the incoming data processing requests are allowed to reach destination applications unmodified. The destination application may be a secure application operating within a secure application wrapper, and the secure application wrapper may determine whether and how much of the request or message is allowed to pass into a managed partition or through the secure application wrapper to reach the secure application for processing.
US10225258B2
A method for controlling access to a resource of an owner of the resource is provided. The owner can be a user of a resource computer system. The access control can be based on social network data of a social network system and/or on an owner token relating to the owner or a requester token relating to a requester requesting access to the resource and an access control policy. The owner token and the requester token can be received by the system to determine by the social networking system whether access to the resource is to be granted based on the content of the owner token and the requester token. A social network identity of the owner and a social network identity of the requester may only be determinable by the social network system.
US10225257B2
A modular, expandable, and flexible computer system device is provided. The computer system device comprising a multiple number of individual modules interconnected physically via ‘back plane’ means with each module independently processing and executing specified computer functions utilizing internal or shared resources. Electrical power distribution and data communications are positioned between modules with the electrical power distribution and data communications internal to the base unit module.
US10225254B2
A server receives access request from an information processing apparatus. The access request includes address information of a source web page. The access request is generated in response to reception of the source web page. The server receives authentication information from the information processing apparatus to authenticate the information processing apparatus, and receives display request from the authenticated information processing apparatus. The display request is for displaying, by the information processing apparatus, a set of device information in a storage. In response to the display request, the server determines whether the address information in the received access request indicates the service-providing apparatus or the server by referring to the first and second address information, and when the address information indicates the service-providing apparatus, transmits to the information processing apparatus, at least one set of device information assigned to the service identification information indicating a service that a service-providing apparatus provides.
US10225246B2
The embodiments of the present invention disclose a certificate acquiring method and device. A virtualized network function manager (VNFM) receives a certificate application proxy message sent by a virtualized network function (VNF) instance. The VNFM uses the authentication information to authenticate the VNF instance, and when the authentication succeeds, sends a certificate application message to a certificate authority (CA). Then the VNFM receives a certificate issued by the CA, and sends the certificate to the VNF instance. In this way, through a trusted link between the VNFM and the certificate authority, the instantiated VNF instance applies for a certificate issued by the certificate authority, thereby effectively ensuring security of a management channel between the VNF instance and the VNFM.
US10225245B2
A method and system of an identity service to provide a single point of access for a plurality of applications for an authentication of a user identity. An authentication request is received from an application via an application program interface (API), wherein the authentication request includes logon information. The authentication request is translated to one or more identity providers. Upon authentication, serially executing one or more programmatic extension scripts associated with the user. Privileges are granted to the user based on at least one of the programmatic extension scripts associated with the user.
US10225244B2
Web-based single sign-on can enable a user to log in to a single interface (such as through a web browser or thin client) and then provide SSO services to the user for one or more web applications. The web-based SSO system can be extended to support one or more different access control methods, such as form-fill, Federated (OIF), SSO Protected (OAM), and other policies. The web-based SSO system can include a user interface through which the user can access different web applications, systems, etc. and manage their credentials. Each SSO service can be associated with a web interface allowing the SSO services to be accessed over the web. The web interfaces can provide CRUD (create, read, update, delete) functionality for each SSO service. To support different access policy types, the web-based SSO system can include an extensible data manager that can manage data access to different types of repositories transparently.
US10225243B2
Techniques for intercept-based multifactor authentication client enrollment as a network service are disclosed. In some embodiments, a system, process, and/or computer program product for intercept-based multifactor authentication client enrollment as a network service includes monitoring a session at a firewall, intercepting a request for access to a resource while monitoring the session at the firewall, determining that a user associated with the session is not enrolled for multifactor authentication, and initiating enrollment of the user for the multifactor authentication.
US10225241B2
In an example embodiment, a mobile security offloader (MSOL) is provided. Within the MSOL, a mobile device identification component is used to receive unencrypted data from a mobile device in a mobile radio network and to determine a mobile device identification of the mobile device from the unencrypted data. A security profiles directory interface then uses the mobile device identification to retrieve a security profile corresponding to the mobile device identification from a security profiles directory, the security profile identifying a security protocol for encrypting data from the mobile device corresponding to the mobile device identification. An encryption engine is used to encrypt the unencrypted data using the security protocol identified in the security profile. A packet switched network interface is then used to route the encrypted data to a secured server identified in the data via a packet switched network.
US10225231B2
A method and a server of remote information query are disclosed. The method includes receiving a query request sent by a client side and acquiring content of a type field of the query request; acquiring a type of the query request based on the content of the type field; adding a type identifier corresponding to the type and a domain name of a preset authorized DNS (Domain Name System) to the query request to acquire a target query request; and sending the target query request to a local DNS to enable the local DNS to send the target query request to the preset authorized DNS according to the domain name of the preset authorized DNS in the target query request, and receiving a response message corresponding to the type of the query request from the preset authorized DNS. Thus, a simpler and highly efficient recognition of user security can be realized.
US10225229B2
The various embodiments described herein include methods, devices, and systems for relaying messages in a communications system. In one aspect, a method is performed at an electronic device. The method includes: (1) obtaining a plurality of messages, including one or more target messages authored by a particular user account; (2) obtaining a determination as to whether the messages includes at least one priority message authored by the particular user account; and (3) in accordance with a determination that the messages includes at least one priority message authored by the particular user account, displaying a user interface including: (a) at least a subset of the one or more target messages; (b) the at least one priority message; and (c) feedback for the at least one priority message, the feedback indicating a popularity of the at least one priority message.
US10225222B2
Methods and apparatus directed to utilizing an automated messaging system to engage in a dialog with at least one user, via a computing device of the user, to determine a particular service entity for an action. In some implementations, the automated messaging system may generate a plurality of questions and/or other prompts to solicit user interface input from the user(s) for use in determining the particular service entity and/or in determining one or more criteria for the action. Some implementations are further directed to performing one or more computing actions based on the determined service entity and optionally based on one or more criteria for the action determined via user interface input of the dialog.
US10225208B1
Configurations of computing resources established on a web-based computing service can be monitored, managed and controlled. According to one embodiment, a method may include discovering a set of computing resources being used by an enterprise. The disclosed resource configuration service can deliver a set of resource-specific data that uniquely identifies each computing resource and describes each resource's configuration state. The resource configuration service monitors the computing environment and detects changes to the configurations of computing resources. The resource configuration service can deliver a stream of notifications when computing resources are created, updated, deleted or otherwise reconfigured. The notifications can be used by, for example, software tools or system administrators.
US10225204B2
An apparatus comprising a processor and interface for receiving and transmitting packets to external units. The interface comprises a first layer filter and first packet queues; the processor comprises a kernel, second layer filter, second packet queues and applications. For a packet received by the unit, the unit delivers parts the packet to the first layer filter; applies first level filtering; performs first sorting and delivers parts of the packet according to first level filtering rules and delivers parts of the packet to one of the first packet queues in dependence on the first sorting; the unit further being adapted for delivering the packet to second layer filter from kernel or from first packet queues; applying second level filtering; performing second sorting of parts of the packet and delivering parts of the packet to one of the applications in dependence on the second sorting.
US10225203B2
A method and system may allow for the scheduling of transmissions. A device may send a transmission request over a network where the request may be an upload request or a download request. Traffic may be monitored on the network and the traffic may determine when the transmission is to be scheduled. Depending on the traffic and the type of transmission, the transmission may be scheduled for a future time or may be added to a queue of pending transmissions. Once commenced, the transmission may be paused and resumed based on continually monitored traffic on the network.
US10225194B2
In a network with at least a first device already configured to provide a network service to a network application, scaling service capacity includes: configuring one or more second devices to provide the network service to the network application. In embodiments where an upstream network device supports Equal-Cost Multi-Path (ECMP) routing, the upstream network device is configured, including storing a plurality of paths to reach an address associated with a network application, wherein the plurality of paths are equal in cost. In embodiments where the upstream network device does not support ECMP routing, the second device is configured not to respond to an Address Resolution Protocol (ARP) request associated with an Internet Protocol (IP) address of the network application, and the first device is instructed to perform load balancing on network traffic destined for the network application among the first device and the one or more second devices.
US10225191B2
Embodiments of the present application relate to a service packet distribution method and an apparatus. The method includes: receiving, by a service packet processing node located in a cloud gateway, a session request signal sent by a peer device of the cloud gateway; establishing a user bearer according to the session request signal and allocating a user bearer index used to identify the user bearer, where the user bearer index includes a location index value, the location index value is used to indicate a location of the service packet processing node in a location table of a packet distribution node located in the cloud gateway, and the location table includes a correspondence between a location index value and an identifier of a service packet processing node; and sending a session response signal to the peer device, where the session response signal includes the user bearer index.
US10225186B2
A packet broker deployed in a visibility fabric may intelligently assign identifiers to data packets that are routed through sequences of one or more network tools for monitoring and/or security purposes. However, in some instances, it may be desirable for data packets the one or more network tools in a load-balanced manner rather than a cascaded manner. Accordingly, the packet broker may initially form a trunk group (i.e., a predefined group of ports that are treated as one port) based on input provided by an administrator. A group of network tools that share a load (i.e., a traffic flow) through trunking facilitated by the packet broker are referred to as a “trunk group” of network tools.
US10225185B2
A processor initiates an execution of a network driver in a first node comprising a master node of a plurality of nodes in a switchless network. The network driver configures the plurality of nodes and service level in the switchless network by transmitting management datagrams from the master node, wherein the management datagrams include an attribute that allows the management datagrams to be propagated among the plurality of nodes of the switchless network without being terminated at host channel adapters of the plurality of nodes.
US10225176B2
A packet delivering method for a packet delivering apparatus includes: recording respective priorities of multiple packet delivering rules, which includes multiple first packet delivering rules and multiple second packet delivering rules respectively stored in a software layer and a main storage space of a hardware layer of the packet delivering apparatus; selecting a designated packet delivering rule from the first packet delivering rules; determining whether the main storage space is full; searching for at least one candidate delivering rule that meets a replacement condition from the second packet delivering rules according to the priorities of the designated data of the designated packet delivering rule and the second packet delivering rules when the main storage space is full; and replacing one of the at least one candidate packet delivering rule by the designated packet delivering rule when the at least one candidate packet delivering rule exists.
US10225175B2
Disclosed are system, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media for accurately calculating a default gateway of an endpoint without probing the endpoint for the configured values to determine the path between network elements. Tracing the path of a flow in a network and displaying that on a user interface is extremely useful for network troubleshooting purposes. In order to find the gateway the flow would take out of the L2 domain, the endpoint's L2 default gateway is required. Usually the L2 gateway for network endpoints is configured on the endpoints themselves and this information cannot be accessed by network controllers (e.g., APIC-EM) directly. In such cases APIC-EM needs to determine the L2 gateway based on the information available to it from the network elements, instead of the endpoints themselves.
US10225168B2
An exemplary interface apparatus includes: a header generator which receives, in a first order, a plurality of request headers extracted from a plurality of request packets, generates response headers associated with the request headers, and then stores the response headers so that the response headers are read in the first order; and a header order controller which controls the header generator so that if the plurality of request data have been transmitted to the memory in a second order, the respective response headers are read in the second order.
US10225160B1
A remote network management platform may include a database containing representations of configuration items associated with a managed network that is managed by the remote network management platform. The remote network management platform may further include a server device. The server device may be configured to obtain a plurality of preferred relationships for a particular configuration item class. The server device may be further configured to store, in the database, the plurality of preferred relationships. The server device may also be configured to visually provide indications of one or more respective pairings of relationship types and target configuration item classes from a plurality of preferred relationships, receive a selection of a particular relationship type and a particular target configuration item class in accordance with one of the indications, and store, in the database, the particular configuration item with the particular relationship type and the particular target configuration item class.
US10225150B2
A policy processing method and network device. The method includes: performing a mixed orchestration on all service rules corresponding to multiple services, so as to construct multiple condition sets; performing, according to the constructed multiple condition sets, unified condition matching on packet feature information of a received network packet, and outputting a condition matching result set; and calling, a service application to execute a policy action corresponding to each condition identifier in the condition matching result set. In solutions of the embodiments of the present invention, by performing a mixed orchestration on multiple service rules, all service rules are organized in a unified manner, information required by all services is extracted in one packet scanning process, and only one matching and rule verification process is required. Thereby, redundant operations between multiple services are reduced, and device integration and performance are improved.
US10225148B2
Virtual machines (VMs) and a social networking graph where relationships between VM nodes are based on communications between VM nodes. VMs using social networking graphs to help manage a set of VMs. A system where a VM uses a social networking graph to query other VMs to query regarding “health” issues, problem solutions and/or performance improvements.
US10225138B2
In one example, in a Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) network comprising one or more configuration computing systems, a method includes receiving one or more augmented DHCP configuration messages. The method also includes determining that each of the one or more augmented DHCP configuration messages includes a message tag indicating that the respective augmented DHCP configuration message contains parameter information that includes a client identifier associated with a respective one of the one or more network devices. The method further includes determining, based on the parameter information included in each of the one or more augmented DHCP configuration messages, configuration data that is usable to configure the one or more network devices. The method also includes configuring, based on the configuration data, the one or more network devices.
US10225136B2
The disclosed system and method acquire and store performance measurements relating to performance of a component in an information technology (IT) environment and log data produced by the IT environment, in association with corresponding time stamps. The disclosed system and method correlate at least one of the performance measurements with at least one of the portions of log data.
US10225131B2
Techniques for determining target system connectivity between service domains are disclosed herein. For each of multiple service domains configured as a distributed management system, a discovery unit identifies subnets having at least one target system component within the service domain. The discovery unit determines from among the identified subnets, subnets that each extend between two or more of the service domains. For each of the subnets that extend between two or more of the service domains, the discovery unit detects target system network connections between two or more of the service domains. The discovery unit reports the detected target system network connections to one or more entities within the distributed management system.
US10225129B2
Signal extrication of a pair of quadrature amplitude modulated signals of a particular carrier frequency and phase constant by equally splitting all input signals into two independent circuit paths that contain identical components but one independent circuit path performs a complementary signal processing function with respect to the other resulting in a counterbalance between the two paths, canceling all output signals with the exception of said pair of quadrature amplitude modulated signals which are not canceled because of the singular signal nullification property of a product detector circuit that is a component in each of said independent circuit paths.
US10225124B2
Disclosed is a method for a station (STA) device transmitting data in a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) system. The method for transmitting data, according to one embodiment of the present invention, comprises the steps of: FEC encoding transmission data; interleaving the transmission data; constellation mapping the transmission data; performing IDFT on the transmission data; and upconverting the transmission data and transmitting a transmission signal, wherein the transmission signal comprises a first part and a second part, and IDFT is performed using different FFT sizes for the first part and the second part.
US10225112B1
A method and apparatus for achieving simultaneous transmit and receive operation with digital cancelling based upon probe waveforms is described. Digital cancelling based upon probe waveforms enables adjacent transmitting and receiving channels to transmit and receive correlated signals.
US10225110B2
A transmission device according to the disclosure includes a first driver section and a setting section. The first driver section selectively sets a voltage at a first output terminal to one of a first voltage, a second voltage, and a third voltage that is between the first voltage and the second voltage. The setting section dynamically sets an output impedance of the first driver section at a time when the first driver section sets the voltage at the first output terminal to the third voltage.
US10225106B2
Certain embodiments described herein are generally directed to a hypervisor-wide data structure that holds service rule address information for multiple VIFs in a compact way, which can later be processed per-VIF, in order to perform VIF-specific address group updates. For example, certain embodiments described herein provide a network controller that maintains a global hash table for multiple VIFs that maps network addresses to groups of one or more service rules. In certain embodiments, a network address to service rules table for each VIF may be derived based on the global hash table by using set intersections.
US10225099B2
A vehicle electronic computer, including a first microcontroller and a second microcontroller including respective FlexRay™ communication controllers that are linked to one another by connections, the first microcontroller and the second microcontroller being configured to exchange data with one another by way of the FlexRay™ communication controllers. Furthermore, the second microcontroller includes a CAN-FD communication controller by way of which the electronic computer is able to be linked to a communication bus of the vehicle in order to exchange data with a remote device, and the CAN-FD communication controller is linked to the FlexRay™ communication controller of the second microcontroller.
US10225096B2
System and method for providing network support services and premises gateway support infrastructure
A service management system communicates via wide area network with gateway devices located at respective user premises. The service management system remotely manages delivery of application services, which can be voice controlled, by a gateway, e.g. by selectively activating/deactivating service logic modules in the gateway. The service management system also may selectively provide secure communications and exchange of information among gateway devices and among associated endpoint devices. An exemplary service management system includes a router connected to the network and one or more computer platforms, for implementing management functions. Examples of the functions include a connection manager for controlling system communications with the gateway devices, an authentication manager for authenticating each gateway device and controlling the connection manager and a subscription manager for managing applications services and/or features offered by the gateway devices. A service manager, controlled by the subscription manager, distributes service specific configuration data to authenticated gateway devices.
US10225092B2
A transmission control system includes: a storage unit that stores therein zone identification information for identifying a zone in which each of transmission terminals is used, and priority information that indicates a priority at which a transmission terminal indicated by the zone identification information should use each of a plurality of relay devices, in association with each other; a reception unit that receives, from a first transmission terminal, first zone identification information for identifying a zone in which the first transmission terminal is used and second zone identification information for identifying a zone in which a second transmission terminal as a destination terminal is used; and a selection unit that selects a relay device to be used for relaying the content data based on first priority information associated with the first zone identification information and second priority information associated with the second zone identification information in the storage unit.
US10225091B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a method for implementing P2MP multicast, a network node, and a system. The method includes: acquiring, by a network-side leaf node, an mLDP label of a downstream user-side leaf node and FEC information from an mLDP mapping message of the downstream user-side leaf node, then sending an mLDP mapping message that includes an mLDP label and the FEC information, to an upstream network-side root node, and generating a forwarding entry; searching for or establishing an RSVP P2MP LSP, allocating a label to the FEC information, and associating a forwarding entry of each network-side leaf node with the label of the FEC information; and sending an mLDP label of the network-side root node and the FEC information to an upstream user-side leaf node, and associating the mLDP label with the RSVP P2MP LSP and the label of the FEC information.
US10225090B2
Various systems and methods for performing bit indexed explicit replication (BIER) using multiprotocol label switching (MPLS). For example, one method involves receiving a packet that includes a MPLS label. The packet also includes a multicast forwarding entry. The method also involves determining, based on the value of the MPLS label, whether to use the multicast forwarding entry to forward the packet. The method further includes forwarding the packet.
US10225084B1
Disclosed are techniques for securely sharing a content item. The techniques comprise receiving an authorization grant. The techniques also comprise utilizing the authorization grant to obtain an access token. The access token includes credentials for enabling access to a content item. The techniques further include requesting one of an encryption or decryption key from a key management system. The one of the encryption or decryption key facilitates encryption or decryption operations in connection with the content item. The techniques still further comprising performing an encryption or decryption operation in connection with the content item. The one of the encryption or decryption operation is performed using the corresponding one of the encryption or decryption key.
US10225082B2
A random value generator is provided that comprises a carbon nanotube structure that generates a random output current in response to a voltage input. The random value generator includes a random value output circuit coupled to the carbon nanotube structure that receives the random output current from the carbon nanotube structure and generates a random output value based on the received random output current from the carbon nanotube structure.
US10225081B2
For secure wireless communications the sender device uses a rail encoder that outputs dual rail-encoded states of light in a time slot. The states of light dual rail-encode information according to a phase and/or intensity difference between the dual rails, and the rail-encoded states of light may further be converted to a polarization-encoded state. This may be implemented using at least two polarizing beam-splitters with at least one quarter-wave plate disposed therebetween; and/or with integrated waveguides that convert three optical inputs to two optical outputs that are input to a polarization rotator-combiner. The encoder may randomly define the polarization-encoded state such as by randomly selecting from a finite number of at least N=3 possible polarization rotations. The recipient device may use 2N parallel channels to decode the dual rail-encoded states of light, each channel comprising a detector configured to detect one of N possible polarization states.
US10225074B2
An encryption method includes: converting a section of express information into a binary sequence, grouping the binary sequence into a plurality of group data, and aligning each group data into an information matrix; converting the information matrix into a corresponding a basic group information matrix; randomly choosing a reference DNA sequence from a gene library, and aligning the reference DNA sequence into a basic group transition matrix, using the basic group transition matrix to convert the basic group information matrix into an encrypted information matrix, and exploding the encrypted information matrix to obtain a basic group information sequence; generating a primer for the basic group information sequence, and adding the primer before and behind the primer generator to obtain a completed DNA sequence; and synthesizing a DNA matter based on the completed DNA sequence.
US10225071B2
A system may include a clock and data recovery circuit that includes one or more analog components. The system may also include a digital control circuit configured to control the clock and data recovery circuit. The digital control circuit and the clock and data recovery circuit may be formed on a single substrate.
US10225069B2
A CDR circuit includes: a comparison circuit that receives data signal on which a first clock signal is superimposed, and outputs a comparison result obtained by comparing the data signal with three different threshold values at a timing synchronized with a second clock signal; a data pattern detection circuit that detects an occurrence of a data pattern, based on the comparison result; a frequency detection circuit that outputs, when an occurrence of the data pattern is detected, a detection result indicating whether a second frequency of the second clock signal is higher than a first frequency of the first clock signal; an adjustment circuit that outputs, based on the detection result, an adjustment signal for adjusting a phase of the second clock signal and the second frequency; and an oscillator circuit that outputs the second clock signal with the phase and the second frequency adjusted, based on the adjustment signal.
US10225064B2
A method and apparatus for transmitting frames having a long training field (LTF) for a second type of station (STA) in a wireless communication system are provided. For this, STA prepares a frame having a first part for a first type of STA and a second part for the second type of STA; wherein the second part includes multiple LTFs, when the frame is used for MU (Multiple User) transmission scheme or OFDMA (Orthogonal Frequency Divisional Multiple Access) scheme. In case a first LTF having a first number of symbols length and a second LTF having a second number of symbols length, which is greater than the first number of symbols length, are used for the multiple LTFs, the first LTF is extended such that the first LTF and the second LTF have a same number of symbols length. The STA transmits the prepared frame to one or more STAs.
US10225062B2
The present disclosure discloses a method and device for transmitting ACK/NACK indication information. A network-side device configures at least two carriers for a UE; transmits PDCCH information to the UE; selects one of at least two timing relationships as a first timing relationship; determines a corresponding third uplink subframe and first carrier; indicate related information corresponding to the third uplink subframe and the first carrier to the UE; in the third uplink subframe of the first carrier, determines a first channel resource, and indicates the first channel resource to the UE; and receives an ACK/NACK fed back by the UE on the allocated resource.
US10225061B2
Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for receiving a frame. A method for receiving a frame in a wireless LAN comprises the steps of: an AP transmitting, to a plurality of STAs, a downlink PPDU including downlink data for each of the plurality of STAs, through a plurality of channels; and the AP receiving, from each of the plurality of STAs, a plurality of block ACK frames transmitted based on a block ACK transmission control field, wherein the downlink PPDU includes the block ACK transmission control field, and wherein each of the plurality of block ACK frames may include ACK information related to downlink data.
