US10756582B2
A stator for an electric motor, the stator comprising a back-iron having a first surface and a heat sink having a second surface, wherein the first surface of the back-iron includes a plurality of keying features arranged to retain the heat sink to the back-iron, wherein the heat sink is arranged to provide cooling to the back-iron via the second surface, and wherein the second surface has complementary keying features to the plurality of keying features on the first surface that are formed by casting the heat sink on the first surface of the back-iron.
US10756577B2
A wireless power supply system includes a power transmission device and a power reception device. A control circuit in the power transmission device causes a power transmission circuit to operate, by a pulse-density modulation control method of controlling density of oscillation pulses for a predetermined period of time, in relationship De1>De2>De3, where De1 indicates the pulse density determined on the basis of a result of demodulation of a transmission signal from the power reception device, De2 indicates the pulse density in a state where a detected output value from the power transmission circuit reaches a predetermined value, and De3 indicates the pulse density in a state where a detected temperature values of a switch element reaches a predetermined value.
US10756574B2
A medical tool includes: a tool main unit configured to be driven in response to a power supply; a first power supply configured to be removable from the tool main unit; and a second power supply having a smaller power capacity than the first power supply, and configured to be charged by the first power supply. The tool main unit is configured to be driven by receiving power supply from one of the first power supply and the second power supply.
US10756568B2
A UPS includes a first bridge circuit module, a second bridge circuit module, and a control circuit configured to operate the first bridge circuit module as an inverter and to selectively operate the second bridge circuit module as a bypass switch and a rectifier. The control circuit may be configured to operate the second bridge circuit module as bypass switch in a standby UPS mode and to operate the second bridge circuit module as a rectifier in an on-line UPS mode.
US10756566B2
A method for supplying electrical power to a device, including: supplying power to the device from a first electrical power supply unit via a switch mechanism in a particular (or preferred) position; and supplying power to the device from a second electrical power supply unit through a defined switching over of the switch mechanism to a secondary position.
US10756561B2
The invention provides an intelligent electronic product including a wearable device, a seat, a wireless charging device and a first magnet set. The wearable device includes a main bead and sub-beads connected to the main bead. The seat has an accommodating space. The wireless charging device includes a wireless power receiving module located in the main bead and a wireless power transmitting module located in the seat. The first magnet set includes a first magnet located in the main bead and a second magnet located in the seat which have opposite magnetic poles. When the main bead is accommodated in the accommodating space, the first magnet and the second magnet attract to position the main bead in a charging position, such that the wireless power receiving module and the wireless power transmitting module form a wirelessly charging loop for wirelessly charging the main bead.
US10756560B2
Modification of a state of a wireless power receiving device is disclosed. The modification of the state can be based on anticipated delay in a communication session. In an aspect, this can include a delay related to authenticating the wireless power receiving device to a wireless power transmission system or component thereof. In an aspect, this can provide for better control over which wireless power receiving devices have wireless power directed at them, which can be related to safety, reliability, subscription level, or other best practices. In some embodiments, wireless power receiving devices can receive a first level of wireless power in a current state, in a modified state, etc., while a second level of power can be directed to the wireless power receiving device upon a rule related to anticipated delay being satisfied, e.g., upon authentication, upon expiration of a sleep timer, determined subscription status, etc.
US10756557B2
With a conventional pulse charging method, a low voltage value for the pulse voltage is set to zero volts. When the low voltage value is low in this manner during charging, there is a problem that the negative pole of a secondary battery deteriorates. Provided is a secondary battery apparatus including a secondary battery and charge/discharge control apparatus that controls charging and discharging of the secondary battery. The charge/discharge control apparatus repeatedly performs, in an alternating manner, high voltage charging of applying a pulsed high voltage to the secondary battery and low voltage charging of applying a low voltage that is higher than 0 V and lower than the high voltage to the secondary battery.
US10756556B2
A method and device is disclosed for charging and/or maintenance of lead-acid and alkaline accumulator batteries, allowing a charge, discharge, or recovery in control-conditioning cycles of these batteries. To increase efficiency of the battery recovery process, its charge is created by a reversible current in consecutive stages. Correction of the charging mode is provided based on voltage and temperature of the accumulator battery.
US10756552B2
An energy storage module includes a module housing, a positive polarity module terminal and a negative polarity module terminal accessible via an external surface of the housing, and a plurality of battery cells contained within the housing and coupled in series between the positive polarity terminal and a negative polarity terminal to form a battery cell string. A removable manual service disconnect (MSD) unit is physically coupled to the external surface of the housing and electrically coupled between at least one battery cell in the battery cell string and one of the module terminals. The MSD unit has at least a first MSD operating state to allow current conduction between the positive polarity module terminal and the negative polarity module terminal, and a second MSD operating state to prevent current conduction between the positive polarity module terminal and the negative polarity module terminal.
US10756551B2
A charging system with a sensor diagnosis function is provided. The system includes an AC input voltage sensor that detects a voltage of an input end with an AC power applied thereto and a resistor that is connected to the input end. A power factor correction circuit unit adjusts and outputs a power factor of AC power applied through the resistor. An output voltage of the power factor correction circuit unit is applied to a capacity of the system. A controller then diagnoses the AC input voltage sensor based on a value of current passing through the resistor, a value of a voltage of the capacitor, and a resistance value of the resistor.
US10756550B2
According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a battery protection circuit module including a first positive terminal and a first negative terminal electrically connected to electrode terminals of a battery bare cell, a second positive terminal and a second negative terminal electrically connected to a charger or an electronic device, a single field-effect transistor including a drain terminal, a source terminal, a gate terminal, and a well terminal, wherein the drain terminal is electrically connected to the first negative terminal and the source terminal is electrically connected to the second negative terminal, and a protection integrated circuit (P-IC) for controlling charging/discharging of the battery bare cell by controlling the gate terminal to control whether to switch on the single field-effect transistor and controlling a bias voltage of the well terminal by using an internal switch.
US10756540B2
A received power control device (200) that performs control of received energy, which is an amount of power received from a power system per predetermined time at a power receiving point to which a load (302) and an electric storage device (303) are electrically connected, the received power control device (200) performing the control by controlling charge and discharge of at least the electric storage device (303), including: a received energy obtainer (201) that periodically obtains information indicating the received energy; a controller (202) that causes at least the electric storage device (303) to discharge to prevent the received energy from exceeding a first threshold; a remaining capacity obtainer (203) that periodically obtains information indicating a remaining capacity of the electric storage device (303); and a threshold setter (204) that increases the first threshold when an amount of decrease in the remaining capacity per unit time exceeds a second threshold.
US10756539B2
An electronic apparatus includes a first terminal that receives power supplied from an external apparatus, a second terminal that is used to determine a power supply capability of an external apparatus, an internal circuit that includes a communication control unit that communicates with an external apparatus via the second terminal, a capacitor that forms an AC coupling between the internal circuit and the second terminal, a route that bypasses the capacitor, a switch that causes the route to switch to a conductive state or a non-conductive state, and a control unit that controls the switch by determining whether a first voltage applied to the first terminal by the external apparatus exceeds a second voltage which can be applied to the internal circuit via the second terminal.
US10756536B2
A system for handling short circuits on an electrical network comprising parallel operated units which are droop controlled for active and reactive power sharing and connected to each other via impedances and protection switches for detecting and handling a short circuit on the electrical network and for disconnecting the faulty part of the electrical network, said units including a DC-source and a grid forming voltage source inverter controlled by a cascaded control structure with an inner voltage control loop and a short circuit control for limiting the output current by changing the output voltage at the output terminals of the inverter as a function of the measured output current and a desired droop voltage provided by a droop controller for voltage and frequency power sharing.
US10756533B2
The present invention relates to a battery pack charging control device that wakes up a micro control unit (MCU) in operation in a sleep mode, while a battery pack is in a constant voltage charged state, the battery pack charging control device including an analog front end (AFE) for changing before the MCU operates in the sleep mode, an over-voltage protection level value to a higher value than a current value, generating an over-voltage trip signal and delivering the over-voltage trip signal to the MCU in operation in the sleep mode to control to wake up the MCU in operation in the sleep mode, when an increased voltage value of the battery pack due to connection of an external charger is equal to or greater than the changed over-voltage protection level value.
US10756529B2
An undersea connection system for connecting together at least three high voltage or very high voltage undersea electric cables comprises an outer cage defining a connection space; and a connection fitting comprising a conductive connection electrode that presents a junction node from which there extend at least three branches. Each of the at least three branches of the conductive electrode includes a male terminal portion that is connected to a respective one of the electric cables in a connection zone about which there is mounted a connection sleeve made of pre-molded insulating material that receives, via its ends, firstly the male terminal portion of one of the branches of the conductive electrode, and secondly the connection end of one of the electric cables.
US10756521B2
A system for installing a cord sleeve includes a first lever arm, the first lever arm including a first protrusion approximately perpendicular to the first lever arm. The system further includes a second lever arm, the second lever arm including a second protrusion approximately perpendicular to the second lever arm. The first and second lever arm intersect at a pivot point and are pivotally attached to each other at the pivot point, such that the first protrusion and the second protrusion are parallel and adjustment to each other, the first lever arm and the second lever arm having a first position where the first protrusion and the second protrusion are together and a second position where the first protrusion and the second protrusion are separated. The system further includes the first lever arm includes a ball portion at the pivot point.
US10756518B1
A cable securing device for installing and removing cable or wire through a wall. The cable securing device includes a rod having a first rod section, a second rod section, and a fastener disposed on each end capable of securing a cable thereto. The first rod section is movably secured to the second rod section in order to allow a user to independently rotate each end when installing cable to one of the fasteners. In operation of one embodiment, the user secures a new cable to a first threaded fastener and an old cable to a second threaded fastener. The rod sections are attached to each other if they had not been previously attached, and the new cable is threaded into the wall and old cable is removed from the wall through a single action by the user.
US10756516B2
Embodiments of the invention describe polarization insensitive optical devices utilizing polarization sensitive components. Light comprising at least one polarization state is received, and embodiments of the invention select a first optical path for light comprising a first polarization state or a second optical path for light comprising a second polarization state orthogonal to the first polarization state. The optical paths include components to at least amplify and/or modulate light comprising the first polarization state; the second optical path includes a polarization rotator to rotate light comprising the second polarization state to the first polarization state. Embodiments of the invention further describe optical devices including a polarization mode converter to convert light comprising a first and a second polarization state to light comprising different spatial modes of the first polarization state; light comprising the different spatial modes of the first polarization state is subsequently amplified and modulated.
US10756514B1
An oscillator system includes a laser source; a high-Q electro-optical oscillator to generate a high-Q electro-optical oscillator signals having oscillator frequencies; and an environment-insensitive resonator including ENZ metamaterials. The resonator receives a laser from the laser source and generate a feedback signal to lock the oscillator to reduce a phase/frequency noise in the oscillator. An optical system also includes a high-Q electro-optical oscillator to generate a high-Q electro-optical oscillator signal having oscillator frequencies; an environment insensitive signal delay waveguide having an EMNZ metamaterial such that the signal delay waveguide delays the high-Q electro-optical oscillator signal and generates a delayed signal; and a phase-lock circuit to receive the delayed signal from the signal delay waveguide and provide an electrical feedback signal to the oscillator.
US10756504B2
A fiber amplifier system including a plurality of optical components in an amplification chain that are responsive to a seed beam and that cause frequency modulation (FM) to amplitude modulation (AM) conversion to the seed beam that creates a non-uniform spectral transmission having a transmission function, where one of the optical components is a fiber amplifier generating an amplified output beam. A programmable spectral filter is controlled to pre-distort the seed beam by applying an inverse of the transmission function that creates a net uniform transmission function by equalizing a net spectral transmission profile of the seed beam at an end of the amplification chain to reduce the amplitude modulation.
US10756498B1
An electrical connector includes a housing that extends between a front and a rear. The housing has a chamber at the rear. The housing has a terminal channel between the front and the rear. A terminal is coupled to the housing. The terminal includes a mating pin at a front of the terminal and a cable connector at a rear of the terminal. The mating pin is positioned in the terminal channel for mating with a charging connector. The cable connector is positioned in the chamber at the rear of the housing. A terminal heat exchanger is positioned in the chamber. The terminal heat exchanger is thermally coupled to the cable connector of the terminal. The terminal heat exchanger has a separator electrically isolating the terminal heat exchanger from the terminal.
US10756495B1
An electrical receptacle including a body having a first cavity and a second cavity, a plurality of first electrical connections in the first cavity and a plurality of second electrical connections in the second cavity, at least one electrical plug sensing device in the first cavity, and wherein electrical continuity to the plurality of first electrical connections from the plurality of second electrical connections only occurs when the at least one electrical plug sensing device senses a presence of an electrical plug in the first cavity.
US10756486B2
A mating assistance device comprises a housing having an opening receiving an electrical connector in a direction of insertion and a locking device movable between an unlocked position and a locked position with respect to the housing. The locking device has a connector pushing element displaceable in the direction of insertion when the locking device moves from the unlocked position to the locked position.
US10756481B2
A connector and a connector assembly capable of being attached to a freely bendable object such as clothes when used are provided. The connector to be fit to a counterpart connector includes a housing; a conductive contact provided in the housing; and a plurality of holding members comprising a magnetic material provided in the housing. The holding member is configured to be attracted to a magnetic material of the counterpart connector when the connector is fit to the counterpart connector to maintain a fit state. The housing is bendable, and has a plurality of fixing holes formed therein. The holding members are disposed in parallel apart from each other in a longitudinal direction (X direction) in the surface of the housing.
US10756471B1
Cable shield grounding electrical connectors comprise a cable having a cable shield, an inner insulating sleeve disposed radially inwardly from the cable shield, and an inner conductor radially inward of the inner insulating sleeve. An inner ferrule includes an outer surface, wherein a portion of the cable shield is disposed along at least a portion of the inner ferrule outer surface. An outer ferrule comprises a first section that is disposed concentrically around the inner ferrule, and wherein the portion of the cable shield is interposed between and in direct contact with each of the inner ferrule and the outer ferrule first section, thereby forming an assembly. The connector comprises a housing having an inner cavity and wherein the assembly is disposed within the inner cavity. An electrically interconnecting element is interposed between the assembly and the housing to provide a grounding electrical connection therebetween.
US10756470B2
A connecting element for providing an electrical connection in a processing space of a household appliance, includes a protruding, longitudinally displaceable contact pin configured for displacement between a rest position protruding farther and an operating position protruding less far, wherein the contact pin pushes into the rest position. The connecting element is disposed on a side wall of the processing space, particularly a cooking space. An insert module can be inserted in the processing space of the household appliance and can be operated electrically. The insert module has a mating electrical connection element for contacting the connecting element.
US10756468B2
A plug connector assembly includes an insulated housing, and a flexible flat cable assembly. The flexible flat cable assembly includes a first flat cable, a second flat cable, and a reinforced board. The reinforced board is sandwiched between the first flat cable the second flat cable. An inner shielding layer is disposed between conductors of the first flat cable and the reinforced board, and between conductors of the second flat cable and the reinforced board, respectively. A positioning plate protrudes outward from each of two sides of the reinforced board. The insulated housing has a displacement-preventing mechanism formed on an inner side thereof for blocking the positioning plate, so as to limit the displacement of the reinforced board along the inserting direction.
US10756458B2
A bus bar assembling structure includes a resin block main body for an electronic component block, a first bus bar, and a second bus bar. The resin block main body includes a bus bar assembling portion. The first bus bar and the second bus bar are accommodated in the bus bar assembling portion. The first bus bar has a first pushing portion that is pushed when the first bus bar is accommodated in the bus bar assembling portion, the first pushing portion being a bent piece. The first pushing portion has a through hole or a notch. The second bus bar has a second pushing portion that is inserted into the through hole or the notch and is disposed at a position corresponding to a position of a pushed surface of the first pushing portion.
US10756454B2
An earthing contact for creating an electrical contact between an earthing cable and a component comprising an electroconductive component surface, comprises an electroconductive contact plate and a fixing element, the contact plate having a first contact surface for placing the contact plate on the component surface, a second contact surface for placing an earthing cable on the contact plate, and a passage for the fixing element, the fixing element comprising a fixing section for fixing the fixing element in the component, a pressure element for pressing the contact plate onto the component surface and a holding section for arranging in the passage of the contact plate, when the pressure element presses the contact plate onto the component surface, the first contact surface being tiltable in relation to the fixing section by a tilting angle of at least 6° when the holding section is arranged in the passage.
US10756452B2
A fastener for connecting an electrical conductor to a connector body includes a first portion adapted to engage an opening of the connector body and a second portion engaging the first portion. The second portion includes a head, a base coupled to the first portion and including an end adapted to engage the electrical conductor, and a shearable section positioned between the head and the base.
US10756451B2
A connection arrangement of a first component on a second component, in particular for a vehicle, is provided, wherein the components are connected together by at least one screw element and at least one screw which is screwed into the screw element and passes through a first passage opening of the first component. The screw element is designed as an expansion sleeve which is partly received in a second opening of the second component and protrudes into the first component and which is expanded along the axial direction of the sleeve by screwing the screw into the expansion sleeve.
US10756447B2
A communication terminal device is applicable to an aerial vehicle. The communication terminal device includes an antenna, an altimeter and a processing circuit. The antenna is configured to provide a transceiving range of electromagnetic waves. The flight height detector is configured to obtain an altitude measurement value adapted to specify an altitude of the aerial vehicle. The processing circuit is coupled to the altimeter and is configured to: determine whether the altitude measurement value exceeds a height threshold value; set the transceiving range of electromagnetic waves of the antenna to be omni-directional in response to determining that the altitude measurement value does not exceed the height threshold value; in response to determining that the altitude exceeds the height threshold value, execute an antenna beam width adjusting mechanism, so that the transceiving range of electromagnetic waves of the antenna is shaped into a directional beam.
US10756444B2
A liquid crystal panel included in a scanning antenna includes: a TFT substrate including a first dielectric substrate, a TFT supported by the first dielectric substrate, a gate bus line, a source bus line, a patch electrode, and a first alignment film covering the patch electrode; a slot substrate including a second dielectric substrate, a slot electrode formed on a first main surface of the second dielectric substrate and including a slot disposed corresponding to the patch electrode, and a second alignment film covering the slot electrode; and a liquid crystal layer provided between the TFT substrate and the slot substrate and containing a liquid crystal molecule including an isothiocyanate group. The first alignment film and the second alignment film are each independently formed of a polyimide-based alignment film material. In each of the first alignment film and the second alignment film, a density of a carboxyl group on a film surface in contact with the liquid crystal layer is less than a density of a carboxyl group inside a film.
US10756440B2
A scanning antenna is a scanning antenna in which antenna units are arranged, including a TFT substrate provided with a first dielectric substrate, a TFT, a gate bus line, a source bus line, patch electrodes, and a first alignment film covering the patch electrodes; a slot substrate provided with a second dielectric substrate, a slot electrode, and a second alignment film covering the slot electrode; a liquid crystal layer provided between the TFT substrate and the slot substrate; and a reflective conductive plate. The slot electrode includes slots disposed corresponding to each of the patch electrodes. A sealing portion includes a main sealing portion that defines at least one injection port. Given, among directions orthogonal to a sealing pattern of the main sealing portion in the injection port, a direction from the injection port toward the liquid crystal layer as a flow direction, and a region of the liquid crystal layer close to the injection port and including a region extending in the flow direction from the injection port as a first region, angles between the flow direction and each of an orientation direction regulated by the first alignment film in the first region and an orientation direction regulated by the second alignment film in the first region are 20° or less or 160° or greater.
US10756438B2
An electronic package and a method for fabricating the same are provided. A resist layer and a support are formed on a first substrate having a first antenna installation area. A second substrate having a second antenna installation area is laminated on the resist layer and the support. The resist layer is then removed. The support keeps the first substrate apart from the second substrate at a distance to ensure that the antenna transmission between the first antenna installation area and the second antenna installation area can function normally.
US10756436B2
A system may include a double differential-fed dual-polarized 2.4 GHz, microstrip patch antenna with extremely high interport isolation for shared antenna architecture based in-band full duplex (IBFD) transceivers. The presented antenna configuration is based on four ports linearly polarized single radiating element with differential feeding for both transmit (Tx) and receive (Rx) operation. The double differential feeding using two identical 3 dB/180° ring hybrid couplers with nice amplitude/phase balance effectively suppresses the interport RF leakage to achieve very high isolation. Strong amplitude and phase balance of 3 dB/180° ring hybrid coupler can provide a better SIC performance as compared to DFN based on Wilkinson power divider with un-equal length microstrip lines, thus supplying an elite level of suppression in means of self-interference at Tx.
US10756433B1
Antenna structures and methods of operating the same of a dual-band antenna of an electronic device are described. One device includes a single RF feed line coupled to a dual-band antenna. The dual-band antenna includes a ground element, a first arm, a shorting arm, a dual-arm structure, and a dual-element structure.
US10756429B1
Methods and systems are provided for dynamically adjusting the beamform of an antenna array. A first beamform produced by an emission from a first antenna and an emission from a second antenna are determined, each of the first antenna and the second antenna having separate power supplies. Positions of user devices served by the cell of the antenna array are determined and compared to the first beamform. If it is determined that a second beamform would provide better coverage to any one or more of the user devices served by the cell, any one or more of the power supplies to individual antennas may be modified. Any one or more power supplies may utilize changes in the phase and/or amplitude of the power supplied to an antenna to change the emission of at least one antenna, producing a second beamform. The second beamform, in particular, may permit dynamic targeting of various vertical distributions of user devices within the cell.
US10756428B2
Systems and methods are provided for performing alignment calibration of an RF antenna in satellite communications. Data is received that is representative of inertial navigation system and gimbal angle measurement signals. The received data is collected while a vehicle is operated in a reduced yaw motion and while the RF antenna is tracking a satellite. Equations are used that describe a mathematical relationship among the misalignments, offsets, and latency mismatch to the antenna gimbal control servo measurements. Estimates are generated for certain errors involved in the alignment process. The generated estimates are provided for pointing the RF antenna.
US10756419B2
The present disclosure is directed to an antenna that includes a substrate and a graphene or graphite layer positioned on at least a portion of the substrate. The graphene or graphite layer includes a first zone having a first thickness along a vertical direction of the antenna and a second zone having a second thickness along the vertical direction of the antenna. The second thickness is less than the first thickness such that the second zone has a greater electrical resistance than the first zone.
US10756412B1
Multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) antenna devices and methods of using and fabricating the same are provided. A MIMO antenna device can include a plurality of substrates each having an antenna element. The substrates can be provided in connected series and can be attached to a framework. The substrates can have alternating style antenna elements, such that a first substrate can have a straight-fed dipole and a second substrate adjacent to the first substrate can have a bent-fed dipole and a third substrate adjacent to the second substrate, and on an opposite side of the second substrate than the first substrate is, can have a straight-fed dipole and so on.
US10756408B2
A directional coupler includes first and second transmission lines, first and second coupling lines, a termination resistor, a coupling signal output terminal, and an impedance-adjusting circuit. The first coupling line is electromagnetically coupled to the first transmission line. The second coupling line is connected in series with the first coupling line and is electromagnetically coupled to the second transmission line. The termination resistor is connected to an end portion of the first coupling line that is on the opposite side from the end portion of the first coupling line that is connected to the second coupling line. The coupling signal output terminal is connected to an end portion of the second coupling line that is on the opposite side from the end portion of the second coupling line that is connected to the first coupling line. The impedance-adjusting circuit is connected between the first and second coupling lines.
US10756407B2
A power distribution circuit includes a first portion, a second portion, a third portion, an isolation element, a first transmission sub-circuit and a second transmission sub-circuit. The first portion, the second portion, and the third portion are coupled to respective external components. The isolation element is coupled between the second portion and the third portion. The first transmission sub-circuit is set on one side of the isolation element, and is coupled between the first portion and the second portion. The second transmission sub-circuit is set on the other side of the isolation element, and is coupled between the first portion and the third portion. The first transmission sub-circuit and the second transmission sub-circuit are symmetrically set on both sides of the isolation element.
US10756405B2
A hollow glass waveguide and related method are provided. The microwave waveguide includes a glass body including a first end, a second end, an outer glass surface extending between the first end and the second end, an inner glass surface defining a hollow channel that extends from the first end to the second end and a glass material between the outer surface and the inner surface. The microwave waveguide includes a layer of metal embedded in the glass body. The layer of metal surrounds the hollow channel when viewed in cross-section and extends between the first end and the second end of the glass body. The layer of metal is electrically conductive and the hollow channel is dimensioned such that microwaves introduced into the hollow channel are conducted along the hollow channel between the first end and the second end.
US10756399B2
The disclosure provides a battery module. The battery module includes a battery stacked body, which includes stacked batteries; cooling plates that are installed at the tail ends in a battery stacking direction of the battery stacked body, and the cooling plates and the battery stacked body are installed in a thermal insulation mode; and heat transfer device that are in thermal contact with the cooling plates, and heat of the batteries is transferred to the cooling plates through the heat transfer device; wherein in a normal charging-discharging state, the battery with the highest temperature in the battery stacked body is a battery A; and between a single cooling plate and the battery A, a thermal resistance between each battery and the heat transfer device is reduced along with the increase of a distance between the each battery and the cooling plate in the battery stacking direction.
US10756397B2
An integrated battery cooling system is provided. The system includes a housing having a high-voltage battery and a secondary battery therein and having an inlet port and an outlet port formed on the outer side thereof to receive and discharge cooling water. A cooling channel is formed with cooling water flowing therethrough from the inlet port and the cooling channel transmits heat to the high-voltage battery. A cooling module receives the cooling water discharged from the cooling channel, transmits heat to the secondary battery, and then cools the secondary battery.
US10756393B2
The present disclosure relates to a method for preventing duplicate allocation of an ID to battery modules, and in particularly, to a method for preventing duplicate allocation of an ID to battery modules wherein an ID is prevented from being allocated in a duplicated manner by diagnosing each state where the ID is to be allocated in a duplicated manner.
US10756379B2
A power storage module includes a cylindrical resin portion that extends in a direction in which a plurality of bipolar electrodes is stacked and that accommodates therein the plurality of the bipolar electrodes. The resin portion includes a first seal portion that has a cylindrical shape and is joined to peripheral edge portions of a plurality of electrode plate, and a second seal portion that has a cylindrical shape and is disposed outside the first seal portion in a direction that crosses the stacking direction of the bipolar electrodes. A plurality of separators is disposed such that outer peripheral ends of the separators are located between an outer peripheral end of the first seal portion and an inner peripheral end of the first seal portion.
US10756377B2
There is provided a regenerative fuel cell capable of operating in a power delivery mode in and in an energy storage mode. The cell may comprise a reversible hydrogen gas anode, in an anode compartment, a reversible cathode in a cathode compartment, and a membrane separating the anode compartment from the cathode compartment, which membrane is capable of selectively passing protons. an additive may be provided in the cathode compartment.
US10756374B2
A catalyst deterioration recovery device in a fuel cell system that includes a fuel cell including a membrane electrode assembly configured to include an electrolyte membrane and anode and cathode catalysts between which the electrolyte membrane is sandwiched from both sides and anode and cathode separators respectively including an anode gas flow channel and a cathode gas flow channel, the membrane electrode assembly being sandwiched between the anode and cathode separators. The catalyst deterioration recovery device recovers performance decreased by adsorption of carbon monoxide to the anode catalyst. The catalyst deterioration recovery device includes a recovery control unit configured to supply at least a part of oxygen to be supplied to the cathode gas flow channel to the anode catalyst via the electrolyte membrane.
US10756373B2
A fuel cell system and method are provided. One or more surfactants are used as a hydrogen carrier and/or coolant for hydrogen fueled proton exchange membrane fuel cells. The surfactant can work as a bubbler to trap hydrogen as fine bubbles with cooling water to feed the fuel cell anode. The water acts as humidification supplier and coolant.
US10756371B2
A power generator includes a container having a cross section suitable for wearing by a person, the container including a nano-porous insulation. A fuel cell and fuel cell cartridge are disposed within the container. Power management electronics are supported by the container and coupled to the fuel cell. A charge storage device is supported by the container and electrically coupled to the power management electronics and the fuel cell. A connector is supported by the container and coupled to the charge storage device to distribute power to one or more electrical loads.
US10756356B2
A manufacturing method of a separator for a fuel cell, including: preparing a first die including: a first convex surface and a first concave surface; and a first side surface connected between the first convex surface and the first concave surface; preparing a second die including: a second concave surface and a second convex surface respectively facing the first convex surface and the first concave surface; and a second side surface facing the first side surface and connected between the second concave surface and the second convex surface; preparing a metal plate having a flat plate shape, and two electro-conductive resin sheets; and forming a flow channel in the metal plate and the two electro-conductive resin sheets by hot pressing with the first and second dies.
US10756350B2
A binder includes a third polymer including a cross-linked product of a first polymer and a second polymer, wherein the first polymer includes a first functional group and is at least one selected from a polyamic acid and a polyimide, wherein the second polymer includes a second functional group and is water-soluble, and wherein the first polymer and the second polymer are cross-linked by an ester bond formed by a reaction of the first functional group and the second functional.
US10756342B2
A lithium ion secondary battery includes: a negative electrode having a carbon-based negative electrode material containing graphite particles and amorphous carbon particles; and a positive electrode including a lithium composite oxide. The lithium composite oxide is represented by a general formula: LixNiyMnzCo(1-y-z)O2, where x is a numeral of 1 or more and 1.2 or less, and y and z are positive numerals satisfying the relation of y+z<1. The lithium composite oxide has a layer crystal structure and has a median particle diameter (D50) of 4.0 μm or more and less than 6.0 μm.
US10756340B2
The present disclosure is directed to providing improved processability by forming a protective film on the surface of lithium metal used as an electrode layer through a simple process, and to improving the cycle characteristics of a lithium metal secondary battery by forming a stable protective film. The present disclosure provides a method for manufacturing a negative electrode, including the steps of: (S1) preparing lithium metal; and (S2) dipping the lithium metal in an acid solution for 60-120 seconds to form a LiF film on the surface of lithium metal.
US10756336B2
A secondary battery including a first electrode structure; a second electrode structure spaced apart from the first electrode structure; and an electrolyte layer disposed between the first electrode structure and the second electrode structure, wherein the first electrode structure includes: a current collector layer; and plurality of first active material plates electrically connected to the current collector layer, protruding from the current collector layer, and including a first active material, wherein each plate of the plurality of first active material plates has a width and a length greater than the width, and the plurality of first active material plates are spaced apart from one another in a widthwise direction and in a lengthwise direction, and wherein the electrolyte layer extends into gaps between the plurality of first active material plates along the lengthwise direction.
US10756330B2
A silicon based micro-structured material and methods are shown. In one example, the silicon based micro-structured material is used as an electrode in a battery, such as a lithium ion battery. A battery, comprising: a first electrode, including a number of porous silicon spheres; a second electrode; and an electrolyte in contact with both the first electrode and the second electrode.
US10756322B2
Provided are a composite separator for a secondary battery including: a porous substrate; and a coating layer, formed on the porous substrate, by thermally curing aqueous slurry including inorganic particles, first binder particles, a second binder, and a thermal curing agent, wherein the first binder particles contain a copolymer of a monomer mixture including an acrylamide-based monomer, a vinyl cyanide-based monomer, an acrylic monomer having a carboxyl group, and an acrylic monomer having a hydroxyl group, and a lithium secondary battery including the same.
US10756320B2
A method for making a lithium-sulfur battery separator includes providing a separator substrate comprising a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface; and forming a functional layer on at least one of the first surface and the second surface. A method of forming the functional layer includes providing a carbon nanotube layer comprising a plurality of carbon nanotubes; etching the carbon nanotube layer to form defects on surfaces of the plurality of carbon nanotubes; and forming a hafnium oxide layer on the defects to form a carbon nanotube/hafnium oxide composite layer.
