US10750129B2
The invention relates to a hospital video surveillance system comprising several cameras (2, 3, 4) for acquiring video data for surveilling several patient regions (5, 6, 7). The video data are transmitted from the cameras to a display device and are used to determine physiological properties of patients, wherein the physiological properties are vital signs. The bandwidths for the transmission of the video data are allocated depending on the determined physiological properties. Thus, the bandwidth allocation considers the physiological states of the patients, which can ensure that a sufficient bandwidth is provided where it is really required. This is especially useful, if the overall bandwidth is limited. Moreover, since the video data are used for fulfilling several functions, i.e. surveilling the several patient regions and determining the physiological properties, the overall system can be very compact and less or no additional physiological sensors might be required.
US10750125B2
An orchestration server and a method of deploying a distributed videoconferencing system in cloud services are disclosed. The method including receiving, by an orchestration server, a proposed configuration of a distributed videoconferencing system, determining, by the orchestration server, a status of the proposed configuration of the distributed videoconferencing system, determining, by the orchestration server, based on the status of the proposed configuration of the distributed videoconferencing system, a determined configuration of the distributed videoconferencing system, initiating, by the orchestration server, according to the determined configuration of the distributed videoconferencing system at least one non-transcoding node at a first data center of a first cloud service provider, and initiating, by the orchestration server, according to the determined configuration of the distributed videoconferencing system at least one transcoding node at a second data center.
US10750120B2
This invention disclosure relates to a community access television (CATV) signal distribution system which improves signal isolation issues for systems which are distributing both CATV signals and in-home entertainment (IHE) signals. The signal distribution system includes a signal input port, a first multi-port signal splitter and a second multi-port signal splitter. The first multi-port signal splitter is coupled to the signal input port through a first diplexer, and the second multi-port signal splitter is coupled to the signal input port through a second diplexer. In some embodiments the first diplexer high-pass node and the second diplexer high-pass node are coupled together. In some embodiment the signal distribution system includes a signal output port coupled to the signal input port through a third diplexer. The high-pass node of the third diplexer is coupled to the high-pass node of the first diplexer.
US10750117B1
A method and system for transmitting and receiving an audio signal over a video signal in a single cable. The method and system including receiving an analog video signal, the analog video signal comprising one or more rows of video data, an audio header, and one or more quantized audio data. The method includes detecting, the audio header in a blank interval of the analog video and determining a reference level of the audio header. The method and system include extracting, in response to detecting the audio header, the one or more quantized audio data and converting the one or more quantized audio data to an original value of audio data based on the reference level of the audio header. The method and system are configured for storing the one or more quantized audio data in the original value in a First-in-First-Out (FIFO) buffer, and reconstructing, utilizing the FIFO buffer, a continuous audio signal from the one or more quantized audio data in the original value.
US10750113B2
The present invention provides an image processing system, an image processing method, and a program capable of suppressing confusion that may arise in a case where a target person is identified when tracking a person. An image processing system includes: a camera control unit which accepts input video images captured by a plurality of video cameras; a tracked person registering unit capable of registering one or more persons appearing in the video images inputted from the camera control unit; and a display screen generating unit which displays switchable windows of the video images inputted from the video cameras for each person registered by the tracked person registering unit.
US10750112B2
A substrate structure for an image sensor module includes a module substrate including a sensor mounting hole, a reinforcing plate on a lower surface of the module substrate, an image sensor chip on the reinforcing plate within the sensor mounting hole, and a reinforcing pattern in the module substrate. The reinforcing plate covers the sensor mounting hole. An upper surface of the image sensor chip may be exposed by the module substrate. The reinforcing pattern is adjacent to the sensor mounting hole and extends in at least one direction.
US10750090B2
A semiconductor device for use in controlling a camera module performs position adjustment of a correction lens for use in optical camera shake correction, based on information representing a present position of the correction lens and position information of an output image of electronic camera shake correction with respect to a photographed image photographed by an imaging element. As a result, an operation margin of the correction lens is kept, while keeping a correction margin for the electronic camera shake correction.
US10750088B2
Systems and methods for identifying comment clusters for panoramic content segments. A panoramic content segment of digital content may be hosted to client computing platforms. User comment information may be received. The user comment information may convey user comments, include time indications for a duration of a content segment, and/or include location indications for a panorama of the panoramic content segment. A comment distribution may be determined from the user comment information. A comment cluster may be identified based on the comment distribution. View information may be received from a client computing platform. Whether a view range associated with the comment cluster identified is located within or outside one or more visible ranges of viewing angles selected by the user may be determined. Alert information may be generated and/or transmitted for effectuating presentation of a notification on the client computing platform associated with the user.
US10750087B2
An image processing system is provided that includes an image capturing apparatus configured to generate a plurality of captured images and at least one information processing apparatus connected to the image capturing apparatus. The information processing apparatus includes processing circuitry configured to input at least a first captured image and a second captured image from among the plurality of captured images, acquire first conversion data to be used for converting the first captured image and second conversion data to be used for converting the second captured image, and generate an output image by stitching converted images generated by converting the first captured image based on the first conversion data and the second captured image based on the second conversion data.
US10750083B2
Systems and methods for processing digital image data representing multiple views of an object of interest use a sparse set of digital images along with object of interest profiling to provide a photo gallery for evidence-related workflows. Digital images are related to each other on the basis of common objects of interest represented in the images and their orientations within the views depicted in each image. Object of interest profile datasets, including spatial orientation data, enable efficient tracking of photography sessions in which a set of prescribed views of an object of interest are meant to be captured, as well as object-orientation-based photo gallery navigation. The systems recognize of a set of physical gestures that enable a user to intuitively navigate among digital images depicting different views of an object of interest based on how they were physically related to each other when captured.
US10750082B2
An evaluation device includes a first display control unit that displays imaging data acquired by an imaging device on a display screen of a display device, and a second display control unit that displays on the display screen a guide display based on work vehicle data on a work vehicle imaged, to determine an imaging position of the imaging device.
US10750080B2
[Object] To support a user such that the user can easily adjust installation states of a plurality of imaging devices.[Solution] Provided is an information processing device including an adjustment instruction specification unit configured to specify an instruction regarding adjustment by extracting or arranging elements of the adjustment in accordance with a level of priority of each of the elements for shifting current installation states of a plurality of imaging devices toward appropriate installation states of the plurality of imaging devices.
US10750079B2
A focus adjustment device, comprising a processor having a focus region setting section, a focus detection section, a determination section and a control section, wherein the focus detection region setting section sets a first focus detection region, and a second focus detection region, that is contained in the first focus detection region and that is narrower than the first focus detection region, in an imaging region, the control section, when it is determined that that there is not a periodicity-containing subject for the first focus detection region, and it is determined that there is a periodicity-containing subject for the second focus detection region, performs a focus adjustment operation by selecting a phase difference that is closest to a phase difference that has been detected for the first focus detection region, among a plurality of phase differences that have been detected for the second focus detection region.
US10750078B2
The image-capturing apparatus communicates with an accessory apparatus using a clock/communication request channel and first and second data communication channels. The camera controller switches its communication method between a first communication method in which data communication is performed while a clock signal is alternately switched between first and second levels and a second communication method in which data communication is performed in response to a communication request from the camera controller to the accessory apparatus, which is output by switching a signal level of the clock/communication request channel from the first level to the second level. The camera controller, in response to detecting a communication error in the first and second communication methods, transmits to the accessory apparatus through the second data communication channel a specific signal for restoring the communication while keeping the signal level of the clock/communication request channel at the first level.
US10750077B1
A camera system is provided and includes a processor, a first camera, a second camera, and a data bus. The processor transmits a first trigger signal to the first camera to enable the first camera outputting first data to the processor through the data bus. The first camera transmits a second trigger signal to the second camera to enable the second camera outputting second data to the processor through the data bus.
US10750075B2
In an example embodiment, an item listing process is run in an item listing application. Upon reaching a specified point in the item listing process, a camera application on the user device is triggered (or the camera directly accessed by the item listing application) to enable a user to capture images using the camera, wherein the triggering includes providing a wireframe overlay informing the user as to an angle at which to capture images from the camera.
US10750071B2
A camera module and array camera module with circuit board unit and photosensitive unit and manufacturing method thereof is provided. The array camera module comprises two or more camera lenses and a circuit unit. The circuit unit comprises a circuit board portion for electrically connecting two or more photosensitive sensors of the array camera module, and a conjoined encapsulation portion integrally encapsulated on the circuit board portion. The camera lenses are respectively arranged along the photosensitive paths of the photosensitive sensors.
US10750068B2
A camera module testing method is applied to a camera module including a camera lens and a photosensitive element. In a step (A), an original image is captured through the camera lens and the photosensitive element. In a step (B), the original image is converted into a gray scale image. In a step (C), the gray scale image is converted into a binary image according to a critical gray scale value. In a step (D), a boundary contour is obtained according to plural pixels of the binary image higher than or equal to the critical gray scale value. In a step (E), a contour center of the boundary contour is obtained. Then, a step (F) is performed to judge whether an optical axis of the camera lens is aligned with an imaging center of the photosensitive element according to the imaging center and the contour center.
US10750066B2
A camera module for a vehicle according to the present invention includes a first Printed Circuit Board (PCB) configured to have an image sensor mounted on its surface; a second PCB configured to supply a power source to the first PCB; an outer shield installed to surround the side of the first and the second PCBs and to shield the first and the second PCBs from electromagnetic interference (EMI); and a plurality of support units disposed at positions where the supports units interfere with the first and the second PCBs of the outer shield and configured to support the first and the second PCBs.
US10750063B2
Provided herein is an image focusing adjustment method, system, and module. A first image of a reference object is received in response to an input signal when the image focusing adjustment module is operating in a first state. The first image of the reference object is analyzed, based on which a plurality of adjustments to the image focusing adjustment module is controlled. The plurality of adjustments, performed by a plurality of actuators controlled by control module, include rotating a lens barrel assembly relative to a neck member along a first axis that causes a translational adjustment of the lens barrel assembly, rotating the neck member relative to a top member around the first axis that causes a rotational adjustment of the lens barrel assembly, and positioning a tilt adjustment member that causes tilt adjustment of the top member relative to a frame member along a second axis.
US10750062B2
Provided are a lens driving device, a camera module, and a camera-mounted device for which the miniaturization and weight reduction can be achieved and the reliability can also be improved. The lens driving device includes auto-focusing and shake-correcting driving parts utilizing a voice coil motor. An autofocus fixing part includes a Hall element configured to detect a position of an autofocus movable part in the optical-axis direction, and the autofocus movable part includes a position-detecting magnet arranged near the Hall element. Both of an auto-focusing magnet part and the position-detecting magnet are radially magnetized.
US10750061B2
An endoscope comprises a FPC (flexible printed circuit) having a first side and a second side, where the FPC comprises a first head part, a body part, and tail part. At least one solder pad is on the first side of the first head part, and at least one solder pad is on the first side of the body part. The endoscope further comprises a camera module mounted on the first side of the body part and a first LED (light emitting diode). A first side of the first LED is mounted on the first side of the first head part and a second side of the first LED is mounted on a first side of the camera module, while the first head part is bent. The second side of the body part is mounted on an end of a flexible fiber, and the tail part of the FPC is bent to mount on the flexible fiber.
US10750054B2
First, second, and third line reading processing is processing of emitting light of each color to first, second, and third line of an original document in first, second, and third lighting order, respectively, and reading reflection light of the emitted light. A color that is first in the first lighting order, a color that is first in the second lighting order, and a color that is first in the third lighting order are different from each other. A color that is second in the first lighting order, a color that is second in the second lighting order, and a color that is second in the third lighting order is different from each other. A color that is third in the first lighting order, a color that is third in the second lighting order, and a color that is third in the third lighting order is different from each other.
US10750049B2
An information processing apparatus requests, via one of networks, an apparatus to carry out process, the apparatus being connectable to the networks; receives identification information that is used to identify a user; acquires sets of the communications information that includes a first set of the communications information to be used to connect to the apparatus via a first network of the networks; determines, based on the identification information, whether to use the first network to request the apparatus to carry out the process; when determining to use the first network to request the apparatus to carry out the process, switch a second network of the networks used to carry out communications, to the first network to be used to carry out communications, the second network being different from the first network; and requests, via the first network, the apparatus to carry out the process.
US10750047B2
An image processing apparatus receives a number of pages to be included in one file from a user, and reads an original. The image communication apparatus divides image data of the read original at each set of the received number of pages, and creates a file including the image data for each division of the divided image data.
US10750043B2
An image processing apparatus capable of shifting to a power saving mode. The image processing apparatus includes a storing unit configured to store a document in a storage device, a notification unit configured to periodically notify an apparatus of a predetermined destination of information about a document that has been newly stored by the storing unit into the storage device, and a control unit configured to restrict shifting to a power saving mode in which the notification unit cannot make the notification after storage of a document by the storing unit has been completed and until the notification unit notifies at least information about the document.
US10750037B2
On a touch-panel display of an image forming apparatus, a function selecting area and a preview area are displayed next to each other. On the function selecting area, a function setting menu is displayed in one display mode among an icon mode in which only a group of icons are displayed, a regular mode in which a group of icons and a group of texts are displayed, and an express mode in which a group of icons, a group of texts and a group of function setting buttons are displayed. In the icon mode, detailed preview information is displayed on a large preview area, and in the express mode, detailed function selecting information is displayed on a large function selecting area.
US10750035B2
An electronic device includes: an operation receiving unit to receive operation from a user; a sensor to sense the user existing in a detection range of the electronic device to output detection information indicating that the user exists in the detection range; and processing circuitry to output content for assisting the user in operating the electronic device, when the processing circuitry has determined that the user exists in the detection range based on the detection information and when an elapsed time in which the operation of the user is not received at the operation receiving unit has exceeded a threshold time.
US10750032B2
An image inspection apparatus includes a hardware processor that performs an image diagnosis on the basis of a read image obtained by reading images printed in both sides of a recording medium, wherein the hardware processor: acquires a read image obtained by reading an image on the recording medium to which at least a first chart and a second chart are output; and performs a diagnosis by determining a side to be used in the diagnosis depending on an image diagnosis item on the basis of the read image.
US10750030B2
In a system in which a wireless access network and another network are connected to each other, an accurate fee is charged in a case where data held in an application server disposed in the wireless access network is used.The application server holds an application and data relating to the application. A usage mode information generating unit generates usage mode information which is information relating to a usage mode when the wireless terminal uses the held data. A network data usage amount measuring unit measures a network data usage amount when the wireless terminal uses data on another network via a wireless access network connected to the wireless terminal. A fee charging unit charges a fee on the basis of the measured network data usage amount and charge a fee on a basis of the generated usage mode information.
US10750028B2
A mobile communications system includes switching between communication paths based on the quality of service. A VoIP service is coupled to a mobile network and a wireless local-area network (WLAN) via a wide-area IP network. A plurality of mobile communications devices are associated with VoIP telephone numbers. A public switched telephone network (PSTN) is coupled to the plurality of mobile communications devices and coupled to the VoIP service. A quality of service server is coupled to the plurality of mobile communications devices via the wide-area IP network for determining the quality of data channels to a mobile communications device via the mobile network and to the mobile communications device via the WLAN. A voice call is carried over one of the mobile network, the WLAN, and the PSTN depending on the quality of the data channels.
US10750014B2
Disclosed is a method for providing information with a voice message to a subscriber A in response to a receipt of call connection attempt in a terminal device of a subscriber B, the method includes: detecting the call connection attempt from the subscriber A in the terminal device of the subscriber B; generating a message including data carrying a dedicated voice message to the subscriber A; outputting the generated message to the subscriber A. Also disclosed is relates to a system implementing the method and a computer program product.
US10749996B2
To receive data in data field of a PHY Protocol Data Unit (PPDU), wherein the data field includes mid-ambles, a number of mid-ambles and a number of data symbols included in the data field is determined. The number of mid-ambles is determined according to information in an HE-SIG-A field of the PPDU, information in an L-SIG field of the PPDU, and one or more predetermined values prescribed by a standard. The number of data symbols may be determined using the number of the mid-ambles, and the data received according to the number of mid-ambles and the number of data symbols.
US10749995B2
A method is provided in one example embodiment and may include receiving an Internet Protocol (IP) packet at a node; identifying a content semantic for the IP packet; determining whether the IP packet is an IP interest packet or an IP data packet; determining whether content identified in the IP packet is stored at the node based on a determination that the IP packet is an IP interest packet; forwarding the IP packet toward at least one other node based on a determination that the content is not stored at the node; and transmitting an IP data packet containing the content based on a determination that the content is stored at the node.
US10749989B2
The present disclosure describes an exemplary hybrid client/server architecture that may be utilized leverage the unique capabilities of both remote and local services. Data may be processed in parallel by remote and local processes. Results generated during the parallel processing may be exchanged between remote and local services and used to update results generated by the separate services. The hybrid client/server architecture may be utilized to generate enhanced inferences, hybrid subscriptions base upon local and remote subscriptions, and enhance natural language expression evaluation services.
US10749986B2
Interacting with a computing device can include registering a plurality of commands from a plurality of applications, wherein the plurality of commands specify entity types that are accepted as parameters, determining a first entity having a first entity type, wherein the first entity is independent of the plurality of applications, and determining a selected command from the plurality of commands registered by the plurality of applications that accepts the first entity type as a parameter. The first entity and the selected command can be provided, using a processor, to a first application of the plurality of applications that supports the selected command for execution.
US10749983B2
A transaction processing server and associated clients which send requests to the server via client-server connections. The server has a transaction processing region operable to process requests and issue responses to the requesting client. The server maintains a record of historical processing times taken to process recent client requests. The server has a connection manager that is operable to monitor incoming client requests and extract from them a goal response time, which is a maximum time within which the client expects the request to be processed which is included in each request. The server accepts or rejects each incoming client request based on deciding whether it is likely to be processed within the goal response time. If a request is rejected, the server transmits a rejection message to the originating client.
US10749974B2
Certain embodiments herein are directed to enabling service interoperability functionality for wireless fidelity (WiFi) Direct devices connected to a network via a wireless access point. A WiFi Direct device may identify various other WiFi Direct devices on a WiFi network for performing a requested service, such as printing content or displaying content to a screen. In so doing, the device may share information associated with an access point to which the device is connected with the other devices, which may also share information associated with an access point to which they are connected. In this way, WiFi Direct devices may discover their connectivity with respect to other devices to utilize a broader array of connection options for implementing a desired service, and hence, may leverage application programming interface (API) modules directed at providing service interoperability functionality between software applications and services requested by the software applications.
US10749970B1
A method for managing a communication session includes receiving a request to perform a task. The task is divided into one or more steps. One or more user devices are identified that can be used to perform one or more of the steps. One or more communication channels are identified that are available to the one or more user devices. The communication session is permitted to switch from one or more of the user devices and communication channels to complete the one or more steps of the task while maintaining a continuity of the communication session.
US10749966B2
A method is executed by a computing device to receive a request for a server via a known network access type, from a known application type, by a known user, or a known policy, instantiate a new unikernel with a differentiated communication protocol stack instance, in response to determining the request is not being serviced by a previously instantiated unikernel, and service the request by a previously instantiated unikernel, in response to determining the previously instantiated unikernel is available, where the new unikernel and the previously instantiated unikernel are separate from an operating system of the computing device.
US10749963B2
A method and an apparatus for controlling internet of things devices. The method includes: receiving a control instruction configured to control the internet of things devices and sent by a control application, where the control instruction includes an identification number of the control application and identification numbers of a plurality of internet of things devices; determining, according to the control instruction, whether the control application has authority to access the internet of things devices; sending the control instruction to the internet of things devices to enable the internet of things devices to execute the control instruction when it is determined that the control application has the authority to access the internet of things devices. Compared to a case where each internet of things device is corresponding to a control application specific thereto, efficiency of control of an intelligent terminal over the internet of things devices is improved.
US10749953B2
Among other things, techniques and systems are disclosed for providing sync server process. Processing data sync sessions includes processing a request to initiate a sync session from one or more clients to update one or more data records that include one or more data items. The one or more clients are selectively identified as one of a trusted client and an untrusted client based on one or more properties of the sync session, wherein the trusted client is configured to support all dataclasses defined by the server. The one or more clients are detected as being configured to support field level differencing that sends changed data items only for the one or data records or record level differencing that sends all of the data items included in the one or more data records.
US10749944B2
A system and method for defragmentation of a VNF deployment in a virtual resource pool including implementing a VNF demand in an available VNF capacity, incorporating the implementation of the VNF demand in the deployed VNF capacity, obtaining improvement parameter data from the deployed VNF capacity, providing the improvement parameter data to a deployment improvement application; and redeploying the implementation of the VNF demand into the groomed VNF capacity, wherein the groomed VNF capacity comprises VNF capacity that improves network resource allocation.
US10749941B2
A method is provided of using a set of servers to provide deferential services that have a pre-negotiated time for notice to release the servers. The method includes defining a virtual checkpoint frame interval that is constrained to a duration of up to half of the pre-negotiated time for notice to release the servers. The method includes collecting packets and transactions occurring during the interval that are processed by a current server. The method includes, responsive to an end of the interval, (i) writing, to a shared state database, a state of processing of the packets and transactions occurring during the interval, and (ii) releasing the packets and transactions occurring during the interval. The method includes copying the packets and transactions occurring during the interval, and the state, from the current server to another server for subsequent processing, responsive to an indication of an instance loss on the current server.
US10749932B2
In some examples, a system comprises a memory device for storing instructions and a processor which executes instructions causing the system to perform operations comprising receiving an instruction to transfer a state of a first device to a second device, and packaging information relating to the state of the first device in a file. The packaging of the information relating to the state of the first device includes recording each application executing on the first device in a list maintained in the file, and transferring the file containing information relating to the state of the first device to the second device, either directly or indirectly based on an availability of connections between the first device and the second device. The file, when processed by the second device, causes the second device to reproduce the state of the first device. In some example, reproducing the state of the first device includes the second device downloading, from one or more of the locations, one or more of the applications.
US10749931B2
A data collection system is configured with a management apparatus to define associations between data and metadata, design a method of displaying the data and the metadata related to the data, and generate methods of transmitting, receiving, and relaying the data and the metadata; a generation apparatus that generates the data and the metadata; a display apparatus that displays the data and the metadata; and a relay apparatus that relays the data and the metadata, the management apparatus distributing processing procedures related to the data and the metadata to be displayed on the display apparatus to one of or all of the generation apparatus, the relay apparatus, and the display apparatus, in accordance with a position of the data and an acquisition method contained in association information created using the function to design the associations.
US10749927B2
The present application provides a webpage loading method, apparatus and system. The method includes: loading a webpage resource, wherein a JS file of each module resource is set behind the body resource, extracting a JS resource required for running of the JS file from each module resource, and registering the JS resource into a pre-established function running pool, and after the body resource loading is completed, injecting the JS resource of each module resource in the function running pool into the corresponding JS file.
US10749922B2
A telecommunication system and a method for transferring media data from a first client over a QoS-sensitive network to a second client. The system and method can permit media data, which contain a first media type with a first traffic class and a second media type with a second traffic class to be bundled by the first client into second packets. In each second packet, the traffic class for each media type is marked in layer 4 and/or layer 5. The second packets can be transmitted toward the second client. Either before or during the transfer to the network, the second packets can be unbundled using the markings in layer 4 and/or layer 5 and then bundled into first packets, each of which has only one of the traffic classes. At least some of the first packets can then be transmitted over the network to the second client.
US10749920B2
A base station is provided. The base station comprises a processor configured to receive beam related information from a user equipment (UE), determine a position of the UE in response to the beam related information and acquire a video stream from at least on video capturing device configured on the base station in response to the position.
US10749916B2
An approach is provided in which an information handling system invokes a conferencing session over a computer network between a first user utilizing a headset and one or more second users. The information handling system detects an audible interruption from a third user proximate to the first user, while the headset inhibits the first user from detecting the audible interruption. Next, the information handling system sends an interruption notification to the first user in response to determining that the audible interruption matches at least one of a set of notification triggers corresponding to the first user. In turn, the information handling system captures a dialog between the one or more second users in the conferencing session in response to the first user accepting the interruption notification.
US10749914B1
A communication system capable of enabling one or more communication devices to remotely execute one or more applications includes one or more communication devices that are coupled to a data connection. At least one of the one or more communication devices is operable to communicate a request to establish a communication session over the data connection. The system also includes one or more application servers that are coupled to the data connection. At least one of the one or more application servers is adapted to execute an application to establish the requested communication session with the at least one communication device. The at least one application server resides at a location remote from the at least one communication device. The at least one application server communicates a request for processing service to the at least one communication device. The request for processing service is communicated to the at least one communication device over the data connection.
US10749912B2
To facilitate remote support, a live remote support tool providing versatile information exchange between an apparatus at a site and another apparatus in a remote support site is disclosed.
US10749896B2
A method, a system, and a computer readable medium for determining a readiness of a computerized network against distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks are provided herein. The system may include: an interface configured to obtain properties characterizing the computerized network; a knowledge base containing a plurality of rules taking into account DDoS risks and best practice related thereto; and a computer processor configured to: analyze the properties using the knowledge base to yield an analysis; and determine a readiness of the computerized network against DDoS attacks, based on the analysis. In some embodiments, the properties are obtained by analyzing a filled-in questionnaire relating to the computerized network under test. In other embodiments, these properties are automatically derived from databases containing data pertaining to the computerized network.
US10749895B2
Examples relate to handling network threats. In one example, a computing device may: receive, from a threat detector, threat data associated with a particular network device included in a plurality of network devices; identify, based on the threat data, a particular analytics operation for assisting with remediation of a threat associated with the threat data; identify, based on the threat data, additional data for performing the particular analytics operation; cause reconfiguration of at least one of the plurality of network devices, the reconfiguration causing each of the reconfigured network devices to i) collect the additional data, and ii) provide the additional data to an analytics device; and receive, from the analytics device, particular analytics results of the particular analytics operation.
US10749889B2
A computing system may include a database disposed within a computational instance of a remote network management platform that manages a managed network. Additionally, the computing system may include server device(s) disposed within the computational instance. The server device(s) may be configured to: compare, in order of priorities of assignment rules, a particular configuration item to the assignment rules until a matching condition is found, where the comparison includes consideration of one or more of: (i) particular item attributes of the particular configuration item or (ii) particular vulnerability attributes that apply to the particular configuration item; determine a particular remediator identifier related to the matching condition; based on a key and the particular remediator identifier, determine a particular group for the particular configuration item according to grouping rules; and store, in the database, a reference to the particular configuration item in the particular group.
US10749886B1
Disclosed embodiments relate to systems and methods for automatically processing diversely structured operational policies. Techniques include identifying first and second operational policies, determining if the policies use different vocabulary or syntax, applying a language processing protocol to the policies, and normalizing the policies. Other techniques include making available the normalized policies to a computing resource, identifying a set of related rules based on the normalizing, identifying that one of the polices has an unnecessarily high level of privileges, and reducing the level of privileges according to a least-privileges policy.
US10749885B1
Disclosed embodiments relate to systems and methods for automatically and transparently detecting potential compromises or unauthorized use of endpoint computing devices. Techniques include engaging, at a security server, in an agentless management session with an application running on an endpoint computing device; controlling, at the security server and through the agentless management session, a user-facing session of the application; receiving, at the security server, an indication of anomalous activity or loss of a proximity between at least one of: the one or more personal computing devices associated with the user and the endpoint computing device, or the one or more personal computing devices associated with the user and the user; and implementing a control action in the agentless management session, based on the received indication.
US10749882B2
Aspects are generally directed to network security systems and methods of monitoring network activity. In one example, a network security system includes and interface to receive a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) network log that includes a matrix of data, a feature extraction component configured to extract a connectivity matrix from the HTTP network log based on a recurring pattern within the matrix of data, and a training module configured to provide deep learning architecture training data based on the connectivity matrix. The system may include a deep learning architecture configured to receive and propagate the training data through one or more layers thereof to train the one or more layers, and being configured to generate a general data representation of the HTTP network log. The system may include a behavior analytics component to detect a discordant network activity within the HTTP network log based on the general data representation.
US10749880B2
The present invention involves with a cloud tenant oriented method and system for protecting privacy data. The method comprises at least the following steps: analyzing event handler information and/or behavioral signature information of request information and determining an execution mode, selecting at least one node without a behavioral signature plot to execute the tenant request and recording an execution result, generating a behavioral signature plot based on the execution result, and dynamically detecting security-sensitive behavior based on the behavioral signature plot. The present invention ensures data security during processing of security-sensitive data for cloud services by adopting a technology based on behavioral signatures, and prevents attackers from exploiting vulnerabilities and bypassing security control to conduct malicious operations.
US10749877B1
In response to a computing device of a user being reported as lost or stolen, various steps associated with security for the computing device are performed. In one approach, a database is marked to indicate that the computing device is lost or stolen. Applications that are installed on the lost or stolen computing device are determined, and a security action is selected based on this determination. In some cases, the selected security action reduces or denies service to the computing device, and/or blackholes traffic to or from the installed application. A service provider associated with the installed application is determined, and a notification is sent to the service provider. The notification indicates the installed application, and that the computing device of the user has been lost or stolen.
US10749873B2
A method and system for improving efficiency and security of a role based access control (RBAC) identity management system. A service provider owner requests an addition of a service provider identity dataset to a role dataset in the RBAC identity management system. The role dataset includes permissions to the individual users within the service provider identity dataset to access a secured resource of the RBAC identity management system and to perform the service on the secured resource. Addition of the service provider identity dataset to the role dataset is granted and is periodically revalidated which includes receiving an instruction to maintain or delete the service provider identity dataset from the role dataset. Access to the secured resource is based on the service provider identity dataset in the role dataset, instead of being based on the individual users, which improves the efficiency and security of the RBAC identity management system.
US10749866B2
A registration mediating server may send to a function mediating server a first authentication information request, receive from the function mediating server first authentication information, send to the function mediating server an execution information request, receive from the function mediating server specific execution information, and send to a specific server communication information including the first authentication information and the specific execution information. The specific server may register the communication information, receive from a sound input device a first function execution request, extract the first authentication information and the specific execution information, and send to the function mediating server a second function execution request including related information which is related to the extracted specific execution information by using the first authentication information. The function mediating server may send a function execution instruction to a function executing device by using the related information. The function executing device may execute a function.
US10749862B2
A client (such as a PC, portable telephone, PDA, electrical appliances), to which a device such as a IC card is connected, starts a handshake protocol to request a server to start communication. When communication is established via the handshake protocol, the initiative of communication is transferred to the server, and the state changes into a neutral state. In this neutral state, a control packet including a particular number of messages and a finished message is transmitted from the server to the client. If the client receives the control packet, the client performs a process according to the messages included in the control packet. This makes it possible to remotely control a device via a network in a highly reliable and efficient manner.
US10749861B2
In an aspect, the present disclosure provides an electronic device for OTP authentication of a present location, comprising: a power source, a processor, and a memory in a housing; a strap comprising first and second ends, and a first wire extending from the first end to the second end of the strap and forming an external loop, wherein the first wire establishes a first electrical connection between the power source and the processor; and a second electrical connection operatively connected to the processor and the memory, the processor configured to generate an OTP, only when the processor is connected to the power source by the first electrical connection without interruption once the first electrical connection is established. The OTP authentication may be time-based one-time password (TOTP) authentication, and the generated OTP may be a time-based one-time password (TOTP).
US10749857B2
A system for network mapping includes an interface and a processor. The interface is configured to receive an indication to scan a set of addresses using a fingerprint. The processor is configured to for an address of the set of addresses: receive a response associated with the address; determine whether the response matches the fingerprint; and store the address in a client network database in the event the response matches the fingerprint.
US10749853B2
An apparatus is provided for facilitating cross-platform authentication. The apparatus may include at least one memory and at least one processor configured to detect that a visual token includes data indicating one or more authentication credentials for accessing a communication device in response to scanning the visual token. The computer program code may further cause the apparatus to communicate the authentication credentials of the detected visual token to the communication device to request the communication device to determine whether the authentication credentials are valid for a user. The computer program code may further cause the apparatus to enable access to the communication device in response to receiving an indication from the communication device that the authentication credentials of the detected visual token are valid. Corresponding computer program products and methods are also provided.
