US10433121B2
Disclosed are methods for equipment networking and outputting by equipment, and equipment. Equipment acquires at least one of first information indicating a state of the equipment or second information indicating a state of peer equipment. The equipment determines whether a pre-set condition is met by at least one of the first information or the second information. When the pre-set condition is met by at least one of the first information or the second information, the equipment forms a group with the peer equipment.
US10433118B1
In aspects of navigation tracking in an always aware location environment with mobile localization nodes, a positioning system includes a server computing device that can locate wireless communication devices in an always aware location (AAL) environment. A mobile localization node located within the AAL environment implements a positioning module to receive, from the server computing device, one or two initial coordinates of the mobile localization node at a current location in the AAL environment. The positioning module can determine one or more additional coordinates of the mobile localization node at the current location in the AAL environment, and designate the current location as an origin of the mobile localization node based on a combination of the initial and additional coordinates. The positioning module can then self-track navigation of the mobile localization node within the AAL environment as the mobile localization node moves from the origin to subsequent locations.
US10433116B1
A system and method for associating an address for an object is disclosed. A smart address server is provided with a processor and memory. The smart address server is configured to receive a geo location for the object, the geo location indicative of the latitude and longitude of the location of the object. The geo location of the object is converted into a zone, sector, and target portion to generate a ZST location indicator for the object. An elevation portion is appended to the ZST location, to generate a ZSTE location indicator for the object. An object ID is assigned to the object and the object ID is appended to the ZSTE location indicator to generate a smart address for the object. The generated smart address is stored in a data store.
US10433109B2
Some demonstrative embodiments include apparatuses, systems and/or methods of performing a range measurement. For example, a first wireless communication device may include a radio to communicate a discovery frame with a second wireless communication device, the discovery frame including at least one movement indication field to indicate a time of movement of a sender of said discovery frame; and a controller to perform a range measurement procedure with said second wireless communication device.
US10433097B2
A method for processing an audio signal in accordance with a room impulse response is described. The audio signal is separately processed with an early part and a late reverberation of the room impulse response, and the processed early part of the audio signal and the reverberated signal are combined. A transition from the early part to the late reverberation in the room impulse response is reached when a correlation measure reaches a threshold, the threshold being set dependent on the correlation measure for a selected one of the early reflections in the early part of the room impulse response.
US10433086B1
An example method of operation may include detecting an acoustic stimulus via active beams associated with at least one microphone disposed in a defined space, detecting loudspeaker characteristic information of at least one loudspeaker providing the acoustic stimulus, transmitting acoustic stimulus information based on the acoustic stimulus to a central controller, and modifying, via a central controller, at least one control function associated with the at least one microphone and the at least one loudspeaker to minimize acoustic feedback produced by the loudspeaker.
US10433080B2
According to an embodiment, a hearing aid is disclosed. The hearing aid includes a housing, a light guide member, a first light source, and a second light source. The housing includes electronic components configured to generate a perceivable modulated signal in response to a received sound. The perceivable modulated signal is configured to produce a hearing sensation to a user of the hearing aid. The light guide member is arranged proximal to and/or within the housing. The first light source configured to emit a first colored light and a second light source configured to emit a second colored light. The first light source and the second light source are positioned within the housing and arranged in relation to the light guide member such that a substantial amount of the first colored light and a substantial amount of the second colored light are adapted to travel through the light guide member. The light guide member includes dimensions such that the substantial amount of the first colored light and the substantial amount of second colored light are mixed within the light guide member to generate a light of a third color.
US10433076B2
An audio processing device comprises a) at least one input unit for providing a time-frequency representation Y(k,n) of an electric input signal representing sound consisting of target speech and noise signal components, where k and n are frequency band and time frame indices, respectively, b) a noise reduction system configured to: determine a first signal to noise ratio estimate γ(k,n) of said electric input signal, and determine a second signal to noise signal ratio estimate ζ(k,n) of said electric input signal from said first signal to noise ratio estimate γ(k,n) based on a recursive algorithm providing non-linear smoothing, and wherein parameters of said smoothing are determined in dependence of the first and/or the second signal to noise ratio estimates corresponding to a multitude of frequency band indices. The invention may be used in hearing aids, headsets, ear phones, active ear protection systems, handsfree telephone systems, mobile telephones, etc.
US10433068B2
A MEMS acoustic transducer provided with: a substrate of semiconductor material, having a back surface and a front surface opposite with respect to a vertical direction; a first cavity formed within the substrate, which extends from the back surface to the front surface; a membrane which is arranged at the upper surface, suspended above the first cavity and anchored along a perimeter thereof to the substrate; and a combfingered electrode arrangement including a number of mobile electrodes coupled to the membrane and a number of fixed electrodes coupled to the substrate and facing respective mobile electrodes for forming a sensing capacitor, wherein a deformation of the membrane as a result of incident acoustic pressure waves causes a capacitive variation of the sensing capacitor. In particular, the combfingered electrode arrangement lies vertically with respect to the membrane and extends parallel thereto.
US10433051B2
Herein provided is a method and system to determine a sound source direction using a microphone array comprising at least four microphones by analysis of the complex coherence between at least two microphones. The method includes determining the relative angle of incidence of the sound source and communicating directional data to a secondary device, and adjusting at least one parameter of the device in view of the directional data. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10433050B2
A speaker module for a mobile device is provided. The speaker module changes a shape of an opening surface of a duct to which a protection member for preventing a foreign substance from entering is attached. The speaker module includes a speaker for outputting a sound signal, a body in which the speaker is mounted, a duct connected to the body for forming a radiation path of a sound signal output from the speaker, and a protection member attached to an opening surface of the duct for preventing a foreign substance from entering the speaker module, wherein the opening surface has an area larger than that of a cross-sectional opening surface formed vertically with respect to a length direction of the duct.
US10433047B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable medium are provided for managing connections of user devices. For example, two source devices may be configured to maintain a data stream with one another. The data stream may enable the two source devices to identify one or more connections between each other and at least a third device. In response to receiving an event that indicates content to be provided to the third device, the data stream may be used by the source devices to configure their network connections with the third device.
US10433046B2
An improved system and method for reducing the ambient noise experienced by a user listening to an earpiece without the use of a microphone is disclosed. An “ambient noise signal” created by the sound pressure wave of the ambient noise acting on the earpiece transducer is obtained. In some embodiments, the ambient noise signal is inverted and fed back, and the inverted signal is added to the intended audio signal being sent to the earpiece so that the ambient noise is cancelled. In other embodiments, a processor receives the ambient noise signal and predicts the modification to the intended audio signal needed to counteract the ambient noise. The ambient noise signal may be obtained by comparing the actual signal across the earpiece transducer to the intended audio signal, or by detecting variations in the current across the transducer from the current generated to drive the transducer.
US10433044B2
A novel headphone system includes a first speaker assembly, a second speaker assembly, and an interactive visual display system. The interactive visual display system includes a display operative to output visual contents according to interaction with a user. In one embodiment, one of the displays can be a transparent display placed in front of the user's eyes. Live images passing through the transparent display can be merged with the digital image generated by the transparent display to give the user an augmented reality experience. In another embodiment, the headphone system includes an external device interface that enables a user to interact with the contents displayed from the screen via an external device or via the Internet. In another embodiment, the interactive visual display system is removable from the rest of the headphone system and can optionally be installed in another compatible non-headphone device.
US10433035B2
An apparatus includes telemetry registers, a memory, and a virtualized telemetry controller. The memory may store a set of telemetry profiles, including a first telemetry profile specifying a collection trigger, a set of telemetry registers, and a telemetry data destination. The virtualized telemetry controller may be to: detect a condition satisfying the collection trigger specified in the first telemetry profile; in response to a detection of the condition, read telemetry values from the set of telemetry registers specified in the first telemetry profile; generate a telemetry container including the telemetry values; and send the telemetry container to the telemetry data destination specified in the first telemetry profile.
US10433030B2
A customized highlight sequence depicting multiple events, and based on a user's personal characteristics, interests, and/or preferences, is generated and presented. The events can be sporting events, entertainment events, and/or the like. For example, in the context of sporting events, a determination is made as to what types of sports, teams, leagues, players, plays, and/or the like are of interest to the user. In at least one embodiment, the amount of time available to the user can be obtained, so that the length of the highlight sequence can be tailored to the available time. A customized highlight sequence is then generated and presented, containing those specific portions of the sporting events that are likely to be of interest, arranged in a manner that is likely to be entertaining to the user and comports with the time restrictions.
US10433022B2
A system and method for communicating content using remnant capacity includes an intermediate device having a content storage, a user device in communication with the intermediate device and a communication system provider communicating content to the intermediate device. The intermediate device stores the content the content storage. The user device requests content from the content storage. The intermediate device communicates content from the content storage to the user device in real time in response to requesting.
US10433013B2
A device, system and method are provided to dynamically manage bandwidth for audiovisual communications and content distribution. The device, system and method may include dynamic qualification of content or channels for distribution in accordance with one or more distribution models, such as a broadcast distribution model and a narrowcast distribution model (e.g., a multicast distribution model and/or a unicast distribution model). In some embodiments, the qualification may be based on demand as reflected in requests for, or access to, content from user terminals. In some embodiments, based on changes in demand for content, a requalification of the content in terms of one or more distribution models may take place.
US10433011B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, detecting a first wearable device and a second wearable device in proximity of a display device and identifying a first user profile associated with the first wearable device and a second user profile associated with the second wearable device. Further aspects may include identifying a first set of media content preferences according to the first user profile and a second set of media content preferences according to the second user profile. Additional aspects may include providing a first filtered electronic programming guide to the first wearable device and providing a second filtered electronic programming guide to the second wearable device. The first filtered electronic programming guide indicates the first set of media content preferences and the second filtered electronic programming guide indicates the second set of media content preferences. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10433007B2
A method and system for micro-cloud computing is described. An application serving node, which is a specifically configured piece of customer premises equipment such as a set-top box, is the server for a micro-cloud network. Various user devices that form part of the micro-cloud network, such as television sets and smart phones, communicate with the application serving node. The application serving node is configured with software that allows various heterogeneous types of data to be obtained and streamed to the user devices in multiple ways. The application serving node performs much of the processing necessary for such content streaming itself and thus represents an edge-based network architecture.
US10433006B2
A device, system, and method to provide access to a storage device based on biometric verification. A computing device includes a wireless transceiver configured to communicate wirelessly with a data network, a user interface configured to receive a user input to access data from a storage device in communication with the data network, and a biometric characteristic reader configured to receive user characteristic data to verify a user's identity. The computing device is configured to access the data from the storage device via the wireless transceiver and the data network based on verification of the user's identity.
US10433005B2
Methods and systems are disclosed herein for a media guidance application that presents information about a multiple media assets simultaneously by modifying graphical properties of a progress bar associated with each media asset. For example, based on one or more events in the respective media assets, the media guidance application may modify the dimensions of the progress bars to include textual descriptions, may modify a color, brightness, transparency, etc. of the progress bars, and/or may modify an animation of the progress bars or a graphic associated with the progress bars.
US10433003B2
A community-based recommendation engine is provided. In one example embodiment, a system to provide a community-based recommendation engine comprises a recommendation detector, a contact evaluation module, and a decision module. The recommendation detector is configured to receive, at a viewer's system, a recommendation for a content item from a contact of a viewer. The contact evaluation module is configured to access a rule assigned to the contact by the viewer. The rule indicates an action to be performed based on a content rating provided by the contact in the recommendation. The decision module is configured to determine the action to be at the viewer system, based on the content rating in the recommendation and the rule, and to initiate the action at the view system.
US10433000B2
In one embodiment, a method includes determining available media content from one or more content sources and providing at least a portion of the available media content for display in a programming guide on a display device of a user. The programming guide includes a plurality of entries each associated with one of the available media content. The method further includes determining that an update action button should be displayed on the display device, providing the update action button for display on the display device when it is determined that the update action button should be displayed, and updating the programming guide in response to a user selection of the update action button. The update action button is operable to cause the social-networking system to update the programming guide.
US10432999B2
A display device is provided. The display device includes a display, a first communicator configured to communicate with an external device, a second communicator configured to communicate with a remote controller, and a processor configured to control the display to display an image corresponding to an image signal received from the external device through the first communicator, and the processor, in response to a control signal being received from the remote controller through the second communicator while the image is displayed on the display, controls the display to display a user interface (UI) for changing a channel, and in response to the control signal being received from the remote controller through the second communicator while an image which includes a specific object is displayed on the display, controls the display not to display the UI for changing a channel.
US10432985B2
A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, sampling a variable effect distribution of viewing preference data to determine a first set of effects comprising a plurality of first distortion type effects associated with a first distortion type of a first image and to determine a second set of effects comprising a plurality of second distortion type effects associated with the second distortion type of a second image, calculating a preference estimate from a logistic regression model of the viewing preference data according to the first set of effects and the second set of effects, wherein the preference estimate comprises a probability that the first image is preferred over the second image, and selecting one of the first distortion type or the second distortion type according to the preference estimate. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10432980B2
A better compromise between encoding complexity and achievable rate distortion ratio, and/or to achieve a better rate distortion ratio is achieved by using multitree sub-divisioning not only in order to subdivide a continuous area, namely the sample array, into leaf regions, but using the intermediate regions also to share coding parameters among the corresponding collocated leaf blocks. By this measure, coding procedures performed in tiles—leaf regions—locally, may be associated with coding parameters individually without having to, however, explicitly transmit the whole coding parameters for each leaf region separately. Rather, similarities may effectively exploited by using the multitree subdivision.
US10432976B2
The present technology relates to an image processing apparatus and method that are capable of enhancing encoding efficiency while suppressing a decrease in the efficiency of encoding processing. The image processing apparatus includes an encoding mode setter that sets, in units of coding units having a hierarchical structure, whether a non-compression mode is to be selected as an encoding mode for encoding image data, the non-compression mode being an encoding mode in which the image data is output as encoded data, and an encoder that encodes the image data in units of the coding units in accordance with a mode set by the encoding mode setter. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, an image processing apparatus.
US10432967B2
Functional data structure for coding a set of digital images. Each of the images is compressed into at least-one first data stream portion, which comprises a portion of the macroblocks reduced by physical redundancies, and-one second data stream portion, which describes the redundancies. For the intraprediction macroblocks, the first data stream portion can be reduced by color value statements with correlations to color values from rows of pixels outside and at one edge of the intraprediction macroblock and for which, in the case of pixels outside the compressed image, a color value default is assumed. The second data stream can comprise intrapredictors for describing the correlations, with coding of an area which is divided into first areas, each of which is occupied by the macroblocks of one of the digital images, and a second area which spaces apart the first areas and is occupied by default color value pixels.
US10432963B2
Particular embodiments provide a variable, BitDepth, that may be set at a value based on a number of bits used to represent pixels in pictures of a video. The variable may be used in syntax elements in HEVC, such as the HEVC range extension, but other coding standards may be used. By using the variable, different resolutions for the video may be accommodated during the encoding and decoding process. For example, the number of pixels in the pictures may be represented by 8 bits, 10 bits, 12 bits, or another number of bits depending on the resolution. Using the BitDepth variable in the syntax provides flexibility in the motion estimation and motion compensation process. For example, syntax elements used in the weighted prediction process may take into account different numbers of bits used to represent the pictures.
US10432956B2
When a coding mode selected by an encoding controlling part 1 is an intra prediction mode, an intra prediction part 4 carries out an intra-frame prediction process using pixels adjacent to a partition Pin which is generated through a division by a block dividing part 2 or pixels adjacent to a higher layer partition Pin−1 to which the partition Pin belongs to generate a prediction image (Pin).
US10432955B2
A method of decoding a bitstream comprising decoding the bitstream into color values and metadata items indicating information about adaptive post-processing operations performed by a decoder, performing high dynamic range (HDR) adaptation operations on the color values based on the metadata items, and performing fixed post-processing operations to reconstruct an HDR video from the color values, wherein the HDR adaptation operations convert color values into a format expected by the fixed post-processing operations.
US10432947B2
Provided are a video decoding method and a video decoding apparatus capable of performing the video decoding method. The video decoding method includes: determining neighboring pixels of a current block to be used for performing intra prediction on the current block; acquiring, from a bitstream, information indicating one of a plurality of filtering methods used on the neighboring pixels; selecting one of the plurality of filtering methods according to the acquired information; filtering the neighboring pixels by using the selected filtering method; and performing the intra prediction on the current block by using the filtered neighboring pixels, wherein the plurality of filtering methods comprise a spatial domain filtering method and a frequency domain filtering method, wherein the spatial domain filtering method filters the neighboring pixels in a spatial domain, and the frequency domain filtering method filters the neighboring pixels in a frequency domain.
US10432935B2
A data encoding apparatus includes a memory storing computer-readable instructions; and one or more processors configured to execute the computer-readable instruction such that the one or more processors are configured to, receive first video data in a macroblock unit, determine a first rounding offset value using the first video data, create second video data by applying the first rounding offset value to the first video data, determine a second rounding offset value, which is different from the first rounding offset value, using the second video data, and create a quantized coefficient by applying the second rounding offset value to the first video data.
US10432932B2
Systems and methods are described for removing ringing artifacts from a coded image. For each block of coded image data, a direction is identified by selecting a directional block divided into a plurality of pixel lines in one predetermined direction of a set of at least four predetermined directions. The directional block may have a constant value across each pixel line. A parameter related to a sum of a mean-square difference between a pixel value and the pixel average of pixels falling on a pixel line in the directional block that includes the location of the pixel may be calculated for each direction of the set. The direction of the set having a minimum summed mean-square difference is selected as the direction for the block based on the calculated parameter values. A non-linear filter is then applied to each block based on the identified direction for the block.
US10432926B2
A method of operating an electronic device is provided. The method includes receiving, by an electronic device, an input relating to data to be transmitted, monitoring a state of the electronic device, determining whether to transmit the data on a basis of at least part of a result of the monitoring, and transmitting the data according to a result of the determining.
US10432924B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a three-dimensional display device and a driving method thereof. Under the three-dimensional display mode, a plurality of light emitting areas and a plurality of black areas arranged alternately in row direction and column direction are formed in the electroluminescent display panel, and the light emitting area comprises repeatedly arranged R light emitting areas, G light emitting areas, B light emitting areas and X light emitting areas. Under the three-dimensional display mode, by controlling first sub-pixels corresponding to the same light emitting area for providing gray scale information of different viewpoint images to display different gray scale information, the left and right eyes of a person can receive images with different gray scale information when being located at two viewpoints respectively, so as to generate stereoscopic vision and realize naked eye 3D display in a sub-pixel level.
US10432922B2
An eye tracking system comprising an image display comprising: a first coordinate frame and configured to display an image of a surgical field comprising a second coordinate frame to a user, wherein the user is in a third coordinate frame, the image display configured to emit a light in a first wavelength range; a right eye tracker and a left eye tracker configured to emit light in a second wavelength range and to measure data about a first gaze point of the eyes of the user; an optical assembly between the image display and the right and left eyes of the user, the optical assembly configured to direct the light of the first and second wavelength ranges such that the light of the first and second wavelengths share at least a portion of optical paths between the eyes of the user and the image display; and at least one processor.
US10432917B2
A 3D image display device is provided. The 3D image display device includes a display module and a first lenticular array. The display module comprises a plurality of pixels and the pixels are arranged in a first direction. The first lenticular array comprises a plurality of strip-shaped first lenticular lenses and an angle between an extension direction of the first lenticular lens and the first direction is larger or equal to 45 degrees.
US10432915B2
Systems, methods, and devices for generating three dimensional models, in accordance with at least one embodiment of the present disclosure utilizes stereo, nadir, oblique and street view images of a structure to determine with high precision the location of one or more points on a structure. Using the determined location of such one or more points, multi-dimensional models of a structure may be generated. The models may be used and presented in one or more points to determine spatial, orientation and other characteristics of structures.
US10432914B2
A graphics processing system includes a graphics processing pipeline, which includes a primitive generation stage and a pixel processing stage. The graphics processing system is arranged to process input data in the primitive generation stage to produce first primitive data associated with a first view of a scene and second primitive data associated with a second view of the scene. The graphics processing system is arranged to process the first primitive data in the pixel processing stage to produce first pixel-processed data associated with the first view. The graphics processing system is arranged to determine, for second pixel-processed data associated with the second view, whether to use the first pixel-processed data as the second pixel-processed data or whether to process the second primitive data in the pixel processing stage to produce the second pixel-processed data, and perform additional processing in the graphics processing pipeline based on the determining.
US10432903B2
A laser projection system is provided. The laser projection system includes at least one laser projector having a laser source and a laser detector. The system includes processors for executing computer instructions, the processors are coupled to the laser projector, the computer readable instructions include determining the component is stationary based on the emitting of a first laser light towards a reference target on the component and receiving a portion of the first laser light by the laser detector. In response to the determining the component is stationary: determining a transformation for mapping a first coordinate system of the laser projector to a second coordinate system of the component and forming a visual pattern on the component. The computer instructions further include determining that the component is in motion based on receiving a portion of the first laser light by the laser detector and removing the visual pattern.
US10432902B2
The present technology relates to an information processing device and an information processing method, capable of inhibiting corresponding-point detection accuracy from degrading. The information processing device according to the present technology, allows a projecting unit to project a second pattern including a first pattern including repetition in first cycles in a first direction, inverted in phase in second cycles in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, in order to acquire corresponding relationship in pixel between the projecting unit and a capturing unit. The present technology can be applied to an electronic instrument including the function of a projector or the functions of both a projector and a camera, and a computer that controls the functions.
US10432897B2
An analytical recognition system includes a video camera, an antenna, and a data analytics module. The video camera is configured to capture video data. The antenna is configured to capture mobile communication device data. The data analytics module is configured to correlate the video data and the mobile communication device data to generate a profile of a person associated with the video data and the mobile communication device data. The profile has profile data including any one or a combination of the captured video data and the captured mobile communication data.
US10432896B2
Embodiments of a method and system described herein enable capture of video data streams from multiple, different devices and the processing of the video data streams. The video data streams are merged such that various data protocols can all be processed with the same worker processors on different types of operating systems, which are typically distributed. An embodiment uses a mobile device (such as a mobile phone) as a device and deploys a video sensor application on the mobile device for encoding consecutive video files, time stamping the consecutive video files, and pushing the consecutive video files to a file server to produce a stable stream of video data. Thus avoiding the inefficiencies associated with having video processing in the data flow loop.
US10432895B2
A communication terminal includes circuitry to cause a display to display a predetermined area image. The predetermined area image is an image of a part of a whole image that is shared with another communication terminal communicably connected to the communication terminal. The circuitry further transmits predetermined area information to be received by the other communication terminal. The predetermined area information indicates a predetermined area associated with the predetermined area image displayed with the display.
US10432890B2
An audio-visual system may include a housing comprising an open upper end and a storage space, an audio-visual device installed inside the housing and exposable through the open upper end, and a lifting device configured to expose or store the audio-visual device inside the housing through the open upper end. The audio-visual device may include a display, a speaker, and a processor configured to control the audio-visual system to operate in a first mode for outputting media art content while the display is stored in the housing according to a first event, operate in a second mode for outputting audio content through the speaker while part of the display is exposed through the open upper end according to a second event, and operate in a third mode for outputting a visual content while the entire display is exposed through the open upper end according to a third event.
US10432887B2
A display apparatus includes a processor configured to receive device information of a portable device, which includes first information about a wireless connection between the portable device and an access point and second information about whether the portable device supports a real simultaneous dual band (RSDB), acquire device information of the display apparatus, which includes third information about a wireless connection between the display apparatus and the access point and fourth information about whether the display apparatus supports the RSDB, determine a peer-to-peer (P2P) operating channel between the display apparatus and the portable device based on the device information of the display apparatus and the device information of the portable device, and control the display apparatus to connect the display apparatus to the portable device through the determined P2P operating channel.
US10432877B2
An image processing system includes: a receiving unit configured to receive an input of a plurality of image frames constituting a video from an imaging apparatus; a detection unit configured to detect a feature point included in an image frame to be processed in the plurality of image frames; and an output unit configured to output an output image obtained by superimposing an image frame to be processed of an area detected as a feature point on a background image generated from at least some of a plurality of image frames.
US10432873B2
An imaging apparatus includes an imaging unit configured to generate an image at each of predetermined timings, wherein an exposure time is used at each of predetermined timings. The imaging apparatus includes at least one circuit which divides, according to whether or not a specific photography situation occurs, the exposure time, into a plurality of exposure times including a first exposure time for acquiring still image and a second exposure time for acquiring movie; and generates a still image, based on an image generated by photography with the first exposure time, and generates a movie frame constituting a movie, by using an image generated by photography with the second exposure time.
US10432872B2
Some embodiments include a mobile device with a light sensor overlaid under a display (e.g., a touchscreen). The mobile device can identify a command to capture an image. The mobile device can adjust at least a target portion of an opaqueness adjustable region of the display directly over the light sensor. The opaqueness adjustable region is capable of transforming from substantially opaque to substantially transparent. The mobile device can capture the image utilizing at least the light sensor while the target portion of the opaqueness adjustable region is substantially transparent.
US10432863B2
In one aspect of the present disclosure, a gimbal assembly is described for use with an image capturing device. The gimbal assembly includes a motor assembly, a first housing defining an internal compartment that is configured and dimensioned to receive the motor assembly, and a second housing that is mechanically connected to the motor assembly such that actuation of the motor assembly causes relative rotation between the first and second housings. The first housing includes a first guide that is configured and dimensioned to support transmission media adapted to communicate electrical and/or digital signals. The second housing defines a channel that is configured and dimensioned to receive the first guide such that the first guide extends into the second housing through the channel. The transmission media is supported on the first guide such that the first guide routes the transmission media from the first housing into the second housing.
US10432848B2
An electronic apparatus includes a display unit arranged on a first surface, a first operation member arranged on a second surface, a second operation member arranged on a third surface, and a memory and at least one processor or circuit. The third surface is on a right side of the electronic apparatus when the first and second surfaces are viewed as front and top sides, respectively, of the electronic apparatus. The memory and the at least one processor or circuit function as a control unit configured to perform control to change a setting value to be selected from among a plurality of candidate setting values displayed on the display unit to a smaller setting value according to an operation on the first operation member and change the setting value to be selected to a larger setting value according to an operation on the second operation member.
US10432839B2
An electronic utility strap is provided. The strap includes one or more bands, which can be formed of a flexible material, and can include one or more embedded conductive elements. The strap also can include a power source, which can be temporarily attached to the strap or embedded therein. One or more electronic components can be attached to the strap and electrically connected to one or more of the conductive elements. The electronic components can include single use components, which receive power from the power source and operate in conjunction with other electronic components separately attached to the strap. The strap can include an inline imaging device and/or one or more components which can be operated in conjunction with the imaging device.
US10432837B2
A plastic barrel including an object-end portion, a holder portion, and a tube portion is proposed. The object-end portion includes an outer object-end surface, an object-end hole, and an inner annular object-end surface. A part of the inner annular object-end surface is connected with the outer object-end surface and surrounding the object-end hole. The holder portion includes a bottom surface, a bottom hole, and an outer bottom side. The bottom surface surrounds the bottom hole and is connected with the outer bottom side. The holder portion further includes cut traces formed by partially removing gate portions. The tube portion includes inner annular surfaces and connects the object-end portion with the holder portion.
US10432831B2
Disclosed is an image sensor device including a pixel array in which a plurality of pixel blocks are arranged. Each of the pixel blocks may include: a light receiver comprising a floating diffusion and a plurality of unit pixels and configured to receive incident light and generate photo charges in response to the received incident light, the plurality of unit pixels sharing the floating diffusion; a first driver located at a first side of the light receiver and comprising a driver transistor; a second driver located at a second side of the light receiver and comprising a reset transistor; and a conductive line having a first region coupling the driver transistor to the floating diffusion and a second region coupling the floating diffusion to the reset transistor, wherein the driver transistor and the reset transistor are respectively located the first side and the second side of the light receiver in a diagonal direction.
US10432827B2
An external lens washing system has an aiming fixture configured to support and constrain an external lens which is exposed to the elements and apt to become soiled with debris. A nozzle assembly is configured to be supported and aimed toward the external lens by the aiming fixture and has at least one laterally offset washing nozzle projecting from the aiming fixture to a spray washing fluid toward the external lens surface, spraying at a shallow, glancing spray aiming angle to impinge upon and wash the lens external surface. Optionally, an integrated image sensor and lens washing assembly is configured for use with a remote control method for cleaning an exterior objective lens surface and includes a sealed image sensor housing assembly including an integral, remotely controllable lens cleaning system with an optimized configuration for aiming one or more cleansing sprays from one or more laterally offset fluidic oscillators.
US10432824B2
An image forming apparatus that includes an image forming unit that forms an image on a transfer medium, a conveying unit that conveys the transfer medium, a first image detection unit that detects the image formed by the image forming unit on the transfer medium; and a control unit that controls the forming of the image and the conveying of the transfer medium, and receives detection results from the first image detection unit and a second image detection unit, wherein the control unit determines whether the image detected by the first image detection unit has image quality higher than or equal to predetermined quality and calibrates the first image detection unit based on the detection result from the first image detection unit and the detection result from the second image detection unit for the image having the image quality higher than or equal to predetermined quality.
US10432801B2
A device management system and a device management method are provided, each of which: receives status information indicating a status of a relay device from the relay device, the relay device being connected with one or more devices in a local network via a firewall; based on a determination that the received status information satisfies a predetermined condition, obtains instruction information associated with the predetermined condition, the instruction information indicating a predetermined process to be executed by the relay device; and transmits the obtained instruction information to the relay device to cause the relay device to execute the predetermined process.
US10432796B2
Methods and apparatus assist listeners in distinguishing between electronically generated binaural sound and physical environment sound while the listener wears a wearable electronic device that provides the binaural sound to the listener. The wearable electronic device generates a visual alert or audio alert when the electronically generated binaural sound occurs.
US10432794B2
A system for managing resource commitment in a contact center includes: a processor; and a memory, wherein the memory stores instructions that cause the processor to: receive over a shared data communications channel a request for contact center resources, wherein the request is for handling activities for the contact center. having an activity type; transmit a signal to initiate a raise round according to the request over the data communications channel to a pool of resources registered to communicate on the data communications channel; receive a plurality of volunteer signals from a plurality of volunteering resources from the pool of resources; select one or more of the plurality of the volunteering resources for fulfilling the request; and transmit a message to the selected volunteering resources for committing the selected volunteering resources to the request, wherein the committed resources are selected for routing an activity having the activity type.
US10432793B2
A computing apparatus uses an interactive user assessment test to identify and/or assess the need and skills of the user as part of an enrollment process for the user to register for the services of the system that provides real time communications connections between users and advisers. The advisers provide coaching services over real time communications connections provided via the system. A recommendation engine is configured to use the assessment results to recommend advisers for the user based on the need and skills of the user, as well as the real time availability of the advisers to provide the coaching services.
US10432792B2
System and method of integrating to an external search application in an employee desktop web client
In the field of government engagement management, for users of an employee desktop web client, it is now possible, within the web client application, to search and read articles and/or knowledge content that has been authored to external locations. Due to this integration to external, third-party applications, content and/or articles can be displayed to an agent on the employee desktop web client graphical user interface. Agents can enter free text into a specific search field and review the results in summary form, and then select an article in HTML format to progress the current interaction with the client. This functionality adds value to the agent experience and enables the agent to provide an improved service to the end client. Results may be filtered by the search engine as well. Moreover, this system and method improves the operation of the computer in that the computer running such a system in the past was not able to integrate in such a fashion in a web client format. This system and method also enables an agent to handle calls with the web client more efficiently, and allows agents on the web client to automatically classify.
US10432775B2
An emergency call circuit for an electronic device includes a dial button, a wireless communication module, an emergency call button and a logic circuit. The wireless communication module is used for dialing an emergency call according to a dial signal generated by the dial button when the wireless communication device is shut down. The logic circuit is used for transmitting an emergency call detecting signal generated by the emergency call button to the wireless communication module and a power circuit of the electronic device, wherein the power circuit supplies a first power source to the logic circuit and the wireless communication module when the electronic device is shut down.