US10225056B2
The present invention provides a method for defining, and for transmitting, a new uplink reference signal and devices supporting the method. In one embodiment of the present invention, a method in which a terminal transmits a millimetre wave reference signal (mW-RS) in a millimetre-wave (mmWave)-supporting wireless access system comprises the steps of: receiving a downlink reference signal in a predetermined number of sub-frames, and measuring two or more received power levels; determining whether to transmit an mW-RS, based on the value(s) of the difference(s) between the two or more received power levels; and transmitting the mW-RS if it has been decided to transmit an mW-RS. Here, the mW-RS is transmitted in order to measure whether the state of a wireless channel has transitioned between an LoS (Light of Sight) state and a NLoS (Non-LoS) state.
US10225051B1
A measurement system of a data transmission interface includes a signal generator and a signal receiver. The signal generator transmits an input data to the data transmission interface. The signal receiver receives an output data from the data transmission interface. The signal receiver measures a jitter tolerance capability of the data transmission interface according to error feedback data of the output data. The data transmission interface includes a receiving circuit, a synchronous circuit, and a transmitting circuit. The receiving circuit receives the input data and generates an error signal when a data error occurs. The synchronous circuit receives the error signal to generate an error indication signal. The transmitting circuit transmits the output data to the signal receiver and receives the error indication signal when the data error occurs, in order to generate the error feedback data in the output data according to the error indication signal.
US10225036B2
Systems and methods for improved data transmission utilizing a communication facilitator are described in accordance with embodiments of the invention. One embodiment includes a plurality of nodes, that each comprise: a transmitter; a receiver; and an encoder that encodes message data for transmission using a plurality of codewords; a cooperation facilitator node comprising: a transmitter; and a receiver; wherein the nodes are configured to transmit data parameters to the cooperation facilitator; wherein the cooperation facilitator is configured to generate cooperation parameters based upon the data parameters received from the nodes; wherein the cooperation facilitator is configured to transmit cooperation parameters to the nodes; and wherein the encoder in each of the nodes selects a codeword from the plurality of codewords based at least in part upon the cooperation parameters received from the communication facilitator and transmit the selected codeword via the multiple access channel.
US10225020B2
Optical signal receivers and methods are provided that include first and second optical resonators, each of which receives a portion of an arriving optical signal. The first optical resonator is tuned to a carrier wavelength and accumulates resonant optical signal energy whose output is disturbed responsive to a transition in the arriving optical signal. The second optical resonator is detuned from the carrier wavelength but also exhibits a disturbed output responsive to the transition in the arriving optical signal. Detectors detect the output disturbances from the two optical resonators to determine characteristics of the transition in the arriving optical signal.
US10225012B2
In one embodiment, an electronic device includes a storage storing a first table regarding a relationship between data and colors, a controller configured to determine a second table as a substitute in a preset condition for the first table and determine a first color, and a second color corresponding to a target data respectively based on the first table and the second table, and a display for displaying at least one from among the first color and the second color.
US10224991B2
The present disclosure provides a method of selecting a plurality of sets of beam pairs in a wireless communication system. The method includes estimating, by a receiver, channels associated with a plurality of transmit ports for each receive port of a plurality of receive ports; and determining, by the receiver, the plurality of sets of the beam pairs including transmit beam and receive beam using: an average power level at each receive port for at least one transmit port based on the estimated channel associated between the beam pairs, a set of first power matrices, wherein each first power matrix, from the set of first power matrices, comprises at least one transmit port, beam ID pairs including transmit beam ID and receive beam ID associated with each receive port, wherein the set of first power matrices is formed based on the average power level at each of the receive port, and a second capacity matrix formed based on capacity maximization obtained from the set of first power matrices, wherein the plurality of sets of the beam pairs associated with each of the transmit port and receive port is selected from the second capacity matrix.
US10224984B1
Disclosed is a ceramic back cover used in an electronic device and an electronic device having the ceramic back cover. A wireless charging RX coil is disposed on an inner surface of the ceramic back cover, a groove used for disposing the wireless charging RX coil is in an intermediate region of the inner surface of the ceramic back cover, and at least two wireless charging RX electrode grooves that extend outward separately from an intermediate region of the groove and a marginal region of the groove are formed on the inner surface of the ceramic back cover. Electrodes formed in the at least two wireless charging RX electrode grooves are used as leading-out ends of the wireless charging RX coil disposed in the groove, and two ends of the wireless charging RX coil are welded at the leading-out ends.
US10224981B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a coupling device includes a circuit that receives a signal. At least one passive electrical circuit element generates an electromagnetic field in response to the signal. A portion of the electromagnetic field is guided by a surface of a transmission medium to propagate as a guided electromagnetic wave longitudinally along the transmission medium. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10224972B2
Methods, systems, and media for monitoring updates on a data carrier module include processes of initializing the mobile device to communicate on a telecommunications network, updating data files on the data carrier module, and reinitializing the mobile device to communicate on the telecommunications network. Initializing the mobile device includes storing a list of version numbers for monitored data files and the monitored data files from the data carrier module in a cache. Updating includes updating the version number of a monitored data file when the content of the monitored data file is updated on the data carrier module. Reinitializing the mobile device includes determining whether the version numbers of any monitored data files have changed, copying updated monitored data files from the data carrier module to the cache in response to determining that the version numbers of such data files changed, and loading the monitored data files from the cache.
US10224970B2
Various examples are directed to systems and methods for wideband digital predistortion. A digital pre-distortion circuit may be programmed to receive a complex baseband signal and generate a pre-distorted signal. Generating the pre -distorted signal may comprise applying to the complex baseband signal a first correction for an Nth order distortion of a power amplifier at an Ith harmonic frequency zone centered at about an Ith harmonic of a carrier frequency and applying to the complex baseband signal a second correction for the Nth order distortion at a Jth harmonic frequency zone centered at about a Jth harmonic of the carrier frequency different than the Ith harmonic of a carrier frequency.
US10224969B2
The transmitter circuit according to one embodiment includes a pulse generating circuit generating a pulse signal based on edges of input data, a first output driver outputting, based on the pulse signal, a first output pulse signal according to one of the edges to a first end of an external insulating coupling element, a second output driver outputting, based on the pulse signal, a second output pulse signal according to other one of the edges to a second end of the insulating coupling element, and an output stop circuit stopping the first and second output pulse signals from being output for a prescribed period from when a power supply voltage is turned on.
US10224956B2
In one embodiment, an apparatus comprises a first compression engine to receive a first compressed data block from a second compression engine that is to generate the first compressed data block by compressing a first plurality of repeated instances of data that each have a length greater than or equal to a first length. The first compression engine is further to compress a second plurality of repeated instances of data of the first compressed data block that each have a length greater than or equal to a second length, the second length being shorter than the first length, wherein each compressed repeated instance of the first and second pluralities of repeated instances comprises a location and length of a data instance that is repeated. The apparatus further comprises a memory buffer to store the compressed first and second plurality of repeated instances of data.
US10224942B2
A sub-sampling phase-locked loop is described, which comprises a digital-to-time converter, a sampler module, an interpolator, and a voltage controlled oscillator. The digital-to-time converter is configured to provide a first delay signal (SDLY1) at a first point (t1) in time and a second delay signal (SDLY2) at a second point in time (t2). The sampler module is configured to provide a first sample (S1) of the oscillator output signal (SOUT) at the first point in time (t1) and a second sample (S2) of the oscillator output signal (SOUT) at the second point in time (t2). The interpolator is configured to provide a sampler signal (SSAMPL) by interpolating the first sample (S1) and the second sample (S2). The voltage controlled oscillator is configured to control the oscillator output signal (SOUT) based on the sampler signal (SSAMPL).
US10224933B2
A dynamic decode circuit for decoding a plurality of input signals comprises a decoder that decodes the plurality of input signals to produce a result at a first node, the result is propagated to a second node while an evaluation clock is active by a pair of serially connected transistors consisting of a transistor receiving an evaluation clock at its gate and a transistor receiving the first node at its gate, the interconnection of the pair of serially connected transistors is precharged when the evaluation clock is inactive to provide a delay between the end of the active evaluation clock and the beginning of the precharge.
US10224932B2
A high speed VPP level translator circuit using thin-oxide field effect transistors (FETs) and methods of use are disclosed. The level translator includes a resistor divider and a one-shot circuit in parallel with the resistor divider. The one-shot circuit conducts to assist a transition from a first state to a second state, and is non-conducting during the transition from the second state to the first state.
US10224929B2
A power semiconductor drive circuit includes a parallel circuit connected to a gate of a power semiconductor element and constituted by two transistors for setting gate resistance of the power semiconductor element; a gate voltage monitoring circuit connected to the gate of the power semiconductor element and the parallel circuit, wherein a monitoring voltage is set in the gate voltage monitoring circuit to monitor a gate voltage of the power semiconductor element; a signal delay circuit to delay an output signal of the gate voltage monitoring circuit; and a gate control circuit to change the magnitude of combined resistance of the parallel circuit based on an output signal output from the signal delay circuit.
US10224925B2
A communication node is connected to a transmission line which transmits a differential signal changeable between a high level and a low level and has a high potential signal line and a low potential signal line as a pair of signal lines. The communication node includes: an inter-line potential detector that detects an intermediate potential between the pair of signal lines; a node potential detector that detects an intermediate potential of an operation power source voltage which is supplied to the communication node; and a voltage adjuster that detects a difference between the intermediate potential detected by the inter-line potential detector and the intermediate potential detected by the node potential detector, and adjusts the operation power source voltage in accordance with the difference.
US10224919B2
A power switch device includes a switch which is configured to switch a load signal between an on state and an off state. A first terminal and a second terminal of the power switch device are configured to provide a supply voltage to the power switch device. The second terminal is further configured to provide a control signal to the power switch device. The control signal is generated by disconnecting the second terminal from an external voltage source. A storage circuit of the power switch device is configured to capacitively store a status of the supply voltage. A control circuit of the power switch device is configured to control operation of the power switch device depending on the stored status of the supply voltage.
US10224916B1
Comparators include (among other components) two inputs, an output, and two pairs of transistors (each connected to a different one of the inputs). Both pairs of transistors are connected to the output. Additionally, a first signal generator is connected to the first transistor in each of the pairs of transistors, and a second signal generator is connected to the second transistor in each of the pairs of transistors. The first signal generator and the second signal generator output on/off control signals that have timing patterns that are inverted relative to one another, and this causes only the first transistor or the second transistor in each of the pairs of transistors to be active at any given time. Thus, the single active transistor in the first pair of transistors and the single active transistor in the second pair of transistors amplify the difference between the two inputs, through the output.
US10224914B2
A semiconductor apparatus, includes a common mode detector circuit that receives alternating current (AC) signals in a common mode.
US10224913B2
A fast response time, self-activating, adjustable threshold limiter including a limiting element LE, a first coupling element CE1 electrically connected from a signal node of LE to a control input of LE, and a second coupling element CE2 electrically connected from the control input of LE to a nominal node of LE. An initial bias (control) voltage is also supplied to the control input of LE to dynamically control the limiting threshold for the limiter. Embodiments include usage of self-activating adjustable power limiters in combination with series switch components in a switch circuit in lieu of conventional shunt switches.
US10224909B1
Disclosed are an error elimination amplifier and a motor control circuit using the same. The error elimination amplifier includes an amplification circuit, a switching circuit, a comparison circuit, an output comparator and a calibration circuit. The comparison circuit includes a first comparator and a second comparator. The switching circuit and the first input end of the output comparator are electrically connected to a signal output end of the amplification circuit. A second input end of the output comparator is coupled to a reference voltage. The calibration circuit is electrically connected to the amplification circuit. An offset of the amplifier is eliminated through the amplification circuit, the switching circuit and the calibration circuit.
US10224895B2
A transmission line transformer having a time delay network having a signal terminal and a pair of output terminals connected to the signal terminal through a corresponding one of a pair of time delay elements, the delay line elements having different time delays. A pair of transmission lines, each one having a pair of electrically coupled elements. A first one of the elements in one of the transmission lines has a first end connected to one of the pair of output terminals. A second one of the elements in such one of the transmission lines has a second end connected to a second end of one of the pair of elements in the other one of the transmission lines. The first one of the pair of elements in the other one of the pair of transmission lines is coupled to a second one of the pair of output terminals.
US10224894B2
An audio encoding device and an audio decoding device are described herein. The audio encoding device may examine a set of audio channels/channel groups representing a piece of sound program content and produce a set of ducking values to associate with one of the channels/channel groups. During playback of the piece of sound program content, the ducking values may be applied to all other channels/channel groups. Application of these ducking values may cause (1) the reduction in dynamic range of ducked channels/channel groups and/or (2) movement of channels/channel groups in the sound field. This ducking may improve intelligibility of audio in the non-ducked channel/channel group. For instance, a narration channel/channel group may be more clearly heard by listeners through the use of selective ducking of other channels/channel groups during playback.
US10224893B2
Systems, devices, and methods for determining and establishing frequency-dependent gain compensation in wide bandwidth communication systems are disclosed. Variable frequency-dependent gain compensation circuits, or variable equalizers, have settings that configure them to establish discrete frequency-dependent gain compensation. The frequency-dependent gain compensation can include various types and levels of gain slope and/or ripple. The settings of the variable equalizers can be set by control signals established a control circuit in response to signals from an external computer. The variable equalizers are coupled to other circuits or devices and the frequency-dependent gain of the combined circuit are measured. The settings of the variable equalizer are then changed to establish an optimal frequency-dependent gain profile or frequency-dependent gain that is closest to a predetermined frequency-dependent target gain profile. The settings can then be saved in a memory or register.
US10224857B2
Provided is a motor controller that controls a motor system including: a power converter, a smoothing capacitor, a three-phase AC motor, and a current sensor. The motor controller is provided with an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit specifies a target phase that is a phase of a second phase voltage command signal having a largest difference from a first phase voltage command signal having a signal level that is neither a maximum nor a minimum signal level, based on three phase voltage command signals generated from the detection value of the current sensor, and corrects the detection value of the current sensor, which detects the phase current of the target phase, such that a terminal voltage of the smoothing capacitor matches the desired voltage value.
US10224850B2
An operating method of a synchronous machine is provided, the operating method including: generating an MTPA (Maximum Torque Per Ampere) curve, based on a current limiting circle depending on a rated current of an inverter or a motor and a torque curve depending on a torque command; generating a voltage limiting ellipse, based on a DC-link voltage; displaying, on an X-Y plane, the current limiting circle, the torque curve, the MTPA curve, and the voltage limiting ellipse; and computing a d-axis current and a q-axis current, based on an intersection point between at least two of the current limiting circle, the torque curve, the MTPA curve, and the voltage limiting ellipse, displayed on the X-Y plane.
US10224849B2
A voltage difference is determined between the observed voltage and a reference direct current bus voltage. A quadrature-axis (q-axis) voltage command is outputted based on a current difference derived from the voltage difference. A commanded direct-axis (d-axis) voltage is determined based on a measured d-axis current and a determined d-axis reference current derived from a mathematical relationship between d-axis residual voltage, the observed voltage and the commanded q-axis voltage, where residual voltage is proportional to a function of the observed voltage and the commanded q-axis voltage. An inverse Parks transformation module or a data processor provides one or more phase voltage command based on inverse Parks transform of the commanded voltages.
US10224848B2
There are described methods and systems for synchronizing at least two generators for an engine. A first generator is mechanically coupled to the engine. A power source is connected in parallel to the first generator and to a second generator, the second generator mechanically uncoupled from the engine, the power source connected across a same respective phase of a stator in the first generator and the second generator. Power from the power source is applied to the first generator and the second generator to align a respective rotor to the respective phase in each generator and cause the first generator and the second generator to be in-phase. The second generator is then mechanically coupled to the engine.
US10224837B2
A method for starting a drive motor. The drive motor includes a motor stator with stator coils and a motor rotor, and a control electronics system and a power electronics system which supply power to the stator coils with a predefined coil voltage and a predefined constant start-up rotation frequency to generate a rotating field to drive the motor rotor. The method includes supplying power to at least one stator coil with a coil voltage corresponding to a start value, increasing the coil voltage in steps, monitoring an electric current flowing through the power electronics system, and, when a specific minimum voltage drop is detected, terminating the increasing of the coil voltage in steps, and performing a safety increase of the coil voltage by increasing a start-up voltage value by a predefined safety value to a first operating voltage value where the motor rotor is drivable in an unregulated mode.
US10224833B2
Disclosed are a modulation method of a modular multilevel converter and a fault isolation method of a submodule unit. The modulation method comprises a first mode and a second mode, and the first mode and the second mode operate cyclically. In the first mode, a first power semiconductor switch and a second power semiconductor switch are turned on alternately, while a third power semiconductor switch is turned off normally and a fourth power semiconductor switch is turned on normally. In the second mode, the third power semiconductor switch and the fourth power semiconductor switch are turned on alternately, while the first power semiconductor switch is turned on normally and the second power semiconductor switch is turned off normally. The method enables junction temperatures of the power semiconductor switches used to be equalized, increases an operation safety margin of the converter, effectively increase the capacity of the converter without increasing engineering costs, and achieve better performance in both economic efficiency and technicality.
US10224830B2
A method for controlling a back-to-back three-phase three-level converter having a grid-side AC/DC converter and a machine-side DC/AC converter connected by a split DC link which defines a DC link midpoint. The method includes controlling the grid-side converter to convert AC power from a grid into DC power of the DC link, controlling the machine-side converter to convert DC power from the DC link to AC power to feed a low frequency machine, and concurrently performing common mode voltage injection for the machine-side converter so as to at least partially compensate midpoint voltage ripple caused by the machine-side converter. The method further includes performing common mode voltage injection for the grid-side converter so as to at least partly further compensate the portion of the midpoint voltage ripple which remains uncompensated by controlling the machine-side converter. A control system implementing the control method and a power conversion system utilizing same.
US10224826B2
A control unit capable of accurately calculating a magnetization bias of a transformer is provided, thereby appropriately reducing the magnetization bias. The control unit acquires first and second currents that flow through a transformer during a period where either first or second switches individually turn ON. The control unit predicts an amount of magnetization bias in either positive side or negative side of the excitation current that flows through the transformer. The control unit reduces the magnetization bias of the transformer based on the predicted amount of magnetization bias.
US10224824B2
A driver includes a high-side driver transistor coupled between supply voltage and the gate drive nodes and provides a first charge current to a high side gate node of the high-side driver transistor until the gate drive node reaches a first gate drive threshold. Then a second charge current is provided to the high side gate node that is less than the first charge current. The gate drive node is limited to a first clamped threshold for a delay time. A gate drive current rise signal sets the value of the second charge current that charges the high side gate node and after the delay time the gate drive voltage is limited to a second clamped threshold greater than the first clamped threshold but less than the supply voltage. A gate drive programmable control signal sets the value of the second clamped threshold.
US10224804B1
A driving circuit includes a power switch driver and a plurality of current-limiting circuits. The power switch driver is configured to output a driving signal according to a switching signal. Each of the current-limiting circuits has an input terminal electrically coupled to a corresponding one of output terminals of the power switch driver respectively. Output terminals of the current-limiting circuits are electrically coupled to a control terminal of a power switch. The power switch driver is configured to selectively output the driving signal to one of a plurality of output terminals according to a load state of the power switch, such that the driving signal is outputted to the control terminal of the power switch via one of the current-limiting circuits.
US10224803B1
Circuits and methods are provided for soft switching within a switched-capacitor DC/DC converter, so as to reduce switching losses and improve efficiency. This is accomplished, in preferred converters, by coupling a compensation inductor between one half-bridge of an output rectifier and another half-bridge of the output rectifier. The compensation inductor functions to transfer charge from or to the capacitance of switches within the converter while the switches are off, such that the voltage across each switch is reduced to zero before that switch is turned on. This provides zero-voltage switching (ZVS) and its associated high efficiency. The efficiency associated with the ZVS makes ideal zero-current switching (ZCS) less important, such that high-precision capacitors and inductors forming the resonant tanks required by near-ideal ZCS are not required. The resultant circuits are physically smaller and less expensive than other converters that require near-ideal ZCS, but achieve similar or better efficiency.
US10224802B1
A multi-stage switching power supply includes a first DC-DC power converter, a second DC-DC power converter and a control circuit. The control circuit is coupled to the DC-DC power converters for providing a first control signal to the first DC-DC power converter and a second control signal to the second DC-DC power converter. The control circuit is configured to vary a duty cycle of the first control signal to regulate an output voltage of the power supply, maintain a frequency of the second control signal at a fixed frequency, and in response to the duty cycle of the first control signal reaching a duty cycle threshold or an input voltage of the first DC-DC power converter reaching a voltage threshold, vary a frequency of the second control signal to regulate the output voltage of the power supply. Other example power supplies, control circuits, etc. are also disclosed.
US10224798B2
A magnetic spiral bevel gear including a frustoconical housing with a rotational axis and magnets arranged around an outer surface of the frustoconical housing. The magnets are arranged in spirals on the outer surface, with each spiral alternating polarity. Each may be formed by a single continuous magnet of by discrete magnets. Gear assemblies as disclosed including a two-gear assembly, a four-gear assembly, and a six-gear assembly. Gear assemblies are arranged such that the gear surfaces are parallel without touching, and rotation of one gear causes rotation of the remaining gears.
US10224792B2
The rotary electrical machine having a homopolar structure includes a number Npe of electrical phases. The machine includes a juxtaposition, along the rotational axis of the rotary electrical machine, of at least one pair of armatures having a number of poles Np, placed on both sides of at least one inductive coil wound around the rotational axis, two adjacent armatures being angularly offset by any electrical angle θs, preferably between 0° and 180°/Npe, and at least one “passive” inductor of ferromagnetic material, separated from the armatures by an air gap. Either the armatures form the rotor, or the inductor and the other element form the stator.
US10224789B2
A wire conductor alignment apparatus aligns wire conductors of coil members provided in a core of a dynamo electric motor or generator for welding the ends thereof. The apparatus has a plurality of circumferentially arranged first passages and a plurality of circumferentially arranged second passages. Each first passages is overlapped with a second passage to form a pair, each pair of passages form a combined third passage, and each third passage is configured to receive at least one end portion of at least two wire conductors of a coil member of a dynamo electric machine. The apparatus also has an actuator for moving at least one of the plurality of first passages and the plurality of second passages relative to one another in a circumferential direction to cause a respective end portion of a wire conductor for welding thereof.
US10224785B2
A cooling system for a dynamoelectric machine comprising a cooling jacket for assembly on an outer circumference of a stator of the dynamoelectric machine, a housing for receiving the stator having the mounted cooling jacket such that a hollow chamber, which can be filled with a liquid cooling medium, remains between an outer wall of the cooling jacket and an inner wall of the housing, wherein an inlet opening for inlet of the cooling medium into an inlet region and an outlet opening for outlet of the cooling medium from an outlet region of the hollow chamber are arranged on the housing and a barrier element connected to the cooling jacket for spatial separation of the inlet region from the outlet region is provided. The efficiency of such a cooling system is improved in that the barrier element presses against the inner wall of the housing having increasing pressure difference of the cooling medium in the inlet and outlet region.
US10224768B2
Magnetic drive device characterized in that it comprises a driving element moving in a guide element, and suitable to drive a driven element; the driven element is mobile along the guide element, in accordance with the movement of the driving element; the driving element acting on the driven element by use of magnetic means and without direct physical contact. The magnetic drive action of the driving element is induced by means of the use of permanent magnets or of electromagnets which act on the driven element.
