US10412518B2
Detection of a blocked microphone involves receiving microphone signals from a plurality of microphones. A plurality of signal feature measures are derived from the microphone signals. The signal feature measures are normalised. The normalised signal feature measures are variably weighted in response to detected environmental conditions in the microphone signals. The variably weighted normalised signal feature measures are combined to produce an output indication of whether a microphone is blocked.
US10412513B2
A hearing device comprising a first shell member and a second shell member constituting a housing when assembled is disclosed. The hearing device comprises a chassis provided with attachment structures for attachment of the first shell member and the second shell member to the chassis.
US10412496B2
Sound equipment includes an operation element, a memory, a processor, a controller, and a display. The operation element receives a set value. The memory stores the set value. The processor performs processing by the set value of the memory. The controller executes a normal state in which the set value of the memory is updated by the set value of the operation element, and a locked state in which the set value of the memory is fixed regardless of the set value of the operation element, and, by either a first method when the set values are equal or a second method by updating the set value of the memory with the set value of the operation element, releases the locked state and shifts the locked state to the normal state. The display displays a selection screen that receives a selection of the first method or the second method.
US10412493B2
A system, method and one or more wireless earpieces for performing self-configuration. A user is identified utilizing the one or more wireless earpieces. Noises from an environment of the user are received utilizing the one or more wireless earpieces. An audio profile associated with the noises of the environment of the user is determined. The components of the one or more wireless earpieces are automatically configured in response to the audio profile and the user identified as utilizing the one or more wireless earpieces.
US10412491B2
The present invention discloses a band-pass acoustic filter and an acoustic sensing apparatus. The band-pass acoustic filter including at least two MEMS microphone chips and an ASIC chip, wherein the output signals of the MEMS microphone chips are processed in the ASIC chip after being coupled.
US10412488B2
The present invention relates in one aspect to a microphone array signal processing system comprising a digital buffer coupled to a signal input and configured to store first and second digital audio signals. A beamformer analyzer is configured to, in response to a first voice trigger, determine noise statistics based on the first signal segment of the first digital audio signal and a first signal segment of the second digital audio signal. A coefficients calculator is configured to calculate a first set of fixed beamformer coefficients of a beamforming algorithm. The beamforming algorithm is configured for applying the first set of fixed beamformer coefficients to the first signal segments of the first and second digital audio signals retrieved from the digital buffer to produce a noise reduced digital audio signal.
US10412486B2
The electronic circuit having an input stage for pre-amplifying an electrical input signal of the electronic circuit provided by a transducer. The electronic circuit has an output stage for providing a microphone output signal by processing an output signal of the input stage. The electronic circuit has an adjustable output load arranged and configured for setting a current draw of the output stage. Additionally, the electronic circuit has a measurement circuit configured to capture the output signal of the input stage and an automatic control circuit configured to adjust the adjustable output load dependent on the captured output signal of the input stage.
US10412484B2
A speaker apparatus includes a sound guide and a pair of speakers mounted to the sound guide. The sound guide includes a first guide portion configured to guide a sound generated from any one of the pair of speakers in a first direction; and a second guide portion configured to guide a sound generated from the other speaker in a second direction that is plane-symmetric with respect to the first direction. Each of the first and second guide portions includes an opening forming portion formed in an end portion of the corresponding portion and including an opening configured to output a sound generated by the pair of speakers, and a slit forming portion including a slit configured to output a sound, together with the opening, wherein the slit is extended from one side of the opening.
US10412479B2
A headset power management system provides robust and low-power operation by detecting various connection conditions by measuring a voltage at the microphone terminal with and without injection of current from the headset. A power management circuit controls an operating state of the headset using a microphone terminal voltage detector and can determine whether a short circuit is present indicating a connection to a device that does not have a microphone input, a negative polarity voltage is present indicating that the device may be determining a connection and type of the headset using the microphone terminal, a normal connection, or whether the headset is not connected to a device at all. Depending on the connection state, some or all of the headset electronics may be disabled until a normal connection is detected. For example the microphone processing circuits may be disabled if the connection does not support a microphone input.
US10412477B2
Current microphone designs are still using concepts developed in the early 20th century. A transducer followed by a simple buffer with high impedance, low power, and low gain. Even when tubes were replaced by solid state devices the same practice continued, with the low gain triode being replaced by an even smaller power, lower current FET buffer. The invention offers a microphone system intended for professional audio applications that dispenses with these, low power concepts and incorporates elements of a microphone, microphone pre amplifier, and high power mixing console/pre amp line drivers into a single housing. By combining transducer, high fidelity pre amp circuit, and high power line driving stage with a high voltage, high current external power supply, the capabilities of microphones can be greatly increased in many ways. Our approach can be implemented in a variety of circuit topologies including discrete transistors, tubes and integrated circuits, our concept allows microphones to connect directly to analog or digital recording devices without the need for external mixers or pre amplifiers. The design not only allows for unprecedented simplicity in the work flow of the modern recording studio, which combines the use of stand-alone analog records, standalone digital recorder, and computer workstation based recording options, but also eliminates redundant circuits that are present in microphones, microphone pre amps, and mixing consoles, while offering the customer increased value.
US10412474B2
A modular speaker system includes a plurality of speaker modules configured prior to use to function in reproducing various sound channels depending upon specific desires of a user. Each of the plurality of speaker modules includes a substantially cylindrical housing including an open first end and a closed second end, as well as a cylindrical sidewall extending between the first end and the second end. Each speaker module also includes a first driver secured within the first end of the housing, the first driver being mounted within the first end of the housing for directing sound outwardly, and a second driver positioned within the housing at a central position between the first end and the second end of the housing. A plurality of circular rings are positioned around the housing allowing for control of the speaker module in various ways.
US10412464B2
Various systems, methods and devices adaptively manage the multicast delivery of multiple media programs. Each of the media programs is encoded into multiple media streams, each stream having a different bitrate, frame rate, resolution or other encoding parameter. A computer receives feedback about the delivery of the multiple streams and automatically adapts the number of streams available for at least one of the multiple media programs in response to the received feedback. This allows resources to be applied to those multicast streams having the greatest user demand.
US10412457B2
An electronic device includes a non-transitory storage medium storing instructions and a processing unit that executes the instructions to present a group of selectable elements. Each of the selectable elements in the group corresponds to content assets accessed by a user. The group is ordered according to chronological access. Selection of a selectable element from the group provides access to content determined based on the respective content asset, an application used to access the respective content asset, and information regarding previous user behavior. The electronic device may be a content access device, such as a set top box, a digital video recorder, and so on.
US10412455B2
As an embodiment of the present invention, there is provided an information terminal comprising: an input/output part for performing input and output with respect to an image storage device for storing image information captured by an imaging terminal; a storage part for associating and storing image identification information for identifying the image information, summary image information that includes less information than the image information, and device identification information for identifying the image storage device; and a display part; wherein the device identification information stored in the storage part is displayed by the display part, the summary image information that is associated with device identification information selected from the device identification information displayed by the display part is displayed by the display part, and the image information associated with the summary image information selected from the summary image information displayed by the display part is displayed by the display part.
US10412452B2
A display device and a method for replacing an advertisement are provided. The display device includes a display, a first communication circuit which receives first content from a broadcast receiving device, a second communication circuit which receives second content from an external server, and a processor electrically connected with the first communication circuit and the second communication circuit. The processor is configured to determine whether a first volume image applied by the broadcast receiving device is present in the first content, while outputting the second content, and overlay the first volume image or an alternative volume image corresponding to the first volume image with the second content to display an overlaid result on the display, if the first volume image is contained in the first content.
US10412449B2
Methods, systems, and devices for outputting additional content to a user are disclosed. One or more image capture devices may be controlled to capture images of areas where users might be viewing content. Objects in the captured images may be recognized. Based on the results of object recognition, additional content may be determined and output for display.
US10412440B2
A method for synchronizing information includes generating media corresponding to a program. One or more media timestamps are associated with the media. Data corresponding to the program is also generated. One or more data timestamps are associated with the data. At least a portion of the media is provided for presentation on a computing device. A current media timestamp corresponding to currently playing media is received. Data having a greatest data timestamp that is less than or equal to the current media timestamp is identified based at least in part on a comparison of the current media timestamp to the one or more data timestamps. The identified data is provided for presentation on the computing device.
US10412438B2
A virtual reality (VR) system including a head mounted display (HMD), a sensor or input device, and options, selection, and display modules. The HMD displays a VR environment including sports content of a live game, a prerecorded game, or a sports channel. The options module generates an options signal to show viewing options in the VR environment. The viewing options define viewing aspects for viewing the sports content within the VR environment. The sensor or input device generates signals based on detection of movement of the HMD, movement of an eyeball of a user, user voice communication, or user contact with the input device. The selection module, based on the signals: selects the sports content and a viewing option; and generates a selection signal. The display module displays the sports content in the VR environment based on the selection signal.
US10412437B1
A method includes identifying content displayed by a content presentation system associated with a physical environment. A mobile payment system and/or an electronic card is detected within the physical environment associated with the content presentation system. Responsive to the detecting operation, information, associated with the content, is transmitted to a user device of a user associated with the mobile payment system and/or the electronic card. Responsive to detecting operation, an identifier corresponding to the content is stored in association with a profile related directly or indirectly to the mobile payment system and/or the electronic card.
US10412413B2
There is provided an encoder that enables an image of a field-of-view range of a user to be displayed immediately. The encoder encodes, for a pair of opposite surfaces among a plurality of surfaces of a model for an omnidirectional image, a first composite image obtained by combining an omnidirectional image of a first surface of a high resolution and an omnidirectional image of a second surface of a resolution lower than the high resolution and a second composite image obtained by combining an omnidirectional image of the second surface of the high resolution and an omnidirectional image of the first surface of a low resolution. For example, the present disclosure can be applied to an image display system or the like.
US10412412B1
Techniques are described that enable virtual reality content to be delivered. These techniques include decoding reference frames of video content for non-viewed sections of the video content.
US10412404B2
A decoding method and apparatus are provided. A first candidate having a first motion vector that has been used to decode a first block, a first prediction direction that corresponds to the first motion vector, and a first reference picture index that identifies a first reference picture is derived. A second candidate having a second motion vector that has been used to decode a second block, a second prediction direction that corresponds to the second motion vector, and a second reference picture index that identifies a second reference picture is derived. When a total number of candidates is less than a maximum number, a third candidate is derived by combining the first motion vector and the first reference picture index for the first prediction direction of the first candidate and the second motion vector and the second reference picture index for the second prediction direction of the second candidate.
US10412397B2
Provided is an image processing device including a receiving section configured to receive a bitstream obtained by encoding an image having at least one layer and buffer management parameter information of each layer indicating at least one of that a parameter for managing a decoder buffer is a parameter for performing a decoding process of only a corresponding layer and that the parameter for managing the decoder buffer is a parameter for performing a decoding process of a corresponding layer and a lower layer, and a decoding section configured to decode the bitstream received by the receiving section and generate an image.
US10412396B2
Methods and devices for encoding and decoding video are described that partition transform blocks into coefficient groups. The coefficients within non-zero coefficients are run-length coded in a reverse scan order within the group. Prior to coefficient coding, data is encoded indicating which coefficient group in group scan order is the last to contain a non-zero coefficient. Then data is encoded indicating the position within that last non-zero coefficient group of the last non-zero coefficient in scan order inside the coefficient group. Thus the decoder is able to decode run-length data knowing the positions of the coefficients and eliminating the need for end-of-block flags.
US10412395B2
A sensor data processing apparatus can be coupled to multiple image sensors of different types. The apparatus determines a geolocation of areas imaged in each frame or pixel based on sensor geolocation information and encodes the geolocation information in metadata space of the corresponding frame. The apparatus is configured to align edges and/or corners of the frame with edges or corners of adjacent frames based on the geolocation information to stitch together a mosaic or panoramic image without overlapping frames. The apparatus can be figured to stitch together image frame in real time without performing feature registration and without resampling frames.
US10412394B2
According to an embodiment, an encoding device includes an index setting unit and an encoding unit. The index setting unit generates a common index in which reference indices of one or more reference images included in a first index and a second index are sorted in a combination so as not to include a same reference image in accordance with a predetermined scanning order. The first index representing a combination of the one or more reference images referred to by a first reference image. The second index representing a combination of the one or more reference images referred to by a second reference image. The encoding unit encodes the common index.
US10412389B2
A non-transitory recording medium including a program is provided. The program causes a processor to divide a picture into tiles. The tiles are coded to generate pieces of coded data, each of which corresponds to a different one of the tiles. In this regard, a first tile of the tiles is coded with reference to coding information of an already-coded tile neighboring the first tile when a boundary between the first tile and the already-coded tile is a first boundary. The first tile is coded without reference to the coding information of the already-coded tile when the boundary between the first tile and the already-coded tile is a second boundary. A bitstream including the pieces of coded data is generated. The bitstream includes tile boundary independence information which indicates whether each boundary between the tiles is one of the first boundary and the second boundary.
US10412378B2
A resonating optical waveguide that increases image intensity and uniformity is provided. The waveguide includes a first diffractive optical element that allows light from an exit pupil of a projector to enter the waveguide and travel in a first direction, and a second diffractive optical element that directs some of the entered light to exit the waveguide to form an expanded pupil. Rather than allow the remaining, non-directed, light to exit at an edge of the waveguide, the optical waveguide further includes a third diffractive optical element that redirects some the remaining light back through the second diffractive optical element in a second direction where it may exit the waveguide as part of the expanded pupil. An additional fourth diffractive optical element may be included to further redirect the light through the second diffractive optical element again.
US10412350B2
A heat transport device includes a loop heat pipe configured in the form of a loop, and a control unit configured to control an amount of heat generated by a heat generating part when the loop heat pipe starts up. The loop heat pipe includes an evaporating unit configured to receive heat of a heat generating part as a cooling target and evaporate a hydraulic fluid, a condensing unit configured to radiate heat and condense vapor obtained by evaporation of the hydraulic fluid, a vapor pipe which connects the evaporating unit and the condensing unit to each other, and a liquid pipe which connects the condensing unit and the evaporating unit to each other.
US10412340B2
A recording device includes a video encoding unit configured to compress and then encode video data pieces by a first unit of data, an audio encoding unit configured to compress and then encode audio data pieces in a second unit of data, and a multiplexing unit. The multiplexing unit selects the audio data pieces by the second unit of data from the audio data pieces in such a way that an amount of temporal shift between the respective video data pieces and the audio data pieces corresponding to the respective video data pieces will become less than or equal to a time length of the second unit of data and then multiplexes the selected audio data pieces with the video data.
US10412336B2
This video signal processing apparatus includes a luminance correction circuit that multiplies video signals of M sequential frames by weight coefficients individually set for frames respectively ordered in the M frames, M being plural, and adds and averages results, to generate a correction video signal of a frame in a predetermined order in the M frames, a value of a weight coefficient set for the frame in the predetermined order being set to be maximum among values of the weight coefficients individually set for the frames respectively ordered in the M frames.
US10412334B2
A system may be provided in which input is gathered from a user with input-output devices. The input-output devices may include physical keyboards, touch screen displays, data gloves, and other input-output devices. Control circuitry in the system may use a head-mounted display, a display on a keyboard, and a display in a tablet computer or other electronic device to display images. Virtual reality content may be presented to a user with the head-mounted display. The virtual reality content may include virtual documents with virtual text, virtual keyboards with virtual keys, and other virtual objects. A virtual keyboard may be overlaid on top of a physical keyboard or on top of a keyboard display or touch screen display in a tablet computer or other electronic device. Virtual key labels may be updated in response to user key press input and other input.
US10412333B2
A method for sampling an image sensor, the image sensor having a lattice structure having a plurality of triangular sensor elements. In the lattice structure, sensor elements situated adjacent to one another are configured to detect light having respectively different light properties. The method includes a step of reading out the image sensor by sampling a plurality of sensor elements of the lattice structure that are configured to detect light in a same first wavelength range, one sensor signal being read out per sensor element in the step of reading out. In addition, the method includes a step of buffering the read-out sensor signals and a step of producing an item of image information assigned to a point of acquisition of the image sensor, using the buffered sensor signals.
US10412329B2
An imaging apparatus with logarithmic characteristics includes: a photodiode that receives light; a well tap unit that fixes the potential of an N-type region of the photodiode; and a resetting unit that resets the photodiode, a P-type region of the photodiode outputting a voltage signal equivalent to a photocurrent subjected to logarithmic compression. The first potential to be supplied to the well tap unit is made lower than the second potential to be supplied to the resetting unit, so that the capacitance formed with the PN junction of the photodiode is charged when the resetting unit performs a reset operation. The present technology can be applied to unit pixels having logarithmic characteristics.
US10412328B2
Image captured with an image capture device with a rolling shutter may be deformed due to changes in imaging sensor orientation during image capture. Image deformities may occur due to rolling shutter that exposes rows of pixels to light at slightly different times during image capture. Deformities such as wobble, for example, and/or other deformities may be corrected by constructing an output image. The output image may be constructed by determining corresponding pixels within the input image. The location of the input pixel may be determined by performing one or more fixed point iterations to identify one or more input pixels within the input image. A value of the output pixel within the output image may be determined based on a value of a corresponding pixel within the input image.
US10412324B2
The present invention provides an infrared image reconstruction method based on block-sparse compressive sensing. The method includes: a block-sparse representation step: representing consecutive infrared small target image sequences as signals having block-sparse characteristics; a temporal correlation modeling step: modeling a temporal correlation of data between the consecutive infrared small target image sequences under a Bayesian framework; and a signal reconstruction and output step: reconstructing infrared small target images using a sparse learning algorithm and outputting final estimates of the signals. The present invention further provides an infrared image reconstruction system based on block-sparse compressive sensing. According to the technical solution provided in the present invention, in the process of reconstruction by compressive sensing, signals are reconstructed using a correlation of consecutive signals in time, such that the reconstruction precision of a single frame of signal can be improved, and the algorithm running time is significantly reduced.
US10412321B2
Imaging apparatus includes imaging unit that captures a subject image while changing an in-focus position to generate a plurality of pieces of image data, image processor that synthesizes the plurality of pieces of image data generated by the imaging unit to generate still image data having a deeper depth of field than a depth of field of each of the plurality of pieces of image data, and controller that controls the image processor. Controller causes image processor to detect a main subject from an image indicated by one image data in the plurality of pieces of image data, determine a range for synthesizing the plurality of pieces of image data based on a position of the detected main subject, and synthesize pieces of image data focused within the determined range to generate the still image data.
US10412320B1
Embodiments of the present disclosure relates to a method and a system for switching display from a first video source to a second video source. The system receives a source switch indication request for switching the display from the first video source to the second video source identified by source identification of the second video source. Further the system synchronizes the source switch indication request using frame sync of the first video source and the second video sources and mask the interface signals of the first video source to generate output interface signals corresponding to the second video source. The display is then driven by the output interface signals of the second video source thereby enabling seamless switching of the display without using frame buffer, thereby rendering the video stream from multiple video sources without any tearing artifacts or display glitches and still optimizing the switching latency.
US10412300B2
Provided is an imaging apparatus incorporating the “eye” of a professional photographer with photography equipment. The imaging apparatus obtains different sets of wireframes when photographing different objects. Each set of wireframes is keyed to a particular object and provides one or more of the proper framing, zooming/scaling, alignment, camera settings, and other characteristics with which to take professional-quality photographs of that particular object. The wireframes from a particular set of wireframes keyed to an object are sequentially presented on a display of the imaging apparatus. Each wireframe is overlaid atop a real-world view being captured by the apparatus camera in order to direct a shot of specific parts or aspects of the object. In some embodiments, each wireframe is also associated with post-processing routines that specify editing, adding effects or filters, or otherwise touching an image that is captured with the corresponding wireframe.
US10412299B2
The present disclosure relates to a method and system for taking photos. According to another embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a system. The system includes an electronic device having a camera. The electronic device is configured to determine an object to be taken by the camera. Then the electronic device is configured to determine at least one shooting parameter for the object based on at least one previous photo related to the object. The electronic device is further configured to cause a setting of the camera to be adjusted based on the at least one shooting parameter. According to a further embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a computer program product. The computer program produce is tangibly stored on a non-transient machine-readable medium and include machine-executable instructions.
US10412293B2
A transmitter optical sub-assembly includes a body and a receptacle assembled to a front side of the body, the receptacle including a nose body, a split sleeve enclosed by the nose body, a first body disposed behind the split sleeve, and a fiber stub either glued or shrink fit or pressed fit on to the first body, a rear end of the split sleeve being slip fitted on to the fiber stub; wherein the nose body is made from deep drawing or cold forging process and is attached on to a front surface of the body.
US10412290B2
A multiple sensor endoscope system and a video processing method, wherein the system includes an endoscope having a plurality of daisy chained image sensors and a central control unit, is described. At least one daisy-chained image sensor includes a sensor array for capturing images and generating video packets from the captured images, a video compression unit configured to compress the video packets, a self-packet buffer configured to store the video packets, a serial-to-parallel de-serializer input unit configured to convert serialized input video packets to parallel data, a chain packet buffer configured to store the video packets received from previous-in-chain image sensors, an arbitration unit configured to interleave the stored video packets, and a serial output unit configured to output serially the interleaved video packets. The central control unit is configured to de-interleave the video packets and regenerate separated images as captured by the plurality of daisy chain image sensors.
US10412282B2
A camera device which includes a holder which retains an optical member therein and a circuit board on which an image sensor is mounted. The holder is joined to the circuit board using an adhesive agent. The circuit board at least partially includes a metallic layer and a resinous layer stacked in a thickness-wise direction of the circuit board. The circuit board has a metallic layer-absent portion in which the metallic layer is partially omitted. The metallic layer-absent portion is located so as to overlap the joint between the holder and the circuit board in the thickness-wise direction of the circuit board, thereby minimizing the transfer of heat of the adhesive agent to the metallic layer. This achieves effective hardening the adhesive agent, which will facilitate the ease with which the camera device is assembled.
US10412281B2
A device comprising at least two body sections is disclosed. The first body section comprises a movable imaging unit and a magnet rigidly fixed to the imaging unit, and the second body section comprising an optical unit with a magnet rigidly fixed to the optical unit. The body sections are in a movable connection with each other, and the device is operable in at least two modes. In the first mode, the imaging unit and the optical unit are fixed in a set relative position due to magnetic interaction between the magnets. In the second mode, the imaging unit is positioned away from the optical unit.
US10412268B2
An image capturing system includes an imager, a detector, and a controller. The imager is configured to move relative to an object to be imaged and capture an image of the object. The detector is configured to detect a predetermined relative position of the object with respect to the imager. The controller is configured to switch from stop supplying a system clock to supplying the system clock based on the detected predetermined relative position. The system clock is used to control a timing to start capturing an image by the imager. After stops supplying the system clock, the controller resumes supplying the system clock to the imager according to a relative movement of the object, based on the detected predetermined relative position.
US10412266B2
When this image processing apparatus accepts an initial connection request from a mobile terminal, it displays a generated PIN code on a console unit 210, and when it accepts information corresponding to the PIN code from the mobile terminal, it compares that information with the generated PIN code, and performs authentication. When the authentication is successful, it generates a public key and a private key, and transmits the generated public key to the mobile terminal.
US10412264B2
An image processing apparatus includes a scanner that acquires an image, and a processor that changes areas of a plurality of dot patterns in accordance with gradation values in the image using a plurality of dither matrices, and generates a binary image based on the plurality of dot patterns. A change rate of each of the areas differs from each other. The plurality of dither matrices include a first dither matrix and a second dither matrix. A first change rate of a first area of a plurality of first dot patterns formed based on the first dither matrix and a second change rate of a second area of a plurality of second dot patterns formed based on the second dither matrix differ.
US10412260B2
An image forming apparatus includes: a display portion; an error sensor that detects an operating error; a recovery sensor that detects the recovery from an operating error; and a display processor that makes the display portion display a notice of an operating error when the error sensor detects the operating error and that makes the display portion display an operation guide for preventing the reoccurrence of the same operating error when the recovery sensor detects the recovery from the operating error.
US10412257B2
An image reading apparatus according to the present invention includes: a conveyor which conveys an original in a first direction; a light transmitting member which is provided with coating in a first region of a surface facing the original; a reading unit which reads an image at a reading position of the original through the light transmitting member; and a controller which performs processing on the image and which changes the reading position by moving the reading unit when abnormality is detected in the processing. The coating includes a silicon-containing perfluoropolyether compound. An electrically-conductive member is provided in a second region located on the surface of the light transmitting member, upstream of the first region in a conveyance direction of the original. A contact angle of the coating at a position corresponding to the reading position in the first region is appropriately set.
US10412234B2
A diagnostic device includes an acquisition unit that acquires sound information, and a display that displays a first analysis result obtained by a time-frequency analysis on the sound information and plural second analysis results obtained by a time-frequency analysis on sound information of an abnormal sound, and that displays the second analysis results in descending order of a possibility presumed to be a cause of the abnormal sound and displays treatment candidates on a screen for inputting a treatment situation of the abnormal sound, based on an order in which the second analysis results have been displayed.
US10412231B2
A telecommunications method for call forwarding including storing information regarding a called party in at least one local database, where the information regarding the called party is stored in a user account and making a telephone call by dialing a telephone number with a telephone, where the telephone is contained in a telephone management system. The method also includes determining whether the telephone number is associated with the user account and transferring, via the switchboard, the call to the called party if the telephone number is associated with the user account, where the telephone management system is in communication with a revenue management system, and also where the revenue management system contains at least one local database.
US10412230B2
A system and method for accessing a carrier network by a client device. The method includes: receiving a selection of a first plan from a carrier marketplace that includes at least the first plan and a second plan, wherein the first plan corresponds to a first set of services provided by a first carrier network, and the second plan corresponds to a second set of services provided by a second carrier network; downloading a carrier profile from the server device to a multi-profile UICC (Universal Integrated Circuit Card) included in the client device, wherein the carrier profile is associated with the first plan; and storing the carrier profile in the multi-profile UICC.
US10412214B2
Systems for caller identification and authentication may include an authentication server. The authentication server may be configured to receive audio data including speech of a plurality of telephone calls, use audio data for at least a subset of the plurality of telephone calls to store a plurality of known characteristics each associated with a specific demographic, and/or use audio data for at least one of the plurality of telephone calls to identify the telephone caller making the telephone call based on determining a most similar known characteristic of the plurality of known characteristics to the audio data of the caller.
US10412213B2
A system and method for increasing meta data with a call center system to provide increased caller ID and agent skill matching. A system may include pre-populated meta data from a given phone number. A processor may include pre-programmed logic sequences for increasing meta data for the system by providing signal outputs to other sources and vendors to request the missing meta data. The information obtained from the other sources is input into the memory of the system for another logic sequence to act upon to provide the phone number or a call to the best possible and available agent based on agent skills and other information. Agents are able to access all the meta data prior to, during or after the call. Inbound and outbound calls may each utilize the system.
US10412211B1
A location engine that estimates the barometric pressure measurement bias of a wireless terminal, resulting in an improved estimate of elevation of the wireless terminal. The location engine generates an estimate of measurement bias by comparing the barometric pressure measured by the wireless terminal while at that elevation and the barometric pressure that corresponds to an estimated elevation of the wireless terminal when it made the pressure measurement (i.e., the expected pressure). The estimated elevation is based on an inferred above-ground height and the local terrain elevation, and the expected pressure is based on the measurement of barometric pressure at the pressure reference and the estimated elevation. The location engine infers the height based on various techniques disclosed herein. The location engine can use the measurement bias to adjust subsequent pressure measurements reported by the wireless terminal, in order to generate an improved estimate of elevation of the wireless terminal.
US10412208B1
Embodiments relate generally to mobile devices and more particular to notification accessories capable of displaying alerts generated by mobile devices. In one embodiment, a notification accessory in the form of a wristband is disclosed. The notification accessory can receive notifications wirelessly from a mobile device and display the notifications to a user. Icons illuminating in different colors and haptics can be used to alert the user to the presence of the notification. In other embodiments, the notification accessory can also be used to send commands back to the mobile device.
US10412203B2
A handheld electronic device is provided. The handheld electronic device includes a housing, wherein a universal ball structure is provided at a corner of the housing. The universal ball structure includes a groove, and a ball in the groove.
US10412199B2
A tactical network comprises a plurality of assets, at least some of the assets grouped into sub-groups. The assets within each subgroup communicate with each other using a communication protocol. The sub-groups include a first subgroup in which the assets all communicate with each using a first communication protocol and a second sub-group in which the assets all communicate with each other using a second communication protocol which is incompatible with the first communication protocol. Each subgroup is associated with a federated server. The federated server is configured to receive data from the assets, to assess the data to identify significant changes, to convert the significant changes in the data into a common format, compatible with all federated servers in the tactical network, and to transmit, in the common format, to the federated server of another of the subgroups, the significant changes.
US10412198B1
Methods, non-transitory computer readable media, network traffic management apparatuses, and network traffic management systems that generate a duration corresponding to a current one of a plurality of states in a TCP connection. The duration is generated based on a difference between a stored time recorded at a previous transition to the current one of the states and a current time. The duration is stored or output as associated with the current one of the states. The stored time recorded at the previous transition to the current one of the states is then replaced with the current time. A determination is made when one or more TCP configurations should be modified based on the duration for the current one of the states. The one or more TCP configurations are automatically modified to improve TCP performance, when the determining indicates that the one or more TCP configurations should be modified.
US10412197B1
Response delay associated with a state-based client-server application can be reduced with utilization of an application state server-side cache. A server caches data for a set of one or more possible states of a client-server application that may follow a current state of the application. The server rapidly responds to a client request with data that corresponds to an appropriate new state of the application in accordance with the application state server-side cache. The server determines that the application will transition to the appropriate new state from the current state of the application with the application state server-side cache based, at least in part, on an operation indicated by the client request.
US10412190B1
A technology is described for operating a device shadowing service that manages multi-step device state transitions. An example method may include executing a state change listing that includes a set of state transition commands that change a state of a device to a desired state, wherein a first state transition command included in the state change listing that instructs the device to assume a first state may be executed. Thereafter, an indication that the device has assumed the first state may be received. In response, a second state transition command included in the state change listing that sends instructions to the device to assume a second state may be executed. Thereafter, an indication that the device has assumed the second state may be received. A recorded state of a device representation that represents the state of the device may be updated to indicate the second state.
US10412188B2
A data caching and distribution method, performed by a plurality of computational machines in a linear communication orbit, includes generating a data request by a first machine to request specific data, and passing the data request along a data request path that tracks the linear communication orbit until the request is received at a second machine, in the linear communication orbit, that returns the specific data in response to the data request. The method includes, at a third machine between the second machine and the first machine in the linear communication orbit, conditionally storing the specific data in a local cache of the third machine according to a data caching method.
US10412185B2
The present disclosure provides an event information push method performed at a computer system, the method including: collecting network messages from a social networking platform; performing aggregation on the network messages, to obtain corresponding event information; obtaining, for each piece of event information, one or more attributes from the corresponding category of network messages; obtaining, from an event information and user database, a user group corresponding to the one or more attributes of each piece of event information; and pushing each piece of event information to a user in the user group corresponding to the event information.
US10412180B2
A torrent to monitor may be determined and peer activity of a swarm associated with the torrent may be monitored. Data collection or data distribution statistics for the swarm may be calculated and used to create profiles for peers in the swarm based on their role in data collection or data distribution. Swarm behavior may be predicted based on the created peer profiles.
US10412174B2
A first virtual function is instantiated using a virtual infrastructure that is deployed over at least one server in a communication system. A first subset of interface modules is selected from a set of interface modules and a first interface to the first virtual function is configured using the first subset. Communication is established between the first virtual function and a second virtual function over the first interface based on a first interface module in the first subset and a second interface module. A second interface to the second virtual function is configured using the second interface module. The first interface module is compatible with the second interface module.
US10412172B2
Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing Internet of Things (“IoT”) functionality. In some embodiments, a first IoT-capable device might receive beacon data from each of one or more other IoT-capable devices in a self-organizing network (“SON”) of IoT devices, might compare the received beacon data with stored beacon data, and might send at least one first data to a computing system to update the computing system of any changes in the SON (indicating, without limitation, new devices, failed devices, disabled devices, devices that have moved out of range, etc.). The computing system might receive and analyze the at least one first data to determine a status of each IoT-capable device in the SON, might generate control instructions, and might autonomously send the control instructions to at least one of the IoT-capable devices in the SON to improve the functionality of the SON.