US10749850B2
A method for checking a confidence level associated with a first user account of an online service, each user account including associated user data and contact means, the method includes the steps of selecting at least one second user account, generating a first code, recording the first code in association with the first user account, sending a first message via a contact means associated with the second user account, the first message including the first code generated and, in subsequent steps, of receiving, from a first electronic device connected to the online service with the first user account, a second message including a second code and, when the second code is equal to the first code recorded in association with the first user account, then increasing the value of the parameter indicating the confidence level associated with the first user account of the online service.
US10749848B2
Systems and methods for providing data privacy in a private distributed ledger are disclosed. According to another embodiment a distributed ledger network may include a first node comprising a first node computer processor and hosting a central ledger comprising a plurality of entries for public transactions and private transactions, wherein the entries for public transactions comprise transaction payloads for the respective public transaction, and the entries for private transactions comprise a cryptographic hash digest of a transaction payload for the respective private transaction; and a plurality of second nodes each comprising a second node computer processor and hosting a public database comprising the public transactions, and a private database comprising transaction payloads for the private transactions to which the node is a party.
US10749844B2
Computer implemented systems and methods are presented comprising a platform coordinating data flows between data acquisition, data transformation and data delivery nodes, whilst protecting the identities of all entities whose data is being acquired, transformed, stored, and/or delivered. Metadata usage from different data transformation flows enables the platform to facilitate value distribution back to nodes and data subjects that contributed to output, enabling individual companies and/or data subjects subscribed to the platform to assess how and by whom their data is utilized in order to produce specific outputs, with the personal data of all entities being de-identified.
US10749843B2
In an example, there is disclosed a monolithic reputation update on a data exchange layer (DXL). According to one embodiment, designating a set of objects as good or bad can be achieved via a single administrative action by leveraging persistent client initiated connections to the DXL framework. This may enable communication of the reputation updates across a heterogeneous infrastructure, including systems potentially unreachable by the server, such as those behind a firewall or NAT.
US10749831B2
Aspects of the present disclosure relate to systems and methods for providing a preview of protected content in a user interface to an email client. An email client may receive an email message including a uniform resource locator (URL) linked to at least one item stored in a data service. The email client may send the URL to an email server to determine whether a recipient of the URL has permissions to the at least one item stored in the data service. When it is determined that the recipient of the URL has permissions to the at least one item stored in the data service, content for a permission protected preview of the at least one item may be received at the email client. The email client may render the permission protected preview of the at least one item in a user interface to the email client.
US10749829B2
The present invention discloses a method for processing messages at a network node, wherein the network node has a plurality of SIM card slots. The network node first receives a message and determines whether the message matches any predefined pattern by performing a lookup on the first configuration database. If the message matches any predefined pattern, the network node processes the message. Alternatively, this can be done when the message is forwarded to a management server.
US10749811B2
Example implementations described herein are directed to a configurable Network on Chip (NoC) element that can be configured with a bypass that permits messages to pass through the NoC without entering the queue or arbitration. The configurable NoC element can also be configured to provide a protocol alongside the valid-ready protocol to facilitate valid-ready functionality across virtual channels.
US10749803B1
An upstream network device in a switching system processes packets an determines respective one or more egress ports of a downstream network device via which the packets are to be subsequently transmitted by the downstream network device. The upstream network device temporarily stores the packets in respective virtual output queues (VoQs) corresponding to the determined egress ports of the downstream network device. Responsively to receiving a flow control message indicating that particular one or more egress ports of the downstream network device are congested, the upstream network device modulates a flow of packets from particular one or more VoQs corresponding to the one or more particular congested egress ports of the downstream network device, to reduce congestion at the particular congested egress ports of the downstream network device, without modulating the flow of packets from other one or more VoQs corresponding to other egress ports of the downstream network device.
US10749801B2
Some embodiments provide a method for a network controller operating on a host machine that hosts a particular one of multiple centralized routing components for a logical router. The method receives a routing table from a routing protocol application operating on the host machine. Each of the other centralized routing components operates on a different host machine and implements a different interface of the logical router that connects to at least one physical router external to the logical network. The routing protocol application operates as a router server for all of the centralized routing components. For each of the other centralized routing components, the method identifies a set of routes in the routing table to distribute to the centralized routing component. The method sends the identified routes for each centralized routing component to the centralized routing component.
US10749800B2
Embodiments of the present invention relate to a Lookup and Decision Engine (LDE) for generating lookup keys for input tokens and modifying the input tokens based on contents of lookup results. The input tokens are parsed from network packet headers by a Parser, and the tokens are then modified by the LDE. The modified tokens guide how corresponding network packets will be modified or forwarded by other components in a software-defined networking (SDN) system. The design of the LDE is highly flexible and protocol independent. Conditions and rules for generating lookup keys and for modifying tokens are fully programmable such that the LDE can perform a wide variety of reconfigurable network features and protocols in the SDN system.
US10749795B2
Described embodiments provide systems and methods for selecting communication paths for applications sensitive to bursty packet drops. A device intermediary to a client and a server may identify an application for which packets are to be communicated between the client and the server. The device may determine a sensitivity level of the application to a network disruption affecting the packets. The device may estimate, for each path between the client and the server for communicating the one or more packets, a path quality for the path indicating a likelihood that the network disruption affects the one or more packets. The device may select path for communicating the packets based on the sensitivity level of the application and the path quality. The device may communicate the packets between the client and the server via the path.
US10749791B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a system for rerouting electronic data transmissions based on generated solution data models. The system is typically configured for generating one or more solution data models comprising a plurality of asset systems and a plurality of users and storing the one or more solution data models in a model database, determine occurrence of an event associated with at least a first asset of the plurality of asset systems, extracting a first solution model associated with the first asset from the model database, determining one or more asset systems connected with the first asset based on the one or more relationships, identifying electronic data transfer jobs associated with the first asset and the one or more asset systems, and cancelling the electronic data transfer jobs associated with the first asset and the one or more asset systems.
US10749770B2
In one embodiment, a traffic analysis service obtains telemetry data regarding network traffic associated with a device in a network. The traffic analysis service forms a histogram of frequencies of the traffic features from the telemetry data for the device. The traffic features are indicative of endpoints with which the device communicated. The traffic analysis service associates a device type with the device, by comparing the histogram of the traffic features from the telemetry data to histograms of traffic features associated with other devices. The traffic analysis service initiates, based on the device type associated with the device, an adjustment to treatment of the traffic associated with the device by the network.
US10749769B2
Examples of identifying a cluster of servers and generating a graphical representation of the cluster of servers are disclosed. In one example implementation according to aspects of the present disclosure, a cluster of servers may be identified based on applying a social group analysis to network traffic related to a plurality of interconnected servers. A graphical representation of the identified cluster of servers may be generated.
US10749767B2
A routing system is described herein for intelligently routing actions directed to any one of a collection of user devices that are associated with a user. In operation, the routing system receives a request from a source entity to perform an action. The routing system determines a mode of carrying out the action that involves use of one or more user devices, selected from the collection of user devices. It then instructs the selected user device(s) to carry out the action. In this manner of operation, requests that are directed to an individual user device are no longer necessarily carried out by that individual user device. The routing system chooses the user device(s) to carry out the action based on current context information together with relationship information extracted from a user graph.
US10749750B2
A method for providing a dormant state for content management servers is provided. Client devices are allowed to conduct transactions with servers when the servers are active. However, in a dormant state, the servers are not allowed to accept new transactions. Thus, by utilizing the dormant state, software upgrades can be made to one server at a time. Alternatively, all servers can be taken down for major upgrades, with the servers still operated in a read-only mode based on a file image from a point in time just prior to the shutdown. When the upgrade is completed, the servers can be returned to the active state.
US10749748B2
A method and system. A health and compliance check report for a network including two or more devices is received. The report includes a list of health and compliance check findings at a particular time. Each finding indicates a determination of non-compliance of a subject device of the two or more devices with a predetermined requirement and includes a severity value associated with the determination of non-compliance of the subject device. For each finding in the report, a ranking value is determined based on the associated severity value and an importance value of one or more devices connected to the subject device.
US10749746B2
In one embodiment, a supervisory device in a network assigns different access points in the network to different access point groupings. Each of the different access point groupings uses a different network path to communicate with a given endpoint in the network. The supervisory device selects at least one of the access points in each of the different access point groupings for mapping to a virtual access point (VAP) for a node in the network as part of a VAP mapping. The supervisory device instructs the selected access points to form a VAP for the node. The node treats the access points in the VAP mapping as a single access point for purposes of communicating with the network.
US10749735B2
Methods and apparatus for correlating event notifications between agents in a management network are provided. An agent constructs a network notification in response to receiving an event notification. If the received event notification is associated with a prior notification already received and stored by the agent, a correlation attribute is added to the constructed network notification. If the received notification matches a peer agent notification category that another agent in the management network is interested in receiving, the constructed network notification is sent to the other agent.
US10749732B2
The present invention is directed to data communication. In certain embodiments, the present invention provides switching mechanism for choosing between redundant communication links. Data received from a first set of communication links are processed to have alignment markers removed, and first figure of merit value is determined based on the data without alignment markers. Similarly, a second figure of merit value is determined for the data received from the second set of communication links. A switch selects between the first set of communication links and the second set of communication links based on their respective figure of merit values. Alignment markers are inserted into the data transmitted through the selected set of data links. There are other embodiments as well.
US10749731B2
It is presented a method for facilitating secure communication between a client device and an application server. The method comprises the steps of: receiving a client request from the client device, the client request comprising a first fully qualified domain name, FQDN, for the application server, and at least a portion being bound for the application server; forwarding the client request to the application server; receiving an application server response from the application server, the application server response indicating a need to provide authentication; obtaining an original context identifier from an authentication server; generating a modified context identifier based on the original context identifier and a client identifier, being an identifier of the client device; generating a client specific shared key based on the first FQDN, the client identifier and a shared key which is not specific to the client device; and providing the modified context identifier, the client specific shared key to the client device to use for authentication with the application server.
US10749726B2
Various aspects directed towards generating a reference signal for pi/2-binary phase shift keying (BPSK) modulation are disclosed. In an example, a pi/2-BPSK sequence is selected from a plurality of candidate sequences. A reference signal is then generated based on the selected pi/2-BPSK sequence such that the reference signal is associated with a transmission of data modulated according to a π/2-BPSK modulation.
US10749721B2
A distributed radio frequency communication system facilitates communication between a wireless terminal and a core network. The system includes a remote radio unit (RRU) coupled to at least one antenna to communicate with the wireless terminal. The RRU includes electronic circuitry to perform at least a first portion of a first-level protocol of a radio access network (RAN) for communicating between the wireless terminal and the core network. The system also includes a baseband unit (BBU) coupled to the core network, and configured to perform at least a second-level protocol of the RAN. A fronthaul link is coupled to the BBU and the RRU. The fronthaul link utilizes an adaptive fronthaul protocol for communication between the BBU and the RRU. The adaptive fronthaul protocol has provisions for adapting to conditions of the fronthaul link and radio network by changing the way data is communicated over the fronthaul link.
US10749717B2
A demodulator for pulse-width modulated clock signals is disclosed. In one aspect, the demodulator includes an edge detector configured to detect transitions in a reference clock and output a signal indicative of timing of the detected transitions. The demodulator may also include a modulation detection circuit configured to identify modulation events of at least one pulse-width modulated pulse in the reference clock based on the signal output from the edge detector and output a signal indicative of the at least one pulse-width modulated pulse modulation event being identified. The demodulator may further include a retiming circuit configured to generate an output clock synchronized with the at least one pulse-width modulated pulse modulation event based on the signal output from the modulation detection circuit.
US10749714B2
Disclosed herein are related to a system and a method for high speed communication. In one aspect, the system includes a set of slicers configured to generate a slicer output signal digitally indicating a level of an input signal received by the set of slicers. The system includes a speculative tap coupled to the set of slicers, where the speculative tap is configured to select bits of the slicer output signal based on selected bits of a prior slicer output signal. The system includes a decoder coupled to the speculative tap, where the decoder is configured to decode the selected bits of the slicer output signal in a first digital representation into a second digital representation. The system includes a feedback generator coupled to the decoder, where the feedback generator is configured to generate a feedback signal according to the decoded bits of the slicer output signal.
US10749712B2
A bandwidth detection device comprises a receiving circuit, for receiving a first plurality of frequency-domain signals on a first subchannel; a filter circuit, coupled to the receiving circuit, for transferring the first plurality of frequency-domain signals to a first plurality of filtered frequency-domain signals according to a filter function; and a processing circuit, coupled to the filter circuit, for comparing the first plurality of frequency-domain signals with the first plurality of filtered frequency-domain signals, to determine whether the first subchannel comprises first transmitted data.
US10749707B2
A method for operating a first communication node connected to an in-vehicle network is provided. The method comprises generating a header including a count field indicating a wraparound count for a presentation time of contents and a timestamp field indicating the presentation time, generating a payload field including the contents, and transmitting a frame including the header and the payload field to a second communication node connected to the in-vehicle network.
US10749706B2
The present invention relates to an integrated circuit device for controlling LIN slave nodes based on a control signal transmitted by a LIN master control device. The IC device comprises a slave node circuit for processing the control signal when received in the form of a LIN message frame via a first data line terminal. The IC device also comprises a master node circuit for processing further control signals to be transmitted in the form of LIN message frames via a second data line terminal to the LIN slave nodes. The IC device also comprises a processing unit for controlling the LIN slave nodes based on the control signal by composing the further control signals.
US10749702B2
Techniques are described for multicast service translation. A router can provide access to a particular source for an Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) channel that is most appropriate for the subscriber despite the subscriber requesting the IPTV channel from a different source. The most appropriate source can be identified based upon a bit rate or quality of service associated with the subscriber and/or a bit rate or quality of service associated with each of one or more alternate sources of the IPTV channel. The router can receive a request to join a multicast stream from a client device of the subscriber that identifies a source associated with an IPTV channel, identify a different source of the IPTV channel for that subscriber, and transmit a different join request destined to the different source.
US10749698B2
An approach is disclosed for metering usage of cloud computing services at a feature level. In one embodiment, a metering application receives feature status information indicating which features of a cloud computing service are enabled through an event-driven process, in which events are generated and reported to the metering application when features are enabled or disabled, as well as a polling process, in which the metering application periodically queries the statuses of features. Feature status information gathered by the metering application is persisted in a database as collective feature statuses, with each collective feature status being associated with an interval of time during which feature statuses are unchanged. The feature status information obtained and persisted in the database may then be used to, for example, determine licensing fees based on feature usage or report feature usage to facilitate quantitative studies of the usefulness of features.
US10749696B1
Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for managing blockchain-based centralized ledger systems. One of the methods includes transmitting a timestamp request for a to-be-timestamped block of a blockchain at a time point to a trust time server by a ledger server in a blockchain-based centralized ledger system that stores data in the blockchain, the trust time server being associated with a trust time authority and independent from the blockchain-based centralized ledger system, the blockchain including a plurality of blocks storing transaction data, and disregarding the timestamp request in response to determining that a predetermined time period has lapsed after the time point and that there has been no reply to the timestamp request from the trust time server.
US10749694B2
This application describes systems and methods for using a physical unclonable function (PUF) to authenticate a device, which may include circuitry for generating PUF values that may uniquely identify the device. According to one aspect, the device may provide enrollment PUF values to an authentication device. The device may later be authenticated if PUF values generated by the device are within a threshold distance of the enrollment PUF values. Since the PUF values are compared using a distance, it may not necessary to apply an error correcting code to the PUF values. The enrollment values and/or the calculated distance may be adjusted to compensate for time variations in the PUF values due to circuit aging. Systems and methods are also described herein for authenticating the device without revealing new PUF values to any second party, for example using a cryptographic technique known as a garbled circuit.
US10749692B2
A method includes receiving, from a device, (i) a certificate request for a certification authority and (ii) a first digital certificate. The certificate request is digitally signed by the first device, and the first digital certificate is stored in the device. The method also includes verifying, at the certification authority, the first digital certificate using a second digital certificate of another certification authority. The method further includes verifying a digital signature of the certificate request using the first digital certificate. In addition, the method includes, after verifying the first digital certificate and the digital signature, transmitting a second digital certificate to the device.
US10749691B2
An example system receives certificate requests from clients. Each request can indicate a number of computerized devices needing certificates; a timestamp indicating when the request was transmitted; and a client identifier. The system includes a Quality of Service (QoS) manager that: distributes the requests from the clients across client queues, each of the client queues corresponding to a particular client; and divides requests into smaller subgroups of entries corresponding to a subset of the computerized devices needing certificates. The system can also transmit retrieved entries from the client queues to a certificate management service.
US10749690B2
A method for access control on an electronic device includes the step of generating, by an electronic device, a certificate signed by a keymaster, the electronic device running an operating system, the operating system capable of distinguishing between applications and application processes and providing an execution environment. The method also includes the steps of indicating, by the certificate, an access privilege for an approved accessor and receiving from an application, a request subject to the access privilege indicated by the certificate. The method further includes the steps of identifying the application from which the request subject to the access privilege was received and determining, using the certificate, whether the application is an approved accessor.
US10749684B2
A method and apparatus provides a blockchain that includes one or more blocks that contain a cryptographic binding of a signature-verification public key and/or a data encryption public key to the identity of the holder of the corresponding private key. The binding is performed by one or more key binding entities, referred to herein as a blockchain identity binder. Originators and recipients use the identity binding data to secure block chain transactions.
US10749680B1
The present disclosure includes secure communication between a vehicle and a remote device. An embodiment includes a processing resource, memory, and a vehicular communication component configured to, in response to receiving a request from a remote communication component to switch a state of a lock, calculate a challenge count for the request, generate a vehicular private key and a vehicular public key, perform a number of verification iterations, each respective verification iteration including providing the public key to the remote communication component, receiving, from the remote communication component, code for switching the lock state, verifying the remote communication component's identity, and incrementing a counter in response to verifying the remote communication component's identity, and decrypt the code using the private key and switch the lock state in response to the counter being incremented to a value equal to or greater than the challenge count.
US10749676B2
Non-limiting examples of the present disclosure relate to generation and implementation of a new security protocol that is used to secure common data access transactions across distributed network examples. An exemplary proof of verification protocol is disclosed that implements consensus security mechanisms across a plurality of distributed nodes, which may be utilized to validate owners of data in common data access transactions. Extending principles of blockchain security to common data access transactions and Internet of Things (IOT) networking requires a solution that: improves speed in transactional processing; reduces computational complexity; and presents efficient, secure and repeatable validation for owners of data in distributed networking environments. An exemplary proof of verification protocol provides such technical advantages by validating both user-specific data for a subscriber of an application/service and session data for user activity (past and present) within the application/service.
US10749666B2
A data statistics method and an apparatus thereof, the method comprises: receiving, by a first processor of the cooperative data party, data identifiers corresponding to pieces of first data for the data statistics and corresponding encrypted data from the statistical data party; determining, by the first processor, an identifier intersection according to data identifiers corresponding to pieces of second data of the cooperative data party and the received data identifiers corresponding to the pieces of first data; performing, by the first processor, statistical processing on encrypted data corresponding to common data identifiers in the identifier intersection to obtain encrypted statistical values; and sending, by the first processor, the encrypted statistical values to a second processor of the statistical data party to enable the second processor to perform decryption on the encrypted statistical values and obtain the statistical values.
US10749664B1
An apparatus includes a slicer circuit, a frequency acquisition circuit, a phase acquisition circuit and an oscillator circuit. The slicer circuit may be configured to (i) generate an output signal by slicing a data signal in response to a clock signal and (ii) generate a crossing signal in response to the data signal and the clock signal. The frequency acquisition circuit may be configured to generate a first control signal and a second control signal in response to the data signal and the clock signal. The phase acquisition circuit may be configured to generate a third control signal in response to the first control signal and the data crossing signal. The oscillator circuit may be configured to generate the clock signal in response to the second control signal and the third control signal. The second control signal may shift an adjustable frequency range of the clock signal.
US10749658B2
In an embodiment, a computer implemented method of an online course, includes receiving a server quantity via a browser interface, the server quantity being the number of servers to be loaded with an operating system and a course application to provide a computer-based teaching environment to a student user, wherein the browser interface operates within a database. The method further includes receiving a server-student allocation via the browser interface, the server-student allocation being a number that determines the proportion of students in the computer-based teaching environment to the servers providing the computer-based teaching environment. The method also includes determining a reservation permission for the computer-based teaching environment during a timeslot based on the server quantity, the server-student allocation, and available assets, wherein the available assets includes an unreserved server, and providing, via the browser interface, the reservation permission for the computer-based teaching environment during the timeslot.
US10749654B2
Provided are a method for reporting channel state information (CSI) and a device using the same. The device determines a CSI payload size in a CSI triggering subframe on which a CSI report is triggered. The device selects one of a plurality of physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) formats according to the CSI payload size.
US10749648B2
Provided is a device and method for transmitting or receiving an uplink channel or a downlink channel. In a wireless communication system, a user equipment: receives a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) for the user equipment in subframe n; and repeatedly transmits a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) corresponding to the PDCCH within D subframe(s) out of every P subframes from subframe n+k, wherein each of k, D, and P is a positive integer, and P may be a predefined value greater than D.
US10749643B2
A waveform observation system includes two communication nodes, a waveform observation apparatus, and a signal generation portion. The two communication nodes execute a full-duplex communication by a differential signal through a transmission line. The waveform observation apparatus observes a communication signal waveform in the transmission line in response to an input of a trigger signal. The signal generation portion outputs the trigger signal. One of the two communication nodes generates a clock signal, and transmits a signal in synchronization with the clock signal. Remaining one of the two communication nodes reproduces the clock signal included in the signal received from the one of the two communication nodes, and transmits a signal in synchronization with the clock signal that is reproduced. The signal generation portion outputs the trigger signal when equal to or more than two symbols indicated by the signal output to the transmission line consecutively coincide with one another.
US10749640B2
An operation method of a terminal in a communication system may comprise receiving a downlink data channel from a base station in a slot # n or a slot # (n−l); receiving a slot format indicator (SFI) indicating a format of a slot # (n+k) in which an uplink control information (UCI) is to be transmitted, from the base station in the slot # n; and transmitting the UCI including a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) response for the downlink data channel to the base station in the slot # (n+k). Here, each of n and k may be an integer equal to or greater than 0, and l may be an integer equal to or greater than 1.
US10749637B2
A method for a user equipment (UE) is disclosed. The method includes receiving, by the UE, downlink control information (DCI) for a downlink (DL) scheduling assignment (DL-DCI), the DL-DCI indicating a first uplink (UL) carrier associated with a Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH) resource configuration for transmitting an aperiodic UL transmission for uplink control information (UCI), and transmitting, by the UE, the aperiodic UL transmission for UCI in a second UL carrier without a PUCCH resource configuration, where the UE determines a resource allocation of the second UL carrier based on the DL-DCI. The DL-DCI includes at least one of: a UL/supplementary UL (SUL) carrier indicator, a Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARQ)-ACK resource indicator (ARI), a sounding reference signal (SRS) request field, a HARQ timing indicator, or a channel station information (CSI) request.
US10749635B2
Embodiments of a system and method for random access and scheduling request for new radio things sidelink are generally described herein. In some embodiments, a nUE (network user equipment) schedules a RA (random access) resource in a control channel. The nUE decodes a TAS (transmitter resource acquisition and sounding) payload, received from a wUE (wearable user equipment) in a PRB (physical resource block) addressed to a RA-ID (random access identifier) associated with the nUE. The nUE encodes, in response to decoding the TAS payload, a RAS (receiver resource acknowledgement and sounding) payload in the PRB. The nUE decodes initial access content received via a data channel from the wUE, the initial access content including a pro posed temp ID (temporary identifier) for addressing the wUE. The nUE encode, in response to the initial access content, an ACK (acknowledgement), addressed to the wUE, to accept initial access of the wUE.
US10749634B2
A transmission device includes, a receiver that receives availability information of each of a plurality of first transmission paths, and a transmitter that divides data into a plurality of transmission blocks, groups the plurality of transmission blocks into a plurality of slices, each of the plurality of slices include a distinct subset of the plurality of transmission blocks, when the availability information indicates that each of the plurality of first transmission paths has an error occurrence below a threshold value, transmits a different one of the plurality of slices to each of the plurality of first transmission paths.
US10749632B2
An apparatus for smart integrated cyclic data transport is provided. The apparatus may preserve the consistency and integrity of a file during the transfer of the file from a source system to a target system. The apparatus includes an orchestration subsystem. The orchestration subsystem includes an analyzer/generator module. The analyzer/generator module executes an algorithm on the file at the source location. An output is generated from the executed algorithm. The apparatus includes a consistency module. The consistency module pre-checks the output at the source location for pretransfer validation and creates a copy of the output. The copy may preserve the consistency and the integrity of the file. The apparatus includes a data transfer subsystem which transfers the file and the output from the source system to the target system. The apparatus may also include a validation subsystem for validating the integrity and consistency of the file.
US10749627B2
In the field of wireless communication, a method and an apparatus for transmitting Uplink Control Information (UCI) are provided. The method includes: determining a codeword corresponding to the UCI among multiple codewords according to a preset rule when the UCI is transmitted on a Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) with the multiple codewords (101); and transmitting the UCI by mapping the UCI onto the corresponding codeword (102). The apparatus includes a determining unit and a transmitting unit. The method and the apparatus provide a solution to transmitting UCI on a PUSCH with multiple codewords. This solution can be implemented easily based on LTE R8, without involving too much additional work of standardization.
US10749624B2
A method for managing a telecommunication network comprising the steps of identification, by the central controller, of an updated condition of availability of resources of the network, and association of a plurality of updated sequences of instructions, comparison of the plurality of updated sequences of instructions with a plurality of not updated sequences of instructions associated with the last condition of availability. In case that the plurality of updated sequences of instructions is different from the plurality of not updated sequences of instructions, a step is provided of sending an updated sequence of instructions to each nodal device, on the basis of the service class of the data traffic of the device. A step is furthermore provided of checking, by the local controller, a condition of service of the data traffic at time ranges δ, said updated sequence of instructions associating to each condition of service an optimal working status to be attributed to the data traffic. A step is then provided of comparison of the condition of service with an optimal condition of service and, in case that the condition of service is different, a step is provided of starting, by the local controller, the updated sequence of instructions for changing a status of the data traffic. It is further provided a step of sending to the central controller data concerning the change of the working status.
US10749618B1
Embodiments of a controller device and methods of control for a radio frequency (RF) test environment are generally described herein. The RF test environment may include the controller device, an RF generator, and a device under test (DUT). The DUT may be configurable to switch between multiple configurations. The controller device may receive feedback from the DUT that indicates a current configuration of the DUT. The controller device may use a machine learning rule to determine a set of candidate future configurations of the DUT based on the current configuration of the DUT. The controller device may generate a set of RF waveforms corresponding to the set of candidate future configurations of the DUT, and may transfer the set of RF waveforms to the RF generator.
US10749609B2
A single line converter module comprises a housing; an environmentally hardened fiber optic connector located in the housing and configured to be optically coupled to a service terminal for receiving downstream optical frames; a single electrical connector located in the housing and coupled over a metallic medium to a network terminal providing a service to respective customer premise equipment (CPE); and an optical-to-electrical (O/E) converter located in the housing and configured to convert the downstream optical frames to an electrical signal for transmission over the metallic medium to the network terminal.
US10749601B2
An optical transceiver according to an exemplary aspect of the invention includes an interferometer including an input-side optical coupler, an output-side optical coupler, and two arms through which to propagate light and disposed between the input-side optical coupler and the output-side optical coupler, adding a bias phase difference of approximately π/2+2nπ, n representing an integer, between light beams propagating through the two arms; an optical phase modulator generating an optical signal obtained by modulating a phase of continuous wave light to be inputted depending on an electrical signal to be inputted; and an optical delay device making a difference in time for which the optical signal modulated by the optical phase modulator reaching the output-side optical coupler, wherein the optical phase modulator operates by changing carrier density in a silicon optical waveguide.
US10749599B2
An optical communication method is an optical communication method for performing optical communication with a light-emitting device serving as a communication target. The optical communication method includes: a first step of reading information relating to a distance to the light-emitting device and information relating to a size of a light-emitting region included in the light-emitting device, the information relating to the distance and the information relating to the size being stored in advance; a second step of controlling an imaging range of a camera based on the information relating to the distance and the information relating to the size, the camera capturing an image of light from the light-emitting device; and a third step of extracting a signal from light emitted from the light-emitting device based on image data that the camera has captured in the imaging range.
US10749592B1
Systems, methods, and processing nodes for scheduling resources for relay nodes in a wireless network include identifying a relay node attached to an access node in the wireless network, determining a transmit power associated with the relay node, and prioritizing resources allocated towards the relay node based on the transmit power. The transmit power includes a transmit power of a radio air interface deployed by the relay node.
US10749590B2
Certain features relate to a digital multichannel interface between a base station and a repeater in a telecommunications system, such as a distributed antenna system. The digital multichannel interface can provide streams of I/Q samples that carry information from multiple carriers of a wideband communications signal as well as semi-static control information for the telecommunications system. The digital multichannel interface can also transport frame timing information between the base station and the repeater. The frame timing information can maintain synchronization between the uplink transmit frames carrying uplink I/Q samples and the downlink transmit frames carrying downlink I/Q samples.
US10749585B2
A method of a user equipment (UE) for a beam management in a wireless communication system/The method comprises receiving, from a base station (BS), configuration information including information of receive (Rx) beam identifications (IDs) associated with Rx beams, receiving, from the BS, reference signals for determining the Rx beams, wherein the Rx beams include different Rx beam IDs, respectively, measuring, based on the Rx beams, a beam reference signal (BRS) and a channel state information-reference signal (CSI-RS) received from the BS, and performing, based on the configuration information, an Rx beam cycling operation for the Rx beams to receive downlink channels.
US10749584B2
Methods and apparatuses for a codebook for uplink MIMO in advanced wireless communication systems. A user equipment (UE) includes a processor and a transceiver operably connected to the processor. The transceiver is configured to transmit, to a base station (BS), a message reporting a coherence capability of the UE for an indication of a transmit precoding matrix indicator (TPMI) and a number of layers. The transceiver is configured to receive, from the BS, the indication of the TPMI and the number of layers via downlink control information (DCI) signaling. The transceiver is configured to transmit, to the BS, uplink (UL) data via a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) based on the received indication of the TPMI and the number of layers. A number of bits in the DCI signaling for the indication of the TPMI and the number of layers is determined by a coherence state that depends on the coherence capability reported by the UE.
US10749579B1
The disclosed systems, methods, and structures are directed to LoS MIMO communications that optimize spectral efficiency and include a precoding module to multiply an input transmit data vector with a precoding matrix to generate a precoded transmit data vector, a gain matrix calculation module to generate a gain matrix having optimal gain values that maximize the spectral efficiency, a transmit signal processing unit to convert the precoded transmit data vector into an analog signal, a receive signal processing unit to receive the analog signal and convert the analog signal into a receive data vector, an equalization module, a channel estimation module to estimate channel information to generate an estimated channel, and a singular value decomposition module to decompose the estimated channel matrix. The gain matrix calculation module calculates the optimal gain values of the gain matrix by maximizing an objective function encompassing the channel information provided by a fed-back diagonal matrix.
US10749574B2
Provided are a device and method for performing authentication in a wireless power transfer system. Provided is an authentication method in a wireless power transfer system including receiving a first packet including indication information on whether a target device supports an authentication function from the target device; transmitting, when the target device supports an authentication function, an authentication request message to the target device; receiving an authentication response message including a certificate on wireless charging from the target device in response to the authentication request message; and confirming authentication of the target device based on the authentication response message.
US10749571B2
A system and method for inferring the feeder and phase of a transmitter on a plurality of electrical distribution lines. The system may include a low-voltage electrical distribution grid having one or more phases and one or more lines, a mechanism for transmitting a measuring data, a mechanism for receiving the measuring data, and a mechanism that analyzes the transmitted data to infer the phase and feed on which the transmission is injected.
