US10313760B2
A method and apparatus for performing an integrated search is provided. An interface is provided that allows users to search and select any data related to a searchable term. Searchable terms may comprise titles of content, actors, and tags. Upon receiving results from the initial search, the user progresses through the initial search by selecting a result from the initial search and conducting a further search of that selection. The search may progress through many layers of searching in order to find information useful to the user and the user may perform actions based upon results of the search. The search implements a display with two columns, the first column displaying selectable data, and the second column displaying results to the selected data. The search is further customizable based upon a privacy level selected by the user.
US10313758B2
A method, apparatus, and computer-readable storage device includes functionality for analyzing a streaming video schedule for one or more scheduling gaps and for streaming supplemental content to fill the one or more scheduling gaps. The streaming video schedule comprises a list of start times, end times, and titles to video segments to be streamed over a computer network. The supplemental content may comprise paid or free content and may be provided by a live linear video stream, a data storage device storing video on demand (VOD) content, digital video recorder (DVR) content, a media server, a content delivery network server, a capture video device, or any combination thereof. Particular embodiments include truncating the supplemental content to fill specific gaps in the streaming video schedule, receiving user input for matching and/or search functionality to select supplemental content for streaming, and/or the like.
US10313750B2
A method includes receiving, at a media server, a request to create a media content summary. The request includes a user-specified criterion. The method also includes generating resized segments by automatically changing a size of each of one or more segments of media content until a total size of the resized segments satisfies the user-specified criterion and including the resized segments in the media content summary.
US10313743B2
A playback method according to one aspect of the present disclosure is performed by a playback device connected to a display device. The playback method includes obtaining a type of the display device; selecting each of a version of High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) and a version of High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP), according to the obtained type of the display device; obtaining a video signal of content recorded on a recording medium; decoding the obtained video signal; encrypting the decoded video signal using the selected version of HDCP; and outputting the encrypted video signal to the display device using the selected version of HDMI.
US10313740B2
Ancillary information associated with one or more images embedded in a digital broadcast data stream may be accessed by a digital broadcast receiving device. The device may include a receiver unit, a processor, and a memory. The processor may execute program instructions to access the ancillary information. Control data may be associated with one or more visual components of one or more video images. The control data and images may be combined into a digital broadcast data stream. The device may receive the images and control data. The images may be presented on a display device. The receiving device may use the control data to present or store a perceptible indication that ancillary information is associated with the visual components in conjunction with presenting the images. The device may use the control data to present or store the ancillary information in response to an input signal.
US10313736B2
Systems and methods for providing a video electronic programming guide (“video EPG”) may include outputting a primary program for display on a display screen, receiving a command to activate the video EPG, and in response to receiving the command, outputting a plurality of widgets for display on a display screen. Each of the plurality of widgets may represent a category of broadcast programs. Systems and methods may include receiving a widget selection for one of the plurality of widgets and outputting a video menu corresponding to the selected widget for display on the display screen. The video menu includes a plurality of video scenes, whereby each of the plurality of video scenes represents a broadcast program categorized in the selected widget. Systems and methods may include receiving a program selection for one of the plurality of video scenes.
US10313734B1
Displaying video on a video display device is disclosed. A first video stream from a first video streaming source is displayed on the display device. A second video stream from a second video streaming source is processed on the display device without displaying the second video stream. Displaying the first video stream is ceased and instead the second video stream is displayed. Supporting operations on a video stream is also disclosed. At least one video chunk is received at a first granularity. A determination is made that an operation is to be performed at a different granularity. At least one video chunk is requested at the different granularity.
US10313732B2
Systems, methods, and apparatuses related to an intelligent remote control device are described. A remote control device may control a device located at a premises via a remote computing device. Various communications may facilitate the control.
US10313727B2
A customized content selection and delivery system is operable to create a customized content channel package for a subscriber and customized content channel package to a customer premises over a content delivery network. A multi-level analysis based on measured content consumption metrics is performed to select content provider channels for the customized content channel package.
US10313721B1
Techniques are described for live streaming media content using on-demand manifests. Many manifest files providing playback options for different time periods of a live stream of media content can be generated and provided to viewer devices. Requests from viewer devices using the manifest files can be analyzed to determine a fragment to be provided for playback in relation to the time period of the live stream to be provided for playback.
US10313719B2
A video splicer combines a first video stream, encoded in accordance with a block based coding algorithm, with a second video stream. A header processor detects a key position picture in each of a plurality of sequential GOPs of the first stream and determines a presentation time for each key position picture in each GOP in the first stream. A timing mapper identifies a respective image in the second stream having a presentation time corresponding to a key position picture of the first stream. An encoder encodes the second stream in accordance with the block based coding algorithm. A new GOP is started with the respective image in the second stream having a presentation time corresponding to the key position picture of the first stream. A switcher switches between outputting the first stream and the encoded second stream by a signal from the timing mapper.
US10313717B2
Concepts and technologies are disclosed herein for adaptive bit rate mobile video objective testing. A system can receive a plurality of screen-capture frames, where each of the plurality of screen-capture frames corresponds to a respective frame of an adaptive bit rate video stream being displayed on a screen of a test device. The system can create a screen-capture video stream and determine that the screen-capture video stream corresponds to a reference video stream that is non-annotated. The system can obtain a reference video signature package, align the screen-capture video stream with the reference video stream using the reference video signature package, generate full reference video quality performance indicators, and determine delivery quality performance indicators for the screen-capture video stream. The system can join the full reference video quality performance indicators and the delivery quality performance indicators to form an objective quality of experience data structure.
US10313716B2
The present invention provides an apparatus for transmitting broadcast signals, an apparatus for receiving broadcast signals and methods for transmitting and receiving broadcast signals. An apparatus for transmitting a broadcast signal including multimedia content using a broadcast network includes: an encoder configured to generate signaling information, wherein the signaling information indicates whether the multimedia content is to be transmitted in real time; a transmission block generator, if the signaling information indicates real-time transmission of the multimedia content, configured to divide a file contained in the multimedia content into at least one transmission block (TB) indicating a data unit that is independently encoded and transmitted; and a transmitter configured to transmit the transmission block (TB). Accordingly, the apparatus can reduce a total time needed when multimedia content is acquired and then displayed for a user.
US10313709B2
Transmission video data is obtained by performing photoelectric conversion on input video data having a level range of 0% to 100%*N (N is a number larger than 1). A container including a video stream obtained by encoding the transmission video data is transmitted. Information of an electro-optical conversion characteristic of each predetermined unit of the transmission video data is inserted into a layer of the video stream and/or a layer of the container. For example, a predetermined unit is a scene unit or a program unit. The operations make it possible to perform appropriate photoelectric conversion on HDR video data according to image content and transmit resulting data.
US10313699B2
A video decoding method includes obtaining a motion vector of a current block belonging to a first picture from a bitstream, performed by a first decoding unit; determining whether a reference block indicated by the motion vector is decoded, performed by the first decoding unit; and decoding the current block, based on whether the reference block is decoded. The reference block is included in a second picture decoded by a second decoding unit. The first picture and the second picture are decoded in parallel.
US10313698B2
Innovations in syntax and semantics of coded picture buffer removal delay (“CPBRD”) values potentially simplify splicing operations. For example, a video encoder sets a CPBRD value for a current picture that indicates an increment value relative to a nominal coded picture buffer removal time of a preceding picture in decoding order, regardless of whether the preceding picture has a buffering period SEI message. The encoder can signal the CPBRD value according to a single-value approach in which a flag indicates how to interpret the CPBRD value, according to a two-value approach in which another CPBRD value (having a different interpretation) is also signaled, or according to a two-value approach that uses a flag and a delta value. A corresponding video decoder receives and parses the CPBRD value for the current picture. A splicing tool can perform simple concatenation operations to splice bitstreams using the CPBRD value for the current picture.
US10313696B2
The present invention relates to a method for storing video information, to a method for parsing video information and to an apparatus using the same. The method for storing video information according to the present invention comprises: a step of encoding video information; and a step of storing a network abstraction layer (NAL) unit including the encoded video information in a decoder configuration record. The decoder configuration record may include information indicating the type of NAL unit.
US10313694B2
The present disclosure relates to an image processing device and an image processing method capable of reducing a processing burden required at the time of generating a stream. A file generating unit sets a startcode and filler data for a file including a bitstream acquired by coding an image and performs control of the setting of the startcode and the filler data such that the startcode and the filler data that are set configure a file with a characteristic of a parameter managing a decoder buffer being maintained in media data of the file. The present disclosure, for example, can be applied to an image processing device.
US10313692B2
A visual perception characteristics-combining hierarchical video coding method includes: setting priority of visual interest area and setting allocation scheme of video coding resource. Setting priority of visual interest area includes analyzing both time and space visual characteristic saliency of video content. Setting allocation scheme of video coding resource includes, according to the priority of visual interest area, macroblock coding resource of interest area is satisfied preferentially to realize hierarchical coding.
US10313688B2
An image coding method in which a chroma component and a luma component of an input image including one or more transform blocks are transformed to code the input image. The luma component has the same size as the current transform block. The chroma component is smaller than the current transform block. In the method, when the current transform block has a first minimum size, the chroma component is transformed on a basis of a block resulting from binding a plurality of the chroma blocks to has the same size as the luma block, and when the current transform block has a size other than the first minimum size, a CBF flag indicating whether or not coefficients of the chroma component include a non-zero coefficient is not coded.
US10313677B2
An intra-frame decoding method includes obtaining, from a video code stream, prediction mode information of a first signal component of a current block; determining a prediction mode of the first signal component of the current block from a prediction mode set of the first signal component of the current block according to the prediction mode information of the first signal component of the current block, where the prediction mode set of the first signal component of the current block includes at least one of a linear model above (LMA) mode and a linear model left (LML) mode; obtaining a predicted value of a first signal component sampling point of the current block; and obtaining a reconstructed value of the first signal component sampling point of the current block according to the predicted value of the first signal component sampling point of the current block.
US10313662B2
An autostereoscopic 3D display device may be configured to set the width of a viewing zone to a proper fraction of the interocular distance while at the same time overlapping the viewing zones with each other. Through this, an autostereoscopic 3D display device allowing the input and output of stereo image data may be implemented to reduce the number of image sources as well as reduce 3D crosstalk. In addition, the autostereoscopic 3D display device may apply view data rendering to extend a 3D viewing zone.
US10313660B2
An image processing apparatus includes: an image input section through which a two-dimensional image signal is input; an image converting section which receives the image signal output from the image input section and generates and outputs a left eye image and a right eye image for realizing stereopsis; and an image output section which outputs the left eye image and the right eye image output from the image converting section. The image converting section extracts a spatial characteristic amount of the input image signal, generates at least one of the left eye image and the right eye image through an image conversion process in which the characteristic amount is applied, and performs the image conversion process of a different type according to a comparison result of distance information of a preset region unit in the input image signal and a predetermined threshold.
US10313655B2
To provide an image capture device capable of doing multiple image captures by using multiple image capture units and capable of measuring a distance between each of the image capture units and a target more correctly. An image capture device according to the present invention is an image capture device with multiple image capture units. The image capture device comprises: one light emission unit for distance measurement that emits a reference beam; and the multiple image capture units that capture images of a reflected beam of the reference beam while having common timing of image capture.
US10313648B2
In a high speed image capturing state, a camera signal processing circuit is not needed to perform a signal process at a high screen rate, but at a regular screen rate. In the high speed image capturing mode, raw data of 240 fps received from an image sensor 101 are recorded on a recording device 111 through a conversion processing section 201 and a recording device controlling circuit 210. Raw data that have been decimated and size-converted are supplied to a camera signal processing circuit 203 through a pre-processing circuit 202 and an image being captured is displayed on a display section 112 with a signal for which a camera process has been performed. In a reproducing state, raw data are read from the recording device 111 at a low screen rate according to a display performance of the display section 112 and the raw data that have been read are processed are processed by the pre-processing circuit 202 and the camera signal processing circuit 203 and a reproduced image is displayed by the display section 112.
US10313642B2
An imaging system for capturing an image of an object comprises a first lens, a dichroic beam splitter, which transmits light of a color band and reflects light of all colors outside the color band, a first image sensor for capturing an image formed by the transmitted light in the color band, a second image sensor for capturing an image formed by the reflected light outside the color band. The first image sensor is a monochrome image sensor and the second image sensor is a color image sensor having a color filter array disposed on pixels of the second image sensor. The image captured by the first image sensor and the image captured by the second image sensor are combined to form a single color image.
US10313633B2
A system and method for manipulating images in a videoconferencing session provides users with a 3-D-like view of one or more presented sites, without the need for 3-D equipment. A plurality of cameras may record a room at a transmitting endpoint, and the receiving endpoint may select one of the received video streams based upon a point of view of a conferee at the receiving endpoint. The conferee at the receiving endpoint will thus experience a 3-D-like view of the presented site.
US10313622B2
A dual-column-parallel image CCD sensor utilizes a dual-column-parallel readout circuit including two pairs of cross-connected transfer gates to alternately transfer pixel data (charges) from a pair of adjacent pixel columns to a shared output circuit at high speed with low noise. Charges transferred along the two adjacent pixel columns at a line clock rate are alternately passed by the transfer gates to a summing gate that is operated at twice the line clock rate to pass the image charges to the shared output circuit. A symmetrical Y-shaped diffusion is utilized in one embodiment to merge the image charges from the two pixel columns. A method of driving the dual-column-parallel CCD sensor with line clock synchronization is also described. A method of inspecting a sample using the dual-column-parallel CCD sensor is also described.
US10313618B2
The present technology relates to a solid-state image sensor, an imaging device, and an electronic device capable of switching FD conversion efficiency in all pixels of a solid-state image sensor. A photodiode performs photoelectric conversion on incident light. A floating diffusion (FD) stores charge obtained by the photodiode. FD2, which is a second FD to which the capacity of an additional capacitor MIM is added, adds the capacity to the FD. The additional capacitor MIM is constituted by a first electrode formed by a wiring layer and a second electrode formed by a metallic light blocking film provided on a surface of a substrate on which the photodiode is formed. Switching between the FD and FD+FD2 allows switching of the FD conversion efficiency. The present technology is applicable to a CMOS image sensor.
US10313611B2
An image sensor includes a first pixel and a second pixel. The first pixel receives a first signal sensed by a first photodiode. The second pixel receives a second signal sensed by a second photodiode. A pixel binning device includes a first transistor, a second transistor and a binning circuit, wherein the first transistor switchably couples to the first pixel to transfer the first signal, the second transistor switchably couples to the second pixel to transfer the second signal, and the binning circuit couples to the first transistor and the second transistor to bin the first signal and the second signal.
US10313610B2
Methods, systems, computer-readable media, and apparatuses for dynamic pixel binning are presented. In one example, an image sensor system includes a plurality of sensor elements; a plurality of floating diffusion regions in communication with the plurality of sensor elements, each floating diffusion region of the plurality of floating diffusion regions configured to be selectively enabled; and at least one comparison circuit coupled to at least two floating diffusion regions of the plurality of floating diffusion regions, the comparison circuit configured to: receive input signals from the two floating diffusion regions, compare the input signals, and output a comparison signal based on the comparison of the input signals.
US10313590B2
A drive device includes a noise signal calculation unit, a signal correction unit, and a drive controller. The noise signal calculation unit calculates a noise signal corresponding to a magnetic flux generated from a current flowing through a drive coil. The signal correction unit corrects a detection signal detected by a detector based on the noise signal. The drive controller controls a drive signal to be applied to the drive coil based on a corrected signal obtained by the signal correction unit. The noise signal calculation unit acquires an amplitude of a predetermined frequency band including a frequency of a high-frequency drive signal, and calculates the noise signal included in the detection signal based on the acquired amplitude.
US10313589B2
An imaging device includes a lens unit to form an object image, an imaging unit to convert the formed object image to an image signal, an image processing unit, an insertion/removal unit, a setting unit, and a mode determining unit. The image processing unit performs predetermined image processing on the image signal. The insertion/removal unit inserts and removes optical filters to/from the lens unit. The mode determining unit determines setting of an imaging mode included in a received setting. The optical filters include a first filter having a transmittance of a wavelength component in the infrared region that is relatively smaller than a wavelength component in the visible region, and a second filter having a transmittance of the wavelength component in the infrared region that is relatively larger than the wavelength component in the visible region. The image processing unit performs image processing according to a determination result.
US10313587B2
An imaging device adapted to provide eye-tracking data by imaging at least one eye of a viewer, wherein: the imaging device is switchable between at least an active mode and a ready mode; the imaging device is configured, in the active mode, to use active eye illumination, which enables tracking of a corneal reflection, and to provide eye tracking data which include eye position and eye orientation; and the imaging device is configured, in the ready mode, to reduce an illumination intensity from a value the illumination intensity has in the active mode.
US10313585B2
A surveillance method includes: an interrupt processing operation of determining whether an interrupt is generated and determining a type of the interrupt; a type-1 interrupt processing operation of, in response to determining that the interrupt is a type-1 interrupt, determining whether an event has occurred, and, in response to determining that the event has occurred, sending an event occurrence alarm to an outside of the surveillance apparatus using a second communicator, which transmits or receives data at a second frequency, and sending an image, corresponding to the event, acquired by an image sensor to the outside using a first communicator, which transmits or receives data at a first frequency higher than the second frequency; and a type-2 interrupt processing operation of, in response to determining that the interrupt is a type-2 interrupt, controlling the surveillance apparatus according to control information included in the type-2 interrupt, wherein the type-1 interrupt is an interrupt generated at a predetermined time interval.
US10313584B2
A rear-stitched view panorama (RSVP) system is provided that includes at least one processor and a memory storing software instructions that, when executed by the least one processor, cause the RSVP system to compute a disparity map for a left center rear image and a right center rear image captured by a stereo camera mounted on a rear of a vehicle, transform a right rear image, a left rear image, a reference center rear image, and the disparity map to a virtual world view, the right rear image and left rear image captured by respective right and left cameras mounted on the vehicle, compute an optimal left seam and an optimal right seam based on the transformed disparity map, and stitch the transformed images based on respective optimal seams to generate a panorama.
US10313578B2
An image capturing apparatus capable of executing autofocus by at least one of a phase difference detection method and a contrast detection method using an image signal obtained from a set focus detection region and from which an imaging optical system and a converter lens are detachable. The image capturing apparatus comprises: a conversion unit configured to convert aberration information indicating a spherical aberration of the imaging optical system based on a magnification and aberration information of the converter lens in a case where the converter lens is mounted; a calculation unit configured to calculate a correction value for correcting a difference between a result of the autofocus and a focus condition of a captured image; and a control unit configured to control a position of a focus lens based on the result of the autofocus that has been corrected using the correction value.
US10313576B2
A transmission apparatus configured to transmit image data to a reception apparatus through a network, in which a setting value for generating captured data and a setting value for generating image data by an encoding unit are updated according to reception of a command that sets the setting value for generating the captured data by the image capturing unit. When the setting value for generating the captured data is updated according to the received command, notification is performed through the network regardless of a restart process is performed.
US10313567B2
The present invention relates to a camera module in which a thin camera module can be realized at a low cost and an electronic device. The camera module includes a lens unit that stores a lens that condenses light on a light receiving surface of an image sensor; a rigid substrate on which the image sensor is disposed; and a flexible substrate electrically connected with the rigid substrate, wherein in the case where the light receiving surface of the image sensor locates at the top, the lens unit, the flexible substrate, and the rigid substrate are disposed in this order from the top.
US10313563B2
An on-foil object color adjustment device includes a data receiver that obtains non-bonded area data relating to a non-bonded area; and a hardware processor that: calculates a ratio of a size of the non-bonded area to a size of the foil area based on the non-bonded area data obtained by the data receiver; calculates, based on the calculated ratio, a color of the non-bonded area, a color of the foil, and color data of an on-foil object, a first influence degree indicating an influence of the non-bonded area on a color of the on-foil object to be printed in the foil area after the foil-bonding; and adjusts the color data of the on-foil object based on the calculated first influence degree.
US10313561B2
A target file includes: object data including pixels indicative of coordinate values in a first color space; and an input-side profile including data for converting coordinate values from the first color space into a specific color space. A color conversion is executed onto object data to generate post-conversion data including pixels indicative of coordinate values in a second color space. The executing color conversion includes executing judgment to judge, based on the input-side profile, which of first type post-conversion data generated through first type conversion using the input-side profile and an output-side profile, and second type post-conversion data generated through second-type conversion using prescribed data, should be used to output an image of the target file. The prescribed data is for conversion from the first color space into the second color space. The output-side profile contains data for conversion from the specific color space into the second color space.
US10313559B2
In an example implementation, a method of rosette-free printing includes, in a printing device whose color plane misregistration is less than 15 percent of a screen ruling of a halftone screen, printing multiple color planes of a multicolor image using the halftone screen.
US10313550B2
An image forming apparatus include an apparatus body, a cassette, and a size detector to detect a size of a sheet stored in the cassette. An image forming unit forms an image on a sheet fed from the cassette depending on a size setting and a type setting stored in a memory. In addition, a controller executes a first rewrite process to rewrite the size setting in a memory with size information acquired as a detection result of the size detector, if the cassette in an open state is closed, a determination process to determine whether the size information used for rewriting the size setting in the first rewrite process and the type setting stored in the memory satisfy a predetermined combination condition, and a second rewrite process to rewrite the type setting in the memory with predetermined type information that satisfies the combination condition with respect to the size information used for rewriting the size setting in the first rewrite process if the combination condition is not satisfied in the determination process.
US10313549B2
A photographing apparatus is provided, including a photographing device comprising imaging circuitry configured to generate an image signal by photoelectric conversion of incident light, a processor comprising processing circuitry configured to determine a sampling interval of time lapse photographing over time based on a reference value acquired in real time while the time lapse photographing is performed, to sample a plurality of input frames generated from the image signal at the sampling interval while the time lapse photographing is performed, to stabilize a plurality of frames selected by sampling the plurality of input frames using a window determined based on the sampling interval, and to compress the plurality of selected frames at an output frame rate to generate a time lapse image file, and a storage configured to store the time lapse image file.
US10313542B2
A function execution apparatus includes a display, a touch panel, and a controller configured to control the display to display a standby screen, the standby screen including a tab display area to display a plurality of tabs, and a tab screen display area to display a tab screen corresponding to a selected tab of the plurality of tabs, the plurality of tabs being associated with a plurality of tab screens, respectively, each of the tab screens including a plurality of icons associated with a corresponding tab, at least one of the tab screens including a particular specified function icon and at least one of a shortcut-registrable icon and a shortcut icon.
US10313531B2
A universal data gate converts between interface format types of interconnected systems. The data gate learns new interface types and greatly simplifies the requirement for a human user to reprogram the new interface types. A library of known interface types is built up over time and allows re-use of known interface types as required. Voice based room control is enabled by automatically activating the voice control on a guest device when the guest is checked in to a hotel room. Text corresponding to voice commands captured from the user's voice is passed to a hotel app. The system automatically pairs the guest device with the user's assigned room and determines which in-room controllable devices are to be operated by the user's voice commands. When the user switches to a new guest room during travel, the system automatically updates the room pairing and new voice commands operate the new in-room devices.
US10313526B2
A graph database is described for use in connection with a contact center. The graph database includes a plurality of nodes and relationships that describe the operations, entities, personnel, and attributes in the contact center. Also described is the operation of a work assignment engine that leverages the graph database to make intelligent and flexible work assignment decisions.
US10313520B2
Disclosed herein is a system that provides analysis of language or acoustic characteristics of a communication including a receiver and a computer-based communications analytics facility including at least one of: a language analysis module for analyzing the communication for at least one of a language characteristic and a non-word symbol within the communication text that connotes a verbal element, an acoustic analysis module for analyzing the communication for an acoustic characteristic, and a contextual module for analyzing a context of words within the communication. The system also includes a determination module for determining an alert associated with the communication using at least one of the language characteristic, the non-word symbol, the acoustic characteristic, and the context, wherein the alert concerns a presence or an absence of specific language; and an interface for displaying at least one visual, textual, or numerical indication representative of the alert.
US10313517B1
The system allows a consumer to shortcut through a call queue to reach a human agent faster. For phone or voice-based calls that require a consumer wait on hold, the system can give that consumer an accurate estimate of the wait time and allow them to skip all or some of it. It does this by using automated processes to proactively dial and wait in those call queues, measuring their time in queue. A new consumer making an incoming call can then join the call queue occupied by of those automated processes, shortcutting the consumer past all or some of the wait time.
US10313513B2
A multi-channel communication service uses an object-oriented approach to processing communications. The multi-channel communication service is capable of receiving, at a conversation object generator, inbound communications sent from a communication service and subsequently managing the status of participants engaged in a conversation via the various inbound communications. The management process is achieved by associating the inbound communications to corresponding client applications and executing an invitation process from the client applications to a conversation created by the conversation object generator.
US10313512B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to routing of an emergency communication under fault conditions. Routing can be implemented in a packet-switching (PS) network that provides voice service. For a network node of the PS network, availability to route the emergency communication through a specific emergency service routing number (ESRN) can be determined and, in response to the network node being unavailable, administrative data associated with the ESRN can be accessed. In addition, an identifier associated with the administrative data can be updated (e.g., created or modified) with data indicative of the device that originated the emergency communication. The administrative data and the resulting identifier can be delivered to a second network node that can route the emergency communication to an emergency service network.
US10313510B2
A communication conversion system is coupled to a global computer network. A user digital communication is electronically received from at least one remote device. The user digital communication is automatically converted into a formatted user communication according to at least one receiving template. The at least one receiving template is based, at least in part, on at least one correctional receiving requirement. A communications address is automatically selected for a correctional facility from a plurality of communications addresses. The communications address is based, at least in part, on an identifier of an inmate supplied with the user digital communication. The formatted user communication is electronically communicated to a printer with instructions to print at least one printed communication. The at least one printed communication is based, at least in part, on the formatted user communication, and is configured to be delivered to the communications address.
US10313506B2
The present disclosure relates to aggregating and sharing wellness data. The wellness data can be received by a user device from any number of sensors external or internal to the user device, from a user manually entering the wellness data, or from other users or entities. The user device can securely store the wellness data on the user device and transmit the wellness data to be stored on a remote database. A user of the device can share some or all of the wellness data with friends, relatives, caregivers, healthcare providers, or the like. The user device can further display a user's wellness data in an aggregated view of different types of wellness data. Wellness data of other users can also be viewed if authorizations from those users have been received.
US10313503B2
Techniques to reconfigure messaging clients during contact information changes are described. In one embodiment, an apparatus may comprise a messaging component operative to receive a contact phone number update at a messaging client on the client device from a messaging system, the contact phone number update associated with a contact with the messaging client, the contact phone number update comprising a previous phone number and an updated phone number; determine an existing message thread for the messaging client identified based on the previous phone number; and send a user message to the contact via the messaging system using the updated phone number as a destination address; and a user interface component operative to display a contact phone number change notification in the existing message thread; and receive the user message for the contact. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US10313501B2
The invention provides a handset that includes a finger-image sensor that provides finger-image-related signals or data for authentication purposes and functions as a telephone handset for use with a computer terminal. A system, including handsets and computer terminals, enables the terminal and/or the handset to access or otherwise participate in at least one network-related function and voice communication in response to authentication of finger-image data provided by the handset.
US10313500B2
A mobile device has at least one grip handle disposed on the back surface of the mobile device. The grip handle comprises at least one grip surface that enables a user to grasp the mobile device and use it with one hand of the user. Various embodiments of the invention are disclosed.
US10313495B1
A method of configuring a forwarding element that includes several data plane message processing stages. The method stores a set of action codes in an instruction memory in the data plane of the forwarding element. Each action code identifies an operation to perform on a field of a message received at the data plane. The method determines action codes required to process each field of the message in each message processing stage. The method configures a data-plane processing unit of the forwarding element to concurrently perform a group of the action codes in the same data plane processing stage when (i) the action codes are the same and (ii) operate on the same field of the message.
US10313490B2
Disclosed is a control device for a serial network protocol controller configured to selectively disable control of a parameter of a controllable media device by at least one channel while the serial network protocol controller continues to transmit the at least one channel to the at least on serial network protocol controllable media device.
US10313489B2
A USB-to-coaxial network bridging system and method includes receiving data frames from a USB or FireWire device via a corresponding USB or FireWire communication interface, wherein the received data frames are intended for transmittal to a predetermined remote device on a coaxial network; combining the received data frames into an aggregated frame and addressing the aggregated frame to allow the aggregated frame to be routed to the predetermined remote device on the coaxial network; and sending the aggregated frame to the remote device over the coaxial network.
US10313482B2
A method, device, terminal, and system for providing services based on location information are provided. The method includes acquiring location information of a client; retrieving attribute information of a group of the client when the client is located within a group service region; and providing a group service according to the attribute information of the group of the client. The device includes an acquisition module configured to acquire location information of a client; a retrieval module configured to retrieve attribute information of a group of the client when the client is located within a group service region; and a service provision module configured to provide a group service according to the attribute information of the group of the client.
US10313479B2
Methods and apparatus to manage workload domains in virtual server racks are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a policy enforcer to evaluate whether capacities of the plurality of workload domains comply with policy capacity levels of respective user-defined policies for the plurality of workload domains, and a resource manager to, when a first workload domain has a first quantity of resources that exceeds a first policy capacity level of a first user-defined policy, identify a second workload domain requesting a second quantity of resources, when the second quantity of resources is equal to the first quantity of resources, allocate the first quantity of resources from the first workload domain to the second workload domain to satisfy the first policy capacity level, when the second quantity of resources is less than the first quantity of resources, allocate the second quantity of resources from the first workload domain to the second workload domain, and de-allocate remaining resources from the first workload domain to a shared resource pool to satisfy the first policy capacity level.
US10313473B2
A system for processing a purge request is disclosed. The purge request is received. An availability state for each content distribution node in a group of content distribution nodes is stored. Based on the purge request, one or more purge instructions are generated for one or more available state content distribution nodes of the group. Based on the purge request, one or more delayed purge instructions are queued for one or more unavailable state content distribution nodes of the group. It is determined that the one or more available state content distribution nodes of the group have completed processing the one or more purge instructions generated for the one or more available state content distribution nodes. Based at least in part on the queuing of the one or more delayed purge instructions for the one or more unavailable state nodes, it is confirmed that the purge request has been completed.
US10313470B2
A system includes at least one end-node, at least one edge node, and an edge cloud video headend. The at least one end node generally implements a first stage of a multi-stage hierarchical analytics and caching technique. The at least one edge node generally implements a second stage of the multi-stage hierarchical analytics and caching technique. The edge cloud video headend generally implements a third stage of the multi-stage hierarchical analytics and caching technique.
US10313468B2
Aspects described herein relate to processing metadata requests using a cache. For example, a metadata object, such as a JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) object, may be processed into two or more portions. The two or more portions or data generated based on the two or more portions may be stored into a cache. After receiving a request for the metadata object from a computing device, the metadata object may be generated based on the data stored in the cache and the generated metadata object may be transmitted as a response to the request for the metadata object. Further aspects relate to personalizing the metadata object at the cache prior to transmitting the response to the request for the metadata object. Further aspects relate to updating a portion of the metadata object, such as a portion that includes dynamic data, prior to transmitting the response to the request.