US10224767B2
In one aspect of the invention for which protection is sought there is provided an electric machine comprising a substantially circular rotor and a stator, wherein the stator comprises at least one substantially arcuate segment. Aspects of the invention also relate to a stator segment comprising at least one inter-pole shield disposed between adjacent teeth. Further aspects of the invention also relate to a stator segment having a first shield disposed at a first circumferential end thereof and/or a second shield disposed at a second circumferential end thereof. Aspects of the invention also relate to a stator segment having a radially outwardly directed protuberance.
US10224761B2
A power control method for a wireless power transmission assembly, and the wireless power transmission assembly. The method includes: outputting a direct current voltage to a wireless power transmission apparatus, the direct current voltage generated from an alternating current power source in an adaptor; and changing the level of the direct current voltage in the adaptor based on a voltage change communication signal if the wireless power transmission apparatus transmits the voltage change communication signal to the adaptor.
US10224759B2
Aspects disclosed in the detailed description include a wireless charging circuit comprising a radio frequency (RF) power harvesting circuit. In one aspect, the RF power harvesting circuit is configured to harvest a wireless RF charging signal provided by a wireless charging station to generate a direct-current (DC) charging signal to charge a battery, for example, a lithium-ion (Li-ion) battery, in a battery-operated electronic device. In another aspect, a wireless charging controller controls the RF power harvesting circuit to dynamically increase or decrease an effective charging power of the DC charging signal according to a target charging power determined according to a charging profile of the battery. By dynamically adjusting the effective charging power provided to the battery according to the charging profile of the battery, it is possible to provide fast charging to the battery while protecting the battery from overcharging damage.
US10224750B2
A power transmitter and a power receiver are arranged with a space therebetween. A power transmitting device generates a resonant current by taking out electric energy from a DC power supply through an operation of a power transmitting switch circuit, directly creating, in a space, by using the resonant current, an electromagnetic field that periodically changes at a switching frequency, and forms an electromagnetic resonance field in which the space itself has energy and vibrates. A power receiving device generates a resonant current by obtaining electric energy from the resonance field and forms a new electromagnetic field on the basis of this resonant current. The power transmitting device or the power receiving device, when viewed as a geometric figure, is a fractal-shaped device formed of a line conductor pattern in which a portion is similar to the whole, and increases electromagnetic field energy in a space surrounding the fractal-shaped device.
US10224746B2
A charger, especially a chargeable mobile device for an inductive wireless charging system, is provided which includes at least one coil having a core part formed of a soft magnetic material, wherein the coil is embedded in a polymer bonded soft magnetic material.
US10224736B2
A method and system for a headset wireless charging dock, where the charging dock comprises a radio, a coil, and a proximity sensor. The method may comprise sensing a presence of a headset using the proximity sensor, wirelessly charging a battery in the headset utilizing the coil, and wirelessly communicating commands, using the radio, to the headset to power down at least a portion of circuitry in the headset. The command may be communicated to the headset utilizing a protocol and a RF radio used by the headset to receive audio signals. The command communicated to the headset may power down audio processing circuitry in the headset. The charging induction coil may be inductively coupled to a coil in the headset to wirelessly charge the battery in the headset. The proximity sensor may comprise a Hall sensor.
US10224731B2
A positive electrode potential and a negative electrode potential during charge or discharge of a secondary battery are determined, based on potentials of a positive electrode and a negative electrode in an open circuit state corresponding to a SOC of the secondary battery, and internal resistances of the positive electrode and the negative electrode corresponding to the SOC of the secondary battery, and a current of the secondary battery is controlled such that the positive electrode potential and the negative electrode potential fall within a predetermined range.
US10224727B2
A hub is electrically connected with an electronic device, an AC source, and at least one portable device which are located in the outside environment. The electronic device includes a USB port. The hub includes a first connector, a second connector, a third connector, a controller, and a power module. The first connector is electrically connected with the USB port of the electronic device. The first connector includes a first data transmission line and a first power line. The third connector is electrically connected with the AC source. The controller is electrically connected between the first data transmission line and a second data transmission line. The controller and the portable device transmit data to each other. The controller sends a signal to the portable device, enabling the portable device to start a quick charge mode. The power module is electrically connected with the first connector, the second connector, and the third connector. The power module supplies power outputted from the AC source or the electronic device to the portable device.
US10224726B1
This invention provides a base unit for charging a handheld ID reader in which the charging contacts are mounted on a contact holder that is biased rearwardly during insertion of the reader, and thereafter snaps back in place and locks the reader after the reader has been pushed into a fully seated position in a well of the base unit. This lock is maintained between shoulders on the holder and corresponding locking tabs on the bottom face of the reader. The locking tabs are conductive, and provide two additional electrical contacts that engage contact pads on the reader bottom face. Each of the power and ground signals are connected over at least two electrical contacts between reader and base station, increasing reliability, especially when the reader is not in its fully seated position. An indicator LED is integrated in the base station enclosure near the charging contacts.
US10224721B2
A switch control circuit to switch off communication channels between a baseboard management controller (BMC) and a backplane chip when not needed includes a logic component and a switch circuit. The switch circuit is configured for coupling between the BMC and the backplane chip in a device. The logic component obtains a logic control signal from the BMC, and outputs a switch signal to the switch circuit to turn on or turn off the switch circuit according to the logic control signal. An electronic device including the switch control circuit is also provided.
US10224720B2
A combined power plant is disclosed for feeding energy into a non-local power network. The combined power plant includes at least one turbine power plant and at least one energy storage installation with one or more energy storage modules, whereby the turbine power plant is connected to the non-local power network in order to feed in power. A monitoring unit monitors the rotational speed of a turbine on the basis of a rotational speed-specific characteristic quantity, at least while the energy is being fed into the non-local power network. The energy storage installation is connected to the non-local power network separately or via the turbine power plant, whereby the monitoring unit is connected to a control unit of the appertaining energy storage installation in order to transmit a characteristic quantity signal based on the rotational speed-specific characteristic quantity to the control unit via a data connection.
US10224719B2
Provided herein is a system for managing energy of a residential community sharing energy, the system including a plurality of home EMS (Energy Management System) provided in individual households; a unit for supplying common use energy having a production unit configured to produce common use energy, and a storage unit for charging the produced common use energy; and a residential community EMS configured to manage production and charging of the common use energy, and to control the unit for supplying the common use energy, in response to receiving a signal requesting to use the common use energy transmitted from a home EMS supply, supply the common use energy to the home EMS that transmitted the signal requesting to use the common use energy.
US10224710B2
An electrostatic discharge protection circuit includes a power clamp device, a timing circuit including a first resistor, a first capacitor that is connected with the first resistor at a first node, and a second capacitor that is connected to a second node, a logic gate including a first input connected with the first node, a second input connected with the second node, and an output connected with the power clamp device, and a decoder device connected with a first address pin and a second address pin. The first address pin and the second address pin are used to detect the power clamp device switching on at time of power on and draining current.
US10224705B2
A heat-recoverable component includes a tube-shaped or cap-shaped base material layer having heat shrinkability, and an adhesive layer formed on an inner circumferential surface of the base material layer. The adhesive layer includes a low-viscosity adhesive portion and a high-viscosity adhesive portion disposed between the low-viscosity adhesive portion and an opening of the base material layer. The low-viscosity adhesive portion has a shear viscosity of 10 Pa·s or less at a shear rate of 1 s−1 at a heat shrinkage temperature of the base material layer. The high-viscosity adhesive portion has a shear viscosity of 100 Pa·s or more at a shear rate of 1 s−1 at the heat shrinkage temperature of the base material layer. At the heat shrinkage temperature, a ratio of the shear viscosity of the high-viscosity adhesive portion to the shear viscosity of the low-viscosity adhesive portion is 15,000 or less.
US10224695B2
In the prior art, tunable lasers utilizing silicon-based tunable ring filters and III-V semiconductor-based gain regions required the heterogeneous integration of independently formed silicon and III-V semiconductor based optical elements, resulting in large optical devices requiring a complex manufacturing process (e.g., airtight packaging to couple the devices formed on different substrates, precise alignment for the elements, etc.). Embodiments of the invention eliminate the need for bulk optical elements and hermetic packaging, via the use of hybridized III-V/silicon gain regions and silicon optical components, such as silicon wavelength filters and stabilized wavelength references, thereby reducing the size and manufacturing complexity of tunable lasing devices.
US10224694B2
The present disclosure provides methods and apparatus to improve the dynamic coherent length of a sweep velocity-locked laser pulse generator (SV-LLPG) in an all-electronic fashion. A digital SV-LLPG is disclosed with two operation modes, i.e., unidirectional and bidirectional sweep modes; self-adaptive and time-dependent loop parameters (gain and location of poles/zeros); and, self-adaptive initial input curve. High frequency locking architectures, both single-side band (SSB) modulation method and direct phase measurement method, are provided to suppress the linewidth, or improve the coherent length, of the swept laser. A combination of high and low frequency locking, or a combination of multiple architectures disclosed in this invention, is utilized to achieve a higher level of linewidth reduction. The enhanced laser coherence extends the measurement range by at least one order of magnitude for applications including frequency-modulated continuous wave (FMCW) light detection and ranging (LiDAR) and optical fiber distributed sensing applications.
US10224693B2
A first contact surface of a semiconductor laser chip can be formed to a target surface roughness selected to have a maximum peak to valley height that is substantially smaller than a barrier layer thickness. A barrier layer that includes a non-metallic, electrically-conducting compound and that has the barrier layer thickness can be applied to the first contact surface, and the semiconductor laser chip can be soldered to a carrier mounting along the first contact surface using a solder composition by heating the soldering composition to less than a threshold temperature at which dissolution of the barrier layer into the soldering composition occurs. Related systems, methods, articles of manufacture, and the like are also described.
US10224688B2
Provided is an optical source apparatus that may generate two different optical frequency combs. The optical source apparatus includes an optical resonator and a continuous wave laser emitting laser light having a spectrum component corresponding to a resonance frequency of the optical resonator, and the optical resonator is configured to generate a first frequency comb and a second frequency comb having different modes by interacting with the laser light emitted by the continuous wave laser.
US10224681B2
A multipole plug 1 is configured in such a manner that a first terminal strip (first terminal strip 15) is provided with first flow holes (second flow holes 15D) in a first curved plate portion 15B, a second terminal strip (second terminal strip 17) is provided with a second flow holes (third flow holes 17D) in a second curved plate portion 17B, and the first curved plate portion 15B and the second curved plate portion 17B are positioned by the positioning ring 20 provided with an outer projecting portions 20B to be fitted to notched portions 18F of a first sleeve portion (second sleeve 18) and an inner projecting portions 20C to be fitted into a gap between the first curved plate portion 15B and the second curved plate portion 17B being fitted thereto.
US10224676B2
A shielded connection line for a magnetic resonance tomography system includes a signal conductor, a shield for the signal conductor, and a plug-in connector. The plug-in connector has a large number of connection contacts that are arranged in a two-dimensional matrix and are electrically insulated from each other in the plug-in connector. The signal conductor is in galvanic contact with a first connection contact, and three second connection contacts adjacent to the first connection contact and surrounding the first connection contact are galvanically connected to the shield.
US10224670B2
A connector assembly includes a flexible cable that includes a casing, a plurality of electrical wires each having a first portion encapsulated by the casing and a second portion extending beyond the casing, and a fiber having a first portion encapsulated by the casing and a second portion extending beyond the casing. The connector assembly further includes a housing having a first end to receive the flexible cable and a second end with a connector to connect with another connector, and a circuit board disposed in the housing. The circuit board includes first terminals to connect with the plurality of electrical wires, second terminals to connect with the connector, a plurality of traces coupling respective first terminals with respective second terminals, and a cleat. The second portion of the fiber extends beyond the casing to the cleat and winds around the cleat.
US10224668B2
An assembly for terminating a sheathed cable harness at an electrical component port, the assembly incorporating a nipple having a hollow bore fitted for receiving the cable harness; a coupling nut mounting the nipple upon the electrical component, the coupling nut being connected to the nipple's proximal end, and being adapted for aligning the hollow bore with the electrical component's port; and a Hunter spring annularly clamping the cable harness's sheath to the nipple, the Hunter spring having an outer end and a plurality of radially outwardly extending teeth, the radially outwardly extending teeth being positioned at the spring's outer end.
US10224660B2
A circuit board disclosed herein includes a threaded receptor, one or more alignment holes, and one or more pads. The threaded receptor is configured to receive a component with a threaded screw. Each of the one or more alignment holes are configured to receive an alignment pin located on the component. Each of the one or more pads are configured to electrically connect to a pogo pin on the component.
US10224653B2
An electrical card edge connector for receiving an electronic card with a bottom notch therein, includes an insulative housing, a plurality of terminals and an alignment key. The housing includes two opposite side walls, a bottom wall and a central slot among the side walls and the bottom wall. The terminals are disposed in the corresponding side walls and extend into the central slot for mating with the electronic card. The alignment key includes a body received within the central slot, a pair of extension sections covering the two side walls, and a pair of securing sections attached to the bottom wall wherein the body is adapted to be received within the bottom notch of the electronic card.
US10224650B2
A coaxial frequency-separating connector of the present invention applies a first conducting element to receive a multi-frequency signal from a multi-frequency transmission element, and applies a multi-frequency dividing circuit to divide the multi-frequency signal to a plurality of different frequency signals such that the different frequency signals are respectively transmitted to the first coaxial cable and the second coaxial cable of a second conducting element. Furthermore, a first frequency contacting end to which a first RF element is connected and a second frequency contacting end to which a second RF element is connected are respectively connected on one end of the first coaxial cable and one end of the second coaxial cable. Accordingly, two RF elements with two different frequency bands can use only one coaxial frequency-separating connector to connect to a transmission element.
US10224630B2
There is disclosed a multiband antenna device comprising a conductive elongate antenna element configured for electrical connection to a groundplane at a grounding point, and a conductive elongate feeding element configured for electrical connection to a radio transmitter/receiver at a feeding point. At least a major portion of the antenna element is configured to extend in a first direction and to double back on itself in a second, substantially counter-parallel direction forming a slot. The feeding point is adjacent to the grounding point, and the feeding element is configured to extend substantially parallel to the first and second directions of the major portion of the antenna element. The antenna device can operate in multiple frequency bands, and can be configured on a dielectric insulating former that fits compactly in a corner of a mobile communications handset housing.
US10224625B2
A communication system is provided, including an antenna, a matching network coupled to the antenna, a controller configured to control the matching network, and a look-up table coupled to the controller. The look-up table includes characterization data according to frequency bands and conditions. The controller is configured to refer to the look-up table to determine optimum impedance for a frequency band selected under a condition detected during a time interval, and adjust the matching network to provide the optimum impedance.
US10224617B2
The radar system includes a split-block assembly comprising a first portion and a second portion. The first portion and the second portion form a seam, where the first portion has a top side opposite the seam and the second portion has a bottom side opposite the seam. The system includes at least one port located on a bottom side of the second portion. Additionally, the system includes radiating elements located on the top side of the first portion, wherein the radiating elements are arranged in a plurality of arrays. Yet further, the system includes a set of waveguides in the split-block assembly configured to couple each array to at least one port. Furthermore, the split-block assembly is made from a polymer and where at least the set of waveguides, the at least one port, and the plurality of radiating elements include metal on a surface of the polymer.
US10224613B2
The present invention discloses a wireless device, which includes a substrate and an antenna. The antenna includes a printed antenna element and a 3-dimensional antenna element. The printed antenna element is printed on the substrate, while the 3-dimensional antenna element is disposed on the substrate and coupled to the printed antenna element. The printed antenna element and the 3-dimensional antenna element jointly have a physical length of a desired frequency.
US10224610B2
A mobile computing device antenna according to one example includes a folded monopole element, a ground plane coupled to the folded monopole element by an antenna feed, a parasitic element that couples the folded monopole element to the ground plane, and a metal frame that encompasses the folded monopole element, the ground plane, and the parasitic element, where the metal frame is coupled to the ground plane by a plurality of ground points.
US10224593B2
A support assembly is provided and includes an adapter, a stand, and a dish backing structure. The adapter includes two side plates and an upper plate. The side plates are respectively located at the two sides of the adapter. The upper plate is connected to the side plates and has a lower location hole. The stand is connected to the adapter. The dish backing structure has a receiving portion and includes a top wall and two side walls respectively located at the both sides of the receiving portion. The top wall has an upper location hole. When the receiving portion is connected to the adapter, a portion of the top wall abuts against the upper plate, and a gap is formed between the top wall and the upper plate. In addition, the upper location hole is aligned with the lower location hole.
US10224588B2
A multiplex filter has at least n filter chambers which are surrounded by a housing and/or at least one insert positioned in the housing. A metal dividing device is constructed in each of the n filter chambers, dividing each filter chamber into m resonator chambers, wherein m≥2. The resonator chambers are coupled perpendicular to the H fields and/or parallel to the central axis or with a component essentially perpendicular to the H fields and/or parallel to the central axis. A common connection is guided into the first filter chamber via a first opening in the housing, and is coupled in the same to the m resonators of the m resonator chambers. As a result of the fact that the coupling is established perpendicular to the H field, the resonator can have a very compact construction.
US10224584B2
An exemplary battery pack heat exchanger includes a wall of an enclosure, and a heat exchanger lid held against the wall to provide a chamber that receives a fluid to exchange thermal energy with a battery array that is outside of the chamber. An exemplary method of managing battery pack thermal energy includes moving a fluid through a chamber within an enclosure wall of a battery pack to adjust thermal energy levels of the battery pack.
US10224583B2
Provided is a secondary battery module having a through type cool channel for preventing contaminated air generated from a pouch type cell from being introduced into a vehicle, and more particularly, a secondary battery module having a through type cool channel capable of preventing contaminated air generated from battery cells from being introduced into a vehicle and easily cooling heat generated from the battery cells, by sealing an electrode assembly, in which a plurality of battery cells are stacked, by a case, forming a separate gas discharge pipe in the case to discharge the gases to a designated place, and coupling both ends of a partition tube having a cool channel formed therein to contact the battery cells and communicate with an outside of the case.
US10224580B2
A battery pack including: a lithium air battery configured to receive air and discharge a discharge gas, the lithium air battery including a cell module configured to generate electricity based on oxidation of a lithium metal and reduction of oxygen; and a battery management unit configured to control charging and discharging of the lithium air battery, wherein the battery management unit includes a measurement unit configured to measure a composition ratio of the discharge gas, measure a current, and to generate discharge gas data and current data; a capacity estimation unit configured to estimate a present capacity of the lithium air battery based on the discharge gas data and the current data and to generate a present capacity data; and a state of health estimation unit configured to estimate a state of health of the lithium air battery based on the present capacity data.
US10224577B2
The present invention provides a secondary cell having a negative electrode compartment and a positive electrode compartment, which are separated by an alkali ion conductive electrolyte membrane. An alkali metal negative electrode disposed in the negative electrode compartment oxidizes to release alkali ions as the cell discharges and reduces the alkali ions to alkali metal during recharge. The positive electrode compartment includes a positive electrode contacting a positive electrode solution that includes an alkali metal compound and a metal halide. The alkali metal compound can be selected from an alkali halide and an alkali pseudo-halide. During discharge, the metal ion reduces to form metal plating on the positive electrode. As the cell charges, the metal plating oxidizes to strip the metal plating to form metal halide or pseudo halide or corresponding metal complex.
US10224576B2
A gas detection material having a Hofmann type porous coordination polymer of {Fe(pz)[Ni(CN)4]} (wherein, pz=pyrazine) which contains ferrous ion, tetracyanonickelate ion and pyrazine as the essential ingredients and has a pillared crystal shape. Also a lithium ion secondary battery, wherein, the outer package of the lithium ion secondary battery is covered by the gas detection material mentioned above.
US10224574B2
A secondary battery includes: a wound electrode body in a flat form impregnated with an electrolytic solution; an outer case in a flat form including a lid and a main body, the outer case including a curved portion, the curved portion formed into a curved surface into which the bottom surface and a wall surface of the outer case are connected; and an electric insulating film including a gap through which the electrolytic solution passes, the gap formed at a corner at the bottom surface side of the electric insulating film, the corner with the gap in the electric insulating film being clamped between the curved portion of the inner surface of the outer case and a corner at the bottom surface side of the wound electrode body.
US10224568B2
It is an object of the present invention to provide an electrolytic solution capable of suppressing gas generation. The present exemplary embodiment is an electrolytic solution comprising a supporting salt, a nonaqueous solvent that dissolves the supporting salt, a cyclic sulfonic acid ester compound represented by predetermined formula (1), and an acid anhydride. According to the exemplary embodiment, an electrolytic solution capable of suppressing gas generation can be provided.
US10224558B2
The present invention enables the determination of an operating point of a fuel cell so as to prioritize the fulfillment of an amount of required power generation while avoiding various limitations, such as a current limit, in a fuel cell system that warms up the fuel cell by a low efficiency operation.A controller 70 multiplies a voltage command value Vcom obtained in step S3 by a current command value Icom obtained in step S1, then, this is divided by a final voltage command value Vfcom obtained in step S4, thereby obtaining a final current command value Ifcom to determine an operating point (Ifcom, Vfcom) during a warm-up operation (step S5), and then the process ends.
US10224551B2
The present invention provides a sheet for thin layer transfer (10) including: a substrate (1) including a thin metal film or a thin heat-resistant resin film; and a fluorine resin layer (2) provided on at least one side of the substrate (1). The sheet for thin layer transfer thus provided can have reduced surface irregularities and be less prone to deteriorate even when subjected to repeated thermal transfer by thermocompression bonding.
US10224542B2
According to one embodiment, an active material is provided. This active material is represented by the general formula of Li(2+x)Na2Ti6O14, wherein x is within a range of 0≤x≤6. The active material includes at least one element selected from the group consisting of Zr, Mo, W, V, Nb, Ta, P, Y, Al, Fe, and B in a content of 0.03 to 8.33 atom %.
US10224533B2
In a secondary battery (10) suggested herein, when a gas pressure in a battery case (12) is increased to or above a specified level and a current interrupt valve (26) is consequently raised to a connecting terminal (21) side, a thinned section (71) is broken around a portion that is joined to the current interrupt valve 26, the connecting terminal (21) and an electrode body are electrically interrupted from each other. An insulant (27) is disposed in a portion where the thinned section (71) is broken, and is interposed between both edges of the broken thinned section (71) after the thinned section (71) is broken.
US10224532B2
In a detection module to be mounted on a unit cell group formed by electrically connecting adjacent electrode terminals of a plurality of unit cells including positive and negative electrode terminals by busbars, a plurality of fuse units each configured such that a busbar connection terminal for detecting a state of the unit cell by being connected to the busbar, a wire connection terminal to be connected to an end part of a wire and a fuse for connecting the busbar connection terminal and the wire connection terminal are integrally assembled and accommodated in a housing made of synthetic resin are held in a holding member made of synthetic resin.
US10224525B2
An exemplary battery support assembly includes a bladder device with a pocket that receives at least one battery cell of a traction battery. The bladder provides a fluid flow path that diverges at an end of the pocket into a first section on a first side of the pocket and a second section on an opposing, second side of the pocket. An exemplary battery support method includes moving a flow of fluid along a fluid flow path toward at least one battery cell; and diverging the flow into a first or second section of the fluid flow path such that the flow moves along opposing sides of the at least one battery cell.