US10749563B1
A module for a programmable controller includes a plurality of analog input channels, a control and evaluation device, and input terminals, where for each input channel, the module includes two analog to digital converters, at least four coupling elements and a switchover device, where for each input channel, where an input side of one analog to digital converter is directly or indirectly connected with the input terminals and an output side is connected with the evaluation circuit via a coupling element, where a control input of the switchover device is connected with the switching signal generator via a further coupling element, a signal output of the switchover device is connected with an input side of the other analog-to-digital converter, and where an output side of the other analog-to-digital converter is connected with the evaluation circuit via a further coupling element, where the coupling elements cause electrical isolation.
US10749558B2
A terminal includes: a radio receiver, which, in operation receives a plurality of data signals transmitted from a base station by a multi user-multiple input multiple output (MU-MIMO) scheme, the plurality of data signals being spatially multiplexed; an inter-user interference power estimator, which, in operation estimates inter-user interference power based on a transmission weight of another terminal with which the MU-MIMO scheme is performed; and a signal separator, which, in operation generates a reception weight based on the inter-user interference power and separates the plurality of data signals from each other based on the reception weight.
US10749545B1
A data storage system performs partial compression and decompression of a set of memory items. The memory items each include a data block and a tag with a prefix making up at least part of the tag. The memory items are ordered based on the prefixes. A code word is created containing compressed information representing values of the prefixes for the set of memory items. The code word and block data for each of the memory items are stored in a memory. The code word is decompressed to recover the prefixes.
US10749534B2
Apparatus and methods for clock synchronization and frequency translation are provided herein. Clock synchronization and frequency translation integrated circuits (ICs) generate one or more output clock signals having a controlled timing relationship with respect to one or more reference signals. The teachings herein provide a number of improvements to clock synchronization and frequency translation ICs, including, but not limited to, reduction of system clock error, reduced variation in clock propagation delay, lower latency monitoring of reference signals, precision timing distribution and recovery, extrapolation of timing events for enhanced phase-locked loop (PLL) update rate, fast PLL locking, improved reference signal phase shift detection, enhanced phase offset detection between reference signals, and/or alignment to phase information lost in decimation.
US10749520B2
The power circuit includes: a main substrate; a first electrode pattern disposed on the main substrate and connected to a positive-side power terminal P; a second electrode pattern disposed on a main substrate and connected to a negative-side power terminal N; a third electrode pattern disposed on the main substrate and connected to an output terminal O; a first MISFET Q1 of which a first drain is disposed on the first electrode pattern; a second MISFET Q4 of which a second drain is disposed on the third electrode pattern; a first control circuit (DG1) connected between a first gate G1 and a first source S1 of the first MISFET, and configured to control a current path conducted from the first source towards the first gate.
US10749518B2
A stacked field-effect transistor (FET) switch is disclosed. The stacked FET switch has a first FET device stack that is operable in an on-state and in an off-state and is made up of a first plurality of FET devices coupled in series between a first port and a second port, wherein the first FET device stack has a conductance that decreases with increasing voltage between the first port and the second port. The stacked FET switch also includes a second FET device stack that is operable in the on-state and in the off-state and is made up of a second plurality of FET devices coupled in series between the first port and the second port, wherein the second FET device stack has a conductance that increases with increasing voltage between the first port and the second port.
US10749516B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for a two lead electronic switch adapted to replace a mechanical switch. In one embodiment, a device is provided that includes a sensor and an electronic circuit having a voltage limiting circuit. The electronic circuit is configured to deactivate/activate the voltage limiting circuit to operate the electronic circuit in a first/second state in response to determining that an output of the sensor is less/more than a threshold voltage. The circuit includes first and second terminals configured to receive a switch voltage used to provide power for the device. The device sets the switch voltage to a first voltage level operative to power the electronic circuit and the sensor while the electronic circuit is operating in the first state and to a second voltage level operative to power the electronic circuit and the sensor while the electronic circuit is operating in the second state.
US10749509B1
A capacitive-coupled level shifter includes: an input having a positive input terminal and a negative input terminal, the input configured to receive a modulated signal in a first voltage domain; a comparator circuit configured to shift the modulated signal to a second voltage domain higher than the first voltage domain; and a capacitive divider circuit comprising a first capacitive divider branch coupling the positive input terminal of the input to a positive input terminal of the comparator circuit and a second capacitive divider branch coupling the negative input terminal of the input to a negative input terminal of the comparator circuit. The first capacitive divider branch and the second capacitive divider branch are symmetric so as to cancel out a common mode voltage of the modulated signal. A level shifter system which includes the capacitive-coupled level shifter is also described.
US10749503B2
A discrete time filter network with an input signal connection and an output signal connection and comprising a capacitor bank with a plurality of history capacitors, and at least one sampling capacitor which operates at a predetermined cycling rate to couple to at least one history capacitor at a time, which history capacitor is selected from the capacitor bank so as to share electrical charge between such selected history capacitor and the sampling capacitor, wherein there is a plurality of sampling capacitors that are provided in the capacitor bank, and the discrete time filter network is provided with at least one switch network comprising a plurality of clock driven switches for making selected cyclical connections between the sampling capacitors and the history capacitors in the capacitor bank at the predetermined cycling rate.
US10749496B2
A resonator is provided having a first electrode and a second electrode; and a piezoelectric film that is disposed between the first and second electrodes, has an upper surface opposing the first electrode, and that vibrates in a predetermined vibration mode when a voltage is applied between the first and second electrodes. Moreover, the resonator includes a protective film made of an insulator and disposed opposing the upper surface of the piezoelectric film with the first electrode interposed therebetween. Furthermore, a conductive film made of a conductor is provided that is disposed opposing the upper surface of the piezoelectric film with the protective film interposed therebetween, where the conductive film is electrically connected to any one of the first and second electrodes.
US10749483B2
An amplifier device (14) is adapted for an antenna-like transducer for MRI applications, especially for an RF coil. The amplifier device (14) includes at least one amplifier channel (16) including: an input connection device (18) for connecting an RF signal source (12); an output connection device (20) for connecting the antenna-like RF transducer; an RF amplifier unit (22); and an impedance matching circuit (24) configured to adapt the coupling of the RF amplifier unit (22) to the actually connected antenna-like RF transducer with regard to an actual load of the amplifier device (14). The load results from the combination of the antenna-like RF transducer and a person or sample interacting with the antenna-like RF transducer. The impedance matching circuit (24) establishes an electric line (34) between the RF amplifier unit (22) and the antenna-like transducer with an adjustable line length.
US10749480B2
A transmitter includes: a transmission circuit that outputs, via a transmission amplifier, transmission signals of a same frequency band; and a feedback circuit that feeds back, to the transmission circuit, a distortion compensation coefficient that is used to compensate for distortion of the transmission signals. The feedback circuit includes: a delay circuit that delays each of the transmission signals by a different amount of time; a combining unit that combines the delayed transmission signals to generate a combined signal; a signal conversion unit that converts a frequency of the combined signal to a different frequency using a local signal that is common among the transmission signals, and generates a demodulated digital signal from the combined signal of which the frequency has been converted; and a distortion compensation calculation unit that calculates the distortion compensation coefficient based on the demodulated digital signal.
US10749475B2
Methods and systems for modulating an amplifier power supply to efficiently attain amplified RF output power with much lower power dissipation than existing amplifiers. In a cable television (CATV) network, a processor receives a signal to be amplified by an amplifier at a location remote from the processor. A bias point of the amplifier may be variably modulated based on peaks of an input signal to reduce amplifier dissipation.
US10749474B2
A switching circuit includes a switching circuit stage configured to supply a load via filter networks. Control circuitry is provided to control alternate switching sequences of transistors in the half-bridges of the switching circuit stage. A current flow line is provided between the output nodes of the half-bridges including an inductance between two switches. First and second capacitances are coupled with the output nodes of the half-bridges. The control circuitry switches first and second switches to the conductive state at intervals in the alternate switching sequences of the transistors in the half-bridges between switching the first pair of transistors to a non-conductive state and switching the second pair of transistors to a conductive state.
US10749466B2
A system having a plurality of solar panel mounting clamps for mounting a plurality of solar panels including a plurality of threaded projections fixed in a mounting surface; a plurality of the solar panel mounting clamps, each respectively disposed upon one of the plurality of threaded projections such that the threaded receiving portion of each solar panel mounting clamp receives each respective threaded projection, such that the plurality of solar panel mounting clamps are capable of securing a plurality of solar panels to the mounting surface such that each clamp makes a conductive bond with one or more panels such that each panel shares a common ground. The system may include one or more mounting plates to rest upon the mounting surface that has one or more retainer clip to ease in cable management.
US10749464B2
A mobile washing system and methods for washing photovoltaic panels. The mobile washing system includes a vehicle, a fluid tank coupled to the vehicle, and a washing apparatus mounted to a side of the vehicle. The washing apparatus includes two generally longitudinal spray pipes that are configured to be rotated and vertically adjusted with respect to the vehicle to position the spray pipes generally parallel to a top surface of the photovoltaic panels.
US10749463B2
A photovoltaic system or installation, for generating electricity, which includes auxiliary charging modules for each solar tracker of the photovoltaic system to charge or supply energy to an auxiliary power supply device such as a battery, in order to power the photovoltaic system during the initial stages of the set-up process of the electric energy generation plant or during incidences in the normal operation of the photovoltaic system or installation.In addition to the auxiliary charging modules, the photovoltaic system comprises: one or more solar trackers, wherein each solar tracker comprises a plurality of photovoltaic panels, a DC/AC inverter to transform the DC electricity generated into AC electricity which is then supplied to an electric grid or an electric power distribution system, and a solar tracker controller, for each solar tracker, which controls several aspects of the one or more solar trackers of the photovoltaic system.
US10749461B2
A glass roof shingle includes a shingle cover layer made of a glass. A shingle base layer is disposed underneath the shingle cover layer. The shingle base layer and shingle cover layer define a cavity. A seal area formed between the shingle base layer and shingle cover layer and around the cavity controls ingress of moisture into the cavity. A photovoltaic module may be disposed within the cavity.
US10749458B2
A solar tracker comprises a support frame, a panel assembly comprising one or more solar panels, and an actuator to rotate the panel assembly to track the movement of the sun. The panel assembly comprises a central spine and one or more panel carriers extending transversely over the top of the central spine for supporting solar panels. The panel carriers are secured to the central spine by respective support brackets. The support brackets comprise a top surface, side walls extending downwardly from opposing sides of the top surface, and a slot with a downwardly facing opening extending transversely through the sidewalls. The slot is configured to receive the central spine.
US10749455B2
An ohmic-inductive electrical load, such as an electric motor, for example, for a hard-disk drive, is driven by supplying thereto a load current via a switching power stage supplied with a source current delivered by a supply source. The driving action may include sensing the load current; estimating the source current starting from the load current sensed; generating a feedback signal that assumes different values as a function of the result of the comparison between the source current estimated and a source-current threshold value; and driving the switching power stage via the feedback signal, increasing or decreasing, respectively, as a function of the different values assumed by the feedback signal, the load current, thereby controlling the source current.
US10749453B1
The drive device measures an open-phase voltage in an energization period in pulse width modulation control, and estimates position information of a rotor based on the measured voltage value, to drive the three-phase brushless motor. This drive device is configured so that, when a voltage pulse width of a set duty cycle is less than or equal to a predetermined value, energization with a voltage pulse width of a minimum duty cycle is performed twice in one period of pulse width modulation, and energization with a voltage pulse width of a correction duty cycle is performed twice in next one period of the pulse width modulation, so that energization with a voltage pulse width of a drive duty cycle corresponding to the set duty cycle is performed, on average in two periods.
US10749451B2
An embodiment of this invention relates to a motor driving control apparatus for a moto-assisted vehicle, which includes a driving unit configured to drive a motor, and a controller configured to determine a regeneration amount based on a first speed of a vehicle that moves by the motor driven by the driving unit, and control the driving unit according to the regeneration amount, wherein the first speed is a speed at a first timing when it is detected that a brake of the vehicle is changed to OFF, or is determined based on temporal change in an acceleration of the vehicle.
US10749446B2
A virtual synchronous generator device disclosed. The device includes an inverter and inverter controller having a power control portion, a power reserve portion, a power point tracking control portion, and a virtual inertia control portion. The power reserve portion determines an amount of power to be reserved and sends a signal, indicative of the determined amount of power to the power point tracking controller. The power point tracking controller determines a power point that is less than a MPP, and provides a signal to the power control portion indicative of the determined power point. The inertia control portion determines a virtual inertia and provides a signal indicative of the virtual inertia to the power control portion. The power control portion provides a power control signal to the inverter based on the power point tracking signal and the inertia command signal.
US10749445B2
A method for regulating an AC output current of a converter having a DC voltage intermediate circuit and a semiconductor switch in a bridge circuit for converting a DC voltage of the DC voltage intermediate circuit into an AC output current. The AC output current is regulated by way of a direct hysteresis current regulation, in which an actual value of the AC output current is maintained within a hysteresis window around a set point value. Furthermore, a hysteresis width of the hysteresis window is modulated in order to adjust a frequency spectrum of the AC output current.
US10749436B2
A switched-mode power converter and a method for operation is presented. The switched-mode power converter has a high side switching element, a low side switching element, and an inductor. Both the high side switching element and the low side switching element are coupled to an input terminal of the inductor. A zero cross comparator generates a trigger signal for opening the low side switching element. A sampling unit samples, at a time when the low side switching element is switching, an inductor voltage at the input terminal of the inductor. An integrating unit determines an offset voltage by integrating the sampled inductor voltage. Finally, an input voltage of the zero cross comparator is adjusted by subtracting the determined offset voltage from the inductor voltage. As a result, the switching behavior of the switched-mode power converter is optimized.
US10749434B2
A converter circuit and related technique for providing high power density power conversion includes a reconfigurable switched capacitor transformation stage coupled to a magnetic converter (or regulation) stage. The circuits and techniques achieve high performance over a wide input voltage range or a wide output voltage range. The converter can be used, for example, to power logic devices in portable battery operated devices.
US10749433B2
A solution is provided for a current balance feedback method to improve stability in a multi-phase DC-DC switching converter, where the current balance feedback signal is added to the PWM duty signal, after the PWM comparator. Using this feedback method, current balance oscillation issues caused by the non-linearity of the main control loop can be solved, and provide better current balance stability in the switching converter. Advantages include improving the stability of the current balance feedback loop by introducing the correction post PW modulation in the time domain, effectively bypassing interaction with the PW modulator. The current balance feedback loop stability improvement reduces PCB design effort and iteration.
US10749426B1
Apparatus and associated methods relate to providing safe electrical power to electrical equipment operating in a hazardous location. Safe electrical power is power that is both current limited and voltage limited so as to provide insufficient energy to ignite flammable gas or dust of a hazardous location. Safe electrical power is provided by first limiting voltage of operating power provided by a power source. Then the voltage-limited operating power is current limited by a current-limiting device. The current and voltage limited operating power is then converted to a step-down power via a current-limiting network. The step-down power is then voltage limited by a second voltage-limiting device. In some embodiments, the current-limiting network is a current mode step-down regulator.
US10749410B2
A motor assembly of the present disclosure improves a combined structure between an impeller and a rotor to more firmly combine them. Furthermore, the impeller is combined with a rotor shaft without deformation, so the durability of the respective components may be improved.
US10749409B2
A motor includes a stator, a rotor, and a first bearing. A housing of the stator has a top wall, a bottom wall opposite, a side wall and a first opening in the top wall. A rotating shaft of the rotor has a first magnetic unit having a first outer surface. The first outer surface includes first and second magnetic pole surfaces alternately arranged. The first and second magnetic pole surfaces have different magnetic poles. The first bearing having a first groove is disposed in the first opening. The first magnetic unit is located in the first groove having a first inner surface facing the first outer surface. The first inner surface includes third and fourth magnetic pole surfaces alternately arranged. The third and fourth magnetic pole surfaces have different magnetic pole. The first and third as well as second and fourth magnetic pole surfaces have the same magnetic poles.
US10749408B2
A connecting element for connecting a motor shaft of a motor to an encoder shaft of a rotary encoder which is designed to detect a rotational position and/or a rotational speed of the motor shaft has a connecting region which runs in an annular shape around a connecting axis and has two end sides which lie axially opposite one another, an outer side facing away from the connecting axis and an inner side facing the connecting axis. In addition, the connecting element has at least one fan blade which protrudes radially from the outer side of the connecting region.
US10749406B2
A blower device includes: a fan; a motor rotating the fan; a cover covering a stator and a coil of the motor; a terminal electrically connected to the coil and protruding from the cover; a printed circuit board electrically connected to the terminal; a housing including a receiving hole receiving the terminal and supporting the stator; and an elastic body sandwiched between the cover and the housing and formed into an annular shape, wherein the elastic body includes a first seal portion surrounding the terminal within the receiving hole, the cover includes a protruding portion, a protruding height of the protruding portion from the cover is lower than that of the terminal from the cover, and the protruding portion supports the first seal portion.
US10749403B2
A motor includes a housing that has a bottom with a first bearing accommodation and a cylindrical side surface portion which extends from the bottom; a rotor assembly with a rotation shaft, and a rotor mounted on the rotation shaft and accommodated inside the housing; a stator assembly accommodated inside the housing and surrounding the rotor; a housing cover coupled to an upper end of the housing and having a second bearing accommodation; a flow guide on the housing cover; an impeller connected to the rotation shaft over the flow guide; an impeller cover; a first bearing accommodated in the first bearing accommodation and receiving the rotation shaft; and a second bearing accommodated in the second bearing accommodation and receiving the rotation shaft, the housing cover having a cover body with an opening, connection arms between the second bearing accommodation and the opening portion, and a guide rib.
US10749400B2
A bus bar unit is provided with a plurality of bus bars and an insulating holder. The insulating holder holds the bus bars in a parallel arrangement and insulates between the bus bars. The insulating holder includes a molded portion, a wall portion and a groove portion. The molded portion covers an entire periphery of at least one bus bar from among the plurality of the bus bars. The wall portion is provided at a position spaced apart from a side surface of the molded portion to insulate the bus bars. The groove portion holds a remaining bus bar between the molded portion and the wall portion.
US10749388B2
A stator includes a first core including a plurality of non-oriented electromagnetic steel sheets that is stacked and having an insertion hole penetrating the plurality of non-oriented electromagnetic steel sheets in an axial direction of the stator and a second core arranged in the insertion hole and including a plurality of oriented electromagnetic steel sheets that is stacked. The first core has a thin-wall part adjoining the second core, and a conditional expression of 0.5tm≤ta≤2tm is satisfied, where ta denotes a thickness of the thin-wall part when the first core is viewed in the axial direction and tm denotes a sheet thickness of one non-oriented electromagnetic steel sheet in the plurality of non-oriented electromagnetic steel sheets.
US10749385B2
An AC electric machine that includes a dual magnetic phase material ring is disclosed. The AC electric machine includes a stator assembly and a rotor assembly positioned within the stator assembly and configured to rotate relative thereto, the rotor assembly comprising a rotor core including a stack of rotor laminations that collectively form the rotor core, the rotor core including a plurality of rotor poles separated by gaps therebetween. The AC electric machine also includes a dual magnetic phase material ring positioned about the stack of rotor laminations, the dual magnetic phase material ring comprising a first ring portion comprising a magnetic portion and a second ring portion comprising a non-magnetic portion.
US10749383B2
A power transmitting unit transmits electric power. A power transmission control unit detects one or more power receiving units that receive the electric power and controls the power transmitting unit so that more electric power is transmitted to a power receiving unit with a higher priority. One aspect of the present invention may be realized as a transmission device; a power supply system including a power receiving unit and the transmission device; or a power supply system further including an electronic device which consumes electric power received by the power receiving unit.
US10749381B2
A wireless power transmission device including a resonant circuit magnetically coupled to a wireless power reception device and being configured to wirelessly transmit power, an alternating current (AC) generator including switches and being configured to receive a direct current (DC) voltage and to generate an AC current, according to a switching operation of the switches, to be supplied to the resonant circuit, and a variable capacitor connected to an output terminal of the AC generator and having a first capacitance, when a load state of the wireless power reception device is provided as a full load state and a second capacitance lower than the first capacitance, when the load state is provided as a light load state.
US10749378B2
A resonance power transmission system for controlling a supply voltage of a power converter based on power transmission efficiency is provided. According to an aspect, a resonance power transmitter configured to transmit resonance power to one or more resonance power receivers may include: a voltage controller configured to receive an input signal and to output voltage of a predetermined level; a source controller configured to control a signal level of the DC voltage based the number of resonance power receivers.
US10749370B2
An electric vehicle service equipment (EVSE) system includes an EVSE case having a front plug face, a rear face, and left and right gripping sides that collectively define a trapezoidal prism cross section, the left and right gripping sides further having left and right convex gripping portions, respectively, a relay positioned within the EVSE case, and a controller positioned within the EVSE case and in communication with the relay, the controller responsive to a pilot duty signal, when a pilot duty signal is present.
US10749357B2
An example battery, a terminal, or a charging system can include a battery charging port, a battery discharging port, a battery negative port, an overcurrent protection element, a protection integrated circuit, a control switch, and an electrochemical cell. The battery charging port is connected to a positive electrode of the electrochemical cell, the control switch is connected in series between a negative electrode of the electrochemical cell and the battery negative port, the protection integrated circuit is connected in parallel to two ends of the electrochemical cell, and the protection integrated circuit is further connected to the control switch, so as to send a control signal to the control switch. In addition, the overcurrent protection element is connected in series between the battery discharging port and the positive electrode of the electrochemical cell.
US10749356B2
An electric work machine (2) includes a motor (M) and a control unit (36) that controls rotation of the motor. The control unit (36) is configured such that an operating mode is switchable between a normal mode, in which the motor is rotated within a prescribed output range, and a power mode, in which the motor is rotatable with energy greater than in the normal mode. Furthermore, the control unit (36) is configured to restrict use of the power mode.
US10749347B2
A direct current power system. The direct current power system includes a direct current bus system, a solar power system, an energy storage system, a wind power system, a rectifier system and an inverter system. The solar power system includes a plurality of solar panels, is electrically coupled to the energy storage system and is configured to supply a first direct current power at 48 volts. The energy storage system includes a plurality of battery stacks and is configured to supply a second direct current power at 380 volts to the direct current bus system. The wind power system includes at least one wind turbine assembly and is configured to supply a third direct current power at 380 volts to the direct current bus system. The rectifier system is configured to supply a fourth direct current power at 380 volts to the direct current bus system.
US10749342B2
A method and apparatus for power allocation across multiple loads. The method comprising the steps of: allocating available power between two or more power load elements, wherein a ratio of power allocated to a load element is based on a priority and measured parameters; and dynamically updating the power allocated to a load element as power requirements change.
US10749336B2
Disclosed examples include an ESD protection circuit, including a transistor operative according to a control voltage signal at a control node to selectively conduct current from a protected node to a reference node during an ESD event, as well as a resistor connected between the control node and the reference node, a capacitor connected between the control node and an internal node, and a diode with an anode connected to the protected node and a cathode connected to the internal node to allow charging current to flow from the protected node to charge the capacitor and to provide a high impedance to the internal node to prevent or mitigate flow of leakage current from the internal node to the protected node to raise a trigger voltage of the protection circuit during normal operation.
US10749335B2
There is provided a method of operating a reconfigurable differential protection scheme for carrying out differential protection of an electrical power network, the electrical power network comprising terminals, each of the terminals configured to be in communication with each other within a communications network. The method includes controlling the differential protection scheme to deactivate the differential protection, and selecting a terminal to be configured out of or into the differential protection scheme. The method also includes communicating reconfiguration information among the terminals, the reconfiguration information including the selection of the terminal to be configured out of or into the differential protection scheme. The method also includes modifying a respective differential protection algorithm at each of the non-selected terminals so as to configure the selected terminal out of or into the differential protection scheme, and controlling the differential protection scheme to reactivate the differential protection.
US10749334B2
A method of preventing disjunctions in a power distribution unit having a plurality of output connectors is disclosed. A power level of each of the output connectors is sensed. It is detected that the power level of a given output connector exceeds a fixed power limit. In response to the detection, a delivery of power by the given output connector is stopped while maintaining a delivery of power by a remainder of the output connectors. Power delivery may be resumed in response to receiving a user command to rearm the given output connector. A power distribution unit adapted to prevent disjunctions is also disclosed.
US10749329B2
A connection assembly includes an adapter to be mounted to a rear part of a subsea sensor, a sensor port being located in the adapter, through which at least a first and a second sensor connection are led to the subsea sensor; a first port for providing a connection to a first of the subsea cables; and a second port for providing a connection to a second of the subsea cables. A first penetrator is arranged in the first port to provide a liquid tight seal between an interior space of the adapter and a duct connected to the first port leading the first sensor connection through the first port, and a second penetrator is arranged in the second port providing a liquid tight seal between the interior space of the adapter and a duct connected to the second port and leading the second sensor connection through the second port.
US10749327B2
A utility pole assembly includes an elongated structure and sensors mounted on the elongated structure for detecting and determining deflection and/or tilt. The elongated structure has a first end configured to be fixed into a ground and a second end that is free and located opposite the first end. A first sensor is positioned on the elongated body at or near the second end, and a second sensor is positioned on the elongated body between the first tilt sensor and the first end of the elongated body. The first and second sensors each include sensor circuitry configured for measuring movements in tilt values in at least two axes, which can be converted to tilt angles. The first and second tilt sensors, in combination, are configured for determining and distinguishing between elastic deflection of the elongated body and tilt of the elongated body.
US10749319B2
A mounting device includes a panel portion, and a fastener receiving structure provided within a perimeter of the panel portion. The fastener receiving structure can include an aperture to receive an insertive fastener, and a flexure mechanism to enable at least a portion of the fastener receiving structure that includes the aperture to flex with insertion of the fastener in the aperture that attaches the panel portion against an underlying surface.
US10749317B2
An ignition coil for internal combustion engines is provided which includes a primary coil, a secondary coil, a case, a high-voltage terminal, a resistor, and a filled resin. The case has a case body and a high-voltage terminal extending downward from the case body. The high-voltage terminal is press-fit in the high-voltage tower to close the inside thereof. The resistor is fit in the high-voltage terminal. The high-voltage terminal includes a pressed wall and a non-pressed wall. The pressed wall is pressed against the high-voltage tower. The non-pressed wall is not pressed against the high-voltage tower. The resistor is fit in the non-pressed wall. This structure minimizes pressure exerted on the resistor and the high-voltage tower to secure a desired degree of durability of the resistor and the high-voltage tower.
US10749312B2
A segmented VCSEL array having a plurality of individually addressable segments, each segment comprising one or more VCSELs. In some cases, at least two of the plurality of individually addressable segments may be driven in combination. The plurality of individually addressable segments, in some embodiments, may be centered around the same central point. An optical element may be used in conjunction with the segmented VCSEL array, and in some cases may be aligned to the central point. The optical element may be configured such that light passing therethrough may be directed according to which of the plurality of individually addressable segments is activated. In some embodiments, the optical element is a grating or diffractive optical element. The grating or diffractive optical element could be patterned with optical segments that each correspond to at least one the plurality of individually addressable segments.
US10749308B2
An example apparatus may include a first plate having a first side. A first plurality of fins may be integral with the first side of the first plate and protruding perpendicularly therefrom. The first plurality of fins may be arranged in first concentric circles separated radially by a first distance. The apparatus may also include a second plate having a first side. The second plate may be rotatably coupled to the first plate. A second plurality of fins may be integral with the first side of the second plate and protruding perpendicularly therefrom. The second plurality of fins may be arranged in second concentric circles separated radially by the first distance. Each fin of the second plurality of fins may interpose between adjacent fins of the first plurality of fins to transfer heat between the second plate and the first plate.
US10749307B2
An adapter plate alignment gauge system includes an adapter plate for holding a crimping tool in different positions and an alignment gauge for aligning the crimping tool in a predetermined set crimping tool position relative to the alignment gauge. The adapter plate is immovably arrangeable in a predetermined set adapter plate position in a crimping press which, in order to create a crimp connection, connects one conductor end of a cable to a crimp contact. The alignment gauge can be fastened to the adapter plate whereby the alignment gauge is arranged in a predetermined set alignment gauge position relative to the adapter plate.
US10749303B2
A lamp device with changeable lamp socket includes a light tube, a light source plate received in the light tube, and two lamp sockets locked with two ends of the light tube. The lamp socket includes a first tubular body, a first covering plate, and two conductive plugs. The lamp device further includes two adapter covers detachably locked on the lamp sockets. Each adapter cover includes a second tubular body, a second covering plate, and a conductive component. For each of the lamp sockets and the corresponding adapter cover, the conductive plugs are inserted into insertion holes of the second covering plate, and the conductive component is electrically connected to the conductive plugs, passes through an opening of the second covering plate, and exposed from the second covering plate.
US10749299B2
A connector includes a plurality of contacts having a first pair of contacts and a second pair of contacts, and a housing configured to hold the plurality of contacts, the plurality of contacts each including a contact portion to be in contact with a contact of a mating connector, a connection portion to be connected to a connection target object, and a held portion disposed between the contact portion and the connection portion and embedded in the housing, the first pair of contacts each including, in the held portion, a deformed portion partially separated from the second pair of contacts.
US10749297B2
An electrical plug-in connection (1) for data transmission, including a plug (2) and a socket (3), the plug (2) has a plug housing (4) and a plug-in extension (5) which projects beyond the plug housing (4) and has electrical contacts (6), and the socket (3) has a socket housing (7) with a receiving channel (8) for the plug housing (4). A plug-in extension receptacle (9) with electrical mating contacts (10) is provided, and in a fully inserted state, the plug-in extension (5) is inserted into the plug-in extension receptacle (9) for connecting the electrical contacts (6) to the electrical mating contacts (10). The plug housing (4), at least in regions, is arranged within the receiving channel (8). The socket (3) has a locking device (11) for locking the plug housing (4) in the receiving channel (8) in the fully inserted state and an operating element (12), which projects beyond the socket housing (7), for releasing this locking arrangement.
US10749290B2
A waterproof assembly includes a casing, a gasket, and a cap. The casing has an opening. The gasket includes a main body and a protruding portion. The main body has a first circular raised structure configured to abut against an inner surface of the casing. The protruding portion is connected to the main body and is configured to at least partially protrude out of the casing through the opening. The cap is configured to abut against a side of the main body away from the opening. The cap has a through hole configured to be aligned with the protruding portion. The casing further has a plurality of fixing members configured to abut against a side of the cap away from the gasket.
US10749285B2
A vehicular device has a device main body, a device box housing the device main body, a terminal block attached to a wall of the device box, and a wire harness electrically connected to the device main body via the terminal block. The terminal block includes an O-ring. The O-ring has a ring-shaped O-ring main body and a lock target portion which is continuous with the O-ring main body. The lock target portion has a connection portion which is continuous with the O-ring main body at one end and a lock target portion main body which is continuous with the other end of the connection portion and projects perpendicularly to an extension direction of the connection portion. The lock target portion main body has a hollow portion in a base portion which is continuous with the other end of the connection portion, and thereby assumes a tubular shape.
US10749282B2
Even when a connection board has a large thickness tolerance, a stable connection is achieved by absorbing the tolerance so as to stabilize a contact pressure between the connection board and contacts. In a unit in which electrode groups of a connection board are in pressure contact with elastic contacts formed integrally with an inner housing to connect thereto, the inner housing is provided inside an outer case of a card edge connector through an elastic member to be freely movable forward and backward in a thickness direction of the connection board. The positions of the elastic contacts are adjusted by forward or backward moving the inner housing in accordance with the thickness of the connection board inserted into board insertion slots, so a pressure contact force with the elastic contacts is substantially equalized, irrespective of the size of the thickness of the connection board.
US10749280B2
The grounding clamp system is for use with an electrically insulated pole and for attachment to an electrical conductor in angled configurations. The grounding clamp system includes a clamping mechanism having an actuatable clamp and an associated ground conductor connector. An attachment coupler is configured to attach to the electrically insulated pole, and an angular adjustment mechanism is coupled between the clamping mechanism and the attachment coupler. The adjustment mechanism is configured to provide angular adjustment between the clamping mechanism and the attachment coupler in at least one axis while also transferring force to actuate the actuatable clamp when attaching the clamping mechanism to the electrical conductor at a selected angular position. The clamping mechanism is configured to create a path to pass ground fault current from the electrical conductor to a ground conductor coupled to the ground conductor connector without including the angular adjustment mechanism in the path.