US10313460B2
Examples relate to managing cross-domain information. The examples disclosed herein relate to generating a cross-domain sharing specification that comprises an identifier of a first domain and at least one type of user interaction information that a first user enables for cross-domain sharing. The at least one type of user interaction information may be selected from a plurality of types of user interaction information related to the first domain. The examples relate to obtaining, from the first domain, user interaction information corresponding to the at least one type of user interaction information and storing the user interaction information in the cross-domain sharing specification.
US10313453B1
A process and system are directed to generating a medium without user involvement. A user makes a series of increasingly granular selections to specify the type of medium to be built, such as a webpage. A search engine conducts a search of networking resources to identify and collect content items that have a relationship to the user and that are relevant to the webpage selections made by the user. The content collection is performed automatically without any user involvement, beyond the user's initial webpage selections. The webpage is then constructed, using the collected content items to populate the components of the webpage. The webpage is customized to the user because its contents are developed based upon a search that reflects the targeting and collection of content items that are both related to the user and relevant to the user's webpage definition.
US10313449B2
Embodiments of system and method configurations for providing provisioning information to a mobile device via a wireless network access point are generally described herein. In some examples, a communication session is established between a mobile device and a service provider to obtain provisioning information for wireless network connectivity via a designated access point (e.g., a “hotspot”). A HTTP session is established within the communication session to exchange registration information via a browser of the mobile device. Provisioning information is returned within the communication session in a Subscription Management Object (MO) in response to successful completion of the HTTP session. The subscription MO is provided outside of the browser and the HTTP session (but within the communication session) using mechanisms such as OMA-DM or SOAP-XML communications. The mobile device can then utilize the provisioning information from the subscription MO to associate with an appropriate hotspot.
US10313440B2
An information management system includes: a mobile communication terminal capable of obtaining location information; and a medical institution provided with a regional medical data bank system and a transmitter. The mobile communication terminal transmits a space-time tag and a terminal ID to the system. The space-time tag is constituted of time information and location information. A space-time ID information processing unit of the system generates a space-time ID in a folder for each user based on a plurality of space-time tags and stores it in space-time ID information DB. A terminal device of the medical institution transmits the location information of the mobile communication terminal and the time information to the system. A verification processing unit verifies information from the mobile communication terminal against information from a utilization terminal and transmits the information to the utilization terminal when a request for transmission of the information is valid.
US10313428B2
A network management server allocates network addresses to a network gateway connected to a public network after receiving an allocation request that specifies a number of network addresses to allocate to the network gateway. The network management server determines a first and second subnets of the public network having, respectively, first and second pools of available network addresses capable of being allocated to devices on the public network, and allocates one or more available network addresses from the first and second pools to the network gateway.
US10313422B2
In some examples, a computing device may receive sensor data for a target and at least one of: log data for the target, or historical log data and historical sensor data for a plurality of other targets. The computing device may determine at least one event classified as a non-uniform event in at least one of the log data or the historical log data, and may determine combined features, such as a feature vector, based on the sensor data and the non-uniform event(s). The computing device may determine an analysis result from the combined features. Further, based on the analysis result, the computing device may send a control signal to a device associated with the target for controlling the device, and/or may send a communication related to the target to another computing device.
US10313418B2
Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for chunked Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) video cache routing. A method includes, in a client system linked to at least one arbitrary cache node and a group of interconnected computers that include one or more local cache nodes, the client system including at least a processor and a memory, the memory including a browser, loading a player in the browser, and on the player, playing chunked HTTP video requested from the one arbitrary cache node acting as a master cache node, the master cache node requesting a manifest and modifying the manifest so the requests for the actual video are retrieved by the client system from one of the local cache nodes.
US10313409B2
Examples involve a control device using a social networking service to facilitate registration of a streaming media service with a media playback system. An example implementation receives (i) data indicating login credentials for a given account of a social networking service, and (ii) input data to configure streaming media services with a media playback system. Based on receiving the input data to configure the media playback system, the implementation queries the social networking service for streaming media services associated with the given account, and in response to the query, receives data indicating a first streaming media service associated with the given account. The implementation configures the media playback system to playback audio content from the first streaming media service that is associated with the given account and causes the media playback system to playback audio content from the first streaming media service.
US10313407B2
A method and an apparatus for establishing a session between a thin client (TC) and a media gateway for media stream data transmitting are provided. The TC sends media stream transmission information of the TC to the media gateway through a virtual machine (VM), and receives media stream information of the media gateway from the VM. A session between the TC and the media gateway is established. After the session is established, the TC and the media gateway transmit media stream data directly by taste the established session.
US10313406B2
One or more data centers are selected to host an online conference. The selection of the data center is based on a set of metrics that are measured from ‘synthetic’ transactions. These synthetic transactions are sent between candidate data centers and the participants in the conference call in order to measure one or more performance metrics (e.g., link quality metrics such as delay, packet loss, etc.) These measured performance metrics are used to determine a centroid that represents the geometric center or ‘center of mass,’ of the link quality between participants and data centers. This ‘link quality centroid’ is used to select a subset of data centers as candidate data centers. The candidate data center with the best average performance metric(s) is selected as the data center to host the conference.
US10313384B1
Approaches for enforcing security constraints against a network without impacting business workflows. A network is programmatically divided into a set of restrictive subnetworks without human intervention. One or more agents, executing on a plurality of nodes of the network, enforce security constraints by requiring a process, which requests access to an asset stored on a node of the network, to possess a security credential associated with a particular restrictive subnetwork to which the node belongs for access to the asset to be granted. The set of restrictive subnetworks may be determined based upon an enterprise risk model that models both the present and the future risk to the enterprise.
US10313379B1
The disclosed computer-implemented method for making security-related predictions may include (i) gathering information that comprises both signatures of events that occurred on computing systems during consecutive time slots and incident labels about incidents on the computing systems during the consecutive time slots, (ii) using the gathered information to train a machine learning model, (iii) predicting, by the machine learning model, at least one of an incident label about an incident and a signature of an event on a computing system during a time slot, wherein the computing system does not comprise at least one of an application capable of generating the signature and information about events occurring during the time slot due to the time slot having not yet occurred, and (iv) performing an action in response to the prediction. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US10313372B2
The present invention generally relates to detecting malicious network activity coming from network devices such as routers and firewalls. Specifically, embodiments of the present invention provide for detecting stealth malware on a network device by comparing inbound and outbound network traffic to discover packets originating from the network device and packets that violate configuration rules. When combined with a network traffic monitor server configured to monitor actual network traffic reports and to receive known network traffic reports from host computers, the system can detect stealth network traffic originating from both network devices and host computer systems.
US10313369B2
Blocking malicious Internet content at an appropriate hierarchical level. In one embodiment, a method may include identifying evidence of security risks in hierarchical levels of an Internet hierarchy. The method may also include generating security risk scores for the hierarchical levels of the Internet hierarchy based on the evidence of security risks. The method may further include identifying a security risk threshold. The method may also include identifying, as an appropriate blocking level, the highest hierarchical level of the Internet hierarchy having a security risk score at or above the security risk threshold. The method may further include blocking a network device from accessing Internet content in the Internet hierarchy at or below the appropriate blocking level.
US10313367B2
Disclosed are various embodiments of method and system for network access control. The method may involve traffic monitoring and vulnerability detection using process information. The system may analyze the vulnerability as a process malfunctioning where preventive action focuses on process blocking as opposed to host blocking, which can lead to improved performance and productivity of a network. Techniques may use process related information, connection information, and network packet information for network control. The information may be matched against a plurality of signatures to identify and detect a known vulnerability in network activities. On the basis of a match, a verification report may be established. Techniques may further check whether a verification report is applicable to a process associated with a network packet and allow or block the process running on the host based in the report.
US10313365B2
An automated method for processing security events begins upon receipt of information representing an offense. Based in part on context data extracted from the offense, an offense context graph is built. The offense context graph comprises nodes and edges, with an edge therein representing a relationship between a pair of nodes, at least one of the nodes being a root node representing an entity associated with the offense. The method then continues by mining information about other events that are determined to share a local contextual relationship with the offense represented by the offense context graph. This operation generates an enriched offense context graph. The enriched offense context graph is then pruned to identify an offense context for further examination. Pruning may involve applying a metric to events associated with the offense and removing nodes that, based on evaluation of the metric, do not contribute to the offense.
US10313361B2
A multiresolution parser (MRP) can selectively extract one or more information units from a dataset based on the available processing capacity and/or the arrival rate of the dataset. Should any of these parameters change, the MRP can adaptively change the information units to be extracted such that the benefit or value of the extracted information is maximized while minimizing the cost of extraction. This tradeoff is facilitated, at least in part, by an analysis of the spectral energy of the datasets expected to be processed by the MRP. The MRP can also determine its state after a processing iteration and use that state information in subsequent iterations to minimize the required computations in such subsequent iterations, so as to improve processing efficiency.
US10313359B2
Techniques and technologies for protocols for accessing hosts are described. In at least some embodiments, a system includes a processing component, and a host protocol component. The host protocol component is configured to receive at a host a request from a client device, the request including a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) string locating at least one of a container or an ecosystem stored by the host; determine using at least a portion of the URL string whether the request is at least one of a container-related request or an ecosystem-related request; generate a response at the host including information responsive to the request, the information including the URL string locating the at least one of the container or the ecosystem, and at least one response parameter; and transmit the response from the host to the client device.
US10313358B2
Systems and methods are provided for authenticating a user of a computing device. An example system includes a memory storing instructions, and a processor configured to execute the instructions to receive an authentication request from a user of a computing device, determine a context of the authentication request, determine a physical location of the user, and perform, based on the context of the authentication request and the physical location of the user, an associate proximity detection. The associate proximity detection includes steps to identify an associate based on at least one of the context of the authentication request or the physical location of the user, determine a physical location of the identified known associate, and determine a proximity of the user to the identified known associate. The authentication request may be approved when the determined proximity is within a threshold.
US10313350B2
Systems and techniques are provided for controlling requests for resources from remote computers. A remote computer's ability to access a resource is determined based upon the computer's operating environment. The computer or computers responsible for controlling access to a resource will interrogate the remote computer to ascertain its operating environment. The computer or computers responsible for controlling access to a resource may, for example, download one or more interrogator agents onto the remote computer to determine its operating environment. Based upon the interrogation results, the computer or computers responsible for controlling access to a resource will control the remote computer's access to the requested resource.
US10313339B1
A delivery verification service receives an electronic message that indicates delivery of an authentication device. In response to receiving the electronic message, the delivery verification service identifies, based at least in part on the electronic message, a set of attributes of a recipient to which the authentication device was delivered. Based at least in part on these attributes of the recipient, the delivery verification service determines whether to activate the authentication device. If the delivery verification service determines that the authentication device can be activated, the delivery verification service causes the authentication device to be enabled.
US10313333B2
A system may generate a seed one-time password (OTP). The system may also perform steps including transmitting the seed OTP to a user device, receiving a response OTP from the user device, and calculating an expected response OTP by applying a function to the seed OTP. The system may then compare the response OTP to the expected response OTP and send a result in response to comparing the response OTP to the expected response OTP.
US10313332B2
A method of performing one-time password (OTP) authentication using a color code is provided. The method includes generating, by an OTP terminal and an authentication server, an OTP using a reference time, generating, by the OTP terminal, a color code corresponding to a binary code representing the OTP, displaying, by a display device, the color code, obtaining, by a camera, the displayed color code, decoding, by the authentication server, the obtained color code into the color code and generating a password which refers to the decoded binary code, and performing, by the authentication server, authentication by comparing the generated OTP and the password.
US10313329B2
In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for managing a risk of access to an on-demand service as a condition of permitting access to the on-demand service. These mechanisms and methods for providing such management can enable embodiments to help prohibit an unauthorized user from accessing an account of an authorized user when the authorized user inadvertently loses login information. The ability of embodiments to provide such management may lead to an improved security feature for accessing on-demand services.
US10313326B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for managing online advertising data secure sharing. One method includes receiving, at a server, a request for proprietary data from a data consumer, the request including a data consumer identifier; retrieving, from a database of proprietary data, proprietary data based on the request; determining, by the server, whether the retrieved proprietary data is at least one of: designated to be processed and designated to have privileges set; processing, by the server, the proprietary data when the server determines the proprietary data is designated to be processed; setting one or more privileges to the proprietary data using the certificate associated with the data consumer identifier when the server determines the proprietary data is designated to have privileges set; encrypting the proprietary data using the certificate associated with the data consumer identifier; and transmitting the encrypted proprietary data to the data consumer.
US10313313B2
Methods and systems are provided for proxying data between an application server and a client device. One exemplary application system includes an application server to generate a virtual application and a proxy server coupled to the application server over a network to provide the virtual application to a client device. The proxy server receives input data from the client device and provides the input data to the application server, wherein the application server encodes the input data for an action in response to authenticating the proxy server and provides the data encoded for the action to the proxy server. The proxy server performs the action on the data and provides the result to the client device.
US10313311B2
A method for storing data at a cloud storage, wherein data of a user is stored at the cloud storage upon a user request, includes encrypting the data of the user; directing the user request to a data manager; and before an uploading of the encrypted data to the cloud storage, performing, by the data manager, a deduplication on the encrypted data, so that uploading of the data is only performed, if the data is not yet stored within the cloud storage.
US10313309B2
A mechanism for flexibly securing data is discussed. A data entry device analyzes data from a user with respect to a security industry whitelist and an originator list and an analysis result controls a masking level of the data. The security industry whitelist references types of data that is not subject to industry-defined encryption standards. The originator list references data originators that produce data requiring non-standard handling. The data from the user is transmitted to and further examined for non-compliance with a pre-defined criteria at a computing device.
US10313299B2
The present invention relates to a domain name system (DNS) and domain name service method based on user information. The DNS includes a client which outputs a domain name query including user information and service domain name information, a DNS which receives the domain name query from the client, and a database which receives the domain name query from the DNS, extracts the user information included in the domain name query, and differently provides destination path information for each set of user information, wherein the client receives destination path information for each set of user information from the database through the DNS.
US10313297B2
A system and method supporting instant messaging which removes many of the problems and barriers to the use of instant messaging through the use of universally unique identifiers to web pages for instant messaging sessions, with recipients invited to the instant messaging session via email.
US10313296B2
A first instance of a messenger application having a plug-in communicates with a second instance of the messenger application lacking the plug-in. The plug-in provides enhanced functionality to the first instance of the messenger application, while also providing corresponding functionality to the second instance, which lacks the plug-in. For example, the plug-in may provide rich, non-thread-native content to the first instance, while also providing corresponding thread-native content to the second instance. As another example, the plug-in may obtain data from the second instance and provide tailored advertisements to the second instance based upon that data. An another example, the plug-in may obtain location data from one or more of the instances and provide access to location-specific services that take the location data into account.
US10313281B2
An automated industrial notification platform creates a link between a given industrial asset and one or more people or support entities qualified to provide support for the asset. An industrial device or machine stores electronic expert tag information that records and catalogs one or more support people or entities to be notified in response to detection of various types of performance or maintenance issues. The tag can include the experts' identities, contact information, roles relative to the industrial asset, event priorities, and other relevant information. Since the tag is stored in a memory location of the industrial asset, the tag travels with the asset so that experts are globally associated with the asset regardless of the asset's location. Notification components integrated with the industrial asset detect conditions that may require expert assistance, and send an automated notification to one or more experts identified by the tag information.
US10313272B2
System and method for providing an InfiniBand network device having a vendor-specific attribute that contains a signature of the vendor. An exemplary embodiment can provide an InfiniBand compatible network device from a vendor. The vendor can further define a subnet management attribute, where the subnet management attribute has an attribute identifier in the range of attribute identifiers reserved in the InfiniBand specification. The vendor can define a signature bit string that is a fixed number of bits in length and a number of offset bits, where the number of offset bits indicates the start of the signature bit string within the attribute. The subnet management attribute can be configured with the signature bit string starting where the offset bits indicate, and the subnet management attribute can be included as an attribute of the InfiniBand compatible network device.
US10313260B2
An architecture and method for managing at least two distinct machines (or objects) in which resources are shared as a single entity (or object) in an agent-based system. The agent-based system comprising a controller, a local agent coupled to the controller, and at least one clustered machine. The at least one clustered machine includes at least two individual agents, the at least two individual agents sharing at least one shared resource/service. The system also includes a virtual non-persistent connection for coupling the at least two individual agents to the local agent. The at least one shared resource/service is accessed by the local agent through the virtual non-persistent connection using a virtual IP address to enable the at least two individual agents of the at least one clustered machine to be represented as a single object.
US10313253B2
A non-blocking request processing method and a device. The non-blocking request processing method includes: receiving a non-blocking request from a requestor; determining an execution completion estimated timestamp of the non-blocking request; and sending the execution completion estimated timestamp to the requestor.
US10313240B2
Technologies for efficient network flow classification include a computing device that receives a network packet that includes a header. The computing device generates a vector Bloom filter (VBF) key as a function of the header and searches multiple VBFs for a VBF that matches the VBF key. Each VBF is associated with a flow sub-table that includes one or more flow rules. Each flow sub-table is associated with a mask length. If a matching VBF is found, the computing device searches the corresponding flow sub-table for a flow rule that matches a masked header of the network packet. If no matching VBF is found or if no matching flow rule is found, the computing device searches all of the flow sub-tables for a flow rule that matches the header. The computing device applies a flow action of a matching flow rule. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US10313237B2
A method of operating a transmitting apparatus in a multimedia system is provided. The method includes inputting at least one network layer packet, generating a link layer packet based on the at least one network layer packet, and transmitting the link layer packet, wherein the link layer packet includes a header including information indicating whether the link layer packet includes a single network layer packet and information indicating an identifier related to the at least one network layer packet.
US10313235B2
A first network element (NE) comprises a receiver configured to receive a tunnel redirection request message from a second NE, wherein the tunnel redirection request message is a request to re-route packets to a third NE instead of the second NE, wherein the tunnel redirection request message comprises an address of the third NE and a first destination address, wherein the packets comprise the first destination address. A processor of the NE is coupled to the receiver and configured to add an outer header and an encapsulation header to a first subset of the packets, wherein the outer header comprises the address of the third NE, and wherein the encapsulation header comprises an identifier of an encapsulation protocol supported by the third NE, and a transmitter coupled to the processor and configured to transmit the first subset of the packets to the third NE via an overlay tunnel, and transmit a second subset of packets to the second NE.
US10313234B2
Techniques are described for reusing downstream-assigned labels when establishing a new instance of a label switched path (LSP) prior to tearing down an existing instance of the LSP using make-before-break (MBB) procedures for RSVP. The techniques enable a routing engine of any non-ingress router along a path of the new LSP instance to reuse a previously allocated label for the existing LSP instance as the downstream assigned label for the new LSP instance when the paths of the existing LSP instance and the new LSP instance overlap. In this way, the non-ingress router does not need to update a label route in its forwarding plane for the reused label. When the new LSP instance completely overlaps the existing LSP instance, an ingress router of the LSP may avoid updating an ingress route in its forwarding plane for applications that use the LSP.
US10313216B2
Embodiments of this application provide a bit-forwarding ingress router, a bit-forwarding router, and an OAM test method, and pertain to the field of multicast networks. A first BFR receives an OAM request packet from a BFIR; the first BFR determines, according to the OAM request packet, that a destination BFR corresponding to the OAM request packet is the first BFR; and the first BFR obtains a first OAM response packet according to an ID of the BFIR, and sends the first OAM response packet to the BFIR. According to the method and the apparatus that are provided in the embodiments of this application, a problem that a BFIR cannot diagnose or handle a transmission fault when the fault occurs during transmission of a multicast packet can be resolved, which helps implement connectivity testing by using an OAM packet and enables testing of multiple BFERs.
US10313208B2
The disclosure relates to a method of resource allocation for supporting communications with a wireless device is provided. The method is performed in a network element of a wireless communication network. The method comprises differentiating (2710) between synchronous network functions and asynchronous network functions. The synchronous and asynchronous network functions are associated with the provision of communication services to the wireless device. The synchronous network functions have requirements on processing timing which are strictly dependent on timing of a radio link used for communicating with the wireless device. The asynchronous network functions have requirements on processing timing not strictly dependent on the timing of the radio link. The method also comprises allocating (2720) resources of the wireless communication network for the instantiation of a first network function based on whether the first network function is synchronous or asynchronous.
US10313207B2
A method for testing a cloud streaming server, and an apparatus and a system therefor are disclosed. Test result videos are created by receiving, from cloud streaming servers, test results corresponding to the key input of a preset test script; masked videos are created by masking the test result videos; and it is determined whether at least any one of the cloud streaming servers has a failure by mutually comparing test result images created by capturing the masked videos.
US10313201B2
A method in which first routers have an extended router function for a connection to a superordinate communication network, wherein second routers include a restricted router function for a connection to a subordinate field level subnetwork, where when further first routers are present, the router configuration units of the first routers each use priority values to check which first router has the highest priority value associated with it, where the first router having the highest priority value is configured as a superordinate router for a connection to a superordinate communication network so as to configure a modular control device of an industrial automation system that includes a central unit and at least one communication module that includes a respective integrated router, where router configuration units of the first routers detect available router functions and associated priority values of other routers.
US10313195B2
Techniques for virtual network embedding (VNE) with dedicated protection of multiple virtual networks against a single node or link failure are described. The virtual network embedding provides dedicated protection without using redundant substrate network resources for each of the individual virtual networks (VNs) elements.
US10313193B1
A Software-Defined Network (SDN) distributes Proxy Correlation Index (PCI) information across an SDN data-plane. A central SDN controller receives inbound SDN signaling from a source SDN controller serving a source geographic area indicating a PCI threshold breach in the SDN data-plane in the source geographic area. The central SDN controller generates PCI information that characterizes the PCI threshold breach. The central SDN controller selects a target SDN controller in a target geographic area responsive to the PCI threshold breach. The central SDN controller transfers outbound SDN signaling having the PCI information for delivery to the target SDN controller in the target geographic area.
US10313192B2
A test tenant generation system comprises, in one example, a scheduling component configured to define a deployment schedule for deploying a plurality of test tenants, and a tenant deployment component configured to deploy the plurality of test tenants to a computing system based on the deployment schedule.
US10313179B1
Systems and methods discussed herein are associated with network data element maintenance, including determining access times for the collection of network element data, as well as delivering and analyzing real-time data to detect and avoid collisions between parties who desire to access network elements. The systems and methods used herein may also determine the most effective command to execute in response to different faults on network elements in order to automatically resolve faults in a more efficient manner.
US10313177B2
An identification of a directed graph is received that includes data transformation nodes that represent computations that transform data elements and one or more data nodes that represent data elements, and includes directed links that represent lineage relationships; and computing summary information based on paths in the directed graph, and storing the summary information in one or more summary objects. The computing includes: receiving designation of interest for a plurality of the nodes of the directed graph; and generating one or more summary objects for remaining nodes not included in the plurality of nodes of interest, a first summary object including summary information based on a first path between a first node of interest and a second node of interest that does include one or more of the remaining nodes and does not include any nodes of interest other than the first and second nodes.
US10313176B2
An information processing device includes an email transmission unit, a memory, and a transmission unit. The email transmission unit transmits an email with an attached image. The memory stores a transmission history including an information identifier of information indicating that the email has been transmitted. The transmission unit transmits, to an external device, transmission-check-response information indicating that transmission has occurred if the transmission history includes an information identifier included in transmission-check-request information received from the external device.
US10313165B2
High-data rate channel interface modules and equalization methods employing a finite impulse response (FIR) analog receive filter. Embodiments include an illustrative channel interface module having multiple amplifier-based delay units arranged in a sequential chain to convert an analog input signal into a set of increasingly-delayed analog signals that are weighted and combined together with the analog input signal to form an equalized signal; and a symbol decision element operating on the equalized signal to obtain a sequence of symbol decisions. An interface that extracts received data from the sequence of symbol decisions. The delay units may employ one or more delay cells each having a common-source amplifier stage followed by a source follower output stage, the two stages providing approximately equal portions of the propagation delay. An enhanced gate-to-drain capacitance in the common-source amplifier may increase propagation delay while reducing bandwidth limitations.
US10313164B2
Techniques are provided for implementing a portable spectrum analyzer. An example system, according to an embodiment, includes a signal analyzer including an RF receiver to receive RF signals from an antenna, an analog-to-digital converter to generate a sampled signal based on the received RF signals, and a signal analysis co-processor to perform cognitive scanning analysis of the sampled signal. The cognitive scanning analysis includes detection, identification, and characterization of digital/analog signal(s) embedded in the sampled signal. The system may further include a communications interface circuit to provide communication between the signal analyzer and an associated mobile host platform (e.g., smartphone). The communication includes transmitting results of the cognitive scanning analysis to the mobile host and receiving parameters from the mobile host to control the operation of the cognitive scanning analysis. The signal analyzer and mobile host are coupled through a shared enclosure such as a hinged case, sleeve, or wallet.
US10313162B1
The embodiments described herein provide communication devices and methods that can facilitate communication between galvanically isolated systems. Specifically, the embodiments facilitate communication to a galvanically isolated system that is shut down without requiring that this shutdown system consume its own power while it is shutdown. To facilitate this, the communication devices and methods provide a wake-up device on the side of the shutdown system and facilitate the transfer of power across the galvanic isolation to the wake-up device when communication to the shutdown system is needed. With the wake-up device powered using power that was transferred across the galvanic isolation, the wake-up device can perform the actions needed to wake up the shutdown system, and can thus facilitate communication between the galvanically isolated systems. Thus, communication between galvanically isolated systems is facilitated without requiring that the shutdown system consume its own power during shutdown periods.
US10313158B2
A method for data reception of a random access procedure for a network of a wireless communication system is disclosed. The method comprises receiving a preamble and data of the random access procedure in one message, from a user equipment (UE) of the wireless communication system, obtaining timing advance information according to the received preamble, and performing channel estimation according to a DMRS allocated for demodulation of the received data with a timing advance compensation, wherein the timing advance compensation is an operation of a linear phase rotation in a frequency domain based on the timing advance information.
US10313157B2
An apparatus includes: a semiconductor die including a first I/O (input/output) pad, a second I/O pad, a switch, and an internal processor, wherein the switch is configured to short the first I/O pad to the second I/O pad when a logical signal is asserted; and a semiconductor package including a first bond pad configured to electrically connect to the first I/O pad, a second bond pad configured to electrically connect to the second I/O pad, a first port configured to electrically connect to a pin of a multi-lane, multi-mode connector, a second port configured to electrically connect to an external processor, a first routing path configured to electrically connect the first port to the first bond pad, and a second routing path configured to electrically connect the second port to the second bond pad, wherein the external processor is configured to process an electrical signal at the second port in accordance with a first protocol when the logical signal is asserted, and the internal processor is configured to process an electrical signal at the first I/O pad in accordance with a second protocol when the logical signal is de-asserted.
US10313148B1
A system for movement-based device control is presented. The system may include a control device configured to generate a control signal corresponding to at least one movement associated with the control device. The system may also include a target subsystem located remotely from the control device. The target subsystem may be configured to change from operating in a manually-controlled mode to operating in a remotely-controlled mode in response to receiving a mode change signal from the control device. The target subsystem may also be configured to receive the control signal from the control device when operating in the remotely-controlled mode. The target subsystem may additionally be configured to determine, based on the control signal, at least one control command. The target subsystem may further be configured to cause the control command(s) to be executed so that the target subsystem is controlled according to the control command(s).
US10313141B1
A method and apparatus for testing and verifying the status of cascaded optical cable segments linked to at least one of plurality of AC cascaded devices or low voltage cascaded devices each including at least one optical access and self lock keys to attach the end of at least one cut segment of the optical cable including operate keys, a touch screen, a display and indicators to provide electrician and installers a simple range of hand held testers and to identify the status and particular of defects during installations or maintenance of units of smart residence or commercial grid and beyond.
US10313134B2
A system and method for a distributed security model that may be used to achieve one or more of the following: authenticate system components; securely transport messages between system components; establish a secure communications channel over a constrained link; authenticate message content; authorize actions; and distribute authorizations and configuration data amongst users' system components in a device-as-a-key system.
US10313131B2
An intermediate servant device connected in a daisy chain configuration with a set of devices is described. The intermediate servant device may be configured to receive, from a previous servant device of the set of servant devices, a request for data, a first response to the request for data, and authentication information for the first response to the request for data. The intermediate servant device may be further configured to generate a second response to the request for data and determine authentication information for the second response based on the authentication information for the first response, the second response, and a key assigned to the intermediate servant device. The intermediate servant device may be further configured to output at least the authentication information for the second response, the first response, and the second response.
US10313127B1
A method for detecting attempts to collect parameters used for device fingerprinting includes receiving information traversing a communications network and creating a dataset of examinable information. The dataset is then analyzed using a weighted scoring system to determine the probability that parameters present are intended for purposes of device fingerprinting and a score reflecting the same is returned.
US10313121B2
A device includes a reset resistant store and a trusted key service. The reset resistant store maintains data across various different device reset or data invalidation operations. The trusted key service maintains, for each of one or more operating systems that run on the device from a boot configuration, an encrypted key associated with the boot configuration. The device also has a master key that is specific to the device. Each of the keys associated with a boot configuration is encrypted using the master key. When booting the device, the boot configuration being run on the device is identified, and the key associated with that boot configuration is obtained (e.g., from the reset resistant store or the encrypted key vault). The master key is used to decrypt the obtained key, and the obtained key is used to decrypt secrets associated with the operating system run from the boot configuration.
US10313119B2
A data management device according to an embodiment stores first encrypted data obtained by encrypting plain text data with a first public key of a first user device. The data management device stores a first re-encryption key for re-encrypting the first encrypted data without decrypting to obtain first re-encrypted data decryptable with a private key of a second user device. The data management device stores a conversion key generated from a first private key corresponding to the first public key and a second private key of the first user device. The data management device converts the first encrypted data into second encrypted data with the conversion key. The data management device The data management device converts the first re-encryption key into a second re-encryption key with the conversion key.
US10313115B2
One embodiment provides a system for facilitating distribution of quantum keys. During operation, the system receives, from a requester, a first request for a key, wherein the first request indicates a requested length for the key and identifying information of the requester. The system determines whether a subset pool of a general pool of keys is allocated to the requester based on the identifying information of the requester, wherein the keys in the general pool are generated by a quantum engine. In response to determining that a subset pool is not allocated to the requester, the system allocates a subset pool to the requester. The system obtains from the allocated subset pool a key with a length matching the requested length, and the system returns the obtained key to the requester.
US10313111B2
An embodiment of the present disclosure provide a key protection method, via setting that each core of the multi-core process may have one symmetric master key, dynamically obtaining the plaintext private key of the asymmetric algorithm via a decryption operation and using the Intel TSX, it may be ensured that the private key and the intermediate variables used in the computation process may be stored in the cache occupied by the operation core only in terms of the hardware level, which may prevent the attackers from stealing the private key from the physical memory and ensure the security of the implementation of the public-key cryptographic algorithm in the computer system.
US10313107B2
A flexible aes instruction set for a general purpose processor is provided. The instruction set includes instructions to perform a “one round” pass for aes encryption or decryption and also includes instructions to perform key generation. An immediate may be used to indicate round number and key size for key generation for 128/192/256 bit keys. The flexible aes instruction set enables full use of pipelining capabilities because it does not require tracking of implicit registers.