US10224524B2
The battery housing assembly, connected to a support shaft assembly of a string trimmer, includes a base housing member defining a chamber configured to receive a battery therein. The base housing member includes a frontal member configured to engage a front of the battery, a top member extending from the frontal member, configured to engage the top portion of the battery, and a bottom member, configured to engage a bottom portion of the battery. A first side member is configured to be removably connected to a first side of the base housing member; and a second side member configured to be removably connected to a second side of the base housing member.
US10224523B2
The present disclosure relates to a secondary battery pouch with an enhanced insulation property, and a method for manufacturing the same, and more specifically, to a secondary battery pouch for preventing occurrence of cracks in a sealing portion of a periphery of a pouch in a completed pouch-type secondary battery, particularly at a folded portion of the sealing portion, and a method for manufacturing the same.
US10224522B2
A sealing assembly for a battery, a method of preparing the sealing assembly and a lithium ion battery are provided. The sealing assembly for a battery comprises: a ceramic ring (3) having a receiving hole (31), a metal ring (4) fitted over the ceramic ring (3) for sealing an open end of the battery, and a column (2) formed in the receiving hole (31) which comprises a metal-metal composite (21), wherein the metal-metal composite (21) comprises: a metal porous body, and a metal material filled in pores of the metal porous body.
US10224520B2
A lithium secondary battery includes an electrode assembly to which an electrode tap is attached, an electrode tap receptor configured to house a portion of the electrode assembly such that a portion of the electrode tap protrudes to an outside, and a case configured to surround the electrode assembly and seal the electrode assembly together with the electrode tap receptor, wherein the electrode tap receptor includes a gas barrier layer.
US10224519B2
A secondary battery according to an embodiment includes a container having a pouring hole through which an electrolyte is poured, and housing the electrolyte, poured through the pouring hole, together with an electrode body; and a sealing lid which is fixed to the container and is closing the pouring hole. The sealing lid has a welding mark existing in a ring shape with a depth through the sealing lid to a lid body of the container, and an inner circumferential side molten mark existing in a ring shape overlapping with the welding mark, on the inner circumferential side of the welding mark in the sealing lid, with a depth corresponding to the thickness of the sealing lid.
US10224514B2
Disclosed herein is a transparent glass system that includes an optical grade silicon substrate, a transparent substrate layer; a titanium dioxide transparent layer, the transparent layer having an index of refraction of 2.35 or greater; and a polycrystalline diamond layer, wherein the transparent layer is between the substrate layer and the polycrystalline diamond layer.
US10224498B2
Provided are a display apparatus and a method of manufacturing the display apparatus. The display apparatus includes: a substrate including a bending area located between a first area and a second area and bent in the bending area; a display unit arranged over an upper surface of the substrate and located in the first area; a protection film located over a lower surface of the substrate and including a protection film base and a viscous layer; and a bending protection layer including a first bending protection layer and a second bending protection layer and corresponding to the bending area, wherein the protection film is located over the lower surface of the substrate and has an opening corresponding to the bending area or at least a part of the first area, and wherein the first bending protection layer is arranged over at least a part of a boundary of the opening or over an outside of the boundary of the opening, and at least a part of the second bending protection layer is arranged over an inside of the boundary of the opening.
US10224496B2
The present application provides an OLED package structure, comprises a package unit and a flexible substrate deposited with an OLED element; the package unit comprises a first package layer, a first inorganic layer and a second package layer, which sequentially stack up on the OLED element; the first package layer comprises a first pixel region and a first pixel define region, and the film thickness of the first pixel define region gradually decreases from an edge to an interior of the first pixel define region; the second package layer comprises a second pixel region corresponding to the first pixel region and a second pixel define region corresponding to the first pixel define region, and the film thickness of the second pixel region gradually decreases from an edge to an interior of the second pixel region. The present application further provides an OLED package method.
US10224481B2
Provided are methods of forming electric devices by effecting application of a stress to the device so as to deform the device within the device's elastic limit and to place the device into a new electric—e.g., resistance—state.
US10224478B2
A one-dimensional magnetic field sensor comprises a support, a single elongated magnetic field concentrator or two magnetic field concentrators, which are separated by a first gap, and at least one magnetic sensor element. The magnetic field concentrator, or both thereof, consists of at least two parts which are separated from each other by second gaps. A two-dimensional magnetic field sensor comprises a support, a single magnetic field concentrator which consists of at least three parts which are separated from each other by gaps, and at least two magnetic sensor elements.
US10224477B2
Provided are an electroacoustic conversion film web, an electroacoustic conversion film, and a method of manufacturing an electroacoustic conversion film web in which costs can be reduced by reducing the number of operations without damage to thin film electrodes, the points of electrode lead-out portions can be freely determined, and thus high productivity can be achieved. A preparation step of preparing an electrode laminated body in which a single thin film electrode and a single protective layer are laminated and a lamination step of laminating the electrode laminated body and an piezoelectric layer are included. A non-adhered portion that is not adhered to the piezoelectric layer is provided in at least one end portion of the thin film electrode in a case where the electrode laminated body and the piezoelectric layer are laminated in the lamination step.
US10224476B2
Textured PMN-PZT fabricated by templated grain growth (TGG) method has a piezoelectric coefficient (d) of 3 to 5 times that of its random counterpart. By combining this TGG method with low-temperature co-firing ceramics (LTCC) techniques, co-fired multilayer textured piezoelectric ceramic materials with inner electrodes were produced at a temperature as low as 925° C., which silver could be used. Trilayer PMN-PZT ceramics prepared by this method show a strain increase of 2.5 times, a driving voltage decrease of 3 times, and an equivalent piezoelectric coefficient (d*) improvement of 10 to 15 times that of conventional random ceramic counterparts. Further, a co-fired magnetostrictive/piezoelectric/magnetostrictive laminate structure with silver inner electrode was also synthesized. The integration of textured piezoelectric microstructure with the cost-effective low-temperature co-fired layered structure achieves strong magnetoelectric coupling. These new materials have promising applications including as actuators, ultrasonic transducers, and use in energy harvesters.
US10224456B2
A method of fabricating a light emitting diode, which includes an n-type contact layer and a light generating structure adjacent to the n-type contact layer, is provided. The light generating structure includes a set of quantum wells. The contact layer and light generating structure can be configured so that a difference between an energy of the n-type contact layer and an electron ground state energy of a quantum well is greater than an energy of a polar optical phonon in a material of the light generating structure. Additionally, the light generating structure can be configured so that its width is comparable to a mean free path for emission of a polar optical phonon by an electron injected into the light generating structure.
US10224454B2
Group III nitride based light emitting diode (LED) structures include multiple quantum wells with barrier-well units that include III nitride interface layers. Each interface layer may have a thickness of no greater than about 30% of an adjacent well layer, and a comparatively low concentration of indium or aluminum. One or more interface layers may be present in a barrier-well unit. Multiple barrier-well units having different properties may be provided in a single active region.
US10224451B2
A multi junction photodiode for molecular detection and discrimination and fabrication methods thereof. The multi junction photodiode includes a substrate having first conductive type dopants, an epitaxial layer having the first conductive type dopants, a deep well having second conductive type dopants, a first well having the first conductive type dopants, a second well having the second conductive type dopants, a third well having the first conductive type dopants, and a first doped region having the second conductive type dopants. The epitaxial layer is disposed on the substrate. The deep well is disposed in the epitaxial layer. The first well having three sides connected to the epitaxial layer is disposed in the deep well. The second well is disposed in the first well. The third well having three sides connected to the epitaxial layer is disposed in the second well. The first doped region is disposed in the third well.
US10224449B2
A photoresistor comprises a silicon-on-insulator substrate (101) comprising a device layer (4). In an example embodiment and mode at least two non-contiguous first highly conductive regions (2, 3) of semiconductor material are formed on a surface of the device layer, and at least one active region (1) of a high resistivity semiconductor material of a same conductivity type as the first highly conductive regions are formed to propagate through a whole thickness of the device layer and to electrically contact the at least two non-contiguous first highly conductive regions.
US10224442B2
Methods of fabricating solar cell emitter regions with differentiated P-type and N-type regions architectures, and resulting solar cells, are described. In an example, a back contact solar cell can include a substrate having a light-receiving surface and a back surface. A first polycrystalline silicon emitter region of a first conductivity type is disposed on a first thin dielectric layer disposed on the back surface of the substrate. A second polycrystalline silicon emitter region of a second, different, conductivity type is disposed on a second thin dielectric layer disposed on the back surface of the substrate. A third thin dielectric layer is disposed over an exposed outer portion of the first polycrystalline silicon emitter region and is disposed laterally directly between the first and second polycrystalline silicon emitter regions. A first conductive contact structure is disposed on the first polycrystalline silicon emitter region. A second conductive contact structure is disposed on the second polycrystalline silicon emitter region. Metallization methods, include etching techniques for forming a first and second conductive contact structure are also described.
US10224436B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate, a silicon carbide semiconductor layer disposed on the semiconductor substrate, and a termination region disposed in the silicon carbide semiconductor layer. The termination region has a guard ring region and an FLR region which is disposed to surround the guard ring region while being separated from the guard ring region, the FLR region including a plurality of rings. The termination region includes a sector section, and in the sector section, an inner circumference and an outer circumference of at least one of the plurality of rings and an inner circumference and an outer circumference of the guard ring region have a same first center of curvature, the first center of curvature being positioned inside the inner circumference of the guard ring region, and a radius of curvature of the inner circumference of the guard ring region is 50 μm or less.
US10224435B2
An exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure provides a transistor including: a drain electrode; a first insulating member on the drain electrode and having a tilted side wall; a source electrode on the first insulating member; an active member covering the tilted side wall of the first insulating member, a side wall of the source electrode, and a side wall of the drain electrode; a second insulating member covering the source electrode and the active member; and a gate electrode on the second insulating member and overlapping the active member, wherein the active member defines a first channel region adjacent to the drain electrode and a second channel region adjacent to the source electrode, and wherein a width of the first channel region may be greater than that of the second channel region.
US10224434B2
A multi-channel thin film transistor (“TFT”) includes: a gate electrode; a semiconductor including a first channel area, which operates within a first driving range and has a first threshold voltage, and a second channel area which operates within a second driving range smaller than the first driving range and has a second threshold voltage, where an absolute value of the second threshold voltage is greater than an absolute value of the first threshold voltage; a first electrode connected to an end of the semiconductor; and a second electrode connected to another end of the semiconductor.
US10224433B2
In a semiconductor device including a transistor in which an oxide semiconductor layer, a gate insulating layer, and a gate electrode layer on side surfaces of which sidewall insulating layers are provided are stacked in this order, a source electrode layer and a drain electrode layer are provided in contact with the oxide semiconductor layer and the sidewall insulating layers. In a process for manufacturing the semiconductor device, a conductive layer and an interlayer insulating layer are stacked to cover the oxide semiconductor layer, the sidewall insulating layers, and the gate electrode layer. Then, parts of the interlayer insulating layer and the conductive layer over the gate electrode layer are removed by a chemical mechanical polishing method, so that a source electrode layer and a drain electrode layer are formed. Before formation of the gate insulating layer, cleaning treatment is performed on the oxide semiconductor layer.
US10224424B2
A semiconductor module comprises a semiconductor chip comprising a semiconductor switch having a collector, emitter and gate, a collector terminal connected to the collector, gate terminal connected to the gate, an emitter terminal connected to the emitter via an emitter conductor path having an emitter inductance, an auxiliary emitter terminal connected to the emitter, a first conductor path connected to the emitter, and a second conductor path connected to the emitter having a different mutually inductive coupling with the emitter conductor path as the first conductor path. The first conductor path and the second conductor path are connectable to the auxiliary emitter terminal and/or the first conductor path is connected to the auxiliary emitter terminal and the second conductor path is connected to a second auxiliary emitter terminal. The semiconductor switch is an IGBT and each of the first conductor path and the second conductor path comprises bridging points for connecting the respective conductor path to the auxiliary emitter terminal.
US10224421B2
Methods of sub-10 nm fin formation are disclosed. One method includes patterning a first dielectric layer on a substrate to form one or more projections and a first plurality of spaces, and depositing a first plurality of columns in the first plurality of spaces. The first plurality of columns are separated by a second plurality of spaces. The method also includes depositing a second dielectric layer in the second plurality of spaces to form a plurality of dummy fins, removing the first plurality of columns to form a third plurality of spaces, depositing a second plurality of columns in the third plurality of spaces, removing the one or more projections and the plurality of dummy fins to form a fourth plurality of spaces, and depositing a plurality of fins in the fourth plurality of spaces. The plurality of fins have a width between 5-10 nm.
US10224419B2
A method of forming an arrangement of long and short fins on a substrate, including forming a plurality of finFET devices having long fins on the substrate, where the long fins have a fin length in the range of about 180 nm to about 350 nm, and forming a plurality of finFET devices having short fins on the substrate, where the short fins have a fin length in the range of about 60 nm to about 140 nm, wherein at least one of the plurality of finFET devices having a long fin is adjacent to at least one of the plurality of finFET devices having a short fin.
US10224414B2
A method for forming semiconductor devices with spacers is provided. SiCO spacers are formed on sides of features. Protective coverings are formed over first parts of the SiCO spacers, wherein second parts of the sidewalls of the SiCO spacers are not covered by the protective coverings. A conversion process is provided to the second parts of the SiCO spacers which are not covered by the protective coverings, which changes a physical property of the second parts of the SiCO spacers which are not covered by the protective coverings, wherein the protective coverings protects the first parts of the SiCO spacers from the conversion process.
US10224402B2
In a lateral BJT formed using a BiCMOS process, the collector-to-emitter breakdown voltage (BVCEO) and BJT's gain, are improved by forming a graded collector contact region with lower doping levels toward the base contact.
US10224400B2
A semiconductor device includes a first electrode, a second electrode, a semiconductor element, an insulating layer and a third electrode. The semiconductor element is electrically connected to the first electrode and the second electrode. The third electrode is insulated from the semiconductor structure, the first electrode and the second electrode through the insulating layer. The semiconductor element includes a semiconductor structure, a carbon nanotube and a conductive film. The semiconductor structure includes a P-type semiconductor layer and an N-type semiconductor layer and defines a first surface and a second surface. The carbon nanotube is located on the first surface of the semiconductor. The conductive film is located on the second surface of the semiconductor. The conductive film is formed on the second surface by a depositing method or a coating method.
US10224397B2
Compound semiconductor device, method for producing same, and resin-sealed type semiconductor device
In a semiconductor element having a compound semiconductor layer epitaxially grown on a silicon substrate, an object is to suppress generation of deficiency or problems of reliability deriving from the ends of the element that are generated when dividing into semiconductor devices by dicing. A compound semiconductor layer epitaxially grown on a silicon substrate is formed via a buffer layer made of aluminum nitride. In the periphery of the semiconductor device, a scribe lane is present to surround a semiconductor element region. Along the scribe lane, the aluminum nitride layer is covered with a coating film for protection against humidity and moisture.
US10224390B2
Warping of a semiconductor wafer occurring due to a difference in the thermal expansion rates of an insulating film and the semiconductor wafer is restricted. Therefore, processing failures and conveying failures in the manufacturing process, as well as cracking of the semiconductor wafer, are restricted. Provided is a high breakdown voltage passive element including a substrate, a lower metal layer and upper metal layer stacked on the substrate, and an insulating unit formed between the lower metal layer and upper metal layer, wherein the insulating unit has a first insulating film whose thermal expansion rate is lower than the thermal expansion rate of the substrate, and a second insulating film, formed on the first insulating film, whose thermal expansion rate is higher than the thermal expansion rate of the substrate.
US10224389B2
An embedded passive chip device includes a chip body and a functional layered structure. The chip body has a circuit-forming surface that is formed with a recess. The functional layered structure is formed on the chip body and includes a conductive layer that has at least a portion which covers at least partially the circuit-forming surface, and a magnetic layer that is disposed within the recess and that is inductively coupled to the conductive layer for generating inductance. A method of making the embedded passive chip device is also disclosed.
US10224388B2
A wound wire is wound around a core assembly so that both ends are short-circuited. In a coupling pin insertion state in which a coupling pin is inserted in a through hole of the core assembly, outer-peripheral space parts of respective divided core portions of the core assembly are disposed so as to overlap in plan view. Consequently, an air gap is formed in a part of a side surface of the core assembly. Before formation of a covering member, a main wire is caused to pass through the air gap and is thus disposed in a wiring hole of the core assembly. Then, the covering member for closing the air gap is provided on an outer peripheral surface side of the core assembly including the air gap so that a core structure is obtained.
US10224385B2
A display panel and an electronic device are provided. The display panel comprises a base substrate including a display region and a border region surrounding the display region, wherein the border region includes an encapsulation region; a plurality of display units disposed in the display region; an encapsulation member disposed in the border region; a plurality of wires disposed in the border region; and a cover substrate arranged opposite to the base substrate. The display units and the wires are disposed between the base substrate and the cover substrate, the encapsulation member is disposed in the encapsulation region and configured to bond and fix the base substrate to the cover substrate, and at least one of the wires is disposed in the encapsulation region.
US10224383B2
An organic light-emitting display apparatus includes a substrate divided into a display area and a peripheral area that is around the display area. Pixels are formed over the display area. For each pixel, a thin film transistor is provided. An insulation film covers the thin film transistor. Each pixel includes a pixel electrode disposed on the insulation film and electrically connected to the thin film transistor, a pixel defining layer covering an edge area of the pixel electrode, an opposite electrode facing the pixel electrode, and an organic light-emitting layer disposed between the pixel electrode and the opposite electrode. The pixel defining layer includes an opening to expose a center area of the pixel electrode, a first inclination portion, and a second inclination portion. An end of the pixel electrode is disposed between the insulation film and the second inclination portion.
US10224372B2
A method of forming a device includes forming an in-process alternating stack of insulating layers and sacrificial material layers over a substrate, forming sacrificial pillar structures through the in-process alternating stack, where the sacrificial pillar structures are arranged in rows, forming inter-pillar cavities between each neighboring pair of sacrificial pillar structures, forming dielectric bridge structures by depositing a dielectric fill material in the inter-pillar cavities, selectively removing the sacrificial pillar structures to form pillar cavities, replacing remaining portions of the sacrificial material layers with electrically conductive layers through the pillar cavities, and forming pillar structures in the pillar cavities, where each of the pillar structures includes a respective vertical electrode.
US10224371B2
A memory device includes a variable resistance layer and a selection device layer electrically connected to the variable resistance layer. The memory device further included a chalcogenide switching material that reduces leakage current and has, for example, a composition according to chemical formula 1 below, [GeXSiY(AsaTe1-a)Z](1-U)[N]U (1) (where 0.05≤X≤0.1, 0.15≤Y≤0.25, 0.7≤Z≤0.8, X+Y+Z=1, 0.45≤a≤0.6, and 0.08≤U≤0.2).
US10224369B2
Threshold switching device, method for fabricating the same and electronic device including the same
A threshold switching device may include: a first electrode layer; a second electrode layer; a first insulating layer interposed between the first and second electrode layers, and provided adjacent to the first electrode layer; and a second insulating layer interposed between the first and second electrode layers, and provided adjacent to the second electrode layer, wherein the first and second insulating layers contain a plurality of neutral defects, a concentration of the plurality of neutral defects being at a maximum along a first interface between the first insulating layer and the second insulating layer, and wherein the threshold switching device has an ON or OFF state according to whether electrons are ejected from the plurality of neutral defects.
US10224368B2
Voltage-switched magneto-resistive random access memory (MRAM) employing separate read operation circuit paths from a shared spin torque write operation circuit path is disclosed. The MRAM includes an MRAM array that includes MRAM bit cell rows each including a plurality of MRAM bit cells. MRAM bit cells on an MRAM bit cell row share a common electrode to provide a shared write operation circuit path for write operations. Dedicated read operation circuit paths are also provided for each MRAM bit cell separate from the write operation circuit path. As a result, the read operation circuit paths for the MRAM bit cells do not vary as a result of the different layout locations of the MRAM bit cells with respect to the common electrode. Thus, the read parasitic resistances of the MRAM bit cells do not vary from each other because of their different coupling locations to the common electrode.
US10224367B2
The present invention is directed to a memory device that includes an array of memory cells. Each of the memory cells includes a memory element connected to a two-terminal selector element. The two-terminal selector element includes a first electrode and a second electrode with a switching layer interposed therebetween. The switching layer includes a plurality of metal-rich clusters embedded in a nominally insulating matrix. One or more conductive paths are formed in the switching layer when an applied voltage to the memory cell exceeds a threshold level. Each of the memory cells may further include an intermediate electrode interposed between the memory element and the two-terminal selector element. The two-terminal selector element may further include a third electrode formed between the first electrode and the switching layer, and a fourth electrode formed between the second electrode and the switching layer.
US10224357B1
An image sensor package includes a medium layer having a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface. The image sensor package also includes a metal-insulator-metal structure disposed on the first surface of the medium layer. The metal-insulator-metal structure includes a first metal layer, a first insulating layer, and a second metal layer, and the first insulating layer is disposed between the first metal layer and the second metal layer. The image sensor package further includes an optical filter disposed on the second surface of the medium layer.
US10224351B2
Exemplary embodiments provide a solar cell device, and method for forming the solar cell device by integrating a switch component into a solar cell element. The solar cell element can include a solar cell, a solar cell array and/or a solar cell panel. The integrated solar cell element can be used for a solar sensor, while the solar sensor can also use discrete switches for each solar cell area of the sensor. Exemplary embodiments also provide a connection system for the solar cell elements and a method for super-connecting the solar cell elements to provide a desired connection path or a desired power output through switch settings. The disclosed connection systems and methods can allow for by-passing underperforming solar cell elements from a plurality of solar cell elements. In embodiments, the solar cell element can be extended to include a battery or a capacitor.
US10224328B2
A circuit has first and second semiconductor switches, each of which has a load path and control terminal connected in series. Each switch includes a first semiconductor device having a load path and a control terminal coupled to the control terminal of its switch, and a second semiconductor device having a load path between first and second load terminals, and a control terminal. Each second semiconductor device has its load path connected in series to the load path of the corresponding first semiconductor device. The semiconductor devices are coupled such that the second semiconductor devices are controlled by a load path voltage of the first semiconductor devices. The switches are integrated in a common semiconductor body. The first switch is implemented in a first area of the semiconductor body, and the second switch is implemented in a second area. In a horizontal plane, the first area surrounds the second area.
US10224322B2
A semiconductor device includes a diode provided with: a drift layer being a first conductivity type; a cathode region being provided in a back face side of the drift layer and being the first conductivity type; a second conductivity type region provided in a surface layer part of the drift layer; multiple trenches dividing the second conductivity type region into pieces by being provided deeper than the second conductivity type region, and configuring an anode region; a gate insulation film provided in a surface of the trench; a gate electrode provided in a surface of the gate insulation film; an upper electrode electrically connected with the anode region; and a lower electrode electrically connected with the cathode region. A width between the trenches is narrowest in the drift layer is defined as a mesa width. The mesa width is set to be equal to or greater than 0.3 μm.
US10224319B2
An electrostatic protection element whose electrostatic breakdown resistance can be adjusted with a required minimum design change is provided.A semiconductor device includes an electrostatic protection element including a bipolar transistor whose base region and emitter region are electrically coupled together through a resistance region. At this time, the base region of the electrostatic protection element has a side including a facing portion that faces the collector region. The facing portion of the side includes an exposed portion that is exposed from an emitter wiring in plan view and a covered portion that is covered by the emitter wiring in plan view.