US10756318B2
In case a similar component-to-be-loaded is erroneously loaded on a main body side apparatus, contact of terminals are avoided. To this end, a video camera (main body side apparatus) 1 has a main body side terminal 30, and a battery pack (component-to-be-loaded) 100 has a battery side terminal (component-to-be-loaded side terminal) 120. In the vicinity of the battery side terminal of the component-to-be-loaded, a discriminating tab 111 is provided, and a blocking portion 19 is provided in the vicinity of the main body side terminal of the video camera (main body side apparatus) for determining whether or not its loading is permitted based on the combination of concave and convex engagement with respect to the above-mentioned discriminating tab, and when the loading is not permitted due to the interference between the blocking portion and the above-mentioned discriminating tab, an electric connection between the main body side terminal and the battery side terminal (component-to-be-loaded side terminal) is not to be established.
US10756316B2
A device for mounting an electrical energy source in portable electronic equipment is provided, including a cavity and a cover configured to close the cavity, the cover including a housing configured to receive the energy source, the cover and the portable electronic equipment having complementary fixing means in order to retain the cover on the portable electronic equipment and to seal the cavity, and the cover including means for retaining the energy source in the housing of the cover.
US10756314B2
A composite sheet includes a thermally-conductive sheet, a first insulating sheet that covers one surface of the thermally-conductive sheet; a second insulating sheet that covers another surface of the thermally-conductive sheet, and seals the thermally-conductive sheet between the first insulating sheet and the second insulating sheet, and a thermal insulation layer that is laminated between the thermally-conductive sheet and the first insulating sheet to cover at least a part of the thermally-conductive sheet.
US10756313B2
A power storage device includes a positive electrode part including a first metallic foil layer and a positive electrode active material layer partially laminated on one surface of the first metallic foil layer, a negative electrode part including a second metallic foil layer and a negative electrode active material layer partially laminated on one surface of the second metallic foil layer, and a separator arranged between the positive electrode part and the negative electrode part. The positive electrode active material layer is arranged between the first metallic foil layer and the separator, and the negative electrode active material layer is arranged between the second metallic foil layer and the separator. The peripheral regions of the one surfaces of the first and second metallic foil layers in which the positive and negative electrode active material layers are not formed are joined via a peripheral sealing layer containing a thermoplastic resin.
US10756312B2
The present disclosure provides secondary battery top cover assembly, secondary battery and vehicle. The top cover assembly includes: a top cover plate; an electrode terminal disposed on the top cover plate; an insulating cover; and a short-circuit component including a deformable plate and a conductive plate disposed above the deformable plate, the deformable plate is connected to the top cover plate, and the conductive plate is connected to the electrode terminal. The conductive plate includes a body portion and a protruding portion protruding upwardly from the body portion, and is provided with gas hole, and the protruding portion surrounds the gas hole. The insulating cover includes a covering portion disposed above the conductive plate and covering the protruding portion, a gas flow channel is formed between the protruding portion and the covering portion, and the gas hole communicates with outside of the top cover plate via the gas flow channel.
US10756310B2
Provided is a display device including a first light emitting layer having an island shape, a second light emitting layer having an island shape, and a third light emitting layer having an island shape, between a lower electrode layer and an upper electrode layer. The first light emitting layer and the second light emitting layer are adjacent in a column direction, and the third light emitting layer is adjacent to the first light emitting layer and the second light emitting layer in a diagonal direction. The first light emitting layer emits blue light, one of the second light emitting layer and the third light emitting layer emits red light, and the other emits green light. A light emitting region of the first light emitting layer is larger than light emitting regions of the second light emitting layer and the third light emitting layer.
US10756305B2
Disclosed is an electroluminescence display apparatus for increasing a micro-cavity effect and preventing a device characteristic from being reduced. The electroluminescence display apparatus including an active area where a plurality of pixels are provided includes a substrate, a circuit element layer on the substrate, a first electrode on the circuit element layer, a light emitting layer on the first electrode, a second electrode on the light emitting layer, and a first light compensation layer between the light emitting layer and the second electrode. Since the first light compensation layer having a refractive index lower than that of the light emitting layer is disposed between the light emitting layer and the second electrode, light may be repeatedly reflected thereby increasing light efficiency, which in turn increases the micro-cavity effect.
US10756301B2
An electronic device having a stacking structure including a plurality of 2D material layers is provided. The stacking structure includes a first 2D material layer, among the plurality of 2D material layers, stacked adjacent to a second 2D material layer, among the plurality of 2D material layers, and the first 2D material layer is rotated with respect to the second 2D material layer.
US10756295B2
A terminal includes a front glass cover, a flexible-bendable display screen and a back cover. The front glass cover is formed of glass molding in a unibody, and includes: a front surface area covering a front surface of the terminal; and a first curved surface area, a second curved surface area, a third curved surface area and a fourth curved surface area respectively adjacent to the front surface area and respectively covering four sides of the terminal. The back cover is respectively connected to the first curved surface area, the second curved surface area, the third curved surface area and the fourth curved surface area. The flexible-bendable display screen is attached to an inner surface of the front glass cover, bent to each side surface of the terminal, bent for a second time at overlapping areas of sides of the terminal and covers the four sides and the overlapping areas.
US10756285B2
This disclosure relates to a display panel, an electroluminescent device and a manufacturing method for the electroluminescent device. The electroluminescent device includes a first transparent electrode layer, an electroluminescent layer, a channel layer, a second transparent electrode layer, a dielectric layer, a light absorption layer and a third electrode layer stacked in turn, wherein the light absorption layer can be excited by a light emitted from the electroluminescent layer to generate photocarriers. The present disclosure may reduce power consumption of the panel and also reduce cost and enable products such as a panel to meet the needs for ultra-thinning and miniaturization.
US10756275B2
A compound represented by formula (1) is useful as a material for organic EL devices which realizes an organic EL device exhibiting high emission efficiency even when driving at a low voltage and has a long lifetime: wherein R1 to R4, L0 to L2, Ar1 to Ar2, m1 to m3, and k4 are as defined in the description.
US10756273B2
The disclosure provides an all-solution OLED device and a manufacturing method thereof. The manufacturing method fabricate a hole injection layer, a hole transport layer, a light emitting layer, an electron transport layer, and a cathode by solution film-forming. Compared with the manufacturing method of the existing OLED device, an all-solution fabrication of the electron transport layer and the cathode is achieved, the use of high vacuum evaporation process and equipment can be avoided, thereby saving materials and reducing manufacturing costs; and the adjacent layers will not appear mutual solubility, so the film quality is high and the device performance can be improved. The hole injection layer, the hole transport layer, the light emitting layer, the electron transport layer, and the cathode are all fabricated by solution film-forming; and compared with the existing OLED device, the manufacturing cost is low, the film-forming quality is high, and the display quality is excellent.
US10756270B2
Provided is a method of manufacturing an organic deposition mask used in manufacturing of an organic light emitting diode (OLED). More specially, provided is a method of manufacturing an organic deposition mask by which fine deposition openings may be formed on a thin board by electrochemical machining (ECM) using a multi array electrode having projecting electrode parts arrayed thereon. According to an embodiment of the present invention, the method of manufacturing an organic deposition mask including deposition openings formed of first openings facing a deposition source and second openings facing a deposited object, the method may include: forming the first openings on one side of a thin board; and forming the second openings on an opposite side of the thin board by electrochemical machining (ECM) using a second multi array electrode having second projecting electrode parts arrayed thereon so as to communicate with the first openings.
US10756262B2
A spin-orbit-torque magnetization rotational element includes: a spin-orbit-torque wiring which extends in a first direction; and a first ferromagnetic layer which is laminated in a second direction intersecting the spin-orbit-torque wiring, wherein the spin-orbit-torque wiring includes a convex portion which protrudes in the second direction in relation to a first surface on the side of the first ferromagnetic layer at a connecting part between the spin-orbit-torque wiring and the first ferromagnetic layer.
US10756261B2
The invention provides a magnetoresistance element with a configuration such that a stable switching action is possible with a current flowing in response to the application of a unipolar electrical pulse, and a non-volatile semiconductor storage device using the magnetoresistance element.A magnetoresistance element 1-1 includes a magnetic tunnel junction portion 13 configured by sequentially stacking a perpendicularly magnetized first magnetic body 22, an insulation layer 21, and a perpendicularly magnetized second magnetic body 200. The second magnetic body 200 has a configuration wherein a ferromagnetic layer and a rare earth-transition metal alloy layer are stacked sequentially from the insulation layer 21 side interface. A heat assist layer 28-1 that heats the second magnetic body 200 with a heat generated based on a current flowing through the magnetic tunnel junction portion 13 is further provided, and the magnetization direction of the second magnetic body 200 is reversed by the heating of the second magnetic body 200. A non-volatile semiconductor storage device 10-1 includes the magnetoresistance element 1-1, a switching element connected in series to the magnetoresistance element 1-1, information rewriting means that carries out a write and erase by causing a write current to flow through the magnetoresistance element 1-1, and reading means that reads information stored from the amount of current flowing through the magnetoresistance element 1-1.
US10756251B2
The present invention relates to a piezoelectric fiber having excellent flexibility, the piezoelectric fiber employs a conductive fiber member as an inner electrode, on which a piezoelectric polymer layer, an outer electrode and a coating layer are sequentially formed, thereby having excellent flexibility and sufficient elasticity to be sewed, woven, knotted or braided. Therefore, the piezoelectric fiber can be applied in power supplies for a variety of sizes and types of wearable electronic devices, portable devices, clothing, etc. In addition, since the piezoelectric fiber has excellent piezoelectricity and durability because of the above-described structure, it can effectively convert deformation or vibration caused by external physical force into electric energy, and thus can replace existing ceramic-based and polymer piezoelectric bodies, etc. Furthermore, an economical and simple method of manufacturing a piezoelectric fiber having excellent piezoelectricity is provided.
US10756250B2
A piezoelectric element includes a first electrode; a second electrode; and a piezoelectric layer arranged between the first electrode and the second electrode, in which the piezoelectric layer is a thin film that includes a perovskite-type composite oxide which includes potassium, sodium, and niobium and which is preferentially oriented in the (100) plane, and a crystal structure of the perovskite-type composite oxide includes a basic lattice structure having an oxygen octahedron and a super lattice structure in which the oxygen octahedron is tilted.
US10756248B1
A new class of thermoelectric and energy conversion apparatus, that enhances the efficiency of converting one form of energy to another using a wide range of energy conversion materials. The new method of stimulating greater electrical conversion using polymers and thermoelectric composite materials that have unique properties similar to commercial superconductors. The invention entails processes that create and interconnect the superconducting polymer layers through an assembly lowering internal resistance, impeding phonon conduction and stimulating increase in electron flow through the device with increased electrical power. The invention includes the use of dopants that are mixed with a polymer solution to build superconducting polymer connections between the thermoelectric device layers.
US10756246B2
A light emitting device includes: a base member including: a first lead, a second lead, and a supporting member, the base member having an upper surface including a first surface, which is a surface of the first lead, a second surface, which is a surface of the second lead, and a third surface, which is a surface of the supporting member; a light emitting element located on the first surface; a protective element located on the second surface; a wire having a first end connected to the first surface, and a second end connected to a terminal electrode of the protective element; a resin frame located on the upper surface of the base member; a first resin part surrounded by the resin frame and covering the light emitting element and the first end of the wire; and a second resin part covering the resin frame and the first resin part.
US10756240B2
The present disclosure provides RGB-LED packaging modules and a display screen including a substrate; a plurality of light-emitting units disposed on the substrate, each light-emitting unit including a set of RGB-LED chips; a plastic layer provided on the light-emitting units; and a virtual isolating region provided between the light-emitting units, the virtual isolating region including a black light-absorbing layer provided on the substrate. The present disclosure makes use of the black light-absorbing layer to absorb light which may cause interference among the light-emitting units. By providing the virtual isolating region and an isolating trough, and utilizing the difference of refractive index of packaging plastic and refractive index of air, light emitted by the light-emitting units can be reflected to reduce the influence of adjacent light-emitting units. A black isolating-frame is filled in the isolating trough to minimize the interference among the light-emitting units.
US10756224B2
L-shaped positive electrode bus bar 11 and negative electrode bus bar 12 are provided along a vertical side 1b and a horizontal side 1c of the solar battery module 1, positive electrode output terminals 13a and 13b, and negative electrode output terminals 14a and 14b are led out from the long horizontal side 1c, and a positive electrode box 15, a negative electrode box 16, and the like are provided to the long horizontal side 1c. In addition, all solar battery cells 3 of first and second rows R1 and L2 are connected in series by using only one connection bus bar 7. Accordingly, even when the positive electrode box 15, the negative electrode box 16, and the like are provided to the long horizontal side 1c of the solar battery module 1, the number of bus bars is small and the number of connection processes such as soldering is also small.
US10756220B2
A photovoltaic device includes a substrate having a plurality of hole shapes formed therein. The plurality of hole shapes each have a hole opening extending from a first surface and narrowing with depth into the substrate. The plurality of hole shapes form a hole pattern on the first surface, and the hole pattern includes flat areas separating the hole shapes on the first surface. A photovoltaic device stack is formed on the first surface and extends into the hole shapes. Methods are also provided.
US10756219B2
It discloses a texturing method for a diamond wire cut polycrystalline silicon slice, including the following steps: firstly, immersing the diamond wire cut polycrystalline silicon slice into a mixed aqueous solution of an alkali solution and an alkali reaction control agent, removing a damaged layer on a surface of the silicon slice, and then immersing the silicon slice into a hydrofluoric acid solution containing inorganic ions and organic molecules for reaction; secondly, pretreating the polycrystalline silicon surface by a mixed solution of hydrofluoric acid and hydrogen peroxide, adding a pore-forming regulator at the same time, and finally texturing the surface of the silicon slice by a mixed acid solution of hydrofluoric acid and nitric acid.
US10756215B2
Methods of selectively depositing high-K gate dielectric on a semiconductor structure are disclosed. The method includes providing a semiconductor structure disposed above a semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor structure is disposed beside an isolation sidewall. A sacrificial blocking layer is then selectively deposited on the isolation sidewall and not on the semiconductor structure. Thereafter, a high-K gate dielectric is deposited on the semiconductor structure, but not on the sacrificial blocking layer. Properties of the sacrificial blocking layer prevent deposition of oxide material on its surface. A thermal treatment is then performed to remove the sacrificial blocking layer, thereby forming a high-K gate dielectric only on the semiconductor structure.
US10756214B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate, and a semiconductor fin structure formed on the substrate. The semiconductor device also includes a dielectric liner disposed on and in direct contact with a top surface of the substrate and a sidewall of the semiconductor fin structure. The semiconductor device includes a first isolation layer disposed on and in direct contact with a top surface and a sidewall of the dielectric liner. The semiconductor device also includes a second isolation layer disposed on and in direct contact with a top surface of the first isolation layer and a sidewall of the semiconductor fin structure. The semiconductor device also includes an oxide isolation region formed beneath the semiconductor fin structure by oxidation through the second isolation layer.
US10756213B2
A method of forming a multi-valued logic transistor with a small footprint and the resulting device are disclosed. Embodiments include forming plural fins on a silicon substrate, each fin covered with a hardmask; filling spaces between the fins and hard masks with an oxide; removing the hardmasks and recessing each fin, forming a cavity in the oxide over each fin; forming plural Si-based layers in each cavity with an increasing percentage of Ge or C or with an decreasing concentration of dopant from a bottom layer to a top layer; performing CMP for planarization to a top of the fins; recessing the oxide to a depth slightly below a top portion of the fin having a thickness equal to a thickness of each Si-based layer; and forming a high-k gate dielectric and a metal gate electrode over the plural Si-based layers.
US10756208B2
The present disclosure relates to an integrated chip. In some embodiments, the integrated chip has a gate structure disposed over a substrate between source and drain regions and a dielectric layer laterally extending from over the gate structure to between the gate structure and the drain region. A composite etch stop layer having a plurality of different dielectric materials is stacked over the dielectric layer. A contact etch stop layer directly contacts an upper surface and sidewalls of the composite etch stop layer. A field plate is laterally surrounded by a first inter-level dielectric (ILD) layer and vertically extends from a top of the first ILD layer, through the contact etch stop layer, and into the composite etch stop layer.
US10756202B2
Disclosed herein are quantum dot device packages, as well as related computing devices and methods. For example, in some embodiments, a quantum dot device package may include a die having a quantum dot device, wherein the quantum dot device includes a quantum well stack, gates disposed above the quantum well stack, and conductive pathways coupled between associated ones of the gates and conductive contacts of the die. The quantum dot device package may also include a package substrate, wherein conductive contacts are disposed on the package substrate, and first level interconnects are disposed between the die and the package substrate, coupling the conductive contacts of the die with associated conductive contacts of the package substrate.
US10756199B2
An embodiment fin field-effect-transistor (finFET) includes a semiconductor fin comprising a channel region and a gate oxide on a sidewall and a top surface of the channel region. The gate oxide includes a thinnest portion having a first thickness and a thickest portion having a second thickness different than the first thickness. A difference between the first thickness and the second thickness is less than a maximum thickness variation, and the maximum thickness variation is in accordance with an operating voltage of the finFET.
US10756198B2
An interlayer is used to reduce Fermi-level pinning phenomena in a semiconductive device with a semiconductive substrate. The interlayer may be a rare-earth oxide. The interlayer may be an ionic semiconductor. A metallic barrier film may be disposed between the interlayer and a metallic coupling. The interlayer may be a thermal-process combination of the metallic barrier film and the semiconductive substrate. A process of forming the interlayer may include grading the interlayer. A computing system includes the interlayer.
US10756195B2
Provided are an integrated circuit device and a method of manufacturing the same. The integrated circuit device includes: a semiconductor substrate; a device isolation layer defining an active region of the semiconductor substrate; a gate insulating layer on the active region; a gate stack on the gate insulating layer; a spacer on a sidewall of the gate stack; and an impurity region provided on both sides of the gate stack, wherein the gate stack includes a metal carbide layer and a metal layer on the metal carbide layer, wherein the metal carbide layer includes a layer having a carbon content of about 0.01 at % to about 15 at %.
US10756173B2
A diode has a semiconductor body having a first and a second semiconductor body main side. The semiconductor body has a first semiconductor zone. The semiconductor body has a second semiconductor zone arranged on the first semiconductor zone in an inner region of the semiconductor body and not extending as far as the semiconductor body edge of the semiconductor body. The semiconductor body has a third semiconductor zone arranged on the second semiconductor zone and has a higher doping concentration than the second semiconductor zone. The semiconductor body has a fourth semiconductor zone arranged on the first semiconductor zone in a semiconductor body edge region and extending from the second semiconductor zone in the direction towards the semiconductor body edge as far as the semiconductor body edge.
US10756172B2
A semiconductor device having a silicon-on-insulator (SOI) structure in which a source region and a drain region extend along a longitudinal direction that is a direction along a longer side of sides facing each other, and are disposed side-by-side in a lateral direction that is a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction. In a plan view, a body region extends along the longitudinal direction and is surrounded by a drift region and an insulating region. A space between the insulating region and the body region in the lateral direction becomes narrower from the center to the end of the body region in the longitudinal direction. This achieves high breakdown voltage in the semiconductor device.
US10756161B2
A semiconductor package substrate includes an integral magnetic-helical inductor that is assembled during assembly of the semiconductor package substrate. The integral magnetic-helical inductor is located within a die footprint within the semiconductor package substrate.
US10756147B2
Provided are an organic light-emitting display panel and an electronic device. The organic light-emitting display panel includes a plurality of sub-pixel units and a plurality of pixel circuits. The sub-pixel units are defined by a bank, the plurality of sub-pixel units emits m different colors, any two adjacent sub-pixel units emit different colors, each of the plurality of sub-pixel units includes n sub-pixels emitting a same color, and each of the sub-pixels includes a first electrode, the first electrodes of any two sub-pixels are separated from each other, where m is 3 or 4, and n is an integer no less than 3. The pixel circuits are arranged in a rectangular array, the pixel circuits are in one-to-one correspondence with the sub-pixels, and each of the pixel circuits is electrically connected to the corresponding first electrode via a connecting wire.
US10756145B2
An organic light-emitting display device includes a color filter disposed on a light-emitting structure. An over-coat layer may be disposed between the color filter and the light-emitting structure. Diffusion-beads are dispersed in the over-coat layer. Thus, in the organic light-emitting display device according to the aspect of the present disclosure, light efficiency may be increased without a process of forming micro-lens.
US10756144B2
The embodiments of the present disclosure disclose an electroluminescent device, a display device and a manufacturing method thereof. The electroluminescent device comprises: a substrate; a micro light emitting diode unit, configured to emit light of a first color in a first direction; and an organic light emitting diode unit, configured to emit light of a second color in the first direction, wherein the micro light emitting diode unit and the organic light emitting diode unit are disposed on the substrate in a stack, such that light of the first color and light of the second color are mixed to generate mixed light, and the first direction is a direction towards the substrate or a direction away from the substrate.
US10756128B2
An integrated circuit device includes a complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) image sensor. The complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) image sensor includes a P-N junction photodiode, a transistor gate, a polysilicon plug and a stacked metal layer. The P-N junction photodiode is disposed in a substrate. The transistor gate and the polysilicon plug are disposed on the substrate, wherein the polysilicon plug is directly connected to the P-N junction photodiode. The stacked metal layer connects the polysilicon plug to the transistor gate, wherein the stacked metal layer includes a lower metal layer and an upper metal layer, and the lower metal layer includes a first metal silicide part contacting to the polysilicon plug. The present invention also provides a method of fabricating said integrated circuit device.
US10756124B2
An array substrate, manufacturing method thereof, and display device are disclosed. The array substrate includes signal lines; IC connection lines; the IC connection lines include at least two IC connection line groups, the at least two IC connection line groups comprise a first IC connection line group and a second IC connection line group, the array substrate further includes a lead, an orthographic projection of the lead on a straight line in a second direction is overlapped or connected with an orthographic projection of a first IC connection line in the first IC connection line group which is closest to the second IC connection line group on the straight line in a second direction and an orthographic projection of the second IC connection line in the second IC connection line group which is closest to the first IC connection line group on the straight line in a second direction respectively.
US10756123B2
An electrostatic discharge circuit and a manufacturing method therefor, and a display apparatus. The electrostatic discharge circuit includes: a base substrate; at least one first signal line located on the base substrate, at least one second signal line and a first isolation layer, wherein the at least one first signal line and the at least one second signal line are insulated from each other by the first isolation layer; and a second isolation layer covering the at least one second signal line, wherein a via hole is provided on the at least one first signal line, the via hole penetrates through the first isolation layer and the second isolation layer so that the at least one first signal line is located at the bottom of the via hole, and a part of the via hole is enclosed by the at least one second signal line.
US10756110B1
Memory pillar structures extending through an alternating stack of insulating layers and word-line-level electrically conductive layers are formed over a substrate. Each of the memory pillar structures includes a vertical semiconductor channel and a memory film. Each of the memory pillar structures protrudes above an insulating cap layer located above the alternating stack to provide an inter-pillar gap region that laterally extends between laterally-neighboring pairs of the memory pillar structures. A metal-nucleating material having a physically exposed metal-nucleating surface is formed at a bottom of the inter-pillar gap region without covering upper portions of sidewalls of the memory pillar structures. A metal may be selectively grown upward from the physically exposed metal-nucleating surface while suppressing growth of the metal from physically exposed vertical surfaces around the memory pillar structures. A metal layer without a seam may be provided, which may be used for a drain-select-level electrically conductive layer.
US10756108B2
A vertical memory device includes a substrate including a first region including a cell array formed thereon and a second region surrounding the first region, the second region including a stair structure formed thereon, gate electrodes stacked on the substrate to be spaced apart from each other in a first direction vertical to an upper surface of the substrate, each of the gate electrodes extending in a second direction parallel to the upper surface of the substrate and including a pad at an end portion thereof in the second direction, a channel extending through the gate electrodes in the first direction on the first region of the substrate, and contact plugs formed on the second region, the contact plugs extending in the first direction to contact the pads of the gate electrodes respectively. A first pad of the pads, in a plan view, may have a convex edge portion that is convex in a direction away from the first region of the substrate, and a second pad disposed on the first pad, in a plan view, may have a concave edge portion that is concave in a direction toward the first region of the substrate.
US10756107B2
A semiconductor device includes a lower stack structure on a substrate, an upper stack structure on the lower stack structure, and a channel structure in a channel hole formed through the upper stack structure and the lower stack structure. The channel hole includes a lower channel hole in the lower stack structure, an upper channel hole in the upper stack structure, and a partial extension portion adjacent to an interface between the lower stack structure and the upper stack structure. The partial extension portion is in fluid communication with the lower channel hole and the upper channel hole. A lateral width of the partial extension portion may be greater than a lateral width of the upper channel hole adjacent to the partial extension portion and greater than a lateral width of the upper channel hole adjacent to the partial extension portion.
US10756101B2
A memory string is disclosed including a plurality of core cells serially connected between a source select gate and a drain select gate along a channel. Each core cell includes a wordline separated from the channel by a stack of layers including a charge trapping layer. At least one of the source and drain select gates is a stacked select gate with a plurality of components, including a first component adjacent to the plurality of core cells and a second component separated from the core cells by the first component. The first component includes a wordline separated from the channel by a stack of layers including a charge trapping layer, and a distance between the wordline of the first component and the wordline of a first core cell in the plurality of core cells is substantially the same as distances between each wordline in the plurality of word core cells.
US10756100B2
An electrically erasable programmable nonvolatile memory cell includes a semiconductor substrate having a first substrate region and a second substrate region apart from the first substrate region in a lateral direction, a channel region between the first substrate region and the second substrate region, an electrically conductive control gate insulated from and disposed over a first channel portion of the channel region, an electrically conductive floating gate insulated from and disposed over a second channel portion of the channel region, an electrically conductive source line electrically connected to the second substrate region, and an electrically conductive erase gate insulated from and disposed over a tip of the floating gate.
US10756092B2
A method of fabricating a semiconductor device includes providing a substrate including a pair of first regions and a second region therebetween, forming first patterns on the respective first regions to at least partially define a stepwise portion at the second region, and forming a dummy pattern that at least partially fills the stepwise portion. The dummy pattern may be an electrically floating structure. The dummy pattern may be formed as part of forming second patterns on the respective first regions, and the dummy pattern and the second patterns may include substantially common materials. Because the dummy pattern at least partially fills the stepwise portion at the second region, the material layer covering the second patterns and the dummy pattern may omit a corresponding stepwise portion.
US10756085B2
An integrated circuit may include a substrate, a first three-dimensional (3D) transistor formed on a first diffusion region of the substrate, and a second 3D transistor formed on a second diffusion region of the substrate. The first 3D transistor may include a gate that extends from between a source and a drain of the first 3D transistor, across an isolation region of the substrate, to and between a source and a drain of the second 3D transistor. The gate may include a gate metal that has an isolation portion extending over the isolation region of the substrate and a diffusion portion extending over the first and second diffusion regions of the substrate. The isolation portion of the gate metal has a thickness less than a maximum thickness of the diffusion portion of the gate metal.
US10756082B2
A method of making an electrostatic discharge (ESD) testing structure includes forming, in a first die, a first measurement device. The method further includes forming, in a second die, a fuse, a first trim pad, and a second trim pad. The method further includes forming, between the first die and the second die, a plurality of electrical bonds, wherein a first bond of the plurality of bonds is electrically connected to the first trim pad and a first side of the fuse, and a second bond of the plurality of bonds is electrically connected to the second trim pad and a second side of the fuse.
US10756077B2
A chip packaging method includes followings steps. A plurality of first chips are disposed on a carrier, wherein each of the first chips has a first active surface, and a plurality of first conductive pillars are disposed on the first active surface. A second active surface of a second chip is electrically connected to the first active surfaces of the first chips through a plurality of second conductive pillars. An encapsulated material is formed, wherein the encapsulated material covers the plurality of first chips, the plurality of first conductive pillars, the second chip and the plurality of second conductive pillars. The encapsulated material is partially removed to expose each of the plurality of first conductive pillars. A redistribution structure is formed on the encapsulated material, wherein the redistribution structure connects with the first conductive pillars.
US10756073B2
A micro-LED module is disclosed. The micro-LED module includes a flexible circuit board and a plurality of LED pixels mounted on the flexible circuit board. Each of the plurality of LED pixels includes a first micro-LED chip, a second micro-LED chip, and a third micro-LED chip. Each of the first micro-LED chip, the second micro-LED chip, and the third micro-LED chip has at least one side whose length is 100 μm or less. Each of the first micro-LED chip, the second micro-LED chip, and the third micro-LED chip includes one or more electrode pads having a width of 80 μm or less on the surface facing the flexible circuit board. The flexible circuit board includes a first flexible insulating film including electrode patterns formed on the upper surface thereof and connected to the electrode pads through solder bumps having a diameter of 80 μm or less and a second flexible insulating film connected to the bottom of the first flexible insulating film through a first conductive pattern. The first flexible insulating film includes a first via hole having the same cross-sectional shape and area from the upper to the lower end and a first via formed in the first via hole. The first via hole of the first flexible insulating film is connected to a portion of the first conductive pattern.
US10756071B2
Disclosed is a method for fabricating an LED module. The method includes: constructing a chip-on-carrier including a chip retainer having a horizontal bonding plane and a plurality of LED chips in which electrode pads are bonded to the bonding plane of the chip retainer; and transferring the plurality of LED chips in a predetermined arrangement from the chip retainer to a substrate by transfer printing. The transfer printing includes: primarily section-wise exposing a transfer tape to reduce the adhesive strength of the transfer tape such that bonding areas are formed at predetermined intervals on the transfer tape; and pressurizing the transfer tape against the LED chips on the chip retainer to attach the LED chips to the corresponding bonding areas of the transfer tape and detaching the electrode pads of the LED chips from the chip retainer to pick up the chips.
US10756070B2
Disclosed is a method for fabricating an LED module. The method includes: constructing a chip-on-carrier including a chip retainer having a horizontal bonding plane and a plurality of LED chips in which electrode pads are bonded to the bonding plane of the chip retainer; and transferring the plurality of LED chips in a predetermined arrangement from the chip retainer to a substrate by transfer printing. The transfer printing includes: primarily section-wise exposing a transfer tape to reduce the adhesive strength of the transfer tape such that bonding areas are formed at predetermined intervals on the transfer tape; and pressurizing the transfer tape against the LED chips on the chip retainer to attach the LED chips to the corresponding bonding areas of the transfer tape and detaching the electrode pads of the LED chips from the chip retainer to pick up the chips.
US10756053B1
A method of transferring micro devices includes: aligning a detachable transfer plate to a carrier substrate with micro devices thereon by an alignment assistive mechanism which is detachably assembled with the detachable transfer plate; contacting the detachable transfer plate to the micro devices on the carrier substrate by the alignment assistive mechanism; picking up the micro devices from the carrier substrate; detaching the detachable transfer plate with the micro devices thereon from the alignment assistive mechanism; moving the detachable transfer plate with the micro devices thereon to be assembled to another alignment assistive mechanism above a receiving substrate to form a device transfer assembly; aligning the micro devices on the detachable transfer plate with the receiving substrate; and transferring the micro devices to the receiving substrate by the another alignment assistive mechanism through the detachable transfer plate.
