US10297918B2
A planar multi-layer assembly method fabricates a dual frequency, dual polarization phased-array antenna. A plurality of vias make up an array of double-walled wells which are connected to a ground plane. A shorted annular ring patch antenna (SARPA) is deposited at the top of each double-walled well. Fabricated coaxially and parallel to each SARPA, is an array of circular patch antennas (CPA). The inner wall of each double-walled well improves isolation of the CPA signals from the SARPA signals. Each SARPA of the array is connected to a pair of first frequency band signal vias and the CPA is coupled to a pair of second frequency band signal vias. Within each frequency band, a plurality of signal phases enable steerable polarized antenna beams.
US10297915B2
Signals are received from antenna elements in an antenna array, and respective phase shifts are applied to the received signals. The respective phase shifts are relative to a channel phase shift associated with each antenna element, and correspond to side angles from a current antenna beam direction of the antenna array. Control signals based on the phase shifted signals are generated to control the channel phase shifts, to provide beamforming tracking.
US10297907B2
A mobile device includes a metal back cover, a ground metal element, a feeding radiation element, and a dielectric substrate. The metal back cover has a slot. The feeding radiation element has a feeding point, and includes a first feeding branch, a second feeding branch, and a third feeding branch. The second feeding branch and the first feeding branch extend in opposite directions. The third feeding branch and the first feeding branch extend in the same direction. The feeding radiation element has a vertical projection on the metal back cover, and the vertical projection at least partially overlaps the slot. The dielectric substrate is disposed adjacent to the metal back cover. The ground metal element and the feeding radiation element are disposed on the dielectric substrate. An antenna structure is formed by the feeding radiation element and the slot of the metal back cover.
US10297903B2
The disclosure relates generally to a broadband antenna element with a reflecting cavity, which includes a metal frame, a feeder line, a feed screw, a pillar and an insulating sleeve. The reflecting cavity is formed by the inner concave of the outer side of the metal frame. The reflecting cavity includes the first wall and the second wall distributed from bottom to top. The first wall, the pillar, the second wall and the feeder line are arranged orderly and are connected with the feed screw. The pillar and the feed screw are connected by screw thread. The feed screw is connected with the second wall through an insulating sleeve. The pillar is a good conductor and under surface of the pillar contacts with the first wall, and the under surface area of the pillar is larger than the upper surface area of the pillar.
US10297902B2
An electronic device may have wireless circuitry with antennas. An antenna resonating element arm for an antenna may be formed from peripheral conductive structures running along the edges of a device housing. Elongated conductive members may longitudinally divide openings between the peripheral conductive housing structures and the ground. The elongated conductive members may extend from an internal ground to outer ends of the elongated conductive members that are located adjacent to the gaps. Transmission lines may extend along the elongated conductive members to antenna feeds at the outer ends. The elongated conductive members may form open slots that serve as slot antenna resonating elements for the antenna.
US10297900B2
According to various embodiments of the present disclosure, an electronic device may include: an array antenna including a plurality of first radiating conductors that transmit or receive a wireless signal in a first frequency band and are arranged on a circuit board; and a lens unit including at least one lens disposed on a housing of the electronic device to correspond to the first radiating conductors. The lens unit may refract or reflect a wireless signal transmitted/received through each of the first radiating conductors. The electronic device as described above may be variously implemented according to embodiments. For example, a portion of the lens unit may transmit/receive a wireless signal in a frequency band that is different from the frequency band of the wireless signal transmitted/received by the first radiating conductors.
US10297899B2
An antenna device is provided. The antenna device may include, but is not limited to, a first feed cable including a conductive core and a conductive shielding, a substrate, a monopole antenna mounted to the substrate, the monopole antenna galvanically coupled to the conductive core of the first feed cable and configured to radiate within a first frequency band when fed a signal from the conductive core of the feed cable, and a conductive coupling element galvanically coupled to the conductive shielding of the feed cable. The conductive coupling element may include a first conductive element configured to radiate within a second frequency band when the monopole is fed a signal from the conductive core of the feed cable, and a second conductive element configured to radiate within a third frequency band when the monopole is fed a signal from the conductive core of the feed cable.
US10297894B2
A spatial power-combining device and an antenna structure designed for high efficiency, high frequency, and ultra-wide bandwidth operation. The antenna structure may include a signal conductor and a ground conductor that are entirely separated by air. A spatial power-combining device may include a plurality of amplifier assemblies including multiple output antenna structures and an output coaxial waveguide section configured to concurrently combine signals received from each output antenna structure of the plurality of amplifier assemblies. The plurality of amplifier assemblies may also include multiple input antenna structures and an input coaxial waveguide configured to provide an input signal concurrently to each input antenna structure of the plurality of amplifier assemblies.
US10297887B2
A refuelable electrochemical battery is provided that features three phases of operation that repeat cyclically. In an intake phase a mixture of electrochemically active particles or pellets (e.g., aluminum pellets) and a suitable electrolyte (e.g., sodium hydroxide, potassium hydroxide) are fed into a cavity or chamber. In a power phase the resulting electrochemical reaction produces electrical energy. The particles are mechanically combined or collected to form one electrode, while a gas-diffusion membrane permeable by oxygen is another electrode. During the exhaust phase, a piston forces the residue of the reaction from the cavity in order to prepare for the next cycle of operation.
US10297885B2
Lithium-ion battery cells and a lithium-ion utilizing capacitor cells are placed spaced-apart in a common container and infiltrated with a common lithium-ion transporting, liquid electrolyte. The lithium-ion-utilizing capacitor and lithium-ion cell battery are combined such that their respective electrodes may be electrically connected, either in series or parallel connection for energy storage and management in an automotive vehicle or other electrical power supply application.
US10297880B2
A battery thermal management system according to an exemplary aspect of the present disclosure includes, among other things, a battery pack, a coolant subsystem including a chiller configured to cool the battery pack, and a refrigerant subsystem including at least one evaporator. The coolant subsystem is arranged to exchange heat with the refrigerant subsystem within the chiller. A tap line extends from the at least one evaporator to the chiller.
US10297863B2
An alkali metal-based energy storage system, having at least one composite electrode containing an active material, and an electrolyte containing a lithium salt dissolved in an aprotic organic solvent, an ionic fluid and/or a polymer matrix. The electrolyte further contains an additive selected from a cation or a compound of a metal selected from Mg, Al, Cu and/or Cr. The metal selected from Mg, Al, Cu and/or Cr is applied onto the active material and/or the active material of the composite electrode is partially replaced by the metal selected from Mg, Al, Cu and/or Cr in the form of a metal powder or a metal salt.
US10297856B2
The present disclosure is to provide a negative electrode for a lithium secondary battery having high negative electrode efficiency and excellent capacity retention, and a lithium secondary battery including the negative electrode. In one aspect, there is provided a negative electrode for a lithium secondary battery, wherein the electrode contains 3 to 9% by weight of a silicon-based negative-electrode active material having a following composition formula (1); and 87.5 to 95.5% by weight of a graphite-based negative-electrode active material: SixTiyFezAlu (1) where x, y, z and u are atomic %, x: 1−(y+z+u), y: 0.09 to 0.14, z: 0.09 to 0.14, u: 0.01 exclusive to 0.2 exclusive.
US10297849B2
Method and system for producing CO2, purified hydrogen and electricity from a reformed process gas feed using a solid oxide fuel cell. The method having the steps of: introducing the reformed process gas into the solid oxide fuel cell; converting hydrogen and CO of the reformed process gas in combination with oxygen into an anode off-gas including steam, CO2 and unconverted process gas; introducing the anode off-gas into a high temperature water gas shift reactor; in the high temperature water-gas shift reactor, converting CO and steam into CO2 and hydrogen, introducing the gas exiting the high temperature water-gas shift reactor into a low temperature water-gas shift membrane reactor, in the low temperature water-gas shift membrane reactor, converting CO and steam into CO2 and hydrogen, whereby the low temperature water-gas shift membrane reactor comprises a hydrogen pump producing purified hydrogen on a permeate side, while removing hydrogen from a feed side.
US10297837B2
There is provided a method of manufacturing an electrode catalyst layer for fuel cell. This manufacturing method comprises: (a) separating an ionomer solution by centrifugation into a supernatant that includes only an ionomer as a low molecular-weight component in the ionomer solution and a sediment including an ionomer as a high molecular-weight component having a higher molecular weight than that of the low molecular-weight component included in the supernatant; (b) using the ionomer included in the sediment as an ionomer for electrode catalyst layer and producing a catalyst ink that includes catalyst-supported particles with a catalyst metal supported thereon, a solvent and the ionomer for electrode catalyst layer; and (c) using the catalyst ink to form an electrode catalyst layer.
US10297834B2
A method and/or electrochemical cell for utilizing one or more gas diffusion 5 electrodes (GDEs) in an electrochemical cell, the one or more gas diffusion electrodes have a wetting pressure and/or a bubble point exceeding 0.2 bar. The one or more gas diffusion electrodes can be subjected to a pressure differential between a liquid side and a gas side. A pressure on the liquid side of the GDE over the gas side does not exceed the wetting pressure of the GDE during 10 operation (in cases where a liquid electrolyte side has higher pressure), and/or a pressure on the gas side of the GDE over the liquid side, does not exceeds the bubble point of the GDE (in cases where the gas side has the higher pressure).
US10297824B2
Provided is a positive electrode active material which is useful for a lithium secondary battery having a battery resistance lower than that of the conventional positive electrode active material below freezing point. The positive electrode active material for a lithium secondary battery contains at least one element selected from a group consisting of nickel, cobalt and manganese, the positive electrode active material having a layered structure and satisfying all of the following requirements (1) to (3): (1) a primary particle size is 0.1 μm to 1 μm and a secondary particle size is 1 μm to 10 μm; (2) in an X-ray powder diffraction measurement using CuKα radiation, a crystallite size in the peak within 2θ=18.7±1° is 100 Å to 1200 Å and a crystallite size in the peak within 2θ=44.6±1° is 100 Å to 700 Å; and (3) in a pore distribution obtained by a mercury intrusion method, a pore peak exists in a range where the pore size is 10 nm to 200 nm and a pore volume in the said range is 0.01 cm3/g to 0.05 cm3/g.
US10297822B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a positive active material for a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery which has a large discharge capacity and is superior in charge-discharge cycle performance, initial efficiency and high rate discharge performance, and a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery using the positive active material. The present invention pertains to a positive active material for a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery containing a lithium transition metal composite oxide which has a crystal structure of an α-NaFeO2 type, is represented by a compositional formula Li1+αMe1−αO2 (Me is a transition metal element including Co, Ni and Mn, α>0), and has a molar ratio Li/Me of Li to the transition metal element Me of 1.2 to 1.6, wherein a molar ratio Co/Me of Co in the transition metal element Me is 0.02 to 0.23, a molar ratio Mn/Me of Mn in the transition metal element Me is 0.62 to 0.72, and the lithium transition metal composite oxide is observed as a single phase attributed to a space group R3-m on an X-ray diffraction chart when it is electrochemically oxidized up to a potential of 5.0 V (vs. Li/Li+).
US10297808B2
A battery wiring module includes bus bars and a flexible wiring board having wires connected to the respective bus bars. The flexible wiring board has a body portion and extensions extending from the body portion toward the respective bus bars. Each of the extensions supports one of the wires and has an end section where a pad is arranged, that is part of each of the wires. Each of the bus bars has at least one cutout portion, and the pad is arranged on each of the bus bars such that the pad overlaps at least part of at least one cutout portion. The pad and the at least part of the at least one cutout portion are connected to each other with solder.
US10297807B2
A battery assembly according to an exemplary aspect of the present disclosure includes, among other things, a terminal holder, a terminal at least partially surrounded by the terminal holder, and a bus bar module connectable to the terminal holder. One of the terminal holder and the bus bar module includes at least one locating feature to position the bus bar module in a welding position relative to the terminal.
US10297806B2
A connection structure (10) is provided for connecting electrical storage element groups (12), each of which is formed by connecting electrical storage elements (13) having electrode terminals (14) in series, side by side. The electrical storage element groups (12) are connected electrically by connecting a connecting member (20) for connecting adjacent electrical storage element groups (12) to a first electrode terminal (16A) and a second electrode terminal (16B). The first electrode terminal (16A) is arranged on one end part of one electrical storage element group (12) and on the side of the adjacent other electrical storage element group (12) and the second electrode terminal (16B) is the electrode terminal (14) arranged on another end part of the other electrical storage element group (12B) opposite to the one end part of the one electrical storage element group (12A) and on the side of the adjacent one electrical storage element group (12A).
US10297803B2
A battery stack is provided having lower and upper battery tiers each formed of at least two battery cell arrays. A pair of brackets are provided for connecting the lower arrays along a top surface of the lower tier and connecting the upper arrays to a bottom surface of the upper tier. The lower and upper battery tiers are secured together by the brackets without hardware mounted to an exterior surface of the stack.
US10297800B2
A battery housing includes: an exterior member; and a first terminal of a non-metallic material, wherein the first terminal has a first end extending to outside of the exterior member, the first terminal has a second end extending to inside of the exterior member, the first terminal includes a first long-diameter part having a first long diameter and a second long-diameter part having a second long diameter larger than the first long diameter, the first long-diameter part and the second long-diameter part being disposed between the first end of the first terminal and the second end of the first terminal, and the first long-diameter part and the second long-diameter part are embedded in the exterior member.
US10297799B2
An object of the invention is to provide a lid for storage battery, an injection molding method of the lid, a storage battery with the lid, and a terminal section for storage battery, which can save trouble of inserting a nut into a cavity portion of a terminal, and can prevent falling of the nut at the time of connection of an external leading wire. In a lid for storage battery in which a terminal section for storage battery 8 made up of a terminal 4 having a cavity portion, a bushing 6, and a conductive portion 7 joining both is insert-molded in a lid made of synthetic resin, and a storage battery with the lid for storage battery, an anchor portion 4T is projected at a location excluding at least a central portion of a bottom portion 4F of the terminal 4, and a nut is inserted into the cavity portion of the terminal to be fixed. Moreover, in the terminal section for storage battery, the anchor portion 4T is projected at the location excluding at least the central portion of the bottom portion 4F of the terminal 4 (e.g., the U-shaped anchor portion 4T is projected with a U-shaped joining portion 4G interposed).
US10297798B2
A rechargeable battery includes an electrode assembly, a pouch accommodating the electrode assembly, and including first and second exterior members facing each other with the electrode assembly therebetween, and a sealing portion having a sealing width and sealing the first exterior member and the second exterior member along an outer edge of the electrode assembly, and lead tabs electrically connected to the electrode assembly and drawn to the outside of the pouch, wherein the sealing portions define grooves, each of the grooves having a size that is less than the sealing width, and wherein the sealing portion is bent along the outer edge of the electrode assembly and attached to a side surface of the pouch.
US10297796B2
An OLED element and a method of manufacturing thereof are provided. The method of manufacturing OLED element includes step S1, sequentially depositing a hole injection layer, a hole transport layer, an emission layer, an electron transport layer and an electron injection layer and a first cathode on an anode; step S2, forming sub-pixels corresponding to each of the emission layers and an organic material layer for adjusting microcavity effect by photolithography; step S3, depositing a second cathode on the organic material layer. The disclosure provides a manufacture which adds conducting organic material layer between two cathodes by photolithography which is not effect to OLED material. According to adjust thickness of layer to enhance microcavity effect, the photolithography is different than the photolithography of manufacture CF and anode, it doesn't need fine metal mask, which save cost and time of manufacture OLED and enhance process efficiency.
US10297795B2
Provided is a treatment method of an emitting layer raw material in an OLED, comprising steps of: (1) providing the emitting layer raw material, and the emitting layer raw material comprising a host and a dopant, and in a vacuum glove box with protective gas, adding the host, the dopant and anhydrous ethanol into a polytetrafluoroethylene lining to be mixed uniformly, and putting the lining in a high pressure autoclave to be treated at a temperature of 40 to 60 celsius degrees for 18 to 36 hours to obtain a treatment liquid; (2) centrifuging the treatment liquid to collect a precipitate, and drying the collected precipitate to obtain the emitting layer raw material after treatment. The resulting treated emitting layer raw material achieves sufficient mixing and dispersion of the host and the dopant, and does not affect the subsequent use of vacuum evaporation method to form an emitting layer.
US10297789B2
A display apparatus may include a substrate. The display apparatus may further include a display unit that includes an emission layer and is disposed on the substrate. The display apparatus may further include a protective layer that overlaps the display unit. The display apparatus may further include an organic layer that is disposed between the display unit and the protective layer. A top surface area of the organic layer may be equal to or less than a top surface area of the protective layer.
US10297788B2
A light emitting apparatus (10) includes a substrate (100), an insulating layer (160), a light emitting element (102), a coating film (140), and a structure (150). The insulating layer (160) is formed over one surface of the substrate (100), and includes an opening (162). The light emitting element (102) is formed in the opening (162). The coating film (140) is formed over the one surface of the substrate (100), and covers a portion of the light emitting element (102), the insulating layer (160), and the one surface of the substrate (100). The coating film (140) does not cover another portion of the substrate (100) (for example, a portion of an end portion: hereinafter, referred to as a first portion). The structure (150) is located between the first portion of the substrate (100) and the insulating layer (160). The coating film (140) also covers the insulating layer (160).
US10297782B2
An OLED display device includes an assisting conductive layer formed on a bottom surface of an upper substrate in such a way that the assisting conductive layer is in direct contact with and electrically connected to a second electrode that is located on a top surface of a lower substrate so that electrical conduction capability of the second electrode is enhanced and the electrical resistance of the second electrode is reduced to thereby make in-plane voltage homogenous, improve consistency of displaying, and alleviate the issues of non-uniform panel brightness and mura and also help reduce the thickness of the second electrode for saving material of the second electrode and increase light transparency of the second electrode.
US10297777B2
An organic light-emitting device includes a first electrode layer; a hole injection layer on the first electrode layer; a hole transport layer on the hole injection layer; an electron blocking layer on the hole transport layer, and including a plurality of layers; a light-emitting layer on the electron blocking layer; an electron transport layer on the light-emitting layer; an electron injection layer on the electron transport layer; and a second electrode layer on the electron transport layer, wherein the electron blocking layer has a highest occupied molecular orbital value which is lower than a highest occupied molecular orbital value of the hole transport layer, and the light-emitting layer has a HOMO value which is lower than a highest occupied molecular orbital value of the electron blocking layer.
US10297771B2
A display apparatus may include a substrate having a first bending area between a first area and a second area, the first bending area to be bent with a first bending axis that extends along a first direction, as a center; a first inorganic insulating layer on the substrate and having a first opening corresponding to the first bending area; a first organic material layer filling at least a portion of the first opening; and a first conductive layer that extends from the first area to the second area through the first bending area and is on the first organic material layer. The first organic material layer may have a concavo-convex surface at least in a portion of an upper surface thereof. At least a portion of the first conductive layer may extend along a third direction forming an angle of about 0° to about 90° with the first direction.
US10297768B2
Disclosed herein are multidentate dinuclear cyclometallated complexes. The complexes are suitable as emitting materials or host materials in OLED devices.
US10297765B2
Provided are: an aromatic amine derivative in which a terminal substituent such as a dibenzofuran ring or a dibenzothiophene ring is bonded to a nitrogen atom directly or through an arylene group or the like; an organic electroluminescence device including an organic thin film layer formed of one or more layers including a light emitting layer and interposed between a cathode and an anode in which a layer of the organic thin film layer contains the aromatic amine derivative by itself or as a component of a mixture, and the device has a long lifetime and high luminous efficiency; and an aromatic amine derivative for realizing the device.
US10297755B2
The invention provides compositions comprising BCB-functionalized materials for use in OLEDs applications. The inventive compositions can be used to form hole-transporting materials for use in electroluminescent devices. In particular, the invention provides for compositions, charge transport film layers, and light emitting devices, comprising, or formed from, a polymer, which comprises one or more polymerized units derived from Structure (A).
US10297748B2
There is provided a three-terminal atomic switching device and a method of manufacturing the same, which belongs to the field of microelectronics manufacturing and memory technology. The three-terminal atomic switching device includes: a stack structure including a source terminal and a drain terminal; a vertical trench formed by etching the stack structure; an M8XY6 channel layer formed on an inner wall and a bottom of the vertical trench; and a control terminal formed on a surface of the M8XY6 channel layer, wherein the control terminal fills the vertical trench. The source terminal resistance and the drain terminal resistance are controlled by the control terminal. The invention is based on the three-terminal atomic switching device, and realizes high switching ratio characteristic, simple structure, easy integration, high density and low cost due to high non-linearity of the source-drain resistance with respect to the control terminal voltage, and thus can be used in a gated device in a cross-array structure to inhibit a crosstalk phenomenon caused by the leakage current. The three-terminal atomic switching device proposed by the invention is suitable for a planar stacked cross-array structure and a vertical cross-array structure, so as to realize high-density three-dimensional storage.
US10297744B2
A piezoelectric ceramic plate which is slightly deformed by firing, includes a plate-shaped substrate, and an electronic component. The piezoelectric ceramic plate has a pair of main surfaces, a pair of opposing first side surfaces, and a pair of opposing second side surfaces. The pair of first side surfaces are baked surfaces, and the distance between the pair of first side surfaces measured at the center in the longitudinal direction is denoted by Lc and the distance between the pair of first side surfaces measured at ends in the longitudinal direction is denoted by Le. The ratio of the difference ΔL between Le and Lc to Lc (ΔL/Lc) is 1.0% or less. The piezoelectric ceramic plate is suitably used as a piezoelectric ceramic plate having an area of each of the main surfaces of 360 mm2 or more and a thickness of 150 μm or less.
US10297741B1
An electrically-conductive composition can be used with piezoelectric materials to enhance the piezoelectric effects. This composition essentially has (a) an electrically-conductive material; (b) particles having a Young's modulus that is different from the Young's modulus of the (a) electrically-conductive material by at least 10%, and which (b) particles have a d50 of at least 500 nm and up to and including 500 μm and a polydispersity coefficient that is less than or equal to 3; and (c) a non-electrically-conductive binder material. The weight ratio of the (b) particles to the (a) electrically-conductive material is at least 0.01:1 and up to and including 10:1. When the composition is coated and dried on an insulating substrate, a resulting dried composition exhibits a resistivity of less than 10,000 ohm-cm.
US10297740B1
A curved electrode structure includes a piezoelectric material layer, a first conductive layer, a first protection layer and a second conductive layer. The piezoelectric material layer is disposed between the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer. The first conductive layer is disposed on the piezoelectric layer. Each of the first conductive layer and the piezoelectric material layer has a first contact surface. The two first contact surfaces are both circular shaped. The first protection layer is disposed on the conductive layer. Each of the first protection layer and the first conductive layer has a second contact surface. The two second contact surfaces are both circular shaped.
US10297736B2
A Flip-chip LED chip includes: a substrate; a first semiconductor layer; a second semiconductor layer; a local defect region over part of the second semiconductor layer, which extends downward to the first semiconductor layer; a first metal layer over part of the first semiconductor layer; a second metal layer over part of the second semiconductor layer; an insulating layer covering the first metal layer, the second metal layer, the second semiconductor layer and the first semiconductor layer in the local defect region, with opening structures over the first metal layer and the second metal layer respectively; an eutectic electrode structure over the insulating layer, including a first eutectic layer and a second eutectic layer at vertical direction, and a first-type electrode region and a second-type electrode region at horizontal direction. Poor packaging caused by high eutectic void content during eutectic bonding process can therefore be reduced.
US10297729B2
An optoelectronic semiconductor component having a light source, which emits primary radiation, a housing, and electrical terminals, wherein a conversion element, which is based on a matrix and at least two phosphors, is connected upstream of the optoelectronic semiconductor component. The matrix contains metal phosphate and preferably consists of metal phosphate. The phosphors partially or completely convert primary radiation. At least one first phosphor powder is embedded and fixed in a first inorganic matrix based on a metal phosphate, and at least one second phosphor powder is embedded and fixed in a second matrix based on a metal phosphate.
US10297728B2
The present invention provides a molded package for a light emitting device including a molded resin and first and second leads, the exposed surface of the first lead having a first and second edge portions opposed to each other so as to put a mounting area therebetween in a first direction, the first and second edge portions respectively having one first cutout and second cutouts, the mounting area having a size not less than a distance between the first and the second cutouts and less than a distance between the first the second edge portions in the first direction.
US10297719B2
A micro-light emitting diode (micro-LED) device includes a receiving substrate and a micro-LED. The micro-LED includes a first type semiconductor layer, a second type semiconductor layer, a current controlling layer, at least one reflective layer, and at least one first electrode. The second type semiconductor layer is joined with the first type semiconductor layer. The current controlling layer is joined with one of the first type semiconductor layer and the second type semiconductor layer, the current controlling layer having at least one opening therein. The reflective layer electrically is coupled with the first type semiconductor layer. The first electrode is disposed on a surface of the reflective layer facing the receiving substrate. The first electrode forms an adhesive bonding system with the receiving substrate.
US10297717B2
A light-emitting device includes: a semiconductor layered structure; a conductive substrate disposed under the semiconductor layered structure; one or more upper electrodes each disposed on a portion of an upper surface of the semiconductor layered structure; a lower electrode disposed on a lower surface of the semiconductor layered structure; one or more metal members each having light reflectivity and disposed on the lower surface of the semiconductor layered structure in a region between (i) a region directly under a respective one of the one or more the upper electrodes and (ii) the region on which the lower electrode is disposed; one or more first insulating members each disposed on the lower surface of the semiconductor layered structure in the region directly under the respective one of the one or more the upper electrodes; and one or more second insulating members on a lower surface of the metal member.
US10297716B2
A light emitting device disclosed in an embodiment includes: a light emitting chip including a plurality of semiconductor layers and first and second electrodes under the plurality of semiconductor layers; a first lead frame disposed under a first electrode of the light emitting chip; a second lead frame disposed under a second electrode of the light emitting chip; a protective chip disposed between the first and second lead frames and electrically connected to the first and second electrodes; and a reflective member disposed on a periphery of the light emitting chip and the first and second lead frames.
US10297713B2
Light-emitting devices and displays with improved performance are disclosed. A light-emitting device includes a first electrode including an anode opposite a second electrode including a cathode, a hole injection layer adjacent the first electrode, a hole transporting layer disposed on the hole injection layer, and an emissive layer of inorganic semiconductor nanocrystals disposed between the hole transporting layer and the second electrode. The inorganic semiconductor nanocrystals comprising a plurality of semiconductor nanocrystals capable of emitting light upon excitation.
US10297712B2
A micro light emitting diode (LED) and a method of forming an array of micro LEDs for transfer to a receiving substrate are described. The micro LED structure may include a micro p-n diode and a metallization layer, with the metallization layer between the micro p-n diode and a bonding layer. A conformal dielectric barrier layer may span sidewalls of the micro p-n diode. The micro LED structure and micro LED array may be picked up and transferred to a receiving substrate.
US10297704B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus that filters noise within a signal collected by a detector assembly. The detector assembly includes a first semiconductor layer of a first type configured to receive a photon. The detector assembly includes a second semiconductor layer of a second type. The second semiconductor layer is formed above the first semiconductor layer. The first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer are configured to collect a signal. The detector assembly includes an interface layer including an insulator portion for filtering noise. The interface layer is formed on the second semiconductor layer. The detector assembly includes a metal contact layer formed on the interface layer. The interface layer is configured to capacitively couple the first semiconductor layer and second semiconductor layer with the metal contact layer.
US10297699B2
Resonant-cavity infrared photodetector (RCID) devices that include a thin absorber layer contained entirely within the resonant cavity. In some embodiments, the absorber is a single type-II InAs-GaSb interface situated between an AlSb/InAs superlattice n-type region and a p-type AlSb/GaSb region. In other embodiments, the absorber region comprises quantum wells formed on an upper surface of the n-type region. In other embodiments, the absorber region comprises a “W”-structured quantum well situated between two barrier layers, the “W”-structured quantum well comprising a hole quantum well sandwiched between two electron quantum wells. In other embodiments, the RCID includes a thin absorber region and an nBn or pBp active core within a resonant cavity. In some embodiments, the RCID is configured to absorb incident light propagating in the direction of the epitaxial growth of the RCID structure, while in other embodiments, it absorbs light propagating in the epitaxial plane of the structure.
US10297692B2
The invention provides a manufacturing method of TFT substrate and a TFT substrate. The method provides a dual-gate structure symmetrically disposed on both sides of active layer, which prevents TFT threshold voltage from changing and improve TFT conduction state switching; by first manufacturing the active layer before the gate insulating layer to make the insulating layer directly grow on active layer, the contact interface between the gate insulating layer and active layer is improved, leading to further improving TFT conduction state switching. The TFT substrate makes the gate located between the source and the pixel electrode in vertical direction, and the dual-gate is symmetrically disposed on both sides of active layer to prevent TFT threshold voltage from changing and improve TFT conduction state switching, as well as improve the contact interface between the gate insulating layer and active layer, leading to further improving TFT conduction state switching.
US10297685B2
According to an embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a first electrode, a second electrode, a first semiconductor region, a plurality of second semiconductor regions, a plurality of third semiconductor regions, a plurality of third electrodes, and a plurality of gate electrodes. The gate electrodes and the third electrodes are arranged parallel in a second direction and periodically with a third arrangement cycle such that the ratio of the number of the gate electrodes and the third electrodes in the first region is m3 to m4 (m3, m4 being positive integers and m3 being more than or equal to m4).
US10297683B2
In mesa regions between adjacent trenches disposed in an n−-type drift layer and in which a first gate electrode is disposed via a first gate insulating film, a p-type base region and a floating p+-type region of which a surface is partially covered by a second gate electrode via a second gate insulating film are disposed. An emitter electrode contacts the p-type base region and an n+-type emitter region, and is electrically isolated from first and second gate electrodes and the floating p+-type region by an interlayer insulating film covering the first and second gate electrodes and a portion of the floating p+-type region not covered by the second gate electrode. Thus, turn-on dV/dt controllability by the gate resistance Rg may be improved.
US10297674B2
In a method for manufacturing a transistor, a gate structure may be formed on a semiconductor substrate. A first material layer may be formed on the gate structure to expose an upper sidewall of the gate structure. A spacer including a second material layer may be formed on the upper sidewall of the gate structure. The first material layer may be isotropically etched using the spacer as an etch mask to form a space. An insulating interlayer may be formed on the semiconductor substrate. The insulating interlayer may not be formed in the space.
US10297665B2
An n-doped field effect transistor (nFET) section of an integrated device logic region is provided. The nFET section includes a semiconductor substrate, a layer at least partially formed of silicon germanium (SiGe) disposed on the semiconductor substrate and fin formations. The fin formations are formed on the layer. Each fin formation includes a first fin portion that is at least partially formed of silicon (Si) and a second fin portion that is at least partially formed of hard mask material. The layer is etched to include free surfaces that facilitate elastic relaxation of SiGe therein and a corresponding application of tension in Si of the first fin portion of each of the fin formations.
US10297656B2
An organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display and a method of manufacturing the same are disclosed. In one aspect, the display includes a plurality of pixel electrodes positioned over a substrate and separate from each other, a plurality of auxiliary wirings between the pixel electrodes, a pixel-defining layer over the pixel electrodes except for a central portion of the pixel electrodes and at least a portion of each of the auxiliary wirings, an intermediate layer over the pixel-defining layer and having a plurality of openings formed over the portion of each of the auxiliary wirings, and an opposite electrode positioned over the intermediate layer and facing the pixel electrodes, the opposite electrode electrically contacting the auxiliary wirings via the openings. The auxiliary wirings extend in a first direction and separate from each other by a first distance. The openings are aligned in a diagonal direction crossing the first direction.
US10297654B2
A display device includes a plurality of pixels that is arrayed in a first direction and a second direction. Each pixel includes; a first sub-pixel, a second sub-pixel that is disposed to be adjacent to the first sub-pixel in the first direction, a third sub-pixel that is disposed to be adjacent to at least one of the first sub-pixel and the second sub-pixel in the second direction, and a light shielding portion that is disposed corresponding to the position on which the third sub-pixel is disposed, so as to limit a viewing angle of the third sub-pixel in the first direction.
US10297650B2
Disclosed is an organic light emitting diode (OLED) display device including a substrate including a pixel region and a boundary region outside the pixel region. The pixel region comprises an area having a short side and a long side. The pixel region comprises an array of pixels to emit light. The OLED display device includes a substrate in the pixel region and in the boundary region The OLED display device further includes a first electrode of a light emitting device in the pixel region over the substrate, a first bank covering edges of the first electrode in the pixel region on the substrate in the boundary region, wherein a width of an edge of the first bank along the short side of the pixel region is different from a width of an edge of the first bank along the long side of the pixel region, and a second bank on a portion of the first bank in the boundary region.