US10749277B2
Provided is an intermediate connection system for an ultra-high-voltage direct-current (DC) power cable. Specifically, the present invention relates to an intermediate connection system, for an ultra-high-voltage DC power cable, which is capable of simultaneously preventing or minimizing electric field distortion, a decrease of DC dielectric strength, and a decrease of impulse breakdown strength due to the accumulation of space charges in an insulating layer of a cable and an insulating material of an intermediate connection part.
US10749273B2
A wireless communication system that communicates by an electromagnetic wave includes a first wireless device that includes a transmission rotationally polarized wave frequency generator for giving a rotation period to a polarized wave of the electromagnetic wave to be transmitted, transmits a synchronization code by the electromagnetic wave of the polarized wave rotated using the transmission rotationally polarized wave frequency generator, and transmits data by the electromagnetic wave, and a second wireless device that includes a reception rotationally polarized wave frequency generator for giving a rotation period to the polarized wave received in a reception of the electromagnetic wave, calculates transmission timing of the synchronization code included in the received electromagnetic wave of the polarized wave rotated using the reception rotationally polarized wave frequency generator, and sets a signal included in the received electromagnetic wave, as data based on the calculated transmission timing.
US10749272B2
A dual-polarized millimeter-wave antenna system applicable to 5G communications and a mobile terminal are disclosed. Each antenna element comprises a radiating body and a director, wherein the radiating body comprises a first dielectric layer, a main radiating part, a first feeding branch, a second feeding branch, a third feeding branch and a fourth branch, and the director comprises a second dielectric layer, a first director part and a second director part. The director has the same effect on a +45° polarization pattern and a −45° polarization pattern of the radiating body, so that wide-angle coverage is realized, and the consistency of the two polarization patterns is good; and the antenna system occupies a small area does not need a clearance area and can be placed on a complete metal ground plate, there by being suitable for full-screen equipment.
US10749262B2
An antenna transmission system includes a dual-feedline tapered slot antenna configured to generate a radiated output signal in response to a radio frequency (RF) signal. A power divider is configured to split a source RF signal into a plurality of RF feed signals. A plurality of transmitting amplifiers convert the plurality RF feed signals into a plurality of amplified RF feed signals; and a plurality of feedlines deliver the plurality of amplified RF feed signals to the dual-feedline tapered slot antenna. The dual-feedline tapered slot antenna generates the radiated output signal in response to the plurality of amplified RF feed signals.
US10749248B1
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In some systems, a user equipment (UE) may use transmissions causing power density exposure (PDE) to nearby users. To reduce the PDE of an antenna module (e.g., below a maximum PDE threshold), the UE may implement a shielding strip around the antenna module. For example, the antenna module may include a substrate having a first surface and a set of antenna elements on the first surface. The shielding strip may enclose the set of antenna elements of the antenna module and extend away from the first surface above the antenna elements. The shielding strip may reduce PDE outside a field of view of the antenna module. Additionally, in some cases, the placement of the antenna module in the UE and the materials used for constructing the UE may further reduce PDE.
US10749245B2
Antenna assembly, electronic device and method for switching antenna are provided. The antenna assembly includes a first antenna structure, second antenna structure and third antenna structure, the first antenna structure is used as a diversity antenna, the second antenna structure is in an idle state, and the third antenna structure is used as a main antenna; a radio frequency module coupled to each of the first antenna structure, the second antenna structure and the third antenna structure through a switch assembly; and the switch assembly arranged to, according to signal quality of the first antenna structure, the second antenna structure and the third antenna structure, switch one of the first antenna structure or the second antenna structure to the main antenna, switch the other of the first antenna structure or the second antenna structure to the idle state and switch the third antenna structure to the diversity antenna.
US10749242B2
A non-pneumatic tire and radio frequency identification tag combination is provided. The combination includes a ground-contacting annular tread, a central rim and at least one spoke disk disposed between the rim and the tread. The at least one spoke disk includes an inner ring mounted on the central rim, an outer ring, and a plurality of spokes extending radially between the inner ring and the outer ring. A shear band is disposed between the outer ring of the at least one spoke disk and the tread. A radio frequency identification tag is attached to the inner ring or the outer ring of the at least one spoke disk.
US10749240B1
A transmission antenna system may include an elongate upstanding main pole, an antenna support assembly extending upwardly from the main pole, at least one antenna mounted on the antenna support assembly, and a concealment assembly mounted on the antenna support assembly and configured to conceal from view the antenna support assembly and the at least one antenna.
US10749236B2
A transmission line includes a laminated insulating body including insulating base material layers that are laminated, signal conductors provided inside the laminated insulating body and extending in a transmission direction along the insulating base material layer, and ground conductors sandwiching the signal conductors in a lamination direction via the insulating base material layers. The transmission line includes at least one curved portion that is bent along a plane orthogonal to the lamination direction. The signal conductors are separated from each other in a direction orthogonal to the transmission direction when viewed in the lamination direction and include a first signal conductor on an inner side and a second signal conductor on an outer side in the curved portion. An interval between the ground conductors sandwiching the first signal conductor is narrower than an interval between the ground conductors sandwiching the second signal conductor.
US10749235B2
Well thermalized microstrip formation for flexible cryogenic microwave lines in quantum applications
A microstrip that is usable in a quantum application (q-microstrip) includes a ground plane, a polyimide film disposed over the ground plane at a first surface of the polyimide film, and a conductor formed on a second side of the polyimide film such that the first surface is substantially opposite to the second surface. A material of the conductor provides greater than a threshold thermal conductivity (TH) with a structure of a dilution fridge stage (stage). The stage is maintained at a cryogenic temperature, and the material of the conductor bonds at the cryogenic temperature with a second material of a part of a connector of a microwave line.
US10749234B2
A band-pass filter includes five resonators. The five resonators are configured so that capacitive coupling is established between every two of the resonators adjacent to each other in circuit configuration. The first stage resonator and the fifth stage resonator are magnetically coupled to each other. The second stage resonator and the fourth stage resonator are capacitively coupled to each other. Each of the five resonators includes a resonator conductor portion. The respective resonator conductor portions of the first and fifth stage resonators are physically adjacent to each other. The respective resonator conductor portions of the second and fourth stage resonators are physically adjacent to each other. The respective resonator conductor portions of the first and second stage resonators are physically adjacent to each other. The respective resonator conductor portions of the fourth and fifth stage resonators are physically adjacent to each other.
US10749231B2
A metal-air battery including: a negative electrode metal layer; a negative electrode electrolyte layer disposed on the negative electrode metal layer; a positive electrode layer disposed on the negative electrode electrolyte layer, the positive electrode layer comprising a positive electrode material which is capable of using oxygen as an active material; and a gas diffusion layer disposed on the positive electrode layer, wherein the negative electrode electrolyte layer is between the negative electrode metal layer and the positive electrode layer; wherein the negative electrode metal layer, the negative electrode electrolyte layer, and the positive electrode layer are disposed on the gas diffusion layer so that the positive electrode layer contacts a lower surface and an opposite upper surface of the gas diffusion layer, and wherein one side surface of the gas diffusion layer is exposed to an outside.
US10749226B2
Disclosed is a battery module, as well as a battery pack and a vehicle comprising the same. The battery module includes a plurality of battery cells, each having an accommodation portion in which an electrode assembly is accommodated and a sealing portion for sealing the accommodation portion, thermal-conductive sheets configured to surround at least a part of the battery cells in surface contact with the battery cells, side cooling fins located at an inner side of the thermal-conductive sheets and at least partially in contact with the accommodation portions of the battery cells, and a cooling plate in contact with the thermal-conductive sheet.
US10749222B2
A thermal battery including a storage vessel as well as an inlet pipe and an outlet pipe for a fluid that are connected to a circulation circuit is disclosed. The thermal battery also has at least two shut-off valves placed on the inlet pipe and the fluid outlet pipe, respectively, to isolate the fluid contained in the storage vessel when the circulation circuit of the fluid is shut off. The shut-off valves are automatic and include an enclosure containing the fluid and including an inlet and an outlet for the fluid, and a float that is moveable between: an upper position in which the float floats and obstructs at least the outlet when the circulation circuit is shut off, and a lower position in which the float is submerged and allows the fluid to flow between the inlet and the outlet when the circulation circuit is operational.
US10749221B2
A secondary battery including, an anode including a metal; a cathode; an electrolyte provided between the anode and the cathode; and a separator membrane, and further comprising an auxiliary electrode interposed in the separator membrane, for inhibiting dendrite growth of the metal to a predetermined state or less and detecting an internal short circuit of the secondary battery in advance, is provided.
US10749211B2
A solid electrolyte interface is grown on a silicon monoxide electrode in a battery cell, including by charging the battery cell up to a first voltage while the battery cell is uncompressed in order to partially grow the solid electrolyte interface. After partially growing the partial solid electrolyte interface, the battery cell is rested. After resting the battery cell, the battery cell is charged to a second, higher voltage while the battery cell is compressed in order to further grow the partially grown solid electrolyte interface. After the solid electrolyte interface is grown on the silicon monoxide electrode, the battery cell is charged for one or more cycles while the battery cell is compressed.
US10749206B2
Process for fabrication of all-solid-state thin film batteries, said batteries comprising a film of anode materials, a film of solid electrolyte materials and a film of cathode materials, in which: each of these three films is deposited using an electrophoresis process, the anode film and the cathode film are each deposited on a conducting substrate, preferably a thin metal sheet or band, or a metalized insulating sheet or band or film, said conducting substrates or their conducting elements being useable as battery current collectors, the electrolyte film is deposited on the anode and/or cathode film, and in which said process also comprises at least one step in which said sheets or bands are stacked so as to form at least one battery with a “collector/anode/electrolyte/cathode/collector” type of stacked structure.
US10749204B2
An electric power storage device includes a case body with an opening, the opening formed at an upper portion of the case body; an electrode body housed in the case body; a tab portion; and a current collecting terminal. The tab portion protrudes from part of the electrode body toward the opening of the case body. The tab portion has a side surface not facing the electrode body. The current collecting terminal is welded to the side surface of the tab portion.
US10749199B2
A solid-state rechargeable 3D microbattery is provided that has improved power density, energy density, and cycle lifetimes. These improvements are afforded by providing a solid-state electrolyte that is composed of crystalline Li1+xAlxTi2−x(PO4)3, wherein x is from 0 to 2. The solid-state electrolyte that is composed of crystalline Li1+xAlxTi2−x(PO4) has a high ionic conductivity (which is greater than 10−4 Siemens/cm) as well as high chemical stability.
US10749195B2
An electrochemical cell system and a method for operating an electrochemical cell is provided. The method including determining one of a power level, current level or a voltage level of the electrochemical cell, the electrochemical cell including at least one cell having an anode side and a cathode side, the electrochemical cell further having a water transport plate operably coupled to the cathode side. An oxidant pressure level is determined in the cathode side. A water pressure level is determined in the water transport plate. The active area of the at least one cell is changed by adjusting at least one of the oxidant pressure level or the water pressure level based at least in part on the determined power level, current level or voltage level.
US10749194B2
A vehicle system includes a voltage sensing circuit configured to detect voltages across cells in a fuel cell stack, and powered by a power supply sharing a voltage reference with the cells and having a voltage magnitude greater than a sum of voltage magnitudes of the cells. The system further includes a controller configured to, responsive to a change in polarity in at least one of the voltages indicative of freezing of the cells, issue an alert notification.
US10749191B2
A fuel cell comprises a membrane electrode assembly configured such that electrode catalyst layers are formed on respective surfaces of an electrolyte membrane; gas diffusion layers placed on respective surfaces of the membrane electrode assembly; and a frame placed around periphery of the membrane electrode assembly. The membrane electrode assembly has a protruding portion that is configured by protruding outside of the gas diffusion layer in a state that the membrane electrode assembly is combined with the gas diffusion layers. The frame has an engagement portion that is configured to engage with the protruding portion. An adhesive layer is formed from an ultraviolet curable adhesive between the protruding portion and the engagement portion.
US10749188B2
A solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) includes a solid oxide electrolyte with a zirconia-based ceramic, an anode electrode, and a cathode electrode that includes a ceria-based ceramic component and an electrically conductive component. Another SOFC includes a solid oxide electrolyte containing a zirconia-based ceramic, an anode electrode, and a cathode electrode that includes an electrically conductive component and an ionically conductive component, in which the ionically conductive component includes a zirconia-based ceramic containing scandia and at least one of ceria, ytterbia and yttria.
US10749184B2
A battery is provided in the present disclosure. The battery includes: a positive electrode plate including a positive current collector and a positive active material layer; a negative electrode plate including a positive current collector and a negative active material layer; and an electrolyte. The positive current collector includes an insulation layer used to support a conductive layer and the conductive layer used to support the positive active material layer and located above at least one surface of the insulation layer. The conductive layer has a thickness of D2 which satisfies: 300 nm≤D2≤2 μm. A protective layer is arranged on at least one surface of the conductive layer. The negative current collector is a copper foil current collector having a thickness of 1 μm to 5.9 μm.
US10749183B2
Provided is an electrode for energy storage devices, which is provided with: a collector substrate; an undercoat layer that is formed on at least one surface of the collector substrate and contains carbon nanotubes; and an active material layer that is formed on the surface of the undercoat layer and contains an active material which contains a titanium-containing oxide.
US10749182B2
Provided are excellent coated lithium-nickel composite oxide particles which are capable of suppressing the occurrence of impurities produced by absorbing water and carbonic acid gas as a result of the high environmental stability thereof, have strong adhesion properties, do not result in easy coating layer detachment, and also exhibit lithium ion conductivity. The surfaces of the lithium-nickel composite oxide particles are coated with a polymer or copolymer comprising one or more types selected from a group consisting of a modified polyolefin resin, a polyester resin, a polyphenol resin, a polyurethane resin, an epoxy resin, a silane-modified polyether resin, a silane-modified polyester resin, a silane-modified polyphenol resin, a silane-modified polyurethane resin, a silane-modified epoxy resin, and a silane-modified polyamide resin. As a result, the coated lithium-nickel composite oxide particles exhibit conductivity, and said compound is capable of suppressing the transmission of water and carbonic acid gas. Consequently, it is possible to provide coated lithium-nickel composite oxide particles for use in a lithium-ion battery positive electrode active material which is excellent for use in a lithium-ion battery.
US10749180B2
An energy storage device may provide a positive electrode, an electrolyte, and a negative electrode. The energy storage device may utilize an aqueous alkaline electrolyte, which may be nonflammable. The energy storage device may utilize organic material(s) as the negative electrode, such as, but not limited to, poly(anthraquinonyl sulfide) (PAQS), organic carbonyl compounds, organosulfur compounds, redox polymers, or radical polymers.
US10749179B2
A graphite-based negative electrode active material including a first graphite particle being spheroidized and a second graphite particle having a roundness lower than the roundness of the first graphite particle, wherein the content of the second graphite particle based on the sum of the first graphite particle and the second graphite particle is in the range of 1 to 30% by mass, the ratio of a median particle diameter (D50) to a particle diameter at 5 cumulative % (D5), D50/D5, in a cumulative distribution of the first graphite particle is smaller than the ratio of a median particle diameter (D50) to a particle diameter at 5 cumulative % (D5), D50/D5, in a cumulative distribution of the second graphite particle, and the tap density in saturation of the particle mixture of the first graphite particle and the second graphite particle is higher than both the tap density in saturation of the first graphite particle and the tap density in saturation of the second graphite particle.
US10749170B2
Disclosed herein are graphene-coated lithium manganese oxide spinels cathodes for high-performance batteries Li-ion batteries and methods for making thereof. A single-layer graphene coating is shown to significantly reduce manganese loss in the cathodes while concurrently promoting the formation of a well-defined solid electrolyte interphase layer.
US10749158B2
The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of a composite material comprising a vinylidene difluoride (VDF)-containing copolymer and an electrically non-conductive polymeric material, to a composite material obtainable via said process, to its use in electrochemical cells and to an electrochemical cell comprising said composite.
US10749154B2
The present invention provides a battery pack including: a battery module assembly including a plurality of battery cells; a tray assembly having an upper surface on which the battery module assembly is mounted; a cover member having an outer periphery coupled to face an outer periphery of the tray assembly while the battery module assembly is accommodated therein; and a sealing gasket interposed between the mutually facing outer peripheries of the tray assembly and the cover member.
US10749152B2
The present invention relates to a sealing apparatus for a secondary battery, which seals a sealing part of a case in which an electrode assembly and an electrolyte are accommodated, and the sealing apparatus comprises a sealing member comprising a first sealing piece and a second sealing piece, which thermally fuse a surface of the sealing part to seal the sealing part, wherein the first sealing piece and the second sealing piece comprise a plurality of thermal fusion parts, which are disposed from an outer end of a surface of the sealing part toward an inner end that is opposite to the outer end to thermally fuse the surface of the sealing part, and non-thermal fusion parts, which are disposed between the plurality of thermal fusion parts and do not seal the surface of the sealing part.
US10749145B2
A screen plate, a packaging method, a display panel and a display device are provided. The screen plate includes a frame, a mesh fixed onto the frame and a masking film arranged on the mesh. A printing area is formed in a portion of the mesh that is not masked by the masking film. At least one masking line is arranged in the printing area. The at least one masking line is arranged along an edge of the masking film respectively. A width of the masking line is greater than a width of each mesh line of the mesh.
US10749141B2
A method of manufacturing an organic light-emitting display apparatus includes: forming a pixel electrode on a substrate; forming a pixel-defining layer (PDL) having an opening exposing at least a part of the pixel electrode; forming an intermediate layer including a central portion disposed on the pixel electrode, an edge portion that extends from the central portion and contacts the PDL, at least one common layer, and an organic emission layer; forming a protective layer including a central portion disposed on the central portion of the intermediate layer and an edge portion that extends from the central portion of the protective layer and contacts the PDL; and forming an opposite electrode on the PDL, the opposite electrode having an opening exposing at least a part of the protective layer and electrically connected to the protective layer.
US10749140B2
Disclosed herein is an organic light-emitting display (OLED) device including: a substrate comprising an active area and an inactive area surrounding the active area; a first planarization layer; a second planarization layer; an organic light-emitting element; an encapsulation layer comprising a first inorganic layer, a second inorganic layer and a first organic member; a first structure in the inactive area and comprising a first support layer made of the same material as the first planarization layer or the second planarization layer, a second structure in the inactive area and comprising a second support layer made of the same material as the first planarization layer or the second planarization layer.
US10749139B2
A method of manufacturing a display device includes preparing a base substrate including a first area, a second area, and a bending area disposed between the first and second areas, the base substrate having a coating film pattern formed on a first surface thereof in the bending area; disposing a support plate, which includes an adhesive film and a support film, on the first surface of the base substrate to cover the coating film pattern; and separating the support plate and the coating film pattern, which overlap with each other in a thickness direction, from the base substrate, wherein the disposing the support plate includes disposing the support plate in such a manner that the adhesive film is in contact with the coating film pattern and the first surface of the base substrate.
US10749134B2
The pixels of an organic EL display panel each include an anode electrode layer, an organic layer, and a cathode electrode layer. Each of the organic layer and the cathode electrode layer is shared by the plurality of pixels. An organic EL element in each of the pixels includes an anode section, a cathode section, and a light emitting section. A conductor layer having a recess is provided in a region outside a region of the organic EL element in a view from a light exiting direction in which the organic EL element emits light. The recess includes a coated section that is covered with the organic layer and a conductor exposed section where the conductor layer is exposed. The cathode electrode layer is connected to part of the conductor exposed section.
US10749133B2
An anode structure of an organic light emitting diode display device, includes an insulating interlayer disposed on a silicon substrate, a first metal layer pattern disposed on the insulating interlayer comprising a first metal to be configured to upwardly reflect light, a second metal layer pattern formed on the first metal layer pattern comprising a second metal having a work function of 4.0 eV or more, and a diffusion barrier layer pattern interposed between the first metal layer pattern and the second metal layer pattern for preventing elements of the first metal or the second metal from diffusing between the first metal layer and the second metal layer.
US10749130B2
An electroluminescent device comprising a first electrode; a hole transport layer disposed on the first electrode; an emission layer disposed on the hole transport layer and comprising a plurality of light emitting particles; an electron transport layer disposed on the emission layer and comprising a metal oxide particle-organic polymer composite comprising a plurality of metal oxide particles and an organic polymer; and a second electrode disposed on the electron transport layer, wherein the organic polymer is present in the metal oxide particle-organic polymer composition in an amount of about 7 weight percent to about 30 weight percent based on a total weight of the electron transport layer.
US10749127B2
The present disclosure discloses a white OLED device, which includes a substrate, an anode, a hole injection layer, a hole transport layer, a light-emitting layer, an electron transport layer, and an electron injection layer that are disposed to be sequentially laminated; the white OLED device further includes a reflective layer disposed on the electron injection layer or a reflective layer interposed between the substrate and the anode, wherein a material of the reflective layer has a selective reflection function on light having different wavelengths. The white OLED device according to the present disclosure adjusts a spectrum of the device by utilizing the reflective layers of different materials, to optimize the luminous efficiencies of the respective light-emitting materials in the white OLED device during a light-emitting period, thereby overcoming the defect in the prior art that in order to match the light-emitting materials having low luminous efficiencies, actual luminous efficiencies of other light-emitting materials having higher specified luminous efficiencies are artificially reduced, which causes the light-emitting materials having the higher specified luminous efficiencies to generate more heat, so as to avoid problems of mismatching of concentration of carriers, high heat, accumulation of charges and heat and so on in the device.
US10749119B2
The present disclosure relates to a plurality of host materials and organic electroluminescent device comprising the same. By comprising a specific combination of a plurality of host materials, the organic electroluminescent device of the present disclosure can show long lifespan while maintaining high luminous efficiency.
US10749117B2
The present invention relates to compounds of the formula (I), to the use of compounds of the formula (I) in electronic devices and electronic devices comprising one or more compounds of the formula (I). The invention furthermore relates to the preparation of the compounds of the formula (I) and to formulations comprising one or more compounds of the formula (I).
US10749116B1
A compound is represented by the formula, R1 to R8 are each a hydrogen atom, aliphatic hydrocarbon group, aromatic group, heterocyclic group, a halogen atom, or the like. One of X1 to X3 is a sulfur atom, and the remaining two are carbon atoms having one R0. One of X4 to X6 is a sulfur atom, and the other two are carbon atoms having one R0. R0 is a hydrogen atom, aliphatic hydrocarbon group, aromatic group, heterocyclic group, a halogen atom, or the like. When X1 and X2 are each R0C, X2 and X3 are each R0C, X4 and X5 are each R0C, or X5 and X6 are each R0C, the adjacent R0s may be bounded to each other to form a cyclic structure.
US10749112B2
A light-emitting element with a lower voltage and higher emission efficiency is provided. The light-emitting element includes a first organic compound, a second organic compound, and a guest material. The LUMO level of the first organic compound is lower than the LUMO level of the second organic compound, and a difference between them is larger than 0 eV and smaller than or equal to 0.5 eV. Furthermore, the HOMO level of the first organic compound is lower than the HOMO level of the second organic compound. The guest material has a function of converting triplet excitation energy into light emission. The first organic compound and the second organic compound form an exciplex.
US10749111B2
There is disclosed a compound having Formula I In Formula I: R1 and R2 are the same or different and are H or D; R3 is the same or different at each occurrence and D, CN, halogen, alkyl, alkoxy, silyl, germyl, deuterated alkyl, deuterated alkoxy, deuterated silyl, or deuterated germyl; a is an integer from 0-4; Q1 and Q2 are the same or different and are H, D, alkyl, deuterated alkyl, aryl, deuterated aryl, or a group having Formula II *-(L1)b-HT (II) At least one of Q1 and Q2 is a group having Formula II. In Formula II: HT is the same or different at each occurrence and is a hole transport group; L1 is the same or different at each occurrence and is alkyl, aryl, substituted derivatives thereof, deuterated analogs thereof, or combinations thereof; b is the same or different at each occurrence and is 0 or 1; and * indicates a point of attachment.
US10749108B2
A memory cell and method including a first electrode formed through a first opening in a first dielectric layer, a resistive layer formed on the first electrode, a spacing layer formed on the resistive layer, a second electrode formed on the resistive layer, and a second dielectric layer formed on the second electrode, the second dielectric layer including a second opening. The first dielectric layer formed on a substrate including a first metal layer. The first electrode and the resistive layer collectively include a first lip region that extends a first distance beyond the first opening. The second electrode and the second dielectric layer collectively include a second lip region that extends a second distance beyond the first opening. The spacing layer extends from the second distance to the first distance. The second electrode is coupled to a second metal layer using a via that extends through the second opening.
US10749105B2
To provide a key monocrystalline magnetoresistance element necessary for accomplishing mass production and cost reduction for applying a monocrystalline giant magnetoresistance element using a Heusler alloy to practical devices. A monocrystalline magnetoresistance element of the present invention includes a silicon substrate 11, a base layer 12 having a B2 structure laminated on the silicon substrate 11, a first non-magnetic layer 13 laminated on the base layer 12 having a B2 structure, and a giant magnetoresistance effect layer 17 having at least one laminate layer including a lower ferromagnetic layer 14, an upper ferromagnetic layer 16, and a second non-magnetic layer 15 disposed between the lower ferromagnetic layer 14 and the upper ferromagnetic layer 16.
US10749103B2
Apparatuses for etching metal by depositing a material reactive with a metal to be etched and a halogen to form a volatile species and exposing the substrate to a halogen-containing gas and activation gas to etch the substrate are provided. Deposited materials may include silicon, germanium, titanium, carbon, tin, and combinations thereof. Apparatuses are suitable for fabricating MRAM structures and may be used to integrate ALD and ALE processes without breaking vacuum.
US10749090B2
A display device is provided. The display device includes a substrate, a driving circuit disposed on the substrate, and a light-emitting unit disposed on the driving circuit and electrically connected to the driving circuit. The light-emitting unit includes a first semiconductor layer, a quantum well layer disposed on the first semiconductor layer and a second semiconductor layer disposed on the quantum well layer. The second semiconductor layer includes a first top surface. The display device also includes a first protective layer disposed on the driving circuit and adjacent to the light-emitting unit. The first protective layer includes a second top surface and a plurality of conductive elements formed therein. The elevation of the first top surface is higher than the elevation of the second top surface.
US10749089B2
A light emitting device package according to an embodiment includes: a package body; a light emitting device disposed on the package body; and an adhesive disposed between the package body and the light emitting device. The package body includes first and second openings passing through the package body on an upper surface of the package body and a recess provided to concave in a direction of a lower surface of the package body from the upper surface of the package body. The light emitting device includes a first bonding part disposed on the first opening and a second bonding part disposed on the second opening. The adhesive is provided at the recess.
US10749086B2
An asymmetrically shaped chip-scale packaging (CSP) light-emitting device (LED) includes an LED chip, a photoluminescent structure (or a light-transmitting structure), and a reflective structure. The photoluminescent structure covers the upper surface and/or the edge surface of the LED chip; and the reflective structure at least partially covers the edge surface of the photoluminescent structure. The reflective structure partially reflects the primary light emitted from the edge surface of the LED chip or the converted secondary light radiated from the edge surface of the photoluminescent structure, therefore shaping the radiation pattern asymmetrically.
US10749085B2
A display module comprises a circuit board having a front face, a plurality of light-emitting elements electrically coupled to the front face of the circuit board, a polymer encapsulating member adhered to the front face of the circuit board, the polymer encapsulating member substantially covering at least a portion of the circuit board and a portion of the plurality of light-emitting elements, the polymer encapsulating member substantially sealing the portion of the circuit board and the portion of the plurality of light-emitting elements, and an ultraviolet-radiation diminishing component in the polymer encapsulating member or on one or more of at least a portion of the circuit board or at least a portion of each of the light-emitting elements, wherein the ultraviolet-radiation diminishing component filters, blocks, or reflects more ultraviolet radiation than would be filtered, blocked, or reflected by the polymer encapsulating member without the ultraviolet-radiation diminishing component.
US10749075B2
A semiconductor light-emitting device includes a semiconductor stack including a first semiconductor layer, a second semiconductor layer, and an active layer; a plurality of first trenches penetrating the second semiconductor layer and the active layer to expose the first semiconductor layer; a second trench penetrating the second semiconductor layer and the active layer to expose the first semiconductor layer, wherein the second trench is disposed near an outmost edge of the active layer, and surrounds the active layer and the plurality of first trenches; a patterned metal layer formed on the second semiconductor layer and formed in one of the plurality of first trenches or the second trench; and a first pad portion and a second pad portion both formed on the second semiconductor layer and electrically connecting the second semiconductor layer and the first semiconductor layer respectively.
US10749073B2
A method for producing light-emitting UV column structures using the epitaxy of the organometallic compounds of the gaseous phase on a PSS plate having a surface for epitaxy provided with protrusions with a regular shape, having a tip and a side surface, in particular protrusions with a conical shape. The present disclosure also includes structures produced using this method.
US10749068B2
An improved feeder system and method for continuous vapor transport deposition that includes at least two vaporizers couple to a common distributor through an improved seal for separately vaporizing and collecting at least any two vaporizable materials for deposition as a material layer on a substrate. Multiple vaporizer provide redundancy and allow for continuous deposition during vaporizer maintenance and repair.
US10749065B2
A light-responsive LED (Light Emitting Diode) based on a GaN/CsPbBrxI3-x heterojunction, a preparation method and an application thereof are provided. The light-responsive LED consists of a GaN base layer on a sapphire substrate, an all-inorganic perovskite CsPbBrxI3-x film, an indium electrode and a carbon electrode, forming an In/GaN/CsPbBrxI3-x/C structure, wherein: in the CsPbBrxI3-x film, 0
US10749056B2
A method of growing a FE material thin film using physical vapor deposition by pulsed laser deposition or RF sputtering is disclosed. The method involves creating a target to be used for the pulsed laser deposition in order to create a KBNNO thin film. The resultant KBNNO thin film is able to be used in photovoltaic cells.
US10749055B2
A method of producing sensors includes providing a carrier plate; arranging semiconductor chips on the carrier plate, wherein the semiconductor chips include at least radiation-detecting semiconductor chips; providing radiation-transmissive optical elements on the carrier plate provided with the semiconductor chips, wherein a plurality of radiation-transmissive optical elements are provided jointly on the carrier plate provided with the semiconductor chips; and singulating the carrier plate provided with the semiconductor chips and the radiation-transmissive optical elements, thereby forming separate sensors including a section of the carrier plate, at least one radiation-detecting semiconductor chip and at least one radiation-transmissive optical element.
US10749035B2
There is provided a semiconductor device including: a first electrode; a second electrode; and a semiconductor layer in contact with the first electrode and the second electrode, in which the semiconductor layer is a spinel-type oxide containing zinc (Zn) and gallium (Ga).
US10749031B2
A large area electrical contact for use in integrated circuits features a non-planar, sloped bottom profile. The sloped bottom profile provides a larger electrical contact area, thus reducing the contact resistance, while maintaining a small contact footprint. The sloped bottom profile can be formed by recessing an underlying layer, wherein the bottom profile can be crafted to have a V-shape, U-shape, crescent shape, or other profile shape that includes at least a substantially sloped portion in the vertical direction. In one embodiment, the underlying layer is an epitaxial fin of a FinFET. A method of fabricating the low-resistance electrical contact employs a thin etch stop liner for use as a hard mask. The etch stop liner, e.g., HfO2, prevents erosion of an adjacent gate structure during the formation of the contact.
US10749028B2
Disclosed herein is a conductive structure that serves as both a control terminal and a field plate for a transistor. The transistor includes a channel region including a portion located in a vertical sidewall of semiconductor material that separates an upper level portion and a lower level portion of the semiconductor material. An extended drain region includes a portion located in the lower portion of the semiconductor material. The conductive structure is laterally adjacent to the vertical sidewall and includes a first vertical side and an opposite second vertical side with the first vertical side being closer to the vertical component sidewall. The first side is vertically closer to the lower level portion of the semiconductor material than the second vertical side.