US10313106B2
A computing apparatus outputs τ1 and τ2 corresponding to a ciphertext x, a capability providing apparatus uses τ1 to correctly compute f(τ1) with a probability greater than a certain probability and sets the result of the computation as z1, uses τ2 to correctly compute f(τ2) with a probability greater than a certain probability and sets the result of the computation as z2, the computing apparatus generates a computation result u=f(x)bx1 from z1, generates a computation result v=f(x)ax2 from z2, and outputs ub′va′ if the computation results u and v satisfy a particular relation, where G and H are groups, f(x) is a function for obtaining an element of the group G for x∈H, X1 and X2 are random variables having values in the group G, x1 is a realization of the random variable X1, and x2 is a realization of the random variable X2.
US10313103B1
An optical module for use in an optical system, the optical module implementing Precision Time Protocol (PTP) clock functionality therein. The optical module includes an electrical interface with the optical system; circuitry connected to the electrical interface and configured to implement a plurality of functions of functionality; an optical interface connected to the circuitry; and timing circuitry connected to the electrical interface and one or more of the plurality of functions, wherein the timing circuitry is configured to implement the PTP clock functionality.
US10313102B2
System and method of frame alignment at a receiver with power optimization mechanisms. A framer is configured to perform a frame alignment process on a data stream and enter an inactive state after frame alignment is achieved. In the inactive state, the circuits used to perform the frame alignment process in the framer can be powered down or otherwise placed in a power reduction mode. Responsive to an indication that data processing at the receiver becomes “out-of-frame” again, the framer can wake up from the inactive state and restart the frame alignment process. An “out-of-frame” indication may be generated by error detection logic (e.g., forward error correction (FEC) decoder) when it detects an excessive number of uncorrectable errors.
US10313101B2
A high-speed interface apparatus and method of correcting skew in the apparatus are provided. A high-speed transmitter includes a transmission D-PHY module that generates and transmits a clock signal through a clock channel, generates a deskew synchronous code and test data in response to a deskew request signal, transmits the deskew synchronous code followed by the test data through a data channel, and transmits a normal synchronous code followed by normal data through the data channel in normal mode.
US10313080B2
A method performed by a network node 110, for improving the performance of a handover of a user equipment (UE) 120, wherein the network node 110 serves a first cell 130 comprising one or more UEs 120. When the network node 110 has detected that a Signaling Radio Bearer (SRB) is determined to be scheduled for a UE 120 in handover from the first cell 130 to a second cell 131, the network node 110 increases the Control Channel Element (CCE) aggregation level in an OFDM-subframe to be sent to the UE 120 in a TTI related to the handover. By increasing the CCE aggregation level during a handover procedure, the effective coding rate of the PDCCH is increased, which leads to a more robust coding and reliability. Thereby the number of unsuccessful handovers and lost service is effectively reduced.
US10313076B2
A method of a network node of a cellular communication system for mobility from a first radio access network, RAN, operating using a first radio access technology, RAT, to a second RAN operating using a second RAT. The first RAT has synchronization signals with a first frequency allocation and the second RAT has synchronization signals with a second frequency allocation in relation to a network frequency for the second RAT. The method comprises determining allocation information about the synchronization signals of the second RAT, and transmitting a radio resource control, RRC, message including the allocation information about the synchronization signals of the second RAT. A method for the wireless communication device is also disclosed, as well as a network node, a wireless communication device and computer programs for them.
US10313072B2
A device and method is which plurality of Zadoff-Chu sequences is allocated to a frame, a value of a parameter in the Zadoff-Chu sequence is different among the plurality of Zadoff-Chu sequences, and the Zadoff-Chu sequence allocated to the frame is different among a plurality of cells.
US10313071B2
The present invention relates to monitoring method and device by a terminal in a wireless communication system supporting carrier aggregation. Particularly, a monitoring method comprises the steps of: receiving indication of a first resource interval which is being cross-carrier scheduled by means of a first cell with respect to the first cell, comprising consecutive radio resources, and a second cell comprising non-consecutive radio resources; and, on the first resource interval, blind decoding control information, for a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) of the second cell, in a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) of the first cell.
US10313059B2
Provided are a data sending feedback method and apparatus, and a data sending method and apparatus. According to data sending feedback method, when reception of a radio frame fails, a receiving station detects whether transmission of the radio frame over a specified sub-channel in a working channel ends within predetermined time; after the receiving station detects that the transmission of the radio frame over the specified sub-channel in the working channel ends within the predetermined time, the receiving station sends a feedback frame to a sending station of the radio frame.
US10313058B2
A method for detecting that a set of bits has been incorrectly decoded includes calculating a combining gain experienced during processing of the set of bits. The combining gain is compared to a threshold. A false positive signal that indicates that the set of bits has been incorrectly decoded is generated when the combining gain is less than the threshold.
US10313054B2
A communication device (alternatively, device) includes a processor configured to support communications with other communication device(s) and to generate and process signals for such communications. In some examples, the device includes a communication interface and a processor, among other possible circuitries, components, elements, etc. to support communications with other communication device(s) and to generate and process signals for such communications. In some examples, a device encodes information using a low density parity check (LDPC) code to generate an LDPC coded signal and transmits the LDPC coded signal to another communication device. in other examples, a device receives an LDPC coded signal from another communication device and decodes the LDPC coded signal using an LDPC matrix. The LDPC matrix includes a left hand side matrix and a right hand side matrix (e.g., having CSI (Cyclic Shifted Identity) sub-matrices on a main diagonal and another diagonal adjacently located to the main diagonal).
US10313039B2
The fast synchronization scheduling apparatus includes: a radio frequency (RF) transmission and reception module configured to transmit and receive RF signals from nearby channels, a received signal strength indicator (RSSI) reception and storage module configured to receive RSSI values from the RF signals received from the RF transmission and reception module and store the received RSSI values, a channel sorting module configured to measure Channel Quality Estimation (CQE) values of the respective channels by putting the RSSI values of the respective channels received from the RSSI reception and storage module into a CQE formula and to sort the channels in order of highest CQE value (highest channel quality) based on the measured CQE values.
US10313032B2
A test system for testing a device under test is described, which comprises an antenna array having a plurality of antenna elements and an adjustment unit having a Fresnel structure. The adjustment unit is placed between the antenna array and the device under test. Further, a method for testing a device under test is described.
US10313018B2
The invention is related to a digital-data mixing apparatus (2), a data processing system (1) and an associated method for mixing digital-data. The digital-data mixing apparatus comprises, integrated in a housing (7), input means (8) for receiving a plurality of bits (I1 . . . In) of input digital data (4), electromagnetic emission means (9) for generating a modulated electromagnetic beam (15) wherein said input digital data (4) are converted in simultaneous modulations of the modulated electromagnetic beam (15), electromagnetic scattering means (10) for scattering the modulated electromagnetic beam (15) in a scattered electromagnetic beam (19), receiving means (11) for converting the scattered electromagnetic beam (19) in bits (O1 . . . Om) of output digital data (5), and output means (12) for providing said output digital data (5).
US10313015B2
An optical transmitter includes: an optical modulator including an MZ interferometer, a drive signal input electrode, and a phase difference adjustment bias electrode; a drive amplifier; a phase difference adjustment bias voltage generator; a dithering unit that applies dithering of a predetermined frequency to an amplitude of a drive signal or to a half-wave voltage of the MZ interferometer; a controller unit that changes a phase difference adjustment bias voltage based on a modulation component of the frequency that is superimposed onto modulated light that is output from the optical modulator, to thereby bias the MZ interferometer to a null point; and a synchronous detection circuit that synchronously detects the modulation component of the frequency that is superimposed onto the modulated light. The controller unit changes the phase difference adjustment bias voltage such that a result of synchronous detection by the synchronous detection circuit becomes maximized or minimized. Whether the controller unit maximizes or minimizes the result of synchronous detection is determined by a difference between a phase of a referenced clock signal and a phase of the dithering, and does not depend on the amplitude of the drive signal.
US10313008B2
A measurement method and apparatus for residual direct-current components and a system where the measurement method includes: selecting a section of data of a first predetermined length respectively from received signals in two polarization states; performing a coordinate transform on the two selected sections of data to obtain a group of vectors of Strokes space; and determining a difference between power of the residual direct-current components according to the group of vectors of Strokes space. With the embodiments of this disclosure, residual direct-current components of an optical transmitter may be measured at a receiver end of a coherent optical communication system, thereby avoiding diagnosis errors of a communication network, and improving performance of the communication system.
US10313006B2
A method of tracing a complete span of a fiber includes inferring a reference point on the fiber based on a measured length of the fiber, setting a pulse width and a measurement range based on the inferred reference point, shooting a fiber from a master unit, attached to one end of the fiber, to collect trace past the inferred reference point, shooting a fiber from a slave unit, attached to an opposite end of the fiber, to collect trace past the inferred reference point, cropping the collected traces captured by the master unit and the slave unit past the inferred reference point, inverting a slope of the trace of the slave unit using measurement loss information and combining the trace of the master unit and the trace of the slave unit, with the inverted slope, to obtain a complete and accurate trace of the fiber.
US10313005B2
A system for mapping a multilayer network having a server layer and a client layer is provided. The system includes a framework configured for comparing information obtained from a first traffic counter of a client port to information obtained from a second traffic counter of a server port to thereby determine if the client port and the server port are linked.
US10313002B2
Systems and methods for supporting more flexible coverage areas and spatial capacity assignments using satellite communications systems are disclosed. A hub-spoke, bent-pipe satellite communications system includes: terminals; gateways; a controller for specifying data for controlling satellite operations in accordance with a frame definition including timeslots for a frame and defining an allocation of capacity between forward and return traffic; and a satellite including: pathways; at least one LNA, an output of which is for coupling to a pathway and to amplify uplink beam signals in accordance with the allocation; and at least one HPA, an input of which is for coupling to the pathway and to amplify downlink beam signals in accordance with the allocation, and wherein the frame definition specifies at least one pathway as a forward pathway for at least one timeslot and as a return pathway for at least one other timeslot in the frame.
US10312998B2
A hybrid communications assembly for a spacecraft is provided. The hybrid communications assembly may include an assembly base, one or more laser communications terminals mounted on the assembly base, and a radio frequency antenna system mounted on the assembly base. The assembly may be mounted on an earth deck of the spacecraft, and the laser communications terminals may be mounted at an angle between 20 and 70 degrees with respect to the earth deck. A thermal radiator may be mounted on the assembly base and thermally coupled to the laser communications terminal. The radio frequency antenna system may be disposed between the laser communications terminals. The radio frequency antenna system may include one or more antenna reflectors mounted on the assembly base and one or more antenna feeds mounted on a tower.
US10312995B2
A spacecraft includes a payload subsystem including a plurality of transmit antenna feeds, a digital channelizer, and a power amplification arrangement including a plurality of power amplifiers. The power amplification arrangement has at least one input communicatively coupled with an output of the digital channelizer and at least one output communicatively coupled with at least one of the plurality of transmit antenna feeds. A processor is configured to control the digital channelizer, and to adjust a saturated output power of at least one power amplifier of the plurality of power amplifiers in the power amplification arrangement.
US10312992B2
Decode and forward buffer aided relay selection and transmission power allocation systems and method are provided for cognitive radio network that is equipped with multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO). A low complexity MIMO-based relay selection scheme that maximizes the single-hop normalized sum rate of the primary network (PN) and secondary network (SN) is proposed including a sub-optimal antenna transmission power allocation scheme that maximizes the single-hop normalized sum rate of the PN and the SN is proposed. For power optimization, first, optimal expressions for the transmission power per antenna of both the PN and SN nodes are derived separately. The derived expressions are then used in an iterative algorithm to produce a near-optimum solution that maximizes the normalized sum rate per time slot.
US10312988B2
Various embodiments disclosed herein provide for a beam reporting and identification system that can use two different types of signals as reference signals when reporting on beam strengths. The user equipment device can send a unified report that reports on each of the different types of reference signals using a unified beam index. In an embodiment, the first type of reference signal can be a user equipment (UE) specific reference signal, such as a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS), while the second type of signal used as a reference signal can be a synchronization signal (SS), received as an SS block. The unified index, where SS blocks are grouped into a number of groups, allows for the same number of bits to report on both synchronization signals and CSI-RS signals in the same report.
US10312986B2
Described are an eNB and a UE implementing a CSI-RS protocol. The eNB has an ordered set of antenna ports for a wireless communication channel with the UE, a first circuitry operable to compose CSI-RS configuration messages that assign to the UE various CSI-RS groups specifying one or more CSI-RS antenna ports, and a second circuitry to establish an ordered list of CSI-RS antenna ports. The UE has a set of antennas, a first circuitry operable to receive from the eNB various CSI-RS configuration messages assigning to it CSI-RS groups specifying one or more CSI-RS antenna ports, and a second circuitry operable to index CSI-RS antenna ports specified by the CSI-RS groups as an ordered list of CSI-RS antenna ports. The eNB may transmit CSI-RS to the configured UE, and the UE may perform channel state information measurements on the ordered list of CSI-RS antenna ports.
US10312982B2
To generate a configuration entry in a master codebook. A base station according to one aspect of the present invention includes a codebook generating unit that determines a codebook subset corresponding to a predetermined configuration entry from a plurality of configuration entries in a master codebook, and a transmitter that transmits information of the predetermined configuration entry.
US10312976B2
A mobile information handling system executing code instructions of a dynamic antenna co-existence control system may comprise a plurality of transceiving antennas mounted in a small form factor case for the mobile information handling system, a plurality of cellular and Wi-Fi communications modules transceiving signals according to a plurality of data streams, an adaptive massive MIMO multiplexer coupling the communications modules to the four transceiving antennas, a memory storing a data stream multiplexing configuration table, and a processor. The processor may execute code instructions of the dynamic antenna coexistence control system to receive trigger inputs describing an operational condition of the mobile information handling system, identify one or more of the plurality of configurations of the plurality of data streams as an optimal configuration for enhancing throughput based on the trigger inputs, and instruct the adaptive massive MIMO multiplexer to operate according to the optimal configuration.
US10312969B2
A system for controlling a subsea device comprises a complimentary set of data communication interfaces operatively coupled to an electronically interrogatable component of a subsea device and a remotely disposed device controller via a power conductor which defined data pathway between the subsea device and the remotely disposed device controller. A data transceiver is operatively coupled to the electronically interrogatable component and the remotely disposed device controller via the complimentary set of data communication interfaces over the power conductor. In configurations, control and/or telemetry or other data may be unidirectionally and/or bidirectionally transmitted between the electronically interrogatable component of a subsea device and a remotely disposed device controller. In configurations, data faults may be monitored in a primary data path and, if a fault detected, control and/or telemetry or other data transmission switched to the power conductor data pathway, manually and/or automatically.
US10312953B2
The disclosure is directed to an OFDM receiver with a low-resolution ADC and an electronic device thereof. According to one of the exemplary embodiments, the OFDM receiver may include not limited to: an ADC module which receives a transmission signal of a channel in an analog format and digitizes the transmission signal into a digital format to generate a quantized transmission signal; an error compensating and estimating module which is coupled to the ADC module, receives the quantized transmission signal and a feedback signal which is a first estimated time-domain transmission signal to generate an estimated error signal according to a turbo iterative updating technique; and a signal estimating module which is coupled to the error compensating and estimating module, receives the estimated error signal and a channel attenuation coefficient of the channel to generate an estimated transmission signal.
US10312951B2
According to embodiments of the present disclosure, circuitry (400, 600) and method (800) are provided for controlling a power amplifier (10) in a transmit/receive switching system. The circuitry (400, 600) comprises a load circuit (420, 620) for at least partly reducing a magnitude of a swing of a power supply voltage caused by a variation in load of the transmit/receive switching system that occurs upon initiation of a transmission by the transmit/receive switching system. The circuitry (400, 600) further comprises a first switch (410, 610), coupled in series with the load circuit (420, 620), operable to switch on to couple the power supply voltage to a ground voltage via the load circuit (420, 620). The circuitry (400, 600) further comprises a control circuit (430, 630) configured to switch on the first switch (410, 610) at a first timing, and to switch off the first switch (410, 610) and turn on the power amplifier (10) at a second timing. The first timing is a time interval ahead of the second timing.
US10312948B1
A hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) transmitter in a communications system employing a HARQ process, wherein a primary codeword from an arbitrary forward error correction (FEC) code is sent over a communications channel and negatively acknowledged by a HARQ receiver, includes a polar code retransmission apparatus. A primary codeword buffer stores the primary codeword, and a systematic incremental redundancy (IR) encoder receives a first segment of the primary codeword and encodes the first segment into a first IR codeword. The first segment of the primary codeword excludes at least one symbol of the primary codeword, and the systematic IR encoder comprises a systematic polar encoder. Primary codeword segments, received in response to decoding errors, are encoded into IR codewords, with a kth segment xSk of the primary codeword is excluded from retransmission of the kth IR codeword and the IR codewords may be permuted before transmission.
US10312942B2
A bit interleaving method involves applying a bit permutation process to a QC LDPC codeword made up of N cyclic blocks each including Q bits, and dividing the codeword, after the bit permutation process, into a plurality of constellation words each made up of M bits, the codeword being divided into N/M sections, each constellation word being associated with one of the N/M sections, and the bit permutation process being performed such that each of the constellation words includes one bit from each of M different cyclic blocks associated with a given section.
US10312938B2
A transmitter is provided. The transmitter includes: a Low Density Parity Check (LDPC) encoder configured to encode input bits to generate parity bits; a parity permutator configured to perform parity permutation by interleaving the parity bits and group-wise interleaving a plurality of bit groups including the interleaved parity bits; and a puncturer configured to select some of the parity bits in the group-wise interleaved bit groups, and puncture the selected parity bits, wherein the parity permutator group-wise interleaves the bit groups such that some of the bit groups are positioned at predetermined positions, respectively, and a remainder of the bit groups are positioned without an order within the group-wise interleaved bit groups so that the puncturer selects parity bits included in the some of the bit groups positioned at the predetermined positions sequentially and selects parity bits included in the remainder of the bit groups without an order.
US10312937B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to methods and apparatus for decoding low density parity check (LDPC) codes, and more particularly to early termination techniques for low-density parity-check (LDPC) decoder architecture.
US10312934B2
The present disclosure relates to the technical field of semiconductors, and discloses a current source and a digital to analog convertor. The current source includes a current output circuit and an impedance gain circuit which is configured to increase output impedance of the current output circuit. The current output circuit includes a first PMOS transistor and a second PMOS transistor. The impedance gain circuit includes a first end, a second end, a third end which is connected to a supply voltage, and a fourth end which is connected to the ground. A source electrode of the first PMOS transistor is connected to the supply voltage, a drain electrode of the first PMOS transistor is connected to a source electrode of the second PMOS transistor and the first end of the impedance gain circuit, and a gate electrode of the first PMOS transistor is controlled by a first bias voltage. A gate electrode of the second PMOS transistor is connected to the second end of the impedance gain circuit, and a drain electrode of the second PMOS transistor serves as an output end of the current source.
US10312931B2
A programmable gain amplifier includes an operational amplifier and a resistor network coupled to the output node of the operational amplifier. The resistor network includes a first plurality of resistors coupled in series between the output node and a first network node. A second plurality of resistors is coupled in series between the first network node and a second network node. A unit resistor is coupled in parallel with the second plurality of resistors between the first and second resistor network nodes and a third plurality of resistors is coupled in parallel between the second resistor network node and a reference voltage. Each resistor of the second and third pluralities of resistors comprises a unit resistor. The third plurality of resistors contains N resistors and the second plurality of resistors contains (N−1) resistors.
US10312927B1
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide methods and apparatus for calibrating time-interleaved analog-to-digital converter (ADC) circuits and generating a suitable signal for such calibration. Certain aspects provide a signal generator for calibrating a time-interleaved ADC circuit having a plurality of channels. The signal generator generally includes a pattern generator configured to receive a periodic signal and to output a bitstream based on the periodic signal and a conversion circuit having an input coupled to an output of the pattern generator and configured to generate a waveform based on the bitstream. The bitstream has a bit pattern with a total number of bits that shares no common factor with a number of the channels and includes a relatively lower frequency component combined with a relatively higher frequency component.
US10312922B2
Apparatus and methods for rotary traveling wave oscillators (RTWOs) are provided herein. In certain configurations, an RTWO includes a differential transmission line connected in a ring and a plurality of segments distributed around the ring. The segments include metal stubs extending from the RTWO's differential transmission line. The metal stubs aid in providing access to additional layout resources for tuning capacitors and other circuitry of the RTWO's segments, while permitting the length of RTWO's ring to be relative short. Thus, the metal stubs do not inhibit the RTWO from operating with relatively high oscillation frequency, while providing connectivity to tuning capacitors that tune the RTWO's oscillation frequency over a wide tuning range and/or provide fine frequency step size.
US10312917B2
To implement a complex math function, a configurable computing array comprises at least an array of configurable interconnects, an array of configurable logic elements and an array of configurable computing elements. Each configurable computing element comprises at least a memory for storing a look-up table (LUT) for a math function.
US10312916B2
A dynamic decode circuit for decoding a plurality of input signals comprises precharge circuits that consist of two serially connected transistors, that utilize an evaluate clock and a delayed evaluate clock, that delay the start of a precharge phase for a predetermined period after the end of an evaluation phase.
US10312905B2
The invention provides a bond wire arrangement comprising a signal bond wire (1) for operably connecting a first electronic device (6) to a second electronic device (8), and a control bond wire (2) being arranged alongside the signal bond wire at a distance so as to have a magnetic coupling with the signal bond wire (1), and having a first end (11) coupled to ground, and a second end (12) coupled to ground via a resistive element (14). The proposed solution allows the control of the Q factor (losses) of wire bond inductors during assembly phase, which will save time and reduce overall design cycle as compared to known methods.
US10312901B2
An apparatus includes a drain node, a plurality of source nodes and a gate node. The drain node may be configured to transfer a drain signal along a first axis from a first port to a second port. The source nodes may be (i) distributed along the first axis and (ii) configured to transfer a plurality of source signals along a second axis from the drain node to a ground node. The gate node may be (i) arranged in parallel to the drain node and (ii) configured to control the source signals in response to a gate voltage. The drain node, the source nodes and the gate node generally form a traveling-wave switch that blocks a slot mode current through the source nodes.
US10312898B2
In described examples, a switch has: a first current handling terminal coupled to a supply source terminal; and a second current handling terminal coupled to an output terminal. A comparator has: a first input coupled to the second current handling terminal; and a second input. A voltage reference source has: a first terminal coupled to the first current handling terminal; and a second terminal coupled to the second input of the comparator. A slew rate detector has an input coupled to the second current handling terminal. A switch controller has: a first input coupled to the comparator output; and a second input coupled to an output of the slew rate detector. The switch controller is coupled to output a signal to cause the switch to open when the comparator detects an over-current condition through the switch while the slew rate detector detects a negative slew rate.
US10312888B2
Various embodiments of a robust double node upset tolerant latch in which all internal and external nodes are capable of recovering the previous value after a single event upset are disclosed.
US10312886B2
The present disclosure envisages an asynchronous clock gating circuitry and a method for designing the asynchronous clock gating circuitry. The asynchronous clock gating circuitry could be placed at the very beginning of the clock network, given its design and implementation logic. The asynchronous clock gating circuitry helps meet the timing requirement on the enable pin thereof. The asynchronous clock gating circuitry avoids cumbersome replication of cluck gating circuitry during physical implementation of the (circuit) design, and further helps reduce the power consumption levels in sequential circuits.
US10312884B2
An oscillation module includes a loop interconnection, a high-frequency output interconnection, a differential amplifier, and an output terminal, the differential amplifier is connected to the output terminal with the high-frequency output interconnection, the high-frequency output interconnection crosses the loop interconnection in a grade-separated manner, and the loop interconnection is different in thickness between a crossing part and a non-crossing part with the high-frequency interconnection.
US10312880B2
A method for producing an electronic component module prevents a space from collapsing. The method includes a step of preparing an electronic component including an element substrate, a drive device formed on a principal surface of the element substrate, and a protection device covering the drive device so as to form a space around the drive device; a step of fixing the electronic component on a common substrate such that a principal surface of the common substrate and another principal surface of the element substrate face each other; a step of fixing a reinforcing plate on the protection device of the electronic component; and a step of forming a resin layer on the principal surface of the common substrate such that the electronic component is contained therein.
US10312876B2
Systems and methods for dynamically adjusting transmit gain in a transceiver. The gain is adjusted in order to provide the maximum gain. The amount of distortion is measured. The gain is increased until the distortion reaches a predetermined limit. The gain of several components can be adjusted independently.
US10312875B2
A sound pickup device includes a plurality of microphones, and at least one processor configured to implement stored instructions and execute a plurality of tasks, including: a first gain controlling task controlling a gain of each of the plurality of microphones, an adding task adding a sound signal to be output from the first gain controlling task with a predetermined gain, a second gain controlling task controlling a gain of the sound signal to be output from the adding task; and a gain setting task setting each gain of the first gain controlling task based on gain setting in the second gain controlling task.
US10312874B2
Volume control methods and control devices, and multimedia playback control methods and control devices are provided. The volume control method comprises: acquiring volume information of a first device; in response to that the acquired volume information of the first device satisfies a predetermined condition, determining at least one second device; and controlling volume of the at least one second device. When a user goes away from a multimedia playback device, multimedia playback of another device can be controlled, to cause that multimedia playback that the user watches/listens to is not affected obviously.
US10312871B2
Circuits and methods related to power amplifiers. In some implementations, a bias circuit includes a reference device connectable to receive a first electrical supply level, the reference device arranged to produce an electrical bias condition using the first electrical supply level, and the reference device connectable to provide the electrical bias condition to an amplifier device connectable to a second electrical supply level. The bias circuit also includes a differential amplifier connectable to receive the first electrical supply level, the differential amplifier having a first input connectable to a first node of the reference device and a second input connectable to receive a reference electrical level, the differential amplifier arranged to maintain a first electrical level on the first node of the reference device as a function of the reference electrical level.
US10312860B2
A crystal oscillator circuit comprises a crystal; oscillator circuitry for generating a crystal oscillation signal at an oscillation frequency; and a kick-start circuit for injecting pulses into the crystal during a start-up period. The oscillator circuitry comprises a differential pair of transistors and can operate in an oscillating mode or a start-up mode. In the oscillating mode, the differential pair of transistors are cross-coupled so that a gate terminal of one transistor is coupled to a drain terminal of the other transistor, and vice versa, and the drain terminals are coupled to the crystal to generate the crystal oscillation signal. In the start-up mode, the kick-start circuit drives the gate terminals of the transistors with said pulses. This crystal oscillator circuit has a decreased start-up time compared to prior art solutions and a reduced influence of parasitic oscillations.
US10312856B2
A photovoltaic modular connector system is disclosed. Electrically conductive contacts embedded into the surface of each of one or more photovoltaic (PV) modules provide the connection point for two PV modules to be connected together.PV modules are connected together by removing a protective backing material from an adhesive area surrounding a first set of contacts of a first PV module, and adhering to an adhesive area surrounding a second set of contacts of a second PV module, the adhesive making the connection and sealing and protecting the contact area.No external wiring, connectors or devices are required to make the electrical connection between two PV modules. Contacts are integral and embedded into the surface of each individual PV module. The PV modules have adhesive on the back to allow them to be adhesively attached to a surface without additional mounting hardware.
US10312853B2
A mounting system for supporting a plurality of photovoltaic modules on a sloped support surface, such as a sloped roof, is disclosed herein. The mounting system may include one or more support surface attachment devices, each support surface attachment device configured to attach one or more photovoltaic modules to a support surface; and one or more module coupling devices, each module coupling device configured to couple a plurality of photovoltaic modules to one another.
US10312849B2
An aircraft starting and generating system includes a starter/generator and an inverter/converter/controller (200) that is connected to the starter/generator and that generates AC power to drive the starter/generator in a start mode for starting a prime mover of the aircraft, and that converts AC power, obtained from the starter/generator after the prime mover have been started, to DC power in a generate mode of the starter/generator. A four leg inverter is coupled with a DC power output (452) of the starter/generator and has an inverter/converter/controller (ICC) (580) with a four leg MOSFET-based bridge configuration that drives the starter/generator in a start mode for starting a prime mover of the aircraft, and converts DC power to AC power in a generate mode of the starter/generator. A four leg bridge gate driver (560) is configured to drive the four leg MOSFET-based bridge (580) during start and generate mode using bi-polar pulse width modulation (PWM).
US10312848B2
A method for checking an operation of an electric machine, which has three phases. For pulses of a first electric variable of the three phases, a pulse width modulation is carried out. Depending in each case on a positioning of electromechanical components of the electric machine with respect to one another, the first electric variable has a pulse with a longest pulse width for a first of the three phases, a pulse with an intermediate pulse width for a second of the three phases, and a pulse with a shortest pulse width for a third of the three phases. A cycle of the pulse width modulation is delimited by two points in time.
US10312846B2
A pole-number-changing rotary electric machine includes: a rotary electric machine; an n-group inverter; and a control unit for controlling the n-group inverter, wherein the control unit controls current phases of a current flowing through stator coils such that a current phase degree of freedom, which is a number of current phases per pole pair controllable by the n-group inverter, is equal to a number of groups n×a number of phases m/2 at a time of high polarity driving and the number of groups n×the number of phases m at a time of low polarity driving, where the number of groups n is a multiple of 4 and the number of phases m is a natural number of 3 or more and relatively prime to the number of groups n.
US10312838B2
A drive system has an electric motor, wherein the electric motor includes a first three-phase stator winding system and a second three-phase stator winding system. The first and the second stator winding system are arranged on the stator in a manner rotated through an electrical phase angle in relation to one another. The drive system includes a frequency converter, wherein the frequency converter has a first bridge circuit arrangement which is designed to generate voltages for the first winding system and a second bridge circuit arrangement which is designed to generate voltages for the second winding system. The first bridge circuit arrangement and the second bridge circuit arrangement are connected in series. A control device is designed to actuate the first bridge circuit arrangement and the second bridge circuit arrangement.
US10312837B2
An information processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire a first phase signal and a second phase signal that are acquired by measuring a rotation of a moving object, and a calculation unit configured to calculate a rotational angle by an iterative calculation so as to satisfy a relational expression bearing an arctangent. The relational expression bearing the arctangent uses a first cosine wave and a second cosine wave at a higher harmonic of the first cosine wave for the first phase signal, and a first sine wave and a second sine wave at a higher harmonic of the first sine wave for the second phase signal. The first phase signal and the second phase signal may, for example, be analog signals having a wave shape.
US10312827B2
A power conversion device that includes an inverter circuit in which arms are connected in parallel to each other between a DC positive terminal and a DC negative terminal in accordance with a number of phases of alternating currents of a plurality of phases, the arms for the respective phases each including two switch sections that are connected in series and to be brought into conduction in an on state and out of conduction in an off state, the power conversion device being configured to convert electric power between DC power and AC power of the plurality of phases while a connection point between the two switch sections of each of the arms is set as an AC input or output point of each phase.
US10312826B2
In a power conversion apparatus, a controller calculates a duty ratio being a ratio of an on-duration of each of bridge-circuit switches configured by first to fourth switches to a switching period, and outputs a gate signal to each of the bridge-circuit switches. The controller adjusts the duty ratio of each of the bridge-circuit switches such that a switch-current difference becomes closer to a value obtained by multiplying an input-current difference by the predetermined target ratio that is a value greater than 0 and less than 1. The switch-current difference is a difference between a first switch current and a second switch current or a difference between a third switch current and a fourth switch current detected by a switch-current sensor at predetermined timings in the switching period. The input-current difference is a difference between input currents detected by an input-current sensor simultaneously with detection timings of switch currents.