US10432774B2
A communication device includes an arming component that can generates an arming signal based on arming activation at an arming time, an activation component that can generate an activation signal based on an activation at an activation time, a parameter establishing component that can establish a safety parameter and can generate a safety signal based on a determination of the safety parameter, a communication component that can transmit a data communication, and a disarming component that can generate a disarming signal based on a disarming activation at a disarming time The communication component can transmit the data communication based on the safety signal. The communication component can transmit the data communication based on the activation signal. The communication component can prevent transmission of the data communication based on the disarming signal.
US10432765B2
The present invention is directed to a system, method and apparatus for augmented viewing of real world objects. The invention is thus generally directed to the field of electronic devices, more specifically, electronic devices which project electronic virtual reality displays including, but not limited to, three dimensional holographic images. The invention deploys a cellular phone equipped with a camera and an external framework surrounding the phone. The external framework supports a projector camera projecting a three dimensional holographic image. By such design, either the cellular phone camera or the projection camera can obtain image of an external object and its coordinates in space, then project three dimensional holographic image upon the real world object for artistic, educational and/or marketing purposes.
US10432752B2
A method, system and a computer program product are provided for updating mobile device applications at a central cloud server by establishing an application virtual machine representation of a first mobile device application installed on a mobile device; updating the application virtual machine representation at the central cloud server to perform software configuration, installation, upgrade, optimization, testing, or maintenance tasks on the application virtual machine representation without using computational resources at the mobile device; and sending the mobile device one or more modules that were changed when updating the application virtual machine representation for integration into the first mobile device application installed on the mobile device.
US10432751B1
This document describes a content delivery acceleration system including a communication interface configured to communicate with a remote device over a wireless network; a cache; and a controller configured to perform operations including: pre-computing one or more evaluation results for a webpage associated with a selectable network reference of a webpage, caching the one or more pre-computed evaluation results; retrieving, from the cache, the one or more pre-computed evaluation results; and pre-loading of one or more content tags for the one or more digital component slots, with the one or more content tags being preloaded with uniform resource locators (URLs) from which to load the digital components represented in the pre-computed evaluation results.
US10432748B2
A method for content delivery includes selecting one or more time intervals. During each time interval among the selected time intervals, given content is prefetched from a content source to a communication terminal using a guaranteed prefetching mode, by continuously tracking the given content on the content source, so as to detect changes to the given content as they occur during the selected time interval, and maintaining the communication terminal continuously synchronized with the content source with respect to the given content, throughout the selected time interval, notwithstanding the changes that occur during the selected time interval, by continuously prefetching at least part of the given content from the content source to the communication terminal. Outside of the one or more selected time intervals, the given content is prefetched using a best-effort prefetching mode, by tracking the given content less frequently than the guaranteed prefetching mode.
US10432739B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods are provided for enhancing users' overall experiences with physical items by supplementing their physical experiences with digital experiences. According to an embodiment, a user uses an electronic device to scan a smart tag associated with an item to obtain an item identifier of the item. The electronic device sends the item identifier to a server, which selects digital content related to the item and sends the selected digital content to the user's electronic device for display.
US10432738B2
Embodiments of the present invention relate to identifying website visitors. Initially, a predictor is trained with a set of data of known website visitors to identify a rule with the highest effectiveness score. To do so, each rule in a set of rules is applied to all cookies in the set of data. Based on a selected goal of identifying unknown website visitors, the rule with the highest effectiveness score is identified. To identify a cookie of an unknown website visitor, a cookie representation corresponding to the cookie is identified. The cookie representation represents the cookie as an n-dimensional vector of features and is computed using hit statistics for various aspects of the cookie. Utilizing the cookie representation, a cookie-stitching rule is selected and applied to the cookie. In this way, a website visitor associated with the cookie can be identified.
US10432737B2
Geopartitioned data caching is disclosed. For example, a data source is connected over a network to a geographically remote data cache in communication with a load balancer service. A processor on the data cache executes to receive, from the data source, a plurality of data entries in the data cache, where the plurality of data entries is selected based on a geographical region of the data cache. A data request for a data entry of the plurality of data entries is received from the load balancer service, where a requestor of the data request is in a second geographical region proximately located with the data cache. The data entry is sent to the load balancer service, where the load balancer service forwards the data entry to a receiver.
US10432736B2
A method for vNF chaining management includes receiving virtualized network function (vNF) information from a chaining client associated with a particular vNF. A service chaining catalog is updated based on the vNF information and chaining information is transmitted to peering vNFs of the particular vNF. The vNF information can indicate instantiation of a vNF and identify peering vNFs. Updates received from vNFs can be used to update the chaining catalog. Updated vNF information can then be sent to peering vNFs of the vNF which sent the update.
US10432735B2
An input/output device that provides a device cooperation service is connected to an input/output service apparatus that provides an input/output service and a computer system that provides a storage service via a network. The input/output device includes a processor configured to execute a program stored in a memory to implement processes of acquiring use restriction information for restricting designation of a condition in a request to the input/output service from the input/output device, and restricting designation of the condition in the request to the input/output service from the input/output device by reflecting the acquired use restriction information on a device cooperation service screen for enabling a user to designate the condition in the request.
US10432733B2
Devices and methods for managing a network communication channel are provided. The electronic device is configured to determine a list of available intermediate servers for establishing a network communication channel between the electronic device and an enterprise entity. The electronic device generates a list of aggregate round trip times. The list of aggregate round trip times include an aggregate round trip time associated with each intermediate server in the list of available intermediate servers. Each aggregate round trip time includes a front end round trip time and a back end round trip time. The electronic device selects one of the intermediate servers based on the list of aggregate round trip times and establishes the network communication channel using the selected intermediate server.
US10432732B2
At least one processor is configured to cause a communication unit to transmit log-in request including an account and designation of a security mode to a service server via a relay device when the security mode is set and to transmit a log-in request including an account and designation of a normal mode to the service server via the relay device when the normal mode is set. The at least one processor is configured to the communication unit to log in the service server when permission of the log-in request is received from the service server via the relay device.
US10432729B2
A system of autonomous vehicles for forming a team of autonomous vehicles to perform a designated set of tasks. Each vehicle stores data representing its own capabilities that match the tasks, data representing needed capabilities for the team to perform the tasks, and data representing the capabilities of all current team members. Each of the vehicles is equipped with a communications system operable to send and receive join request messages and join response messages. All join request message contain the capabilities of the sending vehicle. All join response messages contain current team capabilities data. Upon receipt of a join request message, a vehicle compares needed capabilities data to the received capabilities data, and if there are matched capabilities, it updates the team capabilities data and transmits a join response message. Upon receipt of a join response message, if the message indicates the sending vehicle has joined the team, the receiving vehicle updates the team capabilities list.
US10432728B2
Implementations relate to automatic sharing of images with designated users over a communication network. In some implementations, a method includes causing display of images in a user interface on a first device, each of the images depicting a different person. The images are obtained from a library of images associated with a first user. A selection of a particular image of the images is received based on user input, and a person identifier is determined indicating a particular person depicted in the selected image. The person identifier is designated as a person sharing criterion. A first image not included in the images is obtained and programmatically analyzed to determine that the first image depicts a person that matches the person sharing criterion, and an access permission is updated to grant access to the first image to a second user of a second device over a communication network.
US10432727B1
Technologies are described herein for reducing network traffic when replicating memory data across hosts. The memory data stored in a main memory of the host computer is replicated to a main memory of a second host computer. Memory data from the local data storage of the second host computer that is a duplicate of memory data from the main memory is identified. Instead of sending the memory data from the main memory that is duplicated, the duplicated memory is copied from the local storage to the main memory of the second host computer.
US10432724B2
Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for serializing access to data objects in a logical entity group in a network storage. Data objects associated with a logical entity at a client storage are generated. A determination is made of a prefix for a container in the network storage associated with the logical entity. The prefix is included in names of the data objects in the logical entity. The prefix is added to a lock queue shared by the client systems having access to the data objects in the container at the network storage. The data objects having the names including the prefix are transmitted to the network storage to store in the container in the network storage.
US10432720B1
The disclosed computer-implemented method for storing information about transmission control protocol connections may include (1) configuring a server with a transmission control protocol stack that is an alternative to a default transmission control protocol stack of an operating system of the server, (2) receiving, at the server, a request to establish a transmission control protocol connection with the server, (3) routing the request through the alternative transmission control protocol stack instead of the default transmission control protocol stack, and (4) storing, at the server via the alternative transmission control protocol stack, connection information about the transmission control protocol connection that excludes at least one item of information that would be stored by the default transmission control protocol stack. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US10432715B2
According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a registration module, a transmission processor, and a reception processor. The registration module registers second data in a first file in a non-volatile storage device. The transmission processor transmits third data which is at least part of the first file to a server. The third data includes data registered in the first file after the data is previously transmitted to the server. The server includes a second file for registering all data transmitted from at least one second electronic apparatus, which corresponds to a user, including the electronic apparatus. The reception processor does not receive the fourth data from the server when only the electronic apparatus corresponds to the user.
US10432714B2
A data processing method and system based on an asymmetric P2P network are described. The system includes: a data server, configured to store a to-be-downloaded resource; a computer terminal group, including at least one computer terminal, configured to download the to-be-downloaded resource from the data server and/or another computer terminal in the computer terminal group; and a mobile terminal group, including at least one mobile terminal, the mobile terminal establishing a communication relationship with the data server and the computer terminal, and being configured to download the to-be-downloaded resource from the data server and/or the computer terminal, any two mobile terminals in the mobile terminal group being incapable of downloading the to-be-downloaded resource from each other, and the computer terminal in the computer terminal group being also incapable of downloading the to-be-downloaded resource from any mobile terminal.
US10432698B2
The present invention discloses an information processing method, apparatus, terminal, and server. The method includes: detecting a predefined user operation on a web bookmark application installed in a web browser at a first terminal; in response to the user operation, obtaining address and link information of a current webpage in the web browser and sending the address and link information to a remote server; receiving an information transmission notification message from the remote server after the remote server forwards the address and link information and a plurality of thumbnail images associated with the webpage to a second mobile terminal; in response to the information transmission notification message, generating an information sharing prompt message identifying a total number of webpages the first terminal has shared with the second mobile terminal; and sending the information sharing prompt message to the second mobile terminal for display.
US10432683B2
In accordance with an embodiment, a method includes electronically receiving a media presentation description (MPD) from a network. The MPD describes multimedia content that includes alternative representations of a plurality of media types, and the MPD includes information indicative of how the alternative representations are encoded. The method also includes selecting one of the plurality of alternative representations for at least one of the plurality of media types based on information included in the MPD, requesting the selected one of the plurality of alternative representations piece-by-piece, and electronically receiving a piece of media data.
US10432681B1
A computer-implemented method for transmitting and controlling images of a remotely executed application, the method including connecting a mobile computing device to a remote server; connecting a desktop computing device to the remote server and to the mobile computing device; starting an application on the remote server, wherein the application generates graphical objects controllable by commands from the mobile computing device; encoding each graphical object into a video stream; transferring the video stream to the mobile computing device and to the desktop computing device; generating the commands on mobile computing device; sending the commands to the remote server; detecting if the video stream contains results of execution of the commands; displaying the graphical objects on the local computing device; and generating an image of a substitute graphic object image if the video stream does not contain the results.
US10432678B2
Embodiments include technologies for creating a manifest for a conferencing event in a network, adding a name tag identifying the conferencing event to the manifest, receiving an interest packet including one or more parameters indicating a named flow being produced at a source node, adding content metadata of the named flow to the manifest, and sending the manifest to the source node. Further embodiments include adding, to the manifest, session-level metadata associated with a user of the source node. Embodiments include receiving a second interest packet with one or more second parameters identifying a user of a client node, where the second interest packet indicates a request to authorize the user of the client node to subscribe to the conferencing event. In further embodiments, session-level metadata associated with the user is added to the manifest if the user is authorized to subscribe to the conferencing event.
US10432669B1
A system and method to evaluate a software defined infrastructure is disclosed. A security appliance is used to evaluate the software defined infrastructure. The security appliance includes a data ingestion and query engine. The data ingestion and query engine is configured to retrieve configuration and operational information associated with the software defined infrastructure, extract selective information from the retrieved configuration and operational information, and store extracted selective information in a plurality of data store. A policy compliance engine is configured to evaluate selectively stored information for compliance to a policy and generate a report based on the evaluation.
US10432656B2
A method and system for conducting simulated phishing attacks. This may include identifying a target device from a list, such as a corporate directory, and sending a message to the device with a link to a website. On the website, the user may be directed to or enrolled in a network security course, or may be directed to install an app, which may then be used to gather data or further conduct simulated phishing attacks on other devices on a network.
US10432654B1
Method and system for detecting an unknown undesirable event, such as (but not limited to) a cyber-threat, a cyber-intrusion, a financial fraud event or a monitored process malfunction of breakdown. An exemplary method embodiment comprises obtaining a dataset comprising a plurality n of multidimensional data points with a dimension m≥2 wherein each data point is a vector of m features, processing the MDPs using measure-based diffusion maps to embed the MDPs into a lower dimension embedded space, and detecting in the embedded space an abnormal MDP without relying on a signature of a threat, the abnormal MDP being indicative of the unknown undesirable event.
US10432651B2
Systems and methods of detecting Domain Name System (DNS) tunnels for monitoring thereof include obtaining data related to DNS traffic between DNS nameservers and clients; determining a score for each DNS nameserver based on the data to characterize DNS queries over a period of time for each DNS nameserver, wherein the score incorporates all DNS queries associated with the associated DNS nameserver over the period of time; determining one or more DNS nameservers likely operating DNS tunnels based on the score; and performing one or more actions on the one or more DNS nameservers related to the DNS tunnels.
US10432647B2
A method and apparatus for identifying malicious activity. At least one memory is configured to store historical communication data. At least one processor is configured to retrieve the historical communication data related to communications between a server and a plurality of clients in a system. The processor is further configured to cluster the historical communication data to group communications of the historical communication data. The processor is further configured to identify a plurality of patterns that indicate malicious activity based on the grouped communications. The processor is further configured to receive current communication data. The processor is further configured to determine whether the current communication data matches the one of the plurality of patterns. The processor is further configured to, responsive to a grouped element of the grouped communications matching the pattern, identifying a group of communications between the server and the plurality of clients as the malicious activity.
US10432636B2
Methods, systems and computer readable media for securing mDNS in enterprise networks are described. In some implementations, the method can include authorizing one or more service advertisements and validating one or more service advertisements. The method can also include adding one or more information details to a record associated with an advertised service.
US10432631B2
In accordance with an embodiment, described herein is a system and method for providing a universal security handler for use with a cloud-based integration platform. A universal security configuration interface can be provided to capture custom values, syntaxes, and/or grammars for a common set of security properties for different implementations of a particular authorization flow. The captured information can be used by a plurality of software components to create a custom security provider, which includes information needed for obtaining an access token from a specified cloud service provider. The security provider, which also includes methods for performing each step of the authorization flow, can be provided to a security processor configured to handle exchanges between the universal security configuration interface and the specified cloud service provider. The system enables the cloud-based integration platform to integrate with a plurality of third-party cloud services without writing additional code.
US10432630B2
An information processing apparatus for connection to a first network and to a second network is disclosed. The information processing apparatus includes a storage unit storing device information in which a device connected to the first network is registered; an authentication unit authenticating an information terminal connected to the second network and registering identification information about the information terminal in registration information responsive to successful authentication of the information terminal; a transition request receiving unit receiving, from the second network, a request for transition to a communication controlled state; and a communication controller restricting information transmission from the second network to the first network in an event of the transition to the communication controlled state made upon receipt of the request, while the communication controller allows, in that event, the information terminal registered in the registration information to transmit information to the device registered in the device information.
US10432622B2
Embodiments include method, systems and computer program products for safeguarding biometric data. Aspects include receiving a first biometric data unit and generating a template based upon the first biometric data unit. Aspects also include sending the template to a plurality of external template storage devices, each template storage device having a unique device identifier. Aspects also include generating a biometric query including a second biometric data unit. Aspects also include sending the biometric query to at least some of the plurality of external template storage devices. Aspects also include receiving a match score from at least one of the plurality of template storage devices external to the processor, wherein the match score reflects the degree of similarity between the first biometric data unit and the second biometric data unit.
US10432618B1
In general, one innovative aspect of the subject matter described in this specification may be embodied in methods that may include verifying a digital identification using embedded encrypted user credential data that is not viewable to human eyes within the digital identification. For instance, the embedded encrypted user credential data may be variably encrypted by an encryption key that is designated by a security status assigned to the digital identification. The embedded encrypted user credential data may be extracted using an authorized device and decrypted using a decryption key that is associated with the encryption key designated by the security status. The decrypted user credential data may then be used to verify user information included in the digital identification.
US10432614B2
The embodiments set forth a technique for enabling a computing device to securely configure a peripheral computing device. According to some embodiments, the method can include the steps of (1) approving a request received from the peripheral computing device to engage in a setup procedure for the peripheral computing device, (2) receiving, from the peripheral computing device: (i) an audio signal that encodes a password and timing information, and (ii) a light signal. Additionally, the method can involve, in response to identifying that the timing information correlates with the light signal: (3) extracting the password from the audio signal, and (4) establishing a communication link with the peripheral computing device based on the password. In turn, the method can involve (5) providing configuration information to the peripheral computing device over the communication link.
US10432612B2
Methods and systems for a transportation vehicle are provided. For example, one method includes storing or installing a security certificate in a portable device associated with an aircraft, the security certificate defining a duration for using the portable device for remotely accessing an aircraft computing system; obtaining the security certificate from the portable device, after validating a request from a user console; and providing the security certificate to the user console to access the aircraft computing system via the portable device for no longer than the duration defined by the security certificate.
US10432611B2
A transaction processing client based on a trusted execution environment is disclosed. The client verifies a server in a secure environment, obtains a public key of the server upon successful verification, generates a session key and encrypts the session key using the public key in the secure environment, transmits the encrypted session key to the server in a normal environment, encrypts pre-obtained transaction information using the session key in the secure environment, and transmits the encrypted transaction information to the server in the normal environment. The present disclosure effectively ensures the security of user login information and user private information.
US10432609B2
A device-bound certificate authority binds a certificate to one or more devices by including digital fingerprints of the devices in the certificate. A device only uses a device-bound certificate if the digital fingerprint of the device is included in the certificate and is verified. Thus, a certificate is only usable by one or more devices to which the certificate is explicitly bound. Such device-bound certificates can be used for various purposes served by certificates generally such as device driver authentication and authorization of access to secure content, for example.
US10432598B2
A system and method for providing access to data of a user or services relevant to a user. A customer data key is created by a server that is specific to an application, the user of the application, and the device upon which the application resides. The server may receive an application programming interface call to create the customer data key; however, any call accessing or affecting user-specific data which does not contain a valid and authorized customer data key may be rejected. To authorize the access to the offered data or services, the user conducts an entirely separate transaction not mediated by the application. During this separate transaction, the customer data key may be activated, permitting access to the data or services using the activated customer data key.
US10432583B1
Routing agent platform with a 3-tier architecture for diameter communication protocol in IP networks
This invention is a system and method for a high-performance Diameter Routing Agent (DRA) platform with a three-tier architecture. The DRA platform consists of a Diameter Connection Router (DCR), a Diameter Load Balancer (DLB), and multiple DRA Instances. DCR is a front-end to all external Peers and distributes Diameter connections to a DLB. DLB is a Diameter transaction load balancer and distributes individual Diameter transaction to a DRA. DRA is a Diameter Routing Agent to implement business logic to determine routing of an incoming request to a destination peer as well as message mediation. A public Internet Protocol (IP) address of the DCR is exposed to the external peers as a single point of contact between the peers and the computer network, wherein an internal topology of the computer network remains hidden from the peers.
US10432582B2
Technologies for scalable local addressing include one or more managed network devices coupled to one or more computing nodes via high-speed fabric links. A computing node may transmit a data packet including a destination local identifier (DLID) that identifies the destination computing node. The DLID may be 32, 24, 20, or 16 bits wide. The managed network device may determine whether the DLID is within a configurable multicast address space and, if so, forward the data packet to a multicast group. The managed network device may also determine whether the DLID is within a configurable collective address space and, if so, perform a collective acceleration operation. The number of top-most bits set in a multicast mask and the number of additional top-most bits set in a collective mask may be configured. Multicast LIDs may be converted between different bit lengths. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US10432580B2
A message processing method, apparatus, and system, where the method includes sending, by a Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol for Internet Protocol version 6 (DHCPv6) client apparatus, a first message requesting assignment of an Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6) address to a DHCPv6 server, where the first message includes a first random identifier identifying the DHCPv6 client apparatus, receiving a first reply message from the DHCPv6 server, sending a second message to the DHCPv6 server, where the second message includes a second random identifier generated using a preset algorithm and the first random identifier and identifies the DHCPv6 client apparatus, and receiving a second reply message from the DHCPv6 server. Therefore, a problem that privacy is easy to monitor or steal in an interaction process between the DHCPv6 client apparatus and the DHCPv6 server is resolved.
US10432569B2
A portable electronic device includes: a communication block configured to communicate with another portable electronic device different from said portable electronic device; an information acquisition block configured to acquire relation information that is information about a relation between a user of said portable electronic device and a user of said other portable electronic device from an external server through a network when said communication block communicates with said other electronic device; and a notification block configured to notify the user of said portable electronic device of the relation information acquired by said information acquisition block.
US10432545B2
The disclosed apparatus may include (1) at least one communication port that facilitates communication between a source computing device and a destination computing device via a path within a network and (2) a processing unit communicatively coupled to the communication port, wherein the processing unit (A) monitors the network for any changes to the path that potentially affect a maximum transmission unit of the path, (B) detects, while monitoring the network, a change to at least one hop included in the path, and then in response to detecting the change to the hop, (C) identifies a packet size that corresponds to the maximum transmission unit of the path, and (D) tests the path for an increase in the maximum transmission unit by transmitting a packet whose size is larger than the packet size that corresponds to the maximum transmission unit. Various other apparatuses, systems, and methods are also disclosed.
US10432540B2
Methods and systems for determining traffic information for devices along one or more routes are described. A content server may send a message to a plurality of devices along a route. The message may comprise an indication requesting each of the devices to send, to the content server, status information regarding the respective device. Intermediary devices may receive the message, respond with the requested information, and forward the message through the route. The message may comprise a stateless messaging protocol message such as an ICMP or UDP packet.
US10432539B2
According to examples, an apparatus may include a processor and a memory on which is stored machine readable instructions executable by the processor to: access network traffic data pertaining to data flows among nodes in a network; partition the network traffic data into a plurality of windows; for each of the plurality of windows, aggregate data flows between pairs of nodes; compute a data distribution of each of the aggregated data flows; select a summary structure for each of the aggregated data flows based on the computed data distributions of the aggregated data flows; generate a summary of each of the aggregated data flows using the selected summary structures for the aggregated data flows; and store the generated summaries.
US10432535B2
In some examples, a method includes identifying, by a network switching device, a network packet received via a particular port as a Message Queuing Telemetry Transport (MQTT) packet, wherein the MQTT packet is transmitted between a broker device and a subscriber device; performing, by the network switching device, a deep packet inspection (DPI) to identify a network address corresponding to the broker device; applying, by the network switching device, a network policy defined in a policy engine that is specific to at least one of the broker device and the subscriber device, wherein the at least one of the broker device and the subscriber device is not statically configured in the policy engine; and performing, by the network switching device, a specific action based on the applied network policy.
US10432533B2
A controller node in a network implementing software defined networking (SDN) proactively detects network overload conditions in a target node and subsequently prevents the conditions from developing by launching a new virtual network node. The detection and prevention are based on the determination of a probability of failure of the target node as a weighted function of information from the target node and probabilities of failure of related nodes.
US10432532B2
A virtual networking switch on a host computing device can receive a first data packet of a micro-service data flow from a virtual machine running on the host computing device. The first data packet can include micro-service flow data identifying a first container instance that transmitted the first data packet. The virtual networking switch can provide a subset of the micro-service flow data to a container orchestrator, that utilizes the first subset of the micro-service flow data to assign a label to the first micro-service data flow. The virtual networking switch can pin the first micro-service data flow to a first uplink port of the host computing device based on the label assigned to the first micro-service data flow, causing data packets received from the virtual machine as part of the first micro-service data flow to be forwarded to their intended recipient via the first uplink port.
US10432530B2
An appliance for providing compression technique for jitter sensitive application through multiple network links is described. The appliance has one or more processors and includes a link quality estimator, a jitterless compressor, and a link switcher. The link quality estimator is configured to measure latency over a first link and a second link, wherein the second link has a longer latency than the first link. The jitterless compressor is configured to accumulate packets for a time period associated with a difference in latency between the second link and the first link, and determine a number of packets based on a packet size associated with the accumulated packets and bandwidth of the first link. The link switcher is configured to acquire the determined number of packets, wherein the determined number of packets have been compressed, transmit a first packet over the second link, and transmit the acquired number of packets over the first link.
US10432498B1
Aspects provide methods, systems, and recording mediums for determining compliance with a location data protocol including a threshold minimum number of location data reports by users. As an example, fictitious user data including a set of locations may be generated. The set of locations may include at least one location that does not meet the threshold minimum number of location data reports by users of the location data protocol. The fictitious user data may be provided to a location data processing system that processes user location data and outputs output data including a list of locations. The output data is received and used to determine whether the at least one location is included in the list of locations. When the at least one location is included in the list of locations, it may be determined that the location data processing system has not complied with the location data protocol.
US10432493B2
An example implementation relates to identifying a preferred transfer mode available for communicating with a target device, from among a plurality of priority-ordered transfer modes that includes a peer-to-peer mode, an FTP mode, and an HTTP mode. A data communication can be performed with the target device using the preferred transfer mode.
US10432492B2
A method for analyzing communication qualities between virtual machines serving as transmission sources and virtual machines serving as transmission destinations on a virtual network includes identifying, by a computer, based on the temporal sequence of the input queue information and the temporal sequence of the output queue information, a first pair and a second pair as mirroring targets, wherein the input queue information indicates a first queue length indicating a number of pieces of data addressed from one of the transmission sources to one of the transmission destinations, wherein the output queue information indicates a second queue length indicating a number of pieces of data included in an output queue of the one of the transmission destinations.
US10432490B2
A system monitors applications that provide a single content page by monitoring network traffic associated with single page transitions. The network traffic may be monitored by mechanisms provided by a network browser that updates the page. Updates to the page, called transitions, may be detected when they first begin. The network traffic associated with a single page transition from a first content page to a second version of that content page may be tracked through the network traffic viewing mechanism. When the network traffic is determined to have concluded, the end of the single content page transition is determined to have occurred. Metrics may then be generated from data collected during the transition, and the data and metrics may be reported to a controller.
US10432479B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage devices for reducing the amount of management ports (and associated cabling) for a top-of-rack server environment. Whereas other server management configurations have cabling connecting each node in multiple multi-node chassis in a server rack to a top-of-rack, systems configured as described herein designate a single node as a point of communication for the multi-node chassis. The designated node forwards communications for all nodes in the chassis to a chassis management controller, which acts as a distribution point for all communications within the multi-node chassis, with the benefit of only a single connection being required between the multi-node chassis and the top of rack switch.
US10432477B2
Example implementations disclosed herein are directed to monitoring communications networks in real time to ensure that they are performing in a desired fashion. Metrics such as utilization and latency are monitored to ensure that customer SLAs (Service Level Agreements) are met in a timely fashion. To detect problems in advance, example implementations predict the future values of metrics and detect events if the future value violates certain conditions. Example implementations build models that can predict the future values of metrics and analyze historical, near real time and real time streaming data so as to build predictive models.
US10432471B2
Various methods and systems for implementing dependency management for an infrastructure are provided. A dependency service manager of the dependency management system includes a plurality of dependency management system components that facilitate automatically discovering and analyzing data to generate dependency data. The dependency data includes dependencies and dependents of dependency service tenants which are tenant services of the infrastructure. The dependency data is generated based on data retrieved by a plurality of collectors. A collector from the plurality of collectors is an agent that retrieves data associated with dependency service tenants based on a corresponding collection time attribute of the collector. A collector accesses data for generating the dependency data at one of the following collection times: design time, deployment time and runtime. The dependency data that is generated is then stored in a data store and communicated to a dependency service interface for user access to the dependency data.
US10432465B2
A control system for automatic provisioning of a network access point comprises a processor device that receives network configuration data from a first computing device. The network configuration data includes a first network parameter value for a first network parameter. The control system also receives, from a second computing device, a request to provision a network access point with the first network parameter value for the first network parameter and with a second network parameter value for a second network parameter. The first network parameter and second network parameter are different from each other. The control system automatically generates the second network parameter value based on the request and the first network parameter value. The control system next provides the first network parameter value and the second network parameter value to the network access point.
US10432460B2
The present invention provides a virtualized network function scaling method and an apparatus. The method includes: receiving a network service scaling request, the request includes a deployment flavor identifier, the network service includes an instance of a first VNF (VNF1) and an instance of a second VNF (VNF2), VNF instances are connected by using an instance of a first VL (VL1); obtaining a deployment flavor and adding a new instance of the VNF1; obtaining a modification policy of the VL1; generating descriptor of a second VL based on information about a connection point of the new instance of the VNF1; creating an instance of the second virtual link according to the descriptor of the second VL, to connect the new instance of the VNF1 to the instance of the VNF2. In this solution, a new VNF instance obtained after service scaling can be connected to another VNF instance.
US10432456B2
Systems and methods for automated commissioning of virtualized distributed control systems are disclosed. An example method includes accessing a data structure including a list of configuration names for network cards associated with first and second host servers of a virtual process control environment. The first and second host servers implement virtual machines corresponding to workstations for a process control system. The example method also includes when configuring the first host server, assigning a first name to a first one of the network cards associated with the first host server. The example method further includes when configuring the second host server, assigning the first name to a second one of the network cards associated with the second host server based on a user selection of the first name from the list of configuration names. The second host server is configured after the first host server.
US10432453B1
A method and corresponding system for configuring an eNodeB for improved circuit-switched-fallback (CSFB) service. The method includes detecting that, during past CSFB call setup for UEs served by the eNodeB, UEs reported as a strongest fallback coverage area a fallback coverage area that is not included in the eNodeB's CSFB-candidate data. And the method includes responsively (i) determining, based on location information and based on an identifier of the reported fallback coverage area, a node of the fallback network that the eNodeB's network can contact to facilitate CSFB call setup in the reported fallback coverage area, and (ii) adding to the CSFB-candidate data a record of the reported coverage area in association with a node identifier of the determined node, the added record being thereafter useable by the eNodeB to facilitate CSFB call setup in the reported fallback coverage area for a UE served by the eNodeB.
US10432446B1
A decoder decodes a set of data streams received at a receiver based on a tree search that employs a subset of decoding constellation points. The decoder can form a tree wherein each level of the tree corresponds to one of the set of data streams. Each level of the tree includes a plurality of nodes corresponding to a set of candidate constellation points, wherein the set of candidate constellation points indicating possible values of data received via the set of data streams. For tree levels beyond an initial tree level, the decoder expands each node (that is, calculates the metrics for nodes of the next tree level) for only a subset of candidate constellation points, wherein the subset of candidate constellation points is based on a sign value of the node.
US10432445B1
Systems (400) and methods for reducing a number of cyclostationary features in a transmitted signal. The methods comprise: obtaining by a transmitter a discrete-time IF signal comprising a sequence of samples all having a same sample duration; performing operations by a sub-sample dithering processing device of the transmitter to modify a sample timing of the discrete-time IF signal by decreasing or increasing a duration of at least one first sample of the sequence using a digital signal processing technique in a digital domain; converting the discrete-time IF signal to an RF signal; and transmitting the RF signal having a reduced number of cyclo stationary features.
US10432441B2
A method for a user equipment (UE) to receive physical downlink control channels (PDCCHs) is provided. The UE receives configuration information for a first control resource set that includes a number of symbols in a time domain and a number of resource blocks (RBs) in a frequency domain, configuration information indicating a first number of Nbundle,1 frequency-contiguous RBs, and a PDCCH in the first control resource set in a number of frequency distributed blocks of Nbundle,1 RBs. The UE assumes that a demodulation reference signal associated with the reception of the PDCCH has a same precoding over the Nbundle,1 RBs. A method for constructing a search space to reduce a number of channel estimations that the UE performs for decoding PDCCHs, relative to conventional search spaces, is also provided.