US10749025B2
A semiconductor device having a contact trench is provided. The semiconductor device including: a semiconductor substrate; a drift region of the first conductivity type provided on an upper surface side of the semiconductor substrate; a base region of the second conductivity type provided above the drift region; a source region of the first conductivity type provided above the base region; two or more trench portions provided penetrating through the source region and the base region from an upper end side of the source region; a contact trench provided in direct contact with the source region between adjacent trench portions; and a contact layer of the second conductivity type provided below the contact trench, is provided. A peak of a doping concentration of the contact layer is positioned shallower than a position of a lower end of the source region.
US10749018B2
Each of the first and second switching modules may include first through (n+1)th cooling plates stacked along a vertical direction with respect to the support module; first through nth switches respectively disposed between the first through (n+1)th cooling plates; a first electrode plate disposed on the (n+1)th cooling plate; a first supporting member disposed on the first electrode plate; a first pressing member disposed between the first electrode plate and the first supporting member; a second electrode plate disposed below the first cooling plate; a second supporting member disposed below the second electrode plate; and a second pressing member disposed between the second electrode plate and the second supporting member.
US10749012B2
A method of fabricating a semiconductor device includes forming a fin on a substrate. Source/drain regions are arranged on the substrate on opposing sides of the fin. The method includes depositing a semiconductor layer on the source/drain regions. The method includes depositing a germanium containing layer on the fin and the semiconductor layer. The method further includes applying an anneal operation configured to chemically react the semiconductor layer with the germanium containing layer and form a silicon oxide layer.
US10749001B2
A method of evaluating an insulated-gate semiconductor device having an insulated-gate structure including a channel formation layer made of a wide-bandgap semiconductor and a gate insulating film formed contacting the channel formation layer includes removing the gate insulating film in order to expose a surface of the channel formation layer; taking a phase image of the exposed surface of the channel formation layer using a phase mode of an atomic force microscope; evaluating a surface condition of the exposed surface of the channel formation layer by calculating an evaluation metric from phase shift values in the phase image and by determining whether the evaluation metric satisfies a prescribed condition; and determining that the insulated-gate semiconductor device is acceptable when the evaluation metric satisfied the prescribed condition.
US10749000B2
A semiconductor device, a field effect transistor, and a fin field effect transistor are provided. The semiconductor device may include a channel layer, a source/drain layer, and a gate electrode. The channel layer is provided on a substrate and extends in a direction perpendicular to a top surface of the substrate. The source/drain layer is disposed at a side of the channel layer and is electrically connected to the channel layer. The gate electrode is provided adjacent to at least one of surfaces of the channel layer. The channel layer includes a two-dimensional atomic layer made of a first material.
US10748996B2
A transistor device includes a semiconductor structure, a plurality of gate fingers extending on the semiconductor structure in a first direction, a plurality of gate interconnects that each have a first end and a second end extending on the semiconductor structure in the first direction, wherein each gate interconnect is connected to a respective gate finger by a plurality of first conductive vias, and a plurality of gate runners extending on the semiconductor structure in the first direction. At least one gate interconnect of the gate interconnects is connected to one of the gate runners by a second conductive via at an interior position of the at least one gate interconnect that is remote from the first end and the second end of the at least one gate interconnect.
US10748994B2
A semiconductor structure is provided that includes a pFET device including a first functional gate structure containing at least a p-type work function metal and present on physically exposed surfaces, and between, each Si channel material nanosheet of a first set of vertically stacked and suspended Si channel material nanosheets. The structure further includes an nFET device stacked vertically above the pFET device. The nFET device includes a second functional gate structure containing at least an n-type work function metal present on physically exposed surfaces, and between, each Si channel material nanosheet of a second set of vertically stacked and suspended Si channel material nanosheets.
US10748992B2
A semiconductor element includes a semiconductor structure, a carbon nanotube and a conductive film. The semiconductor structure includes a P-type semiconductor layer and an N-type semiconductor layer and defines a first surface and a second surface. A thickness of the semiconductor structure ranges from 1 nanometer to 100 nanometers. The carbon nanotube is located on the first surface of the semiconductor. The conductive film is located on the second surface of the semiconductor. The conductive film is formed on the second surface by a depositing method or a coating method. The carbon nanotube, the semiconductor structure and the conductive film are stacked with each other to form a multi-layered stereoscopic structure.
US10748990B2
A method of forming a nanosheet semiconductor device that includes epitaxially forming a stack of at least two repeating nanosheets, the at least two repeating nanosheets including a first nanosheet layer of a first III-V semiconductor material and a second nanosheet layer of a second III-V semiconductor material. A sacrificial gate structure is formed on the stack of the at least two repeating nanosheets. Source and drain regions are epitaxially formed on the second nanosheet layer. The sacrificial gate structure is removed to provide a gate opening. An etch process removes the first nanosheet layer selectively to the second nanosheet layer, wherein the etch process is selective to facets of the material for the first nanosheet layer to provide an inverted apex at the base of the stack. A dielectric layer is deposited filling the inverted apex. A functional gate structure is formed in the gate opening.
US10748989B2
An insulating layer structure for a semiconductor product. The insulating layer structure includes a device substrate, a supporting substrate and a thin film layer. The device substrate and the supporting substrate are silicon wafers. The thin film layer(s) is/are arranged on the device substrate or/and the supporting substrate. The device substrate and the supporting substrate are bonded together through the thin film layer arranged on at least one of the device substrate and the supporting substrate to form an integral multilayer SOI structure. The insulating layer structure formed by the present invention solves problems of serious spontaneous heating of an existing SOI device, severe warpage of an existing SOI structure caused by high-temperature annealing, a poor radio frequency characteristic and the like, and has a predictable relatively higher economic and social value.
US10748982B2
The present inventive concept relates to a display device.A display device according to an exemplary embodiment of the present inventive concept include: a base layer including a plurality of islands in which a pixel is disposed, a plurality of bridges disposed around each of the plurality of islands, a plurality of first wires disposed in a bridge of the plurality of bridges connected to the pixel is disposed; an inorganic insulating layer disposed on the base layer and having an opening exposing a portion of the bridge; and an organic material layer covering the opening, wherein adjacent islands of the plurality of islands are connected to each other through at least the bridge of the plurality of bridges, and the plurality of first wires are disposed on the organic material layer.
US10748978B2
The display device according to the present disclosure includes a substrate which includes a display area having an irregularly shaped side and a non-display area which includes a notch area defined by a shape of the irregularly shaped side of the display area and is disposed to enclose the display area. A connecting metal line which electrically connects a plurality of gate lines disposed to be divided due to formation of the irregularly shaped side is formed so that a scan load amount due to a length difference of the plurality of gate lines may be compensated.
US10748967B2
Embodiments of forming an image sensor with organic photodiodes are provided. Trenches are formed in the organic photodiodes to increase the PN junction interfacial area, which improves the quantum efficiency (QE) of the photodiodes. The organic P-type material is applied in liquid form to fill the trenches. A mixture of P-type materials with different work function values and thickness can be used to meet the desired work function value for the photodiodes.
US10748966B2
A memory device includes first conductive rails laterally extending along a first horizontal direction over a substrate, where the first conductive rails include a fill portion, and a first cobalt-containing cap liner contacting a top surface of the fill portion, a rectangular array of first memory pillar structures overlying top surfaces of the first conductive rails, where each first memory pillar structure includes a respective first resistive memory element, and second conductive rails laterally extending along a second horizontal direction and overlying top surfaces of the rectangular array of first memory pillar structures.
US10748950B2
There is provided a light receiving element including; an on-chip lens; a wiring layer; and a semiconductor layer disposed between the on-chip lens and the wiring layer. The semiconductor layer includes a first voltage applying unit to which a first voltage is applied, a second voltage applying unit to which a second voltage different from the first voltage is applied, a first charge detection unit disposed in a vicinity of the first voltage applying unit, and a second charge detection unit disposed in a vicinity of the second voltage applying unit, and the wiring layer includes a reflection suppressing structure that suppresses reflection of light in a plane region corresponding to the first charge detection unit and the second charge detection unit.
US10748948B2
A system and method for forming pixels in an image sensor is provided. In an embodiment, a semiconductor device includes an image sensor including a first pixel region and a second pixel region in a substrate, the first pixel region being adjacent to the second pixel region. A first anti-reflection coating is over the first pixel region, the first anti-reflection coating reducing reflection for a first wavelength range of incident light. A second anti-reflection coating is over the second pixel region, the second anti-reflection coating reducing reflection for a second wavelength range of incident light that is different from the first wavelength range.
US10748946B2
A lens module includes a circuit board, a hollow mounting bracket, a photosensitive chip, a lens base, and a lens. The photosensitive chip is mounted within the hollow mounting bracket on a surface of the circuit board. The lens base is mounted on a surface of the mounting bracket opposite to the circuit board. The lens base axially defines a through hole. The lens is mounted within the lens base. The lens base includes a screw thread formed along an inner wall of the through hole. The lens includes mating threads formed along a periphery of the lens contacting the inner wall of the through hole. The mating threads define at least one thread slot which defines a gap with the screw threads of the inner wall of the through hole.
US10748943B2
A display device includes: a substrate; first and second transistors provided on the substrate to be spaced apart from each other, the first and second transistors being electrically connected to each other; and a display unit electrically connected to the first transistor, wherein the first transistor includes a first semiconductor layer including crystalline silicon, a first gate electrode, a first source electrode, and a first drain electrode, wherein the second transistor includes a second semiconductor layer including an oxide semiconductor, a second gate electrode, a second source electrode, and a second drain electrode, wherein each of the second source electrode and the second drain electrode includes a first layer that includes molybdenum and is provided on the second semiconductor layer, a second layer that includes aluminum and is provided on the first layer, and a third layer that includes titanium and is provided on the second layer.
US10748932B2
Inventive concepts describe a method for high performance standard cell design techniques in FinFET based library using LLE. Inventive concepts describe a fabrication process using a standard FinFET cell layout having double diffusion breaks (DDBs) and single diffusion breaks (SDBs). According to one example embodiment, the method comprises of removing one or more fingers of a P-type FinFet (PFET) from a standard FinFET cell layout. After removing the one or more fingers, a Half-Double Diffusion Break (Half-DDB) is introduced on a N-type FinFET (NFET) side inside a cell boundary using a cut-poly layer. The cut-poly layer not only isolates the PFET and NFET gates and also becomes an integral part of hybrid structure. Further, the removed one or more fingers of PFET gates are converted to two floating PFET gates by shorting a drain terminal and a source terminal of the PFET gate to a common power net.
US10748929B2
A three-dimensional semiconductor device includes an upper structure on a lower structure, the upper structure including conductive patterns, a semiconductor pattern connected to the lower structure through the upper structure, and an insulating spacer between the semiconductor pattern and the upper structure, a bottom surface of the insulating spacer being positioned at a vertical level equivalent to or higher than an uppermost surface of the lower structure.
US10748919B2
An annular dielectric spacer can be formed at a level of a joint-level dielectric material layer between vertically neighboring pairs of alternating stacks of insulating layers and spacer material layers. After formation of a memory opening through multiple alternating stacks and formation of a memory film therein, an anisotropic etch can be performed to remove a horizontal bottom portion of the memory film. The annular dielectric spacer can protect underlying portions of the memory film during the anisotropic etch. In addition, a silicon nitride barrier may be employed to suppress hydrogen diffusion at an edge region of peripheral devices.
US10748911B2
An integrated circuit structure includes a semiconductor substrate, an active area, a gate electrode, and a butted contact. The active area is oriented in a first direction and has at least one tooth portion extending in a second direction in the semiconductor substrate. The gate electrode overlies the active area and extends in the second direction. The butted contact has a first portion above the gate electrode and a second portion above the active area. A portion of the second portion of the butted contact lands on the tooth portion.
US10748910B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate that includes a cell region and a peripheral circuit region, a cell insulating pattern disposed in the cell region of the substrate that defines a cell active region, and a peripheral insulating pattern disposed in the peripheral circuit region of the substrate that defines a peripheral active region. The peripheral insulating pattern includes a first peripheral insulating pattern having a first width and a second peripheral insulating pattern having a second width greater than the first width. A topmost surface of at least one of the first peripheral insulating pattern and the second peripheral insulating pattern is positioned higher than a topmost surface of the cell insulating pattern.
US10748909B2
A method of fabricating a semiconductor device includes forming an interlayer insulating structure on a substrate, forming a contact hole that penetrates the interlayer insulating structure to expose the substrate, forming an amorphous silicon layer including a first portion and a second portion, the first portion covering a top surface of the substrate exposed by the contact hole, the second portion covering a sidewall of the contact hole, providing hydrogen atoms into the amorphous silicon layer, and crystallizing the first portion using the substrate as a seed.
US10748907B2
An embedded transistor for an electrical device, such as a DRAM memory cell, and a method of manufacture thereof is provided. A trench is formed in a substrate and a gate dielectric and a gate electrode formed in the trench of the substrate. Source/drain regions are formed in the substrate on opposing sides of the trench. In an embodiment, one of the source/drain regions is coupled to a storage node and the other source/drain region is coupled to a bit line. In this embodiment, the gate electrode may be coupled to a word line to form a DRAM memory cell. A dielectric growth modifier may be implanted into sidewalls of the trench in order to tune the thickness of the gate dielectric.
US10748906B2
Provided are a semiconductor device and a method of fabricating the same. The semiconductor device may include a semiconductor substrate including a first region and a second region, a dummy separation pattern provided on the second region of the semiconductor substrate to have a recessed region at its upper portion, a first electrode provided on the first region of the semiconductor substrate, a dielectric layer covering the first electrode, a second electrode provided on the dielectric layer, and a remaining electrode pattern provided in the recessed region. The second electrode and the remaining electrode pattern may be formed of a same material.
US10748903B2
A semiconductor structure for a DRAM is described having multiple layers of arrays of memory cells. Memory cells in a vertical string extending through the layers have an electrical connection to one terminal of the memory cells in that string. Word lines couple the strings together. Each layer of the array also includes bit line connections to memory cells on that layer. Select transistors enable the use of folded bit lines. The memory cells preferably are thyristors. Methods of fabricating the array are described.
US10748902B2
The present disclosure provides a semiconductor structure comprising one or more fins formed on a substrate and extending along a first direction; one or more gates formed on the one or more fins and extending along a second direction substantially perpendicular to the first direction, the one or more gates including an first isolation gate and at least one functional gate; source/drain features formed on two sides of each of the one or more gates; an interlayer dielectric (ILD) layer formed on the source/drain features and forming a coplanar top surface with the first isolation gate. A first height of the first isolation gate is greater than a second height of each of the at least one functional gate.
US10748900B2
Embodiments of the invention include a semiconductor structure and a method of making such a structure. In one embodiment, the semiconductor structure comprises a first fin and a second fin formed over a substrate. The first fin may comprise a first semiconductor material and the second fin may comprise a second semiconductor material. In an embodiment, a first cage structure is formed adjacent to the first fin, and a second cage structure is formed adjacent to the second fin. Additionally, embodiments may include a first gate electrode formed over the first fin, where the first cage structure directly contacts the first gate electrode, and a second gate electrode formed over the second fin, where the second cage structure directly contacts the second gate electrode.
US10748898B2
Provided is a metal gate structure and related methods that include performing a metal gate cut process. The metal gate cut process includes a plurality of etching steps. For example, a first anisotropic dry etch is performed, a second isotropic dry etch is performed, and a third wet etch is performed. In some embodiments, the second isotropic etch removes a residual portion of a metal gate layer including a metal containing layer. In some embodiments, the third etch removes a residual portion of a dielectric layer.
US10748890B2
Disclosed herein is an electronic device including an IO node, with a receiver coupled to receive input from the IO node. A transmitter driver has a first n-channel DMOS with a source coupled to the IO node. A pass gate circuit decouples the IO node from the receiver based upon presence of a negative voltage at the IO node and couples the IO node to the receiver based upon lack of presence of the negative voltage at the IO node. A transmit protection circuit applies the negative voltage from the IO node to the gate and bulk of the first n-channel DMOS based upon the presence of the negative voltage at the IO node.
US10748883B2
An encapsulation cover for an electronic package includes a cover body having a frontal wall provided with at least one optical element allowing light to pass through. The optical element is inserted into the encapsulation cover by overmolding into a through-passage of the frontal wall. A front face of the optical element is set back with respect to a front face of the frontal wall. The process for fabricating the encapsulation cover includes forming a stack of a sacrificial spacer on top of an optical element, with the stack placed into a cavity of a mold.
US10748874B2
A three-dimensional stacked integrated circuit (3D SIC) having a non-volatile memory die, a volatile memory die, a logic die, and a thermal management component. The non-volatile memory die, the volatile memory die, the logic die, and the thermal management component are stacked. The thermal management component can be stacked in between the non-volatile memory die and the logic die, stacked in between the volatile memory die and the logic die, or both.
US10748873B2
Substrates, assemblies, and techniques for enabling multi-chip flip chip packages are disclosed herein. For example, in some embodiments, a package substrate may include a first side face; a second side face, wherein the second side face is opposite to the first side face along an axis; a portion of insulating material extending from the first side face to the second side face; wherein a cross-section of the portion of insulating material taken perpendicular to the axis has a stairstep profile. Solder pads may be disposed at base and step surfaces of the portion of insulating material. One or more dies may be coupled to the package substrate (e.g., to form a multi-chip flip chip package), and in some embodiments, additional IC packages may be coupled to the package substrate. In some embodiments, the package substrate may be reciprocally symmetric or approximately reciprocally symmetric.
US10748871B2
A semiconductor package may include a package substrate, a first semiconductor chip on the package substrate, and a second semiconductor chip on the first semiconductor chip. The first semiconductor chip comprises a chip substrate including a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface, a plurality of first chip pads between the package substrate and the chip substrate, and electrically connecting the first semiconductor chip to the package substrate, a plurality of second chip pads disposed on the second surface and between the second semiconductor chip and the second surface, and a plurality of redistribution lines on the second surface, the redistribution lines electrically connecting to the second semiconductor chip, and a plurality of bonding wires electrically connecting the redistribution lines to the package substrate.
US10748870B2
A package includes an Integrated Voltage Regulator (IVR) die, wherein the IVR die includes metal pillars at a top surface of the first IVR die. The package further includes a first encapsulating material encapsulating the first IVR die therein, wherein the first encapsulating material has a top surface coplanar with top surfaces of the metal pillars. A plurality of redistribution lines is over the first encapsulating material and the IVR die. The plurality of redistribution lines is electrically coupled to the metal pillars. A core chip overlaps and is bonded to the plurality of redistribution lines. A second encapsulating material encapsulates the core chip therein, wherein edges of the first encapsulating material and respective edges of the second encapsulating material are vertically aligned to each other. An interposer or a package substrate is underlying and bonded to the IVR die.
US10748869B2
A method includes providing a die having a contact pad on a top surface and forming a conductive protective layer over the die and covering the contact pad. A molding compound is formed over the die and the conductive protective layer. The conductive protective layer is exposed using a laser drilling process. A redistribution layer (RDL) is formed over the die. The RDL is electrically connected to the contact pad through the conductive protective layer.
US10748855B2
A method of fabricating a semiconductor package using a laminating device is provided. The method includes placing a substrate on a substrate stand; providing a pressurizing unit which is expandable and includes a convex surface facing an upper surface of the substrate stand, on the substrate stand; injecting air into the pressurizing unit using a plate which is connected to the pressurizing unit; and supplying a film by a film supply unit which supplies the film between the substrate stand and the pressurizing unit, wherein the pressurizing unit attaches the film onto the substrate, while expanding.
US10748851B1
Embodiments of bonded semiconductor structures and fabrication methods thereof are disclosed. In an example, a semiconductor device includes a first and a second semiconductor structures. The first semiconductor structure includes a first interconnect layer including first interconnects. At least one first interconnect is a first dummy interconnect. The first semiconductor structure further includes a first bonding layer including first bonding contacts. Each first interconnect is in contact with a respective first bonding contact. The second semiconductor structure includes a second interconnect layer including second interconnects. At least one second interconnect is a second dummy interconnect. The second semiconductor structure further includes a second bonding layer including second bonding contacts. Each second interconnect is in contact with a respective second bonding contact. The semiconductor device further includes a bonding interface between the first and second bonding layers. Each first bonding contact is in contact with a respective second bonding contact at the bonding interface.
US10748849B2
A discrete tapering interconnection is disclosed that forms an interconnection between a first electronic circuit and a second electronic circuit within an integrated circuit. The discrete tapering interconnection includes a first set of multiple parallel conductors situated in a first metal layer of the metal layers of a semiconductor layer stack and a second set of multiple parallel conductors situated in a second metal layer of the metal layers of the semiconductor layer stack. The first set of multiple parallel conductors effectively taper the discrete tapering interconnection as the discrete tapering interconnection traverse between the first electronic circuit and/or the second electronic circuit. This tapering of the discrete tapering interconnection can be an asymmetric tapering or a symmetric tapering. The second set of multiple parallel conductors is arranged to form various interconnections between various parallel conductors from among the first set of multiple parallel conductors.
US10748833B2
A fan-out semiconductor package includes a semiconductor chip having an active surface on which connection pads are disposed and an inactive surface opposing the active surface, a heat dissipation member attached to the inactive surface of the semiconductor chip and having a thickness greater than a thickness of the semiconductor chip, an encapsulant encapsulating at least a portion of each of the semiconductor chip and the heat dissipation member, and a connection member disposed on the active surface of the semiconductor chip and including redistribution layers electrically connected to the connection pads, wherein the heat dissipation member is a complex of carbon and a metal.
US10748814B2
A semiconductor device and fabrication method thereof are provided. The method includes: providing a base substrate with first gate structures on the base substrate; forming a spacer covering sidewalls of each first gate structure; forming sacrificial layers on sides of each first gate structure to cover corresponding spacers; forming a bottom dielectric layer covering sidewalls of the sacrificial layers; after forming the bottom dielectric layer, removing the sacrificial layers by etching to form first openings between the bottom dielectric layer and the spacer; and forming a plug in each first opening.
US10748804B2
A structure with micro device including a substrate, at least one micro device and at least one holding structure is provided. The micro device is disposed on the substrate and has a top surface away from the substrate, a bottom surface opposite to the top surface, and a circumferential surface connecting the top surface and the bottom surface. The holding structure is disposed on the substrate. From the cross-sectional view, a thickness of the holding structure is not fixed from the boundary of the top surface and the circumferential surface to the substrate. The micro device is connected to the substrate through the holding structure.
US10748803B2
A method and apparatus for bonding semiconductor devices are disclosed. In an embodiment, the method may include attaching a first die to a flip head of a flip module, flipping the first die with the flip module, removing the first die from the flip module after flipping the first die, inspecting the flip head of the flip module for contamination after removing the first die, cleaning the flip head with an in situ cleaning module after inspecting the flip head, and attaching a second die to the flip head after cleaning the flip head.
US10748796B2
There is provided a substrate processing apparatus that includes: a polygonal transfer chamber; a process chamber connected to the polygonal transfer chamber via a transfer port through which a substrate is transferred; and a transfer mechanism provided in the polygonal transfer chamber and configured to transfer the substrate between the polygonal transfer chamber and the process chamber via the transfer port, wherein the polygonal transfer chamber and the process chamber have regions overlapping each other when viewed from the top.
US10748795B2
A substrate processing apparatus including a plurality of baking chambers stacked in a prescribed direction, each baking chamber carrying out heat treatment of a substrate in its interior, a processing unit having a liquid processing chamber separate from the baking chambers and carrying out liquid processing of the substrate using the processing liquid, and an enclosing isolating space that encloses the sides of the plurality of baking chambers and isolates the baking chambers from the surrounding area.
US10748783B2
The present disclosure relates to high pressure processing apparatus for semiconductor processing. The apparatus described herein include a high pressure process chamber and a containment chamber surrounding the process chamber. A high pressure fluid delivery module is in fluid communication with the high pressure process chamber and is configured to deliver a high pressure fluid to the process chamber.
US10748782B2
There is provided a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device by processing a substrate, which includes: embedding a polymer having a urea bond in a recess formed in the substrate by supplying a material for polymerization from above a sacrificial film to the substrate and forming a polymer film made of the polymer having the urea bond, wherein a surface of the substrate is covered with the sacrificial film, the recess including an opening of the sacrificial film that is formed by a patterning; removing the polymer film formed on the sacrificial film while leaving the polymer embedded in the recess; removing the sacrificial film in a state in which the polymer is embedded in the recess; and subsequently, removing the polymer embedded in the recess.
US10748777B2
Provided is an etching delay element for forming a protruding portion at an object by shielding part of the object against etching, the etching delay element being attached to a non-etching section of the object corresponding to the protruding portion and being made of a material that is etchable by an etchant.
US10748770B2
A method for bonding a first substrate with a second substrate at respective contact faces of the substrates with the following steps: holding the first substrate to a first sample holder surface of a first sample holder with a holding force FH1 and holding the second substrate to a second sample holder surface of a second sample holder with a holding force FH2; contacting the contact faces at a bond initiation point and heating at least the second sample holder surface to a heating temperature TH; bonding of the first substrate with the second substrate along a bonding wave running from the bond initiation point to the side edges of the substrates, wherein the heating temperature TH is reduced at the second sample holder surface during the bonding.
US10748768B2
A method includes forming mandrel patterns over a substrate; depositing a spacer layer over the mandrel patterns and onto sidewalls of the mandrel patterns; trimming the spacer layer to reduce a thickness of the spacer layer along a pattern width direction; and etching the spacer layer to expose the mandrel patterns, resulting in a patterned spacer layer on the sidewalls of the mandrel patterns. The trimming of the spacer layer and the etching of the spacer layer are performed in separate processes. After the trimming of the spacer layer and the etching of the spacer layer, the method further includes removing the mandrel patterns.
US10748764B2
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes epitaxially growing a carrier-transport layer of a first conductivity type on a substrate of silicon carbide; irradiating the carrier-transport layer with a first light having a wavelength equal to or less than an absorption-edge wavelength of silicon carbide at a temperature of less than 400 degrees Celsius so as to expand a stacking fault originating from a basal plane dislocation which are propagated from the substrate to the carrier-transport layer; heating the carrier-transport layer in which the stacking fault has expanded so as to shrink the stacking fault, at a shrinking temperature of 400 degrees Celsius or more and 1000 degrees Celsius or less; and forming a carrier-injection region of a second conductivity type on the carrier-transport layer, the carrier-injection region injects carriers into the carrier-transport layer.
US10748760B2
Semiconductor device structures having dielectric features and methods of forming dielectric features are described herein. In some examples, the dielectric features are formed by an ALD process followed by a varying temperature anneal process. The dielectric features can have high density, low carbon concentration, and lower k-value. The dielectric features formed according to the present disclosure has improved resistance against etching chemistry, plasma damage, and physical bombardment in subsequent processes while maintaining a lower k-value for target capacitance efficiency.
US10748756B2
A system comprises an electrostatic trapping mass analyzer and an information processor configured to receive a transient signal from the electrostatic trapping mass analyzer at a maximum resolution, the information processor comprising instructions operable to: partition the transient signal into segments and, while a quality metric is either less than a pre-determined minimum threshold or greater than a pre-determined maximum threshold value, to perform the steps of: (i) defining a test transient as being equal to either a first one of the segments or a previously defined transient with an appended signal segment; (ii) generating a spectrum of component frequencies by calculating a mathematical transform of the test transient; and (iii) determining the quality metric from the spectrum of component frequencies; and set an instrumental resolution to be employed for subsequent mass spectral data acquisitions in accordance with a length of the most-recently-defined test transient.
US10748751B2
In a simultaneous multicomponent analysis for a number of target compounds, an MRM transition which does not give the highest signal intensity but gives a lower signal intensity is selected for a compound having a high measurement sensitivity or a compound having a high measurement target concentration. If the signal intensity is still high, the level of collision energy (CE) is changed from an optimum level. The MRM transition, CE level and other measurement conditions determined for each compound in this manner are stored in a compound-related information storage 41. In the process of preparing a control sequence for the simultaneous multicomponent analysis, the measurement conditions stored in the storage section 41 are used. The use of those conditions prevents the saturation of the signal for a high-concentration compound while ensuring a sufficiently high level of sensitivity for a low-concentration compound.
US10748747B2
A system for controlling a size of an edge exclusion region is described. The system includes an upper electrode, an upper plasma exclusion zone (PEZ) ring located beside the upper electrode, an upper electrode extension located beside the upper PEZ ring, and a system controller configured to generate signals regarding a first position and a second position of the upper PEZ ring. The system further includes an actuator and a position controller coupled to the system controller and the actuator. The position controller is configured to receive the signals from the system controller, and to control the actuator based on the signals to achieve the first position and the second position The first and second positions are achieved independent of any movement of the upper electrode.
US10748741B2
An X-ray analyzer includes: an X-ray detector that detects an X-ray emitted from a specimen and outputs a signal having a step that has a height corresponding to energy of the X-ray; a pulse generation circuit that converts the signal output from the X-ray detector into a first pulse signal; a pulse-width setting circuit that sets a pulse width; a pulse-width conversion circuit that converts a pulse width of the first pulse signal into the pulse width set by the pulse-width setting circuit to form a second pulse signal; a pulse-height discriminator that discriminates the second pulse signal according to a pulse height of the second pulse signal; a counting circuit that calculates a counting rate of the discriminated second pulse signal; and a counting-loss correction processing unit that corrects the counting rate. The counting-loss correction processing unit corrects the counting rate based on the pulse width.
US10748740B2
An x-ray shield for improved vacuum conductivity is disclosed herein. An example x-ray shield includes at least one elongate member formed from high atomic weight material shaped into a twist with at least 180° of twist.
US10748727B2
An electrical switch has a casing, fixed contacts and at least one moving contact located in the casing, and a rotor supported in the casing for rotation about an axis of rotation to move the moving contact into and out of contact with at least one of the fixed contacts. There is also an operating mechanism for rotating the rotor. The fixed contacts are arranged on one side of the rotor with respect to the axis of rotation.
US10748712B2
A multilayer ceramic electronic component includes: a ceramic body including a dielectric layer and first and second internal electrodes stacked to be alternately exposed to first and second outer surfaces with the dielectric layer interposed therebetween; and first and second external electrodes disposed on the first and second outer surfaces of the ceramic body to be electrically connected to the first and second internal electrodes, respectively. The ceramic body further includes a protective layer disposed on at least one of upper and lower portions of the first and second internal electrodes, the protective layer includes a plurality of dummy electrode cells each having the plurality of dummy electrodes stacked thereon, and a thickness from the uppermost dummy electrode to the lowermost dummy electrode of each of the plurality of dummy electrode cells is greater than a length of each of the plurality of dummy electrode cells.
US10748705B2
A magnetic element, comprising: a coil having two terminal-ends, a core pressed and molded around the coil, and two terminal units connecting to the two terminal-ends of the coil, wherein a first concave portions is formed on a side surface of the core, a second concave portion for accommodating one of the two terminal-ends of the coil, is formed at a upper boundary of the first concave portion, and a third concave portion for accommodating one of the two terminal units, is formed at a upper boundary of the first concave portion and near the second concave portion.
US10748701B2
An inductor device includes a first and a second inductor unit. The first inductor unit includes a first and a second wire. The first wire is winded to form circles. The second wire is winded with the first wire to form circles. The first and/or the second wire are winded in an interlaced manner at a first terminal, a second terminal, a first side, and a second side. The second inductor unit includes a third and a fourth wire. The third wire is winded to form circles. The fourth wire is winded with the third wire to form circles. The third and/or the fourth wire are winded in an interlaced manner at a third terminal, a fourth terminal, a third side, and a fourth side. The first wired is coupled to the fourth wired, and the second wired is coupled to the third wired.
US10748699B2
A coil device of solenoid type includes a coil portion having a bobbin and a conductive wire wound around the bobbin, a housing for accommodating the coil portion, and at least one fastener for fastening the bobbin and the housing. The conductive wire includes a plurality of extending portions extending along a wound wire direction on the bobbin and having gaps in a winding axis direction, and the coil portion includes an enlarged portion in which a gap between extending portions adjacent to each other in the winding axis direction is wider than a gap between other extending portions. The fastener is provided in the enlarged portion.