US10297647B2
An organic light-emitting diode (OLED) touch display device and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The OLED touch display device includes an OLED display; and a phase difference plate, a touch layer and a linear polarizer sequentially disposed on a light-emitting side of the OLED display, in which the linear polarizer and the phase difference plate are combined to form a circular polarizer.
US10297645B2
A full-color display panel is provided comprising a repeating super-pixel block including four pixel units, wherein each of the pixel units has a first sub-pixel configured to emit a first color light, a second sub-pixel configured to emit a second color light, and a third sub-pixel configured to emit a third color light. The first or second sub-pixel abuts the same-color sub-pixel of the adjacent pixel unit thereof to form at least a double-sized sub-pixel area. The third sub-pixel abuts the same-color sub-pixel of all adjacent pixel units thereof to form at least a quadruple-sized sub-pixel area. The first color light, the second color light, and the third color light are one of emitted through or from respective organic layers of the first color sub-pixel, the second color sub-pixel and the third color sub-pixel.
US10297641B2
A memory device, containing a first electrode, a second electrode and an oxide layer arranged between the first electrode and the second electrode, is produced. The oxide layer has a first zone and a second zone, with the first zone surrounding or being located on either side of the second zone, with the minimum distance d2 separating the two electrodes on the second zone of the oxide layer being less than the minimum distance d1 separating the two electrodes on the first zone of the oxide layer.
US10297638B1
The present invention relates to a flexible light source structure. The flexible light source structure includes a flexible insulating layer, a conductive trace layer formed on the flexible insulating layer, a plurality of light emitting diodes formed on the conductive trace layer and a packaging layer. The packaging layer covers the light emitting diodes and filling the gaps between the light emitting diodes.
US10297626B2
A semiconductor device includes a pixel array, a plurality of column circuits, an amplifier, switch arrays of a first layer to an nth layer, and signal lines of the first layer to the nth layer. n is an integer of two or more. The switch array of an ith layer is disposed between the switch array of an (i+1)th layer and the amplifier. i is an integer of one or more and less than n. The signal line of the first layer is connected to the nth amplifier. The signal line of the nth layer is connected to the switch array of the nth layer. Each of the plurality of switches included in the switch array of the nth layer is connected to the column circuit.
US10297624B2
A reduction is achieved in the power consumption of a solid-state imaging element including a photoelectric conversion element which converts incident light to charge and a transistor which converts the charge obtained in the photoelectric conversion element to voltage. A photodiode and a charge read transistor which are included in a pixel in the CMOS solid-state imaging element are provided in a semiconductor substrate, while an amplification transistor included in the foregoing pixel is provided in a semiconductor layer provided over the semiconductor substrate via a buried insulating layer. In the semiconductor substrate located in a buried insulating layer region, a p+-type back-gate semiconductor region for controlling a threshold voltage of the amplification transistor is provided.
US10297616B2
A display panel includes a gate integrated circuit, a number of scan lines extending from the gate integrated circuit for transmitting scan signals, a source integrated circuit, a number of data lines extending from the source integrated circuit for transmitting data signals, a number of pixel electrodes for receiving the scan signals and the data signals, and a number of transistors each electrically coupled to a corresponding scan line, a corresponding data line, and a corresponding pixel electrode. The transistors each include a gate electrode, a source electrode, and a drain electrode. The drain electrode includes an overlapping portion overlapping with the gate electrode. The gate integrated circuit transmits the scan signals along the scan lines. A size of the overlapping portion increases along a transmitting direction of the scan signal along the scan line.
US10297608B2
The present disclosure relates to an integrated chip having an inter-digitated capacitor, and an associated method of formation. In some embodiments, the integrated chip has a plurality of upper electrodes separated from a substrate by a first dielectric layer. A plurality of lower electrodes vertically extend from between the plurality of upper electrodes to locations embedded within the substrate. A charge trapping dielectric layer is arranged between the substrate and the plurality of lower electrodes and between the plurality of upper electrodes and the plurality of lower electrodes. The charge trapping dielectric layer has a plurality of discrete segments respectively lining opposing sidewalls and a lower surface of one of the plurality of lower electrodes.
US10297600B2
A semiconductor device includes a lower electrode on a substrate, a capacitor dielectric layer on the lower electrode, and an upper electrode on the capacitor dielectric layer. The capacitor dielectric layer includes a base layer on the lower electrode and a dielectric particle layer in at least a portion of the base layer. The base layer includes a first dielectric material, and the dielectric particle layer extends at least partially continuously along a thickness direction of the capacitor dielectric layer and includes a second dielectric material different from the first dielectric material.
US10297596B2
Provided is an integrated circuit including at least one cell, the at least one cell includes first and second active regions spaced apart from each other, a dummy region disposed between the first and second active regions, at least one first active fin disposed in the first active region and extending in a first direction, at least one second active fin extending along the first direction over the entire length of the second active region, and an active gate line extending in a second direction that is substantially perpendicular to the first direction, wherein the active gate line vertically overlaps the first active region and the dummy region and does not vertically overlap the second active region.
US10297594B2
A high density trench-gated MOSFET array and method are disclosed. It comprises semiconductor substrate partitioned into MOSFET array area and gate pickup area; epitaxial region, body region and source region; numerous precisely spaced active nitride-capped trench gate stacks (ANCTGS) embedded till the epitaxial region. Each ANCTGS comprises a stack of polysilicon trench gate with gate oxide shell and silicon nitride cap covering top of polysilicon trench gate and laterally registered to gate oxide shell. The ANCTGS forms, together with the source, body, epitaxial region, a MOSFET device in the MOSFET array area. Over MOSFET array area and gate pickup area, a patterned dielectric region atop the MOSFET array and a patterned metal layer atop the patterned dielectric region. Thus, the patterned metal layer forms, with the MOSFET array and the gate pickup area, self-aligned source and body contacts through the inter-ANCTGS separations.
US10297591B2
A bipolar complementary-metal-oxide-semiconductor (BiCMOS) device is disclosed. The BiCMOS device includes a CMOS device in a CMOS region, a PNP bipolar device in a bipolar region, and an NPN bipolar device in the bipolar region. The BiCMOS device includes also includes a silicon-germanium (SiGe) layer over a base of the PNP bipolar device and over a selectively implanted collector of the NPN bipolar device, wherein a first portion of the SiGe layer forms a base of the NPN bipolar device, and a second portion of the SiGe layer forms an emitter of the PNP bipolar device.
US10297588B2
A semiconductor device includes at least one first gate strip, at least one second gate strip, at least one first conductive line and at least one first conductive via. An end surface of the at least one first gate strip and an end surface of the at least one second gate strip are opposite each other. The at least one first conductive line is over the at least one first gate strip and the at least one second gate strip and across the end surface of the at least one first gate strip and the end surface of the at least one second gate strip. The at least one first conductive via connects the at least one first conductive line and the at least one first gate strip.
US10297584B2
A LED device is disclosed. The device has a LED area, a boundary element surrounding the LED area, a plurality of chip scale package LEDs in the LED area, a plurality of flip chip LEDs in the LED area, an encapsulate, a first conductive path, and a second conductive. The encapsulate covers the plurality of chip scale package LEDs and the plurality of flip chip LEDs in the LED area. The encapsulate has phosphor. The first conductive path connects the plurality of chip scale package LEDs. The second conductive path connects the plurality of flip chip LEDs. The plurality of chip scale package LEDs and the plurality of flip chip LEDs in the LED area are arranged in rows. Each row comprises alternating chip scale package LEDs and flip chip LEDs.
US10297572B2
Flexible interconnects, flexible integrated circuit systems and devices, and methods of making and using flexible integrated circuitry are presented herein. A flexible integrated circuit system is disclosed which includes first and second discrete devices that are electrically connected by a discrete flexible interconnect. The first discrete devices includes a first flexible multi-layer integrated circuit (IC) package with a first electrical connection pad on an outer surface thereof. The second discrete device includes a second flexible multi-layer integrated circuit (IC) package with a second electrical connection pad on an outer surface thereof. The discrete flexible interconnect is attached to and electrically connects the first electrical connection pad of the first discrete device to the second electrical connection pad of the second discrete device.
US10297567B2
Described herein are devices and techniques for thermocompression bonding. A device can include a housing, a platform, and a plasma jet. The housing can define a chamber. The platform can be located within the chamber and can be proximate a thermocompression chip bonder. The plasma jet can be located proximate the platform. The plasma jet can be movable about the platform. The plasma jet can include a nozzle arranged to direct a plasma gas onto the platform. Also described are other embodiments for thermocompression bonding.
US10297564B2
A semiconductor package includes a semiconductor die, a substrate for supporting the semiconductor die, an encapsulant covering the semiconductor die and at least part of the substrate, and a die attach material attaching the semiconductor die to the substrate. The die attach material includes molecules having a first functional group with at least one free electron pair and a second functional group chemically reacted or reactable with the encapsulant in a way that promotes adhesion with the encapsulant. A corresponding method of manufacturing the semiconductor package is also described.
US10297552B2
A semiconductor device having an embedded semiconductor die and substrate-to-substrate interconnects is disclosed and may include a substrate with a top surface and a bottom surface, a semiconductor die bonded to the top surface of the substrate, a first mold material encapsulating the semiconductor die and at least a portion of the top surface of the substrate, and a first conductive bump that is on the top surface of the substrate and is at least partially encapsulated by the first mold material. An extended substrate may be coupled to the substrate utilizing the first conductive bump. A second conductive bump may be formed on the bottom surface of the substrate, and a second mold material may encapsulate at least a portion of the second conductive bump and at least a portion of the bottom surface of the substrate. A third mold material may be formed between the first mold material and the extended substrate.
US10297549B2
Methods and associated structures of forming a microelectronic device are described. Those methods may include forming a structure comprising a first contact metal disposed on a source/drain contact of a substrate, and a second contact metal disposed on a top surface of the first contact metal, wherein the second contact metal is disposed within an ILD disposed on a top surface of a metal gate disposed on the substrate.
US10297547B2
A wiring is formed over a semiconductor substrate via an interlayer insulation film, and another interlayer insulation film is formed over the interlayer insulation film so as to cover the wiring, and a pad is formed over the another interlayer insulation film. Over the another interlayer insulation film, a layered film having an opening portion in which a pad is exposed is formed, and a redistribution wiring electrically connected to the pad is formed over the layered film and over the pad exposed in the opening portion. An end portion of the wiring is located below a connection region between the pad and the redistribution wiring. The wiring has a plurality of opening portions formed therein, and at least a part of the plurality of opening portions overlaps with the connection region in plan view.
US10297545B2
The invention provides a memory device. The memory device includes a substrate, a plurality of first wires, a plurality of etch-stop layers, a dielectric layer, and a plurality of vias. The substrate has a plurality of first regions and a plurality of second regions arranged in a staggered manner along a first direction. The first wires are embedded in the substrate and extended along the first direction. The first wires include a conductive layer and a cap layer located on the conductive layer, and the upper surface of the cap layer has a groove. The etch-stop layers are located on the cap layer and filled in the groove. The dielectric layer is located on the substrate and has a plurality of via openings in the first regions. The via openings expose the substrate and the etch-stop layer. The vias are filled in the via openings and electrically connected to the substrate. The invention further provides a manufacturing method of a memory device.
US10297541B2
Microelectronic devices having a multiple-component substrate assembly. A primary supports one or more integrated circuits, and an auxiliary substrate is coupled to, and makes electrical connections with, the primary substrate. The primary substrate will define a pinout for some or all contacts of the integrated circuit, and the auxiliary substrate will provide an additional pinout option. Different configurations of a single primary substrate may be adapted to different applications through use of different configurations of auxiliary substrates.
US10297527B2
A semiconductor device includes a radiation plate having a rear surface roughened by a plurality of dents that overlap with each other; a laminated substrate provided on a front surface of the radiation plate and including an insulating plate, a circuit board provided on a front surface of the insulating plate, and a metal plate provided on a rear surface of the insulating plate; a semiconductor chip provided on the circuit board; a radiator; and a heat radiating material retained between the rear surface of the radiation plats and the radiator. The plurality of dents that roughen the rear surface of the radiation plate provides the rear surface with an arithmetic average roughness ranging from 1 μm to 10 μm, and each of the dents has a maximum dent depth ranging from 12 μm to 71.5 μm, and a dent width ranging from 0.17 mm to 0.72 mm.
US10297525B2
A base plate for a heat sink as well as a heat sink and an IGBT module having the same are provided. The base plate includes: a base plate body, including a body part; and a first surface layer and a second surface layer disposed respectively on two opposing surfaces of the body part; and N pins disposed on the first surface layer and spaced apart from one another, each pin having a first end fixed on the first surface layer and a second end configured as a free end, in which the first surface layer and the N pins are configured to contact a coolant, an area of a first portion of the first surface layer contacting the coolant is denoted as S1, and an area of a second portion of the first surface layer contacting each pin is denoted as S2, in which 180≤S1/S2≤800, and 300≤N<650.
US10297523B2
A power module and a method for manufacturing the same are provided. The power module comprises: a substrate, at least one power device, and an organic heat dissipating structure. The substrate has an upper surface and a lower surface. The organic heat dissipating structure comprises a plurality of organic heat dissipating protrusions and it is located on the upper surface side or the lower surface side of the substrate and configured to transfer heat generated by the power device outwardly.
US10297522B2
A semiconductor package structure and manufacturing method thereof are provided. Firstly, a first surface mounting unit, a first printed circuit board, and a second printed circuit board are provided. The first surface mounting unit includes a first chip and a first conductive frame, and the first conductive frame has a first carrier board and a first metal member connected to the first carrier board. A first side of the first chip is electrically connected to the first carrier board of the first conductive frame. A second side of the first chip and the first metal member are connected to the first circuit board by a first pad and a second pad respectively. The second circuit board is connected to the first carrier board and hence, the first surface mounting unit is located between the first circuit board and the second circuit board.
US10297521B2
A circuit substrate is provided with a base formed of ceramics. It includes a first face a second face; and a through hole penetrating from the first face to the second face; a through conductor: containing silver and copper as main components; disposed inside the through hole; and including a plurality of surfaces; and a metal layer in contact with at least one of the plurality of surfaces. The through conductor includes a eutectic region of silver and copper, disposed in a metal layer side of a diametrically center region of the through conductor; and a non-eutectic region of silver and copper, disposed in a central region of the diametrically center region of the through conductor.
US10297515B2
A fingerprint sensor device and a method of making a fingerprint sensor device. As non-limiting examples, various aspects of this disclosure provide various fingerprint sensor devices, and methods of manufacturing thereof, that comprise a sensing area on a bottom side of a die without top side electrodes that senses fingerprints from the top side, and/or that comprise a sensor die directly electrically connected to conductive elements of a plate through which fingerprints are sensed.
US10297506B2
A method for filling gaps between structures includes forming a plurality of high aspect ratio structures adjacent to one another with gaps, forming a first dielectric layer on tops of the structures and conformally depositing a spacer dielectric layer over the structures. The spacer dielectric layer is removed from horizontal surfaces and a protection layer is conformally deposited over the structures. The gaps are filled with a flowable dielectric, which is recessed to a height along sidewalls of the structures by a selective etch process such that the protection layer protects the spacer dielectric layer on sidewalls of the structures. The first dielectric layer and the spacer dielectric layer are exposed above the height using a higher etch resistance than the protection layer to maintain dimensions of the spacer layer dielectric through the etching processes. The gaps are filled by a high density plasma fill.
US10297501B2
A wafer has a front face that is partitioned by a plurality of streets crossing with each other into a plurality of regions in each of which a device is formed. A surface protective tape is adhered to the front face of the wafer. Then a laser beam having a wavelength transparent to the wafer is irradiated along the streets from a rear face side of the wafer to form a modified layer inside the wafer. Then the wafer is ground from the rear face side to thin the wafer. When the surface protective tape is applied, the surface protective tape is heated. When the modified layer is formed, cracks extend from the modified layer to the front face of the wafer. When ground, the wafer is divided into individual chips with the cracks serving as boundaries.
US10297500B2
A method of dicing a bowed or warped semiconductor wafer includes cutting along the saw streets in a first direction on a first half of the wafer, where the first direction is parallel to the bowing, cutting along the saw streets in the first direction on a second half of the wafer opposite to the first half, and step-cutting along the saw streets in the second direction, such that all of the dies are separated from each other, and the sides of the die in the bowing direction are flat and the sides of the die perpendicular to the bowing direction are stepped.
US10297497B2
In accordance with at least one embodiment of the disclosure, a method of patterning platinum on a substrate is disclosed. In an embodiment, an adhesive layer is deposited over the substrate, a sacrificial layer is deposited over the adhesive layer, and a patterned photoresist layer is formed over the sacrificial layer. Then, the sacrificial layer is patterned utilizing the photoresist layer as a mask such that at least a portion of the adhesive layer is exposed. Subsequently, the top and sidewall surfaces of the patterned sacrificial layer and the first portion of the adhesive layer are covered by a platinum layer. Finally, the sacrificial layer and a portion of the platinum layer covering the top and sidewall surfaces of the sacrificial layer are etched, thereby leaving a remaining portion of the platinum layer to form a patterned platinum layer on the substrate.
US10297496B2
In a method for processing a target object including a conductive layer and an insulating film formed on the conductive layer, the insulating film is etched by plasma treatment of a fluorine-containing gas to form an opening in the insulating film. A barrier film is formed to cover a surface of the insulating film and a surface of the conductive layer which is exposed through the opening formed in the insulating film. The target object having the barrier film is placed in an atmospheric environment, and the barrier film is removed from the target object by isotropically etching the barrier film. The target object is maintained in a depressurized environment from start of etching the insulating film to end of forming the barrier film. The barrier film is conformally formed on the surfaces of the insulating film and the conductive layer exposed through the opening formed in the insulating film.
US10297490B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate of a first conductivity type, a plurality of short-circuit prevention-regions of a second conductivity type at an upper portion of the semiconductor substrate, a first insulating film on a top surface of the semiconductor substrate, a strip-shaped fuse on a top surface of the first insulating film spanning over the short-circuit prevention-regions, a second insulating film on a top surface of the fuse, and a passivation film on a top surface of the second insulating film and having an opening for laser trimming. The opening exposes the second insulating film above an area including the short-circuit prevention-regions.
US10297478B2
An apparatus includes a product substrate having a transfer surface, and a semiconductor die defined, at least in part, by a first surface adjoined to a second surface that extends in a direction transverse to the first surface. The semiconductor die is disposed on the transfer surface of the product substrate such that at least a portion of the first surface is in contact with the transfer surface, and at least a portion of the second surface is embedded onto the product substrate, beneath a plane that extends across the transfer surface.
US10297471B2
A semiconductor structure and a method of forming include a first semiconductor die and a first dummy die over a carrier, wherein a thickness of the first semiconductor die is greater than a thickness of the first dummy die, a first molding compound layer over the carrier, the first molding compound layer extending along sidewalls of the first semiconductor die and the first dummy die and a first interconnect structure over the first molding compound layer, wherein the first interconnect structure comprises a first metal feature electrically coupled to the first semiconductor die and the first molding compound layer is formed between the first dummy die and the first metal feature.
US10297465B2
The present invention provides a process for selectively etching molybdenum or titanium relative to a oxide semiconductor film, including providing a substrate comprising a layer of oxide semiconductor and a layer comprising molybdenum or titanium on the layer of oxide semiconductor; preparing the substrate by applying a photoresist layer over the layer comprising molybdenum or titanium, and then patterning and developing the photoresist layer to form an exposed portion of the layer comprising molybdenum or titanium; providing a composition comprising ammonia or ammonium hydroxide, a quaternary ammonium hydroxide and a peroxide; and applying the composition to the exposed portion for a time sufficient to etch and remove the exposed portion of the layer comprising molybdenum or titanium, wherein the etching selectively removes the molybdenum or titanium relative to the oxide semiconductor.
US10297460B2
A semiconductor structure, such as a group III nitride-based semiconductor structure is provided. The semiconductor structure includes a cavity containing semiconductor layer. The cavity containing semiconductor layer can have a thickness greater than two monolayers and a multiple cavities. The cavities can have a characteristic size of at least one nanometer and a characteristic separation of at least five nanometers.
US10297454B2
A method is provided for fabricating a semiconductor device. The method includes providing a base substrate including a dummy gate electrode and an interlayer dielectric layer covering a sidewall of the dummy gate electrode. The method also includes forming a sacrificial layer covering a top surface of the interlayer dielectric layer by using a selective atomic layer deposition process, wherein the sacrificial layer exposes a top surface of the dummy gate electrode. In addition, the method includes forming an opening by using the sacrificial layer as an etch mask to remove the dummy gate electrode, and forming a metal gate electrode on the sacrificial layer and in the opening. Further, the method includes planarizing the metal gate electrode and the sacrificial layer until a top surface of the metal gate electrode is leveled with the top surface of the interlayer dielectric layer.
US10297452B2
One illustrative method disclosed includes selectively forming sacrificial conductive source/drain cap structures on and in contact with first and second source/drain contact structures positioned on opposite sides of a gate of a transistor and removing and replacing the spaced-apart sacrificial conductive source/drain cap structures with first and second separate, laterally spaced-apart insulating source/drain cap structures that are positioned on the first and second source/drain contact structures. The method also includes forming a gate contact opening that extends through a space between the insulating source/drain cap structures and through the gate cap so as to expose a portion of the gate structure and forming a conductive gate contact structure (CB) that is conductively coupled to the gate structure.
US10297447B2
Examples of a high electron mobility transistor manufacturing method includes forming a buffer layer including a nitride semiconductor doped with any one of carbon, iron, and magnesium on a substrate, forming a Schottky layer on the buffer layer, and irradiating the Schottky layer and the buffer layer with electrons or protons.
US10297437B2
A sulfur plasma lamp has a lamp envelope of transparent or translucent glass or ceramic material. At least two silicon carbide electrodes are hermetically sealed with the lamp envelope and in contact with an interior of the lamp envelope. A quantity of sulfur within the interior of the lamp envelope is sufficient to create a sulfur plasma upon excitation. A buffer gas within the interior of the lamp envelope enables initial discharge and heating of the interior of the lamp envelope to excite the sulfur into a plasma state. More than two electrodes may be provided, and an electrical potential is created between different pairs of the electrodes at different times, thereby inducing stirring of the plasma upon excitation of the material into a plasma state.
US10297424B2
A filament includes first and second end portions between which a connecting portion is arranged. The first and second end portions are electrically connected to a power supply device. The first end portion is bent with respect to the second end portion through the connecting portion. A cross-sectional dimension of the bent connecting portion is the same as cross-sectional dimensions of the first and second end portions. Also disclosed are an ionization chamber and an ion-implantation apparatus. The cross-sectional dimension of the filament is uniform. The resistance of respective portions of the filament is the same. The number of the hot electrons generated at respective portions by powering the filament is the same. The hot electrons and ion-source gas collide to generated plasma. The plasma concentration around the filament is uniform, to avoid the emergence of corrosion of the filament at certain portion caused by an over high plasma concentration.
US10297418B2
The present disclosure provides a method of reducing coma and chromatic aberration in a charged particle beam device for providing a beam tilt of a charged particle beam. The method includes tilting the charged particle beam with a deflection assembly consisting of two or more electrostatic deflection elements, wherein at least one deflection element of the two or more deflection elements is a post-lens deflector, while the charged particle beam is guided through an essentially coma-free z-position of an objective lens, and reducing off-axis chromatic aberrations with a magnetic deflection element, wherein tilting the charged particle beam reduces coma independent of off-axis chromatic aberrations.
US10297417B2
The disclosure relates to a method for characterizing a two-dimensional nanomaterial sample. The two-dimensional nanomaterial sample is placed in a vacuum chamber. An electron beam passes through the two-dimensional nanomaterial sample to form a diffraction electron beam and a transmission electron beam to form an image on an imaging device. An angle θ between the diffraction electron beam and the transmission electron is obtained. A lattice period d of the two-dimensional nanomaterial sample is calculated according to a formula d sin θ≅dθ=λ, where λ represents a wavelength of the electron beam.
US10297415B2
An improved cathode assembly is disclosed. The improved cathode assembly provides a deep channel for holding filament that enables generation of small focal spots, but is not limited in achieving larger focal spot sizes. The cathode assembly includes at least one deep channel and a filament arranged in a deep channel. The deep channel is configured in a cathode cup surface of the cathode assembly. The filament is arranged in the deep channel for enabling emission of electron beams from the cathode assembly.
US10297407B2
An electromagnetic contactor in which a shock-absorbing member is integrally formed in a frame. The electromagnetic contactor includes a first frame in which an operating electromagnet is disposed and coil terminals which supply power to a coil of the electromagnet is formed to project from a side surface, and a second frame in which a contact mechanism having an auxiliary contact is disposed and has power source side terminals on one end side and load side terminals on the other end side, and in the first frame and the second frame, a snap fit is formed which can attach the second frame to the first frame in both of a normal direction coupled state where the coil terminals and the power source side terminals face the same direction and a reverse direction coupled state in which the coil terminals and the load side terminals face the same direction.
US10297404B1
An illuminated pushbutton switch is provided. The pushbutton switch includes a case, a button assembly received in the case, and a switch contact assembly disposed in the case. The button assembly includes a button part, a first spring against a center of the button part, a waterproof jacket assembled in the button part, and a frame fixed on the button part. The switch contact assembly includes a switch frame, a plurality of second springs against a bottom side of the switch frame, a contact sheet against the plurality of second springs, a rivet penetrating the contact sheet and the switch frame, a plurality of contacts disposed at an interval from the contact sheet, a plurality of pins used for fixing the contacts, and a bottom case receiving the pins.
US10297399B2
Electronic component conveyance device and method of manufacturing taping electronic component array
As an electronic component conveyance device in which an electronic component is unlikely to jam in a conveyance path. A first magnetic force generation unit is provided lateral to a first sidewall in a midstream part. A second magnetic force generation unit is provided downstream of the first magnetic force generation unit and lateral to a second sidewall in the midstream part. The midstream part includes a first transition part connected with an upstream part and a second transition part connected with a downstream part. The first sidewall is parallel to a conveyance direction in the first transition part. The second sidewall extends in a direction different from the conveyance direction in the first transition part. The second sidewall is parallel to the conveyance direction in the second transition part. The first sidewall extends in a direction different from the conveyance direction in the second transition part.
US10297393B2
A capacitor assembly for use in ultrahigh voltage environments is provided. To help achieve good performance at such high voltages, a variety of aspects of the assembly are controlled in the present invention, including the number of capacitor elements, the manner in which the capacitor elements are arranged and incorporated into the assembly, and the manner in which the capacitor elements are formed. For example, the capacitor assembly contains an anode termination to which the anode lead of a first capacitor element is electrically connected and a cathode termination to which the cathode of a second capacitor element is electrically connected. To help improve the breakdown voltage properties of the assembly, the capacitor elements are electrically connected in series such that the anode lead of the second capacitor element is also electrically connected to the cathode of the first capacitor element via a conductive member.
US10297392B2
A capacitor whose electrical properties can be stable under a variety of different conditions is provided. The solid electrolyte of the capacitor is formed from a combination of an in situ polymerized conductive polymer and a hydroxy-functional nonionic polymer. One benefit of such an in situ polymerized conductive polymer is that it does not require the use of polymeric counterions (e.g., polystyrenesulfonic anion) to compensate for charge, as with conventional particle dispersions, which tend to result in ionic polarization and instable electrical properties, particularly at the low temperatures noted above. Further, it is believed that hydroxy-functional nonionic polymers can improve the degree of contact between the polymer and the surface of the internal dielectric, which unexpectedly increases the capacitance performance and reduces ESR.
US10297388B2
In an embodiment, one length-direction end of each first internal electrode layer 111a is connected to the first conductor layer 112 of the capacitor body 110 over a connection width equivalent to the width of each first internal electrode layer 111a, while the other length-direction end of each second internal electrode layer 111b is connected to the second conductor layer 113 over a connection width equivalent to the width of each second internal electrode layer 111b. One height-direction end of the first conductor layer 112 is connected to the first external electrode 120 over a connection width equivalent to the width of the first conductor layer 112, while one height-direction end of the second conductor layer 113 is connected to the second external electrode 130 over a connection width equivalent to the width of the second conductor layer 113.
US10297386B2
There are provided a multilayer ceramic capacitor and a board having the same. The multilayer ceramic capacitor includes: three external electrodes disposed to be spaced apart from one another on a mounting surface of a ceramic body; first internal electrodes each including first and second lead portions connected to the outermost external electrodes, respectively; and second internal electrodes each including a third lead portion connected to the middle external electrode, in which a first region in which the first internal electrodes are laminated is disposed in a central portion of the ceramic body in a width direction of the ceramic body, and second regions in which the first and second internal electrodes are alternately laminated are disposed on both sides of the intervening first region in the width direction of the ceramic body.
US10297383B2
A device for reducing a magnetic unidirectional flux component in the core of a three-phase transformer includes at least one compensation winding, which is magnetically coupled to the core of the three-phase transformer, a switch arranged electrically in a current path in series with the at least one compensation winding to feed current into the winding, where the effect of the current is directed opposite to the unidirectional flux component, and an apparatus for limiting current arranged electrically in a current path in series with the at least one compensation winding, and where two compensation windings are provided on different legs of the core of the three-phase transformer such that a greater reduction of the magnetic unidirectional flux component is achieved.
US10297382B2
One object is to provide a coil element capable of enhancing reliability of joint strength of a coil conductor wire, while achieving a reduction in resistance and a size reduction. A coil element includes a core member, a coil conductor wire, and a terminal electrode. The core member has a columnar portion. The coil conductor wire has a coil portion wound on the columnar portion and a flat-shaped connection end portion provided in each of both end portions of the coil portion. The terminal electrode has an electrode layer and a joint layer. The electrode layer is formed on a surface of the core member and opposed to the connection end portion in its thickness direction. The joint layer includes a cavity portion locally provided between the connection end portion and the electrode layer and joins the connection end portion and the electrode layer to each other.
US10297373B1
A jelly roll-type PTC device including a PTC material layer, a first electrode layer disposed on a first surface of the PTC material layer, a second electrode layer disposed on a second surface of the PTC material layer opposite the first surface between overlapping portions of the first electrode layer and the second electrode layer, and an insulation layer disposed on a surface of the second electrode layer opposite the PTC material layer and covering a region where the first electrode layer overlaps the second electrode layer, wherein the first electrode layer, the PTC material layer, the second electrode layer, and the insulation layer are rolled together to define a jelly roll structure with the PTC material layer providing an electrically conductive pathway between the overlapping first and second electrode layers, and with the insulation layer providing an electrically insulating barrier between the first and second electrode layers.
US10297372B2
A process for producing an energy cable including at least one electrically conductive core and at least one thermoplastic electrically insulating layer, includes the steps of: impregnating a thermoplastic material in subdivided solid form, having a melting enthalpy equal to or lower than 70 J/g, with a dielectric fluid to obtain an impregnated thermoplastic material; feeding the impregnated thermoplastic material in subdivided solid form to a single-screw extruder; and extruding the impregnated thermoplastic material onto the at least one electrically conductive core, so as to form the at least one thermoplastic electrically insulating layer, whereby the impregnated thermoplastic material is not subjected to any mechanical homogenization step in a molten state. Energy cables having a large amount of the dielectric fluid in the electrically insulting layer, e.g. higher than 10 wt %, are obtained without showing any morphological defects in the layer itself and any drawbacks in the extrusion process, even when the rotation speed of the extruder screw, and therefore, the cable production speed, are high (e.g. higher than 20 m/min for medium voltage cable).
US10297366B2
An electric power cable is provided, wherein the electric power cable comprises an organic silicon insulating coating layer capable of being cured at room temperature. Generally, the electric power cable comprises a cable conductor capable of transmitting electric energy, and the organic silicon insulating coating layer is coated to the exterior surface of the cable conductor. The cable conductor may be an exposed overhead bare conductive wire, and the organic silicon insulating coating layer is especially suitable for being formed on the exterior surface of the overhead bare conductive wire by coating directly thereto.
US10297362B2
The present disclosure relates to a cable. An exemplary embodiment of the cable (2) comprises a plurality of conductors, wherein the conductors form several conductor groups (4, 6a-6d), in which respectively two or more of the plurality of conductors are stranded with one another. The several conductor groups (4, 6a-6d) are stranded overall around a common stranding center (1) and the conductors of at least two of the several conductor groups (4, 6a-6d; 4a-4d, 6a-6k) are stranded with one another with a different lay length.