US10432438B2
A method and apparatus for equalization in a communication system. The method includes receiving an input of a block of symbols, filtering the input in the frequency domain, calculating an error factor in the time domain based on the filtered input, updating tap weights of the equalizer in the frequency domain using circular correlation based on the error factor and the conjugate of the input in the frequency domain, and outputting the filtered input.
US10432437B2
A communication device for use within a communication system, the device comprising: re-sampling circuitry configured to output re-sampled digital downlink signals by re-sampling digital downlink signals at resample rates based on at least one factor, the re-sampled digital downlink signals having a smaller bandwidth than the digital downlink signals; and framing circuitry configured to multiplex the re-sampled digital downlink signals and to generate a first frame that includes the re-sampled digital downlink signals as framed data for transport to one or more remotely located communication devices of the communication system, wherein the one or more remotely located communication devices of the communication system are configured to transmit radio frequency signals using at least one antenna, wherein the transmitted radio frequency signals are derived from the framed data of the first frame received from the communication device.
US10432414B2
Systems and methods for providing multicast group (MCG) membership relative to partition membership in a high performance computing environment. In accordance with an embodiment, by allowing a subnet manager of a local subnet to be instructed that all ports that are members of the relevant partition should be set up as members for a specific multicast group, the SM can perform a more efficient multicast-routing process. It is also possible to limit the IB client interaction with subnet administration conventionally required to handle join and leave operations. Additionally, subnet manager overhead can be reduced by creating a spanning tree for the routing of multicast packets that includes each of the partition members added to the multicast group, instead of creating a spanning tree after each multicast group join request is received, as conventionally required.
US10432412B2
Exemplified methods and systems are disclosed that facilitate field devices controlled by networks using Power-over-Ethernet. The field device includes a field-side circuit having a plurality of universal and independent configurable (and re-configurable) input-output interface that can universally interface to most industrial field devices. Each channel employs a group of analog-to-digital (A/D) conversion and digital-to-analog (D/A) conversion paths that facilitate independent data flows in which signals are not multiplexed across individual interfaces. In addition, the field-side circuit operatively couples to a control side circuit with two Power-over-Ethernet modules, e.g., for redundancy, that each facilitates communication and power to the field-side circuit while, concurrently, reducing wiring complexity for a redundant system during installation.
US10432410B2
The present invention provides a method for authenticating distributed peripherals on a computer network using an array of physically unclonable functions (PUF). As each PUF is unique, each PUF is able to generate a plurality of challenge response pairs that are unique to that PUF. The integrated circuits of the PUF comprise a plurality of cells, where a parameter (such as a voltage) of each cell may be measured (possibly averaged over many readings). The plurality of cells in the PUF may be arranged in a one, two or more dimensional matrix. A protocol based on an addressable PUF generator (APG) allows the protection of a network having distributed peripherals such as Internet of things (IoT), smart phones, lap top and desk top computers, or ID cards. This protection does not require the storage of a database of passwords, or secret keys, and thereby is immune to traditional database hacking attacks.
US10432405B1
Systems and methods related to processing transaction verification operations in decentralized applications via a fixed pipeline hardware architecture are described herein. The fixed pipeline hardware architecture may include and/or support at least a crypto engine and a read set validation engine. The crypto engine may itself comprise a hardware architecture configured to perform cryptographic operations necessary to validate signatures for transactions in decentralized applications. In various implementations, the hardware architecture of a crypto engine may include a scheduler and a series of crypto execution units configured to operate in parallel. The scheduler may be configured to decode an algorithm associated with cryptographic signatures to be verified and coordinate the performance of various cryptographic operations amongst individual cryptographic execution units.
US10432404B2
Communication apparatus includes a one-way, hardware-actuated data relay, which includes a first hardware interface configured to receive a command from a communications network and a second hardware interface configured to convey the received command to a protected destination when the relay is actuated. A decoder includes a third hardware interface configured to receive a digital signature for the command from the communications network and hardware decoding logic coupled to verify the digital signature and to actuate the relay upon verifying the digital signature, whereby the command is conveyed via the second hardware interface to the protected destination.
US10432396B2
An identity authentication method for a quantum key distribution process includes selecting, by a sender, preparation bases of an identity authentication bit string in accordance with a preset basis vector selection rule; sending, by a sender, quantum states of the identity authentication bit string and quantum states of a randomly generated key bit string by using different wavelengths. The identity authentication bit string is interleaved in the key bit string at a random position and with a random length. The method further includes measuring, by a receiver, the received quantum states in the quantum state information in accordance with the different wavelengths and measurement bases selected according to the preset basis vector selection rule to obtain identity authentication information from the measurement of the identity authentication bit string; and determining, by the receiver, whether the identity authentication information obtained through the measurement corresponds with the preset basis vector selection rule.
US10432393B2
A flexible aes instruction for a general purpose processor is provided that performs aes encryption or decryption using n rounds, where n includes the standard aes set of rounds {10, 12, 14}. A parameter is provided to allow the type of aes round to be selected, that is, whether it is a “last round”. In addition to standard aes, the flexible aes instruction allows an AES-like cipher with 20 rounds to be specified or a “one round” pass.
US10432384B2
Apparatuses and methods are provided for generating, transmitting, receiving, and decoding one or more band segmented bootstrap signals and one or more corresponding partitioned post bootstrap signals. For example, a transmitter is configured to generate a first set of symbols and a second set of symbols, where the first set of symbols includes information about the second set of symbols. The transmitter is further configured to generate a third set of symbols and a fourth set of symbols, where the third set of symbols includes information about the fourth set of symbols. The transmitter is also configured to generate a data frame including the first, second, third, and fourth set of symbols. A bandwidth of the data frame includes a first segment and a second segment.
US10432375B1
Wireless communication system and method having automatic self-configuration mechanism are provided. The method including configuring a first transceiver to perform a wireless network scan process to obtain a channel status report by executing a wireless network scan program, configuring the first transceiver to select one of the plurality of channels with the channel loading lower than a channel loading threshold, configuring the first transceiver to send a sounding signal to a second transceiver through the selected one of the plurality of channels, configuring the second transceiver to obtain channel status information (CSI) associated to the selected channel from the sounding signal; and configuring the second transceiver to determine whether a total data amount of the CSI is larger than a data amount threshold.
US10432374B2
Aspects of the present disclosure describe receiving an indication of a covariance matrix from an access point, receiving downlink signaling from the access point, deriving, based at least in part on the covariance matrix or the downlink signaling, one or more precoders for uplink communications over an uplink channel, and indicating, based at least in part on the one or more precoders, uplink channel feedback to the access point.
US10432372B2
A method and an apparatus for transmitting broadcast signals thereof are disclosed. The apparatus for transmitting broadcast signals, the apparatus comprises an encoder for encoding service data corresponding to each of a plurality of data transmission path, wherein each of the data transmission path carries at least one service component, a frame builder for building at least one signal frame included in a super frame, wherein each of signal frames includes the encoded service data and the encoded signaling data, a modulator for modulating the at least one signal frame by an OFDM (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex) scheme, wherein each of the modulated signal frame includes a preamble having basic transmission parameters, wherein a length of the preamble is extendable and a transmitter for transmitting the broadcast signals carrying the at least one modulated signal frame.
US10432363B2
An apparatus of a memory system and an operating method thereof includes: a plurality of memory devices; and a controller including a decoder and a BER predictor, coupled with the plurality of memory devices, configured to perform a decoding iteration includes to conduct NAND read and generate NAND data; decode in accordance with the NAND data and generate decoder information by the decoder; predict a BER in accordance with at least the decode information by the BER predictor; and evaluate the predicted BER and generate evaluation result by the BER predictor.
US10432360B2
Disclosed herein is method and device for performing a Hybrid Automatic Repeat request (HARQ) based on polar codes in a wireless communication system. A transmitter transmits a first packet to a receiver. The transmitter receives a re-transmission request for the first packet from the receiver. The transmitter transmits a second packet to the receiver. Herein, each of the first packet and the second packet includes at least one information bit and at least one frozen bit. An information bit having a smallest mutual information corresponding to a bit channel within the first packet is re-transmitted through a first bit channel capable of transmitting at least one information bit included in the second packet. Alternatively, a new information bit is transmitted through a second bit channel capable of transmitting at least one information bit included in the second packet.
US10432353B2
There is provided a method of transporting error correction codes (ECCs) in a transmission stream, the method including encoding a data stream from a data source into data symbols, generating first ECCs from the data symbols, encoding the first ECCs into first error correction code (ECC) symbols, merging the data symbols and the first ECC symbols into the transmission stream, the first ECC symbols being merged before the data symbols into the transmission stream, and transmitting the merged transmission stream to a sink device via a communication link, the first ECC symbols being transmitted before the data symbols.
US10432352B2
In a method for downlink link adaptation in a network node in a communication system, the network node serving a cell and active user equipment within the cell, performing the steps of obtaining uplink path gain and downlink SINR for at least a subset of active user equipment in the cell, estimating an initial downlink SINR for new user equipment in the cell, based on an estimated uplink path gain together with a determined statistical measure for the obtained uplink path gain and downlink SINR for the at least a subset of active user equipment in the cell, and utilizing the estimated initial downlink SINR for downlink link adaptation for a subsequent transmission to the new user equipment.
US10432351B2
A computer network system to reduce network latency, and method thereof, includes a client system, and a server system. The client system is configured to establish a pool of ready connections comprising multiple requests with the server system. Whereby the server system is configured to hold the pool of ready connections open for future information to the client system.
US10432342B1
A multi-layer network planning system can determine a set of regenerator sites (“RSs”) that have been found to cover all paths among a set of nodes of an optical layer of a multi-layer network and can determine a set of candidate RSs in the optical layer for use by the links between a set of nodes of an upper layer, wherein each RS can be selected as a candidate RS for the links. The system can determine a binary path matrix for the links between the set of nodes of the upper layer. The system can determine a min-cost matrix that includes a plurality of min-cost paths. The system can determine a best RS from the set of candidate RSs and can move the best RS from the set of candidate RSs into the set of RSs for the links. The system can then update the binary path matrix.
US10432340B2
Optical port auto-negotiation method, optical module, central office end device, and terminal device
The present application provides an optical port auto-negotiation method, including: a: selecting a downstream to-be-received wavelength; b: listening to a downstream message on the selected downstream to-be-received wavelength, performing c if a wavelength idle message is received, and returning to a if no wavelength idle message is received within a specified or fixed time, where the wavelength idle message is used to identify that the wavelength is not occupied or not allocated; c: sending a wavelength application message on an upstream wavelength, performing d if a wavelength grant message is received in a downstream direction; otherwise, going back to a or b, where the wavelength application message is used to identify a request for allocation of the wavelength, and the wavelength grant message is used to identify acknowledgment of wavelength allocation; and d: setting an optical port auto-negotiation success flag bit. The present application further provides an optical module.
US10432339B2
A process of assembling an optical receiver module that receives a wavelength multiplexed signal is disclosed. The process includes a step of sequentially mounting a wavelength selective filter (WSF), a prism, a mirror, and first and second optical de-multiplexers (o-DeMuxes) each on the carrier. The WSF transmits a first wavelength multiplexed signal but reflects a second wavelength multiplexed signal. The prism includes first and second surfaces, where the first surface reflects the wavelength multiplexed signal toward the WSF, while the second surface receives a second wavelength multiplexed signal coming from the WSF. The mirror reflects the first wavelength multiplexed signal transmitting through the WSF. The first and second o-DeMuxes de-multiplex the first and second wavelength multiplexed signals.
US10432334B2
Disclosed is a method for switching living broadcast between landscape broadcasting mode and portrait broadcasting mode, applicable to live broadcasting website. The method comprises: S1, an administrator setting categories and category settings for live broadcasting videos; S2, the administrator adding landscape option and portrait option for the live broadcasting video into each category; S3, a presenter selecting on a client terminal a live broadcasting mode, and selecting the category as well as landscape or portrait option for live broadcasting video; S4, the presenter selecting to start live broadcasting, the administration back end verifying whether the landscape or portrait option selected by the presenter is consistent with the selected live broadcasting mode; if yes, performing step S6; otherwise performing step S5; S5, the administration back end modifying the landscape or portrait option selected by the presenter; S6, the administration back end allowing the live broadcast to start, and ending.
US10432330B2
An example method may include a processing system of a base station having a processor selecting a blank resource of a time and frequency resource grid of the base station for a transmission of a channel sounding waveform and transmitting the channel sounding waveform via the blank resource. Another example method may include a processing system of a channel sounding receiver receiving at a location, from a base station, a channel sounding waveform via a blank resource of a time and frequency resource grid of the base station, and measuring a channel property at the location based upon the channel sounding waveform.
US10432319B2
One example of a receiver includes a first stage, a second stage, a third stage, and an automatic gain controller. The first stage amplifies an input signal to provide a first signal. The second stage amplifies or attenuates the first signal to provide a second signal based on a tunable gain of the second stage. The tunable gain is adjusted in response to a differential signal. The third stage amplifies the second signal to provide an output signal. The automatic gain controller provides the differential signal based on a comparison between a peak voltage of the output signal and the sum of a common mode voltage of the output signal and an offset voltage.
US10432318B2
In order to increase a compensation range for Doppler shift compensation, this digital signal processing circuit is provided with a Doppler shift compensation unit which, on the basis of a sample sequence signal which is oversampled at N (where N is an integer at least equal to 2) times a symbol rate and includes a central sample corresponding to the timing at a symbol center, and a transition sample corresponding to the timing of a symbol transition, finds a Doppler shift amount included in the sample sequence signal and performs Doppler shift compensation. The Doppler shift compensation unit includes a symbol determining unit which performs a symbol determination with respect to the central sample and a determination with respect to the transition sample. The Doppler shift compensation unit switches between these determinations for each corresponding sample and performs said determinations in order to obtain a phase difference and thereby detect the Doppler shift amount.
US10432313B2
Apparatus and method for digital signal constellation transformation are provided herein. In certain configurations, an integrated circuit includes an analog front-end that converts an analog signal vector representing an optical signal into a digital signal vector, and a digital signal processing circuit that processes the digital signal vector to recover data from the optical signal. The digital signal processing circuit generates signal data representing a signal constellation of the digital signal vector. The digital signal processing circuit includes an adaptive gain equalizer that compensates the signal data for distortion of the signal constellation arising from biasing errors of optical modulators used to transmit the optical signal.
US10432308B1
A system described herein includes a ground based gateway subsystem configured to transmit an RF feeder uplink beam to a satellite, and a space based subsystem of the satellite configured to receive the RF feeder uplink beam and produce in dependence thereon an optical ISL beam that is transmitted to another satellite. The ground based gateway subsystem can include a ground based beamformer used to produce the RF feeder uplink beam. The optical ISL beam, produced by the space based subsystem and transmitted to the other satellite, can comprise a wavelength division multiplexed optical signal having RF frequencies within a same specified RF frequency range within which the other satellite is configured to transmit a plurality of RF service downlink beams, thereby eliminating any need for the other satellite to perform any frequency conversions when producing the plurality of RF service downlink beams in dependence on the optical ISL beam.
US10432306B2
An optical time-domain reflectometer, OTDR, apparatus is configured to measure a backscattered trace of a fiber link under test (FLUT). The OTDR apparatus includes at least one photo diode adapted to detect an optical signal reflected from points along the fiber link under test in response to an optical test signal generated by a laser of the OTDR apparatus and supplied to the fiber link under test. The reflected optical test signal is attenuated or amplified automatically such that the power of the optical signal received by the photodiode is limited to a predetermined power range.
US10432296B2
Systems and methods for enabling computing device or system resource sharing between two or more satellite television customers are disclosed. This may be achieved by partitioning resources of a television receiver system such that a first party and at least a second party have access to the various features or functionality in a manner similar to that as if each respective party has a standalone instance of the same. A server system may facilitate the resource sharing between satellite television customers by receiving a request from a first party and identifying a second party within suitable distance from the first party. The server system may send configuration instructions to the television receiver of the hosting party that include instructions as to how the resources of the computing system are to be allocated.
US10432294B2
Technology for a repeater is disclosed. The repeater can include a first multiband filter. The repeater can include a second multiband filter. The repeater can include one or more first-direction signal paths communicatively coupled between the first multiband filter and the second multi-band filter. At least one of the one or more first-direction signal paths can be configured to amplify and filter signals in two or more spectrally adjacent bands. The repeater can include one or more second-direction signal paths communicatively coupled between the first multiband filter and the second multi-band filter. At least one of the one or more second-direction signal paths can be configured to amplify and filter signals in two or more spectrally adjacent bands.
US10432291B2
The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE).Embodiments herein achieve a UE for managing a user plane operation in a wireless communication system. The UE includes a user plane management unit coupled to a memory and a processor. The user plane management unit is configured to receive a signaling message from a gNodeB. Further, the user plane management unit is configured to determine whether the signaling message includes control information comprising one of a PDCP re-establish indication and a security key change indication. Further, the user plane management unit is configured to perform the at least one operation for at least one data radio bearer based on the determination.
US10432290B2
An analog beamforming transmitter includes: a plurality of beamforming transmission circuits coupled in parallel between a signal input and an array of antenna ports, wherein the signal input is configured to receive an analog complex-valued communication signal having an in-phase and a quadrature component, wherein each antenna port of the array of antenna ports is configured to provide a dual-polarized antenna signal having a first polarization component and a second polarization component, wherein each beamforming transmission circuit is coupled between the signal input and a respective antenna port of the array of antenna ports, wherein each beamforming transmission circuit comprises a first coefficient input for receiving a first analog complex-valued beamforming coefficient a set of first analog complex-valued beamforming coefficients and a second coefficient input for receiving a second analog complex-valued beamforming coefficient of a set of second analog complex-valued beamforming coefficients.
US10432289B2
A method and apparatus for processing aperiodic channel state information (CSI) in a wireless communication system is provided. A user equipment (UE), receives a request for aperiodic CSI report, and assigns capability of the aperiodic CSI report for a master evolved NodeB (MeNB) and a secondary eNB (SeNB) in dual connectivity.
US10432277B2
An electronic apparatus and radio communication method in a radio communication system. The electronic apparatus includes: one or more processing circuits configured to execute the following operations: determining, based on an antenna array corresponding to the electronic apparatus, corresponding a transceiver unit (TXRU) configuration, wherein each TXRU is associated with one set of antenna units having a same polarization direction, the antenna array includes plural antenna units having M rows, N columns and P-dimensional polarization directions, and M, N and P are natural numbers; and adding antenna configuration information to a radio resource control (RRC) signaling to be use in a user equipment (UE) in the radio communication system, wherein the antenna configuration information is used to obtain a number of the TXRU in the antenna configuration.
US10432274B2
Disclosed herein are various examples of architectures, circuits, devices and methods that provide a simplex architecture so that an antenna serves only transmission or reception signals but not both at the same time. The architecture can include transmit and receive ports that can be dynamically coupled to first and second antenna ports to provide a transmit path and a receive path. The disclosed systems can include a controller configured to provide an antenna select signal to the architecture to control operation of the paths between the signal ports and the antenna ports. The architecture can include antenna tuners associated with individual antennas, the antenna tuners being separately controllable by the controller. The architecture can dynamically switch between a simplex configuration and a configuration that uses a single antenna for transmit and receive operations.
US10432272B1
Aspects of this disclosure relate to variable multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) downlink user equipment. Features are described for dynamically adjusting an operational state of a user equipment to obtain network services (e.g., downlink data traffic) according to different transmission modes. The user equipment may provide reports to a network controller indicating characteristics of the user equipment. The characteristics may indicate service level, quality, or type needed for user equipment operations. The user equipment may receive configuration information to adjust wireless capabilities to best meet the identified needs of the user equipment and the MIMO network.
US10432266B2
A communication system, a communication apparatus, a communication method, and a program for acquiring the advantage of a plurality of communication protocols is provided. A random number and a first communication information including first identification information of a communication apparatus is sent to another communication apparatus by using near field communication. Second communication information is received by the communication apparatus from the other communication apparatus by using near field communication. The second communication information includes second identification information of the other communication apparatus necessary to a second communication. The second communication is performed between the communication apparatus and the other communication apparatus by using the second communication information received by using the near field communication.
US10432258B1
A system includes a multi-use power interface configured to be electrically and communicatively coupled to a vehicle via Broadband over Power Line (BPL) data links. The system also includes sensors configured to collect power quality data and load management data for the BPL data links and the multi-use power interface. The multi-use power interface includes a user interface, a processor, and a memory having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by the processor, cause the multi-use power interface to perform operations. The operations include receiving power quality data and load management data from the sensors. The operations also include determining, based on the received data, functional health statuses of the multi-use power interface and the BPL data links. The operations further include transmitting the functional health statuses, the power quality data, and the load management data to a data store, and indicating, in the user interface, the functional health statuses.
US10432246B2
A case, having a storage compartment, for an electronic device includes a soft protective case, a hard protective frame, and a cover. The soft protective case includes an aperture and the hard protective frame includes the storage compartment such that the aperture of the soft protective case is constructed to receive the storage compartment therein. The storage compartment of the hard protective frame fits in the aperture of the soft protective case and sides of the aperture of the soft protective case substantially surround the side walls of the storage compartment.
US10432237B2
A multiplexer includes: a low-pass filter that is connected between a common terminal and a first terminal and is formed of one or more first inductors and one or more first capacitors; a bandpass filter that is connected between the common terminal and a second terminal, has a passband higher than a passband of the low-pass filter, and is formed of one or more second inductors and one or more second capacitors; a high-pass filter that is connected between the common terminal and a third terminal, has a passband higher than the passband of the bandpass filter, and is formed of one or more third inductors and one or more third capacitors; and a fourth inductor that has a first end coupled to the common terminal and a second end coupled to the high-pass filter.
US10432226B2
A low density parity check (LDPC) encoder, an LDPC decoder, and an LDPC encoding method are disclosed. The LDPC encoder includes first memory, second memory, and a processor. The first memory stores an LDPC codeword having a length of 64800 and a code rate of 5/15. The second memory is initialized to 0. The processor generates the LDPC codeword corresponding to information bits by performing accumulation with respect to the second memory using a sequence corresponding to a parity check matrix (PCM).
US10432221B2
A transmitting apparatus is provided. The transmitting apparatus includes: an encoder configured to perform a low-density parity check (LDPC) encoding on input bits using a parity check matrix to generate an LDPC codeword comprising information word bits and parity bits; an interleaver configured to interleave the LDPC codeword; and a modulator configured to map the interleaved LDPC codeword onto a modulation symbol, wherein the modulator is further configured to map a bit included in a predetermined bit group from among a plurality of bit groups constituting the LDPC codeword onto a predetermined bit of the modulation symbol.
US10432216B1
A compression circuit includes a buffer, a selection circuit, a compare circuit, and a control circuit. The buffer stores uncompressed data. The selection circuit generates a read pointer value to the buffer. The control circuit contains a programmable configuration register. The configuration register stores a depth value for reading uncompressed data from the history buffer. The control circuit generates control signals to the selection circuit to cause the selection circuit to iteratively increment the read pointer value from an initial value to a second value that corresponds to the depth value. Responsive to the second value corresponding to the depth value, the control circuit resets the read pointer value to the initial value. The compare circuit compares input symbols from a data source to uncompressed data from the buffer history to thereby generate output compressed data.
US10432207B2
An integrated circuit comprises an ADC including a first track-and-hold amplifier and a timing generator configured to generate a clock signal for controlling the ADC. The timing generator comprises a quadrature filter responsive to a differential input signal for generating a differential quadrature (I/Q) output signal. The timing generator further comprises at least one first vector sum circuit operatively coupled or connected to an output of the quadrature filter and configured to weight and sum components of the differential I/Q output signal for generating a clock signal having a desired delay.
US10432205B2
A quantum interference device includes: an atomic cell in which alkali metal is sealed; a light source that emits light that excites the alkali metal; a light source temperature adjuster that adjusts temperature of the light source; a light receiver that receives light transmitted through the atomic cell and outputs an output signal in accordance with a light reception intensity; a detector that outputs an output signal in accordance with a chronological change in an amount of the light transmitted through the atomic cell based on the output signal of the light receiver; and a light source temperature controller that controls driving of the light source temperature adjuster based on the output signal of the detector.
US10432202B2
Systems and methods are provided for detection and compensation of frequency drifts. Frequency related information may be determined for each of one or more channels in an input signal, and a frequency drift may be determined based on the determined frequency related information of the one or more channels. Frequency related adjustments may be determined based on the frequency drift, and the frequency related adjustments may be applied to different circuits used during one or more of: receiving of the input signal, processing of the input signal, processing of an intermediate signal generated based on the processing of the input signal, and generating of an output signal corresponding to the input signal. Applying the frequency related adjustments may be configured to meet one or more criteria.
US10432201B2
An oscillator circuit topology using a one-pin external resonator suitable for integrated-circuit low-voltage, low-power applications that require a fast-starting accurate clock is disclosed. The circuit incorporates a novel arrangement of a plurality of active transconductance cells that respond to a digital control and provide adjustable loop gain for the oscillator. A programmable number of start-up transconductance cells are engaged in the initial phase of the oscillation for temporarily increasing the loop gain and energizing the resonator, and are disengaged from the oscillator core once the oscillation level is sufficiently large. The start-up transconductance cells may be identical to the always-on transconductance cells in the oscillator core, or they may be scaled versions of those cells. In addition, a programmable number of identical or scaled transconductance cells may be provided in the oscillator core itself, for accommodating different resonators. Internal circuit implementations of the transconductance cells that enable their efficient combination for increasing the oscillator loop gain are also disclosed.
US10432185B1
A system includes a storage capacitor coupled between an input voltage source and a ground terminal, a voltage sensing circuit coupled to the input voltage source and to the storage capacitor, a first transistor coupled to the voltage sensing circuit, a current mirror circuit coupled to the first transistor, a diode coupled between the storage capacitor and the current mirror circuit, and a second transistor configured to couple between a gate of a power switching device and the ground terminal. A gate of the second transistor is coupled to the storage capacitor by way of the voltage sensing circuit.
US10432183B2
A clock generation circuit having a deskew function and a semiconductor integrated circuit device including the same are provided. The clock generation circuit includes a clock gating circuit configured to gate an input clock signal based on a first waveform signal to generate a first output signal, a flip-flop configured to receive the input clock signal and a second waveform signal and to generate a second output signal, and an OR circuit configured to perform an OR operation on the first output signal and the second output signal to generate an output clock signal having a period which is N times a period of the input clock signal.
US10432182B2
In a monitor circuit, a data signal is propagated from an FF to another FF via a data delay circuit. The data delay circuit selects any one from among data paths that delay the data signal in accordance with a selection signal. A clock signal that is input to the FF is input to the other FF via a clock delay circuit. The clock delay circuit selects any one from among clock paths that delay the clock signal in accordance with another selection signal.
US10432177B2
A circuit device includes an oscillation circuit that generates an oscillation signal by using an resonator, a clocking circuit that generates clocking data which is real-time clock information based on the oscillation signal, a verification data generation circuit that generates verification data for verifying the clocking data based on the oscillation signal, and an interface circuit that outputs the clocking data and the verification data.
US10432174B2
Systems and methods for closed loop feedback control of integrated circuits. In one embodiment, a plurality of controllable inputs to an integrated circuit is adjusted to achieve a predetermined value of a dynamic operating indicator of the integrated circuit. An operating condition of an integrated circuit is controlled via closed loop feedback based on dynamic operating indicators of the integrated circuit's behavior.
US10432173B2
An apparatus for shifting a digital signal having a first sample rate by a shift time to provide a shifted signal having a second sample rate is provided. The apparatus includes a sample rate converter configured to provide a value of an interpolated signal at a compensated sample time as a sample of the shifted signal, the interpolated signal being based on the digital signal. The sample rate converter is configured to modify a time interval between a sample time of the digital signal and the compensated sample time based on the shift time.
US10432172B2
A bulk acoustic filter device includes: a substrate including a through hole formed by a first recess and a second recess adjacent to the first recess; a membrane layer forming a cavity with the substrate; a filter including a lower electrode disposed on the membrane layer, a piezoelectric layer disposed to cover a portion of the lower electrode, and an upper electrode formed to cover a portion of the piezoelectric layer; and an electrode connecting member disposed in the substrate, and connected to either one of the lower electrode and the upper electrode, wherein the electrode connecting member includes an insertion electrode disposed in the first recess, and a via electrode connected to the insertion electrode, and disposed on an inner peripheral surface of the second recess and a surface of the substrate.
US10432168B2
In one embodiment, a bonded quartz wafer package includes a first quartz wafer including at least one quartz-based device, a second quartz wafer disposed above the first quartz wafer, and a liquid crystal polymer (LCP) bonding layer disposed in between the first and second quartz wafers that bonds the first and second quartz wafers together.
US10432160B2
A circuit may include at least one amplifier circuit configured to amplify a received signal having a first signal received in a first time interval and a second signal received in a second time interval. The first signal and the second signal are signals sent by a different number of coherent wireless signal sources. The circuit arrangement may further include at least one gain control circuit connected to the at least one amplifier circuit and configured to determine a first expected received signal strength of the first signal, to determine a second expected received signal strength of the second signal, and to determine a gain level based on the first and second expected received signal strengths. The at least one amplifier circuit may be configured to amplify the first signal using the determined gain level and to amplify the second signal using the determined gain level.
US10432155B2
A bias current generator is disclosed that include an operational amplifier that is self-biased during an inactive period with a bias current to bias a gate of an output transistor. Since the inactive period bias is close to an active period bias applied to the gate of the output transistor during active operation of the bias current generator, the speed of transition from the inactive period to the active period is enhanced by the self-biasing of the operational amplifier.
US10432151B2
This application relates to methods and apparatus for amplification of audio signals with improved audio performance. An audio driving circuit has an amplifier module in a forward signal path between an input for receiving an input audio signal (SIN) and an output for outputting an audio driving signal (VOUT). A pre-distortion module is operable to apply a first transfer function to the signal in the forward signal path upstream of the amplifier module, wherein the first transfer function comprises a non-linear distortion function based on at least one distortion setting. An error block is arranged to receive a first signal (SFF) derived from the input signal and a second signal (SFB) indicative of the voltage of the audio driving signal and determine a first error signal (ε1) indicative of a difference between the first and second signals. The pre-distortion module is operable to control the distortion setting(s) based on the first error signal.
US10432147B2
An inverted three-stage Doherty amplifier is disclosed. The amplifier provides an input power divider, a carrier amplifier, two peak amplifiers, and an output combiner. The output combiner includes five quarter-wavelength (λ/4) lines, three of which correspond to the three amplifiers, one of which combines an output of the carrier amplifier with an output of the first peak amplifier, and the last of which combines the combined output of the carrier amplifier and the first peak amplifier with an output of the second peak amplifier. The five λ/4 lines have respective impedances to optionally adjust the output impedance of the respective amplifiers.
US10432144B2
A high-frequency phase-locked oscillation circuit having an extremely narrow peak width and a stable frequency so that a high-frequency wave that is oscillated by the MR element solves a problem of a large peak width of oscillation spectrum. The high-frequency phase-locked oscillation circuit includes a magnetoresistive element that oscillates a high-frequency wave with an oscillating frequency; a reference signal source that outputs a reference signal with a reference frequency; a phase-locked loop circuit having a phase comparator, a loop filter, and a frequency divider; an adder that adds a phase error signal output from the loop filter and a bias voltage for oscillating the high-frequency wave from the magnetoresistive element, and that inputs an added bias voltage to the magnetoresistive element; and a filter provided between the frequency divider and the magnetoresistive element.
US10432139B2
A method estimating a series or parallel nature and a location of an arc in a photovoltaic device, operating under direct current, including N (N=1 or N>1) strings of photovoltaic modules, connected to a charge device having a capacitive behaviour for the modules, the method including: a) detecting, at terminals of each of the modules of each string, evolution of voltage over time, during formation of an electric arc; b) identifying the modules at the terminals of which a voltage variation occurs between a first zone with stable voltage and a second zone with stable voltage for a duration of at least 5 μs, which immediately follows the voltage variation, and identifying the sign of each voltage variation; c) estimating the series or parallel nature and the location of the arc in the photovoltaic device.