US10412171B2
A system for smart device networking includes an endpoint that enables communication with a connected device, a bridge that communicates with the endpoint over a PAN and relays PAN communications to a WAN, and a router that connects to the bridge through the WAN and routes communication to and from the endpoint.
US10412163B2
(A) and (B), described hereinafter, are carried out for objects which differ between an reflection source namespace and a reflection destination namespace, with respect to either: a center node in a migration, which applies an update of a first local namespace which a first edge node (any edge node) provides to a center namespace; or a second edge node (any edge node other than the first edge node) in a synchronization, which applies an update of the center namespace to a second local namespace which the second edge node provides. Specifically, either the center node or the second edge node: (A) determines whether the situation with respect to the differing objects corresponds to a conflict case among defined conflict cases; and (B) if the result of the determination in (A) is affirmative, executes a process according to a confliction resolution policy which is associated with the corresponding conflict case.
US10412162B2
Systems and methods of adopting data across different sites are disclosed. In some example embodiments, a data adoption system configures a first networked site to adopt data from one or more other networked sites, detects new data on the other networked site(s), with the new data being associated with a data item on the other networked site(s), determines that a record of the data item is being stored on the first networked site, and stores the new data from the other networked site(s) on the first networked site in association with the data item based on the detecting of the new data on the other networked site(s) and the determining that a record of the data item is being stored on the first networked site.
US10412160B2
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a natural-language message including an authorization request to authorize a first user access to one or more of a number of connected devices associated with a second user; parsing the natural-language message; identifying, based on the parsed natural-language message, the first user and one or more of a number of connected devices; implicitly determining that the first user is authorized to access the identified one or more of the number of connected devices based on a calculated strength of a relationship between a node representing the first user in a social graph and a node representing the second user in the social graph satisfying a pre-determined threshold; and providing, based on the implicit authorization, access to the identified one or more of the number of connected devices.
US10412147B2
Provided is a data processing system capable of decreasing the possibility of attack to the server, regardless of the presence or absence of vulnerability of a web browser. In response to the data input at the terminal 3, the center apparatus 2 transmits, to the terminal 3, a data input program for transmitting the input data to the center apparatus 2. The center apparatus 2 receives data to be processed and the URL of the server 1 from the terminal 3, accesses the received URL, and transmits the data to be processed to the server 1 by the HTTP protocol.
US10412146B2
A communication system includes a server and a client that transmits messages to the server. The messages include data and descriptive tags and may be in XML format. The server initiates a negotiation with the client relating to message format switching. If the client indicates that the client can accept message format switching, the server instructs the client to switch further messages to a simpler message format including solely data.
US10412144B2
Provided are a transmitter and receiver for remote control support, an operation method thereof and a remote control system. The transmitter connected to a source device includes a first reception unit for receiving display screen data of the source device, an encoder for encoding the display screen data received at the first reception unit, and a first transmission unit for transmitting the encoded data to a receiver using a real-time communication protocol, Here, the transmitter is a hardware device wired to the source device through a digital interface.
US10412143B2
Methods, systems, and media for associating multiple users with a media presentation device are provided. In some embodiments, the method comprises: receiving first user preferences; receiving second user preferences; receiving requests to associate the first user preferences and the second user preferences, respectively, with a media presentation device; causing the first user preferences and the second user preferences to be associated with identifying information of the media presentation device; receiving, from the media presentation device, a request to present a slideshow of images based on user preferences and identifying information of the first user device and a third user device; determining that the first user preferences are associated with the media presentation device; determining that user preferences of the third user device are not associated with the media presentation device; and causing content based on the first user preferences to be presented by the media presentation device.
US10412140B2
A method comprising causation of capture of a stream of visual information, sending of at least a portion of the stream of visual information to a separate apparatus, receipt of information indicative of a stream segment deletion input that identifies a segment of the stream of visual information for deletion, and sending of a stream segment deletion directive to the separate apparatus based, at least in part, on the stream segment deletion input is disclosed.
US10412124B2
A method includes sending, from a first device while the first device is coupled to a second device, a signal to a third device to request a server to host a server-directed service. The signal is sent as part of a communication session. The server is independent of a path of the communication session. The method also includes receiving an instruction from the third device to enable access to the server-directed service.
US10412117B2
A method and system is provided for visualizing and navigating cybersecurity information. A hypertree is displayed on a display device of a computerized system. The hypertree includes a plurality of nodes linked by edges, one or more of the nodes representing cybersecurity incidents, and one or more of the nodes representing elements or artifacts of cybersecurity incidents, the edges representing a specific relationship between the nodes linked by the edges. The computerized system displays an interactive navigation aid to enable a user to navigate the hypertree, and receives a navigation command from the user through the interactive navigation aid. The computerized system modifies the displayed hypertree in response to the navigation command. The navigation command comprises selective elimination or restoration of edges or nodes on the hypertree so as to enable the user to readily visualize interrelationships between the displayed nodes that are significant to a cybersecurity investigation or response.
US10412115B1
Behavioral analysis of a mobile application is performed to determine whether the application is malicious. During analysis, various user interactions are simulated in an emulated environment to activate many possible resulting behaviors of an application. The behaviors are classified as hard or soft signals. A probability of the application being malicious is determined through combining soft signals, and the application is classified as malicious or non-malicious. Users of the application, the developer of the application, or a distributor of the application are notified of the application classification to enable responsive action.
US10412108B2
System for detecting fraudulent electronic communications impersonation, insider threats and attacks
A system for detecting fraudulent emails from entities impersonating legitimate senders that are intended to cause the recipients to unknowingly conduct unauthorized transactions, for example, transferring funds or divulging sensitive information. The system monitors emails being sent from and received at the protected domain to detect suspected fraudulent emails. The emails are monitored for, among other aspects, linguistic variations, changes in normal patterns of email communications, new or unfamiliar source domains. Suspicious emails can be held and flagged for later review, discarded or passed through with an alert raised indicating a review is needed.
US10412106B2
A device may receive behavior information that identifies a first user, of a first set of users, in association with a behavior. The behavior may relate to one or more requests, from a client device being used by the first user, to access a network resource. The device may determine, based on a model, whether the behavior is normal. The model may include a normal behavior pattern based on behavior information associated with the first set of users. The device may provide an instruction to allow the client device to proceed with the behavior or provide an instruction to disallow the client device from proceeding with the behavior based on determining whether the behavior is normal. The device may update the model based on the behavior information that identifies the first user and that identifies the behavior.
US10412098B2
Clients within a computing environment may establish a secure communication session. Sometimes, a client may trust another client to read, but not modify, a message. Clients may utilize a cryptography service to generate a message protected against improper modification. Clients may utilize a cryptography service to verify whether a protected message has been improperly modified.
US10412095B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer program products for managing access permissions for a searchable enterprise platform. In one embodiment, an apparatus is configured to receive a search request from a client device associated with a user profile; retrieve a global content permissions profile, the global content permissions profile comprising content access permissions assigned to digital content items that are retrievable by one or more of the plurality of software applications; apply permissions conflict rules to resolve permissions conflicts between the global permissions profile and the global content permissions profile to produce a resolved permissions profile; retrieve search results comprising a preliminary digital content item set that is associated with the plurality of software applications; apply the resolved permissions profile to the search results to produce a user-permitted digital content item set; and output the user-permitted digital content set to the client device associated with the user profile.
US10412090B2
Novel tools and techniques are provided for implementing network access configurations, and, more particularly, for implementing restricted Wi-Fi access configuration between public and private service set identifiers (“SSIDs”). In some embodiments, a user might request public network access using a user device. A network device, which is in communication with the user device might receive the request for public network access from the user device. The network device might determine whether the user device is associated with a first identifier that is associated with a user having network private access to the network through the network device. If not, the network device might provide the user device with network public access to the network(s), via a network public access path. If so, the network device might prevent the user device from having network public access to the network(s).
US10412082B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a system for providing real-time multi-faceted authentication of a user before or during the user's interaction with a channel. The system uses authentication devices to acquire large amounts of authentication level information data, then makes a determination that at least a portion of the acquired authentication level information data cannot be efficiently processed by a conventional computer apparatus due to the complexity of a required analysis process and/or the quantity of data that must be processed. The system then formats and transmits this authentication data to a special quantum optimizer that is configured to perform the complex analysis and/or process extremely large volumes of data substantially in real-time. The quantum optimizer performs the analysis and returns a confirmed identity of the user that is then used by the conventional computer apparatus to authenticate the user for the interaction with the channel.
US10412080B1
A server device receives, from a user device, a session initiation request and information identifying a location of the user device, and receives, from a monitoring device that is separate from the user device, an authentication request and information identifying a location of the monitoring device. The server device processes the session initiation request and the authentication request to authenticate a user of the user device, and determines, based on the location of the user device and the location of the monitoring device, that the user device and the monitoring device are collocated. The server device creates, after authenticating the user of the user device and determining that user device and the monitoring device are collocated, a session token, and sends the session token to the user device to enable the user device to access at least one resource of the server device.
US10412076B2
An online system receives a variety of identifiers associated with a user of the online system and generates a federated list of identifiers for the user that includes each of the received identifiers. Identifiers may be browser identifiers, device identifiers, Internet protocol address, personally identifiable information, or a user identifier of a different online system. For each identifier in the federated list of identifiers, the online system generates metadata information such as a confidence score indicating a degree of certainty that the identifier can be used to accurately identify the user of the online system. The online system aggregates features associated with the identifiers in the federated list of identifiers to generate a comprehensive user profile of the user and uses the comprehensive user profile to better serve the user.
US10412072B2
The first authentication unit of an authentication apparatus decides whether first authentication data exists in a received message, and performs, if it is decided that the first authentication data exists, authentication based on the first authentication data. The second authentication unit of the authentication apparatus decides whether second authentication data exists in the received message, and performs, if it is decided that the second authentication data exists, authentication based on the second authentication data. If the second authentication unit decides that no second authentication data exists in the received message, and the first authentication unit decides that authentication has succeeded, it is decided that authentication for the received message has succeeded.
US10412063B1
Systems, devices, and methods are disclosed for instantaneously decrypting data in an end-to-end encrypted secure messaging session while maintaining forward secrecy and post-compromise security using a double ratchet communication protocol. Unique message keys can be generated in a predictable progression independently on each device, ratcheting keys for each message on an as-needed basis, and a seed key and state for the predictable progression can be updated based on an asymmetric key exchange between the devices, thereby serving as a second ratchet. Message keys can feed a pseudo-random number generator (PRG) to generate the next message key in a progression. A Continuous Key Agreement (CKA) engine can use an asymmetric key pair to generate a shared secret key to feed a Pseudo-Random Function (PRF-PRNG) to reset the state of the PRG and provide a refresh key to the PRG.
US10412051B2
In one embodiment, a secure communications processor is provided. The secure communications data processor comprises a satellite datalink gateway; wherein the satellite datalink gateway is configured to translate data, to be transmitted to or received from a satellite communications system, from a first internet protocol to at least one of a second internet protocol or another protocol, and to be received by or transmitted from a router; a satellite communications link processor coupled to the satellite datalink gateway; and wherein the secure communications data processor is configured to be coupled between at least one router and a satellite communications radio system, and to be installed in a vehicle separately from the at least one router and the satellite communications radio system.
US10412044B2
An information processing apparatus which is capable of improving convenience for users in changing names of a user group and a group destination table. An HDD stores a user group including at least one user ID, and a group destination table associated with the user group and including at least one address. A user is prompted to select a user group stored in the HDD and associated with a predetermined group destination table. When a new name for the selected user group is received, the received new name is set as a name of the predetermined group destination table.
US10412041B2
A system is provided in which a position for each device (relative to other devices) in a topology, and a corresponding device ID for each device, may be predetermined. Then, the predetermined position and corresponding device ID for each device may be compared to actual devices in a topology having preprogrammed device ID's and pre-assigned IP addresses. If the comparison produces a match, the pre-assigned IP addresses in the actual devices may be utilized. However, if the comparison does not produce a match, the condition may be reported for further action.
US10412039B2
An electronic messaging system and method with reduced traceability by separation of display of media component of message content and header information. An electronic message having an identifier of a recipient and a message content including an image media component is received at a server from a sending user device at which a display for associating the media component with the electronic message is provided without displaying the identifier of a recipient with the media component such that a single screen capture of the identifier of a recipient and the media component is prevented. The electronic message including an identifier of a sending user is transmitted to a recipient user device at which a display presenting the media component is provided without displaying the identifier of a sending user such that a single screen capture of both the identifier of a sending user and the media component is prevented.
US10412037B2
A method of providing notifications to users of a social networking service includes determining a user intent associated with a post from a user on the social networking service, based at least in part on content of the post. The method further includes generating a first notification of the user intent associated with the post and selecting a plurality of users of the social networking service to receive the first notification. The method further includes providing the first notification to the plurality of users, and after providing the first notification to the plurality of users: (1) receiving one or more responses to the first notification from one or more users of the plurality of users, the one or more responses including information responsive to the first notification, and (2) providing the information responsive to the first notification to the user.
US10412033B2
An event notification method executed by a processor included in an event notification device, the event notification method includes receiving, from a requesting source of an event, an event notification request for requesting notification of the event, the event notification request including event notification condition information including a notification condition of the event and priority information indicating a priority of notification of the event; acquiring the event from a publishing source of the event; determining whether to perform synchronous delivery of the event based on the notification condition; and notifying the requesting source of the event in an order of priority identified based on the priority information, when it is determined that synchronous delivery of the event be performed.
US10412030B2
Implementations relate to automatic response suggestions based on images received in messaging applications. In some implementations, a computer-executed method includes detecting a first image included within a first message received at a second device over a communication network from a first device of a first user, and programmatically analyzing the first image to extract a first image content. The method includes retrieving a first semantic concept associated with the first image content, programmatically generating a suggested response to the first message based on the first semantic concept, and transmitting instructions causing rendering of the suggested response in the messaging application as a suggestion to a second user of the second device.
US10412029B2
A rich preview of a communication in a communication summary is provided. A communication application analyzes a communication to identify relevant items within the communication. A communication summary of the communication is created with the relevant items. Next, the communication summary is presented with the relevant items. Interaction elements are also provided to manage a presentation of the relevant items.
US10412027B2
A method of operating a building information conveyance system is provided. The method comprising: receiving one or more posts from a first user mobile device; determining at least one display screen to display the one or more posts; and displaying the one or more posts on the display screen.
US10412010B1
In one embodiment, a network device starts a deferred discovery that defers to a prescribed transmission operation in response to detecting a message is from an identified higher device that is closer to a root of a network topology in a data network. The prescribed transmission operation and the deferred discovery each require a corresponding network device to wait at least a first half of a selected minimum contention interval before attempting transmission at a randomized position within a second half of the selected minimum contention interval. The minimum contention interval of the deferred discovery is at least twice the selected minimum contention interval. The network device transmits an updated message during the deferred discovery only if, upon reaching the corresponding randomized position of the deferred discovery, the subsequent messages from identified higher devices are less than a prescribed redundancy constant.
US10412007B1
An automated computer implemented method and system for determining balanced traffic flows comprises: automatically identifying, via a computer processor, current device count configuration for a communication link comprising a first end point and a second end point where the communication link is part of a network; determining a flow intensity for the communication link wherein the flow intensity comprises a first transmit intensity and a first receive intensity for the first end point and a second transmit intensity and a second receive intensity for the second end point; determining a flow matrix for the communication link where the flow matrix is proportional to the flow intensity of the first end point and the second end point; and providing the flow matrix to a network capacity planning tool for flow matrix deployment for the network.
US10412001B2
The communication terminal of the present invention, which is controlled by a control device, includes a first storage means for associating information identifying a packet with processing of the packet and storing it as an entry, a searching means for searching processing corresponding to a received packet from the first storage means, and an inquiry means for determining the control device of which is inquired, based on the entry corresponding to the received packet, the entry being stored in the first storage means, if the searched processing is the inquiry to the control device, and for performing the inquiry addressed to the determined control device.
US10411999B2
Data is transferred from a plurality of ingress application flows over an MPLS network. Application flow control information is identified from the unencapsulated headers of the ingress data streams and a flow parameter is appended to the header stack. Application outbound load balancing identifies multiple equal cost network bound paths and utilizes application flow parameters to distribute data streams over a plurality of pseudowires without exceeding predetermined thresholds.
US10411995B2
A network system control method includes intercepting a flow modification message sent by a controller from a network protocol path between a switch and the controller so as to obtain a new flow entry; accessing a flow table of the switch so as to obtain a plurality of flow entries; inserting at least one redundant flow entry according to the new flow entry and the plurality of flow entries; performing an aggregation operation to the new flow entry, the plurality of flow entries and the at least one redundant flow entry so as to generate a set of aggregated flow entries; and updating the flow table using the set of aggregated flow entries.
US10411991B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a network device that accesses internet protocol addresses associated with a group of end point devices where the network device is a closest network device to the group of end point devices, and transmitting data to another network device responsive to a determination that an internet protocol address associated with the data from an end point device is one of the internet protocol addresses associated with the group of end point devices. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10411980B2
An originated packet is to be forward-propagated along a path to a destination device, with the path including one or more intermediary node devices. A path quality indication representing a reported error having been detected by at least one of the intermediary node devices residing along the path, is incorporated in the forward-propagating packet. The destination device incorporates the path quality indication in an acknowledgement packet directed to the originator of the packet.
US10411975B2
In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for a virtualization environment adapted for development and deployment of at least one software workload, the virtualization environment having a metamodel framework that allows the association of a policy to the software workload upon development of the workload that is applied upon deployment of the software workload.
US10411967B2
The present technology is generally directed to updating a cloud network. This technology may include generating a set is inequalities based network topology information, shared risk link group information, demand information, and traffic solver parameters. The set of inequalities may also be based upon a model of traffic routing that is based on selection of routes based on dynamic and global traffic engineering. A capacity plan may also be generated based on the set of inequalities and at least one objective. The capacity plan may include a target capacity for each link of the plurality of links in the network.
US10411958B2
Various systems and methods for automatic device configuration are described herein. A system for automatic device configuration comprises a performance monitor module to monitor, at a computing device, performance of the computing device during a period while the computing device communicates on a network using a current network interface of the computing device, a policy enforcement module to compare the performance of the computing device during the period with a performance policy installed on the computing device, and determine that the performance violates a threshold, the threshold provided in the performance policy. The system also includes a network configuration module to reconfigure a network configuration in response to the determining that the performance violates the threshold by disabling the current network interface and enabling a replacement network interface from a plurality of network interfaces available on the computing device.
US10411956B2
Provided are methods and systems for enabling a planned upgrade or a planned downgrade of a first network device. A method may commence with receiving a request for a virtual service via a Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) session between the first network device and the client device. The method may further include creating, by a second network device being a standby device for the first network device, a redirect network session for the TCP session. The method may continue with delivering, by the first network device, the request for the virtual service to a server. Upon a change designating the second network device as an active device for the virtual service, the second network device may receive, from the server, a server response associated with the virtual service and redirect the server response to the first network device for further sending of the server response to the client device.
US10411951B2
Example implementations relate to network policy conflict detection and resolution. For example, a system for network policy conflict detection and resolution can include a policy compilation engine to compile a plurality of network policies based on an intent format, a conflict detection engine to detect a conflict between a first network policy among the plurality of network policies and a second network policy among the plurality of network policies, using the intent format, and a conflict resolution engine to resolve the detected conflict between the first network policy and the second network policy. Further, the system for network policy conflict detection and resolution can include a translation engine to translate the resolution of the detected conflict to a protocol-specific format.
US10411949B2
Provided are a method and system for protecting virtual network mapping, and a computer storage medium; wherein the method includes that an application layer edits and defines at least one sub-network model based on a network editing request; a network virtualization layer constructs the at least one sub-network model, and integrates the at least one sub-network model into a global network view; and a controller layer respectively maps the at least one sub-network model contained in the global network view into a working device network and a protection device network, and when the working device network has failures, specified conditions are met, and the protection device network has no failure, switches a working mapping relationship of the corresponding sub-network from the working device network to the protection device network.
US10411947B2
Techniques for hot swapping and hot scaling containers between cloud services are disclosed. In one example, a method includes storing, with a cloud exchange, data indicating an association of a first container of a first private network with a second container of a second private network, wherein the first private network and the second private network are coupled to the cloud exchange to send and receive data packets via the cloud exchange. The method further includes sending, with the cloud exchange based on the association, state of the first container to the second container.
US10411944B2
Provided is a transmission method that improves data reception quality in radio transmission using a single-carrier scheme and/or a multi-carrier scheme. The transmission method includes: generating a plurality of first modulated signals s1(i) and second modulated signals s2(i) from transmission data, the plurality of first modulated signals s1(i) being signals generated using a QPSK modulation scheme, and the plurality of second modulated signals s2(i) being signals generated using 16 QAM modulation; generating, from the plurality of first modulated signals s1(i) and the plurality of second modulated signals s2(i), a plurality of first signal-processed signals z1(i) and a plurality of second signal-processed signals z2(i) which satisfy a predetermined equation; and transmitting the plurality of first signal-processed signals z1(i) and the plurality of second signal-processed signals z2(i) using a plurality of antennas. A first signal-processed signal and a second signal-processed signal having identical symbol numbers are simultaneously transmitted at the same frequency.
US10411943B2
The present disclosure relates to a polar phased-array transmitter and a mobile terminal. One example mobile terminal includes a baseband chip, the polar phased-array transmitter, and an antenna array. The baseband chip is configured to generate a quadrature digital baseband signal. The polar phased-array transmitter is configured to perform quadrature-to-polar conversion on the quadrature digital baseband signal to generate n amplitude signals and n phase signals, separately perform phase modulation and phase shifting on the n phase signals by using a local oscillator signal to obtain n phase modulation signals, and perform amplitude modulation and power amplification on the n phase modulation signals by using the amplitude signals to obtain n radio frequency signals. n is a natural number greater than 1. The antenna array is configured to obtain the n radio frequency signals from the polar phased-array transmitter, and transmit the n radio frequency signals.
US10411923B2
A high-speed signaling system with adaptive transmit pre-emphasis. A transmit circuit has a plurality of output drivers to output a first signal onto a signal path. A receive circuit is coupled to receive the first signal via the signal path and configured to generate an indication of whether the first signal exceeds a threshold level. A first threshold control circuit is coupled to receive the indication from the receive circuit and configured to adjust the threshold level according to whether the first signal exceeds the threshold level. A drive strength control circuit is coupled to receive the indication from the receive circuit and configured to adjust a drive strength of at least one output driver of the plurality of output drivers according to whether the first signal exceeds the threshold level.
US10411922B2
Methods and systems are described for receiving, at a data-driven phase comparator circuit, a plurality of data signals in parallel and one or more phases of a local oscillator signal, the data-driven phase comparator circuit comprising a plurality of partial phase comparators, generating a plurality of partial phase-error signals using the partial phase comparators, each partial phase-error signal generated by receiving (i) a corresponding phase of the local oscillator signal and (ii) a corresponding data signal of the plurality of data signals and responsive to a determination that a transition occurred in the corresponding data signal, generating the partial phase-error signal based on a comparison of the corresponding phase of the local oscillator signal and the corresponding data signal, and generating a composite phase-error signal by summing the plurality of partial phase error signals for setting a local oscillator in a lock condition.
US10411918B1
A receiver capable of receive and process data signals of multiple baud rates by using an equalizer that is disposed upstream of a decimator. The receiver includes an equalizer coupled to an output of an analog-to-digital converter (ADC), and a decimator couple to the output of the equalizer. The ADC and the equalizer both operate in full rates even in the case of lower data rate, e.g., half or quarter data rate. As the equalizer inherently can inherent remove high frequency noise as well as perform equalization, it practically functions as a low pass filter (LPF). Thereby, there is no need to introduce an extra dedicate LPF upstream of the decimator. This can advantageously and significantly simplify circuitry design and reduce latency.
US10411917B2
A linear feedback equalizer includes comparators that digitize incoming analog signals. The equalizer further includes digital-to-analog converters (“DACs”) that transform a current digitized signal into one or more feedback analog signals. The equalizer further includes a subtractor that subtracts the feedback analog signals from the output of a continuous-time linear equalizer (“CTLE”) and provides the difference to the comparators as incoming analog signals.
US10411913B2
A communication system that minimizes the transmission of pilot symbols while ensuring real-time channel tracking and symbol detection. The system employs a multiple-input multiple-output (MTMO) transmitter-receiver pair where there are many more receive antennas than transmit antennas. Communication occurs over a wide band RF channel via orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) that employs a large number of sub-carriers.
US10411911B2
A network as a service (NaaS) service cross-domain orchestration method to implement an end-to-end NaaS service in a multi-domain network that includes multiple network domains where the method includes obtaining information about a first user-to-network interface (UNI) and information about a second UNI in a multi-domain network according to a received NaaS service request, where the NaaS service request is used to request to establish an NaaS service between a first terminal and a second terminal; querying domain resource information to obtain a cross-domain path between the first UNI and the second UNI; determining network domains that the cross-domain path passes through, and obtaining a first connection requirement and a second connection requirement of each network domain of the network domains that the cross-domain path passes through; and sending the first connection requirement and the second connection requirement to a control device in each network domain.
US10411907B2
An ID service on an app server interacts with a corresponding identity app installed on a user device such as a smart phone. At setup, the ID service receives the user's public key and only a segment of the corresponding private key. A special challenge message is created and partially decrypted using the private key segment on the server side, and then decryption is completed on the client app using the remaining segment(s) of the private key to recover the challenge. A token authenticator based on the result of the decryption is sent back to the identity service, for it to verify validity of the result and, if it is valid, enable secure login without requiring a password.
US10411904B2
A first device, upon detecting participation in an authentication system, transmits new and old identification information of a first certificate revocation list that the first device manages to a second device. In a case where the new and old identification information of a second certificate revocation list that the second device manages is older than the new and old identification information of the received first certificate revocation list, the second device transmits a transmission request for the first certificate revocation list to the first device. Upon receiving the transmission request for the first certificate revocation list from the second device, the first device transmits the first certificate revocation list to the second device. the second device updates the second certificate revocation list using the received first certificate revocation list.
US10411902B2
According to certain embodiments, a method receives a certificate that identifies a sender system as owning a domain. The method sends an electronic message to the domain identified in the certificate. The electronic message is sent via a mail exchange network that correlates the domain to an address that a true owner of the domain has registered with a mail exchange authority. The method receives a response from the address that the mail exchange network correlates to the domain. The response indicates that the certificate is associated with the true owner of the domain. The method authenticates the sender system as the true owner of the domain based on the response.
US10411901B2
Apparatus, methods and systems to secure remotely accessible applications using authentication devices are disclosed. More in particular apparatus, methods and systems are disclosed for thwarting overlay attacks against authentication applications for displaying transaction data and for generating signatures over these transaction data.
US10411873B1
Clock data recovery broadcast for multi-lane SerDes is disclosed. In some implementations, a serial input/output (I/O) interface includes a master lane and a plurality of slave lanes to receive serial incoming data. The master lane has a master clock and data recovery (CDR) module to generate master data sample clock control signals. The master data sample clock control signals can be broadcasted to the slave lanes. Furthermore, each of the plurality of slave lanes having a slave CDR module. The slave CDR module can include a clock edge tracking module to generate local data sample clock control signals, and a multiplexer to select the master data sample clock control signals or local data sample clock control signals to apply in the respective slave lane in response to a signal from a CDR controller indicative of a low power mode.
US10411869B2
A method for transmitting and receiving data in a wireless communication system and an apparatus for the method are disclosed. More specifically, a method for transmitting downlink data in a wireless communication system comprises transmitting, by an eNB, first downlink data through a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) region according to a radio frame structure based on a first transmission time interval (TTI); and transmitting, by the eNB, second downlink data through a short PDSCH (sPDSCH) region according to a radio frame structure based on a second TTI, wherein downlink control information (DCI) related to the second downlink data is transmitted through a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) or a short PDCCH (sPDCCH).
US10411867B2
[Object] To provide a communication apparatus and a communication method that enable reinforcement of reliability of multicast communication and effective utilization of wireless communication resources to be compatible.[Solution] Provided is a communication apparatus including: a communication unit configured to perform communication of a frame. The communication unit transmits a frequency allocation frame, which includes frequency allocation information that specifies a transmission frequency of a delivery acknowledgment response frame with respect to a multicast frame, and receives the delivery acknowledgment response frame that is transmitted in the transmission frequency specified by the frequency allocation information and is frequency-division multiplexed.
US10411857B2
A method and a user equipment (UE) for transmitting an aperiodic sounding reference signal (SRS) in a wireless communication system are discussed. The method according to an embodiment includes receiving an aperiodic SRS power offset parameter for the aperiodic SRS from a base station (BS) through a radio resource control (RRC) signaling; receiving common parameters for SRSs, including the aperiodic SRS, from the BS through the RRC signaling; setting a transmission power of the aperiodic SRS based on the aperiodic SRS power offset parameter and the common parameters; and transmitting the aperiodic SRS to the BS based on the transmission power of the aperiodic SRS. The aperiodic SRS power offset parameter is a non-common parameter used for transmitting the aperiodic SRS but not a periodic SRS which is included in the SRSs.
US10411853B2
The present invention relates to a wireless communication system and, particularly, to a method and a device therefor, the method comprising the steps of: receiving, from a base station, resource allocation information indicating a frequency resource for a transmission of an uplink signal; and transmitting, to the base station, the uplink signal using the frequency resource indicated by the resource allocation information, wherein the frequency resource comprises multiple continuous tones when the resource allocation information relates to an Lcell, and the frequency resource comprises multiple tones separated by the same interval when the resource allocation information relates to a Ucell.
US10411852B2
A method and a system for signaling and processing control information in a cloud cell environment are provided. According to an embodiment, in a cloud cell, a master Base Station (BS) coordinates with other BSs to determine resources available for use on communication links between a mobile station in the cloud cell and one or all the BSs during a scheduling interval. Based on the resources available, the master BS allocates cumulative resources associated with the BSs to the mobile station for the scheduling interval. Then, the master BS transmits resource allocation control information indicating the allocated cumulative resources to the mobile station over a communication link between the master BS and the mobile station. Upon receiving the resource allocation control information, the mobile station decodes the information and receives data packets from each of the BSs during the scheduling interval according to the decoded resource allocation control information.
US10411851B2
Embodiments of the present application relate to the field of communications technologies, and provide a wireless communication method, a device, and a system, so as to cancel or reduce inter-cell interference, to a terminal, between neighboring cells. The method includes: sending, by a terminal, uplink information to a first network side device in a first time period; and receiving, by the terminal in a second time period, downlink information sent by a second network side device, where the first time period and the second time period are a same time period. The embodiments of the present application are used for wireless communication.
US10411849B2
An access point (AP) includes at least one processing circuitry configured to support communications with other WDEV(s) and to generate and process signals for such communications. In some examples, the device includes a communication interface and a processing circuitry, among other possible circuitries, components, elements, etc. to support communications with other WDEV(s) and to generate and process signals for such communications. The WDEV transmits a null data packet (NDP) announcement frame that specifies a sub-carrier (SC) or tone grouping factor, a communication channel bandwidth, and other WDEV(s) to respond with beamforming feedback. The WDEV process the NDP announcement frame to determine if it is to respond, and if so, then receives an NDP sounding frame that includes long training fields (LTFs) and pilots at predetermined locations and generates beamforming feedback of communication channel estimates at SCs as determined based on a sub-carrier roster look up table (LUT).
US10411841B2
The present invention provides a method and apparatus for use in non-adaptive retransmission. The method comprises: configuring an uplink UL demodulation reference signal DM-RS for retransmission in response to a retransmission request. In one embodiment, the demodulation reference signal DM-RS is configured to be the same as a demodulation reference signal for an initial transmission. In another embodiment, the demodulation reference signal DM-RS is configured with respect to the number of layer(s) for retransmission according to predetermined rules for the initial transmission.
US10411821B2
A technique is provided for transmitting client data included in a client signal via an optical transmission path of an optical transport network. The optical transport network uses transport frames include a transport frame period for transmitting client data. The method includes receiving multiple client entities comprising multiple client data bits; determining the number of client data entities received during a transport frame period to establish a mean number of client data entities to be included in a transport frame, the mean number of client data entities corresponding to a mean number of client data bits; mapping multiple client data entities into the transport frame wherein mapping comprises alternately adding and subtracting an amount of client data bits to/from the mean number of client data bits for at least two consecutive transport frames; and transmitting the transport frames comprising the client data via the optical transport network.