US10297361B2
A self-bonding conductive wire and methods in which it is made and used. The wire comprises a conductor, an insulator, and a self-bonding outer coating. The self-bonding outer coating is a polyester polyether block copolymer. The insulator is an ethylene/tetrafluoroethylene copolymer, one or more layers of which may be used to insulate the conductor. The self-bonding capabilities of the wire may be activated by heating the wire, causing the outer coating to thermoplastically deform and fuse, allowing for the creation of self-supporting structures such as large bobbin-less coils. The use of the polyester polyether block copolymer for the self-bonding outer coating is superior to other materials, in which significant degradation of qualitative properties following self-bonding is observed, resulting in a superior self-bonding conductive wire.
US10297358B2
A temporally continuous matter wave beam splitter (14) comprising a plurality of intersecting and interfering laser beam (kr, kb), which act as waveguides for a matter wave beam. The laser beams of the waveguides each have a frequency detuned below a frequency of an internal atomic transition of the matter wave. The matter wave has a wavevector which is an integral multiple of the wavevector of the laser beams within a region of intersection of the laser beams. There is also provided an atomic interferometer (200) comprising such a continuous matter wave beam splitter, and a solid state device comprising such a continuous matter wave beam splitter, which may be part of an atomic interferometer. A cold atom gyroscope, a cold atom accelerometer or a cold atom gravimeter comprising such a solid state device are also provided. There is further provided a quantum computer comprising such a solid state device, wherein atoms of the matter wave beam are in an entangled quantum state. There is also provided a method of splitting a matter wave beam, comprising introducing the matter wave beam into a first temporally continuous laser beam, the frequency of which is detuned below a frequency of an internal atomic transition of the matter wave beam; intersecting and interfering the first continuous laser beam with a second temporally continuous laser beam, the frequency of which is also detuned below the frequency of the internal atomic transition of the matter wave beam; providing the matter wave beam with a wavevector which is an integral multiple of the wavevector of the first and second laser beams within a region of intersection of the laser beams, whereby the laser beams act as waveguides for the matter wave beam.
US10297355B1
The invention relates to the ROANEX method, which extracts actinides from used nuclear fuel in a single purification cycle. The used nuclear fuel contains actinides, U, Am, Pu, Np. and Cm, and fission products, Cs, Sr and Tc. The fission products are separated first from the used nuclear fuel. The actinides are reduced to their lowest oxidation states and then oxidized to their highest oxidations states. Uranium, Pu and Np move to an organic phase solution and Am and Cm move to a nitrate solution. Uranium, Pu, and Np are stripped from the organic phase solution, and then treated with an oxalic acid to form a precipitate. Americium and Cm are treated with a potassium carbonate solution and Am precipitates. Actinides Am, U, Pu, and Np precipitates are heated in an oven and then blended together to form a mixed oxide fuel of UO2, PuO2, NpO2 and AmO2.
US10297346B2
In an appointment-making method for a user's mobile device, a request for an appointment with a doctor is transmitted by the mobile device. Information as to doctors and services available for patient registration therewith is obtained and transmitted to the mobile device. A confirmation response from user's mobile device is received, and an appointment with a doctor is fixed. A registration number is assigned to the user in response to the received confirmation response. According to the assigned registration number, a patient queue for the doctor or the department is established, based on a predefined queue algorithm. Data as to queue length associated with the registration number is transmitted to the mobile device and payment of medical fees can also be made through the mobile device.
US10297342B2
A classification of a level of cancer in an organism is determined by analyzing a biological sample of the organism. The biological sample comprises clinically-relevant DNA and other DNA. At least some of the DNA is cell-free in the biological sample. An amount of a first set of DNA fragments from the biological sample corresponding to each of a plurality of sizes is measured. A first value of a first parameter is calculated based on the amounts of DNA fragments at the plurality of sizes. The first value is compared to a reference value. A classification of a level of cancer in the organism is determined based on the comparison.
US10297334B2
A one-time programmable (OTP) circuit. The OTP circuit includes a non-volatile OTP memory disposed on a first circuit die. The OTP memory includes a floating gate terminal. The OTP circuit also includes a cross-coupled latch disposed on the first circuit die and coupled to the OTP memory and volatile memory input circuitry disposed on the first circuit die and coupled to the cross-coupled latch. The volatile memory input circuitry is configured to receive a test value and write the test value into the cross-coupled latch. The OTP circuit is configured to receive a programming command and store the test value in the OTP memory in response to receipt of the programming command.
US10297327B2
The present invention relates to a flash memory system comprising one or more sense amplifiers for reading data stored in flash memory cells. The sense amplifiers utilize fully depleted silicon-on-insulator transistors to minimize leakage. The fully depleted silicon-on-insulator transistors comprise one or more fully depleted silicon-on-insulator NMOS transistors and/or one or more fully depleted silicon-on-insulator PMOS transistors.
US10297317B2
A non-volatile semiconductor memory device includes a current source providing a reference current to a first node and a clamp circuit. The clamp circuit includes a transistor having a current path between the first node and a second node, and an amplifier circuit having a first input port at which a cell reference voltage can be received, a second input port connected to the second node, and an output port connected to a control terminal of the transistor. The amplifier circuit is configured to output a differentially amplified signal from the output port. A memory cell is connected between a bit line and a word line and includes a variable resistance element. The bit line can be connected to the second node. A sense amplifier is connected to the first node to detect data stored in the memory cell.
US10297307B1
Memory devices, systems including memory devices, and methods of operating memory devices in which multiple counters are provided to permit memory refresh commands greater freedom in targeting subsets of the memory device for data refresh operations. In one embodiment, a memory device is provided, comprising a plurality of memory banks, and circuitry configured to (i) store a plurality of values, each of the plurality of values corresponding to one of the plurality of memory banks; (ii) refresh first data stored in a first one of the plurality of memory banks; and (iii) update a first one of the plurality of values corresponding to the first one of the plurality of memory banks based at least in part on refreshing the first data.
US10297306B2
A volatile memory device includes a refresh controller configured to control a hidden refresh operation performed on a first portion of memory cells while a valid operation is performed on a second portion of the memory cells. The volatile memory device is configured to perform a regular refresh operation in response to receiving a refresh command. The refresh controller is configured to generate refresh information using a performance indicator of the hidden refresh operation during a first part of a reference time. The volatile memory device is configured to perform a desired number of the regular refresh operation during a remaining part of the reference time based on the refresh information. The desired number of the regular refresh operation is an integer based on a difference between a target number of refresh operations during the reference time and a count value of the hidden refresh operation during the reference time.
US10297304B1
An operating method of a memory device includes the following operations: during a refresh operation with the first refresh rate, generating a first ECC according to first data, and generating a second ECC according to second data; determining whether an error exists in the first data or not during the refresh operation with a second refresh rate; determining whether the error exists in the second data or not during the refresh operation with a third refresh rate; and if it is determined that the error exists in the first data and/or the second data, correcting the first data and/or the second data. The second refresh rate and the third refresh rate are lower than the first refresh rate, and the third refresh rate is lower than the second refresh rate. The correcting ability of the second ECC is higher than the correcting ability of the first ECC.
US10297302B2
An apparatus is described that includes a semiconductor chip memory array having resistive storage cells. The apparatus also includes a comparator to compare a first word to be written into the array against a second word stored in the array at the location targeted by a write operation that will write the first word into the array. The apparatus also includes circuitry to iteratively write to one or more bit locations where a difference exists between the first word and the second word with increasing write current intensity with each successive iteration.
US10297288B2
A support for computer data back-up units is designed to receive at least two distinct sizes of back-up units. The support has a bottom and at least one stationary wall perpendicular to the bottom. The support also has an additional wall extending perpendicularly to the bottom of the support and parallel to the stationary wall. The additional wall is mounted to be movable relative to the bottom of the support between at least two receiving slots respectively associated with the distinct sizes of the back-up units.
US10297286B2
Example methods and apparatus to add a tagged snippet of multimedia content to a playlist are disclosed. An example apparatus comprises an automatic content recognition search service to search a fingerprint database to find a match between query fingerprints for a snippet of multimedia content captured from a multimedia program at a timestamp and reference fingerprints of matching reference multimedia content stored in the fingerprint database, a tag service to generate a tag representing the snippet of multimedia content, wherein the tag, the timestamp, meta information associated with the matching reference multimedia content, and a monitored variable for a number of viewers of the snippet of multimedia content are stored in a database storage as a tagged snippet of multimedia content, and to add the tagged snippet of multimedia content to a playlist for an identified multimedia program if the number of viewers of the tagged snippet exceeds a threshold.
US10297285B2
A video data processing method and an electronic apparatus are provided. The method includes obtaining a first image in a first video and separating a first part from the first image. The first video has a recording duration of a first time length. The method also includes obtaining a second image in a second video. The second video has a recording duration of a second time length. The first and second time lengths are different. Further, the method includes forming a composite image by compositing the first part of the first image and the second image, and forming a target video from a plurality of composite images, the plurality of composite images including the composite image.
US10297283B2
A computer-readable medium, controller and a method of automatically recording a sound signal is provided. A sound signal is received by the controller from a sound generating device. A frequency of the received sound signal is determined by the controller. When the determined frequency is within a predetermined frequency range, the controller starts recording the received sound signal.
US10297282B1
A slider configured for heat-assisted magnetic recording comprises a magnetic writer, a near-field transducer, and an optical waveguide coupling the near-field transducer to a light source. The writer is situated proximate the near-field transducer at an air bearing surface of the slider and comprises a first return pole, a second return pole, and a write pole situated between and spaced apart from the first return pole and the second return pole. A structural element is situated at or near the air bearing surface between the write pole and one of the first and second return poles. The structural element comprises a cavity. A thermal sensor is disposed in the cavity. The thermal sensor is configured for sensing contact between the slider and a magnetic recording medium, asperities of the medium, and output optical power of the light source.
US10297276B2
Systems and devices for achieving high throughput attachment of sub-micron alignment of components are provided. One such device can include a fixture for holding a chuck, the fixture including a plurality of alignment features for adjusting a position of the chuck, the chuck includes a top layer including a vacuum aperture for holding a first component and a bottom layer made from a translucent material, wherein the bottom layer is directly attached to the top layer.
US10297274B2
A method for recording parity data of data stripes within shingled media recording bands in a redundant array of independent disks can be accomplished using a plurality of shingled media recording (SMR) hard disk drives (HDD) each with a plurality of shingled data bands. A data stream received from a host computer system is sequentially stored to a plurality of block segments in successive order, one stripe at a time successively. Each of the shingled data bands possess n data blocks (or multiple data blocks that are grouped together as a data unit) that are successively ordered, each corresponding successive data block from all of the SMR HDDs defines a data stripe, accordingly n data blocks in each SMR HDD defines n stripes across the shingled data bands. A transaction group sync triggers a halt to writing the data stream. The rest of the data stripe is written with fill bits. Parity data is written to a parity drive in one or more SMR parity blocks that correspond in size and sequence to the data blocks in the data stripes possessing the first data stream and any of the fill bits.
US10297265B2
A personal audio assistant includes a first microphone for capturing audio, a communication module communicatively coupled to the first microphone and for accessing information from a network, a memory storage unit communicatively coupled to the first microphone, and a voice controlled interface coupled to the microphone. The voice controlled interface is configured to access the network in response to detection of at least one or more voice commands from the captured audio and present results in response to accessing the network to a speaker via a text-to-speech synthesizer. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10297264B2
The invention relates to a codec and a signal classifier and methods therein for signal classification and selection of a coding mode based on audio signal characteristics. A method embodiment to be performed by a decoder comprises, for a frame m: determining a stability value D(m) based on a difference, in a transform domain, between a range of a spectral envelope of frame m and a corresponding range of a spectral envelope of an adjacent frame m−1. Each such range comprises a set of quantized spectral envelope values related to the energy in spectral bands of a segment of the audio signal. The method further comprises selecting a decoding mode, out of a plurality of decoding modes, based on the stability value D(m); and applying the selected decoding mode.
US10297250B1
The systems, devices, and processes described herein may asynchronously transfer audio signals from a voice-controlled device to a remote device. The audio signals may correspond to sound that is captured by multiple microphones of the voice-controlled device, which may then process the audio signals. The audio signals may also be transferred to the remote device for processing. Moreover, a determination of whether the voice-controlled device or the remote device is to process the audio signals may be based at least in part on the bandwidth of a network communicatively coupled to the voice-controlled device. The voice-controlled device may also cache and log the audio signals, and then asynchronously stream the audio signals to the remote device after the audio signals are initially processed, which may be based on the bandwidth of the network. The remote device may utilize the unprocessed audio signals to improve subsequent processing of audio signals.
US10297249B2
A cooperative conversational voice user interface is provided. The cooperative conversational voice user interface may build upon short-term and long-term shared knowledge to generate one or more explicit and/or implicit hypotheses about an intent of a user utterance. The hypotheses may be ranked based on varying degrees of certainty, and an adaptive response may be generated for the user. Responses may be worded based on the degrees of certainty and to frame an appropriate domain for a subsequent utterance. In one implementation, misrecognitions may be tolerated, and conversational course may be corrected based on subsequent utterances and/or responses.
US10297237B2
A stringed musical instrument includes a mechanism for adjusting and setting the angular position of the neck with respect to the instrument body. The mechanism includes a metal projection secured in a metal insert arranged inside the neck coupling portion, and additionally a metal piece that defines a groove for receiving the metal projection. The metal piece is partially inserted into the instrument body coupling portion. The projection and the groove fit together and are aligned with one another without there being any contact between them. The, groove has sufficient clearance for allowing variation of the angular position of the neck with respect to the instrument body by displacement of the projection along the groove.
US10297230B2
An image processing apparatus includes: a first acquiring unit configured to acquire first image data; a second acquiring unit configured to acquire information related to a first exposure value; a setting unit configured to set any of a plurality of display modes; and a generating unit configured to generate second image data from the first image data, wherein in a case where a first display mode has been set, the generating unit generates second image data having brightness corresponding to the first exposure value, in a case where a second display mode has been set, the generating unit generates second image data having brightness corresponding to a second exposure value, and the second exposure value used in the second display mode is changeable in accordance with a user instruction.
US10297225B2
An information processing system according to the embodiments includes an in-vehicle device (electronic device), a portable communication terminal, a terminal position computing unit (computing unit), and a specific process executing unit (executing unit). The in-vehicle device is provided in a vehicle (predetermined facility). The portable communication terminal is capable of mutual communication with the in-vehicle device. The terminal position computing unit computes a position of the portable communication terminal based upon a motion of the portable communication terminal. The specific process executing unit, when the position of the portable communication terminal computed by the terminal position computing unit is a predetermined position that is predefined in the facility, executes a specific process corresponding to the predetermined position.
US10297211B1
An electrowetting display device may comprise at least one pixel region that includes: a hydrophobic layer portion; an oil disposed on the hydrophobic layer portion, wherein an amount of light transmitted through the pixel region is based, at least in part, on an area of the hydrophobic layer portion that is covered by the oil; and a thin film transistor (TFT); a photo-sensor configured to generate a voltage based, at least in part, on the amount of light that transmits through the pixel region; and an electronic control circuit configured to (i) receive the voltage from the photo-sensor and (ii) provide a driving signal to the TFT of the pixel region, wherein an amplitude of the driving signal is based, at least in part, on the voltage from the photo-sensor.
US10297209B2
A display apparatus includes a light emitter including a plurality of LEDs connected in parallel, and a driving circuit configured to turn on the plurality of LEDs and then to adjust respective turn-off time periods of the plurality of LEDs to adjust brightness of the plurality of LEDs.
US10297199B2
Disclosed are an AMOLED pixel driving circuit and a pixel driving method. The AMOLED pixel driving circuit utilizes the 4T2C structure, and comprises: a first thin film transistor (T1), a second thin film transistor (T2), a third thin film transistor (T3), a fourth thin film transistor (T4), a first capacitor (C1), a second capacitor (C2) and an organic light emitting diode (D1); the nth scan signal (SCAN(n)) and the n+1th scan signal (SCAN(n+1)) are combined with each other, and correspond to a threshold voltage sensing stage, a holding stage, a programming stage and a drive stage one after another. In comparison with the pixel driving circuit of the 5T2C structure, the corresponding thin film transistor is controlled merely with arranging the scan signal. There will be the compensation function, and the amount of the control signals can be decreased, and the circuit structure is simplified and the cost is decreased.
US10297196B2
A pixel circuit, a driving method, and array substrate, the pixel circuit includes a plurality of sub-pixel units each of which includes an input sub-circuit, a driving sub-circuit, a light emitting control sub-circuit, and a level maintaining sub-circuit; the input sub-circuit is connected to a data line; the driving sub-circuit outputs a driving current to the light emitting control sub-circuit via a second node under control of a first node; the light emitting control sub-circuit drives a light emitting element to emit light according to a received driving current under control of a light emitting control line; and the level maintaining sub-circuit is connected between the first node and a first voltage terminal to maintain a level at the first node.
US10297195B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a pixel circuit and a driving method thereof, an array substrate, a display panel, and a display device. In the pixel circuit, the drive module drives the light emission module to emit light. The storage module stores the control voltage required for the drive module. The reset module resets the control voltage stored in the storage module. The data write module writes the data voltage to the storage module. The compensation module compensates for the threshold voltage of the drive module and to compensate for the control voltage stored in the storage module. The light emission control module controls the driving of the drive module to the light emission module. The operating current flowing through the electroluminescent element may not be affected by the threshold voltage of the drive transistor.
US10297193B2
An organic light-emitting display device includes: a display panel comprising a plurality of pixels, wherein each of the plurality of pixels comprises an organic light-emitting diode (OLED) configured to emit light of one color from among a plurality of colors comprising red, green, and blue; a degradation determiner configured to determine a degree of degradation of the OLED from a value of accumulated image data that is input to each of the plurality of pixels; a current sensor configured to apply a sensing voltage to the OLED and to measure a current corresponding to the sensing voltage; and a degradation calculator configured to calculate an amount of degradation of the OLED from the current measured by the current sensor.
US10297187B2
A gamma voltage generator includes a reference gamma selector configured to receive a first reference voltage and a second reference voltage greater than the first reference voltage, and to select top and bottom reference gamma voltages respectively corresponding to maximum and minimum gamma tab voltages that are between the first and second reference voltages, a gamma tab generator configured to select a plurality of gamma tab voltages between the maximum and minimum gamma tab voltages based on the top and bottom reference gamma voltages, a maximum gamma compensator configured to select a compensating gamma tab voltage that is greater than the maximum gamma tab voltage based on the top reference gamma voltage and a third reference voltage greater than the second reference voltage, and a gamma output configured to divide the gamma tab voltages and the compensating gamma tab voltage, and output gamma voltages corresponding to a gamma curve.
US10297186B2
Provided are a display device and an image processing method thereof. The display device according an embodiment includes a display panel including pixels formed of red, green, blue, and white sub pixels, an image processing unit that converts a three-color input image supplied to the red, green, blue, and white sub pixels into four-color image data, calculates a color contrast ratio using a luminance weight and a hue weight by scaling luminance and hue values of the input image, and outputs an output image by considering the color contrast ratio, and a timing controller which aligns and outputs the output image from the image processing unit.
US10297174B2
A visual advertisement assembly includes a sign that may be displayed. A plurality of light emitters is provided and each of the light emitters is coupled to the sign. Each of the light emitters selectively emits light and the light emitters are arranged into a plurality of sets of light emitters. A plurality of controllers is provided and each of the controllers is coupled to the sign. Each of the controllers is electrically coupled to an associated one of the sets of light emitters. Each of the controllers actuates the light emitters to emit light in a selected pattern. The selected pattern resembles a selected phrase. Thus, the plurality of light emitters may advertise a message.
US10297172B2
A receipt and label roll comprises a core and a web having a longitudinally-extending axis and wound on the core along the axis. The web includes (i) a substrate having a front side and a back side opposite the front side, (ii) a thermally-sensitive coating disposed on the front side of the substrate, (iii) adhesive disposed on a portion of the back side of the substrate along the web axis, and (iv) a release coating disposed on the front side of the substrate along the web axis to prevent the adhesive from sticking to the front side of the substrate when the web is wound on the core. The web further includes (v) a longitudinal weakened structure extending along a direction parallel to the web axis and dividing the web into a first web portion on which the adhesive is disposed and a second web portion which is substantially devoid of adhesive.
US10297161B2
A method and system for assisting guidance of an aircraft along a runway approach axis. The method includes acquiring a position deviation between a current position of the aircraft and the approach axis, determining an angle between a longitudinal axis of the aircraft and the approach axis, and determining a lateral offset of the trajectory of the aircraft likely to result from a maneuver of alignment of the longitudinal axis of the aircraft with the runway during the landing of the aircraft. A lateral trajectory correction is computed as a function of the lateral trajectory offset. This position deviation is corrected by adding the lateral trajectory correction to it. This position deviation is transmitted to the device for guiding the aircraft.
US10297156B2
A driving support apparatus for a vehicle is provided. The apparatus causes an alarm unit to issue an alarm based on a lane marking of an own lane in which an own vehicle runs. The apparatus includes a leading vehicle detection section that determines a leading vehicle running in the own lane, a crossing over determination section that determines whether or not the leading vehicle has crossed over the lane marking present at an opposite side of the target, when a target is present at a left side or a right side of the leading vehicle in the own lane, and an alarm inhibition section that inhibits the alarm based on a result of the determination whether or not the leading vehicle has crossed over the lane marking present at the opposite side of the target.
US10297146B2
A system and method for controlling vehicles and for providing assistance to operated vehicles is discussed and described herein.
US10297145B2
Method and system for establishing whether a road section is suitable for autonomous vehicle driving
A suitability determining system for establishing whether a road section is suitable for at least semi-autonomous vehicle driving is described. The system identifies a road section including at least one lane and delimited by at least one lateral road boundary, and derives from at least a first estimate providing vehicle a respective utilization direction estimate along with a corresponding respective detection confidence value for each of respective lanes detected by the estimate providing vehicle along the road section. The system determines a respective summarized direction utilization estimate along with a corresponding respective summarized confidence value for each respective detected lane, and determines an autonomous driving suitability indication applicable for the road section, which indicates the road section is suitable for at least semi-autonomous driving provided all determined summarized direction utilization estimates indicate equally directed utilization and all determined summarized confidence values exceed respective confidence thresholds.
US10297142B2
The present disclosure relates to methods and devices in clustered alarm scenarios. More particularly the disclosure pertains to methods and arrangements for detecting several messages of a preconfigured message type, arriving sequentially in time. This disclosure proposes a method, performed in a radio network node, of detecting several messages of a preconfigured message type. The method comprises detecting SI a first message of the preconfigured message type, the first message being associated with an event. The method further comprises reconfiguring S3, in the radio network node, in response to the detection, at least one radio setting related to detecting further messages of the preconfigured message type and monitoring S4 a radio spectrum for further messages of the preconfigured message type using the reconfigured radio settings.
US10297137B2
The invention relates to electronic technologies in automobile, and in particular, to an apparatus and method for processing vehicle emergency conditions. The apparatus for processing vehicle emergency conditions according to an aspect of the invention comprises: a first sound sensor disposed inside the vehicle; and a processing unit coupled with the first sound sensor, which is configured to determine whether an individual inside the vehicle is in an emergency condition according to signals collected by the first sound sensor and an internal environmental state of the vehicle, and to generate a command or instruction signal for executing emergency processing operation when the individual inside the vehicle is in an emergency condition.
US10297135B1
A dryness sensor uses a block of superabsorbent polymer that absorbs liquid and increases in size as liquid is absorbed. When the block of superabsorbent polymer increases in size in the presence of liquid, the block of superabsorbent polymer contacts one or more electronic components coupled to a moisture detection circuit that provides an indication of moisture. When the block of superabsorbent polymer loses moisture, it decreases in size until the block of superabsorbent polymer no longer contacts the one or more electronic components. The moisture detection circuit detects when the block of superabsorbent polymer no longer contacts the one or more electronic components, and provides an alert indicating a lack of moisture. The dryness sensor could be used, for example, to monitor the moisture content of soil in a pot that has a house plant growing in the pot.
US10297134B2
An energy supply device comprises an analysis unit for determining a signaling information which indicates a state of operation of the energy supply device, and a communication interface for outputting said signaling information. The analysis unit is designed to detect an operating variable of the energy supply device; to set a characterization parameter; and to characterize the detected operating variable of the energy supply device as a function of the characterization parameter in order to obtain the signaling information.
US10297133B2
Among other things, there is disclosed a system for notifying a user of mailbox activity. A transmitter module and a receiver module are linked together so that when the transmitter module senses the opening of the mailbox, a signal is transmitted to the receiver module. A portion of the receiver module changes color and a sound is emitted to indicate mailbox activity. The receiver module is connected via the internet to a cloud server, which is connected to a user's smart device, so that a notification of mailbox activity is sent to the smart device.
US10297131B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus for a drowsiness detection system that alerts the user to potentially drowsiness. The drowsiness detection system includes a sensor configured to detect a heart rate of a user. The drowsiness detection system includes an indicator configured to alert the user before the user becomes drowsy and a processor that is connected to the sensor and the indicator. The processor is configured to obtain the heart rate of the user and measure the heart rate of the user. The processor is configured to calculate at least one of a heart rate variability or a heart rate interval of the user based on the measured heart rate. The processor is configured to determine that the at least one of the heart rate variability or the heart rate interval of the user indicates that the user is becoming drowsy and activate the indicator to alert the user before the user becomes drowsy.
US10297121B2
Example systems and methods for closed-loop control for haptic feedback are disclosed. One example method includes the steps of outputting a first signal configured to cause a haptic output device to output a haptic effect to a surface; determining one or more first velocities of a surface of an object attracted towards the surface in response to the haptic effect; in response to the first velocities decreasing to approximately zero, discontinuing output of the first signal; determining one or more second velocities of a surface of an object rebounding away from the surface in response to the discontinuing output of the first signal; in response to the second velocities decreasing to approximately zero, determining a responsiveness of the surface of the object to the haptic effect; and outputting a second signal based on the responsiveness.
US10297116B2
A cash drawer and a method for determining the change in contents of a cash tray is provided. The cash drawer includes: at least two force measuring devices; and a cash tray mounted on the force measuring devices, the cash tray including a plurality of containers, each container for holding a plurality of cash tokens, wherein the cash tray is coupled to each of the force measuring devices through a kinematic mount.
US10297113B2
A gaming system may comprise a processor, a gaming machine in electronic communication with the processor, and a memory device in electronic communication with the processor with a first game and a second game stored thereon. The first game may have a first return percentage and the second game may have a second return percentage, wherein the first return percentage and the second return percentage are different. A player may elect to play the first game or the second game by selecting a first game selection device or a second game selection device, respectively, with a goal of figuring out which game has the higher return percentage.
US10297107B2
A wagering game system and its operations are described herein. The operations can include accessing a player account and reserving a portion of funds from the player account in a reserve account, such as an escrow account and/or a credit account. The operations can further include permitting play of a wagering game after the reserving the portion of the funds from the player account in the reserve account. The operations can further include, in response to a wager drawn from the portion of the funds in the reserve account, initiating a round of play of the wagering game.
US10297099B2
A media transaction device comprising: a device housing having a front panel; a media processor provided at an interior of the device housing; a media accommodating unit provided at an interior of the media processor; and a foreign matter sensor detecting absence/presence of a foreign object at the media accommodating unit. The front panel includes a first port for inserting and dispensing the media, and a first shutter opening and closing the first port. The media processor includes a second port disposed to face the first port, and a second shutter for opening and closing the second port. The media are inserted into and dispensed from the second port such that the media are inserted into and dispensed from the first port, and opening and closing of the first shutter and the second shutter are controlled based on detection results by the foreign matter sensor.
US10297096B2
A method and system that allows authorized individuals access into controlled access locations and the ability to grant temporary and limited access to guests into these locations. The method and system allows for navigational services to be provided to members and guests, and real-time tracking and confirmation to members and administrators that guests have arrived at their destination and did not enter any unauthorized areas. The method preferably can work through a system of wireless radio, sound and/or light-based beacons communicating with member and guest's electronic devices. Members and administrators can send one or more temporary electronic access keys to a guest's smartphone or other electronic device. Wireless radio, sound and/or light-based beacons provide an access control and location tracking system with real-time data about the member and guest whereabouts, allowing for the confirmation and tracking. Also provided is a system and method for identifying a customer's location at a business and provide notification to a company representative upon arrival of the customer at the business location. Real-time location determinations for the customer and customer location tracking can be provided. One or more wireless beacons communicate with the customer's electronic device. The beacons provide the system with real-time data about the customer's whereabouts, allowing for the confirmation and tracking of the customer at the location. A first non-limiting example of use, include a company that provides food and beverage allowing the customer to place an order for food and beverages on their electronic device and having the order delivered to the person at their current location as determined by the system. Another non-limiting example includes a company using the notification system to have assigned staff members notified of the customer's arrival.
US10297091B2
A remote server identifies based on unique identification information, model information, operator name information and/or owner name information, and a plurality of pieces of contact information. The remote server identifies trouble content information, estimated cause information, and seriousness information based on trouble content identification information. The remote server simultaneously transmits transmission information to contact addresses indicated by the plurality of pieces of contact information identified, the transmission information including the model information, the operator name information and/or the owner name information, date and time information, position information, the trouble content information, the estimated cause information, and the seriousness information. When troubleshooting intention information, indicating an intention to perform trouble shooting for the trouble, is received from any one of contact addresses indicated by the plurality of pieces of contact information, the remote server transmits the troubleshooting intention information to the other contact addresses.
US10297086B2
A computer-implemented method of displaying frames of digital video is provided. The method includes processing contents in one or more predetermined regions of the frames to detect predetermined non-image data. In the event that the predetermined non-image data is undetected within the one or more predetermined regions of a particular frame being processed, subjecting the particular frame to a predetermined texture-mapping onto a predetermined geometry and displaying the texture-mapped frame; and otherwise subjecting the particular frame to cropping to remove the non-image data, flat-projecting the cropped frame and displaying the flat-projected cropped frame. A computer-implemented method of processing digital video is also provided. The method includes causing frames of the digital video to be displayed; for a period beginning prior to an estimated time of display of an event-triggering frame: processing contents in one or more predetermined regions of the frames to detect predetermined non-image data therefrom. In the event that the predetermined non-image data is undetected within the one or more predetermined regions in a particular frame being processed, deeming the particular frame to be the event-triggering frame and executing one or more events associated with the event-triggering frame at the time of display of the event-triggering frame.
US10297084B2
In one aspect, a hand-held device is provided with a display, camera, motion detector and processor. The processor receives a sequence of images from the camera, the relative distance to the object based on the parallax associated with two or more images of the sequence and the motion of the camera is determined, and the image is augmented and displayed based on the relative distances.
US10297083B2
The invention is related to a method of determining a model which describes at least part of a real object, which comprises the steps of: providing a first image of at least part of the real object to a first processing device, wherein the first image is captured by a camera, sending at least part of the first image to a second processing device which is physically separate from the first processing device, determining on the second processing device a registration between the first image and a first model provided on the second processing device according to the at least part of the first image received at the second processing device, determining geometric information for at least one pixel in the first image according to the registration, sending the geometric information from the second processing device to the first processing device, and using at least part of the geometric information received at the first processing device together with at least part of the first image to determine on the first processing device a second model comprising geometric and material information which describes at least part of the real object.
US10297078B2
Provided is a method of rendering a curve. The method includes determining a tessellation level of dividing a curve based on a control point of the curve, generating at least one triangle and at least two first sub-curves corresponding to the curve based on the tessellation level, and rendering the at least two first sub-curves and the at least one triangle.
US10297075B2
Examples of the present disclosure relate to methods for processing image data comprising data corresponding to a three-dimensional object. One such method comprises determining a plurality of polygons, the polygons being representative of the three-dimensional object, wherein each polygon has associated geometric information. At least one polygon group is formed from the plurality of polygons, said polygon group comprising polygons with correlated geometric information. At least one geometric primitive is determined for said polygon group, the geometric primitive corresponding to polygons of said polygon group. Data is output, representing said geometric primitive as at least a part of a representation of the three-dimensional object.
US10297068B2
The present disclosure describes a new global illumination ray tracing, concentrated at augmented objects of virtual or augmented reality, utilizing the graphics pipeline. Secondary rays are handled in large groups, originating at clusters of primary hit points, and intersecting with scene geometry.