US10748698B2
An electronic component having a main body includes a plurality of insulator layers laminated in a lamination direction. A primary coil is disposed in the main body and includes one or more primary coil conductor layers. A secondary coil is disposed in the main body and includes one or more secondary coil conductor layers. A tertiary coil is disposed in the main body and includes one or more tertiary coil conductor layers. The plurality of insulator layers includes a first insulator layer including a portion interposed between the primary coil conductor layer and the secondary coil conductor layer, a second insulator layer including a portion interposed between the secondary coil conductor layer and the tertiary coil conductor layer, and a third insulator layer including a portion interposed between the tertiary coil conductor layer and the primary coil conductor layer.
US10748697B2
A resonant power converter for operation in the radio frequency range, preferably in the VHF, comprises at least one PCB-embedded transformer. The transformer is configured for radio frequency operation and comprises a printed circuit board defining a horizontal plane, the printed circuit board comprising at least two horizontal conductive layers separated by an isolating layer, a first embedded solenoid forming a primary winding of the transformer and a second embedded solenoid being arranged parallel to the first solenoid and forming a secondary winding of the transformer, wherein the first and second embedded solenoids are formed in the conductive layers of the printed circuit board, wherein each full turn of an embedded solenoid has a horizontal top portion formed in an upper conductive layer, a horizontal bottom portion formed in a lower conductive layer, and two vertical side portions formed by vias extending between the upper and the lower conducting layers.
US10748694B2
A coil component is constituted by a composite magnetic material containing alloy grains whose oxygen atom concentration in their surfaces is 50 percent or less, and resin, and also by a coil. The alloy grains are comprised of first alloy grains and second alloy grains which have different compositions and different average grain sizes. The coil component using the composite magnetic material does not require high pressure when formed.
US10748692B2
A magnet apparatus for generating a high gradient and/or high strength magnetic field, comprises: two main permanent magnets 2, 4 located side-by-side with oppositely oriented magnetic field polarities and end surfaces of opposite polarities next to one another, wherein the magnetic anisotropy of the magnets 2, 4 exceeds the magnetic induction of the material of the magnets 2, 4; and at least one mask 6 on a first end of each of the adjacent permanent magnets 2, 4, the masks 6 comprising a permanent magnet material covering adjacent end surfaces of the two permanent magnets 2, 4 with a gap 8 in the masks along a joining line between the two permanent magnets 2, 4 to form a zone of high-gradient magnetic field above the joining line; wherein the permanent magnet of each mask 6 is oriented with an opposite polarity to the main permanent magnet 2, 4 that it is attached to.
US10748689B2
Provided are a slim-type stator using a multilayer printed circuit board (PCB) in which a coil pattern is patterned on an uppermost PCB layer and a sensing coil pattern for detecting a rotor rotation position is integrally formed in a margin of the uppermost PCB layer, to thereby realize sensorless driving simply, and a sensorless single-phase motor using the slim-type stator, and a cooling fan using the sensorless single-phase motor. The slim-type stator includes: a multilayer PCB; a coil pattern patterned on respective PCB layers of the multilayer PCB and connected through throughholes; and a sensing coil pattern formed on an uppermost PCB layer to detect a rotor rotation position, wherein the sensing coil pattern is positioned and set at a position deviated from a magnetic pole interface of a rotor that is positioned and set by a dead point prevention yoke when the rotor is in an initial state.
US10748684B2
To provide a rare earth magnet ensuring excellent magnetic anisotropy while reducing the amount of Nd, etc., and a manufacturing method thereof.A rare earth magnet comprising a crystal grain having an overall composition of (R2(1-x)R1x)yFe100-y-w-z-vCowBzTMv (wherein R2 is at least one of Nd, Pr, Dy and Tb, R1 is an alloy of at least one or two or more of Ce, La, Gd, Y and Sc, TM is at least one of Ga, Al, Cu, Au, Ag, Zn, In and Mn, 0
US10748680B2
The invention concerns a resistor, in particular a low-resistance current measuring resistor, having two connecting parts made of a conductor material and a resistor element made of a resistance material inserted between the connecting parts, the resistance material having a specific thermal force which generates a specific thermoelectric voltage in the event of a temperature difference between the resistor element on the one hand and the connecting parts on the other hand. The invention additionally provides for a compensating element which in operation generates a thermoelectric voltage which at least partially compensates for the thermoelectric voltage generated by the resistor element. Furthermore, the invention includes a corresponding manufacturing process.
US10748679B2
A power resistor for use in an automotive battery diagnosis circuit. The resistor includes a length of conductive material stamped to form a ribbon, which has formed along its length pins arranged perpendicular to the length of the ribbon and in a plane perpendicular to the stamping direction. The pins are arranged to provide in use means for electrical connection and mechanical fixation to the circuit.
US10748678B2
This invention provides a substrate for a superconducting wire used for manufacturing a superconducting wire with excellent superconductivity and a method for manufacturing the same. Such substrate for a superconducting wire exhibits the crystal orientation of metals on the outermost layer, such as a c-axis orientation rate of 99% or higher, a Δω of 6 degrees or less, and a percentage of an area in which the crystal orientation is deviated by 6 degrees or more from the (001) [100] per unit area of 6% or less.
US10748672B2
A process for producing a solid graphene foam composed of multiple pores and pore walls The process comprises: (a) preparing a graphene dispersion having a graphene material dispersed in a liquid medium, which contains an optional blowing agent; (b) dispensing and depositing the graphene dispersion onto a supporting substrate to form a wet layer of graphene material having a preferred orientation; (c) partially or completely removing the liquid medium from the wet layer of graphene material to form a dried layer of graphene material having a content of non-carbon elements no less than 5% by weight (including blowing agent weight); and (d) heat treating the layer of graphene material at a first heat treatment temperature from 80° C. to 3,200° C. at a desired heating rate sufficient to induce volatile gas molecules from the non-carbon elements or to activate the blowing agent for producing the graphene foam having a density from 0.01 to 1.7 g/cm3 or a specific surface area from 50 to 3,000 m2/g.
US10748658B2
Methods and devices include database management and graphical user interfaces for measurements collected by analyzing blood.
US10748648B2
A system for delivery of medical images, comprising an operator device to send a request to a delivery service coupled with a data storage system, where the request comprises an identifier. A medical image file in the data storage system comprises meta data associated with the identifier. The medical image file is converted into a format compatible with a determined output modality based on the meta data for a recipient device. The system can include a mobile viewer device to receive a converted medical image file, where the meta data associated with the determined output modality includes device-dependent data in header fields pertaining to the recipient device which is to receive the converted medical image file.
US10748640B2
Embodiments are described that leverage variability of a chip. Different areas of a chip vary in terms of reliability under a same operating condition. The variability may be captured by measuring errors over different areas of the chip. A physical factor that affects or controls the likelihood of an error on the chip can be varied. For example, the voltage supplied to a chip may be provided at different levels. At each level of the physical factor, the chip is tested for errors within the regions. Some indication of the error statistics for the regions is stored and then used to adjust power used by the chip, to adjust reliability behavior of the chip, to allow applications to control how the chip is used, to compute a signature uniquely identifying the chip, etc.
US10748624B2
Apparatus having an array of memory cells and a differential storage array might have a controller configured to program first data to a plurality of memory cells of the array of memory cells corresponding to an address of the array of memory cells, program second data to the plurality of memory cells containing the first data, determine if a power loss to the apparatus is indicated while programming the second data, and, if a power loss is indicated, program a first plurality of differential storage devices of the differential storage array responsive to information indicative of a plurality of digits of the first data, program a second plurality of differential storage devices of the differential storage array responsive to information indicative of a plurality of digits of the address, and program a third differential storage device of the differential storage array to have a particular value.
US10748617B2
A method of operating a nonvolatile memory device is provided where the nonvolatile memory device includes a plurality of cell strings, and each cell string includes a plurality of multi-level cells. a voltage of a selected word line is sequentially changed to sequentially have a plurality of read voltages for determining threshold voltage states of the plurality of multi-level cells. A voltage of an adjacent word line adjacent to the selected word line is sequentially changed in synchronization with voltage changing time points of the selected word line. A load of the selected word line is reduced and an operation speed of the nonvolatile memory device is increased by synchronizing the voltage change of the selected word line and the voltage change of the adjacent word line in the same direction.
US10748612B1
A sensing circuit with adaptive local reference generation of a resistive memory is configured to adaptively sense a first bit line current of a first bit line and a second bit line current of a second bit line via one sense amplifier. The sense amplifier has a first output node and a second output node. The adaptive local reference generator is electrically connected to the sense amplifier and generating a reference current equal to a sum of the second bit line current and a local reference current. A first bit line current flows through the first output node during a first bit line time interval. A second bit line current flows through the first output node during a second bit line time interval. The first bit line time interval is different from the second bit line time interval.
US10748608B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, applying a setting voltage across first and second electrodes, wherein a nanowire with a first electrical resistance is electrically connected between the first and second electrodes, wherein the applying of the setting voltage causes a migration of ions from the first and/or second electrodes to a surface of the nanowire, and wherein the migration of ions effectuates a reduction of electrical resistance of the nanowire from the first electrical resistance to a second electrical resistance that is lower than the first electrical resistance; and applying a reading voltage across the pair of electrodes, wherein the reading voltage is less than the setting voltage, and wherein the reading voltage is sufficiently small such that the applying of the reading voltage causes no more than an insignificant change of the electrical resistance of the nanowire from the second electrical resistance. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10748606B2
Storage device programming methods, systems and media are described. A method may include encoding data to generate an encoded set of data. A first programming operation may write the encoded set of data to a memory device. The method includes encoding, using a second encoding operation based on the data, to generate a second set of encoded data. The second set of encoded data is stored to a cache. A first decoding operation is performed, based on the second set of encoded data and the encoded set of data, to generate a decoded set of data. A second decoding operation is performed to generate a second decoded set of data. The second decoded set of data is encoded to generate a third set of encoded data. The method includes performing a second programming operation to write the third set of encoded data to the memory device.
US10748603B2
A memory circuit has compute-in-memory circuitry that enables a multiply-accumulate (MAC) operation based on shared charge. Row access circuitry drives multiple rows of a memory array to multiply a first data word with a second data word stored in the memory array. The row access circuitry drives the multiple rows based on the bit pattern of the first data word. Column access circuitry drives a column of the memory array when the rows are driven. Accessed rows discharge the column line in an accumulative fashion. Sensing circuitry can sense voltage on the column line. A processor in the memory circuit computes a MAC value based on the voltage sensed on the column.
US10748602B2
One embodiment provides an apparatus. The apparatus includes a pair of nonvolatile resistive random access memory (RRAM) memory cells coupled to a volatile static RAM (SRAM) memory cell. The pair of nonvolatile RRAM memory cells includes a first RRAM memory cell and a second RRAM memory cell. The first RRAM memory cell includes a first resistive memory element coupled to a first bit line, and a first selector transistor coupled between the first resistive memory element and a first output node of the volatile SRAM memory cell. The second RRAM memory cell includes a second resistive memory element coupled to a second bit line, and a second selector transistor coupled between the second resistive memory element and a second output node of the volatile SRAM memory cell.
US10748601B2
An integrated circuit chip includes: one or more couplers suitable for transferring data between stacked chips; one or more data nodes suitable for transferring data to a host; and one or more transfer circuits on a transfer path for transferring data between the one or more couplers and the one or more data nodes, wherein at least one transfer circuit among the one or more transfer circuits inverts a portion of the data which is transferred by the at least one transfer circuit.
US10748576B2
According to one embodiment, a head gimbal assembly includes a suspension and a magnetic head supported by the suspension via a gimbal portion. The magnetic head includes a slider and a head portion provided in the slider. The slider includes an air bearing surface, a pair of side surfaces, a leading-side end surface, and a trailing-side end surface. The slider includes a deep groove which is formed between the leading-side step portion and the trailing-side step portion and is open to the air bearing surface and the pair of side surfaces, and a pair of partition walls which extends from the trailing-side step portion toward the leading-side step portion along the pair of side surfaces to close at least a portion of a side surface opening of the deep groove.
US10748575B2
A system and method allows a user to enter a command capture audio, video, and/or still pictures that commence at a moment in time earlier than entering the command.
US10748570B2
A tape-shaped magnetic recording medium includes a substrate; and a magnetic layer that is provided on the substrate and contains a magnetic powder. An average thickness of the magnetic layer is not more than 90 nm, an average aspect ratio of the magnetic powder is not less than 1.0 and not more than 3.0, the coercive force Hc1 in a vertical direction is not more than 3000 Oe, the coercive force Hc1 in the vertical direction and a coercive force Hc2 in a longitudinal direction satisfy a relationship of Hc2/Hc1≤0.8, and a value of σ1.5−σ0.5 is not more than 0.6 N in a tensile test of the magnetic recording medium in the longitudinal direction, where σ0.5 is a load at an elongation rate of 0.5% in the magnetic recording medium and σ1.5 is a load at an elongation rate of 1.5% in the magnetic recording medium.
US10748559B1
A magnetic head includes a main pole, a trailing shield, a spin torque oscillator, and a buffer layer. The buffer layer is interposed between the main pole and the spin torque oscillator. The spin torque oscillator has first and second side surfaces. The first and second side surfaces respectively form first and second angles with respect to a direction perpendicular to a top surface of a substrate. The first and second angles each fall within a range of 0° to 10°. The buffer layer has third and fourth side surfaces. The third side surface includes a first inclined portion forming a third angle greater than the first angle. The fourth side surface includes a second inclined portion forming a fourth angle greater than the second angle.
US10748550B2
A method, apparatus and computer program including: obtaining a spatial audio signal from a plurality of microphones; dividing the obtained spatial audio signal into at least a first component and a second component; applying a first audio signal optimizing system to the first component and applying a second audio signal optimizing system to the second component; and enabling a signal including the optimized components to be provided to a speaker for rendering.
US10748549B2
A headphone, headphone system, and speech enhancing method is provided to enhance speech pick-up from the user of a headphone and includes receiving a plurality of signals from a set of microphones and generating a primary signal by array processing the microphone signals to steer a beam toward the user's mouth. A noise reference signal is also derived from one or more microphones, and a voice estimate signal is generated by filtering the primary signal to remove components that are correlated to the noise reference signal.
US10748546B2
Systems and processes for operating an intelligent automated assistant to provide extension of digital assistant services are provided. An example method includes, at an electronic device having one or more processors, receiving, from a first user, a first speech input representing a user request. The method further includes obtaining an identity of the first user; and in accordance with the user identity, providing a representation of the user request to at least one of a second electronic device or a third electronic device. The method further includes receiving, based on a determination of whether the second electronic device or the third electronic device, or both, is to provide the response to the first electronic device, the response to the user request from the second electronic device or the third electronic device. The method further includes providing a representation of the response to the first user.
US10748545B2
According to one embodiment, an interactive electronic device control system includes an interactive electronic device and an authentication manager. The interactive electronic device sends input voice data to a voice recognition service server and receives a response generated based at least in part on a result of recognizing the voice data by the voice recognition service server and the authentication manager authenticates a mobile terminal connected to the interactive electronic device via a network as an authenticated user.
US10748543B2
A method at an electronic device with one or more microphones and a speaker includes receiving a first voice input; comparing the first voice input to one or more voice models; based on the comparing, determining whether the first voice input corresponds to any of a plurality of occupants, and according to the determination, authenticating an occupant and presenting a response, or restricting functionality of the electronic device.
US10748527B2
Efficient empirical determination, computation, and use of an acoustic confusability measure comprises: (1) an empirically derived acoustic confusability measure, comprising a means for determining the acoustic confusability between any two textual phrases in a given language, where the measure of acoustic confusability is empirically derived from examples of the application of a specific speech recognition technology, where the procedure does not require access to the internal computational models of the speech recognition technology, and does not depend upon any particular internal structure or modeling technique, and where the procedure is based upon iterative improvement from an initial estimate; (2) techniques for efficient computation of empirically derived acoustic confusability measure, comprising means for efficient application of an acoustic confusability score, allowing practical application to very large-scale problems; and (3) a method for using acoustic confusability measures to make principled choices about which specific phrases to make recognizable by a speech recognition application.
US10748526B2
A system may obtain a test utterance sample configured to test a virtual agent. The system may tokenize the test utterance sample into a sample tokens. The system may determine, based on a natural language processing framework, a synonymous set (synset) for at least one of the sample tokens. The synset may include a lemma tokens. The system may obtain a contextual corpus relevant to a natural language context of the virtual agent. The system may select a lemma token that is included in the corpus tokens. The system may generate a new test utterance comprising the selected lemma token. The system may insert the new test utterance in a test repository. The system may communicate the new test utterance to the virtual agent to test the virtual agent based on the new test utterance. If the virtual agent fails a test in respect to the new test utterance, the corpus of the virtual agent can be retrained.
US10748518B2
In an approach to adaptive sound masking, one or more computer processors analyze a surrounding of one or more users and stores in a database. The one or more computer processors receive a request from the one or more users for adaptive sound masking. The one or more computer processors analyzes a surrounding environment associated with the one or more users and storing a first information associated with the surrounding environment in a database. The one or more computer processors generate a cognitive sound mask base on the first information. The one or more computer processors produce a sound cone based on the cognitive sound mask and directing the sound cone at a distracting sound. The one or more computer processors adapt the sound cone based on changes to the surrounding environment.
US10748516B2
An apparatus for generating an audio output signal is provided. The audio output signal has two or more audio output channels and is generated from an audio input signal having two or more audio input channels. The apparatus includes a provider and a signal processor. The provider is adapted to provide first covariance properties of the audio input signal. The signal processor is adapted to generate the audio output signal by applying a mixing rule on at least two of the two or more audio input channels. The signal processor is configured to determine the mixing rule based on the first covariance properties of the audio input signal and based on second covariance properties of the audio output signal, the second covariance properties being different from the first covariance properties.
US10748515B2
Systems and methods are provided for enhanced real-time audio generation via a virtualized orchestra. An example method includes receiving, from a user device, a request to generate output associated with a musical score. Actions associated with virtual musicians with respect to respective instruments are simulated based on one or more machine learning models, with the simulated actions being associated with a virtual musician and indicative of an expected playing style during performance of the musical score. Output audio to be provided to the user device is generated, with the output audio being generated based on the simulated actions.
US10748499B2
GOA circuit is disclosed comprising m stages GOA units, wherein a n-th stage GOA unit comprises: an output control module, a forward-backward scan control module, a node signal control module, a signal output module, a first pull-down circuit, a second pull-down circuit, and a pull-up circuit, wherein m≥n≥1; output control module controls a n-th stage gate driving signal; first pull-down circuit comprises a 7th thin-film-transistor which first end connected with said output control module, and second end connected with low voltage signal; signal output module comprises a 5th thin-film-transistor which first end connected with high voltage signal and second end connected with third end of said 7th thin-film-transistor; node signal control module controls said 5th thin-film-transistor as conducting or non-conducting; second pull-down circuit controls said 5th thin-film-transistor as non-conducting. Present invention eliminates the sticking and flicker of display panels after out of power improving user experience.
US10748488B2
A display device including: a display panel including a plurality of pixels configured to be driven in a normal mode or an always on display mode; an illuminance sensor configured to detect illuminance of ambient light; a direct current (DC)-DC converter configured to supply a power supply voltage having a first voltage level to the pixels through a power supply line when the illuminance is greater than a predetermined reference value in the always on display mode; and a display panel driver configured to supply a power supply voltage having a second voltage level to the pixels through the power supply line when the illuminance is less than or equal to the predetermined reference value in the always on display mode.
US10748480B2
The present disclosure provides a method of compensating AMOLED pixel difference, including the steps of: fitting the driving voltage value and the driving current value of the reference pixel. Acquiring the threshold voltage, the coefficient and the power value corresponding to the reference pixel according to the fitting result. Acquiring the threshold change of the threshold voltage corresponding to the other pixel relative to the threshold voltage corresponding to the reference pixel and the coefficient ratio of the coefficient corresponding to the other pixel relative to the coefficient corresponding to the reference pixel. Compensating the other pixel difference according to the threshold change, the coefficient ratio and the power value. The disclosure makes the driving current under the same driving voltage be consistent, improves the uniformity of the light-emitting intensity of the AMOLED and enhances the display quality of the AMOLED display device.
US10748479B2
A novel semiconductor device or a novel display system is provided. A signal generation portion monitors display conditions and controls the potentials output from a power supply circuit, in accordance with the display conditions. Specifically, a controller changes the parameter stored in a memory device when display conditions change. Then, the power supply circuit generates the potentials with the use of the changed parameter. Accordingly, the voltage applied to a light-emitting element can be controlled in accordance with the display conditions, which reduces the power consumption in a display portion.
US10748478B2
The invention provides an OLED panel temperature compensation system and method. The system comprises an OLED panel and a processing module connected to the OLED panel, the OLED panel is disposed with a temperature sensor layer of a plurality of temperature sensors on one side or inside; when performing temperature compensation, the temperature sensor detects the temperature of the location and transmits to the processing module, the processing module receives and processes the initial data signals of the plurality of sub-pixels to obtain the to-be-displayed brightness of the plurality of sub-pixels, and receives and processes the temperatures from the plurality of temperature sensors to obtain the temperatures of the plurality of sub-pixels, and generates and outputs compensation data signals corresponding to the plurality of sub-pixels according to the to-be-displayed brightness and temperature of the plurality of sub-pixels. The OLED panel is thus accurately and effectively compensated for temperature.
US10748451B2
Systems and methods for generating three-dimensional fluid flow simulations from two-dimensional (2D) image data are provided. Data is segmented from 2D images of a sample having a biological structure with fluid flow therethrough. Three-dimensional (3D) geometries are generated from the segmented data, and then a 3D reconstruction of the biological structure is generated from the 3D geometries. This 3D geometric computational analysis tool can be used to evaluate fluid dynamics and hemodynamics in the context of the structure anatomy and geometry.
US10748450B1
An interactive augmented reality system for simulating medical procedures for pediatric disease education includes a plush toy having one or more patches disposed on a body of the plush toy in one or more corresponding locations each associated with an area of the body of the plush toy that is comparable to an area of a human body. An interactive medical procedure simulation logic section operable within a mobile device causes a particular patch within a series of live images to be scanned, and initiates an interactive augmented reality experience to simulate a medical procedure for pediatric disease education. Comfort is provided to children struggling with a disease. Children learn how to manage their chronic illness by enabling them to practice their medical procedures and receive feedback related to correct and incorrect care. A low-cost disease education delivery mechanism is provided directly to children through game-play.
US10748444B2
Disclosed herein are an apparatus for writing a motion script and an apparatus and method for self-teaching of a motion. The method for self-teaching of a motion, in which the apparatus for writing a motion script and the apparatus for self-teaching of a motion are used, includes creating, by the apparatus for writing a motion script, a motion script based on expert motion of a first user; analyzing, by the apparatus for self-teaching of a motion, a motion of a second user, who learns the expert motion, based on the motion script; and outputting, by the apparatus for self-teaching of a motion, a result of analysis of the motion of the second user.
US10748436B2
Methods and systems for improving resource content mapping for an electronic learning system. The methods can include: receiving, by the electronic learning system, a resource for satisfying at least one learning objective of the one or more learning objectives, the resource comprising a content having a content data convertible into a text data and one or more resource property fields defining at least one characteristic of the resource; sectioning the content data into one or more content portions based on an analysis of at least one of the content data and the one or more resource property fields; and assigning at least one content portion of the one or more content portions to at least one learning objective.
US10748432B2
A piloting assistance system of a platform, and associated method are provided. The system includes a first detector for detecting a windshear able to generate a first alert that the platform is approaching a windshear zone; a second detector for detecting a windshear able to generate a second alert indicating the presence of the platform in the windshear zone; and a guider of the platform. The guider is able to automatically select a first guidance mode when a first alert is generated by the first detector, and to automatically select at least one second guidance mode different from the first guidance mode when a second alert is generated by the second detector. The system includes an information device able to display unified windshear alert information and/or unified information for implementation of a guidance mode, shared by the first alert and the second alert.
US10748427B1
Systems and methods are disclosed for preventing damage to underground assets caused by earth work or construction equipment and vehicles. The system includes a central data system, which has access to asset location and map data, and a GPS enabled tracking device provided in the vehicle. The system operates by comparing the real-time vehicle location to the stored asset locations, displaying the map, asset information and vehicle location to the vehicle operator and generating alerts when the vehicle breaches a perimeter around an asset. Preferably, both the central data system and the tracking unit are configured to operate together and in parallel, thereby improving the reliability of the system. In addition, the system is also specifically configured to implement various approaches for using and displaying asset location data during monitoring operations while preserving the confidentiality and security of sensitive information.
US10748424B2
A vehicle presence detection system for determining whether a parking space is vacant or occupied and utilizing this information to guide vehicles to available parking spaces. generally includes a LIDAR device, a cloud-based processing unit, a database, and a guidance light. The LIDAR device generally includes a light emitter, a light sensor, a CPU, a memory unit, and a communications device. The LIDAR device determines the distance between itself and a parking spot or a vehicle parked in that parking spot using an algorithm that accounts for variances in the ambient conditions. This status information can be communicated to a cloud-based processing unit, which can store this information in a database and/or use this information to send parking status indications to an autonomous vehicle dynamic sign, mobile device, or guidance light.
US10748417B1
A vehicle identification system includes one or more displays associated with a vehicle, a transceiver, and a controller communicatively coupled to the transceiver. The one or more displays are located to be visible from an exterior of the vehicle. The controller is adapted to generate a first signal to be transmitted by the transceiver to a mobile communication device associated with a driver of the vehicle when it is determined that the vehicle is within a predetermined distance of a specific location. The mobile communication device associated with the driver is adapted to generate a second signal to be transmitted to the one or more displays. The second signal represents an indicator.
US10748416B2
An intermediary between a remote control device and a remotely controllable device implements identification and/or authentication. The intermediary is, e.g., a node or set of nodes within a head end of a cable network service provider. A remote control device at a customer premise sends a command intended to control a remotely controllably device which is also located at the same customer premise. The customer premise includes a network interface, e.g., a cable modem, which has associated identification information. The command and the associated network interface identification information are communicated to the intermediary, e.g., via a cable modem. The intermediary accesses a subscriber record corresponding to the location based on the network interface identification information. The intermediary identifies the device to be controlled, e.g., a particular set top box and/or authenticates the remote control device. A command is sent via the network to the device to be controlled.
US10748411B2
A system for automatically disarming an intrusion detection system, the intrusion detection system protecting a premises and having an armed state and a disarmed state of operation, including an intrusion detection system state of operation ascertainer operable, responsive to receiving an indication of detection of an intrusion, for ascertaining whether the intrusion detection system is in the armed state; a registered mobile communicator proximity detector communicating with the intrusion detection system state of operation ascertainer and operable, responsive to ascertaining that the intrusion detection system is in the armed state of operation, for ascertaining whether at least registered mobile communicator is in a vicinity of the premises; and an automatic intrusion detection system disarmer communicating with the registered mobile communicator proximity detector and operable, responsive to the ascertaining that at least one registered mobile communicator is in the vicinity of the premises, for automatically disarming the intrusion detection system.
US10748406B2
A machine condition monitoring system employing a haptic feedback device. The haptic feedback device can be employed to notify an operator of an acquisition of a machine parameter measurement. The haptic feedback device can be integrated into a control unit of a condition monitoring device and/or a remote condition monitoring status receiving device. The haptic feedback device containing notification apparatus can be worn by the operator, thus providing immediate notification without requiring the Operator's undivided attention. The notification apparatus can be worn on the operator's waist, wrist, upper arm, ankle, neck, etc. The notification apparatus can also be stored within a pocket of a garment worn by the operator.
US10748405B2
A driving assistance device of the embodiment includes: an acquisition unit that acquires a degree of drowsiness of a driver who is driving a vehicle, based on information on the driver being input; a calculation unit that calculates an expected time until the effect is lost indicating an expected time when drowsiness is not eliminated despite a stimulus being applied to the driver, based on a time interval when the degree of drowsiness obtained by the acquisition unit becomes equal to or more than a predetermined threshold; and a control unit that changes control performed on the driver as the expected time until the effect is lost calculated by the calculation unit is reduced.
US10748404B2
A method for recognizing microsleep on the part of a driver of a vehicle. The method includes at least a step of reading in an eye closure information item regarding an eye parameter of the driver, the eye closure information item representing a first eyelid position for a maximum eye opening level, and/or a second eyelid position for a minimum eye opening level, for the driver; a step of classifying a current eyelid position of an eyelid of the driver using the eye closure information item, in order to obtain an eye opening information item that represents an open state of the eyes or a closed state of the eyes; and a step of ascertaining a sleep recognition value that represents an indication of an occurrence of microsleep.
US10748389B2
An apparatus and method for damping haptic vibrations. A haptic output device is positioned within a device housing. The haptic output device has a haptic actuator and a haptic mass, the haptic mass being movable relative to the housing. A damper is positioned within the device housing. A controller is programmed to generate and deliver a haptic signal to the haptic actuator at a first time, and to generate and deliver a damping signal to the damper at a second time, the second time occurring after the first time. The method comprises moving a haptic mass, the haptic mass position in a housing; vibrating the housing in response to moving the haptic mass; damping movement of the haptic mass after a period of time; and substantially eliminating vibration of the housing in response to damping movement of the haptic mass.
US10748380B2
Some embodiments may include a poker indexing service. For example, a multi dimensional vector of player performance and/or other data may be determined based on gaming related activity that is input or otherwise captured. Such a vector may be used in various forms to generate a metric or to facilitate wagering and/or other gaming activity. Other methods and apparatus are described.
US10748377B1
Nested commit/reveal sequences using randomized inputs from each participant in a gaming transaction (e.g., the house and each player) may be employed to provide a selection of outcome or outcomes that can be verified by each participant as free from cheating. In general, techniques may be employed in a variety of distributed gaming transaction environments and as a verification facility for any of a wide variety of games in which the risk of player collusion can be eliminated. Nonetheless, several variations on a distributed card dealing method are illustrative and will be appreciated by persons of ordinary skill in the art as applicable in other gaming environments, including games employing outcomes denominated in die (or dice) rolls, coin toss, wheel spins, blind selection or other ostensibly random selection of an outcome from a predefined set thereof.
US10748369B1
A credit card reader that is configurable for use is provided that includes a first assembly and a second assembly. The first assembly has a mag stripe card reader. The second assembly has a Europay Mastercard Visa (EMV) reader. The second assembly is coupled to the first assembly, where the first assembly rotates about an axis perpendicular to a plane in which the assemblies are disposed to one of a plurality of angular positions, the plurality of angular positions indicating an offset angle of the first assembly relative to the second assembly.
US10748358B2
An integrated wireless data system and method for avionic performance indication for measuring, monitoring and displaying in-use, real-world engine-out characteristics on a propeller driven aircraft for the purposes of health monitoring, performance optimization, and regulatory compliance is provided. Engine-out characteristics may be measured either at the propeller extension hub mounted between the engine and propeller, on the crankshaft flange, or on the propeller itself, and include, but are not limited to, the engine output torque, thrust, vibration, bending loads and temperature. Data may be transmitted wirelessly to a base unit located inside the cockpit and user selected parameters are updated on a display in real-time. The system may also store all collected data, for later download and analysis. The system may also have a software interface that can be used to download, view and analyze all recorded data, as well as to configure the system settings and alerts.
US10748331B2
Techniques are disclosed for displaying a graphical element in a manner that simulates three-dimensional (3D) visibility (including parallax and shadowing). More particularly, a number of images, each captured with a known spatial relationship to a target 3D object, may be used to construct a lighting model of the target object. In one embodiment, for example, polynomial texture maps (PTM) using spherical or hemispherical harmonics may be used to do this. Using PTM techniques a relatively small number of basis images may be identified. When the target object is to be displayed, orientation information may be used to generate a combination of the basis images so as to simulate the 3D presentation of the target object.
US10748323B2
Embodiments described herein provide a general purpose graphics processing device, comprising a general purpose graphics processing compute block to process a workload including graphics or compute operations, a memory, and a constant folding unit comprising a processing unit to receive a first input shader and metadata for the first input shader, receive a first constant buffer comprising runtime constants for the first input shader, and generate an improved shader from the first input shader and the runtime constants. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
US10748319B1
The present disclosure is directed toward systems and methods for generating a composite radiographic image that corrects effects of parallax distortion. A sequence of radiographic images—including a series of discrete exposures or image frames from a fluoroscopic procedure—may be acquired using a C-arm apparatus. An exemplary method may include receiving a plurality of radiographic image frames pertaining to a patient, identifying a region of interest on the image frames, cropping the region of interest from a plurality of image frames, selecting a plurality of sequential portions of cropped image frames, and stitching together the selected portions to form a composite image that corrects effects of parallax distortion and displaying a three-dimensional image of a part of the patient according to the orientation of the patient calculated from this two-dimensional intra-operative radiographic imaging information.