US10312823B1
A power inverter comprising a power inverter circuit to convert alternating current (AC) power to direct current (DC) power, a condition monitoring system, a wired and/or wireless communication circuit, and a manual/automatic power selection capability. The power inverter can additionally include a remote controller and power inverter remote unit, a vehicle monitoring system, and an association with a portable computing device application. The power inverter remote unit replicates a power inverter controller circuit of the power inverter and provides additional alternating current (AC) output socket(s). The application is adapted to be run on a portable computing device and could include features to remotely activate and/or configure the inverter, obtain inverter operating characteristics, obtain error notifications, and monitor a vehicle status and/or operating history. The power inverter can additionally include a DC charging circuit, converting DC power to AC power.
US10312820B2
A polarity-selectable high voltage direct current power supply including a first drive assembly that transforms a first low voltage DC input into a first medium voltage alternating current output; a first HV output assembly that transforms the first LV AC output into a first HV DC output, wherein the first HV output assembly defines a first input stage; a polarity selector coupled between the second output junction of the first drive assembly and the first and second input stages of the first HV output assembly, the polarity selector operable between a first configuration and a second configuration; wherein in the first configuration the first HV DC output has a positive polarity; and wherein in the second configuration the first HV DC output has a negative polarity.
US10312817B2
Active clamp flyback power converter. At least some of the example embodiments are methods including: activating a main FET and thereby inducing positive current flow in a primary winding, the positive current flow resulting in reverse biasing of a rectifier of a secondary circuit; deactivating the main FET and thereby forward biasing the rectifier in the secondary circuit and causing current flow in the secondary winding; activating a clamp FET and thereby coupling a clamp capacitor to a leakage inductance of a transformer, the primary circuit having initially a positive current flow through the primary winding and then a negative current flow through the primary winding; and regulating the negative current flow through the primary winding.
US10312814B2
A power source apparatus for supplying power to a load includes a switch and a controller. The controller detects voltage applied to the switch. The controller further switches a state of the switch from OFF to ON when the detected voltage is equal to or smaller than a predetermined threshold value.
US10312811B2
A method detects current-limit events indicating a maximum current threshold of a switching converter has been reached, A compensation voltage is adjusted in response to the detected current-limit events, where the compensation voltage defines a duty cycle of the switching converter. A time for which no current-limit events have been detected is sensed, and the value of the compensation voltage adjusted in response to the detected time reaching a time step threshold.
US10312810B1
A voltage converter includes a set of series connected capacitors collectively configured to provide voltage to an inverter. The voltage converter includes a switchgear including rails and switches configured to energize the capacitors with energy from the rails. The voltage converter includes interleaved inductors having respective half bridge switches configured to energize the rails. The voltage converter includes a controller configured to operate the switches of the switchgear to energize less than all of the set. The switch operation is responsive to a request to change the DC link voltage.
US10312809B2
The present invention provides a direct current to direct current converter circuit, which comprises: a first energy storage module, a second energy storage module, a current regulator module, and a current detection module. The first energy storage module outputs current via the second energy storage module; the current detection module detects the value of outputting current of the second energy storage module, and sends feedback signals in accordance with the value of outputting current of the second energy storage module; and the current regulator module receives the feedback signals, and regulates the peak value of outputting current of the first energy storage module in accordance with the feedback signals. Thereby the direct current to direct current converter circuit can achieve the purpose of controlling the values of the outputting current and improving the efficiency and stability.
US10312797B1
An energy harvesting system includes a transducer, a capacitor, a power converter, a power converter control line, a control switch and a control switch control line. The transducer harvests energy and outputs electrical current based on the harvested energy. The capacitor stores a rectified voltage based on the electrical current. The control switch can be open or closed. The control switch control line is arranged to provide a control voltage based on the rectified voltage to the control switch. When the control voltage is equal to or greater than a threshold voltage the control switch is closed such that the power converter control line electrically connects the power converter to a battery in order to provide harvested energy to the battery.
US10312781B2
A turbine engine is described that includes a drive shaft and an electric generator, wherein the electric generator includes a first rotating element comprising a first magnet array and mechanically coupled to the drive shaft. The electric generator further includes a second rotating element comprising a second magnet array and mechanically coupled to the drive shaft and an armature comprising a first coil array and a second coil array, wherein the first rotating element is configured to rotate at a particular velocity relative to the first coil array, and the second rotating element is configured to rotate at the particular velocity relative to the second coil array.
US10312776B2
A synchronous motor with permanent magnets includes a rotor (110) provided with permanent magnets, and a winding (120) formed by overlapping coils located inside a slotless stator (100). The winding coils (120) are regularly distributed all around the 360° of the inside surface of the stator (100) and the ends of the coils are designed such that the winding has the same thickness throughout and the ends of the winding are at least partially inside the slotless stator (100).
US10312769B2
Provided is a motor enabling more simple and efficient cleaning of the inside of an air path. The motor includes a stator, a housing which holds the stator, a fan arranged outside the stator, a fan cover which houses the fan and is mounted on the housing, an air path including an inlet and an outlet for a cooling gas, and a first cleaning hole extending from a first opening that faces and opens to the air path at a position closer to the outlet than the inlet to a second opening which opens to the outside.
US10312762B2
Provided are a coil having excellent insulation properties, a rotating electrical machine equipped with the same, and a method for manufacturing the same. The coil (60) has a covered portion where a conductive body (602) is covered with an insulating film (612) and a stripped portion where the insulating film is stripped off, and the stripped portion is electrophoretically coated with a resin material (601). The coil (60) may have a configuration wherein segment conductors (28) each having a covered portion and stripped portion are included, connection parts are formed by the stripped portions of two different segment conductors (28) being connected at coil ends (62), and the thickness of the resin material (601) is no more than the thickness of the insulating film (612) at the boundary portion (630) between the covered portion and the stripped portion.
US10312757B2
Provided is a permanent magnet rotor that includes a plurality of magnets sequentially disposed on an outer circumferential surface of a core having a cylindrical shape along a circumferential direction of the core and a plurality of projection portions each disposed between the magnets adjacent to each other. Then a cover portion is formed such that a height of a space in a radial direction of the core is more reduced as from a base portion of the projection portions toward a tip end of the cover portion.
US10312754B2
A rotor structure for an interior permanent magnet electric motor comprising: A laminated rotor core which comprises stack of thin plates, the stack having a first end and a second end, each plate in the stack including at least one window which is aligned with a corresponding window of an adjacent plate so that the window together form an elongate pocket that extends along at least a part of the length of the core starting at a first end of the core, and at least one permanent magnet located in the pocket. At least one plate at the first end of the stack includes an integral retention feature which projects away from a main body of the plate to project above the window in the plate and which engages the first end of the magnet thereby to retain the magnet in the pocket.
US10312753B2
A single phase permanent magnet motor includes a stator core and a permanent magnet rotor rotatably disposed in the stator core. The stator core includes an end portion and a pole arm extending from the end portion. The pole arm includes two connecting arms connected to the end portion and two pole claws formed at distal ends of the connecting arms. The permanent magnet rotor is disposed between the two pole claws. The rotor comprises a rotor core and a plurality of permanent magnets embedded in the rotor core, and the rotor core is made of a magnetic material.
US10312744B2
A transmitter assembly is useful in optimizing in the delivery of wireless power to a plurality of receivers. Each receiver measures its own battery need for power and transmits that measurement as a request to the transmitter. The transmitter is configured to normalize and compare battery need requests. The transmitter then allocates pulses of wireless power among the requesting receivers according to their battery need.
US10312741B2
An electronic unit includes: an electricity reception section configured to receive power fed from a power feeding unit using a magnetic field; a voltage detection section configured to detect a received voltage supplied from the electricity reception section; and a control section, wherein while preliminary power feeding at a lower power than main power feeding is performed from the power feeding unit, and when a received voltage detected by the voltage detection section is equal to or higher than a predetermined threshold voltage, the control section performs voltage reduction control so as to decrease the received voltage to lower than the threshold voltage.
US10312739B2
A non-contact power transmission device includes a resonance coil and a resonance capacitor, and includes impedance variable circuits the impedance of which can be changed. In the non-contact power transmission device, a power transmission side controller changes impedance of one of the impedance variable circuits, a power reception side controller changes impedance of the other one of the impedance variable circuits, and output impedance on a power supply side with respect to a power transmission coil unit and input impedance on a load side with respect to the power transmission coil unit are matched.
US10312738B2
A wireless power transmission system includes a power feeding device and a power receiving device, wherein the power feeding device includes: a power feeding coil which receives an electric power to generate an AC magnetic field; an inverter for supplying an alternating-current power under a predetermined driving frequency to the power feeding coil; a current detection circuit for detecting a peak value of an alternating current flowing in the power feeding coil; and a controller for controlling the alternating current flowing in the power feeding coil. The power receiving device includes: a power receiving coil for receiving electric power wirelessly via the AC magnetic field; a power receiving side resonance capacitor which configures a power receiving side LC resonance circuit together with the power receiving coil; and a rectifier for rectifying the electric power received by the power receiving coil.
US10312733B2
This application relates to a wireless sensor (10) suitable for non-destructive testing of a test object. The sensor comprises a transducer (12) and an electrically conductive transducer coil (16) configured to define an enclosure and being electrically coupled to the transducer to enable the transducer to be inductively operated by a remote device. The enclosure defined by the transducer coil has an internal width dimension that is wider than a corresponding width dimension of the transducer.
US10312732B2
An inductive power supply system includes a non-contact power supply for energizing a device. The inductive power supply system includes a communication system for enabling communication between a device and the system. The device transmits an identifier to the system. If the device does not have a transmitter, the system attempts to determine the type of device from a characterization of the power consumption by the device. If the device cannot be characterized, the inductive power supply system can be operated manually.
US10312730B2
An apparatus and method employ a pair of input terminals to receive an input voltage from a charging power source for charging a backup power supply for an emergency lighting system, the input voltage corresponding to any one of a plurality of nominal operating voltages. A voltage level detector produces, in response to the received input voltage, an input voltage level signal indicating which of the nominal operating voltages is being received. A temperature detector determines whether the temperature of the backup power supply exceeds a threshold and produces a temperature signal in response thereto. A heater includes a plurality of heating elements, and is activated to heat the backup power supply when the temperature of the backup power supply is less than the threshold. The input voltage level signal determines which of the heating elements is activated.
US10312727B2
In power supply devices, it is prevented to cool the components that actually do not need to be cooled.A power supply device includes a first converter configured to convert AC power from an AC power source into DC power, a second converter configured to convert a voltage to charge a backup electrical storage unit with the DC power from the first converter and to cause the electrical storage unit to discharge DC power, a plurality of cooling units configured to individually cool the first converter and the second converter, and a controller configured to change an operational state of the plurality of cooling units depending on an operational status of the power supply device.
US10312726B2
A method for managing an electrical power generation facility including an electrical power generation device, a storage device, and a control module is described. The method includes: assessing a power generation capacity of the generating device for a given period; determining a weighted generation capacity on the basis of said assessed generation capacity and at least one assessed power generation capacity of said generation device over a period preceding said given period; and determining, for a period after the given period, a discharge limit for the storage device on the basis of said weighted generation capacity. A related computer program, control module, and facility are also described.
US10312725B2
A power supply system with identification code updating capability is used for providing an electric power to an electronic device having a first identification (ID) code. The power supply system includes a power supply device and an ID code updating module. The power supply device is configured to provide the electric power to the electronic device and includes a memory unit. The memory unit is configured to store a look-up table including at least one second ID code. The ID code updating module is electrically connected to the power supply device. When the second ID code listed in the look-up table does not match with the first ID code of the electronic device, the ID code updating module updates a second ID code matching with the first ID code in the look-up table. A charging method is further disclosed.
US10312721B2
Systems, devices, and methods are disclosed for unlocking a vehicle. An example vehicle includes a power system, a remote unlock system controlled by a remote unlocking device, and a door applique. The door applique comprises a wireless charger coupled to the power system, configured to charge the remote unlocking device, and a ridge configured to engage the remote unlocking device, wherein the wireless charger is configured to charge the remote unlocking device for a limited time.
US10312713B2
The described technology includes a power distribution controller configured to control functioning of a first power source configured to supply power to a first component and to a second component and a second power source configured to supply power to the second component. The power distribution controller sets an upper limit of current from the first power source to the second component based on average level of charge at the second power source over a predetermined amount of time. The power distribution controller reduces the amount of power loss due to spikes in current from the first power source to the second component.
US10312710B1
An energy recovery pulse forming network and method that recovers at least a portion of the energy in a railgun by transferring energy dissipated from the railgun inductance back to an initial source of the energy, such as an input capacitor, for use by the network. This reduces the amount of energy required from an external power source to charge the input capacitor during subsequent railgun firings.
US10312705B2
Concepts and technologies are disclosed herein for flexible batteries and methods for forming flexible batteries. A flexible battery can include a borophene sheet, a pyroelectric peptide microtubule, and a borophene cap. A first end of the pyroelectric peptide microtubule can be located adjacent to the borophene sheet and the borophene cap can be located at a second end of the pyroelectric peptide microtubule. The borophene cap can collect a charge created by the pyroelectric peptide microtubule. The flexible battery also can include a collection wire that directs the charge to a borophene capacitor charge system.
US10312703B2
A battery charger circuit having a regulator controller configured to control the switching transistors of a switching voltage regulator. A power path switch is disposed intermediate an output of the switching voltage regulator and a terminal of a battery to be charged, with the power path switch including at least two transistor segments having common respective drain electrodes, common respective source electrodes and separate respective gate electrodes. A power path switch controller operates to sequentially turn ON the at least two transistor segments of the power path switch, preferably in the order of a decreasing ON resistance.
US10312702B2
The present disclosure provides an overvoltage and overcurrent protection circuit and a mobile terminal. The overvoltage and overcurrent protection circuit comprises a primary protection circuit and a secondary protection circuit. The primary protection circuit comprises a power end coupled to an anode of a cell, a detection end coupled to a cathode of the cell, and a low potential interface end coupled to a ground end of a charging and discharging interface. The secondary protection circuit comprises a high potential cell end, a low potential cell end, and a high potential interface end, in which the high potential cell end is externally coupled to the anode of the cell, the low potential cell end is externally coupled to the cathode of the cell, and the high potential interface end is externally coupled to a power end of the charging and discharging interface.
US10312697B1
Method and systems for dynamic current redistribution in electronic devices with external power storage devices are disclosed. The dynamic current redistribution system includes a set of policies for each state of the electronic device. Depending on a device state, the system identifies the policies to be put in place, and directs current according to the policies. The electronic device may be connected to an external power source in one state, an external battery device in another state, and may be connected to both in a third state.
US10312696B2
A method and apparatus are provided for controlling wireless power in a wireless power network managed by a wireless power transmitter. The control method includes registering a wireless power receiver to a wireless power network corresponding to the wireless power transmitter; applying a charging power for charging the wireless power receiver to a resonator of the wireless power transmitter; detecting a change of magnitude of power applied to the resonator; detecting that a communication unit of the wireless power transmitter fails to receive a communication signal from the wireless power receiver a predetermined time; and in response to detecting the change of the magnitude of power applied to the resonator and that the communication unit fails to receive the communication signal from the wireless power receiver in the predetermined time, removing the wireless power receiver from the wireless power network.
US10312695B2
Provided is a power source control device that realizes multi-channel PWM control without using a timer port, and a power source control method for the same. A power source control device performs PWM control on a plurality of power source units that repeat an ON operation and an OFF operation in cycles having a predetermined PWM period. The power source control device includes: a generation unit configured to generate operation data for the entire PWM period, the operation data determining whether to cause the individual power source units to perform the ON operation or the OFF operation in cycles having a predetermined period that is shorter than the PWM period; and an output unit configured to output operation data generated by the generation unit to the plurality of power source units in cycles of the predetermined period.
US10312694B2
The present disclosure pertains to systems and methods for selectively synchronizing one or more power conversion units of one or more distributed energy resources with a common time source when in an islanded state and with a measured phase angle of a grid when in a grid-connected state. In various embodiments, detecting whether the distributed energy resource is in a grid-connected state or an islanded state comprises microprocessor based analysis of measurement and monitoring data collected by intelligent electronic devices associated with the grid.
US10312686B2
A system of surge suppressor units is connected at multiple locations on a power transmission and distribution grid to provide grid level protection against various disturbances before such disturbances can reach or affect facility level equipment. The surge suppressor units effectively prevent major voltage and current spikes from impacting the grid. In addition, the surge suppressor units include various integration features which provide diagnostic and remote reporting capabilities required by most utility operations. As such, the surge suppressor units protect grid level components from major events such as natural geomagnetic disturbances (solar flares), extreme electrical events (lightning) and human-generated events (EMPs) and cascading failures on the power grid.
US10312684B2
Systems and methods for intelligent transfer and management of power maintain a continuous and cost efficient supply of power to electrical loads in a residential or commercial unit when different energy resources such as utility, backup generators, energy storage systems and distributed energy resources (e.g. solar and wind) are available.
US10312682B2
A dynamic stability assessment device is provided. The dynamic stability assessment device includes an energy management system (EMS); and a dynamic stability assessment system for dynamic stability assessment on a power system of the energy management system. The EMS includes a plurality of facility names with respect to a single facility, and processes to power system data based on any one of the plurality of facility names according to a state of the power system.
US10312675B2
An electrical connection box includes a housing, and at least one electronic component accommodated in the housing. The housing includes an accommodation chamber that accommodates the electronic component, a wire outlet that draws out a wire electrically connected to the electronic component from the housing, and a wire routing space that guides the wire drawn out from the accommodation chamber to the wire outlet. A wall forming an outer wall of the housing includes a drain hole, or a through hole, which communicates the wire routing space and an outer side of the housing and which discharges liquid entering through the wire outlet to the outer side of the housing. The drain hole is formed in a first contact area of an inner wall surface of the wire routing space, toward which the liquid entering the wire routing space through the wire outlet heads first.
US10312664B2
A method for patterning a sequence of layers and a semiconductor laser device are disclosed. In an embodiment the method creates at least one trench in the sequence of layers by two plasma etching methods. The semiconductor laser device comprises a sequence of layers including a semiconductor material and two trenches in the sequence of layers. The trenches laterally delimit a ridge waveguide. Each of the trenches is delimited on the side facing away from the ridge waveguide by a region of the sequence of layers.
US10312662B2
To provide an optical module whose power consumption in an ambient temperature range is reduced, and an optical transmission equipment. The optical module includes: a housing; a box type optical subassembly including a bottom portion serving as a heat dissipation face; and a heat conductive member disposed between the bottom portion of the optical subassembly and a bottom portion of the housing. The optical subassembly includes one or a plurality of optical semiconductor devices, and a temperature controller on which the one or plurality of optical semiconductor devices are mounted and which is placed on an inner bottom portion of the optical subassembly. The heat conductive member is disposed only at a portion of the bottom portion of the optical subassembly.
US10312659B1
This disclosure provides methods and apparatuses which advantageously stabilize beam parameters and elongate crystal lifetime. In one aspect, a UV laser apparatus includes a non-linear crystal, a laser source, a beam-crystal displacer, a beam parameter monitor, and a laser control unit. The laser source directs a source beam to the non-linear crystal to produce a UV beam and the beam-crystal displacer shifts the non-linear crystal relative to the source beam at a plurality of shift speeds. The beam parameter monitor measures the UV beam and outputs a measurement of a beam parameter. The laser control unit: receives the measurement; determines, based on the measurement, an adjustment in shift speed that steers the beam parameter toward a target value; and outputs the adjustment to the beam-crystal displacer.
US10312655B2
An excimer laser generator and an excimer laser annealing equipment are disclosed to improve the convenience of window replacement, improve the replacement efficiency and reduce the gas waste. The excimer laser generator includes a reflector, an active medium cavity and an output mirror arranged in sequence. The active medium cavity has a first opening facing the reflector and a second opening facing the output mirror. The excimer laser generator further includes two replacement units respectively arranged between the first opening and the reflector, and between the second opening and the output mirror. Each of the replacement units includes a support plate and a driving component. The support plate is provided with a plurality of windows, and the driving component is adapted for driving the support plate so that one of the plurality of windows seals a corresponding opening.
US10312648B2
An outlet device includes a counterweight portion, a hanging portion arranged distant from the counterweight portion, an extending portion having two ends respectively connected to the counterweight portion and the hanging portion, a blowing unit, and a power cord connected to the counterweight portion. The outlet unit of the counterweight portion and the blowing unit are electrically connected to the power cord. The blowing unit is installed on the counterweight portion, the hanging portion, or the extending portion for inhaling external air into the airflow channel and blowing airflow to the air exit. When the outlet device is applied to a plate, the counterweight portion is arranged under the plate and the hanging portion is arranged on the plate, and the hanging portion remains hung on the plate by using the weight distribution of the outlet device, thereby maintaining the outlet device in a static balance state.
US10312643B2
A connector for connecting an electrical cable to an aperture in an electrical panel having a spring, a shell, and a insulator along a longitudinal axis. The spring has a base from which two insertion tabs extend coaxial with the axis and a pressure tab extending from the base perpendicular to the two insertion tables having a pressure prong to provide a radial grounding force for the connector. The insertion tabs of the spring have hook latches extending past the insulator that lock the connector in the panel and the base of the spring has a hole to receive the cable where first and second clamping tabs clampingly lock the cable in the connector.
US10312641B2
A remote controlled extension cord. The extension cord has a wire attached to a plug with an integrated base. The base serves to cradle a remote control, which is used to turn power on/off to the extensions on the cord. The extension cord has a number of advanced operations, for example a sequential flash operation which cycles power between all of the individual sockets in the extension cord in sequence, and then repeats the sequence. This can all be controlled by the remote control.
US10312637B2
An electrical connector includes: an insulative housing; a single row of contacts secured to the insulative housing and each having a soldering tail; and a shielding shell enclosing the insulative housing and having an annular part and a pair of soldering portions; wherein the shielding shell annular part is seamless; and the soldering tails of the single row of contacts are arranged alternately in two rows within an outer profile of the shielding shell annular part.
US10312633B2
A dual connector system includes a host circuit board and first and second electrical connectors mounted to the host circuit board. The first electrical connector has a housing having a card slot for a module circuit board and the second electrical connector has a housing having an upper mating surface for the module circuit board. The housing has a first side and an opposite second side with connector latching features and holding second contacts at the upper mating surface between the first and second sides. A dual connector module is mated to the first and second electrical connectors. A securing strap is secured to the dual connector module and has a first strap latching feature being latchably coupled to the corresponding connector latching feature to secure the dual connector module to the second electrical connector.
US10312631B1
A communications connector for a vehicle store, the communications connector includes a receptacle interface plate, and a communications receptacle configured for coupling with an umbilical lanyard plug of a host vehicle, the communications receptacle having at least one magnetic member configured to couple the communications receptacle to the receptacle interface plate so that the communications receptacle is decoupled from the receptacle interface plate upon release of the vehicle store from the host vehicle.
US10312628B2
An electrical connector has a terminal base, a metal inner shell, a metal fixing member and a metal outer shell. The terminal base comprises an insulative body and a plurality of conductive terminals fixed to the insulative body. The insulative body comprises a base and a tongue extended forwardly from the base. The base is provided with a plurality of latch projections. The metal inner shell encloses to form an accommodating cavity passing through from front to back and is used to accommodate the terminal base. The metal fixing member comprises a stopping ring portion and fixing portions bending and extending from both sides of the stopping ring portion. The stopping ring portion is provided with a through hole for the tongue to pass through. The fixing portions are provided with locking holes engaging with the latch projections of the terminal base, and the fixing portions are fixed to the metal inner shell. The metal outer shell is fixed to an outer side of the metal inner shell and is formed with a plurality of soldering legs extending downwardly. The present disclosure can effectively improve the reliability of the electrical connector.
US10312623B2
Spring-loaded contacts having an improved reliability. One example may provide spring-loaded contacts having a reduced likelihood of entanglement between a spring and a plunger. For example, a piston may be placed between a plunger and a spring. The piston may have a head portion that is wider than the diameter of the spring and located between the spring and the plunger to isolate the spring and the plunger. In these and other examples, an additional object, such as a sphere, may be placed between the plunger and spring. In another example, two additional objects, such as two spheres, may be placed between a plunger and piston.
US10312620B1
A spring connector includes an insulating case and a plurality of spring terminals. The insulating case includes a plurality of cable slots spaced apart from each other. The spring terminals are disposed on the insulating case, and each of the spring terminals has a contacting portion and a tail portion. The contacting portion of each of the spring terminals is formed in a spiral shape so as to have a gap. The cables are respectively disposed in the cable slots of the insulating case, the cables are respectively arranged in the gaps of the contacting portions of the spring terminals, and each of the cables is sandwiched by the corresponding contacting portion, so that the spring terminals are electrically connected to the cables.
US10312617B2
An electrical connector includes a first metal housing and a flexible flat transmission component. The first metal housing includes an installation portion. The flexible flat transmission component is disposed on the installation portion of the first metal housing, the flexible flat transmission component includes a plurality of contacts, and a first inclined surface is formed on a front end of each contact and opposite to the installation portion.
US10312611B2
A floating connector assembly device is provided. An electronic component is mounted directly or indirectly to a chassis of an electronic device. At least one conductive contact spring is mounted to the electronic component and configured to electrically couple to the electronic component. A printed circuit board having a fixed end and a free end with an electrical contact positioned between the two ends is positioned against the conductive contact spring, the contact spring being biased so that a contacting portion of the contact spring contacts the electrical contact to form an electrical connection. The electrical connection is maintained during relative movement of the conductive contact spring and the electrical contact of the printed circuit board by a bias force of the conductive contact spring.
US10312605B2
A terminal-equipped wire configured by crimping a pair of barrel pieces provided on a terminal to an external sheath of a wire, the external sheath being provided on an outer circumferential surface of a core wire. The pair of barrel pieces are wrapped around the external sheath into a polygonal tube shape that has a plurality of corner portions in a circumferential direction of the external sheath, leading end edges of the pair of barrel pieces are arranged on opposite sides of at least one corner portion out of the plurality of corner portions.
US10312601B2
A combination antenna element is provided. A first antenna element, for example a waveguide antenna, may be coupled to a waveguide feed such as a Substrate Integrated Waveguide (SIW). The waveguide antenna may be formed as an aperture at a terminus of the SIW and disposed within a Printed Circuit Board (PCB) internal layer. A second antenna element, for example a microstrip patch antenna (MPA), may be provided on an outer PCB layer, the MPA defining an interior region, the interior region being positioned in line with the first antenna element. Also in some embodiments, the second antenna element is coupled to another antenna feed such as a transmission line feed which propagates signals in a different electromagnetic propagation mode than the waveguide. The transmission line feed may be a stripline located within the waveguide. An antenna array incorporating the combination antenna element is also provided.
US10312596B2
A dual-polarization, circularly-polarized artificial-impedance-surface antenna has two adjacent tensor surface-wave waveguides (SWGs), a waveguide feed coupled to each of the two SWGs and a hybrid coupler having output ports, each output port of the hybrid coupler being connected to the waveguide feeds coupled to the two SWGs, the hybrid coupler, in use, combining the signals from input ports of the 90° hybrid coupler with phase shifts at its output ports.
US10312595B2
Example apparatuses and methods relating to antennas are provided. An example apparatus in the form of an antenna assembly includes a first conductor formed into a first helical structure wound around a central axis and a second conductor formed into a second helical structure wound around the central axis. The first helical structure may have a first coil sense and the second helical structure may have second coil sense that is opposite the first coil sense. The first conductor may have a first conductor proximal end and a first conductor distal end and the second conductor may have a second conductor proximal end and a second conductor distal end. The first conductor distal end may be adjacent the second conductor proximal end. The antenna assembly may further include first, second, and third ground planes with one disposed at each end of the conductors and one disposed between the conductors.
US10312591B2
A wireless communication device includes a metallic housing, a circuit board, a metallic heat sink, and first, second and third antennas. The metallic housing includes a chamber. The circuit board is disposed in the chamber for providing a feed signal. The metallic heat sink is disposed on the circuit board and divides the chamber into first and second regions. The first antenna is disposed at the first region along a first direction. The second antenna is disposed at the second region along a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The third antenna is disposed at the second region along the first direction and located between the metallic heat sink and the second antenna. The first, second and third antennas are coupled with the circuit board. The first, second and third antennas receive the feed signal and at least are capable of generating signals at the same frequency band.
US10312586B2
An apparatus includes a fully integrated self-contained radio device including an antenna and an antenna element. The radio device and the antenna element are arranged such that a radio signal emitted by the antenna of the radio device is amplified in at least one predefined spatial direction.
US10312583B2
According to various aspects, exemplary embodiments are disclosed of antenna systems. In an exemplary embodiment, an antenna system generally includes a ground plane and first and second antennas. A first isolator is disposed between the first and antennas. A second isolator extends outwardly from the ground plane. The antenna system is configured to be operable with low passive intermodulation.
US10312578B2
There is provided a radar device with which the density of transmitted signals can be made uniform in relation to orientation even if the rotation rate of an antenna fluctuates, and interference removal processing can be given a simpler configuration. A radar device that transmits and receives signals while rotating an antenna comprises a motor, a transmission pulse generator, and a transmitter. The motor rotates the antenna (antenna main body). The transmission pulse generator generates transmission timing pulses for transmission signals from the antenna based on the rotational angle of the antenna main body. The transmitter transmits transmission signals via the antenna according to the transmission timing pulses generated by the transmission pulse generator.
US10312556B2
A battery module includes a circuit board, bus bars, a first temperature sensor, a second temperatures sensor, and a controller. The circuit board is over a plurality of battery cells. The bus bars are connected to the battery cells and the circuit board. The first temperature sensor is on the circuit board to measure a first temperature of the battery cells. The second temperature sensor is on the circuit board and spaced from the first temperature sensor. The second temperature sensor measures a second temperature from the circuit board. The controller is on the circuit board, receive information indicative of the first temperature and the second temperature, and calculates an estimated temperature of each of the battery cells.
US10312549B2
A bipolar battery plate for a bipolar battery is disclosed. The bipolar battery plate has a frame, a substrate positioned within the frame, a first lead layer positioned on one side of the substrate, a second lead layer positioned on another side of the substrate, a positive active material (PAM) positioned on a surface of the first lead layer, and a negative active material (NAM) positioned on a surface of the second lead layer. The substrate has a plurality of perforations, and a plurality of standoffs integrally formed on opposing side surfaces thereof. The first and second lead layers are electrically connected to each other through the plurality of perforations.
US10312541B2
Disclosed herein are embodiments of compositions comprising polyols and cationic group-functionalized polyphenylene polymers suitable for use in electrochemical systems. The disclosed composition exhibit improved dispersion properties and further provide anion exchange polymer membranes exhibited improved chemical and mechanical properties. Also disclosed herein are methods of making and using the disclosed compositions.