US10411819B1
A system and method for reducing the OFDM out-of-band emissions (OOBE) by utilizing a transmitter windowing operation that smooths the inherent rectangular pulse shape of the OFDM signals. The technique retains the main design of the OFDM receivers and provides backward compatibility for the existing OFDM-based systems. The guard band and the window parameters that control the guard duration are jointly optimized regarding the use case and the power offset between the users. To fully exploit and further increase the potential of adaptive guards, an interference-based scheduling algorithm is proposed as well.
US10411818B2
A method for estimating a signal to interference and noise ratio of a communication link between a first node and a second node of a wireless communication network, the network comprising a number of further communication links between said first node and a number of further nodes. The method comprises, at the first node, providing first estimates of useful signal powers on all the links; providing second estimates of the signal powers on the link and on the further communication links on the basis of, jointly, the first estimate of the signal power on the link and the first estimates of the signal powers on the further links; estimating the signal to interference and noise ratio as a ratio between the second estimate of the signal power on the link and a power term comprising a sum of the second estimates of the signal powers on the further links.
US10411814B2
A failure determination method that detects a failure site in a radio facility including one or more base stations provided along a route and an antenna installed for each of the base stations along the route while being connected to the base station, a communicable zone being set for each of the base stations, the radio facility performing radio communication with a movable body that operates on the route includes: measuring an intensity of a signal radiated from the antenna in response to a request from the base station in the operating movable body; transmitting a measurement result to the base station; and performing failure determination for each of the base stations based on received measurement results for the base station.
US10411813B2
An apparatus for testing the beamforming behavior of a device under test comprises: at least two over-the-air power sensors. Each over-the-air sensor is adapted to measure the power received from the device under test over the air, which leads to at least two respective measurement results. The apparatus also comprises an evaluation unit, which is connected to each of the at least two over-the-air power sensors, and is adapted to receive and to evaluate the at least two respective measurement results.
US10411799B1
Optical wireless communication systems configured to provide Hadamard coded information are described. In some examples, the system includes a light fixture configured to encode communication information received from an area network as Hadamard coded information, and provide the Hadamard coded information as a first Hadamard coded modulated optical emission from a light emitting diode. An optical wireless communication device can receive and decode the optical emission and provide the decoded information to an electronic device coupled to the optical wireless communication device.
US10411790B2
Disclosed is a star network/mesh network accessing method and apparatus of a terminal in a satellite communication system, the method including receiving time slot resources from a central station and operating in a time division multiple access (TDMA) start network communication mode between the central station and a terminal, transferring, to the central station, a TDMA mesh network connection request message for a destination terminal, receiving traffic burst time plan (TBTP) information corresponding to the TDMA mesh network connection request message from the central station and operating in a TDMA mesh network communication mode between terminals, and switching from the TDMA mesh network communication mode between the terminals to a single channel per carrier (SCPC) mesh network communication mode between the terminals when Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) traffic is greater than a threshold.
US10411789B2
The present disclosure relates to a method for scheduling radio resources for a relay user equipment (UE) serving as a relay for remote UEs. Remote data is relayed by the relay UE between the remote UEs and a radio base station (BS). A remote scheduling identification is configured for addressing remote logical channels carrying the remote data. A relay scheduling identification is configured for addressing one or more relay logical channels carrying relay data. The relay UE receives, from the BS, a remote resource assignment, assigning radio resources to the relay UE for exchanging the remote data with the BS, the remote resource assignment being addressed to the remote scheduling identification. The relay UE further receives, from the BS, a relay resource assignment, assigning radio resources to the relay UE for exchanging the relay data with the BS, the relay resource assignment being addressed to the relay scheduling identification.
US10411782B2
In an aspect of the disclosure, a method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus are provided. The apparatus may be a UE. The apparatus may receive a transmission over a precoded channel. The transmission may include a layer having a plurality of symbols, each symbol having a plurality of modulated tones precoded on a per-tone basis. The receive layer may be associated with a power delay profile. The apparatus may estimate the precoded channel based on a time support of the power delay profile.
US10411781B1
Methods and systems are provided for dynamically adjusting vertical beamforming weights to influence a width of a vertical beam emitted from an antenna. A quantity of users present in a particular geographic area is determined, where the user devices have a line of sight with the antenna and are vertically distributed from other user devices. CQIs are received from the user devices. It is determined that the quantity of user devices is above a maximum threshold of user devices, and the CQIs indicated that channel quality is below a minimum threshold. The amplitude and phase components of the vertical beamforming weight are adjusted to modify the width of the vertical beam emitted from the antenna.
US10411768B2
A feedback information transmission/reception method for use in a mobile communication system is provided. The feedback information transmission method includes receiving configuration information on at least two reference signals and feedback configuration information for use in generating feedback information based on the at least two reference signals from a base station, receiving the at least two reference signals from the base station, measuring the at least two reference signals received, generating the feedback information based on the measurement result according to the feedback configuration information, and transmitting the feedback information to the base station.
US10411766B2
A semiconductor device package includes a substrate, a package body, a conductive layer, a dielectric layer, a magnetic layer, a first insulating layer and a coil. The package body is disposed on the substrate. The package body has a first part and a second part disposed above the first part. The conductive layer is disposed on the first part of the package body and is electrically connected to the substrate. The dielectric layer is disposed on the conductive layer. The magnetic layer is disposed on the dielectric layer. The first insulating layer is disposed on the magnetic layer. The coil is disposed on the first insulating layer. The coil has a first terminal electrically connected with the magnetic layer.
US10411759B2
The invention describes a system comprising a capacitive information carrier, wherein an electrically conductive layer is arranged on an electrically non-conductive substrate, and a surface sensor, wherein the information carrier is in contact with the surface sensor. Furthermore, the invention comprises a process for acquiring information, comprising a capacitive information carrier, a capacitive surface sensor, a contact between the two elements and an interaction which makes a touch structure of the information carrier evaluable for a data-processing system connected to the surface sensor and can trigger events associated with said information carrier.
US10411753B2
The present invention provides a method and an electronic apparatus for transmitting a packet with changeable spreading factor. The method comprises: utilizing a spreading circuit to select a spreading factor from a plurality of spreading factors according to a transmitting condition to adjust a spreading for the packet; and transmitting the packet. The electronic apparatus comprises: a spreading circuit and a transmitting circuit. The spreading circuit is utilized for selecting a spreading factor from a plurality of spreading factors according to a transmitting condition to adjust the spreading for the packet. The transmitting circuit is coupled to the spreading circuit, and utilized for transmitting the packet.
US10411749B2
A protective enclosure for use with an electronic device includes a cushion layer configured to cover at least a portion of the side surfaces of the electronic device when the electronic device is installed in the protective enclosure; and a structural layer affixed to the cushioning layer, the structural layer having a back portion, a top portion, a right wall portion, and a left wall portion, the back portion having a first portion having a thickness that is less than a thickness of a second portion of the back portion, the first portion configured to allow a section of the protective enclosure to flex relative to the back surface of the electronic device during installation and removal of the electronic device from the protective enclosure.
US10411745B1
According to one embodiment, a radio frequency (RF) receiver circuit includes a low noise amplifier, a poly-phase filter, and an in-phase quadrature (IQ) mixer circuit coupled between the low noise amplifier and the poly-phase filter. The IQ mixer circuit includes an IQ generator having a differential in-phase input port, a differential in-phase output port, and a differential quadrature output port; a first frequency mixer having a differential local oscillator (LO) input port, where the differential LO input port of the first frequency mixer are coupled to the differential in-phase output port of the IQ generator to drive the first frequency mixer; and a second frequency mixer having a differential LO port, where the differential LO input port of the second frequency mixer are coupled to the differential quadrature output port of the IQ generator to drive the second frequency mixer.
US10411742B2
In some examples, a software-defined network (SDN) controller determines a link aggregation (LAG) configuration for a node in the SDN that is controlled by the SDN controller. The LAG configuration is based on hardware capability information and dynamic network traffic information of the SDN. The SDN controller can further instruct the node to forward traffic in accordance with the LAG configuration.
US10411739B2
A transmitting apparatus and a receiving apparatus are provided. The transmitting apparatus includes an encoder configured to generate a low density parity check (LDPC) codeword by performing LDPC encoding, an interleaver configured to interleave the LDPC codeword, and a modulator configured to modulate the interleaved LDPC codeword according to a modulation method to generate a modulation symbol. The interleaver performs interleaving by dividing the LDPC codeword into a plurality of groups, rearranging an order of the plurality of groups in group units, and dividing the plurality of rearranged groups based on a modulation order according to the modulation method.
US10411735B1
System and methods described herein includes a method for iterative decoding. The method includes instantiating an iterative decoding procedure to decode a codeword. At each iteration of the iterative decoding procedure, the method further includes retrieving information relating to a plurality of current decoding variables at a current iteration, determining a first current decoding variable to be skipped for the current iteration based on the information, and processing a second decoding variable without processing the first decoding variable to update related decoding variables from the plurality of current decoding variables.
US10411720B2
The invention comprises a fault-tolerant clock synchronization method with high precision, hardware implementations thereof and the corresponding digital circuits, designed to contain metastability.
US10411716B2
A subsampling motion detector configured to detect motion information of an object under measurement receives a first wireless radio frequency (RF) signal and transmits a second wireless RF signal, the first wireless RF signal being generated by reflecting the second wireless RF signal from the object. The subsampling motion detector includes a controllable oscillator outputting an oscillation signal, wherein the first wireless RF signal is injected to the controllable oscillator for controlling the controllable oscillator through injecting locking. The subsampling motion detector further including a subsampling phase detector (SSPD) generating a control signal according to the oscillation signal generated by the controllable oscillator and a reference frequency, the SSPD outputting the control signal to the controllable oscillator for controlling the controllable oscillator, the oscillation signal of the controllable oscillator being locked to a multiple of the reference frequency and the control signal representing the motion information of the object.
US10411708B1
Embodiments of the disclosure are drawn to apparatuses and methods for arranging configurable logic circuits such that the configurable logic circuit may be configured to form one or more of several logic circuits by coupling a combination of nodes included in the logic circuit. Configuring the configurable logic circuit may include modification of a single wiring layer.
US10411706B1
A wide-band digital buffer formed in a III-V substrate including a first transistor, a second transistor, a pull-up circuit shifts a t signal to a level of the first transistor. A first capacitor receives the signal, and passes at least a portion of the AC component of the signal to the first transistor. A resistor receives a first bias voltage, and passes it to the first transistor. A pull-down circuit shifts a second signal to a level of the second transistor. A second capacitor receives the second signal, and passes at least a portion of the AC component of the second signal to the second transistor. A second resistor receives a second bias voltage, and passes it to the second transistor.
US10411698B2
An apparatus that includes a first device connected to an inductor. The first device includes a first silicon carbide (SiC) junction gate field-effect transistor (JFET), a first SiC schottky barrier diode (SBD) connected to a gate and a drain of the first SiC JFET, and a first silicon (Si) transistor connected to transmit current to a source of the first SiC JFET. An inductor input terminal is connected to the drain of the first SiC JFET.
US10411691B2
A semiconductor device driving circuit includes: a signal transmission circuit including a first level shift circuit, the signal transmission circuit and an unsaturated voltage detection circuit configured to output a first error signal when an unsaturated voltage of a semiconductor switching element driven by the drive signal is detected. The semiconductor device driving circuit generates a second error signal having the second voltage level by level-shifting the first error signal or a converted signal obtained by converting the first error signal into a pulse signal. The semiconductor device driving circuit further includes a soft shutdown circuit configured to change a drive signal for the semiconductor switching element to softly shut down the semiconductor switching element when the second error signal is input.
US10411685B2
A circuit and a method for detecting a current zero-crossing point, and a circuit and method for detecting a load voltage are disclosed. The circuit for detecting current zero-crossing point includes: a load power supply circuit (14), a voltage-dividing resistor (16), a transistor switch (15), a zero-crossing detection circuit (19); the load power supply circuit (14) includes: a load (11), a diode (13), and an inductor (12); one end of the load power supply circuit (14) is connected with the operating voltage input terminal, the other end of the load power supply circuit (14) is connected with a first end of the transistor switch (15) and a first end of the voltage-dividing resistor (16), a second end of the voltage-dividing resistor (16) and a second end of the transistor switch (15) are connected with the ground, the load voltage is controlled by the transistor switch (15), the voltage-dividing terminal of the voltage-dividing resistor (16) is connected to a signal input terminal of the zero-crossing detection circuit (19), the zero-crossing detection circuit (19) is used to determine whether the current of the diode (13) crosses zero to obtain the on time of the diode (13), and the circuit for detecting load voltage uses the on time of the diode (13) and the on time of the transistor switch (15) to obtain the load voltage. The circuits are simple, but with high detection efficiency and low cost.
US10411680B1
A circuit includes a first TSCP (tri-state charge pump) configured to receive a first phase and a third phase of a six-phase signal; a second TSCP configured to receive a second phase and a fourth phase of the six-phase signal; a third TSCP configured to receive a third phase and a fifth phase of the six-phase signal; a fourth TSCP configured to receive a fourth phase and a sixth phase, a fifth TSCP configured to receive the fifth phase and the first phase, and a sixth TSCP configured to receive the sixth phase and the second phase of the six-phase signal. The first, third, and fifth TSCPs output currents to a first output node and the second, fourth, and sixth TSCPs output currents to a second output node. A load is placed across the first output node and the second output node.
US10411679B2
The present utility model relates to an ultra-low voltage two-stage ring voltage-controlled oscillator applied to a chip circuit. The oscillator includes two-stage delay units. The oscillator includes two delay units that are connected end-to-end, and adjusts a working frequency by adjusting delay time of the delay unit. The delay unit includes PMOS transistors M1, M2, M3, and M4, NMOS transistors M5, M6, M7, and M8, and a load capacitor CL. The two-stage ring voltage-controlled oscillator of the present utility model uses a substrate feed forward bias structure, reduces a threshold voltage of a transistor, reduces a supply voltage, reduces power consumption, has a large tuning range, and is particularly suitable for a system that works at a low supply voltage.
US10411667B2
A sound signal processing apparatus includes: first amplifier which amplifies a sound signal, depending on an input level of the sound signal; and second amplifier which amplifies with a gain the sound signal amplified by first amplifier. Second amplifier automatically decreases the gain when a level of the sound signal is greater than an upper limit threshold, and second amplifier automatically increases the gain when the level of the sound signal is lower than the upper limit threshold and when the gain is lower than a predetermined value. When second amplifier increases the gain, second amplifier changes the gain at a first speed when a user has performed an operation to decrease the input level, and second amplifier changes the gain at a second speed lower than the first speed when the user has not performed the operation to decrease the input level.
US10411664B2
A chopper-stabilized amplifier that includes an analog driven level shifter is disclosed. The analog driven level shifter changes the levels of a pair of complementary clock signals according to a level associated with an input signal to the chopper-stabilized amplifier. The level shifted complementary clock signals are used to control switching devices used for chopping input signals of various voltages. The chopper-stabilized amplifier also includes symmetrical passive RC notch filters having two cut-off frequencies to reduce ripple noise from the chopping.
US10411648B2
The present invention concerns an electronic oscillator comprising: an LC resonant circuit comprising an inductive component and a capacitive component, the LC resonant circuit being connected to a first reference voltage node and to an oscillator output node; a first transistor connected to the oscillator output node and arranged to periodically operate in a conducting state and a non-conducting state; and a phase shift circuit. A phase shift circuit output is connected to the first transistor, while a phase shift circuit input is connected by a first feedback circuit to the oscillator output node. The phase shift circuit comprises a signal phase shifter for shifting the phase of a first feedback signal from the first feedback circuit by substantially 180 degrees. The phase shift circuit further comprises a signal adder for adding a first signal from the signal phase shifter and a second signal to obtain a summed signal; and a second transistor connected to the signal adder for mirroring the summed signal to the oscillator output node through the first transistor.
US10411644B2
A junction box used for making electrical connections to a photovoltaic panel. The junction box has two chambers including a first chamber and a second chamber and a wall common to and separating both chambers. The wall may be adapted to have an electrical connection therethrough. The two lids are adapted to seal respectively the two chambers. The two lids are on opposite sides of the junction box relative to the photovoltaic panel. The two lids may be attachable using different sealing processes to a different level of hermeticity. The first chamber may be adapted to receive a circuit board for electrical power conversion. The junction box may include supports for mounting a printed circuit board in the first chamber. The second chamber is configured for electrical connection to the photovoltaic panel. A metal heat sink may be bonded inside the first chamber.
US10411641B2
A method is provided, repeated over successive time slots, for controlling the distribution of power from a time varying renewable power source between a battery and a power grid. The method comprises comparing the maximum input power of a battery with the power output of the time varying power source and determining a ratio for distributing the power between the battery and the power grid based on the comparison. Wherein distributing the output power to the energy storage device as a priority when the output power of the power source is below the maximum input power of the energy storage device; and increasing the ratio for the grid and decreasing the ratio for the energy storage device as the output power of the power source increases above the maximum input power of the energy storage device. The surplus power produced by the power source, above the maximum input power of the energy storage device, is discarded when the output power is distributed to the energy storage device.
US10411637B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for monitoring electrical patterns of a motor-driven system. The system first obtains respective measurements of relevant electrical parameters of a motor during operational stages including a start-up stage, a transition stage, a steady-state stage, idle stage, or a shutdown stage of the motor driven system driven by the motor. Based on the respective measurements, the monitoring system then determines respective electrical patterns corresponding to the operational stages. Next, the monitoring system compares the respective electrical patterns corresponding to the operational stages with respective baseline electrical patterns modeled for the operational stages to yield a comparison. Then, the monitoring system determines a status of the motor driven system based on a comparison between baseline and observed operating parameters.
US10411634B2
Technical solutions are described for preventing controller windup in a motor control system. An example system includes a first anti-windup module that receives a commanded voltage and a limited voltage command. The limited voltage command is applied to an electric motor, where the first anti-windup module generates a first modified current command by modifying a current command that is applied to the motor control system. The modification is based on a ratio of the commanded voltage and the limited voltage command. The system further includes a second anti-windup module that receives the commanded voltage and the limited voltage command. The second anti-windup module generates a second modified current command by modifying the first modified current command. The modification based on a difference between the commanded voltage and the limited voltage command.
US10411626B2
A power generation system for a drilling tool includes a turbine, an alternator, a converter and a first active rectifier control (ARC). The turbine is adapted to be driven by a fluid flow in a well. The alternator is coupled to the turbine and generates an alternative current (AC). The converter converts the AC to direct current (DC) and carries out active rectification. The first active rectifier control (ARC) controls the active rectification of the converter.
US10411622B2
The control part includes: a gate control voltage output unit that is configured to output a drive signal which switches a switching element according to a Hall edge that forms each of six Hall stages which are represented by a combination of electric potentials of position detection signals that are outputs of a plurality of sensors; a counter value acquisition unit that is configured to acquire a counter value which is a time period of the Hall stage and which is represented by a time period between two Hall edges that form each of the Hall stages from the position detection signal; and a switching control unit that is configured to determine a value obtained by multiplying a previous counter value of each of the Hall stages by a preset correction coefficient as a delay time of each of current Hall edges and that allows the gate control voltage output unit to output a drive signal according to each of the Hall edges which are corrected by the delay time.
US10411617B2
A dielectric elastomer motor includes an artificial muscle and a conversion mechanism cooperating with the artificial muscle. The artificial muscle includes a dielectric elastomer film or layer having a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface. First and second electrodes are attached to the first surface and the second surface of the dielectric elastomer film, respectively. First and second bases are attached to the dielectric elastomer so as to be spaced apart from each other. The first base and the second base are capable of reciprocation relative to each other upon change in size of the dielectric elastomer. The conversion mechanism converts the reciprocation of the bases to pivotal or rotational movement. The dielectric elastomer receives voltage application with a predetermined timing via the first and the second electrodes.
US10411605B2
System and method for regulating a power conversion system. A system controller for regulating a power conversion system includes a first controller terminal and a second controller terminal. Additionally, the system controller is configured to receive an input signal at the first controller terminal, and generate a drive signal at the second controller terminal based at least in part on the input signal to turn on or off a transistor in order to affect a current associated with a secondary winding of the power conversion system. Moreover, the system controller is further configured to determine whether the input signal is larger than a first threshold at a first time, in response to the input signal being determined to be larger than the first threshold at the first time, determine whether the input signal is smaller than a second threshold at a second time.
US10411601B2
A power converter has a power transistor and inductor coupled in a conduction path with the power transistor. A switching frequency of the power transistor is reduced during a light load condition. A pulse width of a drive signal to the power transistor is controlled to select a current through the inductor and power transistor corresponding to the switching frequency to maintain a fixed output power of the power converter, and further to vary the current through the inductor and power transistor to maintain the fixed output power of the power converter over a range of switching frequencies. A first number of pulses of the drive signal to the power transistor during a first time period sets the fixed output power of the power converter. No pulses of the drive signal are provided during a second time period after the first time period.
US10411591B2
An embodiment holdup time circuit of a bridgeless power factor correction circuit comprises a charge device connected between an output terminal of a bridgeless power factor correction circuit and an energy storage apparatus, a discharge device connected between the energy storage apparatus and an input of the bridgeless power factor correction circuit, the energy storage apparatus and the bridgeless power factor correction circuit comprising a first boost converter, a second boost converter, a first switch and a second switch, wherein the first switch is connected between the first boost converter and ground and the second switch is connected between the second boost converter and ground.
US10411587B2
Unique systems, methods, techniques and apparatuses of a DC fault isolation system are disclosed. One exemplary embodiment is a power conversion system comprising a converter including a midpoint connection structured to receive AC power, a first converter arm, a second converter arm, and a control system. The control system is configured to operate the converter a fault condition mode in response to a DC fault condition, wherein the fault condition mode operates at least one full bridge cell of the second converter arm so as to interrupt current flowing between the midpoint connection and the second DC bus rail and operates the first converter arm so as to allow the AC power to flow between the midpoint connection and the first DC bus rail in response to detecting the DC fault condition.
US10411584B2
A start-up circuit to discharge EMI filter is developed for power saving. It includes a detection circuit detecting a power source for generating a sample signal. A sample circuit is coupled to the detection circuit for generating a reset signal in response to the sample signal. The reset signal is utilized for discharging a stored voltage of the EMI filter.
US10411583B2
In one form, a power amplifier system includes first and second amplification path, and a combination element. The first amplification path has an input for receiving a drive signal, and an output. The second amplification path has an input coupled to the input of the first amplification path, and an output. The second amplification path has a delay element that inserts a signal path delay with respect to the first amplification path, wherein the delay element has a delay corresponding to a harmonic that is desired to be reduced. The combination element is coupled to the output of the first amplification path and an output of the second amplification path, and provides an output signal as a sum of outputs of the first amplification path and the second amplification path.
US10411581B1
A switching power conversion apparatus includes: a multi-level power stage, a PWM control circuit, a multi-level driver circuit, a bootstrap capacitor control circuit and a driving power control circuit. The bootstrap capacitor control circuit includes bootstrap capacitor control switches. During a charging period, a bootstrap control signal controls the bootstrap capacitor control switches, to electrically connect a second bootstrap node to the ground voltage level, whereby the supply voltage charges the bootstrap capacitor via the bootstrap diode. During a pumping period, the bootstrap control signal controls the bootstrap capacitor control switches to electrically connect the second bootstrap node to one of the upper-gate nodes or the switching node, whereby the voltage of the first bootstrap node is pumped to a corresponding pumping voltage level.
US10411577B2
A magnet assembly for a linear motor includes a cover member having weak magnetic properties, which covers one or more magnet plates, and a fixing mechanism for positioning the end parts 14c of the cover member directly above permanent magnets and detachably fixing the cover member to the magnet plate. The cover member has a first surface part covering a surface of the magnet plate which faces an armature and second surface parts continuous from the first surface part and covering side parts of the magnet plate. Furthermore, the fixing mechanism is provided on the second surface parts. Through the use of this magnet assembly for a linear motor, it is possible to minimize a rise of the cover member from the magnet plate without deteriorating workability at the time of installation or replacement of the cover member.
US10411574B2
An electronic control unit includes two inverters, a magnetic sensor, a failure detection unit, an inverter driving unit, a signal examination unit, and a failed element identification unit. The magnetic sensor detects a magnetic flux generated around a winding. The failure detection unit detects an ON-state failure of the inverter. When the ON-state failure is detected, the inverter driving unit stops driving the inverter to which the ON-state failure has been detected, and continues driving the other inverter. The signal examination unit examines a presence or absence of a special signal. When there is a signal appearing according to a special magnetic flux, the failed element identification unit identifies a failed switching element based on a motor electric angle generated by the signal.
US10411571B2
A magnetic coupling includes an inner rotor (11) and an outer rotor (9) which at least partly surrounds the inner rotor (11). These rotors (11, 9) each are formed of magnetic material (18) and are coupled to one another by way of magnetic forces. The inner rotor (11) and/or the outer rotor (9) contain powdery, magnetizable material (18). The powdery, magnetizable material (18) is magnetized at a side lying opposite the other rotor at several locations distributed over the periphery.
US10411569B2
A rotor manufacturing method for manufacturing a rotor including a rotor core, the rotor core having a permanent magnet mounted thereon throughout a circumferential direction, includes covering an outer circumference of the rotor core with a tubular rotor cover; and forming an angular portion conforming to an outer shape of the permanent magnet by pressing an open end of the rotor cover radially inward with use of a pressing member, the open end of the rotor cover axially projecting from an end of the rotor core before being pressed.
US10411566B2
In a motor temperature estimating device including: a polyphase motor 1 having a first phase coil, a second phase coil and a third phase coil; current sensors; a determination section that determines whether or not the polyphase motor is rotating; and a transformation section that transforms a first phase output signal from the first phase current sensor, a second phase output signal from the second phase current sensor, and a third phase output signal from the third phase current sensor to output a post-transformation output signal, the post-transformation output signal is inputted to a first temperature estimation section that estimates the temperature of the polyphase motor during rotation, and the first phase output signal, the second phase output signal and the third phase output signal are inputted to a second temperature estimation section that estimates the temperature of the polyphase motor during stop.
US10411564B2
A robot includes a driving unit, a flexible board including a power line that transmits electric power to the driving unit, and a choke coil connected to the power line. A band rejection filter is formed by parasitic capacitance, which is formed by the electric line, and the choke coil.
US10411559B2
In a driving apparatus having a casing 10A in which an electric motor 16 is housed, the driving apparatus further has: a rotating shaft 27 through which a torque of the electric motor 16 is transmitted, the rotating shaft 27 being formed with a worm 40; a worm wheel 41 which is disposed in the casing 10A, the worm wheel 41 having a worm gear 42 which is engaged with the worm 40; a terminal holder 31 which is disposed in the casing 10A, and which supports a terminal carrying a current to be supplied to the electric motor 16; and an air hole 78 which extends so as to penetrate the casing 10A, an inside of the casing 10A and an outside of the casing 10A communicating with each other through the air hole 78, wherein in a plan view perpendicular to an axis C1 serving as a rotation center of the worm wheel 41, the air hole 78 is disposed in an area defined by projection of an area occupied by the terminal holder 31 in a direction along an axis B1, and between the electric motor and an engaging part E1 of the worm 40 with the worm gear 42.
US10411558B2
A power tool is provided including a brushless electric motor, a switching arrangement having motor switches and interposed between the electric motor and a power supply, and a controller configured to control a switching operation of the motor switches for driving the electric motor and enforce a current limit on the current delivered to the electric motor. The controller receives a measure of current passing from the power supply to the switching arrangement and takes corrective action to reduce current delivered to the electric motor if the measured current exceeds the current limit. The controller is further configured to initiate a protective response if a number of time intervals in which the measured current exceeds the current limit exceeds a predetermined threshold.
US10411557B2
A non-reverse ratchet assembly includes a stationary ring with a plurality of saw teeth equally distributed over an outer surface of the stationary ring; a rotating housing with a rotating ring surrounding the stationary ring; and a plurality of ratchet elements equally distributed and positioned between the rotating ring and the stationary ring, wherein each ratchet element is configured to engage with or disengage from the plurality of saw teeth, and wherein each ratchet element comprises a slot for a distributed load sharing of the plurality of ratchet elements when engaging with the plurality of saw teeth. Furthermore, a vertical shaft motor including a non-reverse ratchet assembly is described.
US10411556B1
An enclosure for a generator includes an air inlet formed at a first end of the enclosure, and an air inlet opening formed in a sidewall of the enclosure. The air inlet includes an air inlet duct formed in an interior space of the enclosure, and in fluid communication with the air inlet opening. The air inlet duct receives the airflow from the air inlet opening to direct the airflow towards an air outlet of the enclosure. The air outlet includes an air outlet duct formed at a second end of the enclosure which receives the airflow from the air inlet opening. The air outlet duct directs the airflow towards an air outlet opening formed in a top plate of the enclosure which provides an exit for the airflow to escape from the interior space to an ambient environment of the enclosure.
US10411549B2
A small and low-price rotating electric machine has a structure where a magnet end surface and a metal tube end are not in contact with each other. The rotating electric machine has a cylindrical stator core, a rotor having a shaft provided on the inner circumferential side of the stator core, a yoke fixed to the shaft, at least one ferrite magnet provided on the outer circumferential surface of the yoke, and a protective cover provided on the outer circumference of the ferrite magnet. The ferrite magnet end surface is projected with respect to an end surface of the yoke, and has a step portion to form a gap between the end surface of the ferrite magnet and a bottom surface of the protective cover.
US10411547B2
A terminal insertion hole is formed in a rear end frame. A grommet has a main body portion and a flanged portion. A terminal holding hole is formed in the main body portion of the grommet. The grommet is inserted into the terminal insertion hole of the rear end frame and the flanged portion is in contact with a rear-side axial-end surface of the rear end frame, that is, a peripheral portion of a rear-side open end of the terminal insertion hole. The grommet is assembled to the rear end frame by inserting the grommet into the terminal insertion hole from the rear-side open end.
US10411546B2
A motor may include an armature; a cylindrical housing; a brush card assembly; a cylindrical bracket positioned under the brush card assembly and directly fixed to the housing; and a seal member made of elastomer. The brush card assembly may include a cylindrical portion and a flange portion. The seal member may include a first seal portion fitted between the top surface of the flange portion and the housing, or the bottom surface of the flange portion and the bracket, in an axial direction while contacting the top surface and the housing or the bottom surface and the bracket. At least one of a radially inner surface of the housing and a radially inner surface of the bracket may include an inclined surface. The first seal portion may be fitted between the housing and the bracket through the inclined surface while contacting the housing and the bracket.
US10411545B2
A motor includes a rotor, a stator, first and second bearings supporting the rotor, a bus bar portion, and a tubular housing retaining the bus bar portion, the stator, and the first bearing. The housing includes a circular bottom portion including a through-hole, and a first bearing retaining portion retaining the first bearing and extending in one direction. The bus bar portion includes a bus bar, and a bus bar holder supporting the bus bar. The bus bar holder includes a second bearing retaining portion retaining the second bearing, and a tubular main body portion. The main body portion is positioned by the stator.
US10411544B2
A brushless motor assembly includes a housing, a cover assembly, an insert, and a sensor assembly. The housing is disposed about a motor. The cover assembly is disposed on the housing and has a base and a connecting portion. The connecting portion defines a connecting region. The insert has a first insert surface and a second insert surface disposed opposite the first insert surface, each extending between a first insert end and a second insert end. The sensor assembly is disposed on the second insert surface.
US10411543B2
Provided is a motor including a shaft; two rotors attached to the shaft and spaced from each other in an axial direction by a predetermined distance; a stator arranged between the two rotors; a busbar unit arranged on one axial side of at least one of the two rotors, and arranged to hold a busbar; and a housing arranged to hold the stator and house the two rotors therein. The stator includes a plurality of cores arranged in a circumferential direction, and coils wound around the cores. A lead wire drawn out from the coils is arranged to extend, radially outside of the one of the rotors, from the corresponding core to a position on the one axial side of the one of the rotors, and is connected to the busbar at the position. The busbar unit is housed in the housing.