US10756033B2
Wireless modules having a semiconductor package attached to an antenna package and cap package are disclosed. The semiconductor package may have one or more electronic components disposed thereon. The antenna package may be communicatively coupled to the semiconductor package using by one or more coupling pads. The antenna package may further have one or more radiating elements for transmitting and or receiving wireless signals. The cap package may also be attached to the semiconductor package on a side opposing the side on which the antenna package is disposed. The cap package may provide routing and/or additional antenna elements. The cap package may also allow for thermal grease to be dispensed therethrough. The antenna package, the cap package, and the semiconductor package may have dissimilar number of interconnect layers and/or dissimilar materials of construct.
US10756029B2
There is provided a semiconductor device having a structure that can suppress occurrence of chipping in a device region and that can reduce manufacturing cost of the semiconductor device. A semiconductor device includes a substrate and a first amorphous insulating film. The substrate has a main surface and an end surface. The main surface includes a peripheral region and a device region. The first amorphous insulating film is disposed on the peripheral region, and is separated from the device region. The first amorphous insulating film extends along the end surface in the form of a stripe. The first amorphous insulating film is flush with the end surface.
US10756028B2
Provided is a radiation-tolerant unit MOSFET to block a leakage current path caused by a total ionizing dose effect and reduce influence of a current pulse generated due to a single event effect. The radiation-tolerant unit MOSFET includes a poly gate layer for designating a gate region and at least one dummy gate region, a source and a drain, and a P+ layer and a P-active layer for specifying a P+ region to the source and the drain, and a dummy drain allowing application of a voltage. An electronic part that may normally operate is provided even a radiation environment where particle radiation and electromagnetic radiation are present.
US10756027B1
A semiconductor structure is provided, the semiconductor structure includes a front oxide layer on a backside oxide layer, a front electronic component in the front oxide layer, a backside electronic component in the backside oxide layer, and a shield structure disposed between the front oxide layer and the backside oxide layer, the shield structure includes a patterned buried metal layer, two front contact structures disposed on a front surface of the patterned buried metal layer, and two back contact structures disposed on a backside of the patterned buried metal layer.
US10756023B2
A semiconductor package includes a connection member and a supporting member. The connection member has first and second surfaces opposing each other and a redistribution layer. The supporting member is disposed on the first surface of the connection member, has a first through-hole and a second through-hole spaced apart from each other, and has a blocking layer disposed on at least an inner surface of the second through-hole. A semiconductor chip is disposed in the first through-hole and has connection pads connected to the redistribution layer. At least one passive component is disposed in the second through-hole and has connection terminals connected to the redistribution layer. An encapsulant encapsulates the semiconductor chip and the at least one passive component in the first and second through-holes, respectively. An electromagnetic band-gap (EBG) structure is embedded in the supporting member.
US10756021B2
A semiconductor package includes: a connection member having first and second surfaces opposing each other and including a redistribution layer; a support member disposed on the first surface of the connection member, including a cavity, and having an inner sidewall surrounding the cavity of which an upper region is chamfered; a semiconductor chip disposed on the connection member in the cavity and having connection pads electrically connected to the redistribution layer; at least one electronic component disposed between the semiconductor chip and the inner sidewall and having connection terminals electrically connected to the redistribution layer; and an encapsulant encapsulating the semiconductor chip and the at least one electronic component disposed in the cavity.
US10756017B2
Contact structures and methods of forming contacts structures are contemplated by this disclosure. A structure includes a dielectric layer over a substrate, an adhesion layer, a silicide, a barrier layer, and a conductive material. The dielectric layer has an opening to a surface of the substrate. The adhesion layer is along sidewalls of the opening. The silicide is on the surface of the substrate. The barrier layer is on the adhesion layer and the silicide, and the barrier layer directly adjoins the silicide. The conductive material is on the barrier layer in the opening.
US10756016B2
A method includes receiving a substrate having a substrate feature; forming a first material layer over the substrate and in physical contact with the substrate feature; forming an etch mask over the first material layer; and applying a dynamic-angle (DA) plasma etching process to the first material layer through the etch mask to form a first material feature. Plasma flux of the DA plasma etching process has an angle of incidence with respect to a normal of the first material layer and the angle of incidence changes in a dynamic mode during the DA plasma etching process.
US10755997B2
A cooling device comprises a frame and a heat radiating portion. The frame is mounted on a substrate, and includes a convex portion for cooling the substrate. The heat radiating portion is mounted on the frame at a position associated with a heating component located on the substrate. The convex portion assists positioning where the heat radiating portion is mounted.
US10755991B2
A foldable display device is disclosed. The foldable display device includes a display panel including a folding area and a non-folding area, a back plate unit, and a plurality of adhesive layers disposed between the display panel and the back plate unit and between the back plate units. Some of the plurality of adhesive layers includes a first adhesive part and a second adhesive part having different adhesiveness. Therefore, an adhesiveness of the plurality of adhesive layers is controlled to reduce the stress generated at the time of folding the foldable display device.
US10755989B2
A semiconductor substrate manufacturing method according to an embodiment comprises the steps of: contaminating at least one of a surface layer of a doped semiconductor substrate having a specific resistance of less than 0.1 Ω·cm and a bulk layer below the surface layer with at least one metal of Fe, Cu, and Ni; performing dry oxidation at 950° C. for 30 minutes to forcibly form an oxide film on the surface of the semiconductor substrate; and assessing at least one of the presence and the degree of contamination of metal contained in at least one of the oxide film-formed surface layer and bulk layer by using a photoluminescence assessment method.
US10755987B2
A method for fabricating a radio-frequency device involves providing a substrate structure including a silicon handle wafer, an oxide layer formed on the silicon handle wafer, and an active silicon layer disposed on the oxide layer. The method further involves patterning and etching the active silicon layer and the oxide layer to form a frontside opening in the active silicon layer and the oxide layer exposing a top surface of the silicon handle wafer and converting the exposed top surface of the silicon handle wafer to porous silicon
US10755985B2
Gate metal patterning techniques enable the incorporation of different work function metals in CMOS devices such as nanosheet transistor devices, vertical FETs, and FinFETs. Such techniques facilitate removal of gate metal from one region of a device without damage from over-etching to an adjacent region. The fabrication of CMOS devices with adjoining nFET/pFET gate structures and having very tight gate pitch is also facilitated. The techniques further enable the fabrication of CMOS devices with adjoining gate structures that require relatively long etch times for removal of gate metal therefrom, such as nanosheet transistors. A nanosheet transistor device including dual metal gates as fabricated allows tight integration.
US10755983B2
A method of forming a fin field effect transistor (finFET) on a substrate includes forming a fin structure on the substrate and forming a shallow trench isolation (STI) region on the substrate. First and second fin portions of the fin structure extend above a top surface of the STI region. The method further includes oxidizing the first fin portion to convert a first material of the first fin portion to a second material. The second material is different from the first material of the first fin portion and a material of the second fin portion. The method further includes forming an oxide layer on the oxidized first fin portion and the second fin portion and forming first and second polysilicon structures on the oxide layer.
US10755980B2
Laser light is converged at an object including a semiconductor substrate formed with a plurality of functional devices on a front surface, from a back surface of the semiconductor substrate, and while a distance between the front surface and a first converging point of the laser light is maintained at a first distance, whereby a first modified region is formed along the line. The laser light is converged at the object from the back surface, and while a distance between the front surface and a second converging point is maintained at a second distance, and while the second converging point is offset with respect to a position at which the first converging point is converged, whereby a second modified region is formed along the line. A predetermined portion including the back surface and at least the second modified region is removed.
US10755972B2
A semiconductor device and method of manufacture comprise placing an etch stop layer of a material such as aluminum oxide over a conductive element, placing a dielectric layer over the etch stop layer, and placing a hardmask of a material such as titanium nitride over the dielectric layer. Openings are formed to the etch stop layer, the hardmask material is selectively removed, and the openings are then the material of the etch stop layer is then selectively removed to extend the openings through the etch stop layer.
US10755967B2
A method is provided, including successive steps of a) providing a donor substrate covered with a layer of oxide; b) implanting gaseous species in the donor substrate, through the layer to form an embrittlement zone, and at the end of step b), the layer has an absorbance peak with a maximum at a first wavenumber, and with a full width at half maximum; c) applying ultraviolet radiation to the free surface of the layer under an ozone atmosphere and according to a thermal budget for: shifting the maximum by at least 3 cm−1 towards increasing wavenumbers, reducing the full width at half maximum by at least 3 cm−1, and allowing direct adhesion with the free surface; d) assembling the donor substrate on the supporting substrate by direct adhesion with the free surface; and e) splitting the donor substrate along the embrittlement zone to expose a useful layer.
US10755961B2
A method includes loading a wafer onto a robot arm, wherein a shield is disposed over the wafer, moving the wafer from a first location to a second location, and unloading the wafer from the robot arm.
US10755955B2
A substrate processing system is disclosed which includes a substrate input/output chamber coupled to a transfer chamber, and one or more processing chambers coupled to the transfer chamber, wherein the substrate input/output chamber includes a plurality of stacked carrier holders, and a platen, wherein the platen includes a plurality of alignment pads and a plurality of openings formed in a recessed flange along a peripheral edge of the platen.
US10755947B2
Processing methods comprising etching a metal nitride layer with an etchant. The etchant can be, for example, WCl5, WOCl4 or TaCl5. Methods of improving the selectivity of etch processes are also disclosed.
US10755946B2
A method for producing a wafer from a hexagonal single crystal ingot includes: planarizing an upper surface of the hexagonal single crystal ingot; applying a laser beam of such a wavelength as to be transmitted through the ingot, with a focal point positioned in an inside of a region not to be formed with devices of a wafer to be produced from the upper surface of the ingot which has been planarized, to form a production history; and applying a laser beam of such a wavelength as to be transmitted through the hexagonal single crystal ingot with a focal point of the laser beam positioned at a depth corresponding to a thickness of the wafer to be produced from the upper surface of the hexagonal single crystal ingot which has been planarized, to form an exfoliation layer.
US10755940B2
A system, method, and silicon chip package for providing connections between a die of a silicon chip package and external leads of the silicon chip package is disclosed. The connections are formed using a pre-mold etched with a trace pattern. The trace pattern provides rigid traces that connect the die with the external leads.
US10755935B2
A semiconductor device and fabrication method are provided. The method includes providing a first dielectric layer with a first groove on a base substrate. A first gate electrode is formed in the first groove, with a top surface lower than the first dielectric layer. A first protective layer is formed on a portion of the top surface of the first gate electrode, with a first oxygen ionic concentration. A compensating protective layer is formed on a remaining portion of the top surface of the first gate electrode exposed by the first protective layer, with a second oxygen ionic concentration. A second dielectric layer is formed on the first protective layer, on the compensating protective layer, and on the first dielectric layer, with a third oxygen ionic concentration. The first oxygen ionic concentration and second oxygen ionic concentration are smaller than the third oxygen ionic concentration.
US10755932B2
To manufacture an integrated circuit device, a diffusion buffer layer and a carbon-containing layer are sequentially formed on a plurality of fin-type active regions formed in a substrate. A carbon-containing mask pattern is formed to have an opening exposing a portion of the diffusion buffer layer by etching the carbon-containing layer using an etching gas including an oxygen atom while the diffusion buffer layer is blocking oxygen from diffusing into the fin-type active regions. Impurity ions are implanted into some fin-type active regions through the opening and the diffusion buffer layer using the carbon-containing mask pattern as an ion-implantation mask, the some fin-type active regions being selected from among the plurality of fin-type active regions.
US10755927B2
In accordance with an embodiment a bottom anti-reflective layer comprises a surface energy modification group which modifies the surface energy of the polymer resin to more closely match a surface energy of an underlying material in order to help fill gaps between structures. The surface energy of the polymer resin may be modified by either using a surface energy modifying group or else by using an inorganic structure.
US10755925B2
A method for reducing crystalline defects in a semiconductor structure is presented. The method includes epitaxially growing a first crystalline material over a crystalline substrate, epitaxially growing a second crystalline material over the first crystalline material, and patterning and removing portions of the second crystalline material to form openings. The method further includes converting the first crystalline material into a non-crystalline material, depositing a thermally stable material in the openings, depositing a capping layer over the second crystalline material and the thermally stable material to form a substantially enclosed semiconductor structure, and annealing the substantially enclosed semiconductor structure.
US10755913B2
A package-level, integrated high-vacuum ion-chip enclosure having improved thermal characteristics is disclosed. Enclosures in accordance with the present invention include first and second chambers that are located on opposite sides of a chip carrier, where the chambers are fluidically coupled via a conduit through the chip carrier. The ion trap is located in the first chamber and disposed on the chip carrier. A source for generating an atomic flux is located in the second chamber. The separation of the source and ion trap in different chambers affords thermal isolation between them, while the conduit between the chambers enables the ion trap to receive the atomic flux.
US10755909B2
Methods and systems for chemical analysis. For instance, a device for chemical analysis of a sample includes a housing, an inlet, a pump, multiple membranes and at least one detector. The housing contains an interior chamber of the device. The inlet on the housing introduces the sample into the interior chamber. The pump is connected to the housing to form a partial vacuum in the interior chamber. The multiple membranes have different response times to different constituents of the sample. The multiple membranes include at least a first membrane and a second membrane. At least one of the first membrane and the second membrane comprises a tubular portion. The multiple membranes have different response times to different constituents of the sample. The detector is for detecting the different constituents of the sample after interaction with the multiple membranes. In addition, a method for chemical analysis of a sample. A first step includes introducing a sample to multiple membranes having different response times to different constituents of the sample. A second step includes separating the different constituents of the sample due to the different response times of the multiple membranes. A third step includes detecting the different constituents of the gas after separating with the multiple membranes.
US10755905B2
A method for analyzing data from a mass spectrometer comprising acquiring raw profile mode data containing one or more ions and their isotopes in a mass spectral range; calculating theoretical isotope distributions for all ions of interest including native or labeled ions based on their molecular composition; convoluting the theoretical isotope distributions with target peak shape function specified during instrument calibration, actual peak shape functions, or approximated peak shape functions, to obtain theoretical isotope profiles for all ions; constructing a peak component matrix of relevant theoretical isotope profiles included as peak components; performing a weighted multiple linear regression between the profile mode data and the peak component matrix; and reporting regression coefficients as relative concentrations for each of the ions, or ranking these ions based on fitting statistics as search results. A mass spectrometer system (FIG. 1) operating in accordance with the method. Medium having computer code for operating the spectrometer.
US10755895B2
A method for slope control of ion energy is described. The method includes receiving a setting indicating that an etch operation is to be performed using a radio frequency (RF) pulse signal. The RF pulse signal includes a first state and a second state. The first state has a higher power level than the second state. The method further includes receiving a pulse slope associated with the RF pulse signal. The pulse slope provides a transition between the first state and the second state. Also, the pulse slope is other than substantially infinite for reducing an amount of ion energy during the etch operation. The method includes determining power levels and timings for achieving the pulse slope and sending the power levels and the timings to an RF generator to generate the RF pulse signal.
US10755890B2
An object of the invention is to provide a charged particle beam apparatus capable of achieving both acquisition of an image having high resolution of an inspection target pattern and suppression of a beam irradiation amount when a specific pattern is an inspection target from a highly integrated pattern group. In order to achieve the object, a charged particle beam apparatus is proposed in which at least one of a stage and a deflector is controlled so as to move a field of view from a reference position to an inspection or measurement target pattern, the number of objects included in a first image obtained by scanning a position of the field of view in a moving process of the field of view with a charged particle beam of a first irradiation condition is counted, and in a case where the number of the objects satisfies a predetermined condition, a second image is generated based on scanning with a charged particle beam of a second irradiation condition of a higher dose than that of the first irradiation condition.
US10755889B2
A beam deflector includes a magnetic-flux-guiding structure which has an opening through which a beam axis extends, and at least two coils arranged at the magnetic-flux-guiding structure so that they produce a magnetic field B1 having lines passing through the two coils in succession, leave the magnetic-flux-guiding structure at a first location on a first side in relation to the beam axis, cross the beam axis at a second location which is arranged at a distance along the beam axis from the magnetic-flux-guiding structure, re-enter into the magnetic flux-guiding structure at a third location on a second side lying opposite the first side, and extend around the opening from the third location to the first location within the magnetic-flux-guiding structure.
US10755888B2
An aberration corrector includes: a first multipole, a second multipole, a third multipole, and a fourth multipole arranged along an optical axis A; a first transfer lens system arranged between the first multipole and the second multipole; a second transfer lens system arranged between the second multipole and the third multipole; and a third transfer lens system arranged between the third multipole and the fourth multipole, wherein each of the first multipole, the second multipole, the third multipole, and the fourth multipole generates a three-fold symmetric field.
US10755876B2
A push switch having the contact piece including a support part supported on a base member, a movable contact part, and an interconnection part interconnecting the support part and the movable contact part. The movable contact part is movable between a position contacting a first fixed contact part and a position separate from the first fixed contact part. The contact piece is configured so that, when a pressure reception member is pushed to be moved closer to a specific surface of the base member to cause change in shape of the movable member, the interconnection part is pushed by the movable member and the movable contact part is moved along operation directions. The movable contact part located at a position facing a through hole in the operation directions. The movable contact part has a size and shape to be allowed to pass through the through hole in the operation directions.
US10755872B2
A generator switch including an encapsulation lying at ground potential and an electrical conductor arranged in an insulated fashion inside the encapsulation and at high-voltage potential, as well as a gravity-driven cooling device having an evaporator and a condenser arranged above the evaporator and a coolant. The cooling device is formed as a closed loop-type coolant circuit. During operation of the generator switch, a level of the liquid coolant in the line system in a static cooling device is at least as high as the upper end of the insulating section in the insulator.
US10755866B2
Graphene photodetectors capable of operating in the sub-bandgap region relative to the bandgap of semiconductor nanoparticles, as well as methods of manufacturing the same, are provided. A photodetector can include a layer of graphene, a layer of semiconductor nanoparticles, a dielectric layer, a supporting medium, and a packaging layer. The semiconductor nanoparticles can be semiconductors with bandgaps larger than the energy of photons meant to be detected.
US10755862B2
The present invention provides a device for manufacturing a multi-layer stacked structure and a method for manufacturing a thin film capacitor. The method includes providing a carrier substrate, forming a plurality of first material layers and a plurality of second layers that are alternately stacked on top of one another to form a multi-layer stacked structure, and then forming two terminal electrode structures for respectively enclosing two opposite side portions of the multi-layer stacked structure. One of the first material layer and the second material layer has a plurality of conductive particles randomly distributed therein. The conductive particles are heated to form a spherical structure or a sphere-like structure with low melting point and high surface energy at a temperature that is smaller than the degradation temperature of polymers. Therefore, the dielectric constant of the multi-layer stacked structure and the thin film capacitor can be increased.
US10755856B2
A multilayer ceramic electronic component includes: a ceramic body including a dielectric layer and first and second internal electrodes 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 so as to be connected to the first and second internal electrodes, respectively. The ceramic body further includes a protective layer including a protective layer dummy electrode disposed on at least one of upper and lower portions of the first and second internal electrodes, and the protective layer dummy electrode has a thickness ranging from greater than to 1.2 times or less a thickness of each of the first and second internal electrodes.
US10755854B2
Provided is a thin film capacitor that includes: a first electrode layer having a principal surface in which a plurality of recesses are provided; a dielectric layer laminated on the principal surface of the first electrode layer; and a second electrode layer laminated on the dielectric layer. When a depth of the recess is defined as FL and a thickness of the dielectric layer is defined as T, H/T is 0.05 or more and 0.5 or less.
US10755853B2
A winding apparatus includes a wire position support including a first feeder including a first wire route hole in which a first wire is inserted and a second feeder including a second wire route hole in which a second wire is inserted, and a winding driver that orbitally revolves the wire position support around a core. The wire position support includes a regulator that regulates movement of the first wire and the second wire such that, when the wire position support revolves orbitally around the core, such that the first wire passes on an opening end surface from which the second wire is fed in the second wire route hole while the second wire passes on an opening end surface from which the first wire is fed in the first wire route hole. Accordingly, the wires are prevented from being entangled in the wire position support.
US10755851B2
A dry type cast-coil transformer having a voltage rating of 1 Kv and above, including: at least one coil with a plurality of conductor turns; a cast comprising a polymeric resin, encompassing the coil and having a cast surface; a ferromagnetic core on which the coil with the encompassing cast is mounted; an insulated cable termination connected to the coil, wherein the connection point between the insulated cable termination and the coil is within the cast, and wherein a flexible portion of the insulated cable termination further extends from the cast surface outwards and comprises a plurality of metal wires.
US10755845B2
A top head housing for a current transformer, mounted on top of an insulating column of the current transformer, and forming a chamber for windings of the current transformer, the top head housing being made of two parts fixed one to the other, and including two openings through each of which a conductor penetrates the chamber, the openings being symmetrically opposed with reference to a main vertical axis of the top head housing, wherein the two parts of the top head housing consist of two half shells including identical bodies.
US10755837B1
A cable is provided for detecting tampering thereof. The cable has at least one copper signal cable, a binder, an inner jacket, an armor, and at least one optical fiber sensor element, disposed within the cable. The at least one optical fiber sensor element is configured attenuate under stress to the cable, sufficient to detect a breach or tapping of the copper signal cable therein.
US10755830B1
A Thorium molten salt energy system is disclosed that includes a proton beam source for producing a proton beam, that can vary between a first energy level and a second energy level of, where the generated proton bean can be directed into a main assembly containing both Thorium-containing molten salt and Thorium fuel rods, each containing an inner Beryllium element and an outer solid Thorium element. The generated proton beam can be shaped and directed to impinge upon Lithium within the molten salt to promote the generation of thermal neutrons and the fission of Uranium within the molten salt. The generated proton beam can also be shaped and directed to impinge upon the Beryllium within the Thorium fuel rods to promote the generation of high energy neutrons.
US10755819B2
Systems and methods are provided for collaborative decision-making in medicine. The systems can employ a distributed record-keeping and verification system to solicit suggested modifications to an initial healthcare regime from interested healthcare workers. The systems can aggregate the suggested modifications and use a consensus algorithm to determine the most appropriate modification.
US10755811B2
A medical scan comparison system is operable to receive a medical scan via a network and to generate similar scan data. The similar scan data includes a subset of medical scans from a medical scan database and is generated by performing an abnormality similarity function to determine that a set of abnormalities included in the subset of medical scans compare favorably to an abnormality identified in the medical scan. At least one cross-sectional image is selected from each medical scan of the subset of medical scans for display on a display device associated with a user of the medical scan comparison system in conjunction with the medical scan.
US10755805B1
Presenting ancestral origin information, comprising: receiving a request to display ancestry data of an individual; obtaining ancestry composition information of the individual, the ancestry composition information including information pertaining to a proportion of the individual's genotype data that is deemed to correspond to a specific ancestry; and presenting the ancestry composition information to be displayed.
US10755802B1
A method for using a health information exchange system which stores patient record data regarding a multiplicity of patients, to serve a first plurality of EMRs each interacting with an EMR community including a set of at least one EMR, the method comprising: for each individual EMR within the first plurality of EMRs, performing a computerized context interception process using a processor to intercept context from the individual EMR and to identify there within an event whereby a health provider using the individual EMR calls up an individual patient's record from said individual EMR; and responsive to identification of the event, using a computerized output device for providing patient record data, pertaining to the individual patient, to the health provider.
US10755795B2
A storage device includes a controller and a nonvolatile memory device having memory cells and reference memory cells. The controller accesses first memory cells of the memory cells, reads first reference memory cells, which are associated with the first memory cells, from among the reference memory cells when the access to the first memory cells fails, determines a bad area depending on a read result of the first reference memory cells, and identifies second memory cells, which belong to the bad area, from among the memory cells to bad memory cells.
US10755793B2
NAND memory devices are described that utilize higher read-margin cell types to provide a more granular read disturb indicator without utilizing dummy cells. For example, a NAND architecture may have some cells that are configured as SLC or MLC cells. SLC or MLC cells have more read disturb margin—that is these cells can withstand more read disturb current leakage into the cell before a bit error occurs than TLC or QLC cells. These higher margin cells may serve as the read disturb indicator for a group of cells that have a comparatively lower read disturb margin. Since there are more pages of these higher margin cells than there are pages of dummy cells, these indicators may serve a smaller group of pages than the dummy pages. This reduces the time needed to complete a read disturb scan as fewer pages need to be scanned.
US10755791B2
According to an embodiment, a semiconductor storage device includes a first memory cell and a control circuit. The first memory cell is configured to store first data. The control circuit is configured to apply a first voltage to a source of the first memory cell in a read operation of the first data in the first memory cell, and to apply a second voltage to the source of the first memory cell in a verify operation of the first data in the first memory cell. The second voltage is lower than the first voltage.
US10755784B2
The memory device includes: an independent circuit configured to output an independent signal; a memory cell array formed on a top of the independent circuit, the memory cell array including a plurality of memory cells in which data is stored; a revision circuit formed on a top of the memory cell array, the revision circuit storing modified ROM data different from the independent signal, the revision circuit outputting a ROM control signal and the modified ROM data in response to a select signal when an error occurs in the independent signal in a test operation of the independent circuit formed under the memory cell array; and a selection circuit configured to output the independent signal or the modified ROM data in response to the ROM control signal.
US10755783B2
Numerous embodiments are disclosed for providing temperature compensation and leakage compensation for an analog neuromorphic memory system used in a deep learning neural network. The embodiments for providing temperature compensation implement discreet or continuous adaptive slope compensation and renormalization for devices, reference memory cells, or selected memory cells in the memory system. The embodiments for providing leakage compensation within a memory cell in the memory system implement adaptive erase gate coupling or the application of a negative bias on a control gate terminal, a negative bias on a word line terminal, or a bias on a source line terminal.
US10755781B2
Techniques are provided for programming a multi-level self-selecting memory cell that includes a chalcogenide material. To program one or more intermediate memory states to the self-selecting memory cell, a programming pulse sequence that includes two pulses may be used. A first pulse of the programming pulse sequence may have a first polarity and a first magnitude and the second pulse of the programming pulse sequence may have a second polarity different than the first polarity and a second magnitude different than the first magnitude. After applying both pulses in the programming pulse sequence, the self-selecting memory cell may store an intermediate state that represents two bits of data (e.g., a logic ‘01’ or a logic ‘10’).
US10755772B1
Aspect for storage device with fault tolerance capability for neural networks are described herein. The aspects may include a first storage unit of a storage device. The first storage unit is configured to store one or more first bits of data and the data includes floating point type data and fixed point type data. The first bits include one or more sign bits of the floating point type data and the fixed point type data. The aspect may further include a second storage unit of the storage device. The second storage unit may be configured to store one or more second bits of the data. In some examples, the first storage unit may include an ECC memory and the second storage unit may include a non-ECC memory. The ECC memory may include an ECC check Dynamic Random Access Memory and an ECC check Static Random Access Memory.
US10755769B2
A carbon nanotube ternary SRAM cell with an improved stability and low standby power comprises a write bit line, a read bit line, a column select bit line, an inverted column select bit line, a write word line, an inverted write word line, a read word line, an inverted read word line, a first P-type CNFET, a second P-type CNFET, a third P-type CNFET, a fourth P-type CNFET, a fifth P-type CNFET, a sixth P-type CNFET, a seventh P-type CNFET, an eighth P-type CNFET, a ninth P-type CNFET, a first N-type CNFET, a second N-type CNFET, a third N-type CNFET, a fourth N-type CNFET, a fifth N-type CNFET, a sixth N-type CNFET, a seventh CNFET, an eighth N-type CNFET and a ninth N-type CNFET. The carbon nanotube ternary SRAM cell has the advantages of being lower in power consumption, capable of solving the half-select problem and the read-disturb problem and high in static noise margin.
US10755761B2
A semiconductor device may include a first buffer, a second buffer, a divider circuit and an internal signal generation circuit. The first buffer may buffer a first input signal and a second input signal to generate a first data strobe buffering signal and a first data strobe bar buffering signal. The second buffer may generate a second data strobe buffering signal based on the first input signal and a reference xvoltage. The divider circuit may divide the second data strobe buffering signal to generate a divided signal and a divided bar signal. The internal signal generation circuit may be configured to generate a first to fourth data latch timing signals having different phases based on the first data strobe buffering signal, the first data strobe bar buffering signal, the divided signal and the divided buffering signal.
US10755744B2
A computer-implemented method performed in connection with a video comprising a plurality of video frames, the computer-implemented method being performed in a computerized system comprising a processing unit and a memory, the computer-implemented method involving: using the processing unit to detect a plurality of content components within at least one of the plurality of video frames; based on a video modification instruction received from a user, modifying at least one of the plurality of the detected content components; storing an information on the modified at least one of the plurality of the detected content components in the memory; using the central processing unit to overlay the modified at least one of the plurality of the detected content components over the video; and causing the video with the overlaid modified content component to be displayed to the user.
US10755738B2
The present invention provides: an aluminum alloy substrate for magnetic discs with excellent plating surface smoothness; a manufacturing method therefor; and a magnetic disc using said aluminum alloy substrate for magnetic discs. The present invention is an aluminum alloy substrate for magnetic discs, a manufacturing method therefor, and a magnetic disc using said aluminum alloy substrate for magnetic discs, the aluminum alloy substrate being characterized in being obtained from an aluminum alloy containing Mg: 2.0-8.0 mass % (“%” below), Be: 0.00001-0.00200%, Cu: 0.003-0.150%, Zn: 0.05-0.60%, Cr: 0.010-0.300%, Si: 0.060% or less, Fe: 0.060% or less, the balance being obtained from Al and unavoidable impurities.
US10755735B2
A magnetic tape apparatus, in which a tilt cos θ of the hexagonal ferrite powder with respect to a surface of the magnetic layer acquired by cross section observation by STEM is 0.85 to 1.00, a reading element unit includes a plurality of reading elements each of which reads data by a linear scanning method from a specific track region including a reading target track in a track region included in the magnetic tape, an extraction unit performs a waveform equalization process according to a deviation amount between positions of the magnetic tape and the reading element unit, with respect to each reading result for each reading element, to extract data derived from the reading target track from the reading result, and the deviation amount is determined in accordance with a result obtained by reading of the servo pattern included in the magnetic layer by a servo element.
US10755728B1
A system configured to improve noise cancellation by using portions of multiple reference signals instead of using a complete reference signal. The system divides a frequency spectrum into frequency bands and selects a single reference signal from a group of potential reference signals for every frequency band. For example, a first reference signal is selected for a first frequency band while a second reference signal is selected for a second frequency band. The system may generate a combined reference signal using portions of each of the selected reference signals, such as a portion of the first reference signal corresponding to the first frequency band and a portion of the second reference signal corresponding to the second frequency band. Additionally or alternatively, the system may perform noise cancellation using each of the selected reference signals and filter the outputs based on the corresponding frequency band to generate combined audio output data.
US10755718B2
A method for classifying speakers includes: receiving, by a speaker recognition system including a processor and memory, input audio including speech from a speaker; extracting, by the speaker recognition system, a plurality of speech frames containing voiced speech from the input audio; computing, by the speaker recognition system, a plurality of features for each of the speech frames of the input audio; computing, by the speaker recognition system, a plurality of recognition scores for the plurality of features; computing, by the speaker recognition system, a speaker classification result in accordance with the recognition scores; and outputting, by the speaker recognition system, the speaker classification result.
US10755692B2
A digital microbeamformer apparatus for an ultrasound system includes a plurality of interconnected nodes, with one or more nodes corresponding to at least one channel of the ultrasound system. One or more nodes is configured to communicate data with one or more other nodes via a corresponding beamforming data path, and one or more nodes is coupled to a data output bus shared by one or more other nodes.
US10755683B1
Methods and systems to transform human-perceptible acoustic vibrations (e.g., music) to human perceptible electromagnetic radiation (i.e., human perceptible colors and/or cymatic images), and/or to human perceptible tactile vibrations, based on pitch classes of tones contained within the acoustic vibrations.