US10312537B2
A control method for fuel cell system capable of executing an idle stop operation is provided, in which operation power generation of a fuel cell is selectively stopped according to a required output of a load and cathode gas is intermittently supplied to the fuel cell during an operation stop. An upper limit value and a lower limit value of an output voltage of the fuel cell during the idle stop operation is set, the cathode gas is intermittently supplied with the output voltage of the fuel cell set at a value between the upper limit value and the lower limit value, a wet/dry state of the fuel cell is detected, a wet/dry appropriate range in which the wet/dry state of the fuel cell during the idle stop operation is appropriate is set, and it is determined whether or not the detected wet/dry state of the fuel cell is within the set wet/dry appropriate range. If the wet/dry state of the fuel cell is determined to be outside the set wet/dry appropriate range, the output voltage of the fuel cell is reset, and the cathode gas is intermittently supplied with the output voltage of the fuel cell set at a value between the upper limit value and lower limit value of the reset output voltage.
US10312536B2
An onboard electrochemical system of an electrochemical cell including a cathode and an anode separated by an electrolyte separator is selectively operated in either of two modes. In a first mode of operation, water or air is directed to the anode, electric power is provided to the anode and cathode to provide a voltage difference between the anode and the cathode, and nitrogen-enriched air is directed from the cathode to an aircraft fuel tank or aircraft fire suppression system. In a second mode of operation, fuel is directed to the anode, electric power is directed from the anode and cathode to one or more aircraft electric power-consuming systems or components, and nitrogen-enriched air is directed from the cathode to a fuel tank or fire suppression system.
US10312533B2
An activation apparatus of a fuel cell stack includes an output cable connecting unit mounted on the frame and connecting a positive output cable of an electric load system to a positive output terminal at one side of the fuel cell stack. A fluid supply pipe connecting unit is mounted on the frame to reciprocate forward and backward with respect to another side of the fuel cell stack. The fluid supply pipe connecting unit connects a negative output cable of the electric load system to a negative output terminal at the other side of the fuel cell stack and connects a fluid supply pipe of a fluid supply system to a manifold of the fuel cell stack.
US10312532B2
A method includes predicting, while fuel cell system is operated, whether or not the outside temperature becomes equal to or less than a first predetermined temperature; performing, when it is predicted that the outside temperature becomes equal to or less than the first predetermined temperature, residual water scavenging processing on only an oxidizer gas supply/discharge mechanism and thereafter stopping the operation of the fuel cell system; predicting, after the stop of the operation of the fuel cell system, whether or not the temperature of a predetermined component included in the fuel cell system becomes equal to or less than a second predetermined temperature; and performing the residual water scavenging processing on the fuel gas supply/discharge mechanism when it is predicted that the temperature of the predetermined component becomes equal to or less than the second predetermined temperature.
US10312501B2
An example electrolyte includes a solvent, a lithium salt, and an additive selected from the group consisting of a silane with at least one Si—H group; a fluorinated methoxysilane; a fluorinated chlorosilane; and combinations thereof. The electrolyte may be used in a method for making a solid electrolyte interface (SEI) layer on a surface of a lithium electrode. A negative electrode structure may be formed from the method.
US10312499B2
Particles of active electrode material for a lithium secondary battery are coated with a precursor material which is either a carbon-based polymer or a metal and oxygen containing compound. The precursor material-coated particles are injected into a gas stream and momentarily exposed to an atmospheric plasma at a predetermined energy level and temperature up to about 3500° C. The plasma treatment converts (i) the carbon polymer to submicron size carbon particles or (ii) the metal compound to metal oxide particles on the surfaces of the particles of electrode material. In preferred embodiments of the invention the plasma treated coated active electrode material particles are carried by the gas stream and deposited onto an electrode material bearing substrate for a lithium battery cell.
US10312484B2
An apparatus and method of mounting storage batteries are presented in which batteries in multiple tiers may be easily accessed for installation and servicing. A battery cabinet or relay rack has provision for multiple tiers of batteries spaced so that batteries may be inserted in each tier. The batteries are supported by a tray or other structure so that they are positioned to permit top access to the battery terminals mounted on the front or front to surfaces of the battery. Tiers are positioned further from the front of the relay rack as the height of the tier increases.
US10312482B2
Disclosed herein is a battery pack including two or more plate-shaped battery cells arranged in plane such that electrode terminals of the battery cells are aligned in one direction, a pack frame including two or more battery cell receiving parts surrounding outer circumferences of the battery cells in a state in which upper and lower surfaces of the battery cells arranged in plane are opened, a pack frame including a receiving part to receive the two or more plate-shaped battery cells, the receiving part surrounding outer circumferences of the battery cells in a state in which upper and lower surfaces of the battery cells arranged in plane are opened, a protection circuit module (PCM) electrically connected to the electrode terminals to control operation of the battery pack, a middle mold to receive the PCM, the middle mold being loaded on the sealed surplus portions, an electrically insulative member applied into a space defined by the sealed surplus portions and the pack frame and onto the middle mold and the PCM, and a label to cover the battery cells, the pack frame, and the electrically insulative member.
US10312473B2
An organic light emitting display device includes: a substrate; an organic light emitting element on the substrate; and a thin film encapsulation layer on the organic light emitting element. The thin film encapsulation layer includes a first thin film, a second thin film and a third thin film which are sequentially stacked therein, a refractive index of the second thin film is about 1.7 or greater, and a refractive index of the first thin film and a refractive index of the third thin film are greater than the refractive index of the second thin film by about 0.35 or greater.
US10312471B2
A method of manufacturing a display device including first electrodes provided for respective pixels, an insulating layer having openings respectively opposed to the first electrodes, an organic layer including a light emitting layer common to all the pixels, and a second electrode formed over an entire surface of the organic layer laminated on a first substrate, includes a step of forming an auxiliary wiring made of a metallic material layer by irradiating the metallic material layer with energy rays from a side of the metallic material layer and selectively removing the metallic material layer by energy absorbed by a part corresponding to the pixel after the metallic material layer has been formed on an entire surface of the second electrode.
US10312464B2
An active OLED display, comprising a plurality of OLED pixels, each of the OLED pixels comprising an anode, a cathode, and a stack of organic layers, wherein the stack of organic layers is provided between and in contact with the cathode and the anode and comprises an electron transport layer, a hole transport layer, and a light emitting layer provided between the hole transport layer and the electron transport layer, and a driving circuit configured to separately driving the pixels of the plurality of OLED pixels, wherein, for the plurality of OLED pixels, a common hole transport layer is formed by the hole transport layers provided in the stack of organic layers of the plurality of OLED pixels, the common hole transport layer comprising a hole transport matrix material and at least one electrical p-dopant, and the electrical conductivity of the hole transport material being lower than 1×10−3 S·m−1 and higher than 1×10−8 S·m−1.
US10312463B2
The present invention, which belongs to the technical field of display technology, provides a microcapsule, a method of preparing the same, and an OLED (organic light emitting diode) display device comprising the same. The OLED display device comprises a microcapsule having a phosphorescent material as a core material, which reduces the probability of the phosphorescence self-quenching and is isolated from water and oxygen, thereby improving the display quality and extending the service life of the OLED display device. Therefore, the OLED display device can solve the problem that the phosphorescence OLED display device in the prior art has a low brightness and short service life.
US10312455B2
The present invention discloses a delayed fluorescence material having general formula (1), and an organic EL device using the material as delayed fluorescence material of emitting layer or phosphorescent light emitting host of emitting layer can display excellent performance. wherein W independently represents an oxygen atom, a sulfur atom and a selenium atom, R1 to R9 are the same definition as described in the present invention.
US10312450B2
A compound having the structure of Formula I is disclosed. In the structure of Formula I, each of R1, R2, and R3 is independently a hydrogen, a non-fused aryl group having one meta-substituent, or a non-fused heteroaryl six-membered ring having one or more meta-substituents; each meta-substituent is a non-fused aryl or non-fused heteroaryl six-membered ring optionally substituted with further substituents selected from the group consisting of non-fused aryl groups, non-fused heteroaryl groups, and alkyl groups; and at least one of R1, R2, and R3 is a non-fused aryl having one meta-substituent or a heteroaryl six-membered ring having at least one meta-substituent, wherein each meta-substituent is a non-fused aryl or non-fused heteroaryl group further substituted with a chain of at least two non-fused aryl or non-fused heteroaryl groups. The compounds may be useful in phosphorescent organic light emitting devices.
US10312437B2
Memory devices having a plurality of memory cells, with each memory cell including a phase change material having a laterally constricted portion thereof. The laterally constricted portions of adjacent memory cells are vertically offset and positioned on opposite sides of the memory device. Also disclosed are memory devices having a plurality of memory cells, with each memory cell including first and second electrodes having different widths. Adjacent memory cells have the first and second electrodes offset on vertically opposing sides of the memory device. Methods of forming the memory devices are also disclosed.
US10312430B2
A method of manufacturing a piezoelectric element includes: forming a patterned mask layer over a substrate, in which the patterned mask layer has an opening exposing a portion of the substrate; forming a piezoelectric element in the opening; and removing the patterned mask layer to obtain the piezoelectric element, in which the piezoelectric element has a central portion and a peripheral portion adjacent to the central portion, and the peripheral portion has a maximum height greater than a height of the central portion.
US10312427B2
A piezoelectric device that includes: a diaphragm; a supporting part configured to support at least a portion of an end of the diaphragm; a piezoelectric film disposed along a portion supported by the supporting part on the diaphragm, a width of the film along the supported portion being narrower than a width of the portion; a lower electrode disposed at a face of the piezoelectric film on a diaphragm side; and an upper electrode disposed on a face of the piezoelectric film on an opposite side to the diaphragm.
US10312412B2
A group III nitride semiconductor light emitting element includes an active layer between an n-type layer and a p-type layer, having an n-electrode on the n-type layer and a p-electrode on the p-type layer, and having a mesa structure containing the p-type layer. In a top view of the group III nitride semiconductor light emitting element, the distance between a portion of an end part of the mesa structure and the periphery of the p-electrode is ⅓ or more of a diffusion length Ls.
US10312406B2
Provided is a method of forming gigantic quantum dots including following steps. A first precursor by mixing zinc acetate (Zn(ac)2), cadmium oxide (CdO), a surfactant, and a solvent together and then performing a first heat treatment is provided. The first precursor includes Zn-complex having the surfactant and Cd-complex having the surfactant. A second precursor containing elements S and Se and trioctylphosphine (TOP) is added into the first precursor to form a reaction mixture. A second heat treatment is performed on the reaction mixture and then cooling the reaction mixture to form the gigantic quantum dots in the reaction mixture.
US10312402B2
The composition for forming a p-type diffusion layer in accordance with the present invention contains an acceptor element-containing glass powder and a dispersion medium. A p-type diffusion layer and a photovoltaic cell having a p-type diffusion layer are prepared by applying the composition for forming a p-type diffusion layer, followed by a thermal diffusion treatment.
US10312399B2
A photodiode having a reduced dark current includes a semiconductor layer, a first contact part, a second contact part, and an active region. The first contact part disposed in a first region of the semiconductor layer includes an interlayer and at least one metal layer. The second contact part disposed in a second region of the semiconductor layer includes at least one metal layer. The active region is disposed between the first contact part and the second contact part. The first contact part and the second contact part are arranged asymmetrical to each other.
US10312396B2
A method of manufacturing a solar cell includes: forming a conductive thin film layer on a semiconductor substrate; forming an insulating film on the conductive thin film layer; forming a conductive thin film layer exposed portion by removing a part of the insulating film; forming a plating film in the conductive thin film layer exposed portion; and removing the insulating film and the conductive thin film layer in an area not overlapping the plating film, wherein the plating film formed in the forming of a plating film is formed to cover the insulating film.
US10312391B2
An avalanche photodiode has a first diffused region of a first diffusion type overlying at least in part a second diffused region of a second diffusion type; and a first minority carrier sink region disposed within the first diffused region, the first minority carrier sink region of the second diffusion type and electrically connected to the first diffused region. In particular embodiments, the first diffusion type is N-type and the second diffusion type is P-type, and the device is biased so that a depletion zone having avalanche multiplication exists between the first and second diffused regions.
US10312390B2
A light receiving device includes a substrate having a principal surface and a back surface including a light receiving surface; a metal wire disposed on the principal surface, the metal wire including a bonding portion having an opening; and photodiodes that is arranged in an array on the substrate, each of the photodiodes including an electrode connected to the bonding portion of the metal wire and a semiconductor mesa including a stacked semiconductor layer, the stacked semiconductor layer including a first semiconductor layer disposed on the substrate, an optical absorption layer including a type-II superlattice structure, and a second semiconductor layer. Each of the electrodes of the photodiodes is disposed on a side surface of the semiconductor mesa in contact with the first semiconductor layer. The first semiconductor layer faces to the light receiving surface through the opening of the bonding portion.
US10312387B2
A single photon detector (SPD) includes a resonator to store probe photons at a probe wavelength and an absorber disposed in the resonator to absorb a signal photon at a signal wavelength. The absorber is also substantially transparent to the probe photons. In the absence of the signal photon, the resonator is on resonance with the probe photons, thereby confining the probe photons within the resonator. Absorption of the signal photon by the absorber disturbs the resonant condition of the resonator, causing the resonator to release multiple probe photons. A photodetector (PD) then detects these multiple probe photons to determine the presence of the signal photon.
US10312385B2
Provided are a solar cell substrate made of stainless steel foil which contains 7% to 40% by mass Cr and has a coefficient of linear expansion of 12.0×10−6/° C. or less at 0° C. to 100° C. and a thickness of 20 μm to 200 μm is subjected to the preparatory heat treatment for stress relief in an atmosphere consisting of one or more selected from an N2 gas, an H2 gas, an Ar gas, an AX gas, and an HN gas within the range of 250° C. to 1,050° C.; a back-contact made of a Mo layer is formed on a surface of the stainless steel foil subjected to the preparatory heat treatment or an insulating coating is formed on a surface of the stainless steel foil followed by forming the back-contact including the Mo layer thereon; and an absorber layer made of Cu(In1-xGax)Se2 is formed on the back-contact by performing coating formation heat treatment.
US10312379B2
A high voltage device includes a semiconductor substrate, an ion well, a Schottky diode in the ion well, an isolation structure in the ion well surrounding the Schottky diode, and an assistant gate surrounding the Schottky diode. The assistant gate is disposed only on the isolation structure and is not in direct contact with the ion well.
US10312378B2
A lateral junction field-effect transistor includes a substrate of a first conductivity type having a dopant concentration; a first semiconductor layer of the first conductivity type having a first dopant concentration lower than the dopant concentration and disposed on the substrate; a second semiconductor layer of a second conductivity type having a second dopant concentration, the second conductivity type being different from the first conductivity type, the second semiconductor layer disposed on the first semiconductor layer; a third semiconductor layer of the first conductivity type having a third dopant concentration, the third semiconductor layer disposed on the second semiconductor layer; a fourth semiconductor layer of the first conductivity type having a fourth dopant concentration lower than the dopant concentration, the fourth semiconductor layer disposed on the third semiconductor layer; a source region and a drain region disposed in the second semiconductor layer and on opposite sides of the third semiconductor layer.
US10312376B2
The present provides a thin film transistor, which comprises: a gate on the substrate; a gate insulating layer; the embossed portion defining a first end in which a first active layer is formed, and a second end in which a second active layer is formed; a first source connected to the first active layer and a second source connected to the second active layer; a passivation layer; a first through hole and a second through hole defined in the passivation layer; and a drain formed on the passivation layer and extending through the first and second through hole to interconnect the first and second active layers, respectively. By this arrangement, a first distance defined between the drain with respect to a first contact surface of the first source layer located on the flattened portion of the embossed portion will equal to the height of the embossed portion. In addition, a second distance defined between the drain with respect to a second contact surface of the second source layer located on the flattened portion of the embossed portion will equal to the height of the embossed portion as well. By implementation of the technology provided by the present invention, a thin film transistor of shortened channel can be realized such that the thin film transistor is benefited with a larger aspect ratio so as to entertain a larger on-state current.
US10312374B2
The present invention provides a circuit substrate exhibiting an excellent transmittance and being capable of suitably repair broken conductive lines; and a display device. In the circuit substrate of the present invention, the first conductive lines are arranged in spaces between electrode rows, with two of the first conductive lines per space between the rows, the second conductive lines are arranged in spaces between electrode columns, with one of the second conductive lines in every other space between the columns, the storage capacitor lines including linear portions that extend in the direction in which the second conductive lines extend, in spaces between the electrode columns where the second conductive lines are not arranged, the pattern film including, in a plan view of main surface of the substrate, first linear portions extending in the direction in which the second conductive lines extend, in the spaces between the electrode rows, the first linear portions each including two end portions each overlapping an end portion of a linear portion of one of the storage capacity lines.
US10312372B2
This disclosure relates to a field-effect transistor and a production method thereof, an array substrate and a production method thereof, and a display panel. The production method comprises: forming an active layer on a substrate; forming a gate electrode insulating layer on the active layer to define a gate electrode area as well as a source electrode area and a drain electrode area located on two sides of the gate electrode area on the active layer; applying a gate electrode layer to cover surfaces of the active layer and the gate electrode insulating layer; patterning the gate electrode layer to form a first contact electrode, a second contact electrode, and a gate electrode, wherein the first contact electrode is located on the source electrode area, the second contact electrode is located on the drain electrode area, and the gate electrode is located on the gate electrode insulating layer.
US10312365B1
Laterally diffused MOSFETs on fully depleted SOI are provided. A laterally diffused MOSFET includes a substrate and a first semiconductor layer disposed on the substrate. The laterally diffused MOSFET also includes a buried oxide layer disposed on the first semiconductor layer. A second semiconductor layer that comprises a first gate region, a drain region, and a source region is disposed on the buried oxide layer. The first gate region is positioned between the source and drain regions. A first shallow trench isolation is disposed between the drain region and the first semiconductor layer. A second gate region is disposed on the first semiconductor layer away from the second semiconductor layer and between the first shallow trench isolation and a second shallow trench isolation. A gate node is coupled to the first and second gate regions to apply a gate voltage to the first and second gate regions.
US10312358B2
III-nitride based high electron mobility transistors (HEMTs), such as AlGaN/GaN HEMTs on Silicon substrates, with improved heat dissipation are described herein. A semiconductor device having improved heat dissipation may include a substrate having a top surface and a bottom surface, a nucleation layer on the top surface of the substrate, a transition layer on the nucleation layer, a buffer layer on the transition layer, a barrier layer on the buffer layer, and a metal layer filling a via hole that extends from the bottom surface of the substrate to a bottom surface of the transition layer.
US10312329B2
The present disclosure relates to the technical field of semiconductor processes, and discloses a semiconductor device and a manufacturing method therefor. The manufacturing method includes: providing a substrate structure including a substrate and a first material layer on the substrate, wherein a recess is formed in the substrate and the first material layer includes a nanowire; forming a base layer on the substrate structure; selectively growing a graphene layer on the base layer; forming a second dielectric layer on the graphene layer; forming an electrode material layer on the substrate structure to cover the second dielectric layer; defining an active region; and forming a gate by etching at least a portion of a stack layer to at least the second dielectric layer so as to form a gate structure surrounding an intermediate portion of the nanowire, where the gate structure includes a portion of the electrode material layer and the second dielectric layer. The present disclosure incorporates graphene into the semiconductor process and makes use of the features of graphene in a dual-gate structure.
US10312324B2
An epitaxial wafer for a heterojunction bipolar transistor and a heterojunction bipolar transistor capable of reducing the resistance of the sub-collector layer without reducing the current amplification factor are provided. In an epitaxial wafer for a heterojunction bipolar transistor including a sub-collector layer made of n-type GaAs, the sub-collector layer contains n-type impurities having a covalent radius that is smaller than the covalent radius of the substitution site and n-type impurities having a covalent radius that is larger than the covalent radius of the substitution site.
US10312323B2
Techniques for dielectric isolation in bulk nanosheet devices are provided. In one aspect, a method of forming a nanosheet device structure with dielectric isolation includes the steps of: optionally implanting at least one dopant into a top portion of a bulk semiconductor wafer, wherein the at least one dopant is configured to increase an oxidation rate of the top portion of the bulk semiconductor wafer; forming a plurality of nanosheets as a stack on the bulk semiconductor wafer; patterning the nanosheets to form one or more nanowire stacks and one or more trenches between the nanowire stacks; forming spacers covering sidewalls of the nanowire stacks; and oxidizing the top portion of the bulk semiconductor wafer through the trenches, wherein the oxidizing step forms a dielectric isolation region in the top portion of the bulk semiconductor wafer. A nanowire FET and method for formation thereof are also provided.
US10312321B2
After forming a laterally contacting pair of a semiconductor fin and a conductive strap structure overlying a deep trench capacitor embedded in a substrate and forming a gate stack straddling a body region of the semiconductor fin, source/drain regions are formed in portions the semiconductor fin located on opposite sides of the gate stack by ion implantation. Next, a metal layer is applied over the source/drain region and subsequent annealing consumes entire source/drain regions to provide fully alloyed source/drain regions. A post alloyzation ion implantation is then performed to introduce dopants into the fully alloyed source/drain regions followed by an anneal to segregate the implanted dopants at interfaces between the fully alloyed source/drain regions and the body region of the semiconductor fin.
US10312308B2
A light emitting device includes: a base substrate; banks extending in a direction along a surface of the base substrate; and light emitting elements extending along the direction in groove regions defined by the banks. Each light emitting element includes one or more functional layers between a pair of electrodes. Within at least one of the groove regions: a sub-bank extends along the one direction and has a height equal to or smaller than a height of the banks; for each of the one or more functional layers in the groove regions, portions of each of the one or more functional layers on each side of the sub-bank are made of a same material; and a thickness of the one or more functional layers is smaller than a height of the sub-bank.
US10312285B2
An LED illuminator includes an LED chip and an opaque resin member. The LED chip includes a support substrate, a semiconductor layer disposed on the obverse surface of the support substrate, an electrode formed on the reverse surface of the support substrate. The obverse surface of the support substrate has a peripheral edge portion exposed from the semiconductor layer. The opaque resin member covers at least apart of the side surface of the support substrate while exposing the peripheral edge portion of the obverse surface of the support substrate.
US10312283B2
An imaging device includes a pixel circuit region that includes a plurality of pixel circuits arranged in an array therein and a plurality of light guide portions. The imaging device also includes a peripheral circuit region that is positioned at a periphery of the pixel circuit region and includes a peripheral circuit. The imaging device also includes an intermediate region that is positioned between the pixel circuit region and the peripheral circuit region, forms a boundary with the pixel circuit region and the peripheral circuit region, and includes a plurality of dummy light guide portions and a plurality of contacts through which a reference potential of the plurality of pixel circuits is supplied.
US10312282B2
A solid-state imaging device includes a first substrate, a second substrate, an electrode portion, a first substrate connecting portion, an electrostatic protection circuit, and a second substrate connecting portion. A photoelectric conversion element is disposed on the first substrate. A part of the peripheral circuit is arranged on the second substrate. The electrode portion has a connection surface. The first substrate connecting portion electrically connects the electrode portion and the second substrate. The electrostatic protection circuit is connected to a circuit between the first substrate connecting portion and the peripheral circuit. The second substrate connecting portion electrically connects the peripheral circuit and the photoelectric conversion element. The electrostatic protection circuit is disposed at a position such that the electrostatic protection circuit does not overlap any of the first substrate connecting portion and the second substrate connecting portion.
US10312281B2
A back-illuminated type solid-state image pickup unit in which a pad wiring line is provided on a light reception surface and which is capable of improving light reception characteristics in a photoelectric conversion section by having a thinner insulating film in a pixel region. The solid-state image pickup unit includes a sensor substrate having a pixel region in which photoelectric conversion sections are formed in an array, and a drive circuit is provided on a surface opposed to a light reception surface for the photoelectric conversion sections of the sensor substrate. A through hole via reaching the drive circuit from the light reception surface of the sensor substrate is provided in a peripheral region located outside the pixel region. A pad wiring line directly laminated on the through hole via is provided on the light reception surface in the peripheral region.
US10312278B2
An FSI image sensor device structure is provided. The FSI image sensor device structure includes a pixel region formed in a substrate and a storage region formed in the substrate and adjacent to the pixel region. The FSI image sensor device structure includes a storage gate structure formed over the storage region, and the storage gate structure includes a top surface and sidewall surfaces. The FSI image sensor device structure includes a metal shield structure formed on the storage gate structure, and the top surface and the sidewall surfaces of the storage gate structure are covered by the metal shield structure.
US10312267B2
An object is to improve the drive capability of a semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes a first transistor and a second transistor. A first terminal of the first transistor is electrically connected to a first wiring. A second terminal of the first transistor is electrically connected to a second wiring. A gate of the second transistor is electrically connected to a third wiring. A first terminal of the second transistor is electrically connected to the third wiring. A second terminal of the second transistor is electrically connected to a gate of the first transistor. A channel region is formed using an oxide semiconductor layer in each of the first transistor and the second transistor. The off-state current of each of the first transistor and the second transistor per channel width of 1 μm is 1 aA or less.
US10312258B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate with a first surface. The device further includes one or more semiconductor devices formed or the first surface in an active area. The device further includes a plurality of cavities in the semiconductor substrate beneath the first surface. The device further includes dielectric support structures between each of the cavities and spaced apart from the first surface. The dielectric support structures support a part of the semiconductor substrate between the active area and the cavities. The dielectric support structures include an oxide.
US10312252B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device having a memory cell for a split-gate MONOS memory with a halo region, which prevents miswriting in the memory cell and worsening of short channel characteristics. In the method, a first diffusion layer of a drain region and a second diffusion layer of a source region in the memory cell for the MONOS memory are formed in different ion implantation steps. The steps are carried out so that the first diffusion layer has a smaller formation depth than the second diffusion layer. After the formation of the layers, the impurities inside the first and second diffusion layers are diffused by heat treatment to form a first diffusion region and a second diffusion region.
US10312247B1
A non-volatile memory cell formed on a semiconductor substrate having an upper surface with an upwardly extending fin with opposing first and second side surfaces. First and second electrodes are in electrical contact with first and second portions of the fin. A channel region of the fin includes portions of the first and second side surfaces that extend between the first and second portions of the fin. A floating gate extends along the first side surface of a first portion of the channel region, where no portion of the floating gate extends along the second side surface. A word line gate extends along the first and second side surfaces of a second portion of the channel region. A control gate is disposed over the floating gate. An erase gate has a first portion disposed laterally adjacent to the floating gate and a second portion disposed vertically over the floating gate.
US10312243B2
A semiconductor memory device includes a separation member defining active regions of a substrate. Gate lines intersect the active regions and are each buried in a trench formed in the substrate. Each of the gate lines includes a lower electrode structure and an upper electrode structure on the lower electrode structure. The upper electrode structure includes a source layer substantially covering a sidewall of the trench and including a work-function adjustment element. A conductive layer is on the source layer. A work-function adjustment layer is disposed between the source layer and the conductive layer. The work-function adjustment layer includes a material different from that of the source layer and is doped with the work-function adjustment element.
US10312234B2
An electrical device including a vertical transistor device connected to a vertical diode. The vertical diode connected transistor device including a vertically orientated channel. The vertical diode connected transistor device also includes a first diode source/drain region provided by an electrically conductive surface region of a substrate at a first end of the diode vertically orientated channel, and a second diode source/drain region present at a second end of the vertically orientated channel. The vertical diode also includes a diode gate structure in electrical contact with the first diode source/drain region.
US10312232B1
A semiconductor device assembly includes a substrate and a die coupled to the substrate. The die includes a first contact pad electrically coupled to a first circuit on the die including at least one active circuit element, and a second contact pad electrically coupled to a second circuit on the die including only passive circuit elements. The substrate includes a substrate contact electrically coupled to both the first and second contact pads. The semiconductor device assembly can further include a second die including a third contact pad electrically coupled to a third circuit on the second die including at least a second active circuit element, and a fourth contact pad electrically coupled to a fourth circuit on the second die including only passive circuit elements. The substrate contact can be electrically coupled to the third contact pad and electrically disconnected from the fourth contact pad.
US10312220B2
A semiconductor package structure and a method for making a semiconductor package. As non-limiting examples, various aspects of this disclosure provide various semiconductor package structures, and methods for making thereof, that comprise a connect die that routes electrical signals between a plurality of other semiconductor die.
US10312219B2
A semiconductor device assembly includes a substrate having a plurality of external connections, a first shingled stack of semiconductor dies disposed directly over a first location on the substrate and electrically coupled to a first subset of the plurality of external connections, and a second shingled stack of semiconductor dies disposed directly over a second location on the substrate and electrically coupled to a second subset of the plurality of external connections. The semiconductor device assembly further includes an encapsulant at least partially encapsulating the substrate, the first shingled stack and the second shingled stack.
US10312217B2
A method for bonding at low or room temperature includes steps of surface cleaning and activation by cleaning or etching. The method may also include removing by-products of interface polymerization to prevent a reverse polymerization reaction to allow room temperature chemical bonding of materials such as silicon, silicon nitride and SiO2. The surfaces to be bonded are polished to a high degree of smoothness and planarity. VSE may use reactive ion etching or wet etching to slightly etch the surfaces being bonded. The surface roughness and planarity are not degraded and may be enhanced by the VSE process. The etched surfaces may be rinsed in solutions such as ammonium hydroxide or ammonium fluoride to promote the formation of desired bonding species on the surfaces.
US10312191B2
Provided is an integrated circuit device including a plurality of word lines overlapping each other, in a vertical direction, on a substrate, a plurality of channel structures extending in the vertical direction through the plurality of word lines on an area of the substrate, a plurality of bit line contact pads on the plurality of channel structures, and a plurality or bit lines, wherein the plurality of bit lines include a plurality of first bit lines extending parallel to each other at a first pitch in a center region of the area, and a plurality of second bit lines extending at a second pitch in an edge region of the area, the second pitch being different from the first pitch.
US10312188B1
An integrated circuit (IC) structure including an interconnect structure is disclosed. The interconnect structure may include a first etch stop layer (ESL) positioned between an initial via layer and a first metal layer of the interconnect structure. The ESL may be positioned adjacent to and surround a metal wire in the first metal layer. A method of forming an interconnect structure is also disclosed. The method may include forming an opening in a first dielectric layer above a substrate; forming a sacrificial semiconductor material in the opening; forming an ESL on the first dielectric layer and sacrificial semiconductor material; forming a second dielectric layer on the ESL; forming an opening in the second dielectric layer to expose a portion of the ESL; removing the exposed portion of the ESL; removing the sacrificial semiconductor material; and forming a conductive material in the openings to form an interconnect structure.
US10312180B2
A water-cooling thermal dissipating system includes an electronic device and a thermal dissipating device. The electronic device includes a computing module includes a computing unit releasing heat when operation. The thermal dissipating device includes a thermal conducting unit, a pump, a tank, a thermal exchanger, and a controlling module; the thermal conductive unit is attached to the computing unit for thermal conduction; the pump is coupled to the thermal conductive unit, the pump, the tank, and the thermal exchanger for pumping a cooling-liquid therethrough, such that the cooling liquid is allowed to flow into the thermal conductive unit for absorbing heat. The controlling module generates an abnormal signal when the thermal dissipating device is sensed to be in an abnormal state, and the computing module forces to shut down the electronic device after continually receiving the abnormal signal for a predetermined time.
US10312173B2
Packaged semiconductor components having substantially rigid support member are disclosed. The packages can include a semiconductor die and a support member proximate to the semiconductor die. The support member is at least substantially rigid. The packages can further include an adhesive between the support member and the semiconductor die and adhesively attaching the support member to the semiconductor die. The packages can also include a substrate carrying the semiconductor die and the support member attached to the semiconductor die.