US10411541B2
The present disclosure relates to a driving motor for environmentally friendly vehicles. The driving motor for the vehicles includes: a stator core; a bobbin assembled to the stator core; a coil part wound on the bobbin; a coil lead-out portion configured such that an end portion of the coil part drawn from the bobbin is formed to have a curved structure; and a terminal bonded with a bonding portion formed in the coil lead-out portion.
US10411532B2
A motor is provided that is capable of electronically switching between operating in a high torque mode and a low torque mode. The high torque mode may be switched reluctance mode and the low torque mode may be synchronous reluctance mode. The motor has a stator having two sets of armature windings, and a rotor having two sets of flux barriers each adapted to shape a magnetic flux distribution generated by a corresponding one of the sets of armature windings. The stator may comprise a plurality of teeth circumferentially spaced apart from one another around a rotation axis of the motor. The armature windings may include switched reluctance armature windings, each wrapped around a single stator tooth, and synchronous reluctance windings, each wrapped around multiple adjacent stator teeth. An inverter and controller may be connected to each set of armature windings for controlling the electronic switching of the armature windings. The inverter and controller are operable to toggle the motor between the two modes of operation using pulse-width modulation-like techniques.
US10411529B2
A stator includes a yoke, teeth, insulating members, a first ribs, coils, annular members and adhesive bodies. The insulating members each have circumferential wall and a flange. The flange includes a plate wall. The first ribs protrude from the respective flanges. The coils each wound on the outsides of the circumferential wall and the first ribs of each of the teeth. The annular members close teeth distal end sides of cavities. A first hole and a second hole are provided in the plate wall. The turning passage contains varnish charged through the injection hole.
US10411517B2
A wireless power transfer method for a wireless power transfer apparatus using full and half-bridge inverter topologies includes detecting whether or not a wireless power receiver is present within a range of power being transferrable in a wireless manner, transmitting a detection signal to the wireless power receiver, receiving at least one of identification information and setting information from the wireless power receiver, receiving a control error packet from the wireless power receiver, and controlling an amount of power to be transferred by using the combination of a driving frequency, a duty cycle or a power signal phase to the full or half-bridge inverter.
US10411507B2
In accordance with various embodiments, a circuit arrangement may include a first circuit, which is designed for contactless communication, and a second circuit, which is designed in accordance with a predefined functionality. The circuit arrangement may further include at least one electronic component which in a first operating mode together with the first circuit implements the contactless communication and in a second operating mode together with the second circuit implements the predefined functionality.
US10411505B2
A reconfigurable array antenna and system for including the same are described. In one embodiment, the antenna apparatus comprises a feeding network and an array coupled to the feeding network, wherein the array has a plurality of locations, with each location capable of having an antenna element attached thereto, and wherein the feeding network is operable to combine energy received by antenna elements in the array, and the energy is combined by the feeding network in RF.
US10411503B2
An auxiliary power supply device for a multiple-unit train is provided. A normally-open main contact of a three-phase isolation contactor is connected in series between a three-phase four-wire bus of a first unit and a three-phase four-wire bus of a second unit, and a coil of the three-phase isolation contactor is connected in series in a power supply circuit of the first unit and a power supply circuit of the second unit; a control circuit of the first unit controls the power supply circuit of the first unit to be energized when the three-phase four-wire bus of the first unit supplies power, to close the normally-open main contact; and the control circuit of the second unit controls the power supply circuit of the second unit to be energized when the three-phase four-wire bus of the second unit supplies power to close the normally-open main contact.
US10411496B2
The present disclosure discloses a charging system and a charging method and a power adapter. The system includes a battery, a first rectifier, a switch unit, a transformer, a second rectifier, a sampling unit and a control unit. The control unit outputs a control signal to the switch unit, and adjusts a duty ratio of the control signal according to a current sampling value and/or a voltage sampling value sampled by the sampling unit, such that a third voltage with a third ripple waveform outputted by the second rectifier meets a charging requirement. The third voltage is configured to be introduced into the battery.
US10411490B2
Voltage regulator systems include, in part, a regulator comprising an input terminal and an output terminal, wherein the regulator is configured to receive an input voltage from an adapter at the input terminal and provide an output voltage at the output terminal, wherein the regulator comprises at least one switched capacitor regulator operating in a first conversion mode corresponding to a first conversion factor. The voltage regulator systems also include a controller configured to control an operation of the regulator, wherein the controller is configured to determine when a conversion ratio of the regulator is greater than the first conversion factor, and, in response, to send a request to the adapter to decrease the input voltage.
US10411477B2
A photovoltaic array system includes multiple strings of series coupled photovoltaic modules to provide current at a voltage dependent on the number of modules in each string and their operating efficiency. Each string is coupled to a DC-to-DC converter to convert the current from each string for output to a DC bus. An inverter is coupled to DC bus to convert the current from the strings of series coupled photovoltaic modules to AC current at a grid-compatible voltage.
US10411468B2
Techniques for distributing electrical power to a plurality of electrical loads can include coupling an existing group of electrical loads to a common power source through a load management system, measuring an aggregate group current drawn by at least the existing group of electrical loads and comparing the measured aggregate group current to an aggregate group current threshold value. When the measured aggregate group current exceeds the aggregate group current threshold value, increase a number of subgroups of the existing group, using subgroups that are formed without requiring information about individual current associated with the individual electrical loads, sequentially apply power to individual subgroups during non-overlapping time periods, sequentially measure at least a corresponding current drawn by the individual subgroups while power is applied to the subgroups, and sequentially comparing the measured current to a threshold value.
US10411463B2
A method for buffering the voltage of an electric system that undergoes transient voltage changes includes the step of placing a new load upon the electric system by electrically connecting at least one electrochemical device to the electric system so that electrical current flows from the electric system to the electrochemical device. Also included are the steps of causing at least one electrochemical reaction to occur within the at least one electrochemical device; varying the new load placed upon the electric system as transient voltage changes in the electric system occur; and changing the electrical current from the electric system to the electrochemical device in a manner that retards transient voltage changes in the electric system that would occur in the absence of the steps of placing, causing, and varying.
US10411460B2
An apparatus includes an electrically conductive coil which produces a magnetic field when an electrical current passes therethrough; a selectively activated persistent current switch connected across the electrically conductive coil; a cryostat having the electrically conductive coil and the persistent current switch disposed therein; an energy dump; at least one sensor which detects an operating parameter of the apparatus and outputs at least one sensor signal in response thereto; and a magnet controller. The magnet controller receives the sensor signal(s) and in response thereto detects whether an operating fault (e.g. a power loss to the compressor of a cryocooler) exists in the apparatus, and when an operating fault is detected, connects the energy dump unit across the electrically conductive coil to transfer energy from the electrically conductive coil to the energy dump unit. The energy dump unit disperses the energy outside of the cryostat.
US10411454B2
A clamp assembly includes a body member having a cable groove formed therein to receive a cable. A keeper is connected to the body member and has a lower surface adapted to engage the cable received in the cable groove. A biasing member is disposed between the keeper and the body member.
US10411449B2
Provided is an electrical junction box including a lower case and an upper case joined to the lower case, wherein the upper case includes an inner wall that opposes an inner surface of the lower case and an outer wall that opposes an outer surface of the lower case, the outer wall has a first wall portion that is in intimate contact with the outer surface of the lower case and a second wall portion that extends upward continuously from the first wall portion, and an upper end of the lower case is inserted between the inner wall and the second wall portion with clearances CL1 and CL2.
US10411448B1
A ring assembly may include a plurality of radially-concentric rings (18) selectively arrangeable to define an aperture (20) for a conduit fitting connection. A fastening mechanism (22) in each ring of the plurality of radially-concentric rings permits to detachably connect the plurality of radially-concentric rings to one another. The fastening mechanism may be arranged to permit a selectable annular grouping of the plurality of radially-concentric rings in the ring assembly to be detached from a remainder of the radially-concentric rings in the ring assembly located in the opening in the wall. The product may be purveyed as a kit of rings (18) that may be selectively arrangeable to form the ring assembly of radially-concentric rings to define the aperture for the conduit fitting connection.
US10411443B2
Heat sinks that cool electronics are mounted within a subsea housing or vessel. Springs are used to provide pressure between the heat sinks and a vessel wall. Vessel wall deformation caused by external seawater pressure is absorbed by the springs, which maintain a pre-load force according to the spring characteristics. The mechanism also allows for rack mounting of the electronics without the need for manual access in the relatively compact vessel or housing.
US10411442B2
A bracket comprises a first bracket configured to hold-down an assembly in place and release the assembly when the assembly is to be removed. The assembly has first and/or second holes. The first bracket includes a first arm and a second arm. The first arm has a first major flat surface with a first hole that is configured to receive a first fastener. The first arm has a first end and a second end. The second arm is coupled to the second end of the first arm. The second arm has a first opening that is configured to receive a tool to bend the second arm for deforming the first bracket in a way that releases the assembly. The second arm has a second major flat surface disposed transverse to the first major flat surface of the first arm. The second arm has a first end and a second end. The second end of the second arm has a first nail feature to be inserted into one of the first and/or second holes of the assembly to hold-down the assembly in place.
US10411441B2
Load centers with neutral bus bars that allow plug-on neutral circuit breakers to couple thereto and can accommodate short body branch circuit breakers with plug-on clips. The neutral bus bars can have a rectangular profile and can have a curvilinear shape to position one long segment of the neutral bus bar, closer to the line connectors than another shorter segment thereof.
US10411436B2
A tunable laser device includes a laser structure and a plurality of individually addressable, separated contact stripes disposed on the laser structure. The laser structure includes a substrate, an active portion disposed on the substrate, and a chirped distributed feedback (DFB) grating disposed on the active portion. The active portion includes at least top and bottom contact layers and a gain medium.
US10411429B2
A conductive member production method is performed with use of a die that includes a first die and a second die. The first die includes a protruding portion having a recession-shaped depression formed in a leading end surface, the depression including a molding surface that is inclined so as to gradually extend toward the leading end surface side while extending laterally from the depression. The second die includes a recessed portion into which the protruding portion can be inserted. The method includes a heating step of heating a weld portion formation region that is a portion, with respect to an extending direction, of a conductive member constituted by multiple metal strands, and a pressing step in which the heated weld portion formation region is sandwiched between and pressed by the protruding portion of the first die and the recessed portion of the second die.
US10411428B2
An electrical connector is provided. The electrical connector includes a body, a positioning component, and a movable cover. The body has a first end and a second end facing away therefrom. The first end has a first socket where an electrical plug is connected. The second end has a second socket where a transmission line is connected. The transmission line is arranged extending in a first direction. The positioning component is disposed at the second end. The lateral sides of the positioning component each include a first rib and a second rib. The first ribs and the second ribs extend along a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The movable cover is disposed on a side of the positioning component away from the body. The movable cover is rotatable relative to the positioning component.
US10411425B2
Disclosed herein are a connector capable of efficiently utilizing a space of a display device and a modular connector including a plurality of ports. A connector configured to be mounted on a display device receiving a signal from an external device, the connector comprises a body, a plurality of connection terminals provided on one side of the body and connected to a cable to which the external device is connected, and a printed circuit board (PCB) connection terminal provided on the other side of the body and mounted on the display device, wherein the body, the plurality of connection terminals, and the PCB connection terminal are provided as a single module.
US10411424B2
A conductive building block having multi-sided conductivity includes a first stud disposed on a top side surface of an outer housing; a second stud disposed on a lateral side surface of the outer housing; and an engaging recess disposed on a bottom side surface of the outer housing. A circuit board, first positive-and-negative electrode connection pieces and second positive-and-negative electrode connection pieces are received in the outer housing. An illuminating member is mounted on the circuit board. The first positive-and-negative electrode connection piece is electrically connected with the circuit board and passes through the first stud. The second positive-and-negative electrode connection piece is electrically connected with the first positive-and-negative electrode connection piece and passes through the second stud. The conductive building blocks can form the longitudinal connection structure or the lateral connection structure, so that the connection ways of the conductive building blocks can be diversified.
US10411421B2
An electrical distribution system includes a housing coupled to a bus bar assembly. The bus bar assembly includes a plurality of bus bars and a plurality of insulators. The housing includes a rear wall defining a plurality of ports and a plurality of notches, and a plurality of sidewalls extending from the rear wall to a front of the housing, the rear wall and the plurality of sidewalls defining an interior space of the housing, the plurality of sidewalls cooperatively defining an opening opposite the rear wall, the plurality of bus bars aligned with the plurality of ports, and the plurality of insulators received in the plurality of notches. The system further includes a neutral connector, and a conductor electrically coupling the neutral connector to a bus bar of the plurality of bus bars through a port of the plurality of ports.
US10411403B2
The present disclosure relates to a card socket for an electronic device and, more particularly, to a card socket for an electronic device having an improved card insertion confirmation structure, wherein the structure of a card insertion confirmation terminal, which senses full insertion of a card or a tray into a card socket, is changed so as to improve stability of insertion of the card or the tray.
US10411400B2
In a connector unit including a connector and a connector cover that fits on the connector, the connector includes a guide means that guides electric wires in one direction, while the connector cover includes a pressing means that presses on and deforms the guide means so as to restrict the movement of the electric wires that are guided by the guide means, whereby the electric wires that are pulled out of the connector are oriented in the one direction in which the electric wires are guided by the guide means.
US10411386B2
A conductive connection terminal is extensible and compressible in a longitudinal direction, and includes: a first contact member including a first tip portion configured to contact with one electrode of a contact target, and a first base end portion; a second contact member including a second tip portion configured to contact with another electrode of the contact target, and a plurality of tongue parts configured to contact with the first base end portion; an elastic member configured to extend and compress the first contact member and the second contact member in the longitudinal direction; and a load applying unit configured to apply a load to the tongue parts in a direction bringing the tongue parts into contact with an outer circumference of the first base end portion.
US10411376B1
A PSAS female connector includes a body member, a terminal assembly, and a conductive member. The body member has a conductive groove and a tooth recess. The conductive groove is on a lateral side of the body member. The tooth recess is at an inner side of an edge of the conductive groove. The conductive member has a protrusion tooth and a protrusion strip, and is engaged in the conductive groove. The protrusion tooth is at an outer side of an edge of the conductive member. When the conductive member is engaged in the conductive groove, the protrusion tooth is geared to be engaged with the tooth recess. When the terminal assembly is engaged in the terminal groove, the protrusion strip and the terminal assembly are engaged with each other, thus improving the combination between the conductive member and the conductive groove.
US10411369B2
A cable splice includes a casing having a central portion and a first end including a first aperture. The casing defines an interior cavity. A guide assembly extends through the first opening into the interior cavity. A first clamp member is positioned in the interior cavity and moveable between a loading position and a terminated position. A first biasing member biases the first clamp member toward the terminated position. A carrier is positioned in the interior cavity between the first biasing member and the central region. A second clamp member is positioned in the carrier and moveable with respect to the carrier.
US10411365B2
A ground connection for an aluminum component has grounding bolt which is fastened to the component, with an adapter over the surface, and which is composed of a material having greater strength than the aluminum component and differs from the aluminum component in electrochemical series and has a thread element which clamps the cable shoe of the ground conductor on a corresponding contact area of the grounding bolt. Permanently high functional reliability is obtained by the grounding bolt and the adapter being composed of materials matched to one another so as to prevent corrosion and connected to one another in a cohesive manner, and the adapter is zinc-plated on the component side and is fastened to the component over a large surface area by a welded/soldered connection which is established using aluminum as an additional material.
US10411356B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, detecting a communication device in transit, determining a trajectory of the communication device, selecting a section from a plurality of sections of an array of dielectric antennas according to the trajectory of the communication device, where the section corresponds to a set of one more dielectric antennas from the array of dielectric antennas coupled to a set of launchers, and directing the set of launchers to launch electromagnetic waves directed to the set of one more dielectric antennas to generate a beam pattern directed to the communication device while in transit. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10411352B2
The present invention discloses an antenna tuning system and method thereof. The method comprises the following steps: choosing a parasitic antenna that combined with a main antenna, the strongest received signal strength indicator of a target station is detected; controlling the selected parasitic antenna that combined with a main antenna, to generate a scattering resonance through turning on or off a switch unit; and controlling a diffraction radiation pattern between the main antenna and the selected parasitic antenna through adjusting a load of a designed circuit.
US10411349B2
The present disclosure provides a system and methods for mitigating, or reducing, the intermodulation of an adaptive antenna array's radiating elements. A tunable element may be used with a bias component to increase linearity of the system. These tunable elements may modify a radiating element's capacitance or damping rate. Adjusting the shape of the radiating element or using switches may also modify the resonance strength. Variable couplers may further be added to a system to reduce intermodulation. An adaptive antenna array using the techniques described herein may have all or some of the elements co-located.
US10411345B2
To increase efficiency of optical control of phase shifting elements, arrangements comprising optical lenses are presented. The optical lenses may be arranged in reflective arrays so as to focus light from a light source on a phase shifting element, which may be placed in a feed point of an antenna, such as for example a lithographic antenna. In some embodiments, thus both optical controlling radiation and radio frequency, RF, power are concentrated in substantially the same place.
US10411341B2
An indoor antenna system comprises one or more antenna modules. Each antenna module comprises an antenna array configured to receive an input signal and generate a plurality of outputs, a selector that selects a subset of the plurality of outputs, and a converter that converts the subset of the plurality of outputs into a set of digital streams. The antenna system further includes a processor that receives and analyzes outputs from the one or more antenna modules and generates an output signal corresponding to the input signal, and a controller that controls states of the one or more antenna modules. Each antenna module is configurable to be in any of a plurality of states to receive the incoming signal. The controller is configured to cause the state of each antenna module to change.
US10411336B1
A pole structure has been modified to house the antenna arrays, radios and electrical apparatus associated with a wireless node or micro-cell site. The upper part of the pole, which can be configured as a light, utility, sign or flag pole, supports for encloses the node's antenna arrays. The lower portion of the pole, having a larger diameter than the upper part, encloses a street modular lattice core structure, on which the radios are supported on removable x-frame modules for ease of maintenance with optimal air flow and heat dissipation. A rolled steel outer skin/sheath of the lower pole has multiple hinged doors to provide ready access to the lattice core and the radios.
US10411327B2
An electronic device and an antenna device are provided herein. An electronic device includes a conductive sidewall; a conductive structure located within a space formed by the conductive sidewall and extending from the conductive sidewall, wherein the conductive structure includes a first surface directed toward a front of the portable electronic device and a second surface directed toward a back of the portable electronic device; a non-conductive structure located within the space formed by the conductive sidewall and contacting the conductive structure, wherein the non-conductive structure includes a first surface directed toward the front of the portable electronic device and a second surface directed toward the back of the portable electronic device; an antenna pattern electrically connected to the conductive structure; and a flexible conductive connector electrically connected to the conductive structure and the antenna pattern. The antenna pattern extends on a portion of the first surface of the conductive structure and on a portion of the first surface of the non-conductive structure, or extends on a portion of the second surface of the conductive structure and on a portion of the second surface of the non-conductive structure.
US10411325B2
An antenna device includes an antenna coil with first and second ends and an IC with at least first and second terminals. A closed loop including the antenna coil and the IC is defined by external terminals connected to a conductor pattern on a circuit board mounted to the circuit board. Accordingly, an antenna device and an antenna module that significantly reduce or prevent malfunctions before the antenna device is incorporated into an electronic apparatus, and a communication terminal apparatus including the antenna device or the antenna module, are provided.
US10411322B2
An improved antenna ball joint mount is provided that includes a hollow socket mechanically coupled to a spherical member with a locking part. The hollow socket and the spherical member are fully detachable to simplify the installation of an antenna. A user is able to set a position of the antenna to any point on a spherical sector surface within a range of motion allowed by a shape of joint components and rotate the antenna around own axis to adjust a polarization plane and then lock the mount in a predetermined position.
US10411316B2
Provided is a battery pack for a vehicle including an approximately rectangular pack case, a plurality of flat box-shaped battery modules, a cooling unit, and a junction box for storing a relay, in which: the plurality of battery modules is piled up flat in the pack case so that a terminal provided on a short side of each battery module is directed in a longitudinal direction of the pack case; the cooling unit is disposed at one end of the pack case in the longitudinal direction and configured to send and circulate cooling air in the pack case along an outer periphery of the pack case; and the junction box is disposed in a most downstream side of the circulating cooling air beside the cooling unit in a width direction of the pack case.
US10411315B2
A battery pack structure includes a chamber, a cooling duct arranged outside the pack case, and a connector that communicates the chamber and the cooling duct with each other. The connector includes a first opening, which is connected with the chamber in a state of being sealed by a first sealing member, a second opening, which is connected with a cooling duct in a state of being sealed by a second sealing member, a first sealing surface, which is formed in a peripheral part of the first opening and is either a tube-shaped surface or a plane that faces a chamber inlet surface though the first sealing member, and a second sealing surface, which is formed in a peripheral part of the second opening and is a tube-shaped surface or a plane that faces a duct outlet surface through the second sealing member.
US10411299B2
Electrolytes are described with additives that provide good shelf life with improved cycling stability properties. The electrolytes can provide appropriate high voltage stability for high capacity positive electrode active materials. The core electrolyte generally can comprise from about 1.1M to about 2.5M lithium electrolyte salt and a solvent that consists essentially of fluoroethylene carbonate and/or ethylene carbonate, dimethyl carbonate and optionally no more than about 40 volume percent methyl ethyl carbonate, and wherein the lithium electrolyte salt is selected from the group consisting of LiPF6, LiBF4 and combinations thereof. Desirable stabilizing additives include, for example, dimethyl methylphosphonate, thiophene or thiophene derivatives, and/or LiF with an anion complexing agent.
US10411295B2
According to one embodiment of the present invention, provided is an ionic conductor comprising lithium (Li), borohydride (BH4−), phosphorus (P), and sulfur (S), wherein, in X-ray diffraction (CuKα: λ=1.5405 Å), the ionic conductor has diffraction peaks, at least, at 2θ=14.4±1.0 deg, 15.0±1.0 deg, 24.9±1.0 deg, 29.2±1.5 deg, 30.3±1.5 deg, 51.1±2.5 deg and 53.5±2.5 deg.
US10411292B2
Provided are an all solid state secondary battery having a positive electrode active material layer, an inorganic solid electrolyte layer, and a negative electrode active material layer in this order, in which at least one layer of the positive electrode active material layer, the inorganic solid electrolyte layer, or the negative electrode active material layer includes an electrolytic polymerizable compound and an inorganic solid electrolyte, in which the electrolytic polymerizable compound is an electrolytic polymerizable compound having a molecular weight of less than 1,000 which is represented by any one of Formulae (1) to (5) below, and the inorganic solid electrolyte contains a metal belonging to Group I or II of the periodic table and has an ion conductivity of the metal being contained, an electrode sheet for a battery, and method for manufacturing an electrode sheet for a battery and an all solid state secondary battery. Reference signals each independently represent a specific atom, substituent, or linking group.
US10411291B2
Provided is a multivalent metal-ion battery comprising an anode, a cathode, and an electrolyte in ionic contact with the anode and the cathode to support reversible deposition and dissolution of a multivalent metal, selected from Ni, Zn, Be, Mg, Ca, Ba, La, Ti, Ta, Zr, Nb, Mn, V, Co, Fe, Cd, Cr, Ga, In, or a combination thereof, at the anode, wherein the anode contains the multivalent metal or its alloy as an anode active material and the cathode comprises a cathode active layer of graphitic carbon particles or fibers that are coated with a protective material. Such a metal-ion battery delivers a high energy density, high power density, and long cycle life.
US10411286B2
An alkali/oxidant battery is provided with an associated method of creating battery capacity. The battery is made from an anode including a reduced first alkali metal such as lithium (Li), sodium (Na), and potassium (K), when the battery is charged. The battery's catholyte includes an element, in the battery charged state, such as nickel oxyhydroxide (NiOOH), manganese(IV) (oxide Mn(4+)O2), or iron(III) oxyhydroxide Fe(3+)(OH)3), with the alkali metal hydroxide. An alkali metal ion permeable separator is interposed between the anolyte and the catholyte. For example, if the catholyte includes nickel(II) hydroxide (Ni(OH)2) in a battery discharged state, then it includes NiOOH in a battery charged state. To continue the example, the anolyte may include dissolved lithium ions (Li+) in a discharged state, with solid phase reduced Li formed on the anode in the battery charged state.
US10411285B2
Parasitic reactions, such as production of hydrogen and oxidation by oxygen, can occur under the operating conditions of flow batteries and other electrochemical systems. Such parasitic reactions can undesirably impact operating performance by altering the pH and/or state of charge of one or both electrolyte solutions in a flow battery. Electrochemical balancing cells can allow rebalancing of electrolyte solutions to take place. Electrochemical balancing cells suitable for placement in fluid communication with both electrolyte solutions of a flow battery can include: a first chamber containing a first electrode, a second chamber containing a second electrode, a third chamber disposed between the first chamber and the second chamber, an ion-selective membrane forming a first interface between the first chamber and the third chamber, and a bipolar membrane forming a second interface between the second chamber and the third chamber.
US10411278B2
A fuel cell vehicle on which a fuel cell system including a fuel cell is mounted includes a discharge mechanism configured to discharge moisture, generated by the fuel cell, from the fuel cell system to an outside of the vehicle, a camera configured to capture an image outside the vehicle, and an electronic control unit configured to determine whether predetermined control based on an information obtained from the image and executed or stopped in response to a driving status or drive mode of the vehicle in an on-state of an ignition switch is being executed, and, when it is determined that the predetermined control is being executed, execute a low discharge process in which a discharge flow rate of water vapor that is discharged from the discharge mechanism to the outside of the vehicle is reduced as compared to when it is determined that the predetermined control is stopped.
US10411259B2
A method of producing a positive electrode composition for a non-aqueous secondary battery is provided. The method includes heat-treating titanium boride particles at a temperature in a range of 150° C. to 300° C. under an oxygen-containing atmosphere to obtain heat-treated particles and mixing the heat-treated particles with a positive electrode active material comprising lithium transition metal complex oxide particles that comprise nickel in a composition and have a layered structure such that a content of the heat-treated particles relative to the lithium transition metal complex oxide particles is less than or equal to 1.5 mol % in titanium equivalent terms.
US10411257B2
An electrolyte is provided, which includes (a) 100 parts by weight of oxide-based solid state inorganic electrolyte, (b) 20 to 70 parts by weight of [Li(—OR1)n−OR2]Y, wherein R1 is C1-4 alkylene group, R2 is C1-4 alkyl group, n is 2 to 100, and Y is PF6−, BF4−, AsF6−, SbF6−, ClO4−, AlCl4−, GaCl4−, NO3−, C(SO2CF3)3−, N(SO2CF3)2−, SCN−, CF3CF2SO3−, C6F5SO3−, CF3CO2−, SO3F−, B(C6H5)4−, CF3SO3−, or a combination thereof, (c) 1 to 10 parts by weight of nano oxide, and (d) 1 to 20 parts by weight of binder. The electrolyte can be disposed between a positive electrode and a negative electrode to form a battery.
US10411244B2
A secondary battery includes an electrode body including a positive-electrode sheet and a negative-electrode sheet, an exterior body having an opening and accommodating the electrode body, a sealing body sealing the opening, a terminal electrically connected to the positive-electrode sheet and extending through a through-hole formed in the sealing body, and a conductive member connected to the terminal outside the sealing body. The conductive member includes a fuse. The fuse is covered by a cover. An insulating member is disposed between the conductive member including the fuse and the sealing body.
US10411237B2
Provided is a microporous polyolefin membrane which has excellent oxidation resistance and electrolyte injection performance and further has excellent permeability and strength balance. The multilayer, microporous polyolefin membrane has a first microporous layer containing polypropylene. The electrolyte injection performance is 20 seconds or less, at least one surface layer is the first microporous layer, and the PP distribution in the first microporous layer is uniform in the in-plane direction.
US10411229B2
An electronic apparatus with a lock mechanism for locking a battery in a battery compartment, with high space efficiency, even when the sizes of an apparatus body and the battery are reduced. A digital camera includes a battery compartment member formed with a battery compartment for removably accommodating a battery, a battery lid for opening and closing an insertion opening of the battery compartment, a pivot shaft for pivotally supporting the battery lid, a lock member for engaging the battery to lock the same, and an urging member for urging the battery lid in an opening direction. The lock member can move along an axis of the pivot shaft between a position for engaging the battery and a position for releasing the engagement. The urging member is disposed coaxially with the pivot shaft and urges the lock member toward the position for engaging the battery.
US10411215B2
The present disclosure provides an organic light-emitting display device including: a substrate; a first electrode configured to be disposed on the substrate; an organic layer configured to be disposed on the first electrode; a second electrode configured to be disposed on the organic layer; an anti-peeling layer configured to be disposed on the second electrode and to include an inorganic material; and a protective layer configured to be disposed on the anti-peeling layer and to include a metal oxide, and a method for manufacturing the organic light-emitting display device.
US10411214B2
Provided is a light emitting device configured to suppress deterioration in a balance of white light emission and increase a service life. The light emitting device includes a red light emitting layer, a blue light emitting layer, a green light emitting layer, a first intermediate layer configured to adjust a transfer of holes and electrons between the red light emitting layer and the blue light emitting layer, and a second intermediate layer configured to adjust the transfer of holes and electrons between the blue light emitting layer and the green light emitting layer. The intermediate layers and the blue light emitting layer each contain an assist dopant material, a concentration of the assist dopant material in the intermediate layers being greater than a concentration of the assist dopant material in the blue light emitting layer.
US10411207B2
An organic EL display device (1) includes: an organic EL display panel (2) including a flexible plastic substrate and an organic EL element formed on the plastic substrate; and a protective member (3) provided on the organic EL display panel (2), the protective member (3) being bendable. The protective member (3) includes a plurality of protective layers (3a) to (3e) stacked so as to be mutually slidable. The organic EL display panel (2) and the protective layer (3a) being in contact with the organic EL display panel (2) are fixed to each other.
US10411192B2
An aromatic amine derivative having a specific structure, an organic electroluminescence device, and an electronic equipment are provided. The organic electroluminescence device includes organic thin film layers which include a light emitting layer and are disposed between a cathode and an anode. At least one layer of the organic thin film layers includes the aromatic amine derivative. The organic electroluminescence device can be operated at low driving voltage and has high efficiency. The compound achieves the above organic electroluminescence device.
US10411187B2
A phase change material for a phase change memory and a preparing method thereof. The phase change material for a phase change memory has a chemical formula of Sc100-x-y-zGexSbyTez, wherein 0≤x≤60, 0≤y≤90, 0
US10411173B2
A light emitting device and light emitting module using the same are provided. The light emitting device includes a substrate, a light-emitting element provided on the substrate, and a light transmissive sealing member covering the light-emitting element on the substrate. The light transmissive sealing member includes a body portion and a lens portion that are sequentially disposed from a substrate side.
US10411167B2
A semiconductor light emitting apparatus includes: a stem part having a stem base, a lead terminal, and a metal member having a closed shape, the stem base having an inner portion having a first face, a second face and an opening extending in a first direction from the first face to the second face, and an outer portion surrounding the inner portion, the inner and outer portions being arranged along a reference plane intersecting the first direction, the lead terminal being supported in the opening, and the metal member being disposed on the outer portion so as to surround the inner portion and having a first portion supported by a top face of the outer portion, and a second portion extending outward with reference to an edge of the outer portion; a semiconductor optical element disposed on the inner portion; and a cap disposed on the metal member.
US10411160B2
An optoelectronic component includes an active zone that generates electromagnetic radiation, wherein the electromagnetic radiation is guided in a guide plane, the electromagnetic radiation is output essentially in the guide plane, the active zone emits stray radiation laterally with respect to the guide plane, an electrical contact pad is provided, the contact pad is arranged outside the guide plane, the contact pad is formed by a surface at least partially covered by a conductive layer, the surface has inclined partial faces, and the electrically conductive layer on at least a subset of the inclined faces of the contact pad is configured to be so thin that electromagnetic stray radiation is emitted via the subset of the inclined faces.
US10411154B2
An RAMO4 substrate including a single crystal represented by a general formula RAMO4, wherein R represents one or more trivalent elements selected from a group consisting of Sc, In, Y, and lanthanide elements, A represents one or more trivalent elements selected from a group consisting of Fe(III), Ga, and Al, and M represents one or more divalent elements selected from the group consisting of Mg, Mn, Fe(II), Co, Cu, Zn, and Cd, in which a main plane of the RAMO4 substrate has an off-angle a tilted θa° with respect to an M-axis direction from a C-plane and 0.05°≤|θa|≤0.8° is satisfied.