US10224315B2
A light source device including a substrate, a plurality of first light emitting diode (LED) chips, and at least one second LED chip is provided. The substrate has an upper surface. The plurality of first LED chips are disposed on the upper surface and electrically connected to the substrate. Each of the first LED chips includes a first chip substrate, a first semiconductor layer, and a plurality of first electrodes, and the first electrodes are disposed on the upper surface of the substrate. The second LED chip is disposed on the upper surface and electrically connected to the substrate. The second LED chip includes a second chip substrate, a second semiconductor layer, and a plurality of second electrodes. A thickness of the second chip substrate is different from than a thickness of the first chip substrate, and the second electrodes are disposed on the upper surface of the substrate.
US10224303B2
An anisotropic conductive film composition, an anisotropic conductive film prepared using the same, and a connection structure using the same, the anisotropic conductive film including a binder resin; a curable alicyclic epoxy compound; a curable oxetane compound; a quaternary ammonium catalyst; and conductive particles, wherein the anisotropic conductive film has a heat quantity variation rate of about 15% or less, as measured by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and calculated by Equation 1: Heat quantity variation rate (%)=[(H0−H1)/H0]×100 Equation 1 wherein H0 is a DSC heat quantity of the anisotropic conductive film, as measured at 25° C. and a time point of 0 hr, and H1 is a DSC heat quantity of the anisotropic conductive film, as measured after being left at 40° C. for 24 hours.
US10224301B2
A semiconductor package device includes a carrier, a first electronic component, and a conductive element on the carrier. The first electronic component is over the carrier. The conductive element is on the carrier and electrically connects the first electronic component to the carrier. The conductive element includes at least one conductive particle and a solder material covering the conductive particle, and the conductive particle includes a metal core, a barrier layer covering the metal core, and a metal layer covering the barrier layer.
US10224297B2
A self-destructing device includes a stressed substrate with a heater thermally coupled to the stressed substrate. The device includes a power source and trigger circuitry comprising a sensor and a switch. The sensor generates a trigger signal when exposed to a trigger stimulus. The switch couples the power source to the heater in response to the trigger signal When energized by the power source, the heater generates heat sufficient to initiate self-destruction of the stressed substrate.
US10224294B2
Airtightness of a hollow portion is maintained, and yield and durability are improved. A semiconductor device 1 includes a device substrate 2, a semiconductor circuit 3, a sealing frame 7, a cap substrate 8, via portions 10, electrodes 11, 12 and 13, and a bump portion 14 or the like. A hollow portion 9 in which the semiconductor circuit 3 is housed in an airtight state is provided between the device substrate 2 and the cap substrate 8. The bump portion 14 connects all the via portions 10 and the cap substrate 8. Thus, the via portions 10 can be reinforced using the bump portion 14A.
US10224292B2
An integrated circuit package includes a portion of a lead frame disposed within an encapsulation. The lead frame includes a first conductor including a first conductive loop and a third conductive loop disposed substantially within the encapsulation. A second conductor formed in the lead frame is galvanically isolated from the first conductor and includes a second conductive loop disposed substantially within the encapsulation proximate to the first conductive loop to provide a communication link between the first and second conductors. The third conductive loop is wound in an opposite direction relative to the first conductive loop. A transmit circuit is disposed within the encapsulation and is coupled to the second conductor to provide a transmitter current. A receive circuit is disposed within the encapsulation and is coupled to the first conductor to receive a transmitter induced signal in response to the transmitter current.
US10224289B2
A display device according to an exemplary embodiment includes a substrate including a display area and a non-display area. An alignment mark is positioned in the non-display area. A protective layer is positioned around the alignment mark in the non-display area and separated from the alignment mark in a direction parallel to an upper surface of the substrate. A supporting member is positioned between the alignment mark and the protective layer.
US10224286B1
Embodiments of the disclosure provide an interconnect structure including: a first die having a first surface and an opposing second surface, and a groove within first surface of the first die; an adhesive dielectric layer mounted to the opposing second surface of the first die; a second die having a first surface mounted to the adhesive dielectric layer, and an opposing second surface, wherein the adhesive dielectric layer is positioned directly between the first and second dies; and a through-semiconductor via (TSV) including a first TSV metal extending from the first surface of the first die to the adhesive dielectric layer, and a second TSV metal substantially aligned with the first TSV metal and extending from the adhesive dielectric layer to the opposing second surface of the second die, wherein the TSV includes a metal-to-metal bonding interface between the first and second TSV metals within the adhesive dielectric layer.
US10224283B2
A semiconductor device includes a metal-containing structure such as a copper-containing wire or plug and a composite capping layer formed over the metal-containing structure. The composite capping layer includes a manganese-containing layer disposed over the metal-containing structure, a silicon-containing low-k dielectric layer disposed over the manganese-containing layer, and an intermediate layer between the manganese-containing layer and the silicon-containing low-k dielectric layer. The intermediate layer is the reaction product of the manganese-containing layer and the silicon-containing low-k dielectric layer.
US10224280B2
A back-side device structure with a silicon-on-insulator substrate that includes: a first dielectric layer that includes a first via that communicates with a trench, a contact plug that fills the trench, and a first contact formed in a second dielectric layer. The first contact fills the first via and connects with the contact plug and a wire formed in a third dielectric layer. A final substrate is connected to a buried insulator layer of the silicon-on-insulator substrate such that the contact plug contacts metallization of the final substrate.
US10224279B2
A 3D device, including: a first layer including a first memory including a first transistor; a second layer including a second memory including a second transistor; and a Resistive RAM structure, where the second transistor is self-aligned to the first transistor, and where the Resistive RAM structure is overlaying the first layer and is overlaid by the second layer.
US10224276B2
Various aspects include an integrated circuit (IC), design structure, and a method of making the same. In one embodiment, the IC includes: a substrate; a dielectric layer disposed on the substrate; a set of wire components disposed on the dielectric layer, the set of wire components including a first wire component disposed proximate a second wire component; a bond pad disposed on the first wire component, the bond pad including an exposed portion; a passivation layer disposed on the dielectric layer about a portion of the bond pad and the set of wire components, the passivation layer defining a wire structure via connected to the second wire component; and a wire structure disposed on the passivation layer proximate the bond pad and connected to the second wire component through the wire structure via.
US10224272B2
A semiconductor package includes a substrate, a rewiring layer, a plurality of semiconductor chip stack structures, and a second semiconductor chip. The rewiring layer is disposed on an upper surface of the substrate. The rewiring layer includes a concave portion. The semiconductor chip stack structures include a plurality of first semiconductor chips. The first semiconductor chips are disposed on the rewiring layer. The first semiconductor chips are spaced apart from each other in a horizontal direction. The second semiconductor chip is disposed within the concave portion. The second semiconductor chip is configured to electrically connect each of the plurality of semiconductor chip stack structures to each other.
US10224268B1
A semiconductor device having enhanced thermal transfer includes at least one die, including a device layer in which one or more functional circuit elements are formed and a substrate supporting the device layer, and a support structure. The die is disposed on the support structure using at least one connection structure coupled between the device layer and the support structure. A back surface of the substrate is textured so as to increase a surface area of the back surface to thereby enhance thermal transfer between the substrate and an external environment.
US10224266B2
According to example configurations herein, a leadframe includes a first conductive strip, a second conductive strip, and a third conductive strip disposed substantially adjacent and substantially parallel to each other. A semiconductor chip substrate includes a first array of switch circuits disposed adjacent and parallel to a second array of switch circuits. Source nodes in switch circuits of the first array are disposed substantially adjacent and substantially parallel to source nodes in switch circuits of the second array. When the semiconductor chip and the leadframe device are combined to form a circuit package, a connectivity interface between the semiconductor chip and conductive strips in the circuit package couples each of the source nodes in switch circuits of the first array and each of the multiple source nodes in switch circuits of the second array to a common conductive strip in the leadframe device.
US10224265B2
A power electronics assembly includes a semiconductor device stack having a wide bandgap semiconductor device, a semiconductor cooling chip thermally coupled to the wide bandgap semiconductor device, and a first electrode electrically coupled to the wide bandgap semiconductor device and positioned between the wide bandgap semiconductor device and the semiconductor cooling chip. The semiconductor cooling chip is positioned between a substrate layer and the wide bandgap semiconductor device. The substrate layer includes a substrate inlet port and a substrate outlet port. An integrated fluid channel system extends between the substrate inlet port and the substrate outlet port and includes a substrate fluid inlet channel extending from the substrate inlet port into the substrate layer, a substrate fluid outlet channel extending from the substrate outlet port into the substrate layer, and one or more cooling chip fluid channels extending into the semiconductor cooling chip.
US10224258B2
A method for densifying thermoplastics, particularly polyimides, for use in conjunction with electronic circuits while producing improved physical properties and a high degree of crystallinity, involves variable frequency microwave (VFM) processing at temperatures typically 100° C. below the glass transition temperature or lower, for times of about 50 to 100 minutes. It is particularly applicable to polymers based on BPDA-PPD, but may also be generally applied to other intentionally designed polyimide structures with the same features. The invention enables the creation of layered structures involving integrated circuits with small feature sizes and overcoatings of polymers with high Tg and other desirable properties.
US10224255B2
Shielded and packaged electronic devices, electronic assemblies, and methods are disclosed herein. The shielded and packaged electronic devices include a packaged electronic device with a package surface and a plurality of electrically conductive package pads arranged on the package surface, a shielding dielectric layer extending in contact with the package surface and having a shielding layer surface and a plurality of openings that extends between the shielding layer surface and the plurality of electrically conductive package pads, and a plurality of electrical conductors that extends from the plurality of electrically conductive package pads and projects from the shielding layer surface. The electronic assemblies include a printed circuit board with a board surface and a plurality of electrically conductive board pads arranged on the board surface, the shielded and packaged electronic device, and an underfill dielectric layer. The methods include methods of manufacturing the electronic assemblies.
US10224242B1
Semiconductor devices with low-resistivity metallic interconnect structures are provided. For example, a sacrificial dielectric layer is formed on a substrate, and patterned to form an opening in the sacrificial dielectric layer. The opening is filled with a metallic material to form a metallic interconnect structure, and the sacrificial dielectric layer is removed to expose the metallic interconnect structure. A heat treatment process is applied to the exposed metallic interconnect structure to modulate a microstructure of the metallic material of the metallic interconnect structure from a first microstructure to a second microstructure. A conformal liner layer is selectively deposited on exposed surfaces of the metallic interconnect structure, subsequent to the heat treatment process. A dielectric layer is formed to encapsulate the metallic interconnect structure in dielectric material, wherein the conformal liner layer serves as a diffusion barrier layer between the metallic interconnect structure and the dielectric layer.
US10224237B2
A method for forming a semiconductor device includes forming an insulating material layer above a semiconductor substrate and modifying at least a portion of a surface of the insulating material layer after forming the insulating material layer. Further, the method includes forming an electrical conductive structure on at least the portion of the surface of the insulating material layer after modifying at least the portion of the surface of the insulating material layer.
US10224234B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes bonding a first semiconductor wafer including a first substrate and a first insulating layer formed to contact one surface of the first substrate, and a second semiconductor wafer including a second substrate and a second insulating layer, forming a third insulating layer, performing etching so that the second insulating layer remains on a second wiring layer, forming a first connection hole, forming an insulating film on the first connection hole, performing etching of the second insulating layer and the insulating film, forming a second connection hole, and forming a first via formed in inner portions of the connection holes and connected to the second wiring layer, wherein a diameter of the first connection hole formed on the other surface of the first substrate is greater than a diameter of the first connection hole formed on the third insulating layer.
US10224231B2
In certain embodiments, a method of making a semiconductor structure suitable for transfer printing (e.g., micro-transfer printing) includes providing a support substrate and disposing and processing one or more semiconductor layers on the support substrate to make a completed semiconductor device. A patterned release layer and, optionally, a capping layer are disposed on or over the completed semiconductor device and the patterned release layer or capping layer, if present, are bonded to a handle substrate with a bonding layer. The support substrate is removed to expose the completed semiconductor device and, in some embodiments, a portion of the patterned release layer. In some embodiments, an entry path is formed to expose a portion of the patterned release layer. In some embodiments, the release layer is etched and the completed semiconductor devices transfer printed (e.g., micro-transfer printed) from the handle substrate to a destination substrate.
US10224230B2
A surface protective sheet is used when grinding the rear surface of a semiconductor wafer having a circuit formed on the front surface, and is provided with: a base material comprising a support film and an antistatic coating layer which includes an inorganic conductive filler and a cured product of a curable resin (A); and an adhesive layer. The stress relaxation percentage of the base material after 1 minute at 10% elongation is at least 60%. The Young's modulus of the base material is 100-2000 MPa.
US10224220B2
Uniformity of a plasma process on a surface of a substrate is to be improved. In a plasma processing apparatus that processes a substrate by generating plasma from a processing gas introduced in a processing container, a ratio between an introducing amount of the processing gas introduced to a center portion of the substrate received in the processing container and an introducing amount of the processing gas introduced to a peripheral portion of the substrate received in the processing container is changed during a plasma process. Accordingly, a variation in an etching rate or the like between the center portion and the peripheral portion of the substrate may be reduced. Therefore, uniformity of the plasma process on the surface of the substrate is improved.
US10224207B2
A method of making a semiconductor device includes forming a recessed fin in a substrate, the recessed fin being substantially flush with a surface of the substrate; performing an epitaxial growth process over the recessed fin to form a source/drain over the recessed fin; and disposing a conductive metal around the source/drain.
US10224202B2
A catalyst is imparted selectively to a plateable material portion 32 by performing a catalyst imparting processing on a substrate W having a non-plateable material portion 31 and the plateable material portion 32 formed on a surface thereof. Then, a hard mask layer 35 is formed selectively on the plateable material portion 32 by performing a plating processing on the substrate W. The non-plateable material portion 31 is made of SiO2 as a main component, and the plateable material portion 32 is made of a material including, as a main component, a material containing at least one of a OCHx group and a NHx group, a metal material containing Si as a main component, a material containing carbon as a main component or a catalyst metal material.
US10224201B2
Provides is a C-plane GaN substrate which, although formed from a GaN crystal grown so that surface pits are generated, is free from any inversion domain, and moreover, has a low spiral dislocation density in a gallium polar surface. Provides is a C-plane GaN substrate wherein: the substrate comprises a plurality of facet growth areas each having a closed ring outline-shape on a gallium polar surface; the spiral dislocation density is less than 1×106 cm−2 anywhere on the gallium polar surface; and the substrate is free from any inversion domain. The C-plane GaN substrate may comprise a high dislocation density part having a dislocation density of more than 1×107 cm−2 and a low dislocation density part having a dislocation density of less than 1×106 cm−2 on the gallium polar surface.
US10224194B2
An apparatus includes a first pair of opposing electrode arrangements that confine ions between them in a portion of a confinement volume inwardly laterally in a first confinement direction with respect to a longitudinal ion propagation direction, each opposing electrode arrangement including an arrangement of RF electrodes situated to receive an unbiased RF voltage having an alternate phase between adjacent RF electrodes of the arrangement of RF electrodes so as to provide the confining of ions between the first pair of opposing electrode arrangements, and a second pair of opposing electrode arrangements that confine the ions between the second pair in the confinement volume inwardly laterally in a second confinement direction that complements the first confinement direction, each opposing electrode arrangement of the second pair including an arrangement of RF electrodes that receive an unbiased RF voltage having an alternate phase between adjacent RF electrodes.
US10224190B2
A method and apparatus for chemical ionization of analyte gas particles in a carrier gas by introducing primary ions, characterized in that the primary and product ions are accelerated by a rotating electric field orthogonal to that direction (5) in which the ions are transported towards the exit (3) of the reaction volume (1). This can, for example, reduce unwanted cluster formation without increasing the transport speed of the ions through the reaction chamber, which improves, for example, the product ion yield. The apparatus of the invention achieves this by means of N≥3 rod electrodes (6) to which N AC voltages U1(t), . . . , UN(t) with N different phase positions ascending in one sense of rotation φ1, . . . , φN are applied.
US10224187B1
A partial unclamping detection system is provided and includes a light emission circuit, a spectrometer, and a system controller. The light emission circuit is configured to emit light at an area of a substrate while the substrate is electrostatically clamped to an electrostatic chuck of a substrate processing system. The spectrometer is configured to detect light reflected off the substrate and generate a first output signal based on the detected light. The system controller is configured to: detect changes in the first output signal; detect changes in a flow rate of a gas supplied to a backside of the substrate; and based on both the changes in the first output signal and the changes in the flow rate, determine whether a partial unclamping event of the substrate has occurred.
US10224183B1
Systems and methods for multi-level pulsing of a parameter and multi-level pulsing of a frequency of a radio frequency (RF) signal are described. The parameter is pulsed from a low level to a high level while the frequency is pulsed from a low level to a high level. The parameter and the frequency are simultaneously pulsed to increase a rate of processing a wafer, to increase mask selectivity, and to reduce angular spread of ions within a plasma chamber.
US10224176B2
There is provided an electron microscope capable of producing good images by reducing contrast nonuniformity. The electron microscope (1) includes: an electron beam source (11) for producing an electron beam; a noise cancelling aperture (12) and an amplifier (42) for detecting a part of the electron beam; an effective value computing circuit (44) and a low frequency cut-off circuit (46) for extracting a DC component of an effective value of a detection signal emanating from the amplifier (42); an image detector (15) for detecting a signal produced in response to impingement of the beam on a sample (A); a preamplifier circuit (20) and an amplifier circuit (30); a divider circuit (54) for performing a division of the output signal (X) from the amplifier circuit (30) by the output signal (Y) from the amplifier circuit (42) and producing a quotient signal indicative of the result of the decision (X/Y); and a multiplier circuit (58) for multiplying the quotient signal by a signal (Z) extracted by the low frequency cut-off circuit (46).
US10224173B2
There is provided an objective lens capable of reducing the effects of magnetic fields on a sample. The objective lens includes a first lens and a second lens. The lenses are arranged so that the component of the magnetic field of the first lens lying along the optical axis and the component of the magnetic field of the second lens lying along the optical axis cancel out each other at a sample placement surface. The first and second lenses each include an inner polepiece and an outer polepiece. The inner polepieces have front end portions, respectively. The outer polepieces have front end portions, respectively, which jut out toward the optical axis. The distances of the front end portions of the outer polepieces, respectively, from the sample placement surface are less than the distances of the front end portions of the inner polepieces, respectively, from the sample placement surface.
US10224170B2
The present invention provides an X-ray generating apparatus and an X-ray fluoroscopy imaging system comprising the same. The X-ray generating apparatus comprises: an electron accelerator, an electron emission unit, and a target; and a shielding and collimating device, including a shielding structure and multiple collimators arranged in the shielding structure, wherein the collimators are thin gaps extending from the target to an exterior surface of the shielding structure and having an axis transverse an electron beam shooting the target, and at least two collimators forming different angles with the electron beam are arranged on the same side of a plane contains the electron beam shooting the target, and the planes where the collimators locate form angles from 30 degrees to 150 degrees with the electron beam shooting the target, to draw out planar beams having different draw-out angles, each having uniform intensity distribution in its respective plane.
US10224161B2
A rotary switch operating apparatus has a drive shaft and a first and a second drive element, the first drive element having a rotationally fixed coupling to the drive shaft, and the second drive element being rotatably mounted on the first drive element. The apparatus includes a spring coupling the first and the second drive element together with a spring action, a lock limiting rotational movements of the second drive element in a first rotation direction and a second rotation direction, opposite the first, and a releaser for canceling rotational movement limitation of the second drive element in pre-specified rotation positions of the first drive element. Latches bearing against the drive elements' guide sections are provided, the first drive element guide section having release sections as releasers and the second drive element guide section having two latch stops as locks.
US10224157B2
An illuminated glass keycap having a glyph diffuser layer that may diffuse light through a glyph window opened in a background layer. The background layer may be opaque and the glyph window may be transparent. The keycap is adhered to a scissor mechanism positioned above electrical switch circuitry. Included within, below, or adjacent to the scissor mechanism may be one or more light sources positioned to emit light through the keycap, around the perimeter of the keycap, and/or through the background layer.
US10224154B2
This invention relates to a new magnetic proximity switch, comprising a shell, wherein a moving magnet that can move up and down is disposed on the upper part in the shell; a first terminal strip and a second terminal strip are fixedly disposed left and right in parallel at the bottom in the shell; a static contact is disposed on the second terminal strip; an elastic piece is disposed on the first terminal strip; a moving contact is disposed at the outer end of the elastic piece; an assistant rod is disposed at the middle part in the shell, an assistant portion is disposed at the inner end of the assistant rod, a limiting mechanism is disposed between the assistant rod and the shell, an elastic tongue piece is disposed on the elastic piece, and the outer end of the elastic tongue piece is disposed against the assistant portion.
US10224146B2
According to one embodiment, an inductive coupling system includes a first inductor and a second inductor. The first inductor includes a first wiring pattern provided on a first board and shaped as an open loop.The second inductor includes a second wiring pattern provided on a second board and shaped as an open loop. The second inductor is inductively coupled to the first inductor. A width of the second wiring pattern is narrower than a width of the first wiring pattern.
US10224142B2
A system and method utilizes an array of unit coils for wireless charging and/or near field communication. The array of unit coils can be configured to provide magnetic fields of various shapes to accommodate consuming devices and/or to accommodate types of devices. The array of unit coils can be any type of coils (e.g., eccentric coils that provide a concentrated current field and a strong magnetic field). The array of unit coils can be powered by one or more power sources.
US10224136B2
A system including one or more bodies having an underlying structure resembling a double helix may be arranged and used, to produce useful electromagnetic effects for various agricultural applications, including promotion of growth in organisms and organic matter.
US10224135B2
A magnetic field device, with a first magnet, a first ferromagnetic element positioned adjacent to the first magnet, a second magnet, a second ferromagnetic element positioned adjacent to the second magnet and relative to the first ferromagnetic element to create a gap between the first ferromagnetic element and the second ferromagnetic element, and a third magnet positioned between the first ferromagnetic element and the second ferromagnetic element and within the gap.
US10224128B2
Flexible flat cable, vehicle including the same, and method of manufacturing the flexible flat cable
A flexible flat cable and a method of manufacturing the flexible flat cable, may include an insulating film forming an external appearance of the flexible flat cable; a conductor disposed inside the insulating film; and an adhesion layer configured to bond the insulating film to the conductor, wherein the adhesion layer contains metal particles, and when a crack occurs in the conductor, the metal particles connect the conductor in which the crack occurs.
US10224119B1
A predictive modeling method implemented on a computer for predicting patient outcomes and conditions from medical database records of a population of patients, and an optimization process of iterative variation of parameters of the method to achieve a best precision fit. Individual patient documents are created by concatenation of unstructured text fields from the patient's medical record, and these are processed using Natural Language Processing. A patient document corpus is built, and terms in the corpus are weighted and mapped to standard vocabularies. A term-by-document matrix is built and its dimensionality is reduced by Latent Semantic Indexing. Patient and term queries are combined and scored, producing a ranked list. The parameters of the model are iteratively optimized for an input list of patients with corresponding health score values.