US10755672B2
A playback device is configured to be connected to a display device. The playback device includes a communication component and a controller. The communication component communicates with the display device. The controller acquires setting information indicating a current setting of a brightness range in the display device from the display device via the communication component. While a specific brightness range has not been set in the display device, the controller transmits information related to a setting change to the specific brightness range via the communication component to the display device based on correspondence information indicating a correspondence relationship between the display device and the brightness range that is settable in the display device.
US10755669B2
Display device comprising a first radio interface which is connected to a processing stage of the display device for communication with a base station according to a first communication protocol for the purpose of controlling states of the processing stage and an additional interface which is connected to the processing stage for contactless communication according to a second communication protocol with a communication device which is different from the base station for the purpose of controlling states of the display device.
US10755667B2
A novel human interface excellent in operability is provided. Furthermore, a novel data processor excellent in operability is provided. Furthermore, a novel data processor, a novel display device, or the like is provided. An input/output device that receives image data and supplies positional data, and an arithmetic device that supplies the image data and receives the positional data are included. The input/output device includes a first region, a second region, and a bend portion between the first region and the second region. Each of the first region and the second region includes a display portion and a positional data input portion that overlaps the display portion. The arithmetic device includes an arithmetic unit and a storage unit that stores a program to be executed by the arithmetic unit.
US10755665B2
A pixel circuit, an array substrate, a display panel and an electronic apparatus are provided. The pixel circuit includes: a data writing sub-circuit, a first data storage sub-circuit, a second data storage sub-circuit and a light-emitting control sub-circuit. The data writing sub-circuit writes, under the control of a signal input from a first control signal input end, to the first data storage sub-circuit a data signal input from a data signal input end, and writes, under the control of a signal input from a second control signal input end, to the second data storage sub-circuit the data signal input from the data signal input end. The light-emitting control sub-circuit controls on/off states of corresponding thin film transistors in accordance with data signals output from the first data storage sub-circuit and the second data storage sub-circuit, so that different gray-scales may be rendered.
US10755653B2
Provided is a vertical alignment liquid crystal display, comprising a plurality of data lines, a plurality of scan lines and a plurality of common electrode lines; the scan lines intersect the data lines and the common electrode lines to form a plurality of pixel regions arranged in an array; the sub pixel region comprises a first thin film transistor, a second thin film transistor and a sub pixel, and gates of the first thin film transistor and second thin film transistor are coupled to a same scan line, and drains of the first thin film transistor and second thin film transistor are respectively coupled to a data line and a common electrode line which are adjacent, and sources of the first thin film transistor and second thin film transistor are coupled to the sub pixel; the main pixel region comprises a third thin film transistor and a sub pixel.
US10755648B2
A display device includes a display panel including data lines, a data driver outputting a data voltage to be supplied to the data lines to a source line, and a multiplexer distributing the data voltage received from the source line to the data lines in response to an enable signal received through an enable signal line. The multiplexer includes a plurality of switching elements each including a drain electrode connected to the source line, a source electrode connected to the data line, and a gate electrode supplied with the enable signal. The enable signal is transferred from the enable signal line to the gate electrode via an enable signal pattern. The enable signal pattern is disposed on a metal layer different from the switching elements with an insulating layer interposed between them in a formation area of the switching elements.
US10755639B2
A pixel unit of a display device including: an OLED; a first transistor including a first electrode connected to a first node, a second electrode connected to a second node, and a third electrode connected to a third node; a capacitor including a first electrode receiving a power voltage and a second electrode connected to the first node; a second transistor including a first electrode receiving a scan signal, a second electrode receiving a data voltage and a third electrode connected to the second node; a third transistor including a first electrode receiving the scan signal, a second electrode connected to the first node and a third electrode connected to the third node, wherein at least one of the first and third transistors includes a fourth electrode, the fourth electrode receives a compensation voltage when an operation temperature is above a preset temperature and is floated when the operation temperature is equal to or more than the preset temperature.
US10755636B2
The present disclosure discloses a pixel circuit and a driving method thereof, a display substrate and a display device, the pixel circuit includes: an initialization sub-circuit, a writing compensation sub-circuit, a light-emitting enabling sub-circuit, a light-emitting device, and a driving sub-circuit, the light-emitting enabling sub-circuit is configured to couple the driving sub-circuit to the light-emitting device under control of an enabling signal terminal. The initialization sub-circuit is configured to input a voltage of an initial voltage terminal to a gate of a driving transistor in the driving sub-circuit under control of a reset signal terminal to initialize the driving sub-circuit. The writing compensation sub-circuit is configured to input, under control of a scanning signal terminal, a data voltage output from a data signal terminal to the driving sub-circuit to perform data compensation on the driving sub-circuit.
US10755634B2
A display driving circuit applied to a display includes a detection unit, a counting unit and an adjusting unit. The detection unit is configured to detect N pulses of an emission control signal of the display in a frame and define a frame porch interval increasing unit accordingly. The frame porch interval increasing unit equals to 1/N frame. N is a positive integer. The counting unit is coupled to the detection unit and configured to count frames according to a first refresh rate. The adjusting unit is coupled to the detection unit and the counting unit and configured to insert M frame porch interval increasing units every time when the counting unit counts L frames to adjust the first refresh rate to a second refresh rate, wherein the second refresh rate is lower than the first refresh rate. L and M are positive integers and L≥M.
US10755633B2
A compensation method of a display panel, a compensation device, a display method, a display apparatus and a storage medium. The compensation method of a display panel includes: obtaining an initial compensation parameter of each pixel of the display panel and an initial conversion range for performing a data conversion on the initial compensation parameter; optimizing the initial conversion range based on a compensation effect of a compensation parameter to obtain an optimized conversion range, where the compensation effect of the compensation parameter is obtained based on the initial conversion range; and obtaining an optimized compensation parameter of each pixel of the display panel based on the optimized conversion range.
US10755632B2
An eye tracking-based display control system includes a main body accommodating a mirror; a first image capture device disposed on the main body and facing a first direction to capture a first image; a controller receiving and processing the first image; and a transparency controllable film disposed on an opposite side of the mirror against the main body. In response to a determination that a light source on the first image has brightness higher than a predetermined threshold, and a determination that a shift distance of eyes between an eye position and an initial position of a driver is not zero, the controller calibrates an original position of the light source according to the shift distance of the eyes and an initial coordinate system, thereby obtaining a calibrated position, according to which transparency of a local region of the transparency controllable film corresponding to the light source is changed.
US10755627B2
A method and system of compensating for localized phenomena in a display is disclosed. The display array includes a plurality of normal pixels, a plurality of reference pixels distributed across the display array, and a controller for adjusting content data signals for the plurality of normal pixels to compensate for aging of the pixels in the array. The controller determines the effect of a localized phenomena on each of the normal pixels based on a difference between a parameter of the effected normal pixels and the parameter of the effected reference pixel in proximity thereto. An adjusted aging compensation value based on a function of the difference in the parameters associated with the localized phenomena is calculated by the controller. The adjusted aging compensation values are applied to data content signals of the effected normal pixels, and the original aging compensation values are applied to the normal pixels not effected by the localized phenomena.
US10755624B2
A display device includes a display region including a first region and a second region adjacent to the first region; a plurality of display elements arrayed in a first direction and a second direction crossing the first direction in the display region; and transistors electrically connected with the plurality of display elements. The first region is a curved region extending in the second direction, and the transistors are located outer to the first region.
US10755623B2
An LED display device includes a front box body and a rear box body connected to each other; a display module, disposed on the front box body; and a first connecting structure, disposed between the front box body and the rear box body. The first connecting structure includes a rotating member, rotatably disposed on the front box body, the rotating member including a connecting column extending toward the rear box body; a positioning sleeve, detachably disposed on the connecting column, a position adjusting mechanism being disposed between the positioning sleeve and the connecting column; and a receiving recess and a locking member, the receiving recess being disposed on the rear box body, the positioning sleeve being disposed in the receiving recess, and the locking member being disposed on the rear box body and located between the receiving recess and the positioning sleeve.
US10755620B2
The driver calculates a white gamma curve based on a deviation of a tone (including a maximum tone) of white displayed on a liquid crystal display panel (LCD panel) with respect to a target tone value and on a measured gamma value at arbitrary tones excluding a maximum tone in a white gamma characteristic of the LCD panel. The driver calculates three primary gamma curves by applying, to the white gamma curve, a relation obtained by comparing a gamma curve of white of a reference display panel with gamma curves of respective red, green, and blue. The driver corrects a white balance of display data based on the three primary gamma curves and expected output values of respective three primary colors calculated based on highest tone values of three primary colors of the reference display panel and of white of the LCD panel.
US10755613B2
A hyper relevant digital surface (HDS) may be designed, fitted, formed and attached to conform closely to a target vehicle's body surfaces. Certain embodiments may use Thin Film Transistor (TFT) flexible (or rigid) display products to enhance or disguise their presence by displaying imagery to visually or aesthetically replicate in real-time the original vehicle's surface or to alter or morph any vehicle body surfaces (shape, color, lighting, reflections, details, features or components, etc.) underneath. Embodiments designed to utilize license plate recess for integration, mechanical and electrical connection, temperature control, and display of license plate information are disclosed.
US10755609B1
Individual address numbers are provided which can be illuminated using solar energy to completely power the illumination at night would result in great savings in electricity to residential consumers and commercial establishments. The foregoing features are provided by equipping individual address numbers with the necessary elements and circuitry to gather and store solar energy for use in the evening to power light emitting diodes to illuminate each respective individual number. Additionally, wireless capability may be provided which allows the illumination of the individual address numbers to be turned on and off in the event illumination is needed prior to darkness.
US10755602B2
A simulated tissue structure for surgical training is provided. The simulated tissue structure includes a first layer made of silicone and a second layer made of silicone interconnected by a third layer made of polyester fiber that is embedded in part in the first layer and in part in the second layer to create a mechanical linkage between the first layer and the second layer. Part of the third layer that is adjacent to the first layer and part of the third layer that is adjacent to the second layer includes fiber strands coated in silicone. An inclusion that mimics an anatomical structure is located between the first layer and the second layer. The third layer of polyester fibers provides a realistic dissection plane for the practice of the surgical excision of the inclusion.
US10755601B2
A catheter simulator (10) of the invention has a container (20) filled with a liquid; an elastic heart model (30) installed in a floating state in the liquid with which the container (20) is filled; and a pump (50) connected to the heart model (30). The pump (50) is connected to an apex section of the heart model and produces a pulsatile flow from the apex section toward an aorta. Coronary arteries (33) provided on the surface of a main body (30A) of the heart model (30), pulsate together with the main body as a result of the pulsatile flow flowing from the pump (50).
US10755599B2
A portable tooth-sensitivity demonstration apparatus and a process. The apparatus includes a main unit with a top cover having at least one tooth station thereon; an electrical circuit, a sensitivity indicator, and an on/off switch. A sensor in the tooth station is part of the electrical circuit to activate a response by the sensitivity indicator. A water-permeable tooth piece, treated with an oral-care product, is placed into the tooth station, and a few drops of water are deposited on top of the tooth piece. Lack of response from the sensitivity indicator shows an absence of sensitivity and hence effectiveness of the oral-care product, while a response from the sensitivity indicator shows existing sensitivity and thus failure of the oral-care product to seal the tooth piece. In an apparatus having multiple tooth stations, different oral-care products can be assessed simultaneously and side-by-side.
US10755594B2
The invention provides a computer-implemented method for analyzing a piece of text. The method comprises truncating one or more characters of the text into one or more block units each having at least one character. The method includes sorting the one or more block units for one or more unique block units and comparing the one or more unique block units with a grading database to thereby assign a grade to each of the one or more unique block units. An overall grade for the piece of text may be determined based on one or more of the grades assigned to each of the one or more unique block units. The overall grade of the text may be derived from successive truncating of the text into block units of increasing size and the successive processing of such block units.
US10755581B2
Communication network architectures, systems and methods for supporting and/or effectively utilizing a network of mobile and/or static nodes. As a non-limiting example, various aspects of this disclosure provide communication network architectures, systems, and methods for supporting a dynamically configurable communication network comprising a complex array of both static and moving communication nodes (e.g., the Internet of moving things, autonomous vehicle networks, etc.). For example, a communication network, or one or more nodes thereof, implemented in accordance with various aspects of the present disclosure provide for efficient operation of distribution centers (e.g., ports, rail hubs, air freight hubs, etc.) that include networks of moving things. For example, in an example implementation, various aspects of the present disclosure provide systems and methods for efficiently controlling the operation of vehicles (e.g., boats, tugboats, ships, trucks, etc.) involved in port operations.
US10755577B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure can determine whether a subject vehicle is in a blind spot of a next-lane vehicle on the basis of the result of sensing a next-lane vehicle and the result of detecting the length of the next-lane vehicle using a plurality of side sensors that senses objects in front-cross, central side, and rear-cross areas of the subject vehicle, and can control the subject vehicle to drive while avoiding the blind spot of the next-lane vehicle, so it can help safe driving.
US10755576B2
A passive infra-red guidance system and method for augmenting operation of an autonomous vehicle on a roadway includes at least one forward-looking infra-red imaging sensor mounted on the vehicle in operative communication with an image processor tied into the vehicle's operational system. The system determines the left and right edges of the roadway using thermal imaging, and then determines the centerline of the travel lane in which the vehicle is travelling based on the determined left and right edges of the roadway. The system then compares the determined centerline of the travel lane with the actual position of the vehicle and identifies any adjustment needed for the vehicle's position based on the comparison. The left and right edge determination may comprise identifying a difference between a thermal signature representative of the roadway and a thermal signature representative of a non-roadway portion that is located proximate to the roadway portion.
US10755575B2
In one embodiment, a first vehicle makes, using a first machine learning-based model, a determination that raw image data captured by the first vehicle does not indicate the presence of a driving hazard. The first vehicle sends a hazard assessment request to a second vehicle in communication proximity of the first vehicle that includes the raw image data. The first vehicle receives a hazard detection response from the second vehicle that indicates a driving hazard identified by the second vehicle by applying a second machine learning-based model to the raw image data included in the hazard assessment request. The first vehicle adjusts a path of travel of the first vehicle to avoid the driving hazard identified by the second vehicle.
US10755570B1
System, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to controlling a parking facility. In one embodiment, a method of controlling a parking facility control system is disclosed. In one approach, the method includes receiving a parking request for a vehicle. The parking request includes an identifier and a pickup time. The method includes selecting an initial parking space at the parking facility for the vehicle based, at least in part, on the identifier and the pickup time. The method includes transmitting a parking command to the vehicle. The parking command identifies the initial parking space and causes the vehicle to autonomously navigate to and park in the initial parking space.
US10755569B2
Lighting fixture data hubs and systems and methods for use. An example of a data hub may include an annunciator configured to generate first and second indications; a sensor configured to detect a zone including one or more parking spaces, pedestrians, or other activity areas in a vicinity of the data hub and to determine whether or not one or more vehicles, pedestrians, and/or activities occurring in the activity areas are present within the zone, the sensor further configured to emit signals corresponding to said detection; and a gateway in communication with an on-board processor and the annunciator, the on-board processor configured for EDGE computing and processing to receive and analyze the signals from the sensor, communicate said signals to the gateway, and operable to allow the gateway to direct the annunciator to generate the first indication or the second indication in response to the signals.
US10755560B2
A system and method for real-time pollution control at a traffic junction are presented. A pollution level may be determined at the traffic junction according to weather, traffic volume, traffic type, pollution measurements, topology, or a combination thereof. A traffic volume threshold may be determined for the traffic junction to maintain the pollution level below a pollution threshold. One or more parameters of the traffic junction may be set to maintain traffic volume below the traffic volume threshold.
US10755556B2
A device includes a housing, an emitter, a detector, and a processor. The housing has a body contact surface configured for affixation to a tissue site of a body. The emitter is coupled to the housing and has an emission surface and an electrical terminal. The emission surface is configured to emit light proximate the body contact surface in response to a signal applied to the electrical terminal. The detector is coupled to the housing. The detector has a sense surface and an output terminal. The detector is configured to provide an output signal on the output terminal in response to light detected at the sensor surface. The processor is coupled to the electrical terminal and coupled to the output terminal. The processor is configured to implement an algorithm to monitor for an interruption between the body contact surface and the body and configured to generate an interrupt signal corresponding to the monitoring.
US10755551B2
Systems and methods for dynamic communication and control of devices associated with a premises are disclosed. The systems and methods may include receiving first status information by a device associated with a premises; determining a priority condition based at least on the first status information; transmitting the first status information including a first differentiated services code point indicative of the priority condition; and transmitting second status information including a second differentiated services code point indicative of the normal condition.
US10755550B2
The present invention is directed at monitoring the house environment and the human presence inside of it by monitoring ambient conditions and sensing movement throughout the building, and monitoring human body temperature and life presence. The invention comprises both CO2, CO and temperature sensors. An ultrawideband radar and infrared sensor will be used in combination to detect motion and body temperature. The invention operates in a master-slave combination were multiple units are installed in different areas of building. One unit serves as the main unit and will control communications and data transmission to the user while the slave units will send their data to the main unit.
US10755538B2
The properties of metamaterials are derived both from the inherent properties of their constituent materials and from the geometrical arrangement of those materials. Metamaterials may be stacked or otherwise manipulated to transform substantially monochromatic signal into a second signal having a desired amplitude and phase. Metamaterials may be used with acoustic devices to create haptic feedback with desired properties or to transform the shape of certain devices. Metamaterials may be used in rotating devices with openings that transform a monochromatic signal into a non-monochromatic signal.
US10755536B2
An information handling system operating a light reflective antenna comprising a wireless interface device for transmitting and receiving radio signals, via a light reflecting antenna, enclosed within a chassis of the information handling system, the light reflecting antenna comprising a light-reflecting, electrically conductive antenna element adjacent to a light emitting element of the information handling system and a processor executing code instructions to instruct the light reflecting antenna to operate to transceive wireless signals through a light emitting element located between the light reflecting antenna and an exterior surface of the chassis and substantially parallel to the reconfigurable antenna, wherein the light emitting element emits light such that light reflected by the light reflecting antenna is visible and wireless signals may propagate through the same portion of an exterior surface of the chassis.
US10755533B2
Detecting and reporting skimming of a magnetic stripe of a magnetic instrument having a magnetic stripe. The magnetic head detector detects a reading of the magnetic stripe from the magnetic instrument and, if the reading is detected, transmits a reporting signal to a microchip indicating the magnetic stripe was read. The microchip receives the reporting signal from the magnetic head detector and transmits a buzzer signal to a microbuzzer. The microbuzzer generates an audible notification when the buzzer signal is received from the microchip. A microbattery powers the magnetic head detector, the microchip, and the microbuzzer.
US10755529B2
Various embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to a gaming system and method providing a multi-hand video poker game in which the hands are displayed as an arrangement. One or more modifiers are applied to at least one row or column of the arrangement. All the hands are evaluated against one or more paytables and awards are determined. The awards for the hands that have applied modifiers are modified based on the respective modifier.
US10755523B2
In one embodiment, a system to authorize a mobile electronic device to play games of chance includes a gaming system manager and a docking station, The docking station can be configured to: (i) detect whether the mobile electronic device is connected to a receiver of the docking station; (ii) receive device information from the mobile electronic device if it is detected that the mobile electronic device is connected to the receiver; (iii) determine whether a game of chance can be played on the mobile electronic device based on the received device information; (iv) authorize the mobile electronic device to play the game of chance; and (v) transmit gaming data to the mobile electronic device if it is determined that the game of chance can be played on the mobile electronic device and if the mobile electronic device is authorized.
US10755514B2
A drum storage module (50, 60) for receiving notes of value (16) has a winding drum (14) onto which the notes of value (16) are windable so as to be received between at least two foil belts (18 to 24). Further, a sensor for determining the maximum filling level of notes of value in the drum storage module (50, 60) is provided and has a light source (32) and a light receiver (34) arranged such that the beam path (36) from the light source (32) to the light receiver (34) extends parallel to the longitudinal axis (38) of the winding drum (14).
US10755513B2
A banknote processing apparatus capable of properly storing and dispensing a banknote is provided. The banknote processing apparatus includes: a transport unit that transports a banknote; a long-edge orientation storage unit that receives and stores, in a first orientation, the banknote transported by the transport unit, the first orientation being an orientation in which a short edge of the banknote is a leading edge thereof; a short-edge orientation storage unit that receives and stores, in a second orientation, the banknote transported by the transport unit, the second orientation being an orientation in which a long edge of the banknote is a leading edge thereof; and a control unit that selects, by controlling the transport unit, a storage destination for the banknote transported by the transport unit, from among any of the long-edge orientation storage unit and the short-edge orientation storage unit.
US10755510B2
A method according to one embodiment includes receiving, by an access control device, access control data from a server, storing the received access control data to a no tour database stored in a memory of the access control device, determining a credential device has been presented to a credential reader associated with the access control device, and transmitting the stored access control data to the credential device in response to determining the credential device has been presented to the credential reader and prior to communication with the server.
US10755509B2
Disclosed are an apparatus and method that enables an owner/administrator to manage access to a shared resource based on identity that is established by use of biometric data. For example, access to a shared physical resource can be restricted via use of a biometric locking device. An access management platform can be used to authorize a new user to access the shared resource. Once authorized, the new user can unlock the biometric locking device based on, for example, fingerprint data of his finger. The access management platform can similarly be used to manage access to a virtual shared resource, such as an online account. A virtual locking device, such as a computer that acts as an intermediary between the user and the online account, can be used to restrict access to the online account. The access management platform can enable the user to access the online account based on biometric data.
US10755508B2
The present disclosure generally relates to a computerized method comprising: communicating access details of the facility from the mobile device to the facility for a first authentication process, the mobile device located in the vicinity of the facility initially in a secured state for preventing access thereto; receiving a request notification on the mobile device in response to positive authentication of the access details from the first authentication process, the request notification comprising a request for biometric data of the user; receiving an input of the biometric data on the mobile device; and communicating the biometric data from the mobile device to a host server for a second authentication process, wherein the facility is configured to change from the secured state to an unsecured state in response to positive authentication of the biometric data from the second authentication process, thereby providing, to the user, access to the facility.
US10755503B2
A method and system allow management of access to a door using a beacon signal. A user access authority determination unit controls access of a user to a target door based beacon data from beacons installed near a door. The user carries a terminal that obtains the beacon data based on a proximity to the beacons. The method includes identifying the target door based on identification information of the beacons extracted from the beacon data. A type of user movement is determined. The type of user movement includes an entering movement that the user enters into an inner side from an outer side through the target door and an exiting movement that the user exits the inner side to the outer side through the target door. An access authentication process to be performed to unlock the target door is determined according to the determined type of user movement.
US10755497B2
Provided are techniques for monitoring a moving vessel using a detachable drone coupled to the moving vessel. An event is identified that triggers detachment of the detachable drone from the moving vessel. The detachable drone is detached from the moving vessel. The detachable drone is moved to a predetermined location. A beacon based on beacon data is transmitted from the detachable drone. In response to the detachable drone receiving a request for the data, data collected from monitoring the moving vessel is delivered.
US10755495B1
Systems and methods detecting onboard sensor tampering are disclosed. According to embodiments, data captured by interior sensors within a vehicle may be analyzed to determine an indication that the activity of the vehicle operator either cannot be sufficiently detected or cannot be sufficiently identified using the captured data (e.g., that the captured data may be compromised). A date and time associated with the indication may be recorded, and a vehicle operator associated with the indication may be identified. A possible cause for the compromised data may be diagnosed, and notification may be generated indicating that the activity of the vehicle operator either cannot be sufficiently detected or cannot be sufficiently identified, and/or the possible cause. Additionally, a recommendation for restoring sensor functionality may be generated for the vehicle operator based the possible cause.
US10755494B2
A system includes a computer including a processor and a memory, the memory including instructions executable by the processor to identify a degraded state of a vehicle component when a component usage exceeds a first threshold and a weather datum exceeds a second threshold, and then actuate the vehicle component in response to the degraded state.
US10755493B2
A system of pressure control for an environment to be pressurized includes a controller configured to calculate an environment leakage effective area CdALEAK according to: CdALEAK=f(Pc, Tc, Pa, WLEAK) wherein Pc is an environment pressure; Tc is an environment temperature; Pa is an ambient pressure outside of the environment; WLEAK=WECS−WOFV−WAPU; wherein WECS=air pressure inflow into the environment; WOFV=air pressure outflow to ambient that is outside of the environment; WAPU=f(Tin, Pin, APURPM, Flowfuel); wherein Tin=inlet temperature to a power source; Pin=inlet pressure to the power source; APURPM=rotational speed of the power source; Flowfuel=power source fuel flow. A processor is in communication with the controller and configured to compare a current CdALEAK value with a control limit; wherein the control limit is based on historical CdALEAK values.
US10755492B2
The present disclosure provides A vehicle hazard management system mounted to a vehicle having a high voltage system, comprising: a sensor configured to provide an activation signal in response to at least one of a collision involving the vehicle, a fault of the high voltage system, and at least partial submersion of the vehicle; a controller in communication with the sensor, the controller being configured to receive the activation signal and respond by generating an emergency message including information describing at least one of the make, model and year of the vehicle; and a transmitter coupled to the controller and configured to transmit the emergency message to an emergency communication device.
US10755490B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for brokering data exchanges between on-board and off-board systems of a vehicle. One method comprises receiving, at a data broker engine, one or more data requests from an origination system, wherein each of the one or more data requests specifies at least one or more of a request type and a target system. Then the data broker engine determines whether the request type is a one-time transmission, a periodic transmission, an event-triggered transmission, or a change-triggered transmission. Following the determination, the data broker engine retrieves data from the target system based on the determined request type and transmits the data to the origination system.
US10755483B1
In one embodiment, techniques are provided for projecting information (e.g., describing subsurface features such as subsurface utilities) onto a surface (e.g., road surface) of the physical environment using pre-captured topography (e.g., determined by structure-from-motion (SfM) photogrammetry) and pre-projection of the information onto the pre-captured topography. The pre-projected information is subsequently combined with a live view of the physical environment to produce an augmented reality view that is displayed to a user.
US10755479B2
Neural networks of suitable topology are trained with sets of images, where one image of each set depicts a garment and another pair of images of each set depicts an item of apparel from multiple viewpoints, and a final image of each set depicts a model wearing the garment and the other item of apparel. Once trained, the neural network can synthesize a new image based on input images including an image of a garment and a pair of images of another item of apparel. Quantitative parameters controlling the image synthesis permit adjustment of features of the synthetic image, including skin tone, body shape and pose of the model, as well as characteristics of the garment and other items of apparel.
US10755477B2
The present invention provides a real-time face 3D reconstruction system on a mobile device, comprising: a data preprocessing module, a face model iteration module and a 3D rendering module. The data preprocessing module is connected to the face model iteration module and transmits data and/or signals to the face model iteration module, and the face model iteration module is connected to the rendering module and transmits data and/or signals to the rendering module. The present invention also provides a real-time face 3D reconstruction method on a mobile device. The present invention only needs an image acquired by a single camera to reconstruct a face model without any manual calibration.
US10755476B2
An image processing method and an image processing device are provided. The image processing method includes the following steps. A light source is projected onto a 3D model via a plurality of projecting locations to generate a plurality of facial shadow pictures. The facial shadow pictures are superimposed to generate a composite shadow picture. An eye-eyebrow location, a nose location and a mouth location in a 2D facial map are obtained by way of analyzing according to the composite shadow picture. A plurality of characteristic points are calculated according to the eye-eyebrow location, the nose location and the mouth location in the 2D facial map.
US10755442B2
An oil leakage detector of the present invention includes an image processing unit wherein the image processing unit calculates the values of saturation and intensity of each pixel in the color image of the object after an ultra-violet light is irradiated thereon, draws an intensity-saturation characteristic line of the saturation expressed in an X-axis and the intensity expressed in a Y-axis, sets an upper limit and a lower limit of intensity of each saturation as a threshold value based on an area without oil adhesion on the surface of the object, and determines, in the intensity-saturation characteristic line, an area corresponding to a pixel group where the intensity exceeds the threshold value of the upper limit and a pixel group where the intensity falls below the threshold value of the lower limit, to be an oil leakage adhered area.
US10755438B2
Systems and methods are provided for to estimate the pose of a human subject's head from a sequence of images received from a single depth camera by processing the images to generate a continuous estimate of the head pose in a 3-dimensional (3D) space, and to generate a 3D head model for display and further use. The subject is provided instructions to rotate their head in a first direction until a threshold angle of rotation is reached and then are provided instructions to rotate their head in a second direction. The depth camera provides a sequence of captured images which are processed to extract head meshes. After capture is complete the head meshes are merged to generate a 3D model of the subject's head.
US10755436B2
A system may include a camera, a display, one or more memories, and one or more processors communicatively coupled to the one or more memories. The system may output a bounding shape for presentation on the display. The bounding shape may be superimposed on an image being captured by the camera and presented on the display. The bounding shape may bound an object in the image. The system may determine 3D coordinates of an intersection point associated with the bounding shape. The intersection point may be a point where a projection of the bounding shape into 3D space intersects with a horizontal plane identified in the image. The system may determine 2D coordinates for presentation of an augmented reality object on the display based on the 3D coordinates of the intersection point, and may superimpose a representation of the augmented reality object on the image based on the 2D coordinates.
US10755421B2
A tracking device includes: an imaging unit that inputs an image into an image input unit; a first moving body detection unit that calculates an optical flow and detects a position and a direction of movement of a moving body based on the calculated optical flow; a second moving body detection unit that detects a position and a direction of movement based on a plurality of overhead images generated; a third moving body detection unit that detects a position and a direction of movement by integrating detection results from the first and second moving body detection units; a tracked moving body confirmation unit that determines a moving body to be tracked based on detection results from the first to third moving body detection units; an estimation unit that estimates a future position and direction of movement; and a tracking unit that tracks the tracked moving body and identifies a position.
US10755416B2
A survey application generates a survey of components associated with a three-dimensional model of an object. The survey application receives video feeds, location information, and orientation information from wearable devices in proximity to the object. The three-dimensional model of the object is generated based on the video feeds, sensor data, location information, and orientation information received from the wearable devices. Analytics is performed from the video feeds to identify a manipulation on the object. The three-dimensional model of the object is updated based on the manipulation on the object. A dynamic status related to the manipulation on the object is generated with respect to reference data related the object. A survey of components associated with the three-dimensional model of the object is generated.
US10755412B2
Mechanisms are provided for implementing a patient complexity classification (PCC) computing system. The PCC computing system receives medical image study data for a patient that comprises one or more medical image data structures and one or more corresponding medical image metadata data structures. A natural language processing engine of the PCC computing system performs natural language processing on the medical image metadata data structure to extract features indicative of at least one of patient or medical image characteristics. A complexity classifier of the PCC computing system evaluates the extracted features to determine a patient complexity indicating a complexity of a medical condition of the patient. Routing logic associated with the PCC computing system routes the one or more medical image data structures and one or more corresponding medical image metadata data structures to one or more downstream patient evaluation computing systems based on the determined patient complexity.
US10755406B2
Described herein are methods for co-expression analysis of multiple markers in a tissue sample comprising: computing a heat map of marker expression for each of a plurality of single marker channel images, wherein each of the plurality of single marker channel images comprise a single marker; identifying one or more candidate regions of interest in each heat map of marker expression; computing overlay masks comprising the identified one or more candidate regions of interest from each heat map of marker expression; determining one or more co-localized regions of interest from the overlay masks; mapping the one or more co-localized regions of interest to a same coordinate position in each of the plurality of single marker channel images; and estimating a number of cells in at least one of the determined one or more co-localized regions of interest in each of the plurality of single marker channel images.