US10411152B2
A bonding apparatus includes a heat source, a first plate, a second plate, and an actuation mechanism. The first plate is coupled to the heat source. The first and second plates are thermally conductive and configured to cover an entire solar cell. The actuation mechanism moves the bonding apparatus between an open position and a closed position. In the closed position, the first plate and the second plate contact opposite surfaces of the solar cell. The second plate is configured to dissipate heat such that the second plate has a lower temperature than the first plate when in the closed position. The first plate and the second plate apply a force to the solar cell, the force at a first end of the solar cell being different than at a second end of the solar cell when the bonding apparatus is in or moving to the closed position.
US10411147B2
A solar panel is constructed by electrically connecting one or more banks of solar cells in series, wherein each cell in each bank is electrically connected in series. In some aspects the cells are a quarter of typical full size cells in the direction of current flow. A panel may comprise banks of differing cell counts. Bypass diodes are not used.
US10411143B2
A solid-state imaging element including: a sensor substrate in which a photoelectric conversion section is arranged and formed; a circuit substrate in which a circuit for driving the photoelectric conversion section is formed, the circuit substrate being laminated to the sensor substrate; a sensor side electrode drawn out to a surface of the sensor substrate on a side of the circuit substrate and formed as one of a projection electrode and a depression electrode; and a circuit side electrode drawn out to a surface of the circuit substrate on a side of the sensor substrate, formed as one of the depression electrode and the projection electrode, and joined to the sensor side electrode in a state of the circuit side electrode and the sensor side electrode being fitted together.
US10411136B2
A semiconductor device having a structure which can prevent a decrease in electrical characteristics due to miniaturization is provided. The semiconductor device includes, over an insulating surface, a stack in which a first oxide semiconductor layer and a second oxide semiconductor layer are sequentially formed, and a third oxide semiconductor layer covering part of a surface of the stack. The third oxide semiconductor layer includes a first layer in contact with the stack and a second layer over the first layer. The first layer includes a microcrystalline layer, and the second layer includes a crystalline layer in which c-axes are aligned in a direction perpendicular to a surface of the first layer.
US10411126B2
A semiconductor device includes an electrically conductive lead frame which includes a die pad and a plurality of electrically conductive leads, each of the leads in the plurality being spaced apart from the die pad. The semiconductor device further includes first and second integrated switching devices mounted on the die pad, each of the first and second integrated switching devices include electrically conductive gate, source and drain terminals. The source terminal of the first integrated switching device is disposed on a rear surface of the first integrated switching device that faces and electrically connects with the die pad. The drain terminal of the second integrated switching device is disposed on a rear surface of the second integrated switching device that faces and electrically connects with the die pad.
US10411123B2
In an HEMT device, a gate region is formed in a wafer having a channel layer, a barrier layer, and a passivation layer, overlying each other. Drain and source electrodes are formed in the wafer, on different sides of the gate region. A dielectric layer is formed over the gate region and over the passivation layer. Selective portions of the dielectric layer are removed by a plurality of etches so as to form one or more cavities between the gate region and the drain electrode. The one or more cavities have a plurality of steps at an increasing distance from the wafer moving from the gate region to the drain electrode. The cavity is then filled with conductive material to form a field plate coupled to the source electrode, extending over the gate region, and having a surface facing the wafer and having a plurality of steps.
US10411117B2
A semiconductor device of an embodiment includes a semiconductor layer having a first plane and a second plane, a first semiconductor region of a first conductivity type, a second semiconductor region and a third semiconductor region of a second conductivity type, the first semiconductor region interposed between the third semiconductor region and the second semiconductor region, a first well region of a first conductivity type, a second well region of a first conductivity type separated from the first well region, a first contact region of a first conductivity type, a second contact region of a first conductivity type, a gate electrode provided on the first semiconductor region between the first well region and the second well region, a source electrode having a first region in contact with the first contact region and a second region in contact with the second contact region, and a drain electrode.
US10411108B2
A vertical Schottky diode includes an ohmic contact, a first epitaxial N-type gallium nitride layer physically contacting the ohmic contact and having a first doping concentration, and a second epitaxial N-type gallium nitride layer physically contacting the first epitaxial N-type gallium nitride layer and having a second doping concentration that is lower than the first doping concentration. The vertical Schottky diode further includes a first edge termination region and a second edge termination region coupled to the second epitaxial N-type gallium nitride layer and separated from each other by a portion of the second epitaxial N-type gallium nitride layer, and a Schottky contact coupled to the portion of the second epitaxial N-type gallium nitride layer, and to the first edge termination region and the second edge termination region.
US10411102B2
A structure by which electric-field concentration which might occur between a source electrode and a drain electrode in a bottom-gate thin film transistor is relaxed and deterioration of the switching characteristics is suppressed, and a manufacturing method thereof. A bottom-gate thin film transistor in which an oxide semiconductor layer is provided over a source and drain electrodes is manufactured, and angle θ1 of the side surface of the source electrode which is in contact with the oxide semiconductor layer and angle θ2 of the side surface of the drain electrode which is in contact with the oxide semiconductor layer are each set to be greater than or equal to 20° and less than 90°, so that the distance from the top edge to the bottom edge in the side surface of each electrode is increased.
US10411099B2
A semiconductor device includes first and second electrodes spaced apart along a first direction, a first semiconductor region of a first conductivity type between the first and second electrodes, first and second conductive regions between the first semiconductor region and the second electrode and electrically connected to the second electrode, a third electrode between the first and second conductive regions, second and third semiconductor regions of a second conductivity type respectively between the first and second conductive regions and the third electrode, and fourth and fifth semiconductor regions of the first conductivity type respectively between the second and third semiconductor regions and the second electrode. The third electrode extends in the first direction toward the first electrode farther than portions of the second and third semiconductor regions that are alongside the third electrode.
US10411098B2
A semiconductor device and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The semiconductor device includes a first stacked structure, a second stacked structure, an isolation layer and a gate. The first stacked structure is disposed on a substrate, and includes a first GaN channel layer disposed on the substrate and having an N crystal phase and a first barrier layer disposed on the first GaN channel layer. The second stacked structure is disposed on the substrate, and includes a second GaN channel layer disposed on the substrate and having a Ga crystal phase and a second barrier layer disposed on the second GaN channel layer. The isolation layer is disposed between the first stacked structure and the second stacked structure. The gate is disposed on the first stacked structure, the isolation layer and the second stacked structure.
US10411093B2
An active cell region, an edge termination region surrounding the active cell region and an intermediate region located at an intermediate position between these regions are provided, the active cell region has a trench gate type MOS structure on a top side, and a vertical structure on a bottom side includes a p-collector layer, an n-buffer layer on the p-collector layer, and an n-drift layer on the n-buffer layer, the n-buffer layer has a first buffer portion provided on the p-collector layer side, and a second buffer portion provided on the n-drift layer side, the peak impurity concentration of the first buffer portion is higher than the peak impurity concentration of the second buffer portion, and the impurity concentration gradient on the n-drift layer side of the second buffer portion is gentler than the impurity concentration gradient on the n-drift layer side of the first buffer portion.
US10411091B1
Integrated circuits employing a field gate(s) without dielectric layers and/or work function metal layers for reduced gate layout parasitic resistance, and related methods are disclosed. At least a portion of the dielectric layers and/or work function metal layers present in active gate(s) is not present in a field gate(s) of a gate in a circuit cell. The field gate(s) have more conductive gate material than the active gate(s). In this manner, the increased volume of gate material in the field gate(s) reduces gate layout parasitic resistance. The active gate(s) retains the dielectric layers and/or work function metal layers to effectively isolate the gate material from a channel of a FET formed from the circuit cell to provide effective channel control. Reducing gate layout parasitic resistance can reduce current (I) resistance (R) (IR) drop to achieve the desired drive strength in the integrated circuit.
US10411084B2
Disclosed is a flexible display device. The flexible display device includes a base layer including a first portion in which an organic light emitting diode is disposed on a first surface and a second portion which has a bended section bent toward a second surface which is opposite to the first surface at the outside of the first portion; and conductive lines in the bended section, the conductive lines are disposed on two or more layers, and the conductive lines extend in a direction which is not parallel to a bending direction of the bended section.
US10411081B2
Provided are an organic electroluminescent display panel, a preparation method thereof, and a display device. In the organic electroluminescent display panel provided in the present disclosure, an etching layer comprising at least a convex with a narrow upper portion and a wide upper portion is disposed between a base substrate and a plurality of display components, wherein a top surface of the convex is in an display area of the base substrate, a display component on an edge of the display area of the base substrate extends beyond the convex, and an inorganic film of a thin film encapsulation structure is broken at a tip of the display component extending beyond the convex.
US10411080B2
A flexible organic electroluminescent device and a method for fabricating the same includes a substrate defined with a display area including a plurality of pixel regions and a non-display area at the outside thereof; a switching thin film transistor and a drive thin film transistor formed at the each pixel region on the substrate; an organic insulating layer deposited on the substrate including the switching thin film transistor and drive thin film transistor to expose a drain electrode of the drive thin film transistor; a first electrode formed in each pixel region on the inorganic insulating layer, and connected to the drain electrode of the drive thin film transistor; banks formed around each pixel region on the substrate including the first electrode and separated from one another; an organic light emitting layer separately formed for each pixel region on the first electrode; a second electrode formed on an entire surface of the display area on the organic light emitting layer; and an organic layer formed on an entire surface of the substrate including the second electrode.
US10411067B2
Techniques are disclosed for forming a monolithic integrated circuit semiconductor structure that includes a radio frequency (RF) frontend portion and may further include a CMOS portion. The RF frontend portion includes componentry implemented with column III-N semiconductor materials such as gallium nitride (GaN), indium nitride (InN), aluminum nitride (AlN), and compounds thereof, and the CMOS portion includes CMOS logic componentry implemented with semiconductor materials selected from group IV of the periodic table, such as silicon, germanium, and/or silicon germanium (SiGe). Either of the CMOS or RF frontend portions can be native to the underlying substrate to some degree. The techniques can be used, for example, for system-on-chip integration of III-N transistors and/or RF filters, along with column IV CMOS devices on a single substrate. In a more general sense, the techniques can be used for SoC integration of an RF frontend having diverse III-N componentry on a single substrate, in accordance with some embodiments.
US10411053B2
The present disclosure relates to a solid state imaging element and an electronic device that make it possible to improve sensitivity to light on a long wavelength side. A solid state imaging element according to a first aspect of the present disclosure has a solid state imaging element in which a large number of pixels are arranged vertically and horizontally, the solid state imaging element includes a periodic concave-convex pattern on a light receiving surface and an opposite surface to the light receiving surface of a light absorbing layer as a light detecting element. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, a CMOS and the like installed in a sensor that needs a high sensitivity to light belonging to a region on the long wavelength side, such as light in the infrared region.
US10411046B2
A thin film transistor array substrate includes: a base substrate; a first transistor including a first electrode on a surface of the base substrate, a spacer, on the first electrode, a second electrode on the spacer, a first active layer contacting the first electrode, the spacer and the second electrode, and a first gate electrode opposite to the first active layer with a first insulating layer interposed therebetween; a storage capacitor including a first storage electrode integrally connected to the first electrode or the second electrode, and a second storage electrode opposite to the first storage electrode with the first insulating layer interposed therebetween, where the second storage electrode is integrally connected to the first gate electrode; and a second transistor electrically connected to the storage capacitor, where the second transistor includes a second active layer extending in a direction intersecting the base substrate.
US10411043B2
A liquid crystal display device includes a display panel, a signal generator, a plurality of wires, and a controller. The display panel has a plurality of pixels. The signal generator supplies data signal to the pixels. The wires connect output ends of the signal generator to input ends of the pixels, respectively. The controller varies voltage waveform corresponding to the data signal at the output ends by varying both a voltage level at a rising edge of the voltage waveform and a voltage level at a falling edge of the voltage waveform.
US10411035B2
Systems and methods herein relate to the fabrication of a single-crystal flexible semiconductor template that may be attached to a semiconductor device. The template fabricated comprises a plurality of single crystals grown by lateral epitaxial growth on a seed layer and bonded to a flexible substrate. The layer grown has portions removed to create windows that add to the flexibility of the template.
US10411033B2
A semiconductor device includes a plurality of channel structures on a substrate, each channel structure extending in a first direction perpendicular to the substrate, and having a gate insulating layer and a channel layer, a common source extension region including a first semiconductor layer having an n-type conductivity between the substrate and the channel structures, a plurality of gate electrodes on the common source extension region and spaced apart from each other on a sidewall of each of the channel structures in the first direction, and a common source region on the substrate in contact with the common source extension region and including a second semiconductor layer having an n-type conductivity, wherein the gate insulating layer of each of the channel structures extends to cover an upper surface and at least a portion of a bottom surface of the common source extension region.
US10411031B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a stack, and channel structures penetrating the stack. The stack includes gate electrodes and insulating layers alternately and repeatedly stacked on the substrate, and extending in a first direction. The channel structures in a first row are spaced apart from each other in the first direction. The stack includes a first sidewall that includes first recessed portions and first protruding portions. Each of first recessed portions is defined by an adjacent pair of the first recessed portions. Each of the first recessed portions has a shape recessed toward a first region of the stack between an adjacent pair of the channel structures of the first row. Each of the first recessed portions has a width that decreases in a direction toward the first region when measured along the first direction.
US10411026B2
The present disclosure includes methods of forming, and semiconductor structures for, integrated computing structures formed on silicon. An example method includes forming, on a silicon semiconductor material, an integrated computing structure by forming a number of complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) devices including a plurality of materials, forming a non-volatile memory (NVM) device including a plurality of materials, and forming the plurality of materials of the CMOS devices and the plurality of materials of the NVM device from a plurality of same materials shared at a corresponding plurality of positions within the structure. A particular function is provided by each of the plurality of same materials at the corresponding plurality of positions.
US10411019B2
A device is disclosed that includes a memory bit cell, a first word line, a pair of metal islands and a pair of connection metal lines. The first word line is disposed in a first metal layer and is electrically coupled to the memory bit cell. The pair of metal islands are disposed in the first metal layer at opposite sides of the word line and are electrically coupled to a power supply. The pair of connection metal lines are disposed in a second metal layer and are configured to electrically couple the metal islands to the memory bit cell respectively.
US10411018B2
Various embodiments provide semiconductor structures and their fabrication methods. An SRAM memory cell can include at least one semiconductor structure, and an SRAM memory can include at least one SRAM memory cell. An exemplary semiconductor structure can include at least two adjacent transistors formed on a semiconductor substrate. An opening can be formed and surrounded by gates of the two adjacent transistors and a doped region formed between the gates of the two adjacent transistors. A conductive layer can be formed to at least partially cover a bottom and a sidewall of the opening to electrically connect a gate of one transistor with the doped region of the other transistor of the two adjacent transistors.
US10411011B2
A dummy gate electrode layer and a dummy gate mask layer may be formed on a substrate. The dummy gate mask layer may be patterned to form a dummy gate mask so that a portion of the dummy gate electrode layer is exposed. Ions may be implanted into the exposed portion of the dummy gate electrode layer and a portion of the dummy gate electrode layer adjacent thereto by an angled ion implantation to form a growth blocking layer in the dummy gate electrode layer. The dummy gate electrode layer may be etched using the dummy gate mask as an etching mask to form a dummy gate electrode. A spacer may be formed on side surfaces of a dummy gate structure including the dummy gate electrode and the dummy gate mask. An SEG process may be performed to form an epitaxial layer.
US10411003B2
A transistor includes a first insulator over a substrate; a first oxide thereover; a second oxide in contact with at least part of the top surface of the first oxide; a first conductor and a second conductor each in contact with at least part of the top surface of the second oxide; a third oxide that is over the first conductor and the second conductor and is in contact with at least part of the top surface of the second oxide; a second insulator thereover; a third conductor which is over the second insulator and at least part of which overlaps with a region between the first conductor and the second conductor; and a third insulator which is over the third conductor and at least part of which is in contact with the top surface of the first insulator. The thickness of a region of the first insulator that is in contact with the third insulator is less than the thickness of a region of the first insulator that is in contact with the first oxide.
US10410997B2
Light emitting diode (LED) devices and methods. An example apparatus can include a substrate, one or more LEDs, light-transmissive encapsulation material, and a reflective material covering a portion of the encapsulation material to form a defined opening. The opening allows light emitted from an LED to pass through in a prescribed manner. In some embodiments, the apparatus can be subsequently treated to modify the surface having the opening. In other embodiments, the reflective material can be disposed on a lateral surface of the encapsulation material to reflect light in a desired direction.
US10410995B2
An image processing device includes: an integrated circuit chip arranged on a substrate to perform processing on image data; a first memory chip arranged adjacent to the integrated circuit chip on the substrate and connected to the integrated circuit chip; and a second memory chip stacked on the integrated circuit chip and connected to the integrated circuit chip, wherein the integrated circuit chip sets, according to the processing content, any one of a plurality of operation modes including a first operation mode to operate the first memory chip and limit operation of the second memory chip, and a second operation mode to operate the first memory chip and the second memory chip.
US10410992B2
A ball forming device 50 for forming a ball 43 at a tip of a wire 42 by producing discharge between a torch electrode 48 and the tip of the wire 42, the device includes: a current supply unit 54 configured to supply a ball-forming current between the torch electrode 48 and the tip of the wire 42; and a current control unit 57 configured to control the current supply unit 54, so that a signal of the ball-forming current for a predetermined period includes a first period in which the signal takes a predetermined current value and a second period including a triangle wave. With this, it is possible to provide a ball forming device, a wire-bonding apparatus, and a ball formation method that are capable of suppressing formation of deformed balls.
US10410986B2
A semiconductor device and its manufacturing method are presented. The manufacturing method includes: providing a semiconductor structure comprising: an interlayer dielectric layer, a first metal layer surrounded by the interlayer dielectric layer, and a semiconductor layer on the interlayer dielectric layer; etching the semiconductor layer to form an opening exposing the interlayer dielectric layer, wherein the opening comprises a first opening and a second opening on the first opening; forming an insulation layer on the semiconductor structure; etching the insulation layer and the interlayer dielectric layer at the bottom of the first opening to form a groove exposing a portion of the first metal layer; forming a second metal layer on the insulation layer and on the bottom and a side surface of the groove; and patterning the second metal layer. The second metal layer in this inventive concept can be removed more completely than conventional methods.
US10410984B1
Package design method for semiconductor chip package for high speed SerDes signals for optimization of package differential impedance and reduction of package differential insertion loss and differential return loss at data rates of 25 to 60 Gb/s and beyond. The method optimizes parameters of vertical interconnections of BGA ball, via, and PTH, and around the joint between vertical and horizontal interconnections of traces. Also disclosed are examples of chip package designs for high speed SerDes signals, including one using 0.8 mm BGA ball pitch and IO-layer buildup substrate, one using 1 mm BGA ball pitch and 14-layer buildup substrate, one using 6-layer buildup substrate with signals routed on top and bottom metal layers with microstrip line structure, and one using 12-layer package substrate with unique via configuration, all of which achieve low substrate differential impedance discontinuity, reduced differential insertion loss and differential return loss between BGA balls and C4 bumps.
US10410974B2
Semiconductor packages and a methods for manufacturing a semiconductor package are provided. The method includes providing a package including a substrate, a semiconductor chip provided on the substrate, and a molding layer provided on the substrate and covering the semiconductor chip, the substrate including a ground pattern exposed at one surface of the substrate; and applying a solution including metal particles and a conductive carbon material onto the molding layer to form a shielding layer covering the molding layer. The shielding layer includes the metal particles and the conductive carbon material connected to at least one of the metal particles. The shielding layer extends onto the one surface of the substrate and is electrically connected to the ground pattern.
US10410972B2
The present disclosure relates to a shielded integrated module, which includes a module substrate with a number of perimeter bond pads, at least one electronic component attached to the module substrate and encapsulated by a mold compound, a number of perimeter vertical shield contacts, and a shielding structure. The perimeter bond pads are surrounding the at least one electronic component and encapsulated by the mold compound. Each perimeter vertical shield contact is coupled to a corresponding perimeter bond pad and extends through the mold compound, such that a top tip of each perimeter vertical shield contact is exposed at a top surface of the mold compound. The shielding structure completely covers the top surface of the mold compound and is in contact with the perimeter vertical shield contacts.
US10410957B2
Field-effect transistor (FET) devices are described herein that include one or more body contacts implemented near source, gate, drain (S/G/D) assemblies to improve the influence of a voltage applied at the body contact on the S/G/D assemblies. For example, body contacts can be implemented between S/G/D assemblies rather than on the ends of such assemblies. This can advantageously improve body contact influence on the S/G/D assemblies while maintaining a targeted size for the FET device.
US10410953B2
A power conversion device includes a semiconductor module with switching elements incorporated therein, a plurality of components electrically connected to the semiconductor module, and a laminated cooler provided with a plurality of cooling plates. A laminate is constituted by laminating at least the plurality of cooling plates and the semiconductor module, at least one among the plurality of cooling plates constituting the laminate is a large area cooling plate in which a projected area when viewed from the stacking direction is larger than the other cooling plates, and at least one of the components is a specific arrangement component which, when viewed from the stacking direction, is arranged in a specific position which overlaps the large area cooling plate, and, when viewed from a direction orthogonal to the stacking direction, overlaps with the laminate.
US10410952B2
Power semiconductor packages described herein each include a substrate having two or more metal layers and one or more insulating layers for separating the metal layers. The substrate insulating layers are formed from a polymer material to reduce the CTE mismatch between the substrate metal layers and the substrate insulating layers.
US10410949B2
A package comprising at least one electronic chip, a first heat removal body thermally coupled to a first main surface of the at least one electronic chip and configured for removing thermal energy from the at least one electronic chip, an encapsulant encapsulating at least part of the at least one electronic chip, and part of the first heat removal body, wherein at least part of a surface of the first heat removal body is roughened.
US10410943B2
A system and a method for passivating a surface of a semiconductor. The method includes providing the surface of the semiconductor to a reaction chamber of a reactor, exposing the surface of the semiconductor to a gas-phase metal containing precursor in the reaction chamber and exposing the surface of the semiconductor to a gas-phase chalcogenide containing precursor. The methods also include passivating the surface of the semiconductor using the gas-phase metal containing precursor and the gas-phase chalcogenide containing precursor to form a passivated surface. The system for passivating a surface of a semiconductor may include a reactor, a metal containing precursor source fluidly coupled to the reactor, and a chalcogenide containing precursor source fluidly couple to the reactor, wherein the metal containing precursor source provides a gas-phase metal containing precursor to a reaction chamber of the reactor, and wherein the chalcogenide containing precursor source provides a gas-phase chalcogenide containing precursor to a reaction chamber of the reactor.
US10410942B2
A semiconductor package device includes a substrate, an electronic component, a bonding wire, a heat spreader, a thermal conductive structure and an encapsulant. The electronic component is disposed on the substrate. The bonding wire connects the electronic component to the substrate. The heat spreader is disposed over the electronic component. The thermal conductive structure is disposed between the heat spreader and the electronic component. The thermal conductive structure includes two polymeric layers and a thermal conductive layer. The conductive layer is disposed between the two polymeric layers. The thermal conductive layer has a first end in contact with the electronic component and a second end in contact with the heat spreader. The encapsulant covers the bonding wire.
US10410940B2
An embodiment includes a method comprising: coupling a sacrificial material to a substrate; forming a first dielectric material adjacent the sacrificial material such that a horizontal axis intersects the first dielectric material and the sacrificial material; forming a first layer, on the first dielectric material and the sacrificial material, which includes a first metal interconnect and a third dielectric material; decoupling the substrate from the first dielectric material and the sacrificial material; removing the sacrificial material to form an empty cavity with sidewalls comprising the first dielectric material; after removing the sacrificial material to form the empty cavity, inserting a first die into the empty cavity; and forming a second dielectric material between the first dielectric material and the first die such that the horizontal axis intersects the first and second dielectric materials and the first die. Other embodiments are described herein.
US10410930B2
Various methods are disclosed herein for fabricating non-planar circuit devices having strain-producing features. An exemplary method includes forming a fin structure that includes a first portion that includes a first semiconductor material and a second portion that includes a second semiconductor material that is different than the first semiconductor material. The method further includes forming a masking layer over a source region and a drain region of the fin structure, forming a strain-producing feature over the first portion of the fin structure in a channel region, removing the masking layer and forming an isolation feature over the strain-producing feature, forming an epitaxial feature over the second portion of the fin structure in the source region and the drain region, and performing a gate replacement process to form a gate structure over the second portion of the fin structure in the channel region.
US10410928B2
In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, a method of forming a densified fill layer is provided. The method includes forming a pair of adjacent vertical fins on a substrate, forming an inner liner on the sidewalls of the adjacent vertical fins, and forming a sacrificial layer on the inner liner. The method further includes forming a fill layer between the pair of adjacent vertical fins, wherein the fill layer is in contact with at least a portion of the sacrificial layer, removing at least a portion of the sacrificial layer in contact with the fill layer to form sidewall channels adjacent to the fill layer, and subjecting the fill layer to a densification process to form the densified fill layer.
US10410920B2
A semiconductor structure includes a semiconductor substrate having fins and gate structures on the fins. A protective layer is formed on top surfaces of the gate structures. Sidewall spacers are formed on side surfaces of the gate structures and the protective layer. A first dielectric layer is formed on the surface of the semiconductor substrate and covering the fins and the side surfaces of the sidewall spacers. A mask layer is formed on a portion of the first dielectric layer between adjacent gate structures. The mask layer and the protective layer are formed by etching a mask material layer. A second dielectric layer is formed on the first dielectric layer, the protective layer and the sidewall spacers and covering the side surfaces of the mask layer. Conductive vias are formed in the first dielectric layer between the adjacent gate structures and at both sides of the mask layer.
US10410913B2
A method for forming metal contacts within a semiconductor device includes forming a first-layer contact into a first dielectric layer that surrounds at least one gate electrode, the first-layer contact extending to a doped region of an underlying substrate. The method further includes forming a second dielectric layer over the first dielectric layer and forming a second-layer contact extending through the second dielectric layer to the first-layer contact.
US10410911B2
A method of fabricating a semiconductor device includes forming a buried insulation region within a substrate by processing the substrate using etching and deposition processes. A semiconductor layer is formed over the buried insulation region at a first side of the substrate. Device regions are formed in the semiconductor layer. The substrate is thinned from a second side of the substrate to expose the buried insulation region. The buried insulation region is selectively removed to expose a bottom surface of the substrate. A conductive region is formed under the bottom surface of the substrate.
US10410908B2
A plate-like base of a substrate holder has an upper surface perpendicular to a central axis. A supporter is disposed circumferentially around the central part of the base and protrudes upward from the upper surface of the base to support the lower surface of a substrate. A flexible seal is disposed around the entire periphery of the supporter. An upper edge portion of the seal is located above the supporter. When the substrate holder adsorbs a substrate, gas present between the base and the substrate is sucked through a suction port with the upper edge portion of the seal being in contact with the lower surface of the substrate. This allows the substrate to approach the base and come in contact with the supporter while making the seal bend down. As a result, even if there is a warp in a substrate, the substrate can be held suitably.
US10410903B2
Some embodiments include a method. The method can include: providing a carrier substrate; providing a bond promoting layer over the carrier substrate; and depositing a first device substrate over the carrier substrate and the bond promoting layer. The first device substrate can be configured to bond to the carrier substrate with a first device substrate-carrier substrate adhesion strength. Meanwhile, depositing the first device substrate can include: bonding the first device substrate to the bond promoting layer, the first device substrate bonding to the bond promoting layer with a first device substrate-bond promoting layer adhesion strength greater than the first device substrate-carrier substrate adhesion strength; and coupling the first device substrate to the carrier substrate. Other embodiments of related methods and devices are also disclosed.
US10410897B2
An electrostatic chuck includes an anisotropic heat conductor which is disposed between an attraction substrate and a first heater member, and has an upper surface and a lower surface, and a coefficient of thermal conductivity which varies depending on directions. The anisotropic heat conductor is disposed so that the coefficient of thermal conductivity in a plane direction is larger than the coefficient of thermal conductivity in a thickness direction. Further, the electrostatic chuck includes metal layers which are joined to the anisotropic heat conductor so as to cover the upper surface and the lower surface of the anisotropic heat conductor, and an adhesive layer which is provided on a surface of each metal layer, and joins the metal layer to the attraction substrate or the heater member. Moreover, at least one of the metal layers is a fused metal layer formed by solidifying a melted metal.
US10410896B2
A device for determining alignment errors of structures which are present on, or which have been applied to a substrate, comprising a substrate holder for accommodating the substrate with the structures and detection means for detecting X-Y positions of first markings on the substrate and/or second markings on the structures by moving the substrate or the detection means in a first coordinate system, wherein in a second coordinate system which is independent of the first coordinate system X′-Y′ structure positions for the structures are given whose respective distance from the X-Y positions of the first markings and/or second markings can be determined by the device.
US10410892B2
A method of semiconductor wafer bonding and system thereof are proposed. A first alignment mark of a first semiconductor wafer is aligned with a second alignment mark of a second semiconductor wafer. A partial attachment is performed between the first semiconductor wafer and the second semiconductor wafer. A scanning is performed along a direction substantially parallel to a surface of the first semiconductor wafer. It is determined if a bonding defect of the partially attached first semiconductor wafer and the second semiconductor wafer exists.
US10410886B2
Methods of fabricating a semiconductor device are provided. The methods may include forming a lower mold layer on a substrate that includes first and second regions, forming first and second intermediate mold patterns on the first and second regions, respectively, forming first spacers on sidewalls of the first and second intermediate mold patterns, etching the lower mold layer to form first and second lower mold patterns on the first and second regions, respectively, and etching the substrate to form active patterns and dummy patterns on the first and second regions, respectively. A first distance between a pair of the first intermediate mold patterns may be greater than a second distance between a pair of the second intermediate mold patterns, and the second lower mold patterns may include at least one first merged pattern, whose width is substantially equal to the second distance.
US10410885B2
Described herein methods of manufacturing dual-sided packaged electronic modules that control the distribution of an under-fill material between one or more components and a packaging substrate. The disclosed technologies include under-filling one or more components and deflashing a portion of the under-fill to remove under-fill material prior to attaching solder balls. The deflashing step removes a thin layer of under-fill material that may have coated contact pads for the ball grid array. Because the solder balls are not present during under-fill, there is little capillary action drawing material away from the components being under-filled. This can reduce the frequency of voids under the components being under-filled. Accordingly, the disclosed technologies control under-fill for dual-sided ball grid array packages using under-fill deflash prior to attaching solder balls of the ball grid array.
US10410884B2
A method of manufacturing a wiring substrate that has a wiring including a through glass via and is formed of a glass substrate includes forming an alteration layer that penetrates the wiring substrate and is patterned, forming the wiring on a front surface of the wiring substrate in which the alteration layer has been formed, and filling an electrode material in a hole formed by removing the alteration layer, thereby forming the through glass via that connects the wiring on the front surface of the wiring substrate and the wiring on a back surface side thereof.
US10410876B2
An apparatus for processing a gas includes: a mounting part installed in a processing container and on which a substrate is mounted; a first gas flow path where a first gas is supplied from a first gas supply mechanism to an upstream portion of the first gas flow path, and a downstream portion of the first gas flow path is branched to form first branch paths; a second gas flow path where a second gas is supplied from a second gas supply mechanism to an upstream portion of the second gas flow path, and a downstream portion of the second gas flow path is branched to form second branch paths; an annular mixing chamber to which a discharge path is connected; and a gas discharge part discharging a mixture gas.
US10410864B2
Implementations of the present disclosure relate to improved hardmask materials and methods for patterning and etching of substrates. A plurality of hardmasks may be utilized in combination with patterning and etching processes to enable advanced device architectures. In one implementation, a first hardmask and a second hardmask disposed on a substrate having various material layers disposed thereon. The second hardmask may be utilized to pattern the first hardmask during a first etching process. A third hardmask may be deposited over the first and second hardmasks and a second etching process may be utilized to form channels in the material layers.