US10748318B2
A system and method of generating a two-dimensional (2D) image of an environment is provided. The system includes a 2D scanner having a controller that determines a distance value to at least one of the object points. One or more processors are operably coupled to the 2D scanner, the one or more processors being responsive to nontransitory executable instructions for generating a plurality of 2D submaps of the environment based at least in part on the distance value, each submap generated from a different point in the environment. A map editor is provided that is configured to: select a subset of submaps from the plurality of 2D submaps; and generate the 2D image of the environment using the subset of 2D submaps. The method provides for realigning of 2D submaps to improve the quality of a global 2D map.
US10748317B2
A logo controller includes: a logo area detector for detecting a logo area commonly included in a plurality of first image frames, based on the plurality of first image frames; a logo peripheral area setting unit for setting a logo peripheral area expanded based on the logo area; a display load determiner for calculating a display load value, based on grayscale values of at least one first image frame, and determining the difference between a logo peripheral area representative value based on grayscale values of the logo peripheral area and the display load value exceeds a first reference value; and a logo peripheral area corrector for generating a second image frame.
US10748313B2
Described are systems and processes for generating multi-view interactive digital media representations (MIDMR) for display on a user device. In one aspect, a mobile device is provided which comprises a display, one or more processors, memory, and one or more programs stored in memory. The one or more programs comprise instructions for locking the mobile device, and providing a lock screen on the display in a lock mode upon receiving user input for accessing the mobile device. The lock screen may display a dynamic MIDMR that dynamically changes without user input, which provides an interactive three-dimensional representation of an object that is responsive to user interaction with the mobile device. The dynamic MIDMR displayed is selected based on predetermined criteria, and may change based on a predetermined algorithm that includes weighted predetermined criteria factors as variables and recalculates the algorithm value to determine changes to the dynamic MIDMR.
US10748302B1
In some implementations, a first electronic device including a first image sensor uses a processor to perform a method. The method involves obtaining a first set of keyframes based on images of a physical environment captured by the first image sensor. The method generates a mapping defining relative locations of keyframes of the first set of keyframes. The method receives a keyframe corresponding to an image of the physical environment captured at a second, different electronic device and localizes the received keyframe to the mapping. The method then receives an anchor from the second electronic device that defines a position of a virtual object relative to the keyframe. The method displays a CGR environment including the virtual object at a location based on the anchor and the mapping.
US10748295B2
A system includes a processor and a memory. The memory stores instructions executable by the processor to identify an object, including points on the object, to perform tracking of the object based on a motion model including a relationship of the points to one another, and to then output a location of one of the points in a blind spot based on the tracking.
US10748291B2
The present disclosure relates to the technical field of medical image processing and, in particular, to a liver boundary identification method and a system. The method includes: obtaining liver tissue information of a liver tissue to be identified; identifying a liver tissue boundary in the liver tissue information according to a feature of the liver tissue corresponding to the liver tissue information and a feature of the liver tissue boundary corresponding to the liver tissue information using an image processing technology or a signal processing technology; and outputting position information of the identified liver tissue boundary. By using the disclosed method, the liver tissue boundary can be identified automatically, the efficiency of identifying the liver boundary can be improved, and automatic positioning of the liver boundary can thus be achieved.
US10748287B2
A system and method for Automated Detection and Measurement of Corneal Haze and the Demarcation Line is disclosed. Data extraction module performs visual data and statistics generation to detect corneal haze and calculate corneal attributes in images.
US10748284B2
An image processing device includes a processor comprising hardware, wherein the processor is configured to execute: acquiring intraluminal images; generating, for each of the intraluminal images, lesion information by estimating a visual point with respect to a lesion region extracted from each of the intraluminal images and analyzing a three-dimensional structure of the lesion, the lesion information indicating any of a top portion, a rising portion, and a marginal protruding portion in the lesion region; and extracting, based on the lesion information, a target image satisfying a prescribed condition from the intraluminal images.
US10748277B2
Tissue is characterized using machine-learnt classification. The prognosis, diagnosis or evidence in the form of a similar case is found by machine-learnt classification from features extracted from frames of medical scan data. The texture features for tissue characterization may be learned using deep learning. Using the features, therapy response is predicted from magnetic resonance functional measures before and after treatment in one example. Using the machine-learnt classification, the number of measures after treatment may be reduced as compared to RECIST for predicting the outcome of the treatment, allowing earlier termination or alteration of the therapy.
US10748275B2
A method for the analysis of surface measurements, in particular scratch tests, wear tests or profilometric measurements, wherein a graph with displayable curves in the form of measuring curves of already analyzed results with an X-axis as a coordinate axis along a measuring path is laid over a live image or subsequently over a stored image of the measuring section such that the X-coordinates in the image coincide with the X-coordinates of the curves.
US10748274B2
A computer-implemented method of automatically locating a portion of interest in image or matrix data derived from an item under consideration includes: identifying parts of the image or matrix data that satisfy a preset threshold as objects which are possibly parts of the portion of the interest; applying at least one preselected filter to the data corresponding to the objects to find a set of objects consisting of the objects most likely to be part of the portion of interest; sorting the objects of the set into clusters according to a predefined criterion; and using a known characteristic of the portion of interest to identify which one of the clusters corresponds to the portion of interest.
US10748271B2
There are provided system and method of classifying defects in a specimen. The method includes: obtaining one or more defect clusters detected on a defect map of the specimen, each cluster characterized by a set of cluster attributes comprising spatial attributes including spatial density indicative of density of defects in one or more regions accommodating the cluster, each given defect cluster being detected at least based on the spatial density thereof meeting a criterion; for each cluster, applying a cluster classifier to a respective set of cluster attributes thereof to associate the cluster with one or more labels of a predefined set of labels, wherein the cluster classifier is trained using cluster training data; and identifying DOI in each cluster by performing a defect filtration for each cluster using one or more filtering parameters specified in accordance with the label of the cluster.
US10748263B2
A medical image processing apparatus includes an acquisition unit, a processing unit, a memory and a display. The acquisition unit acquires first volume data including data of a subject. A predetermined luminance condition is set in the memory. The predetermined luminance condition is a luminance condition that is to be satisfied by luminance of a first SUM image rendering the acquired first volume data. The processing unit generates first luminance information that gives the luminance of the first SUM image that satisfies the predetermined luminance condition, generates the first SUM image by rendering the acquired first volume data with the generated first luminance information, and displays the generated first SUM image in the display.
US10748258B2
The present disclosure provides a method, a device and a system for correcting distortion of a wide-angle lens. The method includes: acquiring n half field of views FOVs θ1 to θn of the wide-angle lens, and acquiring ratios of adjacent FOVs β1 to β(n-1) according to the n half FOVs θ1 to θn; obtaining image heights IHs r1 to rn corresponding to the n half FOVs according to the n half FOVs θ1 to θn; obtaining an IH relationship of adjacent half FOVs according to the ratios of adjacent FOVs β1 to β(n-1) and the IHs r1 to rn corresponding to the n half FOVs, and obtaining the IH of each half FOV through recurrence calculation according to an IH corresponding to a maximum FOV and the IH relationship of adjacent half FOVs; and correcting distortion of the wide-angle lens across FOVs according to the IH of each half FOV.
US10748257B2
Systems and methods are described for colorizing a point cloud comprising a set of point cloud data points associated with a particular object using a plurality of candidate images. For each respective data point in the set of point cloud data points, an image is selected, from a subset of the plurality of candidate images that include an un-occluded point of the particular object corresponding to the respective data point, that has a shortest subject distance to the un-occluded point of the particular object. The respective data point is colorized based on a color in the selected image of the un-occluded point of the particular object corresponding to the respective data point.
US10748253B2
A processing apparatus that enables margin correction of X-ray intensity data includes a calculation unit configured to calculate an expansion rate of X-ray intensity data detected in a unit region on a marginal side on a basis of an intensity distribution resulted from detection of uniform X-ray and a first function generation unit configured to generate an allocation function that allocates the X-ray intensity data detected in the unit region on the marginal side to an outside unit region, on the basis of the expansion rate. Enabling margin correction on the basis of the intensity distribution resulting from detection of uniform X-ray makes it possible to correct the distortion of intensity distribution on the marginal side. As a result, it is possible to expand the detection region of X-ray intensity data.
US10748245B1
Firmware interfaces scale a fixed-font utilized by the firmware interfaces to display glyphs of the fixed-font at a native resolution or a preferred resolution of a display. A conversion factor is generated for scaling the glyphs of the font using the native resolution or the preferred resolution. The glyphs may be scaled using the conversion factor. The scaled glyphs may be stored and utilized to display text of the firmware interface in the native resolution or the preferred resolution.
US10748242B2
Briefly, in accordance with one or more embodiments, an apparatus comprises a processor to compute depth values for one or more 4×4 blocks of pixels using 16 source interpolators and 8 destination interpolators on an incoming fragment of pixel data if the destination is in min/max format, and a memory to store a depth test result performed on the one or more 4×4 blocks of pixels. Otherwise the processor is to compute depth values for one or more 8×4 blocks of pixels using 16 source interpolators and 16 destination interpolators if the destination is in plane format.
US10748236B2
A warp processing unit controls, in dependence on a warp program counter shared between a plurality of threads processing respective graphics fragments, fetching of a next instruction to be executed for at least some of the plurality of threads. In response to a determination that a given subset of threads is to be discarded when at least one other subset of threads is to continue, the warp processing unit processes the given subset of threads in a discarded state. For a thread processed in the discarded state, execution of instructions continues for the discarded thread, and at least one of: generation of data access messages triggered by the discarded thread is suppressed; and at least one processing operation, which would be deferred until completion of the discarded thread had the thread not been discarded, is enabled to be commenced independently of an outcome of the discarded thread.
US10748228B2
System that enables a user to generate a detailed noise complaint with a simple input such as a button click; the system identifies the source of the noise and the authority responsible for monitoring this noise, and it creates a properly formatted complaint and sends it to the responsible authority. Illustrative uses include generation of complaints for noise caused by air traffic, trains, wind turbines, road traffic, or sirens. The user may initiate a complaint using any device such as a mobile phone, a voice-activated system such as Amazon Echo™ or Google Home™, or a dedicated input device. The system may search databases or information feeds to identify the likely source of noise near the user's location. For example, the system may access real-time flight path data to find the airplane closest to the user at the time the user initiates an air noise complaint.
US10748214B2
Method and system providing integration of investment fund data. One system includes a database configured to store financial data pertaining to financial assets. The system further includes a display application configured to create a display for displaying financial data pertaining to the financial assets. The display includes a first view adapted to display a list of financial transactions related to the financial assets. The display further includes a second view adapted to display asset metrics associated with the financial assets. The display application enables a user to select via the first view a particular financial transaction that is associated with a particular financial asset. The display application further presents via the second view an asset metric associated with the particular financial asset and one or more asset metrics associated with other financial assets held by the investment fund that were issued by an issuer of the particular financial asset.
US10748213B2
System and method for communicating with an electronic exchange in an electronic trading environment
System and methods for a connection proxy server are described. According to an example method described herein, a connection proxy server stores subscription, product tables as well as other downloads that are provided to a client terminal during initialization stage as well as later during a trading session. Upon detecting that a connection between the client terminal and a gateway is lost, the connection proxy maintains a communication session created for the client terminal at the gateway and receives data intended for the client terminal. If the connection is re-established between the client terminal and the gateway during a predetermined period of time, the connection proxy provides the stored data to the client terminal thus avoiding a surge in processing resources at the gateway due to the necessary downloads.
US10748212B2
The disclosed embodiments relate to improving the efficiency of an electronic trading system for interest rate swaps (“IRS”) by allowing for IRS contracts to be funded in a base currency while the cash flows, e.g. coupon payments, price alignment interest, variation margin, are denominated in a local currency different from the base currency. Thereby cash flows may be netted and offset minimizing the magnitude of funds needed to be moved and reducing the number of transactions processed by the electronic trading system as well as the consumption of computational resources thereby. Furthermore, the disclosed embodiments facilitate entering into IRS transactions is a currency different from the currency of cash flows while eliminating Herstatt risk due to volatility of foreign exchange rates, which allows for increased off shore participation and thereby increased transaction volume.
US10748210B2
Systems and methods for coordinating processing of scheduled instructions across multiple components
The disclosed embodiments relate to implementation of a trading system or trading system architecture having multiple transaction processors that execute financial transactions as well as scheduled tasks. The multiple transaction processors perform all actions independently of each other, but can be configured to execute the financial transactions or scheduled tasks in a controlled, coordinated, and/or synchronized manner based on time signal data augmented to the financial transactions or scheduled tasks by a transaction receiver/orderer.
US10748205B2
A method and system for enabling a customer to access both an artist profile and associated artist media files for purchase through a Web-based portable store. An artist profile may be hosted on, for example, a web site, SMS/MMS gateway, and a WAP site. A media file may be received from the artist along with a customizable store widget and may be uploaded to the artist's profile. The customer may then purchase a media file through the artist's profile by further accessing the Web-based portable store. The artist's account may be updated to indicate the transaction.
US10748202B2
In various example embodiments, a system and method for a cross selling platform are presented. A request for a product listing triggered by a user may be received. The request for the product listing may include product information corresponding to an in-store product located at a store of a merchant. A related product listing may be identified based on the product information. Each product listing of the plurality of product listings may correspond to a merchant product. The product listing may be recommended to the user for sale.
US10748196B2
Disclosed is a system and method for visually verifying the exact item a customer will be receiving through the online grocery pick up of a retail store. The system allows for customers to order a fresh item, such as apples, and view images of the exact fresh item online before finalizing purchase for retail store pickup. The exact fresh item is scanned using three dimensional scanning. The customer views the images and approves or rejects the exact fresh item before finalizing purchase.
US10748195B2
The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and computer readable media for processing an image including a vehicle using machine learning. The systems can include determining a location of the client device. The systems can further include receiving a first image of a vehicle from an image sensor of the client device and matching, using machine learning, the first image to one or more images of vehicles in a vehicle database to identify the vehicle. The vehicle database can list vehicles located at the determined location of the client device and images of the vehicles. The systems can include retrieving vehicle information from the vehicle database, based on the identified vehicle, and obtaining comparison information based at least in part on the vehicle information. The systems can include estimating a quote for the vehicle based on the comparison information and transmitting the estimated quote for display on the client device.
US10748185B2
A method for identifying bundled software and an apparatus therefor. The method comprises: detecting a user interface for software installation; acquiring text information on the user interface; determining whether bundled software exists; and, based upon the determination, extracting the name and amount of bundled software from the text information and prompting the name and the amount of the bundled software. The embodiments may identify bundled software before installing software and avoid starting the bundled software process, having the effect of anti-bundling on the bundled software in advance. By extracting the name of the bundled software, acquiring the amount of bundled software, and prompting the name and amount of the bundled software, a user is able to determine whether to install the bundled software according to his or her requirements, thereby improving the autonomous right of selection of the user in the process of installing software.
US10748184B1
Systems, methods, apparatuses and computer-readable media for receiving data associated with a plurality of users, such as a group of employees receiving benefits from an employer. The plurality of users may have a primary insurance provider. Insurance information associated with one or more covered services or claims submitted may be received from the primary insurance provider and matched to the plurality of users to identify a portion (or any) of the users who have submitted a claim or received covered services. In some arrangements, a determination may be made as to whether the identified users have supplemental coverage. If so, a notification may be transmitted to the user indicating eligibility for coverage.
US10748183B2
A favorable merging or grouping of simply connected regions into which the array of information samples is sub-divided, is coded with a reduced amount of data. To this end, a predetermined relative locational relationship is defined enabling an identifying, for a predetermined simply connected region, of simply connected regions within the plurality of simply connected regions which have the predetermined relative locational relationship to the predetermined simply connected region. Namely, if the number is zero, a merge indicator for the predetermined simply connected region may be absent within the data stream. In other embodiments, spatial sub-division is performed depending on a first subset of syntax elements, followed by combining spatially neighboring simply connected regions depending on a second subset of syntax elements, to obtain an intermediate sub-division.
US10748175B2
Price mining and dynamic online marketing campaign adjustment data processing systems and methods are disclosed. A system and method for dynamically adjusting an online marketing campaign, in various embodiments, is configured to increase and/or decrease one or more keyword bids that make up part of an online marketing campaign for a particular product from a particular retailer based on whether: (1) the particular product is or is not competitively priced relative to one or more competing retailers; and/or (2) an advertisement for the particular product from the particular retailer on a search engine results page or in an online marketplace is in a relatively desirable position.
US10748171B2
Aspects automatically minimize marketing rates as a function of optimized response rate models. Response rates are estimated from marketing offers targeted from a first entity to topic-entity pairs at respective specified marketing rates as a function of relative differences in their consumer sentiment scores. Marketing offers are targeted to a subset of the topic-entity pairs that each have estimated response rates meeting a threshold response rate constraint. Respective costs and actual rates of response from consumers are determined for the targeted offers. Response rates are modeled to determine modeled response parameters for the topics and entities of the subset topic-entity pairs as regressions of minimized differences in value between estimated and actual response rates. Marketing rates of the subset entity-topic pairs are minimized to meet the threshold response rate constraint and a marketing cost constraint as a function of the modeled response parameters.
US10748165B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to collecting and analyzing electronic survey responses that include user-composed text. In particular, systems and methods disclosed herein facilitate collection of electronic survey responses in response to electronic survey questions. The systems and methods disclosed herein classify the electronic survey questions and determine a semantics model including customized operators for analyzing the electronic survey responses to the corresponding electronic survey questions. In addition, the systems and methods disclosed herein provide a presentation of the results of the analysis of the electronic survey responses via a graphical user interface of a client device.
US10748157B1
Disclosed methods and systems determine levels of search sophistication for users of a customer self-help system to personalize a content search user experience provided to the users, to increase a likelihood of users' satisfaction with the search experience. The customer self-help system analyzes submitted search queries and provides an advanced content search user experience to users who are determined to have an advanced level of search sophistication and provides a simplified content search user experience to users who are determined to have a basic or less-experienced level of search sophistication. Providing users with personalized content search user experiences that are based on users' levels of search sophistication allows less-experienced users to feel comfortable searching and allows advanced users to search more quickly or precisely.
US10748146B2
An electronic payment transaction involves operating a gateway device in an electronic payment system to receive first encrypted transaction data from a merchant device, wherein the first encrypted transaction data is encrypted by means of a merchant device-specific encrypting key. Decrypted transaction data is produced by using a merchant device-specific decrypting key to decrypt the first encrypted transaction data. Second encrypted transaction data is derived from the decrypted transaction data, wherein the second encrypted transaction data is encrypted by means of a gateway device-specific encrypting key. The gateway device communicates the second encrypted transaction data to another electronic payment system server. A key transmission block received from the merchant device includes information that enables the gateway device to derive the merchant device-specific decryption key.
US10748144B2
Various embodiments include a first detection being made that a first program residing on a device is requesting authentication. The first program resides in a first portion of the device. An authentication step can be performed by referencing a unique identifier accessible via a request sent by the first program to a second program residing on the device, where the second program resides in a second portion of the mobile device. The second portion has a greater level of security than the first portion (e.g. physical separation may exist between the first and second portions). Accordingly, integrity of the first program can be verified (e.g. an authentic, authorized version of a program is making a transaction request rather than an unauthorized version).
US10748139B2
A method for intelligent routing for electronic wallet registration includes: storing, in a wallet database of a processing server, a plurality of wallet profiles, wherein each wallet profile includes a structured data set related to at least one electronic wallet including at least one or more wallet identifiers and one or more identification numbers; receiving, by a receiving device of the processing server, a wallet request from a computing device, wherein the wallet request includes at least a primary account number; executing, by a querying module of the processing server, a query on the wallet database to identify a specific wallet profile where one of the included one or more identification numbers corresponds to the primary account number; electronically transmitting, by a transmitting device of the processing server, at least one of the one or more wallet identifiers included in the identified specific wallet profile to the computing device.
US10748133B1
An example transaction analysis platform is described herein. The transaction analysis platform may analyze an audio signal to determine whether a user is associated with a transaction. The transaction analysis platform may determine that a tone of the audio signal is a transaction tone associated with the transaction. The transaction analysis platform may process, based on detecting the transaction tone, the audio signal to identify a set of tones associated with the transaction. The transaction analysis platform may generate, based on a quantity of the set of tones, transaction information associated with the transaction, wherein the transaction information identifies a quantity of items associated with the transaction, wherein the quantity of items corresponds to the quantity of the set of tones. The transaction analysis platform may perform an action associated with the transaction information and a transaction account of the user.
US10748117B1
A system and related method manage a collaboration portal. The method comprises receiving, from a transferor resource, transfer information, which comprises identification of resources for a future transfer, identification of transferees comprising the transferees to whom the resources will transfer to in the future, transfer instructions related to the future transfer of the resources to the transferees, and access instructions that allow the transferees to access the resource transfer information. The resource transfer information is stored in a memory of the collaboration portal. The method further comprises, receiving, from a transferee, via a network interface, a request to access the resource transfer information, and providing, to the transferee, limited access to the resource transfer information based on the access instructions, using a processor of the collaboration portal.
US10748101B2
Providing an ontology for a service-oriented architecture deployment in a computing environment, the ontology providing organization and identification of services in a development-time service repository of the service-oriented architecture. The services in the development-time service repository are implemented using varying service implementation technologies and the ontology supports inquiries about services implemented using the varying service implementation technologies. The providing the ontology includes linking to Reusable Asset Specification artifacts associated with the services in the development-time service repository, the linking using an Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration (OSLC) specification. Based on submission of a request to identify service results from the development-time service repository, identifying, using the ontology, one or more services of the services in the development-time service repository, and responding to the request with an indication of the one or more services.
US10748099B1
Disclosed are systems and methods that enable both the real-time monitoring and historical tracking of events and actions performed by disparate systems and software applications associated with a computing device that also permit insight into the relationships between such events and actions. The inventive systems and methods synchronously and asynchronously capture event data from various event sources associated with a computing device. The event data can be enriched before correlating associated event data into transactions resulting in telemetry information to provide a more accurate and complete picture of what activities the computing device is performing and how the computing device is utilized to accomplish particular tasks. This telemetry information enables the system to perform descriptive and predictive analytical processes as well as artificial intelligence that provide valuable insights to improve end user and system performance.
US10748094B2
A reminder notification system includes a first terminal and a second terminal which include a reminder notification unit configured to provide a reminder of a predetermined task. The first terminal includes a task registration setting unit configured to register and set the predetermined task as a target task. The first terminal and the second terminal each include a task information share unit configured to share the target task that is registered and set in the task registration setting unit between the first terminal and the second terminal. At least one of the first terminal and the second terminal includes a notification terminal setting unit configured to set any of the first terminal and the second terminal as a notification terminal configured to provide the reminder on the basis of content of the target task when executable conditions of the target task are satisfied.
US10748090B2
The present disclosure provides machine-exception handling methods and learning rate adjustment methods and apparatuses. One exemplary method comprises: acquiring a gradient consumption time of a target machine, wherein the gradient consumption time is used to indicate a gradient related time consumed by the target machine in a training process; determining whether the gradient consumption time satisfies a predetermined condition compared with a pre-acquired average consumption time, wherein the average consumption time is used to indicate an average value of the gradient related time consumed by all machines other than the target machine in a cluster in the training process; and determining that the target machine is abnormal if the gradient consumption time satisfies the predetermined condition compared with the average consumption time. The present disclosure addresses the technical problem of high training costs caused by low computation or communication speeds of some machines in a cluster.
US10748088B2
Systems and methods are provided for facilitating remote check-in and associated proxy shopping operations. A proxy customer of a merchant may be a friend of a remote customer that is making a purchase at the merchant on behalf of the remote customer. A beacon may alert the proxy customer to check-in to the merchant. The proxy customer may forward the alert to the remote customer. The remote customer may request remote check-in responsive to the alert. A payment provider or service provider may perform a remote check-in of the remote customer and a proxy check-in of the proxy customer. When the proxy customer wishes to make a proxy purchase for the remote user, the merchant may verify the proxy customer's identity and charge the payment provider. The payment provider may then transfer funds from remote customer's account to the merchant's account.
US10748086B2
Exemplary systems and methods for linking access credentials with payment accounts and facilitating access to events based on associations between the payment accounts and the events are disclosed. One exemplary method includes receiving, at a computing device, an authorization request for purchasing access to an event where the authorization request includes event content, ticket content, and payment content, and where the authorization request is associated with a merchant. The method also includes determining, at the computing device, whether the merchant and/or the event are registered, and when the merchant and the event are registered, storing, in memory of the computing device, a link between a payment account identified in the payment content and the event, whereby the link is able to be retrieved, by the merchant, via a subsequent authorization request, to indicate access to the event.
US10748077B2
A computer-implemented method of determining an approximated value of a parameter in a first domain is described. The parameter is dependent on one or more variables which vary in a second domain, and the parameter is determined by a function which relates sets of values of the one or more variables in the second domain to corresponding values in the first domain. The method is implemented on a computer system including a processor, and the method comprises: determining a plurality of anchor points in the second domain, wherein each anchor point comprises a set of values of the one or more variables in the second domain; evaluating, at each anchor point, the function to generate corresponding values of the parameter in the first domain; generating an approximation function to the function by fitting a series of orthogonal functions or an approximation to a series of orthogonal functions to the corresponding values of the parameter in the first domain; and using the approximation function to generate the approximated value of the parameter in the first domain.
US10748065B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for using multi-task neural networks. One of the methods includes receiving a first network input and data identifying a first machine learning task to be performed on the first network input; selecting a path through the plurality of layers in a super neural network that is specific to the first machine learning task, the path specifying, for each of the layers, a proper subset of the modular neural networks in the layer that are designated as active when performing the first machine learning task; and causing the super neural network to process the first network input using (i) for each layer, the modular neural networks in the layer that are designated as active by the selected path and (ii) the set of one or more output layers corresponding to the identified first machine learning task.
US10748050B2
The present invention relates to an RFID cap for a cryogenic vial, the RFID cap comprising a cap body; and an RFID tag attached to the cap body, the RFID tag comprising an RFID chip and an antenna connected to the chip. The present invention also relates to an RFID box lid for a cryogenic vial storage box having an array of storage slots capable of receiving cryogenic vials; the RFID box lid comprising: a box lid body; and an array of RFID tags positioned on the box lid such that when the box lid is located on the storage box, each RFID tag in the array is aligned with a storage slot in the box.
US10748042B2
The present disclosure provides systems and methods that measure crop residue in a field from imagery of the field. In particular, the present subject matter is directed to systems and methods that include or otherwise leverage a machine-learned convolutional neural network to determine a level of crop residue for a portion of a field based at least in part on imagery of such portion of the field captured by an imaging device. For example, the imaging device can be a camera positioned in a downward-facing direction and physically coupled to a work vehicle or an implement towed by the work vehicle through the field.
US10748016B2
In a method of video monitoring of a subject, for example a driver of a vehicle, the video image is motion compensated by image registration techniques so that the subject's position in each frame of the video image is stable. A region of interest is defined on the skin of the subject and used to obtain a PPG signal. To compensate for variations in illumination of the subject caused by the subject's movement in the vehicle, the parameters of the calculated motion transformation used in the image registration are used to form an illumination model representing how the illumination of the subject would have changed because of the subject's motion. The illumination model is a linear or quadratic function fitted to the image intensity in the region of interest. Residuals between the fitted model and the image intensity form an illumination-compensated signal in which the photoplethysmographic signal is more clearly present. The illumination-compensated signal is analysed to obtain a PPG signal and from this estimates of one or more vital signs such as heart rate or breathing rate are obtained.
US10748012B2
Methods and apparatus are disclosed to facilitate environmental visibility determination. An example vehicle comprises a sensor and a processor and memory. The sensor is to generate road image information. The processor and memory are in communication with the sensor and are configured to: detect vanishing points of lane markings in the road image information, convert an average pixel row value of the vanishing points to a distance value, and if the distance value is below a threshold, stop execution of at least one road condition monitoring feature.
US10748009B2
Systems for monitoring a confined space include image sensors, such as cameras, and access control devices, such as intercoms and scanning devices, positioned within the interior and external to the confined space. Sensors for detecting hazardous materials, light sources, and audio output devices, such as speakers, may also be positioned within the confined space. Equipment within the confined space may be explosion proof or intrinsically safe and rated for use in hazardous areas. A first single electrical cable, such as a multi-core cable, may engage all of the system components external to the confined space to power components. A second single electrical cable may engage all of the components within the confined space to the power components. A monitoring station may receive video, audio, sensor, and access data from the system equipment and generate alarms and notifications responsive to unauthorized access attempts, hazardous materials, or irregular user incidents.
US10748008B2
Providing enhanced video content includes processing at least one video feed through at least one spatiotemporal pattern recognition algorithm that uses machine learning to develop an understanding of a plurality of events and to determine at least one event type for each of the plurality of events. The event type includes an entry in a relationship library detailing a relationship between two visible features. Extracting and indexing a plurality of video cuts from the video feed is performed based on the at least one event type determined by the understanding that corresponds to an event in the plurality of events detectable in the video cuts. Lastly, automatically and under computer control, an enhanced video content data structure is generated using the extracted plurality of video cuts based on the indexing of the extracted plurality of video cuts.
US10748006B1
The disclosed computer-implemented method may include receiving an input indicating that a picture is to be taken using a camera on an electronic device. The method may next include taking the picture with the camera, and storing the associated picture data. Next, the method may include accessing the picture data to recognize the persons in the picture based on facial features associated with those persons. Still further, the method may include creating a group for the recognized persons, where the group is associated with the picture taken by the camera, and generating a collaborative group storyline for the created group that allows members of the group to add stories to the collaborative group storyline. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US10747999B2
Disclosed are devices, systems, apparatus, methods, products, and other implementations, including a method to detect pattern characteristics in target specimens that includes acquiring sensor data for the target specimens, dividing the acquired sensor data into a plurality of data segments, and generating, by multiple neural networks that each receives the plurality of data segments, multiple respective output matrices, with each data element of the multiple respective output matrices being representative of a probability that corresponding sensor data of a respective one of the plurality of data segments includes a pattern characteristic in the target specimens. The method further includes determining by another neural network, based on the multiple respective output matrices generated by the multiple neural networks, a presence of the pattern characteristic in the target specimens.
US10747990B2
A payment method includes: acquiring a frontal face image, and a side face image from at least one side, of a to-be-identified user; identifying whether the to-be-identified user is an authorized user of a payment electronic account according to the frontal face image and the side face image that are acquired; and making a deduction operation on the payment electronic account if it is identified that the to-be-identified user is an authorized user of the payment electronic account.
US10747988B2
A method and device for face tracking and a smart terminal. The method includes: collecting a frame of an image in a video stream and conducting face detection and identification, to identify a target face; determining a position of a window to be tracked that contains the target face according to the identified target face, and extracting an edge feature point in the window to be tracked of the reference frame; determining an initial position of a window to be tracked on the current frame in the video stream, and extracting an edge feature point in the window to be tracked of the current frame; calculating a relative displacement between the edge feature point of the reference frame and the edge feature point of the current frame; and adjusting the initial position of the window to be tracked of the current frame by using the relative displacement.
US10747983B2
Disclosed is an electronic device for sensing a fingerprint, including a display including at least one sensor for sensing the fingerprint, a memory, and at least one processor electrically connected with the display and the memory, wherein the processor may execute an application and display the application on the display, sense a first fingerprint inputted to at least one first region of the application displayed on the display, map the sensed first fingerprint to a function corresponding to the first region, determine whether the first fingerprint is sensed on the application, and if the first fingerprint is sensed on the display, apply the mapped function to the display.