US10224110B2
A memory card is provided to include a substrate having two pairs of edges facing each other, a plurality of first row terminals that are arranged adjacent to an edge at an insertion side of the substrate and include a first voltage power terminal for applying a first voltage and a first ground terminal, a plurality of second row terminals that are spaced farther apart from the edge at the insertion side than the plurality of first row terminals and include a second voltage power terminal for applying a second voltage and first data terminals, and a plurality of third row terminals that are spaced farther apart from the edge at the insertion side than the plurality of second row terminals and include second data terminals.
US10224108B2
A non-volatile memory includes a first memory cell. The first memory cell includes five transistors and a first capacitor. The first transistor includes a first gate, a first terminal and a second terminal. The second transistor includes a second gate, a third terminal and a fourth terminal. The third transistor includes a third gate, a fifth terminal and a sixth terminal. The fourth transistor includes a fourth gate, a seventh terminal and an eighth terminal. The fifth transistor includes a fifth gate, a ninth terminal and a tenth terminal. The first capacitor is connected between the third gate and a control line. The third gate is a floating gate. The second terminal is connected with the third terminal. The fourth terminal is connected with the fifth terminal. The sixth terminal is connected with the seventh terminal. The eighth terminal is connected with the ninth terminal.
US10224105B2
A three-dimensional (3D) flash memory includes a first dummy word line disposed between a ground select line and a lowermost main word line, and a second dummy word line of different word line configuration disposed between a string select line and an upper most main word line.
US10224104B2
Two vertical NAND strings can share a common bit line by providing two pairs of drain select transistors. Channels of each vertical NAND string containing an adjoining pair of drain select transistors are incorporated into a respective vertical semiconductor channel, which is adjoined to a respective drain region which is connected to the common bit line. The drain select transistors have mismatched threshold voltages at each level such that each vertical NAND string includes a level at which a respective drain select transistor has a higher threshold voltage than a counterpart drain select transistor for the other vertical NAND string at the same level. By turning on three drain select transistors out of four, only one vertical NAND string can be activated while the common bit line is biased at a suitable bias voltage. A programming operation or a read operation can be performed only on the activated NAND string.
US10224102B2
A semiconductor memory device may include a control logic. The control logic may be coupled to bit lines through a read and write (read/write) circuit and to word lines. The control logic is configured to determine a duration of an activation time of a strobe signal for the read/write circuit.
US10224099B1
Disclosed are devices and methods for storing values, symbols, parameters or conditions in memory devices as states, and subsequently mapping detected states as values, symbols parameters or conditions. In one implementation write operations may place first and second memory elements in a particular impedance state selected from between a low impedance or conductive state and a high impedance or insulative state. The high impedance or insulative state represents a first binary value or symbol while the low high impedance or conductive state represents a second binary value or symbol. Subsequently detected impedance states of the first and second memory elements may be mapped to the second binary value or symbol responsive to either of the detected impedance states being the high impedance or insulative state and the second detected impedance state.
US10224097B2
Read stability of a memory is enhanced in low voltage operation mode by selectively boosting a cell supply voltage for a row of memory cells. The boosted voltage results from a capacitive coupling to the word line in that row. The capacitive coupling is implemented by running the metal line of the power supply line for the cell supply voltage and the metal line for the word line adjacent to each other in a common metallization level. The selective voltage boost is controlled in response to operation of a modified memory cell exhibiting a deteriorated write margin. An output of the modified memory cell is compared to a threshold to generate a signal for controlling the selective voltage boost. Word line under-voltage circuitry is further provided to control application of an under-voltage to the word line.
US10224086B2
A memory device includes at least one reference cell and multiple memory cells. A method of operating the memory device may include detecting a temperature of the memory device and controlling a level of a first read signal applied to the at least one reference cell in accordance with a result of the detecting of the temperature. The method may also include comparing a first sensing value sensed by applying the first read signal to the at least one reference cell with a second sensing value sensed by applying a second read signal to a selected memory cell among the multiple memory cells.
US10224082B2
A semiconductor device includes a clock shifting circuit suitable for shifting a write pulse which is synchronized with a clock, in response to write latency signals, and generating shifting pulses and a mask write read signal; and a flag generation circuit suitable for generating a mask write flag by latching a mask write command or outputting the mask write command as the mask write flag, in response to the shifting pulses.
US10224071B2
A memory storing AV data for playing back encrypted video on a playback device is provided. The AV data includes a system stream file including encrypted video information, and a management information file. The system stream file includes a first segment in which is repeated a first data unit that can be individually decrypted using a first decryption key, and has a second data unit of the same data size as the first data unit but cannot be decrypted by the first decryption key. The system stream file also includes a second segment which can all be decrypted using a second decryption key that the playback device has in common with another playback device. The management information file has a time map in which are correlated I-picture serving as random access point, and a presentation clock time of the I-picture. The I-picture is multiplexed in the second segment.
US10224069B1
Phonograph record turntable stabilizing assemblies are provided that can include: a vessel having outer sidewalls; an opening within the vessel configured to receive the center spindle of the turntable; and a plurality of flowable solid particles to be received within the vessel. Phonograph record turntable stabilizing kits are provided. These kits can include: a vessel; an opening within the vessel configured to receive the center spindle of the turntable; and a plurality of flowable solid particles. Phonograph turntable assemblies are provided that can include: a phonograph turntable having a record thereon; a vessel upon the record; an opening within the vessel configured to receive the center spindle of the turntable; and a plurality of flowable solid particles within the vessel. Methods for stabilizing a record upon a turntable are provided. The methods can include: placing a vessel upon a record on a turntable; and at least partially filling the vessel with flowable solid particles.
US10224067B2
A magnetoresistance effect element has a first ferromagnetic metal layer, a second ferromagnetic metal layer, and a tunnel barrier layer that is sandwiched between the first and second ferromagnetic metal layers, the tunnel barrier layer is expressed by a chemical formula of AB2Ox, and has a spinel structure in which cations are arranged in a disordered manner, A represents a divalent cation that is either Mg or Zn, and B represents a trivalent cation that includes a plurality of elements selected from the group consisting of Al, Ga, and In.
US10224065B2
An apparatus according to one embodiment includes a module having a tape bearing surface, a first edge, and a second edge, where a tape tenting region extends from the first edge toward the second edge, the first edge being a first end of the tape tenting region, a second end of the tape tenting region being positioned between the first and second edges. The apparatus includes a guide positioned relative to the first edge for inducing tenting of a moving magnetic recording tape and a transducer positioned in the tape tenting region. In addition, the module has a wear coating on a media facing side of the transducer, where a peak height is defined between the peak of tenting and an upper surface of the coating. The thickness of the wear coating is in a range of between about 0.5 and about 3 times the peak height.
US10224058B2
This specification describes computer-implemented methods and systems. One method includes receiving, by a neural network of a speech recognition system, first data representing a first raw audio signal and second data representing a second raw audio signal. The first raw audio signal and the second raw audio signal describe audio occurring at a same period of time. The method further includes generating, by a spatial filtering layer of the neural network, a spatial filtered output using the first data and the second data, and generating, by a spectral filtering layer of the neural network, a spectral filtered output using the spatial filtered output. Generating the spectral filtered output comprises processing frequency-domain data representing the spatial filtered output. The method still further includes processing, by one or more additional layers of the neural network, the spectral filtered output to predict sub-word units encoded in both the first raw audio signal and the second raw audio signal.
US10224056B1
A speech-based system includes a local device in a user premises and a network-based control service that directs the local device to perform actions for a user. The control service may specify a first action that is to be performed upon detection by the local device of a stimulus. In some cases, performing the first action may rely on the availability of network communications with the control service or with another service. In these cases, the control service also specifies a second, fallback action that does not rely upon network communications. Upon detecting the stimulus, the local device performs the first action if network communications are available. If network communications are not available, the local device performs the second, fallback action.
US10224051B2
A quantizing apparatus is provided that includes a quantization path determiner that determines a path from a first path not using inter-frame prediction and a second path using the inter-frame prediction, as a quantization path of an input signal, based on a criterion before quantization of the input signal; a first quantizer that quantizes the input signal, if the first path is determined as the quantization path of the input signal; and a second quantizer that quantizes the input signal, if the second path is determined as the quantization path of the input signal.
US10224042B2
A device includes a receiver configured to receive an encoded bitstream from a second device. The encoded bitstream includes a temporal mismatch value determined based on a reference channel captured at the second device and a target channel captured at the second device. The device also includes a decoder configured to decode the encoded bitstream to generate a first frequency-domain output signal and a second frequency-domain output signal. The decoder is configured to perform inverse transform operations on the frequency-domain output signals to generate a first and second time-domain signals. Based on the temporal mismatch value, the decoder is configured to map the time-domain signals to a decoded target channel and a decoded reference channel. The decoder is also configured to perform a causal time-domain shift operation on the decoded target channel based on the temporal mismatch value to generate an adjusted decoded target channel.
US10224040B2
The present application relates to packet loss concealment apparatus and method, and audio processing system. According to an embodiment, the packet loss concealment apparatus is provided for concealing packet losses in a stream of audio packets, each audio packet comprising at least one audio frame in transmission format comprising at least one monaural component and at least one spatial component. The packet loss concealment apparatus may comprises a first concealment unit for creating the at least one monaural component for a lost frame in a lost packet and a second concealment unit for creating the at least one spatial component for the lost frame. According to the embodiment, spatial artifacts such as incorrect angle and diffuseness may be avoided as far as possible in PLC for multi-channel spatial or sound field encoded audio signals.
US10224034B2
Disclosed are a voice recognition system and a construction method for the voice recognition system. By way of layering the system, a general semantic recognition operation for the system is separated from a specific semantic recognition operation for an application program; and by way of classifying the application programs and abstracting out a common performance function, the system can find the application program matching the voice content semantics very efficiently and a third-party program is easily added into the existing voice recognition system. The present invention maps many performance functions to a preset expression with semantic variables, so that the system can recognize more semantic expression manners with optimization of the semantic recognition. Therefore, the system can show more humanized characteristics.
US10224033B1
A method and apparatus for associating a query to a direction is provided herein. During operation, a virtual partner will attempt to determine a direction the query originated from. When answering the query, the virtual partner will adjust multiple speaker outputs so that the reply is perceived to come from the same direction as the query originated from. Additionally, if another follow-on query is made from a particular direction, the follow-on query will be associated with the prior query originating from the same particular direction.
US10224030B1
In speech processing systems personalization is added in the Natural Language Understanding (NLU) processor by incorporating external knowledge sources of user information to improve entity recognition performance of the speech processing system. Personalization in the NLU is effected by incorporating one or more dictionaries of entries, or gazetteers, with information personal to a respective user, that provide the user's information to permit disambiguation of semantic interpretation for input utterances to improve quality of speech processing results.
US10224028B2
Systems, methods, and devices are described herein for placing secondary content into a break of unknown duration in a stream of primary content. In one aspect, the described techniques may include streaming a segment of primary content, for example, by a reduce capability client device, such as a mobile device or tablet. The device may receive information indicative of a break in the streaming of the primary content. The device may play secondary content based on receiving the information indicative of the break. The device may determine when a next segment of the primary content is available, and begin streaming the next segment of the primary content upon detecting that the second segment of the primary content is available.
US10224027B2
Systems, devices, and methods are described herein for distributing syndicated content or content with one or more distribution restrictions. In one aspect, a method may include assigning a unique ID to a plurality of content items, where the unique ID of at least one of the content items is associated with one or more property distribution restrictions. The method may further include streaming in a video stream the content items to at least two properties and monitoring the unique IDs of the plurality of content items streamed in the video stream to detect least one content item associated with the one or more property distribution restrictions. The distribution of the least one content item associated with the one or more property distribution restrictions may be blocked from the one or more properties concurrently with streaming the video stream, based on the one or more property distribution restrictions.
US10224023B2
A speech recognition system and method thereof, a vocabulary establishing method and a computer program product are provided. The speech recognition method includes: storing a speech recognition model including speech-units and basic components of acoustic models, wherein each of the speech-units includes at least one state and each state corresponds to one of the basic components of acoustic models; receiving first and second speech signals; obtaining a speech-unit sequence of a native/non-native vocabulary from a speech-analysis and unit-expansion module; recognizing the first speech signal according to the speech recognition model and the speech-unit sequence of the native/non-native vocabulary and further outputting a recognition result; and selecting an optimal component from the basic components of acoustic models according to the speech recognition model, the second speech signal, and the word corresponding to the second speech signal, and further updating the speech-units according to the best basic component of acoustic model.
US10224021B2
A voice synthesizing apparatus includes: a voice inputter (102) configured to input a voice; an obtainer (22) configured to obtain a primary response to the voice inputted by the voice inputter (102); an analyzer (112) configured to analyze whether the primary response includes a repetition target; and a voice synthesizer (24) configured to, in a case where the analyzed primary response is determined to include the repetition target, synthesize a voice from a secondary response that includes the repetition target repeated at least twice to output the voice.
US10224019B2
Broadly speaking, embodiments of the present invention provide a wearable audio device including one or a plurality of microphones, a sound recognition systems and a controller to control the device based on one or more recognized sounds or classes of sound. Embodiments use stored sound models.
US10224016B2
A noise cancelling headset includes an earpiece, the earpiece including a feedback microphone, a feed-forward microphone, and an output driver. A first feedback filter receives an input from at least the first feedback microphone and produces a first filtered feedback signal. A first feed-forward filter receives an input from at least the first feed-forward microphone and produces a first filtered feed-forward signal. A first summer combines the first filtered feedback signal and the first filtered feed-forward signal and produces a first output signal. An output interface provides the first output signal as an output from the headset.
US10224009B2
A string tensioner module for a stringed musical instrument is configured to apply a constant or near-constant tension to the musical strings of the instrument. The module is divided into a plurality of string tensioners, one string tensioner for each musical string. Each string tensioner employs a primary spring that apply the primary force coaxial with the string. Each string tensioner also employs a secondary spring that applies a secondary force in a direction crossing the axis of the string, and thus applying an axial force component that changes as the angle of the secondary spring changes. The primary and secondary springs are selected so that the change in the axial force component of the secondary spring as the string changes in length approximates the change in force applied by the primary spring so that the axial force applied to the string remains generally constant even as the string changes in length.
US10224007B2
A refrigerator includes a main body defining a storage compartment that is divided into a plurality of storage sections, and a door coupled to the main body to selectively open or close the storage compartment. The door includes a door glass having at least one transparent display area, and a door frame surrounding one or more edges of the door glass and configured to protect the door glass. The transparent display area is configured to display, based on being touched by a user, information on food stored in one or more of the plurality of storage sections that corresponds to the touched transparent display area.
US10224005B2
A driving device includes a phase detection unit, a signal reconstruction unit, and a plurality of transmission units. The signal reconstruction unit is coupled to the phase detection unit. The phase detection unit is configured to receive a plurality of synchronous signals corresponding to a plurality of data packets, and detect a phase difference between the synchronous signals to generate a detection result signal. The signal reconstruction unit is configured to generate a reconstructed synchronous signal according to the detection result signal. The plurality of transmission units is configured to receive the reconstructed synchronous signal, and synchronize a plurality of pixel data corresponding to the data packets according to the reconstructed synchronous signal for transmission to a plurality of display devices.
US10224002B2
The present disclosure describes writing information on substrate displays. In an example, a display on a substrate is interfaced. The interfacing includes constraining a first longitudinal side of the substrate via a first actuable slot. Further, a second longitudinal side of the substrate opposite to the first longitudinal side is constrained via a second actuable slot. Thereby the substrate is constrained between the first and second slot with the display positioned therebetween. Further, the display is operated to write information thereon via an imager while the substrate is constrained between the first and second slot.
US10223998B2
Methods, systems, and techniques for analyzing the level of engagement of viewers of shared digital displays and enhancing that engagement by dynamically modifying the content of the display and incorporating personalized content created by viewers are provided. One example embodiment is the Dynamic Content Analysis and Engagement System (DCAES), which enables the operator of the system to analyze engagement, generate metrics, manage owner and viewer generated content, and dynamically modify the content on the shared display to increase the engagement of the viewer. In one example embodiment, the DCAES comprises an attention sensor module, an analysis module, a content management module, and a display control module.
US10223990B2
The present disclosure provides a pixel circuit, a method for driving the pixel circuit and a display panel including the pixel circuit. The pixel circuit comprises a data writing unit, a voltage tracking unit, a voltage storage unit and a liquid crystal capacitor. The data writing unit is constructed to transfer a data voltage on a data line to the voltage storage unit and the voltage tracking unit when the pixel circuit is in a normal display mode. The voltage storage unit is constructed to store the data voltage when the pixel circuit is in the normal display mode and transfer the data voltage or an adjustment voltage to the input terminal of the voltage tracking unit when the pixel circuit is in a static display mode. The voltage tracking unit is constructed to output a data output voltage based on the data voltage or the adjustment voltage, such that the liquid crystal capacitor generates a corresponding liquid crystal deflection field.
US10223989B2
Provided is a driving method of a liquid crystal display panel, comprising: inputting an activation voltage to the scan lines from a first direction in a first duration, and inputting a pixel voltage of a first polarity to the data lines to charge the pixel capacitors; inputting an activation voltage to the scan lines from the first direction in a second duration, and inputting a pixel voltage of a second polarity to the data lines to charge the pixel capacitors; inputting an activation voltage to the scan lines from a second direction in a third duration, and inputting the pixel voltage of the first polarity to the data lines to charge the pixel capacitors; inputting an activation voltage to the scan lines from the second direction in a fourth duration, and inputting the pixel voltage of the second polarity to the data lines to charge the pixel capacitors.
US10223985B2
A multi-layered intelligent display system includes a first LCD display panel; a second OLED display panel; a smart panel disposed behind the second display panel; an LED panel disposed between the second display panel and the smart panel; a sensor for detecting the ambient light behind the smart panel and activating the LED panel if the ambient light is below a predetermined illuminance; a memory having programming instructions stored thereon; and a controller in communication with the first and second display panels, the smart panel, and the memory. The multi-layered intelligent glass display is operable in each of a display mode, a multilayer display mode, and a transparent mode.
US10223982B2
In a display apparatus provided with an electrophoresis layer, such a display apparatus as to improve the response performance of a touch detection is provided. A driving unit included in a display apparatus alternately repeats a display driving process for supplying a first driving signal to a driving electrode disposed in a selected partial display region and a detection driving process for supplying a second driving signal to a driving electrode disposed in another selected partial display region while successively cyclically changing the partial display region and successively cyclically changing another partial detection region. Moreover, in the detection driving process, a touch detection unit included in the display apparatus detects an input position at another selected partial detection region based on an electrostatic capacitance of the driving electrode disposed at another selected detection region.
US10223969B2
Disclosed is an organic light emitting diode (OLED) display including a plurality of pixels, first and second scan signal stages, and emission control signal stages. The pixels are respectively arranged along n number of lines (n is a natural number), and each of the pixels include a first scan transistor, a driving transistor, a second scan transistor, and an emission control transistor. The first scan signal stages output first scan signals sequentially to the first scan transistors. The second scan signal stages output second scan signals sequentially to the second scan transistors. The emission control signal stages output emission control signals having a same phase to emission control transistors of two adjacent horizontal lines.
US10223967B1
The invention provides an OLED pixel driving circuit and pixel driving method. The OLED pixel driving circuit adopts a 6T2C structure, comprising: first to sixth TFTs (T1, T2, T3, T4, T5, T6), a first capacitor (C1), a second capacitor (c2), and an OLED (D); the (n−1)th first scan signal (Scan1(n−1)), n-th first scan signal (Scan1(n)), n-th second scan signal (Scan2(n)), n-th third scan signal (Scan3(n)), n-th fourth scan signal (Scan4(n)) and the data signal (Data) are combined w to correspond to a reset stage, a threshold voltage storage stage, a data writing stage, a capacitor cascading stage, and a display lighting stage respectively so that the current flowing through the OLED is independent of the threshold voltage of driving TFT.
US10223966B2
An organic EL display device includes a plurality of sub-pixels each including a first organic EL element and a second organic EL element, a temperature information detector configured to measure current-voltage characteristics of the second organic EL element included in each of the sub-pixels, and to detect, on the basis of a result of the measurement, temperature information of the second organic EL element included in each of the sub-pixels, and a correction unit configured to correct a driving signal of the first organic EL element included in each of the sub-pixels on the basis of the temperature information of the second organic EL element included in the same sub-pixel as the sub-pixel including the relevant first organic EL element.
US10223961B2
A method for displaying images on an active matrix screen, i representing a pointer of a current row and each pixel comprising a memory and a display component comprises controlling the brightness of the pixels by a binary word comprising a number of bits written successively into the memory and by controlling the display component as a function of a state of the bit written into the memory, the bits of each binary word being ranked by their weight from j=1 to j=P. The writes are sequenced: from a current row i, writing on the rows i+2j, from j=1 to j=P, the bit of weight j of each binary word associated with different pixels of rows i+2j; repeating, 2P−1 times, the writes mentioned above by shifting the pointer i of the current row by one unit on each repetition; i being determined modulo 2P−1 to lie between 1 and 2P−1.
US10223960B2
The transmission delay time of a receiver for receiving a differential signal is reduced. A first amplifier circuit is provided in an input stage of the receiver, and a second amplifier circuit is provided in an output stage of the receiver. The first amplifier circuit is a differential input, differential output amplifier circuit. The second amplifier circuit is a differential input, single-ended output amplifier circuit. A first power supply voltage and a second power supply voltage are input as a high-level power supply voltage and a low-level power supply voltage to the first amplifier circuit and the second amplifier circuit, respectively. The withstand voltage of transistors of a differential pair of the first amplifier circuit is higher than the withstand voltage of another transistor included in the first amplifier circuit and a transistor included in the second amplifier circuit.
US10223950B2
Provided is a display panel, including: a display region having an anomaly shape; a plurality of first test transistors; a plurality of second test transistors; and test control signal supply wiring through which a control signal for turning on or off the first and second test transistors is to be supplied, in which first test transistors connected to gate lines crossing an anomaly part of the anomaly shape and second test transistors connected to data lines crossing the anomaly part are arranged in other patterns than a straight line, and in which the test control signal supply wiring includes first test control signal supply wiring, which is connected to control electrodes of the plurality of first test transistors, and second test control signal supply wiring, which is branched out from the first test control signal supply wiring and is connected to control electrodes of the plurality of second test transistors.
US10223945B2
The invention relates to a lighting display system (1), comprising: a mounting structure (3), which comprises a mounting plate (7) having a front side (13); at least one first plug contact (15) arranged on the front side (13) of the mounting plate (7); and an electrical power supply connection (17), which is electrically connected to the at least one first plug contact (15); at least one luminous body (5), which comprises a front side (19) and a back side (21); a second plug contact (23), which is arranged on the back side (21) of the at least one luminous body (5) and which can be plugged together with and electrically connected to the first plug contact (15); and a plurality of light sources (27), which are electrically connected to the second plug contact (23); wherein the at least one luminous body (5) can be secured to the mounting structure (7) by means of least one securing assembly (29), wherein a first element (31) of the at least one securing assembly (29) is firmly connected to the back side (21) of the at least one luminous body (5), a second element (33) of the at least one securing assembly (29) is firmly connected to the front side (13) of the mounting plate (7), and a third element (35) of the at least one securing assembly (29) is configured to connect the first and the second element of the at least one securing assembly (29) to each other in a positive-locking manner.
US10223944B2
A backlighting system for a cabinet sign may include a plurality of panels. Each panel includes a plurality of light emitting diodes (“LEDs”) attached to the panel. The diode has a box sign depth factor of less than about 1.4. An integrated circuit may also be located on the panel. A wire physically connects adjacent panels.