US10297060B2
A glasses-type mobile terminal includes a display configured to display a virtual reality image and a controller configured to acquire reality information from a mobile terminal connected to the glasses-type mobile terminal and controlling the virtual reality image if a reality returning time indicating that viewing of the virtual reality image should be finished is reached based on the acquired reality information.
US10297058B2
A display control apparatus obtains coordinate information indicating a specific coordinate on a display surface that a user activity is detected, determines whether a first image to be drawn at a position indicated by the coordinate information, at least partly overlaps a second image to be displayed together with the first image, and changes order information stored in a memory so as to cause the first image layer to be superimposed on the second image layer based on a determination indicating that the first image at least partly overlaps the second image.
US10297056B2
The present disclosure relates to method and system for annotating an object in real-time which comprises object database, remote device and real-time annotating unit. Real-time annotating unit receives video stream comprising one or more objects and identifies at least one object in video stream to be annotated by comparing at least one frame of video stream with predefined frames comprising one or more objects in object database. Further, real-time annotating unit determines orientation data of at least one object and obtains unique context identifier (UCID) associated with each of at least one object. The real-time annotating unit further provides UCID associated with at least one object to remote device and receives annotated data, from remote device, generated based on UCID and remote expert inputs. Further, real-time annotating unit converts annotation data to 3D space coordinates and renders converted annotated data on at least one object based on orientation data.
US10297049B2
An image processing system (IPS) and related method to transform different multi-modal or multi-contrast input images (u,v) into respective transformed images (U,V). The transformation may proceed iteratively to improve a regularized objective function. The regularization is via a regularizer function (R). The regularizer function (R) is computed from noise normalized gradients of the two or more transformed images (u,v).
US10297043B2
An apparatus for detecting an attitude of electronic components. The electronic components include an electronic component having a plurality of terminals. The apparatus includes a storage and an image processor. The image processor is configured to: extract a binarized image from an image acquired by an imaging device; perform image matching between a terminal in the binarized image and a terminal in a model image to extract attitude candidates of image matching; obtain coordinates of a corner part of the plurality of terminals from the binarized image of the electronic component; select an attitude candidate from among the attitude candidates of image matching; and output the attitude candidate as a detected attitude of the electronic component.
US10297041B2
Provided is an apparatus for recognizing user postures. The apparatus recognizes detailed postures such as a stand posture, a bending forward posture, a bending knees posture, a tilt right posture, and a tilt left posture, based on a variation between body information at a previous time and body information at a current time.
US10297038B2
A system and method includes reception of an indication of a region of interest of a plurality of image frames, determination of a first set of pixel locations of the region of interest which depict blood vessels, determination of a second set of pixel locations of the region of interest which depict non-vessel tissue, determination, for each of the plurality of the image frames, of a first contrast medium concentration corresponding to the first set of pixel locations, determination, for each of the plurality of the image frames, of a second contrast medium concentration corresponding to the second set of pixel locations, and display of a visualization depicting a first contrast medium concentration and a second medium concentration with respect to the respective time of each of the plurality of the image frames.
US10297037B2
An electronic device that can provide both a mirror function and a user interface. A controller executes the mirror function is coupled to a display that outputs at least one of a mirror function and a user interface. A sensor senses a user approaching the front of the display and captures an image of a target object in front of the display; an input element that receives an input from the user. The controller controls a process of identifying the body region of the user reflected in the display by use of an image captured by the sensor, checks whether the user interface displayed on the display at least partially overlaps display of a body region of the user reflected in the display, and controls the display to rearrange and display the user interface in a region where the body is not being reflected.
US10297020B2
A system and method may include determining a presence or absence of cigarettes in a set of cigarettes being processed by a cigarette packer machine by using at least one of a first image or a second image inclusive of the cigarettes in the set of cigarettes. A stereographic image may be produced using the first and second images. Determine level of tobacco of each cigarette of the set of cigarettes by using the first and second images. Produce a report in response to determining that a cigarette is not present or that a level of tobacco of a cigarette is outside of a specified level of tobacco of a cigarette.
US10297015B2
A method for identifying a feature of an image is provided. The method includes: segmenting an image into a plurality of blocks, wherein each block includes a plurality of cells; transforming pixels of each cell from a spatial domain to a frequency domain; and identifying a Histogram of Oriented Gradient (HOG) feature of the image in the frequency domain.
US10297010B2
A method for reducing grid line artifacts in an X-ray image is disclosed, which includes acquiring an X-ray image by scanning an object, wherein the X-ray image comprises grid line artifacts; decomposing the X-ray image into a high frequency image and a low frequency image, wherein the high frequency image comprises the grid line artifacts; filtering the high frequency image to reduce the grid line artifacts in the high frequency image so as to obtain a filtered high frequency image; and combining the filtered high frequency image with the low frequency image to reconstruct an output image. A system adopting the above method is also disclosed.
US10297004B2
In an aspect of the disclosure, a method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus are provided. The apparatus may be a service processor. The service processor allocates a plurality of frame buffers. The service processor also writes image data of a predetermined image to a first frame buffer of the plurality of frame buffers. The service processor further loads a first application. The service processor displays the predetermined image in accordance with the image data stored in the first frame buffer while the first application is being loaded. The service processor then writes image data of the first application to a second frame buffer of the plurality of frame buffers.
US10296999B2
A method embeds a watermark image into a host image with adaptive rectangular partition and Lower Upper (LU) decomposition such that a watermarked image is generated with improved computational complexity. The method divides a host image into an Red (R) component, a Green (G) component, and a Blue (B) component, and divides each component of the R, G, and B components into a plurality of M×M size blocks, and partitions each of the plurality of M×M size blocks into a plurality of non-overlapping blocks with adaptive rectangular partition. The method selects a plurality of embedding blocks from the plurality of M×M size blocks for each component of the R, G, and B components of the host image to embed watermark information such that the watermarked image is generated.
US10296987B2
In general, the present invention discloses a policy-based decision system to manage energy consumption within a complex system, such as a municipality, business or home. These policies help to control energy usage, either for the purpose of conservation or to contend with a shortage situation. In general, policies may be set based on business requirements, including energy demand, energy supply, safety, Quality of Service (QoS) settings per object or groupings, convenience, risk analysis output or events. Among other things the approach described herein discloses the following: creation and management of policies; selection of optimal throttling plan to achieve energy conservation requirements; running of simulation scenarios based on different policies and/or reduction requirements; conducting of risk analysis for different scenarios; etc.
US10296975B2
Certain embodiments reduce the risks of traditionally programmed algorithms such as syntax errors, unclear logic, and the need for a non-trader programmer to develop the algorithm as specified by a trader by reducing or eliminating the writing of programming code by a user. Certain embodiments provide a design canvas area and blocks for designing an algorithm. Certain embodiments provide for grouping blocks placed in the design canvas area. Certain embodiments provide for virtualized group blocks enabling dynamic instantiation of portions of an algorithm to handle particular discrete events. Certain embodiments provide for operation of some or all portions of an algorithm when a connection between a client device and an algorithm server is broken.
US10296962B2
A system for collaborative shopping comprising shopping devices interconnected by a network and respectively used by shoppers in a collaborative shopping session, and virtual shopping carts respectively associated with the shopping devices for sharing information on items of interest among the shoppers and enabling the shoppers to collaborate on the shopping.
US10296960B1
Techniques described herein include a system and method for identifying color complements from an electronic marketplace catalog. In particular, the disclosure is directed to extracting color palette information from a variety of item images in the electronic catalog and creating clusters into which separate items are placed based on their similarity in colors. Multi-colored items may belong to more than one cluster (they may belong to a cluster for each color associated with the item). The clusters that share multi-colored items may be analyzed to determine the strength of a relationship between the two clusters. Clusters that share a significant number of items may be associated with complementary colors. In this disclosure, a service provider may receive a request related to an item, and may subsequently identify and recommend a complementary item.
US10296956B2
Disclosed herein are technologies for providing recommendations as to particular products and/or services that are customer specific and general, based on customer preference and inquiry. The recommendations are provided as part of an online shopping system. In accordance with one aspect, an item query is received from a customer, and analyzed by a query analyzer to determine if the query is a general item query or a specific item query. A search may be performed for items based on the item query in an items database listing items offered for purchase. If the query is the general item query, customer preference is determined from results of the search. If the query is the specific item query, the items from the results of the search are grouped based on cost performance. The items of the search result are ranked and provided to the customer.
US10296948B2
Briefly, embodiments disclosed herein may relate to online advertising and may relate, more particularly, pushing advertising content to user computing devices, for example.
US10296943B1
A computer-implemented method for presenting content based on information detected in real time includes: receiving first information corresponding to detection of at least attendance at a physical location; selecting, in real time with the detection, at least one winning bid based on the first information, the at least one winning bid conditioned on the first information meeting an attendance criterion; and providing at least one winning content item associated with the selected winning bid to a content presentation device at the physical location.
US10296933B2
Particular embodiments may access an electronic image including a surface area and divide the electronic image into a plurality of surfaces. Particular embodiments may then determine that one or more of the surfaces include a type of graphics and determine a percentage of the surface area of the image that is occupied by the one or more surfaces determined to include the type of graphics.
US10296930B1
A computer-implemented system and method for providing offers to a mobile device includes receiving at least one offer from at least one merchant at an offer computer system and determining, by the offer computer system, an offer to present on the mobile device based on at least one characteristic of a user of the mobile device, the offer providing the user a discount from a price of a product or service. The method includes receiving a request for a code to provide to a merchant, the code being generated for the mobile device that belongs to the user. The method includes receiving, from a mobile device, an indication from the user to use the offer and sending, by the offer computer system, to the mobile device an offer code to be displayed on the mobile device to be received by a merchant.
US10296928B1
A system configured to forecast human behavior is provided. The system includes a memory storing information descriptive of a set of content including a plurality of elements, at least one processor coupled to the memory, and a plurality of components executable by at least one processor. The plurality of components include a mapping engine configured to retrieve the information associated with the set of content from the memory and generate a data space representative of relationships between the plurality of elements, a compression component configured to generate a customer compression representative of a behavior of at least one customer within the data space, a persuasion engine configured to identify at least one customer trajectory through the data space associated with the at least one customer based on at least the customer compression, and an interface component configured to provide output describing the at least one customer trajectory.
US10296926B2
A system and method retrieve a robust customer profile of a user accessing a website and generate a custom webpage that include in a first area graphical user interface elements and objects representative of products owned by a first entity having stored attributes that correlate with attributes of the user stored in the robust customer profile. A state of a secondary market is determined and the custom webpage is generated to include in a second area graphical user interface elements and objects representative of items owned by a second entity in the secondary market that correlate with the products in the first area.
US10296916B2
Certain exemplary embodiments described herein relate to the field of electronic registration (ER) of purchased products and, more particularly, to improved electronic registration techniques purchase-side and/or return-side handling of recalled items. Certain exemplary embodiments on the purchase-side may help to filter-out products that have recalled been before they are purchased. Certain exemplary embodiments on the return-side may help enable recall return overrides, thus facilitating the acceptance of recalled products even though they might not qualify under an original return/warranty policy. Advantageously, more and more recalled products may be filtered out of circulation through the use of purchase-side and/or return-side recall watch list checking techniques of certain exemplary embodiments. Such purchase-side and/or return-side recall watch list checking may be performed together with or separate from electronic registration techniques in different exemplary embodiments.
US10296908B2
A method for secure payment transactions over a network between a support help desk computing system and a customer computing system is provided. The method includes establishing a chat session between the help desk and the customer using a chat application program; receiving a purchase order from the customer; communicating a unique URL payment link to the customer, wherein the URL payment link is configured for allowing the customer to establish communication with an order processing system to provide sensitive payment information to the order processing system; receiving the sensitive payment information at the order processing system communicated from the customer; encrypting the sensitive payment information; providing the encrypted sensitive payment information to the help desk, wherein the encrypted sensitive payment information is displayed in a masked format on a display of the help desk; and completing the purchase order using the encrypted sensitive payment information.
US10296907B1
Methods and systems described in this disclosure generally relate to presentation of electronic offers that are viewable on financial instruments (e.g., credit cards and debit cards) by users. More specifically, various embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods and systems for embedding information pertaining to the electronic offers on a financial instrument of a user. The information can be displayed on a screen or using flashing lights included inside or on the surface of the financial instrument. These offers can be provided by merchants or by banks and financial institutions associated with the financial instrument. In some embodiments, the financial instrument communicates with a mobile application running on a user's mobile device via wireless communication methods to receive offer-related information provided by the mobile application.
US10296905B2
Provided is a settlement authentication method and system using a quantum random number generator. The method includes the steps of requesting, by a mobile terminal, a random number from a bank server and a POS terminal each including a quantum random number generator, periodically receiving a first quantum random number generated by the POS terminal and a second quantum random number generated by the bank server, and simultaneously sending a first quantum random number most recently received from the POS terminal to the bank server and a second quantum random number most recently received from the bank server to the POS terminal when the mobile terminal requests settlement.
US10296899B2
A universal funding card and the delayed assignment of a funding instrument for a financial transaction are described herein. In one embodiment, a system for facilitating a financial transaction comprises a communications interface; a database storing data regarding a user and a plurality of funding instruments associated with that user; and a payment processing system configured to receive a request for payment authorization from a merchant via the communications interface, to authorize payment to the merchant prior to selection of a funding instrument, and after authorizing payment to the merchant, receive instructions regarding a funding instrument to debit for the payment.
US10296897B1
Embodiments of the systems and methods described herein can detect that a user is accessing a payment webpage of a website associated with a merchant. The system can cause a window requesting authentication credentials associated with an account of the user to appear on a display of a computing device associated with the user. After the system has received and verified the authentication credentials, the system can create a merchant-specific virtual card linked to a pre-existing payment instrument associated with the account. The system can enter information associated with the merchant-specific virtual card in a payment section of the payment webpage. After receiving an authorization request for a transaction using the merchant-specific virtual card, the system can authorize the transaction based on a balance of the pre-existing payment instrument.
US10296893B2
The present invention relates to a method for a secure transaction utilizing a portable radio communication device (10), wherein both parts in the secure transaction are protected against fraudulent actions, among other things by use of a common transaction identity on a predefined transaction server.
US10296878B1
A platform for obtaining digital items provides consumers access to digital item from multiple sources such as other consumers, libraries, rental services, and stores. The platform may be implemented as a cloud-based system accessible over the Internet. The platform transforms digital items into different formats when needed for compatibility with a computing device of the end consumer and transfers digital rights management (DRM) restrictions across different DRM schema. Consumers may store personal information in association with a digital item for later re-association with other copies of the same digital item. Consumers may also comment on a digital item and the platform may make those comments available to other consumers that have accessed the same digital item. The platform may also mediate instant messaging between consumers that are both associated with the same digital item. Computing devices of the consumers may receive widgets from the platform that provide additional functionality.
US10296869B2
Products are arranged at positions along a fixture. Electronic labels associated with the products are arranged such that a product position for a product is obtainable once a position of the label is known. A camera is arranged to capture images of the fixture. A method includes controlling a label to change optical output; receiving an image containing the label and captured after the change of optical output has been initiated; detecting a position of the label in the image based on a characteristic associated with the change; and determining a position for the product associated with the label in an image. The determined position may be employed to determine when to restock a product. Further, a method for determining positions of labels in images is provided, as well a corresponding system and computer program product. The labels are controlled to include changing temporal patterns.
US10296866B2
In some embodiments, systems, apparatuses and methods are provided to support the delivery of products. Some embodiments provide a retail delivery locker system comprising: multiple delivery lockers comprising: a housing enclosing an interior product cavity; a door enabling access to the product cavity; first and second docking couplers each configured to securely dock with a docking station and a docking coupler of another locker; and a communication link between the first and second docking couplers; and multiple docking stations each comprising: a locker coupler configured to secure a locker with the docking station; a station control circuit that obtains a first locker identifier from a first locker, confirms the first locker is scheduled to dock with a docking station, and authorize the locking of the docking station with the first docking coupler; and a transceiver enabling the station control circuit to communicate with a remote central control system.
US10296852B2
Features are disclosed relating to a collaborative ticketing system that manages various aspects of ticketing for events (e.g., movies, concerts, sporting events, and the like) using knowledge about the contacts, friends, and other social connections of system users. The collaborative ticketing system may generate dynamic ticket offers that are based on the number of friends, invited by users, ultimately obtaining tickets. The collaborative ticketing system can also streamline the procurement of concessions and other event-related items by allowing users to pre-purchase such items (e.g., in connection with ticket offers), and then pick up the items at the event venue with little or no wait. In addition, users can preview event-related content (e.g., movie trailers) for event providers (e.g., movie studios), and answer questions or otherwise provide feedback about the event-related content in return for special offers, rewards, and other considerations.
US10296848B1
Systems and methods for intelligently training a machine learning model includes: configuring a machine learning (ML) training data request for a pre-existing machine learning classification model; transmitting the machine learning training data request to each of a plurality of external training data sources, wherein each of the plurality of external training data sources is different; collecting and storing the machine learning training data from each of the plurality of external training data sources; processing the collected machine learning training data using a predefined training data processing algorithm; and in response to processing the collected machine learning training data, deploying a subset of the collected machine learning training data into a live machine learning model.
US10296843B2
Various embodiments of the present disclosure can include systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media configured to select a set of signals relating to a plurality of energy usage conditions. Signal values for the set of signals can be determined. Machine learning can be applied to the signal values to identify energy usage conditions associated with non-technical loss.
US10296842B2
Systems, platforms, methods and media for providing genomic services are disclosed. In one example, a genomic services platform comprises a network interface through which are received genomic sequence reads derived from a biological sample obtained from a user. The platform also includes a bioinformatics processing pipeline including a read alignment module configured to generate observed sequence data by aligning the sequence reads relative to a reference sequence, a variant calling module operative to identify observed variants in the observed sequence data, and a variant refinement module for producing genotype data including a set of refined variants associated with the user. A variant imputation module produces a set of imputed variants associated with the user, and is configured to receive, as input, at least some of the genotype data and separate the genotype data into high-quality and low-quality genotypes based on a genotype quality.
US10296834B2
A method and system for inferring facts in parallel in a multiprocessor computing environment is provided. An inference system infers facts by applying rules to a collection of existing facts. For each existing fact, the inference system schedules a thread to apply the rules to that existing fact. As a thread infers a new fact (i.e., one that is not already in the collection of facts), the thread adds that inferred fact to the collection of facts. When a thread adds a new fact to the collection, the thread also applies the rules to that new fact. After the threads complete execution, the inference system may apply the rules to the facts of the collection, including the newly inferred facts, by again launching a thread for each fact to apply the rules to that fact. The inference system performs this processing iteratively until a termination condition is satisfied.
US10296829B2
A convolution processing apparatus and method are disclosed. The convolution processing apparatus may include a controller configured to load a pixel of an input image and skip a process associated with the pixel in response to a value of the loaded pixel being 0, a filter bank including at least one filter and configured to extract at least one kernel element corresponding to the pixel from the at least one filter based on an index of the pixel and an input channel of the pixel, and a multiplier-accumulator (MAC) configured to perform a convolution operation based on the value of the pixel and a value of the at least one kernel element and accumulatively store an operation result of the convolution operation, the operation result corresponding to an output image.
US10296825B2
Systems, methods, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for selecting an actions from a set of actions to be performed by an agent interacting with an environment. In one aspect, the system includes a dueling deep neural network. The dueling deep neural network includes a value subnetwork, an advantage subnetwork, and a combining layer. The value subnetwork processes a representation of an observation to generate a value estimate. The advantage subnetwork processes the representation of the observation to generate an advantage estimate for each action in the set of actions. The combining layer combines the value estimate and the respective advantage estimate for each action to generate a respective Q value for the action. The system selects an action to be performed by the agent in response to the observation using the respective Q values for the actions in the set of actions.
US10296811B2
A user's collection of images may be analyzed to identify people's faces within the images, then create clusters of similar faces, where each of the clusters may represent a person. The clusters may be ranked in order of size to determine a relative importance of the associated person to the user. The ranking may be used in many social networking applications to filter and present content that may be of interest to the user. In one use scenario, the clusters may be used to identify images from a second user's image collection, where the identified images may be pertinent or interesting to the first user. The ranking may also be a function of user interactions with the images, as well as other input not related to the images. The ranking may be incrementally updated when new images are added to the user's collection.
US10296810B2
Disclosed are an apparatus and a method for determining lesion similarity of a medical image. The apparatus for determining lesion similarity according to one aspect of the present invention may comprise: an image input unit for receiving a reference image comprising a reference lesion area, and a target image comprising a target lesion area; and a similarity determination unit for determining similarity of the reference lesion area and the target lesion area by applying an advantage weight, which increases as getting closer to the center of the reference lesion area, to pixels included in a first area of the reference lesion area, and a penalty weight, which increases as getting farther away from the reference lesion area, to pixels included in a second area of the target lesion area.
US10296802B2
According to an embodiment, an image processing device includes a memory, and one or more hardware processors configured to function as a receiving unit, a specifying unit, and a detecting unit. The receiving unit receives input information input to an image. The specifying unit specifies the position of the input information. The detecting unit detects a character string having a smaller distance to the position than another character string, from the image.
US10296799B2
Extracting card information comprises a server at an optical character recognition (“OCR”) system that interprets data from a card. The OCR system performs an optical character recognition algorithm an image of a card and performs a data recognition algorithm on a machine-readable code on the image of the card. The OCR system compares a series of extracted alphanumeric characters obtained via the optical character recognition process to data extracted from the machine-readable code via the data recognition process and matches the alphanumeric series of characters to a particular series of characters extracted from the machine-readable code. The OCR system determines if the alphanumeric series and the matching series of characters extracted from the machine-readable code comprise any discrepancies and corrects the alphanumeric series of characters based on the particular series of characters extracted from the machine-readable code upon a determination that a discrepancy exists.
US10296795B2
An approach is provided for estimating a quality of lane features of a roadway. The approach involves processing, by a computer vision system, an input image to detect the lane features of the roadway. The approach also involves determining respective confidence values associated with a plurality of regions of the input image used to detect the lane features. The respective confidence values represent a probability of predicting the lane features from each of the plurality of regions. The approach further involves performing a classification of the plurality of regions into a plurality of confidence levels based on the respective confidence values. The approach further involves determining the estimated quality of the lane features based on the classification of the plurality of regions.
US10296787B2
An ink file output method is provided, which includes: generating M (M is an integer of 1 or more) pieces of stroke data SD on the basis of event data generated as M input devices move, respectively; generating N (N is an integer of 1 or more and M or less) kinds of logical names LN (metadata) identifying the M number of input devices; generating a metadata block associating the M pieces of stroke data SD with the N kinds of logical names LN; and writing the M pieces of stroke data SD and the metadata block to an ink file.
US10296786B2
Methods, systems, and computer program products for detecting hand-eye coordination in real time by combining camera eye tracking and wearable sensing are provided herein. A computer-implemented method includes determining an eye gaze path of an individual during a given period of time by measuring (i) any eye movements made by the individual during the given period of time and (ii) any head movements made by the individual during the given period of time; measuring any hand movements made by the individual during the given period of time; performing a spatio-temporal analysis of the determined eye gaze path and the measured hand movements to compute a hand-eye coordination value attributable to the individual; and outputting the computed hand-eye coordination value to at least one user.
US10296785B1
Apparatuses, systems and methods are provided for vehicle operator gesture recognition and transmission of related gesture data. More particularly, apparatuses, systems and methods are provided for vehicle operator gesture recognition and transmission of related gesture data based on classification of image data.
US10296779B2
Disclosed is a method of measuring red blood cell membrane fluctuations based on dynamic cell parameters using a digital holographic microscope; the method including a step of modeling the three-dimensional images of red blood cells to be measured, and a step of measuring red blood cell membrane fluctuations based on the three-dimensional images. According to this method, since the three-dimensional images of red blood cells to be measured are modeled and red blood cell membrane fluctuations are measured based on the three-dimensional images, red blood cell membrane fluctuations can be measured more easily.
US10296776B2
A biometrics authentication apparatus and a biometrics authentication method are disclosed. The biometrics authentication apparatus includes: a light source configured to emit a light; a modulator configured to change a spatial distribution of the light that is scattered and reflected from a region of interest of a user; a detector configured to detect an integral power of the light that is scattered from the region of interest; and a processor configured to obtain a measurement signal based on the integral power of the light, compare the measurement signal with a reference signal stored in a memory, and determine whether to authenticate the user based on a degree of match between the measurement signal and the reference signal.
US10296757B2
When storing encrypted data within a database, a key identifier may be appended to the encrypted data as a prefix. Then, when decrypting the encrypted data, the key identifier may then be used to identify an encryption key used to encrypt the data, even when multiple encryption keys have been used in encrypting and storing the encrypted data as a whole.
US10296756B2
An electronic device comprising: a touch screen display; and at least one processor operatively coupled to the touch screen display, configured to: detect an input on the touch screen display; identify an input range based on a location of the input; detect a first path associated with additional input that is performed at least partially in the input range and display an indication of the first path on the touch screen display; compare the first path to a second path; and perform a function in response to detecting that the first path matches the second path.
US10296754B2
A portable electronic device, a wearable device and methods for operating the same are provided. The portable electronic device includes a display, a communication interface that communicates with a wearable device using wireless short-range communication, and a processor that provides, via the display, a menu for controlling data of the wearable device, receives, via the communication interface, a security status from the wearable device, limits access to at least one item in the menu if the security status corresponds to a first security state, and allows access to the at least one item in the menu if the security status corresponds to a second security state.
US10296747B1
Systems and techniques are provided for trust agents. Trust agents may be enabled. A state determination may be received from each of the enabled trust agents. The state determination may indicate either a trusted state or an untrusted state. The received state determinations may be combined to determine a security state. A security measure may be enabled or disabled based on the determined security state.
US10296738B2
An apparatus includes a Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) and a controller. The controller is configured to store in the NVM a state array, which includes multiple words. In each word, one or more bits are designated as lock-bits. The controller is further configured to set an operational state for the apparatus based on the lock-bits of the state array, by (i) deciding whether each word in the state array is locked or unlocked by comparing the lock-bits of that word to respective expected lock values, (ii) if all the words in the state array are found locked, setting the apparatus to a locked state, (iii) if all the words in the state array are found unlocked, setting the apparatus to an unlocked state, and (iv) if one or more of the words are found locked and one or more other words are found unlocked, setting the apparatus to an error state.
US10296731B2
An apparatus includes a determination unit, an authentication unit, and a using unit. The determination unit determines, from among application programs enabling user authentication using user identification information stored in a storage medium, an application program having application information containing information representing that the user authentication can be performed, as an application program to be used for the user authentication. Using the application program determined by the determination unit, the authentication unit determines whether input information that is input by a user matches the user identification information stored in the storage medium so as to perform the user authentication. When the input information and the user identification information match, the using unit uses the information stored in the storage medium.
US10296727B2
An interactive streaming media and application service provider system can securely stream high resolution, multiple formats of video and data. Different data sets can be included in a single stream. A rights management system controls matrix manipulation and other aspects of user control of the data, including one or more of rendering in various different 2D, 3D, or other media formats, reconstruction and modeling, zooming, frame grab, print frame, parental controls, picture in picture, preventing unauthorized copying, adapting to different data transmission formats, adapting to different resolutions and screen sizes, and actively control functionality contained in embedded data, encryption/decryption. Control can be exerted by an external entity through a user-side virtual machine. Control codes can optionally be embedded in the media, embedded in the user's device, and/or sent separately to the device.
US10296726B2
A digital download kiosk network is described. The network comprises: an authorization database including a digital rights management facility; a first digital download kiosk coupled to the authorization database to receive digital rights management data; and a second digital download kiosk coupled to the authorization database to receive digital rights management data, and coupled to the first digital download kiosk in a peer-to-peer manner to share multi-media content therebetween.
US10296725B2
To provide a structure refining apparatus, a method and a program capable of univocally and appropriately setting a restraint with a statistically feasible intensity and specifying a crystal structure model making use of a measurement result under a constraint condition to reasonable known data. A structure refining apparatus 100 adjusting the crystal structure model on the basis of the measurement result and the known data includes a restraint applying unit 120 configured to apply the restraint such that a divergence between a parameter specifying a crystal structure and a known representative value becomes equivalent to a standard uncertainty of the known representative value and a structure specifying unit 140 configured to specify the crystal structure model on the basis of the measurement result under the applied restraint.
US10296722B2
A system and method providing virtual physical rehabilitation services to a patient in the context of automated patient healthcare delivery is disclosed. The system/method are controlled by a patient healthcare plan (PHP) deployed from a host computer system (HCS) that triggers execution of a video script dataset (VSD) to coordinate presentation to a patient of rehabilitation audio/video information (AVI) derived from a video database (VDB). A mobile user device (MUD) executes the PHP autonomously to coordinate AVI display on a video display unit (VDU) for patient presentation. Patient reactions to the AVI are observed by a video imaging unit (VIU). An operator interface computer (OIC) communicates with the HCS and MUD permitting visualization of the VIU and AVI information by a healthcare provider and allowing observed patient behavior to be synchronously scored/logged/stored in a patient history database (PHD) by the HCS.
US10296719B2
The invention is related to a smart pill dispenser which is used in a household, on a desktop, by keeping the different types of and different dosed medication inside the container, which provides information to the user in order for the user to take his/her medication in time and in correct doses and which can inform the user interactively communicate with smart devices and such as cell phones, and smart watches.
US10296716B1
Advanced Care Planning and life planning data management system is provided that work in conjunction with biometric identify validation to compare an individual's biometric data with data on file at a central repository until a match is found, upon which that person's advanced care plan and life planning data is forwarded to and displayed at the station for the provider's contemporaneous utilization.
US10296713B2
There is described a method and a system including a viewing application running on a user's device configured to create a user interface including a drawable region on the user's device, a server environment including a coordinator engine to receive requests for review sessions from the viewing application, and a review helper process, allocated to each review session by the coordinator engine. The helper process retrieves medical study data from a data storage and transfers a stream of drawing commands to the viewing application. At least part of the drawing commands are cached on the user's device, so that the helper will not transfer the cached drawing commands again, and/or will transfer a drawing command relating only to a difference between one frame and the next.
US10296712B2
A programmed computer system receives an imaging study of the patient including metadata associated with the study. The metadata are analyzed to determine an anatomic region represented by the study. Additional imaging studies for the same patient are requested and the metadata associated with the additional studies are analyzed to determine relevant studies for the same or adjacent anatomic regions. Once the relevant prior studies have been identified, the computer requests the images associated with the identified prior imaging studies including the associated reports for review by a physician or other medical personnel.
US10296709B2
The techniques and/or systems described herein are directed to improvements in genomic prediction using homomorphic encryption. For example, a genomic model can be generated by a prediction service provider to predict a risk of a disease or a presence of genetic traits. Genomic data corresponding to a genetic profile of an individual can be batch encoded into a plurality of polynomials, homomorphically encrypted, and provided to a service provider for evaluation. The genomic model can be batch encoded as well, and the genetic prediction may be determined by evaluating a dot product of the genomic model data the genomic data. A genomic prediction result value can be provided to a computing device associated with a user for subsequent decrypting and decoding. Homomorphic encoding and encryption can be used such that the genomic data may be applied to the prediction model and a result can be obtained without revealing any information about the model, the genomic data, or any genomic prediction.
US10296707B2
A method and system for image-based patient-specific guidance of cardiac arrhythmia therapies is disclosed. A patient-specific anatomical heart model is generated from medical image data of a patient. A patient-specific cardiac electrophysiology model is generated based on the patient-specific anatomical heart model and electrophysiology measurements of the patient. One or more virtual electrophysiological interventions are performed using the patient-specific cardiac electrophysiology model. One or more pacing targets or ablation targets based on the one or more virtual electrophysiological interventions are displayed.
US10296704B2
Reducing the runtime overhead needed for testing of an integrated circuit design. A determination may be made of parameters that clock routing and data routing in an integrated circuit are dependent upon. A determination is made of whether the parameters are suitable for compaction, such as by determining whether the parameters are utilized in only one of clock routing or data routing. The parameters suitable for compaction are defined or redefined into at least one proxy compacted parameter. A timing analysis for the integrated circuit is performed using the proxy compacted parameter instead of performing the timing analysis using the parameters suitable for compaction.