US10755384B2
The objective of the present invention is to provide an object detection method such that an object such as a vehicle can be detected from an image captured by an on-board camera even when a lens of the on-board camera is dirty. In order to achieve the objective, in this object detection method for detecting an object included in a captured image, an original image including the object to be detected is prepared from the captured image, a processed image is generated from the prepared original image by applying predetermined processing to the original image, and learning regarding restoration of an image of the object to be detected is performed using the original image and the processed image.
US10755382B2
The present disclosure provides a system for stitching image Chinese characters into a word. In the system, a scanning module scans a plurality of images, wherein a physical space of each image is mapped with one logic space on which a colliding unit is formed; when a collision event between the colliding unit of the image and a colliding unit of its neighboring image occurs in the logic space, an associating module associates the Chinese character corresponding to the colliding unit with the Chinese character corresponding to the colliding unit of its neighboring image to generate a word, and when the word was recorded in a pre-stored vocabulary, a displaying module displays the word; in this way, the system enables Chinese beginners to learn words such as compounds, idioms, and proverbs, which improves the efficiency of Chinese beginners to learn Chinese, promotes their learning enthusiasm, and enhances user experience. Another object of the present disclosure is to provide a mobile terminal that employs the system for stitching image Chinese characters into a word.
US10755379B2
During an analysis technique, a three-dimensional (3D) image of a portion of an individual is iteratively transformed to facilitate accurate determination of detailed multi-point annotation of an anatomical structure. In particular, for a given marker point, in response to receiving information specifying a two-dimensional (2D) plane having an angular position in the 3D image, the 3D image is translated and rotated from an initial position and orientation so that the 2D plane is presented in an orientation parallel to a reference 2D plane of a display. Then, after annotation information specifying the detailed annotation in the 2D plane of the given marker point is received, the 3D image is translated and rotated back to the initial position and orientation. These operations may be repeated for one or more other marker points.
US10755360B1
A method for encouraging saving towards a financial goal for an individual includes receiving on an electronic computing device one or more personal media elements from the individual. A receipt from a purchase by the individual is received. The receipt includes information relating to the purchase made by the individual. Information from the receipt relative to the financial goal is analyzed. At least one of the one or more personal media elements is selected for presentation with the receipt. The at least one of the one or more personal media elements selected is related to an effect of the purchase on achieving the financial goal.
US10755358B1
A method of providing user interaction includes providing a processor and transmitting a communication from a first party to a second party. The method also includes posting, using the processor, an entry associated with the communication on a website, receiving a second communication from the second party to the first party, and posting, using the processor, a second entry associated with the second communication.
US10755354B2
The technology detects undesirable data packets. Data packets are received from multiple sources at one or more packet switches in a data communications network. The one or more packet switches route the data packets to one or more intended destination computing nodes and also transmit a copy of all the data packets received in the data communications network to a network capture device. The network capture device processes the data packets, detects financial data packets, and transmits the detected financial data packets for analysis by a risk exposure computer system that performs automatic financial risk analysis based on the detected financial data packets.
US10755350B1
An improved method and system to create and write a security trading strategy, back test the strategy and automatically execute and monitor the strategy in an Internet based trading environment. Upon occurrence of a market trigger condition, the automated process automatically generates entry and exit orders and sends the entry and exit orders to the market to be filled. A restriction check is also performed on the entry and exit orders. The automated process further monitors the entry and exit orders once they have been sent to be filled and intelligently modifies the entry and exit orders depending on market and strategy conditions.
US10755349B1
A payment processing system receives, from merchant computing devices, transaction information of transactions performed between a plurality of merchants and customers. The merchant computing devices may each execute a merchant application that configures the merchant computing devices as point-of-sale (POS) terminals. The payment processing system receives, from a first POS terminal, a request to finance a purchase between a customer and a first merchant. The payment processing system determines financing terms for the purchase from the transaction information received from the merchant computing devices. The payment processing system sends the financing terms, including an approved financed amount and repayment terms for the approved financed amount, to the first POS terminal for presentation to the customer. In response to receiving an indication of acceptance by the customer of the financing terms, the payment processing system transfers the approved financed amount to an account of the first merchant.
US10755340B2
Disclosed herein is a system that includes an order processing subsystem and a delivery processing subsystem comprising at least one database and one or more processors. The one or more processors of the delivery processing subsystem is configured to receive a request for a user to access the delivery processing subsystem and a scanning device, authenticate the user by verifying the request with user credentials stored in the at least one database, provide the user with access to the delivery processing subsystem and the scanning device, receive scanned data from the scanning device, retrieve package data regarding a package for an inmate based on the scanned data from the scanning device, and generate, based on the package data, a route in the correctional facility for delivery of the package to the inmate in the correctional facility, wherein the route does not include an identity of the inmate.
US10755337B2
A system and method for generating a user customized order interface, which displays a customer's previous orders and corresponding specific order information and order recommendations, that may be utilized for ordering and payment. A mobile application may request a merchant ID upon determination by the mobile device that a customer is within a close proximity of a particular merchant location. A payment terminal may pass the corresponding merchant ID to a transaction system, which may retrieve, for example, the customer's previous transactions and corresponding transaction IDs associated with the merchant ID, which may be utilized to generate a user customized order interface, which may be utilized to initiate a transaction by selecting a specific order item to order, and which may utilize the mobile application to confirm the order and proceed to payment, which will transmit the order to a merchant system.
US10755330B1
A processor receives from a plurality of devices location information and generates nearby store information that is transmitted to a devices. Enter store event information is received at a first time and stored in at least one database. Item information is received at a second time. The processor generates and transmits item details information representing at least price, tax and inventory availability associated with the item. Purchase event information representing a purchase of the item from the one store is received by the processor over a communication network at a third time, from the one of the plurality of computing devices, and the processor updates, as a function of the received purchase event information, at least one database associated with item inventory of the one store.
US10755326B2
A system and method for managing on-demand services includes integrating a consumer's personal resources with institutional service providers. The consumer's service request is fulfilled by streamlining the selection of resources and seamlessly extending the search to a larger system when the consumer's personal resources are exhausted. The system and method advantageously provides focused communications to selected contacts and automates the selection process.
US10755316B2
Content presented to a user of an online system is presented along with an option allowing the user to view one or more reasons for presentation of the advertisement content to the user and one or more characteristics of the user satisfying targeting criteria associated with the content. For example, a description identifying one or more selected characteristics of the user satisfying the targeting criteria is presented along with the content. The online system selects the one or more characteristics presented along with the content by applying one or more rules to characteristics of the user satisfying targeting criteria included in the content. The rules may account for accuracy of models used to determine whether the user has characteristics, revenue received by the online system from presenting content associated with targeting criteria identifying various characteristics, or prevalence of characteristics among users or targeting criteria of content.
US10755304B2
Sample size determination techniques in sequential hypothesis testing in a digital medium environment are described. The sample size may be determined before a test to define a number of samples (e.g., user interactions with digital marketing content) that are likely to be tested as part of the sequential hypothesis testing in order to achieve a result. The sample size may also be determined in real time to define a number of samples that likely remain for testing in order to achieve a result. The sample size may be determined in a variety of ways, such as through simulation, based on a gap between conversion rates for different options being tested, and so on.
US10755289B2
Provided are an electronic device and an operating method thereof. The electronic device includes: a communication interface; a processor configured to output information of at least one product while a broadcast program for advertisement or sale is being displayed, control, in response to an external input for a selection from the information output, the communication interface to access a server storing shopping broadcast content produced for advertisement or sale corresponding to the selection, and output the shopping broadcast content received from the server by using streaming. The electronic device includes an external input interface configured to receive the external input.
US10755284B2
A vehicle-centric cloud-based records management platform remains accessible through a web-based management portal and a mobile application, which can be integrated with vehicle devices for in-vehicle use. Regardless of the method of collection, the computerized method and system of the present invention are able to summarize the data into actionable documents for vehicle registration, fuel tax calculation/filing, and federal forms completion.
US10755280B2
Described herein are systems and methods for providing accurate assessments of existing fraud rules while controlling for various transaction risks. In some embodiments, transaction data may be obtained from a number of entities and may be segmented by applying various filters. Once segmented, each segment may be analyzed to obtain metrics for a target entity. A separate set of peers is dynamically determined for each segment. The metric values for the target entity may then be compared to the metric values for the peers in the peer set to assess the target entity's performance with respect to each segment. Based on a variance of the target entity from its peers, the system may identify the segment as an opportunity. A rule may then be generated automatically based on the identified segment. In some embodiments, the rule may be added to a rule file for automatic implementation by the target entity.
US10755277B2
A method for generating a personal identification number (PIN) debit child product for use in performing a debit payment transaction with a merchant entity. A payment processing platform receives a user selection of a financial institution made via a merchant payment page and directs the user to authenticate a user identity with the financial institution. The payment processing platform receives a user selection of a core account held with the financial institution, such that the core account provides financial backing for the PIN debit child product. The PIN debit child product is generated that includes a child card number and a virtual PIN associated with the core account. Advantageously, the method provides the ability to make PIN debit transaction on the Internet.
US10755269B1
A secure payment agent assist (“SPAA”) feature provides assistance to a contact center agent during a payment transaction, where payment information provided by the remote party is maintained in secure manner, so that the agent is not exposed to the payment information. The agent is assisted by being provided with a pop-up window that allows the agent to invoke a “recollect” and “cancel” function during the transaction. The pop-up window also provide information to the agent making the agent aware of the progress of the transaction as the remote party interacts with an interactive voice response (“IVR”) unit. In other embodiments, a configuration parameter allows the prompts for the payment information to be provided by the agent or the IVR.
US10755263B1
Disclosed in some examples are methods, systems, and machine readable mediums for providing P2P lending through mobile wallets. The P2P lending may utilize a central registry or be a fully distributed P2P system. In some examples, the use of a network accessible P2P loan service may simplify the discovery and communication with other mobile wallets throughout the process of obtaining a loan.
US10755257B2
A universal vending machine closed-loop sales optimization device. The vending machine device may be configured to be installed within a vending machine, and be communicatively coupled with a vending machine controller. The vending machine device may be configured to receive data and transmit data.
US10755251B1
Disclosed herein are systems and methods for processing financial instruments in ATMs or other processing devices. A user can deposit financial instruments, such as cash or a check, into the ATM, to be processed to determine the monetary value of the financial instruments. Once counted and valued, the financial instruments can be dropped into an escrow chamber. The escrow chamber can have a door or gate such that the financial instruments are visible, but not accessible during the transaction. If the customer discovers an error during the transaction, the door or gate can transition to an open state allowing the customer to retrieve the financial instruments.
US10755247B2
In one aspect, the present disclosure relates to a method for crowdfunding credit card payments. The method can include: analyzing a plurality of credit card accounts to determine a first account that is eligible for crowdfunding; transmitting a notification to a user device associated with an account holder of the first account, the notification prompting the account holder to authorize enabling receipt of crowdfunded payments for the first account; receiving, from the user device, authorization to enable receipt of crowdfund payments for the first account; providing, to one or more donors, electronic access to recent transaction information for the first account; receiving a payment from a first one of the donors; and applying the payment to the first account.
US10755243B2
An information processing apparatus includes a condition data obtaining unit configured to obtain condition data representing conditions of use of electronic money in a predetermined period of time from an information management apparatus which accepts access from a plurality of information processing apparatuses connected through a network, a condition determination unit configured to determine whether the conditions are satisfied in accordance with usage history of the electronic money stored in advance and the condition data, and a transmission unit configured to transmit, when the condition determination unit determines that the conditions are satisfied, application data including identification information for identifying an applicant to the information management apparatus.
US10755240B2
The present disclosure is directed to a system and method for generating, securely storing, retrieving, and processing sales receipts for the purchase of goods and services using any convenient method of payment. All buyer purchases are linked to their receipt account or account. The method includes the generation of both physical and electronic receipts with any receipt being readily identifiable by a purchaser, seller, credit card issuer, employer, financial institution, or other party or entity having a need to access the receipt and information included on it. The system and method also utilize a taxonomy to characterize attributes of purchase receipts and employs and an analytics capability useful by buyers, sellers, and third parties.
US10755236B2
In one embodiment, a system for motivating electronically-scheduled event attendance can include a set of attendance listening components, an attendance prompt, and an attendance prompting tool. The attendance listening components can monitor activities performed in a networked environment. The attendance prompt can represent an electronic message and feedback mechanism that is provided on an electronic device. The attendance prompting tool can interject the attendance prompt into an activity identified by an attendance listening component as being performed by a user-selected member of the networked environment. The attendance prompt can be associated with an electronically-scheduled event the user-selected member is to attend.
US10755235B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for constraining individual meeting times of a task to a specified total duration of aggregated meeting times. In an embodiment of the invention, a method of constraining individual meeting times of a task to a specified total duration of aggregated meeting times is provided. The method includes selecting an event amongst a plurality of events associated with a single task in a C&S system executing in memory of a host server. The method further includes adjusting a duration of time for the selected event. The method yet further includes determining whether or not a sum total of all durations of time for the events associated with the single task exceeds a time constraint for the single task. Thereafter, in response to determining the sum total of all durations of time for the events associated with the single task to have exceeded the time constraint for the single task, a compensatory adjustment of time can be apportioned to remaining ones of the events associated with the single task.
US10755229B2
A first plurality of f-scores for a first plurality of products in an inventory are determined. The first plurality of f-scores are discretized to generate a plurality of groups, and a forecast is generated for each of the groups based on historical data associated with the first plurality of products. Projected gaps in the inventory are identified based on the forecasts. A second plurality of f-scores are determined for a second plurality of products, where each of the second plurality of products is not in the inventory. For each of the second plurality of products, a corresponding group in the plurality of groups is identified based on the second plurality of f-scores, an at least one product in the second plurality of products is selected to order, based on determining that the identified corresponding group aligns with at least one of the one or more projected gaps in inventory.
US10755226B1
An information management system includes a blockchain infrastructure configured to maintain a blockchain for one or more smart contracts generated for one or more assets managed by the information management system, and one or more application programming interfaces configured to provide access to the one or more smart contracts of the blockchain enabling input of data to a given smart contract for a given asset and retrieval of data from the given smart contract of the given asset.
US10755204B2
The disclosure is related to managing an electric vehicle return process based on whether a return condition associated with an electric charging of a returned electric vehicle is satisfied. Furthermore, a benefit or a penalty may be given to a corresponding user according to whether the return condition associated with an electric charging is satisfied.
US10755202B1
Computer-implemented methods include: receiving, in a first client device, multiple risk indicators from multiple server devices over a network, in which the multiple risk indicators represent different external risks to a business and different internal risks to two or more divisions of the business; applying a forecasting model to at least one risk indicators to obtain one or more estimated future performance metrics; outputting to a graphical user interface, at least one of the estimated future performance metrics, the external risks or the internal risks; and outputting to the graphical user interface, a user-interactive feature for sending at least one of the estimated future performance metrics, the external risks, or the internal risks from the first client device, over the network, to a second client device.
US10755196B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for determining retraining predictive models. One of the methods includes maintaining, by a computer system of an enterprise, one or more predictive models. The computer system receives operational data and uses each of the one or more predictive models to generate predictions using the received operational data. An indication of a systemic change in the computer system is received. The method includes determining that one or more retraining rules specify that at least one of the one or more predictive models should be retrained due to the systemic change, and in response, obtaining updated training data and retraining the predictive model using the updated training data.
US10755186B2
Systems and methods for allowing pluggable knowledge types to be discovered, registered, and added to a rule engine are disclosed. An example method may include retrieving, by a processing device executing a rule engine, a list of pluggable services associated with a specified knowledge type; identifying a first pluggable service on the list of pluggable services; identifying one or more knowledge types that the first pluggable service is configured to process, wherein the one or more knowledge types comprise the specified knowledge type; and indexing, by the processing device, the first pluggable knowledge in the service registry by information identifying the one or more knowledge types.
US10755184B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for training and applying a machine learning model. One of the methods includes the actions of obtaining a collection of training data, the training data comprising collection of data points associated with a labeled set of real property parcels; training a machine learning model using the training data, the machine learning model being trained to generate a likelihood with respect to a parameter from input data associated with a specific parcel of real property, wherein training includes optimizing the model using a Markov chain optimization that seeks to minimize error in the model where the model is underpinned by one or more non-differentiable functions; receiving a plurality of data points associated with an input parcel of real property; and using the optimized model to generate a likelihood for the parameter for the input parcel of real property.
US10755181B2
Provided is an information processing apparatus including a status recognition unit that recognizes a status of a reference apparatus on the basis of information on a status of an apparatus corresponding to the reference apparatus, the reference apparatus serving as a reference when a behavior recognition mode for deciding a status of behavior is set and a behavior-recognition-mode setting unit that sets the behavior recognition mode for a setting target apparatus for which the behavior recognition mode is to be set on the basis of the recognized status of the reference apparatus.
US10755177B1
A voice user interface (VUI) system use collaborative filtering to expand its own knowledge base. The system is designed to improve the accuracy and performance of the Natural Language Understanding (NLU) processing that underlies VUIs. The system leverages the knowledge of system users to crowdsource new information.
US10755161B2
In the embodiments described herein, a RFID enabled license plate is constructed by using the license plate, or a retro-reflective layer formed thereon as part of the resonator configured to transmit signals generated by and RFID chip integrated with the license plate. Such an RFID enabled license plate can include a metal license plate with a slot formed in the metal license plate, and a RFID tag module positioned in the slot. The RFID tag module can include a chip and a loop, and the loop can be coupled with the metal license plate, e.g., via inductive or conductive coupling. In this manner, the metal license plate can be configured to act as a resonator providing increased performance.
US10755155B2
A flag retaining circuit comprises a first capacitor element having one end connected to a first line and the other end grounded; a flag setting unit that charges the first capacitor element according to an input signal; a flag checking unit that outputs 0 or 1 based on the potential of the first capacitor element; and a discharging unit that discharges the first capacitor element. The discharging unit includes a transconductance element that discharges the first capacitor element via the first line; a control switch that receives supply of the voltage on a second line; and a second capacitor element having one end connected to a node between a control input end of the transconductance element and the control switch, and the other end grounded. The flag checking unit outputs the inverse of the voltage on the first line onto the second line.
US10755141B2
Described is a system for controlling a device based on streaming data analysis using blind source separation. The system updates a set of parallel processing pipelines for two-dimensional (2D) tensor slices of streaming tensor data in different orientations, where the streaming tensor data includes incomplete sensor data. In updating the parallel processing pipelines, the system replaces a first tensor slice with a new tensor slice resulting in an updated set of tensor slices in different orientations. At each time step, a cycle of demixing, transitive matching, and tensor factor weight calculations is performed on the updated set of tensor slices. The tensor factor weight calculations are used for sensor data reconstruction, and based on the sensor data reconstruction, hidden sensor data is extracted. Upon recognition of an object in the extracted hidden sensor data, the device is caused to perform a maneuver to avoid a collision with the object.
US10755137B2
A computer-implemented method for routing a food product using an image of the food product, according to one embodiment, includes receiving an image of a food product, receiving an environmental condition on or near the food product, evaluating the food product using the image and the environmental condition, and determining a delivery destination for the food product based at least in part on the evaluation of the food product.
US10755135B2
A computational imaging device and method are described, wherein the computational imaging device is operable to perform corner detection and other computer vision tasks more efficiently and/or more robustly than traditional imaging devices. In addition, methods are described operable to jointly optimize the computational imaging device and the corner detection task.
US10755131B2
Techniques are disclosed for extracting micro-features at a pixel-level based on characteristics of one or more images. Importantly, the extraction is unsupervised, i.e., performed independent of any training data that defines particular objects, allowing a behavior-recognition system to forgo a training phase and for object classification to proceed without being constrained by specific object definitions. A micro-feature extractor that does not require training data is adaptive and self-trains while performing the extraction. The extracted micro-features are represented as a micro-feature vector that may be input to a micro-classifier which groups objects into object type clusters based on the micro-feature vectors.
US10755120B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide an end-to-end lightweight method and apparatus for license plate recognition. The method comprises: obtaining an image to be recognized; obtaining a number of a license plate in the image to be recognized and position coordinates of the license plate in the image to be recognized on the basis of the image to be recognized and a pre-trained target license plate recognition model, wherein the target license plate recognition model comprises a target feature extraction network, a target region candidate localization network, a target super-resolution generation network and a target recurrent neural network. Because in this solution, once an image to be recognized is input into the target license plate recognition model, the target license plate recognition model can output the license plate number and position coordinates of the license plate in the image to be recognized, one realizes an end-to-end model. The model has relatively strong robustness, and it can detect and recognize pictures taken under different camera angles. Moreover, computation variables such as image features can be reused without repeated computations, the model takes up less RAM and the speed of license plate recognition is greatly improved.
US10755117B2
A method of determining obstacles determines if a detected object detected outside a subject vehicle is an obstacle for the subject vehicle on the basis of a predetermined determination criterion. In this method, a determination is made whether or not the detected object detected outside the subject vehicle is a driver or passenger of the subject vehicle. When the detected object is not the driver or passenger, a determination is made whether or not the detected object is an obstacle for the subject vehicle on the basis of a first determination criterion. When the detected object is the driver or passenger, a determination is made whether or not the detected object is an obstacle for the subject vehicle on the basis of a second determination criterion with which the detected object is less likely to be determined as an obstacle for the subject vehicle than with the first determination criterion.
US10755112B2
Methods and systems for reducing an amount of data storage and/or processing power necessary for training data for machine learning by replacing three dimensional models with a plurality of two dimensional images are disclosed. The method includes determining an object of interest from a three-dimensional model and cropping the object of interest into a plurality of two-dimensional images. The plurality of two-dimensional images are cropped such that only the object of interest remain. The plurality of two-dimensional images are cropped with respect to particular attributes, such as a road width, a road angle, or an angle with respect to an adjacent vehicle. An image capturing device captures the real time background images. The objects within the background images are categorized using associated attributes. The attributes are synthesized with the plurality of two-dimensional images such that a plurality of replica two-dimensional images of the 3D model with real-time backgrounds are generated.
US10755111B2
Systems and methods for identifying suspicious entities using autonomous vehicles are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed comprising identifying a suspect vehicle using at least one digital camera equipped on an autonomous vehicle; identifying a set of candidate autonomous vehicles; enabling, on each of the candidate autonomous vehicles, a search routine, the search routine instructing each respective autonomous vehicle to coordinate tracking of the suspect vehicle; recording, while tracking the suspect vehicle, a plurality of images of the suspect vehicle; periodically re-calibrating the search routines executed by the autonomous vehicles based on the plurality of images; and re-routing the autonomous vehicles based on the re-calibrated search routines.
US10755108B2
[Problem] To provide a motion condition estimation device, a motion condition estimation method and a motion condition estimation program capable of accurately estimating the motion condition of monitored subjects even in a crowded environment. [Solution] A motion condition estimation device according to the present invention is provided with a quantity estimating means 81 and a motion condition estimating means 82. The quantity estimating means 81 uses a plurality of chronologically consecutive images to estimate a quantity of monitored subjects for each local region in each image. The motion condition estimating means 82 estimates the motion condition of the monitored subjects from chronological changes in the quantities estimated in each local region.
US10755106B1
Systems and techniques are generally described for pattern recognition in video data. In some examples, a first set of pixels representing a first person in the first video data may be determined. First feature representation data of the first set of pixels may be generated. The first feature representation data may be determined to correspond to second feature representation data stored in memory. An identity of the first person associated with the second feature representation data may be determined. A first action associated with the first person may be determined. A notification may be sent to a computing device accessible by the first person. The notification may include a reminder for the first person to engage in the first action.
US10755104B2
In some embodiments, a method trains a first prediction network to predict similarity between images in videos. The training uses boundaries detected in the videos to train the prediction network to predict images in a same scene to have similar feature descriptors. The first prediction network generates feature descriptors that describe library images from videos in a video library offered to users of a video delivery service. A search image is received and the prediction network predicts one or more library images for one or more videos that are predicted to be similar to the received image. The one or more library images for the one or more videos are provided as a search result.
US10755101B1
A mobile communication system based on images, enabling communication between a plurality of mobile devices and servers, wherein the images have associated additional properties in the nature of voice, audio, data and other information. The system further enabling the formation of one or more image networks wherein the images are stored, organized, connected and linked to each other by one or more methods inclusive of one to one connection between images, a hierarchical connection between images and or other methods of connection between images to facilitate efficient image based communication between mobile devices, stationary devices and servers based on the mobile device identification, mobile device specific profiles and user specific profiles. The imaged base network system further having the ability to learn and form intelligent association between objects, people and other entities; between images and the associated data relating to both animate and inanimate entities for intelligent image based communication in a network.
US10755096B2
Disclosed herein are devices, methods, and systems for controlling a robot or assistive device that allows the robot or device to find and manipulate objects in a real world environment. The disclosed devices, methods, and systems may, in many cases, receive control input through monitoring, tracking, and analyzing the 3D gaze of a user/controller. Using the described 3D eye tracking, a user can directly and naturally look at an object of interest in the real world, while the system monitors, tracks, and records the user's 3D gaze position. This information, in many cases, is then translated into input commands for the robot or assistive.
US10755088B2
Systems and methods are disclosed herein for determining user behavior in an augmented reality environment. An augmented reality application executing on a computing system receives a video depicting a face of a person. The video includes a video frame. The augmented reality application augments the video frame with an image of an item selected via input from a user device associated with a user. The augmented reality application determines, from the video frame, a score representing an action unit. The action unit represents a muscle on the face of the person depicted by the video frame and the score represents an intensity of the action unit. The augmented reality application calculates, from a predictive model and based on the score, an indicator of intent of the person depicted by the video.
US10755084B2
Embodiments provide, in at least one aspect, methods and systems that authenticate at least one face in at least one digital image using techniques to mitigate spoofing. For example, methods and systems trigger an image capture device to capture a sequence images of the user performing the sequence of one or more position requests based on the pitch and yaw movements. The methods and systems generate a series of face signatures for the sequence of images of the user performing the sequence of one or more position requests. The methods and systems compare the generated series of face signatures to stored face signatures corresponding to the requested sequence of the one or more position requests.
US10755083B2
A vehicle terminal automatically registering a profile image of a user to a vehicle using images stored in a mobile terminal of a user and performing a face authentication includes a communicator that performs a data communication with the mobile terminal of the user, a camera that obtains a face image of the user, and a processor that registers the profile image of the user using an image among the images stored in the mobile terminal. The processor learns a facial feature of the user using the images stored in the mobile terminal as learning data and analyzes the face image obtained through the camera based on the learned facial feature of the user to perform the face authentication of the user.
US10755081B2
A method and device for identifying a pupil in an image is provided. The method comprises four steps including: A. image preprocessing, B. edge detecting, C. building connected graphs, and D. screening connected graph pairs.
US10755070B2
A fingerprint and image sensor includes a plurality of data lines, a plurality of scan lines, to which a plurality of scan signals is transferred, a plurality of reset scan lines, to which a plurality of reset scan signals is transferred, and a sensor panel, which is reset by a reset voltage, which is synchronized to a corresponding reset scan signal and is transferred, generates a pixel voltage according to light supplied during an exposure period, and includes a plurality of sensor pixels, which is synchronized to a corresponding scan signal and transfers the pixel voltage to a corresponding data line, and the exposure period may be a period from a time point, at which the corresponding reset scan signal is changed to an off-level, to a time point, at which the corresponding scan signal is changed to an on-level.
US10755068B2
A fingerprint registration method and an electronic device using the same are provided. The fingerprint registration method includes the following steps: sequentially obtaining a plurality of swipe frames of a fingerprint by a fingerprint sensor; sequentially analyzing the swipe frames by a processor to obtain a plurality of feature points; sequentially merging the feature points of the swipe frames into pre-registration data by the processor; sequentially updating a completion area displayed on a user interface by the processor according to relative position relationships of the feature points of the swipe frames; and determining whether the pre-registration data satisfies a preset completion condition by the processor, so as to determine whether to end the fingerprint registration.
US10755058B2
An information management system, comprising a first vessel having a first memory that stores first information, a second vessel having a second memory that stores second information, a detection circuit capable of detecting a proximity signal corresponding to approach of the second vessel to the first vessel, and a processor that adds the first information to the second memory that stores the second information, based on the proximity signal that has been detected by the detection circuit.
US10755046B1
Disclosed herein is an NLP system that is able to extract meaning from a natural language message using improved parsing techniques. Such an NLP system can be used in concert with an NLG system to interactively interpret messages and generate response messages in an interactive conversational stream. The parsing can include (1) named entity recognition that contextualizes the meanings of words in a message with reference to a knowledge base of named entities understood by the NLP and NLG systems, (2) syntactically parsing the message to determine a grammatical hierarchy for the named entities within the message, (3) reduction of recognized named entities into aggregations of named entities using the determined grammatical hierarchy and reduction rules to further clarify the message's meaning, and (4) mapping the reduced aggregation of named entities to an intent or meaning, wherein this intent/meaning can be used as control instructions for an NLG process.
US10755045B2
Automatic processing of documents often generates results far different from those obtained by manual human processing. For a given document processing task, many different techniques can be tried but it is often not known which will best emulate manual, human processing. This application discloses data processing equipment and methods specially adapted for a specific application: analysis of the breadth of documents. The processing may include context-dependent pre-processing of documents and sub-portions of the documents. The sub-portions may be analyzed based on word count and commonality of words in the respective sub-portions. Preambles may be identified and analyzed. The equipment and methods disclosed herein improve upon other automated techniques to provide document processing by achieving a result that is quantitatively closer to manual, human processing.
US10755039B2
A system and process for extracting information from filled form images is described. In one example the claimed invention first extracts textual information and the hierarchy in a blank form. This information is then used to extract and understand the content of filled forms. In this way, the system does not have to analyze from the beginning each filled form. The system is designed so that it remains as generic as possible. The number of hard coded rules in the whole pipeline was minimized to offer an adaptive solution able to address the largest number of forms, with various structures and typography. The system is also created to be integrated as a built-in function in a larger pipeline. The form understanding pipeline could be the starting point of any advanced Natural Language Processing application.
US10755037B1
A method and system is disclosed that determines whether a content item viewed by a user has been approved by the user. Responsive to determining that the content item has been approved by the user, the method and system select a share interactive element to display with a graphical representation of the content item to allow the content item to be shared with one or more other users in any of a plurality of content networks. The method and system annotate the graphical representation of the content item with share interactive element. The method and system further provide, by a processor, the graphical representation of the content item with the share interactive element for display on a media device.
US10755036B1
A system according to various exemplary embodiments includes a processor and a user interface, communication module, and memory coupled to the processor. The memory stores instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the system to: retrieve a digital image from a server using the communication module; present the digital image on a display of the user interface; receive edits to the digital image via the user interface; generate, based on the edits, a modified digital image, wherein generating the modified digital image includes transforming a format of the digital image to include a field containing an identifier associated with the modified digital image; and transmit the modified digital image to the server using the communication module.
US10755028B2
An analysis device includes a memory and a processor configured to acquire a document for analyzing, generate a coded document including a plurality of coded words by coding the document for each word unit, determine a vector value according to a condition of appearance of a first coded phrase in the coded document, the first coded phrase corresponding to a combination of two or more coded words included in the plurality of coded words, and assign the vector value to the first coded phrase.
US10755024B1
The present disclosure relates to a system and method for routing in an electronic circuit design. Embodiments may include providing, using a processor, a hierarchical electronic design having a plurality of partitions, at least one routing blockage, a source pin location, and one or more sink pin locations. Embodiments may also include generating a routing wire network configured to connect the source pin location and the one or more sink pin locations to create one or more segments, wherein generating the routing wire network includes creating two or more feed-through ports at one or more of the plurality of partitions. Embodiments may further include applying a maze-routing approach to each of the one or more segments of the routing wire network to form a routed net associated with the hierarchical electronic design.