US10223940B2
A bucket list display device. Multiple goal mounts and achievement mounts are mounted onto a mounting board. Each achievement mount is mounted next to a corresponding goal mount. Goal placards are removably attached to the goal mounts and achievement placards are removably attached to the achievement mounts. Each goal placard refers to a desired goal to be achieved. Each achievement placard provides a statement that indicates if the goal has been accomplished or if it has not yet been accomplished. In one preferred embodiment the goal placards refer to golf courses that the user hopes to one day play.
US10223934B2
In some embodiments, a method that includes capturing sound in a natural language environment using at least one sound capture device that is located in the natural language environment. The method also can include analyzing a sound signal from the sound captured by the at least one sound capture device to determine at least one characteristic of the sound signal. The method additionally can include reporting metrics that quantify the at least one characteristic of the sound signal. The metrics of the at least one characteristic can include a quantity of words spoken by one or more first persons in the natural language environment. Other embodiments are provided.
US10223928B2
An information processing apparatus includes a first storage portion, a second storage portion, a board-written data obtaining portion, a storage processing portion, and a first data processing portion. The first storage portion stores one or more pieces of board-written data which each includes lesson information that was input to a board surface. The second storage portion stores one or more pieces of exercise data. The board-written data obtaining portion obtains a piece of board-written data. The storage processing portion stores, in the first storage portion, the piece of board-written data obtained by the board-written data obtaining portion. The first data processing portion associates the piece of board-written data stored in the first storage portion by the storage processing portion, with a piece of exercise data whose learning theme is common to a learning theme of lesson information included in the piece of board-written data.
US10223919B2
A system and method to enhance pedestrian safety that include accessing pedestrian data and vehicle system data and determining a current location and a speed of a vehicle based on the vehicle system data. The system and method also include determining a current location and a speed of a pedestrian based on the pedestrian data and building at least one vehicle polygon that represents a predicted path of the vehicle. The system and method additionally include building at least one pedestrian polygon that represents a predicted path of the pedestrian. The system and method further include determining if the at least one pedestrian polygon intersects the at least one vehicle polygon and actuating a warning based on an intersection of the at least one pedestrian polygon with the at least one vehicle polygon.
US10223915B2
A system for protecting the safety of occupants exiting and entering a vehicle is disclosed. The system has sensors on the interior, exterior and remotely of the vehicle and one or more imaging devices that project an image onto the pavement supporting the vehicle as well as optional data input devices all communicating with a system controller. The system anticipates that the occupant will be leaving the vehicle and the time it will take for the occupant to fully exit the vehicle. The system further controls the imaging devices to warn the drivers of oncoming traffic of the occupant's egress and warn or block the egress of the occupant should a particularly dangerous condition exist.
US10223913B2
An LED traffic signal is enhanced with a combination of a cylindrical opaque visor and a transparent cone that is placed over the lens. The visor is offset from the lens to provide a gap, an escape route for fast moving air that rushes down the cone and out the gap as described in the Bernoulli formula. Various embodiments include a wing shaped visor, a standard visor being cylindrical, and a custom visor being cylindrical.
US10223902B2
Methods and systems for operating a point device included in a system of point devices. One method includes transmitting a query, with a transceiver included in the point device, to at least one device external to the point device for system state information and receiving, with the transceiver, a response from at least one device external to the point device in response to the query. The method also includes determining, with an electronic processor included in the point device, a current state of the system of point devices based on the received response and automatically modifying, with the electronic processor, operation of the point device based on the current state of the system of point devices.
US10223900B2
The invention includes systems, methods, and software applications for centrally maintaining information and automatically distributing relevant portions of the information to remote users. In one embodiment, a central server stores the information, which is maintained on the central server. Periodically, or each time the server information is updated, the server identifies the portion of the information that is relevant to each user and downloads the relevant portion of information to each user, for example to a mobile device such as a Blackberry™. The invention may be used to maintain and timely distribute information related to emergency response procedures, sales or servicing schedules, and delivery schedules, among other things.
US10223889B2
Disclosed is an emergency detection and response system using LED-lighting modules. The emergency detection and response system using LED-lighting modules, according to the present invention, comprises: a plurality of LED-lighting modules having an emergency sensor for sensing an emergency and a communication sensor; a communication network for, if an emergency is detected by the emergency sensor, receiving emergency detection signals transmitted via the communication sensor and providing the emergency detection signals to an operation unit; a control unit for controlling the LED-lighting modules according to control signals received from the operation unit or a specific emergency detection signal among the emergency detection signals; and a cloud platform for building, as a database, the emergency detection signals received from the communication network or the control signals corresponding to the emergency detection signals and transmitting an early warning signal on the basis of the received signals.
US10223878B2
A user interface (UI) device for a premises management system may include at least one proximity sensor, a first interface component configured to illuminate in a first illumination style based on a first rule set when an individual is detected within a first range by the at least one proximity sensor, and a second interface component to receive input from the individual and configured to illuminate in a second illumination style based on a second rule set different from the first rule set when the individual is detected within a second range closer to the UI device than the first range.
US10223870B2
A method of gaming comprising: displaying a plurality of games for player selection, each of the games having a corresponding set of prize modifiers for applying to a prize awarded during the respective game when a trigger condition is met during the selected game; receiving a selection indicative of a selected game selected from the games; selecting from the set of prize modifiers corresponding to the selected game a subset of the prize modifiers comprising one, some or all of the prize modifiers; conducting play of the selected game; determining an outcome of play of the selected game; and selecting one of the prize modifiers from the subset of prize modifiers and modifying any prize awarded according to the outcome of the selected game according to the selected prize modifier.
US10223865B2
A method for presenting wagering games on a wagering game machine is described herein. The method can include detecting, by an add-on gaming system of the wagering game machine, a message indicating occurrence of a first wagering game on the wager game machine. The method can further include initiating, by the add-on gaming system, a second wagering game in parallel with the first wagering game on a display device native to the wagering game machine, where the presenting is in response to the detecting the message.
US10223859B2
A wagering game system and its operations are described herein. In some embodiments, the operations can include detecting initiation of a wagering game and determining, in response to the detecting the initiation of the wagering game, first content and second content to present for the wagering game. The operations can further include providing the first content for presentation on a display device, the first content being viewable through the gaming eyewear, and providing the second content for presentation as a virtual image via the gaming eyewear.
US10223857B2
The present invention relates to a keyless entry system that contains a visual random code generator so that the possible input pattern is different every time a user accesses the system. A keypad device containing an input device and a display are electronically connected to a processor containing the visual random code generator. Positions and associated values are displayed on the input device, such as a touch sensitive screen, allowing the user to enter an access code. The visual random code generator randomizes and controls the input pattern displayed so that the input pattern changes each time the system is accessed.
US10223854B2
The present invention discloses a vehicle management method, a management device mounted on a vehicle, and a vehicle. The method comprises: setting a vehicle in a free-to-use state in advance; receiving a use request by a management device mounted on the vehicle from a user terminal, the use request including an identification of the user terminal and verification information; verifying the user terminal by the management device; when the verification succeeds, marking by the management device the vehicle with a legal use mark, and continuing the free-to-use state of the vehicle. According to one embodiment of the present invention, the user experience can be enhanced.
US10223850B2
An RFID system in which at least one of the RFID tag antenna and the RFID reader antenna has an impedance matching network associated therewith in order to better match the impedances of the two antennas. This impedance matching places the antennas into an over-coupled regime once they are within a reasonable distance of each other (e.g., 2 to 50 mm). It also increases the Q-factor of the improved antenna, which can greatly increase the range at which the RFID reader can read the RFID tag. This improved RFID system may be used in any of a variety of application, including operating a door lock mechanism.
US10223834B2
An apparatus comprising a processor and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing instructions, when executed by the processor, cause the apparatus to perform a method comprising determining a first and second set of coordinates, associated with a first and second feature, respectively, in one or more first and second images, respectively, the first and second images are captured from a first and second position and/or orientation relative to the physical environment, respectively, re-projecting the first set of coordinates to one or more 2D spaces associated with the second images, comparing the re-projected first set of coordinates with the second set of coordinates in at least one of position closeness, feature closeness, or stereo constraints to determine a correspondence between the first and second features and determining a change between the first and second orientations and/or positions with respect to the physical environment based on the determined correspondence.
US10223818B2
Embodiments of the invention relate to detecting and describing visible features of a data set. A cluster in a data space is detected. A characteristic associated with the cluster is identified by analysis of the cluster based on geometrical attributes. The analysis includes identification of a shape of the cluster. The identified characteristic is converted into a characterization of the cluster. A visualization is produced based on the characterization.
US10223813B2
Methods and systems for computed tomography. A subject is imaged with a divergent beam source using a plurality of source positions and a detector array comprising a plurality of detector bins to obtain a representation of the subject including a plurality of image voxels. Contribution of a voxel to a detector bin in a computed forward projection or a detector bin to a voxel in a backprojection is determined by the intensity value assigned to the voxel, or to the detector bin, respectively, multiplied by the product of an area or volume of overlap and an additional weighting factor, and the area or volume of overlap is determined by overlap of the voxel with the area or volume of the image illuminated by a ray-wedge defined by detector bin edge rays.
US10223812B2
Systems and methods are described for providing an image validation module. The image validation mobile enables capture, enhancement, validation, and upload of a digital image to a networked computing service, applying criteria that correspond to image validation criteria used by the networked computing service. The image validation mobile may be executed on a mobile computing device, and may authenticate itself to the networked computing service to indicate that digital images have already been validated. The image validation module may provide feedback before, during, or after image capture to enable the capture of valid images, and may provide feedback before, during, or after image enhancement to allow issues that prevent a digital image from passing validation to be addressed.
US10223805B1
A coded tracking system includes an imaging device and a target object that includes a plurality of locators emitting light according to a first pattern. An image of the target object captured by the imaging device includes light received by the imaging device from a subset of the plurality of locators. A pattern controller is configured to determine a resolution value for an adjacent pair of light sources in the captured image. The resolution value is indicative of the pattern controller being able to resolve the adjacent pair of light sources as two separate sources. The pattern controller determines a second pattern for the locators based on the resolution value. The second pattern improves a likelihood that the pattern controller can resolve between individual light sources emitting light in the second pattern. The pattern controller instructs the target object for the locators to emit light according to the second pattern.
US10223799B2
Embodiments are disclosed for methods and systems of distinguishing movements of features in a physical environment. For example, on a head-mounted display device, one embodiment of a method includes obtaining a representation of real-world features in two or more coordinate frames and obtaining motion data from one or more sensors external to the head-mounted display device. The method further includes distinguishing features in one coordinate frame from features in another coordinate frame based upon the motion data.
US10223797B2
A launch monitor having a camera can be used to measure a trajectory parameter of a ball. In one example, a method can include changing a mode of the camera from a low-speed mode to a high-speed mode. The camera can include an image sensor array having a plurality of pixels. The camera can generate a video frame using more pixels in the low-speed mode than in the high-speed mode. A first video frame can be received, the video frame comprising values captured during the high-speed mode from a first subset of the plurality of pixels. A second video frame can be received, the video frame comprising values captured during the high-speed mode from a second subset of the plurality of pixels. The trajectory parameter of the ball can be calculated using the first video frame and the second video frame.
US10223790B2
A dynamic analysis system includes a comparing unit and a display unit. The comparing unit extracts a lung field from each of dynamic images obtained by imaging a chest part containing a left lung and a right lung of a subject, specifies a corresponding point in a left part and a corresponding point in a right part of the lung field, and compares characteristic amounts at the respective corresponding points with each other. The display unit displays a result of the comparison made by the comparing unit together with the dynamic images or one of the dynamic images, or displays the result on the dynamic images or the one of the dynamic images.
US10223788B2
A dermoscopic lesion area is identified by: Obtaining a dermoscopic image and running a convolutional neural network image classifier on the dermoscopic image to obtain pixelwise lesion prediction scores. Segmenting the dermoscopic image into super-pixels, and computing for each super-pixel an average of the pixelwise prediction scores for pixels within that super-pixel. Computing a mean prediction score across the plurality of super-pixels. Assigning a confidence indicator of “1” to each super-pixel with a prediction score equal or greater than the mean prediction score, and a confidence indicator of “0” to each super-pixel with a prediction score less than the mean prediction score. Constructing a super-pixel graph G=(V,E,W) wherein w ij = exp ( - x i - x j 2 σ ) and di=Σi=1Nwij; computing a confidence score function F according to {circumflex over (F)}=arg min(FTLF+μ∥F−Y∥2); and integrating the confidence score function F with the pixelwise prediction scores to produce a final segmentation of the dermoscopic image into lesion and background areas.
US10223783B2
A method for encoding dot-matrix product information method includes identifying, via a processor, a dot-matrix grid size. The method further includes evaluating, via the processor, one or more dot pattern variation levels. In some aspects, the method includes retrieving, via the processor, an encoding structure indicative of a plurality of product information attributes. The method also includes determining, via the processor, whether an alpha-numeric digit at a dot pattern variation level can include a plurality of product information. The method further includes outputting, via the processor, a dot pattern code map. In some aspects, the dot pattern code map is indicative of a relationship between each of the product information attributes and the plurality of values for each of the product information attributes.
US10223776B2
The present disclosure provides systems and methods for receiving ultrasound image data corresponding to an ultrasound image with a master dynamic range and displaying a globally tone-mapped version of the ultrasound image on an electronic display. A region of interest (ROI) within the ultrasound image may be regionally tone mapped to provide an enhanced, optimized, and/or otherwise improved image of the ROI. The regional tone mapping may allow for features within the ROI to be more easily distinguishable that are not or at least not easily distinguishable in the global tone mapping of the same region.
US10223773B2
Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide for technology that identifies, at an image post-processor, unresolved surface data and identifies, at the image post-processor, control data associated with the unresolved surface data. Additionally, the technology may resolve, at the image post-processor, the unresolved surface data and the control data into a final image.
US10223769B2
A display device includes a first storage unit and a display chip. The first storage unit stores first extended display identification data comprising a plurality of first preset parameters. The display chip includes a control unit. The control unit provides at least one second preset parameter to replace a part of the first preset parameters in the first extended display identification data in response to a control signal and thereby generate second extended display identification data. The display chip issues a notification signal to notify the display signal providing device to read the second extended display identification data in response to a generation of the second extended display identification data. The display signal providing device provides a first display signal compatible with the second extended display identification data to the display device after reading the second extended display identification data. An extended display identification data replacement method is also provided.
US10223758B2
In one embodiment, a social-networking system authenticates a user of a mobile device, receives a request from the mobile device to install a software application, transmits data to the mobile device comprising the software application and an installation identifier (ID), receives another request including the installation ID from the mobile device to authorize the software application, evaluates the installation ID for validity, and transmits yet another response to the mobile device in accordance with the evaluation.
US10223756B2
A mechanism is provided for controlling the content of an electronic message on an electronic messaging system including a plurality of communities that facilitates the tailoring of the content of a posted electronic message to the interests and/or access privileges of such communities. An electronic lexicon is provided for each community, the lexicon defining content relevant to the community. The electronic message is interpreted for disclosure to a particular community to identify content in the message relating to content in the electronic lexicon of the particular community. The electronic message is redacted based on the identified related content if the electronic message contains content in a form unsuitable for the disclosure.
US10223750B1
Systems and methods may provide for generating, maintaining, and using an inventory for insurance purposes. An optimized inventory analysis server may use a demographic classification for a given user along with data related to items owned by other users to determine one or more items for recommendation to the given user. Details associated with existing insurance coverage levels may also be used to recommend new insurance products to the user. In addition, the optimized inventory analysis server may determine a depreciated value of each item within an inventory. These values may be used to assess loss and settle an insurance claim for damage to one or more of the items in the inventory. Finally, the optimized inventory analysis server may recommend incentives on products/services sold by third party entities and may further recommend incentives on insurance products for insuring items purchased by a given user.
US10223742B2
The present disclosure selects third party content based on feedback. A selector identifies several content items including first and second content items (or more) responsive to a request. A machine learning engine determines a first feature of the first content item, a second feature of the second content item, and a third feature of the web page or a device associated with the request. The machine learning engine determines, responsive to the first feature and the third feature, a first score for the first content item based on a machine learning model generated using historical signals received from devices via a metadata channel formed from an electronic feedback interface. The machine learning engine determines a second score for the second content item responsive to the second feature and the third feature. A bidding module determines a price for the first content item based on the first and second scores.
US10223740B1
Aspects of the disclosure relate to virtual reality systems (and/or augmented reality systems) that facilitate visualization of replacement and/or additional items for rebuilding a damaged room. The system may provide a virtual representation of a subject real world room. A user may select items, such as appliances and furniture, for placement in the virtual room and the system may update the virtual room to include a representation of the items. In some embodiments, the system may utilize information about the user to provide recommendations regarding items that may be placed in a virtual room. For example, the system may utilize one or more service records to identify items covered under a service associated with the user. In some embodiments, the system may apply a monetary settlement to the cost of the real world items to facilitate the replacement of damaged items.
US10223737B2
A method comprising receiving different types of crowd-sourced information, the different types of crowd-sourced information relating to a physical store that a plurality of electronic devices have visited. The method further comprises determining a plurality of products available in the physical store based on the different types of crowd-sourced information, and correlating the different types of crowd-sourced information to determine at least one product location of at least one product of the plurality of products available. Each product location of each product identifies a location of the product within the physical store.
US10223736B1
A system and method for conducting a web-based postage transaction, includes receiving user credentials at a web server, validating the user credentials, and in response to valid credentials, providing access to a remote client to at least one module of a postage software application. The module is configured to execute requests to perform the web-based postage transaction and to, for each revenue generating request, perform a validation check. The validation check includes a requirement that the module have access to the web server for the request to be fulfilled. In an embodiment, the postage software application includes a module configured and arranged to determine the availability of a client-side device configured to execute the request to perform the web-based postage transaction and, when the client-side device is unavailable, to prevent execution of the request, and when the client-side device is available, to allow execution of the request.
US10223730B2
The E-WALLET STORE INJECTION SEARCH APPARATUSES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS (“SIS”) transform aggregated automated shopping lists and user location data using SIS components into automated shopping item availability messages and merchant location navigation responses. In some implementations, the disclosure provides a processor-implemented method of providing an automated store injection search service.
US10223716B2
A method of charging a customer for using a software program product that processes one or more documents that includes receiving, by a tracking server from at least one client application, information relating to a processing of a document using the software program product; determining if the information indicates a successful processing of the document; and upon positive determination, charging the customer with an amount for the successful processing of the document using the software program product.
US10223704B2
Systems and methods for a point of sale reward system are provided. The system notifies users proximate to a point of sale location of rewards available for redemption specific to that user at that specific point of sale location.
US10223685B2
Disclosed are systems, media, and methods for providing pay-per-access micropayment-based web browsing and server applications. In one aspect, disclosed herein are computer-implemented systems comprising a digital processing device comprising at least one processor, an operating system configured to perform executable instructions, a memory, and a computer program including instructions executable by the digital processing device to create a pay-per-access micropayment-based server application.
US10223666B1
A system for managing inventory items includes a portable inventory holder and an unmanned drive unit configured to move the inventory holder between locations in an inventory facility. The inventory facility includes a plurality of uniquely identifiable fiducial markers having a small set of values distributed in a pattern. The drive unit captures at least one image of a subset of the plurality of the fiducial markers. The at least one captured image is processed to determine a location of the drive unit within the facility. A path is determined along which the drive unit moves to an inventory holder and moves the inventory holder to another location. The pattern of fiducial markers can include one or more repeated instances of uniquely identifiable fiducial markers. A fiducial marker can encode information using a readable code and at least one attribute of the fiducial marker.
US10223659B2
Disclosed is an approach for analyzing social media conversations related to one or more projects of an enterprise project management system. Integration is provided between a PPM application and an enterprise social networking application. Conversations generated around one or more social objects pertaining to one or more projects of the enterprise project management system are analyzed to estimate a social health of the project on the enterprise social network. The estimated social health is integrated back into the PPM application.
US10223652B2
The disclosed embodiments generally relate to systems and methods for computerized decisioning, and more particularly, to systems and methods for standardized coding and deployment of attributes for financial decisioning systems coded once and deployed to multiple decisioning systems and environments. Consistent with disclosed embodiments, an attribute management system may include one or more memory devices storing instructions, and one or more hardware processors configured to execute the instructions to perform operations. Upon executing the instructions, the processors may receive a financial service request, and identify a decisioning system for processing the request. The processors may determine that an attribute is required for processing the request using the decisioning system. Then, the processors may initiate an attribute calculation service for determining an attribute value for the attribute. The processors may receive the attribute value from the attribute calculation service, and process the financial service request using the received attribute value.
US10223648B2
A social networking system provides relevant third-party content objects to users by matching user location, interests, and other social information with the content, location, and timing associated with the content objects. Content objects are provided based on relevance scores specific to a user. Relevance scores may be calculated based on the user's previous interactions with content object notifications, or based on interests that are common between the user and his or her connections in the social network. Context search is also provided for a user, wherein a list of search of results is ranked according to the relevance score of content object associated with the search results. Notifications may also be priced and distributed to users based on their relevance. In this way, the system can provide notifications that are relevant to user's interests and current circumstances, increasing the likelihood that they will find content objects of interest.
US10223646B1
The systems and methods described herein relate to mapping and identifying expert resources. The systems and methods described herein may provide a set of technologies, that work together as one solution, to effectively and efficiently resolve user questions. A cognitive engine may autonomously learn which experts have the knowledge to quickly solve a question or whether a previous question is similar enough to provide a solution instantly. Using machine learning, a know-how map may be created, linking all of the users of the system with their areas of expertise. Expert resources among the users may be mapped by determining connections between topics (and their corresponding tags) and calculating an expert score related to each topic for each user. These connections and expert scores are subsequently used during expert routing for each new question, to find those users with the expertise to give the best possible solution.
US10223643B1
Techniques facilitating reduction and/or mitigation of crosstalk in quantum bit gates of a quantum computing circuit are provided. A system can comprise a memory that stores computer executable components and a processor that executes the computer executable components stored in the memory. The computer executable components can comprise a signal generation component that implements a control sequence that comprises a single pulse type for a first quantum bit and at least a second quantum bit of a quantum circuit. The computer-executable components can also comprise a coordination component that synchronizes a first pulse of a first channel of the first quantum bit and at least a second pulse of at least a second channel of the second quantum bit. The coordination component can simultaneously apply the first pulse to the first quantum bit and at least the second pulse to at least the second quantum bit.
US10223631B2
A payment card (e.g., credit and/or debit card) is provided with a magnetic emulator operable of communicating information to a magnetic stripe reader. Information used in validating a financial transaction is encrypted based on time such that a validating server requires receipt of the appropriate encrypted information for a period of time to validate a transaction for that period of time. Such dynamic information may be communicated using such an emulator such that a card may be swiped through a magnetic stripe reader—yet communicate different information based on time. An emulator may receive information as well as communicate information to a variety of receivers (e.g., an RFID receiver).