US10432137B2
A solar collection system is mounted inside a containment vessel. The upper portion of the containment vessel is optically transparent and includes one or more lens elements to help direct light to an upward facing solar panel. The lower portion of the containment vessel comprises a mirrored surface to help reflect light upward to a downward facing solar panel. The shape of the upper and lower portions of the containment vessel may be altered based on the selected implementation. A variety of lens configurations may also be used.
US10432130B2
An electric powertrain includes an electric machine, an inverter connected to the electric machine, and an energy storage system for providing an electric current. The energy storage system includes a first energy storage device operable at a first device voltage, and a second energy storage device operable at a second device voltage. A plurality of low-loss switching devices interconnect the first energy storage device and the second energy storage device. The switching devices are selectively controllable between a first operating mode for providing the electric current at a first system voltage, and a second operating mode for providing the electric current at a second system voltage. The first system voltage is different from the second system voltage.
US10432129B2
To provide an AC rotary machine control device which can superimpose the 5th order and the 7th order harmonic voltages on the AC voltage applied to the AC rotary machine by calculation processing of low processing load, and an electric power steering device provided with the same. An AC rotary machine control device performs middle voltage offset processing that adds offset value to middle voltage command when middle voltage command in three phase basic voltage commands is larger than vibration center voltage, and subtracts offset value from middle voltage command when middle voltage command is smaller than vibration center voltage.
US10432125B2
A method and circuit for acquiring an output quantity of a linear resonance actuator are disclosed. The method comprises the steps of: establishing a circuit that simulates the linear resonance actuator by using passive electrical devices according to an electrical parameter and a kinematic parameter of the linear resonance actuator, the passive electrical devices comprise at least a resistor, a capacitor and an inductor; selecting a measuring point in the circuit according to an output quantity that the linear resonance actuator needs; and inputting a driving signal of an input source to an input end of the circuit, and collecting an electrical signal that is outputted at the measuring point to obtain the output quantity of the simulated linear resonance actuator. According to the technical solution of the application, a circuit module or system model that simulates the linear resonance actuator is established and used in the process of developing and debugging of projects, to replace the technical solutions that directly use physical actuators, thereby improving the efficiency and avoiding the relying on physical actuators.
US10432117B1
An improved system and method for monitoring operation of movers in an independent cart system reduces the required communication bandwidth for monitoring operation of movers in a system where control is distributed among multiple controllers spaced along the track. As the mover is travelling along the track segment, each distributed controller monitors at least one operating characteristic of the mover. As a mover travels along the track, each distributed controller transmits the operating characteristic to a successive distributed controller, such the monitored operating characteristic is transmitted along the track as the mover travels along the track. At a reduced rate or upon request from a central controller, each distributed controller may transmit the status of a mover present on the corresponding track segment controlled by that distributed controller to the central controller.
US10432112B2
An exemplary ultrasonic motor includes an ultrasonic actuator, functioning as a waveguide resonator, formed as a rectangular piezo-electrical plate having two main surfaces and side surfaces that join the main surfaces together, an element to be driven and an electrical excitation device. At least one friction element is arranged on at least one side surface of the ultrasonic actuator and is in frictional contact with the element to be driven. The piezo-electrical plate is divided into three parts. The central part forms a generator for an acoustic longitudinal standing wave, and the peripheral parts bordering the central part form generators for an acoustic bending standing wave. Each generator is electrically connected to the electrical excitation device-can be electrically controlled, and can be divided into two equally-sized and electrically individually controllable sub-generators. Each sub-generator has layers of excitation electrodes, layers of general electrodes, and layers of piezo-ceramics arranged therebetween.
US10432108B2
A power supply system that includes a converter that converts an input alternating-current voltage into a direct-current voltage and outputs the direct-current voltage to a load. The system includes a switcher that electrically connects one of multiple alternating-current power supplies to the converter, a voltage detector that detects an input voltage input to the converter, and a current detector that detects an output current output from the converter. The switcher repeats, for a predetermined amount of time, a determination of whether there is an abnormality in alternating-current power supply based on the input voltage detected by the voltage detector. Moreover, if there is an abnormality, the switcher switches which alternating-current power supply is connected to the converter. Further, the switcher adjusts, based on the result of detection by the current detector, the amount of time for which the determination is performed.
US10432091B2
A voltage regulator includes a first feedback circuit, a second feedback circuit, and a feedback signal adaptive circuit. The first voltage feedback circuit includes an amplifier that is configured to generate a compensation signal according to a feedback signal from an output of the voltage regulator and a reference voltage, while the second voltage feedback circuit includes a comparator that is configured to generate a PWM signal to drive a switch circuit in which the comparator initiates the PWM pulse when the feedback voltage goes lower than the compensation signal and ends the PWM pulse when the sum of the feedback signal and a ramp signal exceeds the sum of the compensation signal and a threshold signal. The feedback signal adaptive circuit modifies the feedback signal according to changes in an input voltage of the voltage regulator and a control signal.
US10432066B2
A portable apparatus is disclosed for generating electrical power comprising a stator comprising a plurality of coils, coil units or coil segments for independently generating electrical power, wherein the stator comprises a printed coil laminate comprising a sheet of insulator material and a printed conductor comprising conductive ink printed upon the sheet of insulator material arranged to form the plurality of coils, coil units or coil segments and a reciprocator comprising a magnet, the reciprocator being responsive to vibrations and/or shocks and moves in that regard within the environs of the stator so as to generate electrical power. The apparatus is connectable to a portable electronic device so as to power that device and/or to a storage device for storing the generated electrical power.
US10432065B2
A brushless direct current motor for a power tool. The motor includes a stator assembly including a stator core having stator laminations with an annular portion and inwardly extending stator teeth. The motor also includes a rotor assembly including a rotor core having rotor laminations and defining a central aperture that receives an output shaft. The rotor assembly also includes a rotor end cap on a first side of the rotor core having a bearing holder and defining a channel, wherein the channel is open on a side of the rotor end cap facing the rotor core. The motor further includes a bearing provided in the bearing holder that couples the rotor end cap to the output shaft and a position sensor board assembly provided in the channel of the rotor end cap and configured to provide position information of the rotor core to a motor controller.
US10432058B2
A device for mounting an electric motor, in particular a fan drive of a heating or an air conditioning system in a motor vehicle, in such a way that vibrations are decoupled, the device having a number of damping and/or decoupling elements at the motor end, each damping or decoupling element being supported eccentrically in relation to the electric motor or the stator thereof or pole casing or motor housing thereof. A drive and to a damping and/or decoupling element is also provided.
US10432057B2
The present invention relates to a motor and a brake device including the same, wherein the motor including: a rotary shaft; a rotor part in which the rotary shaft is disposed at the center thereof; a stator part disposed on the outside of the rotor part; a housing accommodating the rotor part and the stator part, and having an opening formed at one side thereof; and a motor cover disposed at the opening of the housing, wherein the motor cover includes: a motor cover body; a first protruding part and a second protruding part, which are each formed at a predetermined location and configured to protrude in the radial direction from the center of the motor cover body; and a third protruding part formed to protrude from an edge of the motor cover body, and a sealing part is further disposed between the second protruding part and the end portion of the housing disposed between the second protruding part and the third protruding part.
US10432047B2
A rotor for a permanent magnet machine includes a first and second stack of same laminations. The laminations are configured to rotate about an axis and define poles and axial grooves on a circumferential surface that are asymmetric about a centerline of each of the poles. The stacks are coupled such that the second stack is flipped relative to the first stack and centerlines of the first stack are aligned with centerlines of the second stack.
US10432043B2
An electric machine having a rotor is disclosed. The rotor defines a cavity containing a magnet, an outer periphery, and a top bridge therebetween that includes at least two slots each having a length in a radial direction. A maximum of the lengths is closest to a Q-axis and a minimum of the lengths is closest to a D-axis. As the electric machine is operating, a rate of change in airgap flux density through the top bridge differs.
US10432040B2
A 10-pole 9-slot permanent magnet synchronous motor comprises a stator core including an annular yoke and a plurality of teeth. Each of the plurality of teeth has a winding portion around which a coil is wound. The plurality of teeth include three teeth groups. Each of the three teeth groups includes a first tooth, a second tooth, and a third tooth of the teeth group sequentially arranged in a rotational direction of a rotor and around which coils of one phase are wound. The first tooth, second tooth, and third tooth of each of the three teeth groups are sequentially arranged in the rotational direction of the rotor. A width of the winding portion of the third tooth is narrower than a rotational direction width of the winding portion of the first tooth.
US10432036B2
A set of initialization parameters are generated for a wireless charging device. Parameters of an antenna circuit connected to an output of the control circuit are measured. The antenna circuit is modelled as first and second virtual antenna portions. The presence of a foreign object is detected by receiving, from a receiver device, characteristics for the antenna circuit and by measuring second parameters of the antenna circuit. The measured second parameters and the initialization parameters are used to determine characteristics for the first virtual antenna portion. A foreign object is detected based upon a comparison of the received characteristics for the antenna circuit and the determined characteristics for the first virtual antenna portion.
US10432033B2
An electrically conductive material configured having at least one opening of various unlimited geometries extending through its thickness is provided. The opening is designed to modify eddy currents that form within the surface of the material from interaction with magnetic fields that allow for wireless energy transfer therethrough. The opening may be configured as a cut-out, a slit or combination thereof that extends through the thickness of the electrically conductive material. The electrically conductive material is configured with the cut-out and/or slit pattern positioned adjacent to an antenna configured to receive or transmit electrical energy wirelessly through near-field magnetic coupling (NFMC). A magnetic field shielding material, such as a ferrite, may also be positioned adjacent to the antenna. Such magnetic shielding materials may be used to strategically block eddy currents from electrical components and circuitry located within a device.
US10432031B2
An electrically conductive material configured having at least one opening of various unlimited geometries extending through its thickness is provided. The opening is designed to modify eddy currents that form within the surface of the material from interaction with magnetic fields that allow for wireless energy transfer therethrough. The opening may be configured as a cut-out, a slit or combination thereof that extends through the thickness of the electrically conductive material. The electrically conductive material is configured with the cut-out and/or slit pattern positioned adjacent to an antenna configured to receive or transmit electrical energy wirelessly through near-field magnetic coupling (NFMC). A magnetic field shielding material, such as a ferrite, may also be positioned adjacent to the antenna. Such magnetic shielding materials may be used to strategically block eddy currents from electrical components and circuitry located within a device.
US10432030B2
A power transmission device includes an inverter, an oscillator, a foreign substance detector, and a power transmission control circuitry. The power transmission control circuitry causes the foreign substance detector to perform a series of multiple processes and determine whether a foreign substance is present before a transmission of first AC power starts, and then causes the inverter to start the transmission of the first AC power. After the transmission starts, a detection period in which foreign substance detecting is performed and a power transmission period in which transmission of the first AC power is performed are repeated. The series of multiple processes is divided and performed in the multiple repeated detecting periods. The foreign substance detector is caused to divide and perform the series of multiple processes using the detecting periods and determine whether a foreign substance is present.
US10432018B2
A power supply bus circuit includes a high-voltage power supply circuit, the high-voltage power supply circuit includes at least two first alternating current/direct current converters and further includes at least two high-voltage direct current power supply buses, and the first alternating current/direct current converter connects to mains, adjusts the connected mains into a high-voltage direct current, and outputs the high-voltage direct current to the high-voltage direct current power supply bus that is electrically connected to the first alternating current/direct current converter, where the high-voltage power supply circuit further includes at least one first direct current/direct current converter, where the first direct current/direct current converter performs voltage conversion on the high-voltage direct current between two high-voltage direct current power supply buses connected to the first direct current/direct current converter.
US10432017B1
A data center includes an electrical load, a connection to a utility power source, a uninterruptible power supply (UPS), a switching device and a control system. The control system is configured to cause the switching device to discontinue routing electrical power to the electrical loads via the UPS for a given period of time while electrical power is still available to be fed to the electrical loads from the utility power source. Subsequent to the given period of time, the control system cause the switching device to resume routing electrical power to the electrical loads via the UPS.
US10432012B2
An electronic device is disclosed. The disclosed electronic device includes a display, a charging circuit that transmits and receives power to and from an external electronic device, a sensor circuit that senses a spatial relationship of the electronic device with the external electronic device, a processor that is electrically connected with the display, the charging circuit, and the sensor circuit. When wirelessly transmitting or receiving power to or from the external electronic device using the charging circuit, the processor may transmit and receive information associated with the wireless transmission or reception of power and display the information based on the spatial relationship.
US10432010B2
An electronic apparatus includes a secondary battery that stores power for operation, a power receiver that receives power wirelessly from a power supply device, a decision unit that decides whether or not to allow charging with the power received wirelessly, and a charging unit that charges the secondary battery with the received power if charging with the power received wirelessly is allowed.
US10432006B2
A charge/discharge control apparatus includes: a controller which performs a discharge control to discharge a rechargeable battery and a charge control to charge the rechargeable battery using excess power which is power, among generated power, which is not to be consumed by a load; and a setter which sets a threshold value for remaining energy in the rechargeable battery, according to a planned discharged energy amount which is planned as a discharged energy amount to be supplied from the rechargeable battery to the load during a specified time period. The controller performs a discharge prohibition control to prohibit a discharge of the rechargeable battery when the remaining energy in the rechargeable battery is equal to or below the threshold value prior to the specified time period.
US10432002B2
This disclosure describes methods and apparatus sustainable battery charging. In one of the embodiments, a charger and plugging mechanism is presented to prevent overcharging of the battery. The plug will automatically detach the power cord from the device when the battery is fully charged. Other feedback controlled detaching mechanisms has also been disclosed such as the one disconnects the charger cord when the internal temperature of the device gets hotter than a preset threshold.
US10431998B2
A sub for a pipe assembly and system and method for use of the same are disclosed. In one embodiment, the sub includes a mandrel having a body section including an internal flow passage that extends generally axially through the mandrel from an upper connection end to a lower connection end. A battery charger is located within a recessed region within the mandrel. Capacitors include opposing spaced plates having contact segments thereon. An output power increasing, electrically resistive fluid is held within and partially fills an enclosed chamber. In response to movement of the sub, induced relative motion between the output power increasing, electrically resistive fluid and contact segments varies the fluid-contact segment contact within the enclosed chamber, thereby generating an electrical charge. An electronic circuit, which is coupled to the opposing spaced plates, is configured to transfer the electrical charge to a battery associated with the mandrel.
US10431997B2
A system for charging an electric or hybrid-electric vehicle, the system incorporating: at least one vehicle charging station intermittently connectable to the vehicle; a control server comprising at least one processing unit and a memory; and a computerized information system comprising a display unit displaying a user interface and a user input unit, the computerized information system being communicatively connected to the control server via a data network, wherein the user interface comprises a charging priority selection portion for receiving, via the user input unit, a plurality of charging priorities from an operator of the vehicle, wherein the computerized information system transmits the received plurality of charging priorities to the control server and wherein the control server controls the at least one vehicle charging station based on the transmitted plurality of charging priorities.
US10431993B2
A module maintenance system includes a battery module, a charging device, and a rig. The battery module has a series configuration and a parallel configuration. In the parallel configuration, the rig connects each battery cell of the battery module in parallel and the charging device charges each battery cell of the battery module using the rig. In the series configuration, the battery module serially connects each battery cell of the battery module to a first terminal and a second terminal and the charging device charges each battery cell of the battery module using the first terminal and the second terminal.
US10431990B1
According to the present disclosure, a switching system for a fixture includes a first switch unit with a first switch actuator and a first power cord with an integrally formed power connector at its distal end. The first switch unit has an electrical receptacle configured to receive a corresponding power connector of a cord electrically connected to the fixture. The electrical receptacle is electrically coupled to the first power cord through the first switch actuator to provide switching actuation to the fixture. The switching system may include a second switch unit that includes a second switch actuator and a second power cord with an integrally formed power connector at its distal end. The first and second switch units are connectable to provide a three-way switching electrical connection.
US10431985B2
A power management method includes measuring the voltage and the current of a power source, an electrical output and a battery. The power generated by the power source, the power consumed by the electrical output and the power exchanged with the battery are calculated. The power source, the electrical output, the battery and the electrical grid are connected. Measurements of electrical generation and information on the consumption and control possibility of one or more remote systems are transmitted to a monitoring device. The electrical output is connected to the power source, the battery or the electrical grid according to information on the tariff per kWh provided by the public electricity grid, such as peak and off-peak time.
US10431974B2
There are provided circuits and methods for surge protection. For example, there is provided a clamp circuit for protecting a load against a surge. The clamp circuit can include a power dissipation circuit including at least one transistor and a resistor. The clamp circuit can further include a voltage sensitive device configured to cause a voltage limit across the load when the surge occurs. The power dissipation circuit can be configured to turn on the at least one transistor to dissipate power across one of the resistor and the at least one transistor.
US10431968B2
A conductor positioning fixture includes a base and a retainer member. The base includes a positioning platform and a wedge projecting upward from a top surface of the positioning platform. The base receives a cable on the top surface of the positioning platform such that exposed segments of first and second conductors of the cable extend along opposite sides of the wedge. The retainer member is mounted to the base and movable relative to the base along a longitudinal axis between a retracted position, at which the retainer member is spaced apart from the wedge, and an extended position, at which the retainer member overlaps the wedge. As the retainer member moves from the retracted position towards the extended position, the retainer member engages and forces the exposed segments of the first and second conductors into designated presentation positions.
US10431960B2
A spark plug for an internal combustion engine includes a cylindrical housing, a cylindrical insulator, a center electrode, and a ground electrode. The ground electrode includes an upright part and an inclined part. The upright part is a portion vertically provided on a tip end part of the housing to a tip end side. The inclined part is a portion that is bent from the tip of the upright part toward the center electrode side, and is extended toward an oblique tip end side. The inclined part has a ground end face, an opposed face, and a corner curved face. The corner curved face is a face that smoothly connects the ground end face and the opposed face. The corner curved face has a curved shape. The curvature radius R of the corner curved face satisfies 0.3 mm≤R≤0.7 mm. The inclination angle θ of the inclined part with respect to a plug axial direction (Z) satisfies 30°≤θ≤60°.
US10431957B2
Disclosed is a laser source capable of producing mid-IR laser radiation comprises growing a first core structure on a substrate, etching away the first core structure in one or more locations, and growing a second core structure on the substrate. At least one of the core structures comprises a quantum cascade gain medium emitting at a frequency within the range from 3-14 μm. Also disclosed is a laser source capable of producing mid-IR laser radiation comprising a quantum-cascade core positioned on a substrate for emitting within the range from 3-14 μm and a second core on the substrate positioned in-plane relative to the first core. The second core is one of a) a passive waveguide core b) a second quantum-cascade core and c) a semiconductor active core region.
US10431956B2
A laser structure includes a substrate, a buffer layer formed on the substrate and a light emitting diode (LED) formed on the buffer layer. A photonic crystal layer is formed on the LED. A monolayer semiconductor nanocavity laser is formed on the photonic crystal layer for receiving light through the photonic crystal layer from the LED, wherein the LED and the laser are formed monolithically and the LED acts as an optical pump for the laser.
US10431954B2
A laser component includes a housing, a laser chip arranged in the housing, and a conversion element for radiation conversion arranged in the housing wherein the conversion element is irradiatable with laser radiation of the laser chip. A method of producing such a laser component includes providing component parts of the laser component including a laser chip, a conversion element for radiation conversion and housing parts, and assembling the component parts of the laser component such that a housing is provided within which the laser chip and the conversion element are arranged, wherein the conversion element is irradiatable with laser radiation of the laser chip.
US10431950B2
A crimping die includes a tool engaging surface, a crimping area, and at least one selecting aperture to assist a user in selecting an appropriate connector or an appropriate conductor for use with the crimping die. The crimping die may include a first selecting aperture indicating an appropriately sized connector to be crimped with the die, a second selecting aperture indicating a minimum sized conductor to be crimped with the die, and a third selecting aperture indicating a maximum sized conductor to be crimped with the die.
US10431947B2
An electrical component socket includes a socket body arranged on a circuit board and including a receiving portion configured to receive an electrical component. The socket body includes an arrangement portion in which a row of contact pins to be in contact with leads of an IC package is arranged. At least one of these contact pins and another one of the contact pins adjacent to the at least one of the contact pins have an arrangement pitch that is narrower than a pitch between the terminals of the electrical component, and the other one of the contact pins and still another one of the contact pins adjacent to the other one of the contact pins have an arrangement pitch that is substantially equal to the pitch between the terminals of the electrical component.
US10431938B2
A shield shell includes a housing accommodation portion and a shield member mounting portion. The shield member mounting portion is formed to be continuous to the housing accommodation portion. A shield member fixing part is provided on an outer surface of the shield member mounting portion. The shield member fixing part has an inclined shape in which a cross-section taken along an axial direction of the shield member mounting portion expands outwards from a base end side of the shield member mounting portion toward an open end side of the shield member mounting portion.
US10431936B2
An electrical connector includes a housing, plural signal contacts, and plural impedance control (IC) members. The housing includes a base having a mating face. The base includes an array of openings along the mating face. The signal contacts are arranged in contact pairs, and are held in the openings of the base. The signal contacts include mating segments that extend a height beyond the mating face of the base for electrically connecting to corresponding mating signal contacts of a mating connector. The IC members are on the base and extend a height beyond the mating face of the base that is less than the height of the mating segments of the signal contacts. Each of the IC members is disposed one or more of adjacent to or between the signal contacts of a corresponding contact pair.
US10431934B2
A connector includes signal contacts and predetermined contacts maintained at predetermined voltage levels. Each contact has a horizontal portion, an intersecting portion extending along a direction intersecting with the horizontal portion and a coupling portion coupling the horizontal portion and the intersecting portion to each other. The contacts include a first contact group made up of the two predetermined contacts and one differential pair of the two signal contacts. In the first contact group, a size of the coupling portion of each of the predetermined contacts in the pitch direction is larger than another size of the coupling portion of each of the signal contacts in the pitch direction, and a size of the intersecting portion of each of the predetermined contacts in the pitch direction is larger than another size of the intersecting portion of each of the signal contacts in the pitch direction.
US10431932B1
A connector assembly includes a first connector, a second connector and a metal housing. The first connector includes an insulating body, conductive terminals, and a first cable, each conductive terminal having a contact portion. The second connector includes a sub-circuit board and a second cable connected to the sub-circuit board, the sub-circuit board having a butting end facing the first connector, and gold fingers being distributed on the surface of the butting end. The metal housing is provided with an insertion hole, the insertion hole having a front insertion opening at the front end of the metal housing and a rear insertion opening at the rear end of the metal housing. The first connector is inserted into the insertion hole from the front insertion opening, and the second connector is inserted into the insertion hole from the rear insertion opening. The contact portions are in contact with the gold fingers.
US10431926B2
Example implementations relate to a magnetic fluid connector. For example, a magnetic fluid connector can include a magnet, an internal fluid path defined by a first portion and a second portion when the first portion and the second portion are coupled together, and a movable member that is movable to seal the internal fluid path, where the magnet provides at least a portion of a force sufficient to seal the internal fluid path.
US10431925B2
An electrical device is supported by a bracket above a transaxle in a front compartment of a vehicle. A DC power connector and an air conditioning connector are connected with a back face of a housing of the electrical device. The DC power connector has a higher strength than the air conditioning connector. A rear end of the DC power connector is located on a rear side than a rear end of the air conditioning connector.
US10431914B2
A network connector assembly with an upper board member includes one or more upper coupling pins and a lower board member includes one or more lower coupling pins. The upper board member and lower board member each a plurality of sets of contact pins disposed on a respective top surface. A housing can be disposable over the upper board member and the lower board member forming one or more network couplers. Each of the one or more network couplers configured to receive one set of contact pins.
US10431907B2
A connection apparatus that is usable with an electrical receptacle includes a screw that is threadably situated on a conductive device. The conductive device is formed from an individual metallic plate and thus is co-formed as a single piece unit.
US10431904B2
An antenna array assembly comprises a dielectric film (2) carrying an array of conductive patch radiator elements (7) and a plurality of conductive feed tracks and a ground plate (1), a face of the ground plate (1) having a contoured shape comprising a first part configured to be in contact with the dielectric film (2), and a second part comprising sunken sections with respect to the first part arranged to underlie the conductive feed tracks and conductive patch radiator elements (7), and the ground plate having locating protrusions (6g, 6f) protruding from the first part. The dielectric film is attached to the ground plate by location of holes in the dielectric film with the locating protrusions (6g, 6f) such that the dielectric film is held under tension to maintain spacing of the dielectric film (2) from the sunken sections of the ground plate (1) without the use of a dielectric spacer layer between the dielectric film (2) and the ground plate (1).
US10431903B2
Exemplary embodiments are provided of antennas and antenna systems including the same. In an exemplary embodiment, an antenna generally includes an upper radiating patch element, a ground plane spaced apart from the upper radiating patch element, and a feed point positioned adjacent the ground plane. A first feeding element electrically couples (e.g., via proximity coupling or direct galvanic coupling) the upper radiating patch element to the feed point. A second feeding element electrically couples (e.g., via proximity coupling or direct galvanic coupling) the upper radiating patch element to the feed point. A shorting element electrically couples (e.g., via proximity coupling or direct galvanic coupling) the upper radiating patch element to the ground plane. In other exemplary embodiments, the antenna systems include one or more ground planes and one or more antennas.
US10431895B2
A dual slot SIW antenna unit includes a first substrate, a conductive layer, plural unit radiation members, a second substrate, a ground conductive layer, and two first conductor pillars. The plural unit radiation members are disposed in parallel on the conductive layer, and each unit radiation member includes at least a pair of slots that are disposed in parallel. The two first conductive pillars are disposed between two neighboring unit radiation members and electrically connect the feed routing layer and the conductive layer. A dual slot SIW antenna array module is also disclosed. By use of the dual slot structure, more radiation members are allowed to be included in a limited square measure for improving the antenna gain.
US10431889B2
An adaptive impedance matching network to implement an impedance match between an RF power device and an antenna comprises a matching network having at least one tunable component, a current sensor providing a current value corresponding to the supply current associated with the RF power device, a power sensor configured to provide an RF power sensor value monotonically related to power delivered to the antenna, and a tuner to provide a tuning signal to the matching network as a function of the current and RF power values. The tuner may adjust the tuning signal so that the RF power sensor value is at least as large as for other settings of the tuning signal, while maintaining the supply current at a predetermined amount corresponding to an amount of supply current occurring when the RF power device is driving a load that produces the desired RF output power and amplifier efficiency.
US10431888B2
A communication method and device using beamforming in a wireless communication system are disclosed. A base station determines according to a predetermined trigger condition and a channel state of a terminal whether to enable a beam overlap mode using an overlap beam in which a plurality of unitary beams of the base station are overlapped, selects one or more best beams from among the plurality of unitary beams if it is determined that the beam overlap mode is not enabled, and transmits or receives a signal for the terminal through the selected best beams. If it is determined that the beam overlap mode is enabled, the base station forms the overlap beam in which the plurality of unitary beams of the base station are overlapped by adjusting beamforming coefficients of a beamforming unitary and transmits or receives a signal for the terminal through the overlap beam.
US10431881B2
A dual band printed antenna that includes a substrate including a first and a second surfaces opposite to each other and conductive holes, a first and a second drivers, a first and a second reflectors and a transmission line is provided. The first driver is disposed on the first surface to generate a radiation pattern of a first frequency band. The first reflector is disposed on the first surface and apart from the first driver. The second driver is disposed on the second surface to generate a radiation pattern of a second frequency band and electrically coupled to the first driver through the conductive holes. The reflector is disposed on the second surface, corresponding to a position of the first driver and apart from the second driver. The transmission line is disposed on the first surface and coupled to a feeding point and a ground point of the first driver.
US10431877B2
A base station antenna includes a panel that has a ground plane, first and second arrays that have respective first and second sets of linearly arranged radiating elements mounted on the panel, and a decoupling unit positioned between a first radiating element of the first array and a first radiating element of the second array. The decoupling unit includes at least a first sidewall that faces the first radiating element of the first array, a second sidewall that faces the first radiating element of the second array and an internal cavity that is defined in the region between the sidewalls. The first and second sidewalls are electrically conductive and electrically connected to the ground plane.
US10431875B2
A communication device includes a system ground plane, a signal source, an antenna structure, a radiation adjustment plane, and at least one tuning metal element. The signal source is coupled to the system ground plane. The antenna structure is coupled to the signal source. The radiation adjustment plane is configured to adjust the radiation of the antenna structure. The tuning metal element is disposed adjacent to the antenna structure, and is configured to modify the radiation pattern of the antenna structure.
US10431872B1
A mobile terminal is provided including a display unit; a middle frame including a supporting unit that supports a rear surface of the display unit with a side portion around the supporting portion; a main board at a rear surface of the middle frame including a ground; a first wireless communication unit in the main board to transceive a first signal; a second wireless communication unit in the main board to transceive a second signal; and a rear case covering a rear surface of the main board, where the side portion includes a plurality of conductive members with ends divided into slits and the plurality of the conductive members includes a common antenna electrically connectable with the first and second wireless communication units to receive the first and second signals such that the mobile terminal receives different signals with antennas for LTE and 5G communication arranged in a limited space.
US10431867B1
One embodiment includes a clock distribution system. The system includes a first resonator spine that propagates a first clock signal and a second resonator spine that propagates a second clock signal that is out-of-phase relative to the first clock signal. The system also includes at least one resonator rib each conductively coupled to at least one of the first and second resonator spines and being arranged as a standing wave resonator with respect to a respective at least one of the first and second clock signals to inductively provide the respective at least one of the first and second clock signals to an associated circuit via a respective transformer-coupling line. The system further includes an isolation element configured to mitigate at least one of inductive and capacitive coupling between the first and second clock signals.
US10431859B2
A battery pack includes a plurality of battery modules that are stackable in a stacking direction, each of the plurality of battery modules extending in a longitudinal direction perpendicular to the stacking direction. Each of the plurality of battery modules includes a battery cell and a cartridge configured to receive the battery cell. The cartridge includes a seat part configured to seat the battery cell, and a heat dissipation part made of a first type of material different from a second type of material of the seat part, the heat dissipation part being configured to absorb heat generated from the battery cell.
US10431856B2
In order to provide a method for producing a cell contact-making system for an electrochemical device which is executable in a simple manner and which enables a reliable signal conductor system with precise positioning to be produced, it is proposed that production of the cell contact-making system should includes separating out from a starting material at least one signal conductor group, which includes at least two signal conductor tracks of a signal conductor system of the cell contact-making system and at least one connection element by means of which at least two of the signal conductor tracks are connected to one another; connecting the signal conductor tracks of the signal conductor track group to a respective cell connector, cell terminal connector or sensor element of the cell contact-making system; and removing the at least one connection element.
US10431851B2
To provide a structure which allows production of an electrode, even if the film thickness of an electrode is increased; and a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery using the same.A non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery including a power generating element including: two electrodes having different polarity and formed by forming an active material layer on a current collector; and an electrolyte layer positioned between the electrodes, wherein at least one of the active material layers of the two electrodes having different polarity contains an active material and a conductive member made from an electron conducting material, the active material layer has a first principal surface which comes into contact with the electrolyte layer side, and a second principal surface which comes into contact with the current collector side, at least a part of the conductive member forms a conductive path electrically connecting the first principal surface to the second principal surface, and the conductive path is in contact with the active material in the periphery of the conductive path, at least a part of the surface of the active material is coated with a coating agent that includes a coating resin and a conduction assisting agent, and an electrolyte solution contained in the electrolyte layer or the two electrodes having different polarity is a gel phase electrolyte.