US10296701B1
A computer-implemented method includes performing retiming using a circuit design to determine a retimed variation to the circuit design. The circuit design includes a first set of registers with defined power-up states and the variations each comprise a second set of registers that correspond to the first set of registers. The method includes maintaining fixed power-up states for the second set of registers in the variations. The fixed power-up states for the second set of registers are equivalent to the defined power-up states of the first set of registers. The method includes identifying registers of the second set of registers involved in an initial state conflict, and performing a mitigating action to resolve the initial state conflict to enable retiming to continue while maintaining functionally equivalent behavior as the circuit design. Various choices of initial states are also explored during retiming to increase the effect of retiming.
US10296694B2
A method includes positioning a first set of conductive traces in a first direction, manufacturing a second set of conductive traces by a first mask pattern, and electrically coupling, by at least a first via, at least one conductive trace of the first set of conductive traces to at least one conductive trace of the second set of conductive traces. The first set of conductive traces is in a first layer of an integrated circuit. The second set of conductive traces is in a second direction different from the first direction. The second set of conductive traces is in a second layer of the integrated circuit. The second layer is different from the first layer. A conductive trace of the second set of conductive traces is part of a first dummy transistor.
US10296693B2
This application discloses a computing system implementing tools and mechanisms to generate a composite solid model for a set of parts and utilize the composite solid model during the layout process. The tools and mechanisms can identify multiple parts available for inclusion in a circuit design, combine component models corresponding to the multiple parts into a composite solid model, and place the composite solid model in the layout representation of the circuit design. The composite solid model can have physical dimensions that overlap with physical dimensions of the component models corresponding to the multiple parts.
US10296683B2
Computer implemented apparatus and method for finite element modeling using hybrid absorbing element
An apparatus and method use a hybrid absorbing element defined by a implementation of matched layer and infinite element concepts to model time-domain and frequency domain wave propagation finite element calculations. The hybrid absorbing element includes three or more semi-infinite facets providing an essentially reflectionless interface for outgoing waves. Matched layer conditions are coupled to finite-element wavefield computation regions and infinite element conditions, which effectively disperse advancing waves at infinity. The disclosed apparatus and method result in the rapid attenuation of waves arriving at arbitrary angles, leading to elimination of reflection artifacts.
US10296673B1
For generating code for simulation of a circuit design, a hardware description language (HDL) description and a high-level language (HLL) description of portions of the circuit design are input. The HLL description specifies a first function and the HDL description includes a call to the first function. A wrapper is generated for the first function. The wrapper has an associated stack frame and includes code that stores in the stack frame values of arguments specified by the call to the first function and code that calls the first function. An HLL simulation specification is generated from the HDL description. The HLL simulation specification includes a call to the first HLL wrapper in place of the call to the first function. The HLL simulation specification, the first HLL wrapper, and the HLL description are compiled into executable program code.
US10296670B2
An age monitoring arrangement includes a sensor, a calculation component, and a timer. The sensor is configured to generate one or more measurements of an environmental property. The calculation component is configured to generate a virtual age and identify an occurrence of an event based on the one or more measurements and a clock using an aging module. The timer is configured to generate the clock.
US10296669B2
A method for estimating grid properties of a power grid coupled to a generator at a point of common coupling is provided. First, a voltage VPCC at the point of common coupling is measured. Second, a current IPCC at the point of common coupling is measured. Third, the grid properties are estimated by a grid model using as input parameters the measured voltage VPCC at the point of common coupling, the measured current IPCC at the point of common coupling and the determined phase angle. Advantageously, the absolute phases of the voltage and the current at the point of common coupling are not necessary, which makes the present method less prone to errors due to measurement noise. Further, a device and a computer program product are provided.
US10296665B2
A method and system for managing drawings in a construction project software program may include uploading drawings for a project in sets of drawings, collating the sets, determining if a drawing in a later set corresponds with a drawing in an earlier set, and creating and displaying a list of the uploaded drawings. The list includes a number of fields for each of the drawings in the list. The fields include a name for each drawing, a Sheet Number, and an issue date. If a drawing in a later set corresponds with a drawing in an earlier set, the list includes an indication that clearly shows such a correspondence and shows which set should be used for the latest version of such corresponding drawings.
US10296662B2
A log record from a host machine node includes an invariant string and a term. A template identifier is selected, from among template identifiers within a template repository, for a template string matching the invariant string. A sampling count threshold is selected from among a set of sampling count thresholds based on the template identifier and the term. A template-term count is obtained based on a number of earlier log records that were received since the count was reset and have a template identifier and a term that match the template identifier and the term of the log record. Based on the template-term count satisfying the sampling count threshold, an index entry is generated in a sampled log records index based on the log record and the template-term count is reset to a defined value. Based on the template-term count not satisfying the sampling count threshold, the template-term count is incremented.
US10296661B2
Disclosed are some examples of database systems, methods, and computer program products for processing log files. In some implementations, log files can be accessed and identifiers can be generated for the data entries of the log files. The generated identifiers can be used to determine whether data entries in the log files are new, and therefore, should be extracted for analysis.
US10296659B2
A method and system for improving a search query process is provided. The method includes analyzing via a natural language classifier (NLC) circuit of a hardware device, a partial search phase entered in a search field of a graphical user interface with respect to a search query for specified subject matter. A subject based intent classification associated with the search query is determined and compared to intent based data of an intent data repository. In response, an autocomplete phrase associated with the subject based intent classification and the partial search phrase is generated and presented to a user via the graphical user interface.
US10296656B2
A method for managing a database, each item of data in the database being associated with a timestamp and a data point, the timestamps being used as row keys for rows of a table in the database, the method comprising: obtaining a behavior characteristic of a user based on a previous data access to the database by the user; partitioning columns in the table into column families based on the obtained behavior characteristic and system configuration of the database; and causing data in the database to be stored in respective column families at least in part based on the associated data point.
US10296647B2
The present teaching relates to searching. In one example, a search query is received from a person. A plurality of search results are retrieved based on the search query. An intent of the person is estimated with respect to at least some of the plurality of search results. The estimated intent is what the person intends to do with respect to the at least some of the plurality of search results. The plurality of search results are provided based on the estimated intent of the person.
US10296642B1
A system comprising a processor and a memory storing instructions that, when executed, cause the system to receive a record of data describing user engagement with content items in an online service; prepare the record of data for generating a model characterizing a network effect of a user interaction with a content item in the online service; generate the model characterizing the network effect of the user interaction with the content item in the online service; generate a predicted network effect score for a plurality of content items based on the model; organize the plurality of content items based on the predicted network effect score; and transmit the plurality of organized content items for presentation to a user. The disclosure also includes similar methods and computer program products.
US10296640B1
Methods and apparatus related to identifying a video for completing a task and determining a plurality of video segments of the identified video based on one or more attributes of the task. A task and a plurality of how-to videos related to the task may be identified. A how-to video may be selected and a plurality of video segments of the selected how-to video may be determined. One or more video segments may be associated with one or more task attributes that relate to performing the task. The selected video may be provided to a user and segmented, indexed, and/or annotated based on the associated video segments. In some implementations a given object utilized in performing the task may be identified and one or more video segments corresponding to the given object may be identified and/or provided to the user.
US10296636B2
One embodiment of the present application provides a system for efficiently managing navigation categories in a multi-site web environment. During operation, the system determines whether a category of a product is a synchronized category. A synchronized category is shared by a main site and a local site of the multi-site web environment. If the category is a synchronized category, the system copies the category from the main site to the local site.
US10296634B2
Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can acquire a set of labels associated with a set of content items. Each label in the set of labels can be associated with at least one content item in the set of content items. It can be determined that at least two labels, out of the set of labels, are related. The at least two labels can be determined to be related based on at least one of a co-occurrence metric associated with the at least two labels or a topic similarity metric associated with the at least two labels. One label can be selected, out of the at least two labels, as being representative of the at least two labels.
US10296633B1
A system includes a storage system configured to store data objects as a plurality of shards according to a redundancy encoding technique at a plurality of availability zones. The system further includes a redundancy reduction manager configured to perform a shard spreading process and a shard pruning process. The shard spreading process involves identifying an underutilized availability zone for a particular data object and moving at least one shard of the particular data object from another availability zone to the underutilized availability zone. The shard pruning process involves identifying a pruning candidate availability zone and deleting a shard of a particular data object at the pruning candidate availability zone in response to determining that deleting the shard would not violate a durability model for the particular data object.
US10296625B2
Methods, systems and articles of manufacture for discovering relationships among data elements within a dataset are disclosed. A first relationship is identified between a first data element and a second data element by identifying a correlation between a first attribute of the first data element and the first attribute of a second data element. A second relationship indicator is generated that is indicative of a relationship between the first data element and the second data element based on the correlation between the first attribute of the first and second data elements. Various embodiments can identify implicit relationships across one or more levels of explicit relationships where the explicit relationships can be across different attributes. Such techniques can be employed in various types of application programs.
US10296622B1
Arrangements and methods provide item data information to one or more merchants. A Web server includes various modules that interact with customer item search queries and item data to create a set of attributes that is sent to a merchant as part of an item data form. The set of attributes included on the form is designed to aid in describing and identifying various items that a merchant may offer or currently offer for purchase on an e-commerce service provider. The set of attributes may also be used to augment or generate an item attribute index usable in conjunction with a service provider searching mechanism related to items offered for sale.
US10296621B2
Example implementations relate to a database and a data stream query. For example, a computing device may include a processor. The processor may receive a query associated with at least one of a database and a buffer storing streamed data from a data stream, where the database stores database data previously stored in the buffer. The processor may identify at least one postponed command relevant to the query, the at least one postponed command being associated with at least one of the database data and the streamed data. The processor may generate a modified query based on the query and the at least one postponed command, the modified query being a modification of the query to account for the at least one postponed command. The processor may process the modified query and provide a query result of the query based on the modified query being processed.
US10296618B1
A storage system query mechanism and corresponding techniques for implementing queries are provided. Queries can be created on a client and server, where the client and the server are based on different programming languages, by providing a server-side meta-model and client-side meta-model. A base meta-model is provided having a plurality of base classes and a domain-specific injection point to allow domain specific meta-models to be injected into the base meta-model. Domain-specific query executors can be employed to process a query. Techniques are also provided for caching control path data in a storage array using one or more façade data classes and a refresh service to listen to refresh events that impact a validity of the cached data objects. Applications can optionally register domain specific query executors, object model providers and/or class loaders. Query results can be presented on a client device by providing a declarative data grid component as part of a graphical user interface.
US10296617B1
Techniques related to searches of highly structured data are described. A body of data may be represented by an object-centric data model. For a search of the body of data, an indication of a particular search template to use may be received. The particular search template may specify one or more hierarchical object types that are within a scope of the search. The one or more hierarchical object types may be defined in the object-centric data model. The particular search template may specify at least one search field. A user interface may be generated based on the particular search template. The user interface may include the at least one search field.
US10296615B2
An in-memory database system stores the entirety of a database that is being operated on by a database system within main memory. The database includes a table that comprises a plurality of rows including a particular row. The database table comprises a first version of the particular row having a first valid time, and a second version having a second valid time. Index(es) are associated with the database table. Each index references the plurality of rows, including referencing the first and second versions of the particular row. A transaction acting on the first version of the particular row is executed. The first version of the particular row is visible to the transaction based on the first valid time and the second version of the particular row being not visible to the transaction based on the second valid time.
US10296612B2
A sorter sorts a list of elements using a plurality of registers. Each register stores a value of at most one element. Each register receives an input from a previous one of the registers indicating whether the previous one of the registers is storing a value of a list element before storing a value of a list element. Each register supplies an indication to a next register whether the register is storing a list element value. A register sends a stored value and the register identification to a register stack. The register stack uses the value as an index to store a pointer to the register. In that way a sorted list is created in the register stack. A register stores list location information for one or more occurrences of a value stored by the register. Overflow of list location information is handled in a duplicate values stack.
US10296611B2
The subject matter disclosed herein provides methods for reformatting a page due to a rollover. An in-memory array holding a column of data can be maintained. One or more pages can be maintained. Each page can have one or more rows for storing the column of data. The column of data in the in-memory array can be monitored for a change. A rollover can be performed on at least one of the pages based on the change. The rollover can reformat the at least one page by rewriting metadata associated with the at least one page. Related apparatus, systems, techniques, and articles are also described.
US10296607B2
A data storage system protects data identified for deletion which has been created or modified between scheduled data backups. For instance, the system monitors data operations and when the data operation is a delete, the system determines whether the data identified for deletion has been protected by a backup operation. Data that has not been backed up, such as newly created data, is copied to temporary storage before deletion. When the data has been protected, the system determines whether the data has been modified after the backup operation. Data modified after the backup operation is copied to temporary storage before deletion.
US10296605B2
Techniques related to generating dictionaries for example based image processing algorithms are discussed. Such techniques may include iteratively performing example based image processing for candidate look up entries of candidate pairs from a training set database using a current dictionary to determine a test result for each of the look up entries of the candidate pairs and selecting one or more of the candidate pairs for entry in a resultant dictionary based on an error between the test result and a predetermined result entry for the candidate pairs.
US10296592B2
Implementations disclose methods and systems for rendering, by a browser, a content item projected on a mesh. A method includes providing, by a browser executing on a user device, an application programming interface (API) to communicate with a web application that includes a user interface to present a content item on the user device; receiving, by the browser from the web application via the API, an instruction to project the content item on a mesh, where the instruction identifies the content item and the mesh; rendering, by the browser and without involvement of the web application, a first frame of the content item projected on the mesh in a first orientation; and causing, by the browser, the rendered first frame to be displayed on the user device.
US10296590B2
Various technologies and techniques are disclosed for creating and managing persistent document collections. A data store is used for storing one or more persistent document collections. A content management application is used for managing documents for users, for creating one or more persistent document collections of a sub-set of the documents upon user request, and for storing the one or more persistent document collections in the data store. Users can create one or more persistent document collections from a sub-set of the documents. Users can also modify the one or more persistent document collections. A requested portion of one or more persistent document collections can be output upon request from an external application so that the external application can download one or more of the documents that are represented by the persistent document collection for further modification by the user.
US10296586B2
An accurate thought map is created by recording people's many utterances of natural language expressions together with the location at which each expression was made. The expressions are input into a Natural Language Understanding system including a semantic parser, and the resulting interpretations stored in a database with the geolocation of the speaker. Emotions, concepts, time, user identification, and other interesting information may also be detected and stored. Interpretations of related expressions may be linked in the database. The database may be indexed and filtered according to multiple aspects of interpretations such as geolocation ranges, time ranges or other criteria, and analyzed according to multiple algorithms. The analyzed results may be used to render map displays, determine effective locations for advertisements, preemptively fetch information for users of mobile devices, and predict the behavior of individuals and groups of people.
US10296585B2
A computer program product of decision definition using a rules vocabulary includes program code for: receiving free form input; identifying terms contained within the free form input; searching the rules vocabulary objects for terms; responsive to the term being found, obtaining input from a user as to whether to use the found term; responsive to the term not being found; searching the rules vocabulary attributes for terms having attributes corresponding to the term; responsive to the term being found, obtaining input from a user as to whether to use the found term; and refactoring the free form input with the found term accepted by the user. The program code also includes code for updating the rules vocabulary with the term identified in the free form input as a synonym for the term found in said rules vocabulary. One embodiment further provides determining semantic equivalence between a plurality of rules using a rules database having preferred terms.
US10296582B2
A method and an apparatus for determining a morpheme importance analysis model is provided, which belongs to the field of computers. The method includes: acquiring at least two pieces of training data, each piece of training data including a query, any morpheme in the query, and an importance score of the any morpheme in the query; determining a feature value of each preset feature of each piece of training data; and determining a model parameter according to the feature value of each preset feature of all training data and importance scores of morphemes included in all training data, and determining a morpheme importance analysis model according to the determined model parameter.
US10296575B2
A document creation platform provides a user interface for creating electronic documents. In response to first user input, the platform creates an electronic document with a plurality of clauses. In response to input from a user at a print affordance in the user interface, the platform displays a plurality of print options for the electronic document, including: a first print option to print user-selected portions within the electronic document; and a second print option to print only portions within the electronic document that have changed a user-specified number of times. When the user selects the first print option and selects one or more portions in the electronic document, the platform prints only the user-selected portions. When the user selects the second print option and specifies a number of times, the platform prints only portions within the electronic document that have changed the user-specified number of times.
US10296565B2
Optimizing the rendering of objects in a Web browser view is described. A Web browser system includes: a processor, a computer readable memory, and a computer readable storage medium associated with a computer device; program instructions of an object model configured to organize objects in layers including a lower layer and one or more higher layers; program instructions of a rendering engine for loading two or more objects from a server into the layers of the object model and for rendering selected objects in a Web browser view; program instructions of an object selection engine configured to select two or more loaded objects in the object model for display in the client browser view; and program instructions of an object deselection engine configured to deselect one or more selected objects in a lower layer that are occluded by one or more objects in a higher layer or above.
US10296556B2
A system and method for efficient sparse matrix processing are provided in one embodiment. A compressed representation of a sparse matrix, the sparse matrix including one or more non-zero entries in one or more of a plurality of portions of the matrix, is obtained by at least one server including one or more streaming multiprocessors, each of the streaming multiprocessors including one or more graphics processing unit (GPU) processor cores. Each of the portions are assigned into one of a plurality of partitions based on a number of the non-zero entries in that portion. For each of the partitions, a predefined number of the GPU processor cores are assigned for processing each of the portions assigned to that partition based on the numbers of the non-zero entries in the portions assigned to that partition. For each of the partitions, each of the portions associated with that partition are processed.
US10296551B2
One example method includes receiving, by a central analytics system, a query for traffic flow data associated with a geographically distributed network of network devices, outputting, by the central analytics system, the query to a plurality of analytics pods, wherein each of the plurality of analytics pods is coupled to a storage unit of a network device within the geographically distributed network, and, responsive to outputting the query, receiving, by the central analytics system and from the plurality of analytics pods, results of the query, wherein the results include at least the traffic flow data from the plurality of analytics pods based on the query.
US10296549B2
The present disclosure is related to a system and a method for varying search results of a user-based networking application. In one example, the disclosure includes a method that includes operations such as accessing from a processing element a results list responsive to an inquiry, determining by the processing element a population density corresponding to a selected location; and based on the population density, varying by the processing element one or more parameters of the results list for displaying on a user device.
US10296538B2
According to one embodiment, a content analysis module receives content information of a content item, the content information including a plurality of first keywords associated with the content item. The content analysis module performs an analysis on the first keywords associated with the content item. A keyword classifier categories the first keywords into a plurality of categories based on the analysis, each category including one or more second keywords selected from the first keywords. For each of the categories, one or more images are identified based on the corresponding second keywords. A category/image mapping module generates a category/image mapping table for the content item to map each of the categories to the corresponding identified images. The category/image mapping table is utilized to match the content item to one of the images based on a subsequent category determined in response to a search query.
US10296536B2
A method for tagging digital media is described. The method includes selecting a digital media and selecting region within the digital media. The method may further include associating a person or entity with the selected region and sending a notification of the association the person or entity or a different person or entity. The method may further include sending advertising with the notification.
US10296531B2
A visual semantic complex network system and a method for generating the system have been disclosed. The system may comprise a collection device configured to retrieve a plurality of images and a plurality of texts associated with the images in accordance with given query keywords; a semantic concept determination device configured to determine semantic concepts of the retrieved images and retrieved texts for the retrieved images, respectively; a descriptor generation device configured to, from the retrieved images and texts, generate text descriptors and visual descriptors for the determined semantic concepts; and a semantic correlation device configured to determine semantic correlations and visual correlations from the generated text and visual descriptor, respectively, and to combine the determined semantic correlations and the determined visual correlations to generate the visual semantic complex network system.
US10296530B2
A topical representative assessment system implements techniques for determining entities that are ambassadors for one or more topics. The ambassadors are determined based on content items that they have authored or content items that are otherwise attributed to them. An ambassador may be any type of entity such as a person, a company, or an organization. Machine analytics may be used to determine whether a content item corresponds to a specific topic, determine a sentiment for a content item, analyze feedback for a content item, or any combination of these.
US10296527B2
A method for determining an object referenced within a set of one or more informal online communications comprises: generating a knowledge graph for a company based at least on formal online communications, the knowledge graph comprising a plurality of node elements, and the knowledge graph further comprising, for each node element of the knowledge graph, a corresponding halo comprising one or more words which are temporally proximate to that node element within the formal online communications; for each node element of the knowledge graph which is determined to be present in a given informal online communication, detecting a halo comprising one or more words which are temporally proximate to that node element within the given informal online communication; and identifying which of the plurality of node elements has a corresponding halo within the knowledge graph most similar to the detected halo, wherein the identified node element is the referenced object.
US10296523B2
The present disclosure provides systems and methods to estimate Importance Measure (IM) and temporal Importance Measure (IM) for any type of data in a distributed enterprise network by involving direct and indirect stakeholders of the data in the estimation process. Firstly data type of the received data is identified. Data type plugins including pre-defined classes, IM matrix and Temporal IM matrix are loaded for the identified data type. Extracted features from the data are appropriately mapped against pre-defined classes and then the IM is estimated. Temporal IM is estimated taking into account the current time and the rate of change.
US10296514B2
There is provided an information processing system including an information processing apparatus and a plurality of terminal devices, wherein each terminal device among the plurality of terminal devices is able to display information in a format supported in the terminal device, the terminal devices acquiring information in formats supported in the respective terminal devices from the information processing apparatus, the information processing apparatus comprising: a memory and one or more processors to execute the program and perform a process including: performing conversion operations for converting newly registered information in a given format into information in a plurality of formats; and distributing a completion report indicating completion of a conversion operation into any one of the plurality of formats upon the conversion operation into the one of the plurality of formats being completed.
US10296506B2
Systems and methods of the present invention provide for one or more server computers communicatively coupled to a network and configured to: receive a search for a domain name; query a domain name registration record to determine an availability status of the domain name; if the domain name is unavailable, store the domain name in association with the user data record and a search date; determine whether a change in the availability status has occurred; and if so, determine whether the duration of time since the search date has passed; and if not, transmit to the contact a notice of the change in the availability status.
US10296503B2
A system and method for processing database transactions wherein the need for a DBMS server to convert data provided by the client from a text format to the raw storage format of the database is eliminated, thereby increasing the efficiency of the DBMS.
US10296501B1
Techniques for determining and representing the veracity of data stored in a data repository and results of queries directed to the stored data by utilizing information lineage that is indicative of the veracity of the stored data. For example, in one example, one or more data repositories are maintained. The one or more data repositories comprise metadata representative of the veracity of one or more data sets stored in the one or more data repositories. In response to a query to at least one data set of the one or more data sets stored in the one or more data repositories, a result of the query for the at least one data set is returned in combination with corresponding metadata representing the veracity of the at least one data set.
US10296498B2
According to embodiments, reconfiguration of lock masters for a cluster of nodes is optimized using coordinated hash indexes to index into the master hash table and into local hash tables stored on the nodes of the cluster. A DBMS uses a hybrid hash index, a portion of which represents a corresponding master hash index, to index into both the master hash table and into a local hash table for a given lock. The hash index used to store lock metadata in a particular local hash table bucket, on a particular node, encodes the lock master index, for a master hash table, to which the locks in the local hash table bucket correspond. Only the portions of the local hash table on the lock master that correspond to the index of the master hash table bucket need to be scanned in order to perform needed tasks for lock master reconfiguration.
US10296493B2
A distributed data processing system to efficiently execute distributed processing on pairs of a plurality of types of data is provided. A distributed data processing system 100 performs a predetermined arithmetic process on each of pairs of N types of data, where N is a natural number greater than or equal to 2. The distributed data processing system 100 includes a management unit 111 and a plurality of processing unit 121. The management unit 111 allocates each of first to N−1th types out of the N types to any of the plurality of processing unit 121. Each of the plurality of processing unit 121 executes the predetermined arithmetic process on pairs of ith type of data and each of i+1th to Nth types of data, where i is a natural number greater than or equal to 1 and less than or equal to N−1, the ith type being allocated by the management unit.
US10296483B2
A fieldbus coupler for coupling a local fieldbus network utilizing a first fieldbus protocol to a foreign field device or foreign fieldbus network through an interconnecting wired or wireless network transmission line that utilizes a second fieldbus protocol different from the first fieldbus protocol includes a first circuit configured to communicate over the local fieldbus network using the first fieldbus protocol, a second circuit configured to connect the fieldbus coupler with the interconnecting network transmission line and communicate over the interconnecting network transmission line using the second fieldbus protocol, and a third circuit configured to communicate with the first and second circuits and capable of transmitting data to and from the first and second circuits to enable communications between the local fieldbus network via the interconnecting network transmission line.
US10296470B2
Described systems and methods allow protecting a host system against malware, using hardware virtualization technology. A memory introspection engine executes at the level of a hypervisor, protecting a virtual machine (VM) from exploits targeting the call stack of a thread executing within the respective VM. The introspection engine identifies a virtual memory page reserved for the stack, but not committed to the stack, and intercepts an attempt to write to the respective page. In response to intercepting the write attempt, the memory introspection engine marks the respective page as non-executable, thus protecting the stack against exploits.
US10296460B2
The disclosed embodiments relate to a method for controlling prefetching in a processor to prevent over-saturation of interfaces in the memory hierarchy of the processor. While the processor is executing, the method determines a bandwidth utilization of an interface from a cache in the processor to a lower level of the memory hierarchy. Next, the method selectively adjusts a prefetch-dropping high-water mark for occupancy of a miss buffer associated with the cache based on the determined bandwidth utilization, wherein the miss buffer stores entries for outstanding demand requests and prefetches that missed in the cache and are waiting for corresponding data to be returned from the lower level of the memory hierarchy, and wherein when the occupancy of the miss buffer exceeds the prefetch-dropping high-water mark, subsequent prefetches that cause a cache miss are dropped.
US10296454B2
The systems described herein are configured to enhance the efficiency of memory in a host file system with respect to hosted virtual file systems. In situations when the hosted virtual file systems use smaller file block sizes than the file block sizes of the host file system. During storage of a file, a file block is assigned a block address and unmapping bits. The block address and unmapping bits are stored in a pointer block or other similar data structure associated with the file. Particularly, the block address is stored in a first address block and the unmapping bits are stored in at least one additional address block located in proximity to the block address, such that the unmap granularity of the file is not limited by the fixed size of address blocks in the system.
US10296450B2
The present disclosure involves systems, software, and computer implemented methods for testing applications on multiple system landscapes. In one example, a method may include identifying instructions to test a plurality of system landscapes, executing a test of a first system landscape from the plurality of system landscapes, validating a response received from the first system landscape by a user associated with the testing, executing tests of at least a subset of the remaining plurality of system landscapes which includes sending requests including the predefined input to the entry point of each of the subset of the remaining plurality of system landscapes, receiving responses from the subset of the remaining plurality of system landscapes, and comparing each received response to the validated response from the first system landscape, and in response to the comparison, generating a result set of the comparison of each received response to the validated response.
US10296448B2
A method, system, and computer program product for relating test data to business requirements are provided in the illustrative embodiments. a test operation of a code is configured in a test data processing environment, a section in the code corresponding to a portion of a business requirements document. A set of baseline results is received. The test operation is executed, identifying the section of the code and associating the section of the code with a test result produced from the test operation. A determination is made whether the test result matches a first baseline result from the set of baseline results within a tolerance. When the test result does not match the first baseline result from the set of baseline results within the tolerance, the portion of the business requirements document is annotated.
US10296439B1
A system, method, and computer program product are provided for control of a software project that supports business needs. In operation, a multi-layer architecture for the software project is defined based on software elements associated with the software project. Additionally, associations between each business requirement of a plurality of business requirements and the software elements that cover each of the business requirements are stored. Deletion of one or more of the software elements is prevented based on the inter-dependencies of the one or more of the software elements and based on one or more of the business requirements associated with the one or more of the software elements.
US10296429B2
A storage subsystem comprises one or more volumes, and multiple nodes having multiple control packages interconnected via an intra-node communication path, wherein the control packages of different nodes are interconnected via an inter-node communication path having a lower transmission path capacity than the intra-node communication path. When the host computer accesses a volume, access is enabled via any of at least two or more control packages out of the multiple control packages, and the priority for issuing access requests to the relevant volume is determined in each of the control packages. When the storage subsystem detects failure, it changes the priorities determined for the control packages according to the failure occurrence portion, and notifies the same to the host computer. The host computer determines the control package being the issue destination of the access request based on the notified priority.
US10296416B2
A processor of an aspect includes a decode unit to decode a read from memory instruction. The read from memory instruction is to indicate a source memory operand and a destination storage location. The processor also includes an execution unit coupled with the decode unit. The execution unit, in response to the read from memory instruction, is to read data from the source memory operand, store an indication of defective data in an architecturally visible storage location, when the data is defective, and complete execution of the read from memory instruction without causing an exceptional condition, when the data is defective. Other processors, methods, systems, and instructions are disclosed.
US10296413B2
Techniques for a recovery environment for a virtual machine are described herein. Generally, a recovery environment provides a secure environment in which a damaged virtual machine can undergo repair procedures without compromising the security of the damaged virtual machine. In at least some implementations, a recovery environment represents an instance of a virtual machine that is executed to wrap a damaged virtual machine to enable the damaged virtual machine to be repaired.
US10296412B2
A user administers web hosting on user's server from his computer remotely. When a run time error is generated, an error message is sent to a server connected to a knowledge database. If the error matches the known error form the knowledge database, the user is provided an article with a solution to the run-time error. Statistics of occurrence of the errors are saved in the knowledge database. The frequently occurring errors are provided to developers for creating hosting application updates. Additionally, security policies of the user's server can be updated based on the data from the knowledge database.
US10296411B1
A technology is provided for call failure backoff in a computing service environment. An allowable call failure rate is defined for application programming interface (API) calls sent to one or more endpoints. Each endpoint may use a token bucket containing a plurality of tokens, wherein a single token is defined as being equal to one API call failure. A number of tokens in the token bucket are determined prior to executing an API call to the one or more endpoints. A health status of the one or more endpoints is identified according to the number of tokens in the token bucket. The API calls to the one or more endpoints having the determined number of tokens in the token bucket that are equal to zero or may be delayed for a predetermined backoff time period.
US10296408B2
In the invariant analysis, a fault cause is judged correctly. A correlation model storing unit (112) of an operation management apparatus (100) stores a correlation model including one or more correlation functions each of which indicates a correlation between two metrics different each other among a plurality of metrics in a system. The correlation destruction detecting unit (103) detects correlation destruction of the correlation which is included in the correlation model by applying newly inputted values of the plurality of metrics to the correlation model. The abnormality calculation unit (104) calculates and outputs a centrality degree which indicates a degree to which a first metric is estimated to be center of distribution of correlation destruction on the basis of a correlation destruction degree of one or more correlations between each of one or more second metrics having a correlation with the first metric and each of one or more metrics other than the first metric among the plurality of metrics.
US10296400B2
The application programming interface permits an application to specify resources to be used by shaders, executed by the GPU, through a data structure called the “root arguments.” A root signature is a data structure in an application that defines the layout of the root arguments used by an application. The root arguments are a data structure resulting from the application populating locations in memory according to the root signature. The root arguments can include one or more constant values or other state information, and/or one or more pointers to memory locations which can contain descriptors, and/or one or more descriptor tables. Thus, the root arguments can support multiple levels of indirection through which a GPU can identify resources that are available for shaders to access.
US10296391B2
Systems and methods are provided for optimizing allocation of client devices, such as gaming devices, to different available data centers and servers, such as gaming servers, within a data center. The allocation maintains a satisfactory user experience while balancing costs and resource usage. Embodiments of the invention match a client to a data center and server based on a set of criteria related to the client device, user of the client device, game or application the user desires to play, available data centers for supporting the client device, and conditions of the network between the client device and data center. An allocation algorithm may be used to determine resource-efficient allocation. In one embodiment, a bidding process is employed wherein a client and data center are matched based on bids received from data centers. In one embodiment, allocation is periodically evaluated to determine if reassignment to another data center is needed.
US10296389B2
Method and system for deallocating shared system resources. In an example, the system includes a memory storing a system resource allocation database, a processor running a scheduler, including an I/O and a scheduler engine. The scheduler receives a request to deallocate a first plurality of system resources, which includes a first and a second system resource. The scheduler then updates the system resource allocation database at a starting time by marking the first and the second system resource both as conditionally available including inserting a first time-to-live timestamp and a second time-to-live timestamp associated with the first and the second system resource respectively. The scheduler updates the system resource allocation database including removing the first time-to-live timestamp and the second time-to-live timestamp after the first time-to-live timestamp and the second time-to-live timestamp have expired and the first system resource and the second system resource have been confirmed to be available.