US10223627B2
A method and system for extracting information from a surface coated with a coating containing quantum dots are disclosed. In embodiments, the method comprises charging the quantum dots in the surface coating, scanning the surface to retrieve information from the quantum dots, and processing the retrieved information to identify data encoded in the quantum dots. In embodiments of the invention, the processing includes filtering the retrieved information to adjust the received information based on defined effects of the coating. In embodiments of the invention, the filtering includes filtering the retrieved information to account for chromatic deviation due to the color of the coated surface. In embodiments of the invention, the quantum dots include a plurality of different types of quantum dots, and the processing the retrieved information includes processing the retrieved information to distinguish between the information retrieved from the different types of quantum dots.
US10223623B2
An image forming apparatus makes printing performed for maintenance by a service engineer charge-free, and prevents a print method for the service engineer from being used by a user. The image forming apparatus includes an input unit configured to input an image, a print unit configured to print the image input by the input unit, and a control unit configured to control the image input by the input unit to be output to the print unit and update a charging counter when the image forming apparatus operates in a first operation mode, and configured to control a specific pattern image to be superimposed on the image input by the input unit and the image with the superimposed specific pattern image to be output to the print unit without updating the charging counter when the image forming apparatus operates in a second operation mode.
US10223619B2
A control apparatus of the present invention includes a first detection circuit which detects a first event which satisfies a first condition from a video, a second detection circuit which detects a second event which satisfies a second condition from the video, and a determination circuit which determines whether the first event and the second event satisfy some logical relationship or not, on based on a detected result of the first event and the second event.
US10223612B2
In a video frame processing system, a feature extractor generates, based on a plurality of data sets corresponding to a plurality of frames of a video, a plurality of feature sets, respective ones of the feature sets including features extracted from respective ones of the data sets. A first stage of the feature aggregator generates a kernel for a second stage of the feature aggregator. The kernel is adapted to content of the feature sets so as to emphasize desirable ones of the feature sets and deemphasize undesirable ones of the feature sets. In the second stage of the feature aggregator the kernel generated by the first stage is applied to the plurality of feature sets to generate a plurality of significances corresponding to the plurality of feature sets. The feature sets are weighted based on corresponding significances and weighted feature sets are aggregated to generate an aggregated feature set.
US10223611B1
In one aspect, the present disclosure relates to a method for or performing single-pass object detection and image classification. The method comprises receiving image data for an image in a system comprising a convolutional neural network (CNN), the CNN comprising a first convolutional layer, a last convolutional layer, and a fully connected layer; providing the image data to an input of the first convolutional layer; extracting multi-channel data from the output of the last convolutional layer; and summing the extracted data to generate a general activation map; and detecting a location of an object within the image by applying the general activation map to the image data.
US10223608B2
An optical communication apparatus includes: a reception unit that receives, from a transmission apparatus which transmits a light signal including predetermined information, the transmitted light signal; a multipath removal unit that recognizes, when detecting a plurality of images having the same optical information in the received light signal, the light signal due to a reflection wave based on at least one of a luminance of the light signal, a size of an image corresponding to the light signal when receiving at the reception unit, and a propagation distance of the light signal and removes the light signal due to the reflection wave; and an control unit that acquires, from the light signal received by the reception unit, information based on the light signal obtained by removing the light signal due to the reflection wave by the multipath removal unit.
US10223587B2
A method of processing articles, in particular postal articles, which method consists in forming a first digital image of an article and in deriving from said first image a first image signature that is a unique identifier for said article, in forming a current digital image again for said article, and in deriving from the current image a current signature that is compared with first article image signatures that are recorded in a memory, for the purpose of pairing-off the image signatures on the basis of similarity. The method is characterized in that each signature is derived using the following steps: extracting a digital map of the luminance gradient field of said image by local planar regression; identifying in said digital map points of interest corresponding to topological singularities of the gradient field having high local circular convergence or high local circular divergence.
US10223571B2
Various embodiments concern fingerprint sensors for mobile devices. By modifying one or more layers of a display assembly, a fingerprint sensor can be positioned directly beneath the display. For example, the air gap within the backlight structure could be replaced by an optically clear adhesive that allows waves emitted by a fingerprint sensor to properly propagate through the display assembly. In some embodiments, a fingerprint sensor is set within a recess in the display assembly. For example, a depression could be created in the protective substrate, and the fingerprint sensor could be set within the depression using an optically clear adhesive. The functionality of a fingerprint sensor could also be replicated by increasing the density of touch-sensing elements in certain areas of a display assembly that utilizes in-cell technology.
US10223566B2
A two-dimensional code generation request is received by a server from a two-dimensional code display client. Static, two-dimensional code information and a random feature value are generated by the server. The generated static, two-dimensional code information and the random feature value are sent by the server to the two-dimensional code display client to display a combinational, two-dimensional code on the two-dimensional code display client. A two-dimensional code verification request sent by a two-dimensional code scanning client is received by the server. A two-dimensional code scanning status value is sent by the server to the two-dimensional code scanning client.
US10223564B2
Disclosed herein is an attachment for a smartphone. The smartphone may include i) a camera with an image sensor and a focusing lens located on a back side of the smartphone for capturing an image of a target area; and ii) a white light source on the back side of the smartphone. The attachment may include a targeting optic system. When the attachment is secured to the back side of the smartphone, the targeting optic system may receive illumination emitted by the white light source and direct the illumination towards the target area from a location that is not directly in front of the camera's image sensor. The location may be farther from the focusing lens than the white light source when measured parallel to the back side of the smartphone. The attachment may also direct the illumination into the target area via the targeting optic system.
US10223556B2
A battery-free wireless sensor system enables high resolution and very accurate measurements of strain or other transducers with small signal outputs. The system may comprise a sensor tag, associated readers and data processing. The sensor tag may be based on passive RFID, or other passive devices that are powered by RF energy and that communicate with the powering source by backscatter, inductive coupling or reflected energy. The system may include a reader that powers the sensor tags with RF energy and that also wirelessly reads data from and writes data to the sensor tag. The reader software or host software may perform operations on the data that enable more accurate and useable information from the sensor tag. The invention may also include methods for data processes that improve the functionality and performance of the sensor system.
US10223551B2
A method for disabling counterfeit cartridge operation is provided. The method includes detecting a cartridge in a blade enclosure. The method includes checking authentication credentials of the cartridge. The method includes determining the cartridge to be counterfeit. The method includes disabling the cartridge in response to determining the cartridge to be counterfeit.
US10223540B2
Disclosed herein is a technique for implementing a secure lock screen on a computing device. The secure lock screen is configured to permit particular applications to display their content—such as main user interfaces (UIs)—while maintaining a desired overall level of security on the computing device. Graphics contexts, which represent drawing destinations associated with the applications, are tagged with entitlement information that indicates whether or not each graphics context should be displayed on the computing device when the computing device is in a locked-mode. Specifically, an application manager tags each application that is initialized, where the tagging is based on a level of entitlement possessed by the application. In turn, a rendering server that manages the graphics contexts can identify the tagged entitlement information and display or suppress the content of the applications in accordance with their entitlements.
US10223528B2
Technologies for code flow integrity protection include a static analyzer that identifies a potential gadget in an atomic code path of a protected code. A marker instruction is inserted after the potential gadget with a parameter that corresponds to an address of the marker instruction, a hash evaluator instruction is inserted after an exit point of the atomic code path with a parameter that corresponds to the address of the marker instruction, and a compare evaluator instruction and a hash check instruction are inserted after the hash evaluator instruction. A target computing device executes the protected code and updates a path hash as a function of the parameter of the marker instruction, determines an expected hash value as a function of the parameter of the hash evaluator instruction, and generates an exception if the path hash and the expected hash value do not match. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US10223521B1
Systems and methods for location determination using radio frequency tags are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method may include (1) a back end server receiving, from a RF sensor in a network comprising a plurality of RF sensors, a unique identifier for a sensed tag and an identifier for the RF sensor; (2) the back end server retrieving a location of the RF sensor based on the sensor identification; (3) the back end server associating a sensed tag location with the location; (4) the back end server retrieving authorization information for the sensed tag based on the unique identifier; and (5) the back end server determining that the sensed tag is authorized to be in the location.
US10223513B2
A key integrates with a biometric input device. According to an aspect of the present disclosure, a fingerprint scanner may be integral with a spacebar.
US10223508B2
Storing, building, managing, and controlling consumer personal information, including: building at least one level of personal information according to a standard; storing the personal information on a consumer rights locker; defining a scope of access under terms of a consumer to control access to the consumer rights locker; transmitting a plurality of parameters needed to access the consumer rights locker; receiving a request to access the consumer rights locker and the plurality of parameters; comparing the plurality of parameters to the scope of access; and granting access to the consumer rights locker when it is determined that the request is valid, wherein the request is valid when the plurality of parameters includes an access right that is consistent with information in the scope of access. Keywords include consumer rights locker and personal information.
US10223497B2
Provided are mechanisms and processes for more effectively monitoring infants to enhance caregiving and infant development. A system may include an infant monitoring device and a monitoring hub. The infant monitoring device includes sensors that gather measurement data. The monitoring hub receives the measurement data and analyzes the measurement data in relation to a learning receptivity model obtained from a remote platform. The measurement data is analyzed to predict a time and duration when an infant associated with the infant monitoring device will be receptive to learning.
US10223494B2
A method of manufacture comprises a mask process correction (MPC) and verifying MPC accuracy. MPC may be performed on mask tape-out (MTO) data describing a mask pattern to obtain mask process corrected data. MPC may be performed to address a deviation between the MTO data and a mask to be manufactured. Verification of the MPC may be performed by generating a two-dimensional (2D) contour of mask pattern elements based on the mask process corrected data. When MPC has been verified, the mask process corrected data may be used to manufacture a mask and a semiconductor device.
US10223492B1
The process for design based assessment includes the following steps. First, the process defines multiple patterns of interest (POIs) utilizing design data of a device and then generates a design based classification database. Further, the process receives one or more inspection results. Then, the process compares the inspection results to each of the plurality of POIs in order to identify occurrences of the POIs in the inspection results. In turn, the process determines yield impact of each POI utilizing process yield data and monitors a frequency of occurrence of each of the POIs and the criticality of the POIs in order to identify process excursions of the device. Finally, the process determines a device risk level by calculating a normalized polygon frequency for the device utilizing a frequency of occurrence for each of the critical polygons and a criticality for each of the critical polygons.
US10223491B2
A method for adding an electrical interconnection within a three-dimensional integrated circuit (3-D IC) is disclosed. The method may include creating, within a design file of a 3-D IC that specifies a layout for a first chip of the 3-D IC, design data corresponding to a set of through-silicon via (TSV) reservation areas. The method may also include receiving an engineering change order (ECO) and releasing, in response to the ECO, at least one TSV reservation area for reuse. The method may also include adding, by re-using at least one TSV reservation area, an electrical interconnection within the design file of the first chip of the 3-D IC.
US10223488B2
A method for designing a system on a target device includes identifying components in a netlist that perform a division operation. The netlist is modified during synthesis to utilize other components to compute a result of the division operation by performing a multiplication operation.
US10223485B2
Aspects of the disclosed technology relate to techniques of voltage-based reliability verification. Voltage values on nets of a circuit design are determined based on a combination of propagating voltage values across components of the circuit design and simulating one or more subcircuits. The one or more subcircuits are identified based on circuit topology recognition. The determined voltage values are analyzed to detect problems in the circuit design.
US10223474B1
A method determines an order of calculation for one or more of a set of variables in the complex system, so that the calculation order is substantially optimal for avoiding having to skip calculations due to lack of precursors. The method reviews the complex model and orders calculations in a list, so that variables depending on precursors are ordered later, so that their calculation need not be skipped. The method determines a threshold (which can be a single pass), and when the threshold is exceeded, reorders the calculation, so that optimality of calculation can be improved. The method can reorder the calculation so that the new order of calculation is substantially a reverse of the original.
US10223470B1
Systems and methods for providing a document are described. In one described method, a document comprising a portion selected by a first member of a social network is hosted for the first member. The portion is dynamically updated with content. An audience criterion for the portion and a type of relationship between the first member and a second member of the social network are identified. If the type of relationship between the first member and the second member satisfies the audience criterion, the second member is provided access to at least the portion.
US10223456B2
A search engine system, including a slashtag server configured to detect at least one search operator in a search query and detect a boosting indicator associated with the at least one search operator. Additionally, a web server configured to, in response to the detected boosting indicator, and generate a first search result that includes a boosted ranking of at least a subset a plurality of search result items in the search result and display the first search result in a web browser.
US10223453B2
Disclosed are various embodiments for dynamically generating a search set for use in a search application, such as a search engine, and using the search set to navigate collections of archived content. A request for user interface data is received from a client device in response to the client device attempting to access a domain. The domain may be parsed to identify a search category corresponding to one of the categories stored in a data store. Subcategories and search collections that are associated with the search category are identified and user interface data may be generated that cause at least a portion of the subcategories and search collections associated with a search component to be rendered in a display of the client device. The search component is configured to use a selected one of the at least a portion of the subcategories to narrow a search conducted using the search component by generating a narrowing search query.
US10223450B1
This disclosure generally relates to data delivery in distributed applications. One example method includes identifying a data source associated with a shuffle operation, the data source configured provide data from a data set associated with the shuffle operation; identifying a data sink associated with the shuffle operation, the data sink configured to receive data provided by the data source; associating a shuffler component with the shuffle operation, the shuffler component configured to receive data from the data source and provide the data to the data sink; receiving, by the shuffler component, a first data portion from the data source; providing, by the shuffler component, the first data portion to the data sink; receiving, by the shuffler component, a second data portion from the data source, the second data portion being received from the data source prior to or concurrent with providing the first data portion to the data sink.
US10223448B2
The disclosed technology provides a game assistance system which allows a game helper to select audio data corresponding to game judgments and a game progress and allow the selected audio data to be output through a stadium speaker, and comprises: an information storage unit for storing game progress information; a signal receiving unit for receiving a game progress request signal from a game helper terminal; a control unit for selecting in the information storage unit the game progress information corresponding to the game progress request signal; and a signal transmission unit for transmitting the selected game progress information to the game helper terminal.
US10223445B2
Methods and a natural language processor for processing a natural language query are provided. The processor includes a classifier, a rule-based pre-processor, a rule-based post-processor, a named entity recognizer, and an output module. The method involves receiving a text representation of the natural language query, pre-processing the text representation, applying a classification statistical model to the text representation when pre-processing fails, applying a post-processing rule, and performing name entity recognition.
US10223441B2
A system, program product, and methodology automatically scores candidate answers to questions in a question and answer system. In the candidate answer scoring method, a processor device performs one or more of receiving one or more candidate answers associated with a query string, the candidates obtained from a data source having semi-structured content; identifying one or more documents with semi-structured content from the data source having a candidate answer; and for each identified document: extracting one or more entity structures embedded in the identified document; determining a number of the entity structures in the identified document that appear in the received input query; and, computing a score for a candidate answer in the document as a function of the number Overall system efficiency is improved by giving the correct candidate answers higher scores through leveraging context-dependent structural information such as links to other documents and embedded tags.
US10223439B1
A system and method for generating query refinement suggestions may include collecting refinement data for at least one received source query. The collected refinement data is then clustered to form at least one cluster. At least one potential refinement query suggestion is identified from the refinement data within the at least one cluster.
US10223438B1
In accordance with one embodiment, a method can be implemented that includes receiving a plurality of digital assets as inputs; extracting one or more representative features of each digital asset; for a group based on one or more representative features, using the one or more representative features of each digital asset to calculate a relevancy score between each digital asset and the group; and using each relevancy score to determine whether each digital asset should be assigned to the group. Additional embodiments are also disclosed herein.
US10223437B2
A method and apparatus for adaptive data repartitioning and adaptive data replication is provided. A data set stored in a distributed data processing system is partitioned by a first partitioning key. A live workload comprising a plurality of data processing commands is processed. While processing the live workload, statistical properties of the live workload are maintained. Based on the statistical properties of the live workload with respect to the data set, it is determined to replicate and/or repartition the data set by a second partitioning key. The replicated and/or repartitioned data set is partitioned by the second partitioning key.
US10223436B2
In an example, a method of transferring data may include synchronizing work-items corresponding to a first subgroup and work-items corresponding to a second subgroup with a barrier. The method may include performing an inter-subgroup data transfer between the first subgroup and the second subgroup.
US10223435B2
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.
US10223433B2
Systems, methods and tools for mapping data elements between a source data structure and a target data structure without the needing exactly matching values or a dictionary of synonyms. The embodiments of the present disclosure auto map data elements having similar phonetic sounds, even in the presence of one or more misspellings or alternative spellings. Embodiments of the present disclosure utilize Soundex algorithms to generate a key corresponding to each source and target data elements. Each Soundex key may be generated based on the phonetical sounds of the source and target data elements. By using phonetical sounds to generate the key, a Soundex algorithm allows for similarly sounding words, alternatively spelled words or misspelled words to generate the same Soundex key, creating equivalence between the naming of source and target data elements once the auto mapping function is implemented.
US10223427B1
Systems and methods are described to generate a color palette with color combinations based on human color preferences. One or more input colors can be used to determine affiliated colors based on the presence of colors in color palettes that have been voted on and/or ranked by a community of users. Each affiliated color can be weighted, normalized, and ordered based at least in part on the level of preference for the color palette to which it belongs and the relative popularity of the input colors. A color from the ordered affiliated colors can be selected and added to the custom palette of colors. With the addition of a color, the ordered affiliated colors can be updated to further present colors for inclusion in the custom color palette.
US10223419B2
The disclosure relates to technology for facilitating query optimization in a distributed data processing system to efficiently and precisely compute predicate push down and partition pruning A query operation is performed to locate data in the data processing system, thereby generating a predicate. Critical points of the predicate are determined based on data stored in the system, and critical point ranges are formed from a sorted sequence of each of the critical points. The predicate is evaluated using the critical points to qualify the critical point ranges, and a reduction is applied to the predicate during partial evaluation to produce reduced predicates on the qualified critical point ranges. The qualified critical point ranges are compared and matched to range partitions of data stored in the distributed system to qualify the range partitions. The reduced predicate is processed against the data in the qualified range partitions to obtain a query result.
US10223408B2
A database load tool includes a user interface, a retrieval engine, an authorization engine, and an update engine. The a user interface receives a request to add to a database a first table comprising a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns. The retrieval engine retrieves an authorization table from the database. The authorization table is separate from the table and indicates a plurality of users who are authorized to edit the database. The authorization engine determines whether the plurality of users includes the user. The update engine: generates a first Structured Query Language query to create in the database a second table; generates, for each row of the plurality of rows, a second Structured Query Language query to add that row to the second table; and communicates the first and second Structured Query Language queries.
US10223407B2
Asynchronous operations associated with a request such as threads, runnable elements, callable elements, and other invokable objects are tracked to determine the metrics about the request and operations. The present technology tracks the start and end of each asynchronous operation and maintains a counter which tracks the currently pending or executing asynchronous operations. By monitoring the request, the start and end of each asynchronous operation associated with the request, and the number of asynchronous operations currently executing, the present technology may identify the end of a request by identifying when the last asynchronous operation associated with the request ends. In some instances, the present technology identifies the end of a request when a counter which tracks the number of asynchronous operations executing reaches a value of zero after the first asynchronous operation has already begun. Tracking these operations allows the present technology to aggregate and report useful performance data about these requests.
US10223406B2
Systems and methods for normalizing entities via name normalization are disclosed. In some implementations, a computer-implemented method of identifying duplicate objects in a plurality of objects is provided. Each object in the plurality of objects is associated with one or more facts, and each of the one or more facts having a value. The method includes: using a computer processor to perform: associating facts extracted from web documents with a plurality of objects; and for each of the plurality of objects, normalizing the value of a name fact, the name fact being among one or more facts associated with the object; processing the plurality of objects in accordance with the normalized value of the name facts of the plurality of objects. In some implementations, normalizing the value of the name fact is optionally carried out by applying a group of normalization rules to the value of the name fact.
US10223405B2
A processor determines whether to generate a first entry, based on whether a second entry is in a storage, for each conditional expression included in retrieval expressions. The first entry includes, in association with a first identifier, a first path included in the conditional expression. The second entry includes, a second path identical to the first path in association with a second identifier. The processor determines whether to generate a third entry based on whether a fourth entry is in the storage. The third entry includes a first set and a fifth identifier in association with a third identifier. The first set is included in the conditional expression and includes a first value and a first operator. The fifth identifier is the first identifier or the second identifier. The fourth entry includes a second set identical to the first set and the fifth identifier in association with a fourth identifier.
US10223403B2
An anomaly detection system and method is provided. The system comprising: a hardware processor; and a memory storing instructions to configure the hardware processor, wherein the hardware processor receives a first time-series data comprising a first set of points and a second time-series data comprising a second set of points, computes a first set of error vectors for each point of the first set, and a second set of error vectors for each point of the second set, each set of error vectors comprising one or more prediction errors; estimates parameters based on the first set of error vectors comprising; applies (or uses) the parameters on the second set of error vectors; and detects an anomaly in the second time-series data when the parameters are applied on the second set of error vectors.
US10223402B1
Maintaining write consistency between at least two mirrored storage devices includes receiving a write request for a particular block, obtaining a reservation for the particular block, waiting for the particular block to become available in response to not being able to successfully obtain the reservation, writing the particular block in response to successfully obtaining the reservation, and writing the particular block at a remote one of the storage devices following writing the particular block at the particular one of the storage devices. If a retryable indicator is received, the system waits a predetermined amount of time and releases the reservation. The system responds with a success indicator when writing the particular block at a remote one of the storage devices succeeds and responds with a failure indicator when writing the particular block at a remote one of the storage devices fails and the retryable indicator is not received.
US10223398B2
For each of a plurality of time intervals over which metric data is collected from periodic polling of a network of devices, a determination is made of whether metric data of the time interval satisfies a criterion for normal data values defined for a metric corresponding to the metric data. The metric data is marked as anomaly data, in response to determining that the metric data does not satisfy the criterion defined for the metric corresponding to the metric data of the time interval. The metric data is marked as normal data, in response to determining that the metric data satisfies the criterion defined for the metric corresponding to the metric data of the time interval. The metric data marked as normal data is stored in a first database, and the metric data marked as anomaly data and corresponding time intervals in a second database.
US10223395B2
A system includes determination, based on a plurality of rows of a table, where each of the plurality of rows associated with a respective row_id represents a respective a node of a hierarchy, row_id pairs of each parent node-child node pair of the hierarchy, execution, based on the row_id pairs, of a depth-first traversal of the hierarchy to sequentially add each row_id of the plurality of rows to a hierarchy index and receive a NODE value associated with the added row_id, and, for each of the plurality of rows, update of a row based on the NODE value associated with the row_id of the row.
US10223393B1
A computing resource service provider may operate a build service configured to store data object on behalf of a customer of the computing resource service provide. The build service may receive a stream of data objects including object objects that reference one or more other data objects. A Bloom filter may be used to determine whether a one or more referenced data objects have been previously processed by the build service. This may enable the build service to reorder processing of the data object based at least in part on whether the one or more referenced data objects have previously been processed by the build service.
US10223392B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for providing suggestions within a document. In one aspect, a method includes obtaining textual input provided to a document editing application by a user device, the textual input being provided to the document editing application for inclusion in a document; identifying performance measures associated with the current editing session for the document, each performance measure being based on session data obtained from the user device during a document editing session, the session data being for the textual input and prior text that was included in the document prior to the textual input; providing the performance measures as input to a suggestion model that was trained using historical performance measures identified in performance logs for historical document editing sessions of users; and throttling textual suggestions during the current editing session based on the output of the suggestion model.