US10431845B2
A rechargeable battery includes: an electrode assembly including first and second electrodes including coated regions and uncoated region tabs, the first and second electrodes arranged and spiral-wound at opposite sides of a separator; a case to accommodate the electrode assembly; a cap plate to be combined to an opening of the case; an insulator to be arranged between the electrode assembly and the cap plate; electrode terminals to be arranged at the cap plate and to be electrically connected to the uncoated region tabs; and current collecting tabs to connect the uncoated region tabs and the electrode terminals and to be arranged between the insulator and the electrode assembly, and the current collecting tab includes an elastic protrusion protruding in a direction toward the insulator.
US10431838B2
A gas diffusion layer (GDL) for fuel cell applications that can prevented channels of a bipolar plate from being intruded. The gas diffusion layer is manufactured by cutting a GDL material at a certain angle such that a machine direction of the inherent high stiffness of the GDL material is not in parallel with a major flow field direction of a bipolar plate to prevent the GDL intrusion into the channels of the bipolar plate without modifying an existing method for manufacturing the gas diffusion layer. With the gas diffusion layer, the electrochemical performance of the fuel cell can be improved and manufacturing process can be improved even in the case where the width of the rolled GDL material is small.
US10431825B2
The present invention relates to a negative electrode for a lithium ion secondary battery comprising an oxetane compound represented by a predetermined formula in an amount within a range of 0.001% by mass or more and 5.0% by mass or less based on the amount of a negative electrode active material, and a lithium ion secondary battery using the same.
US10431807B2
The present invention discloses a method of manufacturing a lithium-ion secondary battery electrode. The method includes the steps of: supplying composite particles (1), each containing an active material (2) and a binder (4), onto a sheet collector (42); and rolling the composite particles (1) supplied onto the collector (42), thus forming an active material layer (44). The rolling step includes a first rolling sub-step involving first rolling, and a second rolling sub-step to be performed after the first rolling sub-step. Rubber rolls (R1) are preferably used in the first rolling sub-step.
US10431806B2
The present invention is directed to battery technologies and processing techniques thereof. In various embodiments, ceramic electrolyte powder material (or component thereof) is mixed with two or more flux to form a fluxed powder material. The fluxed powder material is shaped and heated again at a temperature less than 1100° C. to form a dense lithium conducting material. There are other variations and embodiments as well.
US10431803B2
A traction battery includes cells stacked in an array and having terminals, and endplates sandwiching the array. A busbar module extends between the endplates and includes slots and busbars interleaved along a length of the busbar module. The terminals extend through the slots and connect to the busbars. The busbar module includes a pair of end pieces and a center piece that are separately formed and secured together by connection features.
US10431802B2
An embodiment is directed to a battery module, including a plurality of battery cell groups that are connected in series with each other, each of the plurality of battery cell groups including a plurality of battery cells that are connected to each other in parallel, a first terminal component at a first terminal of the battery module, the first terminal corresponding to either a positive terminal of the battery module or a negative terminal of the battery module, and a first heat pipe positioned in proximity to the first terminal component and configured to transfer heat away from the first terminal component.
US10431797B2
A vehicle traction battery includes a battery cell, the battery cell including a cathode, and anode, and a separator the anode and cathode. The separator includes at least one protective layer that is impermeable to polysulfides and at least one ion-conducting conductive layer whose composition is different than that of the protective layer and that is designed as a copolymer which includes a stabilizing phase and an ionically conductive phase, the protective layer including an inorganic substance.
US10431796B2
Disclosed is a battery separator, comprising two fiber regions comprising glass fibers, and a middle fiber region disposed between them comprising larger average diameter fibers and specified amounts of silica, or fine fibers, or both; and processes for making the separator. Also disclosed is a battery separator, comprising a fiber region and either one or two silica-containing region(s) adjacent thereto, each of the regions containing a specified amount of silica; and processes for making the separator. Such separators are useful, e.g., in lead-acid batteries.
US10431793B2
A method of producing a separator is provided. The method includes providing a particle membrane including inorganic particles on at least one principal surface of a porous body by a vapor-phase process such that the particle membrane has a porosity that is non-uniform in a thickness direction thereof. A method of producing a microporous membrane is also provided.
US10431784B2
The disclosure relates to a method for clamping a lithium ion accumulator, which has a lithium ion accumulator cell stack having a top surface, a base surface opposite the top surface and a peripheral surface having four side surfaces, and at least two prismatic lithium ion accumulator cells. The lithium ion accumulator cell stack is clamped by at least one tension strap apparatus which is arranged and tensioned in the region of the peripheral surface, the ends of the tension strap meanwhile being kept free of tension. While free of tension, the ends of the tension strap are connected to each other directly or indirectly by using one or two plates, which are arranged on a side surface or two mutually opposite side surfaces of the peripheral surface. The disclosure further relates to a lithium ion accumulator and a motor vehicle having a lithium ion accumulator.
US10431781B2
Systems and methods of handling batteries are provided. In particular, a method for loading battery assemblies within a storage rack using a battery magazine system can be provided. The method can include loading battery assemblies within a battery magazine. The battery magazine can include a first and second sidewall and a traverse wall extending between the first and second sidewalls. The battery magazine can be installed onto a base member using engagement features located on the battery magazine and a corresponding engagement feature located on the base member. Battery magazines can be stacked on top of each other to form battery magazine stacks to be loaded into a rack using a server lift. Each battery magazine can include a battery assembly configured to be received between the first and second sidewalls of the battery magazine. The battery assembly can further include at least one battery.
US10431774B2
The present disclosure provides a display unit and a method for manufacturing the display unit, and an array substrate. The display unit includes a first electrode; a second electrode opposite to the first electrode; and a passivation layer, an auxiliary electrode and a light emitting functional layer between the first electrode and the second electrode, the passivation layer, the auxiliary electrode and the light emitting functional layer being disposed from the first electrode to the second electrode in sequence. The first electrode is electrically connected to the auxiliary electrode. One of the first electrode and the second electrode is transflective while the other one of the first electrode and the second electrode is transflective or reflective, and a first cavity is formed between the first electrode and the second electrode.
US10431764B2
An organic light emitting diode display is provided that may include a first substrate, a plurality of electrodes on the first substrate and spaced apart from each other, a pixel defining layer on the plurality of electrodes, spacers on the pixel defining layer, and a second substrate on the spacers. The pixel defining layer includes a plurality of openings spaced apart from each other and respectively open to the plurality of electrodes. The spacers on the pixel defining layer are at crossing points of a plurality of virtual lines, the spacers crossing spaces between adjacent openings of the plurality of openings.
US10431761B2
To provide a light-emitting element which emits light in a near-infrared range and has high efficiency and long life, and a light-emitting device, an authentication device, and an electronic apparatus, each of which includes this light-emitting element.A light-emitting element 1 of the invention includes an anode 3, a cathode 8, a light-emitting layer 5 which is provided between the anode 3 and the cathode 8 and emits light in a wavelength range of 700 nm or more by applying a current between the anode 3 and the cathode 8, and an electron transport layer 6 which is provided between the light-emitting layer 5 and the cathode 8, and includes a first electron transport layer 6b located on the cathode 8 side and a second electron transport layer 6a located on the light-emitting layer 5 side, wherein the first electron transport layer 6b contains a first anthracene-based compound, which has an anthracene skeleton and a nitrogen-containing heterocyclic skeleton, and has an average thickness of less than 8 nm, and the second electron transport layer 6a contains a second anthracene-based compound, which has an anthracene skeleton but does not have a heterocyclic skeleton.
US10431758B2
The present application discloses a thin film transistor, a display panel and a display apparatus having the same, and a fabricating method thereof. The thin film transistor includes a base substrate and an active layer on the base substrate having a first portion corresponding to a channel region, a second portion corresponding to a source electrode contact region, and a third portion corresponding to a drain electrode contact region, wherein the second portion and the third portion contain a polymer carbon nanotubes composite including a polymer and a carbon nanotubes material.
US10431748B2
The present specification relates to a cyclic compound and an organic light emitting device comprising the same.
US10431747B2
The invention relates to quinoid compounds and their use in semiconductive matrix materials, electronic and optoelectronic structural elements.
US10431746B2
A quaternized tetrazine-based donor-acceptor (D-A) copolymer is disclosed.
US10431741B2
Method of making an array of interconnected solar cells, including a) providing a continuous layer stack (1) of a prescribed thickness on a substrate (8), the layer stack (1) including an upper (2) and a lower (3) conductive layer having a photoactive layer (4) and a semiconducting electron transport layer (6) interposed there between; b) selectively removing the upper conductive layer (2) and the photoactive layer (4) for obtaining a contact hole (10) exposing the semiconducting electron transport layer (6); c) selectively heating the layer stack (1) to a first depth (d1) for obtaining a first heat affected zone (12) at a first center-to-center distance (s1) from the contact hole (10), the first heat affected zone (12) being transformed into a substantially insulating region with substantially the first depth (d1) in the layer stack, thereby locally providing an increased electrical resistivity to the layer stack (1).
US10431740B2
A system for producing a layer of aligned carbon nanotubes, the system comprising: a sprayer, a solution delivery tube configured to deliver a carbon nanotube solution to the sprayer, and a reservoir configured to contain a subphase. The sprayer is configured to generate a continuous spray of the carbon nanotube solution. The continuous floating layer is supported by the subphase. The spray of carbon nanotube solution includes droplets of the carbon nanotube solution, the droplets having a median diameter in a range from about 1 to about 100 microns. The sprayer maintains the continuous floating layer of carbon nanotube solution on the subphase as a substrate is inserted into or removed from the subphase, the carbon nanotube solution being in contact with the substrate.
US10431737B2
Co-fired integrated circuit devices and methods for fabricating and integrating such on a workpiece are disclosed herein. An exemplary method includes forming a first passive device and a second passive device over a carrier substrate. The first passive device and the second passive device each include at least one material layer that includes a co-fired ceramic material. The carrier substrate is removed after performing a co-firing process to cause chemical changes in the co-fired ceramic material. The first passive device may include a conductive loop disposed between a first magnetic layer and a second magnetic layer. The first magnetic layer, the second magnetic layer, or both includes a co-fired ceramic magnetic material. The second passive device may include a first conductive layer and a second conductive layer separated by a dielectric layer. The first conductive layer, the second conductive layer, or both includes a co-fired ceramic conductive material.
US10431731B2
The present invention comprises: a step of applying a liquid composition for forming a PZT ferroelectric film; a step of drying the film applied with the liquid composition; a step of irradiating UV rays onto the dried film at a temperature of 150 to 200° C. in an oxygen-containing atmosphere; and after the application step, the drying step, and the UV irradiation step once, or more times, a step of firing for crystallizing a precursor film of the UV-irradiated ferroelectric film by raising a temperature with a rate of 0.5° C./second or higher in an oxygen-containing atmosphere or by raising a temperature with a rate of 0.2° C./second or higher in a non-oxygen containing atmosphere, followed by keeping the temperature at 400 to 500° C. An amount of liquid composition is set such that thickness of the ferroelectric film be 150 nm or more for each application and ozone is supplied during UV irradiation.
US10431719B2
A color-conversion structure includes an article comprising a color-conversion material disposed within a color-conversion layer. At least a portion of a tether is within or extends from the article. The color-conversion structure can be disposed over a sacrificial portion of a substrate to form a micro-transfer printable device and micro-transfer printed to a display substrate. The color-conversion structure can include an light-emitting diode or laser diode that is over or under the article. Alternatively, the article is located on a side of a display substrate opposite an inorganic light-emitting diode. A display includes an array of color-conversion structures disposed on a display substrate.
US10431718B2
Embodiments are related to integrated circuit (IC) fabrication and, more particularly, to a fluidic assembly process for the placement of light emitting diodes on a direct-emission display substrate.
US10431707B2
An example device in accordance with an aspect of the present disclosure includes an avalanche photodetector to enable carrier multiplication for increased responsivity, and a receiver based on source-synchronous CMOS and including adaptive equalization. The photodetector and receiver are monolithically integrated on a single chip.
US10431703B2
Embodiments of the invention describe apparatuses, optical systems, and methods related to utilizing optical cladding layers. According to one embodiment, a hybrid optical device includes a silicon semiconductor layer and a III-V semiconductor layer having an overlapping region, wherein a majority of a field of an optical mode in the overlapping region is to be contained in the III-V semiconductor layer. A cladding region between the silicon semiconductor layer and the III-V semiconductor layer has a spatial property to substantially confine the optical mode to the III-V semiconductor layer and enable heat dissipation through the silicon semiconductor layer.
US10431685B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate including a fin-shaped active region that protrudes from the substrate; a gate insulating film covering a top surface and both side walls of the fin-shaped active region; a gate electrode on the top surface and the both side walls of the fin-shaped active region and covering the gate insulating film; one pair of insulating spacers on both side walls of the gate electrode; and a source region and a drain region on the substrate and respectively located on sides of the gate electrode. The source region and the drain region form a source/drain pair. The one pair of insulating spacers include protrusions that protrude from upper portions of the one pair of insulating spacers toward the gate electrode.
US10431681B2
A semiconductor device includes a gate trench of at least one transistor structure extending into a semiconductor substrate. The gate trench includes at least one sidewall having a bevel portion located adjacent to a bottom of the gate trench. The at least one sidewall of the gate trench is formed by the semiconductor substrate. An angle between the bevel portion and a lateral surface of the semiconductor substrate is between 110′ and 160°. A lateral dimension of the bevel portion is larger than 50 nm. Methods for forming the semiconductor device are also provided.
US10431679B2
A semiconductor structure and a method for forming the same are provided. The semiconductor structure includes a substrate and at least a gate trench extending along a first direction formed in the substrate. A gate dielectric layer is formed conformally covering the gate trench. A gate metal is formed on the gate dielectric layer and filling the gate trench. A plurality of intervening structures are arranged along the first direction in a lower portion of the gate trench and disposed between the gate metal and the gate dielectric layer.
US10431676B2
A semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device includes a substrate and a first III-V group compound semiconductor layer disposed on the substrate. The first III-V group compound semiconductor layer includes a fin structure having a top surface, a first sidewall, and a second sidewall opposite to the first sidewall. The semiconductor device also includes a second III-V group compound semiconductor layer disposed on the first III-V group compound semiconductor layer. The first III-V group compound semiconductor layer and the second III-V group compound semiconductor layer are made of different materials. The semiconductor device also includes a gate electrode disposed on the second III-V group compound semiconductor layer.
US10431655B2
A transistor structure including a substrate, a transistor device, a split buried layer, and a second buried layer is provided. The substrate has a device region. The transistor device is located in the device region. The split buried layer is located under the transistor device in the substrate and includes first buried layers separated from each other. The second buried layer is located under the split buried layer in the substrate and connects the first buried layers. The second buried layer and the split buried layer have a first conductive type. The transistor structure may have a higher breakdown voltage.
US10431653B2
A semiconductor system including a planar anode contact, a planar cathode contact, and a volume of n-conductive semiconductor material, which has an anode-side end and a cathode-side end and extends between the anode contact and the cathode contact. A p-conductive area extends from the anode-side end of the volume toward the cathode-side end of the volume without reaching the cathode-side end. The p-conductive area has two sub-areas which are separated from one another in a cross section lying transversely with respect to the anode contact and the cathode contact, which delimit a sub-volume of the volume filled with n-conductive semiconductor material. The sub-volume is open toward the cathode contact, and is delimited by cathode-side ends of the sub-areas. A distance of the two sub-areas defining the opening is smaller than a distance between the two sub-areas prevailing outside of the opening and lying between anode side ends of the sub-areas.
US10431650B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, including implanting hydrogen atoms from a second principal surface of a semiconductor substrate, forming a plurality of second semiconductor layers that each have a carrier concentration higher than that of the first semiconductor layer and that have carrier concentration peak values at different depths from the second principal surface of the semiconductor substrate, applying a heat treatment process to promote generation of donors from the hydrogen atoms, implanting an impurity from the second principal surface of the semiconductor substrate, forming a third semiconductor layer in the semiconductor substrate at the second principal surface thereof, and applying another heat treatment process to locally heat the semiconductor substrate, so as to reduce the carrier concentration at an interface between the third semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer adjacent to the third semiconductor layer.
US10431644B2
An improved organic light-emitting display apparatus prevents damage of wiring due to a mask during the manufacturing process, and a manufacturing method thereof. An organic light-emitting display apparatus includes a display unit formed on a substrate, a pad unit formed at one outer side of the display unit on the substrate, a wiring unit formed as a multilayer structure on the substrate to couple the display unit to the pad unit, a thin film encapsulating layer covering the display unit, and a protrusion unit that does not overlap the uppermost layer of wiring of the multilayered wiring unit.
US10431640B2
An embodiment of the present invention provides a display device including a substrate including a display area, and a peripheral area outside the display area and including a bending area, a first conductive layer including a first signal wire over the substrate, a first insulating layer over the first conductive layer, a second insulating layer in a different layer from the first insulating layer, overlapping the bending area, and having a first edge positioned around the bending area, and a protector over the second insulating layer, wherein the first signal wire is in the peripheral area, crosses the first edge of the second insulating layer, does not overlap the bending area, and includes a first portion not covered by the second insulating layer, and wherein the protector overlaps at least a portion of the first portion, and has an edge that is parallel with an edge of the first portion.
US10431636B2
An electronic device may have a display. The display may have an active region in which display pixels are used to display images. The display may have one or more openings and may be mounted in a housing associated with the electronic device. An electronic component may be mounted in alignment with the openings in the display. The electronic component may include a camera, a light sensor, a light-based proximity sensor, status indicator lights, a light-based touch sensor array, a secondary display that has display pixels that may be viewed through the openings, antenna structures, a speaker, a microphone, or other acoustic, electromagnetic, or light-based component. One or more openings in the display may form a window through which a user of the device may view an external object. Display pixels in the window region may be used in forming a heads-up display.
US10431635B2
A flexible OLED display device that includes an upper module having a cover window film, a lower module, and a display module between the upper and lower modules. The display module includes an OLED and an OLED substrate. The stiffnesses of components in the display device are controlled to satisfy a particular relationship such that the bending stiffnesses of the upper and lower modules are tuned in order to position the neutral bending plane below the display module, which places the display into a state of compressive strain as opposed to zero strain. This design is suitable for a bifold flexible display in which the upper module can be folded to face itself.
US10431627B2
A magnetic memory device is provided including a magnetic tunnel junction pattern having a free pattern, a reference pattern, and a tunnel barrier pattern between the free pattern and the reference pattern. The free pattern includes a first sub-free pattern, a second sub-free pattern, and a third sub-free pattern. The first sub-free pattern is between the tunnel barrier pattern and the third sub-free pattern, and the second sub-free pattern is between the first sub-free pattern and the third sub-free pattern. The second sub-free pattern includes nickel-cobalt-iron-boron (NiCoFeB), and the third sub-free pattern includes nickel-iron-boron (NiFeB). Related methods of fabrication are also provided.
US10431620B2
The present technique relates to a semiconductor device and an electronic appliance in which the reliability of the fine transistor can be maintained while the signal output characteristic is improved in a device formed by stacking semiconductor substrates.The semiconductor device includes a first semiconductor substrate, a second semiconductor substrate providing a function different from a function provided by the first semiconductor substrate, and a diffusion prevention film that prevents diffusion of a dangling bond terminating atom used for reducing the interface state of the first semiconductor substrate and the second semiconductor substrate, wherein at least two semiconductor substrates are stacked and the semiconductor substrates are electrically connected to each other, and the first semiconductor substrate and the second semiconductor substrate are stacked with the diffusion prevention film inserted between an interface of the first semiconductor substrate and an interface of the second semiconductor substrate.
US10431618B2
A deformation of a stacked lens is suppressed. A stacked lens structure has a configuration in which substrates with lenses having a lens disposed on an inner side of a through-hole formed in the substrate are bonded and stacked by direct bonding. The present technique can be applied to a camera module or the like in which a stacked lens structure in which at least three substrates with lenses including first to third substrates with lenses which are substrates with lenses in which a through-hole is formed in the substrate and a lens is formed on an inner side of the through-hole is integrated with a light receiving element, for example.
US10431608B2
Example comparators as discussed herein may include a second stage coupled to provide an output in response to an intermediate voltage, a first stage coupled to provide the intermediate voltage in response to an input. The first stage including a pair of cascode devices coupled to a current mirror, a low gain input coupled to inputs of the first stage via first switches, and further selectively coupled to the pair of cascode devices via second switches, and a high gain input coupled to the first and second inputs of the first stage via the first switches, and further selectively coupled to the pair of cascode devices via fourth switches. Based on a low conversion gain mode, the low gain input may be coupled to the inputs by the first switches, and further coupled to the pair of cascode devices by the second switches in response to a control signal being in a first state, and based on a high conversion gain mode, the high gain input may be coupled to the first and second inputs by the first switches, and further coupled to the pair of cascode device by the fourth switch in response to the control signal being in a second state.
US10431604B2
A display device includes: a substrate including a main display portion, edge portions disposed at edges of the main display portion and including rounded corners, first side portions bent from the edge portions, and second side portions bent from the main display portion; scan lines and data lines that are disposed on the substrate; transistors connected to the scan lines and the data lines; and a data voltage transmission line connected to data lines that are disposed in the first side portions and the edge portions.
US10431597B2
An RF electronic circuit comprising at least: a substrate comprising at least one support layer and a semiconducting surface layer located on the support layer; at least one electronic component able to carry out at least one of the RF signal transmission and/or reception and/or processing functions, and made in or on a first region of the surface layer; and a matrix of cavities located in at least one first region of the support layer located under the first region of the surface layer, facing at least the electronic component, and such that the internal volumes of the cavities are separated and isolated from each other by portions of the support layer.
US10431586B2
A semiconductor device including a first fin active area substantially parallel to a second fin active area, a first source/drain in the first fin active area, a second source/drain in the second fin active area, a first contact plug on the first source/drain, and a second contact plug on the second source/drain. The center of the second contact plug is offset from the center of the second source/drain.
US10431579B2
Provided are a display panel, a driving method, and a display device. The display panel comprises: pixel circuits arranged in rows and columns in a display area which comprises first and second display areas along a row direction, and an outer edge of the second display area extending stepwise along a column direction; data lines one-to-one corresponding to columns of the pixel circuit; signal line groups one-to-one corresponding to rows of the pixel circuits, each signal line group comprising a scan line and a light-emitting control signal line; and first electrostatic protection circuits one-to-one corresponding to data lines in the second display area, each first electrostatic protection circuit being connected to a scan line and a light-emitting control signal line in the same signal line group, for discharging static electricity on the data line to the scan line or the light-emitting control signal line.
US10431577B2
Methods of forming a circuit-protection device include forming a dielectric having a first thickness and a second thickness greater than the first thickness over a semiconductor, forming a conductor over the dielectric, and patterning the conductor to retain a portion of the conductor over a portion of the dielectric having the second thickness, and to retain substantially no portion of the conductor over a portion of the dielectric having the first thickness, wherein the retained portion of the conductor defines a control gate of a field-effect transistor of the circuit-protection device.
US10431576B1
A memory cell array includes a first memory cell arranged in a first row in a first direction and a second memory cell arranged in a second row in the first direction. The first memory cell or the second memory cell includes a set of active regions, a set of gates and a first set of conductive structures. Each of the active regions of the set of active regions is separated from an adjacent active region in the first direction by a first pitch. The set of active regions extends in a second direction. The set of active regions includes a first active region adjacent to a first side of the first memory cell, and a second active region adjacent to a second side of the first memory cell. A length of the first active region is different from a length of the second active region.
US10431574B2
A method for packaging semiconductor devices in a chamber includes arranging a carrier substrate including a first semiconductor device and a second semiconductor device within the chamber, flowing a molding compound into the chamber to cover surfaces of the first semiconductor device, the second semiconductor device, and the carrier substrate, and flowing a forming gas into the chamber while curing the molding compound. The forming gas includes a reactive gas configured to react with the first semiconductor device and the second semiconductor device during curing.
US10431571B2
The opto-electronic module comprises a substrate member (P); at least one emission member (E1; E2) mounted on said substrate (P); at least one detecting member (D) mounted on said substrate (P); at least one optics member (O) comprising at least one passive optical component (L); at least one spacer member (S) arranged between said substrate member (P) and said optics member (O). The opto-electronic modules can be very small and can be produced in high quality in high volumes. In particular, at least two emission members (E1, E2), e.g., two LEDs, are provided, for emitting light of variable color. This can improve illumination of a scene.
US10431565B1
A stacked wafer assembly and method for fabricating the same are described herein. In one example, a stacked wafer assembly includes a first wafer bonded to a second wafer. The first wafer includes a plurality of fully functional dies and a first partial die formed thereon. The second wafer includes a plurality of fully functional dies and a first partial die formed thereon. Bond pads formed over an inductor of the first partial die of the first wafer are bonded to bond pads formed on the first partial die of the second wafer to establish electrical connection therebetween.
US10431564B2
A chip package structure and a method for forming a chip package are provided. The chip package structure includes a chip package over a printed circuit board and multiple conductive bumps between the chip package and the printed circuit board. The chip package structure also includes one or more thermal conductive elements between the chip package and the printed circuit board. The thermal conductive element has a thermal conductivity higher than a thermal conductivity of each of the conductive bumps.
US10431562B1
An integrated circuit device wafer includes a silicon wafer substrate and a back side metallization structure. The back side metallization structure includes a first adhesion layer on the back side of the substrate, a first metal later over the first adhesion layer, a second metal layer over the first metal layer, and a second adhesion layer over the second metal layer. The first includes at least one of: silicon nitride and silicon dioxide. The first metal layer includes titanium. The second metal layer includes nickel. The second adhesion layer includes at least one of: silver, gold, and tin.
US10431554B2
A semiconductor device package includes: (1) a carrier; (2) an electronic component disposed over a top surface of the carrier; (3) a package body disposed over the top surface of the carrier and covering the electronic component; and (4) a shield layer, including a first magnetically permeable layer disposed over the package body, a first electrically conductive layer disposed over the first magnetically permeable layer, and a second magnetically permeable layer disposed over the first electrically conductive layer. The first electrically conductive layer is interposed between the first magnetically permeable layer and the second magnetically permeable layer. A permeability of the first electrically conductive layer is different from a permeability of the first magnetically permeable layer and a permeability of the second magnetically permeable layer.
US10431545B2
A multi-chip module includes two silicon bridge interconnects and three components that are tied together by the bridges with one of the components in the center. At least one of the silicon bridge interconnects is bent to create a non-planar chip-module form factor. Cross-connected multi-chip silicon bent-bridge interconnect modules include the two silicon bridges contacting the center component at right angles to each other, plus a fourth component and a third silicon bridge interconnect contacting the fourth component and any one of the original three components.
US10431540B1
A semiconductor device reduces parasitic capacitance between a metal-oxide-metal (MOM)/metal-insulator-metal (MIM) capacitors and a semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor device includes the semiconductor substrate (e.g., a silicon substrate, a III-V compound semiconductor substrate, or a silicon on insulator (SOI) substrate), a magnetic material layer, and a capacitor. The magnetic material layer is between the semiconductor substrate and the capacitor.
US10431520B2
A space having a certain thickness is provided between a metal base and a heat-dissipation fin set or the like. A semiconductor device is provided, including: a package portion; a metal base which is housed in the package portion and is exposed at a lower surface of the package portion; a semiconductor chip which is housed in the package portion and is placed above the metal base; and a frame portion provided to surround a penetration space penetrating the package portion, wherein a lower end of the frame portion protrudes below the lower surface of the package portion and a lower surface of the metal base. It is preferable that the frame portion is inserted in the penetration space after the penetration space is formed in the package portion.
US10431512B2
Semiconductor packages and methods of manufacturing semiconductor packages are described herein. In certain embodiments, the semiconductor package includes a housing including a first compartment and a second compartment, the first and second compartments being divided from one another. The semiconductor package can also include an integrated device die disposed in the first compartment, and a radio frequency (RF) absorber disposed in the second compartment.
US10431508B2
Methods and systems to improve printed electrical components and for integration in circuits are disclosed. Passive components, e.g., capacitors, resistors and inductors, can be printed directly into a solid ceramic block using additive manufacturing. A grounded conductive plane or a conductive cage may be placed between adjacent electrical components, or around each component, to minimize unwanted parasitic effects in the circuits, such as, e.g., parasitic capacitance or parasitic inductance. Resistors may be printed in non-traditional shapes, for example, S-shape, smooth S-shape, U-shape, V-shape, Z-shape, zigzag-shape, and any other acceptable alternative configurations. The flexibility in shapes and sizes of the printed resistors allows optimal space usage of the ceramic block. The present invention also discloses an electrical component comprising combined predetermined values of capacitance, resistance and inductance. The integration and adjustability of a multi-property device can provide significant advantages in electronics manufacturing.
US10431505B2
Manufacturing a device may include inspecting a surface of an inspection target device. The inspecting may include forming a metal layer on a surface of the inspection target device on which a minute pattern is formed, directing a beam of light to be incident and normal to the surface of the inspection target device, determining a spectrum of light reflected from the surface of the inspection target device, and generating, via the spectrum, information associated with a structural characteristic of the minute pattern formed on the inspection target device. The inspection target device may be selectively incorporated into the manufactured device based on the generated information.
US10431504B2
A semiconductor disk of a first crystalline material, which has a first lattice system, is bonded on a process surface of a base substrate, wherein a bonding layer is formed between the semiconductor disk and the base substrate. A second semiconductor layer of a second crystalline material with a second, different lattice system is formed by epitaxy on a first semiconductor layer formed from the semiconductor disk.
US10431499B2
One illustrative integrated circuit product disclosed herein includes a first final gate structure for a first transistor device, a second final gate structure for a second transistor device, the first and second transistors having a gate width direction and a gate length direction that is substantially normal to the gate width direction, and an insulating gate separation structure positioned between the first and second final gate structures, the insulating gate separation structure comprising an upper portion and a lower portion, the lower portion having a first lateral width in the gate width direction that is substantially uniform throughout a vertical height of the lower portion, the upper portion having a substantially uniform second lateral width in the gate width direction that is substantially uniform throughout a vertical height of the upper portion, wherein the second lateral width is less than the first lateral width.
US10431498B2
A method for fabricating a semiconductor structure includes forming a plurality of gate structures on the base substrate with each gate structure including a gate electrode and sidewall spacers on each aide surface of the gate electrode, forming source/drain doped regions in the base substrate on opposite sides of each gate structure, forming a sacrificial layer on side surfaces of each sidewall spacer, and performing a pre-amorphous ion implantation process on the source/drain doped regions using the sacrificial layer as a mask.
US10431494B2
An interconnect structure is provided that includes an interconnect level that contains an interconnect dielectric material layer having a first electrically conductive via feature, an electrically conductive line feature, and a second electrically conductive via feature embedded in the interconnect dielectric material layer, wherein the first and second via features are self-aligned perpendicularly to, and along the direction of, the electrically conductive line feature.
US10431493B2
Described are methods for controlling the doping of metal nitride films such as TaN, TiN and MnN. The temperature during deposition of the metal nitride film may be controlled to provide a film density that permits a desired amount of doping. Dopants may include Ru, Cu, Co, Mn, Mo, Al, Mg, Cr, Nb, Ta, Ti and V. The metal nitride film may optionally be exposed to plasma treatment after doping.
US10431490B2
A method of wafer scale packaging acoustic resonator devices and an apparatus therefor. The method including providing a partially completed semiconductor substrate comprising a plurality of single crystal acoustic resonator devices, each having a first electrode member, a second electrode member, and an overlying passivation material. At least one of the devices to be configured with an external connection, a repassivation material overlying the passivation material, an under metal material overlying the repassivation material. Copper pillar interconnect structures are then configured overlying the electrode members, and solder bump structures are form overlying the copper pillar interconnect structures.
US10431486B2
The invention relates to wafer aligning device (1) and a corresponding method for aligning a wafer (2) into a specified rotational angular position (as), having a wafer table (20) with a table receiving area (30) for receiving the wafer (2) on a table receiving area plane (T) and having an aligning means (40) with an aligning receiving area (50) which is designed to align the wafer (2) into a specified rotational angular position. The aligning receiving area (50) is arranged in an aligning position (PA) above the table receiving area plane (T) of the wafer table (20) when receiving the wafer (2), and at least one of the aligning receiving area (50) and the table receiving area (30) is designed to place a wafer (2) received in the aligning receiving area (50) on the table receiving area (30) upon traversing the aligning receiving area (50) and the table receiving area plane (T) by means of a vertical movement relative to the other of the aligning receiving area (50) and the table receiving area (30).