US10410862B2
A first representation of an integrated circuit undergoing processing is transformed into a second representation. The second representation including additional dopants relative to the first representation. The transformation generates a three-dimensional dopant distribution from adding a first dopant under a first set of process conditions with a mask, by combining the two-dimensional lateral profile of the dopant with the one-dimensional depth profile of the dopant. The one-dimensional depth profile of the dopant is retrieved from a database storing selected results from earlier process simulation of the first addition of the first dopant under the first set of process conditions. The two-dimensional lateral dopant profile from adding the first dopant under the first set of process conditions with a first mask corresponding to the first dopant, is generated by convolving the mask with a lateral diffusion function, or from at least one solution to the 2D diffusion equation without convolution.
US10410857B2
Methods of forming silicon nitride thin films on a substrate in a reaction space under high pressure are provided. The methods can include a plurality of plasma enhanced atomic layer deposition (PEALD) cycles, where at least one PEALD deposition cycle comprises contacting the substrate with a nitrogen plasma at a process pressure of 20 Torr to 500 Torr within the reaction space. In some embodiments the silicon precursor is a silyl halide, such as H2SiI2. In some embodiments the processes allow for the deposition of silicon nitride films having improved properties on three dimensional structures. For example, such silicon nitride films can have a ratio of wet etch rates on the top surfaces to the sidewall of about 1:1 in dilute HF.
US10410855B2
The present invention provides a cleaning method by which it is possible to prevent deformation of a film formation mask (31). While the film formation mask (31) disposed between a shower head (4) and a susceptor (3) within a chamber (2) is cooled, a cleaning gas made into plasma, which cleaning gas reacts with a reaction product (32) deposited on a surface of the film formation mask (31), is blown on the film formation mask (31).
US10410852B2
An analytical device includes: a valve assembly that is connected to a plurality of gas supply conduits; and a gas supply chamber to which a plurality of gases are supplied through the valve assembly, wherein: the valve assembly includes a plurality of valves that regulate flow rates of the plurality of gases supplied to the gas supply chamber through the plurality of gas supply conduits, a fixing member that integrally fixes the plurality of valves, a plurality of first sealing members that seal the plurality of valves against the fixing member, and a retainer that is fastened to the fixing member to integrally press the first sealing member against the fixing member.
US10410848B2
An apparatus for connecting an ionization probe assembly to a mass and/or ion mobility spectrometer is disclosed. The apparatus comprises: an attachment member for releasably attaching a probe assembly to the apparatus; a cap for enclosing the attachment member; wherein the apparatus is operable to deliver a voltage to a probe assembly only when the cap is arranged to enclose the attachment member; and wherein the cap is configurable to enclose the attachment member when a probe assembly is attached to the apparatus.
US10410834B1
A method for reducing reverse power reflected from a plasma load to a high frequency power amplifier includes determining a sign of a slope of an output frequency outputted from the high frequency power amplifier; determining a sign of a slope of reverse power reflected from the plasma load to the high frequency power amplifier; deciding an increase or a decrease in an amount of frequency change according to a combination of the sign of the slope of the output frequency and the sign of the slope of the reverse power; updating the output frequency by using the amount of the frequency change, and changing the output frequency in order to escape from a hump when a reflection coefficient is larger than a predetermined reflection reference value and the amount of the frequency change is smaller than a predetermined variation width setting value.
US10410833B2
The present invention concerns a method comprising the steps of: introducing a substrate comprising a surface to be coated in a low-pressure reaction chamber; exposing said surface to a plasma during a treatment period within said reaction chamber; ensuring a stable plasma ignition by applying a power input, characterized in that the power input is continuously strictly higher than zero Watt (W) during said treatment period and comprises at least a lower limit power and at least an upper limit power strictly larger than said lower limit power, thereby obtaining a substrate with a coated surface. The present invention further concerns an apparatus for treating a substrate with a low-pressure plasma process and a substrate treated as such.
US10410832B2
A substrate support in a substrate processing system includes an inner portion and an outer portion. The inner portion is positioned below a gas distribution device configured to direct first process gases toward the inner portion. The outer portion includes an edge ring positioned around an outer perimeter of the inner portion to at least partially surround the inner portion and a substrate arranged on the inner portion. The edge ring is configured to be raised and lowered relative to the inner portion, and to direct second process gases toward the inner portion. A controller determines distribution of material deposited on the substrate during processing and, based on the determined distribution, selectively adjusts a position of the edge ring and selectively adjusts flow of at least one of the first process gases and the second process gases.
US10410825B2
An EDS 5 acquires first spectrum data by detecting an X-ray generated from a sample. A WDS 6 acquires second spectrum data by detecting the X-ray generated from the sample. A phase distribution map generation processing unit 11 generates a phase distribution map of a substance of the sample in a measurement region, on the basis of the first spectrum data acquired with respect to each pixel in the measurement region on a sample surface. A composition information acquisition processing unit 13 acquires element composition information of each phase, on the basis of the second spectrum data acquired with respect to a position on the sample corresponding to a representative pixel in the measurement region corresponding to each of the phases of the phase distribution map.
US10410824B2
An electron beam inspection apparatus includes an analyzing circuit to input design pattern data of design pattern of a semiconductor element, and specify a position of a pattern portion including a feature point, which has previously been set, by analyzing the design pattern data; and a comparison circuit to input information on a specified position of the pattern portion including the feature point, and determine by comparing a secondary electron image and a design substrate pattern image of a region corresponding to the secondary electron image while varying a determine threshold value for the pattern portion including the feature point by using the information.
US10410821B2
An ionic liquid ion source can include a microfabricated body including a base and a tip. The body can be formed of a porous material compatible with at least one of an ionic liquid or room-temperature molten salt. The body can have a pore size gradient that decreases from the base of the body to the tip of the body, such that the at least one of an ionic liquid or room-temperature molten salt is capable of being transported through capillarity from the base to the tip.
US10410807B2
A luminous keyboard includes a key structure, a supporting plate, a switch circuit board, a light guide plate and a top-view light-emitting element. The supporting plate includes an opening. The top-view light-emitting element emits a light beam. The supporting plate is located under the key structure. The switch circuit board is located over the supporting plate. The light guide plate is located under the supporting plate and includes a light guide plate opening. The top-view light-emitting element is inserted into the opening. After the light beam is transmitted through the opening, a first-portion beam of the light beam is transmitted through the switch circuit board and projected to a first region of the key structure. A second-portion beam of the light beam is sequentially blocked by the switch circuit board, introduced into the light guide plate, and guided to a second region of the key structure.
US10410802B2
A mounting frame may be configured as a self-adjusting mounting frame that biases itself against a surface of structure. The mounting frame may be a component, for example, of a remote control device or a faceplate assembly. The mounting frame may be configured to bias a rear surface of the mounting frame against the surface of a structure. The mounting frame may include biasing members. Each biasing member may include an attachment portion and a pair of resilient spring arms that suspend the attachment portion relative to a perimeter wall of the mounting frame such that the attachment portion is spaced further from the rear surface of the mounting frame than locations where the spring arms extend from the mounting frame. The rear surface of the mounting frame may be defined by the perimeter wall.
US10410797B2
A method for fabricating a solar cell is provided and has steps of: providing a transparent conductive substrate; forming a porous supporting layer on the transparent conductive substrate; forming a porous conductive counter electrode layer on the porous supporting layer, where the porous conductive counter electrode layer includes a carrier blocking layer and a conductive layer, and the carrier blocking layer is between the porous supporting layer and the conductive layer; and providing a light-absorbing material penetrating from the porous conductive counter electrode layer. The light-absorbing material fills within the porous supporting layer through a plurality of pores in the porous conductive counter electrode layer.
US10410792B2
The instant disclosure provides a thin film capacitor and a method of manufacturing the same. The method includes the following steps: placing a carrier substrate on a processing machine including at least one processing unit, and the at least one processing unit having a metal-layer forming module and an insulation-layer forming module that are arranged along a planar production line; forming a plurality of metal layers by the metal-layer forming module of the at least one processing unit, forming a plurality of insulation layers by the insulation-layer forming module of the at least one processing unit, and the metal layers and the insulation layers being alternately stacked on the carrier substrate to form a multilayer stacked structure; and then forming two terminal electrode structures to respectively enclose two opposite side end portions of the multilayer stacked structure.
US10410787B2
A coil module includes a magnetic substance plate, a first coil, and a second coil. The magnetic substance plate includes a first area having a first magnetic permeability and a second area having a second magnetic permeability. The first coil is disposed on a surface of the magnetic substance plate. The second coil is disposed on the surface of the magnetic substance plate and partially overlapping the first coil. A portion of the first coil, not overlapping the second coil, is disposed on a surface of the first area, and a portion of the second coil, not overlapping the first coil, is disposed on a surface of the second area.
US10410784B2
A magnetic component has a core 80 provided with a leg 81; and a coil structure having a coil 10, 20 including conductors wrapped around the leg 81, and two or more radiative insulating sheets 100 provided between the conductors; a radiator 91, 92 brought into contact with an end surface of the core 80, and extending toward the radiative insulating sheets 100 and brought into contact with the surface of the radiative insulating sheets 100.
US10410783B2
A coil component having a first surface and a second surface facing each other, including a coil conductor formed into a spiral shape, a magnetic resin body disposed on the first surface side of the coil conductor without being disposed on the second surface side of the coil conductor, a first external terminal and a second external terminal disposed on at least one surface on the first surface side of the magnetic resin body and electrically connected to the coil conductor, and at least one dummy terminal disposed on at least one surface on the first surface side of the magnetic resin body without being electrically connected to the coil conductor.
US10410772B2
A chip resistor has a substrate, a first connection electrode and a second connection electrode that are formed on the substrate, and a resistor network that is formed on the substrate and that has ends one of which is connected to the first connection electrode and the other one of which is connected to the second connection electrode. The resistor network is provided with a resistive circuit. The resistive circuit has a resistive element film line that is provided along inner wall surfaces of trenches. The resistive element film line extending along the inner wall surfaces of the trenches is long and has a high resistivity as a unit resistive element.
US10410771B2
Provided is a chip resistor including: a rectangular parallelepiped insulating substrate 1 which is made of ceramics; a pair of front electrodes 2 which are provided on lengthwise opposite end portions in a front surface of the insulating substrate 1; a resistive element 3 which is provided between and connected to the two front electrodes 2; an insulating protective layer 4 which covers the whole of the front surface of the insulating substrate 1 including the resistive element 3 and the two front electrodes 2; and a pair of cap-shaped end-surface electrodes 5 which are provided on the lengthwise opposite end portions of the insulating substrate 1 to be connected to the front electrodes 2; wherein: the protective layer 4 is formed out of a semi-transparent resin material which is similar in color to the insulating substrate 1.
US10410770B2
An insulation assembly comprises an insulation pipe, an insulation umbrella group, and an insulation base. The insulation pipe has a first end and a second end opposite to the first end. The insulation umbrella group is formed on an outer wall of the insulation pipe. The insulation base is made of an insulating material and connected to the first end of the insulation pipe.
US10410768B2
Probe assembly includes an ultrasound probe and a cable assembly configured to communicatively couple the ultrasound probe to a control system and transmit signals therethrough. The cable assembly includes a cable jacket surrounding a channel of the cable assembly. The cable assembly also includes a plurality of wire pairs extending through the channel. The channel being sized and shaped to permit the wire pairs to move relative to one another within the channel when the probe assembly is moved. The wire pairs and the channel are configured to have a designated pack ratio (AreaWPS/AreaC). The AreaWPS includes a collective cross-sectional area of the wire pairs, and the AreaC is equal to a cross-sectional area of the channel.
US10410765B1
A power cord structure is disclosed, comprising a conductive cord body consisting of plural conductive cords which are mutually entangled at a twist distance satisfying security requirements, and an opaque insulation protective outer layer, wherein the insulation protective outer layer includes an insulation cladding layer and a spiral color correspondence layer, the insulation cladding layer is wrapped around the outside of the conductive cord body; also, the spiral color correspondence layer spirally displays on the outer surface of the insulation cladding layer with at least three color segments, and the interval widths of such at least three color segments are in a proportional ratio to the twist distance satisfying security requirements of the plural conductive cords.
US10410764B2
A wire harness can ensure waterproofness of an exposed conductor portion, and even when at least one of insulated wires is exposed to a high temperature, can suppress loosening of a rubber stopper of a waterproofing terminal. An outer periphery of a region containing an exposed conductor portion and coating material end portions is continuously covered with a protective film. At each of the coating material end portions, a gap between a coating material and the protective film covering the coating material is sealed with a waterproofing agent. At least one insulated wire has a flow path through which gas flows, the flow path being created in gaps between strands that constitute a conductor of the insulated wire and reaching from a coating material end portion opposite to the coating material end portion adjacent to the exposed conductor portion to a splice portion.
US10410753B2
A fuel element has a ratio of area of fissionable nuclear fuel in a cross-section of the tubular fuel element perpendicular to the longitudinal axis to total area of the interior volume in the cross-section of the tubular fuel element that varies with position along the longitudinal axis. The ratio can vary with position along the longitudinal axis between a minimum of 0.30 and a maximum of 1.0. Increasing the ratio above and below the peak burn-up location associated with conventional systems reduces the peak burn-up and flattens and shifts the burn-up distribution, which is preferably Gaussian. The longitudinal variation can be implemented in fuel assemblies using fuel bodies, such as pellets, rods or annuli, or fuel in the form of metal sponge and meaningfully increases efficiency of fuel utilization.
US10410750B1
A system, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for the automatic identification of patients having an elevated near-term risk of pulmonary function deterioration or respiratory distress. Embodiments of the invention are directed to event prediction, risk stratification, and optimization of the assessment, communication, and decision-making to prevent respiratory events in humans, and in one embodiment take the form of a platform for wearable, mobile, untethered monitoring devices with embedded decision support. Respiratory information is obtained over one or a plurality of previous time intervals, to classify a likelihood of events leading to an acute respiratory decompensation event within a future time interval. In an embodiment, the risk prediction is based a plurality of nonlinearity measures of capnometry information over the previous time interval(s), and the risk for an acute respiratory decompensation event determined using an ensemble model predictor on the nonlinearity measures.
US10410734B2
The present invention relates to a shift register configured of a plurality of stages applying two clock signals among four clock signals that are sequentially generated as an input and applying a start signal as the input, wherein a first stage charges the start signal to a P-node and outputs a first output signal and a first carry signal by using the voltage of the P-node as a driving voltage when a first clock signal is applied, and resets the P-node when a second clock signal is applied, a second stage pre-charges a start signal input to the first stage to the P-node, charges the first carry signal to the P-node, outputs a second output signal and a second carry signal by using the voltage of the P-node as the driving voltage when the second clock signal is applied, and resets the P-node when a third clock signal is applied, and a third stage and following stages pre-charge a carry signal of the second previous stage to the P-node, charge the carry signal of the previous stage to the P-node, output the output signal and the carry signal by using the voltage of the P-node as the driving voltage when the input clock signal secondly input to the P-node is input, and reset the P-node that is charged depending on the clock signal generated after the input clock signal.
US10410718B2
Apparatuses and methods for limiting current in threshold switching memories are disclosed. An example apparatus may include a plurality of first decoder circuits, a plurality of second decoder circuits, an array of memory cells, and a control circuit. Each memory cell of the array of memory cells may be cells coupled to a pair of first decoder circuits of the plurality of first decoder circuits, and further coupled to a pair of second decoder circuits of the plurality of second decoder circuits. The control circuit may be coupled to the plurality of first decoder circuits and the plurality of second decoder circuits, and the control circuit may be configured to activate a first one of the pair of first decoder circuits coupled to a memory cell of the array of memory cells before a second one of the pair of first decoder circuits, and further configured to activate a first one of the pair of second decoder circuits coupled to the memory cell of the array of memory cells before a second one of the pair of second decoder circuits to access the a memory cell.
US10410714B2
Multi-level cell (MLC) static random access memory (SRAM) (MLC SRAM) cells configured to perform multiplication operations are disclosed. In one aspect, an MLC SRAM cell includes SRAM bit cells, wherein data values stored in SRAM bit cells correspond to a multiple-bit value stored in the MLC SRAM cell that serves as first operand in multiplication operation. Voltage applied to read bit line is applied to each SRAM bit cell, wherein the voltage is an analog representation of a multiple-bit value that serves as a second operand in the multiplication operation. For each SRAM bit cell, if a particular binary data value is stored, a current correlating to the voltage of the read bit line is added to a current sum line. A magnitude of current on the current sum line is an analog representation of a multiple-bit product of the first operand multiplied by the second operand.
US10410707B2
According to one embodiment, a nonvolatile memory includes a conductive line including a first portion, a second portion and a third portion therebetween, a storage element including a first magnetic layer, a second magnetic layer and a nonmagnetic layer therebetween, and the first magnetic layer being connected to the third portion, and a circuit flowing a write current between the first and second portions, applying a first potential to the second magnetic layer, and blocking the write current flowing between the first and second portions after changing the second magnetic layer from the first potential to a second potential.
US10410702B2
An address decoder and a semiconductor memory device including the same are disclosed, which relate to a technology for a decoding circuit configured to decode a column address. The address decoder includes a pre-decoder and a column decoder. The pre-decoder divides a plurality of pre-decoding signals into at least one column address group by decoding column addresses, outputs the pre-decoding signals for each group, and outputs a second pre-decoding signal group which is an inverted signal of a first pre-decoding signal group from among the plurality of pre-decoding signals. The column decoder outputs column selection signals by decoding the plurality of pre-decoding signals in a manner that operation of a metal oxide semiconductor (MOS) transistor is controlled by the first pre-decoding signal group and the second pre-decoding signal group.
US10410691B2
A non-volatile memory includes a sense amplifier, a switching element and a power switching circuit. A first sub-cell is connected with a word line, a bit line and a source line. A second sub-cell is connected with the word line, an inverted bit line and an inverted source line. During a read cycle, an activation period of the word line contains a first period and a second period. In the first period, the first sub-cell generates a first read current to a first current path, and the second sub-cell generates a second read current to a second current path. The first current path and the second current path are controlled to be opened according to the correlation of the first read current and the second read current.
US10410686B2
A memory module includes semiconductor memory devices, a power management integrated circuit (PMIC), and a control device. The semiconductor memory devices, mounted on a circuit board, operate based on a power supply voltage. The PMIC, mounted on the circuit board, generates the power supply voltage, provides the power supply voltage to the semiconductor memory devices, and stores a trimming control code associated with a minimum level of the power supply voltage when the semiconductor memory devices operate normally in a test mode. During the test mode, the PMIC adjusts a level of the power supply voltage, tests the semiconductor memory devices using the adjusted power supply voltage, and stores the trimming control code based on a result of the test. The control device controls the PMIC based on a first control signal received from an external device.
US10410684B2
Memory device with oxide semiconductor static random access memory and method for operating the same
The present invention provides a memory device, the memory device includes a first region having a plurality of oxide semiconductor static random access memories (OSSRAM) arranged in a first direction, and each of the OSSRAMs comprising a static random access memory (SRAM) and at least an oxide semiconductor dynamic random access memory (DOSRAM), wherein the DOSRAM is connected to the SRAM, wherein each of the DOSRAMs comprises an oxide semiconductor gate (OSG), and each of the OSGs extending in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, and an oxide semiconductor channel extending in the first direction, an oxide semiconductor gate connection extending in the first direction to connect each of the OSGs, and a word line, a Vcc connection line and a Vss connection line extend in the first direction and are connected to the SRAMs in each OSSRAM.
US10410676B2
An event recording system for multiple sensor integration with real time user controlled commenting and flagging includes a portable tablet computer including multiple source integrating recording software configured to i) capture at least one video image during at least part of the event, ii) capture at least one audio record of at least a portion of the event; iii) capture multiple data inputs from data sensors during at least part of the event; iv) contemporaneously flag the common log file by at least one user during the event; and v) Integrate each video image, each audio record, each data input and each flag into a common time sequenced log file; at least one video camera and microphone coupled to the portable tablet computer during at least part of the event configured to supply at least one video image and one audio input during at least part of the event; and at least two independent sensors coupled to the portable tablet computer during at least part of the event configured to supply at least two data inputs during at least part of the event.
US10410668B1
A slider configured for heat-assisted magnetic recording includes a laser diode optically coupled to a waveguide of the slider. A power supply is coupled to the laser diode. A preamplifier is coupled to the power supply. The preamplifier is configured to monitor a forward voltage across the laser diode while operating the laser diode at a constant current during a write operation, detect a change in the forward voltage indicative of laser power instability, and generate a signal in response to detecting the forward voltage change.
US10410664B1
A near-field transducer has an enlarged portion with a layer of soft plasmonic material. A peg is embedded in a lower part of the enlarged portion that faces a media-facing surface. The peg has an elongated outer part that extends from a lower edge of the enlarged portion towards the media-facing surface and an embedded part that is embedded within the enlarged portion. The embedded part could be any shape. The peg is formed of a thermally robust plasmonic material.
US10410658B1
A magnetic recording write head includes a spin torque oscillator (STO) between the write pole and trailing shield and an extended seed layer on the write pole beneath the STO. The seed layer has a cross-track width greater than the width of the STO and a depth in a direction orthogonal to the disk-facing surface of the write pole greater than the depth of the STO. A first insulating refill layer is formed on the sides of the extended seed layer and STO and a second insulating refill layer in contact with the first refill layer has a thermal conductivity greater than that of the first refill layer. When current is passing through the STO the extended seed layer spreads the current to reduce heating of the write pole and STO and the bilayer refill material facilitates the transfer of heat away from the write pole and STO.
US10410650B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a method for locating a sound emitting position and a terminal device. The method includes: collecting K first sound signals, where K is an integer greater than or equal to 2; extracting M second sound signals from the K first sound signals according to N position parameters corresponding to N different positions, where M is less than or equal to N, and N is an integer greater than or equal to 2; and determining a position corresponding to each second sound signal.
US10410649B2
A system for delivery of personalized audio services including a first microphone for capturing audio, a voice controlled interface coupled to the first microphone for detecting a voice command, a communication module for accessing information from a network in response to the detected voice command to provide results from accessing the network, a memory for storing a user profile and a user listening history, and a processor for modifying the results based on the detected voice command, the user profile and the user listening history. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10410643B2
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture (e.g., physical storage media) to utilize audio watermarking for people monitoring are disclosed. Example people monitoring methods disclosed herein include determining, at a user device, whether a first trigger condition for emitting an audio watermark identifying at least one of the user device or a user of the user device is satisfied. Such example methods also include, in response to determining that the first trigger condition is satisfied, providing a first audio signal including the audio watermark to an audio circuit that is to output an acoustic signal from the user device.
US10410641B2
The present document describes a method (100) for extracting audio sources (301) from audio channels (302). The method (100) includes updating (102) a Wiener filter matrix based on a mixing matrix from a source matrix and based on a power matrix of the audio sources (301). Furthermore, the method (100) includes updating (103) a cross-covariance matrix of the audio channels (302) and of the audio sources (301) and an auto-covariance matrix of the audio sources (301), based on the updated Wiener filter matrix and based on an auto-covariance matrix of the audio channels (302). In addition, the method (100) includes updating (104) the mixing matrix and the power matrix based on the updated cross-covariance matrix of the audio channels (302) and of the audio sources (301), and/or based on the updated auto-covariance matrix of the audio sources (301).
US10410635B2
A dual mode speech recognition system sends speech to two or more speech recognizers. If a first recognition result is received, whose recognition score exceeds a high threshold, the first result is selected without waiting for another result. If the score is below a low threshold, the first result is ignored. At intermediate values of recognition scores, a timeout duration is dynamically determined as a function of the recognition score. The timeout duration determines how long the system will wait for another result. Many functions of the recognition score are possible, but timeout durations generally decrease as scores increase. When receiving a second recognition score before the timeout occurs, a comparison based on recognition scores determines whether the first result or the second result is the basis for creating a response.
US10410629B2
An auto-complete method for a spoken complete value entry is provided. A processor receives a possible complete value entry having a unique subset, prompts a user to speak the spoken complete value entry, receives a spoken subset of the spoken complete value entry, compares the spoken subset with the unique subset of the possible complete value entry, and automatically completes the spoken complete value entry to match the possible complete value entry if the unique subset matches the spoken subset. The spoken subset has a predetermined minimum number of characters.
US10410628B2
Techniques are disclosed for adjusting a ranking of information content of a software application based on feedback from a user. One embodiment presented herein includes a method comprising receiving, at a computing device, an audio stream comprising audio of the user, the audio being indicative of feedback related to information content. The method further comprises analyzing the audio stream for paralinguistic information to determine an attribute of the user. The method further comprises adjusting a ranking of the information content based on at least one of the feedback and additional feedback and the determined attribute of the user.
US10410625B2
Technology is disclosed for creating and tuning classifiers for language dialects and for generating dialect-specific language modules. A computing device can receive an initial training data set as a current training data set. The selection process for the initial training data set can be achieved by receiving one or more initial content items, establishing dialect parameters of each of the initial content items, and sorting each of the initial content items into one or more dialect groups based on the established dialect parameters. The computing device can generate, based on the initial training data set, a dialect classifier configured to detect language dialects of content items to be classified. The computing device can augment the current training data set with additional training data by applying the dialect classifier to candidate content items. The computing device can then update the dialect classifier based on the augmented current training data set.
US10410623B2
A method of renormalizing high-resolution oscillator peaks, extracted from windowed samples of an audio signal, is disclosed. Feature vectors are generated for which variations in both fundamental frequency and time duration of speech are substantially mitigated. The feature vectors may be aligned within a common coordinate space, free of those variations in frequency and time duration that occurs between speakers, and even over speech by a single speaker, to facilitate a simple and accurate determination of matches between those AFDVs generated from a sample of the audio signal and corpus AFDVs generated for known speech at the phoneme and sub-phoneme level. The renormalized feature vectors can be combined with traditional feature vectors such as MFCCs, or they can be used exclusively to identify voiced, semi-voiced and unvoiced sounds.
US10410618B2
An in-vehicle noise control system is provided. The system includes speakers that output navigation guidance sound and audio content reproduced at a head unit of a vehicle. An audio module receives the navigation guidance sound and an audio content signal to generate an opposite waveform with respect to the navigation guidance sound and output noise offset waveforms in which tuning functions are calculated based on positions of the speakers to the opposite waveform. An amplifier is connected between the audio module and the speakers. The audio module outputs the navigation guidance sound and the audio content signal to one of the speakers located at a driver's seat and outputs the noise offset waveforms and the audio content signal to the remaining speakers.
US10410603B2
A display panel includes a shift register and an active terminator. The shift register has a drive circuit coupled to one end of a gate line. The active terminator is coupled to the other end of the gate line and includes a first transistor, a second transistor, and a first capacitor. The first transistor has a first terminal connected to a first clock signal, a second terminal connected to the gate line, and a third terminal. The second transistor has a first terminal connected to a first internal node, a second terminal connected to the third terminal of the first transistor, and a third terminal connected to a first DC voltage source. The first capacitor has a first terminal connected to the gate line and a second terminal connected to the third terminal of the first transistor and the second terminal of second transistor.
US10410601B2
A display panel and a display device are provided. The display panel has a pixel region and a frame region surrounding the pixel region. The pixel region includes sub-pixels each including a first transistor and a pixel electrode. The plurality of sub-pixels includes display sub-pixels and dummy sub-pixels. At least part of the dummy sub-pixels are antistatic sub-pixels. A data line is configured to provide a driving signal to the display sub-pixels. A scan line is configured to provide scan signal to the display sub-pixels. A first reference signal line is configured to provide static protection reference signal to the antistatic sub-pixels. The first gate electrode of the first transistor of the antistatic sub-pixel is connected to the first drain electrode and a first reference signal line, and the first source electrode of the first transistor of the antistatic sub-pixel is connected to the data line.
US10410593B2
A display panel driving apparatus includes a data driver, a gate driver, an extra resistance part through which a constant current passes, and a circuit configured to generate a first gamma voltage, and output a first extra gamma voltage indirectly to the data driver through the extra resistance part. The data driver is configured to generate a data signal based on the first gamma voltage and output the data signal to a data line of a display panel. The gate driver is configured to output a gate signal to a gate line of the display panel.
US10410581B2
A display device related to one embodiment of the present invention includes a plurality of pixel circuits each connected to a scanning signal line, initialization control signal line, light emitting control signal line and video signal line, wherein each of the plurality of pixel circuits includes a first transistor connected to the scanning signal line and the video signal line, a second transistor connected to a first node and the first transistor, a third transistor connected to the first node and a scanning signal line, a fourth transistor connected to the second transistor and the light emitting control signal line, and a fifth transistor connected to the second transistor, a power supply voltage line, and the light emitting control signal line.
US10410577B2
A display panel including a backplane and a plurality of micro LEDs is provided. The backplane includes a plurality of sub-pixels. Each of the sub-pixels has N sets of bonding pad. Each set of bonding pads includes a first electrical pad and X second electrical pads. N is an integer of 1˜3, X is an integer of 2˜4. The micro LEDs are respectively disposed in the sub-pixels, and the micro LED is electrically connected to one corresponding set of bonding pads of the N bonding pad sets. A first electrical carrier and a second electrical carrier are provided by the backplane to each of the micro LEDs through the one corresponding set of bonding pads.
US10410569B2
A data processing system can store a long-term history of pixel luminance values in a secure memory and use those values to create burn-in compensation values that are used to mitigate burn-in effect on a display. The long-term history can be updated over time with new, accumulated pixel luminance values.
US10410567B2
A display signal processing system according to the embodiment includes: a processing device configured to generate transmission data; an interface unit configured to transmit the transmission data; and a display unit configured to generate a display signal based on the transmission data. The processing device includes a SDR conversion unit configured to generate low-bit video data by decimating gradations of the video signal; an additional data calculation unit configured to generate additional data on the basis of information of the decimated gradations; and a mapping unit configured to generate the transmission signal including the low-bit video data and the additional data. The display unit includes a processor configured to restore at least a part of the decimated gradations in the low-bit video data on the basis of the transmission signal to thereby generate a display signal.
US10410562B2
An image generating device configured to provide a cloud service to a head-mounted display via a network is provided. A photographed image receiving section 510 receives a plurality of photographed images photographed in different photographing directions. A panoramic image processing section 530 generates a panoramic image by synthesizing the plurality of photographed images photographed in the different photographing directions. A format converting section 540 converts the panoramic image into an image format suitable for specifications of the head-mounted display. A panoramic image transmitting section 550 transmits the panoramic image after format conversion to the head-mounted display.
US10410557B2
A display apparatus has a panel for receiving and/or displaying advertising material. The apparatus also includes a connector that is attachable to the panel, and a fastener for removably connecting the panel to a pipe of a beverage font. The fastener is removably attachable to the connector in two or more orientations.
US10410555B2
A removable accessory mount that includes and outside support on the outside of an item that is secured to an inside support located on an inner surface of the item. The inside and outside supports are secured to one another via a support post that can be a threaded post, a pin, etc. The outer surface of the outside support attaches to accessories that can be removed from the outside support and replaced with other items. Likewise, the accessories can be moved to other accessory mounts. In addition, the accessory mount can also be moved from one item to another without substantial damage due to the small nature of the support post that secures the inside and outside supports together.
US10410552B2
In one embodiment, modular light emitting diode (LED) display panel includes a plurality of LEDs is attached to a printed circuit board. A power supply is coupled to the plurality of LEDs and configured to receive direct current (DC) power. A scan controller is coupled to the plurality of LEDs, where the scan controller is configured to control operation of the plurality of LEDs in order to display received media. A housing is attached to the printed circuit board, and includes an outer major surface of the modular LED display panel and is configured to be exposed to an external environment without a protective cabinet. A waterproof integrated data and power connector is electrically coupled to the power supply, the scan controller, and to the plurality of LEDs. The modular LED display panel has an ingress protection rating of IP 65 or higher, and is cooled passively without fans.
US10410549B1
A display device includes: a housing; a roller rotatably disposed on the housing; a flexible display that is rolled around the roller or unrolled from the roller; a first arm connected to the flexible display; an arm supporter provided in the housing; an arm shaft rotatably supported to the arm supporter; a second arm coupled to the arm shaft and rotated together with the arm shaft to rotate the first arm; a rotation mechanism connected to the second arm to rotate the second arm about the arm shaft; and an angle sensor module connected to at least one of the arm shaft and the second arm.
US10410546B2
A crime scene evidence marker includes a base with a central portion and a plurality of coplanar legs extending in spaced relation from the central portion. A projection is connected to the central portion of the base. A post is removably connected with the projection. The post extends vertically and has an opening in a lower end which is configured to complement the configuration of the projection. The post lower end receives the projection in a mating configuration to removably connect the post with the base. The legs and post have measuring indicia placed thereon.