US10312162B2
Apparatus and methods are described for the automated transfer and storage of transmission electron microscope (TEM) and scanning/transmission electron microscope (STEM) lamella samples throughout a semiconductor manufacturing facility using existing automation infrastructure such as a Front Opening Unified Pod (FOUP). Also provided are wafer facsimiles corresponding to outer dimensions of semiconductor, data storage or solar cell wafers, wherein the facsimiles adapted to store, carry and/or provide a testing platform for testing of samples taken from semiconductor, data storage or solar cell wafers.
US10312160B2
A method of fabricating a transistor includes: forming an active device layer on a semiconductor substrate; patterning the active device layer to form fins; forming a first dielectric layer on an upper surface and sidewalls of the fins; forming a second dielectric layer on the first dielectric layer; forming openings through the first and second dielectric layers, exposing the underlying active device layer forming the fins; forming source/drain regions in the active device layer exposed through the respective openings; forming source/drain contacts on an upper surface of the source/drain regions; forming a second opening through the first and second dielectric layers, exposing the underlying active device layer adjacent to the source/drain regions; depositing a third dielectric layer in the second opening, on sidewalls and an upper surface of the fins; and forming a gate stack on the third dielectric layer.
US10312159B2
A method comprises providing a substrate of a first conductive type and a layer stack arranged on the substrate. The layer stack comprises a first isolation layer, a sacrificial layer, and a second isolation layer. The layer stack comprises a window formed in the layer stack through the second isolation layer, the sacrificial layer and the first isolation layer up to a surface region of the substrate. The method comprises providing a collector layer. The method comprises providing a base layer on the collector layer within the window of the layer stack. The method comprises providing an emitter layer or an emitter layer stack comprising the emitter layer on the base layer within the window of the layer stack. The method further comprises selectively removing the emitter layer or the emitter layer stack at least up to the second isolation layer.
US10312150B1
Methods of forming a fin-type field-effect transistor. A gate structure is formed that extends across a plurality of semiconductor fins. A spacer layer composed of a dielectric material is conformally deposited over the gate structure, the semiconductor fins, and a dielectric layer in gaps between the semiconductor fins. A protective layer is conformally deposited over the spacer layer. The protective layer over the dielectric layer in the gaps between the semiconductor fins is masked, and the protective layer is then removed from the gate structure and the semiconductor fins selective to the dielectric material of the spacer layer.
US10312148B2
A method (and structure) of fabricating an MOSFET (metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor), includes, on a gate structure coated with a high-k sidewall spacer film, etching off the high-k sidewall spacer film from a top surface of the gate structure and from a portion of vertical walls of the gate structure. The etched-off high-k sidewall spacer film on the vertical walls is replaced with an ultra low-k material.
US10312147B2
A method is presented for forming a device having multiple field effect transistors (FETs) with each FET having a different work function. In particular, the method includes forming multiple microchips in which each FET has a different threshold voltage (Vt) or work-function. In one embodiment, four FETs are formed over a semiconductor substrate. Each FET has a source, drain and a gate electrode. Each gate electrode is processed independently to provide a substantially different threshold voltage.
US10312141B2
A method is provided of forming a superconductor device interconnect structure. The method includes forming a first dielectric layer overlying a substrate, and forming a superconducting interconnect element in a first dielectric layer, such that the superconducting interconnect element has a top surface aligned with a top surface of the first dielectric layer to form a first interconnect layer. The method also includes performing a plasma clean on a top surface of the first interconnect layer, and depositing a second dielectric layer over the first dielectric layer.
US10312138B2
A semiconductor device includes a comprise a substrate including a main zone and an extension zone, vertical channels on the main zone, and an electrode structure including gate electrodes stacked on the substrate. The vertical channel structures extend in a first direction perpendicular to a top surface of the substrate. The gate electrodes include line regions and contact regions. The line regions extend from the main zone toward the extension zone along a second direction the second direction that is perpendicular to the first direction. The contact regions are on ends of the line regions and are thicker than the line regions. A spacing distance in the second direction between the contact regions is greater than a spacing distance in the first direction between the line regions.
US10312137B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide an apparatus and methods for forming a hardmask layer that may be utilized to transfer patterns or features to a film stack with accurate profiles and dimension control for manufacturing three dimensional (3D) stacked semiconductor devices. In one embodiment, a method of forming a hardmask layer on a substrate includes forming a seed layer comprising boron on a film stack disposed on a substrate by supplying a seed layer gas mixture in a processing chamber, forming a transition layer comprising born and tungsten on the seed layer by supplying a transition layer gas mixture in the processing chamber, and forming a bulk hardmask layer on the transition layer by supplying a main deposition gas mixture in the processing chamber.
US10312136B2
Some embodiments relate to a semiconductor device manufacturing process. In the process, a substrate is provided, and a sacrificial layer is formed over the substrate. An opening is patterned through the sacrificial layer, and the opening is filled with conductive material. The sacrificial layer is removed while the conductive material is left in place. A first dielectric layer is formed along sidewalls of the conductive material that was left in place.
US10312135B2
A method for the production of layers of solid material is contemplated. The method may include the steps of providing a solid body for the separation of at least one layer of solid material, generating defects by means of at least one radiation source, in particular a laser, in the inner structure of the solid body in order to determine a detachment plane along which the layer of solid material is separated from the solid body, and applying heat to a polymer layer disposed on the solid body in order to generate, in particular mechanically, stresses in the solid body, due to the stresses a crack propagating in the solid body along the detachment plane, which crack separates the layer of solid material from the solid body.
US10312134B2
A multilayer composite structure and a method of preparing a multilayer composite structure are provided. The multilayer composite structure comprises a semiconductor handle substrate having a minimum bulk region resistivity of at least about 500 ohm-cm; a Group IVA nitride layer in contact with the semiconductor handle substrate, the Group IVA nitride layer selected from the group consisting of carbon nitride, silicon carbon nitride, and a combination thereof; a dielectric layer in contact with the Group IVA nitride layer; and a semiconductor device layer in contact with the dielectric layer.
US10312131B2
Circuits, structures and techniques for independently connecting a surrounding material in a part of a semiconductor device to a contact of its respective device. To achieve this, a combination of one or more conductive wells that are electrically isolated in at least one bias polarity are provided.
US10312127B2
Embodiments of substrate transfer robot blades to engage and support a substrate during transfer are provided herein. In some embodiments, a substrate transfer robot may include a blade body having a blade support surface; and a plurality of compliant pads, each comprising a contact surface and an opposite bottom surface supported by the body and arranged to support a substrate when disposed on the substrate transfer robot blade.
US10312126B1
A semiconductor tool and methods of forming semiconductor device assemblies. The semiconductor tool is a bond tip having a vacuum port and a plurality of purge ports with channels coupling the vacuum port with the purge ports. Air may be withdrawn through the vacuum to create a vacuum on the bottom of the bond tip to selectively couple a semiconductor device with the bond tip. The bond tip positions the semiconductor device on top of a stack of semiconductor devices to form a semiconductor device assembly. The assembly may be heated to reflow interconnects between the semiconductor device and the top device of the stack of semiconductor devices. Fluid provided through the purge ports may help to counter warpage of the semiconductor device to help form adequate interconnects between the devices. Fluid may also be provided through the vacuum port to counter the warpage.
US10312124B2
A wafer table structure providing a single wafer table surface suitable for handling both wafers and film frames includes a base tray having a set of compartments formed therein by way of a set of ridges formed in or on an interior base tray surface; a hardenable fluid permeable compartment material disposed within the set of base tray compartments; and a set of openings formed in the base tray interior surface by which the hardened compartment material is exposable to negative or positive pressures. The base tray includes a first ceramic material (e.g., porcelain), and the hardenable compartment material includes a second ceramic material. The base tray and the compartment material are simultaneously machinable by way of a standard machining process to thereby planarize exposed outer surfaces of the base tray and the hardened compartment material at an essentially identical rate for forming a highly or ultra-planar wafer table surface.
US10312119B2
A line charge volume and methods for use in delivery of gas to a reactor for processing semiconductor wafers is provided. The line charge volume includes a chamber that extends between a first end and a second end, and the first end includes an inlet port and an outlet port. A pressure sensor is integrated with the chamber. The pressure sensor has a measurement side for measuring a deflection of a diaphragm. The diaphragm is directly exposed to an interior of the chamber so that pressure produced by a gas that is provided into the chamber via the inlet port produces a force upon the diaphragm. The measurement side includes electronics for measuring a capacitance value corresponding to the deflection of the diaphragm. The deflection is correlated to a pressure difference, and the pressure difference is equivalent to a pressure volume (Pv) of the chamber.
US10312115B2
A processing liquid is supplied from a supply tank to a processing liquid nozzle of a processing unit, and the processing liquid is supplied from the processing liquid nozzle to a substrate. The processing liquid used in the processing unit is collected and selectively supplied to first and second replenishment tanks. In a period in which the used processing liquid is supplied to the first replenishment tank, the supply tank is replenished with the processing liquid in the second replenishment tank, and the processing liquid in the first replenishment tank circulates while being heated by a heater. In a period in which the used processing liquid is supplied to the second replenishment tank, the supply tank is replenished with the processing liquid in the first replenishment tank and the processing liquid in the second replenishment tank circulates while being heated by the heater.
US10312113B2
A flow passage structure includes a member. The member includes a plurality of first openings, a plurality of second openings, a flow passage, and a plurality of joining and branching parts. The flow passage connects the first openings with the second openings. The joining and branching parts are provided in the flow passage and each have a plurality of first parts having respective first ends connected with each other and a plurality of second parts having respective second ends connected with each other. The second parts are closer to the second openings than the first parts are, in a path between the first opening and the second opening. The first ends are connected with the second ends in each joining and branching part.
US10312109B2
Patterning techniques are disclosed that can relax overlay requirements and/or increase integrated circuit design flexibility. An exemplary method includes forming a first set of fins and a second set of fins having different etch sensitivities on a material layer. The fins of the second set of fins are interspersed between the fins of the first set of fins. A first patterning process removes a subset of the first set of fins and a portion of the material layer underlying the subset of the first set of fins. The first patterning process avoids substantial removal of an exposed portion of the second set of fins. A second patterning process removes a subset of the second set of fins and a portion of the material layer underlying the subset of the second set of fins. The second patterning process avoids substantial removal of an exposed portion of the first set of fins.
US10312105B2
A method of fabricating a semiconductor device includes forming a linear preliminary mask pattern in a first direction on a substrate. The preliminary mask pattern is patterned to provide a plurality of mask patterns that are aligned end-to-end with one another on the substrate and are separated by an exposed portion of the substrate between respective facing ends of the plurality of mask patterns. An auxiliary layer is formed to cover at least sidewalls of the facing ends to reduce a size of the exposed portion to provide a reduced exposed portion of the substrate and the reduced exposed portion of the substrate is etched to form a trench defining active patterns in the substrate aligned end-to-end with one another.
US10312097B2
A method of forming a contact to a semiconductor device that includes forming a vertically orientated channel region on semiconductor material layer of a substrate; and forming a first source/drain region in the semiconductor material layer. The method may continue with forming a metal semiconductor alloy contact on the first source/drain region extending along a horizontally orientated upper surface of the first source/drain region that is substantially perpendicular to the vertically orientated channel region, wherein the metal semiconductor alloy contact extends substantially to an interface with the vertically orientated channel region. Thereafter, a gate structure is formed on the vertically orientated channel region, and a second source/drain region is formed on the vertically orientated channel region.
US10312095B1
An electronic device, that in various embodiments includes a first semiconductor layer comprising a first group III nitride. A second semiconductor layer is located directly on the first semiconductor layer and comprises a second different group III nitride. A cap layer comprising the first group III nitride is located directly on the second semiconductor layer. A dielectric layer is located over the cap layer and directly contacts the second semiconductor layer through an opening in the cap layer.
US10312094B2
A semiconductor device includes: a first semiconductor layer formed, on a substrate, of a nitride semiconductor; a second semiconductor layer formed, on the first semiconductor layer, of a nitride semiconductor; a source electrode formed on the second semiconductor layer; a drain electrode formed on the second semiconductor layer; a metal oxide film formed, between the source electrode and the drain electrode, on the second semiconductor layer; and a gate electrode formed on the metal oxide film. The metal oxide film includes AlOx and InOx. AlOx/InOx in the metal oxide film is greater than or equal to 3.
US10312086B2
A method for processing a substrate is provided. The method comprises forming a patterned photoresist over a first material, the patterned photoresist comprising island portions and shaped spaces surrounding the island portions. An area of each of the island portions is reduced to enlarge the shaped spaces, which are filled with a second material. The island portions are removed to form first openings in the second material. Portions of the first material exposed through the first openings are removed to form second openings in the first material. Portions of a substrate exposed through the second openings are removed to form holes in the substrate. Methods of patterning a substrate and methods of forming a hole pattern in a substrate are also disclosed.
US10312068B2
A charged particle detector according to the embodiment is provided with an MCP and a PD arranged with a focus electrode interposed therebetween in order to improve a response characteristic as compared to a conventional one in a configuration in which the MCP having a bias angle and the PD are combined. The MCP includes a plurality of through holes each inclined by a bias angle θ and the PD is eccentrically arranged such that a center of an electron incident surface deviates by a predetermined distance in a bias angle direction S3 with respect to a central axis AX1 of the MCP.
US10312067B2
If spatial measurement point intervals in imaging mass analysis data of two samples to be compared are different and the degrees of spatial distribution spreading of substances are compared, one of the data is defined as a reference, the measurement point intervals in the other of the data are redefined so as to be equalized to the reference, and a mass spectrum at each virtual measurement point set as a result of the redefinition is obtained through interpolation or extrapolation based on a mass spectrum at an actual measurement points. If the arrays of the m/z values of mass spectra are different for each sample, the m/z value positions of the mass spectrum in one of the data are defined as a reference, and the intensity values corresponding to the reference m/z values are obtained through interpolation or extrapolation for the mass spectrum of the other of the data.
US10312062B2
There is provided a temperature control system, including: a stage configured to support a workpiece and provided with a heat exchange medium flow path formed within the stage, the heat exchange medium flow path including a first end and a second end; a first valve; a second valve; a first heat exchange medium supply device including a supply port which supplies a first heat exchange medium adjusted to have a first temperature and a recovery port; a second heat exchange medium supply device including a supply port which supplies a second heat exchange medium adjusted to have a second temperature higher than the first temperature and a recovery port; and a control device configured to control the first and second valves such that the first and second heat exchange mediums are alternately supplied to the first end of the heat exchange medium flow path.
US10312060B2
Provided are a plasma generating apparatus using mutual inductive coupling and a substrate treating apparatus including the same. According to an embodiment of the present invention, a plasma generating apparatus includes: an RF power supply providing an RF signal; a plurality of electromagnetic field applying units inducing an electromagnetic field by receiving the RF signal; and a reactance element connected to a ground terminal of the electromagnetic field applying unit, wherein each of the electromagnetic field applying units may include a plurality of mutually-inductively coupled coils.
US10312049B2
A vacuum sample chamber for a particle and optical device includes on one surface thereof, an aperture through which a particle beam to be focused along an optical axis of particles such as electrons, ions and neutral particles is incident; and on the opposite surface thereof, a detachable sample holder through which light penetrates, thereby enabling a sample to be observed and analyzed by means of the particle beam and light. A sample chamber is capable of reducing observation time by maintaining a vacuum therein even when a sample is put into or taken out from a sample chamber of an electron microscope or focused ion beam observation equipment, and capable of obtaining an optical image on the outside thereof without inserting a light source or an optical barrel into the sample chamber. A light-electron fusion microscope comprising the sample chamber.
US10312025B2
A monolithic ceramic capacitor includes a plurality of first and second inner electrodes in a ceramic body. A direction in which the first and second inner electrodes are stacked is a stacking direction, a direction perpendicular or substantially perpendicular to the stacking direction in the ceramic body is a length direction, and a direction perpendicular or substantially perpendicular to the stacking direction and the first direction is a width direction. The ceramic body includes an effective portion, a first outer layer portion, a second outer layer portion, a first side portion, and a second side portion. A ratio A/B is about 0.04 or less when a dimension of each of the first side portion and the second side portion in the width direction is A and a dimension of the effective portion in the stacking direction is B.
US10312024B2
A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes a multilayer body including ceramic layers and including main surfaces, side surfaces, and end surfaces, inner electrodes, which are located inside the multilayer body and a portion of each of which extends to one main surface, and outer electrodes located on one main surface and connected to the inner electrodes. Each of the outer electrodes includes outer electrode side surface portions located up to a portion of each of the side surfaces and an outer electrode end surface portion located up to one end surface, and about 1.40≤A/B≤about 3.33 is satisfied, where the lengths of the outer electrode side surface portions in the direction in which the main surfaces are connected are indicated as A and the lengths of the outer electrode end surface portions in the direction in which the main surfaces are connected are indicated as B.
US10312021B2
A dielectric composition is a barium titanate-based dielectric composition and includes a barium titanate particle including a major axis, a minor axis disposed on the same plane as the major axis, and a vertical axis perpendicular to both the major axis and the minor axis, and a ratio of a length of the major axis to a length of the vertical axis is within a range from 1.5:1 to 30:1.
US10312017B2
A multi-phase autotransformer (10) is disclosed. The exemplary transformer includes primary windings PWA, PWB, PWC) and secondary windings (SWA1-SWA4, SWB1-SWB4, SWC1-SWC4). The primary windings are connected in a delta configuration and to a three-phase input voltage source. Each secondary winding is electrically connected to a primary winding but is magnetically coupled to a different primary winding. Three sets of secondary windings provide three three-phase outputs (350A, 350B, 350C), each of which has a voltage which is less than the three-phase input voltage, the three-phase output of each set being phase-shifted with respect to the other sets. These three sets also, collectively, provide a multi-phase output (325). Another set of secondary windings, in conjunction with the input voltage, provides another multi-phase phase output (360) which has approximately the same voltage as the three-phase input voltage.
US10312012B2
A transformer includes a magnetic core, a first coil unit and a second coil unit. The first coil unit is disposed within the magnetic core and includes a laminated board having layers laminated therein and conductive patterns. Respective ones of the conductive patterns are disposed on the laminated layers. The second coil unit includes a conductive wire spaced apart from the conductive patterns of the laminated board by an insulating distance. The conductive wire includes a triple-insulated wire surrounded by three sheets of insulating paper to maintain the insulating distance from the conductive patterns.
US10312007B2
A method and device includes a first conductor formed on a first dielectric layer as a partial turn of a coil. A second conductor is formed on a second dielectric layer that covers the first dielectric layer and first conductor, the second conductor forming a partial turn of the coil. A vertical interconnect couples the first and second conductors to form a first full turn of the coil. The interconnect coupling can be enhanced by embedding some selective magnetic materials into the substrate.
US10312004B2
In a metal powder core constructed from soft magnetic material powder and a coil component employing this, a configuration suitable for reduction of a core loss is provided. The metal powder core constructed from soft magnetic material powder is characterized in that Cu is dispersed among the soft magnetic material powder. It is characterized in that, preferably, the soft magnetic material powder is pulverized powder of soft magnetic alloy ribbon and that Cu is dispersed among the pulverized powder of soft magnetic alloy ribbon. Further, it is characterized in that, preferably, the soft magnetic alloy ribbon is a Fe-based nano crystal alloy ribbon or a Fe-based alloy ribbon showing a Fe-based nano crystalline structure and that the pulverized powder has a nano crystalline structure.
US10311988B2
A system and method for removing spent fuel assemblies from a fuel building and transporting them to on-site facilities. A cask transporter is moved into the fuel building with an empty spent fuel storage cask, spent fuel assemblies are loaded into spent fuel storage cask, the cask is sealed, and the cask transporter moves the loaded spent fuel storage cask to a handling area for final disposal. Components of the system include a penetration cover, a lifting mechanism, a control system, a valve system, and the cask transporter.
US10311981B2
This disclosure describes various configurations and components for bimetallic and trimetallic claddings for use as a wall element separating nuclear material from an external environment. The cladding materials are suitable for use as cladding for nuclear fuel elements, particularly for fuel elements that will be exposed to sodium or other coolants or environments with a propensity to react with the nuclear fuel.
US10311980B2
Apparatuses, systems, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for medical assessment based on voice. A query module is configured to audibly question a user from a speaker of a mobile computing device. A response module is configured to receive a verbal response of a user from a microphone of a mobile computing device. A detection module is configured to provide an assessment for a user of a medical condition based on an analysis of a received verbal response of the user.
US10311968B2
An apparatus for executing a task includes an authenticator to identify a user, a controller that can receive data from the user, and an authorizer to ensure that the user has access to applications used to execute the task. The controller is able to register or de-register the applications and then determine which if the registered applications should be used to execute the task. The controller then converts the data from the user so that it can be used by the application to execute the task. If the user selects a second task to be executed, the controller can determine which of the registered applications is to be used to execute the second task. Methods for executing multiple tasks are also described.
US10311961B2
The present disclosure relates to a shift register unit and driving method thereof, a gate electrode driving circuit and a display apparatus, in the field of display technology. The shift register unit comprises an input circuit, an output circuit, a control circuit, a reset circuit, and a switch circuit. The switch circuit may control the second and third nodes to be disconnected when the electric potential of the input signal is the first electric potential (i.e., the effective electric potential). Thus, the following case can be avoided: when the second clock signal and the input signal have the first electric potential respectively, the second power source signal written into the third node by the second power source signal end is transmitted to the second node. As a result, the stability of the electric potential of the second node can be ensured. Further, as the reset circuit resets the first node and the output end under the control of the second node, after the electric potential of the second node stabilizes, the stability of the electric potential of the first node and the output end can be ensured.
US10311960B2
The invention provides a semiconductor device and a shift register, in which low noise is caused in a non-selection period and a transistor is not always on. First to fourth transistors are provided. One of a source and a drain of the first transistor is connected to a first wire, the other of the source and the drain thereof is connected to a gate electrode of the second transistor, and a gate electrode thereof is connected to a fifth wire. One of a source and a drain of the second transistor is connected to a third wire and the other of the source and the drain thereof is connected to a sixth wire. One of a source and a drain of the third transistor is connected to a second wire, the other of the source and the drain thereof is connected to the gate electrode of the second transistor, and a gate electrode thereof is connected to a fourth wire. One of a source and a drain of the fourth transistor is connected to the second wire, the other of the source and the drain thereof is connected to the sixth wire, and a gate electrode thereof is connected to the fourth wire.
US10311958B2
A memory device and method of erasing same that includes a substrate of semiconductor material and a plurality of memory cells formed on the substrate and arranged in an array of rows and columns. Each of the memory cells includes spaced apart source and drain regions in the substrate, with a channel region in the substrate extending there between, a floating gate disposed over and insulated from a first portion of the channel region which is adjacent the source region, a select gate disposed over and insulated from a second portion of the channel region which is adjacent the drain region, and a program-erase gate disposed over and insulated from the source region. The program-erase gate lines alone or in combination with the select gate lines, or the source lines, are arranged in the column direction so that each memory cell can be individually programmed, read and erased.
US10311948B2
A phase changeable memory device may include a plurality of word lines, a plurality of bit lines, a memory cell, at least one source line, and a discharge unit. The bit lines may cross the word lines. The memory cell may include access elements connected with the at least one source line. The source line may be connected with the access elements. The discharge unit may be connected with a bit line. The discharge unit may be configured to discharge a voltage of the bit line to a ground terminal in response to a signal of the source line. The discharge unit may include a phase changeable material.
US10311947B2
Embodiments disclosed herein may relate to electrically conductive vias in cross-point memory array devices. In an embodiment, the vias may be formed using a lithographic operation also utilized to form electrically conductive lines in a first electrode layer of the cross-point memory array device.
US10311946B2
The semiconductor memory device includes: a memory cell; a sensing circuit connected to the memory cell via a first bit line and a second bit line different from the first bit line, the sensing circuit configured to sense data stored in the memory cell; and a bit line voltage control circuit connected to the memory cell via the first bit line and the second bit line, the bit line voltage control circuit configured to precharge the first bit line to a first voltage that is lower than a supply voltage and to precharge the second bit line to a second voltage that is lower than the supply voltage and is different from the first voltage.
US10311938B2
One or more integrated circuits including at least one integrated circuit that is fabricated in a DRAM fabrication process. Capacitors in the DRAM-fabricated integrated circuit can be used for decoupling for logic components of the integrated circuits, and may be used for fine-grain on-chip PMUs. Embedded DRAM memories can be used instead of SRAM memories, with increased density and reduced leakage. More compact systems can be implemented using the integrated circuits.
US10311937B2
Method and Apparatuses for transmitting and receiving commands for a semiconductor device are described. An example apparatus includes: a memory device including a plurality of banks, each bank including a plurality of memory cells; and a memory controller that transmits a first command and a plurality of address signals indicative of a memory cell in a first bank of the plurality of banks at a first time. The first command is indicative of performing a first memory operation, and a second memory operation different from the first memory operation. The memory device receives the first command and the plurality of address signals and further performs the second memory operation to the first bank responsive, at least a part, to the plurality, of address signals and the first command.
US10311933B2
Methods, systems, and devices for cell bottom node reset in a memory array are described. The memory array may include a plurality of ferroelectric memory cells having a cell bottom node and a cell plate opposite the cell bottom node. A zero voltage may be applied to a plurality of digit lines in the memory array. A plurality of word lines may be activated to electrically coupled the plurality of digit lines to cell bottom node of each of the ferroelectric memory cells. Accordingly, the cell bottom node of each of the ferroelectric memory cells may be reset to the zero voltage.
US10311922B2
The present disclosure includes apparatuses and methods related to shifting data. A number of embodiments of the present disclosure include an apparatus comprising a shift register comprising an initial stage and a final stage. The shift register may be configured such that a clock signal may be initiated at the final stage of the shift register.
US10311920B2
An apparatus for controlling a memory device may include: a table storing information of a plurality of read voltages; an error correction unit suitable for correcting an error of read data; and a processor functionally coupled to the RR table and the error correction unit. The processor selects a default read voltage among the plurality of read voltages from the table when a read fail for the memory device is recognized, sets a shift direction of the default read voltage based on the number of read cells of the memory device read by the default read voltage, and controls a read retry operation of the memory device based on at least one read voltage in the set shift direction in the table.
US10311919B2
Apparatuses and methods for calibrating sense amplifiers in a semiconductor memory are disclosed. An example apparatus includes an amplifier circuit and a calibration circuit. The amplifier circuit is configured to be coupled to a supply voltage and a reference voltage, and when activated the amplifier circuit is configured to provide an output signal at an output that is complementary to an input signal provided to an input. When activated by a calibration signal, the calibration circuit is configured to provide a calibration voltage to the output of the amplifier circuit, wherein the calibration voltage is an equilibration voltage between the supply voltage and the reference voltage provided to the amplifier circuit.
US10311916B2
A machine includes a processor and a memory connected to the processor. The memory stores instructions executed by the processor to receive a message with audio content and video content. Audio fingerprints within the audio content are evaluated. The audio fingerprints are matched to known audio fingerprints to establish matched audio fingerprints. A determination is made whether the matched audio fingerprints correspond to a designated gallery constructed to receive a sequence of videos set to an audio time line. The matched audio fingerprints and corresponding video content are added to the audio time line. The operations are repealed until the audio time line is populated with corresponding video content to form a completed gallery with video segments set to audio segments that constitute a complete audio time line. The completed gallery is supplied in response to a request.
US10311914B2
An editing apparatus for an editing video sequence that includes an editing unit for setting a first range to one part of the video sequence; a video sequence file generating unit for generating a video sequence file including video sequence corresponding to the first range and video sequence corresponding to a second range, within the second range is consecutively preceding to and/or subsequent to the first range; and an output for outputting the video sequence file.
US10311913B1
Certain embodiments involve generating summarized versions of video content based on memorability of the video content. For example, a video summarization system accesses segments of an input video. The video summarization system identifies memorability scores for the respective segments. The video summarization system selects a subset of segments from the segments based on each computed memorability score in the subset having a threshold memorability score. The video summarization system generates visual summary content from the subset of the segments.
US10311909B2
A magnetic tape includes a non-magnetic layer containing non-magnetic powder and a binder on a non-magnetic support; and a magnetic layer containing ferromagnetic powder and a binder on the non-magnetic layer. The total thickness of the non-magnetic layer and the magnetic layer is equal to or less than 0.60 μm. The magnetic layer includes a timing-based servo pattern. One or more components selected from a fatty acid and a fatty acid amide are included in at least the magnetic layer. The C—H derived C concentration calculated from the C—H peak area ratio of C1s spectra obtained by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopic analysis performed on the surface of the magnetic layer at a photoelectron take-off angle of 10 degrees is equal to or greater than 45 atom %.
US10311894B2
In a system for locating a mobile noise source, a sound sensing device catches a sound wave of a mobile noise source within a specified area for a specified time period, and outputs a characteristic information corresponding to the sound wave. An audio comparing device in communication with the sound sensing device compares the characteristic information with a set of standard data, and outputs an activating signal in response to a specific compared result. An image pickup device in communication with the audio comparing device performs an image pickup operation to catch an image of the mobile noise source in response to the activating signal.
US10311889B2
A headphone, headphone system, and speech enhancing method is provided to enhance speech pick-up from the user of a headphone and includes receiving a plurality of signals from a set of microphones and generating a primary signal by array processing the microphone signals to steer a beam toward the user's mouth. A noise reference signal is also derived from one or more microphones, and a voice estimate signal is generated by filtering the primary signal to remove components that are correlated to the noise reference signal.
US10311887B2
A server includes one or more processors, and a computer readable memory coupled to the one or more processors. The computer readable memory contains instructions which when executed by the one or more processors causes the one or more processors to perform the operations of receiving captured audio via an microphone of a mobile or wearable device at a location remote from the server via a communications module operatively coupled to the mobile or wearable device, analyzing the captured audio to provide analyzed captured audio, and sending information to the communications module in response to the analyzed captured audio, the information including instructions to initiate control of media content or initiate operations of the mobile or wearable device. A method operating at the server and other embodiments are disclosed.
US10311883B2
A transient detector (100) analyzes (110) a given frame n of the input audio signal to determine, based on audio signal characteristics of the given frame n, a transient hangover indicator for a following frame n+1, and signals (120) the determined transient hangover indicator to an associated audio encoder (10) to enable proper encoding of the following frame n+1.
US10311877B2
An artificial intelligence voice interactive system may provide various services to a user in response to a voice command by providing an interface between the system and a legacy system to enable providing various types of existing services in response to user speech without modifying systems for the existing services. Such system includes a central server, and the central server may perform operations of registering a plurality of service servers at the central server and storing registration information of each service server, analyzing voice command data from the user device and determining at least one task and corresponding service servers based on the analysis results, generating an instruction message based on the voice command data, the determined at least one task, and the registration information of the selected service servers, and transmitting the generated instruction message to the selected service servers, and receiving task results including audio and video data from the selected service servers and outputting the task results through at least one device associated with the user device.
US10311870B2
A computerized device with voice command capability processed remotely includes a low power processor, executing a loose algorithmic model to recognize a wake word prefix in a voice command, the loose model having a low false rejection rate but suffering a high false acceptance rate, and a second processor which can operate in at least a low power/low clock rate mode and a high power/high clock rate mode. When the first processor determines the presence of the wake word, it causes the second processor to switch to the high power/high clock rate mode and to execute a tight algorithmic model to verify the presence of the wake word. By using the two processors in this manner, the average overall power required by the computerized device is reduced, as is the amount of waste heat generated by the system.