US10431481B2
A load lock apparatus having a load lock chamber, which is connected to a vacuum transfer chamber configured to transfer a substrate under a vacuum pressure state via a communication hole which is opened and closed by a gate valve, and configured to be capable of switching an inner pressure into an atmospheric pressure state and the vacuum pressure state, is provided. The load lock apparatus includes a load lock chamber main body in which a substrate container having an attachable/detachable cover is carried, wherein the communication hole is formed in a side surface of the load lock chamber; and a cover attaching/detaching mechanism installed at a height position vertically arranged with the communication hole in the load lock chamber; and an elevating mechanism including a mounting table on which the substrate container is loaded and configured to lift and lower the mounting table.
US10431477B2
The embodiment of the present disclosure discloses a method of packaging a chip and a chip package structure. the method of packaging the chip includes: mounting at least one chip to be packaged and at least one electrically conductive module on a carrier, wherein the at least one chip to be packaged has a back surface facing upwards and an active surface facing towards the carrier, and the at least one electrically conductive module is in the vicinity of the at least one chip to be packaged; forming a first encapsulation layer, wherein the first encapsulation layer covers the entire carrier for encapsulating the at least one chip to be packaged and the at least one electrically conductive module; detaching the carrier to expose the active surface of the at least one chip to be packaged and a first surface of the at least one electrically conductive module; and completing the packaging by a rewiring process on the active surface of the at least one chip to be packaged and the first surface of the at least one electrically conductive module. The present disclosure reduces the difficulty of packaging a chip by mounting the active surface of a chip to be packaged and an electrically conductive module on a carrier and thus saves the cost of packaging.
US10431476B2
A method of making a plurality of packaged semiconductor devices. The method includes providing a carrier blank having a die receiving surface and an underside. The method also includes mounting a plurality of semiconductor dies on the die receiving surface, wherein the dies extend to a first height above the die receiving surface. The method further includes depositing an encapsulant on the die receiving surface, wherein an upper surface of the encapsulant is located above said first height. The method also includes singulating to form the plurality of packaged semiconductor devices by sawing into the underside, through the carrier blank and partially through the encapsulant to a depth intermediate the first height and the upper surface, wherein said sawing separates the carrier blank into a plurality of carriers, and removing encapsulant from the upper surface of the encapsulant at least until said saw depth is reached.
US10431473B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate including a first fin element, a second fin element, and a third fin element. A first source/drain epitaxial feature is disposed over the first and second fin elements. A first portion of the first source/drain epitaxial feature disposed on the first fin element and a second portion of the first source/drain epitaxial feature disposed on the second fin element merge at a merge point. A second source/drain epitaxial feature is disposed over the third fin element. A first sidewall of the second source/drain epitaxial feature interfaces a first third-fin spacer disposed along a first sidewall of the third fin element. A second sidewall of the second source/drain epitaxial feature interfaces a second third-fin spacer disposed along a second sidewall of the third fin element. The merge point has a first height less than a second height of the first third-fin spacer.
US10431471B2
Various embodiments provide a method of planarizing a semiconductor wafer, wherein the method comprises providing a semiconductor wafer comprising a surface; and forming a mask layer on the surface of the semiconductor wafer, wherein a thickness of the mask layer is smaller in thinning areas, which are to be thinned for planarizing, than in areas which are not to be thinned for planarizing.
US10431469B2
A method for removing photoresist, an oxidation layer, or both from a semiconductor substrate is disclosed. The method includes placing a substrate in a processing chamber, the processing chamber separate from a plasma chamber for generating a non-oxidizing plasma to be used in treating the substrate; generating a first non-oxidizing plasma from a first reactant gas and a first carrier gas in the plasma chamber, wherein the first non-oxidizing plasma comprises from about 10% to about 40% of the first reactant gas, wherein the first reactant gas has a flow rate of from about 100 standard cubic centimeters per minute to about 15,000 standard cubic centimeters per minute, and wherein the first carrier gas has a flow rate of from about 500 standard cubic centimeters per minute to about 20,000 standard cubic centimeters per minute; and treating the substrate by exposing the substrate to the first non-oxidizing plasma in the processing chamber.
US10431468B2
Techniques herein include systems and methods for correcting pattern overlay errors by correcting or adjusting bowing of wafers. Location-specific tuning of stress on semiconductor substrates reduces overlay error. Location-specific tuning of stress independently modifies specific regions, areas, or point locations on a substrate to change wafer bow at those specific locations, which reduces overlay error on substrates, which in turn improves overlay of subsequent patterns created on the substrate. Techniques herein include receiving a substrate with some amount of overlay error, measuring bow of the substrate to map z-height deviations across the substrate, generating an overlay correction pattern, and then physically modifying internal stresses on the substrate at specific locations with modifications independent of other coordinate locations. Such modifications can include etching a backside surface of the substrate. One or more processing modules can be used for such processing.
US10431462B2
A method for forming a junction in a germanium (Ge) layer of a substrate includes arranging the substrate in a processing chamber. The method includes performing a plasma pretreatment on the substrate in the processing chamber for a predetermined pretreatment period using a pretreatment plasma gas mixture including hydrogen gas species. The method includes supplying a doping plasma gas mixture to the processing chamber including a phosphorous (P) gas species and an antimony (Sb) gas species. The method includes striking plasma in the processing chamber for a predetermined doping period. The method includes annealing the substrate during a predetermined annealing period to form the junction in the germanium (Ge) layer.
US10431461B2
A deposition apparatus including a crucible to receive the deposition material and in which a deposition material is evaporated; a linear deposition source having a sprayer to spray the evaporated deposition material; a first connection portion and a second connection portion spaced apart from each other by a predetermined interval, the first connection portion and the second connection portion connecting the linear deposition source to the crucible at an upper surface of the crucible; and a heater in the crucible to apply heat to the deposition material, wherein the upper surface of the crucible has a first convex portion and a second convex portion successively formed between the first connection portion and the second connection portion.
US10431458B2
Various embodiments herein relate to methods, apparatus and systems for forming a recessed feature in a dielectric-containing stack on a semiconductor substrate. In many embodiments, a mask shrink layer is deposited on a patterned mask layer to thereby narrow the openings in the mask layer. The mask shrink layer may be deposited through a vapor deposition process including, but not limited to, atomic layer deposition or chemical vapor deposition. The mask shrink layer can result in narrower, more vertically uniform etched features. In some embodiments, etching is completed in a single etch step. In some other embodiments, the etching may be done in stages, cycled with a deposition step designed to deposit a protective sidewall coating on the partially etched features. Metal-containing films are particularly suitable as mask shrink films and protective sidewall coatings.
US10431453B2
A method of positioning nanomaterials that includes forming a set of electrodes on a substrate, and covering the electrodes and substrate with a single layer of guiding dielectric material. The method may continue with patterning the guiding dielectric to provide dielectric guide features, wherein an exposed portion of the substrate between the dielectric guide features provides a deposition surface. A liquid medium containing at least one nanostructure is applied to the guiding dielectric features and the deposition surface. An electric field produced by the electrodes that is attenuated by the dielectric guide features creates an attractive force that guides the nanostructures to the deposition surface.
US10431448B2
A wet etching method according to the present disclosure includes rotating a substrate, supplying an etching chemical liquid to a first surface (a surface on which a device is formed) of the rotating substrate, and supplying an etching inhibiting liquid (DIW) to a second surface (a surface on which no device is formed) of the substrate while supplying the chemical liquid to the substrate. The etching inhibiting liquid wraps around the first surface through an edge of the substrate and reaches a first region extending from the edge of the substrate on the peripheral edge portion of the first surface to a first radial position located radially inward from the edge on the first surface. As a result, bevel etching of an upper layer of a substrate on which a film having two layers is formed may be satisfactorily performed.
US10431443B2
The present invention is concerned with a device for charged particle transportation and manipulation. Embodiments provide a capability of combining positively and negatively charged particles in a single transported packet. Embodiments contain an aggregate of electrodes arranged to form a channel for transportation of charged particles, as well as a source of power supply that provides supply voltage to be applied to the electrodes, the voltage to ensure creation, inside the said channel, of a non-uniform high-frequency electric field, the pseudopotential of which field has one or more local extrema along the length of the channel used for charged particle transportation, at least, within a certain interval of time, whereas, at least one of the said extrema of the pseudopotential is transposed with time, at least within a certain interval of time, at least within a part of the length of the channel used for charged particle transportation.
US10431442B2
A method of mass spectral analysis in an analytical electrostatic trap (14) is disclosed. The electrostatic trap (14) defines an electrostatic field volume and includes trap electrodes having static and non-ramped potentials. The method comprises injecting a continuous ion beam into the electrostatic field volume.
US10431440B2
Methods and apparatus for processing a substrate are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a process chamber includes: a chamber body defining an interior volume; a substrate support to support a substrate within the interior volume; a plurality of cathodes coupled to the chamber body and having a corresponding plurality of targets to be sputtered onto the substrate; and a shield rotatably coupled to an upper portion of the chamber body and having at least one hole to expose at least one of the plurality of targets to be sputtered and at least one pocket disposed in a backside of the shield to accommodate and cover at least another one of the plurality of targets not to be sputtered, wherein the shield is configured to rotate about and linearly move along a central axis of the process chamber.
US10431439B2
A tantalum sputtering target containing niobium and tungsten as essential components in a total amount of 1 massppm or more and less than 10 massppm, and having a purity of 99.9999% or higher excluding niobium, tungsten and gas components. Provided is a high purity tantalum sputtering target comprising a uniform and fine structure which is adjusted to be within an optimal range and which enables deposition of a uniform film at a high deposition rate in a stable manner.
US10431433B2
In a plasma processing apparatus, a controller controls one or both of a first high frequency power supply and a second high frequency power supply to periodically stop the supply of one or both of the first high frequency power and the second high frequency power. The controller also controls a switching unit to apply a DC voltage to a focus ring from a first time after a predetermined period of time in which a self-bias voltage of a lower electrode is decreased from a start point of each period in which one or both of the first high frequency power and the second high frequency power are supplied and to stop the application of the DC voltage to the focus ring during each period in which the supply of one or both of the first high frequency power and the second high frequency power is stopped.
US10431423B2
The present disclosure provides one embodiment of an IC method. First pattern densities (PDs) of a plurality of templates of an IC design layout are received. Then a high PD outlier template and a low PD outlier template from the plurality of templates are identified. The high PD outlier template is split into multiple subsets of template and each subset of template carries a portion of PD of the high PD outlier template. A PD uniformity (PDU) optimization is performed to the low PD outlier template and multiple individual exposure processes are applied by using respective subset of templates.
US10431420B2
A method of operating a Post Column Filter (PCF) in a Scanning/Transmission Electron Microscope, and a Post Column Filter configured to operate according to the method. In an embodiment, the method includes receiving, at an entrance plane, an incoming beam of electrons; dispersing, by an energy dispersive element, the incoming beam of electrons into an energy dispersed beam of electrons; disposing a first plurality of quadrupoles between the entrance plane and a slit plane; operating the PCF in an EELS mode; and operating the PCF in an EFTEM mode. Operating the PCF in an EELS mode includes exciting one or more quadrupoles of the first plurality of quadrupoles at a first excitation level, wherein the first excitation level does not enlarge the energy dispersion of the energy dispersed beam of electrons; and forming an image of the energy dispersed beam of electrons on the image plane, the image being an EELS spectrum. Operating the PCF in the EFTEM mode includes including a slit at the slit plane in an optical path; exciting one or more quadrupoles of the first plurality of quadrupoles at a second excitation level, the second excitation level different from the first excitation level; forming an energy dispersed focus of the energy dispersed beam of electrons on the slit at the slit plane; and enlarging the energy dispersion of the energy dispersed beam of electrons caused by the energy dispersive element based on the one or more first plurality quadrupoles excited at the second excitation level.
US10431411B2
The invention relates to a melting fuse, especially for a motor vehicle that has a high-voltage circuit, comprising an electrically insulating housing inside of which there is a fusible conductor that connects two contacts with each other, whereby, between two longitudinal areas that are adjacent to each other, the fusible conductor has a rotation point around which the longitudinal areas can be rotated in case of a thermo-mechanical expansion.
US10431410B2
A harness assembly includes a plurality of individual wires and a restriction mechanism. The restriction mechanism has a sleeve member surrounding each of the plurality of individual wires in order to prevent longitudinal movement of each of the plurality of individual wires with respect to each other. Each of the plurality of individual wires has a helical-shaped portion located internal with respect to the sleeve member, thereby allowing each of the plurality of individual wires to engage the sleeve member.
US10431405B2
Disclosed is a switching device comprising a vacuum tube and an adjustable drive for opening and closing the contacts of the switching device. The switching device also comprises a sensor for detecting physical properties of the operating site of the switching device. The detected physical property adapts the adjustable drive for opening and closing the contacts to the operating site.
US10431397B2
A contact for an electrical switch has a first spring with an upper side and an opposite lower side, a second spring layered on the lower side, and a contact element located on the upper side and bonded to the second spring.
US10431394B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a capacitor excellent in reliability, of which charge-discharge characteristics are hardly deteriorated. The capacitor of the present invention includes: a capacitor element including a positive electrode and a negative electrode; and a case that stores the capacitor element together with an electrolytic solution, wherein at least one of the positive electrode and the negative electrode contains activated carbon, and a sum of volumes per unit weight of pores having a pore diameter of from 30 Å to 100 Å inclusive among pores of the activated carbon is 0.2 cm3/g or more.
US10431386B2
A multilayer electronic component includes a main body including an active region in which a plurality of internal electrodes are stacked with respective dielectric layers interposed therebetween, and upper and lower cover regions disposed above and below the active region, respectively, external electrodes disposed on external surfaces of the main body and electrically connected to the plurality of internal electrodes, and a composite body disposed below the lower cover region of the main body and lower portions of the external electrodes.
US10431369B2
A reactor includes: a reactor body having a core; and an installation destination object on which the reactor body is mounted; wherein the reactor body has three fixing portions for fixing the reactor body to the installation destination object, the installation destination object has mount portions for mounting the fixing portions, and the reactor body is fixed to the installation destination object by the fixing portions being mounted on the mount portions.
US10431368B2
A coil electronic component includes a magnetic body, wherein the magnetic body includes a substrate, and a coil part including patterned insulating films disposed on the substrate, a first plating layer formed between the patterned insulating films by plating, and a second plating layer disposed on the first plating layer.
US10431364B2
A device such a coil where each components of the electrical structures are completely encapsulated by a magnetic material in a manner that all the magnetic field generated makes a closed loop through a core, amplified and oriented in wished direction.The coil using this manufacturing method is destined to stators, rotors for axial, radial rotating or linear electric motors, transformers and all devices that generate a magnetic field (non-exhaustive list).
US10431362B1
A gas valve actuator for a gas valve. The gas valve actuator includes a non-conductive support bobbin and an insulated copper wire wound about the support bobbin to form a coil. A magnetic flux concentration member extends through the non-conductive support bobbin. To actuate the gas valve actuator, a current is passed through the coil, which produces a magnetic field that actuates an armature to move a valve seal away from a valve seat of the gas valve. Because the gas valve actuator may be exposed to a gas stream, the coil may be coated with an anti-corrosion coating through a spray or brush process, a potting process, through a dipping process, or in any other suitable manner.
US10431349B2
A composition for manufacturing a crosslinked ethylene tetrafluoroethylene (ETFE) copolymer with enhanced abrasion resistance and heat resistance is provided, the composition including ETFE, about 0.1-10% w/w of a metal oxide that effectively scavenges high levels of fluoride ions; and a crosslinking agent. Methods of using and making the composition are also provided.
US10431340B2
The present invention provides for a computer system that includes at least one server having software stored on a non-transient computer readable medium; where, upon execution of the software, the at least one server is at least configured to: i) receiving, in real-time, an input from a user; ii) receiving, in real-time, physiological data representative of a physiological measurement of physiological characteristic of the user; iii) comparing, in real-time, the physiological measurement of the user to a pre-determined physiological value associated with the physiological characteristic retrieved from a database; iv) based on the comparing, determining, in real-time, that a difference between the physiological measurement of the user and the pre-determined physiological value is higher or smaller than the predetermined threshold value, and then: v) generating, in real-time, at least one alert; vi) transmitting, in real-time, the at least one alert.
US10431337B2
System, method, and computer program product for evaluating attribute values to determine treatment eligibility, the method by receiving a set of required attributes associated with a treatment protocol, receiving a case, wherein the case includes a patient history containing patient attribute values, identifying a patient attribute value that does not satisfy a required attribute specified by the treatment protocol, determining a likelihood that the patient could meet the required attribute based upon the patient history, and providing an indication of the likelihood that the patient could satisfy the required attribute specified by the treatment protocol.
US10431334B2
A system for performing an apheresis procedure on a human subject includes an apheresis treatment device and a remote data storage device. The remote data storage device communicates with the apheresis treatment device over a network. The remote data storage device is programmed with a plurality of subject data entries, each subject data entry comprising subject-specific information. The remote data storage device downloads subject-specific information comprising a name and a birth date from the subject data entry and programs the apheresis treatment device with a plurality of parameters for the apheresis medical procedure. The apheresis treatment device includes a touch screen and a controller, the controller confirming an identity of the human subject based on an input. Based on the result of the confirmation access is provided to an apheresis procedure operated according to the programmed parameters on the apheresis treatment device.
US10431327B2
Methods and computer apparatuses are disclosed for processing genomic data in at least partially automated workflows of modules. A method comprises: specifying a source from which nucleic acid sequence(s) are to be obtained; selecting module(s) for processing data, including at least one module for processing the one or more nucleic acid sequences; presenting, in a graphical user interface, graphical components representing the source and the module(s) as nodes within a workspace; receiving, via the graphical user interface, inputs arranging the source and the module(s) as a workflow comprising a series of nodes, the series indicating, for each particular module, that output from one of the source or another particular module is to be input into the particular module; generating an output for the workflow based upon the nucleic acid sequence(s) by processing each module in an order indicated by the series.
US10431326B2
The present invention relates generally to the detection and identification of various forms of genetic markers, and various forms of proteins, which have the potential utility as diagnostic markers. By determining the level of a plurality of biomarkers and genetic markers in a patient sample, and combining the obtained values according to a predefined formula, it is possible to determine if it is likely that the patient suffers from aggressive prostate cancer. The present invention is particularly applicable only for patients having a body mass index value greater than 25.
US10431306B2
A semiconductor integrated circuit according to an embodiment includes: first to third wiring lines; first memory elements disposed in a cross region between the first wiring lines and the second wiring lines; second memory elements disposed in a cross region between the first wiring lines and the third wiring lines; a first write control circuit connected to the first wiring lines: a first circuit connected to one of the second wiring lines and supplying a first potential; a second circuit connected to the other one of the second wiring lines and supplying a second potential lower than the first potential; SRAM cells connected to the third wiring lines; and a selection circuit including input terminals electrically connected to the first wiring lines and an output terminal, the selection circuit connecting one of the input terminals to the output terminal in accordance with an input signal.
US10431302B2
Embodiments disclosed herein may relate to adjusting an aspect of a programming pulse for one or more memory cells, such as based at least in part on one or more detected programmed resistance values for the one or more memory cells.
US10431288B2
A memory device includes memory banks that each has multiple rows with row addresses. The memory device also includes a counter that stores and increments a first row address of a first row of a first set of memory banks to a second row address of a second row of the first set of memory banks in response to a first refresh operation when the memory device is operating in a first mode. The memory device further includes circuitry that blocks incrementing the second row address to a third row address of a third row of the first set of memory banks when the memory device transitions from the first mode to a second mode and the first refresh operation is not paired with a second refresh operation that is performed when the memory device is operating in the first mode.
US10431286B2
The present disclosure includes apparatuses and methods related to refresh in memory. An example apparatus can refresh a memory cell of an array of memory cells in response to the array of memory cells being accessed a threshold number of accesses.
US10431280B1
A ferroelectric opening switch is enabled by controlled polarization switching via nucleation in a ferroelectric material, such as BaTiO3, Pb(Zr,Ti)O3, LiNbO3, LiTaO3, or variants thereof. For example, nucleation sites can be provided by mechanical seeding, grain boundaries, or optical illumination. The invention can be used as an opening switch in large scale pulsed-power systems. However, the switch can also be used in compact pulsed-power systems (e.g., as drivers for high power microwave systems), as passive fault limiters for high voltage dc (HVDC) systems, and/or in other high power applications.
US10431276B2
A semiconductor device includes a memory cell array, which further includes an array of first magnetic memory cells and an array of second magnetic memory cells. Each of the first magnetic memory cells includes a first magnetic tunnel junction structure having a reversible resistance state, and each of the second magnetic memory cells includes a second magnetic tunnel junction structure having a one-time programmable (OTP) resistance state.
US10431269B2
Integrated circuits with volatile random-access memory cells are provided. A memory cell may be coupled to write bit lines and a read bit line. The write bit line may not be coupled to any precharge circuitry. The read bit line may only be precharged during memory access operations. In one suitable arrangement, the read bit line may be precharge immediately after an address decoding operation and before an evaluation phase. In another suitable arrangement, the read bit line may be precharged after an addressing decoding operation and in parallel with the evaluation phase. In either arrangement, a substantial amount of leakage and active power can be reduced.
US10431261B2
Provided herein are systems and apparatus for reducing vibration interaction between hard drives. In one implementation, a flexible mount electrical connection comprises a mating connector configured to physically couple with a hard drive connector and a plurality of electrical pins having a connector portion positioned within the mating connector configured to electrically couple with hard drive connector pins positioned within the hard drive connector. Each electrical pin has an extended portion extending away from the mating connector. The extended portion has an attachment portion configured to electrically couple the respective electrical pin to a printed circuit board, and the extended portion has a shape formed therein configured to reduce transmission of vibrations in the connector portion along each axis of a three-dimensional space to the attachment portion.
US10431260B2
An information processing apparatus includes circuitry configured to acquire time data relating to a state of an object in each process of an operation performed on the object, the operation including at least one process; calculate an achievement value indicating a state of each process, based on the time data acquired; compare the achievement value calculated with a reference value; and generate a chart that visually represents a result of comparison for each process. The visual representation of the result of comparison is different according to the result of comparison.
US10431259B2
Systems and methods provide techniques for reviewing content, such as reviewing video on a mobile device. A computing device with a touch screen interface, e.g., a tablet computer, executes a reviewing tool, e.g., a computer program, that causes the device to display video content and information about the video content. The tool provides an interface for selecting video, images, and information, for review and for annotation. The tool uses remote and/or local data to display video, images, and information for review.
US10431242B1
Audio information defining audio content may be accessed. The audio content may have a duration. The audio content may be segmented into audio segments. Individual audio segments may correspond to a portion of the duration. The audio segments may include a first audio segment corresponding to a first portion of the duration. Energy features, entropy features, frequency features, and/or other features of the audio segments may be determined. Energy features may characterize energy of the audio segments. Entropy features may characterize spectral flatness of the audio segments. Frequency features may characterize highest frequencies of the audio segments. One or more of the audio segments may be identified as containing speech based on the energy features, the entropy features, the frequency features, and/or other information. Storage of the identification of the one or more of the audio segments as containing speech in one or more storage media may be effectuated.
US10431241B2
A speech enhancement method is provided. The speech enhancement method includes: estimating a direction of a speaker by using an input signal, generating direction information indicating the estimated direction, detecting speech of a speaker based on a result of the estimating the direction, and enhancing the speech of the speaker by using the direction information based on a result of the detecting the speech.
US10431232B2
Apparatus and method for synthesizing an audio signal, decoder, encoder, system and computer program
A method and an apparatus for synthesizing an audio signal are described. A spectral tilt is applied to the code of a codebook used for synthesizing a current frame of the audio signal. The spectral tilt is based on the spectral tilt of the current frame of the audio signal. Further, an audio decoder operating in accordance with the inventive approach is described.
US10431226B2
A method for processing a digital audio signal, including a series of samples distributed in consecutive frames, is implemented when decoding the signal in order to replace at least one signal frame lost during decoding. The method includes the following steps: a) searching, in a valid signal segment available when decoding, for at least one period in the signal, determined in accordance with the valid signal; b) analyzing the signal in the period, in order to determine spectral components of the signal in the period; c) synthesizing at least one frame for replacing the lost frame, by construction of a synthesis signal from: an addition of components selected among the predetermined spectral components, and a noise added to the addition of components. In particular, the amount of noise added to the addition of components is weighted in accordance with voice information of the valid signal, obtained when decoding.
US10431223B2
A method for receiving processed information at a remote device is described. The method includes transmitting from the remote device a verbal request to a first information provider and receiving a digital message from the first information provider in response to the transmitted verbal request. The digital message includes a symbolic representation indicator associated with a symbolic representation of the verbal request and data used to control an application. The method also includes transmitting, using the application, the symbolic representation indicator to a second information provider for generating results to be displayed on the remote device.
US10431220B2
Methods and apparatuses to assist a user in the performance of a plurality of tasks are provided. The invention includes storing at least one care plan for a resident, the care plan defining a plurality of tasks to be performed for providing care to the resident. The method includes capturing speech inputs from the user and providing speech outputs to the user to provide a speech dialog with the user reflective of the care plan. Information is captured with a contactless communication interface and is used for engaging the care plan.
US10431214B2
The disclosure relates to methods, systems and other embodiments directed to determining an information domain match for a natural language (NL) input (e.g., a spoken utterance), and confirming whether the NL input is correctly matched to the information domain. For example, after receiving an NL input, a first information domain to which the NL input belongs and a feature value set may be determined based on a semantic pattern matching technique. Further, a second information domain to which the NL input belongs, and a corresponding confidence score related to the second information domain may be determined. The second information domain may be determined based on a first statistical classification technique. Based on the determined feature value set and the confidence score related to the second information domain, it may be confirmed whether the NL input correctly belongs to the first information domain, e.g., based on a second statistical classification technique.
US10431209B2
A feedback control system for data transmissions in voice activated data packet based computer network environment is provided. A system can receive audio signals detected by a microphone of a device. The system can parse the audio signal to identify trigger keyword and request. The system can select a content item using the trigger keyword or request. The content item can be configured to establish a communication session between the device and a third party device. The system can monitor the communication session to measure a characteristic of the communication session. The system can generate a quality signal based on the measured characteristic.
US10431204B2
Systems and processes are disclosed for discovering trending terms in automatic speech recognition. Candidate terms (e.g., words, phrases, etc.) not yet found in a speech recognizer vocabulary or having low language model probability can be identified based on trending usage in a variety of electronic data sources (e.g., social network feeds, news sources, search queries, etc.). When candidate terms are identified, archives of live or recent speech traffic can be searched to determine whether users are uttering the candidate terms in dictation or speech requests. Such searching can be done using open vocabulary spoken term detection to find phonetic matches in the audio archives. As the candidate terms are found in the speech traffic, notifications can be generated that identify the candidate terms, provide relevant usage statistics, identify the context in which the terms are used, and the like.
US10431184B2
An in-vehicle display control device includes: an image acquisition unit that acquires a plurality of element images to be displayed on a vehicular display from each image generation unit; a change information acquisition unit that acquires color change information; and an image synthesizing unit that generates a synthetic image based on a color in the color change information and the plurality of element images. The image synthesizing unit generates the synthetic image by synthesizing the plurality of element images and a color change layer.
US10431179B2
The invention provides a DEMUX circuit, comprising: data bus, a first, second and third data lines, connected respectively to data bus and a first unit, a second unit and a third unit respectively; each unit respectively comprising: a TFT, a second TFT, a third TFT, and a capacitor, and inputting corresponding a first, a second, and a third switch signals; for each unit, during operation, when the first switch signal being turned on, the first TFT and the second TFT being turned on, and the corresponding data line is pre-charged; when the first switch signal being turned off, the second switch signal being turned on and the corresponding data line being charged to a preset voltage. The DEMUX circuit of the invention can increase the TFT gate driving voltage, leading to improving TFT electron mobility from IGZO and a-Si process, and improving the data line charging rate.
US10431177B2
According to an aspect, a display apparatus includes: a plurality of first pixels to which at least one color is allocated; and a second pixel to which a high luminance color having higher luminance than luminance of the color of the first pixels is allocated. The first pixels are driven at a first drive frequency. The second pixel is driven at a second drive frequency higher than the first drive frequency.
US10431174B2
The present disclosure discloses a pixel driving structure, a display panel and a display device. The structure includes a pixel combination formed by a first pixel unit and a second pixel unit, a scan line, a data line, a gate driver and a source driver. The first pixel unit of the odd row pixel combination is connected to one odd row scan line, the second pixel unit of the odd row pixel combination is connected to the next even row scan line of the odd row scan line; the first pixel unit of the even row pixel combination is connected to the next two even row scan lines of the odd row scan line, the second pixel unit is connected to the next odd row scan line of the odd line scan line, the first pixel unit and the second pixel unit are connected to the same data line.
US10431157B2
A pixel driving circuit using 4T2C pixel structure applied in an OLED display device is provided. The OLED display device senses a threshold voltage imposed on the TFT and a turn-on voltage imposed on the OLED when the OLED display device is powered off or powered on and compensates the threshold voltage which is sensed in normal operating display and the turn-on voltage imposed on the OLED for raw data signals, thereby reducing the influence of the threshold voltage imposed on the TFT on the turn-on voltage of the OLED and improving the display quality of the OLED display device.
US10431156B2
A pixel circuit and a driving method thereof, and a display device. The pixel circuit includes an input sub-circuit, a driving sub-circuit, a light emitting control sub-circuit, a light emitting sub-circuit and a voltage stabilizing sub-circuit; the voltage stabilizing sub-circuit is connected respectively to a second node and a voltage stabilizing signal terminal in the pixel circuit, and configured to stabilize a voltage level at the second node under control of a voltage stabilizing signal from the voltage stabilizing signal terminal, and the voltage level of the voltage stabilizing signal is unchanged during driving process of the pixel circuit.
US10431150B2
The present disclosure relates to a display device, a light-emitting control signal generating device and method. The generation device includes: a two-to-two multiplexer, configured to select the first input signal to be output from a first output terminal of the two-to-two multiplexer according to the first control signal, or select the second input signal to be output from a second output terminal of the two-to-two multiplexer according to the first control signal; a first operational amplifier, configured to receive the first input signal and output a first output signal; a second operational amplifier, configured to receive the second input signal and output a second output signal; and a three-to-one multiplexer, configured to receive the first output signal, an intermediate signal and the second output signal, and select one of them to be output as a light-emitting control signal according to a second control signal.
US10431147B2
A DC-DC converter includes: a first converter including a pass transistor coupled between the first node and a first output, and a body diode connected in parallel to the pass transistor; a sensor coupled between both ends of the pass transistor and which detects a driving current; and a second converter which outputs a second power voltage lower than the first power voltage to a second output. The second converter includes a master inverting converter which outputs the second power voltage independently of the driving current, a slave inverting converter which outputs the second power voltage when the driving current is greater than a predetermined threshold or when the input power voltage is greater than a predetermined boosting voltage limit, and an inverting converter controller which controls operations of the master and slave inverting converters in first and second drive modes based on the driving current and the input power voltage.
US10431136B2
The disclosure discloses an array substrate, a display panel, and a display device, and the array substrate includes: a plurality of data lines arranged in a display area, and a demultiplexer assembly, a test switch assembly, and a plurality of data signal fanout wires, arranged respectively in a non-display area, where each of the signal output terminals of the demultiplexer assembly is electrically connected with one of the plurality of data lines, each of the signal input terminals of the demultiplexer assembly is electrically connected respectively with one of the plurality of data signal fanout wires, and one of the output terminals of the test switch assembly; and the test switch assembly is arranged on the side of the demultiplexer assembly away from the display area.