US10410535B2
Secure testing system including an eyeglass frame having a lens portion and a support portion extending rearward from the lens portion, a housing attached to one side of the frame, an assembly arranged in the housing, and a chassis intrusion detector arranged in conjunction with the housing to detect an attempt to intrude into the housing. The assembly includes a display oriented rearward, a cross-view camera oriented to image toward opposite side of the frame, at least one microphone arranged on the frame to detect sound in an environment around the frame, a biometric sensor arranged on the housing to obtain biometric data, and a processor that causes display of questions on the display, monitors images from the cross-view camera for changes indicative of a possibility of reception of assistance, monitors each microphone for sounds, and monitors the biometric sensor for a change in biometric data.
US10410521B2
The present invention relates to a method for determining an evasive path for a host vehicle (10), the method i.a. comprising: establishing (S1) a predicted traffic environment (12) of the host vehicle in a time-lateral position domain, the predicted traffic environment comprising an object prediction representation (16) of a traffic object; determining (S2) a start node (24) for the host vehicle; defining (S3) an end node (26) for the host vehicle; placing (S4) several boundary nodes (28) relative to the object prediction representation; setting (S5) node connections (30, 32, 34a-b, 36a-b, 38, 40, 42) between the start node, the boundary nodes, and the end node; and traversing (S6) the nodes using a graph-search algorithm in order to find a path from the start node to the end time with a lowest cost.
US10410505B2
Methods, systems, and machine readable medium are provided for a detection system for identifying unsafe activity occurring at a shelving unit. A plurality of distance sensors are disposed at a top end of the shelving unit and point downwards towards a bottom end of the shelving unit. The plurality of sensors are configured to detect presence of a person near the shelving unit. An initial height of the person is determined, and a change in height of the person is detected. A processor determined whether the change in height indicates unsafe activity at the shelving unit. If unsafe activity is determined, then an alert is generated.
US10410503B2
Wireless moisture detection system using water soluble insulated wire or water soluble conductors as sensor inputs to a programmed microcontroller to determine if the water soluble sensors have been penetrated by moisture dissolving the soluble materials and changing the electrical characteristics of the sensor providing an interrupt to the microcontroller to signal the presence of moisture for the monitor to wirelessly communicate to the monitoring system.
US10410501B2
The present invention is a water meter and leak detection system that has a residential or industrial/commercial facility water supply interruption system. The system is comprised of a remotely controllable base station with shut-off/on mechanism that is in wireless or wired (X10, Zwave, UPB) communication with a convenient controller. The base station with shut-off/on mechanism is interposed within a water line from a water main to the living or operating quarters portion of a residential or an industrial/commercial facility or building, such that activation of the base station with shut-off/on valve operates to prevent flow of water from the water main to the living quarters when the residential home or industrial/commercial facility or building is vacated or unsupervised. In this manner, damage to the living quarters or the industrial/commercial facility or building from failure of water pipes running through the living or working quarters is prevented during times that the shut-off mechanism is activated.
US10410500B2
A virtual control panel for a person support apparatus includes at least one image sensor that monitors a movement of a user's finger(s) relative to a control surface. The control surface includes one or more control images thereon. When the user's finger(s) move within a threshold distance of the control image, a controller reacts as if the user had pushed an actual control button for the function that corresponds to the control image. The control image may be projected by a projector, and may have static or dynamic content. Alternatively, the control image may be printed on the surface, adhered thereto, or otherwise physically present. In some embodiments, ancillary devices may connect to the person support apparatus and forward images for projection on the control surface, thereby allowing the control surface of the person support apparatus to be used to control the ancillary devices.
US10410488B2
In one example, a connector assembly for providing security to an article of merchandise is provided. The connector assembly includes a cord having a plurality of conductors and a body portion connected to the cord. The connector assembly also includes a connection portion engaged with the body portion and including a plurality of engagement members. Each of the engagement members is electrically connected to a respective conductor in the cord, and the connection portion is configured to engage the article of merchandise to thereby electrically connect the engagement members to one another for establishing a sense loop through the conductors in the cord. Interruption of the sense loop is indicative of a security event.
US10410481B2
A Point-of-Sale (POS) terminal in a retail environment is communicatively connected to one or more POS peripheral devices. Each POS peripheral device is associated with a configuration file that defines configuration settings for the POS peripheral device and environmental context information for the POS terminal and the POS controller. The configuration files are prioritized according to various criteria, and used to re-configure POS applications executing on the POS to operate optimally with the particular POS peripheral device. Additionally, the prioritized configuration files control the POS applications to update the configuration information.
US10410480B2
A card reading assembly for a self-service terminal includes a storing compartment for a card containing data to be read. The self-service terminal includes at least one sensor and an evaluation device connected hereto and the card reading assembly is protected against manipulation attempts by arranging at least one sensor in the card reading assembly and at least one linearly extending sensor arrangement that is attached in the storing compartment. The evaluation device checks at least one spatial dimension of the card via the sensor arrangement. Preferably, the sensor system is a sensor arrangement including a plurality of linearly extending sensor elements that extend in a first direction or a second direction in relation to the card retracted into the storing compartment. It can be effectively determined whether a retracted card is a genuine card of if a manipulation is present that targets the inside of the card reading assembly.
US10410469B2
An electronic wagering event is performed on a gaming platform. The wagering event is based upon providing predetermined alignment of virtual symbols within a grid of frames in columns and rows. The processor provides a display of a random distribution of symbols within the frames of the grid on the video display The processor assigns a specific maximum number of symbol transfer steps that the player position may input from the player input controls at the player position. A visual display indicates how symbols are to be transferred within the frames of the grid on the video display to increase winning paylines. Upon exhaustion of the specific maximum number of symbol transfer steps that the player position may input, the processor determining correspondence of symbol distribution within the grids with respect to the paytable and resolves all wagers.
US10410467B2
Embodiments of the present concept provide an electronic gaming device that facilitates wagering by multiple players on a single gaming device. Also provided is a method of sharing game play on such a gaming device, where the method includes receiving a wager from a first player at a first gaming station, receiving a wager from a second player at a second gaming station, initiating a gaming event that is displayed at the first and second gaming stations, and awarding prizes associated with gaming outcomes displayed at the first and second gaming stations.
US10410466B2
An amusement machine including a housing for receiving a computer-controlled game process control, connected to a display device for depicting the game process, which is connected to an actuator allocated to the housing for signaling information sent by the game process control. Wherein the signals of the actuator designed as an infrared light diode can be perceived by a monitoring device designed as a monitoring camera.
US10410464B2
An air filtration and cooling system for an electronic gaming machine is described. The electronic gaming machine can provide play of a wager-based game. The air filtration and cooling system is disposed within an interior of the gaming machine cabinet. The air filtration and cooling system can include a plenum which guides air through system. Electrical components, such as a game controller and a power supply, can be located within the plenum. For cooling purposes, air from outside the cabinet can be blown over the electrical components. Prior to allowing the air to pass over the electrical components, the air from outside the cabinet can be filtered, such as using a two-stage filter. The filtration system is configured to remove contaminants in the air which can damage the electrical components, such as contaminants associated with cigarette smoke.
US10410448B2
A system and method for providing a countdown notification relating to a movement of a barrier that include measuring a duration of the movement of the barrier. The system and method also include determining a current state of the barrier and sending at least one barrier control signal to remotely control movement of the barrier. The system and method further include presenting the countdown notification relating to the movement of the barrier.
US10410447B2
A system and method for using a portable device to communicate with a vehicle to authorize one or more vehicle operations. The portable device may authorize the vehicle to unlock/lock doors, start the vehicle engine, or mobilize the vehicle, or a combination thereof. The vehicle may include a vehicle transmitter system with one or more transmitters disposed at various locations on the vehicle, and the portable device may be configured to monitor a communication strength between the portable device and the one or more transmitters of the transmitter system. Based on the monitored signal strength, the portable device may determine location information about itself.
US10410446B1
Techniques are described for user authentication based on a signal that is transmitted through an individual's body, and detected using device(s) in physical contact with the individual. A signal, such as an electrical signal or a vibrational signal, may be transmitted from a first device and received by a second device that is in physical contact with the individual. The received signal may be employed to determine a body signature for the individual. The body signature may identify the individual among a population of individuals, given the particular alterations to the propagating signal caused by the individual's physiology. Accordingly, the body signature may be employed as a form of biometric data that is useable to authenticate the individual to access a secure area, log in to a device or an application, or for other purposes.
US10410443B2
A system and method for controlling usage of a machine by an operator includes a card containing identity information related to the operator selectively in communication with an access device and a first server is in communication with the access device. The identity information is communicated to the access device. The first server includes training information for at least one operator and at least one training certificate. Identity information is communicated to the first server from the access device and the first server compares the identity information to the training information to identify whether the operator has a training certificate for the selected machine. The first server communicates to the access device that the operator does or does not have a training certificate for the selected machine. The access device permits instruction from the operator to the machine when the operator does have a training certificate for the selected machine.
US10410423B2
An HUD superimposes a display object, as a stereoscopic image or a planar image, on an actual scene. A display control device acquires information about a moving object and information about surrounding and estimates a relative distance between a display obstacle and the moving object. When it is determined that the display obstacle exists or can exist between the display object and the moving object, the display control device changes the display mode of the display object in accordance with the amount of change in the relative distance and notifies the HUD of the display mode.
US10410422B2
A head mounted device (HMD), method, and computer readable medium for control of AR content to create a sensation that virtual objects are real. The HMD includes a camera, a display, a memory and a processor. The processor is coupled to the memory, the display, and the camera. The processor is configured to identify a physical object in the image data as a marker object. The processor is further configured to display an overlay on the marker object on the display. The processor is further configured to track motion of the marker object. The processor is also configured to adjust the overlay on the display based on the motion of the marker object.
US10410421B2
A method and a server for providing a virtual reality image about an object are provided. To elaborate, the method includes receiving a lookup request for a virtual reality image about an object selected by a user from a user device; and providing a virtual reality image including one or more 360-degree images corresponding to the object to the user device, herein the 360-degree image includes image data about views from multiple directions from a photographing location of the image.
US10410415B2
A method and system for automatically generating a co-ordination drawing of a project is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes inputting parametric information, and accessing a file associated with a schematic drawing of a project and identifying a plurality of elements in the schematic drawing from the file. The method further includes obtaining geometrical and connectivity information associated with each of the plurality of elements by analyzing each of the plurality of elements. Additionally, the method includes selecting one or more predefined objects from a spatial database based on the geometrical and connectivity information associated with each of the plurality of elements and the inputted parametric information. The method further includes automatically generating a co-ordination drawing of the project using the one or more predefined objects, wherein the coordination drawing provides routing information of the plurality of elements in the project.
US10410412B2
A process for receiving, from a computing device, a series of captured building images and processing, in real-time, each building image in the series of captured building images to determine if the building image meets a minimum threshold for quality. The process continues, for each building image meeting the minimum threshold for quality, by returning a first quality indication to the computing device and for each building image not meeting the minimum threshold for quality, by returning a second quality indication to the computing device. When a complete set of quality building images has been received, the process continues by creating at least a partial multi-dimensional building model based at least partially on the complete set of quality building images.
US10410402B2
A visual display unit creating a three-dimensional volumetric space. The display includes a first screen in a first focal plane, wherein the first screen displays a first image. The display includes a second screen in a second focal plane distinct from the first focal plane, wherein the second screen displays a second image, and wherein the second screen at least partially overlaps the first screen. The display includes a physical object located between the first screen and said second screen, wherein at least one of the first and second images is displayed in response to a placement of the physical object.
US10410394B2
A system and method for 3D animation utilizing UVN transformation includes generation of head meshes in Cartesian space, transformation of head mesh vertices into UVN coordinate space, mapping of vertices to their closest UV coordinates on the surface, with signed distances becoming their N coordinates, sculpting flattened, square UVN meshes, transforming said meshes back to Cartesian space by evaluating the parameterized surface at the new UV coordinates, and scaling surface normal by the new N coordinate and adding to the surface positions.
US10410391B1
A device, system and method for highlighting a portion of a displayed presentation. The invention includes a presentation device for generating a presentation for remote display; and an electronic pointer device for identifying a portion of the presentation for highlighting and for transmitting the identified portion of the presentation to the presentation device. The presentation device is then able, after receiving the transmitted identified portion of the presentation, to generate an enhanced copy of the identified portion on the remote display as part of the presentation. The enhanced copy of the identified portion on the remote display is magnified, colored, outlined or otherwise converted to contrast with the remainder of the presentation.
US10410378B2
A wearable electronic device displays an impact location that shows where a projectile fired from a weapon will hit a target and displays a bullseye location that shows a desired location where to hit the target. The wearable electronic device indicates firing the weapon when the impact location overlaps with the bullseye location.
US10410376B1
Techniques are described for decoding portions of image frames for virtual reality (VR) media content. A field of view of a viewer within a VR environment can be determined and used to decode a portion of an image frame that provides image content for that portion. The other portions of the image frame that are not within the image frame can remain non-decoded when not in the visible field of view.
US10410368B1
Aspects of the present disclosure relate to systems and methods for hybrid depth map processing. An example device may include a first sensor having a plurality of focus pixels, the focus pixels configured to capture images from at least a first perspective and a second perspective, where a difference between the first and second perspectives is associated with a first direction. The device may further include a second image sensor separated from the first image sensor in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. The device may be configured to receive a first image from the first image sensor, where the first image includes first image data captured from the first perspective, and second image data captured from the second perspective. The device may be further configured to receive a second image from the second image sensor, and to generate a hybrid depth map based at least in part on the first image and the second image.
US10410365B2
An apparatus, system and process for utilizing dual complementary pattern illumination of a scene when performing depth reconstruction of the scene are described. The method may include projecting a first reference image and a complementary second reference image on a scene, and capturing first image data and second image data including the first reference image and the complementary second reference image on the scene. The method may also include identifying features of the first reference image from features of the complementary second reference image. Furthermore, the method may include performing three dimensional (3D) scene reconstruction for image data captured by the imaging device based on the identified features in the first reference image.
US10410362B2
An image processing method includes generating, by a processing component, a first input feature map based on an input image using a first convolutional neural network; generating, by the processing component, a first template feature map based on a template image using the first convolutional neural network; generating, by the processing component, a first estimated motion parameter based on an initial motion parameter, the first input feature map and the first template feature map using an iterative Lucas-Kanade network; and performing, by the processing component, image alignment between the input image and the template image based on the first estimated motion parameter.
US10410356B2
A method for processing the Library Exchange Format (LEF) diagram of a layout includes the following steps: Step 1, breaking the LEF diagram into multiple rectangular segments; Step 2, numbering all rectangular segments; and Step 3, combining rectangular segments to obtain a larger rectangular segment and replacing corresponding uncombined rectangular segments with the larger combined rectangular segment. The method reduces the data size of the LEF file and increase the data transmission efficiency of the LEF file.
US10410352B1
A learning method for improving a segmentation performance to be used for detecting events including a pedestrian event, a vehicle event, a falling event, and a fallen event using a learning device is provided. The method includes steps of: the learning device (a) instructing k convolutional layers to generate k encoded feature maps; (b) instructing k−1 deconvolutional layers to sequentially generate k−1 decoded feature maps, wherein the learning device instructs h mask layers to refer to h original decoded feature maps outputted from h deconvolutional layers corresponding thereto and h edge feature maps generated by extracting edge parts from the h original decoded feature maps; and (c) instructing h edge loss layers to generate h edge losses by referring to the edge parts and their corresponding GTs. Further, the method allows a degree of detecting traffic sign, landmark, road marker, and the like to be increased.
US10410340B2
Disclosed subject matter relates to image processing that includes a method for marking content on a surface of an object using laser. A transformation identification computing device receives an input image of the object and extracts data corresponding to region of interest in the input image. The extracted data is compared with extracted template data corresponding to regions of interest present in template images of one of one or more template objects. A transformation in position of the object with respect to the position of the one of the one or more template objects is determined, based on the comparison. Finally, an inverse of the transformation is applied to content data that is to be marked at a desired location within the region of interest of the object. The present disclosure analyses the images at a sub-pixel level based on machine learning approach to determine transformation.
US10410329B2
An image processing apparatus has an acquisition unit adapted to acquire an image signal and an evaluation value signal corresponding to the image signal as a pair of signals; and a filter processing unit adapted to apply a filtering process to the pair of signals, wherein the filter processing unit applies a first filtering process to the image signal and applies a second filtering process to the evaluation value signal, in the first filtering process, refers to a first reference pixel to determine a pixel value of a first target pixel, and in the second filtering process, determines a pixel value of a second target pixel corresponding to the first target pixel based on a pixel value of a second reference pixel at a coordinate position corresponding to a coordinate position of the first reference pixel.
US10410328B1
The described positional awareness techniques employing visual-inertial sensory data gathering and analysis hardware with reference to specific example implementations implement improvements in the use of sensors, techniques and hardware design that can enable specific embodiments to provide positional awareness to machines with improved speed and accuracy.
US10410327B2
This disclosure relates to techniques for synthesizing out of focus effects in digital images. Digital single-lens reflex (DSLR) cameras and other cameras having wide aperture lenses typically capture images with a shallow depth of field (SDOF). SDOF photography is often used in portrait photography, since it emphasizes the subject, while deemphasizing the background via blurring. Simulating this kind of blurring using a large depth of field (LDOF) camera may require a large amount of computational resources, i.e., in order to simulate the physical effects of using a wide aperture lens while constructing a synthetic SDOF image. However, cameras having smaller lens apertures, such as mobile phones, may not have the processing power to simulate the spreading of all background light sources in a reasonable amount of time. Thus, described herein are techniques to synthesize out-of-focus background blurring effects in a computationally-efficient manner for images captured by LDOF cameras.
US10410326B2
The present invention discloses an image anti-aliasing system, which comprises an edge detection unit, a directional filter, a low-angle directional filter, a directional filtering fusion unit and a result fusion unit; the edge detection unit outputs the edge direction and edge confidence according to an input image, the directional filter outputs a directional filtering result based on the input image and the edge direction, the low-angle directional filter outputs a low-angle directional filtering result according to the input image and the edge direction; the directional filtering fusion unit weights and combines the result output from the directional filter and the result output from the low-angle directional filter according to the edge direction, and outputs a result of weighted combination of two directional filtering results; the result fusion unit outputs an optimized image according to the edge confidence, the input image and the result of the directional filtering fusion unit. The present invention can well handle directional filtering in any direction and it has good effect to low-angle aliasing.
US10410324B2
The present invention provides a method, system, and computer program product of displaying computer graphics according to arrangement and orientation attributes. In an embodiment, the invention includes receiving computer graphics attribute data of computer graphics, receiving arrangement attribute data, calculating an arrangement order for the computer graphics with respect to the computer graphics attribute data and the arrangement attribute data, receiving orientation attribute data indicating an orientation attribute, receiving an orientation attribute value indicating a value of the orientation attribute, calculating orientation values for the computer graphics with respect to the computer graphics attribute values and the orientation attribute value, and displaying on the computer display the computer graphics in the arrangement order and in orientations corresponding to the orientation values, resulting in displayed computer graphics. In an embodiment, the computer graphics include at least one of computer icons and digital images.
US10410317B1
A digital image transformation environment is described that employs spline handles. A spline handle is generated by a spline handle generation module of the computing device based on a segment with respect to artwork in a digital image as including control points. A second user input is then received as moving an internal point on the spline handle between the first and second endpoints from a first location to a second location in the user interface. In response, the spline handle generation module regenerates the segment of the spline handle as including the internal point at the second location by adjusting a tangent handle. Next, a digital image transformation module is employed to determine a transformation to be applied to the artwork based on the regenerated segment of the spline handle, which is applied to the artwork.
US10410315B2
A method and apparatus for generating image information. A specific embodiment of the method includes: acquiring a rotation angle and a scaling of a target image relative to a reference image, and acquiring an intrinsic parameter of a video camera collecting the reference image; generating a projective transformation matrix based on the rotation angle, the scaling and the intrinsic parameter; generating a coordinate offset of the each neighborhood pixel of the feature point in the reference image; generating, based on a coordinate of the feature point in the reference image, the coordinate offset of the each neighborhood pixel of the feature point in the reference image and the projective transformation matrix, coordinates of the each neighborhood pixel of the feature point in the reference image; and generating a feature point descriptor of the feature point.
US10410314B2
A cross fader circuit that receives first raw image data and second raw image data and outputs blended raw image data. The cross fader circuit includes a first scaling circuit, a second scaling circuit, and an alpha blender. The first scaling circuit downscales first raw image data captured by a first sensor with a first field of view to match a size of a blending window. The second scaling circuit upscales second raw image data to match the size of a canvas window that encloses the blending window. The second raw image data may be a cropped version of raw image data captured by a second sensor of a second field of view wider than the first field of view. An alpha blender circuit generates a blended raw image data matching the size of the canvas window from the downscaled first raw image data and upscaled second raw image data.
US10410310B2
An integrated building evacuation system includes an evacuation controller; a fire alarm system in communication with the evacuation controller; an HVAC system in communication with the evacuation controller; a security system in communication with the evacuation controller; an elevator system in communication with the evacuation controller; and an output device in communication with the evacuation controller; the evacuation controller receiving data from the fire alarm system, the HVAC system, the security system and the elevator system to generate an evacuation path, during an evacuation event, for occupants of a building in response to the data from the fire alarm system, HVAC system, security system and elevator system, the evacuation controller providing the evacuation path to the output device.
US10410305B1
An exception-based integrated patient access workflow via a single user interface is provided. When patient data associated with a healthcare encounter is received, various rules may be applied to cross-check the received data with other stored and received data to ensure correct patient data and to ensure accurate information for downstream patient access workflow processes. An indication of discrepant data, missing data, or input/user-interaction that may be needed for performance of a patient access workflow process may be provided. The indication may be provided via alerts displayed in an integrated user interface. Accordingly, a user may be able to address and resolve alerts to ensure patient access workflow processes are performed prior to a healthcare encounter.
US10410299B2
In an embodiment, a method comprises: receiving pre-planting data representing a lower bound date value and an upper bound date value of dates for a pre-planting application of fertilizer to an agricultural field; side-dressing data representing a lower bound date value and an upper bound date value of dates for a side-dressing application; fertilizer cost data representing a cost of a fertilizer application; labor cost data representing a cost of applying fertilizer to the field; and expected profit data. Based on the received data, one or more penalty constraints are determined. Based on the received data, a fertilizing schedule is generated. The schedule comprises the one or more valid calendar dates on which fertilizing the agricultural field is recommended and the one or more valid fertilizer amounts to be applied to the agricultural field on the one or more valid calendar dates to maximize a yield from the agricultural field.
US10410298B1
A method for completing a well includes receiving completion parameters associated with a well within a field; projecting a production of the well based on the completion parameters using a completion engine applied to a field-specific model; prescribing proposed completion parameters for the well to comply with a production objective using the completion engine applied to the field-specific model; projecting a proposed production based on the proposed completion parameters using the completion engine applied to the field-specific model; and recompleting the well in accordance with the proposed completion parameters.
US10410297B2
In some embodiments, a system may include a communication badge device including a communication device. The communication device can include a touchscreen interface and at least one sensor configured to generate a signal related to an orientation of the communication badge device. The communication device may further include a processor coupled to the touchscreen interface and the at least one sensor. The processor may be configured to determine a first mode and a second mode based on the orientation. The processor can be further configured to provide name tag data to the touchscreen interface in the first mode and to provide a user interface to the touchscreen interface in the second mode.
US10410294B1
Utilizing machine learning models to automatically perform actions that maintain a plan for an event
A device receives, from a user device, plan information that identifies a plan for an event and includes information identifying an account associated with the plan, plan items of the plan, and priorities and preferences associated with the plan items, where the user device is associated with a user of the account and the plan. The device receives transaction information identifying transactions associated with the account, and processes the plan information and the transaction information, with a first model, to identify transactions related to the plan. The device processes information associated with the particular plan item, the plan information, and the transaction information, with a second model, to determine recommendations for the plan, where the information associated with the particular plan item includes information identifying a priority and a preference associated with the particular plan item. The device provides information indicating the recommendations to the user device.
US10410289B1
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) may facilitate insurance-related tasks. UAVs may actively be dispatched to an area surrounding an insured or potentially insured asset, such as with the insurance customer's permission, and collect data related to the insured or potentially insured asset, such as size, height, roof shape, materials (siding, roofing), etc. which may form a basis of the underwriting detail used to evaluate a property. The drone data may reveal site characteristics, such as slope or grade of a parcel; the proximity to other structures (and their uses); trees; rivers; coastlines; and earthquake faults. The drone data may be used by an insurance provider remote server to assess the risk associated with an insured asset, generate or modify an insurance premium or discount, etc. The drone data may also be used to mitigate risk and prevent loss by alerting policyholders of the risk such that corrective action may be taken.
US10410288B2
A method for providing vehicle operation data to a remote computer or server for calculation of a vehicle insurance premium for a period of time based at least in part on collected vehicle operation data, wherein the method includes steps of: collecting vehicle operation data via a mobile device while the mobile device is associated with an operating vehicle, wherein the vehicle operation data has insurance risk predictive power; and transmitting the collected vehicle operation data from the mobile device to a remote computer. The remote computer or server receives collected vehicle operation data, stores the collected vehicle operation data in a database, a determines a vehicle insurance premium via a rating engine based at least in part on collected vehicle operation data.
US10410277B2
A method and apparatus for alerting an individual is described. A determination as to whether an individual is within a sensing area of a first device is made. The first device may be configured to provide information about a product on a shelf on which the first device is attached. In response to determining that the individual is within the sensing area, a determination as to whether to notify an occurrence of the determination that the individual is within the sensing area of the first device to at least one second device is made. In response to determining to notify, a notification may be transmitted to the at least one second device that the individual is within the sensing area of the first device. An alert may be triggered at the at least one second device based upon the transmitted notification.
US10410270B2
A search system extracts, for each property known to the system, historical information comprising data for itineraries associated with a partner system associated with the property. The search system determines, for each property-itinerary combination, an update frequency comprising based on historical information data. The search system extracts a history of user impressions of itineraries comprising the property. The search system determines a relative impression weight for each itinerary, an absolute impression weight for the property, and an expected impression weight of each property-itinerary combination. For each current property-itinerary combination, the search system determines a utility value based on the expected update frequency and expected impression weight to satisfy bandwidth constraints for each partner system. The search system schedules, for each partner system, queries for property-itinerary combinations having values greater than threshold utility value.
US10410269B2
Providing subscriber options can include receiving a message including a selected service design option from a subscriber device, identifying the subscriber based on the message, fetching data pertinent to the selected service design option and the identified subscriber, and providing a set of service design options, dependent to the selected service design option, to the subscriber device based on the data.
US10410268B1
A product or device using a method of attaching an object to a porous material, such as a textile. The method allows products to change their aesthetic appearance and offers a new business model that brings the advantages of digital technology to the brick and mortar retailer. The use of a non-porous patch is disclosed as a way to prevent adhesive migration between a printable media that uses adhesive to attach itself to a porous material, such as a textile. The method further discloses how to integrate digital images with physical products sold at retail stores so as to allow a single product to be able to have a wide range of ornamental designs applied to expand the breadth of choice at the brick and mortar retail shelf and add significant business efficiencies that benefit both the consumer and retailer.
US10410264B2
An order processing method includes: obtaining first order information and order sharing condition information, and generating an order sharing invitation message according to the first order information and the order sharing condition information; receiving an answer message returned by a target terminal according to the order sharing invitation message, and obtaining, according to the answer message, second order information and an acknowledged data transfer state indicated by the second order information; performing combination processing on the first order information and the second order information according to the acknowledged data transfer state returned by the target terminal, and generating settlement order information; and performing settlement on the settlement order information according to the order sharing condition information when the settlement order information meets an order sharing condition indicated by the order sharing condition information. A success rate and convenience of sharing orders by users are improved.
US10410263B2
Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for the exchange of digital assets are generally described. In some embodiments, a digital asset exchange system (the “exchange system”) may generate a catalog of available digital assets stored on a plurality of client logic devices or storage devices. The exchange system may determine a value for the digital assets. A user may request to exchange a digital asset in the catalog with one of their digital assets. The exchange system may process the exchange of the digital assets have an equivalent or substantially equivalent value. If the value of the digital assets is not equivalent, the exchange system may suggest digital assets for the exchange and/or initiate negotiations between the users.
US10410247B2
Audio sampling and user profile generation of advertisement control techniques are described. In one or more implementations, in a digital environment in which advertisements are dynamically selected for output and consumption by a user, a method is utilized to generate a user profile by one or more computing devices that serves as a basis for this dynamic selection. The method includes generating the user profile based on monitored consumption of content by a user, the consumption monitored through capture of audio data output in an environment of a user and identification of the audio data through comparison of hash values calculated from the captured audio data. The method also includes determining suitability of one or more of a plurality of advertisements for output to and consumption by the user based on the generated user profile and controlling output of the one or more of the plurality of advertisements to the user based on the determined suitability.
US10410245B2
A system and methods are disclosed for creating and using a revenue value index to score impressions and users for purposes of determining fair pricing for advertisement (“ad”) placement or to provide analytics and information to publishers for future use. The revenue value index may be configured to evaluate data obtained or acquired from first-party, publisher platforms and/or third-party platforms or other data sources for the purpose of valuing either ad impressions or the users engaging the websites on which ads are likely to be placed. The revenue value index may be utilized for either providing value information to entities (for example, publishers) or for measuring the value of ad impressions or users for use in determining fair pricing in real-time auctions conducted for ad placement.
US10410240B2
Systems and methods for using wireless beacons in displays that display consumer products to facilitate the delivery of consumer oriented content to mobile devices is disclosed herein. Wireless beacons may be used to broadcast wireless signals from displays, where the wireless signals include data packets with unique identifiers for the wireless beacons. A first wireless signal from a first display may be received by a mobile device. The mobile device may also receive a second wireless signal from a second display at the same retail location. The mobile device may provide the first and second unique identifiers to a remote server. The remote server may know the location of one of the displays and assess the retail location of the other display based on the receiving both unique identifiers from the same retail location.
US10410220B2
A system is provided comprising a risk engine coupled to a financial system that includes an account. The risk engine generates an account model corresponding to a user and events of the account. Generation of the account model uses event parameters of a previous event performed by the user in the account. The risk engine uses the account model to generate a first probability of observing event parameters assuming the user is conducting the next event. The risk engine uses a fraud model to generate a second probability of observing event parameters assuming a fraudster is conducting the next event. The risk engine generates a risk score, using the first and second probabilities, which indicates the relative likelihood the next event is performed by the user. The system includes a risk application comprising an analytical user interface that displays for any event the risk score and/or event parameters.
US10410210B1
Described herein are various technologies related to secure generation of tokens and secure inversion of tokens. A tokenization system executes in a secure execution environment, and is configured to receive a string and an encrypted tokenization function. The tokenization system decrypts the encrypted tokenization function, and executes the tokenization function over the string to generate a token. The token is transmitted to a logically separate computing environment, and the tokenization system deletes the tokenization function and the string.
US10410206B2
A transaction card may determine to initiate a mode associated with the transaction card. The mode may be related to locating the transaction card. The mode may be associated with outputting a first signal. The transaction card may determine a manner in which to configure the mode based on a set of parameters. The set of parameters may include a power level of the transaction card, or a strength of a second signal associated with a connection between the transaction card and a device associated with the transaction card. The transaction card may initiate the mode after configuring the mode. The transaction card may determine to terminate the mode based on an indication that the transaction card has been located.
US10410204B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for generating rules to apply to fare transactions when a fare card reader cannot communicate with an authorization server, for generating historical data and a risk score for a fare card that are used by a fare card reader, with the rules, to determine whether to authorize access to a transit service when the fare card reader cannot communicate with the authorization server, and for selectively permitting or denying access to the transit service using the rules and the historical data or the score for a fare card.
US10410192B2
Embodiments of a system and method for displaying a user interface for controlling multiple devices are generally described herein. A method may include displaying a user interface, the user interface including reserve amounts for a plurality of Self-Service Terminals (SSTs) and a Teller Cash Recycler (TCR), and determining a device to complete a transaction from the plurality of SSTs and the TCR. The method may include, in response to determining the device is the TCR, instructing the TCR to complete the transaction, and in response to determining the device is a SST from the plurality of SSTs, instructing the SST to complete the transaction.