US10296380B1
Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for distributed computing with adaptive parallelization are disclosed. An execution time metric is determined based (at least in part) on execution of a batch of jobs. A quantity of partitions for an additional batch of jobs is determined based (at least in part) on the execution time metric and on a target metric. The additional batch of jobs is divided between a set of partitions of the determined quantity. Execution is initiated of the additional batch of jobs in the set of partitions. The set of partitions comprises at least a first partition and a second partition. A first subset of jobs in the first partition is executed in parallel with a second subset of jobs in the second partition.
US10296378B2
A system and methods embodying some aspects of the present embodiments for efficient load balancing using predication flags are provided. The load balancing system includes a first processing unit, a second processing unit, and a shared queue. The first processing unit is in communication with a first queue. The second processing unit is in communication with a second queue. The first and second queues are each configured to hold a packet. The shared queue is configured to maintain a work assignment, wherein the work assignment is to be processed by either the first or second processing unit.
US10296377B1
A computing resource service receives a request to execute a batch job. The computing resource service invokes a first compute instance to divide the batch job into a plurality of job fragments, where each job fragment comprises a respective subset of operations for the batch job that can be processed within a limited lifespan of a compute instance. The job fragments are distributed among a plurality of second compute instances to enable collective processing of the job fragments. The status of the batch job is determined based at least in part on individual statuses of the job fragments.
US10296368B2
Hypervisor-independent block-level live browse is used for directly accessing backed up virtual machine (VM) data. Hypervisor-free file-level recovery (block-level pseudo-mount) from backed up VMs also is disclosed. Backed up virtual machine (“VM”) data can be browsed without needing or using a hypervisor. Individual backed up VM files can be requested and restored to anywhere without a hypervisor and without the need to restore the rest of the backed up virtual disk. Hypervisor-agnostic VM backups can be browsed and recovered without a hypervisor and from anywhere, and individual backed up VM files can be restored to anywhere, e.g., to a different VM platform, to a non-VM environment, without restoring an entire virtual disk, and without a recovery data agent at the destination.
US10296360B2
A display control method includes: based on information acquired from an information processing terminal that accesses content provided by an information processing device, computing a degree of interest and a degree of perplexity, with respect to the content, of a user using the information processing terminal; and, based on the computed degree of interest and the computed degree of perplexity, displaying a symbol corresponding to the information processing terminal at a corresponding position in a region that has degree of interest and degree of perplexity as axes.
US10296348B2
A queue management capability enables allocation and management of tracking queue entries, such as load and/or store queue entries, at execution time. By introducing execution-time allocation of load/store queue entries, the allocation point of those entries is delayed further into the execution stage of the instruction pipeline, reducing the overall time the entry remains allocated to a specific instruction. The queue management capability may also resolve deadlock conditions resulting from execution-time allocation of the queue entries and/or provide a mechanism to avoid such deadlock conditions.
US10296345B2
Embodiments of the present invention are operable to communicate a list of important shaders and their current best-known compilations to remote client devices over a communications network. Client devices are allowed to produce modified shader compilations by varying optimizations. If a client device produces a modified compilation that beats an important shader's current best-known compilation, embodiments of the present invention can communicate this new best-known shader compilation back to a host computer system. Furthermore, embodiments of the present invention may periodically broadcast the new best-known shader compilation back to client devices for possible further optimization or for efficient rendering operations using the best-known shader compilation.
US10296343B2
A processing device including a first shadow register, a second shadow register, and an instruction execution circuit, communicatively coupled to the first shadow register and the second shadow register, to receive a sequence of instructions comprising a first local commit marker, a first global commit marker, and a first register access instruction referencing an architectural register, speculatively execute the first register access instruction to generate a speculative register state value associated with a physical register, responsive to identifying the first local commit marker, store, in the first shadow register, the speculative register state value, and responsive to identifying the first global commit marker, store, in the second shadow register, the speculative register state value.
US10296332B2
In one embodiment, a computer program product includes a computer readable storage medium having stored/encoded thereon: first program instructions executable by a device to cause the device to define a hardware feature policy for one or more hardware components of a system; and second program instructions executable by the device to cause the device to enable and/or disabling one or more hardware features of one or more of the hardware components based on the hardware feature policy, where the hardware feature policy comprises instructions to enable and/or disable access to the one or more hardware features based on one or more criteria.
US10296320B2
A method for updating an application executing on a virtual machine includes replicating the virtual machine to produce a replica, applying an update to the replica that is scheduled to be made to the virtual machine, in parallel with the applying, updating one of the virtual machine and the replica so that a state of the virtual machine matches a state of the replica, and continuing execution of the application on one of the virtual machine and the replica.
US10296314B2
Exemplary methods, apparatuses, and systems parse programming code to identify instructions within the programming code to allocate objects and instructions within the programming code to create, delete, and/or update references to the objects. Based upon the identified instructions, a model of memory used when the programming code is executed is generated. The model includes representations of the objects and representations of changes to the references to the objects. Based upon the representations in the model, it is determined that each of a plurality of the objects is connected to another of the plurality of objects by one of the references but unreachable by any variable at a point of execution of the programming code. In response to the determination that the plurality of objects is unreachable, a report is generated to flag the unreachable plurality of objects as a potential memory leak for correction.
US10296303B2
Methods, systems, and system for generating code using visual blocks. A selection is made from a list of one or more programming blocks. One or more of the programming blocks are selected and used to display a visual programming block that corresponds to the selected one or more programming blocks. This visual programming block is then used to generate or produce output code.
US10296300B2
A method of aiding creation of a service offer associated with a Service Delivery Framework (SDF) includes providing a plurality of reusable Application Objects (AOs) that may be associated with an Interactive Development Environment (IDE). The AOs are prototype customer facing service offers that include standardized functions supporting ordering, billing, management and monitoring. The AOs also include standardized event formats and configurable attributes that affect the behavior and pricing of service offers derived from the AOs. A Services Marketplace facilitates reuse of AOs and supports relationships between customers, application creators, service providers and OSS/BSS providers. A computer-readable medium includes instructions that when executed by a computing device aids in creation of a service offer associated with a SDF by providing a plurality of reusable Application Objects (AOs) in the context of a services marketplace.
US10296297B2
A system and method for facilitating execution of a portion of a process via a subprocess. An example method includes encapsulating process logic of a portion of a parent process via the subprocess, wherein the parent process is encoded via a business process language characterized by process lifecycle management functionality; using an instance of a call activity in a scope of the parent process or subprocess to activate the subprocess, yielding a called subprocess in response thereto; and employing a business process runtime engine to adjust a scope of the subprocess to inherit the scope of the process used to call the subprocess, thereby enabling the process lifecycle management functionality to govern a lifecycle of the subprocess. In a more specific embodiment, the business process language includes standard Business Prosecution Execution Language (BPEL); the parent process represents a business process; and the subprocess includes a standalone subprocess.
US10296296B2
According to some embodiments, system, apparatus and methods are provided comprising a development environment; one or more system components configured to operate within the development environment; a graphical user interface in the development environment that enables a user to: develop at least one model using an arbitrary language, wherein development of the at least one model includes accessing the one or more system components; wherein the development environment includes program code for a platform in the arbitrary language; and an execution model configured to execute the developed model on the platform. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US10296293B2
Methods of implementing fixed-point polynomials in hardware logic include distributing a defined error bound for the whole polynomial between operators in a data-flow graph for the polynomial by solving an optimization problem that outputs an accuracy parameter and a precision parameter for each node. Each operator is then itself optimized to satisfy the part of the error bound allocated to that operator and as defined by the accuracy and precision parameters.
US10296291B1
Items in a sequence are associated with items in a set of items to be visited, such as data objects stored by a data storage system. A scheduling algorithm schedules visitation of the items in a manner that is stateless, so that items can be removed or added to the set without affecting previously scheduled visitations of the remaining items. The scheduling algorithm also spreads visitations among the items in a manner that prevents visitations from being focused on clusters of the items.
US10296269B1
An extension computing device connects to a multi-function printing (MFP) device to enable additional functionality and capabilities to support the MFP device. Print jobs and other tasks may be performed in the extension computing device so that the MFP device addresses more important tasks in real time. The extension computing device receives and processes a print job without the need to engage the MFP device or its engine. The print job then may be stored in the extension computing device until it is printed on demand by the MFP device. Other applications also may be located in the extension computing device. An extension engine performs tasks to determine when to process the print job in the extension computing device. The extension computing device includes a processor, a print job manager, a storage, an operating system, and input/output capabilities.
US10296268B2
A printing system includes a data processing device and an image forming apparatus. The data processing device processes print data. The data processing device includes a data receiving unit, a data managing unit, a data transmitting unit, and a preview image generating unit. The preview image generating unit generates a preview image based on print data. When the data receiving unit receives print data of a plurality of pages, the preview image generating unit automatically generates the preview image of a part of pages among the plurality of pages. The data managing unit manages the preview image generated by the preview image generating unit. When the data managing unit manages the preview image of a page requested from the image forming apparatus, the data transmitting unit transmits the preview image managed by the data managing unit to the image forming apparatus.
US10296264B2
A method of selecting among a plurality of I/O streams through which data is to be written to a multi-streaming flash storage device is presented. According to an example embodiment, the method comprises: assigning write sequences of similar length to the same I/O streams; receiving instructions for a write operation, the instructions including a starting logical block address (LBA) and a number of blocks of data to be written; determining whether the write operation is part of an existing write sequence; identifying an I/O stream associated with an existing write sequence; and providing a stream ID of the identified I/O stream to the multi-streaming flash storage device.
US10296263B2
A computing device includes an interface configured to interface and communicate with a dispersed storage network (DSN), a memory that stores operational instructions, and processing circuitry operably coupled to the interface and to the memory. The processing circuitry is configured to execute the operational instructions to perform various operations and functions. The computing device receives a store data object request and facilitates distributed storage of the data object in storage units (SUs). the computing device applies unique deterministic functions to the object name to generate deterministic values. For a deterministic value, the computing device identifies a corresponding SU based on the deterministic value and the bucket mapping scheme. The computing device transmits an update bucket request to the corresponding SU to be used by the corresponding SU to update a state value of a bucket that is locally stored by the corresponding SU to indicate an active state.
US10296260B2
A method and system for write amplification analysis are provided. In one embodiment, a method is provided that is performed in a computing device. The method comprises determining an amount of data written from the computing device to a storage system over a time period, wherein the storage system comprises a memory; determining an amount of data written to the memory by the storage system over the time period; calculating a write amplification factor over the time period; and simultaneously displaying graphs of the amount of data written from the computing device over the time period, the amount of data written to the memory over the time period, and the write amplification factor over the time period. Other embodiments are possible, and each of the embodiments can be used alone or together in combination.
US10296255B1
Described are techniques for performing migration from a source node to a target node. Application data used by an application is migrated from the source node to the target node. I/O operations from the application directed to the application data are sent to the target node. While migrating the application data, first processing is performed on the target node in connection with I/O operations directed to the application data. The first processing includes monitoring read operations directed to the application data. Migrating the application data includes copying a data portion of the application data from the source node to the target node. The data portion has a logical location in the application data determined in accordance with the read operations. The data portion is prefetched by the migrating and copied to the target node prior to the target node receiving a read requesting data of the data portion.
US10296253B2
Various examples of techniques for identifying a corrupt data lane and using a spare data lane are described herein. Some examples include a system of coordinating spare lane usage between link partners. One such example comprises analyzing data from a link partner to identify a corrupt lane, and communicating the corrupt lane to the link partner, wherein the communication does not require sideband communication channel. In some embodiments, communicating the corrupt lane to the link partner comprises identifying a transmit lane corresponding to the corrupt lane, transmitting a set of data intended for a corresponding transmit lane using a spare data lane, and transmitting bad data to the link partner using the corresponding transmit lane.
US10296252B1
A mapped RAID system that reduces drive extent allocation changes when splitting a group of storage drives into a first partnership group and a second partnership group. A first drive is assigned to the first partnership group, and then additional drives are assigned to the first partnership group from the unassigned drives, such that each drive assigned to the first partnership group has a lowest movement count of all unassigned drives. A drive's movement count represents a count of drive extent allocations that must be changed if the drive is added to the first partnership group. After each drive is assigned to the first partnership group, the indication of the drive is removed from the list of unassigned drives. A group of RAID extent entries for the first partnership group consists of RAID extent entries indicating relatively higher total numbers of drive extents located in the first partnership group.
US10296251B2
A computer-implemented method includes identifying a storage reallocation plan associated with a primary storage volume, a secondary storage volume, and one or more client computing devices; determining a systematic importance indicator associated with the primary storage volume; and determining a systematic connectivity indicator associated with the storage reallocation plan and the one or more client computing devices. The computer-implemented method further includes determining a storage reallocation conclusion based on the systematic importance indicator and the systematic connectivity indicator. A corresponding computer program product and computer system are also disclosed.
US10296248B2
A system includes circuitry for rewriting blockchains in a non-tamper-evident or tamper-evident operation by a selected trusted party during a rewrite-permissive phase for the selected trusted party. During a rewrite-embargoed phase for the selected trusted party, rewrite access may pass to at least one second trusted party in a turn-based scheme. In some implementations, rewrite access may be implemented by controlling access to combination of a turn-control key secret portion with respective key secret portions controlled the by the individual trusted parties. Using the access to combination with the turn-control key secret portion, the trusted parties may preform rewrites to the blockchain.
US10296246B2
Various embodiments are directed to providing integrity protection for a system management mode. During initialization, a hash value of a system management mode control routine may be determined. Subsequently, during operation, the hash value may be compared to a hash value of a system management mode control routine to be executed. The system management mode control routine to be executed may be determined to be authentic if the hash values are the same.
US10296244B2
A memory system may include: a memory device including a plurality of memory blocks, each of the memory blocks including a plurality of pages; and a controller suitable for: storing user data corresponding to a write command, in the memory blocks; storing map data corresponding to the stored user data, in the memory blocks; determining entropies indicating amounts of the map data updated in the memory blocks which correspond to the stored user data; and selecting source memory blocks among the memory blocks, which correspond to the entropies.
US10296243B2
A memory system includes a memory device including a plurality of memory blocks each block including a plurality of pages; and a controller including a memory, and suitable for buffering segments of user data and metadata for a command operation into the memory, and storing the buffered segments into a super memory block including two or more of the plurality of memory blocks during the command operation in response to a command, wherein, when the total size of to-be-stored data among the buffered segments of the memory is smaller than an unit size of the one shot program, the controller stores dummy data as well as the to-be-stored data into the super memory block.
US10296240B2
A storage controller for cache management that includes a cache memory and a cache management module. The cache management module to, on receipt of region specification requests from hosts, extract from the region specification requests cache rules for management of regions of data storage of a storage array, and on receipt of data operation requests from hosts, process the data operation requests based on the extracted cache rules.
US10296234B2
Embodiments of the present invention relate to a method and apparatus for adjusting throughput of a storage device. The method comprises setting input/output (I/O) delay time of the storage device to be threshold delay time, the threshold delay time being below initial I/O delay time of the storage device. The method further comprises obtaining measured throughput of the storage device, the measured throughput being associated with the threshold delay time. The method further comprises updating the I/O delay time based on a difference between the measured throughput and a target throughput of the storage device to update the measured throughput.
US10296227B2
Systems, methods, and other embodiments are disclosed that use constraint programming to dynamically distribute cache throughout a data grid. In one embodiment, modeling logic is configured to generate a constraint programming model based at least in part on a set of constraints that limits assignment of a plurality of data partitions to a plurality of virtual machines hosted on a plurality of physical machines in a data grid. Solver logic is configured to generate at least one solution for assigning the plurality of data partitions to the plurality of virtual machines by operating on the constraint programming model using constraint programming techniques.
US10296220B2
Data of a vector storage request pertaining to one or more disjoint, non-adjacent, and/or non-contiguous logical identifier ranges are stored contiguously within a log on a non-volatile storage medium. A request consolidation module modifies one or more sub-requests of the vector storage request in response to other, cached storage requests. Data of an atomic vector storage request may comprise persistent indicators, such as persistent metadata flags, to identify data pertaining to incomplete atomic storage requests. A restart recovery module identifies and excludes data of incomplete atomic operations.
US10296217B2
Examples are disclosed for configuring a solid state drive (SSD) to operate in a storage mode or a memory mode. In some examples, one or more configuration commands may be received at a controller for an SSD having one or more non-volatile memory arrays. The SSD may be configured to operate in at least one of a storage mode, a memory mode or a combination of the storage mode or the memory mode based on the one or more configuration commands. Other examples are described and claimed.
US10296216B2
Executing connections from a data processing system to a storage controller using ports specified in a TPG report. The storage controller receives a RTPG SCSI request from the data processing system via a FC fabric. The storage controller determines whether NPIV is enabled on the storage controller and, if so, the storage controller modifies the TPG report to include one or more dedicated N-Ports and one or more multi-purpose N-Ports, where AAS bits of a dedicated N-Port descriptor associated with the dedicated N-Ports are set as Active/optimized. The storage controller sends the modified TPG report to the data processing system. The storage controller then processes an access request received from the data processing system where the access request is received on one of the one or more dedicated N-Ports and the one or more multi-purpose N-Ports according to the TPG report and a device type of the data processing system.
US10296214B2
Embodiments for volume management in a data storage environment. A storage pool of a plurality of storage pools is selected to provision at least one storage volume by calculating, for each of the plurality of storage pools, a forecast factor representing an expected usage according to an overall size of the at least one storage volume. The selected storage pool is the storage pool of the plurality of storage pools having a smallest forecast factor.
US10296213B1
An exemplary heatable keypad assembly includes, among other things, a touch-sensitive sensor providing a keypad, and a heating element that includes a conductive polymer-based material and is disposed adjacent the touch-sensitive sensor. An exemplary keypad heating method includes, among other things, holding a heating element having a conductive polymer-based material near a touch-sensitive sensor. The touch-sensitive sensor provides a keypad adjacent a transparent panel of a vehicle. The method further includes activating the conductive polymer-based material to heat an area of the transparent panel adjacent the keypad.
US10296210B2
An electronic device is provided which includes a housing, a first plate, a second plate, and a side member, a touch screen display that includes a touch panel, the touch screen display located within the housing and exposed through at least a part of the first plate, a sensor within the housing and configured to detect an atmospheric pressure variation, a processor electrically connected with the touch screen display and the sensor, and a memory electrically connected to the processor, the memory stores instructions which when executed by the processor, cause the processor to receive a touch input caused by pressing a part of the touch screen display by using the touch screen display, monitor the atmospheric pressure variation using the sensor while receiving the touch input, and provide a changed and/or selected function of the touch screen display based on the monitored atmospheric pressure variation and the touch input.
US10296206B2
A multi-finger touchpad gesture refers to a movement of multiple fingers in a particular pattern across a touchpad. The touchpad senses the multiple fingers, and based on the sensed finger locations and finger movements, one of multiple multi-finger touchpad gestures is detected. A user interface being presented on a display is altered as appropriate in response to the detected multi-finger touchpad gesture. Various different multi-finger touchpad gestures can be detected. The multi-finger touchpad gestures can include a gesture that traverses different hierarchical views of the operating system user interface, a gesture that switches between two recent windows, a gesture that traverses a back stack of windows, a gesture that displays a window selection view and selects a particular window, and a gesture that moves a window to a different location (including snapping a window to an edge or corner of the display).
US10296202B2
At an application executing using a processor in a touch-sensitive device, a detection is made that the touch-based gesture does not correspond to a perimeter defining a action, wherein the touch-based gesture is made relative to the touch-sensitive device. A set of possible actions intended by the touch-based gesture is determined. Using a disambiguation rule, an action is selected from the set of possible actions, wherein the selected action matches an action computed using the disambiguation rule. The selected action is caused to occur at the touch-sensitive device.
US10296198B2
A method and system to program multiple sets of digital content to be displayed in time sequence in a designated display area in a webpage, and automatically changing the displaying content-set, cycling through the multiple sets of content in the designated display area without user initiated action for each change of the displaying content-set.
US10296194B2
A method at an electronic device includes: displaying a camera history timeline, including: displaying a chronologically ordered sequence of event identifiers, each event identifier corresponding to a respective camera event, each respective camera event associated with one or more respective alert events; and displaying, for a respective event identifier, one or more alert event indicators, each of the alert event indicators corresponding to an alert event associated with the camera event corresponding to the respective event identifier, each of the alert event indicators displayed with a visually distinctive display characteristic associated with a corresponding alert event.
US10296192B2
The present disclosure relates generally to a data enrichment service that automatically profiles data sets and provides visualizations of the profiles using a visual-interactive model within a client application (such as a web browser or mobile app). The visual profiling can be refined through end user interaction with the visualization objects and guide exploratory data visualization and discovery. Additionally, data sampling of heterogeneous data streams can be performed during ingestion to extract statistical attributes from multi-columnar data (e.g., standard deviation, median, mode, correlation coefficient, histogram, etc.). Data sampling can continue in real-time as data sources are updated.
US10296191B2
A method for changing a display background is disclosed. The method may be implemented by a server. The method may comprise acquiring a user preference label set of a current user and a background label set of each candidate background; matching the current user with each candidate background based on the acquired user preference label set and the acquired background label set to obtain a match result; selecting one or more recommended backgrounds for the current user based on the match result; and pushing the selected one or more recommended backgrounds to a mobile terminal of the current user.
US10296187B1
In some examples, a documentation service is provided in which documentation may be entered and process actions presented. The process actions can be determined by processing the documentation using a natural language processing technique and suggested to a professional user for performance or validation.
US10296184B2
A method for webpage navigation of a mobile terminal includes displaying a first webpage on a screen among a plurality of webpages loaded successively in order of user inputs, receiving a first user input made on the screen, displaying an object pertaining to one of a second webpage that was loaded on the screen right before the first webpage and a third webpage that was loaded on the screen right after the first webpage in response to the first user input, receiving a second user input for selecting the object pertaining to one of the second and third webpages, and re-displaying one of the second and third webpages according to the second user input. A mobile terminal includes a touchscreen and a controller configured to re-display one of the second and third webpages according to the second user input.
US10296181B2
A breathing apparatus and system include a breathing apparatus having a display, an internal memory unit, and a processing unit, and optionally an interface for connecting at least an external memory unit to the apparatus; optionally an external memory unit connectable to the breathing apparatus via the interface; wherein the processing unit is in operative communication with the display, the internal memory unit, and/or the external memory unit when connected to the apparatus via the interface, and the processing unit is configured to provide on at least a portion of the display, a user selectable background stored on at least one of the internal and/or external memory unit, such as a background image, or a background color different than a factory default background color that is not selectable by a user.
US10296178B2
A system and methods for facilitation of user interactions with an electronic device. A number of user interface methods are described and may be used alone or in combination with one another to present an enhanced interface to a user. A method of providing user interaction using a compact status indicator is described. A method for providing a virtual scroll wheel to a user for interaction with content sets is described. A method for allowing a user to dynamically modify a scalable user interface is described. A method for providing gesture based input to a user via a virtual gesture pad is described. A method of providing an interactive graphic search query interface is described. A method for indicating and selecting available content type is described.
US10296172B2
User interface controls that facilitate the specification/modification of data hierarchies. In one set of embodiments, a first UI control component can be provided that comprises an ordered group of drop-down menus. Each drop-down menu in the ordered group can be populated with a selectable list of attributes from a data set and can be associated with a level in a data hierarchy. By selecting values using the various drop-down menus, a user can interactively specify a data hierarchy for the data set. The data set can then be visualized according to the specified hierarchy. In further embodiments, a second UI control component can be provided in addition to the first UI control component. The second UI control component can allow a user to interactively enable or disable certain drop-down menus in the ordered group, thereby acting as a “depth filter” for controlling the depth of the data hierarchy.
US10296161B2
In order to generate a graphical user interface for a programme application on a display, multiple plug-ins for said programme application are registered in a plug-in catalogue. The plug-ins comprise a main window plug-in and multiple window area plug-ins. When the programme application is started, the main window plug-in is started, said plug-in representing a main window on the display and defining multiple sub-areas of the main window. The defined sub-areas of the main window are registered in an area manager. In addition, the window area plug-ins are started and each plug-in is registered in the area manager and linked by the area manager to one of the defined sub-areas of the main window. Each window area plug-in represents a window area on the display in the sub-area of the main window to which the plug-in is linked.
US10296160B2
Systems and processes are disclosed for virtual assistant request recognition using live usage data and data relating to future events. User requests that are received but not recognized can be used to generate candidate request templates. A count can be associated with each candidate request template and can be incremented each time a matching candidate request template is received. When a count reaches a threshold level, the corresponding candidate request template can be used to train a virtual assistant to recognize and respond to similar user requests in the future. In addition, data relating to future events can be mined to extract relevant information that can be used to populate both recognized user request templates and candidate user request templates. Populated user request templates (e.g., whole expected utterances) can then be used to recognize user requests and disambiguate user intent as future events become relevant.
US10296150B2
A detection apparatus includes a first electrode, a second electrode provided at a position that does not overlap with the first electrode, a third electrode arranged facing the first electrode and the second electrode via a spacing, and a detector configured to apply a drive signal to the first electrode and detect an output signal appearing in the second electrode.
US10296144B2
A first transmitter transmits a first propagating signal to a receiver through a first region of a touch input medium corresponding. A second transmitter transmits a second propagating signal to the receiver through a second region where the second region is a subset of the first region. At least the first propagating signal and the second propagating signal are analyzed to identify, based on a determination that the first signal path was disturbed by a touch input while the second signal path was not disturbed by the touch input, the touch input on a part of the first region that is not part of the second region.
US10296141B2
A device, and an adjustable parameter adjustment method for a device, where the device includes a touchscreen, and the touchscreen includes a touch sensor and a fingerprint sensor. A processor first adjusts a value of an adjustable parameter to a first value according to touch input of a user on the touch sensor, then receives accurate fingerprint input using the fingerprint sensor, and accurately adjusts the value of the adjustable parameter from the first value to a second value according to the fingerprint input in order to facilitate use for the user.
US10296138B2
An array substrate, a display panel, a method for determining touch center coordinates and a display device are provided. The array substrate includes: multiple touch electrodes arranged in an array, where the multiple touch electrodes include multiple touch electrode columns arranged in a first direction and multiple touch electrode rows arranged in a second direction. The array substrate also includes multiple touch leads, where each of the multiple touch leads is electrically connected to one of the multiple touch electrodes. The array substrate still includes multiple repair leads, where an insulation overlapped region is provided between each of two of the multiple touch leads corresponding to two adjacent ones of the multiple touch electrodes arranged in the first direction or the second direction and at least one of the multiple repair leads.
US10296129B2
A touch and hover sensing device includes a hover sensing module is located on a first surface of a substrate, the hover sensing module includes a plurality of first electrostatic sensing elements and a plurality of second electrostatic sensing elements electrically insulated from each other. Each of the plurality of first electrostatic sensing elements and each of the plurality of second electrostatic sensing elements include a single walled carbon nanotube or few-walled carbon nanotube. A touch sensing module is located on a second surface of the substrate. The hover sensing module and the touch sensing module are connected to a control chip, the control chip controls the hover sensing module and the touch sensing module simultaneously working or working separately, to sense a position coordinate of the sensed object.
US10296128B1
Systems and techniques are provided for a multi-state press and hold user interface. A state visualization may be displayed on a touchscreen. The state visualization may include a control for a controlled system and an indicator of a state of the controlled system. The indicator may be for an initial state of the controlled system. An indication of an initial touch input to the control may be received. It may be determined that touch input to the control has persisted for a threshold amount of time after the initial touch input to the control. An instruction may be sent to change state to the controlled system. The instruction may be based on the initial state of the controlled system. An updated state of the controlled system may be received. The indicator of the state visualization may be changed to an indicator for the updated state of the controlled system.
US10296127B2
An object control method performed by a device including a display, the device, and a computer readable recording medium thereof are provided. The object control method includes: displaying at least one object on the display; receiving an input through an input interface of the display, the input interface comprising at least one of a first input interface and a second input interface; and in response to receiving the input, performing a first function associated with a predetermined input interface of the device if the input interface is the first input interface and the predetermined input interface is the first input interface, and performing a second function associated with the predetermined input interface if the input interface is second input interface and the predetermined input interface is the second input interface.
US10296126B2
A system and method for recognizing a signet and for performing an action associated with the signet, wherein the signet is an inanimate object. In one embodiment, the method includes generating a touch signal with a signet, the touch signal representing a particular signet pattern, recognizing the particular signet pattern, and performing an action associated with the particular signet pattern.
US10296122B1
A touch display panel is provided. The touch display panel includes a cover and a touch sensing layer. The cover has a touch-sensing section, a first bending section, and a first side section. The first side section and the touch-sensing section are not coplanar and the first bending section is located between the touch-sensing section and the first side section. The touch sensing layer is located under the cover and includes a first metal mesh layer and a second metal mesh layer. Only one of the first metal mesh layer and the second metal mesh layer is located under the first bending section.
US10296117B2
The present invention provides a touch control display substrate and a touch control display device, belongs to the field of touch control technology, and can solve the problem that a driver chip of an existing touch control display substrate is overloaded and display effect is poor. The touch control display substrate of the present invention includes a plurality of sensing areas for sensing a touch, each sensing area is provided therein with a sensing electrode for sensing a touch, each sensing area includes a position at which the sensing electrode is not provided, and the position at which the sensing electrode is not provided is provided with a common electrode. The touch control display device of the present invention includes the above touch control display substrate.
US10296106B2
A position detector includes a position pointer having an AC signal generation circuit that is disposed in a housing and that transmits an AC signal, and a sensor that receives the AC signal. The position detector detects the position pointed to by the position pointer on the sensor. The position pointer includes at least three electrodes electrically isolated from each other, and a control circuit that controls so that the AC signal is selectively supplied to the electrodes, and so that identification information identifying the electrode to which the AC signal is selectively supplied is generated and transmitted to the sensor. The position detector further includes a position detection circuit that detects the position based on the AC signal, and an angular information calculation circuit that calculates the rotation angle and/or the tilt angle of the position pointer based on the AC signal and the identification information.
US10296102B1
A method and system may be used to determine gestures of one or more users from a video. Motion may be detected in an image frame of a video, and the image frame may be cropped around the motion. Body pose estimation may be performed on the cropped image frame. The location of the user's hands may be determined from the body pose. Additional processing may be performed to identify hand gestures.
US10296091B2
A method of generating haptic effects includes detecting an input of pressure applied to a device using a gesture and determining a level associated with the gesture based on the pressure input, as well as determining a selection of an item at the level based on the gesture and a context associated with the item at the level, along with generating a contextual haptic effect comprising haptic parameter based on the context of the item at the level.
US10296084B2
This invention relates to methods and apparatus for improving communications between humans and devices. The invention provides a method of modulating operation of a device, comprising: providing an attentive user interface for obtaining information about an attentive state of a user; and modulating operation of a device on the basis of the obtained information, wherein the operation that is modulated is initiated by the device. Preferably, the information about the user's attentive state is eye contact of the user with the device that is sensed by the attentive user interface.
US10296082B2
A method of simulating physics in a virtual worlds system includes selecting at least one of the client devices participating in an instance of a scene as a physics host, the physics host determining subsequent states of objects and sending the subsequent states to one or more processors of a server, the subsequent states of objects comprising one or more of: subsequent locations, orientations, velocities and accelerations determined based on characteristics of the objects and constraints for simulating physics consistent with the new instance of the scene of the virtual worlds system.
US10296077B2
A microcontroller system is organized into power domains. A power manager of the microcontroller system can change the power configuration of a power domain based on whether the microcontroller system has asserted a power trigger for any module in the power domain or if any module in the power domain has asserted a power keeper.
US10296072B2
A device and method of managing power are provided. The device includes a user input unit configured to receive a user input from a user, an output unit configured to output information based on the user input, and a controller configured to, when the user input is not received, determine whether or not an out-focus status in which the user does not use the device has started, determine, when it is determined that the out-focus status has started, a period in which the out-focus status is to be maintained based on information about a probability of the out-focus status according to a context of the device, and stop, when the period in which the out-focus status is to be maintained is equal to or greater than a reference time period, an application executed in the device.
US10296071B2
A power converter includes primary and secondary bridges, a transformer, and a controller configured to generate a switching mode map that correlates each of a plurality of switching modes to a respective set of value ranges of system parameters of the power converter. The sets of system parameter value ranges are contiguous and non-overlapping across the switching mode map, each of the plurality of switching modes includes gate trigger voltage timings for commuting at least one of the primary and secondary bridges. The controller is configured to obtain a plurality of measured system parameter values, select from the switching mode map one of the plurality of switching modes that correlates to the set of system parameter values containing the plurality of measured system parameter values, and adjust gate trigger voltage timings of at least one of the primary and secondary bridges, according to the selected switching mode.