US10311868B2
A device performs a method for using image data to aid voice recognition. The method includes the device capturing (302) image data of a vicinity of the device and adjusting (304), based on the image data, a set of parameters for voice recognition performed by the device (102). The set of parameters for the device performing voice recognition include, but are not limited to: a trigger threshold of a trigger for voice recognition; a set of beamforming parameters; a database for voice recognition; and/or an algorithm for voice recognition. The algorithm may include using noise suppression or using acoustic beamforming.
US10311859B2
A method for extracting, from non-speech text, training data for a language model for speech recognition includes: receiving, by a processor, non-speech text; selecting, by the processor, text from the non-speech text; converting, by the processor, the selected text to generate converted text comprising a plurality of phrases consistent with speech transcription text; training, by the processor, a language model using the converted text; and outputting, by the processor, the language model.
US10311856B2
An example method includes receiving, by a computational assistant executing at one or more processors, a representation of an utterance spoken at a computing device; selecting, based on the utterance, an agent from a plurality of agents, wherein the plurality of agents includes one or more first party agents and a plurality of third-party agents; responsive to determining that the selected agent comprises a first party agent, selecting a reserved voice from a plurality of voices; and outputting synthesized audio data using the selected voice to satisfy the utterance.
US10311852B2
A two-tone whistle that alters an audible patch that reduces confusion when multiple athletic events are played with whistles being blown during the multiple athletic events. The two-tone whistle includes a mouthpiece, a resonate chamber, a ball, a lever and a lanyard aperture. The slotted edge is integral to the lever and is adapted to move up or down as the lever moves up or down producing a first audible pitch and a second audible pitch, wherein the first audible pitch is lower than the second audible pitch.
US10311850B2
An interchangeable pickup support is for a stringed musical instrument. The support is of the type that includes at least a base body provided with an attachment to a stringed musical instrument and a support for supporting and attaching the pickup to the base body. The attachment includes at least a fastener which is movable by an actuator which is rigidly connected to the fastener, the ends of which are configured to project in part through respective holes arranged on the outer surface of the base body and attached to the stringed musical instrument. The base body also includes at least a retainer for the fastener in the attachment to the stringed musical instrument.
US10311848B2
An application for operating on a smart phone that records a musician's performance, either voice or instrumental, in combination with pre-recorded music. The combination allows for the auto tuning of the recording, the compression of the recording, the equalization of the recording, adding in reverb, and the audio quantization of the rhythm. Once combined, the song is transmitted to social media and/or to an online store for sale. The user can also make a video with the song. Additional marketing such as song competitions or music reviews and ratings are also provided.
US10311832B2
A system-on-chip (SoC) device includes: a display controller configured to receive a trigger signal, and to output image data based on the trigger signal; and a transceiver configured to receive a first interrupt. In a first mode, the display controller is configured to output the image data in synchronization with a pulse of the trigger signal. In a second mode, which is different from the first mode, the display controller is configured to output the image data in synchronization with a pulse included in the trigger signal only after receiving the first interrupt.
US10311830B2
The present disclosure provides an operating method for adjusting a brightness level of a touch display device with a touch display panel, including: detecting a touch motion performed on the touch display panel; adjusting the touch display panel to display images with a first brightness level; detecting a distance between a user and the touch display panel; and adjusting the brightness level of the touch display panel to display images based on the distance between the user and the touch display panel.
US10311814B2
The disclosure provides an array substrate, a display panel, a display device and a display method. The array substrate comprises a display region provided with a plurality of data lines therein and a wiring region around the display region and provided with a plurality of leading wires therein. The plurality of leading wires are connected with the plurality of data lines respectively in a one-to-one correspondence way. The plurality of leading wires comprise a plurality of first leading wires and a plurality of second leading wires insulatively arranged in different layers. The plurality of first leading wires and the plurality of second leading wires comprise at least one pair of overlapped first and second leading wires to which data signals having the same polarity are input.
US10311813B2
Electric power that a display device consumes in reversal of polarity is reduced. A display control section (3) includes: a refresh rate detecting section (31) which detects a refresh rate of a display device (100 or 200); and a polarity reversal control section (32 or 33) which controls reversal of polarity so as to be carried out at a frequency lower than the refresh rate.
US10311806B2
The present disclosure provides an image processing method and system. The method may include: acquiring an image to be displayed; determining a distance between a display device and a user; comparing the determined distance with a plurality of optimum watching distances respectively, wherein the optimum watching distances are acceptable shortest distances corresponding to different resolutions for the display device when the user watches images displayed on the display device in a full vision under a vision limit; and processing the acquired image for displaying, according to a result of the comparing.
US10311798B2
An organic light emitting diode display includes pixels in which an amount of current flowing in an organic light emitting diode of each pixel is determined depending on a difference between a data voltage and a reference voltage, a control signal generator differently generating a screen brightness control signal depending on a driving mode, a register adjusting unit independently adjusting a reference voltage register value and a gamma register value at each of red (R), green (G), and blue (B) pixels depending on the screen brightness control signal, a reference voltage generator generating the reference voltage of each of the R, G, and B colors based on the reference voltage register value, and a data voltage generator generating the data voltage of each of the R, G, and B colors based on the gamma register value.
US10311797B2
A display panel includes a pad electrically connected to an external device, a data line electrically connected to the pad, a pixel at a crossing region of the data line, a feedback line, and a scan line, and a transferring circuit block configured to provide an initialization voltage to the feedback line in response to an initialization control signal, and configured to electrically connect the feedback line with the data line in response to a first sensing control signal.
US10311787B2
The present disclosure provides a pixel driving circuit, a driving method, a pixel unit, and a display apparatus. The pixel driving circuit includes a driving transistor, a charging/discharging circuitry, a light-emitting control circuitry, a data write-in control circuitry, and a charging/discharging control circuitry, where a first electrode of the charging/discharging circuitry is connected to a second electrode of the driving transistor, and the charging/discharging control circuitry is configured to enable a first electrode of the driving transistor to be electrically connected to a second level output terminal under the control of a data line, and enable a second terminal of the charging/discharging circuitry to be electrically connected to a gate electrode of the driving transistor under the control of a first scan line.
US10311774B2
A display apparatus includes a display panel including first, second, and third display parts and a gate driver. The gate driver includes a first gate circuit disposed in a non-display part of the display panel and a second gate circuit disposed in the first display part of the display panel and applies a gate signal to a gate line. The first, second, and third display parts include first, second, and third light blocking parts, respectively. The second light blocking part has an area smaller than an area of the first light blocking part and greater than an area of the third light blocking part.
US10311770B2
Provided is a display system for a vehicle. The display system includes a display device installed to be visually recognizable from the outside of a vehicle, and a control device configured to cause the display device to display state information of the vehicle. The control device receives a signal from a sensor that senses a distance from the vehicle to an object around the vehicle, and the control device changes display of the display device based on the distance.
US10311764B2
A detection device of a GOA circuit of a display panel includes a signal supply unit for supplying a test signal to the GOA circuit; an acquisition unit for determining whether each of the GOA units in the GOA unit group of the GOA circuit has an output signal, if there is an output signal, acquiring the output signal of each of the GOA units in the GOA unit group; wherein part of the GOA units in the GOA circuit constitute the GOA unit group, the GOA unit group at least includes an initial GOA unit and a distal GOA unit of the GOA circuit; a processing unit for determining whether the GOA circuit is abnormal based on the acquired output signal of each of the GOA units in the GOA unit group.
US10311762B2
Label-holder element for electrical wires (200), comprising a body (410; 510) extending in a longitudinal lengthwise direction (X-X), transverse widthwise direction (Y-Y) and vertical thickness direction (Z-Z), with a front face (10a) provided with a seat (20) for labels (30), side faces (410b) and a rear face (410c), said seat (20) having opposite top (20a) and bottom (20b) edges which extend in the transverse direction (Y-Y), are arranged opposite each other in the longitudinal direction (X-X) and are formed in the manner of engaging means (21,22) for retaining a label (30); means for coupling with an electrical wire (200) comprising at least one pair (440; 540) of teeth (441; 541) extending outwards from the rear surface (410c; 510c) in the vertical direction (Z-Z), the teeth (441; 541) of one pair having a free end (441a; 541a) directed towards the other tooth in the transverse direction (Y-Y) and being arranged staggered in the longitudinal direction (X-X) for mounting on/engagement with a wire (200).
US10311755B2
An eyewear fitting system and methods of use are described. Embodiments of the eyewear fitting system can include a bust having a plurality of adjustable features. Typically, the adjustable features can include a pair of ears, a pair of eyes, a nose, a pair of cheeks, and a forehead. A user can adjust an individual, several, or all of the adjustable features to practice fitting eyewear frames to differently shaped faces. In one embodiment, a control module can be implemented to randomly alter the adjustable features to a allow student to practice fitting eyewear frames to a variety of differently shaped faces.
US10311749B1
A system for determining a safety score comprising an input interface and a processor. An input interface configured to receive compliance events from a database of compliance events and to receive detected driving events from a database of detected driving events. A processor configured to filter the compliance events and the detected driving events to generate a filtered list and to determine a safety score based at least in part on the filtered list.
US10311746B2
The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for monitoring posture of a user of a wearable apparatus. In one implementation, the system may include an image sensor configured to capture one or more images from an environment of the user of the wearable apparatus and at least one processing device. The at least one processing device may be configured to analyze the one or more images to determine at least one indicator of the posture of the user, determine feedback for the user based on the at least one indicator of the posture of the user, and cause the feedback to be output to the user.
US10311744B2
A cognitive training method has a step of obtaining sensor data of a subject during a memory exercise which in turn determines whether the sensor data includes predetermined information indicative of cognitive functions used for remembering. The step of advancing the memory exercise is carried out when it is determined that the sensor data includes predetermined information indicative of cognitive functions used for remembering. The step of calculating an objective cognitive assessment of the subject is carried out when the memory exercise is completed and cognitive training is measured at least partially in response to the advancing of the memory exercise. The fact that an objective cognitive assessment is calculated provides a method of using an autodidactic cognitive training device.
US10311736B2
A road shape information generator is provided. The road shape information generator includes a sensor value obtainer that obtains a sensor value acting, when a vehicle travels, on the vehicle, a road shape information generator that generates information about a road shape as road shape information based on the sensor value obtained by the sensor value obtainer, and a storage controller that stores, in a road shape information storage, the road shape information generated by the road shape information generator.
US10311729B2
A navigation system includes: a traffic condition calculation unit (222) that calculates an evaluation value indicating a traffic condition of each road segment included in a target area; a guidance route determination unit (223) that determines a route in which a degree of non-congestion based on the traffic condition evaluation value of a road segment included in a route to a destination of each vehicle is the highest as a guidance route on the basis of the traffic condition evaluation value calculated by the traffic condition calculation unit and the destination of each vehicle; and a guidance route providing unit (224) that provides the guidance routes determined by the guidance route determination unit to a driver of the corresponding vehicle.
US10311724B2
A driver safety system includes traffic signals communicating with a municipal controller via a first network and user devices communicating with a third party controller via a second network. Communications from the first network are provided to the second network via a repeater server providing one-way communications to avoid the possibility of hacking devices on the first network.
US10311719B1
A framework for precision traffic analysis combines traffic sensor data from multiple sensor types, combining the strengths of each sensor type within various conditions in an intersection or roadway in which traffic activity occurs. The framework calibrates coordinate systems in images taken of the same area by multiple sensors, so that fields of view from one sensor system are transposed onto fields of view from other sensor systems to fuse the images taken into a combined detection zone, and so that objects are properly detected and classified for enhanced traffic signal control.
US10311702B2
Systems and methods are provided and include a processor that is configured to execute instructions stored in a nontransitory memory. The instructions include receiving at least one measurement event signal, which includes (i) acceleration data that represents an amount of vibration associated with goods at a corresponding time, (ii) location data that represents a location of the goods at the corresponding time, and (iii) an alarm value that is based on a comparison of the acceleration data and a threshold. The instructions include transmitting an alert to a remote device. The alert is (i) transmitted in response to the alarm value of one of the at least one measurement event signal indicating that the goods were subjected to an excessive amount of vibration, and (ii) instructs a user of the excessive amount of vibration. The remote device is configured to display a message based on the alert.
US10311701B1
In some examples, systems, methods, and devices are described that generate contextual suggestions for patients. Generation of the contextual suggestions is triggered by certain events performed by a medical professional with respect to a patient (e.g., updating a patient record). The contextual suggestions are related to addressing health conditions of the patient and represent tasks or considerations which the medical professional should be made aware. The contextual suggestions are generated in a way that is considerate of patient context, medical professional context, and contexts of similar patients. The contextual suggestions can be presented to the medical professional for selection and execution.
US10311681B2
A gaming system for enabling enhancement of wagering outcomes includes: a) multiple gaming sites having a game play surface with a light display element on the game play surface at a player position; b) a processor; c) a player input control at the player position, the player input control in communication with the processor; and d) a random number generator in communication with the processor. The light display on the game play surface at the player hand position has lights, and a power source in communication with the lights; the processor, in response to random selections for the light display element at the player position, is configured to direct that the lights at the player hand position are randomly lit. Lights may also be present at a dealer hand position. The lights indicate at least one of an immediate award, multiplier or bonus event, including a progressive jackpot.
US10311678B2
According to one embodiment, a method of gaming is provided that comprises receiving a determination of a particular race participant in a race event having a plurality of race participants. The method continues by determining a particular position of the particular race participant at each of a plurality of intermediate points within the race event. The method continues by determining a plurality of simulated playing cards based at least in part upon the determined positions of the particular race participant. The method concludes by determining an outcome of a game based at least in part upon the determined simulated playing cards.
US10311674B2
A gaming system including a central server linked to a plurality of gaming machines. The gaming system includes at least one and preferably a plurality of progressive awards which are each associated with a supplemental fund or pool. If the gaming system determines that the progressive award is not growing at a designated incremental rate (due to a lack of wagers placed on gaming devices associated with the progressive award), the gaming system utilizes part or all of the amount in the supplemental fund to make up for this lack of wager based growth. Such a configuration provides that even if players are not actively playing gaming devices associated with the progressive award, the progressive award will still increment at a designated rate to at least a desirable value.
US10311671B2
Secondary gaming functionality is provided for a casino gaming machine by a secondary controller of the casino gaming machine. The secondary gaming functionality may function to provide a multi-game experience at the gaming machine or remotely at another gaming machine or other device, e.g., a smart phone, tablet, personal computer, and the like. The multi-game experience may comprise one or more additional instances of a wager-based video game provided by the primary gaming functionality of the gaming machine. The secondary gaming functionality of the gaming machine may cause the one or more additional instances of the wager-based video game to be presented at another device either directly or indirectly via a server, such as a social media server or a server-based gaming system's server. The secondary gaming functionality may provide betting scenarios other, additional than those provided by the primary gaming functionality, which betting scenarios may permit the player to wager on a wager-based video game provided by the primary gaming functionality.
US10311670B2
A platform for providing projections, predictions, and recommendations for casino and gaming environments. The platform leverages machine learning and cognitive computing. Through a natural language interface, the platform presents this information in a way which is natural and timely for casino operational executives to understand and act upon. The platform can optimize gaming machine performance casino floor performance based on various metrics that are predicted by the platform.
US10311668B1
Various embodiments of a gaming system and method are disclosed as having awards or award enhancements based on a plurality of storage symbols. The gaming system enables the plurality of storage symbols to be collected and stored over multiple games. In some embodiments, the gaming system collects a wager for at least one or more of the games. In some embodiments, when the gaming system determines that a quantity of stored plurality of storage symbols is equal to or greater than a predetermined quantity of storage symbols, the gaming system evaluates the stored plurality of storage symbols for winning conditions. In some embodiments, the gaming system provides one or more awards or award enhancements associated with the winning conditions.
US10311666B2
A prediction value calculator calculates a prediction value of an electricity fee based on the amount of electric power supplied from a commercial electric power source to electric equipment within an electricity fee calculation period. A selector selects, as a first-stage control, either one control of an electric power saving control for the electric equipment and a charge-discharge control in which the electric power supplied from the commercial electric power source is stored in a storage battery in a first time slot and the electric power stored in the storage battery is supplied to the electric equipment in a second time slot in which the unit cost of the electric power supplied from the commercial electric power source is greater than that in the first time slot. A controller executes the first-stage control selected by the selector when the prediction value calculated by the prediction value calculator is greater than a targeted value of the electricity fee.
US10311664B2
An access control device that at least assists in controlling the ingress/egress through an entryway. According to certain embodiments, the access control device is operably coupled to an entryway device so as to at least assist in controlling the ability to displace an entryway device from a closed position and/or from an open position. The access control device is structured for communication with a plurality of components of a security management system, and thus may be programmed by one or more modes, including, for example a manual program mode, an off-line managed mode, a wireless off-line management mode, a wireless real-time mode, and/or an off-line real-time mode.
US10311660B2
A method of passenger flow determination comprises estimating, by a processor (3,6), whether the number of mobile devices on a vehicle (2) has changed based on signals from mobile devices that were received at a sensor (1) located in the vehicle. The processor may compare an estimate whether the number of mobile devices on the vehicle has changed with at least one other data input to the processor, and this allows the processor to determine whether a change in number of detected devices is caused by someone entering or leaving the vehicle rather than a device being switched on or off.The processor may be located on the vehicle, and the method may further comprise forwarding information to a second processor (6) remote from the vehicle. The second processor will receive data from many vehicles and therefore has a larger dataset available than the processor on a single vehicle, and so can extract more reliable information about passenger flows.
US10311659B2
A method of analyzing variations of an indicator of the behavior of a mechanism fitted to an aircraft, the indicator being determined from measurements of a physical operating parameter of the mechanism during a mission of the aircraft. The Method includes a storage step of storing the measurements of the physical operating parameter in a storage unit; a first transmission step of transmitting the measurements of the physical operating parameter contained in the storage unit to a communication station; a second transmission step of transmitting the measurements of the physical operating parameter from the communication station to an analysis center; an indicator generation step of generating the indicator performed on the basis of the measurements of the physical operating parameter; and an analysis step of analyzing variations of the indicator.
US10311649B2
Systems and methods for the manipulation of captured light fields and captured light field image data in accordance with embodiments of the invention are disclosed. In one embodiment of the invention, a system for manipulating captured light field image data includes a processor, a display, a user input device, and a memory, wherein a depth map includes depth information for one or more pixels in the image data, and wherein an image manipulation application configures the processor to display a first synthesized image, receive user input data identifying a region within the first synthesized image, determine boundary data for the identified region using the depth map, receive user input data identifying at least one action, and perform the received action using the boundary data and the captured light field image data.
US10311648B2
A method for computing a three-dimensional (3D) model of an object includes: receiving, by a processor, a first chunk including a 3D model of a first portion of the object, the first chunk being generated from a plurality of depth images of the first portion of the object; receiving, by the processor, a second chunk including a 3D model of a second portion the object, the second chunk being generated from a plurality of depth images of the second portion of the object; computing, by the processor, a registration of the first chunk with the second chunk, the registration corresponding to a transformation aligning corresponding portions of the first and second chunks; aligning, by the processor, the first chunk with the second chunk in accordance with the registration; and outputting, by the processor, a 3D model corresponding to the first chunk merged with the second chunk.
US10311644B2
A 3-dimensional augmented reality (AR) world is a version of our “real” physical world augmented with virtual 3D objects that may be experienced by a user, such as someone who “sees” the virtual 3D objects through a smartphone or special eyewear. A shared 3D AR world is one in which multiple individuals can simultaneously experience the same augmented reality, even if they are not using the same devices. The shared 3D AR world is created by obtaining and synthesizing sensory and other inputs from various devices in use by different users, and providing augmented outputs adapted to different devices. The synthesis of a wide range of inputs allows the augmented reality effects to be realistic. The augmented reality effects may be pre-rendered by a cloud-based server to reduce the computational burden on user devices.
US10311642B2
An augmented reality service method for a coloring play according to the present invention comprises the steps of: 1) executing a service application, and selecting and downloading an image to be colored from a server by a user terminal; 2) coloring the downloaded image in a specific pattern, using tool provided by the service application; 3) printing the colored image; 4) executing the service application, scanning a printed material of the colored image so as to recognize a marker, and extracting color information according to coordinates of the image; 5) coloring an augmented reality content provided by the server according to the extracted color information, so as to generate a colored augmented reality content on the basis of the image colored by a user; and 7) displaying the colored augmented reality content on a display unit of the user terminal.
US10311641B2
Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide for technology that identifies a change in virtual camera orientation that will increase a virtual walkable space associated with a rendered environment in a head mounted display (HMD) system. Additionally, a saccadic movement state may be detected with respect to a wearer of the HMD system, wherein the change in virtual camera orientation is conducted when the saccadic movement state is present. In one example, the change in virtual camera orientation may be bypassed when the saccadic movement state is not present.
US10311637B2
A process identifies an anchor point of reference in a physical environment, the anchor point being a common point in each field of view of a plurality of users. The process establishes a grid structure in a field of view of a first user, the grid structure being a three-dimensional augmented reality object virtually positioned based on the anchor point at a common, static location in the environment relative to the users and for presentation to the users. The process selects a user-specific point of reference that corresponds to cell(s) of the grid structure against which the first user works in contributing to a collaborative construction of an augmented reality digital model. Based on receiving input from the first user, the process places augmented reality digital model elements into the cell(s), where contribution of the elements by the first user are reflected in the grid structure for the users.
US10311633B2
An approach is provided for accurate processing and registering of media content for rendering in 3D maps and other applications. The approach includes determining at least one first pixel of at least one image that geometrically corresponds to at least one second pixel of at least one rendered three-dimensional map. Further, the approach includes processing and/or facilitating a processing of (a) the at least one first pixel; (b) the at least one second pixel; (c) metadata associated with at least one of the at least one first pixel and the second pixel; or (d) a combination thereof to determine at least one confidence value, wherein the at least one confidence value is indicative of an estimated level of geometric distortion resulting from projecting the at least one first pixel onto the at least one second pixel. Furthermore, the approach includes determining whether to cause, at least in part, a rendering of the at least one first pixel onto the at least one rendered three-dimensional map based, at least in part, on the confidence value.
US10311625B2
Provided is an image displaying apparatus including: a receiver configured to receive a first image group including an initial image and a final image; a display configured to display, on an image display window, one of a plurality of images included in the first image group; and a controller configured to control the display to display, on the image display window, the initial image, and control the display to change an image displayed on the image display window from the initial image to the final image, based on at least one of a degree to which the image display window is scrolled on the display and an elapsed time from when the initial image is displayed on the image display window.
US10311623B2
Disclosed is a real-time motion simulation method for hair and object collisions, which is based on a small amount of pre-computation training data and generates a self-adaptive simplified model for virtual hair style for real-time selection and interpolation and collision correction, thereby realizing real-time high-quality motion simulation for hair-object collisions. The method comprises the following steps: 1) reduced model pre-computation: based on pre-computation simulation data, selecting representative hairs and generating a reduced model; 2) real-time animation and interpolation: clustering the representative hairs simulated in real time; selecting the reduced model and interpolating; and 3) collision correction: detecting collision and applying a correction force on the representative hairs to correct the collisions. The present invention proposed a real-time simulation method for hair-object collision, which achieves similar effect as off-line simulation and reduces the computation time cost.
US10311622B2
A method for virtual reality (VR) includes displaying a VR event in a view of a first VR position in a VR environment in a first period, wherein a user's VR avatar is at the first VR position in the first period; recording the VR event; and redisplaying the recorded VR event in a view of a second VR position in the VR environment in a second period.
US10311614B2
Applications and services providing customized realty renovation visualization are described. A realty renovation visualization service can, in response to receiving a request to customize a renovation visualization, query a data resource for a set of inspirational room images. The set of inspirational room images can be images of inspirational rooms with similar spatial characteristics as the room that is the subject of the customized renovation visualization. The request can include information about at least a room depicted in the renovation visualization and the data resource can be queried using parameters of a definite region of the room obtained from the information about at least the room. At least one customized room image can then be generated from the set of inspirational room images using one or more customizing criteria, and the at least one customized room image provided to the source of the request to include in the renovation visualization.
US10311612B2
Provided is a display device including a first display unit, a second display unit arranged on a back side of the first display unit, a generation unit configured to perform predetermined image processing on first image data to generate second image data, and a control unit configured to select one of a plurality of display modes including a first display mode on which the first display unit displays an image based on the first image data and the second display unit displays an image based on the second image data, and a second display mode on which the first display unit and the second display unit display the image based on the first image data.
US10311606B2
Provided are improved referenceless multi-material beam hardening correction methods, with an emphasis on maintaining data quality for real-world imaging of geologic materials with a view towards automation. A referenceless post reconstruction (RPC) correction technique is provided that applies the corrections in integrated attenuation space. A container-only pre-correction technique also is provided to allow automation of the segmentation process required for beam hardening correction methods.
US10311604B2
A method for generating attenuation map is disclosed. The method includes acquiring an anatomic image and PET data indicative of a subject, wherein the anatomic image comprises a plurality of voxels. The method also includes fetching a reference image to register the anatomic image, the reference image includes voxel segmentation information. The method further includes segmenting the anatomic image into a plurality of regions based on the voxel segmentation information. The method further includes generating a first attenuation map corresponding to the anatomic image by assigning attenuation coefficients to the plurality of regions. The method further includes calculating a registration accuracy between the anatomic image and the reference image. The method further includes determining a probability distribution of attenuation coefficient. The method further includes updating the first attenuation map iteratively based on the probability distribution of attenuation coefficient and the PET data to obtain a final attenuation map.
US10311599B2
A control system for a hybrid machine is provided. The control system includes a controller communicably coupled to an energy storage unit of the hybrid machine. The controller is configured to receive data from the energy storage unit. The controller is configured to evaluate a current storage charge state of the energy storage unit based on the received data. The controller is configured to receive historical data related to idle events associated with an engine of the hybrid machine. The controller is configured to receive data related to one or more machine operating parameters. The controller is configured to pre-emptively control at least one of an engine speed and an engine power based on the received data for at least one of shutting down the engine during an idle state and restarting the engine.
US10311595B2
An image processing device includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire an image data and a depth data correspond to the image data; a calculating unit configured to calculate a position and attitude change for each depth from the image data and the depth data; and a determining unit configured to determine a position and attitude change of a whole image by a position and attitude change data calculated by the calculating unit based on a statistic of the position and attitude change calculated by the calculating unit.
US10311594B2
A method for verifying positions of a plurality of monitoring devices includes selecting a second monitoring device by a first monitoring device. A first number of monitoring devices out of the plurality of monitoring devices is supervised, the plurality of monitoring devices being positioned such that each monitoring device of the plurality of monitoring devices can be monitored by at least one other monitoring device of the plurality of monitoring devices. Correct positions of the plurality of monitoring devices have been determined and stored prior to verification, and security information for secure communication has been exchanged between two of the plurality of monitoring devices for all of the plurality of monitoring devices.
US10311589B2
One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for estimating a head pose of a user. The technique includes acquiring depth data associated with a head of the user and initializing each particle included in a set of particles with a different candidate head pose. The technique further includes performing one or more optimization passes that include performing at least one iterative closest point (ICP) iteration for each particle and performing at least one particle swarm optimization (PSO) iteration. Each ICP iteration includes rendering the three-dimensional reference model based on the candidate head pose associated with the particle and comparing the three-dimensional reference model to the depth data. Each PSO iteration comprises updating a global best head pose associated with the set of particles and modifying at least one candidate head pose. The technique further includes modifying a shape of the three-dimensional reference model based on depth data.
US10311580B2
A bed area extraction method includes specifying, by a computer, a first part of a bed candidate area in an image based on a first line segment extracted from the image; setting a search range for searching a second line segment with reference to the bed candidate area which is determined based on the specified first part of the bed candidate area; and correcting the bed candidate area based on a disposition of the second line segment included in the set search range.
US10311579B2
An apparatus and method for detecting a foreground in an image is provided, and the foreground detecting apparatus includes a context information estimator configured to estimate context information on a scene from an image frame of the image, a background model constructor configured to construct a background model of the image frame using the estimated context information, and a foreground detector configured to detect a foreground from the image frame based on the constructed background model.
US10311578B1
A learning method for segmenting an image having one or more lanes is provided to be used for supporting collaboration with HD maps required to satisfy level 4 of autonomous vehicles. The learning method includes steps of: a learning device instructing a CNN module (a) to apply convolution operations to the image, thereby generating a feature map, and apply deconvolution operations thereto, thereby generating segmentation scores of each of pixels on the image; (b) to apply Softmax operations to the segmentation scores, thereby generating Softmax scores; and (c) to (I) apply multinomial logistic loss operations and pixel embedding operations to the Softmax scores, thereby generating Softmax losses and embedding losses, where the embedding losses is used to increase inter-lane differences among averages of the segmentation scores and decrease intra-lane variances among the segmentation scores, in learning parameters of the CNN module, and (II) backpropagate the Softmax and the embedding losses.
US10311576B2
A computer extracts a plurality of candidate lines that are observed from a position of an imaging device that captures an image of an object from among a plurality of candidate lines included in shape information of the object. The computer generates plural pieces of association information indicating a prescribed number of combinations obtained by respectively associating the prescribed number of candidate lines of the observed plurality of candidate lines with the prescribed number of feature lines of a plurality of feature lines detected from the image. The computer determines an association result according to respective errors of the plural pieces of association information.
US10311574B2
A digital medium environment includes an image processing application that performs object segmentation on an input image. An improved object segmentation method implemented by the image processing application comprises receiving an input image that includes an object region to be segmented by a segmentation process, processing the input image to provide a first segmentation that defines the object region, and processing the first segmentation to provide a second segmentation that provides pixel-wise label assignments for the object region. In some implementations, the image processing application performs improved sky segmentation on an input image containing a depiction of a sky.
US10311569B1
Systems, methods, devices, and apparatus for detecting sample defects in blood samples processed in automated processing systems are described herein. One aspect describes an automated blood sample processing apparatus having a pre-analytic specimen integrity monitoring device. Another aspect describes devices, systems, and methods for identifying blood components and properties in blood samples. Further aspects relate to systems and methods for setting reference ranges for sample defects and interference in blood samples. Additionally, devices, systems, and methods for identifying defective samples are described.
US10311558B2
An image processing device receives one or more forward reshaped images that are generated by an image forward reshaping device from one or more wide dynamic range images based on a forward reshaping function. The forward reshaping function relates to a backward reshaping function. The image processing device performs one or more image transform operations on the one or more forward reshaped images to generate one or more processed forward reshaped images without performing backward reshaping operations on the one or more reshaped images or the one or more processed forward reshaped images based on the backward reshaping function. The one or more processed forward reshaped images are sent to a second image processing device.
US10311545B2
An application processor includes a reconfigurable hardware scaler which includes dedicated circuits configured to perform different scaling techniques, respectively and a shared circuit configured to be shared by the dedicated circuits. One of the different scaling techniques is performed by one of the dedicated circuits and the shared circuit.