US10747979B2
An optical fingerprint identification device includes a cover plate, a piezoluminescent layer, an optical sensing layer and a patterned light shield layer. The piezoluminescent layer is arranged under the cover plate, and has a changed state of light emission when subjected to a pressure, to emit light of a certain wavelength. The optical sensing layer is configured to detect the light reflected by a finger. The patterned light shield layer is arranged between the optical sensing layer and the piezoluminescent layer, and is configured to block the light from directly going into the optical sensing layer.
US10747974B2
Provided is means for obtaining required data, despite there being only one kind of reading device or one kind of reading method for a plurality of item types. The present invention comprises: means for reading a barcode and a change-in-environment part; means for extracting, from the barcode which has been read, data pertaining to the change-in-environment part; and means for recognizing change-in-environment data on the basis of the data pertaining to the change-in-environment part. Further, an item has a change-in-environment part and a barcode which contains the data relating to the change-in-environment part.
US10747968B2
A wireless transponder configured to generate or activate data and next step data actions for use with an appliance/device or network, and a method of using the wireless transponder.
US10747962B1
Based on a candidate set of translations produced by a neural network based machine learning model, a mapping data structure such as a statistical phrase table is generated. The mapping data structure is analyzed to obtain a quality metric of the neural network based model. One or more operations are initiated based on the quality metric.
US10747961B2
The present disclosure discloses a method and device for identifying information. The method for identifying information includes acquiring a word vector matrix of the information; for each of a plurality of convolutional kernel widths of a convolutional neural network, convolving each convolutional kernel corresponding to the width with the word vector matrix of the information to acquire a convolutional vector corresponding to each convolutional kernel, and performing a maximum pooling operation on each convolutional vector to acquire an identification feature corresponding to the width; combining identification features corresponding to various convolutional kernel widths to acquire an identification feature of the information; and identifying the information according to similarity of the identification feature of the information.
US10747952B2
An application automatically saves drafts of a document in association with the document. Drafts are saved, for example, whenever the application closes the document. Thus, the application stores a separate draft of the document for each session in which the document was used. The saved drafts are logically associated with each other and their original document. Because of this association, whenever the user accesses the document in the application, the application may present to the user a list of the various drafts of the documents. The user may continue working on the last saved draft, or the user may select another draft from which to continue working. The application further includes a collaborative interface for listing objects at a server. The server pushes new changes or additions to the objects directly to the client, and the client updates the interface accordingly, without user intervention.
US10747951B2
Disclosed are a method of generating a webpage template and a server. The method of generating a webpage template comprises: collecting webpage data of a webpage, and generating a webpage template of the webpage according to the webpage data. By means of the present invention, the problem in the prior art that a method of generating a webpage template depends relatively strongly on a target website is solved, thereby reducing the dependence of the method of generating a webpage template on the target website.
US10747950B2
Automatically identifying insights from a dataset and presenting the insights graphically and in natural language text ranked by importance is provided. Different data types and structures in the dataset are automatic recognized and matched with a corresponding specific analysis type. The data is analyzed according to the determined corresponding analysis types, and insights from the analysis are automatically identified. The insights within a given insight type and between insight types are ranked and presented in order of importance in automatically generate charts that visually describe each insight and in natural language text that describes each insight in such a way that it may be understandable to a general audience who may not have a familiarity with statistics.
US10747946B2
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program that causes a computer to execute a process including detecting, from a text, one of a plurality of first strings included in first information, each of the plurality of first strings being associated with control information, determining whether to execute a determination process based on the control information associated with a specified string when the specified string is detected from the text, the determination process determining whether the second string is included in second information, the second information including at least one of third string being associated with another coded string, the second string being a string that includes the specified string at the beginning of the second string, executing the determination process when the determination process is determined to be executed and transforming the second string into the another coded string associated with the third string.
US10747942B1
Webpages are optimizing through the use of experiments that compare the responses of viewers that are either presented with the original webpage or a variant thereof. One or more variants are first defined through the use of a browser-based editor application that initially examines the webpage for a snippet of code. The snippet can be added to the webpage, if missing, and the webpage returned to the editor application. Changes made to the webpage to define a variant are saved in variation code. When the webpage is later requested by multiple viewers, in each instance the viewer receives the webpage with the snippet, the snippet instructs the browser to download a file, and the instructions of the file determine whether the viewer will see the variant or the original webpage. Tracking viewer responses to the webpage and the variant allow a statistical basis for comparison to be developed.
US10747941B2
The example embodiments are directed to a pluggable framework for managing algorithm ensembles for code design. In one example, the method includes receiving a selection of an algorithm from among a plurality of available algorithms, inserting the selected algorithm into an algorithm ensemble including a grouping of algorithms which combine to perform a data processing operation, the inserting comprising linking an input of the selected algorithm to an output of a first algorithm and linking an output of the selected algorithm to an input of a second algorithm, from among the algorithms included in the algorithm ensemble, and executing the algorithm ensemble on input data in an order defined by the linking to generate a processing result of the input data.
US10747928B2
Methods and apparatus relating to diagnostic testing of FPGAs for safety critical systems are described. In an embodiment, logic circuitry (e.g., a processor) performs one or more diagnostic operations on a portion of a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) based on one or more test vectors. Memory stores the one or more test vectors. The logic circuitry performs the one or more diagnostic operations on the portion of the FPGA during runtime. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed.
US10747920B2
Provided is a semiconductor LSI design device that includes: a unit that generates a combinational circuit constituted by combining function blocks defined by a function block library from an application specification, by assigning connection information on an operation order of the function blocks; a unit that converts the combinational circuit to operation order information that is applicable to a sequential circuit in which a function block is used a plurality of times in a time-division manner; a unit that inversely converts the generated operation order information to a combinational circuit; a unit that verifies logical equivalence of the combinational circuit and the inversely converted combinational circuit; and a unit that combines the operation order information, the sequential circuit and a function block.
US10747918B2
A backward discrete state event driven power electronics simulation method includes simulation initialization and a k-th simulation step, k≥0. The k-th simulation step includes obtaining a system state equation at the k-th step. The k-th simulation step further includes determining alternative quantized values for each of state variables at a k+1-th step. The k-th simulation step further includes setting up a finite state machine to determine quantized values for the state variables at the k+1-th step one by one. The k-th simulation step further includes calculating a vector of derivatives based on the quantized values at the k+1-th step and the system state equation. The k-th simulation further includes determining the time of the k+1-th simulation step based on occurrence times of events.
US10747913B2
A centralized design engine receives a problem specification from an end-user and classifies that problem specification in a large database of previously received problem specifications. Upon identifying similar problem specifications in the large database, the design engine selects design strategies associated with those similar problem specifications. A given design strategy includes one or more optimization algorithms, one or more geometry kernels, and one or more analysis tools. The design engine executes an optimization algorithm to generate a set of parameters that reflect geometry. The design engine then executes a geometry kernel to generate geometry that reflects those parameters, and generates analysis results for each geometry. The optimization algorithms may then improve the generated geometries based on the analysis results in an iterative fashion. When suitable geometries are discovered, the design engine displays the geometries to the end-user, along with the analysis results.
US10747891B2
Floating data protection is presented herein. The method comprises receiving a defined data protection policy; determining that the defined data protection policy is not susceptible to a single point of failure scenario; and in response to determining that the defined data protection policy is not susceptible to the single point of failure scenario, reducing a code fragment associated with a data portion based on the defined data protection policy.
US10747885B2
A method of providing authentication services for a hardware component within a secure execution environment during a pre-boot process is provided. The method is implemented using a computing device. The method includes loading, within the secure execution environment, a biometric authentication enclave, the secure execution environment being isolated from untrusted software of the computing device and receiving, by a manageability controller, a biometric template from a network source. The method also includes mutually authenticating the manageability controller and the biometric authentication enclave, and provisioning, to the biometric authentication enclave, from the manageability controller, the biometric template in response to mutual authentication. The method further includes authenticating, by the biometric authentication enclave, a biometric input using the biometric template. The method may further include providing access to a hardware component in response to authenticating the biometric input.
US10747884B2
Techniques for providing and maintaining protection of firmware routines that form part of a chain of trust through successive processing environments. An apparatus may include a first processor component (550); a volatile storage (562) coupled to the first processor component; an enclave component to, in a pre-OS operating environment, generate a secure enclave within a portion of the volatile storage to restrict access to a secured firmware loaded into the secure enclave; a first firmware driver (646) to, in the pre-OS operating environment, provide a first API to enable unsecured firmware to call a support routine of the secured firmware from outside the secure enclave; and a second firmware driver (647) to, in an OS operating environment that replaces the pre-OS operating environment, provide a second API to enable an OS of the OS operating environment to call the support routine from outside the secure enclave.
US10747883B2
Various additional and alternative aspects are described herein. In some aspects, the present disclosure provides a method of authenticating executable images in a system-on-chip (SoC), the method comprising: storing a plurality of executable images; storing, as separate from the plurality of executable images, a signed image of hashes comprising a plurality of hashes corresponding to the plurality of executable images and a first signature; authenticating the signed image of hashes based on the first signature; and using a first hash of the plurality of hashes to authenticate a first executable image of the plurality of executable images when the signed image of hashes passes authentication.
US10747880B2
Certain embodiments of the present invention are configured to facilitate analyzing computer code more efficiently. For example, by conducting a first level abstraction (e.g., symbolic interpretation and algebraic simplification) and a second level abstraction (e.g., generalization) of the computer code, the analysis may more accurately account for variations in the code that may occur as a result of register renaming, instruction reordering, choice of instructions, etc. while minimizing the cost of computations required to perform the analysis.
US10747877B2
A method for protecting an electronic device executing a program against fault injection and type confusion attacks likely to affect a variable (Z) intended to be used by the program. The method includes calculating integrity check data (X, Y) of variable (Z), dependent on a type (T) of the variable (Z), and a value (V) of the variable (Z) stored in an execution stack (P1) and/or of a first addressing datum (A) stored in a first index register (ind1). The first addressing datum (A) adapted to locate the value (V) stored in the execution stack (storing the integrity check data (X, Y) on the variable (Z) in at least one control stack (P2, P3) different to the execution stack (P1). Storing in a second index register (ind2), a unique second addressing datum (A2) adapted to locate the integrity check data (X, Y) in the or each control stack (P2, P3).
US10747856B2
A setting apparatus according to an aspect of the present invention includes an authenticator configured to authenticate an operator using a setting apparatus, the setting apparatus performing a setting of an I/O module including a plurality of first connectors to which field devices are connectable and a second connector to which a controller controlling the field devices is connectable, and an authorizer configured to assign operation authorization to the operator authenticated by the authenticator on the basis of previously set authorization definition information, the operation authorization allowing the operator to perform at least one operation using the setting apparatus, the authorization definition information including first information and second information, the first information defining whether or not a change of input and output information of the field device connected to each of the first connectors is permitted, the second information defining whether or not a change of each item of the input and output information is permitted on the basis of a role of the operator.
US10747846B2
Matrix processing includes: initializing a current matrix based at least in part on an original matrix; iteratively determining a matrix property using a plurality of iteration cycles, including, in an iteration cycle: partitioning the current matrix to obtain a plurality of partitions, wherein the plurality of partitions includes a submatrix; modifying the submatrix based at least in part on other partitions of the plurality of partitions to provide a current matrix for a next iteration; and continuing to iterate until a condition is met. Matrix processing further includes obtaining the matrix property from an iteration result; and outputting the matrix property.
US10747841B2
Systems and method of the present invention provide for one or more server computers configured to identify, within a database transaction log, a dynamic website content in a database and a command modifying the dynamic website content, write the dynamic website content and the command modifying the dynamic website content to a website repository as a delta, receive a request to reverse the command modifying the dynamic website content, identify, within the delta, the command modifying the dynamic website content, and generate and execute a database query configured to reverse the command modifying the dynamic website content.
US10747839B2
Embodiments may provide a computer implemented method in a data processing system comprising a processor and a memory, the memory comprising instructions that are executed by the processor to cause the processor to implement a system for bookmarking, the method comprising: receiving, by the processor, at least one search query from a user; returning, by the processor, a set of search results and a search score for each search result to the user; recording, by the processor, behavior of the user with respect to the search results; selecting, by the processor, at least one search result based on recorded behavior and the search score; determining, by the processor, at least one topic for the at least one selected search result; and generating, by the processor, a bookmark for each selected search result, under the at least one topic.
US10747837B2
Techniques are provided for rating the veracity of content distributed via digital communications sources by creating an ontology and selecting keywords for a topic of the content, creating a customizable intelligence channel for the topic, and extracting from the customizable intelligence channel a first list of potential experts on the topic sorted by at least relevance and influence. The list of experts may be supplemented by mining trusted media sources to extract a second list of potential experts or witnesses on the topic. The first and second lists of potential experts are evaluated as a function of at least one of professionalism, reliability, proximity, experience, responsiveness, and lack of self-interest in the topic to identify a short list of experts. The content is provided to the short list of experts, who are polled about the veracity of the content to create a veracity score for delivery with the content.
US10747834B2
Apparatus, systems, processes, and computer-readable mediums for organizing, facilitating, monitoring, and obtaining feedback for social fitness events are provided. For at least one embodiment, a system includes an events module, configured to interface with a remote events database including one or more event records; a person module configured to interface with a local first database including two or more first records, wherein each of the two or more first records identify each of two or more persons; a devices module configured to interface with a local second database including at least one second record, wherein each of the at least one second records identifies a device communicatively coupled to the processor using an IoT tag; a services module configured to interface with a remote third database including at least one third record; and a facilities module configured to interface with a remote fourth database including at least one fourth record.
US10747833B2
A network crawler crawls one or more media sites to extract a plurality of titles for information contained in the one or more media sites. For example, the network crawler may extract the titles on the one or more media sites by identifying different computer formats and converting the titles in the different computer formats into a common computer format for comparison. User profiles which, includes user's interest are stored in a user profile interest database. A novel personalized news recommendation engine recommends news similar to the interest specified in a user profile, where maximum weighted matching is applied to score the similarity of news against user interest in the word2vec space.
US10747830B2
The invention discloses a method and system for displaying electronic information for an Online Dating Service. Information is received through a variety of means including electronic analysis of photographs and communications as well as direct questions posed to an individual. Once the information is received a profile describing the interest, personality traits and what traits the individual looks for in a companion is created. To prevent priming based on physical appearance the word cloud is displayed to other individuals prior to a photograph. The photograph can be revealed to the other individuals if they take affirmative action to view the photograph or after an arbitrary period of time such that the other individuals can be primed based on the information in the word cloud without losing the emotional investment in finding a companion.
US10747826B2
A clothing search system provides a clothing search to users using a component-based image search. Retailer catalogs are analyzed to determine clothing components within clothing images. Features associated with the components are determined. When a user requests a clothing search, the clothing search system selects clothing based on the components and features requested by the user. The user may also provide an image to the clothing search system. The clothing search system determines components and features of the image and identifies clothing with matching components.
US10747825B2
Methods, systems, apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for determining whether to execute a query based on a predicted computerized rendering period The method may include actions of receiving a query, determining a set of one or more features based on the query, generating a query vector, providing the query vector to a machine learning model, receiving first data, based on the output of the machine learning model, that is indicative of whether the computerized rendering period associated with the query is likely to satisfy the predetermined threshold, determining based on the first data that the computerized rendering period available for displaying a set of one or more candidate content items that are responsive to the query is not likely to satisfy the predetermined threshold, and determining to not use a search engine to execute the received query.
US10747817B2
Systems and methods for a media guidance application that generates results in multiple languages for search queries. In particular, the media guidance application ranks search results according the language model associated with the search result.
US10747814B2
Techniques are described herein for leveraging and extending relational data sharding infrastructure to provide comprehensive support for sharding semi-structured and unstructured data, in addition to the relational data, in a single sharded database system. Specifically, techniques are described in which a catalog server pre-gathers all data it needs to answer fetches from a dynamically created temporary lob. In addition, techniques are provided in which a catalog server encodes shard identifiers in lob locators sent to the client. Techniques are provided for pushing down various operators to shard servers.
US10747808B2
A system for performing a hybrid in-memory faceted search for one or more digital objects, comprising: a media platform comprising one or more processors configured to: store an index for a data set generated using one or more indexing processes, wherein the index includes a mapping of values to identifiers for each digital object in the data set; receive an update for the index; store the index update with a timestamp independent from the stored index; and in response to a request for the stored index, apply the index updates to the index.
US10747799B2
Systems and methods for correcting a voice query based on a subsequent voice query with a lower pronunciation rate. In some aspects, the systems and methods calculate first and second pronunciation rates of first and second voice queries. The systems and methods determine that the second pronunciation rate is lower than the first pronunciation rate and determine a first candidate pronunciation time for a first candidate word from the first voice query. The systems and methods determine a second candidate pronunciation time, adjusted to the first pronunciation rate, for the second candidate word from the second voice query. The systems and methods determine that the first candidate pronunciation time matches the second candidate pronunciation time and generate a third voice query based on the first voice query by replacing the first candidate word with the second candidate word.
US10747780B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for a data processing method are provided. One of the methods includes: distributing, to one or more computing devices, data of one or more leaf nodes in a blockchain node, for the one or more computing devices to compute checksums of the data of the leaf nodes; and determining, according to the checksums of the data of the leaf nodes, a root checksum of data in the blockchain node. Compared to conventional methods, these methods compute a checksum of data faster and more efficiently, and thus ensure proper generations of blocks and operations of a blockchain.
US10747778B2
A data identifier for each data portion of a first group of different data portions of a first version of data is determined. The first version of the data is represented in a tree structure that references the determined data identifiers. A second version of the data is represented in a second tree structure using at least a portion of elements of the first tree structure of the first version. The second tree structure references one or more data identifiers of a portion of the second version of the data that is different from the first version of the data. The one or more data identifiers of the portion of the second version of the data that is different from the first version of the data are identified and sent. A response indicating which of the data portions corresponding to the sent one or more data identifiers are requested to be provided for replication is received.
US10747772B2
The present disclosure describes methods, systems, and computer program products for performing fuzzy substring search. One computer-implemented method includes determining, by operation of a hardware processor, one or more tokens of an input string received from a client application, identifying, from a database, a reference string based on the one or more tokens of the input string, determining a plurality of character index values of the reference string, each character index value indicating a position of a character in the reference string, determining one or more hop index values of the input string, each hop index value indicating a position of a separator in the input string, and calculating a similarity score of the reference string relative to the input string based on the plurality of character index values of the reference string and the one or more hop index values of the input string.
US10747751B2
A method, computer program product, and computer system for managing compliance data systems. A file is received from a data source. At least one obligation protocol from content of the file is identified. The content file is stored in a first database in response to determining that the at least one obligation protocol is indicative of an optional obligation protocol. A risk assessment score of the entity is generated based on a subset of the optional obligation protocols.
US10747750B2
Systems and methods for indexing content in a personal search system are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving a content item from a data source; extracting, from the content item, at least one document appearing in the content item, the at least one document including a first timestamp; storing the document in a content index; retrieving an event associated with the document from an event index, the event including a second timestamp and one or more attributes; generating an updated document based on the one or more attributes, the updated document including the second timestamp and the one or more attributes; and replacing the document stored in the content index with the updated document if the second timestamp is later than the first timestamp.
US10747746B2
A database system may receive a write request that specifies a modification to be made to a particular data record stored by the database system. A log record representing the modification to be made to the particular data record may be sent to a storage service of the database system. An indication (e.g., log record or other indication) that indicates a cached version of the particular data record stored in a read replica's cache is stale may be sent to a read replica. For a subsequent read of the particular data record received by the read replica, the read replica may request the particular data record from the storage service.
US10747742B2
Methods and apparatus consistent with the invention provide the ability to organize, index, search, and present time series data based on searches. Time series data are sequences of time stamped records occurring in one or more usually continuous streams, representing some type of activity. In one embodiment, time series data is stored as discrete events time stamps. A search is received and relevant event information is retrieved based in whole or in part on the time stamp, a keyword indexing mechanism, or statistical indices calculated at the time of the search.
US10747740B2
The present disclosure provides a fast approximate as well as exact hierarchical network storage and retrieval system and method for encoding and indexing graphs or networks as well as for identifying substructure matches or analogs within graph data. Cognitive Memory encodes graphs via generalized combinatorial maps and a new quantum-inspired Q-Hashing algorithm to summarize local structures of the graph along with a contraction and graph property calculation to build an index data structure called the Cognitive Signature for property based, analog based or structure or sub-structure based search. The system and method of the present invention is ideally suited to store and index all or parts or substructures or analogs of graphs as well as dynamically changing graphs such as traffic graphs or flows and motion picture sequences of graphs. The system and method has the advantage that properties of the Cognitive Signature of the graph can be used in correlations to the properties of the underlying data making the system ideal for semantic indexing of massive scale graph data sets.
US10747739B1
A data storage system may implement implicit checkpoint for generating a secondary of a table. Indexing updates may be replicated and maintained across a replica group storing a table for a data store. Upon detection of a restart event for generating a secondary index, a replica in the replica group may evaluate the indexing updates to determine an index creation restart point according to an order for indexing the table. The generation of the secondary index may be resumed at the index creation restart point. In this way, secondary index generation may continue whether or not a previously indexing replica in the replica group, such as a master replica, is available to continue generating the secondary index.
US10747737B2
Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for altering the data type of a column in a database. An embodiment operates by converting an original dictionary associated with a column into a new dictionary. The new dictionary stores the values of the original dictionary using a different data type. An index vector containing the keys of the original dictionary is then updated to contain the associated keys of the new dictionary. Because the size of the original dictionary is often substantially smaller than the number of rows in the associated column, this dictionary conversion decreases the computation cost to the database system of altering the data type of the column and reduces or even minimizes database downtime for users.
US10747735B2
A method, article of manufacture, and apparatus for managing a cloud computing environment. In some embodiments, this includes modifying an object or a component of an object at runtime and storing the modified object or modified component of an object in a storage device. In some embodiments, components of an object such as data structures are modified. In some embodiments, objects may have more than one version.
US10747724B2
A system and method is disclosed for using data blocks to optimize file storage in electronic data storage. An example method includes storing data objects in a storage service that correspond to a main block and multiple secondary blocks. The main block is stored in a first bucket and the secondary blocks are stored in one or more second buckets, with the main block including metadata indicating a unique identifier of the second bucket. The method further includes receiving a request to delete the data file to free storage; marking the main block of the data file for deletion that prevents a reading operation or a writing operation of additional data to the data file; deleting the secondary blocks of the data file; and after the secondary blocks are deleted, deleting the marked main block of the data file.
US10747722B2
A method of providing file data for a media file of a pre-determined format from a file system comprising a file record database and a data store, wherein the media file corresponds to a programme consisting of a plurality of segments, and wherein the segments included in the programme are dynamically determined. The method comprising the steps of receiving details of the programme including the duration of the programme, and determining the layout of the media file in the pre-determined format from the received details of the programme, the layout including locations for essence data within the file. A file record for the media file in the file record database is then created. In response to a request for the location of essence data within the file, a location given by determined layout of the media file is returned. Further, in response to an instruction that a segment is to be included in the programme, essence data corresponding to the contents of the segment is obtained. Then, in response to a request for a portion of essence data from the media file corresponding to a time period of the programme, essence data derived from the received essence data according to the determined layout of the media file is returned.
US10747715B2
In the case where services of generation and saving of a document file are provided on a cloud system, suppression of the number of document files to be generated and maintenance of display performance are caused to coexist. A server apparatus that provides a generation service of a document file, the apparatus including: a communication unit configured to receive source data, which is a source of a document file, from a client apparatus; a file generation unit configured to generate a document file based on a plurality of resources included in the source data; and a saving unit configured to save a generated document file in a storage, and the file generation unit determines which of an in-line method and an external reference method is applied to each of a plurality of resources included in the source data in accordance with a situation of access to the storage and generate the document file based on results of the determination.
US10747713B2
A data network storing data relating to work done by vendors for clients is described. The network includes two or more servers, each server containing (1) an exhaustive vendor data base that contains client-independent vendor data for every vendor, and (2) one or more individual client databases, each containing client information for a single client. The exhaustive vendor data base is replicated between the servers, and the client information for each client is contained by one individual client data base on one server.
US10747702B2
A computing apparatus including a printed circuit board (PCB) including a first central processing unit (CPU) socket and additional CPU socket(s); a CPU coupled to the first CPU socket; a base interposer coupled to the additional CPU socket(s); and one or more devices connected to the base interposer, wherein the base interposer provides a connection between the CPU and the one or more devices.
US10747693B2
A memory device includes a first set of data input/output (I/O) devices configured to communicate a first portion of a data unit to or from an external controller; a second set of data I/O devices configured to communicate a second portion of the data unit to or from the external controller; a data control circuit can share the internal global data lines by multiplexing the timings of the first and second sets of data I/O devices, the data control circuit configured to route the data unit according to a data operation corresponding to the data unit; and a shared data bus coupling both the first set of data I/O devices and the second set of data I/O devices to the data control circuit, the shared data bus configured to relay both the first portion and the second portion of the data unit.
US10747690B2
A device may include a plurality of data processing engines. Each data processing engine may include a core and a memory module. Each core may be configured to access the memory module in the same data processing engine and a memory module within at least one other data processing engine of the plurality of data processing engines.
US10747688B2
A retimer device receives a first signal from a first device and regenerates the first signal to send to a second device. The retimer further receive a second signal from the second device and regenerates the second signal to send to the first device, where the first device includes a processor device. The retimer includes a sideband interface to connect to the first device and further includes protocol logic to monitor the first signal, determine that the first signal includes a pattern defined in a protocol to identify a protocol activity, and participate in performance of the protocol activity using the sideband interface.
US10747680B2
A storage device, a storage system comprising the same, and operating methods of the storage device are provided. The storage device includes a first nonvolatile memory cell array which includes a plurality of cell strings arranged in a direction perpendicular to a substrate, and stores first data at a first address, a second nonvolatile memory cell array which stores second data selected from the first data at a second address, in accordance with an access pattern to the first data, and a memory controller which manages a first mapping table indicating that the second data is stored at the second address of the second nonvolatile memory cell array, and a second mapping table indicating that the first data as original data of the second data is stored at the first address.
US10747674B2
A method, computer program product, and computing system for identifying, at the computing device, one or more cache pages in a cache system. One or more cache pages may be refactored into one or more cache units within the one or more cache pages. A plurality of parallel IO requests may be executed on the one or more cache units within the one or more cache pages.
US10747669B2
A method of prefetching attribute data from storage for a graphics processing pipeline comprising a cache, and at least one buffer to which data is prefetched from the storage and from which data is made available for storing in the cache. The method comprises retrieving first attribute data from the storage, the first attribute data representative of a first attribute of a first vertex of a plurality of vertices of at least one graphics primitive, identifying the first vertex, and, in response to the identifying, performing a prefetch process. The prefetch process comprises prefetching second attribute data from the storage, the second attribute data representative of a second attribute of the first vertex, the second attribute being different from the first attribute, and storing the second attribute data in a buffer of the at least one buffer.
US10747667B2
An aspect of memory management is provided. An aspect includes evaluating performance parameters of caches of a control module. The caches of the control module have two types of entries: address, hash, and physical location values, and address-to-short-hash (A2SH) values. An aspect further includes evaluating performance parameters of caches of a data module of the multi-layer cache system. The caches of the data module cache include three types of entries: a short-hash-to-physical address, a full-hash-and-short-hash-to-physical address, and a filter mechanism. An aspect further includes predicting an effect that a modification to a size of one of the caches o is on performance of operations at the multi-level cache based on results of the calculating the performance parameters of the caches. Upon estimating an increase in performance, an aspect includes increasing allocation to the cache is determined to have increased performance responsive to the estimating, and decreasing allocation from another cache.
US10747665B2
In an embodiment, a partition cost of one or more of the plurality of partitions and a data block cost for one or more data blocks that may be subjected to a garbage collection operation are determined. The partition cost and the data block cost are combined into an overall reclaim cost by specifying both the partition cost and the data block cost in terms of a computing system latency. A byte constant multiplier that is configured to modify the overall reclaim cost to account for the amount of data objects that may be rewritten during the garbage collection operation may be applied. The one or more partitions and/or one or more data blocks that have the lowest overall reclaim cost while reclaiming an acceptable amount of data block space may be determined and be included in a garbage collection schedule.
US10747663B2
According to one embodiment, a storage device includes a nonvolatile memory and a controller. The nonvolatile memory cannot overwrite data written in a memory area. The controller controls writing/reading of data to/from the nonvolatile memory in response to a request from a host device. The controller includes a garbage collection processor and a garbage collection controller. The garbage collection processor executes garbage collection to reuse a memory area on the nonvolatile memory in which unnecessary data remain. The garbage collection controller stops the garbage collection executed by the garbage collection processor when the storage device is in a loaded state equal to or less than a threshold value.
US10747661B2
A method for operating a data storage device including memory regions each including memory units of levels, the levels respectively corresponding to bitmaps, and each of the bitmaps including entries respectively corresponding to the memory regions includes controlling a read operation for a first memory unit of a first level among the levels in a first memory region among the memory regions; increasing a read count by checking a first entry corresponding to the first memory region in a first bit map corresponding to the first level, wherein each of entries included in the first bitmap reflects whether a corresponding memory region is included in at least one second memory region in which a memory unit of the first level has been read, during a predetermined period before the read operation for the first memory unit; and performing a management operation for the memory regions, based on the read count.
US10747650B2
Systems and methods for on-demand container-based development environments are disclosed. According to one embodiment, in an information processing apparatus comprising at least one computer processor a method for using an on-demand development environment may include: (1) receiving, from a user interface, a request for an on-demand development environment for an application binary; (2) verifying that infrastructure for the on-demand development environment is not provisioned; (3) identifying a build template for the on-demand development environment; (4) selecting an endpoint for the on-demand development environment; (5) initiating the on-demand development environment on the endpoint using the build template; and (6) deploying the application binary to the on-demand development environment.
US10747642B2
Systems and methods are described for efficiently detecting an optimal number of behaviors to model software system performance data and the aspects of the software systems that best separate the behaviors. The behaviors may be ranked according to how well fitting functions partition the performance data.
US10747641B2
A method and system is disclosed herein to identify causes of alarms generated corresponding to each alarm of the static analysis. The system models the basic reasons for alarms as alarm cause points of several types. Further, the system ranks these cause points based on different metrics such as unknown type-based ranking, grouping of cause points based on their lexical similarity or proximity and last but not least contribution score based ranking. The system also uses a workflow in which a user answers queries about the cause points and their answers are used in subsequent round of the static analysis. The collaboration between the answers of the user and the static analysis helps the tool to resolve the unknowns encountered during the analysis and weeding out the alarms. It also helps the user to expedite the manual inspections of alarms.
US10747633B2
Embodiments include apparatuses, methods, and systems for testing an IC of an in-vehicle system of a CA/AD vehicle includes a storage device and processing circuitry coupled with the storage device. A gate level fault group is provided to include one or more gate level faults of a fault model associated to a gate level circuit element of the gate level netlist of the IC with substantially same fault controllability or observability characteristics. A correlated RTL fault group is determined to be associated to a RTL circuit node, where the RTL circuit node of the RTL netlist corresponds to the gate level circuit element. Other embodiments may also be described and claimed.
US10747630B2
An illustrative “VM heartbeat monitoring network” of heartbeat monitor nodes monitors target VMs in a data storage management system. Accordingly, target VMs are distributed and re-distributed among illustrative worker monitor nodes according to preferences in an illustrative VM distribution logic. Worker heartbeat monitor nodes use an illustrative ping monitoring logic to transmit special-purpose heartbeat packets to respective target VMs and to track ping responses. If a target VM is ultimately confirmed failed by its worker monitor node, an illustrative master monitor node triggers an enhanced storage manager to initiate failover for the failed VM. The enhanced storage manager communicates with the heartbeat monitor nodes and also manages VM failovers and other storage management operations in the system. Special features for cloud-to-cloud failover scenarios enable a VM in a first region of a public cloud to fail over to a second region.
US10747623B2
The present disclosure relates to a mobile terminal for performing a data backup function with an external device, and a controlling method therefore. The controlling method for the mobile terminal for performing a data backup function with an external device comprises the steps of: receiving authentication information of the external device when the external device is connected with an interface unit; identifying, using the received authentication information, whether the external device is a pre-registered device for performing the data backup function; and if the external device is the pre-registered device as a result of the identifying, transmitting at least a part of data stored in a memory to the external device.