US10296069B2
Systems, methods, and computer programs are disclosed for reducing dynamic random access memory (DRAM) power consumption within a selected voltage frequency/bin. One embodiment is a method comprising receiving a selected voltage/frequency bin for operating a memory bus electrically coupling a memory controller to a dynamic random access memory (DRAM). The method monitors a bandwidth of the memory bus while operating at the selected voltage/frequency bin. The method frequency switches a clock for the memory bus, based on the monitored bandwidth, between a plurality of predefined frequencies within the selected voltage/frequency bin to maintain a target bandwidth.
US10296066B2
A system on chip (SoC) includes a control circuit configured to determine whether a requested operating mode is one of a functional mode and a monitoring mode. The control circuit is configured to provide a request signal to at least one clock circuit to request at least one clock signal and selectively output one of the at least one clock signal in response to at least one acknowledgment signal received from the at least one clock circuit, when the requested operating mode is the functional mode. The control circuit is configured to selectively output one of the at least one clock signal without providing the request signal, when the requested operating mode is the monitoring mode.
US10296064B2
The invention relates to a mechanism for decreasing power consumption in a wireless terminal intended for a communication system where availability of a common air medium is to be determined by the terminal prior to transmission. The terminal selects at least one communication device as a communicating peer and adjusts receiver performance based on received signal strength and optionally other parameters measured from at least one of the at least one wireless communication device, the receiver performance being adjusted for listening to the at least one wireless communication device with reduced power consumption. The terminal further generates an indication when its own transmission is approaching and readjusts the receiver performance for determining the availability of the common air medium at a performance level enabling detection of devices that may be disturbed by said own transmission.
US10296062B2
A memory controller includes an interface and a processor. The interface is configured to communicate with one or more memory devices that require an operation voltage. The memory devices are capable of obtaining the operation voltage either from a power supply external to the memory device or from respective charge pumps internal to the memory devices. The processor is configured to predict storage activity in the memory devices, and to cause the memory devices to select a source for the operation voltage between the power supply and the respective charge pumps in accordance with the predicted storage activity.
US10296052B1
Embodiments of a multi-form factor Information Handling System (IHS) with a removable keyboard are described. In an illustrative, non-limiting embodiment, an IHS may include a processor and a memory coupled to the processor, the memory having program instructions stored thereon that, upon execution by the processor, cause the IHS to: identify a physical arrangement of: (i) a first display, (ii) a second display coupled to the first display, and (iii) a keyboard; and execute an operation associated with the physical arrangement.
US10296048B1
A portable electronic device, including a first unit, a second unit and a hinge structure, is disclosed. The first unit includes a first display portion, a first back portion and a first receiving groove disposed on the first back portion. The second unit includes a second display portion and a second back portion selectively stacked with the first back portion. The hinge structure is disposed in the first receiving groove of the first unit and includes a fixing element disposed in the first receiving groove, a sliding element slidably disposed on the fixing element and a rotary element disposed on an outer side of the sliding element, wherein the second unit is pivoted to the rotary element via the second back portion. In this way, the hinge structure will not protrude outside the first and second units when the portable electronic device is in the folded status.
US10296038B2
A remote control having at least one multifunction button, to which force is applied in one direction by magnets and counter-magnets or mechanical springs, and to which journals with thickened heads are attached, wherein the thickened heads through interaction with bearing shells of a supporting plate serve as centering, guide, and movement stop of the multifunction button.
US10296032B2
A bandgap reference circuit includes a first bipolar junction transistor (BJT) in series with a first current generator, the first BJT and the first current generator configured to produce a first proportional to absolute temperature (PTAT) signal. The circuit also includes a second BJT in series with a second current generator, the second BJT and the second current generator configured to produce a second PTAT signal. The bandgap reference circuit maintains a current through at least one of the first BJT or the second BJT within a constant ideality factor region of the at least one of the first BJT or the second BJT.
US10296030B2
An operating configuration for a power system during a particular time period may be derived from a net load forecast for the power system during the particular time period. The operating configuration may be based on characteristics of power generation units (PGUs) available within the power system (e.g., power generators). The characteristics of a PGU may include a generation trajectory for the PGU that defines, inter alia, power generated by the PGU as the PGU ramps up power production within the power system. The generation trajectory of PGUs may be evaluated in view of the net load forecast to ensure that adequate power resources are available within the power system and avoid ramping scarcity conditions.
US10296029B2
Devices and methods to design voltage regulators requiring lower power consumption, wide output current and input voltage range, low dropout, and small footprint. The disclosed methods and devices provide solutions to stabilize such regulators in the presence of widely varying loads by tracking a pole of the transfer function, the pole of the transfer function corresponding to a combination of the load capacitance and the load resistance.
US10295989B1
Methods and systems are described for using 3D printing means to construct surprise-related objects. In one embodiment, at least one construction configuration for a three-dimensional object is intended to prevent premature access, by a consumer, to hidden content, with the hidden content intended, at least in part, to surprise the consumer following construction of at least part of the three-dimensional object. Various embodiments demonstrate preventing premature access to hidden content by constructing locked container objects, breakable container objects, sealable container objects, expandable objects, deliberately disorganized build patterns, visual barrier layers, and/or visual barrier object portions. Several embodiments include creating at least one object to at least partly render inaccessible at least a portion of at least one other object. Select objects constructed include gift objects, financial transaction products, edible products, and/or other objects.
US10295983B2
In an electrical power outlet device, a processor and a memory are configured to execute an application within the outlet device, which computes a pattern of usage of the outlet device. A set of sensors in the outlet device includes a first sensor that is usable to detect an event in an environment in which the outlet device is supplying power. The environment includes elements that are not participating in an electrical circuit that receives power from the outlet device and the event is usable by the application to alter the pattern of usage. An autonomous modification of an operation of the outlet device is performed in response to the pattern of usage, the event, or both. The operation changes a power supplying state of the outlet device without using an external switching apparatus or an external logic implemented outside the outlet device.
US10295981B2
An engineering tool includes a display area to display a ladder program, the display area being displayed on a display screen of a display device; and a cell, which is a temporal-operator imparted region. The cell, which is a temporal-operator imparted region, is a region that is displayed in the display area and in which a temporal operator is imparted to a program module of the ladder program. The engineering tool includes a control specification editing unit and a control-specification-descriptive-expression converting unit. The control specification editing unit creates the program module. The control-specification-descriptive-expression converting unit converts the program module into a mathematical expression that can be input to a model checking program.
US10295979B2
Embodiments presented herein provide techniques for executing a block-based workflow to provide a schedule for a semiconductor manufacturing environment. The block-based workflow includes a plurality of blocks and each block specifies a set of operations to be performed upon execution of each block. One embodiment includes extracting scheduling data from the semiconductor manufacturing environment, determining an allocation of the number of lots to one or more devices operating in the semiconductor manufacturing environment, determining an order in which the lots should be processed by the one or more devices and publishing results of the allocation and processing order to at least one another device in the semiconductor manufacturing environment, based on the plurality of blocks in the block-based workflow.
US10295969B2
A utility employs a method for generating available operating reserve. Electric power consumption by at least one device serviced by the utility is determined during at least one period of time to produce power consumption data, stored in a repository. A determination is made that a control event is to occur during which power is to be reduced to one or more devices. Prior to the control event and under an assumption that it is not to occur, power consumption behavior expected of the device(s) is generated for a time period during which the control event is expected to occur based on the stored power consumption data. Additionally, prior to the control event, projected energy savings resulting from the control event, and associated with a power supply value (PSV) are determined based on the devices' power consumption behavior. An amount of available operating reserve is determined based on the projected energy savings.
US10295959B2
A holographic display with an illumination device, an enlarging unit and a light modulator. The illumination device includes at least one light source and a light collimation unit, the light collimation unit collimates the light of the at least one light source and generates a light wave field of the light that is emitted by the light source with a specifiable angular spectrum of plane waves, the enlarging unit is disposed downstream of the light collimation unit, seen in the direction of light propagation, where the enlarging unit includes a transmissive volume hologram realizing an anamorphic broadening of the light wave field due to a transmissive interaction of the light wave field with the volume hologram, and the light modulator is disposed upstream or downstream of the anamorphic enlarging unit, seen in the direction of light propagation.
US10295958B2
A packing member includes a first recessed portion, a second recessed portion, a first flange connected to the first recessed portion at a first end, and a second flange connected to the second recessed portion at a first end. The first flange includes at least one first bent portion protruding in a direction intersecting a joined surface at which part of the first flange and part of the second flange are joined. When at least one of a second end of the first flange and a second end of the second flange is in contact with a surface other than the packing member, the second end of the first flange and the second end of the second flange can be moved along the surface.
US10295953B2
An image forming apparatus includes a cartridge including a photosensitive drum; an endless belt configured to transfer the toner image formed on the drum; an endless belt supporting member movable between a contacting position for contacting the belt to the drum and a non-contacting position retracted from the contacting position away from the drum; and a cartridge supporting member movable between an image forming position in which the drum contacts the belt taking the contacting position and a non-image-forming position in which the cartridge is movable from a inside to a outside of the main assembly. By movement of the belt from the contacting position to the non-contacting position, a space capable of accommodating at least a part of the cartridge supporting member taking the non-image-forming position and/or the cartridge supported by the cartridge supporting member taking the non-image-forming position is provided.
US10295947B2
An exposure device irradiates a photoconductor with light on the basis of an exposure signal and thereby forms an electrostatic latent image. A toner amount calculating unit (a) determines a distribution pattern of the electrostatic latent image on the basis of the exposure signal, (b) determines an electric field variation level of a target pixel, (c) determines an electric field intensity of the target pixel on the basis of a value of the target pixel in the distribution pattern and the electric field variation level, and (d) determines a toner consumption amount corresponding to the electric field intensity. Further, the toner amount calculating unit limits the electric field variation level to an uppermost value or less, the uppermost value corresponding to a value of the target pixel in the distribution pattern of the electrostatic latent image.
US10295937B2
A fixing device includes a heat generator being disposed inside a loop formed by a rotator and including a heat generating portion to radiate radiant heat. A reflector is disposed inside the loop formed by the rotator and includes a reflection face to reflect the radiant heat radiated from the heat generator toward the rotator. A support supports the reflector. A holder holds each lateral end of the support in a longitudinal direction of the support, which is perpendicular to the rotation direction of the rotator. A fastener attaches the reflector to the support at an attachment position disposed at each lateral end of the reflector in a longitudinal direction of the reflector. The attachment position is disposed outboard from a lateral edge of the heat generating portion of the heat generator and disposed inboard from the holder in the longitudinal direction of the reflector.
US10295929B1
An optical scanning device includes a correction mechanism that rotates a synchronization detection mirror around a sub-scanning axis in accordance with a change in the temperature of a casing, wherein the correction mechanism includes a fixing support part provided to the casing and fixing the synchronization detection mirror thereto, and a first adhesive part and a second adhesive part respectively provided at one end side and the other end side of the synchronization detection mirror in a width direction perpendicular to a sub-scanning direction and serving as adhesives for allowing the synchronization detection mirror to adhere to the fixing support part. The correction mechanism is configured to rotate the synchronization detection mirror around the sub-scanning axis due to a difference between of thermal deformation amounts of the first adhesive part and the second adhesive part in a thickness direction when the temperature inside the casing has changed.
US10295925B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming section, a conveyance guide and a static eliminator. The image forming section is configured to form the images on a sheet being conveyed along a first conveyance path. The conveyance guide is configured to define a second conveyance path that is designed to convey therealong the sheet being switched back thereto from the first conveyance path, the second conveyance path arranged at a position downstream of the image forming section in a conveyance direction of the sheet conveyed along the first conveyance path. The second conveyance path has an outlet area joined with the first conveyance path at a position upstream of the image forming section. The static eliminator is configured to eliminate static electricity from the sheet fed from the first conveyance path to the second conveyance path. The static eliminator is disposed in the outlet area.
US10295921B2
A toner comprising a toner particle containing a resin and a colorant, wherein, with respect to a temperature-storage elastic modulus curve obtained by powder dynamic viscoelastic measurement on the toner, (I) the relative minimum values for the variation in the storage elastic modulus E′ with respect to temperature T in the temperature range of at least 30° C. and not more than 180° C. have a relative minimum value of equal to or less than −1.00×107 and the relative minimum value on the lowest temperature side is equal to or less than −1.00×108; (II) the storage elastic modulus E′ (50) of the toner at 50° C. is at least 1.00×109 and not more than 9.00×109; and (III) for a storage elastic modulus E′ (120) of the toner at 120° C., E′ (50) and E′ (120) satisfy 1.50≤[E′ (50)]/[E′ (120)]≤3.00.
US10295899B2
A photomask includes a pattern region and a plurality of defects in the pattern region. The photomask further includes a first fiducial mark outside of the pattern region, wherein the first fiducial mark includes identifying information for the photomask, the first fiducial mark has a first size and a first shape. The photomask further includes a second fiducial mark outside of the pattern region. The second fiducial mark has a second size different from the first size, or a second shape different from the first shape.
US10295898B2
An image projection device is disclosed having a body defining an aperture that includes a slide frame receiving slot that is transverse to the aperture and a magnifying lens positioned in alignment with the aperture at the front of the body. The image projection device can be attached to a mobile device and uses the camera flash of the mobile device to provide the light source to illuminate a slide transparency. The mobile device can identify a particular slide transparency through information encoded on the slide frame in order to coordinate audio or video output with the projected slide.
US10295896B2
Since a display device is used in a relatively large room, it often displays images on a large screen. On the other hand, a display terminal often displays images on a small screen. Therefore, when the same image is displayed on the display device and the display terminal, the displayed image on the display terminal is so small that the viewer has difficulty in discerning details of the image, which poses a problem that the display terminal is disadvantageous. In a display system including a display terminal and a display device, the display device detects position coordinates optically pointed out by a pointer on a displayed image, and displays a given pointer mark at the detected position coordinates. The display terminal displays a magnified version of the displayed image approximately around received position coordinates serving as a center thereof, and displays a given pointer mark at the position coordinates.
US10295892B2
A light source device includes: a light source section; a diffusing device on which a portion of light emitted from the light source section is incident, the diffusing device diffusely emitting the portion of the light; a wavelength conversion device on which another portion of the light emitted from the light source section is incident, the wavelength conversion device diffusely emitting converted light at a wavelength different from that of the another portion of the light; a light combining device combining the portion of the light diffused by the diffusing device with the converted light emitted from the wavelength conversion device; and an auxiliary diffusing element located between the light source section and the diffusing device on an optical path of the portion of the light, the auxiliary diffusing element diffusing the portion of the light and causing the portion of the light to be incident on the diffusing device.
US10295883B2
An optical module includes a driver that is provided on a board and generates an electrical signal according to a data signal, and an optical modulator that is connected to an optical fiber and provided on the board and that modulates light emitted from the optical fiber using the electrical signal generated by the driver. The optical module has a cut-out portion that is formed by cutting out part of its outer shape and that accommodates the driver so that the driver overlaps the optical fiber when viewed from a direction perpendicular to the board.
US10295880B2
Certain aspects pertain to methods of fabricating an optical device on a substantially transparent substrate that include a pre-deposition operation that removes a width of lower conductor layer at a distance from the outer edge of the substrate to form a pad at the outer edge. The pad and any deposited layers of the optical device may be removed in a post edge deletion operation.
US10295879B2
The invention discloses a blue phase liquid crystal display module, wherein the blue phase liquid crystal display module including: an upper substrate, a lower substrate and a blue phase liquid crystal; a plurality of the upper jagged electrodes formed on the upper substrate; a lower substrate is formed opposite to the upper substrate, a plurality of the lower jagged electrodes formed staggered with the upper jagged electrodes on the lower substrate; a reflection layer is formed on the lower substrate alternately to divide the blue phase liquid crystal display module into a transmission zone and a reflective zone. The invention achieves the property of different phase delay of the transmission zone to the reflective zone by adjusting the interval or dip angle of the electrode.
US10295877B2
An array substrate includes a first light-shielding insulation layer formed on the substrate, for block a light entering the substrate, and including a first region and a second region, and each is made of an insulation material; a first function layer formed on the second region, under a light-shielding function of the second region, an affection of light is avoided; a second function layer formed above the first region of the first light-shielding insulation layer and the first function layer, under the light-shielding function of the first light-shielding insulation layer, an affection of light is avoided; and a third function layer formed above the second function layer, under the light-shielding function of the first light-shielding insulation layer, an affection of light is avoided; wherein, each of the first, the second and the third function layer is a conductor material or a semiconductor material. A photo-leakage current can be avoided.
US10295866B2
A liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate; a first pixel electrode disposed on the first substrate and including a first body portion, a first sub-edge portion on a first side of the first body portion, and a second sub-edge portion, which on a second side of the first body portion; and a shield electrode on the same layer as the first pixel electrode a shield electrode on the same layer as the first pixel electrode and extending from a first side of the first sub-edge portion in a first direction. The first body portion includes a first stem portion, a second stem portion that intersects the first stem portion, and a plurality of branch portions extending from at least one of the first stem portion and the second stem portion. The first sub-edge portion is spaced apart from the branch portions and has a bent portion.
US10295861B2
A frame assembly includes a frame body and an outer frame. The frame body includes at least one side portion and at least one set of hook structure disposed on the side portion. The hook structure includes a first hook and a second hook. The first hook has a first opening. The second hook has a second opening, and a direction of the second opening is different from a direction of the first opening. The outer frame includes at least one frame unit and at least one fixing structure disposed on the frame unit. The frame unit is corresponding to the side portion of the frame body. The fixing structure is corresponding to the hook structure, and the first hook and the second hook of the hook structure are engaged with the corresponded fixing structure.
US10295851B2
Provided is an optical sensor mounting structure which is used in an image display device and in which the gap between a reflection sheet and a tubular cushion for preventing the entry of external light into an optical sensor is eliminated so that the amount of light from a backlight can be measured accurately. A liquid crystal image display device includes an optical sensor that measures light from the back surface of a reflection sheet, a substrate having the optical sensor thereon, and a tubular cushion for preventing the entry of external light into the optical sensor. The front surface of the tubular cushion is bonded to the reflection sheet, and the back surface thereof is bonded to the substrate.
US10295848B2
A display device includes: a display panel; a driving frequency converter circuit configured to convert a driving frequency according to an input image data. A common voltage controller outputs a common voltage data corresponding to the driving frequency; and a common voltage generator receives the common voltage data to generate a common voltage and outputs the common voltage to the display panel. The common voltage has an inclined waveform within an integer multiple of a frame period.
US10295845B2
Disclosed herein are methods, apparatus, and systems for providing an optical beam delivery system, comprising an optical fiber including a first length of fiber comprising a first RIP formed to enable, at least in part, modification of one or more beam characteristics of an optical beam by a perturbation assembly arranged to modify the one or more beam characteristics, the perturbation assembly coupled to the first length of fiber or integral with the first length of fiber, or a combination thereof and a second length of fiber coupled to the first length of fiber and having a second RIP formed to preserve at least a portion of the one or more beam characteristics of the optical beam modified by the perturbation assembly within one or more first confinement regions. The optical beam delivery system may include an optical system coupled to the second length of fiber including one or more free-space optics configured to receive and transmit an optical beam comprising the modified one or more beam characteristics.
US10295844B2
A device may include a substrate. The device may include an optical waveguide formed in or on the substrate. The device may include a signal electrode extending along a longitudinal axis. The signal electrode may include a first portion with a proximal end that is proximal to the optical waveguide, to induce a signal from the signal electrode to the optical waveguide. The signal electrode may include a second portion, at least partially attached to or continuous with a distal end of the first portion. The device may include one or more ground electrodes that form an enclosure. The enclosure may enclose the signal electrode with regard to a side of the substrate in a plane perpendicular to the longitudinal axis.
US10295835B2
A stereoscopic display device and a stereoscopic display method are provided. The stereoscopic display device comprises: a display unit configured for displaying an image and emitting emergent light; and at least two active scattering panels arranged at a light-emitting side of the display unit and in different planes. The active scattering panels are configured for performing a scattering process to the emergent light, so that the emergent light, after being scattered by the different active scattering panels, forms a stereoscopic picture. By providing a plurality of active scattering panels to achieve stereoscopic display without the provision of a plurality of display panels, it is possible to avoid the problem that backlight emitted by a backlight source is subjected to a serious reduction in transmittance after passing through a plurality of layers of display panels, thereby improving display brightness of a stereoscopic display device.
US10295834B2
Disclosed is a display apparatus includes a display panel which includes display devices; a micro lens group located above a light-emitting side of the display panel, and the micro lens group includes micro lens devices, and the micro lens devices are disposed to correspond to the display devices, respectively, and distances between centers of the micro lens devices and centers of the corresponding display devices are gradually increased along a direction from a center position to an edge position of the display panel. Further, a liquid lens disposed on a side of the micro lens group away from the display panel, and the liquid lens is configured for realizing multi-layer display of a suspension image by changing a phase of incident light.
US10295817B2
A stereoscopic optical system that includes an image member that is located at a position along a center optical axis and that has a first stereoscopic image area on a first side of the optical axis for receipt of a first stereoscopic image thereon and a second, separate stereoscopic image area on a second, separate side of the optical axis for receipt of a second, separate stereoscopic image thereon. The system includes an optical arrangement extending along the center optical axis and includes a roof prism with first and second roof segments. The arrangement is configured to transmit image-forming rays passing through the first roof segment to the first stereoscopic image area along a first optical path through the arrangement and is configured to transmit image-forming rays passing through the second roof segment to the second stereoscopic image area along a second, different optical path through the arrangement.
US10295814B2
A microscope including an illumination objective with a first optical axis, embodied to produce a light sheet, and a detection objective with a second optical axis, embodied to detect light coming from the specimen plane. The illumination objective and the detection objective are aligned relative to one another and the specimen plane so that the first and second optical axes intersect in the specimen plane and include a substantially right angle therebetween. The optical axes each include an angle which differs from zero with a reference axis directed orthogonal to the specimen plane. An overview illumination apparatus for wide-field illumination of the specimen plane, includes an illumination optical unit with a third optical axis. The characterizing feature is that the detection objective is provided to detect both light from the light sheet and light from the illumination optical unit. A method is also provided for operating a light sheet microscope.
US10295812B2
A light irradiation device is an apparatus for irradiating an irradiation object, and includes a light source outputting readout light L1, a spatial light modulator modulating the readout light L1 in phase to output modulated light L2, and a both-sided telecentric optical system including a first lens optically coupled to a phase modulation plane of the spatial light modulator and a second lens optically coupled between the first lens and the irradiation object, and optically coupling the phase modulation plane and the irradiation object. An optical distance between the phase modulation plane and the first lens is substantially equal to a focal length of the first lens. The spatial light modulator displays a Fresnel type kinoform on the phase modulation plane.
US10295806B2
A zoom lens, includes, in order from object side: a front unit including a unit including a first unit arranged closest to the object side and not moving for zooming; an Nf unit including three or more lenses and having a negative refractive power; an stop; a first rear unit moving during zooming; a second rear unit moving during zooming; and a third rear unit not moving for zooming, in which: the front unit includes four or more lenses and includes one or more units having a positive refractive power; and a difference between positions of the first rear unit at a wide angle end and a telephoto end, a difference between positions of the second rear unit at the wide angle end and the telephoto end, a focal length of the second rear unit, and a focal length of the zoom at the wide angle end are appropriately set.
US10295800B2
An embodiment of this disclosure provides an optical lens, which includes, in order from an object side to an image-forming side, a first lens with negative refraction power; a second lens with negative refraction power; a third lens with positive refraction power; a fourth lens with positive refraction power; and a fifth lens with negative refraction power; wherein the second lens has an Abbe number vd2, the fifth lens has a refractive index nd5, and 20≤vd2≤30 and nd5≥1.9.
US10295798B2
A camera module, which is mounted on an inside of a front windshield of a vehicle and to image an external environment of the vehicle, includes a lens unit and an imager to image the external environment by forming an optical image, which is from the external environment through the lens unit.
US10295797B2
An imaging device includes two imaging optical systems each of the imaging optical systems including a wide-angle lens having an angle of view wider than 180 degrees, and an imaging sensor configured to image an image by the wide-angle lens, so as to obtain an image in a solid angle of 4π radian by synthesizing the images by the respective imaging optical systems, wherein the wide-angle lens of each of the imaging optical systems includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a front group having a negative power, a reflection surface and a back group having a positive power, and is configured to bend an optical axis of the front group by the reflection surface at 90 degrees toward the back group.
US10295786B1
The present disclosure discloses a camera optical lens. The camera optical lens including, in an order from an object side to an image side, a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens and a seventh lens. The first lens is made of glass material, the second lens is made of plastic material, the third lens is made of plastic material, the fourth lens is made of plastic material, the fifth lens is made of plastic material, the sixth lens is made of glass material, and the seventh lens is made of plastic material. The camera optical lens further satisfies specific conditions.
US10295785B2
An optical image capturing system includes, along the optical axis in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens, and a seventh lens. At least one lens among the first to the sixth lenses has positive refractive force. The seventh lens can have negative refractive force, wherein both surfaces thereof are aspheric, and at least one surface thereof has an inflection point. The lenses in the optical image capturing system which have refractive power include the first to the seventh lenses. The optical image capturing system can increase aperture value and improve the imaging quality for use in compact cameras.
US10295782B2
A lens moving apparatus is disclosed. The lens moving apparatus includes a bobbin equipped with at least one lens, a coil and a driving magnet arranged opposite to each other for moving the bobbin in an optical axis direction of the lens through interaction therebetween, a first circuit board for supplying electric current required by the coil, and a cover can and a base coupled to, contacted to, supported at, fixed to, or temporarily fixed to each other for forming a space in which the bobbin, the driving magnet, and the first circuit board are received, wherein the cover can is connected to a second circuit board having an image sensor mounted thereon.
US10295777B1
Aspects of the present disclosure relate to a cable bend radius guide. The cable bend radius guide comprises a flexibly rigid linear material of a predetermined length having a plurality of pairs of corresponding bend radius markers each separated by a predetermined distance along the predetermined length. The cable bend radius guide further comprises at least one constraint configured to fasten a first bend radius marker and a second bend radius marker of each pair of bend radius markers together to cause a portion of the flexibly rigid linear material between the first bend radius maker and second bend radius marker of each pair of bend radius markers to generate a substantially circular loop having a minimum bend radius corresponding to a cable's minimum bend radius.
US10295762B2
Optical ports providing passive alignment connectivity are disclosed. In one embodiment, an optical port includes a substrate having a surface, a photonic silicon chip, a connector body, and a plurality of spacer elements. The photonic silicon chip includes an electrical coupling surface, an upper surface and an optical coupling surface. The optical coupling surface is positioned between the electrical coupling surface and the upper surface. The photonic silicon chip further includes at least one waveguide terminating at the optical coupling surface, and a chip engagement feature disposed on the upper surface. The connector body includes a first alignment feature, a second alignment feature, a mounting surface, and a connector engagement feature at the mounting surface. The connector engagement feature mates with the chip engagement feature. The plurality of spacer elements is disposed between the electrical coupling surface of the photonic silicon chip and the surface of the substrate.
US10295760B1
An optically traceable patch cord includes a cable extending from a first connector at a first end to a second connector at a second end. A trace assembly in the cable is located between the first end of the cable and the second end of the cable. An optical tracing fiber extends from the trace assembly to one of the first connector and the second connector.
US10295757B2
A fiber optic ferrule includes a body extending from a first end to a second opposite end, with the body including an axial passage extending between the first and the second ends. The axial passage includes a first diameter portion having a diameter of at least 125 microns, a second diameter portion having a diameter of at least 250 microns and less than a diameter of a buffer, and a smooth and continuous transition between the first and the second diameter portions. The second diameter portion is positioned between the first diameter portion and the second end. The axial passage further defines a tapered shape at the second end extending inward from the second end toward the second diameter portion. In certain embodiments, another smooth and continuous transition can be provided between the taper shape and the second diameter portion. In certain embodiments, the axial passage is smooth and continuous between the first and the second ends of the body. A hub holds the ferrule. A method of assembling a terminated fiber optic cable is also provided.
US10295756B2
A method for making an optical fiber connector includes the following steps: Providing a casting mold having at least one casting cavity, and arranging at least one optical fiber assembly in the at least one casting cavity; Feeding plastic material into the at least one casting cavity; Solidifying the plastic material so as to form a plastic portion which solidifiedly bonds the at least one optical fiber assembly, where an end of the at least one optical fiber assembly emerges from the plastic portion, then removing a lower mold plate of the casting mold; Using a hard grinding disk to grind the end of the at least one optical fiber assembly; and Disposing the casting mold into an atomization facility, and atomizing lens material to the end of the at least one optical fiber assembly, acting with a manner of epicyclic gearing revolving therearound and with their own axes, so as to form a lens on the end of the at least one optical fiber assembly such that the lens is heated and solidified. Thereby, efficacy in producing optical fiber connectors can be improved. Also disclosed is a structure of the optical fiber connector, thus reliability of automated production of optical fiber connectors can be increased.
US10295751B2
A method and network are provided for a reconfigurable optical sensor network. The method includes configuring, by a controller, the reconfigurable optical sensor network, including one or more reconfigurable optical space switches, for a type of sensor data. The method also includes generating sensor data in the type of sensor data with one or more of a plurality of bidirectional sensors. The method additionally includes sending the sensor data to one or more optical star couplers. The method further includes forwarding the sensor data from one of the one or more optical star couplers to the one of one or more reconfigurable optical space switches.
US10295748B2
A multimode interference (MMI) coupler with an MMI region of curved edges, and a method of design and manufacturing by using a computerized optimization algorithm to determine a favorable set of segment widths for the MMI region for a predefined set of coupler design parameters.
US10295744B2
A coherent optical mixer circuit is provided that can measure a phase error without requiring a step of cutting away a delay circuit. Odd-numbered or even-numbered two of four inputs of an 4-input-and-4-output multimode interference circuit are connected to an input mechanism. The four outputs of the multimode interference circuit are all connected to an output mechanism to the exterior. Other two inputs of the multimode interference circuit are connected to two monitor waveguides. One of the monitor waveguide is longer than the other to configure a light delay circuit. The monitor waveguides constituting the light delay circuit are connected to the respective outputs of a 2-branched light splitter. The 2-branched light splitter has an input connected to a monitor light input mechanism from the exterior via a monitor input waveguide.
US10295735B2
Few mode optical fibers for mode division multiplexing. The Few Mode Fiber supporting 25 or 30 LP guided modes and includes a graded index core with a α-profile, a radius R1 (at 0 refractive index difference) between 23 and 27 μm and a maximum refractive index difference Dn1 between 14·10−3 and 17·10−3, and an end of the α-profile at a radius R1b, with index difference Dn1b; a trench surrounding the core with radius R3 between 30 and 40 μm and refractive index difference Dn3 between −15·10−3 and −6·10−3. Such a FMF shows a specific design of the interface between the core and the cladding such that R1b>R1, Dn1b between −10·10−3 and −3·10−3, and Dn1b−Dn3≥0.9×10−3.
US10295733B2
The invention concerns a single mode optical fiber having a core and a cladding, the core refractive index profile having a trapezoid-like shape. According to an aspect of the invention, the transition part of the trapezoid-like core refractive index profile is obtained by gradually changing a concentration of at least two dopants from a concentration in said center part of said core to a concentration in a cladding part adjacent to said core.
US10295731B2
A display device includes a display panel, an accommodating member including a bottom portion and a sidewall extending from the bottom portion, a backlight unit including a light source inside the accommodating member and a light source substrate inside the accommodating member and on which the light source is mounted, and a driving substrate connected to the light source substrate disposed inside the accommodating member. The driving substrate includes a first extending portion disposed outside the accommodating member, a second extending portion extended from the first extending portion and through the sidewall of the accommodating member to dispose an end portion of the second extending portion inside the accommodating member, and a pad portion disposed on a lower surface of the end portion of the second extending portion and inside the accommodating member. The pad portion is electrically connected to the light source substrate disposed inside the accommodating member.