US10410189B2
A payment terminal can have an integrated memory scanning system that has direct access to the memory of the payment terminal. By having direct access to the memory of the payment terminal, the memory scanning system can access information about the operating system and the applications of the payment terminal to determine if the operating system or applications are performing unauthorized or forbidden actions, which may indicate that a fraudulent transaction or tamper attempt is occurring at the payment terminal. The memory scanning system can determine if an unauthorized action is occurring by comparing the information regarding the operating system or applications obtained from the memory to test criteria stored by the memory scanning system. In addition, the memory scanning system can also have a direct communications with a payment server using information from a network stack in memory that can be accessed directly by the memory scanning system.
US10410162B2
A cargo management system receives parcel data associated with cargo on a vessel. The parcel data may include bill of lading date, successor and predecessor data, cargo type data, and the like. The cargo management system identifies parcels that may be related, performs a parcel validation on the identified parcels, and receives or determines a relationship between the parcels. Then, the cargo management system performs voyage validation on the related parcels to create a voyage. The cargo management system then calculates a loss associated with each parcel, between parcels, and the entire voyage.
US10410158B1
A computer-implemented method for evaluating cybersecurity risk may include (i) identifying telemetry data collected from endpoints of an entity, (ii) calculating a cybersecurity risk score for the entity by searching the telemetry data for information indicative of cybersecurity risk exposure of the entity and performing an actuarial analysis on the information indicative of the cybersecurity risk exposure to quantize a potential consequence of the cybersecurity risk exposure, and (iii) performing, based on the cybersecurity risk score, a security action to protect the entity from the potential consequence of the cybersecurity risk exposure. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US10410155B2
Architecture that enables a Database-as-a-Service (DaaS) to auto-scale container sizes on behalf of tenants. An abstraction is provided that enables tenants to reason about monetary budget and query latency, rather than resource provisioning. An auto-scaling module automatically determines a container size for a subsequent billing interval based on telemetry that comprises latencies (e.g., waits), resource utilizations, and available budget, for example. A set of robust signals are derived from database engine telemetry and combined to significantly improve accuracy of resource demand estimation for database workloads. In a more specific implementation, resource demands can be estimated for arbitrary SQL (structured query language) workloads in a relational database management system (RDBMS).
US10410152B2
A system, computer-implemented method and computer program product for monitoring one or more software development life cycles is provided. The system comprises one or more agents configured to collect data pertaining to one or more Software Development Life Cycles (SDLCs) from one or more tools. The system further comprises a data aggregator and co-relator configured to convert the collected data to one or more object formats and co-relate the converted data by storing the converted data in a graph database as one or more nodes and corresponding relationships and properties, wherein each of the one or more nodes comprise converted data corresponding to a specific tool. Furthermore, the system comprises an indexed database configured to index the stored data. In addition, the system comprises a dashboard viewer configured to render the indexed data on one or more pre-configured dashboards for one or more users.
US10410145B2
A maintenance system for a process plant collects and uses historical data about maintenance orders. The data identifies the maintenance items for completing an order, such as the labor, materials, and maintenance tasks required. The data is historical data developed from actual completed maintenance orders. The system uses archived historical data and estimates various maintenance information, such as estimated cost for completing the maintenance order, and estimated start and completion times. The estimated data may be based on averaged data as a result. This estimated data along with the other maintenance order information may be sent to a scheduler for identifying a priority to the maintenance order and scheduling it accordingly.
US10410144B2
A method and system for searching a graph in parallel which constructs an abstract representation of an AND/OR graph using state-space abstraction. The abstract representation of the graph includes one or more abstract nodes having duplicate detection scopes and one or more abstract edges having operator groups adjusted for AND node outcomes. The duplicate detection scopes of the abstract nodes are partitioned into smaller duplicate detection scopes using edge partitioning, wherein the abstract edges are used to define the smaller duplicate detection scopes. Nodes in the current search layer are expanded by a processing unit using the adjusted operator groups of outgoing abstract edges of the abstract nodes mapped into by the nodes, wherein the nodes expanded in parallel use adjusted operator groups associated with abstract edges having disjoint duplicate detection scopes. The method progresses to the next search layer once all the adjusted operator groups in the current search layer have been used for node expansions.
US10410143B2
Embodiments of the invention include a system for managing inventory transactions within an online marketplace including a reservation server to mediate inventory exchange from a buyer to a seller via an online network. The reservation server includes a memory and a processor coupled to the online network. The memory includes computer-executable instructions that when executed by the processor, establishes a sales channel between the seller and buyer. The sales channel includes a direct sales channel, an indirect sales channel, and resale channel. The online network includes a marketplace server including an inventory that can be reserved, sold, or resold through the sales channel mediated by the reservation server based on the reservation server receiving an inventory reservation request from the seller or buyer. Further, the inventory includes a set price, and the buyer can purchase, repurchase, reserve, option, or swap at least one inventory.
US10410142B1
Computer-implemented methods include: receiving, in a first client device, multiple risk indicators from multiple server devices over a network, in which the multiple risk indicators represent different external risks to a business and different internal risks to two or more divisions of the business; applying a forecasting model to at least one risk indicators to obtain one or more estimated future performance metrics; outputting to a graphical user interface, at least one of the estimated future performance metrics, the external risks or the internal risks; and outputting to the graphical user interface, a user-interactive feature for sending at least one of the estimated future performance metrics, the external risks, or the internal risks from the first client device, over the network, to a second client device.
US10410139B2
A system that performs natural language processing receives a text corpus that includes a plurality of documents and receives a knowledge base. The system generates a set of document n-grams from the text corpus and considers all n-grams as candidate mentions. The system, for each candidate mention, queries the knowledge base and in response retrieves results. From the results retrieved by the queries, the system generates a search space and generates a joint model from the search space.
US10410131B2
Embodiments relate to facilitating a meeting. A method for reducing an amount of communications to analyze in order to determine a cognitive state of an entity is provided. The method determines a first likelihood of an entity to have a particular cognitive state based on a set of physiological measures of the entity. The method receives communications from the entity. The method generates a graph of communications of the entity. The method performs a graphical text analysis on the graph to determine a second likelihood of the entity to have the particular cognitive state. The method determines whether the entity has the particular cognitive state based on the first likelihood and the second likelihood.
US10410126B2
A process for recommending choices to a user uses a first model representing the user's subconscious and a second model representing the user's consciousness. The process comprises receiving data and performing, using the second model, a simulation by modeling the user and a third party to derive a simulation result that determines how the user would react to a situation based at least in part on the received data. Using the first model and the simulation, a first set of recommendation choices based at least in part on the received data is derived, and a set of recommendation choices for presentation based on the first set of recommendation choices is determined and presented to the user. As the user is making a selection, the user is monitored for conscious decisions and subconscious reactions, which are used to update the first model and the second model.
US10410120B1
A method for learning an object detector based on a region-based convolutional neural network (R-CNN) capable of converting modes according to aspect ratios or scales of objects is provided. The aspect ratio and the scale of the objects including traffic lights may be determined according to characteristics, such as distance from the object detector, shapes, and the like, of the object. The method includes steps of: a learning device instructing an RPN to generate ROI candidates; instructing pooling layers to output feature vector; and learn the FC layers and the convolutional layer through backpropagation. In this method, pooling processes may be performed depending on real ratios and real sizes of the objects by using distance information and object information obtained through a radar, a lidar or other sensors. Also, the method can be used for surveillance as humans at a specific location have similar sizes.
US10410114B2
Disclosed herein are a model training method, a data recognizing method, and a model training apparatus. A model training method includes selecting a teacher model from a plurality of teacher models; receiving, at a student model, input data; and training the student model based on output data of the selected teacher model, the output data corresponding to the input data.
US10410112B2
Aspects for executing forward propagation of artificial neural network are described here. As an example, the aspects may include a plurality of computation modules connected via an interconnection unit; and a controller unit configured to decode an instruction into one or more groups of micro-instructions, wherein the plurality of computation modules are configured to perform respective groups of the micro-instructions.
US10410110B2
This circuit includes a random network, said random network including: nodes, each node being formed with a pad forming an electric contact borne on a face of a substrate; and links between nodes, each link being formed with at least one unidimensional nanometric object with variable and non-volatile resistance having a configured resistance subsequently to the application of a suitable stimulus between at least one pair of pads connected through said link.
US10410107B2
An artificial intelligence assistant (“chatbot”) operates within a multi-tenant database and allows users to interact with the underlying structured database through a natural language interface without using a standard structured query language or database interface. Users may interact with the chatbot via a chatroom and perform database queries using natural language expressions in the same manner as asking a person to perform the tasks. In addition, the chatbot may check user permissions and security parameters to determine if the user is permitted to access or alter data within the multi-tenant database.
US10410104B2
A two-dimensional dot matrix barcode encoding method comprises: forming a plurality of coordinate calibration blocks, a plurality of data storage blocks and a direction indication block by filling code points into the virtual code point storage blocks, wherein the plurality of coordinate calibration blocks are filled with only one code point located in the center of the virtual code point storage block; the direction indication block is filled with at least two code points, only one code point being located in the center of the virtual code point storage block; the plurality of coordinate calibration blocks and the direction indication block are separated from each other and distributed among the plurality of data storage blocks; and code points filled in the plurality of data storage blocks are used to store data information, where M≥4, N≥4, N≥4, and M and N are both even numbers.
US10410102B2
A method of manufacturing a component comprising forming an identifier internally within the component in a predetermined manner, wherein the identifier can be used to subsequently identify or authenticate the component.
US10410099B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image processing unit that executes, with respect to image data, image processing that adjusts an amount of a printing material to be applied to a printing medium, a calculation unit that calculates an amount of change of pixel values between a target pixel and a peripheral pixel that is adjacent to the target pixel, and a control unit that controls whether to execute the image processing for the target pixel based on the calculated amount of change of pixel values. In addition, a printing unit prints an image on the printing medium based on image data resulting from the control of execution of the image processing by the control unit.
US10410098B2
One embodiment provides for a compute apparatus to perform machine learning operations, the apparatus comprising a decode unit to decode a single instruction into a decoded instruction that specifies multiple operands including an input value and a quantized weight value associated with a neural network and an arithmetic logic unit including a barrel shifter, an adder, and an accumulator register, wherein to execute the decoded instruction, the barrel shifter is to shift the input value by the quantized weight value to generate a shifted input value and the adder is to add the shifted input value to a value stored in the accumulator register and update the value stored in the accumulator register.
US10410097B2
Embodiments include a system, method, and computer program product for distributed intelligent pattern recognition. Embodiments include a cooperative multi-agent detection system that enables an array of disjunctive devices (e.g., cameras, sensors) to selectively cooperate to identify objects of interest over time and space, and to contribute an object of interest to a shared deep learning pattern recognition system based on a bidirectional feedback mechanism. Embodiments provide updated information and/or algorithms to one or more agencies for local system learning and pattern updating recognition models. Each of the multiple agencies may in turn, update devices (e.g., cameras, sensors) coupled to the local machine learning and pattern recognition models.
US10410095B2
A computer-implemented method of identifying a payment card design includes partitioning an image of a detected payment card into a plurality of blocks, the image comprising predetermined portions irreversibly masked; and generating an individual numerical representation of each respective one of the plurality of blocks, thereby generating a collective numerical representation of the design of the detected payment card. The method also includes selecting, from a database storing a plurality of payment card designs, one or more payment card designs based on the collective numerical representation of the design of the detected payment card. The method further includes generating a similarity score between the design of the detected payment card and each of the one or more selected payment card designs; and associating the design of the detected payment card with one of the one or more selected payment card designs based on the similarity score.
US10410093B2
A method of classifying signals using non-linear sparse representations includes learning a plurality of non-linear dictionaries based on a plurality of training signals, each respective nonlinear dictionary corresponding to one of a plurality of class labels. A non-linear sparse coding process is performed on a test signal for each of the plurality of non-linear dictionaries, thereby associating each of the plurality of non-linear dictionaries with a distinct sparse coding of the test signal. For each respective non-linear dictionary included in the plurality of non-linear dictionaries, a reconstruction error is measured using the test signal and the distinct sparse coding corresponding to the respective non-linear dictionary. A particular nonlinear dictionary corresponding to a smallest value for the reconstruction error among the plurality of non-linear dictionaries is identified and a class label corresponding to the particular non-linear dictionary is assigned to the test signal.
US10410091B2
A computer-implemented method includes receiving one or more training images depicting one or more training geographical regions. One or more environmental characteristic (EC) values are determined for the training images. The EC values include at least one EC value for each of the training images. One or more models are generated for mapping an EC value of an image to a determination of whether an artifact is present in a geographical region depicted by the image, based on the EC values and based on knowledge of which of the training images depict training geographical regions having artifacts present. A new image is received depicting a new geographical region. The models are applied to the new image. A probability that a new artifact is present in the new geographical region depicted in the new image is determined, based on the applying the models to the new image.
US10410068B2
A method of determining the position of an object in a scene, comprising: receiving captured images of the scene, each image being captured from a different field of view of the scene, wherein a portion of the scene with a volume comprises a detectable object, the volume is divided into volume portions, and each volume portion is within the captured field of view of at least two of the captured images so that an image of each volume portion appears in the at least two of the captured images; detecting, for each volume portion in each of the captured images within which an image of that volume portion appears, whether or not an image of one of the detectable objects in the scene is positioned within a distance of the position of the image of that volume portion, a correspondence between the images of the detectable objects detected in the at least two of the images is established, the correspondence indicating that the images of the detectable objects detected in the at least two of the images correspond to a single detectable object in the scene, and the position in the scene of that volume portion is established as a position in the scene of the single detectable object.
US10410066B2
A platform, device and process for capturing images of the surface of a gaming table and determining the quantity, identity, and arrangement of chips bet at a gaming table. Image data is captured corresponding to the one or more chips positioned in at least one betting area on a gaming surface of the respective gaming table and the data is processed to filter out the background, establish a two dimensional grid of points of interests and corresponding histograms for classifying the one or more chips through identifying a dominant classification of each row in the grid of points of interests.
US10410059B2
A computer-implemented method to compare events from videos including monitoring two or more videos and identifying a first event in a first video, determining a first feature description of the first event, a first location of the first event, and a first time stamp of the first event, identifying a second event in a second video of the two or more videos, determining a second feature description of the second event, a second location of the second event, and a second time stamp of the second event, comparing the first and second feature description, the first and second location, and the first and second time stamp. The method may include classifying the first event and the second event as correlated events determined to be sufficiently similar and classifying the first event and the second event as not correlated events when determined not to be sufficiently similar.
US10410058B1
Techniques are disclosed for analyzing a scene depicted in an input stream of video frames captured by a video camera. The techniques include evaluating sequence pairs representing segments of object trajectories. Assuming the objects interact, each of the sequences of the sequence pair may be mapped to a sequence cluster of an adaptive resonance theory (ART) network. A rareness value for the pair of sequence clusters may be determined based on learned joint probabilities of sequence cluster pairs. A statistical anomaly model, which may be specific to an interaction type or general to a plurality of interaction types, is used to determine an anomaly temperature, and alerts are issued based at least on the anomaly temperature. In addition, the ART network and the statistical anomaly model are updated based on the current interaction.
US10410052B2
A method for processing a stroke in an image is provided. The stroke includes a plurality of pixels and the method includes: executing a modified 4-way stroke width transform (SWT) on a mask of the stroke; determining a plurality of certain centerline points among the pixels based on the modified SWT; generating a plurality of polylines within the stroke based on the certain centerline points; determining a plurality of regions of certainty based on the polylines; removing the regions of certainty from the mask and leaving a plurality of regions of uncertainty in the mask; calculating a plurality of joints and end caps for each of the polylines based on the polylines and the regions of uncertainty; generating a completed polyline path by connecting the polylines based on the joints and end caps; and generating a description of the stroke based on the completed polyline path.
US10410047B2
The present invention is a method of processing a video image in an electronic video processor including the steps of receiving an input image having an input field of view, generating a processed image from the input image, and having an output field of view smaller than the input field of view, searching for a predetermined pattern within the input image, providing an indication when the predetermined pattern is found in the input image, and zooming the processed image to the input field of view and highlighting the predetermined pattern in the processed image in response to the indication.
US10410041B2
The present invention is directed to a computer application for analyzing handwriting. The handwriting is digitized by being captured by a computing device such as a tablet. The application analyzes four components of the digitized handwriting. The initial component provides real-time writing speed feedback to the subject. The second fully automated component computes a variety of kinematic measures based on periods of time when the subject is writing versus the pen being off the tablet. A third component is able to concatenate pen strokes into user defined characters and assesses character and/or word spacing based on preset distances. For the fourth component, a 2-dimensional version of the large deformation diffeomorphic metric mapping (LDDMM) method is used to compare each character to a template character. Together, these components can be used to assess handwriting for a broad range of applications.
US10410040B2
The invention provides a fingerprint lock control method and a fingerprint lock system. The system at least comprises a fingerprint lock, a server and an electronic device. The method comprises: scanning an identification code of a current fingerprint lock and uploading the identification code of the current fingerprint lock by the electronic device to the server, such that the current fingerprint lock is bound to account information of a user; collecting current fingerprint information of the user by a fingerprint reader on the current fingerprint lock; receiving a fingerprint information template of the user transmitted by the server by the electronic device; determining if the current fingerprint information matches the fingerprint information template; controlling and opening the current fingerprint lock, if yes. In the invention, the user don't need register repeatedly on the fingerprint locks, the unlocking procedure can be simplified and unlocking time can be saved significantly.
US10410032B2
A fingerprint sensor includes a pixel array and a controller. The pixel array includes a plurality of unit pixels arranged in rows and columns, each of the plurality of unit pixels including, a sensing electrode configured to form a detection capacitance with a finger, a signal generation circuit configured to output an analog signal through a column line based on the detection capacitance, and a protection circuit configured to control a voltage transfer between the sensing electrode and a common line. The controller is configured to control the protection circuit in each of the plurality of unit pixels to transfer a voltage at the sensing electrode of an active unit pixel of the plurality of unit pixels to the sensing electrode in at least one protection unit pixel of the plurality of unit pixels through the common line.
US10410028B1
Systems and methods for using optical barcodes without orientation for information access are provided. In example embodiments, a computer accesses an image including data encoded within a geometric shape. The computer decodes, for each of a plurality of orientations of the geometric shape, a first portion of the data encoded within the geometric shape. The computer determines that, for one of the plurality of orientations, the first portion of the data encoded within the geometric shape decodes to a predefined number. The computer determines that the one of the plurality of orientations is an intended orientation for the geometric shape. The computer decodes, based on the intended orientation of the geometric shape, a second portion of the data encoded within the geometric shape. The computer accesses, via a network, a resource that corresponds to the decoded second portion of the data.
US10410025B2
Systems and a method are provided for use with a shopping cart in a store. A system includes Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) tags, including item RFID tags associated with items for sale and reference RFID tags associated with various aisles in the store, for providing RFID data. The system further includes a RFID reader, operatively coupled to the shopping cart, and configured to the read RFID data from the item RFID tags and the reference RFID tags, extract features from the RFID data, identify any of the items having feature values associated therewith greater than a threshold amount as inside-cart items to be processed during an automatic checkout, and perform the automatic checkout on only the inside-cart items.
US10410023B2
The present technology relates to a non-contact communication device, a non-contact communication method, a program, and a non-contact communication system capable of achieving a simpler configuration to implement an active side function. A non-contact communication device includes a communication unit that receives a command from a first device using a carrier wave output from the first device and sends a command to a second device using the carrier wave output from the first device. The present technology can be used in a non-contact communication device or the like.
US10410021B1
A card reader includes a digital connector such as a Universal Serial Bus (USB) plug or an Apple® Lightning® plug. The digital connector includes a corresponding connector interface, which provides voltage to at least a card reader interface and an integrated circuit (IC) of the card reader. The card reader interface outputs an analog transaction information signal upon reading the card. The IC generates a digital version of the analog transaction information signal, encrypts the digital version, converts that into an analog audio signal. The audio signal can then be sent to the connector interface, which converts it into a digital signal such as a USB or Apple® Lightning® signal that is sent by the digital connector to a mobile device. Alternately, the audio signal can be sent to a microcontroller that converts the audio signal to a digital format such as USB, and then to the digital connector.
US10410008B2
Techniques for evaluating authorization requests using cached policy data are disclosed. In one or more embodiments, a thick client receives an authorization request. The thick client evaluates the authorization request, based on partial contextual information associated with the authorization request and a local policy data cache, to generate a preliminary authorization response. The preliminary authorization response includes one of (a) denial of the authorization request and (b) non-denial of the authorization request. Responsive to the preliminary authorization response including non-denial of the authorization request, the thick client submits complete contextual information associated with the authorization request to an authorization service. The authorization service provides a final authorization result, which the thick client uses to grant or deny the authorization request.
US10410001B2
Secure rendering system that creates ray tracing samples with obfuscated positions, so that images can only be viewed by an authorized consumer able to recover the sample positions. Obfuscation of ray directions is integrated into the rendering process, for example by incorporating encryption into a lens shader. The rendering system never stores or transmits an image without obfuscating positions, so even the rendering system cannot see the image it is rendering. Embodiments may use public key cryptography, so that encryption of sample positions is done with a public key, and only the owner of the secret private key can view the rendered image. Since keys are asymmetric, the rendering system cannot decrypt the obfuscated samples. Piracy of rendered images is therefore mitigated. Some compositing operations may be performed on the secure rendering output prior to decrypting sample positions; for example, colors may be modified globally or for selected objects.
US10410000B1
Disclosed are systems to apply customized permission settings to protect particular portions of a document, and, in particular, documents that are of bitstream datatypes, encoded or not encoded, e.g., an audio filetype such as the MP3 audio format. The custom access permission settings may be implemented by obfuscating the protected portions of the original bitstream and then embedding “secret,” e.g., hidden and/or encrypted, versions of the obfuscated portions in parts of the data structure of the original file, e.g., in the form of “layers” that are held within audio stream containers such as channels. The content of the individual encrypted audio stream containers may then be decrypted according to each recipient's permissions and layered on top of the obfuscated portions of the encoded media file before being rendered to the recipient.
US10409991B2
A USB device for secure data loading to a system component, such as of an aircraft. The USB device is operable in a mass storage mode and in a non-mass storage mode. The USB device initially operates in the non-mass storage mode upon startup and comprises a storage for storing data to be loaded to the system component, a processor and a memory, wherein the memory contains instructions executable by the processor such that the USB device is operable to perform a security check on the data to be loaded to the system component, and switch, upon the security check, from the non-mass storage mode to the mass storage mode to provide the data for loading to the system component.
US10409984B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for storing a plurality of stored fingerprints, wherein each of the stored fingerprints is associated with a respective software environment and a respective mobile device; receiving from a first mobile device a first fingerprint of a first software environment in the first mobile device; determining whether the stored fingerprints include less than a threshold amount of fingerprints identical to the first fingerprint; based on a determination that the stored fingerprints include less than the threshold amount of fingerprints identical to the first fingerprint, determining that the first software environment is a compromised software environment; and performing a corrective measure.
US10409982B2
According to some embodiments, a proxy server comprises one or more processors operable to establish communication with a secure client application of a device. The client is configured with a partition that contains data received from the proxy server within the secure application. If the client passes authentication, the server communicates preview information to the client previewing files that the server received from a business server on behalf of the client. The client requests a selected file. The server renders the selected file into a first portion and a second portion based on the immediate display capabilities of the client. The server communicates the first portion, determines that a trigger point was reached, and then communicates the second portion in response to the trigger point being reached. The client is configured to delete the first portion and the second portion in response to a completion event.
US10409977B2
A service receives a request from a user of a group of users to perform one or more operations requiring group authentication in order for the operations to be performed. In response, the service provides a first user of the group with an image seed and an ordering of the group of users. Each user of the group applies a transformation algorithm to the seed to create an authentication claim. The service receives this claim and determines, based at least in part on the ordering of the group of users, an ordered set of transformations, which are used to create a reference image file. If the received claim matches the reference image file, the service enables performance of the requested one or more operations.
US10409973B2
A method for controlling unlocking is provided. The method includes the following operations. M first fingerprint images are received when a touch operation of a finger of a user on a fingerprint recognition module of a terminal device is detected. N second fingerprint images are received based on N sets of capacity auto control (CAC) parameters when the finger of the user is in a steady state. A first target fingerprint image is determined and a matching process on the first target fingerprint image is performed. The terminal device is unlocked when the first target fingerprint image is matched.
US10409968B2
An information processing system including: an information processing device including a light source, and a visible light communication control unit configured to control a light emission state of the light source on the basis of identification information of the information processing device and transmit the identification information; and an information processing terminal including an imaging unit, an identification information acquiring unit configured to perform image processing on an image of the light source captured by the imaging unit and acquire the identification information of the information processing device, a display control unit configured to control display of an input screen for input of an operation to the information processing device on the basis of the identification information, and an input information transmitting unit configured to transmit input information input to the input screen to the information processing device.
US10409967B2
Systems and methods for limiting a user's access to a specific subset of a plurality of software applications installed on a computing device. A method includes the steps of: (i) activating a master application by a master user, where the master application allows access only to the specific subset of the plurality of software applications installed on the computing device, and further where the master application cannot be deactivated without authorization from the master user; (ii) accessing, from within the master application, one or more of the subset of software applications by an authorized user; (iii) returning to the master application or accessing a second of the subset of software applications; and (iv) deactivating the master application, where only the master user can deactivate the master application.
US10409966B2
A method comprising: carrying out optimization of an item of software in a first intermediate representation; carrying out protection of the item of software in a second intermediate representation different to the first intermediate representation.
US10409962B2
A receiver includes a first interface to receive content, a second interface to be coupled to a device, and a processor to determine whether the device is a compliant device and to prevent decryption of at least a portion of the content received through the first interface when the device is determined to be a non-compliant device.
US10409959B2
Provided is a medicine filling apparatus used for filling a medicine container with solid medicines, including: a medicine housing unit configured to house the medicines and having a plurality of medicine outlets configured to eject the housed medicines; a rotor located within the medicine housing unit, having a plurality of temporary medicine housing units configured to temporarily house the medicines, and configured to move the medicines housed in the plurality of temporary medicine housing units to the plurality of medicine outlets by rotating; and a drive unit configured to rotationally drive the rotor, wherein when at least one of the temporary medicine housing units coincides with at least one of the medicine outlets so that the medicines can be ejected, the temporary medicine housing units and the medicine outlets that are not in coincidence with each other are shifted by an angle such that the medicines cannot be ejected.
US10409954B2
The present disclosure relates to a terminal, and more particularly to a terminal and a method for providing health content. A method of providing health content using health information, includes receiving at least one piece of health information, comparing the received at least one piece of health information with a threshold value, and providing health content for a user to lessen a difference between the at least one piece of health information and the threshold value.
US10409950B2
A multiple fluid model tool for utilizing a 3D CAD point-cloud to automatically create a fluid model is presented. For example, a system includes a modeling component, a machine learning component, and a three-dimensional design component. The modeling component generates a three-dimensional model of a mechanical device based on point cloud data indicative of information for a set of data values associated with a three-dimensional coordinate system. The machine learning component predicts one or more characteristics of the mechanical device based on input data and a machine learning process associated with the three-dimensional model. The three-dimensional design component that provides a three-dimensional design environment associated with the three-dimensional model. The three-dimensional design environment renders physics modeling data of the mechanical device based on the input data and the one or more characteristics of the mechanical device on the three-dimensional model.
US10409941B2
A circuit description, such as a hierarchical netlist, is obtained for an integrated circuit. Based on the circuit description, a treemap representation is rendered using blocks, nodes, and/or devices from the hierarchical netlist as objects, or leaves, in the treemap representation. Using a virtual layout, the leaves are positioned in the treemap representation independent of their physical layout. Circuit properties for the electronic design are also obtained using various methods such as a circuit simulator. The circuit properties are displayed to a user on the treemap representation.
US10409936B2
A method of modeling power consumption of an integrated circuit and an apparatus for supporting the same are provided. The method of modeling power consumption of an integrated circuit includes: grasping information about a clock gating enable signal of the integrated circuit; determining a modeling level using a change rate of the number of the clock enable signal; and extracting a power state according to the modeling level and the number of the clock gating enable signal and modeling power consumption in the power state. Thereby, because a power state can be defined with only the number of a clock gating enable signal, a dynamic power consumption amount can be quickly and accurately estimated.
US10409932B2
A method and system is provided for computer-aided simulation of multi-layer selective laser sintering and melting in an additive manufacturing processes. The method may include receiving a solid model. The method may also include slicing the solid model geometry along a build direction and creating 3D meshes that represent manufacturing layers. In addition, the method may include simulating manufacture of each of the 3D meshes to produce corresponding deformed 3D meshes. Further, the method may include building a 3D mesh model from the deformed 3D meshes and displaying the 3D mesh model.
US10409921B2
The invention notably relates to a computer-implemented method of design of an industrial product wherein constraints between geometries of the industrial product are modeled with a graph of constraints comprising nodes and edges, a node representing a geometry and an edge representing a constraint between two geometries. The method comprising the steps of selecting at least one geometry of the product; computing a depth value of each node of the graph from a node representing the at least one selected geometry; identifying antagonistic constraint(s) in the graph, an antagonistic constraint being represented by an oriented edge wherein the depth value of the start node is larger to the depth value of the end node; reversing the identified antagonistic constraint(s); modifying the at least one selected geometry.
US10409920B1
A Computer-executable method, system, and computer program product for managing tiers of data storage in a data storage environment using a data storage system, the Computer-executable method, system, and computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer readable medium encoded with computer-executable program code for using read signatures in replication, the code configured to enable the execution of initializing a data stack, updating a map of the data stack; and distributing the map of the data stack to a compute node.
US10409917B1
A mechanism is disclosed for evaluating the quality of a machine translation system. Propositions are identified within a source language string and within a translation of the source language string generated by a machine translation system. The propositions can be identified using an automated mechanism or using human translators through the use of a human intelligence task site. Once the propositions have been identified, the propositions identified in the source language string can be compared to the propositions identified in the translated target language string. The results of the comparison can be utilized to compute a quality score for the translation. A final quality score can be generated for the machine translation system by repeating this process for multiple source language strings. The final quality score can then be utilized to improve the quality of models utilized by the machine translation system.
US10409916B2
A natural language processing system identifies an action element, a target element, and command element(s) in a text natural language command. For each identified command element, in the order it appears in the text natural language command, the natural language processing system accesses a playlist access matrix according to a matrix access counter to identify a playlist pointer associated with that command element, determines whether that playlist pointer indicates its associated command element is a best match relative to any other command elements that have already been considered and, if so, updates a playlist entry identifier with that playlist pointer and increments the matrix access counter. When all of the command elements have been considered, the natural language processing system uses the playlist entry identifier to identify a computing language command in a command playlist, and executes the computing language command on the target element based on the action element.
US10409911B2
A hardware-based programmable text analytics processor has a plurality of components including at least a tokenizer, a tagger, a parser, and a classifier. The tokenizer processes an input stream of unstructured text data and identifies a sequence of tokens along with their associated token ids. The tagger assigns a tag to each of the sequence of tokens from the tokenizer using a trained machine learning model. The parser parses the tagged tokens from the tagger and creates a parse tree for the tagged tokens via a plurality of shift, reduce and/or finalize transitions based on a trained machine learning model. The classifier performs classification for tagging and parsing by accepting features extracted by the tagger and the parser, classifying the features and returning classes of the features back to the tagger and the parser, respectively. The TAP then outputs structured data to be processed for various text analytics processing applications.
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One or more table content documents (TCDs) can be constructed for a set of tabular data or portion thereof. A set of query features corresponding to a question can be matched to one or more TCDs. A respective candidate answer can be generated for each of the one or more TCDs having a set of features matching the set of query features above a threshold. Zero or more candidate answers can be output to a user consumable data object.
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Approaches presented herein enable optimizing a display of tabular data from a 2-D table as a folding 3-D table having a plurality of vectors in a GUI. More specifically, a scaling ratio is calculated to fit the plurality of vectors within a display area of the GUI based on a cumulative width of the plurality of vectors and a width of the display area of the GUI. This scaling ratio is applied to a width of at least one vector to yield a modified width of the vector. The 2-D table is then rendered as a 3-D table in which the at least one vector is depicted as a modified vector angled between a horizontal and a vertical axis. This modified vector has an actual width equal to the modified width and a diagonal length equal to the width of the at least one vector.