US10755023B1
An arrival time propagation method and system for statistical circuit analysis that uses a conjugation operation and a negation operation to determine and adjust arrival times in a circuit model and to determine path ordering in a circuit.
US10755021B2
A method of designing a microwave filter using a computerized filter optimizer, comprises generating a filter circuit design in process (DIP) comprising a plurality of circuit elements having a plurality of resonant elements and one or more non-resonant elements, optimizing the DIP by inputting the DIP into the computerized filter optimizer, determining that one of the plurality of circuit elements in the DIP is insignificant, removing the one insignificant circuit element from the DIP, deriving a final filter circuit design from the DIP, and manufacturing the microwave filter based on the final filter circuit design.
US10755013B1
Creating a high-level language (HLL) callable library for a hardware core can include automatically querying, using computer hardware, a metadata description of a core to determine a plurality of available ports of the core, automatically determining, using the computer hardware, an argument of a first function specified in a header file corresponding to the core, mapping, using the computer hardware, the argument to a first port of the plurality of available ports, and automatically generating and storing, using the computer hardware, an HLL library specifying a mapping of the argument to the first port of the core. The HLL library is configured for inclusion with a user application during compilation.
US10755007B2
The disclosure includes a system, method, and tangible memory for generating a simulation. The method may include receiving real-world sensor stream data that describes a real-world data stream that is recorded by onboard sensors in one or more test vehicles, wherein the real-world sensor stream data describes real-world active agents and real-world environmental elements. The method may further include generating three-dimensional (3D) models of active agents and 3D models of environmental elements in a vehicle environment. The method may further include generating a simulation of the vehicle environment that synthesizes the real-world active agents with 3D models of active agents and synthesizes the real-world environmental elements with the 3D models of environmental elements.
US10755006B2
Reservoir simulations may be executed in a high performance computing cloud cluster (530) provisioned within a cloud computing environment (450) and accessible by graphical pre- and/or post-processors (410) resident on a computer system (402) that is external to the cloud computing environment.
US10754996B2
Systems and methods for providing privacy protection in the use of data capturing device are provided. A set of data capturing components of a mobile communications device is enabled to capture media data. A trigger event is detected. In response to detecting the trigger event, connectivity of the mobile communications device is restricted to limit at least one of the set of data capturing components.
US10754991B2
A method is provided to isolate a secure operation region with a safety-critical software and real-time operating system from a non-secure operation region with non-critical software and general operating system including a non-secure mode, wherein the real-time operating system is inactivated and the general operating system is activated by a secure configuration register and wherein secure interrupts are mapped to fast processor interrupts calling a secure monitor program and non-secure interrupts are mapped to regular processor interrupts by a interface configuration register, and further including a secure mode, wherein the real-time operating system is activated and the general operating system is inactivated by the secure configuration register and wherein secure interrupts are mapped to regular processor interrupts calling the real-time operating system, fast processor interrupts are not used and non-secure interrupts are disabled by the interface configuration register.
US10754988B2
A secured storage system includes a non-volatile memory and a controller. The non-volatile memory is configured to store a first data item and a respective first version identifier assigned to the first data item. The controller is configured to receive a second data item accompanied by a second version identifier and a signature, for replacing the first data item in the non-volatile memory, to authenticate at least the second version identifier using the signature, to make a comparison between the stored first version identifier and the second version identifier, and to replace the first data item with the second data item only in response to verifying that (i) the second version identifier is authenticated successfully, and (ii) the second data item is more recent than the first data item, as indicated by the comparison between the stored first version identifier and the authenticated second version identifier.
US10754984B2
In some examples, a method of privacy preservation in a security information sharing platform includes comparing, by a system comprising a hardware processor in the security information sharing platform that enables sharing of security information among a plurality of users, a set of profiles wherein each profile of the set of profiles is associated with an individual user; identifying, by the system based on the comparing, that a badge associated with a particular profile of the set of profiles is predictive of an identity of the individual user, the badge based on a contribution of security information by the individual user to the security information sharing platform, and the badge comprising user attributes associated with the individual user; and modifying, by the system based on the identifying, a visibility of the badge within the security information sharing platform.
US10754982B1
A system and method for scrubbing data to be shared between organizations to test a joint solution, and for preventing the introduction of unscrubbed data. Each organization captures a subset of data, which may be customer data from a line of business. The first organization scrubs its data according to scrubbing rules, and then passes the scrubbed data to its test environment, while the second organization passes its unscrubbed data to its test environment. The scrubbed data is communicated to the second organization and is applied to the unscrubbed data in order to scrub it, and then communicate it to the first organization. Both organizations use the scrubbed data in their respective test environments to test the joint solution or joint testing. Scrubbing the data may involve scrubbing only specific data fields containing sensitive information.
US10754971B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for referenced access control lists. In one aspect, a method includes accessing an object hierarchy for a plurality of objects, each object being representative of one of a storage location or a file. The object hierarchy includes for each object, a respective node, for each object that is a parent object having a child object, a directed edge connecting the node representing the parent object. In addition, for each object, including metadata that includes an access control list identifier that identifies an access control list for the object and that is owned by an access control list root object. The method including receiving updates to an access control list for particular objects, generating a new access control list, and storing the new access control list identifier in metadata for each object that descends from the particular object.
US10754968B2
An apparatus, computer program, and method are afforded for providing a peer-to-peer security protocol. In operation, a message is identified that is directed from a first peer device to a second peer device. Further, the message is copied, so that a copy of the message is caused to be sent to an auditing server.
US10754965B2
A system and method for protecting presented content text from unauthorized perception. A message comprising presentable data defining presentable content is received. A presence of a privacy indication token within the presentable data is determined. Based on determining the presence of the privacy indication token within the presentable data, a presentation privacy filter is applied to presentations of the presentable content.
US10754961B2
A data processing apparatus and a data processing method thereof for an Internet of Things (IoT) system are provided. The data processing apparatus generates a plurality of diagnosis rule data, diagnoses each of the device data received from at least one IoT apparatus to generate a plurality of diagnosis log data, packages the device data, the diagnosis log data and the diagnosis rule data respectively based on a preset data amount to generate a plurality of device files, a plurality of diagnosis log files and a plurality of diagnosis rule files individually, stores each device file, each diagnosis log file and each diagnosis rule file in an interplanetary file system individually, and stores hash values of each device file, each diagnosis log file and each diagnosis rule file in a blockchain system individually.
US10754960B2
A server includes a processor core including system memory, and a cryptographic engine storing a key data structure. The data structure is to store multiple keys for multiple secure domains. The core receives a request to program a first secure domain into the cryptographic engine. The request includes first domain information within a first wrapped binary large object (blob). In response a determination that there is no available entry in the data structure, the core selects a second secure domain within the data structure to de-schedule and issues a read key command to read second domain information from a target entry of the data structure. The core encrypts the second domain information to generate a second wrapped blob and stores the second wrapped blob in a determined region of the system memory, which frees up the target entry for use to program the first secure domain.
US10754958B1
The VULNERABILITY RISK MITIGATION PLATFORM APPARATUSES, METHODS AND SYSTEMS (“VRMP”) transforms vulnerability risk info request, malware correlation analysis request, social media mentions analysis request, and, asset risk analysis request inputs via VRMP components into vulnerability risk info, CVE data, social media mentions risk score, and, asset risk score outputs. A vulnerability risk info request for a network environment may be obtained. A security vulnerability affecting assets associated with the network environment may be determined. A base vulnerability risk score for the security vulnerability may be determined and augmented based on calculated public exploits availability score, malware correlation score, social media mentions risk score, and overall asset risk score to determine an augmented vulnerability risk score. Vulnerability risk information regarding the security vulnerability may be provided in accordance with the augmented vulnerability risk score.
US10754954B2
Provided is a method for securely exchanging information during application startup. A processor may send a request for a passphrase to one or more remote devices using a first out-of-band message. The processor may receive, from at least one of the remote devices, a response that includes the passphrase. The response may be a second out-of-band message. The processor may decrypt application startup data that is stored in a first configuration file for the application using the received passphrase. The application startup data may be necessary for the application to execute. The processor may then execute the application using the decrypted application startup data.
US10754951B1
Executable files are evaluated for malware in one or more lightweight executors, such as lightweight executor processes. An executable file is loaded and executed in a lightweight executor. Instructions in an execution path of the executable file are executed. Instructions in another execution path of the executable file are executed in another lightweight executor when a conditional branch instruction in an execution path has a suspicious condition. A fake kernel that mimics a real operating system kernel receives system calls, and responds to the system calls without servicing them in a way the real operating system kernel would. Runtime behavior of the executable file is observed for malware behavior. A response action, such as preventing the executable file from subsequently executing in a computer, is performed when the executable file is detected to be malware.
US10754950B2
A method includes monitoring system call invocations made to an operating system of a computer system by an application as the application renders a digital file. The method automatically featurizes the system call invocations into a set of features corresponding to the digital file, and compares each feature set against benign features of a set of known benign features. The comparing includes, for each feature of the set of features, applying entity resolution between the feature and benign feature(s) of the set of known benign features to find a correlation between the feature and a benign feature representing a common semantic interaction between the application and the operating system. The method identifies a number of features that do not correlate to the benign features, and determines maliciousness of the digital file based on the identified number of features that do not correlate to the benign features.
US10754949B1
A file is received. Contents of the file are transformed using a space-filling curve. One example of a space-filling curve that can be used for the transformation is a Hilbert curve. The result of the transformation is down-sampled. One example way of down-sampling is using a blur operation with anti-aliasing. A hashing operation is performed on the down-sampled result. One example of a hashing operation is locality sensitive hashing.
US10754944B2
To reliably protect users or systems from a program prepared by a malicious developer. Provided is a processing system configured to process a program transmitted from outside through a wired or wireless network. The processing system includes: a reception module configured to receive the program; an addition module configured to add to the program a gate component that restricts a process of attacking a user or the system; and an alteration module configured to alter, in the program, a code having a certain keyword or syntax to change a destination to be referred to by the code having the keyword or syntax to the gate component.
US10754937B2
A method and a system for recognizing an input by using an index of a variable grid are disclosed. An input recognition method carried out by an electronic device implemented by a computer comprises the steps of: generating a virtual grid of which the distance between lines is variable, in correspondence with at least a partial region of a display included in or connected to the electronic device; and recognizing, by using an index of the virtual grid, a position selected by a user of the electronic device in the region of the display corresponding to the virtual grid.
US10754934B2
A device identifies an authorization endpoint based on region information received from an application and associated with the user, transmits an authorization code request to an authorization endpoint, and receives an authorization code response from the authorization endpoint, corresponding to the authorization code request. Alternatively, the region information is obtained from pre-existing information on the device.
US10754930B2
A method is performed at a client device distinct from an application server. In the method, a first key is stored in a secure store of the client device. A wrapped second key is received from the application server. The first key is retrieved from the secure store and used to unwrap the second key. Encrypted media content and a media control command to control playback of the media content is received from the application server. The content is decrypted using the unwrapped second key, and decoded for playback. During playback of the media content, a play position of the decrypted media content is transmitted to the application server and the decrypted media content is transmitted to a display device that is coupled to the client device. The decrypted media content is displayed in accordance with the received media control command.
US10754929B2
Systems, methods, and software can be used to share content. In some aspect, a first user input for copying a content is received at a first application on a mobile device. A token that is associated with the content is generated. A Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) is sent from the first application to a clipboard application. A second user input for pasting the content is received at a second application on the mobile device. The token is received at the second application from the clipboard application. A request for the content is received from the second application. The request includes the token. Whether the second application is authorized to receive the content is determined at the first application. In response to determining that the second application is authorized to receive the content, the content is provided to the second application.
US10754924B2
A monitoring system is disclosed. The system comprises a range detection system, configured for scanning a scene to provide range data arranged gridwise over a plurality of picture elements, and a data processing system configured for processing the range data to monitor hygienic activity, preferably hand hygienic activity, of an individual in the scene. Preferably, the picture elements are devoid of any color data and any grayscale data. In some embodiments of the present invention the data processing system identifies one or more of the moments for hand hygiene as defined by the World Health Organization, and monitors the hygienic activity in relation to these five moments.
US10754923B2
Medical image based collaboration system and methods are provided. A collaboration server 40 creates a medical image based case in response to a request from a requesting system 10 and populates the case with the minimum required information comprising at least a digital medical image and a case number. The collaboration server 40 provides the medical image based case to a consulting system 30 and receives analysis information in response. The collaboration server 40 stores the analysis information in association with the medical image based case and provides the analysis information to the consulting system 30 to complete the medical image based collaboration.
US10754914B2
A method of adding informative content to an electronic knowledge base includes generating a plurality of database tables from a plurality of websites, each database table based on a corresponding website, and individually processing each database table to identify potentially informative content from each database table. The method further includes identifying as informative content, the potentially informative content that is included in a first predetermined number of the database tables of the plurality of database tables, the first predetermined number being greater than one, and adding the informative content to the electronic knowledge base.
US10754913B2
A system and method is provided to track users across applications and devices, and to distinguish similar or different users among a number of commonly-used devices. Accordingly, systems and methods are provided for analyzing user device information to determine different users among a number of devices. In particular, user's behavior when using the devices is observed, and responsive to that observed behavior, is the determined whether a particular users are distinguishable from other users. For instance, it may be useful to distinguish between users that operate the same devices or exist within a similar network (e.g., a home network, a workplace network, etc.) for various purposes. For instance, it may be useful to distinguish between users for displaying advertising to these users, performing some other operation with respect to a subset of the users.
US10754912B2
Representative embodiments disclose mechanisms to improve the perceived responsiveness of a search engine. As a user types a query prefix into a browser or other interface to the search engine, the search engine returns query completion suggestions to the browser. The query completion suggestions, user history, user favorites and/or other information are presented to a trained machine learning model on the client device to predict a desired location that the user is attempting to navigate to. When the confidence level of the predicted location surpasses a threshold, content from the desired location is preloaded into a hidden tab in the browser. When the user submits a query, the browser submits feedback to a system responsible for updating and refining the machine learning model. Updated machine learning model coefficients can be received by the browser from the system to make predictions more accurate.
US10754906B2
According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a preference information obtainer that obtains preference information indicating preferences of a target user to which recommendation is to be made, the preferences ranging over a plurality of genres. The information processing apparatus includes a recommendation item determiner that determines, using the preference information of the target user and recommendation candidate information about a plurality of recommendation candidates ranging over a plurality of genres, a recommendation item to be recommended to the target user from the plurality of recommendation candidates, the recommendation candidate information being stored in an accessible storage apparatus.
US10754896B2
One embodiment is a method that receives a description of services desired by a service requestor and then crawls web sites to extract information on services offered by service providers. The extracted information is used to transform the description of services desired by the service requestor into an improved description of services.
US10754893B1
Systems and methods for providing access to vehicle videos are provided. An example system may include a plurality of cameras and an electronic device associated with a vehicle. The electronic device can continuously record a plurality of videos captured by the plurality of cameras, periodically generate, based on the plurality of videos, snapshot images including image metadata, and upload the snapshot images to a remote computing system. The remote computing system can render the snapshot images for view and selection by a user and receive, from the user, a selection of a snapshot image of the snapshot images. In response to the user selection, the remote computing system can select, based on the image metadata associated with the selected snapshot image, a video from the plurality of videos and play back a portion of the video stored on the electronic device.
US10754888B2
A method comprising identifying a mood media item association with an object media item, the mood media item being a media item of a face of a user while the object media item is being viewed by the user, determining an object that is associated with the object media item, and causing establishment of an association between the object and the mood media item is disclosed.
US10754880B2
A method and system for generating a replacement query for a user-entered query is provided. The user-entered query is received by a service that never used it and is potentially erroneously entered. The method comprises selecting a set of queries for the user-entered query from past queries based on string similarity. The method comprises retrieving past-query-interdependence data indicative of past transitions between each pair of queries in the set of queries. The method comprises selecting an approximated query from the set of queries based on string similarity and usage frequency. The method comprises, for each pair of approximated query and one of the set of queries, generating a vector based on past-query-interdependence data between the approximated query and respective one of the set of queries. Each vector can be used as an approximated vector. The method comprises generating ranking parameters for the approximated vectors and determining the replacement query.
US10754868B2
A system for analyzing the runtime impact of data files on data extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL) jobs typically includes a processor, a memory, and a runtime impact analysis module stored in the memory. The runtime impact analysis module is typically configured for: receiving a user input comprising a designator of a data repository from a user; receiving an ETL job list file from one or more ETL servers; for each ETL job invocation name in the ETL job list file: querying the one or more ETL servers for runtime information, receiving the runtime information from the one or more ETL servers, searching the runtime information for the designator of the data repository, and if the designator of the data repository is identified in the runtime information, adding the ETL job invocation name to an impacted ETL job file; and providing the impacted ETL job file to the user.
US10754858B2
An access plan including multiple indexes is selected for accessing data of a database system. A filtering status of each index within the selected access plan is determined based on information available at execution of the selected access plan. The order of the indexes within the selected access plan is modified based on the filtering status of the indexes, and the selected access plan is executed with the modified order of the indexes. The execution of the selected access plan is interrupted in response to accessing a threshold amount of data and the filtering of the indexes of the selected access plan is estimated. A processing order for the indexes is determined based on the estimated filtering. The execution of the selected access plan resumes based on the determined processing order.
US10754848B2
The invention comprises a method for registration of data in a blockchain database, in which database transactions are constructed of standard data containers which may have a fixed size, in a system comprising one or more storage nodes for storing at least part of the blockchain database, one or more approval nodes for approving transactions in said blockchain database and a first computer for generating transactions in said blockchain database, said computer having access to said blockchain database and having access to a first private key. The invention further comprises a method for verifying data based on the aforementioned method for registration and a computer program product comprising program code stored on a computer readable medium, said program code comprising computer instructions for performing the method.
US10754846B2
Systems and methods are provided for high-performance data processing. A policy is received that indicates a cutoff time. A request is processed to return the data item from the cache if the cutoff time is satisfied for the data item or return the data item from the database or not at all if the cutoff time is not satisfied for the data item. If the data item retrieved from the database, metadata associated with the data item is stored to indicate when the data item was last marked as in sync with the database.
US10754837B2
This application discloses a server for handling data reporting requests in a system that also comprises storage managers, primary storage devices, and secondary storage devices connected over one or more networks. The server receives, from each storage manager, a copy of data associated with the storage manager, and stores the received copies in one or more local databases. The server builds offline one or more indices for part or all of the received copies to improve query processing against the one or more local databases. Next, the server receives a request over a network from one of the storage managers or a standalone console, which received the request from a user for a report of data associated with the storage managers. The server produces a data report in response to the request, using the one or more indices and without impacting performance of the storage managers.
US10754836B1
Embodiments of the invention include a system and set of processes for organizing image collections. The system detects individuals in each image uploaded into the system using facial recognition or similar methods. The user and viewers of the images may then view dynamic albums based on the interrelationships of individuals in images. Users and viewers may browse all images with an individual or see albums of images with two selected individuals or similar combinations based on the relationships between users.
US10754825B2
Systems and methods implementing a path resolver facilitating client access to a distributed file system. An example method may comprise: receiving, by a processing device, file identifier comprising a symbolic link; producing, by a user space process being executed by the processing device, a modified file identifier, by replacing a pre-defined sequence of characters within the file identifier by a path to a mount point of a distributed file system; and identifying, in view of the modified file identifier, a data structure comprising information about a file identified by the file identifier.
US10754823B2
In some embodiments, responsive to a user modifying a content of the file at a first client device (associated with the user), a server system may automatically receive a copy of the file from the first client device, where the file copy may be an updated version of the file that is generated from the user modifying the content of the file. After receiving metadata associated with the updated version of the file from the first client device, the server system may automatically transfer the metadata to a second client device associated with the user such that, before the file copy is transferred to the second client device, the transfer of the metadata to the second client device causes a graphical availability indication of the updated version of the file to be presented (e.g., proximate a file icon representing the file) at the second client device based on the metadata.
US10754817B2
An information processing apparatus having a reconfigurable circuit capable of rewriting a logic circuit includes, a process determination circuit that determines which of a plurality of processes is to be executed, a standby buffer circuit that holds process data to be used in a process waiting for execution among processes determined by the process determination circuit, and a rewrite control circuit that rewrites the current logic circuit written in the reconfigurable circuit to a logic circuit that executes one of the plurality of processes waiting for execution using each of a plurality of process data held in the standby buffer circuit when the amount of process data held in the standby buffer circuit exceeds a first predetermined amount.
US10754816B2
The present disclosure generally relates to a device, method, or system for time sensitive networking. In an example, the device can include a time-sensitive networking controller and a scheduler. The device also includes an enhanced gate control list maintained on the time-sensitive networking controller to include a direct memory access address, a launch time, and a pre-fetch time for a data packet. The device may also include a transmitter of the time-sensitive networking controller to transmit the data packet retrieved using the direct memory access address at the launch time identified by the scheduler.
US10754809B2
By shutting off keeper transistors during pre-charge, the aging on these devices may be reduced. This means that a relatively weaker keeper may be used for noise compared to an overdesigned stronger keeper. Using a relatively weaker keeper circuit results in a faster evaluation stage and improved minimum read voltage in some embodiments.
US10754804B2
An application processor includes a system bus, a host processor, a voice trigger system and an audio subsystem that are electrically connected to the system bus. The voice trigger system performs a voice trigger operation and issues a trigger event based on a trigger input signal that is provided through a trigger interface. The audio subsystem processes audio streams through an audio interface of the audio subsystem.
US10754802B2
Embodiments include a method to determine whether to dynamically remap an in-process update of a first page of memory to a second page of memory. When a dynamic remap is determined, the method causes a pause of the in-process update to the first page of memory by one or more bridges, draining of in-process direct memory access (DMA) operations, and redirecting the update to the second page of memory.
US10754800B2
A storage device includes a controller and a nonvolatile memory device. The controller includes a field programmable gate array (FPGA) and receives an FPGA image for updating the FPGA from an outside in response to a first command received from the outside. The nonvolatile memory device stores the FPGA image. The controller receives the FPGA image through a main interface or a sideband interface, and executes the FPGA image in response to a second command received from the outside.
US10754798B1
Link speed recovery in a data storage system in accordance with the present description includes, in one aspect of the present description, repeating performance of a main loop of sequential link speed recovery commands a predetermined maximum number of times. In one embodiment, main loop performance of link speed recovery commands includes repeating performance of a subloop of sequential link speed recovery commands within each main loop performance a predetermined maximum number of times. As a result of repeating performance of a subloop of sequential link speed recovery commands within each main loop performance, and repeating performance of a main loop of sequential link speed recovery commands in accordance with one embodiment, reliability of link speed recovery to full link speed may be improved. Other aspects and advantages may be realized, depending upon the particular application.
US10754793B2
The present disclosure provides methods, apparatus, and systems for implementing and operating a memory module, for example, in a computing that includes a network interface, which may be coupled to a network to enable communication with a client device, and host processing circuitry, which may be coupled to the network interface via a system bus and programmed to perform first data processing operations based on user inputs received from the client device. The memory module may be coupled to the system bus and include memory devices and a memory controller coupled to the memory devices via an internal bus. The memory controller may include memory processing circuitry programmed to perform a second data processing operation that facilitates performance of the first data processing operations by the host processing circuitry based on context of the data block indicated by the metadata.
US10754789B1
Provided are systems and methods for an address translation circuit for a memory controller. The address translation circuit can include an address translation table. A first set of rows in the address translation table can be associated with all virtual machine identifiers supported by the memory controller. A second set of rows can be associated with only a particular virtual machine identifier. The address translation circuit can receive an input address for a transaction to processor memory. The address translation circuit can determine an index by inputting the input address into a hash function. The address translation circuit can read a row from the address translation table using the index. The address translation circuit can determine whether an entry in the row includes the address translation for the input address. The address translation circuit can generate and output a translated address using the address translation.
US10754787B2
The present disclosure includes apparatuses and methods related to virtual address tables. An example method comprises generating an object file that comprises: an instruction comprising a number of arguments; and an address table comprising a number of indexed address elements. Each one of the number of indexed address elements can correspond to a virtual address of a respective one of the number of arguments, wherein the address table can serves as a target for the number of arguments. The method can include storing the object file in a memory.
US10754784B1
Provided is a method of cache entry management, the method comprising determining, by a cache manager, a level of importance for each of a plurality of cache entries, assigning, by the cache manager, a metadata type for each of the cache entries based upon the determined level of importance, determining, by the cache manager, a frequency of access of each of the cache entries, generating, by the cache manager, a heat map based upon the determined frequency of access of the cache entries, and determining, by the cache manager, which one of at least two of the cache entries to evict based upon the respective metadata types and the respective frequencies of access.
US10754780B2
Provided area computer program product, system, and method for maintaining track format metadata for target tracks in a target storage in a copy relationship with source tracks in a source storage. Upon receiving a request to a requested target track in the target storage, the source track for the requested target track is staged from the source storage to a cache to be used as the requested target track in response to determining that the copy relationship information indicates that a source track needs to be copied to the requested target track. A determination is made of track format metadata for the requested target track, comprising the staged source track, indicating a format and layout of data in the requested target track and a track format code identifying the track format metadata. The track format code is included in a cache control block for the requested target track.
US10754778B2
Methods and systems for improved control of traffic generated by a processor are described. In an embodiment, when a device generates a pre-fetch request for a piece of data or an instruction from a memory hierarchy, the device includes a pre-fetch identifier in the request. This identifier flags the request as a pre-fetch request rather than a non-pre-fetch request, such as a time-critical request. Based on this identifier, the memory hierarchy can then issue an abort response at times of high traffic which suppresses the pre-fetch traffic, as the pre-fetch traffic is not fulfilled by the memory hierarchy. On receipt of an abort response, the device deletes at least a part of any record of the pre-fetch request and if the data/instruction is later required, a new request is issued at a higher priority than the original pre-fetch request.
US10754776B2
Systems and methods for cache balance when using hardware transactional memory are disclosed. A method includes: determining, by a computing device, a hardware transactional memory (HTM) attrition rate for a workload in a distributed computing environment; determining, by the computing device, whether or not the HTM attrition rate for the workload exceeds a predetermined threshold; and in response to determining that the HTM attrition rate for the workload does not exceed the predetermined threshold, the computing device causing a requested HTM transaction to begin.
US10754773B2
A method for dynamically selecting a size of a memory access may be provided. The method comprises accessing blocks having a variable number of consecutive cache lines, maintaining a vector with entries of past utilizations for each block size, and adapting said block size before a next access to the blocks.
US10754772B2
A method for reclaiming memory resources may include segmenting a plurality of memory resources in an in-memory database into a first resource partition and a second resource partition; generating, for the first resource partition, a first heap containing a first plurality of memory resources sorted based on an age of data occupying the first plurality of memory resources; generating, for the second resource partition, a second heap containing a second plurality of memory resources sorted based on an age of data occupying the second plurality of memory resources; and when a shortage of memory resources is detected, identifying, from the first heap, a first memory resource containing a least recently used data, identifying, from the second heap, a second memory resource containing a least recently used data, and reclaiming the first memory resource and/or the second memory resource. Related systems and articles of manufacture are also disclosed.
US10754761B2
Methods and systems for testing source code are disclosed. The method includes mounting a shared memory and launching a controller container. The controller container is configured to retrieve a repository identifier of a repository on which the source code is stored, and a build descriptor including build steps and an indicator of a build VM image for generating the build. The method further includes storing the build steps in the shared memory, retrieving the source code from the repository based on the repository identifier, and storing the retrieved source code in the shared memory. The method also includes launching a build container based on the indicator of the build VM image, the build container configured to retrieve the build steps and the source code from the shared memory and perform the build on the source code based on the steps defined in the build steps.
US10754754B2
A method for improving performance of a system including a first processor and a second processor includes obtaining a code region specified to be executed on the second processor, the code region including a plurality of instructions, calculating a performance improvement of executing at least one of the plurality of instructions included in the code region on the second processor over executing the at least one instruction on the first processor, removing the at least one instruction from the code region in response to a condition including that the performance improvement does not exceed a first threshold, and repeating the calculating and the removing to produce a modified code region specified to be executed on the second processor.
US10754751B2
A status notification application displays a status of a peripheral device, and a bidirectional communication module operates as a service application and is capable of performing bidirectional communication with the peripheral device, and the status notification application issues a request to obtain a status of the peripheral device together with a name of the peripheral device to the bidirectional communication module, and the bidirectional communication module specifies a target peripheral device from which to obtain the status based on the name of the peripheral device, and transmits a request to obtain the status to the target peripheral device, and transmits to the status notification application the status sent back from the peripheral device in response to the request to obtain.
US10754747B2
In one implementation, a system for providing a representation of a physical location of a port includes an identifier engine, a configuration engine, and a display engine. In an example, the identifier engine retrieves a value stored on a first memory resource located on a system board. In an example, a configuration engine identifies a memory resource location on a second memory resource that is to store physical port information using a system identifier associated with the value. In an example, a display engine causes the physical port information to be displayed.
US10754739B2
A production host for hosting virtual machines includes a persistent storage and a production agent. The persistent storage stores virtual machine data of the virtual machines. The production agent obtains a dynamic backup generation rule for the virtual machines; for a predetermined period of time after obtaining the dynamic backup generate rule: generates first backups of the virtual machines based on the dynamic backup generate rule; and identifies a change rate of the virtual machine data; after the predetermined period of time, obtain a prediction-based backup generation rule that is based on the change rate of the virtual machine data over the predetermined period of time; and generates second backups of the virtual machines based on the prediction-based backup generation rule.
US10754734B2
According to certain aspects, systems and methods are provided for automating recovery of a networked data storage environment. For instance, a system can generate a data recovery package configured to automatically carry out a process for recovering a data storage environment and/or associated data. The content of the particular workflow depends on the data storage environment, and can be defined by a user.
US10754725B2
Methods and apparatus for Exclusive OR (XOR) programming of a memory device are described. A program internal to a device calculates parity or other values using an XOR Program Rule. In some embodiments, the program generates and stores a parity result directly in the memory device itself without intervention by an external controller. A method of parity generation in a memory device comprises executing an internal self-accumulating parity program, wherein the program accumulates a parity sum by superimposing newly accumulated parity information over previously stored parity information in the auxiliary memory system. In a stand-alone device embodiment, a new command “XOR program” is received with address and input data parameters causing stored data to be read at the input address and an XOR operation of the read data and new input data is performed. The results of the computation are written into memory.
US10754722B1
A method for remotely clearing abnormal status of racks includes following steps: obtaining each information of a rack management controller (RMC) and multiple baseboard management controllers (BMCs) of a rack regularly by a management system; recording each operating action performed by manager through the management system; analyzing the information and the operating action by the management system for determining whether any RMC or BMC is under one of multiple default attention-statuses; and, automatically performing a remotely rescuing procedure to one of the RMC and the BMCs for eliminating an abnormal connection status from the RMC or the BMC when the RMC or the BMC is determined losing a connection with the management system.
US10754714B1
Methods and devices are provided relating to taking an action in response to determining that a person who is present in the vicinity of the device, such as a smart speaker, is not authorized to be present. In an aspect, the electronic device receives the notification and a topic identifier associated with the notification. Information identifying persons located in the vicinity of the electronic device may be received. The device may then receive and/or determine information identifying at least one person located within the vicinity who is not authorized, based on the topic identifier, to be present in the vicinity when the notification is to be outputted. The device generates an output signal indicating receipt of the notification and that there is at least one person present in the vicinity who is not authorized to be present when the notification is to be outputted.