US10295726B2
A display apparatus includes a light source and a display panel. The light source emits a light. The display panel includes a first polarizing plate, a second polarizing plate, a third polarizing plate, and a shutter. The first polarizing plate receives the light provided from the light source and incident to a lower portion thereof and linearly polarizes the light incident thereto. The second polarizing plate is disposed on the first polarizing plate and circularly polarizes the light exiting through the first polarizing plate. The third polarizing plate is disposed on the second polarizing plate and linearly polarizes the light incident thereto. The shutter is disposed on the first polarizing plate and mechanically deforms in a thickness direction of the first polarizing plate in response to an electrical signal. The display apparatus displays a grayscale in accordance with mechanical deformation of the shutter.
US10295718B2
An illumination fiber optics is provided that includes an optical fiber, configured to receive illumination light at a proximal end from a light source; and a light-scattering element, at a distal end of the optical fiber, configured to receive the illumination light from the optical fiber at a proximal end and to emit the illumination light at a distal end in a wide angle. The illumination fiber optics can be prepared by providing an optical fiber, configured to receive illumination light at a proximal end from a light source; and creating a light-scattering element at a distal end of the optical fiber, configured to receive the illumination light from the optical fiber at a proximal end and to emit the illumination light at a distal end in a wide angle.
US10295710B2
Optical diffusing films are made by microreplication from a structured surface tool. The tool is made using a 2-part electroplating process, wherein a first electroplating procedure forms a first metal layer with a first major surface, and a second electroplating procedure forms a second metal layer on the first metal layer, the second metal layer having a second major surface with a smaller average roughness than that of the first major surface. The second major surface can function as the structured surface of the tool. A replica of this surface can then be made in a major surface of an optical film to provide light diffusing properties. The structured surface and/or its constituent structures can be characterized in terms of various parameters such as optical haze, optical clarity, Fourier power spectra of the topography along orthogonal in-plane directions, ridge length per unit area, equivalent circular diameter (ECD), and/or aspect ratio.
US10295707B2
A coated metal fluoride optic is provided. The coated metal fluoride optic includes an alkaline earth metal fluoride substrate and a coating disposed on at least one surface of the substrate. The coating includes an adhesion layer comprising a fluoride-containing material, a non-densified intermediate layer deposited on the adhesion layer, and a densified capping layer deposited on the intermediate layer.
US10295704B2
An approach for forecasting local weather patterns. The approach includes a method that includes receiving, by at least one computing device, images that include weather related information. The method includes analyzing, by the at least one computing device, the images to determine particular types of weather phenomena. The method includes analyzing, by the at least one computing device, the images to determine a motion of the particular types of weather phenomena. The method includes determining, by the at least one computing device, a weather forecast based on the analyzed images and the motion of the particular types of weather phenomena.
US10295701B2
The present disclosure provides a portable electronic device and an optical proximity sensor module thereof. The optical proximity sensor module includes a circuit substrate, a light-emitting element, an optical proximity sensor element, a light-transmitting package structure and a light-shielding structure. The light-emitting element and the optical proximity sensor element are disposed on the circuit substrate. The light-transmitting package structure includes a first package body disposed on the circuit substrate to enclose the light-emitting element and a second package body disposed on the circuit substrate to enclose the optical proximity sensor element. The light-shielding structure is disposed on the light-transmitting package structure to enclose one part of the first package body and one part of the second package body. The second package body has a second exposed surface exposed from the light-shielding structure, and the second exposed surface has an inclined surface disposed above the optical proximity sensor element.
US10295698B2
Formation properties may be more efficiently derived from measurements of multi-frequency, multi-component array induction tools, by emphasizing the measurements associated with shorter spacings/lower frequencies in certain regions and short-to-middle spacings/higher frequencies in other regions. In at least one embodiment, a disclosed logging system includes a logging tool that when conveyed along a borehole through a formation obtains multi-component transmit-receive antenna coupling measurements with multiple arrays having different antenna spacings; and a processing system that operates on the measurements. The processing system derives from said measurements one or more formation parameter estimates; determines measurement weight coefficients for a cost function based on said one or more formation parameter estimates; and inverts said measurements with said cost function to obtain one or more enhanced parameter estimates.
US10295696B2
The processing of multicomponent induction (“MCI”) data in non-circular, or elliptical, boreholes is achieved through the use of borehole formation models generated using elliptical borehole characteristics.
US10295691B2
To process geological log data, a two-dimensional set of log values recorded at a plurality of points is obtained about a borehole periphery, and over a chosen length along the borehole. The set of log values are decomposed by identifying in the set one or more main functions indicative of one or more main geological layer features of the rock penetrated by the borehole and removing log values corresponding to values of the main functions from the set of log values. Further decomposing the set of log values can be performed, as necessary iteratively, based on one or more subsidiary functions. The log values of the set remaining after identification and removal of values are designated as texture. Functions indicative of the main and subsidiary layer features and the texture are used to construct a synthesized volume representing the rock removed during creation of the chosen length of the borehole.
US10295684B2
Systems and methods for constructing clean stratigraphic seismic traces to enhance interpretation of geological faults using diagnostic displays, diagnostic tools, and fault quality validation techniques.
US10295683B2
A method can include receiving input that specifies a type of partitionable pre-stack seismic data for a geologic environment and corresponding partitions; receiving an elastic model parameterized via elastic properties; generating synthetic seismic data for at least a portion of the geologic environment based at least in part on point spread functions and the elastic model; for the partitions, comparing the pre-stack seismic data and the generated synthetic seismic data; based at least in part on the comparing, updating the elastic model; and outputting values for at least one of the elastic properties.
US10295660B1
Techniques are described for aligning optical components within a LIDAR assembly. The techniques may be performed to align the optical components during manufacturing or assembly of the LIDAR assembly. For example, a first optical element (e.g., one of a light source or light sensor) may be installed in the LIDAR assembly. An optimal alignment for a second optical element (e.g., the other of the light source or light sensor) may be determined and the second optical element may be installed at the optimal alignment. The optimal alignment for the second optical element may be determined based on detected signals, for example, which may correspond to an alignment resulting in a strongest return signal, highest quality return signal, and/or minimal interference. Additionally, or alternatively, techniques may be used to align optical components at runtime by using an actuator to move one or more components of the LIDAR assembly during operation.
US10295645B2
A method and a system for measuring and calibrating an imaging magnetic field in a magnetic resonance apparatus are provided. The method includes: providing the imaging magnetic field, where the imaging magnetic field is adapted for scanning an object; sampling a signal corresponding to the imaging magnetic field; processing the signal to obtain an actual magnetic field intensity; and calibrating based on a difference between the actual magnetic field intensity and a target magnetic field intensity. The system includes: a magnetic component, adapted for scanning an object to be imaged; a sampling unit, adapted for sampling a signal corresponding to the imaging magnetic field; a processing unit, adapted for processing the signal to obtain an actual magnetic field intensity; a calibration unit, adapted for calibrating based on a difference between the actual magnetic field intensity and a target magnetic field intensity; and a control unit, adapted for controlling the system.
US10295641B2
A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus according to one embodiment includes a sequence controller, a correction map generator, an image generator, and a corrector. The sequence controller executes first data acquisition to acquire data for a phase correction map, and second data acquisition to acquire data of a cluster of images corresponding to a plurality of time phases. The correction map generator generates the phase correction map by using echo signals acquired through the first data acquisition. The image generator generates the cluster of images corresponding to the time phases by using echo signals acquired through the second data acquisition. The corrector corrects a phase of each image included in the cluster of images, based on the phase correction map and changes in phase of echo signals that occur between time phases.
US10295623B2
An MRI system for imaging one or more subjects is provided. The MRI system includes a magnet assembly and an MRI controller. The magnet assembly includes an RF coil for transmitting a first set of RF pulses into the one or more subjects at an initial Larmor frequency. The MRI controller is configured to electronically communicate with the RF coil and to adjust a resonant frequency of the RF coil such that the RF coil transmits a second set of RF pulses into the one or more subjects at one or more subsequent Larmor frequencies that are different from the initial Larmor frequency.
US10295617B2
A distribution analyzing device (20) includes: an obtaining unit (21) which obtains measurement data of a field measured, through a sensor sensing area, independently at each of rotation angles and at each of grid coordinate positions of the sensor sensing area; and a calculation unit (22) which calculates a distribution of the field from the measurement data, using an arithmetic expression obtained by deriving a target harmonic function, which indicates the distribution of the field, using a condition that a convolution of the target harmonic function and a shape function, which indicates a shape of a cross section of the finite sensor sensing area along a plane parallel to the measurement plane, is equal to a provisional harmonic function derived by solving the Laplace equation using the measurement data and a size of the sensor sensing area in a direction perpendicular to the measurement plane.
US10295615B2
A magnetic sensor includes a rectangular or substantially rectangular substrate and at least one first magnetoresistive element on the substrate. The first magnetoresistive element has a pattern that, in plan view, has a rectangular or substantially rectangular outer shape and includes first slits that extend in a radiating manner from a center of the pattern and approach an outer edge of the pattern and second slits between adjacent first slits and extend from the outer edge of the pattern toward the center of the pattern. The pattern is connected to circle around the center of the pattern while alternately changing direction between a first direction toward the outer edge of the pattern and a second direction toward the center of the pattern.
US10295613B2
In a method and magnetic resonance (MR) apparatus for creating a common updating kernel for at least two datasets, a first dataset is acquired from a subject that includes Nyquist undersampled measurement data acquired from at least two reception coils of an MR scanner, and that also includes calibration data. At least one further dataset is acquired, that contains Nyquist undersampled measurement data acquired with said coils, and also includes calibration data. A common calibration dataset is created from the calibration data in the first and the at least one further dataset. An updated first dataset and at least one updated further dataset are determined using the common calibration dataset. A combination image dataset can be produced from these updated datasets.
US10295607B2
A device for estimating parameters of battery capable of improving, by using simple calculations, estimation accuracy of a parameter and the like of a battery equivalent circuit model will be provided.The device for estimating parameters of battery for estimating the parameter of a battery (1) includes: a battery equivalent circuit model (4A) including resistance and a capacitor as the parameter; a logarithmic conversion parameter value estimation unit (4B) for sequentially estimating, by using a logarithmic conversion parameter value serving as a state variable obtained by carrying out logarithmic conversion on the parameter, the logarithmic conversion parameter value with a Kalman filter (41) from a state equation and an output equation, based on a charging/discharging current and a terminal voltage those being detected; and an inverse logarithmic conversion unit (4C) for obtaining, from the logarithmic conversion parameter value, an estimated parameter value serving as an antilogarithm corresponding to the logarithmic conversion parameter value.
US10295602B2
A charge/discharge condition adoptable in a secondary battery of high-temperature operation type is calculated by a small amount of calculations. A resource matrix includes a plurality of state indicators and a plurality of charge/discharge conditions. The resource matrix is referred to and two or more state indicators related to an input state indicator so as to satisfy a condition are selected from the plurality of state indicators. A charge/discharge condition corresponding to each of the two or more selected state indicators are extracted from the plurality of charge/discharge conditions, so that two or more charge/discharge conditions are extracted. Interpolation is performed in the two or more selected state indicators and the two or more extracted charge/discharge conditions, so that a charge/discharge condition adoptable in a secondary battery in a case where a state of the secondary battery is indicated by the input state indicator, is calculated.
US10295593B2
Embodiments includes an apparatus and method that intentionally illuminate a device with RF energy having specific characteristics (e.g., frequency, power, waveform, directionality, duration, etc.) to make a conductor of the device a transmitter. A method can include identifying data to be transmitted by the one or more conductors and providing a signal to the electrical or electronic circuitry to cause the electrical or electronic circuitry to change state and produce a first signal on the one or more conductors. The one or more conductors can produce a forced non-linear emission (FNLE) that is a mixture of the first signal and an electromagnetic wave incident thereon that, when decoded by an external device, corresponds to the data.
US10295591B2
Circuits and methods for testing wafers are disclosed herein. An embodiment of a method includes electrically contacting a first probe and a second probe to a wafer. A gas is blown in the areas proximate the first probe and the second probe. An electric potential is then applied between the first probe and the second probe while the gas is being blown.
US10295590B2
A probe card having uniform temperature distribution under control to a desired temperature is provided, so as to provide an inspection apparatus and an inspection method. The probe card includes a supporting substrate, a wiring layer arranged including a wiring on a main surface of the supporting substrate, a probe arranged on a surface serving as an opposite side to a side of the supporting substrate of the wiring layer so as to be connected to the wiring, and a plurality of heaters. Further, the probe card is virtually divided into heater regions according to a plurality of heater regions arrayed in vertical and horizontal directions in plan view, and at least one of a plurality of heaters is arranged in each of the plurality of heater regions. An inspection apparatus is configured including the probe card, and an object to be inspected is inspected by use of the inspection apparatus.
US10295585B2
Traveling wave information from a single end of an electric power delivery system is used to determine a fault location on a power line of the electric power delivery system. Hypotheses of which of a plurality of received traveling waves represents a first reflection from the fault are evaluated. A determination of an arrival time of the first reflection from the fault is used to calculate a distance from the single end of the power line to the fault location.
US10295567B2
A probe module, which supports loopback test and is provided between a PCB and a DUT, includes an adapter, two probes, two inductive components provided at the adapter, and a capacitive component. The adapter has two connecting circuits. An end of each of the probes is connected to one of the connecting circuits, while another end thereof, which is a tip, contacts the DUT. Each of the inductive components has an end electrically connected to one of the connecting circuits, and another end electrically connected to the PCB through a conductive member, which is provided at the adapter, wherein two ends of the capacitive component are electrically connected to one of the connecting circuits, respectively. Whereby, the signal paths are changed by the differences between frequencies of signals, and the transmission path of high-frequency signals is effectively shortened.
US10295562B1
An electronic watch is described. The watch has one or more sensors, including a sensor that may be used to detect a force applied to a cover of the watch. The sensor may variously include a capacitive sensor assembly configured to detect a deflected position of the cover; a sensor having electrical components that move toward one another in response to an input applied to the cover; or a deformable component that is configured to compress in response to a press input, thereby allowing first and second electrical traces to move toward one another. Portions or all of the various sensors may be obscured by an ink layer on an underside of the cover.
US10295560B2
The invention relates to a device for conducting near-field optical measurements of a sample comprising a wavelength-tunable monochromatic light source. Further the invention relates to methods for measuring the near-field using such a device.
US10295557B2
Sensor devices for a rolling bearing and roller bearings including said sensors are disclosed. The sensor device may include at least one sensor configured to connect to one bearing race in a manner fixed against relative rotation. At least one signal transmitter may be configured to connect to the other of the bearing races in a manner fixed against relative rotation. The sensor device may further include an outer ring configured to be fastened on an end face of the outer race of the rolling bearing and an inner ring configured to be fastened on an end face of the inner race of the rolling bearing. The sensor and the signal transmitter may be arranged on mutually opposite lateral surfaces of the outer and inner rings.
US10295553B2
Disclosed is a blood analyzing method including: a step of preparing a measurement sample from blood, a fluorescent dye represented by the following formula 1, and a diluent, a concentration of the fluorescent dye in the measurement sample being greater than or equal to 0.15 μM and smaller than or equal to 1.0 μM; a step of acquiring fluorescence information obtained by irradiating the measurement sample with light; and a step of detecting a red blood cell infected with a malaria parasite in the blood based on the fluorescence information.
US10295543B2
Therapeutic compositions for treating diseased cells such as cancer cells in a patient, formulated from a plurality of therapeutic agents selected from radiopharmaceuticals, chemotherapeutic agents and radionuclide labeled antibodies. Methods for predicting the response of an individual patient's cells to therapeutic intervention are also disclosed.
US10295530B2
Embodiments herein provides an in vitro co-culture system comprising a population of cancer responder cells and a population of non-tumor cells wherein the cancer responder cells can convert to a malignant state and exhibit hallmark malignant phenotype when the cells are placed in a tumor supportive environment. The system is useful for prognosis evaluation of cancer recurrence, malignancy development, cancer drug screening and surveillance for resistance to cancer drug therapy.
US10295527B2
A process and system directed to a more effective, individual based treatment regimen which is built on clinical identified target biomarkers associated with gender differential responses to mesalamine, and includes one or more panels of target biomarkers that distinguishes mesalamine response differences between genders and determines the efficacy of mesalamine for patients being treated for various UC conditions and effectively identifies and validates novel drug targets for new UC therapeutics, new diagnostics and diagnostics standards for UC therapeutic strategies.
US10295526B2
A centrifuge is provided. The centrifuge includes a power source, the power source configured to generate electrical power from a renewable power source. At least one battery electrically coupled to the power source. A motor is electrically coupled to the at least one battery. A rotor is coupled to the motor. The rotor has a generally cylindrical body and a pair of opposing openings opposite the motor, and a pair of holders each disposed in one of the pair of opposing openings, each of the holders having an opening on one end sized to receive a capillary tube.
US10295519B2
A sensing system according to the embodiment of the present invention includes an optical actuator configured to apply an optical stimulus into a detection target substance, a photo detector configured to output an electrical signal having a snapback form in response to an optical response generated according to a concentration of the detection target substance to which the optical stimulus is applied, an amplifier configured to amplify the electrical signal output from the photo detector and to provide the amplified electrical signal as positive feedback to the optical actuator, and a detection unit configured to detect the detection target substance in response to the electrical signal.
US10295517B2
The present invention provides a means of greatly reducing interferences from mercury vapor, UV-absorbing compounds and water vapor in the measurement of ozone by UV absorbance. A heated graphite scrubber destroys greater than 99% of ozone passing through it while reducing biases from typical atmospheric UV-absorbing interferents by large factors compared to conventional ozone scrubbers. Substitution of a heated graphite scrubber in place of traditional ozone scrubbers such as hopcalite, metal oxides and heated silver scrubbers, results in a more accurate measurement of ozone by reducing the responses to UV-absorbing interferences and water vapor. The heated graphite scrubber also may be used in combination with other ozone sensors, such as electrochemical and HMOS sensors, to provide a reference measurement with ozone selectively removed and thus greatly reduce contributions from interfering species in those measurement devices as well.
US10295503B2
A system for displaying an area covered in a non-destructive scan of an area larger than the test probe is disclosed. Position encoders are included on the test probe to track the motion of the probe and to provide a record of the portion of the area under test that has been covered by the probe.
US10295499B2
A method of and system for determining the total magnetic content of a fluid sample introduced within at least one coil. A sample withdrawal event time is determined and, at the sample withdrawal event time, the response of the at least one coil is analyzed in two zones, a first zone before the fluid sample withdrawal event time and a second zone after the fluid sample withdrawal event time. The total magnetic content of the fluid is calculated based on the difference in the response of the at least one coil in the first and second zones at the fluid sample withdrawal event time.
US10295492B2
Methods for analyzing a fluid sample can include providing a sensor comprising a non-conductive housing and having a first face and an electrode array mounted in the first face. The method can include disposing the first face of the housing into a fluid sample to be analyzed, selecting a mode of operation, and initiating sensor operation. Modes of operation can include electrochemical operation and conductivity analysis, and can be selected via positioning a switch. The method can include receiving information from the sensor regarding at least one parameter of the fluid. Such parameters can include a concentration of a target constituent in the fluid sample, combined concentrations of different species within the fluid sample, and/or information indicative of the conductivity of the fluid sample.
US10295486B2
An x-ray spectrometer system comprising an x-ray imaging system with at least one achromatic imaging x-ray optic and an x-ray detection system. The optical train of the imaging system is arranged so that its object focal plane partially overlaps an x-ray emitting volume of an object. An image of a portion of the object is formed with a predetermined image magnification at the x-ray detection system. The x-ray detection system has both high spatial and spectral resolution, and converts the detected x-rays to electronic signals. In some embodiments, the detector system may have a small aperture placed in the image plane, and use a silicon drift detector to collect x-rays passing through the aperture. In other embodiments, the detector system has an energy resolving pixel array x-ray detector. In other embodiments, wavelength dispersive elements may be used in either the optical train or the detector system.
US10295483B2
An X-ray imaging inspection system for inspecting items comprises an X-ray source 10 extending around an imaging volume 16, and defining a plurality of source points 14 from which X-rays can be directed through the imaging volume. An X-ray detector array 12 also extends around the imaging volume 16 and is arranged to detect X-rays from the source points which have passed through the imaging volume, and to produce output signals dependent on the detected X-rays. A conveyor 20 is arranged to convey the items through the imaging volume 16.
US10295479B2
A board inspection apparatus is disclosed, which includes one surface-side irradiator that irradiates a first area on a surface side of a board with first light, a surface-side camera that takes an image of the first area, one rear face-side irradiator that irradiates a second area on a rear face side of the board with second light, a rear face-side camera that takes an image of the second area; and a controller that inspects the first area based on image data obtained from the surface-side camera and the second area based on image data obtained from the rear face-side camera.
US10295476B1
A system and method for multiple mode inspection of a sample. The system includes a radiation source, an objective lens, a bright field detection module, a dark field detection module and optics. The optics, when the system operates at a first mode, is configured to direct the input beam through a first opening, without substantially blocking any part of the input beam, towards a first region of the objective lens. The optics, when the system operates at a second mode, is configured to direct the input beam through a second opening, without substantially blocking any part of the input beam, towards a second region of the objective lens. The first region of the objective lens differs from the second region of the objective lens.
US10295474B2
An inspection system for visually inspecting one or more inspection locations within a structure, the inspection system including one or more imaging devices mounted within the structure to view the inspection locations, at least one light source to illuminate the inspection locations during inspection, and a wiring harness extending from the imaging device to at least one external port of the structure and configured to supply electrical power to the imaging device from a power supply external to the structure when connected to the port during inspection, and to carry image data representing images of the inspection locations from the imaging device to an external device for viewing by a user of the inspection system.
US10295472B2
Low-cost assay test strip readers enable creation of profiles of analyte reactions detected on an assay test strip utilizing a simple detector fixedly mounted to a body of the reader. The detector may be a single detector, such as a photodetector, which detects an optical signal at a single point. The assay test strip is inserted and/or removed from the test strip reader and the detector detects the optical elements of the strip during such insertion and/or removal. The movement of the test strip with respect to the body enables the detector to scan a length of the test strip, thereby generating a profile of optical signals representing analyte reactions along a one-dimensional portion of the test strip. The reader may convert the detected profile into a displayable indication of analyte concentrations for diagnostic purposes.
US10295463B2
A method for investigating one or a plurality of phase objects is described, in which a grid made up of elements is used, which is illuminated with light of a light source, the coherence length of which is larger than the average spacing of adjacent elements of the grid. A diffraction image of the illuminating light scattered on the grid is generated, whereby the one or the plurality of phase objects are placed in the light path between the light source and the grid and/or in the light path of the illuminating light scattered on the grid. At least a part of the diffraction image is detected by an optical sensor directly or after interaction with further optical components and converted into a signal. The signal is analyzed further in order to ascertain information relating to the one or plurality of phase objects therefrom. A corresponding device is likewise described.
US10295456B2
An aspect of the present disclosure is to precisely define a constant value used in the Monkman-Grant analysis, when estimating remaining life of a high-chromium steel pipe through which high-temperature and high-pressure fluid is allowed to flow. A remaining life estimation method according to the present disclosure is particularly characterized in that a step of obtaining a constant on an accelerated creep test is performed in which a constant indicative of the product of a strain rate and a rupture time in the Monkman-Grant analysis is obtained by multiplying a first coefficient to transform uniaxial rupture ductility into multiaxial rupture ductility, the uniaxial rupture ductility being obtained from a specimen of the high-chromium steel pipe, a second coefficient to amend consumed life of the specimen, and a third coefficient to amend a measured pressure into an assessment pressure.
US10295451B2
A device for extracting at least one object characteristic of an object (106) is presented, the device comprising: a light sensor (101) for recording a hologram of an object and a processing unit (102) coupled to the light sensor and configured for extracting at least one object characteristic from the hologram; wherein the processing unit is configured for extracting the at least one object characteristic from a section of the hologram without reconstructing an image representation of the object. Further, a device (200) for sorting an object (106), a method for identifying an object and a method for sorting objects is presented.
US10295447B2
An energized dispersive extraction method for sample preparation for analysis is disclosed. The method includes the steps of placing an extraction solvent, sorbent particles, and a sample matrix containing an analyte in a heat conductive sample cup; positioning the sample cup in a pressure-resistant reaction chamber; dispersing the solvent and the sample matrix in the sample cup in the reaction chamber; heating the sample matrix and the solvent in the sample cup in the reaction chamber to a temperature that generates an above-atmospheric pressure; draining the solvent extract from the sample cup at atmospheric pressure; and collecting the solvent extract for analysis.
US10295446B2
The invention provides a device for full-automatic, ultra-low pressure, fractionation-free and non-destructive extraction of water, including a control box, an extraction part, an ultra-low temperature cold trap and a transmission device, wherein the control box and the extraction part are located at the top of a cabinet, the ultra-low temperature cold trap is located inside the cabinet, a touch screen is arranged on the control box, a temperature control meter is arranged on a side face of the control box, the extraction part includes an upper layer plate, a middle layer plate, a bottom plate and a test tube, the bottom plate is fixedly installed on the cabinet, the test tube is accommodated in the ultra-low temperature cold trap, and the transmission device is fixedly installed on the bottom plate. The invention has the beneficial effects of being able to extract a plurality of samples at the same time, so the extraction efficiency is high; and no liquid nitrogen or organic solvent is required, thereby reducing the environmental pollution.
US10295444B2
An apparatus including a reagent cartridge and a reaction chamber, the reagent cartridge having a reagent capsule removably positioned therein for dispensing of a reagent onto the reaction chamber. A system including a linearly translatable mounting assembly having a plurality of mounting stations dimensioned to receive at least one fluid dispensing cartridge, a linearly translatable bulk reagent dispensing assembly having a plurality of bulk reagent dispensing nozzles coupled thereto and a receiving assembly positioned beneath the mounting assembly and the bulk reagent dispensing assembly, the receiving assembly including a plurality of reaction stations. A method including determining an inventory of an automated sample processing system, downloading a processing protocol from a central controller to the automated sample processing system, operating the automated sample processing system based on the processing protocol and independently of the central controller and dispensing a reagent from the automated sample processing system.
US10295439B2
An enclosure diagnostic and control system is described herein. The system can include a controller having a storage repository, where the storage repository includes at least one threshold value and at least one algorithm. The system can also include an enclosure communicably coupled to the controller and electrically coupled to a field device. The system can further include a number of sensors communicably coupled to the controller, where the sensors measure a number of field values of a number of parameters associated with the field device. The controller can evaluate the field values using the at least one algorithm to generate an evaluated value. The controller can output a control signal based on the evaluated value.
US10295430B2
An assembly is provided for performing start-up testing on a fluid flow control device. The assembly includes a retainer adapted to be disposed in a valve body of the fluid flow control device, and a sealing assembly coupled to a portion of the retainer and adapted to be disposed adjacent a valve seat of the fluid flow control device. The sealing assembly includes one or more sealing elements configured to provide a seal during start-up testing at a service temperature of between approximately −325 degrees Fahrenheit and approximately 1250 degrees Fahrenheit.
US10295429B2
A tire balance measurement device includes a rotation drive portion, an eccentric force measurement unit, a calculation unit, and an evaluation unit. The eccentric force measurement unit measures an eccentric force generated in a main shaft. The calculation unit calculates an eccentric amount of the main shaft based on the eccentric force measured by the eccentric force measurement unit. The evaluation unit evaluates the eccentric amount of the main shaft based on a correlation between the eccentric force measured by the eccentric force measurement unit when the main shaft is rotated at a predetermined rotation speed, and the rotation speed.
US10295427B2
A pressure sensing apparatus with multiple, isolated pressure sensors provided therein. The apparatus includes a base cover portion having multiple sections and each section defines an opening. A sensor is positioned in each base cover portion and a portion of each sensor is exposed to the respective opening. A flanged base is coupled to the base cover portion to define multiple separate chambers and a housing is provided around the base cover portion and base and the housing has multiple conduits in fluid connection with respective cover openings.
US10295419B2
An actuator according to an embodiment includes a first rotating body that is rotatable around an input axis and includes a first groove part extending in a first direction, a second rotating body that is rotatable around an output axis and includes a second protruding part extending in a second direction substantially perpendicular to the first direction, a strain body that includes a first protruding part capable of being engaged with a first groove part through a gap whose direction is vertical to that of the input axis and a second groove part capable of being engaged with a second protruding part through a gap whose direction is vertical to that of the output axis and transmits a rotational torque of the input axis to the output axis, and a detection element that is attached to the strain body.
US10295413B2
An apparatus, a system and a method for monitoring and alerting a user caring for a patient when a change in body temperature requires immediate attention. The apparatus is a bracelet worn by the user. The system includes the bracelet in wireless communication with a temperature sensing device placed on the patient. The bracelet has a body temperature display an audible alarm that sounds and a vibration that occurs when the temperature exceeds a setpoint, and a plurality of lights, each with a unique setpoint, a light activated when the temperature exceeds the setpoint and a glowing band. The user attaches the temperature sensing device to the patient and dons the bracelet. The user can then sleep, selectively observing the display and lights upon waking with confidence that the system is monitoring the patient's temperature and selectively alerting the user when a change in body temperature requires immediate attention.
US10295408B2
A spectroscopy system (10) for analyzing in-elastic scattered electromagnetic radiation from an object being irradiated by electromagnetic radiation is provided. The system comprises a tunable lens assembly (13) having a tunable lens provided in the beam path between an electromagnetic radiation source (11) and the object (0) and arranged to project a beam of electromagnetic radiation emitted from the electromagnetic radiation source onto an area of the object and receive and collimate the in-elastic scattered electromagnetic radiation from the object. Based on electromagnetic radiation detected by at least a first detector (121) a control unit (14) is capable making a decision to change the operational settings of the tunable lens.
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A solar monitoring system for measuring solar radiation intensity comprising a tracking unit having two-axis movement comprising, an image capturing head mounted with first and second irradiation measuring units, and a controller. The first irradiation measuring unit comprises a direct normal irradiance (DNI) sensor and the second irradiation measuring unit includes a diffuse horizontal irradiance (DHI) sensor and a global horizontal irradiance (GHI) sensor. The controller receives inputs from the sensors or a software program configured to control orientation of the image capturing head so that the DNI sensor is always exposed to the sun, and the shading disc is always directly between the DHI sensor and the sun.
US10295397B2
A method for validating or invalidating the computed weight of an aircraft, where the computed weight of the aircraft is determined by compiling various weight assumptions added to a known empty weight of the aircraft. The method measures the aircraft center of gravity, determines the percentage of computed weight supported by the combined main landing gear struts, and using a database such as a look-up table to validate if the percentage of computed weight is determined within a reasonable range to the measured load on the combined main landing gear struts. Sensors are attached to the landing gear struts, so to measure and monitor aircraft loads and center of gravity without measuring the aircraft weight.
US10295391B2
The invention relates to a frequency generator for generating two pulse repetition frequency signals with slightly different frequencies for a radar measuring device. The frequency generator comprises an oscillator, which generates an oscillator signal, a first signal path for generating a first pulse repetition frequency signal from the oscillator signal, and a second signal path for generating a second pulse repetition frequency signal from the oscillator signal. The first signal path comprises a frequency divider or a first DDS module which is designed to generate a first frequency signal on the basis of the oscillator signal, a first mixer which is designed to upmix the first frequency signal or a signal derived therefrom to an intermediate frequency band and to generate a first intermediate frequency signal, and a first ceramic bandpass filter which is designed to filter out a selected frequency component of the first intermediate frequency signal and to generate a bandpass-filtered first intermediate frequency signal. The second signal path comprises a second DDS component which is designed to generate a second frequency signal on the basis of the oscillator signal, said second frequency signal differing from the first frequency signal by a specified frequency offset, a second mixer which is designed to upmix the second frequency signal or a signal derived therefrom to an intermediate frequency band and to generate a second intermediate frequency signal, and a second ceramic bandpass filter which is designed to filter out a selected frequency component of the second intermediate frequency signal and to generate a bandpass-filtered second intermediate frequency signal.
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An electromagnetic flow meter includes a measurement tube, an excitation coil, an excitation current supplying unit supplying an excitation current with an excitation frequency fex to the excitation coil, a pair of electrodes disposed inside the measurement tube, a measuring unit measuring a flow based on an emf that arises between the electrodes, a first A/D converting unit that converts the emf to a digital signal, a sampling unit sampling the digital signal, a noise evaluation value calculating unit, based on at least the sample data sampled by the sampling unit, calculating as a noise evaluation value the magnitude of the impact of a noise component owing to adherence of foreign matter to the electrodes upon the measurement of the flow, and an electrode scaling diagnosing unit determining an electrode foreign matter adherence state by comparing the noise evaluation value and a predetermined diagnostic threshold value.