US10431116B2
Techniques for leveraging the capabilities of wearable mobile technology to collect data and to provide real-time feedback to an orator about his/her performance and/or audience interaction are provided. In one aspect, a method for providing real-time feedback to a speaker making a presentation to an audience includes the steps of: collecting real-time data from the speaker during the presentation, wherein the data is collected via a mobile device worn by the speaker; analyzing the real-time data collected from the speaker to determine whether corrective action is needed to improve performance; and generating a real-time alert to the speaker suggesting the corrective action if the real-time data indicates that corrective action is needed to improve performance, otherwise continuing to collect data from the speaker in real-time. Real-time data may also be collected from members of the audience and/or from other speakers (if present) via wearable mobile devices.
US10431110B2
A computerized system enables teachers and students to collaborate in the solutions of STEM problems. The system includes a communications network linking a plurality of computers, at least one teacher computer operable by a respective teacher, at least one student computer operable by a respective student, and at least one computer-readable storage medium. Each of the computers includes an input device and a touch sensitive screen for receiving handwritten input via the input device. The computers are operatively linked and each of their touch sensitive screens forms a virtual shared whiteboard defining a common work page upon which input from each computer is received and displayed. Input received from each computer interacts mathematically with input received from each other computer in the network and the interactions are displayed on each screen. The input and interactions form a collaborative solution to a STEM problem.
US10431104B2
An aircraft collision avoidance system including (a) at least one separation monitoring device connectable to at least a portion of an aircraft and/or vehicle, the separation monitoring device comprising (1) at least one transmitter, (2) at least one receiver, and (3) an image sensor, and (b) a master unit.
US10431102B2
A flight range-restricting system is configured to control a flight range of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). The flight range-restricting system includes a database including a UAV capabilities storage area that stores UAV capabilities data indicative of technical specifications of the UAV, and a restricted airspace storage area that stores restricted airspace data indicative of a restricted airspace. A range-restricting control unit is communicatively coupled to the database. The range-restricting control unit controls the flight range of the UAV based on a current location of the UAV, the UAV capabilities data, and the restricted airspace data.
US10431101B2
Systems and methods are provided for customizing a search and rescue (SAR) pattern for an aircraft. A search and rescue pattern system (SARPS) is configured to obtain SAR mission information from a SAR information database, weather information from a weather source, terrain information from a terrain database, and the flight traffic information. The SARPS is further configured to generate a customized SAR pattern using the obtained mission information, the weather information, the terrain information, and the flight traffic information. A display is configured to display the customized SAR pattern and a flight management system (FMS) is configured to receive the customized SAR pattern.
US10431098B1
A computer system receives a request to locate a vehicle within a facility. The computer system parses the request to identify one or more characteristics of the vehicle. The computer system identifies a sensor corresponding to the vehicle based on the one or more characteristics of the vehicle. The computer system identifies a most recent location of the vehicle based on the last registered position of the vehicle within the facility. The computer system transmits a signal to a parking spot sensor at the most recent location of the vehicle in the facility. The computer system receives the unique identification. The computer system determines that the unique identification of the vehicle sensor co-located with the parking spot sensor matches the sensor of the requested vehicle. The computer system reports to the user a current location of the vehicle within the facility based on a location of the parking spot sensor.
US10431094B2
An object detection method includes: acquiring three-dimensional data on an area around a host vehicle by use of a distance measurement sensor; based on map data on an area around a current position of the host vehicle, setting a planned travel area where the host vehicle is going to travel in the future; estimating crossing object existence areas where there currently exist objects which are likely to cross the host vehicle in the future in the set planned travel area; and detecting the object by use of the three dimensional data on insides of the estimated crossing object existence areas.
US10431092B2
A method for performing a cooperative driving maneuver and a vehicle. The method performs a cooperative driving maneuver which includes determining, by a first vehicle, a driving maneuver to be carried out; receiving maneuver information pertaining to a planned driving maneuver of a second vehicle by the first vehicle receiving surroundings information by the first vehicle, stipulating, by the first vehicle based on the received maneuver information and the received surroundings information, a maneuver trajectory for the driving maneuver to be carried out, and performing the driving maneuver by the first vehicle using the stipulated maneuver trajectory. Also disclosed is a way for vehicles to be better able to interpret received information pertaining to a planned driving maneuver of another vehicle to increase safety for the performance of a cooperative driving maneuver.
US10431088B2
In an object detection apparatus, a first region definition unit defines a first object region including a first detection point representing a relative position of a first object detected based on detection information from the radar. A second region definition unit defines a second object region including a second detection point representing a relative position of a second object detected based on a captured image from a monocular camera. A learning status acquisition unit acquires a learning progress status to estimate a position of FOE on the captured image. If there is an overlap of the first and second object regions, a determination unit determines that these objects are the same object. The second region definition unit sets a length of the second object region in a depthwise or vehicle-lengthwise direction representing a direction of the second detection point with respect to the reference point depending on the learning progress status.
US10431085B2
The invention relates to a parking space monitoring system for detecting free and occupied parking space areas in a parking space zone comprising a detection system that is configured to detect a plurality of different vehicles on the parking space areas of the parking space zone and at least one display unit for displaying a plurality of different occupied and/or free parking space areas, with the display unit having a display surface for presenting information. The parking space monitoring system is characterized in that the display surface comprises at least two surface areas, with the surface areas being adjacent to one another and/or adjoining one another and each having a different spatial orientation, and with the display unit being configured to display different information, in particular indications of different occupied and/or free parking space areas, in different surface areas.
US10431084B2
The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for parking assist. The parking assist apparatus includes: a parking space search unit configured to search for a plurality of parking spaces, in which parking is possible, and objects adjacent to the plurality of parking spaces while a vehicle travels and is being braked; a parking space storage unit configured to generate parking space information including a width and length of the parking space and a parking direction and object information including a type and size of the object and configured to store parking space identification information including the parking space information and the object information; a parking space output unit configured to output the parking space identification information on each of the plurality of parking spaces and configured to display and output a parking-planned space to a driver; and a parking space selection unit configured to receive a selection signal from the driver of the vehicle and select the parking-planned space.
US10431081B2
Providing user assistance in a vehicle includes evaluating information about the manual operation of the vehicle and information about an environment surrounding the vehicle, and identifying the driving behavior of the vehicle based on the evaluation of the information about the manual operation of the vehicle and the information about the environment surrounding the vehicle. The user assistance further includes receiving a traffic behavior model that describes a predominating driving behavior of a like population of reference vehicles, and issuing both prospective instructions and remedial instructions to a user on how to make the driving behavior of the vehicle match the predominating driving behavior of the like population of reference vehicles.
US10431077B2
This application relates to apparatus and methods for traffic monitoring, especially for monitoring of road traffic flow using fiber optic distributed acoustic sensing. The method involves performing distributed acoustic sensing (DAS) using a suitable interrogator unit (103) to provide a measurement signal from each of a plurality of sensing portions of a first length of a sensing optical fiber (102), where the first length of the sensing optical fiber runs alongside a road (101) having a plurality of lanes. The measurement signals from the sensing portions are processed to detect vehicles (104) travelling on the road and to determine at least one detected traffic flow property. The method further involves using a traffic flow model to relate the detected flow property to a modelled flow property, where the traffic flow model is configured to model vehicle detections that will be missed by the distributed acoustic sensing i.e. an indication of vehicles present on the road but not detected by the DAS sensor.
US10431075B2
Various devices, systems, products and methods for customizing a remote control are presented. Sensors are optionally used to aid in the identification of users and user specific remote control configurations and layouts are optionally automatically loaded upon determination that a different user is handling the remote control. The devices, systems, products and methods are useful for minimizing inadvertent changes to system setting and modes due to unanticipated or accidental presses of buttons on a remote control.
US10431070B2
A method and apparatus for monitoring drug-regimen compliance is disclosed. Systems in accordance with the present invention enable automatic monitoring of the state of medicine content of a blister card. Each tablet location on the blister card is operatively coupled with a different sensor that detects whether the tablet location is occupied and/or a dispensing event at a tablet location. In some embodiments, capacitive sensing is employed, where the capacitance of each sensor is based on the physical state of a dispensing region of the lidding film of the blister pack, which is located at the tablet location being monitored. Alternative sensing approaches are based on optical, acoustic, and tactile sensors that interrogate either the dispensing region at each tablet location or the tablets themselves to determine whether tablets have been dispensed. The sensors interface with a mobile app that provides the user instructions to help improve drug-regimen compliance.
US10431062B1
Systems and methods for operating a Security Tag (“ST”). The methods comprise: capturing a first Tack End (“TE”) of a Tack Assembly (“TA”) by a first Securement Mechanism (“SM”) disposed in the ST's body; removing a Tack Head (“TH”) from TA so as to expose a second TE that is opposed to the first TE; placing TH on the second TE; and capturing the second TE by a second SM disposed in TH. Alternatively/additionally, the methods comprise: retracting a tack into a TH of TA; depressing TH so as to cause telescoping concentric parts to slide into each other; causing a free end of the tack to travel out of TH while the telescoping concentric parts are being slid into each other; inserting the free end of the tack into ST's body; and capturing the free end of the tack by SM disposed in ST's body.
US10431061B2
In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods are provided herein useful to presenting a virtual representation of a user's environment based on activity in the user's environment. In some embodiments, a system comprises one or more sensors, wherein the one or more sensors are located about the user's environment and configured to detect the activity within the user's environment and transmit, to a control circuit, indications of the activity, the control circuit configured to receive, from the one or more sensors, the indications of the activity within the user's environment, generate the virtual representation of the user's environment, and render, based on the indications of the activity, the virtual representation of the user's environment to include representations of the activity within the user's environment, and a display device, the display device configured to present the virtual representation of the user's environment including the representations of the activity within the user's environment.
US10431050B2
Various embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to a gaming system and method providing a multi-hand card game with modifiers available based on initially-dealt cards of the hands. Generally, for a play of the card game, the gaming system randomly determines two or more initial hands of cards and displays at least one card of each initial hand face-up. The gaming system determines, for each initial hand, whether a modifier triggering event occurred for that initial hand based on one or more of the cards of that initial hand. For a given initial hand, if the gaming system determines that the modifier triggering event occurred for that initial hand, the gaming system associates a modifier with that initial hand. The gaming system then finalizes each initial hand and determines any award associated with each finalized initial hand based on the cards of that initial hand and any associated modifier.
US10431048B2
A lottery ticket dispenser system includes a physical dispenser array having a plurality of separate bins for receipt of a supply of interconnected lottery tickets. A control system is in communication with a drive mechanism in each bin to initiate a dispense sequence upon receipt of a ticket dispense command. A central lottery server is in communication with the control system. An electronic display device is in communication with the central lottery server and is configured to present a virtual dispenser array with bin positions that mimics the physical dispenser array. The central lottery server transmits lottery ticket images to the electronic display device that correspond to the lottery tickets in the physical dispenser array and bin position assignments for the lottery ticket images in the virtual dispenser array.
US10431041B2
A gaming machine for playing a multi-line spinning reel game includes a display and a game controller arranged to control images of symbols displayed on the display. In the game at least one random event, in particular a spin of the reels, is caused to be displayed on the display. If a predefined winning event occurs, the machine awards a prize. The player is constrained to wager a single amount on each play of the game and may not vary the amount. This single wager amount provides eligibility to play all available lines of the game and eligibility to bonus features. No choice of other wagering options is provided.
US10431037B2
Gaming machines, methods, and systems include a dynamically configurable pushbutton assembly including a video display having a first top surface and a first outer periphery defining a display screen area. At least one mechanical pushbutton is mounted to the display screen, the at least one mechanical pushbutton includes a second top surface and a second outer periphery defining a corresponding pushbutton area within. The second top surface and the pushbutton area are located to extend at least partly over a portion of the display screen area and within the first outer periphery, and the second top surface is transparent so that the portion of display screen area within the pushbutton area is visible through the second top surface.
US10431031B2
Systems and methods for physical layer access control are provided. In one embodiment, a method using an automated infrastructure management system comprising a portable device, a management system and a secured equipment cabinet comprises: scanning an asset ID tag with the portable device to obtain asset ID data; transmitting the asset ID data to the management system; verifying whether the asset ID data is associated with an electronic lock identified by an electronic work order, where the work order defines tasks involving a network device within the cabinet; scanning a fingerprint with the portable device to obtain fingerprint ID data; and verifying whether the fingerprint ID data matches an authorized technician. When the asset ID data is verified as associated with the electronic lock and the fingerprint ID data is verified as matching the authorized technician, sending an electronic command from the management system that unlocks the electronic lock.
US10431028B2
A method of defense against an attack relay action on a remote activation of a function present in an automotive vehicle. The attack relay receives a frame of electromagnetic waves emitted by the activation module and retransmits it to the at least one activation device, nevertheless out of range of emission of the activation module, which dispatches a response frame of electromagnetic waves to the activation module. There is performed, out of range of emission of the activation module, an at least partial interception of a retransmitted frame of electromagnetic waves originating from the attack relay in the direction of the activation device. An at least partial destruction of the retransmitted frame at the activation device and/or of the response frame of the activation device toward the activation module rendering the activation of the function inoperative is performed.
US10431027B2
A vehicle communication system includes a vehicle-mounted device and a portable device. In the vehicle communication system, a transmission unit transmits a first to third radio signals having intensities weaker in this order, a measurement unit measures an intensity of each of the radio signals, and a determination unit that determines whether an intensity difference between any two of the radio signals among the radio signals measured by the measurement unit is larger than a threshold value. Control of a target mounted on the vehicle is permitted if the intensity difference is larger than the threshold value.
US10431025B2
A parking lock apparatus, a parking lock system and a method for controlling the same are provided. The method includes: identifying identity information of a to-be-parked vehicle, sending an unlocking command to a parking lock according to the identified identity information and enabling the parking lock to be unlocked according to the unlocking command.
US10431024B2
An electronic device having at least one operational setting, such as a power setting, with at least a first state and a second state. The electronic device may also include an access controller that can receive state data and authorization data from an external source such as a remote control. The access controller may enable a state of the operational setting upon receipt of proper authorization data received from or related to the output from at least one biometric sensor associated with the remote control.
US10431020B2
Position data received wirelessly from a vehicle enrolled in an inspection waiver program are employed to determine when the enrolled vehicle is approaching an inspection station. After determining that the enrolled vehicle is approaching an inspection station, and if the enrolled vehicle has a valid inspection waiver, a bypass confirmation can selectively be provided to the vehicle operator, authorizing the operator to bypass the inspection station. The task of determining when an enrolled vehicle is approaching the location of an inspection station can be performed using a processor disposed in the vehicle, or at a remote location separate from both the vehicle and the inspection station, or at the inspection station. The inspection stations can be mobile so that their locations are varied to prevent operators from intentionally avoiding an inspection, as may occur with fixed inspection stations.
US10430994B1
Systems and methods of the present disclosure can facilitate determining a three-dimensional surface representation of an object. In some embodiments, the system includes a computer, a calibration module, which is configured to determine a camera geometry of a set of cameras, and an imaging module, which is configured to capture spatial images using the cameras. The computer is configured to determine epipolar lines in the spatial images, transform the spatial images with a collineation transformation, determine second derivative spatial images with a second derivative filter, construct epipolar plane edge images based on zero crossings of second derivative epipolar planes image based on the epipolar lines, select edges and compute depth estimates, sequence the edges based on contours in a spatial edge image, filter the depth estimates, and create a three-dimensional surface representation based on the filtered depth estimates and the original spatial images.
US10430989B2
A multi-pass unit interoperates with a device driver to configure a screen space pipeline to perform multiple processing passes with buffered graphics primitives. The multi-pass unit receives primitive data and state bundles from the device driver. The primitive data includes a graphics primitive and a primitive mask. The primitive mask indicates the specific passes when the graphics primitive should be processed. The state bundles include one or more state settings and a state mask. The state mask indicates the specific passes where the state settings should be applied. The primitives and state settings are interleaved. For a given pass, the multi-pass unit extracts the interleaved state settings for that pass and configures the screen space pipeline according to those state settings. The multi-pass unit also extracts the interleaved graphics primitives to be processed in that pass. Then, the multi-pass unit causes the screen space pipeline to process those graphics primitives.
US10430982B2
In embodiments, apparatuses, methods and storage media (transitory and non-transitory) are described that receive a plurality of sensor data values and a plurality of location data values corresponding to the sensor data values, may generate interpolated data values for a surveyed area, and may generate an image corresponding to the surveyed area based at least in part on the sensor data values and the interpolated data values. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US10430980B1
Systems, devices, and methods that display visual symbols are described. A visual symbol has a color and a linewidth. Multiple instances of the symbol are concurrently and progressively drawn, one on top of the other, in the display area of a display device. Each respective instance has a respective intermediate color. The respective intermediate colors combine to produce the color of the symbol where the respective instances overlap in the display area. Each respective instance also has a respective linewidth and the respective linewidths converge to the linewidth of the symbol as each instance is progressively drawn. A backwards progression through the same sequence is employed to regressively undraw a symbol from the display area of the display device. Computer program products comprising processor-executable instructions for performing the methods are also described.
US10430977B2
A computer-implemented method for correcting a makeup or skin effect to be rendered on a surface region of an image of a portion of a body of a person. The method and system correcting the makeup or skin effect by accounting for image-specific light field parameters, such as a light profile estimate and minimum light field estimation, and rendering the corrected the makeup or skin effect on the image to generate a corrected image.
US10430975B2
An encoder includes a processor, a buffer, and a memory. The memory includes code as instructions that cause the processor to perform a number of steps. The steps include partitioning a geometric construct within an axis of the geometric construct based on a point differential between two partitions, the geometric construct including geometric data, determining a number of points in the partition, storing a value indicating the number of points in the buffer, and entropy encoding the value stored in the buffer.
US10430973B2
Techniques and systems are described to recolor a group of images for color consistency. Techniques include extracting color palettes for images of the group of images and generating a group theme color palette based on the color palettes for the images. Image color palettes are then mapped to the group theme color palette and the images are modified in response to the mapping. In some examples, the mapping includes discouraging multiple colors of a single color palette from mapping to a single color of the group theme color palette. Additionally, or alternatively, the mapping includes discouraging a forced mapping of a dissimilar color of an image color palette from mapping to the group theme color palette.
US10430971B2
A parallax calculating apparatus is provided with: a processor configured to perform, on each of a plurality of types of block shapes that are different from each other, (i) a parallax calculation process, (ii) a block group setting process, and (iii) a cost calculation process, by using a pair of images photographed by a stereo camera; and a selector configured to perform, on each of a plurality of pixels that constitute the image, a parallax selection process of setting a parallax value of a block in which a cost associated by the cost calculation process is minimum, as a parallax of a target pixel in which the parallax is to be obtained, from among a plurality of blocks, each of which includes the target pixel and which respectively correspond to the plurality of types of block shapes.
US10430966B2
An example apparatus for estimating poses includes a person estimator to estimate a number of people based on a significant head count of received refined part detections. The apparatus includes a detection clusterer to cluster the refined part detections based on the estimated number of people to generate clustered part detections. The apparatus includes a candidate selector to select candidate person clusters for each clustered part detection based on proximity to the clustered part detection. The apparatus includes a sequential assigner to calculate a cluster affinity score for each combination of candidate person cluster and clustered part detection, and greedily sequentially assign each clustered part detection to a candidate person cluster based on the cluster affinity score to generate person clusters. The apparatus includes a pose generator to generate a pose for each person cluster.
US10430961B2
Methods and apparatus are disclosed for enhancing urban surface model with image data obtained from a satellite image. Three dimensional models of an urban cityscape obtained from digital surface models may comprise surface location information but lack image information associated with the cityscape, such as the color and texture of building facades. The location of the satellite at the time of recording the satellite image interest may be obtained from metadata associated with the satellite image. A 3D model of a cityscape corresponding to the satellite image may be subjected to a transformation operation to determine portions of the 3D model that are viewable from a location corresponding to the location of the satellite when taking the picture. Visible facades buildings of the 3D model may be identified and mapped to portions of the satellite image which may then be used in rendering 2D images from the 3D model.
US10430960B2
An image processing apparatus includes a generation unit configured to generate first region data indicating a region corresponding to a general uneven shape of each of a plurality of bundles included in a three-dimensional object and second region data indicating a region corresponding to an uneven shape of an extremely small substance included in each of the bundles by analyzing image data, and an output unit configured to output shape data after correcting the shape data by adding the general uneven shape of each of the plurality of bundles included in the three-dimensional object to the general uneven shape of the three-dimensional object and adding the uneven shape of the extremely small substance included in each of the bundles on the general uneven shape of each of the plurality of bundles included in the three-dimensional object based on the first region data and the second region data.
US10430941B2
An imaging method for identifying abnormal tissue in the lung is provided, comprising the recording of slice images of the lung by means of X-ray radiation, recording of blood vessels, differentiation of blood vessels and abnormal tissue, segmentation of the abnormal tissue and display of the segmented abnormal tissue on an output device. In addition, a computer tomograph for identifying abnormal tissue in the lung is provided, having a radiation source for recording slice images of the lung and blood vessels by means of X-ray radiation, a computer unit for differentiating the blood vessels from the abnormal tissue and for segmenting the abnormal tissue, as well as an output device for displaying the segmented abnormal tissue. Furthermore, a computer program is provided for controlling a computer tomograph for an identification of abnormal tissue in the lung by means of a radiation source, designed to record slice images of the lung and blood vessels by means of X-ray radiation, to differentiate the blood vessels from abnormal tissue, to segment the abnormal tissue and to control an output device for displaying the abnormal tissue.
US10430939B1
An optical evaluation workstation evaluates a virtual image distance of eyecup assemblies of a head mounted display (HMD). The workstation includes an eyecup assembly feed assembly configured to receive an eyecup assembly of an HMD. The eyecup assembly comprising an optics block rigidly fixed to an electronic display panel. The workstation includes a lens assembly positioned at a fixed distance from the eyecup assembly. The workstation includes a movable imaging sensor assembly positioned along the alignment axis and configured to capture one or more images of the one or more test patterns presented by the eyecup assembly when the imaging sensor assembly is at different positions. The optical evaluation workstation includes a control module configured to determine one or more virtual image distances of the eyecup assembly using the plurality of images captured by the imaging sensor assembly.
US10430938B2
A method, system, and computer program product of detecting defects in an object using a processor operatively connected to a memory, the method comprising: accommodating in the memory an image group comprising a reference image and an image; generating a set of correction parameters to be applied to pixels of an image from the image group, wherein the parameters are determined to minimize a combination of a first factor indicative of variability of the set, and a second factor indicative of a difference between an image from the image group as enhanced by applying the set and another image in the image group, wherein the combination increases as any factor increases; applying the set to the image of the image group to obtain an enhanced image; generating an optimal difference image between the enhanced image and the other image; and using the optimal difference image for detecting defect candidates.
US10430930B2
A density region setting unit sets a specific density region having a preset width with respect to a subject region of a radiation image. A compression processing unit performs a dynamic range compression process with respect to the radiation image on the basis of a first compression amount for compressing at least one of the maximum value or the minimum value among pixel values of the subject region into the specific density region and a preset second compression amount for compressing at least one of a high-density region or a low-density region in the specific density region, to generate a dynamic range compression image.
US10430925B2
The present invention is to provide a system, a method, and a program for synthesizing a panoramic image that improve the image analysis accuracy. The system for synthesizing a panoramic image 1 combines images taken by a plurality of cameras 200 and produces a panoramic image; analyzes an object contained in the synthesized panoramic image; and displays the result of the image analysis. The system also analyzes an object contained in a seam in the synthesized panoramic image. Furthermore, the system associates and displays the result of the image analysis with the object. Still furthermore, the system supplements a part lacked from the object based on the result of the image analysis. Yet still furthermore, the system produces a panoramic image adjusted to the image that has the most or least pixels among those taken by the plurality of cameras.
US10430923B2
Disclosed is a flexible display device. The flexible display device includes: a housing, a closure lid, a flexible display panel, an extension mechanism and a controller. A shaft is provided inside the housing. A sidewall of the housing is provided with an opening. The closure lid is opposite to the opening, and a surface of the closure lid facing away from the opening is provided with a user identity recognition module. The flexible display panel is wound onto the shaft and includes a first end and a second end opposite to the first end. The first end is connected to the shaft, and the second end is connected to the closure lid. The extension mechanism is configured to support the flexible display panel extending out of the housing.
US10430922B2
Methods of reconstructing a 3D object model from portions of an object in a single 2D image using an existing 3D object model that is generic to a class to which the object in the 2D image belongs. In some embodiments, the methods determine a camera center from a computed estimated camera projection matrix. Landmark points on the object in the 2D image are back-projected to the existing 3D object model to warp the existing 3D object model according to the landmark points in the 2D image to create a derived 3D object model of the 2D object in the 2D image. Optional additional processing steps can include regularization, texturing, and infill of missing regions of the derived 3D object model. An example implementation of the disclosed methods is 3D craniofacial reconstruction from a single 2D image containing at least a portion of a face.
US10430919B2
A method is described. The method includes simulating execution of an image processing application software program. The simulating includes intercepting kernel-to-kernel communications with simulated line buffer memories that store and forward lines of image data communicated from models of producing kernels to models of consuming kernels. The simulating further includes tracking respective amounts of image data stored in the respective line buffer memories over a simulation runtime. The method also includes determining respective hardware memory allocations for corresponding hardware line buffer memories from the tracked respective amounts of image data. The method also includes generating configuration information for an image processor to execute the image processing application software program. The configuration information describes the hardware memory allocations for the hardware line buffer memories of the image processor.
US10430916B2
Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for placement optimization for virtualized graphics processing are disclosed. A provider network comprises a plurality of instance locations for physical compute instances and a plurality of graphics processing unit (GPU) locations for physical GPUs. A GPU location for a physical GPU or an instance location for a physical compute instance is selected in the provider network. The GPU location or instance location is selected based at least in part on one or more placement criteria. A virtual compute instance with attached virtual GPU is provisioned. The virtual compute instance is implemented using the physical compute instance in the instance location, and the virtual GPU is implemented using the physical GPU in the GPU location. The physical GPU is accessible to the physical compute instance over a network. An application is executed using the virtual GPU on the virtual compute instance.
US10430911B1
Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for graphics overlays with virtualized graphics processing are disclosed. A virtual GPU is attached to a virtual compute instance. The virtual compute instance is implemented using a physical compute instance, and the virtual GPU is implemented using a physical GPU accessible to the physical instance over a network. An application is executed on the virtual compute instance. One or more graphics instructions associated with the application are sent to the virtual GPU. The virtual GPU is used to generate graphical output based (at least in part) on execution of the one or more graphics instructions. A graphics overlay comprising one or more additional graphical elements is added to the graphical output based (at least in part) on execution of one or more additional graphics instructions. The one or more additional graphics instructions are not generated by the execution of the application.
US10430903B2
The present invention is a method and process for accurately and efficiently coding documents in electronic discovery. The method, if used by highly experienced and motivated document reviewers in a collegial and harmonic environment, has the potential to increase adjusted review consistency, reduce coding errors, eliminate duplicate efforts, increase review speed, decrease the risks of exposure, and dramatically improve review performance. The method will also result in useful case history files, which are useful in every phrase of litigation, including motion argument, merit trial, appeal, and future litigation.
US10430901B2
Rendering graphical user interfaces to display current and future data to users, the graphical user interfaces generated in response to search queries comprises a flight search system and an airline system. The flight search system receives current flight data and future flight data for the group of flights from an airline system and stores the data on a database. When the flight search system receives a flight search request comprising desired flight data from a user computing device, the system compares the desired flight search data with the stored data to identify one or more flights of the group of flights that match one or more features of the desired flight data. The system presents the current flight data and the future flight data on a graphical user interface to the user when it is likely that the flight data is going to change.
US10430893B2
The disclosed embodiments include systems and methods for extracting information from a transaction description. In one embodiment, a system is disclosed that may include one or more processors and one or more memory devices storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, performs operations consistent with the disclosed embodiments. In one embodiment, the operations may include receiving a transaction description. The operations may also include identifying known location information corresponding to the transaction description and determining whether information from the transaction description corresponds to the identified known location information. The operations may further include removing location information from the transaction description based on the determination. In another aspect, the operations may also include extracting additional location information from the transaction description that is not associated with the known location information.
US10430890B1
An aerial image system may generate images of structures providing views that might otherwise be difficult to obtain. These images may be used to determine various characteristics of the structure, which may then be processed for a variety of tasks including product marketing, claim processing and post-claim analysis. The images may be analyzed by the aerial image system or by a ground-based processing system to determine the structural characteristics such as roof age, roof type and roof pitch. In some examples, image analysis techniques such as edge detection and contrast determination may assist in determining the requisite data. Additionally or alternatively, the processing system may direct or control one or more image capture devices to obtain desired images.
US10430887B1
Systems, methods, apparatuses and computer-readable media for receiving data from one or more sensors associated with one or more home devices of a user, such as appliances, home systems, etc. and/or one or more sensors associated with a vehicle of the user, and/or receiving data associated with a lifestyle of the user are presented. In some examples, the data may aggregated and analyzed to assess risk associated with the user in order to determine or adjust an insurance rate or premium.
US10430877B2
An anonymous computerized trading system matches orders by conducting auctions at specified times. As well as entering orders, participants assign credit limits for the duration of the auction, thus minimizing the time for which credit is allocated to the system.
US10430876B1
A system for processing an image including a vehicle using machine learning can include a processor in communication with a client device, and a storage medium storing instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to perform operations including: receiving an image of a vehicle from the client device, extracting one or more features from the image, based on the extracted features and using a machine learning algorithm, identifying one or more attributes of the vehicle, based on the identified attributes of the vehicle, determining a make and a model of the vehicle, obtaining comparison information based at least in part on the determined make and model, estimating a quote for the vehicle based on the comparison information; and transmitting the estimated quote for display on the client device.
US10430875B2
A system integration tool integrates an external service to run in conjunction with or as part of a remote business accounting system. The system integration tool includes a front-end component and a back-end component. The front-end component remotely accesses accounts receivable data from the accounting system. The back-end component merge each financial transaction within the accounts receivable data with a credit score of an entity associated with the financial transaction at a date associated with the financial transaction. The back-end component generates an external service that secures the accounting system against insecure financial transactions and embeds the external service to run as part of the accounting system. The external services alert the business as to insecure financial transactions that lead to bad debt or disqualify such transactions from entry into the accounting systems.
US10430871B2
A method of executing a transaction for a user at a self-service terminal is described. The method comprises: (a) sensing a stroke gesture delineated by the user on a touch-sensitive panel; (b) recognizing the delineated stroke gesture; and (c) matching the delineated stroke gesture to one of a plurality of defined transaction strokes, each defined transaction stroke being associated with a specific transaction. The method further comprises (d) executing the specific transaction associated with the matched transaction stroke.
US10430870B2
Lease calculations may be used by commercial real estate brokers, corporate tenants, landlords, financial professionals, financial advisors, accountants and/or the like, to compare financial aspects of one or more leases and/or contracts, determine the impact of new accounting rules on current and/or future leases, comply with current and/or future lease accounting rules, generate financial reports, generate market data comparables, allow clients and users to track, manage and administer lease information and repurpose independent data points to perform one or more of these or other lease calculations or actions.
US10430866B2
A personalized webpage gifting system includes a server in communication with a computing device having a processor to execute an application. Upon execution, the application generates generate a graphical user interface (GUI) to receive recipient information from each of a plurality of participants in which the recipient information user-supplied content associated with a recipient from each of a plurality of participants, and a monetary amount to be contributed towards purchase of a gift for the recipient. The application then combines the user-supplied content of each participant to form a personalized content structure, wherein the application is further executable to facilitate transmission of the gift and the personalized content structure to the recipient.
US10430861B2
Devices, systems, and methods include a three-dimensional (3D) scanning element, an electronic data storage configured to store a database including fields for 3D scan data and demographic information, a processor, and a user interface. In an example, the processor obtains 3D scan data of a body part of a subject from the 3D scanning element, analyzes the 3D scan data for incomplete regions, generate a composite 3D image of 3D scan data from the database based on similarities of demographic information, and overlays composite 3D image regions corresponding to incomplete regions on the 3D scan data.
US10430853B2
A search application can return results including item listings posted to a website. An item listing can be posted to the website in a first format for a first time period and posted to the website in a second format for a second period of time. Responsive to a query for an item, results can be displayed in both the first format and the second format in a user interface.