US10754710B1
Methods and apparatus for a transactional watch mechanism are disclosed. A distributed system includes a state manager coordinating access to a registry. In response to a watch establishment request specifying target elements of the registry for which update notifications are to be provided and an indication of a notification destination, the state manager determines a watch establishment timestamp, and initiates a sequence of asynchronous update notifications to the destination, corresponding to each update to a target element completed after the watch is established. The notifications are provided in the order in which the corresponding updates are applied. The sequence includes exactly one update notification for a given update and excludes update notifications for elements of the registry other than the specified target elements.
US10754702B2
A technique for reconfiguring a virtual machine in a cloud computing environment is disclosed. A method implementation of the technique comprises receiving (S310) a reconfiguration request from an application (110) being executed on the virtual machine in the cloud computing environment, the reconfiguration request indicating a desired resource allocation for the virtual machine, sending (S312) a reconfiguration response to the application (110), the reconfiguration response including a reconfiguration offer indicating a possible resource allocation for the virtual machine, receiving (S316) a reconfiguration acknowledgement from the application (110) indicating acceptance of the reconfiguration offer, and triggering (S318) reconfiguration of the virtual machine so as to allocate resources to the virtual machine according to the accepted reconfiguration offer.
US10754699B2
Systems and methods for remotely provisioning software to process data stored in a virtualized storage environment are provided. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving a request, at a first location, for processing data using a software application, wherein the data is stored in a virtualized storage space at a second location and the software application is invoked in a virtualized computing environment at a third location; using a service at the first location to remotely invoke one or more instances of the software application over the virtualized computing environment at the third location; and using the service at the first location to remotely manage transfer of data stored in the virtualized storage space at the second location to the third location.
US10754698B2
Techniques for virtual workload deployment based on computing resource hardware load and associated network hardware load. For each of a plurality of computing resources within one or more data centers onto which a virtual workload can be deployed, a computing resource hardware load of the respective computing resource is determined. Network topology information is maintained for at least one network fabric of the one or more data centers, and an associated network hardware load of a network device communicatively connected to the respective computing resource is determined. Embodiments automatically select one or more computing resources. The virtual workload is deployed onto the automatically selected one or more computing resources.
US10754695B2
An information processing apparatus includes a receiving unit that receives a process request for processing data, and a controller that, in response to receipt of a process request by the receiving unit, assigns a process to one of a first processing group including a processing unit that processes data, and a second processing group in which one or more processing units can be placed, the processing unit included in the first processing group including a number of processing units less than a predetermined upper limit number. The controller preferentially activates and assigns a process to the processing units included in the first processing group, and if the controller receives a process request that the processing units included in the first processing group are unable to fully process, the controller places a processing unit in the second processing group and assigns a process to the processing unit.
US10754694B2
A system is upgraded by rolling upgrade with dynamic batch sizes in multiple iterations. The system includes multiple hosts that host multiple resources. The rolling upgrade calculates a number of hosts to upgrade and a number of resources to upgrade for each iteration. The calculation subtracts a reserved number of hosts from a capacity of the system to account for potential failover and potential resource scaling operations during the iteration. Based on the calculated number of hosts to upgrade, it is determined whether the system has a capacity for upgrade. If the capacity exists, the calculated number of hosts to upgrade and the calculated number of resources to upgrade are upgraded, while accepting resource scaling requests during the iteration.
US10754685B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for cross-device task registration and resumption. In one implementation, a task can be received from a task registration service of a first device associated with a user. Such a task can include an application identifier that identifies an application that executes on the device. A notification that the user has accessed a second device can be received. In response to the notification, the task can be provided to a task resumption service of the second device.
US10754679B2
A method for handling network I/O device virtualization is provided. The method comprises, translating, by a virtual machine monitor, a guest physical address of a virtual machine to a host physical address in response to an I/O request from at least one virtual machine among a plurality of virtual machines, transmitting, by a virtual machine emulator, an instruction request including the translated address information to an extended device driver associated with the virtual machine from which the I/O request is forwarded, inserting, by the extended device driver, the translated address into a transmission queue, and performing a direct memory access for the I/O request using a physical I/O device according to the transmission queue.
US10754678B2
A method including: receiving, by a computing device, a request from a user device for access to a hosted virtual machine; dedicating, by the computing device, a port to forward a cast of a particular hosted virtual machine instance to the user device; establishing a connection between the user device and the particular hosted virtual machine instance through the dedicated port; receiving, by the computing device and from the user device, instructions to execute an application on the particular hosted virtual machine instance; logging external calls made by the particular hosted virtual machine instance; and transmitting, by the computer device, the log of external calls to be stored on a server, the logs being synced by the server with the user device in substantially real time.
US10754665B2
A method is disclosed for configuring a medical imaging device. In at least one embodiment, the method includes providing an input data set specifying a clinical task, the input data set including quantified image requirements; transferring the input data set to a server; providing a configuration data set by the server depending on the input data set; transferring the configuration data set from the server to the medical imaging device within a defined time interval; and configuring the medical imaging device based on the configuration data set.
US10754664B2
Systems and methods for reconfiguration of illumination products are presented. An illumination product comprises components that implement a device access framework to facilitate access to the configuration of the illumination product by external components. Components internal to or otherwise associated with the illumination product codify various configuration parameters associated with the illumination product in one or more files (e.g., text files) and/or file attributes (e.g., filenames). One or more external components coupled to the internal components use a file access API to read from, write to, and/or otherwise manipulate the files (e.g., modify file content and/or file attributes) so as to access and/or affect the configuration parameters. Changes to the configuration parameters invoked by the external components are detected by the internal components and applied to the configuration (e.g., operational settings) of the illumination product.
US10754663B2
According to the invention, a method for determining what hardware components are installed on a computing device is disclosed. The method may include identifying the computing device, and determining, based on the computing device, a hardware component of the computing device. The method may also include retrieving information about the hardware component, and setting, based at least in part on the information about the hardware component, a parameter for an algorithm of software on the computing device.
US10754659B2
According to an embodiment of the present invention, a system filters a collection of application programming interfaces based on input data representing information of a document to be processed, and generates a pipeline of filtered application programming interfaces. Each filtered application programming interface is sequentially executed within the pipeline. The document may be processed through the pipeline and visualizations based on the processing of the document may be generated, allowing the pipeline to be refined to produce desired output data selected within the visualizations. Embodiments of the present invention further include a method and computer program product for generating a pipeline of filtered application programming interfaces in substantially the same manner described above.
US10754652B2
A processor includes: an address generating unit that, when an instruction decoded by a decoding unit is an instruction to execute arithmetic processing on a plurality of operand sets each including a plurality of operands that are objects of the arithmetic processing, in parallel a plurality of times, generates an address set corresponding to each of the operand sets of the arithmetic processing for each time, based on a certain address displacement with respect to the plurality of operands included in each of the operand sets; a plurality of instruction queues that hold the generated address sets corresponding to the respective operand sets, in correspondence to respective processing units; and a plurality of processing units that perform the arithmetic processing in parallel on the operand sets obtained based on the respective address sets outputted by the plurality of instruction queues.
US10754650B2
In an embodiment, a method includes, in a hardware processor, determining, for a processor instruction, a rule for matching a predicted memory tag. The method further includes determining a predicted memory tag based on applying the rule for matching the predicted memory tag. The method further includes determining an R tag based on applying the rule. The method further includes obtaining an actual memory tag from memory based on an operand of the processor instruction. The method further includes determining whether the predicted memory tag and the actual memory tag match. The method further includes, if the predicted memory tag and actual memory tag match, using the R tag as the R tag output.
US10754644B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for self-certification by a developer that the software components used during development are used in a secure manner, through the use of annotations. Input and return conditions are defined in an annotation for the software components of a system. The input and return conditions are compared for a match and a warning is generated when the input and return conditions do not match.
US10754642B2
A graphical user interface to a software development environment is provided. A user input is received defining an element to be searched with context and information is extracted from the software development environment relating to the software development environment and/or relating to the element. A search string is created comprising the element and the extracted information and the created search string is supplied to a search interface. A search result is received for the created search string, and the search result is outputted for the created search string.
US10754640B2
Information concerning software bugs including bug detection, bug prediction data and/or historical bug data can be used to determine whether it is safe to commit, integrate, deploy and/or deliver a software change. If the change is deemed unsafe, the change can be rejected automatically. Alternatively, the change can proceed following approval by an administrator, supervisor, implementer, manager and/or other designated approval mechanism. Actions taken to override a block can be recorded along with information concerning failed deployments and/or deliveries, a higher than normal customer failure rate after deployment and/or delivery or through manual data entry.
US10754637B1
Managing performing patches on a workload associated with a computing platform comprising: identify the workload associated with the computing platform, wherein the workload can comprise a first workload portion upon which a first subset of patches can be performed offline and a second workload portion upon which a second subset of patches can be performed online; determine, for the first workload portion, a portion of the first subset of patches that can be performed within a maintenance time window while offline based on vulnerability scores of patches of the first subset of patches, and determine, for the second workload portion, the second subset of patches that can be performed while online; and determine the vulnerability scores of the patches of the first subset of patches based on importance levels of the patches.
US10754636B2
A communication device updating system includes a network switch, a plurality of first devices, and a second device. Each of the plurality of first devices is communicatively coupled to the network switch. The second device is communicatively coupled to the network switch, and is configured to store a communication device firmware file, wherein the second device multicasts the communication device firmware file to each of the plurality of first devices through the network switch, and each of the plurality of first devices is updated according to the received communication device firmware file.
US10754634B1
A system and method including: receiving an initial application package including at least one binary file of an application; generating an application token, wherein the application token is operable to identify a context; and assembling a customized application package including the initial application package and the application token, wherein: the customized application package and the initial application package share a common hash value according to a predefined hashing algorithm, and the application can be configured based on the application token.
US10754631B2
Methods and systems for determining an upgrade readiness metric of a tenant in a cloud environment. One method includes receiving, with an electronic processor, device telemetry data for a plurality of devices associated with a first plurality of tenants in the cloud environment and receiving, with the electronic processor, software telemetry data for a second plurality of tenants in the cloud environment. The method also includes determining, with the electronic processor, the upgrade readiness metric for the tenant based on the device telemetry data and the software telemetry data and displaying the upgrade readiness metric within a user interface.
US10754629B2
A method for periodic checking of localized lines in the application source code before the assembled application is propagated into message files (*.po). An automated internationalization of lines for all supported application languages is provided. The lines and their translations in locale files (JSON) are validated against the message files (PO). The un-localized lines are checked in the source code using a localization marker. According to the APS, a special trap (i.e., a hook) is used for APS msgmake utility in order to derive localization data from a set of aps_command_line_tools for assembling a user interface. The lines are corrected and loaded back into “*.po” file.
US10754624B2
An accelerator image generator includes a synthesis block and a simulation block. The accelerator image generator receives a hardware description language representation for a desired function, inputs the hardware description language representation for the desired function to the synthesis block and to the simulation block so the synthesis block and simulation block work in parallel, monitors progress of the synthesis block and the simulation block, and when a defined threshold is reached in the synthesis block, halts the simulation block while the synthesis block continues until the synthesis block outputs an accelerator image for deployment to a programmable device. When an error is detected in the synthesis block following halting of the simulation block, the simulation block may be resumed, and the defined threshold may be adjusted. The accelerator image can be deployed to a programmable device to provide a hardware accelerator corresponding to the accelerator image.
US10754616B1
Low precision computers can be efficient at finding possible answers to search problems. However, sometimes the task demands finding better answers than a single low precision search. A computer system augments low precision computing with a small amount of high precision computing, to improve search quality with little additional computing.
US10754615B2
A user input processing apparatus for a vehicle includes: an operation command generator recognizing a first semantic frame from a user voice, generating a first operation command based on the recognized first semantic frame, recognizing a second semantic frame from the user voice, and generating a second operation command based on the recognized second semantic frame; a sequence determination unit generating an execution sequence of the first operation command and the second operation command; and a controller controlling an execution of the first operation command and the second operation command based on the generated execution sequence and a relation between the first operation command and the second operation command.
US10754610B2
Disclosed is an apparatus for setting a target position using a GUI screen. The apparatus includes a display that displays a representation of a listener and a representation of a hemispherical dome with the listener at the center as projected on a horizontal plane. A user sets a radius of the hemispherical dome through a click operation of a mouse and sets a target position of a sound image with respect to the listener through a drag operation toward the center. The sound image position is represented by a dot O. The dot O represents a position of the sound image with respect to the listener in the left-to-right direction, in the front-to-rear direction, and in the height direction.
US10754609B2
A machine-implemented method: (A) maintains a value of a data time parameter representing an amount of time required by a rendering system to render a portion of temporal sequence presentation data at a default presentation rate; (B) provides the value of the data time parameter to a first component of the rendering system; (C) calculates, based on the value of the data time parameter, a value of a presentation time parameter representing an amount of time elapsed during rendering of the portion of the temporal sequence presentation data; and (D) provides the value of the presentation time parameter to a second component of the rendering system; wherein the value of the presentation time parameter is not equal to the value of the data time parameter.
US10754606B2
An image processing apparatus includes a display to display an image, and circuitry to generate a duplication of the image displayed on the display when the image displayed on the display is selected, and display the generated duplication of the image on the display.
US10754603B2
A method is performed at a computing system that includes a first housing with a primary display and a second housing at least partially containing a physical keyboard and a touch-sensitive secondary display. The method includes: displaying, on the primary display, a first user interface for an application executed by the computing system. The method also includes: displaying, on the touch-sensitive secondary display, a second user interface, the second user interface comprising a set of one or more affordances corresponding to the application. The method further includes: detecting a notification and, in response to detecting the notification, concurrently displaying, in the second user interface, the set of one or more affordances corresponding to the application and at least a portion of the detected notification on the touch-sensitive secondary display. In some embodiments, the detected notification is not displayed on the primary display.
US10754597B2
An printing apparatus is provided that controls printing based on restriction settings. When the printing apparatus receives a reserved print job in a state in which a use restriction for a print function is set to enabled by a user, the reserved print job is controlled not to be executed regardless of the set use restriction.
US10754594B2
A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing computer-readable instructions that, when executed by a processor of an information processing device, cause the processor to receive image data representing a target image, detect feature image data representing a feature image from the image data, determine range data based on the feature image data, the range data representing a first end position and a second end position of a feature-image including range including the feature image in a particular direction, the particular direction corresponding to a conveyance direction for conveying a printing sheet, generate print instruction data based on the range data, the print instruction data including a command for instructing the printer to print the feature-image including range with priority on print quality and print a range of the target image other than the feature-image including range with priority on a printing speed, and output the print instruction data including the command.
US10754592B2
An information processing system includes a first communication interface, an information processing apparatus which obtains job data through the first communication interface, and an image processing apparatus which executes a print job defined by the job data. The job data includes print data which defines an image and setting data which defines setting for the print job. The information processing apparatus includes a processor which performs specific processing in accordance with the setting and modifies contents of setting for the setting data of the job data so as to cancel the setting corresponding to the performed specific processing and a second communication interface which transfers the modified job data to the image processing apparatus.
US10754590B2
Provided is technology improving user convenience when changing a setting in an electronic device. An electronic device has: an evaluator module configured to determine whether or not a setting value a user set for a first setting item contained in a first settings screen matches a setting value of a second setting item that is already set; an adding module configured to add to the first settings screen, when the setting does not match, a shortcut operator that calls a second settings screen including the second setting item; and an operation reception processor configured to call, when the setting matches, the second settings screen from the first settings screen when operation of a first operator that is different from the shortcut operator is received.
US10754589B2
A terminal device includes an operation part, a touching part, a communication module, and a retrieval module. The retrieval module is configured to retrieve an object displayed on a first apparatus equipped with a touch panel from the first apparatus, in response to the operation part being operated while the object is selected by the touching part.
US10754583B2
A level width corresponding to a group of memory cells of a memory component is determined. The determined level width and a target level width is compared. In response to the determined level width being different than the target level width, one or more program step characteristics are adjusted to adjust the determined level width to the target level width.
US10754581B2
In an example, a method comprises receiving a first matrix of values to be mapped to a resistive memory array, wherein each value in the matrix is to be represented as a resistance of a resistive memory element. An outlying value may be identified in the first matrix. At least one value of a portion of the first matrix containing the outlying value may be substituted with at least one substitute value to form a substituted first matrix.
US10754575B2
A storage system in one embodiment comprises a plurality of storage devices and a storage controller. The storage system is configured to operate as a source storage system in a replication process in which participation of a target storage system is simulated. In conjunction with the replication process, the source storage system is configured to monitor outbound replication messages, and responsive to a given one of the replication messages being designated for transmission over a particular communication link of a predetermined type, to generate a simulated response from the target storage system to the given replication message based at least in part on one or more simulation parameters specified for the replication process. The source storage system then processes the simulated response as if it were an actual response from the target storage system. The particular communication link of a predetermined type illustratively comprises a pseudo IP link.
US10754568B1
The techniques disclosed herein provide adaptive storage techniques for maximizing the available storage space of a file storage system. An adaptable multi-phase storage management process may involve a background process and a user process. The background process can autonomously offload files that comply with a confidence level defined in a storage policy. The user process can selectively offload files based on a user response to a prompt identifying specific files that do not comply with the confidence level. Continual adjustments can be made to the storage based on user activity that allows a system to make more accurate determinations on the selection of operations for increasing the available storage space of a system.
US10754566B2
A data storage device utilized for storing a plurality of data includes a memory and a controller. The memory includes a plurality of blocks, and each of the blocks includes a plurality of physical pages. The controller is coupled to the memory. When the data storage device is initiated, or when the data size read by a host is greater than a threshold value, the controller inspects the status of the data stored by the physical pages of the memory.
US10754564B2
A method and memory device of controlling a plurality of low power states are provided. The method includes: entering a low power mode state, in which memory cell rows of the memory device are refreshed and power consumption is lower than in a self-refresh mode state, in response to a low power state entry command; and exiting the low power mode state based on a low power mode exit latency time that is set in a mode register of the memory device or at least one of an alarm signal and a low power mode exit command.
US10754559B1
A first storage system is configured to participate in a replication process with a second storage system using an active-active configuration. A request for a time-to-live (TTL) grant is received in the first storage system from the second storage system. The first storage system computes an estimate of a difference between local times in the respective first and second storage systems, utilizes the computed estimate in the first storage system to determine a TTL expiration time in the local time in the second storage system, and sends the TTL grant with the TTL expiration time to the second storage system in response to the request. The computed estimate of the difference between the local times in the respective first and second storage systems is illustratively utilized in the first storage system to determine a range for the local time in the second storage system.
US10754552B2
A data storage device includes a controller including a descriptor generation unit suitable for generating a descriptor and a memory controller suitable for generating a command based on the descriptor; and a nonvolatile memory device including a cell region, and suitable for reading first data from the cell region and buffering the first data in response to a first read command transmitted from the memory controller and outputting the first data to the controller in response to a first cache output command transmitted from the memory controller. The descriptor generation unit transmits an interrupt descriptor to the memory controller. The memory controller generates an interrupt to the descriptor generation unit based on the interrupt descriptor, and transmits the first cache output command to the nonvolatile memory device according to an instruction of the descriptor generation unit for the interrupt.
US10754547B2
Disclosed is a method of managing a disaggregated memory. According to the present disclosure, the method includes: assigning at least one memory page to a local memory and a remote memory; checking a request for access to the memory page; checking whether a target performance ratio required in service is satisfied or not when the memory page requested to be accessed is assigned to the remote memory; predicting a size of the local memory on the basis of an LRU distance-based histogram when the target performance ratio is not satisfied; and reassigning the memory page requested to be accessed in consideration of the predicted size of the local memory.
US10754538B2
A device with a touch-sensitive display may be unlocked via gestures performed on the touch-sensitive display. The device is unlocked if contact with the display corresponds to a predefined gesture for unlocking the device. The device displays one or more unlock images with respect to which the predefined gesture is to be performed in order to unlock the device. The performance of the predefined gesture with respect to the unlock image may include moving the unlock image to a predefined location and/or moving the unlock image along a predefined path. The device may also display visual cues of the predefined gesture on the touch screen to remind a user of the gesture.
US10754530B2
A control apparatus of a network camera includes a determination unit configured to determine an overlapping state of a cursor with each of a slider bar and a slider thumb, which configure a slider control, on a display screen of a display unit, a decision unit configured to decide information that relates to the slider control and is to be displayed on the display unit, based on a condition corresponding to a result of the determination by the determination unit, a display control unit configured to display the information decided by the decision unit on the display unit, and a transmission unit configured to transmit, to the network camera, a control signal that corresponds to a position of the slider thumb and is changed in response to input of an instruction by a user.
US10754527B2
An apparatus is provided for erasing content from a surface while capturing the content that is being erased for recreation in a digital format. The apparatus may include a base with an erasing element, and an imaging device disposed about a center of the base with an effective field of view above a top of the base. The apparatus may include an upper body with a first reflective surface reflecting an area around the base into the imaging device's field of view. The apparatus may include a second reflective surface at the top of the base to move the reflection of the area around the base from a border towards a center of the first reflective surface. The apparatus may include a set of supports that elevate the first reflective surface over the imaging device, and at least one sensor to track movements of the apparatus.
US10754519B2
In an end user application running on a computer, for collaborative modification of shared electronic documents, a graphical user interface is provided that facilitates identifying other users to collaborate with and for storing an electronic document in shared storage. This graphical user interface includes a graphical element that conveys information about shared status of the currently accessed electronic document to the end user. Through input devices of the end user computer, an end user can manipulate this graphical element. Certain manipulations of this graphical element instruct the end user computer to determine if the electronic document can be shared. If the document can be shared, the graphical user interface prompts the user for additional users with whom the document is to be shared and then stores the document in shared storage. A graphical user interface that allows an electronic document to be quickly shared improves user efficiency and productivity in collaborative authoring.
US10754515B2
As three-dimensional (3D) printing and additive manufacturing becomes a way for individuals and companies to distribute physical goods, there is a growing need for creators of physical goods to enable customers to customize 3D printed objects while protecting core electronic assets in the form of the files used to define and print the objects. Server-side rendering of 3D object images provides an opportunity to protect 3D object files while offering performance advantages. A scripting language may be central to delivering a seamless user experience interacting with 3D object models on client devices. Object creators and vendors may rely on the scripting language to create user interfaces for selling customizable objects. And once the user interface is developed, it may provide the basis for users accessing, viewing, manipulating, selecting materials, rendering, pricing, and printing a range of 3D objects.
US10754509B2
An electronic device and method are provided. The electronic device includes a display, a processor electrically connected with the display, and a memory electrically connected with the processor. The memory stores instructions that when executed cause the processor to display a plurality of objects for executing at least one application, wherein each of the plurality of objects has a second form corresponding to a first form of the display and has at least a part thereof overlapping with another object. The instructions, when executed, cause the processor to display an execution screen of an application corresponding to an object which is selected from among the plurality of objects in response to an input.
US10754491B1
A conferencing arrangement for sharing information within a conference space, the arrangement comprising a common presentation surface including a presentation surface area, a common presentation surface driver, a system processor linked to the driver and receiving and presenting the information content via the common presentation surface and a portable user interface device including a device display screen and a device processor, the device processor programmed to provide an interface via the device display screen useable to view content and to enter a command to replicate content presented on the device display on the common presentation surface, the device processor capable of identifying a direction of a swiping action on the interface as a command to replicate the content, wherein, upon identifying that the direction of a swiping action on the interface is in the direction of the common presentation surface, the arrangement creates a sharing space on the presentation surface area and replicates the content from the device display within the sharing space.
US10754473B2
According to one embodiment, a display device includes a display portion, a touch detection circuit and a scanning line drive circuit. A frame period, which includes a display period in which the scanning signal is supplied to the plurality of scanning lines for image display, and a touch detection period related to sensing using the plurality of electrodes, includes a first frame and a second frame. The number of scanning lines to which the scanning signal is supplied in each display period included in the first and second frames is adjusted such that a potential of the touch detection period included in the first frame matches a potential of the touch detection period included in the second frame.
US10754470B2
A method for controlling an interface in an electronic device includes a touch-sensitive display. A first predefined user action is detected, together with a second user action, and the electronic device defines and positions a cursor on the display screen. A first display area which contains soft buttons from a certain part of the display screen (depending on cursor position) is projected within or around the portion of the display within reach of a user's thumb, for one-handed operation. The soft buttons in such first display area can be shrunk or enlarged in size as user requires.
US10754460B2
The present invention provides a portable electronic device, including: a touch panel; a display module, disposed below the touch panel; an optical fingerprint sensor module, disposed below the display module; a transparent frame, disposed between the display module and the optical fingerprint sensor module, and including: a first surface, for combining with the display module; a second surface, for combining with the optical fingerprint sensor module; and an opening, running through the first surface and the second surface, and a filler type ultraviolet (UV) curable optically clear adhesive (OCA) being filled into the opening; and a housing, for combining with the touch panel.
US10754455B2
An electronic device includes a housing including a first surface facing a first direction and a second surface facing a second direction opposite to the first direction; a transparent substrate forming at least a portion of the first surface; a display disposed between the transparent substrate and the second surface of the housing and including a third surface facing the first direction and a fourth surface facing the second direction; at least one sensor disposed between a portion of the second surface of the display and a portion of the second surface of the housing; an electrical structure disposed between the sensor and a portion of the second surface of the housing; and a control circuit electrically connected to the electrical structure, wherein the control circuit detects an electrical signal occurring by a pressure from the second direction to a portion of the transparent substrate using the electrical structure.
US10754439B2
In one aspect, an apparatus for receiving input and/or generating output comprises a key assembly. The key assembly comprises a key cover, a magnet, and an electromagnet. The magnet is coupled to the key cover. The electromagnet is operable to displace the key cover based on whether the key assembly is in an active state or an inactive state. In the active state, the electromagnet is operable to raise the key cover to a first position based on generation of a magnetic field. In the inactive state, the electromagnet is operable to lower the key cover to a second position based on cessation of the magnetic field.
US10754438B2
The various implementations described herein include systems, methods and/or devices used to enable false touch detection. An exemplary method is performed at a touch-sensitive device and includes performing a plurality of scans of the touch-sensitive array during a time window, response data is captured from each of the plurality of scans. Distilling a value for each respective scan from the response data captured during the respective scan. Identifying a set of peaks from the distilled values, each peak having a plurality of characteristic values. The method further includes: (i) determining a metric for the peaks based on the plurality of characteristic values associated with each peak; (ii) determining whether the metric satisfies a criterion, and (iii) in response to determining that the metric satisfies the criterion, rejecting at least some of the response data captured during the time window as representing at least one false touch.
US10754427B2
A blending system is provided for displaying information. The blending system may include a display system. The display system may project or display an image on a blending container. The image may be a gradient marking or text relating to a blending process. The display system may contain a projection device capable of projecting an image, a control component operatively controlling the blender display system and at least one sensor operatively evaluating data associated with a blender device to provide feedback to the control component.
US10754422B1
Systems and methods for providing interaction with elements in a virtual architectural visualization
A method of providing interaction with elements in a virtual architectural visualization is disclosed which includes the steps of providing an application server configured with at least a rendering engine for an architectural visualization, the application server further configured to communicate with at least one client device via a network; generating a predetermined architectural visualization in response to a request from said at least one client device; transmitting a video signal depicting the predetermined architectural visualization to the client device over the network; and, receiving input data from the client device and updating the architectural visualization in response to the input data.
US10754417B2
In some embodiments, a system comprising one or more processors configured to track a location of an input device within a physical environment via a three-dimensional (3D) tracking system, and modify a tracking parameter of the 3D tracking system while tracking the location of the input device based on the determined location of the input device within the physical environment. The input device may be coupled to a virtual reality display system and tracking the location of the location of the input device can be used for interacting with the virtual reality display system.
US10754415B2
With a method of connecting SRAMs by daisy chain connection, the power state of all the SRAMs is determined uniquely. Because of this, even in the case of an SRAM of a function module in which SRAM access does not occur, the SRAM returns to the normal mode. The control apparatus includes a plurality of function modules including a memory capable of making a transition between a first power state and a second power state that is more power-saving than the first power state in accordance with a control signal. Then, control is performed so as to output a first signal that gives instructions to make a transition of the power state based on the control signal to a memory of a function module of the plurality of function modules in which processing using a function that the function module has is performed.
US10754414B2
A microcontroller system includes a processing unit supporting at least one near or sub Vt circuit and a plurality of memory blocks, each memory block connected to a DMA controller and independently power controlled. A power control system uses power gates to power control at least the memory blocks. In some embodiments, a wake-up interrupt controller is connected to the power control system and a voltage regulator system is used to supply voltage to separate power domains, with the voltage regulator systems controlled at least in part by power gates operated by the power control system. A plurality of clocks can be connected to define clock domains associated with separate power domains.
US10754401B2
In one embodiment, a reconfigurable and scalable hardware management architecture includes a digital controller for controlling two or more analog sense-and-control (ASC) circuits, where each ASC monitors voltage, current, and temperature of one or more power supplies, ICs, or a circuit board. The controller and ASCs are connected in a star architecture, where each ASC is connected to the controller via a different, dedicated interface to communicate regarding the power supplies being monitored. The controller and the ASCs are also connected in a bus architecture via a shared interface. The architecture can be re-configured by adding one or more additional ASCs or by removing one or more existing ASCs, where each additional ASC is (i) connected to a different I/O interface of the digital controller via a different, dedicated interface and (ii) connected to the digital controller and the two or more existing ASCs via the shared interface.
US10754385B2
A micro-LED display having added functionalities like touch sensing, sound generation, self-cleaning, haptics and wireless charging by combining LED dies with micro-transducer dies or thin film structures on the same display substrate.
US10754379B2
Systems, methods, and computer media for calibrating user-mounted devices are provided. An external device capable of providing calibration data to a user-mounted device worn by a user is identified. An identification acknowledgement is received from the external device. A device calibration mode is entered in which calibration data describing the user-mounted device is received by the user-mounted device. The calibration data is based at least in part on sensor data acquired and normalized by the external device. The calibration data is then received. The calibration data includes at least one determined pose or body measurement of the user and a calculated alignment of the user-mounted device relative to the user. The user-mounted device is calibrated using the received calibration data.
US10754375B2
According to various embodiments, a display cover of an electronic display includes a cover configured to extend over the electronic display, a webcam aperture extending through the cover and configured to enable a webcam to view through the cover, and a webcam cover to be manipulated between a closed position wherein the webcam cover substantially obstructs the webcam aperture and an open position wherein the webcam cover does not substantially obstruct the webcam aperture.
US10754371B1
One embodiment includes a clock distribution system. The system includes at least one resonator spine that propagates a sinusoidal clock signal and at least one resonator rib conductively coupled to the at least one resonator spine and arranged as a standing wave resonator. The system further includes at least one coupling capacitor. Each of the at least one coupling capacitor can interconnect at least one of the at least one resonator rib and a respective circuit to capacitively provide a clock current corresponding to the sinusoidal clock signal to the respective circuit to provide functions for the respective circuit.
US10754366B2
Embodiments described herein are directed to power switching circuits having a saturable inductor. In one embodiment, a power switching circuit includes a power switch assembly operable to be connected to a power source. The power switch assembly includes a plurality of parallel power switches connected to and receiving current from the power source and a saturable inductor electrically coupled in series with the plurality of parallel power switches.
US10754362B1
Adjustment of loop-powered pneumatic process control device interfaces is disclosed. A disclosed example interface for use with a pneumatic process control device includes a power input to scavenge power from a loop power control signal associated with the process control system, a movement controller to cause movement of an actuator powered by the loop power, where the actuator is operatively coupled to a movable control input associated with the process control device, and a calibrator to read position feedback of the actuator during the movement to calculate a positional error, where the calibrator is to adjust a set point of the loop power control signal based on the positional error to control the actuator.