US10311538B2
The present disclosure relates generally digital watermarking and data hiding techniques. One claim recites a method comprising: obtaining data representing imagery; using one or more configured processors, transforming the data into a multi-channel color space; obtaining information indicating an impact of adding a color channel encoded signal to a color direction of the data; determining a color space direction for encoded signal detection; obtaining weighting factors based on the information indicating an impact of adding a color channel encoded signal; weighting the color channel encoded signal with weighting factors to yield a modified color channel encoded signal; using one or more configured processors, embedding the modified color channel encoded signal in the data representing imagery. Of course, other claims and combinations are provided as well.
US10311536B1
A method and system may provide an automated pharmacy processing system which automatically processes an electronic prescription by converting the electronic prescription into a pharmacy prescription record. In this way, an electronic prescription can be filled by a pharmacist without manual data entry. The system receives an electronic prescription and compares data from the electronic prescription with entries in one or more pharmacy database(s). When there is a match between the electronic prescription data and an entry in the one or more pharmacy database(s), the system populates the pharmacy prescription record with data from the matching pharmacy database entry. If all of the data fields from the pharmacy prescription record have been populated the pharmacist can fill the electronic prescription.
US10311534B2
A tool for planning and management of clinical trials. The tool computes a patient enrollment timeline in a clinical trial using multiple factors that bear on the rate of patient enrollment. The factors may be site-dependent factors or may be country-dependent factors. When these factors are applied, different sites may have different rates of enrollment in the same interval. Further, the factors may be time dependent such that even the same sites may have different enrollment rates in different intervals. Once the timeline is created, the tool may use it to calculate a schedule of monitor visits, project trial completion or otherwise generate output used in management of the clinical trial.
US10311532B2
A system and method for managing real estate data using a mobile device, such as a tablet computer. The data is displayed in a manner that facilitates quick analysis suing a mobile device. User interfaces, processing, and other features provide a mobile user with information required to make intelligent decisions on real estate transactions. A tour can be constructed based on a subset of data returned as a result of a database query.
US10311526B2
A management system includes an input device provided to a loading machine that performs, after a first loading work of loading a load onto a first haul machine positioned at a first loading position at a loading site of a mine is ended, a second loading work of loading a load onto a second haul machine that is already positioned, during the first loading work, at a second loading position different from the first loading position, and a processing device to which an operation signal generated by the input device is to be output, wherein the processing device specifies a start time of the second loading work based on the operation signal generated by the input device at a time when the first loading work is ended.
US10311522B1
Embodiments of the present methods and systems are directed to a system and method for managing and editing accounting periods. Particularly, the embodiments are directed to a financial management system that allows for the recordation of financial transactions without first requiring the creation of a user-defined accounting period, and that further allows for the creation, modification, and closure of defined accounting periods.
US10311517B1
A computer-implemented method for creating an option on a TBA mortgage backed security, including determining an option position is marked to market daily, where the option position is long or short, determining the option position increased in value by an increased amount on a given day and adding the increased value to a customer's margin account, determining the option position decreased in value by a decreased amount on the given day and subtracting the decreased value from the customer's margin account, and when funds in the margin account are below a predetermined margin requirement, requesting the customer deposit additional funds in the margin account, receiving a request to exercise the option on the TBA mortgage backed security from a customer owning the option on the TBA mortgage backed security.
US10311510B2
A system and method of providing sequential media content. The system of some embodiments provides a library that displays representations of media items stored on a device. The library displays representations of a series object. Activating the series object displays purchased media items in a series of media items. After a threshold amount of a media item in the series has been consumed, the series object displays a representation of a next media item in the series along with a control for purchasing the next media item in the series.
US10311505B2
A method, system, GUI, apparatus, and computer readable media for enabling a customer to access to an unpublished media file uploaded by an artist are provided. An artist's profile may be hosted on, for example, a web site, SMS/MMS gateway, and a WAP site. A previously unpublished media file may be received from the artist based on a publish option of listed unpublished media content and may be uploaded to the user profile. The unpublished media file may be associated with the artist's account. A request to access the media file may be received from a customer. An account associated with the customer may be updated to indicate their requested access to the media file. The customer may then be enabled to access the media file. The user's account may be updated to indicate the transaction.
US10311500B2
A server system determines an adoption state for a first software-development product of a plurality of software-development products offered to software developers by a provider associated with the server system. The adoption state indicates an extent to which the first product has been implemented by a software developer for use in connection with a first application. In accordance with the determined adoption state for the first product, the server system performs at least one of: providing a reminder to the software developer to implement the first product in connection with the first application; and providing a notification of availability of a second product of the plurality of products in connection with the first application.
US10311497B2
According to an embodiment, a server includes a first acquiring unit, a second acquiring unit, an analyzing unit, and an output unit. The first acquiring unit is configured to acquire recognition information includes a product identification information for identifying the product. The second acquiring unit is configured to acquire combination information including the product identification information of the product to be combined with an object image including an object. The analyzing unit is configured to calculate product priorities for respective products by analyzing the recognition information and the combination information. The output unit is configured to output information based on the product priorities.
US10311493B2
The present disclosure is directed toward systems and methods for managing commerce-related communications within a social networking system. For example, systems and methods described herein can identify a particular social networking system post and can generate an optimized version of that particular post. In one or more embodiments, systems and methods described herein can also identify additional social networking system posts that are related to the particular social networking system post.
US10311490B2
According to various embodiments, techniques and mechanisms described herein facilitate the editing of computer programming tags associated with a website. A user interface displaying a representation of a website may be presented on a display screen. The representation may include a plurality of webpage identifiers that each identifies a respective webpage associated with the website. The representation may also include a plurality of active tag indicators that are each associated with a respective one of the webpages. Each active tag indicator may identify a respective portion of computer programming code included in the respective webpage with which the active tag indicator is associated. User input indicating an editing action to be performed with respect to one or more of the computer programming code portions may be received, and a message identifying the editing action may be transmitted via a communications interface.
US10311486B1
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for calculating input-output relationships using, for example, spline functions. In accordance with one implementation, a computer-implemented method is provided that includes determining at least one price-volume point comprising a price and associated volume, transforming the price, and using the transformed price to calculate values along a spline function to obtain a price-volume curve weight factor. The method further includes transforming a second price, calculating values along the spline function and the first derivative of the spline function using the transformed second price to obtain a volume estimate and volume rate at the second price, and recalculating the spline function based on the calculated price-volume curve weight factor, volume estimate, volume estimate and volume rate.
US10311472B1
Systems and methods of evaluating information in a computer network environment are provided. A data processing system can obtain or receive a content placement criterion, such as a keyword, associated with a content item and can determine a quality metric of the content placement criterion. The data processing system can identify a candidate content placement criterion and expand placement criteria associated with the content item to include the content placement criterion and the candidate content placement criterion based at least in part on an evaluation of the quality metric of the content placement criterion. The data processing system can expand placement criteria based in part on a throttling parameter. The data processing system can identify a correlation between a document and the placement criteria to identify appropriate content items for the document.
US10311466B1
Embodiments of system are disclosed in which selection strategies for a direct marketing campaign that identify consumers from a credit bureau or other consumer database can be planned, tested, and/or refined on a stable subset of the credit database. In some embodiments, once refined, consumer selection criteria may be used to execute the direct marketing campaign on the full consumer/credit database, which is preferably updated approximately twice weekly. In one preferred embodiment, the data for the test database represents a random sampling of approximately 10% of the full database and the sampling is regenerated approximately weekly in order to provide a stable set of data on which campaign developers may test their campaign. For each consumer in the sampling, the environment may allow a client to access and use both attributes calculated by the credit bureau and proprietary attributes and data owned by the client. The system allows for a plurality of clients to use the system substantially simultaneously while protecting the privacy and integrity of the client's proprietary data and results.
US10311460B2
A method and program product includes accessing a customer account on a server system. A revolving list of tasks associated with the customer account is received. The revolving list of tasks at least includes a plurality of businesses and at least one action to be completed for each business. The plurality of businesses are selected by the server system from a group of associated businesses using a selection algorithm. The selection algorithm at least in part uses a random selection. A completion of a one of the tasks is communicated, wherein the server system removes the task from the list creating an empty slot, and assigns a reward to the customer account.
US10311459B1
A device may receive, from a camera device, an image that includes a person. The device may provide the image to a user recognition device and receive, from the user recognition device, a user identifier based on the person included in the image. In addition, the device may obtain user data based on the user identifier, the user data relating to prior activity relating to the person associated with the user identifier. The device may identify a user device based on a first physical location associated with the camera device and a second physical location associated with the user device, and provide the user data to the user device.
US10311457B2
A computerized reward mechanism system is proposed which makes use both of presently collected data relating to the customer, and a database of historical data relating to the customer. Using this information, the system performs a customer preference analysis, which results in selecting rewards which are adapted to the customers' personal needs. In one form, the system is positioned at a shopping center, and includes cameras for recognising past customers by image processing. This may be done without requiring customers to participate in a process of signing up to use the system. The presently collected data include responses to questions put to the customer relating to his present shopping experience. Customer honesty is considered in the step of determining which rewards to offer the consumer, to encourage the consumers to express their feelings more clearly.
US10311454B2
A system and method for customer interaction and experience enhancement which automatically gathers direct and indirect customer communications about products and services, converts them to text where necessary, and analyzes the communications for sentiment and emotional content, and scores and displays the information in a manner conducive to making business decisions based on the customer sentiment and emotion, such as making changes to products or services, troubleshooting customer service interactions, and better marketing.
US10311453B2
Embodiments described herein provide a social media analytics platform. An entity may be configured with respect to the platform and a number of social media accounts, and other data such as aliases or search terms associated with the entity. Data is collected at certain intervals from the various online sites, including social media sites, using the various disparate and proprietary interfaces and data models provided by the sites and the configurations for the social media accounts associated with an entity. Using this data obtained from these online sites one or more scores can be calculated or update based on the data, where the score(s) may serve to quantify a facet of the entity's social media exposure and may serve to be domain specific to the entity. The scores for each of the indices for an entity can thus serve to quantify facets of an entity's social media exposure.
US10311443B2
A computer-implemented method and an apparatus facilitate management of customer interactions on multiple interaction channels. A communication quality metric and a contextual environment are tracked for an ongoing customer interaction executed on a first interaction channel. A closure of the first interaction channel is effected based on at least one of: a detected change in a current value associated with the communication quality metric to be below a preset threshold value, a detected or an anticipated change in the contextual environment, and a receipt of a customer request for closing the first interaction channel. The effecting of the closure of the first interaction channel includes a transitioning of the ongoing customer interaction from the first interaction channel to a second interaction channel.
US10311442B1
Systems and methods that provide for automation-assisted research into the workings of one or more studied systems include software modules that communicate with domain knowledge bases, research professionals, automated laboratories, research service objects, and data analysis processes. When implemented in conjunction with online business methods and systems, ordering processes can interface directly with research services, such as medical research services and biomedical research services. In some implementations, automatically selected research service objects can correspond to 3rd-party research services that can produce research results, and subsequent data-processing can update the knowledge bases and provide guidance to a next phase of research.
US10311433B2
A registered provider device encrypts provider input related to a transaction between the provider device and one of many registered user devices to create an encrypted one-time-use provider code (the encryption is performed using an encryption key produced, in part, using a uniquely sequenced number generated by a sequencer maintained by the provider device). Similarly, the user device encrypts user input to create an encrypted one-time-use user code using an encryption key produced, in part, using a uniquely sequenced number generated by a user sequencer maintained by the user device. The provider and user devices independently transmit their different encrypted one-time-use codes to an intermediate entity, which decrypts the encrypted codes. This decryption is performed using one-time-use encryption keys produced using sequencers maintained by the intermediate entity, and this decryption generates an authorization request. The intermediate entity obtains an authorization decision regarding the authorization request from the authorization entity.
US10311429B2
A computer system can implement a network transaction service by receiving, over the one or more wireless networks, request data from mobile computing devices of requesting users of the network transaction service. The request data can identify the requesting user and include a transaction request to utilize the network transaction service at a merchant location of a registered merchant. In response to receiving the request data, the system can determine a merchant account of the registered merchant linked to the network transaction service, and identify a customer account of the requesting user. The computer system may then initiate fund transfers between a shared fund account of the network transaction service, the merchant account, and the customer account to fulfill the transaction request.
US10311423B2
A user activity, which may be a debit or credit card transaction or an online access, is approved, or proximity between two users is confirmed, based on a response or other acknowledgement from a mobile subscriber terminal. The mobile subscriber terminal acknowledgement is generated in response to a query from an authorizing entity associated with the debit or credit card, or another mobile subscriber terminal, and indicates whether or not the mobile subscriber terminal is within a maximum allowable radius from a specific location included in the query. It is noted that no specific location information is included in the mobile subscriber terminal acknowledgement. An application downloaded to the mobile subscriber terminal may generate the above-described acknowledgement.
US10311422B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for providing account balance notifications. The disclosed embodiments generally relate to using transmitters to activate a mobile application to request financial account information, such as an account balance, and display the requested information, via the mobile device, before the customer uses an automated teller machine (ATM) or conducts a transaction at a bank branch. In certain embodiments, the transmitters are low energy transmitters. Other aspects of the disclosed embodiments are described herein.
US10311413B2
A plurality of billers are enrolled in a by-item bill payment program. An invoice is obtained from a given one of said billers, including multiple charges corresponding to at least one of goods and services purchased from the given one of said billers by a first payor. The invoice is modified, based at least in part on said enrolling step, to generate at least one modified invoice including multiple charges corresponding to at least one of goods and services purchased from the given one of said billers by said first payor, the multiple charges being handled under different payment terms. The at least one modified invoice is sent to said first payor; payment from said first payor is obtained; and the obtained payment is allocated. A specific exemplary software architecture for implementing the method is also disclosed.
US10311411B2
A computing device for facilitating transactions between one or more remote devices, the device comprising a processing module arranged to interact with the one or more remote devices via a communications network and a database arranged to contain information regarding the state of one or more transaction channels in relation to an account, wherein the module is arranged to receive instructions via the communications network from the one or more remote devices and provide information regarding the state of the one or more transaction channels is disclosed.
US10311406B2
A system and method to facilitate transactions between a customer and a vendor utilizing an advertising campaign reaching a plurality of potential customers is provided. The method includes receiving a request from the vendor for a bulk token for use in the advertising campaign, generating the bulk token, transmitting the bulk token to the vendor to embed into the advertising campaign associated with a mailto link, the bulk token being sent as part of the advertising campaign to at least one of the plurality of potential customer, receiving a reply SMTP email from a customer from the plurality of potential customers indicating a request for a transaction responsive to the advertising campaign by selecting the mailto link, decoding the bulk token to verify the transaction, performing an SPF and DKIM validation of the received SMTP email to validate the transaction, and processing the verified and validated transaction.
US10311391B2
In one embodiment, optimizing inventory includes accessing service level band sets. Each service level band set is associated with a policy group, and includes service level bands. Each service level band of a service level band set has a service level priority with respect to any other service level bands of the same service level band set. An inventory band set is determined for each service level band set. Each inventory band set includes inventory bands, where each inventory band satisfies a corresponding service level band assuming an unconstrained network. Each inventory band of an inventory band set has an inventory priority with respect to any other inventory bands of the same inventory band set. A feasible supply chain plan that satisfies the inventory band sets is generated in order of the inventory priorities until a constrained network is depleted.
US10311388B2
Mechanisms are provided for matching patients with care providers. Patient information for a current patient, from at least one patient information source, is analyzed and a medical need of the current patient is determined. Patient information for a plurality of other patients associated with a plurality of care providers is analyzed and, for each care provider in the plurality of care providers, a measure of strength for a type of medical care corresponding to the at least one medical need is determined, based on results of the analysis of patient information for the plurality of other patients associated with the care provider. At least one care provider is selected for inclusion in a care team for the current patient based on the determined strengths of each care provider in the plurality of care providers. A care team data structure comprising information about the at least one care provider is output.
US10311387B2
A demand response system and method. The demand response system includes a power rate reception unit for receiving information about charge rates for a unit of power from an external power trading server. An amount-of-power used reception unit receives information about amounts of power used by a customer from a gateway, a first data generation unit which generates first data including information about charge rates for a unit of power for respective time spans, a second data generation unit which generates second data including information about amounts of power used by the customer for the respective time spans, and a third data generation unit which generates third data including information about index power charges for the customer for the respective time spans.
US10311383B2
An electronic device, with a display and one or more input devices: displays a first user interface element provided to create a calendar event, the first user interface element includes a location input element provided to receive user inputs in order to add a location for the calendar event; detects a first input that corresponds to the location input element; in response to detecting the first input, displays in association with the location input element one or more locations for the calendar event, where at least one of the one or more locations corresponds to a virtual conference; detects a second input that corresponds to the virtual conference; and, in response to detecting the second input: generates call-in information and a link for the virtual conference; and associates the call-in information and the link with the calendar event.
US10311382B2
An online object reservation system includes a database and an object reservation server. The database stores multiple objects associated with individual selection status. The object reservation server establishes a continuous connection with a client to provide a reservation page and receive reservation requirements from the client. The object reservation server automatically selects connection objects according to the reservation requirements. The object reservation server also establishes other connections with other clients. Whenever the selection status of any of the objects is altered, the object reservation server sends a refresh notification to the client to update contents rendered on the reservation page.
US10311381B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including medium-encoded computer program products, for combining electronic circuitry with mechanical structures using a design tool to build hybrid electro-mechanical three-dimensional circuits for 3D printed devices. In some implementations, the design tool facilitates creation and placement of components and traces, and print preparation for additive manufacturing systems.
US10311380B2
A system provides quantification and mapping of cultural characteristics. An analytic engine collects and organizes cultural attribute information by binary score and by cultural tendency. A cultural score engine coupled to the analytic engine receives cultural attribute information by category and scores the cultural attribute data for each cultural attribute to create scored data. A map engine receives the scored data and maps the cultural attribute data to a graphic output. An assessment engine quantifies areas, organization priorities, or cultural tendencies associated with each graphic output. A comparison engine compares a plurality of graphic outputs in a single comparison graphic output of cultural tendencies.
US10311369B2
Systems and methods are provided for performing a quantum gate operation. The system includes a first physical qubit, and a second physical qubit operatively coupled to the first physical qubit via a coupling mechanism. The first physical qubit, the second physical qubit, and the coupling mechanism form a logical qubit. At least one control mechanism is configured to provide a control signal to one of the first physical qubit, the second physical qubit, and the coupling mechanism as to adjust a Hamiltonian of the logical qubit.
US10311364B2
Embodiments regard predictive intelligence for service and support. An embodiment of a method includes receiving at an interface for a database system data entered in one or more data fields regarding service of a first case for a first client, the data being received from the first client or from an agent entering data regarding the first case; automatically comparing by the database system the data for the first case with data for other cases stored in a data store of the database system; identifying by the database system one or more similar cases based on the comparison of data; automatically generating by a predictive intelligence algorithm applied by the database system one or more predictive actions for the first case based on the identified one or more similar cases; and transmitting data regarding the one or more predictive actions to the first client or agent.
US10311356B2
An unsupervised behavior learning system and method for predicting anomalies in a distributed computing infrastructure. The distributed computing infrastructure includes a plurality of computer machines. The system includes a first computer machine and a second computer machine. The second computer machine is configured to generate a model of normal and anomalous behavior of the first computer machine, where the model is based on unlabeled training data. The second computer machine is also configured to acquire real-time data of system level metrics of the first machine; determine whether the real-time data is normal or anomalous based on a comparison of the real-time data to the model; and predict a future failure of the first computer machine based on multiple consecutive comparisons of the real-time data to the model. Upon predicting a future failure of the first computer machine, generate a ranked set of system-level metrics which are contributors to the predicted failure of the first computer machine, and generate an alarm that includes the ranked set of system-level metrics. The model of normal and anomalous behavior may include a self-organizing map.
US10311355B1
This disclosure describes RFID tags that include capacitive shields to capacitively couple with antennas of the RFID tags when exposed to threshold levels of electromagnetic energy, such as when placed in a microwave. In some instances, these capacitive shields comprise a material that is both thermally conductive and electrically conductive. When exposed to electromagnetic energy of a high frequency, the capacitive shield may capacitively couple to the antenna of the RFID and, thus, may receive energy from the antenna. Given the properties of the capacitive shield, the capacitive shield may convert this energy into thermal energy and dissipate this heat into an ambient environment of the RFID tag. By doing so, the capacitive shield lessens the risk that dangerous arcing will occur from the electromagnetic energy.
US10311345B2
Image-forming apparatus configured to control rotation of developing roller to prevent toner leakage
An image-forming apparatus includes a photosensitive drum, a developing roller, a collecting roller, a belt, a cleaner, and a controller. In response to receiving a signal, the controller performs a process staring with a first process and ending with a second process. The controller rotates the developing roller at a contact position at a first speed in the first process. The controller causes the collecting roller to move residual toner to the belt to allow the cleaner to clean the belt while the developing roller is separated from the photosensitive drum in the second process. The process further includes: (a) causing the developing roller to halt rotating while maintaining the developing roller at the contact position; and (b) causing the developing roller halted in the (a) causing to start rotating at a second speed lower than the first speed while maintaining the developing roller at the contact position.
US10311344B2
A processing apparatus includes: a processing unit that performs a process related to image data; a display unit that displays a process selection portion, with which the process performed by the processing unit is associated and which is selected to start the process by the processing unit; and a creation unit that, in a case of creating the process selection portion to be displayed in the display unit, creates the process selection portion while associating data with the process selection portion.
US10311337B1
A method for providing an integrated feature map by using an ensemble of a plurality of outputs from a convolutional neural network (CNN) is provided. The method includes steps of: a CNN device (a) receiving an input image and applying a plurality of modification functions to the input image to thereby generate a plurality of modified input images; (b) applying convolution operations to each of the modified input images to thereby obtain each of modified feature maps corresponding to each of the modified input images; (c) applying each of reverse transform functions, corresponding to each of the modification functions, to each of the corresponding modified feature maps, to thereby generate each of reverse transform feature maps corresponding to each of the modified feature maps; and (d) integrating at least part of the reverse transform feature maps to thereby obtain an integrated feature map.
US10311336B1
A method of neural network operations by using a grid generator is provided for converting modes according to classes of areas to satisfy level 4 of autonomous vehicles. The method includes steps of: (a) a computing device instructing a pair detector to acquire information on locations and classes of pairs for testing by detecting the pairs for testing; (b) the computing device instructing the grid generator to generate section information by referring to the information on the locations of the pairs for testing; (c) the computing device instructing a neural network to determine parameters for testing by referring to parameters for training which have been learned by using information on pairs for training; and (d) the computing device instructing the neural network to apply the neural network operations to a test image by using each of the parameters for testing to thereby generate one or more neural network outputs.
US10311333B2
A device, apparatus, and method provide logic for processing information. In one implementation, a device may include an image acquisition unit configured to acquire an image, and a transmission unit configured to transmit information associated with the image to an information processing apparatus, such as a server. The server may be associated with a first feature quantity dictionary. The device also may include a receiving unit configured to receive a second feature quantity dictionary from the server in response to the transmission. The second feature quantity dictionary may include less information than the first feature quantity dictionary, and the server may generate the second feature quantity dictionary based on the image information and the first feature quantity dictionary. The device may include an identification unit configured to identify an object within the image using the second feature quantity dictionary.
US10311318B2
A reference line setting device includes an image acquisition means to acquire an image containing a character region, a recognition means to recognize characters from the character region of the image by a specified recognition method, a line position information acquisition means to acquire line position information of a plurality of characters out of the characters recognized by the recognition means with reference to a storage means storing, for each character, line position information concerning a position which at least two reference lines pass through in a vertical direction of characters, the reference lines being lines drawn in an alignment direction of characters, along which a certain part of each character is to be placed, and a setting means to set each of the reference lines to the image based on a plurality of line position information for each reference line acquired by the line position information acquisition means.
US10311315B2
Disclosed are a method, a device and/or a system of utilizing a camera array system to detect a load status of a semi-trailer truck. A sensor array is affixed to a surface of a trailer of the semi-trailer truck to automatically determine whether a cargo area of the semi-trailer truck is occupied. A set of cameras of the sensor array have each camera embedded in individual recesses of the sensor array. The cargo area is illuminated using at least one light source of the sensor array. A memory and a processor associated with the sensor array are configured to store one baseline image of the cargo area of the trailer in an empty state. The processor is configured to detect a triggering event. The processor determines a cargo status based upon a difference between the current image and the baseline image, and sends the cargo status to a dispatcher.
US10311313B2
An in-vehicle equipment control system includes a mobile terminal configured to receive a request signal and transmit a response signal; and in-vehicle equipment having: an imaging part that images surroundings of the vehicle; an illumination part that radiates light; a transmission/reception part that periodically transmits a request signal to the surroundings of the vehicle and receive a response signal from the mobile terminal; an imaging controller that causes the imaging part to image an outside of the vehicle when the response signal is received by the transmission/reception part; an object recognition part that recognizes a presence of a hazardous object on the basis of the captured image; and an illumination controller that controls the illumination part to perform illumination in different ways when the hazardous object is recognized by the object recognition part and when the hazardous object is not recognized.
US10311295B2
A heuristic finger detection method based on a depth image is disclosed. The method includes the steps of: acquiring a hand connected region from a user's depth image; calculating the central point of the hand connected region; calculating a plurality of extremely far points in the hand connected region that have extremum 3D geodesic distances from the central point; detecting fingertips and finger regions from the plurality of calculated extremely far points; and outputting fingertip positions and the finger regions. The method calculates and detects fingertips of users by means of 3D geodesic distance, without extracting boundary contours of hand regions, which improves robustness of gesture detection and reduces detection error rates. The method has the advantages of higher finger detection accuracy and fast computing speed.
US10311291B2
A face recognition method, device and a computer-readable storage medium are provided. The face recognition method includes: capturing face images of a user at a plurality of preset positions respectively; storing the face images and the preset positions corresponding to the face images; determining, in face recognition, one of the preset positions where the image is to be captured, and capturing a current face image of the user at the determined preset position; searching a corresponding face image in a storage device according to the determined preset position; and determining whether the current face image is matched with the searched face image.
US10311290B1
A system and method for generation of a facial model. The method includes analyzing, via machine vision, a plurality of multimedia content elements to identify a plurality of facial images shown in the plurality of multimedia content elements; clustering the identified facial images into at least one cluster, wherein the clustering is based on metadata associated with each of the plurality of facial images; and selecting, from among the at least one cluster, a representative cluster representing a face, wherein the facial model is the selected representative cluster.
US10311277B2
The present disclosure relates to a display panel and a method of manufacturing the same, as well as a display apparatus. The display panel comprises an array substrate, a packaging substrate jointed to the array substrate, a photosensitive device, and a touch sensitive device; the photosensitive device and the touch sensitive device are formed between the packaging substrate and the array substrate, and the touch sensitive device is positioned between the photosensitive device and the packaging substrate.
US10311271B2
One aspect of the present disclosure is related to a barcode reader that includes a bright field illumination system, a dark field illumination system, and an additional illumination system that is better able to illuminate an area of the reader's field of view between the far zone (where bright field illumination is optimal) and the close zone (where dark field illumination is optimal). In this “center zone,” the dark field illumination may not be bright enough and the bright field illumination may not be diffuse enough for reading a barcode.
US10311256B2
An ID reader, comprising: a base (1); a connecting frame (4) that is rotatably connected with the base (1) and rotates around a first axial line; and a reader body (3) that is rotatably connected with the connecting frame (4) and rotates around a second axial line. The ID reader is facilitated to provide convenience for angle adjustment during acquirement of IDs, improving applicability of the reader. A monitoring equipment is also provided.
US10311254B2
An electronic apparatus and an information access control method thereof are provided. The information access control method includes receiving a user input for a first application on a touch screen, and limiting execution of at least some of remaining applications except for the first application of the electronic apparatus when the user input is a preset first information access control mode input.
US10311253B2
A method for protecting an integrated circuit against unauthorized access to key registers, wherein functions and/or applications of the integrated circuit are unlocked and/or activated via data stored in key registers, such as during the start-up of the integrated circuit and/or during ongoing operation, where if such a key register is accessed, the data word used to perform the access is compared with specified key data, and if access via a data word deviating from the specified key data is detected, the access is marked as unauthorized, the access marked as unauthorized is then recorded and evaluated, and after the analysis, appropriate protective measures are triggered to prevent further unauthorized access such that a key register method for protecting sensitive data is expanded in a simple manner and hacker attacks are quickly detected and thwarted.
US10311235B2
A method for emulating at least one resource in a host computer to a querying hosted code. The method comprises monitoring a plurality of operating system (OS) queries received from a plurality of code executed on a monitored computing unit, the plurality of OS queries are designated to an OS of the monitored computing unit, detecting among the plurality of OS queries at least one query for receiving at least one characteristic of at least one resource of the monitored computing unit among the plurality of OS queries, the at least one query is received from querying code of the plurality of code, preparing a response of the OS to the at least one query, the response comprising a false indication at least one false characteristic of the at least one resource, and sending the response to the querying code in response to the at least one query.
US10311234B2
According to an aspect of the present disclosure, a digital processing system, in response to identifying multiple files opened with write permission by a process, creates a corresponding backup copy of each of the opened files. The system computes a frequency of opening of the files with write permission by the process, and then determines whether the computed frequency is greater than a threshold. If the frequency is determined to be greater than the threshold, the system provides control to a user to recover any of the files (opened by the process) based on the corresponding backup copy (previously created in response to opening). Thus, the execution of a ransomware in the system may be potentially detected and the associated maladies (such as unavailability of personal data, requirement to make payment for recovering the personal data, etc.) may be avoided.
US10311233B2
By hooking application programming interfaces in an execution environment, the return address for hooked application programming interface calls can be logged and used to determine when a packed binary has been unpacked. In one approach, memory allocations are detected and the return address is checked against the memory regions allocated. In another approach, the contents of memory at the return address in a pre-execution copy of the executable binary is compared with the contents of memory at the return address in the executing copy of the binary. This allows efficient detection of the completion of unpacking without knowledge of the unpacking technique. The unpacked binary may then be analyzed for possible malware.
US10311219B2
Device, system, and method of user authentication utilizing an optical microphone or laser-based microphone. An optical microphone transmits an outgoing optical signal or laser beam towards a face of a human speaker; receives an incoming optical feedback that is reflected back from the face of the human speaker; performs self-mix interferometry that is based on the outgoing optical signal and the incoming reflected optical signal; and generates a user-specific feature or characteristic that uniquely characterizes said human speaker. A user authentication module operates to authenticate the user for performing a privileged or an access-controlled action, based on the user-specific characteristic that was generated, optionally in combination with one or more biometric features or authentication requirements.
US10311203B2
A method for transforming and transporting health information is disclosed herein. The method includes receiving the health information; transforming the received health information of based on a predetermined rule; validating whether the received health information is in a proper form based on a third-party standard; and parsing the de-identified received health information to determine an entity to receive the de-identified health information.
US10311200B2
Roughly described, a method for developing a set of design rules for a fabrication process in development includes, for each of several candidate DRUTs for the fabrication process, laying our a logic cell based on the DRUT, the logic cell having at least one transistor and at least one interconnect, simulating fabrication of the logic cell according to the fabrication process and the layout, simulating behavior of the logic cell structure, including characterizing the combined behavior of both the first transistor and the first interconnect, evaluating performance of the logic cell structure in dependence upon the behavior as characterized, and recording in a database, in association with an indication of the DRUT, values indicating performance of the logic cell. The database can be used to select the best DRUT for the fabrication process.