US10430851B2
A computing system for managing product customization is provided. The computing system includes instructions stored in memory and executable by a processor to receive, for each of a plurality of parts of a 3D product, a color selection input specifying a color selected by a user for that part, responsive to receiving the color selection inputs, generate a color histogram of the 3D product including a plurality of units, each unit being associated with one of the parts and assigned the color of that part, where the number of units allocated to each part is based on a size of the part, and display the color histogram in a graphical user interface.
US10430835B2
Methods, systems, and media for language identification of a media content item based on comments are provided. In some embodiments, the method includes: obtaining a plurality of comments associated with a media content item; selecting a subset of the plurality of comments based on one or more criteria; assigning, for each comment in the subset of the plurality of comments, a vector of language probabilities, wherein each component of the vector is assigned a language probability that indicates the likelihood that the comment includes content in a language from a plurality of languages; combining the vector of language probabilities for each comment in the subset of the plurality of comments to generate a combined language vector; identifying a language associated with the media content item based on the combined language vector; and performing an action based on the identified language.
US10430826B1
A computer-implemented method for conversion timing inference. A conversion timing model is model is configured to predict a likelihood of conversion based on an entity's elapsed time since a qualified entry event. The conversion timing model is constructed based on a distribution of the conversion timespans of converters. Each conversion timespan describes a length of time between a qualified entry event and a conversion event for a converted entity. A notification of an opportunity to expose a candidate entity to networked content is received and the likelihood of conversion for the candidate entity is determined by: determining an elapsed time since a qualified entry event for the candidate entity and applying the conversion timing model to the elapsed time. A response to the notification based on the likelihood of conversion for the candidate entity is prepared. Timely responses may include the selection of customized content, customized advertising content or bid values.
US10430814B2
A residual value forecasting system may utilize heterogeneous data, such as used market data, industry-specific data, and non-industry-specific data, from disparate data sources to produce residual value forecasts of an item based on a sophisticated residual value forecasting model particularly configured for agility. The system can dynamically and quickly adapt to change in data inputs and produce custom outputs. The system may determine a baseline value for an item using the used market data, a microeconomic factor using the industry-specific data, and a macroeconomic factor using the non-industry-specific data, as well as adjustments such as locality adjustments and modifications. Given the macroeconomic factor and the microeconomic factor relative to the locality-adjusted value of the item and in view of the competitive sets of similar and/or substitute items in the same industry, the system can generate an accurate forecast residual value of the item at a future time point.
US10430813B2
Systems and methods for operating a prediction market, including methods for finding disagreement with the consensus among participants and methods for managing liquidity. Also, an interactive user interface to facilitate investing, with one user action, in a prediction market.
US10430806B2
A contextual analysis engine systematically extracts, analyzes and organizes digital content stored in an electronic file such as a webpage. Content can be extracted using a text extraction module which is capable of separating the content which is to be analyzed from less meaningful content such as format specifications and programming scripts. The resulting unstructured corpus of plain text can then be passed to a text analytics module capable of generating a structured categorization of topics included within the content. This structured categorization can be organized based on a content topic ontology which may have been previously defined or which may be developed in real-time. The systems disclosed herein optionally include an input/output interface capable of managing workflows of the text extraction module and the text analytics module, administering a cache of previously generated results, and interfacing with other applications that leverage the disclosed contextual analysis services.
US10430804B2
A system and computer implemented method for acting on search results in a webpage. The invention displays selectable items in the form of search results determined by a web search engine in response to a search query received from a user. A first type of selection of one of the search results by the user causes a link to an online resource associated with the selected search result to be followed. A second type of selection by the user causes at least one control option to be displayed to the user, the control options including at least one of: saving details of the search result to a remote storage location, or accessing the details of at least one previously saved search results.
US10430802B2
Role based assessment for an IT management system, includes maintaining a plurality of roles, each role attributable to a user type within an IT management system. Mappings are defined between the plurality of user roles and assets of the IT management system. An assessment for the IT management system is then assembled from the perspective of a selected one of the plurality of roles based on mappings between the selected user role and the assets.
US10430790B2
A device may receive information related to a first plurality of individuals and an individual. Each of the first plurality of individuals may be associated with a respective one or more accounts. The device may receive a request to match the individual and one or more individuals. The device may determine a match of the individual and the one or more individuals based on the information. The device may receive, from a user device associated with the individual, a selection of an account, of the respective one or more accounts, associated with another individual of the first plurality of individuals. The device may provide, for display to the other individual, a notification that the individual and the other individual have been matched and that the individual selected the account associated with the other individual. The device may perform one or more actions related to completing the transaction using the account.
US10430787B2
A service provider generates a customer key and a merchant key for facilitating efficient provision of assistance, by the merchant, with the customer's shopping and payment, via customer-merchant key coupling. When a customer approaches or enters a merchant's store the customer has signed up with, the user device carried by the customer wirelessly broadcasts a signal for the customer key unique to the merchant key. When the merchant server picks up the signal, the service provider communicates to the merchant server information in the user's profile including identifiers, shopping preferences, or the shopping history of the customer, subject to any user-created restrictions contained in the profile so that a sales clerk of the store may approach the customer to give recommendations, suggestions, or other assistance with shopping, based on the information.
US10430785B2
A portable consumer device may have money stored therein, which can be calculated using an accumulator record and an exception record. The accumulator record can be incremented by the amount of any initiated transaction using the portable consumer device. The exception record can be incremented by the amount of any completed transaction using the portable consumer device. The portable consumer device may also have a limit amount, to record the amount of money added. The records allow for a later reconstruction of the device history, and can account for any errors or problems during transactions.
US10430783B2
A payment reader includes a tuning circuit that provides a tuned transmission source signal to an antenna for transmission. A sense circuit coupled to the antenna provides a measured transmitted signal to a binary phase detection circuit. The binary phase detection circuit filters and processes the signal to provide an analog phase signal that corresponds to a phase difference between the measured transmitted signal and the transmission source signal. A comparison circuit compares the analog phase signal to a reference signal, and a decision circuit adjusts the operation of the transmission circuitry based on the comparison.
US10430758B2
A method, system, and apparatus of rule based assigning a cycle count to an inventory item for a set of medical items is disclosed. A no-touch inventory system operates using information regarding medication flow throughout a patent care facility and evaluates pertinent inventory criteria for each of a plurality of items in the inventory. The evaluation compares inventory criteria in an intelligent inventory system. A learning factor can be applied such that conditionally effects the selective category by assigning a schedule for the cycle count of the inventory.
US10430754B2
Parts in a manufacturing or service facility are electronically tracked using wireless beacons and location tags, strategically positioned receiver devices in the facility, and a monitoring server. The wireless beacons and location tags are individually coupled to parts in the facility to be tracked and store beacon-, tag-, and part-specific identifiers that can be wirelessly communicated to the monitoring server through receiver devices or mobile devices of workers in the facility. In particular, the location tags transmit various identifiers when the mobile devices or wireless beacons are brought into close proximity to the location tags. The mobile devices allow workers to request on-demand and up-to-date work orders for the parts with location tags, and the wireless beacons communicate the location tags' identifiers to the monitoring server. The monitoring server uses the identifiers to track the locations of the parts and manage electronic work orders for the parts.
US10430743B2
Embodiments of the present invention relate to apparatuses, systems, methods and computer program products for a technology configuration system. Specifically, the system typically provides operational data processing of a plurality of records associated with information technology operational activities, for dynamic transformation of data and evaluation of interdependencies of technology resources. In other aspects, the system typically provides technical language processing of the plurality of records for transforming technical and descriptive data, and constructing categorical activity records. The system may be configured to achieve significant reduction in memory storage and processing requirements by performing categorical data encoding of the plurality of records. The system may employ a dynamic categorical data decoding process, which delivers a reduction in processing time when the encoded records are decoded for evaluating the exposure of technology change events to technology incidents and modifying such technology change events.
US10430742B2
Systems and methods capable of providing customized business processes, such as with regard to intermediate business transaction documents, within a standard business process flow system. The systems and methods may include a process interface for receiving the standard business process flow; a developmental graphical user interface capable of developing a plurality of object-oriented custom modules indicative of a plurality of custom business steps; a plurality of data libraries capable of storing at least configurations and rules applicable to the plurality of object-oriented custom modules; a run time graphical user interface capable of selecting multiple ones of the plurality of object-oriented custom modules for inclusion in a custom process stack; and a trigger sensor capable of receiving a trigger indicated by one of the configurations at the process interface, and capable of diverting the standard business process flow to process the custom process stack related to the trigger according to the configurations and rules upon receipt of the trigger.
US10430738B2
Methods and systems for monitoring and interacting with a collection of geospatially aware assets, or any connected geo-location enabled device, through a virtual reality interface are disclosed. A diagram may be utilized as a real-time route progress indicator to determine a route's completion status and as a destination position indicator to determine the position of a destination among all destinations of a route. The virtual reality environment may provide the benefit of, and ability to, modify the visual field, such as to fit a large number of routes, e.g., 50,000 or more, onto an area viewable in the virtual reality environment to efficiently manage large fleets, or to divide a screen into a plurality of individual screens to organize the data in a visually effective manner. The user interface may be personalized for the user, or customized for a specific business operation.
US10430737B2
A restroom monitoring system for monitoring attributes of fixtures within a restroom using sensors. Additional attributes are determined from the monitored attributes. Consumable usage levels are estimated based on predetermined consumption levels associated with usage states of the fixtures. The restroom monitoring system provides an indication of the need for replenishment of consumables based on the monitored attributes of the fixtures. In addition, restroom monitoring system may provide additional information regarding the restroom attributes to a service provider, a manager or a user.
US10430733B2
An analysis device for time series data from an apparatus to be diagnosed is provided with an accumulation device which accumulates sensor data, operation data, or control data, obtained from the apparatus, while accumulating time information, an algorithm accumulation unit which accumulates algorithms for recognizing behavior of the apparatus, a behavior recognition unit which recognizes behavior of the apparatus by using a recognition algorithm, and a specification unit which specifies a behavioral item to be recognized. A behavior recognition algorithm corresponding to the specified behavioral item is selected from the algorithm accumulation unit; sensor data, operation data, or control data is selected from the accumulation device; start and end times of a selected behavior are recognized by the behavior recognition unit; and the recognized start and end times are associated with time information about data accumulated in the accumulation device.
US10430728B2
Systems and methods are provided for determining secondary address information. In one implementation, a method is provided that uses a data processing apparatus. According to the method, a code word is created for a business name and a building default extended delivery code. A data table is searched using the code word and secondary address information is revealed when a match is found between the code word and data stored in the data table.
US10430726B2
A machine learning device, which learns shocks to a teaching device, includes a state observation unit which observes data based on an inclination of the teaching device or a present position of the teaching device; a label obtaining unit which obtains a label based on a shock received by the teaching device; and a learning unit which generates a learning model based on an output of the state observation unit and an output of the label obtaining unit.
US10430724B2
In one embodiment, a method is illustrated as including defining a set of perspective objects capable of being placed onto a modified web page, monitoring parameters of a web page, the parameters including a number of times a current object is executed on the web page, using an Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithm to determine a perspective object with a preferred Return On Investment (ROI), and selecting the perspective object to be placed onto the modified web page.
US10430723B1
An apparatus comprises a plurality of storage tiers, at least one data mover module, and skew predictor. A model generator processes information characterizing input-output activity involving one or more of the storage tiers in order to obtain skew measurements indicating portions of the input-output activity directed to portions of the one or more storage tiers for respective periods of time less than at least one corresponding time granularity, and generates a predictive model from the skew measurements. The skew predictor is configured in accordance with the predictive model to convert additional skew measurements obtained for a given period of time less than a desired time granularity to corresponding skew measurements in the desired time granularity. One or more of the converted skew measurements are utilized by the data mover module in controlling transfer of data between the storage tiers. The model generator is part of a machine learning system.
US10430715B1
A system for facilitating multi-user computer aided design includes a plurality of locally stored multi-user design (CAx) environments. A server includes a server side CAx environment. The server is communicatively coupled to each of the locally stored CAx environments. The server side CAx environment further includes a predictive modeling module operable to receive an incomplete command from a first user, and predict a complete command based on the incomplete command.
US10430713B2
A mechanism is provided in a data processing system for predicting and enhancing ingestion time for a set of input documents. The mechanism receives a set of documents to be added to a corpus of the data processing system. The mechanism records document features of each document within the set of documents using an annotation engine within the data processing system. The mechanism predicts an ingestion time for each document within the set of documents based on the document characteristics and a machine learning model. The mechanism assigns the set of documents to data processing system resources to be processed based on the predicted ingestion time for each document.
US10430711B2
A method is provided for providing desired application usage experience to a user on a user device. The method includes automatically converting a plurality of App pages into FUNC descriptors to be stored, wherein each FUNC descriptor includes at least non-functional properties of a FUNC, capability of the FUNC, and an interface of the FUNC to invoke the FUNC. The method also includes obtaining at least one user intention inputted by the user; determining at least one FUNC descriptor from the FUNC descriptors for fulfilling the user intention; recommending to the user with at least one FUNC corresponding to the at least one FUNC descriptor by rendering the at least one FUNC descriptor on the user device; and invoking the at least one FUNC directly from the user device without going through a launching page of an App page providing the at least one FUNC.
US10430709B2
Roughly described, an evolutionary data mining system includes at least two processing units, each having a pool of candidate individuals in which each candidate individual has a fitness estimate and experience level. A first processing unit tests candidate individuals against training data, updates an individual's experience level, and assigns each candidate to one of multiple layers of the candidate pool based on the individual's experience level. Individuals within the same layer of the same pool compete with each other to remain candidates. The first processing unit selects a set of candidates to retain based on the relative novelty of their responses to the training data. The first processing unit reports successful individuals to the second processing unit, and receives individuals for further testing from the second processing unit. The second processing unit selects individuals to retain based on their fitness estimate.
US10430691B1
A method for learning parameters of an object detector based on a CNN adaptable to customers' requirements such as KPI by using a target object merging network and a target region estimating network is provided. The CNN can be redesigned when scales of objects change as a focal length or a resolution changes depending on the KPI. The method includes steps of: a learning device (i) instructing the target region estimating network to search for k-th estimated target regions, (ii) instructing an RPN to generate (k_1)-st to (k_n)-th object proposals, corresponding to an object on a (k_1)-st to a (k_n)-th manipulated images, and (iii) instructing the target object merging network to merge the object proposals and merge (k_1)-st to (k_n)-th object detection information, outputted from an FC layer. The method can be useful for multi-camera, SVM (surround view monitor), and the like, as accuracy of 2D bounding boxes improves.
US10430687B2
A method for automatically dividing trademark figurative element codes is disclosed, including: establishing a sample trademark library and establishing a corresponding relationship between sample trademarks and division data for figurative element codes of known filed/registered figurative trademarks; extracting and processing image feature information of the sample trademarks, and establishing a corresponding relationship between the sample trademarks and the extracted image feature information; extracting and processing image feature information of a trademark to be identified; performing a matching retrieval by taking the image feature information of the trademark to be identified as a retrieval condition, and finding out a sample trademark with a highest similarity degree to the image feature information of the trademark to be identified, and a corresponding trademark figurative element code; outputting the trademark figurative element code corresponding to the sample trademark with a highest similarity degree to the image feature information of the trademark to be identified as a figurative element code of the trademark to be identified. By means of the method, the trademark figurative element codes of a figurative trademark can be automatically divided.
US10430685B2
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a plurality of input frames of a video sequence associated with a time t, training a convolutional network to predict one or more future frames of the video sequence from the plurality of input frames based on a generative model, and outputting a first future frame of the video sequence associated with a time t+1 as predicted by the generative model. The training may comprise using an adversarial model and an image gradient difference loss model. In addition, the training may comprise randomly selecting temporal sequences of a n×m grid of pixels from the plurality of input frames exhibiting a threshold of optical flow.
US10430674B2
A vision system of a vehicle includes a camera configured to be disposed at a vehicle so as to have a field of view exterior of the vehicle. A tag or retroreflective element is disposed at another vehicle. With the camera disposed at the vehicle and when the tag element is present in the camera's field of view, an image processor is operable to process captured image data to determine a pattern of the tag element present in the field of view of the camera. The image processor compares the determined pattern of the tag element to a database of patterns and classifies the tag element at least in part responsive to determination that the determined pattern of the tag element generally matches a pattern of the database. The pattern of the tag element disposed at the other vehicle includes information pertaining to a type of the other vehicle.
US10430666B2
Monitoring target matching means 71 matches monitoring targets shown in video captured by one or more imaging devices, and identifies monitoring targets estimated to be the same monitoring target, as an identified monitoring target. Target object identifying means 72 identifies a desired target object from one or more identified monitoring targets captured, using imaging times of each of the one or more identified monitoring targets.
US10430664B2
A system provides automated editing of a media file. Frames of a media file are extracted and feature vectors are generated based thereon. The feature vectors are clustered according to similarity of the content of the feature vectors and the temporal proximity of frames corresponding to the feature vectors in the media file. Clusters are ranked and selected according to the ranking. Segments of the media file corresponding to the selected clusters are combined into a highlight video. Hotspots in a media file may be identified in a media file by detecting local maxima in a measure of movement of pixels between frames. Clusters may be ranked and selected according to an iterative algorithm that identifies clusters that are the most different from an average of the feature vectors and from other selected clusters.
US10430659B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a method and apparatus for urban road recognition based on a laser point cloud. The method comprises: constructing a corresponding road edge model according to the laser point cloud acquired by a laser sensor; determining a height of a mobile carrier provided with the laser sensor and constructing a corresponding road surface model based on the height and the laser point cloud; eliminating a road surface point cloud and a road edge point cloud in the laser point cloud according to the road edge model and the road surface model, segmenting a remaining laser point cloud using a point cloud segmentation algorithm, and recognizing an object corresponding to a segmenting result. By estimating the height of the mobile carrier according to the laser point cloud and constructing a corresponding road surface model using the height, the efficiency and accuracy of constructing the road surface model are improved, thereby improving the efficiency and accuracy of recognizing corresponding objects.
US10430655B2
A system includes circuitry configured to: obtain an image, detect a specific object from the image, obtain space information indicating a first space which is set with reference to the specific object, calculate first area information based on a shape of the specific object in the image and the space information, the first area information corresponding to a first area in which the first space is projected onto the image, and control a display so as to display a content associated with the specific object in the first area based on the first area information.
US10430654B1
Automated detection of environmental measures within an ocean environment using image data. In a machine-learning phase, image data of an ocean environment are received. In addition, ocean sensor data that represent environmental measure(s) of the ocean environment, collected by ocean sensor(s) contemporaneously with the image data, are received. A predictive model is trained to emulate the ocean sensor(s) based on the image data. Subsequently, in an operational phase, image data is received from ocean-facing camera(s) that capture image data of the ocean environment. The predictive model is used to identify feature(s) within the image data and estimate the environmental measure(s) of the ocean environment based on the identified feature(s). The estimated environmental measure(s) may then be used to generate data in response to user requests.
US10430646B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for operating, calibrating, and dynamically optimizing a system for a virtual reality environment where colored marker lights are attached to objects, the objects including players, controllers, and devices related to the game. One or more color cameras are used to view one or more spaces, and track positions and orientations of players and other objects according to the attached marker lights. A hierarchical system of servers may be used to process positions and orientations of objects and provide controls as necessary for the system. A method for color assignment is described as well as a calibration process, and a dynamic optimization process. A synchronization process is also described that ensures that a plurality of cameras and attached servers are properly coordinated. Head-mounted devices may also be used in conjunction with marker lights to provide information regarding players.
US10430643B2
A server system stores a database of records. Each record stores a digital image of a pet, facial recognition markers, and owner identification information. An owner may register his/her pet using a cellular telephone and a mobile app. The owner is prompted to supply a digital photograph of the pet and to enter eye and nose location information. The system generates therefrom facial recognition markers and stores the markers in a record. If a lost pet is found, a finding user can use a cellular telephone to take a picture of the animal and to enter eye and nose location information. The system generates markers and compares the markers in a facial recognition process to other stored markers to identify records of animals that resemble the lost pet. If the record of the lost pet is identified, then owner identification information in the record is used to contact the owner.
US10430641B2
Methods and systems are provided for tracking an object. The system includes a data receiving module configured to receive three dimensional imaging data and two dimensional imaging data. A three dimensional object identification module is configured to demarcate a three dimensional object and to output three-dimensional object data. An adjustment module is configured to adjust the three dimensional object data based on the two dimensional imaging data and to output adjusted three dimensional object data. A tracking module is configured to track at least one object using the adjusted three dimensional object data.
US10430633B2
Embodiments herein describe an input device that includes a rectangular array of sensor electrodes connected to sensor modules that measure capacitive sensing signals corresponding to the electrodes. When performing code division multiplexing (CDM), multiple sensor electrodes are coupled to the same sensor module. As such, the sensor module generates a measurement that represents the sum of the charges on the sensor electrodes rather than an individual charge on a single sensor electrode. By repeatedly sensing multiple sensor electrodes in parallel, the input device can determine a change of capacitance for each individual sensor electrode.
US10430632B2
An exemplary embodiment of the present inventive concept provides a display device including: a display unit including a plurality of pixels disposed on a display area; a display controller configured to control the display unit; a sensor including a plurality of first sensing electrodes and a plurality of second sensing electrodes disposed in the display area; and a sensor controller configured to recognize a touch of a user inputted into the sensor in a touch sensing mode and to recognize a fingerprint of the user inputted into the sensor in a fingerprint sensing mode, wherein the sensor controller changes a mode to the fingerprint sensing mode when no touch is inputted for a predetermined time period in the touch sensing mode and changes the mode to the touch sensing mode when authorization on a fingerprint inputted into the sensor is succeeded in the fingerprint sensing mode.
US10430619B2
A master digital copy of a registration is transmitted. The registration is proof that a physical object has been registered with a registration authority. A valid peripheral digital copy of the registration is received. The valid peripheral digital copy of the registration was made from the master digital copy of the registration and is incapable of being used to make other valid digital copies of the registration.
US10430617B2
A terminal determination device includes a processor that executes a procedure. The procedure includes acquiring operation information indicating history of operation that has taken place on a terminal, and, according to whether or not the acquired operation information belongs in a particular range of similarity with operation information stored associated with a specific terminal, determining whether or not the terminal is the specific terminal.
US10430611B2
Within one or more instances of a computing environment where an instance is a self-contained architecture to provide at least one database with corresponding search and file system. User information from the one or more instances of the computing environment is organized as zones. A zone is based on one or more characteristics of corresponding user information that are different than the instance to which the user information belongs. User information is selectively obfuscated prior to transmitting blocks of data including the obfuscated user information. The selective obfuscation is based on zone information for one or more zones to which the user information belongs.
US10430603B2
A gateway apparatus for managing local-device access to vehicle data, including an input/output component for receiving requests for vehicle data from a local device and sending vehicle data to the local device. The apparatus also includes a tangible processing unit in communication with the input/output component and the input/output component, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage device. An access unit of the apparatus has access-unit code that receives, by way of the input/output component, a request for the vehicle data from a local device and determines whether the gateway apparatus may satisfy the request. A control unit has control-unit code that, when executed by the processing unit, determines what vehicle data will be provided. A data unit has data-unit code that prepares the vehicle data to be provided to the local device, and sends the vehicle data to the local device by way of the input/output component.
US10430591B1
Approaches for monitoring a host operating system. A threat model is stored and maintained in an isolated execution environment. The threat model identifies for any process executing on a host operating system how trustworthy the process should be deemed based on a pattern of observed behavior. The execution of the process and those processes in a monitoring circle relationship thereto are monitored. The monitoring circle relationship includes a parent process, any process in communication with a member of monitoring circle relationship, and any process instantiated by a present member of monitoring circle relationship. Observed process behavior is correlated with the threat model. Upon determining that a particular process has behaved in a manner inconsistent with a pattern of allowable behavior identified by the threat model for that process, a responsive action is taken.
US10430588B2
This technical solution relates to systems and methods of cyber attack detection, and more specifically it relates to analysis methods and systems for protocols of interaction of malware and cyber attack detection and control centers (servers). The method comprises: uploading the malware application into at least one virtual environment; collecting, by the server, a plurality of malware requests transmitted by the malware application to the malware control center; analyzing the plurality of malware requests to determine, for each given malware request: at least one malware request parameter contained therein; and an order thereof of the at least one malware request parameter. The method then groups the plurality of malware requests based on shared similar malware request parameters contained therein and order thereof and for each group of the at least one group containing at least two malware requests, generates a regular expression describing malware request parameters and order thereof of the group, which regular expression can be used as an emulator of the malware application.
US10430580B2
A processor implementing techniques for processor extensions to protect stacks during ring transitions is provided. In one embodiment, the processor includes a plurality of registers and a processor core, operatively coupled to the plurality of registers. The plurality of registers is used to store data used in privilege level transitions. Each register of the plurality of registers is associated with a privilege level. An indicator to change a first privilege level of a currently active application to a second privilege level is received. In view of the second privilege level, a shadow stack pointer (SSP) stored in a register of the plurality of registers is selected. The register is associated with the second privilege level. By using the SSP, a shadow stack for use by the processor at the second privilege level is identified.
US10430570B2
Techniques for electronic signature process management are described. Some embodiments provide an electronic signature service (“ESS”) configured to manage electronic identity cards. In some embodiments, the ESS generates and manages an electronic identity card for a user, based on personal information of the user, activity information related to the user's actions with respect to the ESS, and/or social networking information related to the user. The electronic identity card of a signer may be associated with an electronic document signed via the ESS, so that users may obtain information about the signer of the document. The ESS may also generate a trust score for the user based on activity information related to the user's actions with respect to the ESS and/or other factors. The trust score may be used to recommend authentication mechanisms to use with respect to electronic signature transactions.
US10430560B2
A method for preventing digital content misuse can include receiving, by a digital content delivery system, a request from a client-side computing device to access digital content maintained by the digital content delivery system; determining, by the digital content delivery system, that a number of times the client-side computing device has accessed digital content meets or exceeds a threshold number of times the client-side computing device is permitted to access digital content; and in response to determining that the number of times the client-side computing device has accessed digital content meets or exceeds the threshold number, denying the request and executing a remedial action.
US10430559B2
Digital rights management techniques are described that address traits of a behavior of a user population that is to interact with digital content as part of a virtual or augmented reality environment. A digital rights management (DRM) module is implemented to manage a digital rights management policy to dynamically address traits and changes to the traits of a behavior of users that consume the digital content as part of an augmented or virtual reality environment. In another example, the DRM module may be configured to control access to physical objects through use of digital content output by an output device as part of the augmented or virtual reality environment.
US10430555B1
Systems and methods are provided for determining and communicating intervention service opportunities, such as medication therapy management services, that may be available for a patient, as part of processing a healthcare claim transaction. A healthcare claim transaction, such as a prescription benefit request transaction, may be received by the service provider computer from a healthcare provider computer. The service provider computer may determine if an intervention service is available for the patient and if an available intervention service notification has been transmitted to the pharmacy computer prior to the service provider computer receiving the healthcare claim transaction. The service provider computer may receive an approved adjudicated response and generate a patient intervention service form corresponding to the available intervention service for the patient. The service provider computer may transmit the patient intervention service form to the pharmacy computer and receive a completed patient intervention service form from the pharmacy computer.
US10430548B2
A computer-implemented method for space frame design involves constructing a load stress map in a geometrical boundary representation of a design space, defining attachment points and load application points in the design space, creating a starting network of interconnecting lines between each two of the attachment points and load application points in the design space, assigning load application factors to each line of the starting network of interconnecting lines based on values of the load stress map, generating potential space frame designs by culling different subsets of lines of the starting network of interconnecting lines for each potential space frame design according to variable culling parameters, evaluating the potential space frame designs with respect to optimization parameters, combining the culling parameters for the potential space frame designs the performance score of which is above a predefined performance threshold, and iterating the steps of generating potential space frame designs and evaluating the potential space frame designs on the basis of the combined culling parameters.
US10430544B2
A method of generating a plurality of photomasks includes generating a circuit graph. The circuit graph comprises a plurality of vertices and a plurality of edges. Each of the plurality of vertices is representative of one of a plurality of conductive lines. The plurality of edges are representative of a spacing between the conductive lines less than an acceptable minimum distance. Kn+1 graph comprising a first set of vertices selected from the plurality of vertices connected in series by a first set of edges selected from the plurality of edges and having at least one non-series edge connection between a first vertex and a second vertex selected from the first set of vertices is reduced by merging a third vertex into a fourth vertex selected from the first set of the plurality of vertices. An n-pattern conflict check is performed and the photomasks generated based on the result.
US10430530B2
A method for generating a visual representation of wellbore drilling parameters includes representing a predetermined length of drilled wellbore as a two dimensional shape, wherein one dimension of the shape corresponds to the predetermined length and the other dimension of the shape corresponds to at least one of a drilling parameter, a statistical measure of a drilling parameter and an environmental parameter. In a computer, values of the at least one of a drilling parameter, a statistical measure of a drilling or environmental parameter and an environmental parameter are received as input. The two dimensional shape is plotted in a visual representation.
US10430527B1
In accordance with an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, the present invention discloses a system, method and computer program product to efficiently and accurately create new frame structures by adjustment of specific design parameters. In operation, the computer program product of the present invention utilizes design guidelines to efficiently calculated and determine a solution for a given framing situation. The computer program product is further designed to receive a plurality of parameters regarding a proposed framing structure and to receive user adjustments to selected parameters.
US10430526B2
Various embodiments provide systems and methods enabling a user to receive feedback regarding a computer-implemented design of an architectural structure as the user is designing or otherwise modifying the computer-implemented design using a computer-aided design (CAD) software tool. The feedback (hereafter also referred to as “design feedback”) may provide the user with useful analysis information regarding the architectural structure's predicted characteristics (e.g., operational performance, resource consumption, cost, etc.) based on the current state of the computer-implemented design. In particular, heating and cooling loads associated with the computer-implemented design of the architectural structure can be visually displayed to the user in real or near-real-time along with the relationships to contributing factors that impact the heating and cooling loads.
US10430521B2
A method for internationalization of a computer application being designed and developed as cloud application in a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environment includes disposing a translatable texts table in a data layer of the computer application as a common source of translatable texts for all layers of the computer application. The method further includes disposing a text string translation service in a logic layer of the computer application. to expose the translatable texts table disposed in the data layer to a presentation layer of the computer application.
US10430513B2
Disclosed herein is an automated personalized message composition system, method and architecture. A composition style of a user is learned for each of a number of categories, such that each category has a corresponding composition style. The user's composition style determined for a given category can be used to personalize a non-personalized message for the user. A personalized message including elements of the user's composition style. The composition style elements from the user's composition style replacing a number of non-personalized elements in the non-personalized message.
US10430511B2
Programmer input in a programming language is received, the programmer input including i) first specification data specifying one or more parameters to be passed to an application programming interface (API), and ii) second specification data that specifies a function to be performed by the API. The programmer input is evaluated to generate an API object that is configured, when executed, to perform the specified function using the one or more parameters. Evaluating the programmer input includes evaluating the first specification data to generate the API object such that the API object is configured to receive the one or more parameters.
US10430509B2
A notes system is presented with a content management system. The notes system manages creation and distribution of edits to notes to users sharing the notes. The notes are stored as a series of edits at the notes system. When an edit to a note is received, the edit is propagated to users subscribed to a note by a backend server responsible for managing the note. The sharing users are notified through application servers associated with each sharing user. The notes server includes various indices for searching the notes and allows notes to be searched quickly to organize viewing by a user of notes and identification of relevant material in the notes. The stored edits are used to display edits to a note to a user by replaying the accessed note to the user.
US10430501B2
The present disclosure provides, in part, methods, computer program products, systems, for providing a method. In one embodiment a method can include for example applying tags to a first document according to a tagging map; and applying tags to a second document according to the tagging map. In one embodiment a method can include parsing first content of a first document and second content of a second document using a tagging map; and generating an output document using the tagging map, wherein the generating included presenting in first and second different areas defining the output document the first content and the second content. In one embodiment, a method can include providing a custom tagging map based on one or more user defined input; and applying tags to a document using the custom tagging map.