US10754361B2
Flow rate control apparatus, flow rate control method, and program for a flow rate control apparatus
In order to provide a flow rate control apparatus that estimates a flow rate actually flowing at a control point without a large amount of noise, there are provided a fluid resistor that is provided on a flow path, a downstream-side valve that is provided on a downstream side of the fluid resistor, a resistance flow rate measurement mechanism that measures a resistance flow rate that flows through the fluid resistor, and flows into a volumetric space located on the flow path between this fluid resistor and the downstream-side valve, a subject flow rate estimation part that estimates a valve flow rate based on the flow rate characteristics stored in the flow rate characteristics storage part, and a flow rate control unit that controls the downstream-side valve based on a set flow rate, and on the valve flow rate estimated by the subject flow rate estimation part.
US10754360B2
The present invention relates generally to a wireless leak alarm, and wireless valve, apparatus, system, and a method thereof. The present invention may be implemented with leak detectors for any type of fluid, liquid, or gas. The present invention may be implemented with any type of sensory detector, such as, for example, a temperature, a moisture, a Carbon Monoxide, a Carbon Dioxide detector. The present invention allows the use of a Wireless, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi leak detector and monitor. More specifically, aspects of the present invention relate to a system, methods, and apparatus for a Wireless, Bluetooth, Wi-Fi leak detector, monitor and valve controller. The present invention includes the ability to communicate via voice message, text message, email and other wireless communication methods to the property owner, manager, resident, person responsible for a dwelling, call center, or any other designated contact in the event of a fluid or water leak.
US10754357B2
Embodiments of the present invention provides a systems and methods for conserving liquids. The system detects, via sensors, if an object is interrupting the liquid flowing between a faucet and a drain. If the system detects an object is interrupting the flowing liquid, then the system routes the flowing liquid to a first destination using a diverter valve associated with the drain. The diverter valve is controlled by a microprocessor and connected to the sensors. However, if there are no object interrupting the flowing liquid, then the system routes the flowing liquid to a second destination.
US10754356B2
A method for actuating at least one solenoid valve includes detecting a valve actuation signal, energizing the at least one solenoid valve with a specific constant control current for a specific actuation time which follows the detection of the valve actuation signal, and increasing the control current to a full actuation current for a full actuation time which follows the actuation time. The specific constant control current and the actuation time are dimensioned in such a way that at least two different types of solenoid valves can be at least partially opened by the control current during the actuation time.
US10754353B2
One or more sensors identify a characteristic of a towed implement using non-visual electromagnetic radiation, auditory detection or temperature detection. The characteristic of the implement is compared to a reference characteristic to determine whether the implement has a problem. If so, control signals are generated to control a controllable subsystem based upon the identified problem.
US10754340B1
An autonomous electronic bicycle comprises a frame, a wheel that can be powered by a first electronic motor, and a pedal assembly connected to a pedal motor. The pedal assembly is not mechanically connected to the wheel, but the autonomous electronic bicycle simulates a mechanical connection by powering the rear wheel proportional to the user's pedaling force. The autonomous electronic bicycle uses a virtual gear ratio based on the cadence of the rider, the current incline of the bicycle, and the current speed of the bicycle. The virtual gear ratio can be a ratio between a torque of the set of pedals and a torque of the wheel.
US10754339B2
According to some embodiments, a system calculates a first trajectory based on a map and a route information. The system generates a path profile based on the first trajectory, traffic rules, and an obstacle information describing one or more obstacles perceived by the ADV. The system generates a speed profile based on the path profile, where the speed profile includes, for each of the obstacles, a decision to yield or overtake the obstacle. The system performs a quadratic programming optimization on the path profile and the speed profile to identify an optimal path with optimal speeds. The system generates a second trajectory based on the optimal path and optimal speeds to control the ADV autonomously according to the second trajectory.
US10754319B1
Methods of controlling an across-wafer profile of a semiconductor process, as well as related systems and computer program products. A target profile of a semiconductor process over a radius of a wafer is fit to a polynomial. A plurality of gain matrices between a first plurality of process inputs and a plurality of polynomial coefficients of the polynomial are determined. An offset is estimated between the plurality of polynomial coefficients and an effect of the first plurality of process inputs. An objective function is defined as an integral of a squared deviation between an estimated profile and the target profile over the radius of the wafer. A second plurality of process inputs are mapped to the objective function by vector convolution using the plurality of gain matrices. The objective function is solved to optimize the second plurality of process inputs.
US10754315B2
A management system comprising an apparatus and a control device, wherein the control device comprises a transmitter configured to transmit, to the apparatus, a command controlling the apparatus, the command includes version information indicating a version corresponding to the control device, and the version defines an information element included in the command.
US10754314B2
A system for cosmetologists, dermatologists, trichologists, salon professionals and the general public to produce a customized hair or skin care product using a diagnostic device for analyzing hair, scalp, and skin conditions. The diagnostic device communicates the diagnostic data to a self-contained processing apparatus, which has software that can formulate a recipe for the hair or skin care product and generate operating instructions for producing the product based on the recipe. The processing apparatus comprises a housing unit having a control center, a plurality of removable canisters capable of holding ingredients for producing the hair or skin care product, a dispensing system for dispensing the ingredients to a mixing bowl, a mixing device for mixing the ingredients, and preferably a heating element for heating the ingredients in the bowl, wherein the apparatus produces the hair or skin care product according to the operating instructions to provide individualized treatment.
US10754312B2
A cleaning process optimization device includes a machine learning device that learns a cleaning condition when cleaning an object to be cleaned. The machine learning device includes: a state observation unit that observes cleaning condition data indicating the cleaning condition, and contamination state data indicating a contamination state of the object to be cleaned measured before cleaning as a state variable representing a current state of environment; a determination data acquisition unit that acquires determination data indicating an adequacy determination result on accuracy of a contamination state of the object to be cleaned after cleaning; and a learning unit that learns the cleaning condition when cleaning the object to be cleaned in association with the contamination state data using the state variable and the determination data.
US10754310B2
A probability distribution of a manufacturing system's performance conditioned on a training dataset comprising a historical tensor and associated performance metric of a reference period is learned. An input tensor associated with a time window and the input tensor's associated performance metric may be received. The input tensor includes at least multiple sensor variables associated with the manufacturing system and multiple steps of the manufacturing system's manufacturing process. Based on the probability distribution, an overall change is determined between the training dataset's relationship of the historical tensor and associated performance metric, and the relationship of the input tensor and the input tensor's associated performance metric. Based on the probability distribution, contribution of at least one of the multiple variables and the multiple steps to the overall change is determined. An action is automatically triggered in the manufacturing system which reduces the overall change.
US10754298B2
Disclosed are a portable apparatus case, a portable apparatus, and a timepiece allowing easy attachment. A timepiece case includes: a case main body, a first bow having a first passage hole and provided on the case main body, a strap one end portion of which is mounted to the first bow and the other end portion of which is passed through the first passage hole, and a fixation member provided on at least one of the first bow and a main portion of the strap extending from the first bow to the first passage hole and detachably connected to the strap.
US10754296B1
The present disclosure provides a holographic display and a display method thereof, and a display device. A holographic display comprises: a light source support; a light emitting member including at least one light source and provided on the light source support; a first spatial light modulator and a second spatial light modulator respectively located at both sides of the light emitting member; a first semi-transmissive semi-reflective film located at a side of the first spatial light modulator which is adjacent to the light emitting member; and a second semi-transmissive semi-reflective film located at a side of the second spatial light modulator which is adjacent to the light emitting member. According to the technical solutions provided by the present disclosure, a light and thin holographic display can be provided, and during holographic displaying, a single-side display or a double-sides display can be achieved.
US10754294B2
A controller is configured to execute a larger gamut technology mode in which the controller performs image formation by controlling a ratio of a rotation speed of a development roller to a rotation speed of a photosensitive drum such that the ratio becomes a second speed ratio higher than a first speed ratio in a normal mode. The controller is configured to, when the controller executes the larger gamut technology mode, control transfer voltage based on a humidity around an image forming apparatus.
US10754283B1
According to one embodiment, an image forming apparatus includes an image carrier, an exposing apparatus, a developing device, a transfer device, a fixing device, a history acquisition unit, an estimation unit, and an output unit. The exposing device exposes the image carrier to form an electrostatic latent image on the image carrier. The developing device includes a layer forming member to form a toner layer on a developing roller and forms a toner image by developing the electrostatic latent image. The transfer device transfers the toner image to a sheet. The fixing device fixes the toner image to the sheet. The history acquisition unit acquires a history regarding a temperature around the developing device. The estimation unit estimates a possibility that an image defect caused by the layer formation may occur on the basis of the history. The output unit outputs estimation results of the estimation.
US10754263B2
A device for moving a workpiece platform is provided, comprising a bottom frame (1) for supporting the workpiece platform, a pneumatic spring (2) disposed on a lower surface of the bottom frame (1), an air cushion unit (3) for generating flotation to support the workpiece platform when the workpiece platform is being moved, and a moving unit (200) disposed on the bottom frame (1). The moving unit (200) comprises: a roller unit (4), for driving the workpiece platform to move; a leaf spring (6), wherein one end of the leaf spring (6) is connected to a connecting block (5), and the other end thereof is connected to the roller unit (4); and a leaf spring deformation drive unit (8), connected to the leaf spring (6), to enable, by driving the leaf spring (6) to deform, the roller unit (4) to be in contact with the ground when the workpiece platform is being moved. The leaf spring deformation drive unit (8) is disposed such that the leaf spring (6) deforms, and the roller unit (4) is in contact with the ground when the workpiece platform is being moved in or out, driving the workpiece platform to move, preventing jamming in case of extremely high torque, and improving stability when the workpiece platform is being moved.
US10754262B2
A chuck according to an embodiment of the present invention includes first and second support portions 10 each of which has a repetition structure of a convex portion 11 and a concave portion 13 on a base. A substrate is held by bringing each convex portion 11 into contact with the substrate and exhausting gas in each concave portion 13 such that the concave portion 13 has a negative pressure with respect to a space between the first support portion 10 and the second support portion 10. At least one support portion of the first support portion 10 and the second support portion 10 includes at least four convex portions 11 and three concave portions 13.
US10754257B2
A method includes first step of forming first pattern in each of first region of a substrate by using scanning exposure apparatus, and second step of forming second pattern in each second region of the substrate having undergone the first step. Each second region includes at least two first regions, and in the first step, scanning direction in the scanning exposure apparatus is allocated to each of the at least two first regions. Combination of the scanning directions allocated to the at least two first regions is common to the second regions. The combination is determined such that the scanning directions of at least first regions, of the at least two first regions, which are arranged in a direction perpendicular to the scanning directions are alternately changed one by one.
US10754256B2
A method including providing a plurality of unit cells for a plurality of gauge patterns appearing in one or more images of one or more patterning process substrates, each unit cell representing an instance of a gauge pattern of the plurality of gauge patterns, averaging together image information of each unit cell to arrive at a synthesized representation of the gauge pattern, and determining a geometric dimension of the gauge pattern based on the synthesized representation.
US10754255B2
An exposure apparatus comprises a projection optical system for projecting a pattern of a mask, a substrate stage for holding a substrate, and a measurement device installed on the substrate stage, including a plate on which a substrate-side mark is formed, and a sensor for detecting light transmitted through a mask-side mark, the projection optical system, and the substrate-side mark, and configured to measure an amount of the light detected by the sensor. The substrate-side mark includes a central mark arranged in a center of a sensitive region of the sensor, and a peripheral mark arranged in a periphery of the central mark. The central mark is used in measurement of the light amount, including driving the substrate stage in a direction parallel to an optical axis of the projection optical system.
US10754254B1
An extreme ultraviolet (EUV) exposure apparatus includes a chamber, an EUV source in the chamber and configured to generate an EUV beam, an optical system above the EUV source and configured to provide the EUV beam to a substrate, a substrate stage in the chamber and configured to receive the substrate, a reticle stage in the chamber and configured to hold a reticle that is configured to project the EUV beam onto the substrate, and a plasma source configured to provide plasma to the reticle to electrically neutralize the reticle charged by the EUV beam.
US10754252B2
Embodiments described herein relate to methods and apparatus for performing immersion field guided post exposure bake processes. Embodiments of apparatus described herein include a chamber body defining a processing volume. In one embodiment, a major axis of the processing volume is oriented vertically and a minor axis of the processing volume is oriented horizontally. One or more electrodes may be disposed adjacent the processing volume and at least partially define the processing volume. Process fluid is provided to the processing volume via a plurality of fluid conduits to facilitate immersion field guided post exposure bake processes. A plurality of seals maintains the fluid containment integrity of the processing volume during processing. A post process chamber for rinsing, developing, and drying a substrate is also provided.
US10754242B2
Techniques are described for implementing format configurations for multi-directional video and for switching between them. Source images may be assigned to formats that may change during a coding session. When a change occurs between formats, video coders and decoder may transform decoded reference frames from the first format to the second format. Thereafter, new frames in the second configuration may be coded or decoded predictively using transformed reference frame(s) as source(s) of prediction. In this manner, video coders and decoders may use intra-coding techniques and achieve high efficiency in coding.
US10754240B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described which provide a camera mount system. The camera mount system can include, for example, a first optical element and a second optical element. Incoming light from a scope on a weapon, for example, is partially transmitted and partially reflected by the first optical element. The partially transmitted light passes through an eyepiece to a viewer (e.g., a shooter). The partially reflected light is reflected by the second optical element and is recorded by a recording device (e.g., a camera, a video recorder, an image sensor, etc.). The viewer has direct access to the scope optics, a spotting scope, or binoculars, for example, and the camera and the viewer have access to the same view.
US10754235B2
A light source device includes a light emitting element emitting light of a first wavelength band, a fluorescent wheel and a mirror. The fluorescent wheel includes a fluorescent area converting the light of the first wavelength band into fluorescent light and a reflection area reflecting the light of the first wavelength band. The minor reflects a component in a first polarization direction of the light of the first wavelength band and transmits a component in a second polarization direction orthogonal to the first polarization direction. The reflection area includes a reflecting surface and a polarization conversion layer including an optical axis and converts either the first or second polarization direction to another polarization direction. The optical axis of the polarization conversion layer is inclined by 45 degrees to a polarization direction of the light of the first wavelength band at an irradiation position thereof in the fluorescent wheel.
US10754233B2
An electronic device includes an electronic device main body and an accommodation apparatus accommodating the electronic device main body. The accommodation apparatus includes a first enclosure forming an internal space and having a first intake port and a first discharge port, a partitioner partitioning the internal space into a first space and a second space, and a first intake fan sending the air into the first space. The electronic device main body includes a second enclosure having a second intake port and a second discharge port, and a second intake fan sucking air into the electronic device main body. The second intake port is disposed in the first space. The second discharge port is disposed in the second space. The amount of air sent by the first intake fan into the first space is greater than the amount of air sucked by the second intake fan into the second enclosure.
US10754220B2
A display device includes: a display panel and a photonic crystal grating disposed on a light-emitting side of the display panel; wherein the photonic crystal grating has a fully light-transmitting state and a grating state used for 3D display.
US10754218B2
A substrate detection device and method are provided. The substrate detection device includes: a base platform; and a birefringence structure; the base platform comprising a light source and a bearing platform; the bearing platform being configured to place the substrate to be detected; the light source being configured to illuminate the substrate to be detected from one side, close to the bearing platform, of the substrate to be detected. The phase difference of the lights is increased by a birefringence structure layer, such that interfere may happen with some lights having a relatively smaller phase difference. The difference in brightness of different regions on the light-outgoing side of the birefringence structure layer increases, such that the non-uniformity on the substrate manifests more easily. Therefore, the effect of avoiding the missed detection is achieved.
US10754206B2
According to one embodiment, a display device includes an insulating substrate including a first surface, and a second surface opposite to the first surface, a circuit board mounted on the first surface, a supporting member adhered to the insulating substrate on the second surface, and an antistatic layer located between the insulating substrate and the supporting member.
US10754199B2
A liquid crystal composition, a liquid crystal display (LCD) device using the liquid crystal composition, and a method of manufacturing an LCD device are provided. The liquid crystal display device comprises: a first substrate; a liquid crystal layer disposed on the first substrate, the liquid crystal layer including a liquid crystal compound; and a first liquid crystal alignment layer disposed between the first substrate and the liquid crystal layer, wherein the first compound includes a first compound, which has at least one hydrophilic group bonded to one end of a core structure thereof and a benzoyl derivative moiety bonded to the other end of the core structure thereof.
US10754197B2
Disclosed is a correction system for an alignment film printing plate, including: a roller and a printing plate mounted as a sleeve outside of the roller, wherein a first end portion of the printing plate is provided thereon with a plurality of columns of buckle groups, and a second end portion of the printing plate is provided thereon with a plurality of columns of slot groups engaged with the buckle groups. The correction system for the alignment film printing plate further includes an image controller used for measuring a deviation value between an actual position and a preset position for printing of an alignment film on a substrate. The correcting system of the alignment film printing plate has a simple structure and is capable of realizing different stretching degrees of an alignment film pattern at different positions on the printing plate, so as to improve a correction effect of the printing plate. As a result, deviation can be reduced between an actual position and a preset position for printing of the alignment film on the substrate, without significant increase in costs.
US10754191B2
A light source module includes a plurality of light emitting dies provided on a bearing surface of a substrate, an encapsulation layer covering the bearing surface and the light emitting dies, a plurality of reflecting recesses respectively formed opposite the plurality of light emitting dies on a light exit surface of the encapsulation layer and having a surrounding surface inclined relative to the light exit surface, and a plurality of reflection patterns respectively disposed in the plurality of reflecting recesses. A display panel might be coupled to the light emitting surface.
US10754188B2
A liquid crystal lens and a display device, for improving the efficiency of natural light modulation and lowering the device profile. The liquid crystal lens includes an upper substrate and a lower substrate configured opposite each other, liquid crystal molecules located between the upper substrate and the lower substrate, a plurality of upper electrodes located on the upper substrate, and a plurality of lower electrodes located on the lower substrate. Each lower electrode includes a plurality of metal wire grid polarizers. The upper electrodes respectively correspond to the lower electrodes. An orthographic projection of each upper electrode and that of the corresponding lower electrode on the lower substrate form a ring-shaped electrode structure, and each upper electrode and the corresponding lower electrode are configured to receive voltages of different potential.
US10754172B2
A lamp module for a vehicle is provided. The lamp module for a vehicle includes: a housing defining a space portion therein; a light source assembly accommodated in the housing and including a light source configured to generate light and a substrate coupled to the light source to supply a current; a light diffuser disposed above the light source assembly to diffuse irradiated light; a composite optical sheet disposed above the light diffuser and configured to realize a luminous image having a stereoscopic pattern when diffused light is incident thereon; and bezels formed on an outer circumferential surface of the housing.
US10754165B2
An optical combiner that combines light from a plurality non-coherent light sources and directs it to a single output is described. The non-coherent light sources are arranged within a housing in a linear fashion, with light emitted from at least two of the non-coherent light sources directed towards a focusing lens by reflection from wavelength-selective mirrors, with the focus of the focusing lens directed to an input of an optical waveguide. Reflected light from at least one non-coherent light source passes through at least one wavelength-selective mirror that reflects light from a different non-coherent light source. A terminal non-coherent light source passes through all the wavelength-selective mirrors. Emitted light is transmitted or reflected along a plurality of optical axes that are parallel but offset to correct for refraction.
US10754157B2
A method for producing an optical element includes a) providing a first shell which is transparent in the predetermined wavelength range, b) applying a coating which is optically effective for the predetermined wavelength range onto the structured portion, c) providing a second shell which is transparent in the predetermined wavelength range, which shell has an integral embodiment and a smooth lower side which has a complementary form to the form of the upper side, d) applying an adhesive layer which is transparent in the predetermined wavelength range onto the upper side of the first shell and/or the lower side of the second shell, and e) connecting the upper side of the first shell with the lower side of the second shell by means of the adhesive layer such that a two-shell optical element is produced, in which the optically effective structure is buried.
US10754155B2
The present invention provides a backlight device, which comprises a plurality of optical devices and a plurality of backlight plates. The plurality of backlight plates include light sources, respectively, and are disposed at the light inlets of the plurality of optical devices. Then the beams of the light sources can be incident to the plurality of optical devices through the light inlets and reflected to the light outlets of the plurality of optical devices to form a backlight source for a display panel. The plurality of optical devices extend from the light outlets beyond the opposite surface of the display panel. By distributing optical paths, the spaces required for the optical paths can be reduced.
US10754153B2
A vehicle display apparatus includes an HUD that projects a display image formed at a first conjugate position to a projection member so as to place the display image as a virtual image at a second conjugate position. The first conjugate position is conjugate to a viewing region inside a vehicle through the projection member, and the second conjugate position is conjugate with an external sensor through the projection member. An HCU increases display luminance of a selected image selected from the display image to a fail-safe luminance by controlling a virtual image display state of the display image when a fail condition is met. The fail condition is that the current brightness detected by the external sensor exceeds an upper limit of an allowable range.
US10754150B2
According to various embodiments, an electronic device can comprise: a housing including a first surface oriented in a first direction, and a second surface oriented in a second direction traversing the first direction; a display, which is arranged along at least a part of the first surface and at least a part of the second surface and has at least a portion including a curved surface; and an optical unit arranged along the first direction.
US10754148B2
An optical scanning apparatus includes first and second deflecting units, and first and second imaging optical systems to guide first and second light fluxes deflected by the first and second deflecting units to first and second scanned surfaces. The first and second imaging optical systems include first and second imaging elements having the largest refractive power in a sub-scanning section. A distance on an optical path between the first deflecting unit and the first imaging element is shorter than that between the second deflecting unit and the second imaging element. The optical scanning apparatus satisfies: - d 2 N 2 ϕ 21 ϕ 2 < - d 1 N 1 ϕ 11 ϕ 1 , where N1, d1, ϕ1, and ϕ11 are a refractive index, a thickness on an optical axis, a refractive power in a sub-scanning section, and a refractive power in the sub-scanning section of an incident surface, of the first imaging element, and N2, d2, ϕ2, and ϕ21 are equivalents of the second imaging element.
US10754146B2
A display device includes: a translucent substrate; a light-shielding film provided on the translucent substrate; first transparent insulating films that are provided on the translucent substrate so as to cover the covering the light-blocking film; and a plurality of thin film transistors (TFTs) that are provided on the first transparent insulation films and include a portion of lines made of conductive films. The light-shielding film is arranged so as to overlap at least the TFTs, when viewed in a direction vertical to the translucent substrate.
US10754144B2
A method for high-resolution imaging includes: (i) forming, via a first lens, a first image at a first bundle-end of a fiber imaging bundle that has a second bundle-end opposite the first bundle-end and (ii) forming, via a second lens, an image of the second bundle-end onto an image sensor. The method also includes (iii) vibrating the first bundle-end relative to the first lens to dither the first image, and (iv) synchronously vibrating, relative to the vibrating first bundle-end, the second bundle-end relative to the second lens.
US10754132B2
An imaging optical system, in particular a projection objective, for microlithography, includes optical elements to guide electromagnetic radiation with a wavelength in a path to image an object field into an image plane. The imaging optical system includes a pupil, having coordinates (p, q), which, together with the image field, having coordinates (x, y) of the optical system, spans an extended 4-dimensional pupil space, having coordinates (x, y, p, q), as a function of which a wavefront W(x, y, p, q) of the radiation passing through the optical system is defined. The wavefront W can therefore be defined in the pupil plane as a function of an extended 4-dimensional pupil space spanned by the image field (x, y) and the pupil (p, q) as W(x, y, p, q)=W(t), with t=(x, y, p, q).
US10754115B2
Example wall outlets include a base; a spool arrangement that mounts to the base; and a cable wound around the spool arrangement at the drum region. The base includes a mounting wall and a sidewall. The base defines a port and defines a first annular perimeter. The spool arrangement is rotatable relative to the base. The spool arrangement includes a drum region, a management region, and an aperture extending between the drum region and the management region. The drum region is enclosed by the sidewall of the base and the management region extends outwardly beyond the base. The cable has a first end extending through the aperture and terminated at a first fiber optic ferrule held at the management region. The cable also has a second end that extends through the port defined in the base and is terminated at a second fiber optic ferrule disposed external of the base.
US10754103B2
Systems and methods are provided for universal-blindmate sleeve comprising mounting mechanisms for mounting the universal sleeve to a midplane. The universal-blindmate sleeve comprising a sleeve housing, having a first opening for receiving a first blindmate connector. The first opening is arranged at an end of the sleeve housing and facing a first side of the midplane. The sleeve housing further having a second opening for receiving a second blindmate connector, wherein the second opening is arranged at an opposing end of the sleeve housing and facing an opposing side of the midplane. A body of the sleeve housing is configured for blindmating the first blindmate connector to the second blindmate connector through the midplane.
US10754086B2
A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal panel, a backlight device at least including LEDs arrayed at intervals and LED wiring portions connected to the LEDs such that the LEDs adjacent to one another have different connection targets, an image signal generation unit that generates an image signal related to the image, a panel control unit that displays the image on the liquid crystal panel based on the image signal generated in the image signal generation unit, and an LED control unit that energizes a relatively great amount of the LED wiring portions when the image based on the image signal sent from the image signal generation unit is a normal image, and selectively energizes a relatively small amount of the LED wiring portions when the image is a small image of which a display range is smaller than a display range of the normal image.
US10754082B2
Backlight unit and display device are provided. According to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure, a backlight unit includes a glass light guide plate having an upper surface, a light-incident surface which is disposed on one side of the upper surface, and an opposite surface which is disposed on the other side of the upper surface; a light source disposed to face the light-incident surface; and a light-shielding member including a first light-shielding portion, which is in contact with the opposite surface, and a second light-shielding portion, which is in contact with part of the upper surface.
US10754076B1
A light distribution apparatus for a light fixture includes an input coupler at a first end, at least one curvilinear waveguide extending between the first end and a second end, and a respective set of extraction features formed along the surface of the curvilinear waveguide. The input coupler may be positioned about a light source and direct light emitted therefrom into the pair of curvilinear waveguide. The curvilinear waveguide may transmit light from the input coupler toward the second end through total internal reflection. The extraction features cause light incident thereon to refract and exit the waveguide. The example light distribution apparatus may convey light from one or more light sources to one or more otherwise poorly lit regions of a light fixture, to provide enhanced aesthetics, without adding supplemental light sources or adversely compromising the design and structure of a light fixture.
US10754071B2
Systems and methods reduce temperature induced drift effects on a liquid lens used in a vision system. A feedback loop receives a temperature value from a temperature sensor, and based on the received temperature value, controls a power to the heating element based on a difference between the measured temperature of the liquid lens and a predetermined control temperature to maintain the temperature value within a predetermined control temperature range to reduce the effects of drift. A processor can also control a bias signal applied to the lens or a lens actuator to control temperature variations and the associated induced drift effects. An image sharpness can also be determined over a series of images, alone or in combination with controlling the temperature of the liquid lens, to adjust a focal distance of the lens.
US10754069B2
The present invention relates to an ophthalmic lens whose front and rear faces are differentiated with respect to their hydrophobic properties. Said lens comprising a substrate having a hydrophobic front main face, and a rear main face whose external surface has a receding contact angle with water greater than or equal to 80°, the external surface of said front main face having a receding contact angle with water lower than that of the rear main face. The invention presents various means for preparing such lenses, which may notably be obtained after deposition and then removal of temporary layers with different thicknesses on the two faces of the lens.
US10754068B2
A sighting system including a sighting axis which passes through one or more sighting elements each disposed at an angle to the sighting axis and which include coating comprising a plurality of layers which increase transmission of incident light along the sighting axis.
US10754066B2
A display may have an active area in which pixels display images through a transparent display layer. An opaque masking material may be formed in an inactive border area adjacent to the active area. The opaque masking layer may include particles such as carbon black particles to provide the opaque masking layer with a dark appearance. The color of the opaque masking layer may be adjusted by incorporating additional particles such as titanium oxide particles. Particle size for the carbon black particles and the index of refraction of the opaque masking layer may be adjusted to reduce reflectance in the inactive border area. A transparent conductive layer may be supported by the transparent display layer. Index-of-refraction matching layers may be interposed between the transparent conductive layer and the transparent display layer. The opaque masking layer may be interposed between the matching layers in the inactive border area.
US10754065B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a retardation film excellent in various properties such as optical properties, heat resistance, mechanical properties, and reliability. The present invention relates to a retardation film containing a thermoplastic resin and composed of a single layer, in which the retardation film has a value of wavelength dispersion that is a ratio of retardations at a wavelength of 450 nm and at a wavelength of 550 nm being 0.75 or more and 0.92 or less; a birefringence at a wavelength of 550 nm and the wavelength dispersion satisfy a relationship of Δn≥0.0140×(R450/R550)−0.0082; and a photoelastic coefficient is 25×10−12 Pa−1 or less.
US10754064B2
Problem to Be Solved: to provide a chromophore having a far superior nonlinear optical activity to conventional chromophores and to provide a nonlinear optical element comprising said chromophore.Solution: a chromophore comprising a donor structure D, a π-conjugated bridge structure B, and an acceptor structure A, the donor structure D comprising an aryl group substituted with a substituted oxy group; and a nonlinear optical element comprising said chromophore.
US10754063B2
In an embodiment, radar observation data for time points are received at an input layer of a rain rate prediction neural network. The radar observations are forward propagated via hidden layers of the network to determine rain rates for the time points. The rain rates are integrated over a time period, determined based on the time points, to determine a predicted rainfall amount. The predicted rainfall amount is compared with an actual rainfall amount, determined based on received rainfall measurements, to determine an error. If the error does not satisfy certain criteria, then the error is apportioned to each of the time points, the apportioned errors are back propagated via the hidden layers, and weights associated with nodes in the hidden layers are updated. The radar observation data is again forward propagated via the layers, multiplied by the updated weights, and used to determine new rain rates.
US10754062B2
Methods, apparatus, systems, and computer program products are provided for selecting a weather estimation algorithm and providing a weather estimate based thereon. In an example embodiment a method is provided that comprises receiving request location information by a processor, identifying one or more weather stations, and determining a distance from at least one of the one or more weather stations to a physical location indicated by the request location information. Based at least in part on the at least one determined distance, a weather estimation algorithm is selected. A weather estimation is determined for the physical location indicated by the request location information based at least on the selected weather estimation algorithm.
US10754058B2
A drive-through scanning system comprises a radiation generating means arranged to generate radiation at two different energy levels and direct it towards a scanning volume, detection means arranged to detect the radiation after it has passed through the scanning volume, and control means arranged to identify a part of a vehicle within the scanning volume, to allocate the part of the vehicle to one of a plurality of categories, and to control the radiation generating means and to select one or more of the energy levels depending on the category to which the part of the vehicle is allocated.
US10754053B1
Buried utility transmitters and associated locator devices, systems, and methods used for locating utility lines, pipes, and/or other conductors that are obscured from view are disclosed. In one embodiment a buried utility transmitter includes a module generating an output current for provision to the utility so as to generate a magnetic field for detection by a utility locator, with the output current signal having modulated signaling. The transmitter system may include a tray apparatus configured to be removably dockable to the transmitter module or element or a body or frame of the transmitter system.
US10754051B2
Systems and methods of performing a seismic survey are described. The system can receive seismic data in a first domain, and transform the seismic data into a tau-p domain. The system can identify a value on an envelope in the tau-p domain, select several values on the tau-p envelope using a threshold, and then generate a masking function. The system can combine the masking function with the tau-p transformed seismic data, and then perform an inverse tau-p transform on the combined seismic data. The system can adjust amplitudes in the inverse tau-p transformed combined seismic data, and identify one or more coherent events corresponding to subsea lithologic formations or hydrocarbon deposits.
